Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING: Fair tonight and Sunday except probably rain or snow extreme northwest portion Sunday. Not much change in temperature. VOLUME , LONE FUGITIVE STANDS OFF B16 POSSE FOR HOURS IN GUN FIGHT Battle in Mississippi Swamp District Takes Big Toll in Dead and Wounded; Three of Wounded Men Said to Be Dying. DREW, Miss., Dec. 15.—This little village, nestling in the swamps of the Mississippi delta, awoke from its slumbers today and counted its dead—the human toll ex- acted yesterday in the spectacular gun battle between Joe Pullen, negro tenant farmer, and a posse of several hundred men. ; Four men, including the negro,]which by this time had been in- Jost thelr’ lives in the battle, which| creased to several hundred men. raged until one o'clock this morning] His twelfth victim was “Bud” when Pullen, riddled with bullets,| Doggett, who was shot while assist- was captured and brought here.| ing Sheriff Cartlege in placing the Nine others were wounded, three of} machine gun. them perhaps fatally. —_— The dead: ’ Joe Pullen, 40, negro tenant farm- U FAT er. ‘W. T. Sanders, 45, bis employer. R. L. Methvin, 55, posseman. E. O. Hess, 50, posseman. AN of the wounsed Arabi embers of the posse, whic! with the Hegro for more than seven} ST LOUIS, Dec. 15.—David W. hours. The more seriously wound-| Burns, 44 years old, parole officer of the Kansas penitentiary, died today from bullet wounds recetved yester- day from one of two recaptured con- victs he was returning to the prison. The shooting occurred on a Missouri Pacific train at Alicia, Arkansas. ed are J. L. (“Bud") Doggett, promin- ent lumberman and eportsman of _ Oo Clarksdale, Miswissipp!: A. L. Man- ning and Kenneth Blackwood, both NEW YORK, Dec. 15—A severe break in cotton priegs sending March farmers. "4 Doggett was-shot in the region of the heart but physisicans sald he has a chance to recover. Manning and Blackwood both were shot in the face and neck.’ Neither is ex- pected to Iive through the day. down to 33.25 and May to 33.45 oc- curred here today, The break rep- resented 95 points loss overnight and practically $14.50 a ba’e loss since the government crop estimates were reported- The chief reason was withdrawal of mill buying and Others wounded were; Luther southern hedge selling pressure. Hughes, C. A+», Hammond, Bob Stringfellow, J. B. Ratileff, B. A. ‘Williams and Robert Kirsch. Pullen was captured at one o'clock this morning, when four members of the posse braved the negro's fire and stormed the drainage ditch in which he had been entrenched for several hours. Headed by sheriff Newt Cartlege of Clarksdale, the party set up a machine gun which hafl been brought from Clarksdale, and opened fire on the negro’s stronghold. Fighting desperately to CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923 ALIENS SMUGGLED INTO NEGRO KILLS FOUR, WOUNDS NINE Misses Dipl KANSAS CITY, Dec, 15—Barney Google's Spark Plug with Sunshine up dashed under the wire in the lead here today in the great $100,- 000 cross continenta! race between New York and Californ'a. ant leg of the greatest equine mar- athon ever held with the grace of the famous Casey Stengel rounding the bases in the New York tast fall. Sparky has been driven hard from Chicago by his Sunshine Sande. The Google entry was on the point of collaps'ng near the city limits when Barney motored out and reviewed his cele- brated “brown-eyed beauty,” staving off a periodic attack of the horsey heebie-jeebies. A great reception was accorded Spark Plug, his owner, and jockey as they breezed in—winning the thousand dollar purse hung up by loca} business men and outdistanc- ing the nearest in their field by many fur'ongs. Mr. Google was bubbling with good humor as he discussed the cross continental race with reporters today. He said that there had been but one disappointment durigs the marathon thus far. Th's soon after the start of the race a month ago when he learned by radio that he would be unable to secure a medical degree from the Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons reputed to Have made doctors more common than nutmegs in Connec- ticut. aerate “Race followers know my Spark P'ug has but one serious weakness,” Mr; Google explained, “and that is the so-called heeblie-jeebies. Just before the present cross con- tinental race started a friend of mine who examines med'cal examt- nation papers in Connecticut advised me to select the briefest courses for- merly offered by a certain medica’ school here. He said," continued Mr. Google, “that I could learn in no time to treat heeble jeebles and the same t'me. I’m pretty sick of paying veterinarian bills. | And none of the ‘docs’ seem to know how to treat the heeble jeebies.”’ Mr Google paused, coughed, and then sald sadly: “So I was all set to Sparky Races Into Kansas City in the Lead; Barney Spark Plug finished this ace. Yank Stadium at! oma Mill Degree grab some short order medical edu- cation when I reached Kansas, shoot back to Connecticut right after the cross continental race, and have Sunshine hang out my shingle read- ing. BARNEY GOOGLE, M. D, HEEBIE JEEBIE SPECIALIST “However,” murmured Mr. Google ne of you bright reporters exposed my intended alma mater as a dip- (dwos) unpr03s: 17 WIFE OF MAJOR & UPERT HUGHES Author and Playwright Awaits Details of Tragedy | Believed to Have Been Caused by Despondency Over Long Illness. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.—Details concerning the re- toma mill, and that temporar!'y kills Ported suicide at Haiphong, Indo-China, of Mrs. Adelaide my hope of becoming a heeble jeebie Manola Hughes, were awaited today by her husband, specialist soon, luck! That's just my I Uke that title ‘Doctor’ and Major Rupert Hughes, autho r playright, and motion pic- A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State ‘Che Casper Daily Trinue ON | Innocent Man Behind Bars Over 2 Years COMMITS SUICIDE WHILE ABROAD of course, I'd never try to cure any-\ture director, who was informed of her death in a brief | one but Spark Plug. kill Sparky, so no harm would have been done ‘!f that mail order medical {school had only lasted long enough to award me an M. D. degree.” The near heeble jeeble specialist was rubbing his celebrated eyes on @ corner of Spark P*ug’s historic blanket when the reporters fled to receive the other entries in the $100,- 000 race who were reported lumber- ing wearily towards the wire in this city. CASPER KILLED The message stated merely that Mrs, Hughes had committed su!cide. and asked instructions as to the dis. | position of her body. In comment ing on the brief dispatch, Major Hughes said his wife had long been battling disease’and shattered nerves and “no one else knew the battles she had w'th storms of gloom which Swept over her.” “I ‘et her go to China,” he added “because she thought she cou'd re- MAN IS FRIDAY IN. AUTO CRASH John Covington Is Victim of Tragic Ac- cident on Highway Near Guernsey; Others Repo John Covington, 50 years of age, was instantly killed tack ‘Doctor’ onto my ‘Barney’ at| yesterday near Guernsey, Wyo., when the Ford car which he was driving turned over on him, pinning him beneath Others in the car were Covington’s mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Covington, Sr. ,who were injured, and it. Covington’s wife and two c the end, Pullen returned the fire with pistol and shotgun until he fell with twenty bullets in his body. He was brought here, where his body| lay tn the main street until he died at 2 o'clock. ‘The trouble started shortly after noon yesterday, when Sanders, on whose place Pullen lUved, went to the latter's house to collect a debt. An argument ensued, and the negro shot Sanders through the heart, kill- WOMAN IS SOUGHT IN ‘OIL BUBBLE’ STEAL ing him instantly. After shooting his employer, Pul- len ran into his cabtn, armed himself with a shotgun and fied into a swamp. A small posse was quickly formed and a systematical search for the negro begun. Puifen but each time he -proved the better marksman, One by one. he dropped his pursuers from ambush. By the time he had reached the drainage ditch the negro’s deadly aim with! shotgun and pistol had brought down eleven members of the posse, TWO BURN T0 DEATH INFIRE was sighted | several times during the afternoon, Secretary.of | Federation Is CHICAGO, Dec. 15—J. W. Cover- dale, of Iowa, was again today acting as secretary of the American Farm ; Bureau federation, with the added office of director of organizatior., The executive committee reinstat- the presiding committee at its last meeting, and at the same time con- solidated the secretary's office with that of the director of organization, Endorsement was ind rectly given NEW ORLEANS, Dec. the Federal Products Company, at ‘West Wego, La., which was damag-'ers in July, 1923, which in turn en- connect Davidson's story with a re ed by fire. EARLY FUNDING OF THE FRENCH DEBT TO JU, S. NOW IN PROSPECT, SAID PARIS, Dec. 15.—(By The Asso- cited Press.-—The possibility of an early funding of France's debt to the United States is beng consid- ered in French official circles, it was learned today. For some time it has been known that Premier Poincare desired to find a way of disarming the critics who have intimated that the French were indifferent to ther war obli- gations, but in view of the finan- cial situation the premier has seen no possibility of undértaking imme- diate Payments without imposing heavy new taxes, @ atep which the the United States grain growers 15.—Two corporation by the federation com- some of the furniture found in Kore- men were burned to death early to- mittee, when it adopted a resolution tz offices as some which had been day when trapped in the office of endorsing another resolution by a in the Bronson apartment. gathering of Mid-western grain grow- dorses the corporation. ‘nterfor political situation has made hazardous. The effect of such payments on the exchange value of the franc has a’so been an tmportant obstacle, The recent declaration of Secre- ary af the Treasury Mellon that the United States does not want to press France on this question has opened in French minds the poss'b- Mity of the early funding of the debt s0 as to put it In the form the Amer- fean treasury would like, with a provision for deferred payments of Interest and princ!pal that would sive Franco “time to turn around.” Elected Again ed the secretary, who was ousted by! * \Fugitive Promoter Had One Who Posed As His Wife; Two Bills of Indict- ment Returned Against Koretz CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Search is being made today for a woman with whom Leo’ Koretz, fugitive promoter of a $5,000,000 Panama “Oil Bubble” is thought by investi- gators to have posed as “Mr.-and Mrs. Al Bronson,” for \the past four years. Charles Davidson, janitor of an apartment building last night fdentified a photograph of that an unknown woman some time Koretz as a man known to tum as 9&0 had asked that Koretz’ offices Bronson, who frequently met a wo.]¢ watched and any woman visitors man in the daytime in a suite he had | eported to her. rented, according to state's Attor- While the grand jury yesterday neys. The janitor iso identified | was reported to have voted two true bills charging Koretz with larceny and operation of a confidence game, Involuntary petitions in bank Authorities are endeavoring to|tUptucy were filed against him by three creditors, all women, who port from a private detective agency | Claimed $6,500 was due them on notes signed by Koretz. A trust company, named as receiver, seized the expensive automobiles and other available valuables of Koretz, whose allaged speculations of between $4,- 000,000 and $5,000,000 are covered by assets of about $750,000. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Confronted by a nubpoena from the state's at- torney's office today, Mrs. Salo Auerbach, wife of a well known theatre owner, admitted she was “Mrs, Al Bronson” who visited an apartment intermittently for four years maintained by Leo Koretz, the promoter of the “Panama Of] Bub- ble.” “There were other women in Leo Koretz’ life beside me," she ts said to have asserted. while her husband. standing by, Indicated he would stand by his wife, >_——_—_. WASHINGTON, Deo, 15.—Warl J. Davis of Michigan was nominated by President Coolldge today to be assistant attorney general suceeed- ing John W, H. Crim, who recently A precedent fer funding under these conditions is found in the 140 year old contract which the young American republic made for repay- Ing the advances totalling 18,000,000 livrea made by France to help the American war of independence. All interest on that sum was watvec by Louts XVI, only the principal being repaid, If the United States, tn fixing a rate of Interest, were inclined to consider the capacity of France to pay, Ffrench officials believe an ar- rangement might be made on a two rted Injured hildren. A broken wheel is shid.to have caused the accident. The body of the deceased w taken to Guernsey, and the funeral will be held from there. The deceased nas been a lone time resident of Casper. Hi Operated a restaurant known “Jack's Place” at 425 West Yellow ston avenue and resided at 42 North Jackson street. Mr. and Mrs Covington and their children lef for the ranch of Mr. Covington’ Parents near Guernsey a few day- ago. Yesterday the entire grouj had started on a trip to Missouri. Two brothers also survive the de ceased at Guernsey. —————.— QUAKE DAMAGE FIGURES LARGE TOKIO, Dec. 15.—(By The As sociated Press)—The damage don by Japan's earthquake disaster las autumn amounted to between sever and ten billion yen ($3,500,000,000 t $5,000,000,000) Finance Minister uye advised the diet today. The lo: to the imperial university was give as 43,000,000 yen. Speaking of Drinking You have often heard it that you can lead an animal to water but you cannot make him drink. said If the animal ts handled right he will be ready to drink—he wil! want'to drink. The unthinking have said that advertis'ng will bring people to the store but will not make them buy Now it is not contended that ad vertising ‘s the sole element in Merchandising success; {t does not dispense with the necessity for many business virtues. Advertising will cultivate a lationship of cordiality, confidence And good will, and wil advise and inform so that customers are ready to buy when they reach the store, ‘The leading stores of Casper are reaching thousands of peop!e and have chosen the Tribune as the medium through which th wish resigned, < per cent basis. ; 4 fe be approached. I couldn't cablegram received at their home here late last night. gain her health and courage there. I thought that she had regained them until the cable came announc- ng her death. It is my greatest agony that after a life of such close and devoted unifon she shou'd die alone and so far away.” Death came to Mrs. Hughes at the close of a journey menaced by earthquake and typhoon. She left here last August on the advice of physicians, several months after un- dergoing an operation for cancer. A nurse accompanied her. Enroute to Yokohama she experienced the terrors of a typhoon, and when earth shocks shattered Japan it was feared for a time that shé had perished. Word that she was safe reached here several days after the quake, but the catastrophe is be- lHeved to have left its tmpression on her already . weakened nerves. From Peking she wrote home tr. cheerful vein, describing the ‘man- chu prince’s paper palace” she had rented by the month; thence on to french Indo-China and ther. to Hat. yhong, where, according to last night’s message,’ she took leave of ife. Mrs. Hughes was a C'eveland girl, laughter of the actresa, Marion Man- via. In her ‘teens she played in her nother’s company, and later appear- d 'n her husband's p'ays. In 1908 as Mrs. Adelaide Mould, widowed mother of two children, she was married to Mr, Hughes at Jersey City. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—A victim of mistaken identity, George D, Pterio- tis, 28, convicted in January, 1921, in United States court in New York, | served 33 months In the Atlantal penitentiary for a crime that Joseph Sakelos, San Francisco, now being held here, has admitted he com mitted. according to detectives. | Pteriotis in 119 organized the American Company of Commerce, tn} New York, to conduct an importing business between the United States and Greece, according to his story. A year later he sold his Interest to Sakelos for $30,000 and went to| europe, Meanwhile Sakelos according to the statement detectives Said he has made, raised $300,000 at various east- ern banks or faked bills of lading and disappeared. Pteriotis. arrested when he returned to America, was unable to prove he was not Sakelos, and was convicted. MOVIE MASHER LANDS IN JAIL Another “movie masher” landed In the toils of the police again yes terday when BE. E. Floyd was ar rested on the charge of flirting with a girl in a local theater. The git! was only 14 years of age and war not at all desirous of being the object of the man’s attention, and his wife was with him at that! Floyd was fined $5 by Judge John A. Murray last night and was sen tenced to 30 days in jail. Jack Blackenship was fined $100 by Judge Murray yesterday. Black enship was charged with violating the liquor ord!nance. He had been arrested at 130 South Ash street The man claimed that he had been “framed” but this did not bear much weight with the magistrate. W. F. O'Brien was sentenced to 30 days in jail because he had aroused suspicion {n the mind of « policeman regarding his intentions when following another mana con siderable distance down the street The other man {s said to have been Intoxicated. O'Brien claimed to have been following him to find ou’ where he could get a drink, but this story appeared to be a fabrica tion to the judge. NURSE SEIZED IN KLAN CASE Mrs. Margaret Weaver Is Arrested as Accomplice of Philip Fox In Killing Of William Coburn ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 15.—(By The Associated Press). —Mrs. Margaret Weaver, a trained nurse, whose home aid to be in Cleveland, O., under indictment on a charge f accessory before the fact in connection with the slay- ng of William S. Coburn by Philip E. Fox, is under arrest n Thomasville, Kentucky, it was learned at the trial of "ox here today. City Detective Hunt at the same] Associated Press)—Solicitor General John A. Boykin'’s indirect charge me announced that he would go onee to Thomasville to bring Mrs.|that Imperial Wizard Hiram W. x Evans of the knights of the Ku Klux eaver back to At’anta where she Klan, and Philip EB. Fox. klan editor, pected to testify, Mrs. Weaver is charged in the tn-| “had a fight, in a St. Louis hotel ictment with having accompan ed|°Ver & woman,” expected to ‘ox In an automobile to the building! {sure prominently in the trial of \ which Coburn's office was ‘ocated | Fox when the prosecution introduces few moments before the klan pub-|!t8 rebuttal testimony, probably late ty man shot and killed the klan | today. ttorney. Mr. Boykin brought the alleged battle to Mght in propounding ad ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 15.—(By the (Continued on Page Three.) NUMBER 45 5. BY WHOLESALE GIGANTIC PLO fo REVEALED | WAR OPENED 0 LIQUOR TRAFF| Aliens Barred Because Immigration Quotas Are Filled - Finding Way Into Country. MALONE, N. Y., Dec. 15. —(By The Associated Press) .—While searching for bootleggers along the Canadian ‘border, federal agents and the “black horse” troops. of the state police have stumbled .on what is evidently a gigantic plot to smuggle aliens into this country So far this month fifty allens have been caught along the fron- ters of the four northeastern counties of the state, it was au- thoritatively learned today. This partly confirms a report made pub- Ne at the national industrial con- ference in New York, quo#ms Secretary of Labor Davis as saying that a many as one thousand aliens daily were being til brought into the United States, The aliens as a rule are a 4e- sirable type, but have been barred from entering this country because the immigration quotas for the year have been filled. Most of the aliens taken into custody in recent weeks haye been Irish, English and Swedish. ALL WARTIME VIOLATORS ARE ORDERED FREE iy WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Pre dent Coolidge today ordered the re- ease of all remaining imprisoned violators of war laws. About thirty persons will gain their liberty as a result of the order. They were conyicted in various cases at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacramento. The action was taken upon recom- mendation of the special committee appointed to investigate the question of Amnesty and upon the advice of the department of justice. Immediately upon receipt of the president's order the justice depart- ment began preparation of the neces sary warrants. The prisoners will be released as soon as the warrants reach the federal penitentiaries in which they ted. Snow Forecast East of Divide For Next Week WASHINGTON Dec. 15—Weather outlook for the week beginning Mon. nape Northern Rocky Mountain and teau regions: Occasiona! rains or snows {n west and generally fair ast of div'de except probably snow ubout midd'e of the week Temper tture above normal at beginning and onsiderably colder thereafter. CONFERENCE TO WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—House,plans was precipitated by the sud tepub‘icans were called into confer-|den slate, which caused Republican nce today to consider the row over| eaders to change their plans and he rules committee ratio of eight|put off submitting the cummittee Republicans and four Democ lst for approval until next week. ch y rday preventer ratif! An insurgent conference was cal fon of the ding committee|ed today to con tes and unexpectedly plunged| course. The Democrats that chamber into a situation|to recons . similar to the one confronting | ment of th the senate over the Interstate com-|a meeting Monda} meres committee chairmanship. Sen-| Senate Repub’ leaders, after ate Republican leaders meanwhile,|apparently ap a compro- had made no apparent headway in| mire on the Interstate Commerce thetr efforts to find a solution for] Committees chairmanship, found the the deadiock when voting on the| lines against them drawn again to chairmansh’p {s resumed Monday. | day, with the situation virtually un- The hitch tu house organization changed since vo! wag suspend HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN SETTLE FIGHT OVER COMMITTEE ed Wednesday. publican, nm who tor Cum alrmanship, a Senator Norris, Nebraska, blocked ins one reelec lo ed Howell of in to that of the thas Michigan, {f b ceptable to senators than Mr. Howe leaders insisted they to support Se a regu cided 1 more Republican But party ould continue untlt nominee for a on the chairmanship,