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Weather Forecast WYOMING—Generally fair to- night and Sunday. Cclder tonight ‘ Bomew! ALL OF 22 CHARGES, 1S RULING Demurrer to 12 Articles of Impeachment Bil! Overruled and November 7 Set as Date For Hearing of Governor. OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 8—Thomas Mathews, a delegate to the Amer- fean Federation of Labor conven- tion recently held at Portland, Oregon, will. be placed on trial here Friday by the Central Labor Union of which he is a member on charges of spreading radical propaganda which would misrep- resent the union and discredit in the eyes of the public, it was an- nounced tonight. The penalty, if Mathews ts found guilty, is expulsion, J. M. Gibb, “OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Noy. 8.—Defeated in his latest legal maneuver against the impeachmeat action in- stituted by the lower house of the state legislature, Gover- nor J. C. Walton must go to trial November 8, on all of the 22 charges of official misconduct contained in the indict- ment against him. WOMEN SPEAKERS WILL NOODRESS MEETING AT. This was ordered by the senate court, of impeachment, which over- ruled the executive's demurrer to 12 of the articles in the impeachment | bill at the close of the second day of the hearing last night. Novem- jber 7 was set as the date for the governor to enter his formal plea] POCATELLO, Idaho, Nov. 3— ST f AGH and the following day the actual] Lieutenant Governor Nelson Story, trial will begin with the introduc-| Jr., of Montana is ly{ng in a hospital tion of testimony. The court's action came after a Sunday evening at 7:20 p. m. a! lengthy argument by defense coun great mass meeting addressed by sel in support of their demurrer to prominent women speakers of Amer- the charges on grounds that they fea will be held. It is fully expect- either did not constitute impeach- ed that every seat in the First Bap- ment offenses or were based upon ‘tist church, Fifth and Beech streets insufficient evidence. Originally, will be filled. Casper people are the governor’s attorneys had de- Promised a rare treat in this ser-|murred to 14 of the impeachrient vice. At this service Mrs. F. 8. Os-| articles but the lst was cut to 12 good of Chicago, a prominent writer| during yesterday’s proceedings. will be heard. She is nationally) ‘The defense move was hotly. <on- known for her stories and playlets' tested by the house board of man. for children, especially for her sto-|ngers, which is conducting the ries and plays, dealing with the far) prosecution. east! Her best known plays. are,| The court's vote on thi sa ie demurrer The Dream Chest,” and ‘The vp 2 overwhelmingly against it. plest Plan.” In her home city of ; ‘Chicago she {s one of the outstand-| On but two of the articles aid ing women dealing with the needs|™ore than four members of the the children in the great city. She | Court vote to sustain it, in demand throughout the country : < Faroe 4m connection with her work. Casper one of the few western cities Which she has on his list of winter PARIS, Nov. 8—Myron T. Her- ‘rick, the American ambassador, ments for this year, eich sy called on Premier Poincare today and had a long conversation with him: The strictest secrecy regard- ing the subject of the conference is maintained at the French foreign office and the American embassy. partially paralyzed, and on the bor- derline of death while the body of his wife lies at a local undertaking establishment, the result of an au- tomobile turnover which occured when Mr. Story applied his brakes too suddenly when approaching a sharp turn in the state highway two and a ha'f miles south of McCam- mon, Idaho, yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Story died about half an hour Bank Buildings For Little Rock And Salt Lake WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—The federal: reserve board has informed the San Francisco and St. Louis federal reserve banks that it will consider new bids for construction of branches at Salt Lake City and Little Rock, respectively. Both projects were ordered held in abey- ance by the board last March when Rain Forecast Coming Week — ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Weather outlook for the week beginning Mon- day. Rocky Mountain and, Plateau re- gions: Generally fair but with prob- ability of local rains about Wednes- @ay; temperature normal. Pacific States: Rains in Washing- ton and Oregon and possibly in ex- * MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 3. —The government of Victoria is: en- rolling special constables to cope with the strike of the Melbourne police, which is spreading. At first the strike, which originated because the police commissioner refused to dismiss an officer accused of using Walton Defeated in Fight To Escape Senate Trial DXLAROMA EXECUTIVE MUST FACE 2480 DeLEcare ro BE PLACED ON TRIAL BY UNION IN OMAHA treme northern California; fair else- me where. Temperature normal, je tani te Maes BIG RUSSIAN BRIBE PLAN MOSCOW.—(United Press.)—A monster bribery trial will begin here soon. It involves twenty-seven per eons, including members of the Btate police, station agents, etc., Who are accused of selling raflroad tickets to speculators on forged orders, at a time when it was tm- ble for the ordinary public to Bet space on trains. LLOYD CEORCE LEAVES PLEA WITH AMERICA ON DEPARTURE FOR HOME German workmen, wherever he went to the work shops and | arsenals, used to help him destroy these guns and sald: ‘For God’s sake, destroy them, These are the things thet brought ruin to our country,’ “Now, he says, there is a ohange,| they say: ‘We cannoet trust justice, We cannot trust treaties, We ean- not trust the werds of great ni tions, Force is the onty thing that) rules the world,’ a “Unless you stamp out that per- viction civilization ig deemed en this earth. Particularly did the doughty little Welshman, speaking as a private citizen, and not “in eollusion with Lord Curson,” plead with America to guarantee the future ef Seeretary | it pronounced building costs to high, spying methods, was gonfined to the policemen on the night shift but part of the day force now is af- fected, Concert by Music Shoppe Postponed NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Cotton to- day advanced 65 points at the open- ing of the market, representing a total Jump of 265 points or $13 a bale in the sensational trading of the last two days. January today touched 83.18, March 32.33 and May 32.25. Due to delay in the arrival of the Mooseheart -orchestra, the Music Shoppe has been forced to postpone its concert planned for tonight. Supremacy of Right Over Force Must Be Driven Home to Europe, Says For- mer Premier of Britain NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—(By The Associated Press).— David Lloyd George today turned his face toward home, eaving behind him a final plea for the United States not to be too hard on Europe, but to drive home to that atricken continent the conviction that right is supreme over force, In his last speech after a tour of the United States and @anada, delivered in the crowded of another rise of German militar- Metropolitan opera houss, the war|ism, Mr. Lloyd George said; time premier of Greet’ Britain “France at the present moment warned that, within this genuration,|!s committed to holding the wolf civilization was doomed to a catas-|by the ear, Shoe cannot let go, but) Hughes’ preposal te cut the repara- trophe such as history has never] ultimately it may turn and rend/tions tangle with an international recorded, unless the United States | her, | commission, find the British Empire together] “I heard yesterday from a man 6 world ig better because stamped out tho belief that force| who had just returned from Ger-| America at ene moment took an in- alone rules the world. many, who met one ef the officers! terest in the enforcement of right Standing on the spot where # year| who n appointed at the) beyond its own frontiers,” he ago Georges Clemenceau, premier of at ies to break up the| “The world will be better for it France during the reat war, had| cannon and th machine s et tomorrow when it knows that the urged this country not to ne the torpedoes of Germany, interest of Ar a in human right | har post-war dutics and had warned] “He said up ta the last year, the| haa not weakened,"* CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1923 President of the local labor council sald. Seven members of the labor council, including ene woman, will hear the charges. Mathe: according to reports received here, supported William Dunne of Butte, Montana, who was expelled from the A. F. of L. convention because of alleged communist activities, Mahews also made charges against Samuel Gompers, president of the Amert- can Federation of according to the union here, are unfounded. % after the accident occurred’ and Story himself after calling ald for his fata’ly injured wife dropped into an unconscious condition, Story tent in a McCammon hospital that he will be brought to Pocatello some time today for an X-ray examina- tion, Dr. J. M. Waste, McCammon physician tn charge, id Mr. Story | { em E WAR ON BERLIN Heir to Throne of (IGTATORASKED Sweden is Married |\N ULTIMATUM CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR TALK AT LABOR MEETING Friday Night for Gathering. An opportunity to present plat- forms before members of organized labor in Casper was last night af forded candidates entered in the mayoralty election of November 6. The Trades and Labor Assem' hall was packed with representatives of the various unions there to hear Labor, which | dressed the gathering. is improving to such an ex- spent a restful night and awoke this morning fully conscious for the first time since the acctient, Mr. and Mrs. .Story were return- ing to Boseman, Montana! from the speakers. Dr. 8. K. Loy, Dr. J, F. O'Donnell, J. 8. Pettingill, and B. H. Corbin were present and ad The other candidate for B (Cont mayor, * ued on Page WIFE OF MONTANA STATE OFFICIAL KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT; HUSBAND TO RECOVER, SAID California when the fatal accident Union Hall Is Packed) LONDO: ov. 8—(By The Asso- ciated Press)}—Before the ancient altar of the Intimate little chapel royal in St. James’ Palace, where many a king and queen have been married since the days of Henry VIII, Crown Prince Gustave Ado'’ph of Sweden took as his second bride this afternoon Lady Louise Mountbatten, niece of the reigning sovereigns of Britain. T ere was none of the splendor ur about the ceremony ne Weddings of royalty a Westminster Abbey have known. It was as simple as could considering the hich estate of the and the bride and the so many royal witness- ambassadors and titled aristo- Fewer than 300 persons vast es, crata, were able to find seats within the narrow confines of the chapel. Prince Gustave wore the unt form of a General of the Swedish army. His brother, Prince Wil- helm, in naval uniform, was best man, The bride, wearing a gown made from a fine piece of Indian silver gauze, which had been given her by her uncle, the grand Duke of Hesse, was accompanied to the al- tar by her brother, Lord Louis Mountbatten. occurred. Upon coming to a sharp Acting as bridesmaids were the turm in the road Story applied the| four ¢ esses of the royal house brakes with the result that the|in Greece—Margaret, Theodora, Wheels locked and the heavy car| Cecelia and Sophie—daughters of lunged off the road, overturned and} Prince Andrew and nieces of the rolled completely over three times} bride. The bride’s train was before stopping. The two- occu-| borne by her little nephew and pants were thrown from the car and Mrs. Story was rendered unconscious Story himself, despite his injuries got back on the road and stopped a passing automobile and then dropped into unconscious- by the fall, ness. niece, the Earl of Medina and Lady Titinia Mountbatten, children of the Marquis of Milfordhaven, who is Indy Loulse's brother, The first part of the marriage ceremony was conducted by the archbishop of Canterbury, t DURHAM WINS SUPPORT FROM VOTERS OF NORTH CASPER Sewage System; Paved Streets and Sub-| Mondell and way Among Improvements to Which Candidate Stands Pledged Declaring that if he is elected mayor of Casper next Tuesday he will direct his attention toward such pressing needs of the North Casper community as an adequate sewage system, paving that will eliminate the present struggle to pass over the roads there, and a subway un- der the Burlington tracks, Harry B. Durham last night at the North Washington hall and the Grace A. M. EB, church ably out- lined policies he intends carrying out if he Is favored with a majoritys of votes November 6. The fact that streets leading to the North Washington hall were almost impassable did not prevent the place from being packed to hear Mr. Durham. The speaker delivered a remarkably direct and ungilded statement as to the program that should ba adopted tn giving Casper a city administration fully benofit- ing its citizens. He waa given a whole-hearted reception {n recogni- tion of his proven ability as a leader in things working toward civic betterment. . Harry B. Durham was endorsed, following the meeting, as the cand!- date of those in the large and repre- sentative gathering, The Grace A. M, ¥, church was visited next by Mr, Durham who found nearly a hundred colored cit! zens waiting to greet him, In deal- jing with matters that may be | counted upon to arise in every clty | administration, Mr, Durham stated that ho was unqualifiedly prepared te give to the colored people of Cas- per consideration in all thelr griey- ances that {s unbiased by racial color, social position, or religious creeds, That he will gee to it that expend} tures_are governed by necessities and niet by whims, was guaranteed by the candidate, He convincingly demonstrated that he felt very keenly the demand for lower living casts, which to @ great extent are influenced by taxation, when he de clared that every working man in Casper should be given the chance | to previde for his family and still retain a werth while margin of his wages for savings and surptus, It was apparent that at beth of the gatherings last night Harry Dur- ham was considered by his audl- | ences to be the feremost figura in the campaigning fer mayor of this city Dr, ¥, O'Donnel] and F, 8 Pettin th candida mayor, spoke the mem chureh fo! ug Mr. Durham. Both reiterated forms previously an nounced several days ago at | | first election meeting in the Amert- can Legion club rooms. A chicken dinner was graciously stven the apeakers at the end of the meeting by the Ladies’ Ald society of the colored church. The three candidates contributed liberally to the music fund which the church is raising in order to obtain music for Christmas carols. SNOW FALLS IN WYOMING LARAMIE, Wyo., Nov. 8,—Snow is falling from Groen River to Lara- mie and east, The weather is warm, 82 degrees above here, Sas ancithiee aunduly Fhe Ascending Scale The scale of industry has in- creased many fold within the de- cade, Advertising puflds large scale Industry, Advertising taps the reserveira of vast materials—it teuches the wants and desires of vast multitudes, The manufacturer could not make an article today and wait fer the public to hear about it, The triumvirate consisting of the manufacturer, the retailer, and the consumer ure kept at- tuned to each other by advertising, Thus the scale of industry is vastly multiplied—former luxuries are brought, by greatly Increased preduction, into the class ef neo essities, The scale of ordinary Iving as- eends in tho process and advertis- ing thug adds to h eonven- iences and happine Shep in The Tribune bdefore shopping in the shops In ancient Rome married men had a right to the best seats at the pub the He games, Meyer Return To Washington WASHINGTON, ing here after a weeks through the northwest, Bugene Meyer Jr. and Frank W. Mondell, directors of the Finance Corporation, reported to President Coolidge the results of thetr tour, made by direction of the chief executive to encourage formation of co-operative marketing associations. FILIPINO CONVICTED NEW YORK, 8—Bulogia Lozado, Fillpino who has been on trial In general sessions for 10 days on a charge of having slain Blossom @ nurse, on June 8 last, was found gullty of murder today. Nov. 8.—Return trip of several A Newspaper for Ail the Family, Clean, U nbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State. |Che Casper Daily Crimuw ond part by the bishop of London, who is dean of the chapel royal. At elther side of the bride and bridegroom sat the reigning sov- ereigns of Sweden and Great Br!- tain. Members.of both royal houses occupied nearby chairs, Behind them were the bridesmaids and distributed through the rest of the chape! were notables of Great Britain and Sweden and many other countries. The reception ai4 not last long and before nightfall the prince had taken his b: from London on their honeymoon, most of which will be spent tn Italy. They will arrive in Stock- holm on December 11. re TAS ees SUMMARY OF NIGHT NEWS WASHINGTON —Restriction of the scope of the proposed expert committees inquiry into Germany’s capacity to y reparations may render it useless to proceed with the plan, in the opinion of Presi- dent Coolidge, it was announced at the White House. DES MOINES, Iowa.—An in- vitation to hold the 1924 Repub- Mean national convention in Des Moines was extended to John T. Adams, chairman of the national committee by the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y— Lieutenant H.J, Brow, navy avia- tor, flew over a three kilometer course four times at an average speed of 259.15 miles an hour, and in one lap travelled 265.21 miles an hour, establishing a world’s speed record. WASHINGTON.—It was an- nounced that reports of an official nature had reached President Coolidge that the population of Germany may soon need assist- ance in the way of food stuffs. MANCHESTER, Engiand.—Pre- mier Stanley Baldwin declared that “radical and drastic meas- ures’ were necessary to solve Engjand's unemployment problem. wa Bhi a be TWO BANKS IN U. S. ROBBED OTTAWA, Kans., Nov. men held up the First bank here of all the cash in the vault and safe, estimated at be- tween $20,000 and $25,000 and es- caped in an automobile JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 3.—Five bandits, armed with rifles, robbed the First National Bank of Baker- ton, 80 miles from here and escaped with $2,000, after wounding one man and stealing three auto- mobiles, Twice the bandits’ ma- chines broke down. Hach time they stole another car and finally di appeared. FINAL EDITION ~ ‘NUMBER 10 SENT MINISTRY VOICING THREAT Troops to Be Ordered To March on German Capital If Demand Is Refused, Report. BERLIN, Nov. 8.—(By |The Associated Press).— |The Bavarian government, it is learned authoritatively, has sent a letter to Chancel- lor Stresemann demanding the creation of a dictatorship for the reich based on the Bavarian model. The letter adds that unless such @ dictatorship ts established In Berlin forthwith, the Bavarian gov- ernment intends to send the troops now concentrated on the Bavarian frontier against the capital. RICH ART WORKS ARE DESTROYED. AIX LA CHAPELLB, Nov. 8. (By The Associated Press.)—The fa- mous old Kaiser Hall at Alx, my treasure hall of art wherein 37 Ger# man rulers were crowned prior to the year 1581, was a sorry spectacle today as the result of the fighting that took place within its walls yesterday between the Matthes separiitists and the small guard of police and firemen, The damage done 1s trreparabl Eight frescoes, ranked @mong the finest examples of modern* painting, were ruined. A celebrated port of Charlemagne suffered _ seriously. while another picture was pierced by 22 bullets. When the separatists, temporarily successful in their attack on the building, were ordered by the Bel- gians to leave the city, it did not take them long to comply. The Belgian officers’ ultimatum placed the time limit at 90 minutes, but immediately the 1,500 separatists marched to the station and en- trained. Four of them who flaunted @ separatist proclamation from the rear platform of the train as it pulled out, were yanked off the cars by the crowd and tiken to an open where space two were beaten to | death. The other tw were rescued in @ dying condition by the police. The casua in the fight at the town hall have not been estimated. BERLIN, Nov. 3.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—New York's appraisal of the mark on the basis of one and two third trillion to the dollar moved Chancellor Stresemann to convoke a midnight session of his cabinet at which several emergency ordinances were proclaimed for the Pupose of forestalling a similar col- lapse of the mark in Berlin The government will, permit pay- ments té be made in foreign cur rencies althoug 1s prohibited to y gold exchange as the sole }™Medium of payment. The fading rank as the paper mark will still official currency and its acceptance as such is made obligatory. banker and prominenf busin | trict attorney, According to the district attorney | Smith obtained apprextmately $20,- 9 from tho North Denver Bank 1ere en fraudulent transactions and 4,800 frem the Central Savings |Bank, at beth banks | have been 1, according to the district of the Central mith was the ident Ou tions at t [the district of banks, adulent’ opera ding te Smith falled two bank attorney, DENVER, Colo., Nov, 8.—Carle H, \Carle H. Smith, Prominent In Financial Circles, Now Serving Time In the Colorado Penitentiary Denver 20, last Smith, 688 man on October 2 | was sentenced to serve from four to 10 years in the state | penitentlary when he entered a plea of guilty to obtaining jmoney by false pretenses and frandulently selling land |twice, {t was announced today by Philip S. VanCise, dis- for $95,750, which was owed to, some 19 corporations and individuals and| was not sccured by marketable s¢- | curities, Smith already has begun ta perve | his sentence t Canon City. Amith mation a Denver i to t | 8mith p Vv der jto three lots Vang ld not to Then in December, led guilty James to by swe ranee r but ask the deed according te the SENTENCE OF DENVER BANKER TO PRISON IS REVEALED FIRST TIME chargea, he borrowed $5,000 from Allen and gave him.a deed to the ne property, representing that !t was free and clear from prior deeds or ioumbrances. He lkew! asked Allen to withho'd recording of thiw deed, Nine montha later, according to the district attorney, Vangilder heard that Smith was in financial diffioulttes and recorded his deed October 1, 1923, three days re Allen recorded the deed Smith had given Allen, Smith's troubles, according to the district attorney, began last year when he tried to re-fInance a local | motor car company, of which he | was joint owner, To do this he borrowed on all the collateral he could gather, getting loana both in | Colorado and tn the east, Then he me connected with the Denver com as president and plunged hea lly to put it on ite t In fin the b k com, I cording to the ‘ tri f 1 the name ef 0 r to two notes at the North Denver bank, one for $7,750 andthe other for $1,500 | He also secured loans on warthiesa (Continued on Page Eight)

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