Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 1

Wyoming—Unsettled tonight ana Wednesday, probably snow. much colder, cold wave Wednesday; tem- perature below, zero Wednesday. The Weather | VOLUME Vill. FALL ORDER CASPER, TO TELL WHERE PREMIER NICOLAI LENINE OF RUSS SOVIET FAME IS DEAD OAMER TIRE MAN: CAUGHT IN J TRYING ESCAPE Lee Mosher Said to Be Wanted Elsewhere on Bad Check Charges. Sought by the authorities of three states upon charges of forgery, and under arrest in Casper upon a war- rant charging deliberate jssue of short cheeks to various merchants of this city, Ra'ph Leland Mosher, former Wyoming distributor for the Qeyton Tire Co., sits in the county jail and wonders whether it pays to attempt to warp the law to suit one’s pleasure. The warrant calling for the arrest of Mosher was issued and sworn to by Peter Van Hekken, proprietor of the C. Bi and Q. restaurant, who charges'that Mosher cashed a check for $25 at his .establishment which was afterward. found to be’ worth: |. less. to. Joseph -Ricker- dike, formerly with Mr. Mosher in his tire agency at. 333 North Wol- cott street, several-other business houses of this city hold) checks signed by. Mosher which have been returned with the N.S. /F. stamp by Casper‘banks, "They ate said to be foregoing action solely upon the re- quest by Mosher for. more time in which to make settlement in cash. Mosher was arrested at Douglas Monday: afternoon — by authorities there upon the comp'etion of a hur- ried flight to that city in anticipa- tion “of catching a train for Chey- opne and the east. Mosher borrow- ‘d a Maxwell touring car belonging to Herman Trepte, a personal friend in order to slip away from local au- thorities and avoid leaving Casper by train. He is sald to have driven out of ‘the city at 1 p. m. Monday. Trepte, it is sala, knew nothing about the journey of his car to NICOLAI LENIN ASPHYXIATION ing station, and his two sons, Mar. JEFFERSON, GITY, Mo., Roscoe C. (Fatty). Arbuckle, famous movie star, accompanied by supreme court for a writ of prohi- bition to prevent sour, ————. DEATH REPORTED. at moon today at her home, 623|teer, and finally dictator of all Rus-| to traco him he evidenced no unus. DOumteis ts Ae 2a ame TUs S rOmaIONS He ene ethene” phy ‘ i i tec nhe, body is] sa was the organizer and chief ex-| ual haste in his journey, spendine phat Bee we PEDS: Si SDM SSRN! ow? at, the”. BhatterGdy= chapel sher upon the grounds of auto- mobile ‘theft, Officials at Douglas held the flee- ing man until Natrona county au- thorities arrived and took him into custody. He was returned to this city in handcuffs. “As yet, Mosher has been unable to obtain bond and (Continued on Page Seven.) ILLEGED BIGAMIST 1S ARRESTED BY SHERIFF HAS WIFE IN MONTANA Because he mad» the technical er- or of marrying a second time be- fore he had gone to the trouble to fecure a divorce from his first wife, Everett Woodall, formerly of Bill- ings, Mont.,"but more lately of Salt Creek, wag arrested Monday by the eheriff’s office on a bigamy charge. According te the records in the hands of the prosécuting attorney Woodall was married .December 13, 1921 to Miss Bessie Skidmore of Bridger, Mont, at Billings. His second venture into the realm of matrimonial bliss was with Miss Frances Havelock of Salt Creek. The ceremony toox place in Casper, De- cember 12, 1923. Woodall has been working for the Consolidated Royalty campany at Salt Creek. He is said to have a child by ‘his first wife. BOK WILLING TO NCREASE PRIZE WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—An of: to duplicate hid $100,000 prize ‘o the author of any peace plan, se- lected by the senate committee in- Yestigating propaganda as the best to come within its notice, was made oday by Edward W. Bok in a letter pending funeral arrangements. BALDW ceed The king accepted Mr. leader, form a government and Mr. Mac- Donald accepted. Mr. Baldwin ‘said his cabinet would retain their seats until the new cabinet members were appoint- ed. The new prime minister has not announced when he will name his new cabinet, but unofficially it is stated it will be Thursday. Mr. Baldwin, on the reassembling nationwide referendum, if de. and in all respects give the plan which your committee selects, the same financial support accorded me by me to the present plan.” Explaining that his offer had been influenced by the intimation at yes- re committee meeting, ‘'t nutor Moses, Republican, New|I was predisposed in fayor of a par- Hampshire, chairman of the com-| ticular kind of a plan,” Mr Bok de- mittee, nied that this was the case or that “I will also agree," Mr. Bok}the jury of award was _ selected Wrote, “to defray the expenses of aj“‘with the same predisposition.” KILLS THREE CINCINNATI, Jan. 22.— Charles Delaney, ‘65, caretaker of an oil fill- un, 29, and Frank 19, were found asphyxiated in their home here to- day. The sons were found dead in 22— once a physician and an attorney arrived here today to apply to‘the state discrimination against Arbuckles pictures in Mis- Rosie Castle, 68 years of age, died IN STEPS OUT; M’DONALD IS PREMIER Premiership and Foreign Office Combined by Leader of British Labor Party In Forming Ministry to Suc- LONDON, Jan. 22.—(By The Associated Press).—Prime Minister Baldwin shortly before noon today tendered the resignation of his vised the sovereign to send for James Ramsay MacDonald. Baldwin’s advice and summoned Mr. for an audience at noon. Mr. MacDonald’s audience with the king lasted an hour. '| Author of Bolshevism and Leader of World Communists, Passes Away as Climax to Adventurous Life MOSCOW, Jan. 22.—(By The Associated Press) .— Nicolai Lenine, premier of soviet Russia is dead. The end came at 5:50 o’clock Monday afternoon but the death was not announced for some time afterward. Lenine’s death occurred at his country villa near Mos- cow, where he had been living in retirement. It came after a sudden turn for the worse, which he characterized as “‘the great culminating in a stroke which par-|experiment; the Dictatorship of the alyzed his respiratory organism. | Proletariat. Armouncement of his death was ‘The career of this short, plump, made by the all Russian soviet to-| bald-headed lttle man, who turned aay. Russia topsy-turvy and. probably News of his death, while not un-|™uch influenced the other nations expected to those who had been | °f the world as any other man of his closestrto him, came unexpectedly | Century, was full of adventure from to the great majority as the most |2!8 boyhood. He was a revolution- recent reports had been that he was | !5t at school) atitne academy, at the considerably improved in health. | U!Versity, and ever afterward.- White there had been continuous} Lenine’s real name was Viadimar anxiety for his condition since he | Titch Ullanoff, fe was born April was stricken in June 1922, public} 24 1870 in the town of 5 attention has lately been more di-| Of & bourgeois faanily with a pro- rected to the differences among the} #OUNced Tartar strain, reflected in communist party leaders, and par-|Lenine'’s high cheek bones and ticularly to the status of Leon Trot-| SghUy slanting cynical eyes. fend e1 is responsible master ata od Rbaiteh gece Scho reyes communal school at Simbirak and away for a rest. (Continued on Page Eight) .Little has been. said publicly in soviet official quarters lately of Le- nine's concétion tut few seemef to ;| be of a hoperul na’ not long ago that. Aoclates of his actly dicting’ that he would ; , to advise with the council of minis- ters. C Representatives of foreign diplo~ matic missions and-‘others with whom the correspondent talked after the announcement agreed in expressing the opinion that Lé- nine’s death: would. probably pro- duce no general disquiet in Russia, but nevertheless would have an im- portant political effect. So long as he was alive although not actively participating in the government, he Was at least its titular head and his death now opens the position to other leaders. i sheriff at Edgemont, S. D and has not been heard of sin Harrington whose name was sup- Pressed for a period at the request of local officials, is thought to be juggling with chance | somewhere along the Canadian border line if he is not already across it. So far as local authorities have been able Nicolai Lenine, lawyer, pamphle- ponent of the movement which be- some time at Crawford, Neb., wita Tcame known as Bolshevism, and! friends over the week end. That of Ousted Regime ministers to King George and ad- MacDonald, the labor The king invited him to has been his majesty’s official op- Position, The premier-désignate is 57 years old and self educated. Although the leader of the taborites, he has never been a manual worker, having achieved his position by virtue of his academic knowledge of industrial affairs, gained through close ‘study. As the son of a Scotch. peasant, however, he early in live learned (Continued on Page Seven) SHOALS of the house of commons, announc- ed the government's resignation and the king’s acceptance. There were no labor cheers, The retiring pre- mier moved the adjournment of par- Nament until February 12, which date he said, had been chosen to meet Mr. MacDonald's convenience. James Ramsay MacDonald js se- lected by King George to form a cabinet by virtue of his position as head of the parliamentary labor party, which, by its numerical strength in the house of commons EMBEZZLER ARRESTED ON MINNESOTA ADVICE George G. Smith of Mills was ar- rested Monday by the ‘sheriff's of- fice on the complaint from Winner, Minn., charging Smith with embez- zlement. Smith offered to waive extradition and was given his freedom on bond of $2,500 pending the arrival of the sheriff from Winner to take him back to face the charge. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Offers for the government's Muscle Shoais project were taken up today by the house military " affairs “committee, which began a public hearing on various proposals submitted for its development and operation, The bids of southern power com- panies for lease of the plants for fifty years at a rental of $100,000,000 imbirsk, | There is still $75,000 worth of side- SOUTH DAKOTA Slipping easily through the fingers of the law when the f failed to meet him at the train yesterday morning, S. R. “Slim” in connection with the death of Joe Wyatt whose end came after drinking poison gin, melted into the mists of obscurity BEFORE HOUSE WYO., TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1924 A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper Daily Criuaw FR Se ee ea NUMBER 76 ACK ON GRILL HE GOT FUNDS EATENGION OF WATER SYSTEM IN NORTH CASPER 1S AUTHORIZED |New Reservoir and Auxiliary Pumping Station Also Approved by City Council; Side- walk Program to Begin Early. Steps were taken at the meeting of the city council last | night for an immediate extension of the city water mains jinto North Casper and for drawing plans and specifications |for a new reseryoir as well as the installation of an auxil- iary pumping station. i Steps will also be taken immediately to have the side- walk program for the year got un- It was brought to the attention der way. The man who has had/of the organization by Councilman the contract has completed about|S. F. Pelton that the Pipes should | half the work his contract calls for.| be laid at once in the North Casper section. The ground there is sandy and will not be difficult to work with even in cold weather. The pipe however, must be ordered before work can. commence. It is expected to arrive In February, it being neces. Sary to advertise for bids first. The city engineer will draw plans for the proposed reservoir at once in order that it may be gotten un- |}der way. Mr. Pelton recommended walks to be completed in districts already created. New districts are to be planned. continue to use his own car and the Pollee department will use the one [belonging to-Ofticer Avery. Alex _ McCafferty, —well { known pump with a 200 horse power motor capuble of delivering 1,500 gallons ‘minute. The water committee's recommen- dation that a private wire line be ex- tended from the present pumping station to the present reservoir for the purpose of keeping accurate check on the water in the reservoir was accepted. A petition of the Mountain Realty and Title corporation for a two-inch water line extending to Butler ad- dition was referred to the water committee. Four new, automobiles will be pur- chased by the city for the use of different departments, and $20 a month will be allowed employes who use their private ears in the city's work. New cars will replace the old ones now used by the sanitary inspector, the plumbing inspector and the water commissioner, A new car will also be purchased for the health unit, The electrical inspector will among local golfers, presented a (Continued on Page Hight) Harrington-wanted here ice. The city and county authorities here kept the wires busy with che hop» that he would be apprehended sowewhere in his Journey. Failure of the ement official to arrest him when he arrived there may lead to utter failure to capture him. Harrington is thought to have left Casper Friday night, leaving his Ford roadster with a friend. Other information however is to the ef- fect that he was stil! in Casper Saturday night. Exit the Black Shirt Mussolini of Italy struggled up through’ Aire poverty, via the black shirt brigade, to the premler- ship. Having arrived he dons all the trappings of civilization and is to have a dukedom. In this country when a radical owns his own home and has a bank account, he becomes a con- servative. Mr. F. J. Wade, a prominent St. Louis banker, recently said that “when a sayings pass book comes into a man’s life to stay the’ red flag goes out.” Mr. Wade, realizing the crea- tive power, of advertising, oon- ceives it be the duty of bankers so to teach thrift as to “help make a capitalist of the laboring man.” Problem, Miners’ Opening Big L. Lewis, Workers of America, declared in ‘Advertising, logically prepared, | his report to the biennial convention and persistently used, ‘will not [here today. The present wage only sell products but will so |9sreement with the operators ex- effectively sell a basically sound | Pires March 31. idea as to effect the thought and “Were such an arrangement pos- conviction of reading people. oath ssa mist ge sible, it would demonstrate to the coal consuming public that the in- dustry itself was making a sincere attempt to place its house in order,” President Lewis declared. “Such a policy if carried out, would eliminate the necessity for coal legislation by the federal congress or the various state legislatures. I am not one of these who believe that the enact- ment of arbitrary legislation will prove to be a panacea for every administration of industry or that economic laws can be set aside by the sweep of a legislative pen.” Reviewing briefly the bituminous strike of 1922 and the anthracite strikes of 1922 and 1923, he declared the accomplishments of the miners’ organization in the last two years and four months “mark a mile stone in the record of trado union progress and constitute for all other PLYMOUTH, England—Lady As- tor gg 009 pounds to alleviate Plymouths housing problem. OFFERS and of Henry Ford, who assured Chairman Kahn last week that his offer “still stands” formed the basis of the committee’s hearing. The bid submitted by a group ot power companies has been described by Representative Hull, Republican, Iowz, who instituted correspondence with the Federal Power Commission which caused it to be submitted, as the “best” thus far submit! un ob, workers to| lesson follow.” Calling attention to the fact that OPEN FORUM THIS EVENING A cordial invitation Is extended to all members of the chamber of commerce and other interested citizens to attend the open forum meeting at the court house at 8 o'clock tonight. A special musical program by the Natrona County High school band will be the entertainment feature. An address by Dr. S. H. Diggs of the Standard refinery on the manufacture of candles will head the speaking program. Open for- um will prevail and members and other interested citizens are in- vited to bring up for discussion subjects of community interest. ee Appropriations | Passed‘ Second Time; Montana HELENA, Mont., Jan. 22.—Ap- Propriation bills authorizing ex- penditures to supplant appropria- tions declared void by the state supreme court and carrying pro- visions validating $1,600,000 of state warrants were introduced at a spe- clal session of the Montana legisla- ture which convened today. In Une with Governor Dixon's urgent appeal for expenditious work in order that the expense of the extraordinary assembly might be light, the two houses devoted only 45 minutes to organization and at 10 o'clock had met in joint session and received the governor's message. HOT QUESTIONS TO GE SHOT AT LEASE SIGNER BY COMMITTEE Roosevelt Quits the Sin- clair Interests as Re- sult of Scandal Over Teapot Lease. BULLETIN. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 22—Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the in- terior will leaye tonight or tomor row for Washington to appear be fore the senate public lands commit- tee, investigating the Teapot Dome ofl lease, ho informed newspaper men this afternoon. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. Former Secretary Albert B. Fall has bene subpoenaed by the senate public lands com- mittee investigating the Tea- pot Dome oil lease to appear before it for further examination. The committee will ask him again regarding the sources from which he obtained $100,000 in 1921 to en- "| irge” hissranoh holdings in New Mexico. The former secretary is now on record before the commit- tee as asserting that he obtained the money form Edward B. McLean, the Washington newspaper publish- er, but the latter has testified that the checks he gave Mr. Fall were returned uncashed. Gratton T. Sanford, counsel for the Sinclair Ol! interests, who hold the Teapot Dome lease, was sub- poenaed to appear at today’s hear- ing for questioning about the al- leged payment of $68,000 which fig- ured in the sensational testimony given yesterday when Archie Roose- velt testified he had been told by G. H. Wahlberg, secretary to Harry F. Sinclair, that he had seen can- celled checks for $68,000 made out to the foreman of the Fall ranch, but Mr. Wahlberg later took the stand and said he never made such 1 statement From Mr. Sandford and other of- ficials of the Sinclair interests the committee also sought evidence to- day regarding the check books and other records of the various Sinclair companies, PROSECUTION HINT LEWIS ADVISES COAL WAR END Long Term Contract Would Solve Big Chief Asserts In Convention INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 22.—(By The Associated Press).—A wage agreement for a term of years, effectu- ated without a strike or suspension of production, would be of constructive help in restoring stability to the indus- try and would be a boon to the coal-wearied public, John International president of the United Mine the wage agreement between the bituminous miners and operators expires March 31, President Lewis said the situation is one to war- rant wise ecinsel and constructive action. He refrained from offering any recommendation on wage mat- ters, declaring it wise to wait until the scale committee has canvassed the situation and reports to the general meeting. The president scored the United Continued on Page Seven. IS DROPPED TODAY. Meantime it was revealed that the department of justice, acting upon the personal direction of President Coolidge, is “observing” the course of the senate investigation. The president intends to take no other action, however, as long as the committee’s inquiry is con- tinued. The purpose of the department's observation is to take note of any evidence of irregularity or illegal actions' on the part of any one which may develop In the course of the inquiry. The directions given by the presi- dent to the department of justice resulted in the presence of Assistant Attorney General Holland at yester- day's session of the committee. The instructions provided that the de- partment of justice should watch the situation as revealed in the test!- mony before the committee and be prepared to take any action war- ranted by federal law. Mr. Coolidge does not feel that any accusations should be made at this time but in view of the testi- mony given within the last few days he believes the prosecuting agencies of the government should be ready to act if irregularities are definitely established. Mr. Stanford told the committee there was no “secret” about the trip of Harry Sinclair to Europe. “Did he advertise the fact?” (Continued on Page Seven) TAX BILL VETO IS THREATENED WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—Indics tions were given at the White House today that President Coolidge would ‘d any surtax rate above 25 per cent as a change in the fundar principle of the Mellon tax as a basis for veto of § WASHINGTON, Jan, | and jto v 22—Repub-|the Mellon bilt, lican members of means with ¢ the house ways committee conferred toda en nich they a 4 &