Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Wyoming—Increasing west portion tonight and north por. von Friday. Rising temperature. ROBBERIES OF TWO HOMES IN CITY REPORTED Salvation Army Chief And T. J. Gilroy Are Late Victims. The third house robbery in Casper within two days occurred early last, night at the residence of Captain) Ruth McHorg of the Salvation! Army. Fourteen dollars in cash was taken from a dresser in Captain Mc- Horg’s room while she was attend- ing the meeting of the organization.) When she returned she found the} door of the house had been left} open. T. J. Gilroy's residence, 1421 South St., Botolph street, was robbed earl- fer in the day, of several articles of jewelry. Tings, two lavalieres, and two gold chains were taken. On Tuesday night a suitcase con- Arthur Brewer, South Conwell street. No clue has been found to the marauders who are making these! in the residence sections of| 1207 | POOL HALL ROBBED. Fifteen dollars in cash was taken trom the register in the North Cas- Entrance to the place was made through a window. os CONFESSION BY WIRE FAILS TO SAVE CASPER WAN FROM: JAIL TERM CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 13.—E4 McCune of Casper, on trial in the! United States district court here | for violation of the prohibition. act, | told the jury that the had received | a telegram from a man who admitt- ed guilt of the offense for which he (McCune) was on tria!, but re- gretted that he would be unable to Produce the confessor in person. The jury apparently was not pro- foundly impressed inasmuch as it —! cloudiness with probably rain or snow north- | existed returned a verdict of guilty without hesitation. Judze Kennedy sentenced McCune to serve 90 days in the Na- trona county sail at Casper. Thr:« years ago McCune was convicted in the same court of violation of same law anc was sentenced to pay a fine of $600 and serve 60 days. bath ii rs Police of Capital City Break Record CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 13 Seven minutes after filing of a tele- gram at Newkirk, Okla. stating that Willlam Turner of that place wanted for wife and child desertion was believed to be in Cheyenne, the message had ‘een delivered to the police here and Turner was uncer arrest. He was found working in a barber shop. and Roundup of TEXARKANA, announcement was awaited tendants to more than one hun-| dred, | In six indictments returned yes-| pected by Federal Men Ark., Dec. promoters of oil stock enterprises in the south Arkansas | Grimm, Thomas field were under indictment in federal district court here | Duff and Irving today on charges of using the mails to defraud, while | .9%n FIVE MILLION | : Stockhelders In Bayano River Trust Ara . Company Learn Myth; Organizer Is Hunted AGO, Dec. 13. ese A 000,000 and covering a period of more than ten years were disclosed yesterda M. Crowe after a raid on the offices of Leo Koretz, attorney, for whom an international search is being made. | Friends and relatives of Koretz, said by the prosecutor] to have been induced by him to in-) vest several millions of dollars in the Bayano River Trust company of Panama, organized in 1911, have learned the company was a myth | and its holdings in Panama, repre- | sented as producing 250,000 barrels | of oil per day never existed, accord- ing to investigators. | The last trace of Koretz was 2| week ago when he left a New York hotel after sending back to his of- fice here jewelry valued at $75,000, | selzed in the raid, and sending home | all the clothing he had taken with} him when he left Chicago. Letters | with steamship companies found 1n | his office have led authorities to be- | lieve he is enroute to the Canal) Zone, South America, or Prague, | Bohemia, where he is said to have! many relatives. Books and records taken by in-! vestigators in the downtown suite of offices of Koretz and in another | office suite he maintained at th2) Drake hotel have disclosed, poco) ing to Prosecutor Crowe, that in- vestors in Koretz’ projects are) numbered among prominent and | wealthy Chicagoans. From his own | & invalid mother, Mr. Crowe said.) Koretz obtained $45,000, one wealthy Chicagoan, whose name was with- held, $200,000 and others put in sums renging from $3400 10 $100,000. So trusted was the promoter that!) none ever investigated the: 6,000,000 acres of timber land, represented | as owned by the Bayano River Trust company, on which ofl was} Feported being produced. Recentiy | Koretz, according to the state's at-| torney, hired a number of high priced executives, some of them in- vestors to go to Panama to carry on development of a refinery com pany he said would “put the Stand- ard Oll company out of business.’ It was after these men sent worl! to other Chicago investors that 10! such company as the Bayano} or owned property in Panama that. complaint was made. Koretz’ alleged operations, accord- ing to Prosecutor Crowe, rivaled those of Ponzi or J. Rufus Walling- ford of fiction. While an office boy, 22 years ago, he studied“ law at night school. Attorney F. E. Mat thews, in whose office he formerly | ran errands, invested $40,000 in the projects of Koretz, according to the complaint Fifteen years ago Koretz took a number of friends into an Arkansas rice plantation scheme, the district | attorney said, and actually pail) them 10 to 15 per cent annual divi-| dends. The large returns attracted | many stockholders, who later in vested in the Panama project, which | was launched in 1913. Dividends of 5 per cent each six months we-e paid to stockholders of the Panam company, the state's attorneys said ‘Two years age Koretz announced oil had been found on the Panama properties and later he is allaged to have circulated the story that a large oll corporation had offered him $25,000,000 for his one-fifth in terest in the company, whose sto was selling for $2,000 a sha according to the investigators, O: man is said to have paid $30,000 for a single share. Koretz is said to have lived luxuriously and spent lavishly. He was a member of prominent clubs } trict court, charging cruelty. | couple were-married August 27, 1913.! jin very bad condition as a result of; for killing cow elk in : pahoes in That Firm Was terminus that traffic was held up for some time. Chief Old Eagle told interview- ers that the deputation intended to ask the League of Nations to intervene with the United States ernment so that Indians might have the same rights and priv! leges as other Americans. SOVIET RECOGNITION WILL BE DEBATED BY THREE HIGH SCHOOLS and maintained a number of ex- pensive automobiles. In his office the state's attorneys said, they} found jewelry valued at $75,000, sent by Koretz from New Yor‘, when he disappeared a week ago, and bills from exclustve Jewelers in | Chicago and New York for thou sands of dollars worth of jewelry. He is said to have recently leased another office suite at a cost of | $70,000 a year, but had not yet/ taken possession. . Koretz is married and has two children. His wife, who expressed the hope the authorities would find her husband, said she had no know. | edge of his ventures or promotions. oo That the United States should re \Cruelty Charged |cognize the Soviet government In Divorce Plea. resolution upon which the Na trona County high school will debate with Lander and Riverton this year. Gertrude Merritt is suing Frank L. Merritt for divorce in the eighth dis. The \for the argument, while will come here to debate the affirma tive team. It is probable that one at Alliance, Neb., and the plaintiff! weeks the custody of two minor chil-| Laramie during High School week. dren aged seven and one and a half years respectively. FLOOD VICTIM ‘with Riverton and Lander last yea: IS UNCOVERED Tragedy of September Is Revealed by Discovery of Body of Walter King West of Salt Creek Another tragedy resulting from the storm which swept all Wyoming last fall and which was the cause of one of the greatest train wrecks in history wag revealed last night {when the ebody of Walter King, who had been lost Sep- tember 28, was found by Charles Adams lying in a gully five miles west of the new town of Salt Creek. The body had evidently been washed down by,exact address is unknown. The de the heavy rains which had flooded| ceased was pet a LEADS TO EXPULSION OF PAIR FROM CLUB world for several hours. Adams was a man about 23 years of He was a foreman for the | Illinois Pipe Line company and was| emp'oyed in the field work. The day| on which he had been heard of last he had gone out to look over some of the mains which had become de- fective because of the storm. He never came back. Mr. Adams stumbled upon him ac-| Crall and E. E. Bingham, local bu - jdentally last night- The body was! ness men who paid fines of $200 e. the December 2 age. exposure. The victim had eyident-| Mountain country on ly died of exhaustion. | Were requested to resign from the Coroner Lew M. Gay went out! Albany County Sportsmen’s Club this morning and brought the re-/a special meeting last night. Bing-! mains into Casper. They are being| ham was vice president of the club. held at the Shaffer-Gay chapel un-| The men were arrested after an auto tl some word glin-Be) fecelved from| race with ietatelehd federal ofticers rclatives who live in the east. Their| during which both aides fired shots. Frauds Charged In Bill Against 22 Men Hundred Is Ex- 13.—Twenty-two aileged of additional indictments | which were expected to bring the total number of de-| jWas raised from $2 terday. ntaining fort nine} counts alleg fraud and one chars: ing conspiracy, thirteen defendants] |pany, Reginald C. Houston (two in-| | stand on their present bonds, rang: | here OIL PROMOTERS IN ARKANSAS SEIZED were named. They Morton Howard (Pat) Marr, one of the big gest oil stock company operators in the southwést, Robert Davis Ker chaval, Roy A. J. Cox, Samuel E Davis, the American Trust com- were CHEYENNE MAN HELD Hub | Louis 8 Ww. B. dictments), Henri O. Flesher, Mason, H. A. Marshall, Schwartz, whore calling ate he is a representative savings and loan company , Was arrested Wednesday the defenda , only Marr,| evening by the sheriff's office on a aval, Houston, Marshal! and) bad check charge. | Dav! is were in cou! Marr's bond Schwartz is said to have made out ,000 10 $40,000,| a check to cash for $30 on a Chey- the being and to have His arrest, was caused by the jbank here that handled the check, other four allewed to!enne bank ing from $1,000 to $10,900, ts The negative team put out by the local institution will go to Lander Riverton of the Casper teams will also go to Casper won the triangular debates Sheep ON BAD CHECK CHARGE of} cashed it} AY, DECEMBER 13, 1923 MEX FORCES MOBILIZED FOR CRUCIAL BATTLE DOLLAR SWINDé: BARED IN PROMOTER’S OPERATIONS CONTRACT FOR Paris Today |SUBWAY SICNED On Mission||\\ay yr Ey RAILROAD Survey Completed A contract was signed by officials of the Chicago, Bur-| lington and Quincy railsoad company and members of the | city council at the special me whereby it was agreed that c Kinley subway which has long been contemplated should) start within 30 days and shou months of the time of starting, the | work to cost $81,000, this expense o be born equally by the city Casper and the Burlington railroad The entire city counc!! was pres. ent at the meeting last night, ‘and ai signed the agreement. The men who represented the Burlington in the contract were A. G. Smart, gen: eral superintendent, of Alliance. ‘eb.; J. M. Saxton, land and indus- agent with headquarters at neoln, Neb.; J. C. Grisinger, di-| vision superintendent, Casper; ge S. Scott, local freight agent, and N. P. Nelson, division engineer. The city will pay $10,125 or one fourth of its half as soon as the work is completed, and will pay the remainder in three annual payments. The railroad will be required to p the subway structure in repair, ile the paving and which run. through 1t will be kept up by the city which will also direct traffle through the subway and see that it 1s properly lighted. According to the plans which have been arrived at, the subway will be long enough so that 18 tracks may| be laid across it. There are 12 such| tracks at the present time. It will| have a clearance of 12 feet and will contain two roadways, each 14 feet in width. In addition to these there will be two sidewalks. ch of the road ys will of course provide for one-way traffic. Tt was announced at the meeting last hi night that the engineers who ave been making surveys of Cas per’s water possibilities had practi ally completed their task and that port would be made within 30 Surveys have been very ex tensive. A recommendation was offered by Alderman J. S. Pettingill that cer- tain parts of streets be set aside for coasting by the young people of the city. It will be remembered that Bast Fifth street was used for this purpose last year. Other members of the counail brought out the fact that there was some danger even where the streets were shut off from traffic and that It would he better to get a place outside the city. No action was taken. ‘The water and sewer bonds which wes recently floated to the extent 275,000 have been approved and wilt be taken by Bosworth Chanute and company. They will be payable jin Casper. ee : BONUS BILL IN HOUSE AGAIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.— The | Soldier bonus bill which passed con gress last year and was vetoed by | President Harding, was _ re-intro duced today by Representative Mec | Kenzie, Republican, Illinois, at request’ of Republican veterans j the house. It carries only minor {from the original bill. LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 13.— Sasneel the in changes Listen for Carrier Boy's Whistl SILC To Our Subscribers | We have supplied all regular | carriers with whistles requesting | that they be used at each de- | When you are notified your Tribune is at your door you should get it as soon as possible thus eliminating the chance of loss by wind or thoughtless borrowers. If the | carrier on your route does not | inform you of delivery by use of the whistle, we will consider it | @ favor {f you will notify us of this negiect, Phone 16 or 16, livery. | that sidewalks | A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper Daily Crime FINAL HOME EDITION NUMBER 43 Nine Marooned Five Days on Island Saved SAN PEDRO, Calif., Dec. 13.— chief petty officers of the U. S. 5. on, navy supply ship, and three today w recuperating from hardshi need on rocky San Clemente island, 60 miles south of here, where they were marooned for five days after the 50 ton fish. ing boat in which they sailed to the y IS Pi exp’ island capsized while at anchor, in a —Promotion schemes involving Perri aa atcclnantoce te merch PARIS, Dec. 13.—A delegation ——- for them. The men were 1 en y by State’s Attorney Robert| of sixteen Arapahoe Indians from if a 4 camped near Mosquito hart liv an| Wyoming, a in, full regalta Construction of McKinley Street Project ing on bacon and id goat's meat arrived here yesterday: Their ap und waiting for mrance caused/ such a.com apne hem off. Ant perionatarayetet ies oF to Begin Within 30 Days; Water fishing oft th rough weather jtunate, tt | w as drowned when \"* skiff. came, was not so for rned today. He a wave capsized was le rd LORD DOUGLAS CONVICTED ON LIBEL CHARGE eting of the latter last night onstruction work. on the Mc- Id be completed within eight | COLD SNAP IS ON WANE LONDON, Dec. 13.—(By the As joclated Press)—Lord ed Doug: jas, son of late Marquis of Queens berry, was fownd guilty by a jury in CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—The cold! oid Bafley today of criminal Mbel snap which swept over the central) ypon Winston Spencer Churchill, middlewest will continue for a day or two the ‘weather bureau indicated in its forecast today. “Although the temperature has fallen decidedly from the Rocky Mountain region eastward over the upper Mississippi valley and western lake region,” the weather bureau former first lord of the admiralty by his publication of the statement that Mr, Churchill issued a false communique after the battle of Jut- land for the purpose of influencing the stock markets. Lord Alfred w sentenced to six months in prison, at the expiration stated, “the temperature readings! of which he must find a surety to are not unseasonably low at any keep the peace, particularly toward point, minima of zero or lower being) Mr. Churchill. Failing to find surety, confined to the Canadian north-| he must undérgo six months’ more west.” ‘imprisonment. KLAN KILLING TOLD IN TRIAL Circumstances of Shooting of William Coburn First to Be Recited In Trial of Philip E. Fox ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 18.—(By The Associated Press). —Clarence Everett, was the first witness today in the trial of Philip E. Fox, charged with the murder of William S. imperial forces of the organization. Half Milli the stand. He took a seat behind . ‘ ii who issued a statement returned the glance and then pl: Coburn. Coburn, a leader in the insurgent faction of the Emperor William Joseph Simmons Mee aeucs | For Paintings the s of e of the us face in his teft hand. has Ku Klux Klan, was shot to death, it is charged, November 5, by Fox, who was then publicity director of the so-called of the Ku Klux Klan entered the crowded room as the witness took The major klan official, teader of} I the so-called insurgent faction, and Turn d D 8s ei oun Klan was neating the rocks, ea to where Fox was seated. over i PHILADELPHIA, 13, Prince Felix Coussoupoft's offer of Dec. Everett identified a knife, which | $5240,334 for the return of the two he said was purchased by Fox for| Rembrandt paintings was refused $4 on Nevember 5. He said Fox had) toaay by representatives of Joseph him oil the knife and examine the| 5 4, want : opening springs before he wou'd| 2 Widener, miltonare art collect: close the sale. \The offer was mado by Emery R Buckner, New York attorney Russian noblema r the The knife was seven inches loug, (Continued on Page Ten) FEDERALS WILL FIGHT IT QUT WITH REBELS, fo LATE DECISION Vera Cruz Border to Witness Final Test Of Strength Between Military Forces. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13. —(By The Associated Press) —It is geerally felt here thas a decisive battle between the Sanchez forces and the troops loyal to President Obregon will be fought on the Vera Cruz front near where Carranza was defeated by Sanc in 1919. The government continues to con- centrate soldiers In thet district to oppose the’ advance of the rebels. President Obregon has rejected the mediation offer of General An« gel Fic governor of Sinaloa, as- serting that the question between the government and the tnsurgenta has become military rather than pc litical, inasmuch as the rebel lead- ers are army men who have failed in their military duties. NOGALES, Artz, Deo. 13.—Rebel forces at Manzanillo, Mexico, hava captured and executed General M!- guel Pima, of the Federal army wh» was returning to Mexico City from Lower California, where he had been on a mission for President Obregon, according to advices recevied in of- Ticla! clroles here today. OBREGON MAY BE DEPOSED. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 13,~ By horseback, airplane, automobile and some by rail through the Unit- ed States, the majority of the Mexi- ean National congress is leaving Mexico City for Vera Cruz to re- convene for the avowed purpose of deposing President Alvaro Obregon as president of the republic, accor ing to Rubin Vizearra, president the chamber of deputies, who erriv- d here last night en route to Vera Cruz. He said that the national con- gress had been functioning since the outbreak of the revolution un ler military pressure, He further stated that a quorum was not pres- ent ané all acts since the rev lution were null and vold. Some of the members are havi lifficulty in leaving Mexico City, | said, and about twenty-five of them were still there, he added Mexico, Dec. 13.—(By Associated Press.)— Mexican vuthorities here today declared that the announcement that General Angel Flores, constitutional gov- rnor of Sinaloa, had temporarily bandoned his presidential car ugn to resume charge of stato ffairs and had telegraphed Presi Jent Obregon that he would remain to the central oyal government was the most important news that had come from the west coast of Mexico since the beginning of ths rebellion. Verification of the report that General Flores intends to fight for the Obregon government was re- celved in a telegram to Consul General Ruiz from Consyl Nogales, Art: that the entire west (Continued on Page Wine) HOLIDAY LIQUOR FLOOD POURS OVER CANADIAN BORDER DESPITE GUARD One Hundred Men Watch 300-Mile Frontier In Efforts to Call Halt In Contraband Traffic MALONE, N. Y., Dec. 18.—(By The Associated Press). —A thin line of 116 men, including enforcement agent: customs inspectors and constabulary men stood guard to-| day to stop if possible, the ever-increasing flow of Ca- nadian contraband liquor through the great open spaces of a frontier of nearly 300 miles, comprising the four upper tier counties of northeastern New] forcement officers York. The rum consigned to the] The authorities, federal big cities down state for the Christ-| have lately maintained mas holiday trade, has been poured| secrecy over the international border in such! but as to t heavy quantities cently to| thelr effort is or failur to stem the tide | qause serious concern to the law en-' secret is made, however, of the fact] border, that © their effo: m in the fic there reinforcemehts could not be village, 12 s the ner to bring pf the lav da the he B of State troop authori sin the t here ters of troop ers and federal lone nes traband tiqu The boot! parked his rown of the ut an agent and blandly t to bring for iquor over the |