Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1923, Page 5

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1923 eve Caspet Dailp Cridune PAGE FIVE. ~ CEDAR RAPIDS COACH GIVES GOOD REASON FOR TAKING A POKE AT SCOTT HIGH MAN , ceDAR RAPIng, town, Dec. 11— Admitting that he struck Fred Stie- bert of the Scott High football team after the latter had made financial settlement in a Toledo hotel follow- ing the Scott-Cedar Rapids game on Saturday, Coach Leo Novek of the Iowa eleven gave his reasons for the fracas: “When I went to Chicago to meet Siebert, and contract for the post season game” said Novak, “he told me that he coule not possibly seat more than 10,000 fans at the Scott field, I wanted a fifty percent op- tion in case the receipts went over $15,000 but Siebert told me that with only 10,000 fans at the gate and with prices of $1 and $1.50 for Seats he would not have more than $13,000 in total receipts and that a $7,500 guarantee to us was big money. Siebert drew a diagram of Scott field, with its seats, putting his own figures on each tier of seats to convince me that only 10,000 peo- ple could see the game, even with temporary bleachers. He told me he did not want to charge more than $1.50 for the best seats. “At Toledo we discovered that St frert had erected temporary stands, +” making it possible to accommodate / 20,000 fans, and that number saw the MONEY BOOTLEGGERS IN BERLIN COMMON AS LIQUOR VENDORS HERE By CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN (By mail to United Press) —Bootlegging of money has become as widespread here as bootlegging of other wares across the pond. Here the slogan is: “Have you anytiing in your collar today?" or, sometimes it is: “Have you anything in your hatband? With the government fixing an artificial mark rate, vastly below the figures quoted on the foreign bourses, the bootleggers are having a fine’ harvest. ‘The bootlegger visits you, or you ‘can find him on the corner. There are here “good, reliable bootleggers,” and “bad bootleggers.” The goof, reliable man is the one who pays a couple of hundred bil lions more than the “run of the mine;” the bad bootlegger, the one who secks to “profiteer.” vi this {s written, the mark is officially noted at 420,000 000,000 to the dolar. Put the ordinary boot- Jeggar quotes “eine billion,” which {n American notation {s one trillion ‘The better bootleggers quote op trillion two hundred milllards up wo trillion. bate Find Flocks of Them ., If one hasn't his own private boo legger, one goes out to. Unter der Linden or to the Tauentzienstrasse where many exchange kiosks are ‘The unknowing go into the kiosk— and get 420,000,000. The knowine harken to the bootleggers whe swarm about the kiosk. “Have you some dollars, pounds kronen, lire, pesetas, pesos, franc= dinars, milrets to sel?” whispers th: bootlegger furtively, just as thouet e-were offering a quart of “pur ‘Scotch.” “I can pay you more thar anybody e'se. Stroll down the blo-! with me a bit; {t's a bit thick herr and the,greenies keep sharp watch. You stroll. The Wootlegger pulls millards an¢ trillions out of bis collar or his hat band. | Fe can change $5 for you certoin'y, He digs again. this time producing, a couple of dollar bills from the lining of his coat. Sometimes the bootleggers employ youngsters of 10 to 15 years of age as their agents. The boys go throuch the same cautious motions, even though from their age they are safer from police control. And if one hesitates about buyine of the bootleggers. one has merelv to go around the corner to the bar: ber, the butcher, the baker the boot maker. They all want dollars an? pounds, as it is of no use to hold paper marks more than about two minutes. It used to be the mode to damn foreigners with the remark. “Oh, it's cheap for you; you have dollars.” Nowadays it's the other way around Any German business man and \ ghousanas of smaller people now ve their little stocks of dollars o- pounds. If they happen to need marks they need only “Have you anything in the collar today?” a U. S. WARSHIPS ARC ORDERED TO HONG KONG MANILA, Dec. 11.—(By the Asso- elated Press})—Five destroyers of the American Asiatic fleet 'eft here this afternoon bound for Hong Kong. The vessels were ordered to the Chinese port in connection with the situation at Canton and vicinity. ‘The destroyer Peary, flagship of the squadron of the forty-third divis‘on of the Asiatic fleet, heads the de- tachment, which Includes also the J sestrovers Hope, Pillsbury, Preston and Sicard. They are expected to arrive at Hong Kong Thursday morning. OT COLLEGE MEN EN PRISON. CHICAGO.—(United Press.)—Seven thousand college men are locked uo in the prisons of America. Twenty four per cent of these educated crim!nals are members of churches ‘These facts based on a research conducted recently by Johns Hop: kins university were pointed out by Prof. A. N. Farmer in an address here in which he urged character training in education. game. Instead of charging $1 and $1.50 for seats, they sold from $1.50 to $3.00. Although they refused to tell us what the receipts were, we have reason to believe they were well over $30,000 possibly nearer $40,000. For a post season game, at Scdtt'’s request. we shou'd have had fifty percent of the receipts and we would have had $17,000 or more, instead of $7,500 if we had-not taken Siebert at his word when he explained the situa-! tion. _I still have the plat that he! drew for Manager Maurice Carlson, and myself in Chicago. It shows! his own figures and tells its own! story about why we played without! a 60 percent guarantee. We are! not commercializing our football but! we do want a fair share of the mon-| ey we attract. “IT am mighty sorry that I struck Sfebert. but when he questioned my integrity as I had questioned his, it was too much. TI did not hit him when he was aitting down, nor when he was wearing his glasses. Nor did his assistant, Kirk, cause any one to run away when he pulled a loaded revolver, thereby violating the law himself. Dr. C. L. Brown of| Cedar Rapids was the one who quieted things, and not Kir, who makes {t appear that he was a two gun hero, I regret tho incident ex- ceedingly. Because of our treat- ment by the Scott representatives, no team coached by me ever wil play Scott again, Rut we like To-! ledo and the good sportsmanship of its football fans and of its teams. Xmas Trees In SUBSTATION IS OBTAINED TO “Tm a Tough Guy!” evil dogs.’ “Don't get gay with me," this pug, mascot for the U, S. Marines, probably is saying. The dog appeared at ecuson by the all football games played this there were stil! 2,000 letters to go out, but we were stuck. “The cause of this may be found in the habit of waiting until a tate hour before depusiting outgoing mail. Business houses and offices deluge us just at the time a final ef fort is made to get out all mai! that leaves on the 8:35 o'clock train. Naturally we are unable to com- Plete the job. “We need the cooperation of every business man in the city. get your mail in not later than 6 o'clock each evening and we shall give you the expected service. Another thing you should give your attention to is the separation of city mail from that which leaves for other places. Do not make it neo essary for us to handle your city letters at our rush hour in the eve ning, and so delay the send.ng off of foreign mail. “We have been considerably crip- pled at this time by a department order which makes compulsory the procuring of receipts for all parcel post packages delivered. We have found that this order has reduced the number of deliveries made with our present foraes by 40 per cent. Consequently more men have been cars to the number of trucks. “Since the first of this month there has been more third class ad- vert'sing matter placed in the local Post office for de‘ivery than I have ever .icnown for any threemonths’ sending this advertining wil! attempt to get {t in at the proper times of the month it will rel’eve conditions for us and will afd in bettering our service.to them.” ‘Butterflies Go | InClouds On | Pacific Coast added to the delivery crew and two, period “before. If the hapten | Dining Cars On RELIEVE. RUSH OF CHRISTMAS SANTA BARBARA, Callf., AR S. P. Railroad BUSINESS AT POSTOFFICE HERE SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 11. “ompany announced here today. i The dining car stewards will be | An unprecedented rush has hit —The Southern Pacific company! the Casper postoffice. In order to have a gorgeously decorated relieve the Christmas season conges- Christmas tree in each of its dining tion to some extent a substation has cars during the Christmas holidays been leased in the old pudlic market and will distribute candy to the building on the corner of Fifth and|the hours uf 5:45 and 6:45 o'c’ock children, among the passengers, the Wolcott streets. All packages are to be mated at this station. In telling of present condition be- arrayed as Santa Claus on Chris:-| for the chamber of commerce lunch-| cause of our limited and mas eve. Furniture Is the ideal gift for a gentle- We have 80 varieties man. to choose from, Price $3.15 up 20 Per Cent Discount On all Escritoire, Secretary and Spinet Desks. These desks are very beautiful and practical. The latest idea in desks_ eon tocay, Postmaster Edwn Bean | overtaxed facilites, By A New Rug For your home will be an Xmas gift that will be en- joyed for years. A Beautiful Floor Lamp Gives that finishing touch to the home. Every woman can use a Sew- ing Cabinet. This stvle. Price $10.80 up }11.—Millions of big brown butter- files migrating southward obscured | the highway south of this city yes- more than 5,000 letters were depos- ited in the postoffice. Our Umit in handling letters is 2,500 an hour be- terday and made motoring difficult. So dense were the swarms of in- said. “We are running very heavy! Sects at some places that motorists on first class mail and have been for the past 60 days. Last night wo hit something in the way of a flood that we could not handle, Between scarcely could see the roadway. County Horticultural Commissioner Kellogg went to the scene to secure some specimens for examination. ———— Among the December-born nota- bles were Milton, Arkwright, El Whitney, Beethoven, Heine, Sir Humphry Davy, Whittier, Carlyle and Gladstone Discount On all odd Living Room Rockers and Chairs. These are shown in cane effects and rich coverings of velour, tapestry and mohair. $8.50 Will Buy Any Bedroom Rocker, Chair or Bench in our entire stock. Regular value $12.00 to 620.00 Walnut, ivory, ma- hogany and two-tone fin- ishes. me Lead Democra' Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama (left), Democratic floor leader during the last session of Congress. has turned over his control to Sen- ator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Underwood stands a good chance of getting the Democratic nomination for president. LATE SPORTS CHICAGO, Dec. 11—(By the As- sociated Press)—John J. Evers, the Keystone of the Tinker-to-Evers-to- Chance double play combination in the days when the Chicago Nation- als were winning pennants around 1906, today signed as coach with Chance, who wil manage the Chi- cago White Sox next season. CHICAGO, Dec. 11—(By The Asso- ciated Press—Prompted doubtless by the St. Louis Nationals’ price of $250,000 for Rogers Hornsby's new contract, President Charles Ebbetts of the Brooklyn Natjonals today made the astounding offer of $275 000 for the St. Louis star. Baseball magnates and reporters collapsed into their chairs act the size of the offer. President Sam Breadon of St. Louls made no reply. PAKERSFIELD, Callf., Dec 11— Our selection of Davenport Tables was never Price $22.50 up Telephone Stands champion of the world, has accepted an offer to train Luis Angel Firpo, the “Wild Bull of Pampas,” Jeffric told a representative of the Baker: fled Morning Echo, at Taft, list night, where the former chzmpion refereed a boxing card. Jeffries’ contract to train Firpo is said to for a remuneration of about $75,000. Jeffries is quoted as declaring “Firpo will be a ‘wonder’ when he has learned to use both hands.” | NEW YORK, Dec. 11—Prospects | of a match race or a series of match races between Pierre Wertheimer's French champion three year old Ept- nard, and Harry F. Sinclair's Amer- ican champion, Zev, brightened to- day through a meeting between the two owners and August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, —_—_——<—_ | The elevation to the peerage of Lord Robert Cecil serves as a re- minder of the fact that for more than three hundred years a Cecil has sat in the House of Lord: ‘Tribune Want Ads bring resulta better, Every Home Can use a nice Magazine Rack. An appropriate and inexpensive gift. Price $11.25 up MAN HELD FOR KILLING STEER Bond of $3,500 was ¢emanded from Philip Sutton. homesteader, 17 miles north of Casper, this afters noon when he was arraigned on the charge of killing a range steer be ‘onging to the CY ranch. When the sher'ff's deputies went out to search his place they are said to have found the hide and most of the carcass of the animal. —_—_—— Dempsey Wins Damage Suit At Great Falls GREAT FALLS, Mont., Dec. 11— The jury in the district court this morning In the action of Alex F. Gerano! against W. H. “Jack"* Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, and Jack Kearns, brought in a verdict for defendant. Geranols, as guardian, had alleged $10,000 damages in the biting by a dog of his 12-year-ola daughter at the Dempsey training camp at Great Falls park, June 10, 1923, when the champion was training for his fight at Shelby, with Tommy Gibbons. The testimoney of defense was to effect that the dog did not belong to Dempsey, was a stray, and that the girl had entered the yard when 8 gns warned the public out and at a time when there was no publie admission. Pres. Obregon Has Full Power In Late Crisis EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 11.—Prest- dent Obregon has been granted full powers to take any steps to put down the revolution whiclf is oc ing “effectively and energetically handled,” Consul General Enriqus D. Rutz, of Mexico was advised to- day by the interior department at Mexico City. Officers from all parte of the republic are wiring thelr sup- port to President Obregon, who con- siders the situation well In hand, the telegram to Consul General Rulz stated. ifts Are a necessity to an enjoy- able conversation over the telephone. Price $10.35 up This cut shows another type of Sewing Cabinet for the ladies. Price $22.50 up Gate Leg Tables These are the most practical pieces of furniture in the home. A variety of sizes in genuine walnut and mahog- any. Price $13.50 up CHAMBERLIN FURNITURE CoO. TELEPHONE 37 EET AN? nlelnan tolad tas Laie CORNER SECOND AND DAVID STREETS |} OTe@nizacen meeung or tne teague.| as president pra tem het an