Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1923, Page 1

VOLUME 33. Gov. . TEN SENTENGED AN UL §. COURT AT CHEYENNE Postal Clerk Is Among Several Arraigned | On Charges. | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov.’ 1%.—Louis ©. Thomas, charged with embezzlement of postal funds while em- ployed as a clerk in the Cheyenne postoffice, Friday pleaded guilty In United States court | an dWas sentenced to @ fine of $200 end five months in the Laramie county jail, Thomas’ peculations,! cald to have totaled about $6,000, were made good. Other sentences imposed Friday} follow. Courtney Nichols, possession and of Uquor, $200 and 20 days in Laramie county jail. Fre¢ Simmons, possession and sale of narcotics, 1 year 1 day in the Leavenworth penitentiary. Jove Martinez, possession and:sale th of narcotios, 2 years in the Leaven- worth penitentiary. Pete Mayes, possession and sale, ot cotics, 2 years 6 months in} the Leavenworth penitentiary. ‘ Fred Freeman, possession and sale of narcotics, 1 year 6 months in the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mari J. Leach, possession and sale of ‘morphine, 1 year 1 day in the Leavenworth penitentiary. ~~~ “Harry H. Price, using the mails to defraud, 1 year 6 months in the Leavenworth penitentiary. All pleaded guilty to indictments returned by the November grand jury which fs still in session. Maggie Mack and Ollie Walker, indicted for unlawful possession and sale, of narcotics, pleaded gullty but sentence wes postponed pending de- on regarding the institution to f which they shall be committed. Others indicted by the current grand jury and who entered pleas of not guilty follow: Henry F. Welsch, Gilbert Nelson James Lewis, Uble McMicken, Lee Wa'ters and James Hayward, vio- Intion of the Volstead act; Lillian Smith, Amaziah MoShane, George Toole and William Davis, violation of the Harrison drug act. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 17—John L. aud John B. Edwards, formerly clerks im the United States com missa3y in Yellowstone park, indicted | for the theft of government property | Friday pleaded guilty and were sen- tendee to 24 hours in. the Laramie county jail, They served four and one-half months in jail awaiting con- | Chappell chairman ‘The Casper NEWS SECTION. Barring of Evidence of Alleged Klan Outrages To Be Made Basis of Appeal From Impeachment By FRANK GETTY : (United Press Staff Correspondent) * OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl State supreme court will be trial, but no trial at all. la., Nov. 17.—The United asked to decide that Gover- jnor J. C. Walton, impeached by the Oklahoma house of |repyesentatives and facing ouster, not only has had a fair Walton dramatically withdrew his defense Saturday Chest Fund Will Be Next | Forum Topic The Chamber of Commerce forum meeting scheduled for Tuesday, No- vowber 20,-at the Hennig hotel will| be given over to reports in con- nection with the'Casper Community fund financial campaign. Mr. H. of the budget committee will give an explanatory address on the “Budget” that being) one of the most important parts of the project and the one which is probably ‘the least understood by the: average citizen. Reports of progress of other tm- portant committees will also be} heard at that time, | Community fund workers will! have between eight and ten thou- sand prospects according to the way the lists are growing at the present, time. Mrs. H. L. Garrison, Mrs. Neal Shaw and Mrs, F. L. Wilson con- tributed to the fund by donating their time Thursday evening of last werk typing prospect cards. The public; stenographers in’ thé balcony of the Midwest building have volge- | teered their services, and will pare the statement of contributions received by the various organiza- tions during the past 12 months, for the use of the evaluation commit tee. & i GET THE HABIT: “ your chest and OTHERS. ,000—It's: and left the senate court to pro- ceed with hearing impeachment articles. This made it certain the Oklahoma senate wil! vote to im- th the executive when the im- ing board of house managers letes its close early next week. But the very move whereby Wal- ton’s opponents secured certain victory by precipitating his with- drawal preventing the governor's counsel from bringing in testimony regarding alleged Ku Klux Klan depredations in crass examinations, will be used in an appeal to the C.| highest court of the land, Judge F. E. Riddle, chief of Walton's staff of counsel, explained tonight in an in- terview with the United Press ‘The procedure whereby the Wal- ton affair will be raised to a federal issue, the governor's chicf counsel contented, will be that all along the house and senate was dominated by the Klan but they took the case before the senate court to see !f it was possible to secure a “fair trial.” The Klan tssue, the lawless state of affairs which existed during Wal: ton's term of office and charges that county officials <beyed orders of the Invisible Empire, constituted the governor’s defense to many charges. ‘The house managers, however, gebking & speedy impeachment suc: ceded in blocking each attempt to Antrodues- evidence concerning the Klan. Judge. Riddie-accordingiy has pre- red evicence that the Kian 1s ick of the move to oust the gov- nor and controls many ‘senators, thus removing possibility of a fair (Continued on Page Two) ZEV RACES TO VICTORY In Memoriam Loses by Nosé Only as Zev Overcomes Lead Crown Regained by Sinclair in Stretch; CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 17.— sideratien of their case by the grand} ({Jnited Press).—With a stout heart pounding in rhythm jury. Counsel for the prisoners, pleading for clemency, related that the property they were accused of stealing consisted of several washer rings worth 1%4 cents each, a pan- turner and “an article that wou'd yie’a 300 per cent profit if it were retailed for 15 cents. ‘The jury’s indictment fixed the ie of the stolen property as in “8 of $20, DEAD HEAT IS SHQWN IN MOVIES LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 17.— (United Press.)—The Kentucky Jockey club announced tonight that slow moving pictures of the Zev-In Memoriam race showed it was “ a dead heat.” All mutuels, however, paid off on Zev and a reversed decision is out of the question, it was said, even In case In Memoriam was proven the winner. Governor Ross In Conference With Wm. G. McAdoo CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov.17—Wil- liam G. McAdoo, passing through Chyenne on his way to California, was interviewed at the Union Pacif- fc depot by Governor W. B, Ross and Joseph C, . O'Mahoney, vice chairman of the Democratic state committee, “Neither of the Demo- cratic leaders would reveal what was discussed at the conference. with his flying hoofs, Zev, son of the Finn, came from be-! 4n4 WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW x CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1923 FRANCE REFU alton Proposes Appeal to Supreme Tribunal Ie. PAST FOR TRUCK DRIVER SPEEDS ON AFTER | po UPSETTING GAR BEARING THREE Speeding heedlessly on after com- pletely overturning a touring car on its occupants at Eighth and Center streets at 3:30 o'clock yesterday 2f- ternoon, a commercial delivery truck, owner and driver unknown, became a fugitive who has not yet been apprehended. ‘The passengers in the upset car FORBES were Mrs. Charles Richards and a} woman friend, with Mr. Richards | driving. The three were on their | wny home to their ranch tn the! Bates Hole country. None of the three was seriously injured though | the car had to be removed before Mrs. Richards could free herself. ‘The top of the automobile was badly smashed. ADEPT AT ‘CRAP’ CAME ACCUS ER SAYS Story of Wild Party on Trip West Is Told| By Elias Mortimer Before Sen- ate Probe Committee | By DALE VAN EVERY (United Press Staff Correspondent; " WASHINGTON, Noy. 1 7.—Under cross-examination by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, chairman of the senate investigating committee of the Veterans’ bureau, Elias H. Mortimer tonight revealed new details of his sensational charges against former director of the bureau, Charlies R. Forbes. He said that on the occasion when he gave Forbes $5,000 in a Giiiengo hotelyhe. found Forbes: “hooting craps" with Mrs, Mortimer. “You testified previously that there was quite a party going on in your suite,” Senator Feed said, “Could you tel! us more of the ha- ture of that party?” “It was Juno 20," said Mortimer. “I. found Colonel Forbes shooting craps sith Mrs. Mortimer on the bed in my room, They had a couple of bottles of Scotch. Forbes had his coat off. He had won about $220 from Mrs. Mortimer. “But I thought you sald there were between fifteen or twenty people in. the party.” “There were. They were not alone. People were going in and out, Some of the others were shooting craps too.” “Can.you fix the time of day you gave ten five-hundred r bills to Colone] Forbes in the it was 5 o'clock.” Senator Reed asked Mortl- mer how it was that with the gov- ernment furnishing the transporta- tion for the Forbes official party on the trip to the Pacific coast inthe summer of 1922, he donated $5,400 to the expenses of the trip. The first important discrepancy to appear in the Mortimer testimony came tonight as a result of the cross- hind and regained his crown as champion three-year-old | examination. Mortimer had testified of the year by defeating In Memoriam in the match race here today. Zey won by a scant nose. In Mem- criam, Carl Wiedemann’s western” champion, had led Zey from 4 length to two lengths through th firut long mile. In the stretch Ze’ began to close tn, Earl Sande called upon the son of the Finn to give all he had. Zev leaped to the task. Slowly the daylight closed between the horses. They were-head to head Then Zev’s nose, his neck, then Sande himself, showed in front. Lit- tle Mack Garner called on In Mem- oriam for a fina! effort. He shot through to the rail, Zev met final rush with a final rush. The plung- ing of the western horse was not enough. But so close was the finish that hundreds in the stands thought In Memoriam had won. Celebrations for the supposed sec- ond victory of In Memoriam in ty weeks were under way. Then the judges ordered Zev's number holst- ed. They held that Harry F. Sin- clair’s colt had won by a nose. Gar (Continued on Page Thirteen.) | Viewing Stand } A Seat in the Re- The newspaper reader of today in a grandstand seat and the lucts of the world’s creative gtnius pass in review. Reliable advertising lays before you daily for inspection, the mer- chandise of the leading stores of the city. Careful reading of the advertis- ing makes shopping convenient and saves time and worry. Outstanding business houses use The Tribune constantly so that fou may know the offerings of the store and mature plans accord- ingly while reading the paper. sit Shop in The Tribune before | shopping in the shops. he received $2,500 late in Septem- ber, 1922 from William McCauley as a foundation contract to the South erland Construction company at upper Lake, N, Y. Colonel Tasby-Smith produced a check for $2,500 made out by Mc- Cauley to Mortimer, dated August 11 and bearing the bank stamp fn cating that it had been paid August 15, 1922, or nearly a month prior to the award. Mortimer said he was unable to explain the dis- crepancy wit! it an examination of his own office records in Philadel- phia. Mortimer admitted under close questioning. of the, committee that he made his charges of conspiracy, corruption and graft against Forbes because of hatred arising from Forbes’ interference with his do- mestic life.” “Don't you think that may have warped your judgment,” asked Sena- tor Walsh. said Mortimer, “I don't think {it has.” The witness admitted, however, DRY AGENT NABBED FOR TAKING BRIBE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 17— (Special to The Tribune.)—Thomas J. Sisto, former agent of the Wyo- ming Law Enforcement department, is in jail here, charged with having accepted a bribe to suppress evi- dence against an alleged violator of the prohibition law. Sisto, it is alleged, arraigned to suppress evidence against Jack Lane of Laramie if Lane would pay him $500. Lane, it is alleged, tipped off the deal to the authorities and arranged a rendezvous at the Plains hotel, where the money was paid in marked bills. Prosecuting Attorney Roche Ment- ver, Undersheriff James Woolcox, Deputy Sheriff Romsa and a stenog- rapher, it is stated, were in an ad* that {f he could have been reconciled with his“wife he would never bares made the story public. “Don’t you realize that ff the con- splracy to defraud the United States which you have testified took place at Hayden Lake,. Washington,-you are equally guilty?” asked Senator Reed. (Continued on Page Two) showing criminals |have obtained a total of $1,890,234 jin an almost continuous series of |daring robberies since January 1. Minnesota reported a wave of bank robberies and holdups which |netted criminals more than $70,000 in the week. Tilinois lost $89.000 in a bank holdup and+a payroll robbery. In nearly every Instance the ban- dits followed the same plan, depend- ing on fast motor cars and a sur- prise attack to carry them through. The most Cnring crime df the week was the Brooklyn bank mes- senger holdup in which two crim- inals shot and killed two bank mes- sengers and escaped in a waiting automobile with $43,000. This crime resulted in feverish ac. tivity by the police, with extra hours for every man on the Metro- politan force. The biggest individual loss was by the Burnt Prairie, IL, bank, where robbers got. $79,000, accord- ing to police reports Banks robbed-in Minnesota and nearby states. included: Pennock, Minnesota State bank $5,000; Grand Avenue State bank, St. Paul, $45,000; Klassner, State bank, $3,000; Shafer State bank, $5,000; Mabel State bank $1,000; Cleveland $17,000; Thompson $1,000; Joining room and heard what passed, |Groton, 8. D., $1.000; Troy. S. D., the stenographer making a record |$500; Holeomba, Wis., $5,000. of the conversation. When Sisto In addition, Minnesota merchan- emerged from Lane's room he was |dise stores lost $35,000 In foods stol- confronted by the officers and ar-|en chiefly by motor truck th rested. The $500, it is charged, was found on his person. Sisto denies guilt. discharged from the force of Law Enforcement department. He has been the etdy e TO YIELD MAIN NEWS SECTION. (duos) weno ayes N’T OVERBURDEN THE BOOSTERS [evrrorrar] The people generally and the business interests of Casper particularly, have long been weary of appeals for funds. Of drives for money. Of solicitations for divers and sundry charitable purposes, more or less worthy, but more or less overlapping each other. And throughout it all was a rivalry on the part of one organization to exceed another in the amount of cash realized from their effort. The whole thing became a burden upon the public and worthy objects were denied support, because some other object less necessary had shown greater enterprise in reaching the public first. The people and the business interests were on the verge of a giver’s strike, because of the promiscuousness of appeals. Those at the head of the various community char. ities and civic matters depending upon public subscription for support, realized the situation and attitude of the people, and organized the Community Chest, which is to operate under a budget system. On this plan the public is to be asked once to do a citizen’s part in support of all charitable objects. The funds so derived are to be appropriated to the several ob- jects, and all are to live within the budget, deficits, extra appropriations and emergencies are not to enter into the mat- ter at all. There are to be no such things. And furthermore, it will be incumbent upon each interest provided for, to see not how much but how little money is required to care for t interest properely during the year. No additional drive wv be permitted for any purpose during the year when the che: budget is secured. This will be welcome relief to the public. While the Community Chest budget is being raised the se of the work must be cut to the minimum to the end that the fund required may be the more easily obtained. The total amount is fixed at $54,000. It is not an inconsider- able amount in itself. If in addition to this, merchants, banks, business corporations and others are urged to spend other sums in order to show their support of the project then extra burden is placed upon them. It is wholly unnecessary for busi- ness people to take newspaper space by the page, at large cost, to tell the eran of the righteousness and propriety df the cause for which they are asked to donate. The Tribune does this gratis in its news pages. It will be more to the point and of higher value to the cause to place this cost in the chest. The Tribune will solicit no advertising purely boosting the chest cause. It will not seck to unduly burden a(lvertisers. Tt will suggest to advertisers, however, that they express somewhere in their regular advertising matter their sympathy with the Community Chest movement. It will be our object to see how little the campaign can cost and how evenly the bur: den can be distributed, to all the people. ~ It is a matter which we believe should not be capitalized “Yes, str," said the witness in a i hav police 00 and thieves got an addi- jmen $22. .000 in jewelry from a, ho- tional $: jtel_ room. Buffalo reported a number of minor holdups and five murders during the week. In Harrisburg, Pa., the safe cf a theater and got $1,400. Cleveland police records showed sixty crimes during the week and robberies which netted holdup men $3,481.50. ‘ Bandits robbed a Detroit bank of $3,000, a bakery of $1,000 and also got $1,000 in jewelry from a wo- ‘man. Honston, Texas, reported a rub- bery $1.895 and numerous smaller robberies. After a wave of robberies last month, Philadelphia was qutet, los- ing only about $1,000 to criminals during the week. Police reported jhowever, that 55 automebiles were stolen in the city. LONDON, Nov. 17.—Massacres, in Which some 500 persons are believed to have been killed, have been going on for 10 days in and around the towns of Kotchana, Radovishta and Istib, Jugo-Slavia, dispatches to the |Daily Express from Sofia, says to-| | Three Minnesota postcffices at | day. Anc Northfield and ¥aribault,| The massacres were said to ha > were rubbed. lbeen perpetrated by nor ed In Kansas City and nearby towns,|Serblans asisted by regular Jugo- four bank robberies netted holdup Sav troops. records yesss blew | by. any one for personal benefit. Give your share, give it willingly but don’t give twice as much to exploit what you done. Put it all in the Chest. It were muc better there. ALL. U.S. IS. HIT BY CRIME WAVE ‘Majority of Criminals Make Good Their Escape in Week Marked by Scores of Holdups and Robberies; “Daring” Bands of Oklahoma Are Strangely Quiet NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—(United Press).—In the weak ending tonight holdup men and burglars obtained more than a quarter of a million dollars at widely separated points all over the nation, reports gathered by the United Press showed. Most of the criminals escaped despite redoubled vigilance by police in all cities. New York City led the rest of the country with a total of $108,060, lost during the week, while an evening newspaper obtained |payment for securing the award of|police records showing criminals Highwaymen got $3,000 in two |holdups near Lincoln, Neb. | Three bandits in Youngstown, Ohio, bound and gagged the teller jof the Dollar Savings bank and es Joaped with $1,400. Oklahoma known for {ts daring Infbber bands, reported the week as “quiet.” RESIGNATION IS | FORCED ON CHIEF, E ‘ALO, ¥.. Nov. 17.— | (United Press.)\—Chief of Police John F, Burflend resigned tonight following the crime wave this week in which five murders occurred. None of the murderers were cap- tured. The police department was severe- ly arraigned by the clergy of the city for its laxity in enforcing the law. The city council will appoint a new chief of police next week. 500 KILLED IN MASSACRE The whole district is terror-strick- en, reports said. The terrorized district {s close to | the Bulgarian border and it is be Meved the persons reporte acred must have been Bul: ulgaria occupied this district 1915 “but the aties of p m part of new. state mas. the district, t part of the of Juge a. Crihimne NUMBER 17. CONCESSIONS, DECLARATION OF PARIS PREMIER | Will Resort to War If Necessary; Score Are Killed in Rhineland | Fighting Saturday. | PARIS, Nov. 17.—(Unit- ,ed Press).—“The hour for concessions has passed,” Premier Poincare told the re- publican committee of com- merce, industry and agricul- ture here ¢ ht. “Germany must carry out the treaty of Versailles willingly or not.”* s renewal of his de- low a polley of relent lessness toward Germany was made in a speech at a banquet tendered him by the committee. “To let Germany have the time and means to prepare for new ag- gressions ag crime again mier declared “And it is a crime we will never commit."* Referring to the speech by Prime Minister Baldwin in the British house of commons, {n which he warned France that a break of entente js near unless Paris Inquishes {ts policy of relentless- ness, the premier said: ‘The latest developments will not induce France to weaken her policy or-eause her to regret her action in occupying the Ruhr. Poincare renewed his charge that Germany is plotting a war of re- venre. “We must feel happy,” he said, today we are guarding that district of Germany which has the mines and facilities for manu- facturé of arms, from an enemy which is the prey of nationalist passions and {feas of revenge. “Our policy enables use to defend the peace and save the frults of our victory. “We will not permit Germany to injure the peace we won at so great & cost or wring from us the just deserts of our victory." us would be a posterity,” the pre- “because SEPARATISTS ARE WORSTED IN FIGHT PARIS, Nov. 17.—(United Press.) —Nineteen persons were killed and fcores {njured in violent fighting in the German Rhineland today, ac- cording to dispatches tonight. Sixteen were killed in a village near Bonn when bands of armed Peasants, loyal to the Berlin gov- ernment, attacked a demonstration of separatists, Fifteen of the dead were separatists while the peasants lost only one man. Many were fn- Jured on both sides, In Essen two policemen and a worker were killed when unemployed stormed a police guard at one of the gates to the Krupp plant. Violent rioting between unem- ployed and police also occurred tn | Dusse!dorf, where crowds of hungry | workmen, ed on by communists, raged through the streets for several hours plundering food shops and defying police. E des the two policemen killed in the Krupp fighting 14 police were injured, All dispatches tndfcated the situa- tion in the Rhineland was growini more critical. ‘The people had reached a state of-reckless respair following. withdrawal of support by tho central government in Berlin. French, Belgian and English bank- Lin Sonteerae in Cologne on the tn- stitution of a stable curren the Rhineland in an effort to cee the chaotic financial eftuation. No agreement was reached, how- ever, and well informed German sources saw little Ukelfhood of any as long as the breach between Lon- don and Paris continues. NO AGREEMENT ON RETURN OF PRINCE. BY WEBB MILLER, (United. Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, Noy. 17.—Purther Anglo French discussions today on what action to take to make Germany ex- pel the crown prince and . curtail her armaments was belteved tonight to have brought no agreement. A final suggestion ty avold actual rupture of the Anglo-French en- tente was made in the semt-offieial Temps today when it urged a “win- ter truce’ between the two coun- tries ¢ which neither would Press its reparations policy. The x of the ambassadors ont the allied to avoid British and the nued on Page Two) ng nting ned t the } cc nth