Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING — Unsettled .nd north portions. VOLUME VIII. —— tonight .nd Tuesday, probably snow in east Colder Tues- ee CASPER, WYO., Aa ig £ AY, FEBRUARY 18, 1924 Ss A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Uabiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper Daily Tribune HITIGN NUMBER 99 POSITION HOME BUILDERS OFFIC DEBATER FAD CASPER {ON WINNING TEAM Marian Fields Member of Squad Winning 15 Straight Debates LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 18. America’s champion college debaters, the University of Wyoming, with a Casperite, Miss Marion Fields, on the squad, started this year’s “weason with a pair of victories in a dual meat with the Colorado Teach- ers College last Wednesday night. out a single defeat. Last year she won all of ber thirteen debates. Wyoming's activity along this line. How long will’ she go undefeated? States should...enter the World Court." Wyoming won on the af- firmative at Greeley and 6n the ne- gative at home. This year’s schedule includes debates with the principal colleges of Colorado, Utah and Ne- vada. Then one team will make a and the principal colleges in Wash- ington, Oregon and California. It is interesting to note that the first victories this season came on the Jhirteenth of the month as did the “last victory for fast year making the thirteenth victory for the season. ‘This must be Wyoming’s lucky num- ber. MADOO SEEMS UAE CANDIDATE DEMOGRATS Not a Voice Heard Hint- ing Oil Scandal Has Hurt His Chances CHICAGO, Feb. 18.— William Gibbs McAdoo will remain in the Democratic « Presidential nomination race if he abides by the deci- sion of his supporters from forty-four states in the union made here today. Unanimous approval of al] those attending the conférence was voiced from the floor before the meeting recessed ‘this afternoon. The con- ference will reconvene at four o'clock to receive committee reports. More than half of the states rep- resented at the conference of Wil- lam G. McAdoo here today had had thelr say in open meeting, not a volce has been heard from the floor (Continued on Page Seven) Has Been ght in which the treasury Promoters May Be Arrested for Activi- ties In Casper—Office Here Said to Have Collected $59,551 Shown to be insolvent following an examination of its Huie. tions records, the United Home Builders’ association here was closed this morning by State Bank Examiner Byron §. In connection with this command to cease opera- there appears the probability of warrants being is- sued for the arrest of W. T. S. Barnes and Mrs. S. A. Crowe, promoters of the associa- tion, on the charge of using the mails to defraud. Books of the United Home Build- ers are evidence that since its or- ganization here in 1922 until last Saturday a total of $1,192,650 has been taken out in contracts. of these contracts cash payments amounting to $59,551.60 have been received. During that period loans have aggregated $12,835 and cash on hand February 16 was $12.26. More than 500 contracts have been disposed of since the association's activities began in Casper almost two years ago. In that time only 17 loans have been made and but three of these were given in Wyo- DOCK ming, two in Casper and one in Laramie. It is probable that as soon as United District Attorney Albert D. Walton at Cheyenne receives a copy of Mr. Hule’s report, warrants will be signed for the arrest of the two promoters of the associttion. It {s thought that action will be brought against them by United States Post Office Inspector D. C. Hudson. who for some time has traced the “game” played by Barnes and Crowe in one state and then another. The latest “victim” of the United Home Builders: was a woman in Salt Creek who last Saturday rign- (Continued on Page Three) cumbia| Mails and Market Supplies Tied Up In Great Britain as Result of In- ability to Unload Ships LONDON, Feb. 18.—The- dock strike which was de- clared Saturday, affecting 120,000 men in ports of the United Kingdom, is expected.to reach full effectiveness today, officials of the Transportation General Workers Union stated. The immediate effect of the strike’so far as London is concerned, is a lack of mails from the United States, held up at Ply- mouth on the liners America and Nieuw Amsterdam. ‘The Smithfield market was also bare of supplies today because the meat porters refused to handle meat taken from storage. Retail mer- chants from the suburbs had great difficulty getting enough for their imm‘ ite needs. Mails to and from America are likely to be tied up at the docks on this “side for the duration. of the strike, unless some emergency ar- rangements for handling them is made, it was indicated. ‘No hope is based on action of the “union blue ticket union” a new and hitherto unrecognized rival of the transport workers union which has recommended a “‘stay-in strike” un- der which men would continue on duty but go slow on piece work and refuse to do overtime. ‘This action is viewed not as em- bodying any altruistic motive toward the public but as aimed at~injur- ing the transport union and en- forcing recognition of the Blue Tickets by employers, who have hitherto ignored the organization's existence. There is a demand in some quarters that this attitude should be met by the employers im- mediately locking out the Blues. At present there is nothing to con- firm-treports that Premier MacDon- ald or the council! of the trades un- Alien Property Custodian Says Coolidge “Misinformed” Treasury In Estimates by 'W YORK, Feb. 18.—American Legionnaires were ng their campaign for an ex-service men’s bonus to- with renewed vigor after a sensational spurt last department was accused of ylssling” its estimates against the project and Secretary tllon was charged with “misleading” the late President fon congress is likely to intervene today but the public is turning its hopes on them. The newspapers state that the goyernment, foresee- ing the present outeome of the quarrel between dockers and their /employers which has been in pro- gress for some weeks, made careful Plans to insure a supply of food- stuffs. eg, The workers are held in many quarters to have weakened their cause by angry impatience and their refusal of arbitration for a shilling more increase than the employers are willing to concede receives con- siderable condemnation. ‘The strike is already threatening to affect the newspapers through stoppage of news print supplies. The Daily Chronical today prints a smaller paper than usual, attribut- ing it to this cause. . In Plymouth fhe strike involved handling of the American ambas- sador's dispatches from Washington by the representatives who usually come to stfperintend these duties but in this case, he had to remove Nieuw Amsterdam. More than 3,000 bags of mail wore held up on tho tender because dockers are not working. them personally from Amsterdam. More than 38,000 embarking their own baggage, which they wheeled to the customs warehouse for examination and then entrained for London. the Nieuw CLOSED BY EXAMINERS MEX REBELS CAPTURE TRAINS; DYNAMITE TRACK, BURN CARS; PASSENGERS ARE NOT INJURED MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18,—Swoop- ing down upon Tellez station be tween Mexico City and Pachuca, reb- els captured q passenger train, two freight trains and a mixed train Sat- urday. They turted two eae mere loose “wild” on the main line. With the other two engines the rebels tore up long stretches of track and then dynamited the engines and burned all the cars in the four trains, The passengers were not harmed but were forced to make their way on foot to Pochuca. The raid crippled three small raft nes oporating in Hidalgo and caused a loss of more than a million Pesos, according to railway head- quarters here, Increased precautions have been ordered by the war department to protect rail traffic between Mexico City and Vera Cruz as a result of a threat received at railway headquar- ters from rebel leaders opera‘ing between Cordoba and Vera Cruz beginning February 20 they would dynamite all trains, including pas- sengers. LINCOLN DISTRICT JUDGE IS KILLED ON BENCH BY BULLET FIRED DURING DIVORCE TRIAL LINCOLN, Nebr., Feb. 18—Wil- liam M. Morning, 66, veteran dls- trict judge, was shot and killed early today in his room by Wallace G. Wallick, who in turn,-ahot and -killed himself. The hot through the- heart. Wallick shot at C. F. Rein, at- tornéy for his wife, Matilda Wal- lick, who was suing him for sep- arate maintenance and at his wife. Neither of these shots took effect. Judge Morning walked from his bench after he had been shot, and was assisted to his room adjoining the court, where he died in a fow minutes. Wallick, 50 years of age, is a well JEWEL THIEVES GET $200.000 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 18— Theft of $200,000 worth of diamonds and other jewelry was revealed here today when notices of rewards, for their recovery were posted by Theo- dore Welk, diamond broker. A week ago Welk’s establishment ‘was held up by three men. At the time of the robbery the police were told that all the bandits got was $5,500 in cash, the jewels being overlooked. . Today, however, the full extent of the theft came to light when circulars were issued by Welk and the Burns Detectivé agency offering $15,000 for return of. the diamonds “with no’ questions asked. N. P. ACCUSED OF LAND GRAFT WASHINGTON—A claim that the Northern Pacific railway company has received a total of $136,118,533 from the sale of lands from its goy- ernment grants, or nearly twice the $70,000,000 cost of constructing the railroad is set up by the forest ser- vice as a chief reason why congress should deny the railway company the right to take over additional lands which {t claims under the or- iginal grant: OFFICIALS ARE ACCUSED _ OF JUGGLING BONUS COST Harding and President Coolidge. The charge of “juggling* was made by Colonel Thomas W, Miller, allen property custodian at a bonus meeting, He said a “high treasury official” had admitted’ the manipu- lation of figures to him and had con- feased the estimates were dishonest- ly Increased each time congress re- quested a revision “because it was felt necessary at the treasury de- partment to use stronger and stronger arguments \against the bonus each time it came up.” Representative Benjamin L, Fair- child, Republican of New York, said Secretary Mellon “mislead’/ Mr. Harding in anticipating a $600,000,- 000 deficit which events proved there was a $300,000,000 surp!us ‘in the treasury. This $900,000,000 dif- ference, Mr. Fairchild asserted, “prevented President Harding, per- haps more than any other feature from signing the bonus bill.” Alvin M. Owsley, formal national commander of the Legion, told his hearers the bonus would pass the house by a five-one vote and get a majority In the senate “eventual'y passing over the veto of President Coolidge.’ digger and lives in Belmont, a su- burb of Lincoln. “Do you want an_ attorney?,, asked the defendant when his case | was called this morning. “No man can make me pay,” Wal- ek cried, and pulled out his gun. He: fired four shots, at his wife, at her attorney, at the judge and then at himself. The last two took; effect, Judge Morning's head dropped to one side but he braced himself and walked down from his chair, court attaches helping him into his chamber, where he died. Judge Morning was serving his second term on the Lancaster county district bench. Before he became a judge he was a Lincoln attorney. _He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Mil- dred Morning. On January 29, 1924, a couple giving their names as Wallace G. Wallick, 58, and Ethel May Hansen, 61, were married here, He gave his residence as Yuma, Colorado and she gave Andes, N. Y., as her home. By LAWRENCE MARTIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.— (United Press)—Two Presidents of the United States have gone into the beyond within a year. Two dreams of world peace remain as legacies to the nation these Presi- dents served Wilson and Harding had dif. ferent visions of the means to pre vent war. Both of them called away before thelr dreams came true, though Mr. Harding had the greater satisfaction of seeing his program partially ad- opted. But, ere he died, the senate which balked Mr. Wilson had turn- ed a hostile eye upon Mr. Hard ing’s second step—the participa- were tion of the United States in the world court. These two men had very dif- ferent ideals about the peace pro- gram proposed by the other. Mr. Wilson, for example, thought the arms limitation conference called by Mr, Harding was pretty much a waste of time. Mr. Harding thought the United States ought to remain out of the League of Nations, which was Mr Wilson's plan for peace. But though they differed on me- thods, both men regarded as their chief mission, efforts to make the United States the chief agency for ending war. After he became President, Mr. Harding viewed with much great- er sympathy than previously the Wilson program, because he came in touch himself with the tnflu- ences which sought to defeat and ultimately did defeat American participation, This was one reason he deter- mined to go on through with his own efforts to establish some means of preventing wars. He was so committed against the League of Nations that it was impossible for him to espouse Mr. Wilson's program, and he believed this country was against that. But it was borne in*on him exactly as it was borne in on Mr. Wilson, though in less tragic degree, that America must do something to Prevent new wars. “I am very sorry that Mr. Wil- son's program was not accepted, with resurvations that would make it conform to American princi- ples.” Mr. Harding said one day while his ship was nearing Alaska in the summer of 1923, a few weeks before his death. “The longer I am president, the sorrier I become that our full in Wilson and Harding Die With Their Dreams of World Peace Still Far From Actualities fluence for peace has not been exercised. People do not realize the dangers that beset us. War is so easy to start, and right now it would not take much to start Harding knew atso that he a fight just like the one that broke Mr. Wilson. “I suppose,” at they they n. We've got to do cw something; surely everybody can see the And now his world court plan is slumbering in the senate for eign relations committee. pocierastavers i: dime le Train Service Via Sheridan Resumed SHERIDAN, Wyo., Feb. 18—Traf- fic was resumed on the Burlington railroad east from Sheridan this morning following word that the bridge at Arvada, & span of which was broken down by ice last Fri y, has been repaired. Two freight trains left Sheridan for the eust this morning and three more are scheduled to leave by noon today. The first eastern mail Sheridanites have received in three days was distributed today. LANDER DROPS COURT BATTLE RIVERTON,’ Wyo., Feb. 18.—In a closely contested game on the lo- cal court Friday night, Riverton de- feated the Lander Basketeers by a margin of two points. The final score was 18 to 16. Riverton led by a small margin throughout the game, Fairly good floor work, but poor basket shooting, on the part of both teams featured the game. Both teams were repeatedly penal- ized for personal fouls. — SNOW FALLS AT LARAMIE LARAMIB, V . Feb. 18—Snow is falling here and all the way from Rawlins. Temperature 22 above. RELIGIOUS FANATICS KILLED BY SOLDIERS Lieutenant and Eight Constabulary Soldiers ‘Also Meet Death In Philippines--Fanatics Are Anni- hilated In Bloody Fight MANILA, Feb. 18.—Lieutenant Eugenio Mendes and eight constabulary soldiers under his command, and 35 religious fanatics, including two of their leaders, were killed in a fight at Balete, Agusan province, according to a constabulary report re- ceived here today. Several other fanatics were wounded. The majority of the fanatics who took part in the fight, it is believed here, were refugees who escaped from Bucas Island, Gurigao province, off the island of Min- danao, which has been the scene of several recent ,clashes between the constabulary and the fanatics: The last fight {s thought by the constabulary to have virtually an- nihilated the last remnants of the aggressive fanatics. ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLIER MAKES THRILLING RESCUE IN MIDAIR SAVING LIFE OF GIRL JUMPER DENVER, Colo., Meb. 18.—Ciyde Pangborn, who yesterday figured in the rescue of Rosalia Gordon, Hous- ton, Texas girl from death {n an airplane parachute leap after the ropes of the narachute had become entangled with the running gear of an airplane is well known through- out the entire Rocky gion. He ts a pilot for the Gates F; ing Clrous which exhibited in nu. merous Colorado, Art- zona, Oklahoma, ‘ast summer. The rescue of Miss Gordon curred at a heighth of approximte- ly one mile as more than 5,000 per- Mountain re- ¢ Mexico, and Texas towns oc sons watched. In attempting to leap from the p'ane in her para- chute the robes became entangled, Diavalo, a!so a member of the fly- ing circus, a stunt man, who was in the plane with Tungborn climbed out of the fuselage the and to down to landing gears pull the girl up to safety T Loon, endeavored he w unable to do, so Fred Huston aviator, took ur in another plane and changed fron his to Pangborn’s piane in the Assisted by Niavalo lie was unable to extricate the girl. Mounting tie plane he took charre and permitted Pangborn to assist Liavala with the result that the girl was rescued. | used, 40m SECRETARY OF NAW THROUGH AS MEMBER Ot CABINET GROUP President Accepts Res- ignation—Daugherty May Be Next Official Member to Quit. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Theo- dore Rosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, announced after half an hour‘s conference with President Coolidge today that he would not resign as the result of the retire ment of Secretary Denby. Then he dictated this statement to newspapermen: “My first reply to your questions is that I did not know about Secre- tary Denby’s reported resignation until 10:30 o'clock this morning. That answers the first question which I presume you would ask me. The second question is whether I am to resign also, and my answer is that I have just been with the president and I am n° resigning.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—It fs expected that the effective date of Secretary Denby’s resignation will be March 10, WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. —Edwin B. Denby has re- signed as secretary of the navy and his resignation has been accepted. After repeatedly declar- ing he never would quit the cabinet under the fire of those who have criticized his part fn the oll leasing Program the secretary notified Presi- dent Coolidge today that he was ready to step out. His decision followed a telephone consultation between the president and Mr. Denby in which all of the latest aspects of the situation were talked over In the light of informa- Uon passed on to the White House by Republican leaders in the senate. Reeently a number of the secre- tary‘’s friends also have been con- sulted by Mr. Coolidge, and they are understood to have advised the prest- -dent that they fully understood the embarrassment that might result in retaining Mr. Denby, in the cabinet while the oll annuiment suits are in Progress, Not only is he a party to the oil leases, having affixed his signature along with that of Albert B. Fall, but he repeatedly has defended his part in the proceedings and has de- clared publicly since the present controversy arose that he believed the contracts legal and would be wil- ling to pursue the same course again. Tt, has been pointed out to the president that it might appear incon- sistent to have a member of the ad- ministration holding these views re- main in office while the administra- tion itself, through ts counsel, was moving in the courts to annul the leases on the ground that they were made without authority of law. The first step in these legal pro- ceedings, injunction suits to prevent further work in Teapot and Califor- (Continued on Page Seven) POLICE RAID TWO STILLS Automobile Race Results In Arrest of Two Men and Search of Home Discloses Booze Plant After an automobile race of several blocks in the south- west section of the city members of the police department caught up with L. A. Knapp and C. E. Raner who were driving a Dodge commercial truck loaded with 20 gallons of moonshine about 8 o’clock last night. While the men were being arrested other officers en- tered their house at 1211 South Elm et and found t which was in barrels of mash one of king li One of the stills was av made over for the purpose of tilling Mquor. It had not been in use for some time, the business evidently having expanded consid- erably since the proprietora of the stablishment had started out. The tit ed at time was of const tc nd was of 50 gallons capacit The police had had the place for several ys and had search warrants ready for use. Knapp and Raner will be tried in (Continued on Page Seven) of on eye on