Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1923, Page 1

a VOLUME 33. DECISIVE FIGHT IS PENDING ON Troops Ready to Attack Rebels. By Frederick G. Neumier (United Press Staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 15. (9 p. m.)—President Obre- gon was returning to Mexico City tonight from the west front, whither he had gone to direct operations against the rebel General Estrada in Jal- isvo. It was reported that the presi- dent was returning to take charge of an offensive against General Guadaloupe Sanchez in the Vera Cruz district. Extravagant rumors were in cir- culation tonight, The capital re- mains calm. At 9 a, m. today a government statement said the federal advance on Guadalajara (Jalisco) was com- mencing, The town of Ocotlan was reported occupied by the federa!s. Morale of the advancing federal units was reported excellent. General Eugenio Martinez was ap- pointed’ commanderin-chiet of the federal forces advancing on Vera) Cruz ahd” was to leave toéay for the front with orders to complete his campaign before New Year's day. statements here ridi- culed the De La Huerta prers cam- paign, calling attention to a De La Huerta radio, intercepted here, pre- dicting the fall of Mexico City with- in a few days. The only indication of trouble in the country here was a slight ad- . vance in food prices. Another government statement said federal forces have driven the rebels from the smal] section of the state af Durango which they occu- pied. Reinforcements were sent today to General Topete who has estab ished headquarters at San Andres Chalchicomula, in the state of Puebla at the foot of Mount Ori- zaba. Reports of the killing of Jore Maria Caspio were not generally crecited here and a group of Amer- leans who visited the scene af the reported battle did not see any bod- ies. Other apparently reliable reports said General Fructuroso Mendez of the state of Sonora was killed in encounter with federals in the state of Hidalgo. Hipolito Villa, brother of the fa- mous bandit, sent a new message to President Obregon, today pledg- ing his loyalty. The ‘senate continued in session studying the recognition and claims conventions behind closed doors, “GuaCaloupe Sanchez, the De La Huerta military commander, has only about 3,800 mon in all the state of Vera Cruz and he cannot be sure of the loyalty of all of them.” Gen eral Arnulfo Gomes, military com- mander of the federal district told the United Press in un interview, “The crisis in the army kas pass- ed," Gomez continued, indicating his belief- that all remaining federal units will remain loyal to President Obregon, { Traitors will be punished with death, the commander indiented, addi: umber. of men without dig- nity or principle, inspired only by the greed of thelr stomachs, already have gone to eccupy the place they ere fit for,” Gemes predicted the rebels in ‘Vera Crus and Jalisco, the only (Continued on Page Six) STOLEN, CHIGAGO, Il, Des, 15.—(United Press)—Numereugs fatalities are feared by federal efficiaig following discovery today that ten barreis of poisoneG beer had been stclen from the Joliet Products company of Jol- fet, I, The beer was seized sone time ago by federal agents. They polson- ed it and locked it in the company warehouse pending action for its dispora!. The beer was stolen sev: oral dars ago officials believe. EASTERN FRONT Eight Thousand Loyal Che Casper | | | | WAR PRISON OBREGON TO DIRECT FEDERAL OFFENSIVE KOREIZ TRAIL Robbed of Wife, Must MAY LEAD 11) Wait Month For Body Home Ownin Is Made Eas g y |Millions Made Available for Loans Through Savings Piling Up in Associations Here Fifteen hundred residences are not all of the structures that have been built in Casper through the financial agen- cies of building and loan associations, but they represent in a fair way the large number of people who use effica- cious means to build themselves homes in this rapidly Partial records of the activities of these home-financing organizations here show that more than $10,000,- 000 in their stock fs either paid for or being purchased at this time. | Data from five associations show) $3,362,211 to be outstanding tn loans. These figures demonstrate clearly for the future. He is establishing an improved property for his family that wil! become increasingly valu- able in the years before him. This Spreading tendency to own homes is an excellent thing for Casper, and indicates the deserved popularity of the building and loan associations that hundreds of Casper citizens are) tor assisting in the good work. keenly interested in owning their own homes, in getting away from lost expenditures in rent, and in saving money. The mar on a salary is taking advantage of the golden opportunity of the present to provide QUAKE WIPES OUT TOWNS IN COLOMBIA, S.A. ined Breede the towne of Cum Cntted towns. of Cum: bal and Chiles have been totally de- stroyed in’an earthquake a message here tonight said. It is known 85 dead at,Cumbal. Scores"have been injured. Communication between Cumbal and Ipiales has been interrupted. All bridges are down. The ‘volcanoes of Chiles and Cum- bal also are active, raining lava and ashes on the surrounding country- side. Relief expeditions ganized to send to zone. The mountain peak of Cumbal, 15,- 000 feet, is in the Andes just north of the border of Ecquador. The town of Ipiales is in the de- partment of Cacau, 300 miles south-| west of Pasto, near the Ecquadorian frontier. the are being or-| stricken | As credit institutions these as- sociations are without a rival. They encourage the accumulation of wealth at the same time they are furnishing credit. It must be re- membered that wealth is the basis of credit and the limitations of credit are found in actually existing Wealth. It is for this reason that general participation in building and loan associations is degirable and it should not be confined to those who contemplate. the use of funds for building. The December Review of Re- ‘views, just out, contains an article on “The Building and Loan As- soctation,"" by Richard T. Ely, pro- versity of Wisconsin, from which the {dllowing is taken: “The writer has traveled in many lands and always returns with the conviction that. America is beyand all other countries the land of happy, pleasant homes—not apartments, not rented houses, not mere picturesque cottages, but real homes, owned by those who live in them. The signifi- cance of this in some of its aspects is seen in the French saying that a man will fight for his home, but not for his boarding house, and this saying can be extended to cover apartments, and so forth. : And no one instrumentality or agency {s responsible for so many of these homes as the building and loan associations of the United States. These associations are united in a League which has fittingly (Continued on Page Six) CASPER, ey AFRICA, BELIEF Swindler Has Fled to Morocco, State’s Attorney Told. BY EDWARD C. DERR, (United Press Staff Correspondent) CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Search for Leo Koretz. Chicago's most umaz- ing swinCler, may lead authorities into the “dark continent” of Africa. From a “responsible authority,” Assistant State's Attorney Stanley Klarkowski tonight announced he hed been ‘tipped that Koretz fled to Morocco. The “tip” will be thor- | oughly investigated Klarkowski said. The report that Koretz had sought refuge In Africa followed on the heels of a statement by Klar- kowski that the swindler fled not from fear that his financial coup would be discovered but because of *“teo many women.” Koretz, who ig said to have fleec- ed mémbers of his own family and hundreds of wealthy business and professional men out of more than $5,000000 through his fake “Bay ano River Trust of Panama,” Ol? Project, Cisappeared on Wednesday when the plot was first. revealed. (Continued on Page Six) By ROBERT A. DONALDSON (United Press Staff Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 15.—San Francisco today began preparations for the royal welcome to be given the wampus. The welcome is to be all the more royal not so much be- cause of the wampus itself—the wampus being the Hollywood as sociation of Movie Publicity Men— but because the organization 1s de. serting Los Angeles, San Francisco's | traditional rival, and coming 500 miles to this city to dance until dawn. YOUTHFUL BURGLARS CONFESS ROBBERIES SALT GREEK GEOLOGY Boys Who Rifled Homes of Valuables| TO BE FORUM TOPIC "The Geology of the Salt Creek Ol Fisia” will be the subject. dis- cussed at the Casper Chamber ‘of Commerce forum meeting Tuesday. BE, L, Estabrook production engineer for the Midwest Refining company, will 5} upon this teplo, * Mr. Estabrook has had many yours‘ ex- perience in the geological nature and productive possibilities, of the field and {s well qualified to speak regarding the matter, This talk is in line with the policy of the chamber of commeree of pres- enting facts of interest te the mem- bers through someone who ts ex- pert in the subject he represents, Th meeting will be the last one until January 8, POISONED BEER REPORT A grand jury ig Investigating te determine seurce of Chicago's beer, It is coming inta the city yir- tually in torrents and the bioedy “peer war” of. several weeks ago was due to a fight between rival beer syndicates for control of distri- bution, Attorney General Daugherty has stepped intq the case by ordering a special prosecutor to push an invesr tigation. Steps are belng taken to close hp a number of breweries sus- pected of manufacturing real beer. Had Dreams of Trip to Southland With Funds B. eing Piled Up Dreams of future freedo: m of restraint which would SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1923 bas BEVIEW (ilo) Hours Fail to Bring LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 Wife’s Suicide in Far-Away China; Sorrowing Husband Must Goon with Film Making away China the first brief news of the suicide there of Mrs. Adelaide Manola Hughes, ay Crile UBHOR FT Fy Additional News to Rupert Hughes of .—(United Press).—The cables which carried from far- NUMBER 21 PRES. GOOLIDGE GIVES ORDER 10 RELEASE d] MEN HELD IN PRISON Civil Rights Not Re- stored in Order but Freedom Is Made Un- conditional. wife of Rupert Hughes, noted film director and novelist, to the sorrowing husband additional details of her death. * Unacquainted with any of the conditions surrounding her suicide, not knowing even the manner in which she so suddenly and unexplainedly e had tonight failed to bring nded her life, Hughes sat in make possible journeys to Oklahoma and California were shattered last night when Harvey McCash and Harold Frost, neither of which is more than 16 years of age, were arrested by the police and were led to confess having en- tered three different residences in the eastern part of the city and of having stolen efther night and took from the room of 4; | Captain Ruth. McHurg of the Salva- money, Cw, mopenanting : free; *0€? V tton. Army & mimsat tdoney belo: place, |ing to her he used the extra. pre ‘The boys stated to the police last | caution of cutting the telephone Tight that they had been trying to| wires se that no communication get enough money together so that| with the pelice would be possible. they eould beth go to Denver and| There was no one else in the home would then separate, Young Mc-| at the time, and the precaution was Cash was to go to Oklahoma and (Continued on Page Six) young Frost to San Francisco, Both youths were expelled = TOO! F IS HELD the Bast Casper school last fall for purieining pencils, At that time ene of them ran away and got as far as Cheyenne bit was brought back, A few days ago the Frost boy was apprehended by the police at the request of hig father who found him constantly in the habit of running away nights and not coming heme, At that time it was not known that he was cennected with the robberies, ‘While in the city jail fhe revealed the fact that he had left some things in a house in the western part of the city. When police of- ficers went to investigate they found some of the things which had been stolen, Young Frost had carried with him a pair of plyers and when le entered the home of Lark Travis, 1345 South McKinley Wednesday COQUILLE, Ore., Deo, 1—{United | Press}—The starg were false, Anether victim of crippled Arthur Oovell's astrology today faced the |penalty for following thelr mystic | precepts—a life in prison, Alton Covell, 16 yeag old bey, was found guilty Saturday by. a jury of being an accomplice of his crippled uncie, at whose jnstigation he is charged with smothering, hi: 7 Mother to death with an ammonia soaked rag. Arthur Covell, the mygtig agtrol- LOS AD SELES, Dec that in the opinion of her husb emplified her theory of life, wa: appears in one of the books of verse Mrs. Hughes bad published. The poem follows: “Yearning to bear a thing of beauty to the light A song, a melody, perhaps a living line; ‘With longing grown so great And failure brings a torture, Just then, when bruised and inarticulate, J swoon, T hear an other thing; a viol Or poet says what T would sa And, mingling my inept spirit Breathing deep the beauty they have wrought, T give my thanks to Heaven ‘The power to Jisten!” HOLLYWOO PLANS FROLIC IN FRISCO AS SLAP AT ‘PRUDISH’ POLICY OF ‘E The wampus affair at first ap- Peared in doubt, as the big exposi- tion auditorium was already engaged on January '19, the wampus date, by the San Francisco butchers for their annual ball. It was at first proposed that the movie people and the butchers hold a joint ball but this was called off because {t was feared thes family complications might result if some of the haughty ‘movie queens met and upstaged papa and mamma, rep. resenting the butchers’ end of the affair. But the butchers ylelded the date and many family entanglements were thereby tactfully avoided. The first tickets for the affair, $4 each, were run off today and were being rapidly devoured. Louis Graf, Hollywood movie producer, peeled oft four grand for 1,000 tickets and Harry Marquard, proprietor of one of San Francisco's gayest cafes, fol- lowed him with the purchase for a block of 100. Several thousand were shipped to Hollywood tonight for disposal to the movie people who are going to flock to this city on Janu- ary 19, leaving “the town of Bab- bitts and Blue Laws" as they. call Los Angeles, flat and uninteresting. The piece de resistance of the movis ball each year {s the introduc- | tlon to the hot pollol of the “baby stars’—thirteen in number—picked out each year by the balloting or all the’ movie press agents in Holly- wood, These are the girls who the publicity men belleve will become outstanding stars during the forth. coming year, their judgment, the thirteen picked the previous year are always Intro- duced, Last year's ball was held in the big Werner Yrothers studio tn Helly wood. ~The ball is usually’ a strange and Wonderful-sight, It is a “full dress affair.” That {s printed in big type lon the tlokets, And every. would be movie star, extra, player of bits, | miner character actor, or has-béen ean be counted on to be there in all or MANIAC CUILT ee oger is now facing a death sentence, canvisted for his part in the crim whioh he first admitted, autharities said, wag executed as written in the orbits of heavenly bodies And, as destined by these stars, Mrs. Fred Covell was killed. Lucille’ Covell, 14 year o'd sister of the convicted lad, in pourt told how pfter the fiendish feed was planned, the crippled star gazer had looked inta the heayens and said. “Now is tho time.” The defense made uo denial of the actg pf Alton, J ~~ ~~ | POEM BY MRS. HUGHES HELD THEORY OF LIFE 15.—{United Press.)}—The poem written by Mrs. Adelaide Manola Hughes, who committed suicide Friday in China, LUE LAW BRIGADE’ his home here tonight with a few of his closest friends and waited for further news from the Orient, Haipong, the small coast settle. ment from where the first brief cable was dispatched, is in French Indo-China, and Major Hughes was Informed tocay there might even be a difficulty in securing release of the body so it may be returned to America for burial. A month at least will be required in bringing the remains here. Out at Goldwyn’s studio the big Culver City film plant saddened by pang. Rupert Hughes, closest s one she called “Beholden.” ex: It news of Mrs. Hughes’ death, there was inactivity today. Svery star and featured player, every “extra” my soul is big with pain, as of giving birth to death. and “prop” boy, knew her and was proud of her friendship. But the business of film making must go on and the big feature Hughes had just started “shooting” must be completed within the con- tract time. |The first of the week the author. + director will be stack .on..the, stage. megaphone in hand, standing be- hind the glaring kleig lights and dl ‘recting the action of his iatest pro- | duction. | “True As, Steel,” is the title of Hughes’ new scenario, the publicity department readily informed. “It's |about a woman in business, and will be onér of his finest.” But the heart of the author will lin embraces all my heart; y. My soul revives! with these celestial ones, for them, and for this rare glory— decollete.. The greatest strain of the year is the dress sult rental Meta te, ietetanat be. thousands of miles across the dustry on this night. eee ect stare of tiadom are al./ocea” With the woman, who for fif Tho real stars of filmdom are al-| toon years has been his companion, beats ary rohan oe pidisay Bee, adviser, and severest critic, now ly- over |ing dead by her own hand fn an at $50 a throw. They do not mingle|!& By, Bet ae (Continued on Page Six) MAIL RUSH IN CASPER BEGINS (Continued on Page Six) Ten Thousand Holiday Packages Sent ‘ Out Last Week; Entire Country Reports Business Crush Old Santa Claus is king of the post office now! It was ten days before Christmas and all through the By William J. Losh United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. —President Coolidge today freed the 31 remaining polit- ical prisoners. held in federal prison. Acting on recommenda- tion of the board he appointed to advise him in this matter, the pres- ident unconditionally commuted the sentences of the prisoners. His action restored the men to liberty but did*not restore their civil rights which coul@ have been ac- complished only by a full pardon. The men will be freed ak soon as the necessary warrants are forward- ed by the department of justice to the warden of Leavenworth prison where the men are held, All have been confined for more than five years, The president's clemency empties the federal jails of all the I. W. W. convicted during the war at the three famous trials at Chicago, Wichita, Kans, and Sacramento. Calif. Of the 81 freed today, 2% were of the Sacramento group. sev- én of the Chicago group and two of the Wichita group. Nine of the men freed today were offered freedom last July by Pres- ident Harding on condition they would agree to be law-abiding citi- zens, or, if aliens, be deported. ‘These nine refused to accept the con ditions. = The unconditional clem- ency extended today permitted them to accept their freedom. Two prisoners classified as “‘polit- ical” by the joint amnesty leagu which has led the fight to free pris- oners, stil! remain In jail. One was originally convicted with the Sacra- Oriental Village beside the oecan.| mento group, b r on the floor with the common DeoplS/ stuch of Hyghes’ success was di:|was arrested tn California, tae cvier ofm@imdom. {rectly creditéd to his wife's assist-| ating a criminal syndicalism law The girls of Hollywood are there/ance. An actress for years, she|and is now serving a sentence un- in gowns expressing the last word of/ knew many bits of stage acvice| der this law in California fashion, if not moroso. Strange and) which aided her husband in his film] The other was convicted for an isolated case of sedition and is cor fined at Atlanta. The government, however, considers these men sub- ject to treatment different from that accorded the 31 freed today. The board which recommended un- conditional clemency for the prison- ers was composed of Newton D Baker, former secretary of war: Bishop Brent of Buffalo and Major General James G. Harbord, retired. UNDERGROUND WIRELESS CARRIES THE NEWS LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Dec. 15 ~The prison “underground wirelesa’* tonight informed thirty one “‘polit- ical prisoners” in the federal peni- |tentlary that President Coolidge had granted them a Christmas pardon. Warden W. T. Biddle ordered that no notification of the president's {action be given the convicts until official word had been rece!ved from Washington for thelr release. How- ever, through that unknown means by which news travels within pris- Jons, guards said tonight that all of , town not.a person was failing \that? Not so bad—no, not than 4,000 packages. Bean that during the past week something lke 10,000 parcels mark- jed “Don't Open Till Xmas" were |mafied from the branches of the local department te Yuletide trees and fireplaces all over the natfon, Casper's poor post office building fairly bulges out with the grand daily free-for-all that fills the air with {ncoming and outgoing mail With Christmas at hand there was nothing to do to prevent a veritable ‘eollapse of the structure but start ‘a family of a lot of little post of- fices, So now there have been sub- | stations for the receiving ef paok- ages established at Campbell John. | son's, the Gelden Rule, Frants Shop, Jand the old public market where ‘there are three windows opened #r the annual barrage of bundles, Poatma8ter Bean declares that the | department's admenitions to mail early are being given attention, He | makes the ‘statement that 85 per cent ef the packages already mailed | have heen insured} and that.in gen- eral the kind of packages passing through the hands of his forces are done up in the proper way for safe and quick delivery, It pays ta ad- vertine—ask Unicle Sam who yearly has bucked the worrisome proposi- tion of late sending of gifts in shab by wrappers. Beginning tomorrow ail incoming Packages addressed te bax numbers | to be early in mailing. How's |the pardoned men knew that clem- so bad for the Casper post |ency nud been extended to them And just te preve office which had bundled into its arms yesterday more | few minutes after offictal*word had It is estimated by Postmaster Edwin | een given out at the White House or general delivery must be called | °F {he Prealdent’s action, for at the public market branch at|,,Ptison officials said that none of Fifth and Wolcott streets. And, by | the oa could be" interviewed until the way, Monday is expected to a gee tis? ar Pbeye ap the: heaviest day of thix season’s|,, O*floln! notification of the pardons ee afar pected at the prison the middle Four motor trucks are now dash-|°* "ext week ing frantically about town as they bring to Casper homes parcels from Weather For a ecast refatives and friends Ww other oities and places, Tomorrow two more gas vehicles will. augment this fleet that! Wyoming—Fair Sunday and Mon- assists Kris Kringle of the Artics day except probably rain of snow in this metropolis, Reindeers are extreme northwest portion Monday; (Continued on Page Six) {not mueh change in temperature, STOLEN FUNDS | ARE REPLACED Resident of Teapot station Satur.) can be sent te them. The Baivation day madg up a@ purse of $17 to reim-| Army expects to be able ta take burse the staff pf the Salvation! care of 260 families in this manner Army in Casper for the money that|The nameg and addresses may ba Was stolen ea this week The | telephoned to 2108 or mailed to Post members of the Salvation Army|affice box 180 Here are greatly appreciative of this! ‘Phe Christmas kettles, put eyt kind deed. today to raise funds for the Christ Captain McHarg would like. to}mas baskets, aro being Mberally sup have the namics of any persons in| ported by the public according to a the city who are in needy clrcum-|survey made jast evening. The ket- Stanceg ag shat 4 Olrjatmag basket! tleg wil] be out until Christma sya,