Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1924, Page 1

7 — Wyoming—Fair tonight and Wed- nesday, except possibly snow Wed- nesday in extreme northwest por- tion. Not much change in temper- ature. FALL ASKS SENATE PROBERS TO __ TAKE EVIDENCE 'N SICK ROOM Air Service Flayed by Solon in Demand for DOCTORS WILL BE CALLED TO Sweeping Investigation of Administration STAND FIRST SENATOR SAYS ‘LOOTERS’ STILL Former Secretary Said iy Be On Brink of Nervous Collapse; Committee BUSY IN NATION May Wait Till He Recovers ” ° WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Albert B. Fall, former sec- “Unspeakable Condi- retary of the interior, is on the verge of a nervous break- tions Sh id Be Set down, the senate oil committee was told today by his At Rest—Nelson. counsel, Levi Cooke. “Senator Fall has been under a great strain for the WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. A sweeping investigation past few weeks,” said Mr. Cooke. “He traveled exten- sively and has been put to a great] oll leasing investigation as having of the air service was de- manded in the house today physical strain. resolved itself into two major prob by Representative Nelson, atly Cri PR SENATOR T. J. WALSH ALBERT B, FALL Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, today was reported on the verge of a nervous breakdow n. The fight for annulment of the Teapot and California ofl leases is being led among others by Senator Walsh of Montana. OIL RESERVE QUESTION ABSORBS ATTENTION. WASHINGTON, Jan, 29.—The naval Ol] reserve leases continued today to absorb the attention of both the legislative and executive branches of the government. Tho senate met an hour earlier than usual to resume its discus- sions—with‘prospects of a vote dur- ing the day—of the resolution of Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, calling for executive action looking to annulment of the Sinclair and Doheny contracts affecting the Teas pot Dome and California reserves, Urging that the committee as a| lems for the executive branch of home of J. W. Zevely, Mr. Cooke tola | 8nd second, to ascertain whether the committee that it was the opin-| the leases are legal and to the best Republican, Wisconsin, who only to aggravate his condition. He| tance In his opinion, eve aoe i added that the doctors felt that any] ‘These two problems are to be tion of the games practices by the Co: Harris & Ewin, same parties “that wrote the black- stot ig tal effect and read a statement pre-| and there is no indication that the Biri sts tng TML: Betore: fae! panate® Gomnittiae that he Aenea wall $ieateer ‘sae to pared last night by Dr. John Whar-| executive at this time is contemplat- n lucing a resolution as! pe r. for the appointment. of a. spectal|Teady: to cancel the contract for the development. of oll ‘leases secured ke was made that the committee visit | cabinet meeting lasting nearly twe eS : * 5 : 7 oh P the Zevely home and take Mr. Fall’s | hours. vinst any body. I simply wish A eae statement without any undue de-j Selection of counsel to prosecute ‘9 one sue botiat oo Ger ten, i g lay. the oll lease cases, it was indicated 1 the alt service -or set. at rss! ts : pied, ae ‘| 5 ; F P ao : 4 these charges if found untrue.” : f - 1 saig ‘he: Misifked to. intrude. Aimself| event of edoption of this resolution, ‘ =a into Mr. ¥al!'s sick room and that | the president desires that the men conditions which existed during. the he would prefer first’ towhear from darkest days of the black scandat in ‘ y & ‘we ‘| tne physicians ag to when Mr, Fall : PARIS, Jan. 29—(By The-Asso-) As soon as'I can expedite my busi-| °J: W- Zevely, intinmte friend and] wasgHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Secre- edge and “I accept complete re- who participated inthe loot of more} cistea Press.)—Harry F. Sinclair to- | ness I shall return. “attorney for Harry F. Sin- . “I suggest,” he sald, “that the than $500,000,000 of the people's physicians appear and tell us under 2 lease investigation. was considered | sponsible for the action taken.” b to Anetitute legal Proceedings over.| panies with which 1 am connected | former. Séctetary Fall $25,000. Pho-) that ho had “no intention whatever |- With feference to the Robinson visions they got those previous con-| the ‘Teapot oil leases but reiterating | have ever given So2retary Fall or|tograph snapped. on Washington Chairman Lenroot suggested that tracts,”* the doctors come before the commit. = thing that I would do it again to-] Denby sald he would live “to see ait businegs trip had been completed. | whatsoever, in connection with the | horse, was named after Zevely. morrow regardless of the conse-| the senator who in the senate would fain and sea, desert and valtev, fa) ofr, Sinclair in his meseago says | Toapot Dome lease and I again re- After further discussion the com- order to try to force cungress mittee decided to hear the doctors ea ended at 4:20 e'clock this morning] congress and my activities served | having accorded that man an oppor- lawfully constituted courts of ou; UY a - when representatives of the Associ-|the best interests of. the people. | tunity to be heard.” than the officials of the air service y ° Bain of the bureau of mines with coun! and at the earliest dat Locomotive Engi- i the pea, seem to feel congress would be will- a4 a rice in pect JS Cg aa x respect to the disposal of storage Ti in e companies reached an agreement} Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, | he continued, ‘‘so that I may deter- sad fore the investigating committee ta with the mediation committee of the | whose" name also’ has been promi-|mine what senators are willing to i the service and he asket: five different times and been dis- trade union congress. besmirch and defame the name of | the Salt Creek field. velopment, and the coastal storage Is this the purpose of the pro- an American citizen who is guilty Thomas Johnson, foreman of] tank undertaking. whole or a sub-committee examine the government—first to determine fon of the attending physicians that | interests of the government. Ail “declared he was informed that con- prolonged strain upon him at this| worked out by the special counsel est page in America’s war history GAVIN McNAB L. DOBENY. ton and three consulting physicians | ing any additional action. He dis: committee. of inquiry, he sald in California. McNab is his attorney, selected be confirmed by the senate. the air services now exists in these would be likely to be able to come tary Denby announced after today’s | sponsibility. day cabled Senator Lenroot com-| “I have stated before your com- oil King, testified. before sen- money are stil getting the contracts oath when he will be able to*ap- of resigning at the present time.” {resolution pending in tho. senate his -determin&tion not to return to] any representative of the govern- | street before “hearing on-the Teapot » He declared the air service is con- tee tomorrow, but Mr. Cooke urged quences,” the secretary said. “I/ vote for a resolution besmirching he welcomes ‘the judiclal deter-| peat I have not done #0,” through an aroused public senti- poe ack os tomorrow morning. At the same Accordingly I have nothing to re-| “I want a record vote in the ossible.”* ing to appropriate upon a proper |” oil from nayal reserve number. 1, nent’ in the investigation was de- ok d, he feels justified in ré- a posed flight of the dirigtble to the| Charged, b of no crime and who has never | Fall's New Mexico ranch, The senate also had before it the Mr. Fall in his sick room at the | Whether there was criminal ability, a day in the examination tended| other matters are of lesser {mpor- itions which exist are a continua- time might have a most detrimen-| to be employed by the president, in the air eraft failure.” BE. L. Doheny, right, of the Pan-American Petroeum company, testi- to tho effect. The recommendation | cussed the matter today at « “LT am preferring no charges : J Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mon-| today at the White ‘House js being : ee ge! > A 3 ig og . . s tana, who had the predominant role] held-up to await action by the Mr, Nalnan ani, he had sngeethae - i ‘ . 7 in the whole oll lease investigation, | senate on the Walsh resolution. In seven thousand documents whic! : m m 4 N a ~ added “Iam told will show the. oe pepe i services and thet’ the same finns before the committee. cabinet meeting at which the oll] “Mr. Roosevelt {s no-wise re- mending ‘President Coolidge’s action | mittee that’ neither I nor the-com- | ate. committee ‘that Sinclair loaned under the Rame conditions and pro- pear.” & “I am s0 convinced I did the right | and calling for his resignation, Mr. a testify further until his European | ment money or any consideration | Dome. oil lease. Zev, famous. race / ducting a propaganda “over moun- that they be heard today. Great Britain since January 20,| feel that I carried out the will of | the character of any man without mination of the questions in the ment, to appropr-ate more money time {t dlso will examine Director neers and Firemen and the railway | gret and no reason. to resign.” senate on the Robinson resolution,” He adds that haying appeared be- préentation to it of the needs of im California and. of royalty ofl in| the Pearl Harbor oll reservoir de- Whe terms of the settlement have | clared by Mr. Denby to be “entirely Noith “paaee maining in Europe until his busi- No! ole LONDON, Jan. 29,—(By the As- not yet been announced. and absolutely in the clear,’' ness negotiations are completed. in ’ ed; tri ; nt today, but Chairms resolution adopted by the house : ‘ sociatel Press)—The strike of lo-|. Strikers were instructed .to re-} “Colonel Roosevelt has nothing to| been charged, tried or convicted in | © t weyers ca a ae Alroeatt Ags | 4. 70M five different occasions,” says | oor ctive men, which has. eeriously|sume work immediately, according | be criticised for in the transactions. | any court.” formed. him that his e: yesterday, appropriating ' $100,000 ta jon the Manufacturers Aircraft As-] 41. message, “I -have appeared. be- : sociation, Inc., and its method of interefered with railway. traffic in|to union. leaders. I approved them with full knowl would be deferred for a time. Mean (Continued on rage Seven) ¥ time he is to remain in Washington le the president to employ spe clal counsel to act for the govern+ y ommittee.. I have given € operation: “were, tn absolute: violas a peas eaeaeier sia eabat tion of the Sherman anti-trust law” at the call of the committee. ment, in place of the department of . 4 tice, In prosecutions growing out a-fact you have inquired about fro.n jus' i {nd that he was convinced that an| 7.’ ana: was’ thereupon. discharged 7 4 RESOLUTION AGAINST of the oil inquiry, together with an- investigation would show this ‘not by you from further testimony. It 7 DAUGHERTY DRAFTED. other resolution requesting Presi- only, as being a fact then but’ its t until you_told me. that I ’ wp WARHINGTON iy ek. dent Coolidge to ask for the resigna- being @ fact today,” see Siatbarcedraroin” Castner taba: |e ot ; ; : resting the ‘seneo or sw | tions of Secretary Denby and all 2: gree cami urope. I . : lution .expressing the sense of the! other “officials and officers” of the F ORD REFUSES pe a —_ ce cp timate elation of tr a came here on a een. er. rs = F : navy department ‘‘whose relations the immediate-resignation of Attor-| with the ofl reserves leases indicate R 2 ney, General Daugherty was pre-| misfeasaice and malfeasance in - country, has saveq the revolution | pared today by Senator Wheeler, | ™* iP j Force of 2,000. Suffers Heavy Losses In| tmuch.money,” De Pa tacrte told & Democrat, Montana, who sald he|"Wecaent Collage, meanwhile, staff representative of the New Or-| would introduce it at the first op- : ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Henry cutions connected with the oll leases under the deaision he announced at ‘Assault On Rebel Position; leans Dally States in Vera Cruz, ac- | portunity debuts percep oil Boe ro Ry ae oo 5 Ford today informed the house mil- nounge selections of the two promi- leary: Gofeentittaes ee Chiang Hedes al Joe Beck resented the interference of H. J. Letterman cording to a copyrighted article pub- The resolution declares the presi- nent attorneys—a Democrat anda * lished today. dent has lost confidence in Mr.|Republican—to take over all Does General Casas Killed Daushertys cessary for himself or any rep-| When Beck started on a-rampage in Clayton, Wyo., last resentative to appear before the| night. Consequently Letterman suffered a bullet wound a SPER ERS as exemplified by em; VERA CRUZ, Jan. 29.—(By Radio Via. Dallas News DUST BLAST IS committee, to furthur discuss his|in his right leg caused by a shot fired from Beck’s gun. ployment of outside counsel to pros- ecute the oil annulment suits. It to The Associated Press).—An attack by 2,000 federal troops upon a rebel position in the Plaza at Compostela in AT L T0 Two Nayarit was repulsed after 48 hours of fighting, according {fer for Muscle Shoal ° pal eee Sa aia she The wounded man was brought to the Casper Private rd midnight Saturd: With two mem- so asserts that Mr. Daugherty has | tere of his cabinet under'fire in the lost the confidence of con, Ss and to information referred through rebel channels. The federals under command of General Heriberto| rock 1staNp, m,, Jan, 29.—In a telegram to Chairman| Hospital during the night and is expected to recover from ‘would only servé to delay | tho injury. street of Clayton when Letterman capitol—the resignation of Ati the department of justice has “ t Casas, suffered heavy losses, it is ,rebel Josses included Major Tras-|a dust explosion in the Shuler Mine ‘ declared, and the rebels captured | Javina, a captain and several other | at action and unnecessarily consume According to the report of the | tried to stop his activities. Beck the time of a busy and important | incident received here Beck had‘con- | drew a gun and fired. He was ar- fate vdissepdtan: suggested during house discussion horses and munitions. General | officers. yesterday, two shot firers, Charles] tion by callers to his office today committee of congress already in| sumed considerable moonshine and | rested by Converse county authort- of the situation by Representative Maleo Munoz, in charge of the rebel Coltn Possession of: all the facts.” was causing a disturbance on the | ties immediately afterwards. ——— COOLIDGE REFUSES TO TALK OF DENBY. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Presi- Alpha, 30 miles, south of here] dent Coolidge, asked a direct ques- Garrett of Tennessee, the Demo- cratic leader—the president devoted all of yesterday to the ofl lease ques- tion and held another conference last night with senate Republican leaders. No announcement off any n, 45. years, and Vincent Go-| relative to the Robinson resolution operations in that district, has NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 29.—The| lick, the only persons in the| requesting the resignation of Sec- ordered cavalry patrols to pursue | action of the United States govern-|shaft, were killed. The day shift| retary Denby. replied that 1t wns a the federals. ment “in sefing arms and ammuni-|h#d left the mine a short time be-| matter he did not care to discuss. General Casas of the 45th cavalry | tion to the Obregon government and|fore the exp'osion. ‘The president considers the whole i Mannor Jose Maria Castro |denying the revolutionary govern- } action was made, but it was asserted and six other federal officers are |ment of Adolfo De La Huerta the emphatically that Secretary Denby i oe in ti Ee ————— POSTMASTER BEAN MAY BE SENT TO CAPITAL TO PUSH RELIEF PLANS (Continued from Page Seven.) A proposal to send Edwin M. Bean, Casper postmaster, to Washington, D. C., for the purpose of bringing to the attention®of government officials the drastic need which exists in Casper for a new Federal building or for an expansion of the pres- ent one was recommended to the board of directors of the Casper Chamber of Com- merce by the members of that organization assembled at the weekly luncheon this TREASURY-POSTOFFICE SUPPLY BILL CARRIES $72,858,451 BUDGET WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars is carried in the annual supply bill for the treasury and postoffice departments, reported today by the house appropriation committee. The exact amount is $729,858,451, an in- crease of $18,476,889 over total appropriations for the two departments for the cur- rent fiscal year, but $5,447,696 less than budget estimates. “s : Of the total $609,976,246 is for the postoffice department—$24,754,487 more n Was appropriated’ a year ‘ago definite appropriations which do not) gling by sea, !s allotted $10, or$ Watch For Tribune’s Big Industrial ~ Edition Sunday An Industrial edition of the Casper Tribune will be is- sued Sunday. It easily surpasses any edition of its kind ever issued in Wyoming, and it will have the widest circulation of any ever published. Regular subscribers will receiye the edition by carrier as a supplement to their Sunday paper, and it will be sold on the and $3,116,936 less budget rec:|require annual congressional action. | or $793,881 less than. w a SiO Seagate Shay = 52.8 eri eared gS noon, ; iss $3,116,936 les ,t peace ig Tes: re ie seo ARES OAMCT ai tor tun cure aie for 10 cents. Copies wrapped ready for mailing will also The. recommendazion was made ) man read a report of this committee pu the government the. a pases a i ie 770 for enforcement of prohibition | customs service is allowed $13,874,.{| De Ou sale at the Tribune at the same price. jon @ motion by ex-Governor B. B.| which brought out vividly the over.|, ¢ the bufla- ae ee vi or 555,6 ni re vas | a A i * Brooks, chairman of a committee | crowded conditions which are ae a on rt = tment |—$1,629,770 more than was granted| 140, or $1,555,640 more than was : Pete es P | Sahai: does .apks tale aa ete last year. The coast guard, whith | appropriated a year ago, Wateh for it, buy several copies and mail them. been working on the fed-|in existence in the preser | part of the. $1,339,051 075 of Permanent and in-}is charged with curbing rum smug- (Continued on Page Seven.) 4 ‘ng problem, ‘The chair-'ture. Postmaster Bean has alre (Continued on Page Seven.) vw | (See | Ad —