Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1923, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. W arm- er in noreast portion tonight. VOLUME. VIII. REBEL FORCES CLOSI ~“" A Newspaper CASPER, WYO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1923 y MeEOUst HT 7 . a al for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State » - Che Casper Daily Crihbune oN NUMBER 46 GIN ON MEXICO CITY JEALOUSY THOUGHT MOTIVE FOR SHOOTING MW VSURGENT SENA TE BLOC UNunc OFT DIL FIELO WORKER AT LAVOYE. VICTIM OF BULLET Assailant Flees After Shot; Woman Denies Knowing Details Jealousy is thought to have been the motive of a shooting affair which took place at Lavoye Sunday morning and in which Har- ley Harris, oil field worker, perhaps fatally shot by an un: known assailant. Harris and a woman by the name of Pearl Frazier had just come out of the Ritz hotel. A voice fron the dark commanded Harris to throw up his hands. At the same time a shot was fired. the bullet taking effect in the left side and making an exit in the back. The bullet was later found. It was shown to be of .45 calibre. In the street about 10 yards away from the place where Harris fell a .45 automatic was found. Dr. Roach ts attending the tn- jured man. He reported this morn- ing that the patient was recovering. The Frazier woman has stayed by the side of her companion since the attack and is expending every ef- fort to nurse him back to a recovery from his wound. So far she dis- claims any knowledge of the as- sallant, although authorities are of the opinion that she may know the identity of the individual who fired the shot. ————>___ HIRAM JOHNSON TO BE _ ON DAKOTA PRIMARIES COMMITTEE. 1 DEBATE CHANGE IN TAX MEASURE Definite Reduction Pro- posals Are Drawn Up For Discussion WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The house ways and means committee when it begins consideration of tax revision legislation tomorrow, will have before it in definite form the reduction proposals and other changes, chiefly designed to clarify the revenue act, recommended by Secretary Mellon. A complete re-draft of the act has been forwarded to the commit- tee by the secretary with a state ment to Acting Chairman Green that treasury officials are ready at any time to present their arguments in favor of the proposed revisions. Mr. Mellon, in a summary of his suggestions published today, em phasizes that the proposed reduc- tion in the tax on earned incomes of $4,000 or less amounts to 44 per cent, a 26 per cent reduction being recommended for all incomes . low $4,000 with an additional percent off for those derived from wages, salaries and professional fees. MAN WHO SHOT DENVER BANKER IS INDICTED BY JURY Former President of Interstate Bank Must Face Embezzlement Charge As Result of Institute Closing Doors Last Summer DENVER, Colo., Dec. 17.—Three indictments charging embezzlement, abstraction and inisapplication of funds were returned today by the Denver county grand jury against Frank Newton Briggs, former president of the Interstate Bank and Trust com- pany of this city which closed last August. The indictments were the result of an in- vestigation launched by the district attorney in connection wish the closing of the bank. Briggs now is engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles and igs re- ues thee "| 4 MINERS ARE CAUGHT on the prima: ballot. One specific charge of which The senator believes that injune-| Briggs was indleted was based on tion proceedings which have been|the alleged embezalement of slightly begun’ to keep tainority nominations| ess than $1,006 im October 1921. On off the South Dakota ballot will not|Oltober 15, the true bill alleges TOKIO, Dec. 17--Thirty miners Were entombed in a coal mine at Kasuya in Fukuoka prefecture in Southwestern Japan this morning and are held prisoners by gas tn with a formal application for a place trig ¢ his| Briggs was given 9 check for $1,- Interfere with the filing of his) Diikes was given 9 check for $1 ae ef t 1 ed by Isado: President Coolidge was advised to-|»Tokerage firm operated by Isadore | ine ot Amter, in payment for 3,000 shares |day by Charles H. Burke, commis-|Amter, es Bian nam sioner of foreign affairs to delay| °f ¥ Ol and Gas stock which had until the last month, his decision as| Pen eegeac id 7 sad oes to entrance in the South Dakota| ‘era! for a loan. eerie aban primary owing to the complexity of the state primary law and the legal proceedings which have been in- stituted at Pierre and which may the check the indictment charges | $1,000 was credited to the note aad |the remainder it 1s alleged was credited to Briggs’ checking account change the situation. Mr. Coolidge toox the advice under consideration with indications given | at the White House that no action would be taken until just before ex- piration of the time limit of January Belief was expressed that he Would eventually decide to file for. dorsement given him last month-by. mal ‘hotice of acceptance of the en-| of the bank. The abstraction and | misappropriation charges in the in- |dictments were based on alleged ir- | regularities In connection with trans- actions of the bank while Briggs was president. The indictments are based on the same statutes as charges on which | Maurice Mandell, Denver boy broker recently. was convicted in co; with the theft of $464,000 from the the workings, according to advices received here. Collapses of portions of the mine entombed the men. Rescue work is proceeding with extreme diffi- culty and it is feared that attempts to rescue the miners may prove unavailing. Charlotte Fire Loss $1,000,000 IMPEDES ORGANIZATIONIIlts. NFER FEDERAL HOLD UN MEX CAPITAL Rebellious Group of Republicans Make Threat To Elect Smith To Head of Commerce Commission WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The ‘Republican insurg- ent bloc, whose revolt against the Republican party leaders has delayed for two weeks complete organization of the sixty-eighth congress, stood their ground today in the sen- ate and consolidated the gains already made in the house. A four-day truce in the deadlock over election of a ¢ that Decisive Fighting Ex- pected to Develop Quickly as Revolution chairman of the senate interstate olina, a democrat, in the t R h C os Commerce Committee ended with] it would ele 1 eaches Lrisis. the insurgent group still holding} In the house formal approval was ENS out nst the re-election of Chair-| given at last to the amended re PASO, Texas, Dec. 17.—Move- ment of troops man Cummins, the regular repubil!-| publican committee slate, on which can choice, and threatening 9) the leader of the house insurgents throw their entire strength tomor-| representative Nelson of Wisconsin row to Senator Smith of South Car-| had been given a place at the last | minute un pressure of a threat dem« t end jened coalition between the crats and insurgents at tl Jot the capitol Mr. Nelson will led by President Obregon toward Vera Cruz already is under way, Mexican consul gen- eral Enrique D. Ruiz was advised to- day by Mexico City Plans sre being made for the arm- ing of thousands of citizen volun- teers, who has declared adhesion to jaerve as a member of the rules | 1. federal government, the advices committee which shapes the lesis-| stated: ‘The velty of Puchla, which dative, prokrant, abandoned in the face of superior By its action today the house] rebel forces, will be recaptured In a FISTIC AFFAIR technically made itself ready to] short time, Consul Ruiz was ad- Proceed with the legislative busi: | vised. ness of the session. Actua “s however, the leaders expect to ac re <RT] ie mplish little except committee VERA CRUZ, Déc. 17.— MARSEILLES, France, Decern-| Work until after the holidays. ‘The | With the reported capture of ber 17. During a football game for| ways and means committee is to} Puebla and Cuatla, revolu- the champlonship for the provinces est toniorrow to i in cones “Itionary headquarters here the referee le! e grounds for a| tion of secretary Mellon's tax re age few minutes and the two teams,| vision proposal and while other |0day claimed they held the relieved of his restraining influence; committees are wrestling with the}two lower points of a tri- started using their fists. The| appropriation measures the house |angle which has Mexico City, their spectators soon joined the fight] itself probably will stand in recess| goal, as its apex. Cuatla, which which was only brought to a close| most of the time for the next month. | Was taken yesterday, according to by nightfall. The machinery of the senate is|«n insurgent communique, {s within 50 miles of the capital, but partially blocked by the com Genera!s in command of the oc- upying forces in the two cities are ee ee merce committee deadlock but there HOLIDAY BALL is no present prospect that the more serious legislative issues of | in close communication, it was stated GAME I URED the session will ne up for action |at headquarters here. General Vil- lareal is reported in command at Puebla. General Ambrosia Figueroa, in the before the new year. Short session today was largely to routine. Another devoted Pn ie] 31 wn Lo Sri Ws" = Bris | 8 WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Papers te of Guerrero and General Jose T R. 8. Dickson who shot and killed Mrs. Minnie Hawlins, a negress, at 353 West A street November 13, was taken to Evanston to be placed in the State hospital for the insane yesterday. The peculiar circum stances which attended the shooting and the fact that Dickson has been under surveillance at the county hospital since that time because of an Sbyious mental derangement led to the verdict which sent him to Evanston. On the night of the shooting Dick son was laboring under the impres. sion that someone was trying to en ter his home. He went to the door and fired a bullet at the Hawkins home and fired another when the woman came to the door. The second to place the name of Senator Hiram South Dakota as a candidate for the republican presidential nomination are to be filed today in the senator's behalf with the south Dakota secre- tary of state at Pierre. A power of attorney has been forwarded to Pierre by Senator Johnson together Johnson before the republicans of TEN DROWNDED IN SHIPWRECK Seven Who Clung To Schooner Off Oregon the state proposal convention. Hibernia Bank and Trust company = ~ =| which collapsed July 28, 1923, al- Ps: eae pee 7 SRN ip fo. Most a month before the closing of day by nt Coolidge included the Interstate bank. be eS i“ mA © and]. ‘The indictment of Briggs came as Witten Acre pling Of the} the result. of one of the most ex- first and fifth circuits, respectively, | "@UStIve investigations Ver carried {of Hawall, and of Herbert P. Coates|On bY & Denver judge. Evidence , % concerning ie activities of riggs be} po pee eroey Smoerall Sine head. of the! DEER! vied tome Presented to the grand jury since it was impaneled more than three months ago. RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 17.—Stan- ley W. Wade, state insurance com- missioner, after being in commun:- cation with Sherwood Brockwell. state fire marshall of the depart- ment at Charlotte, announced that a preliminary report from Mr. Brockwell estimated the loss in the Charlotte fire of last night to be about $1,000,000. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 17.—Three indictments charging embezzlement abetraction and misapplication of funds were returned today by the Denver county grand jury against Frank Newton Briggs, former pres- {dent of the Interstate Rank and Trust company of this city which closed last August. The indictments were the result of an investigation launched by the district attorney in connection wtih the closing cf the SAILSTAD ARSON CASE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY When the question of giving for- mal approval of the republican cora mittee ‘selections came up in the house, representative Garrett, the democratic leader, made an ineffec tual attempt to debate the question Longworth, the republican leader, moved to proceed at once to and his motion prevailed, 208 to 178 All but one of the republican in s—Schafer of Wisconsin, ntinued on Page Seven.) Lagunes, operating in the border states of Yucatan and Tabasco, have broken with the Obregon govern- ment, the statement asserted. Gen- 1 Figueroa claims complete con- trol of Guerrero except for the town of Chilpanzingo, which, according to the rebel leaders, he plans to take today, attacking with his command of 000 men. General Lagunes is reported coop- erating with the insurgent forces in an attack upon Villa Hermosa. LOS ANGELES, promised Christmas game here between the Haskell Indians and the San Francisco Olympic club team is now assured. according to A. E. Santweir, pro- moter of the game who says that the financial arrangements are completed and their club's suar-| antee is in the mails. Dec. day 17.—The football EL PA Texas, Dec. 17.—The outstanding development of the rev- olutionary movement, as far as that section Mexico bordering the ‘Texas is concerned, was the arrest here late last night of a man giving the name of Carlos Lopez. and whom fs said to be a re Colonel ¥ of the Jt mon Lopez, commander clash rez garrison of a bank. Briggs now is engaged In. the | etween 1 troops and shot struck her, wounding her real estate business in Los A: 5 vhen hi y 5 s|suards, 38 miles east of Juarez Sun- ” . = ngeles “ 19 | when he arrived here last night, was fatally, Coast Picked Up After Putting and fe reportea to be on nis way to| Manufacturer and “Sunshine Girl? Are In| how ‘he would be received by’ ‘hi hc Ea ae ue . *. Denver to answer t i - : r ‘ mother. 0 'Torreblanco vate sec- | Off in Ship’. B ; tothe charges. W; 1 After T FE, ie pie I pai ai aident Obregon, ‘has Student Actors in Ship's Boat Sig Isconsin Jau Alter Inp from aamander Bow may mother will re Pig tines: tals the s | —— ATHENS, Dec. 17—The belief *)is my chlef v now. Also I won Bghting probably wil Here Wednesday, MARSHFIELD, Ore., Dec. 7.-Seven men who clung | that a dynastic crisis is imminent California } der how receive ‘Mumst or Monday." an llast night to the wreck of the steam schooner, C. A. Smith, | in Greece, expected in some Fags Anderpon.” vatial oroas mitts a oe tot 2 Ne vhi i j : >| quarters here, and the departur —_— x = Miss Anderson also was anxio ig retis gi. ERS ‘ |which piled up on the north jetty of Coos Bay yesterday ot Kine: G ps Ss: Whe ema SUPERIOR, Wis., Dec. 17.—In Superior today are), !8* Anderson also was anx ed Much favorable comment on the/nut off in one of the’ship’s boats early today and were eS ei see ae : reas to whether Salistad's mothe ot aR gg a ag IRE LA histrionic. ability of the Wyoming) © - : y among the possibilities. three groups of persons, bound together in a_ tragic! would tive her, Bho the city playeme Weitere @ ‘group of Wyam-| Picked up by the tug Oregon. The men got away from the| he republicans are busily ar- comedy of fate. | ~“I pray that she will not think| Cuatia tn the Blate cet aces s tng university student actors, leaves | Wreck while the life saving Chews. in palsies acHooney. Her iea 3 Somonerstisas a athens Ross Richardson and Mrs. Leona Sailstad-Richardson, ea am to blame for all this| rebel forces, indicate that there may formance that may be expected here! ‘line aboard the C. A. Smith. Thrace in favor of removing the | Who married, believing the woman’s husband, Edward J. | boy? fan's ae cient Bail: a tre eaton ree ch he pas id at thee wiles GWedneeday- evening Seven men were rescued yesterday | dynasty. Sailstad to be dead, and Sailstad’s two children, form one! staia, . ; tionists are operating whee this troupe oe pinay by Be life saving crew. Ten men {——————————————_?__________ cup. Their whereabouts in the city “Fello pidlto adel oii hank wes om Fabens. stated that his city is one of 17 in the central) {are believed to have been lost yes- are unknown, but it is believed they = fe ve ate eps orce of 4( and nort parts of the state that| | terday when they attempted to leave F d are here. AWS pense pepe a aa a" ShAgrd (Sete st ated ere to be visited on the holiday tour} the schooner in a lifeboat. The C. M Augusta Sallstad, aged| Buchanan greeted at «the and that three men were killed. ot the university players. The pro- mA. Smith carried a crew of twenty- mother of the former Eau Clalrel county jail yesterda eral troops drove the revolution- gram to be presented is well Balance % four. manufacturer, who mourned her son] wwoy yin not Aba: ists into the hills, the report sald. ed and fs i da Mees oie NEW YORK, Dec. 17—Johnny N K as dead, sits in the home past whic HT wis * answered Sallstad. here has been no revolutionary faenen plays and skits of tn | Dundee world’s teatherweight box- | he was driven on his way to jail last activity near the Mexico-Unitea be “2 = © night. oF States border, take: bove| ing champion, will attempt to ac-| Jae “ f , wen ‘ 1 } toi vhen h ts Jack Bern-| i ‘0 derson, one > N, Dec. 17.— the meagre dispatches received from Yersity’s stadium fund. Tickets are| welght belt in a 15 round match now on sale st both of the Kimball, Dundee has held the junior light Drug stores. | weight title and lost it to Bernstein. CHICAGO OIL MAGNATE CAN NOT BE FOUND CHICAGO, Deo. 17.—Just before Leo Koretz, Chicago “oil bubble” raillionaire broker, disappeared on December 5, leaving Chicago in vestors wondering at their fmplicit confidence in him, be told friends in New York City that he was going away on a long trip and would be seen by them no more. Koretz said he was “tired and discouraged” and that ho had to find rest for his over-burdened body. This was disclosed by develop- ments in the investigation by local authorities into the disappearance of Koretz, after he had separated ing them to invest in alleged gi- gantic swindling schemes, chief of company of Panama, While the authorities were delv- ing into Koretz’ numerous nests” which have been located in New York, Colorado Springs and California, other officials were pre- paring to question Mrs. Mary Kor- wife of the missing “broker, in a bankruptcy hearing brought against him. friends and members of his family | from millions of dollars by induc) which was the Bayano River Trust| “love | FOR CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE NEW YORK, Dec, 17.—An tssue] Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of St. has been raised between the moder-| Bartholomew's church, during ser- nist and fundamentalist fictions of| Vices at his church yesterday doffed surpl tol ymbo! is the protestant Episcopal church,|SUrPlice and stole, symbols of his *| priesthood, and announced his re- which some church men believe will! jection of the recefit pastoral letter WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Four | develop into one of the greatest thé-| of the Episcopal house of Bishops days of negotiating, begun when |Ological controversies of recent| which adjured the ministry to stand voting on the senate interstate | ¥°*"S- | behend him “the Catholic traditions” The storm center is the Rev. Lee) of the church and the Nicene creed.| W. Heaton, rector of Trinity church,| He challenged both the doctrines} Fort Worth, Texas, who will be tried| of the virgin birth and the bodily re-| for heresy soon after January 1 for) surrection and welcomed a trial fo his denial of the Virgin birth as a! heresy. personal fact. { The Rev. Percy’ Stickney Grant The Rev. Stuart Tyson, Vice presi-| rector of the church of the Ascen- committee chairmanship was sus- pended Wednesday under an agree- ment not to resume until today, promise between the regular repub- lean leaders and the seven sena- n the Doug! county jail, niting | til 19 under « bill introduced to-| ti arraignment on a charge of arson in y by Representative Watkins, the case of the man and of being an| Democrat, Oregon. accomplice in the case of the girl Dorothy is suffering from incipient tuberculosis, and Sailstad appeared greatly harrassed when brought to the jail last night from Napa, Calif. by Sheriff and Mrs. William A Hagreen. Both prisoners appeared —_———____ way to the jail last night and ex-| pressed undying love for the other. | Sallstad {9 charged with burning Ni J APAN cottage at Lake Nebagamon, Wis-| onsin, in August, 1920, to create the impresston that had died. could elope with Dorethy Andersor n riv Ss western forces in their nst the rebel stronghold of ed on Page Seven) (Cont so he TOKIO, Dec. 17 tors who have been fighting re-elec-'| dent of the © Modern Churchmen’s| sion who last winter engaged in a| A trial was held tn which ty H 5) Wi ia peadlicoune tion of Senator Cummins of Iowa. | Union, has characterized the develop-| controversy with Bishop Manning,| posed widow sued eight. Ines is here as a ital thattl wae . osunmnitted rakertiy In the house the situation has lexis baat rane i eat id in his sermon yesterday companies for $80,000 insurance on|the ashes of f mera were held 9 EM in je generation. ie quotes shop “There are many in the chu-ch,| life urance Mick held b Sail-| Sakaye Osugi, sc alist | € ng been grown’ Considerably more tranquil. | stoore of Texas as considering it the| English and Amerinan whe ati, by Sal hatter’ NOHEELEE Mal ical WAG Rolain’ anit ° ¢ i appl eat li tr the organization republicans having | peginning of a concerted movement Heve in an authority almost papal) I diy burned in the cottage were being arre c or f a s 4 vite: paved the way towa to cleanse the Episcopal church of/ana wish practically to return to| produced, a compromise was effected gendarmerie officer. Hl pashli the committee slates by conceding | modernism. medieval ways. They have little|/It has later transpired that Sal ists, aroused over the e-| 7 t th con a place on the rules committee to} Supporters of the Rev. Mr. Heaton| sympathy with protestantiain.” | placed the body of Allan McPhe n of the remaing of thet dina nobilte, | the insurgents in the person of|say the modernists will not stop at) The Rey. Dr. William Norman| friend in the cottage before firing , have threate waa hiaki witha: phote: Representative Nelson of Wiscon-| defense, but will push a vigorous|Guthrie explained to church « The prisoners will be held incom : Osugi replacing his ashes. jsin. Republican leaders are plan-| counter attack to the next general|at St. Marks-In-The-Bowery that his|municatio pending the arrival herve Amalcau:/ehor aden tees | ning an early adjournment over | convention of the church. Organiza-eritics have misunderstood the syim.| at I Attorney Robert E. Ken “ the holidays to enable the commit-| tion of a defense committee and sub-|bolic Greek dances. which parisis| no The date of thelr arraign-| attack as ac i " tees to make some headway in scription of a defense fund have/giris have given at church festivals| ment has not been set. | one n was sontenced to t {traming of legislation. been undertaken. and which have led Bishop Manning! ye cad One of Sallstad’s chief eancerns| pil a prigon on Decer Sey ee ge