Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1923, Page 1

_ ‘A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: | Che Casper Daily Crit CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1923. U. S READY TO JOIN IN Forbes WILL GIVE FULL TESTIMONY {4 Weather Forecast WYOMING: Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Little change in temperature. VOLUME VIII. FINAL | EDITION! NUMBER 4. et = RATIONS PARLEY Brands Charges of Mortimer False PHONE RATE ATTENDANGE OF THOMPSON WILL DRIVE TOMORROW ILE MAIN CONDITION INCREASE IN CITY OKEHED “Blind” Drive Through the Business Streets With Many Stops to Be y g n Saturd Nl Ct PROBE HE oh Ges end Teegraph | Staged at Noo turday | ( ACEP AI 5 | company that it be permitted to —— raise its rates for phone service in Casper, has been granted by the The blindfold is ready! Ten thicknesses of black silk, Divorce Just Secured By Wife of Former Director Bared. WASHINGTON, Charles R. Forbes, director of the bureau issued a statement Oct. 26. former veterans | Wyoming State Public Service com- mission, which has authorized the | company to publish its raise in rates to be effective November 1. The schedule of the raise in rates ts as follows: Nature of Service: Private business |Two-party business . | Individual residence 2.50 3.00 | Two-party residence 2.25 2.50 Four-party residence, no change. In asking for the raise in the rates which it might charge, the oR. $6.00 5.00 NR. $7.00 6.00 covering the face from forehead to chin and of sufficient length to cover the ears and fastening in the back with! elastic clips, was made by the Casper Electric Appliance | Co., No. 231 East First street, across from the Central | school. The bandage was made on the Free-Westinghouse | Electric Sewing Machine. Th normal! vision, leave his Jewett and | blindfold is opaque to the degree| enter the shop and select a gown that the rays of a hundred watt/ while under the handicap of the globe were completely obscured. The blindfold. bandage will be subject to the in-| His next stop will be at the WII: spection of the spectators before it| lard Service Station. Here he will 1s applied by Mayor John M. Whis-| drive in and have Mr. Crawford tn- | enhunt. It {s constructed so that ‘France, Belgium and Italy Also Approve British Suggestion for Berlin Meeting. { wee LONDON, Oct. 26.—(By the As. sociated Press.}—France and Bel- gium and Italy have accepted the British invitation for, a reparation spect and test the Willard Battery | conference with the understand- which is standard equipment of the ing that It shail take the form of a committee of experts under the authority of the present inter- today denying as “utterly | company made known its plans for and absolutely false,” the| extending its service in this city story of Elias H. Mortimer of Phila-|and practically doubling the capa- elastic bands will be placed over the bandage and under the nose to pre- vent the smallest iota of light from delphia, before the senate investi- city of its present station, Approxi- nae dag ain etovel ck) Delaw, ROUTE OF allied re tion commisston, gating committee of alleged bribery | mately 1,000 patrons of the utility Ratna htie te pranermmte i4} It is understood that the British and corruption {n connection with| recognized the justice of the com- Ee nee ierer eee WEL PO aD, mbers will be the same as those contracts for veterans’ bureau hos-|Pany’s claim by signing the petition plied. The, “blind” driver will give pitals, “I do not feel that I ought to make any statement in advance of} the full and complete testimony which I shall give under oath on the stand,” said Mr. Forbes’ statement. | “However, at the insistent urging of | my friends and in response to in-| quiries from the press. I can not re- frain from saying that every charge and ev: word of testimony, espe- Jally that of Ellas H. Mortimer, re-| lecting on my persona! or offictal | integrity are utterly and absolutely | false and without the slightest foun-! Cation. “The story of my recetpt of a $5.-! 000 bribe was not only falsa, but so absurd ag to be ridiculous. The only | thing I ask of the public {s to with- hold judgment until. my witnesses and } are heard and the full docu- mentary evidence produced, The committee has decided to hear Meantime.the former director 1s rest Mr. Forbes next week if he desires. ing on the advice of his physicians, | who have darned him against aj probable recurrence of a serious heart attack unless he maintains absolute rest, FORBES DIVORCE JUST REVEALED. SEATTLE Wash. Oct. 26.—After being carefully concealed for more than two weeks it waa Ciscovered here last night in a search of court fies that Mrs. Kate Forbes wife of Charles R. Forbes former direc- tor of the United States veterans bu- reau and who has been mentioned prominently at @ hearing being con- ducted by the Senate committee at ‘Washington, D. C. investigating al- graft in connection with the ding of contracts for govern ment hospitals, has been granted an interlocutory decree of divorce by Judge Mitchell Gillam of the King’s county superfor court on October 11. The sult was handled here with the utmost esecrecy and efforts were made to conceal both the action and the granting of the divorce. No men tion of Mr. Forbes’ government or business connections were made in the complaint. Departing from the usual proced- ure of stating a principal's full name and initials in a court action, Col onel Forbes was referred to in the action merely as “Charles Forbes.” That the “Charles Forbes" re- t to in the complaint wag in reality Col. Charles R. Forbes was. established last night by Deputy Prosecutor Eugene Mecham, who represented the state at the hearing. “As I recall Mrs, Forbes’ testi- mony,"” Mecham asserted last night, “she accused Forbes of perferring (Continued on Page Fifteen.) FAME Claimed Sudden Steinmetz, electrical wizard, of a physical breakdown due The attending physician way and he died immediately. career of Charles M., Ph. D., chief of the General ve American P. Steinmetz, A ulting engineer tric Works, Schenectady, N. Xw| for the increase. Hearing on the application was conducted in Casper a month ago by the state commis sion. ‘The commission based its decision (Continued on Page Fifteen.) WALTON SAYS BATTLE NOT ENDED TENANT BARRED FROM HOUSE BREAKS IN TO ° RESCUE LITTLE CHILD Because he smashed in the pital where he is sald still to be window to the house where he | in a weakened condition from the had been living and entered {t in order that he mignt remove ‘his three-year-old son from the locked building, Bob Reese was arrested yesterday afternoon by the police after a complaint had been made out by Carl Riffles, owner of the property. Reese was not taken to the city jail, however, for he had cut his wrist so badly when he broke the window that it was necessary to take him to a hos- BANDITS ROB ILLINOIS BANK EFFINGHAM, Il, Oct. 26.—Two bandits today he'd up two officials and one customer of the State Bank of Commerce here and escaped with between $5,000 and $6,000. The safe was open when the bandits entered. pe eee ES, PERMITS ISSUED FOR SIK WEW HOMES HERE The Union Investment company has started work on six of the 15 houses which it is planning to build in the Community Park addition Six permits were taken out yester. day afternoon. They were for $5,000 each and specified houses contain- ing five rooms and a bath. Cc. P. STEINMETZ OF ELECTRICAL iS DEAD Famous Inventor and Mathematician ly as Climax to Recent Breakdown In Health SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 26.—Dr. Charles Proteus died at his home here today to a trip to the Pacific coast, from which he recently returned. said breakfast was being served the patient when suddenly his heart seemed to give had its beginning in New York tn 1889 where, penniless and able to speak but very little English, he arrived from Zurich, Switzerland. He was accompanied by a young (Continued on Page Sixteen) | | Mee eas loss of blood. The trouble arose when Riffles ordered Reese out because of back rent which the tenant owed. Reese started to move and engaged Vance Forcade to help him move the furniture. During this opera- tion the landlord ordered him to stop moving the articles, it is said, until the rent was paid. According to the story, Reese secured the money and came back. Ritfles refused to accept it. Reese found that the house had been locked and it was for this reason he broke the window since his Uttle boy had been locked inside the place. The landlord also ‘filed a com- plaint against Forcade. LIKE GIVES. UP BOY OF JAMES PERONA TODAY Hunter’s Remains Are Brought to Surface After Two Days. Sullivan lake, southeast of Cas- per, this morning gave up the body of Joseph Perona, 39, who perished Tuesday when the boat in which he was hunting ducks struck a sunken snag and capsized. Workers sent out by the sheriff's office and r Lew M. Gay brought tho to the surface with a grap- pling hook about 125 yards from the bank after repeated efforts to locate the remains, covering a period of two days, had failed. The water was about eight feet deep at the point the body was found. James - Bolin, brother-in-law of Perona, who was with him when the tragedy occurred, was one of those who kept steadily at the task of dragging the lake. The party sent | out by the sheriff's office today in- cluded Roy McCleary, W. C. Miller and “Happy” Wells. No arrangements have been made for the funeral but the body is being prepared for burial at the Shaffer- Gay chapel. Perona is survived by a wife and baby at Evansville, where Perona was an employe of the Texas re- finery. ee Cee George Brimmer, sn Attcrney of Cheyenne, is expected to arrive in the city tomorrow and will spend a short time here on legal business, Next Move of Ousted Governor Is Not\NAVY FLYERS Revealed as House Continues With His Impeachment OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., Oct. , 26.—{By the Associated Press.)— | The last article in the bill of im- peachment against Governor J. C. Walton drafted by an investiga tion committee was approved late today by the lower house of the state legislature, and the bill was ready for submission to the senate. Only two remained to be voted on when the house re- convened after its noon recess. Both were approved by top-heavy votes. Article 20, charging the executive with collecting “many and varied sums of money for his | own private use and benefit” was accepted, 76 to 9, and article 22 alleging general incompetency by a vote of 79 to 7. The house by a vote of 77 to 12 approved the charge that the governor had violated his official oath in that he had made a false report of the expenses of his pri- mary campaign, The charge that governor Wal- ton abridged the freedom of the press by placing military censors in the offices of the Tulsa Tribune and the Henryetta Free Lan Was approved 82 to 7, OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 26.—(By The Associ- ated Press).—Defeated in his efforts to nullify the order suspending him from office, Governor J. C. Walton today |is believed to be preparing a final stroke to combat the im- | peachment proceedings against him. latthough declining to define his fu ture intentions, In well informed quarters, however, {t was said his supporters planned to launch a |counter-offensive either today or to- |morrow by presenting impeachment resolutions in the lower house of the state legislature arainst Acting Go ernor M. E. Trapp, some members |of the senate cour. of napeachment which will try the executive, and other state cfftclals. | This attack in behalf of the gover- |nor, tt was predicted, will come from }an unexpected quarter, and will be | directed in addition to Acting Gover. nor Trapp, against Attorney Gen eral George Short, John A. Whi hurst, of agriculture; Prank Carter, chair man qf the state corporation com: mission, and W. C. McAlister, secre- |tary of the state election board |'The names of the senatore were nof mentioned. Governor Walton lost his fight tc retain the executive chair late yes terday when the state supreme court issued a permanent writ of} prohibition sustaining the senate resolution ordering his suspension from office until he can be tried on impeachment charges, Already organized as @ court of impeachment, the senate waited to. day for the lower house to complete consideration of the remaining im president of the state board | peachment charges drafted in its committee: report, before setting a | trial date. | Hight of the 22 articles set out in the report yesterday are to be voted upon, but {t ts believed the house will complete the work late today. | | The. seven artictes approved by the house yesterday brought to 14) |the total number (of charges now |making up the -impeachment bill |against the executive. | The latest allegations are that he! prohibited execution of the law im- | posing capital. punishment: that he proclaimed martial Iaw in the city jof Tulsa, Tulsa county, Okmulgee county, and the entire state with- out cause; (four separ artic that he illegally appointed a state legislator as district Judge ? that he appointed a targe number of physicians to state positions with:| out authority of law, The executive declared he would ‘continue to fight,” Informally taking over the reigns of.government last night, Lieuten- ant Governor Trapp declared that he would discharge the executive duties from his own office to save Governor Walton any inconvenience or embarrassment OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., Oct. 26, (By the Associated Press.)—With virtually no debate, the lower house of the Oklahoma legislature today added two articles to its impeach- ment bill against Governor J. C. Walton, charging him with abuse of pardon and parole authority and with having fllegally issued deftc iency certificates when deficiencies n funds did not exist. The votes on the two charges were and 79 to 9 Passing swiftly to the charge that he governor had {Illegally appointed large number of irresponsible (Continued on Page Five.) é —_ to 11 BIG DRIVE three blasts of the horn and point the Jewett Brougham west and cir- cle the block. His first stop will be at the Frantz Shop. Here he will park in the manner of the ordinary driver with Time: 12 noon—sharp. Place: Tribune building. i ROUTE. West on East Second. North on Wolcott. East on East First. South on Durbin, West on East Second (past Tribune building.) Stop at Frantz Shop. South Center, East on Midwest. Stop at Willard Battery Serv- ico Station. East on Midwest. Complete turn at Wolcott and _ Midwest, West on Midwest. North on Center. East on East First. Stop at Casper Electric Ap. pliance Co. As East on East First. North on Durbin. Stop at Troy Laundry. Complete turn at Durbin and Burlington tracks. South on Durbin. IN CHEYENNE ON FLIGHT CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 26.— (Special to The Tribune).—Two United States navy airplanes, piloted by Lieutenants F. 0. Rodg- ers and H. D. Palmer and en route on a 14,000 mile flight from Haiti over the United States and back West on East A. to Haiti, took off from the snow- North on Wolcott. covered Cheyenne air mall field Stop at Mosher Tire and Serv- this. morning» for Omaha. They ice Co, arrived here Thursday from San Complete turn a¢ Wolcott and Francisco. Burtington depot. The flight, when completed, will South on Wolcott. be the longest ever made by alr- West on East A. planes. South on Center, East on East Second, Stop at W. operate sewing machine. nt on East Second. Jomplete turn at Dur East Second. areas West on East Second, South on Center. West on Midwest, North on Ash. Stop at Willis Garage. North on Ash. West on Went ¥cliowstone. Stop at Pat Royce Filling Sta- tion. Complete turn at West Yellow. stone and Spruce. (27 — AUTO STOLEN HERE IS FOUND IN OKLAHOMA AFTER THREE-DAY TRIP. Telegraphic advice received from the sheriff of Pawhuska, Okla, this morning stated that tee sport Buick touring car stolen from A. J. John son of Casper last week, had been Finish: Le : : Lee Doud Motor Co. found in Pawhuska. || _ Blindfold to be removed tn The auto thieves drove the ma-!| Jowett salesroo; chine from Casper to Pawhuska in'| Schipition Pay Fen. Pinced on three days and abandoned it there. Mr. Johnson has instructed the; -—————_______! Buick agency in Pawhuska to sell| Jewett. Backing out he will proceed the car. | to the Mosher Tire and Service Sta- es tion and have the Ir pressure INJURED MAN IMPROVES — | °% 10 his new set of Dayton t 2 4 A record crowd ts anticipa at this CG. J. Kujan who was injured) point rhompaon has s ; when the car he was driving turned 3 psn nas apecitied Swit ie ams gasoline for his Jewett. This over on the Salt Creek highway] casoline is possessed f ith Tuesday 1s sald to be improving at! oF Sua iis the” Caspase? Beivatal Hospital His! that tend to give the utmost of ea. aeatiy catjpower in winter weather. Pat tain. (Continued on Page Seven.) The Mirror of the World A mirror is a faithful reflector. The daily newspaper ts a mirror reflecting the events of the day in the community and through out the world Advertising is a mirror reflect ing the latest developments in store nows The careful, day by day, reader of the advertising keeps thorough- ly informed at all times of the latest creations in style and con- venience. Day by ay leading merchants hold up to your view in The | Tribune's columns the last word on the subject of where to get what you want, and trustworthy adviee as to the best thing to br Pribune advertisers will not | lend their endorsement to wares | that will not give service. The g00d name of the business is at stake. Shop in The Tribune shopping in the shops. before WITHIN 12-Mil Essential Points of ‘American Request In War on Liquor Trade To Be Met By Britain LONDON, Oct. 26.—(By The Associated Press).—The British government has accepted in principle the proposal of the American government that vessels in American waters be searched for. contraband liquor within twelve miles of the American shore. The export committee of the imperial conference which been studying the question) mitted next week to the full con under the chairmanship of Forelgn| ference, which is expected to ay Secretary Curzon, has drawn up| prove them plans which are believed to meet — - the essential points of the Ameri-| ‘Turkey has only cheap autom can request. The plans will be sub-| biles, BRITISH YIELD TO U. Ss. PLAN TO SEARCH SHIPS who served last year on the bank- committee in which the * was represented by ht that Berlin will he chosen as the seat of the con- ference, since the chief fur of the committee will be to fi into Germany's financial assets. Selection of the French, Belgian and Italian personnel is expected to be completed shortly. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. —(By The Associated Press).—-Although the Am- erican government stands ready to enter a European reparations conference hav- ing a full attendance of allied powers) tt 1s not willing to agree beforehand to a meeting at which there might be empty chairs. Thus, in substance, has Secretary Hughes re 1 to the Intest over- ture from abroad for American In- tervention to untangle the tnterna- tional snarl over the collection of war indemnity from,Germany. For the moment officials are content not to elaborate on the secretary's pro- nouncement, or to predict what ef- fect it may have on the British ef- fort to at least obtain some sem- lance of a world-wide effort to solve the {lls of the Buropean continent. There wero indications today, however, that with the subject re- opened important developments might follow. With Great Britain mpparently G. Perkins to |{riendly to the conference principle, attention now turns to France, whose objections heretofore have made a full participation by all the allles in such a consultation tmpos- sible. What measure of confidenca in French co-operation may have actuated Lord Curzon to dispatch his message of inquiry to Washing- ton is not known here, and officials seem inclined to await some official expression from Paris before they venture an opinion as to whether the British foreign secretary's ven- ture has succeeded or failed If France adheres to the position she has held, it js admitted here that a contributing factor to such a decision may be the insistence of Mr. Hughes that the international debt question {s separate and dis- tinct from that of reparations, From tho outset there has been no indication that the Washingtin gov- ernment had any Intention of can celling debts owed it, as a result of war, by France or any other nation That Mr. Hughes replied in the negative to Lord Curzon's question on the possibility of American rep- resentation on the re} tions com- mission {s held by tals to be (Continued on Page Six.) LE LIMIT \ ‘DEMONSTRATION FOR | SHEEPMEN POSTPONED Sheep culling that were have Natrona county pos monstrations been given tn this fall have been ntil next spring, accord- ing ‘to County Agent G. M. Penley, Prof. J. A. Hi! of the University e¢ Wyoming, wool specialist, who. is ow in Casper, has been compelled ; ud weather to abandon for to work s in. this s to make f good from t vttempt breeding and selection poned plans heep 4 better sible here.