Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 1

The Weather iG: WYOMIN' day. Not much tem| OKEH 15 PLACED ON CANDIDACY BY CONFERENCE Platform Outlined by McAdoo Following Party Meeting. - CHICAGO, Feb. 19.— Styled by his friends ag pre- eminently available for the presidency and the “hope of the progressive thought of the nation,” ‘William Gibbs “McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, today is in the race for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion to stay. A conference of supporters ‘from virtually every state which met here yesterday to discuss the effect of Mr. McAdoo’s connection with the Doheny oil interests after his services in the Wilson cabinet upon his presidential candidacy, unani- mously approved a resolution de- manding his leadership. * “We denounce and condemn the recent infamous conspiracy.” which attempted to besmirth his name and proclaim that he has emerged from the ettacks stronger than be: fore,” the resolution sald. “We unanimously demand his leader- ship.” Called to address the assemblage after the vote of confidence, Mr. McAdoo outlined his platform. These are some of the things “that need to be done to protect the rights of the people and satisfy the mocrats of progress,” he said: 1, Drive corruption out of Wash- ington. 2. Call a new world conference to economic a deal with political and problems. 3. Submit the question of Amer- ican foreign policy to a national referendum, 4, “Take the grip of-Wall Street off the treasury department and the Federal Reserve system.” 5. Repeal the Fordney-McCumber tariff act. “ 6. Prompt railroad reforms. 7. “Put agriculture on its feet again.” Fs 8. Strict enforcement Eighteenth amendment. 9. Reduce taxes. 10. Adopt a constitutione] amend- ment prohibiting child labor. 11. Establishment of a national labor code, vty 12. Clean out the Veteran's eau,” and pay a soldiers bonus. “Until the government is purged and made clean, and honest and effi- clent again, no progress can be made In the settlement of the great Problems confronting the American people." Mr. McAdoo said. of _ the bur- “a cHICAGO, Feb. 19—Tom Arthur of Great Falls, Mont., delegate to the conference which endorsed Wil- lam G. MeAdoo for the Democratic presidential nomination here yester- day and through whom Senator T. J. Walsh of Montana, member of the Teapet Dome investigating com- mittee sent his endorsement of Mr. (Continued on Page Eleven.) Snow prob- able ‘tonight and Wednes- change ‘in Vanderbeck’s ° To Broadcast This Evening ‘Vanderbeck's orchestra with Brian B. Dougherty as soloist will broad- cast a concert of 13 numbers from Casper broadcasting station KFEV at 8 o'clock this evening. The fol- lowing program will be given: 1. “When Will the Sun Shine for “Me,” one step. 2. “Last Nite on the Back Porch,” fox trot. 8. “The House of David Blues,” fox trot, 4. “Hugo,” one step. 5. * Melody,” waltz. 6. “Vanderbeck Blues,” banjo duo (featuring C. M. McLean and S. M. Trask). 7. “More” (The Modern Maiden's Prayer), one step. 8. “The West, a Nest and You,” waltz. 9. “Easy Melody,” fox trot. 10. “Oh Sister, Ain't That Hot,” fox trot. 4 11. “I'm Sitting Pretty in a Pretty Little City,” fox trot. 12. “Jabberwocky,” banjo duet. 13. “Stavin Change,” fox trot. ——— Land Claims of Railroad May Be Postponed WASHINGTON, | Feb. 19: — All further adjustments of Jand claims by the Northern Pacific ' railroad ‘would be ‘postponed until the in- quiry. of the senate oil committes is completed, under a resolution intro- Len- resolution directs the secretary of the interior to withhold his approval from the further settlements. CASPER, WYO., 'Y, FEBRUARY 19, 1924 M10, 7” A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State ~ Che Casper Daily Tribune aad NUMBER 100 OWN BY HOUSE 3ADOO STAYSFIGHT TO CANCEL IN DEMO RACE SUBSTITUTE 0 LEASES IS PENDINGIIMOQRAS 1 JUPPLIES CONTRACTED FOR WATER EXTENSIONS AND THEATER LIGENGING ARE VOTED BY COUNCIL Casper Supply Company Lands Contract to Furnish the City With $47,000 . Worth of Pipe for New Improvement Work; Theater + - “The awarding of a $47,000 contract for pipe to the License Program Carnes Tax. ir Supply company, pass- ing of an ordinance for licensing the theaters of the city and for requiring them to pay a license tax, granting of permission to the George W. Vroman post of the American Legion to hold an indoor circus next month, and decision to purchase a seven-passen- ger automobile for the chief of police were among the things done by the city council at the regular meeting of that body last night. Five firms“submitted bids to the counct! for thé contract to furnish the city with pipe, the bid of the Casper Supply company was $47,- 085.38, which was $1,000 lower than the bid of any of the other com- panies. The other bidders were the M. J. O'Fallon Supply company of Casper and Denver, the Hendrie and Bolthoff company, the Stearns- Rodgers Manufacturing company, and the National Cast Iron Pipe company of America. The water extension work of the city has been held up for some time because of the lack of sufficient pipe. Practically all the pipe on hand at the present time is kept for emergency work. There are a number of new additions that have been clamoring ror water. These will recelve it as fast as possible BONE SPLINTERS TAKEN FROM ‘BRAIN OF SENATOR GREENE WASHINGTON, Feb. 19— Greens. of Vermont was in‘ A second operation for the remov- al of bone splinters from the brain, found imperative late last night, OF z crit} gal_condition this morning from the wound he received “Friday night when he was hit cry a stray bullet fired during the shooting which ac- companied a chase of alleged boot- ith ition :| slightly: better.’ ‘ Sh ee turn in his condition, but, he soon suffered a graye relapse due to a orrhage. The latter complication was successfully over- come, however, and he was de- scribed at 6 a. m. as being “very At 10 o'clock this morning Sen- ator Greene's condition was de- scribed as showmg a still further “slight improvement.” and as soon as the weather permits. The council voted unanimously to Pass the theater-censing ordinance which it published among the legal notices in today’s Tribune. This or- dinance provides for a license fee of $100 to be paid annually by all the- aters having a seating capacity of 1,000 or less. Ten dollars addition- al must be paid for every 100 seats over 1,000. The new ordinance puts the theaters under police sup- ervision similar to that of dance halls and other amusement placea. “Gorman's Indoor circus will be held under the auspices of the Vro- ™an post of the Legion about the middle of March at the Arkéon as @ result of the permission granted last night. The council had hes- itated for several days over the mat- ter because of the possibility of gambling features in connection «ith the sale of merchandise. Besides deciding to purchase a car for the chief of police the council also agreed to purchase a back-filler for use in construction work. It Will, cost $2,400. A claim for $83 entered by Mike Mahoney for the freezing of a water line on South Beech street was set- tled for that amount. Importance of Immediate Action Em- phasized by Pomerene and Roberts, Special Counsel for U. S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Having -come through a period of close senatorial scrutiny with a stamp of appro- val, Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special gov- ernment oil counsel today began preparations for their work with a conference with President Coolidge. The two attorneys discussed with the president the general situation but sald they reached no final decision relating to the details of the legal proceedings to be instituted to recover naval oil reserves, One of the first steps, it was indi- cated, will be suits to annul leases to the Teapot Dome reserve, ob- tained by Harry F. Sinclair, and to the Elk Hills reserve, granted to B. L. Doheny. “Haste is of utmost necessity,” Mr. Roberts said. “We must re- member, however, that our case should of first necessity be well founded. We do not propose, if permanently possible, to institute action which would compel us to file amended complaints or in any way retrace our steps.” With respect to injunction pro- ceedings to prevent further extrac- tion of ofl from the two reserves, Mr. Roberts said consideration was being given to the place of filing the bills. The location of the real estate involved and the states in which the leasing companies were Incorporated were the guiding factors, he asserted. Mr. Roberts said he had revealed ® great deal of the evidence taken by .the .oil committes. since. his homination and also had read prac tically all of the speeches on the question délivered in the senate. His assistants George J. Chandler and Ulric J. Mengert, working with the assistants called in by former Senator Pomerene, Albert E. Powell and John B. Dempsey of Cleveland, are engaged in collating the evi- dence. COURTHOUSE BOND ISSUE OPPOSED CONTRACT HOLDERS FACE LOS QF $20,000 IN LOAN CONCERN Reorganization Possibility Slight With ,Victims Of Venture Not Likely to Realize Over 65 Per Cent on Investment. At least $20,000 would be required to reimburse the contract holders of the defunct United Home Build- ers association which yesterday had its shop locked up by Byron S. Hule, state bank examiner. It does not seem probable now that the $20,000 will be put up by way of res- titution, or that the association will be ré-organized, The loss amounts to about 33 per cent of total pay- ments on contracts. One of those prominently identi- fled with the ion today stated that plans had been formu- lated for a reorganization, but that throwing the concern into receiver- ship would defeat the project. Apparently W. T. S. Barnes, who, in the past,_has skipped from state to state operating “three per cent” companies, wishes to haul away contracts from his office here, it is “and start another ‘Home Arkansas or Alabama. He has done such things before, ac- cording to reports from one who has (Continued on Page Eleven.) Chamber of Commerce Goes On Record Against Half-million Dollar Building When Report of Committee Is ‘Accepted; Rate Hearing Is Reviewed The stamp of disapproval was placed upon the proposed bond issue of $500,000 for a new courthouse when the Casper Chamber of Commerce today accepted the re- port of the committee appointed to investigate the project. The report was to the ef- fect that no such building should be constructed and that if a building were to be eretted it should be a combined city-county building. The committee pointed out that it would “‘be no great loss” to scrap both the present courthouse and the present city hall since the court house has Served its purpose and the city building is out of, date and ts a les- son showing the way to avoid mis- takes in the future. Center street should be opened, according to the committee, and there should be no addition to the present cgurt house nor should any steps taken ‘to improve it. Loud applause greet- ed the reading of the report and the ‘committee which consists of George B. Nelson, 8. W. Conwell, Lew M. Gay, Joe Denham and H. B. Dur- ham was retained for any future inyestigation that may he needed. The Chamber of Commerce ex- tended a-vote of thanks to Claude 13 PERISH AS FIRE TURNS BUILDING INTO DEATH TRAP New York Tenement Blaze Charged to Incendiarism But Four Suspects Seized by Police Are Freed NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—(By The Associated Press) .— Thirteen lives were snuffed out in a few minutes in a fire believed to have been of incendiary origin which early to- day swept from basement to roof of a five-story tenement in the heart of New York’s lower East Side ghetto. Seven of those killed were children. , The blaze unequalled in rapidity the annals of the fire department ed up the stair case, fanned by craft from the tenement’s open ont door, blocking escape of the families who occupied the in tro e building. Some of those in the two upper stories, awakening to find the flames at their bedsides, met death before they could even try to dash through the roaring furnace with which they were confronted. Terrified on opening their hall doors to find a yortex of flame mushrooming down from the roof through smoke-chosen corridor, the families on the lower floors retreated in panic to the windows from which they managed in some cases by seemingly: impossible means, to reach safety. Several were severely burned; others were injured Mm falls. Qf the dead, five were boys and two girls, four women and two men. One of the children was an infant, whose charred body was found at the breast of its dead mother. The fire was discovered by a passing policeman who saw smoke and flames rising against the inner side of a window. He rushed into the house and up the staircases, hammering with his fists on doors and shouting a warning. Flames stopped him before he reached the upper stories. The front door had been open as he entered and as he dashed out, he saw Louis Choenfield, a news vendor, running rom the entrance with three men at his heels. He took all four to a police station where Choenfield, who appeared to Police to be mentally deranged, babbled in answer to! all questions: “I haven't got any matches; you can search me.” Later Dr. Charles 8. Rubenstein of Gouverneur hospital recognized him as a man he had treated several times for epileptic seizures and who, he added, had come to him for treat- ment late last night about an hour before the fire was discovered. He said several days ago he had taken two stitches in a cut on Choenfield’s head and that last night he had re- moved the stitches. ¥ A bottle partly filled with a white powder was found in the man’s pock Choenfield and the three men satisfied that the four had nothing satisfied that th efour had nothing to do with starting the fire. 1, Draper, chairman of the Wyo- ming Public Utilities commission, for the assistance he rendered in the recent freight rate hearing. M. J, Foley, Casper's star witnéis in the hearing, reviewed a few of the Points with reference to cost of transportation over the Burlington that he had brought out in the hearing. P. J. O'Connor praised the cities of Billings, Sheridan and Cheyenne for not interfering with Casper’s offorts to get freight rate adjustments, while he spoke with disapproval of Denver's action in sending an attorney here to fight the case. It is probable that at least three or four months will elapse be- fore a decision on the hearing is had from the interstate commerce commission. Following is the report of the committee on the court house: “Your committee has. already made several reports om the mat- ter of the proposal for a new court house at various stages of tho de- velopment of tho court house idea fram its originc] suggestion up to the present more or less definite plan for tho voting of bonds for a new building. “The first report had to do with the matter of a city and county building and the committee was un- animous on this point. It favored the City-County building idea and at the time. of that report, several months back of this time, felt that the time was not opportune for un- dertaking a city-county building, and recommended that no further steps be taken’ toward a county court house for the present. Acting upon that report this forum passed a resolution in conformity n. the report, recommending to the direo tors of the chamber, that the coun- ty commissioners be advised that tt was the sense of the chamber of commerce that no action looking to @ permanent new court house be taken at that time. ‘The matter was presumably dropped, but it has recently come to the foreground in the form of a proposal for a $500,000 bond issue for @ new court house near the present site of the old court house. The purpose being as we are ad- vised to construct a building just west of the present court house. The proposed building to have ap- proximately four times the floor space of the present court house, An increase in size over the pres- ent builcing may be more than is necessary at this time. “Your committee has not receded from the view first expressed, name- ly. that considering the ~ inade- (Continued on Page Eight) President Coolidge is understood to have presented to the counsel the only directions he had to give them and these fallowed along the lines of his statements of Jan uary 26 announcing that special counsel would be employed. The president fee's that from now on it will be neceasary for him to refrain from discussing in a pub- lc pr semi-public way the oll leases and their attendant c!rcumstances. While willing to give to the public through the press all that could be given withou¥ cmbarrassing public interests, he is convinced the situa- tion has come to the point where the government should not tip its For that reason, he has taken the attitude that it would be better for the attorneys who have charge of the prosecution to take over the responsibility of deciding what in- formation should be made public, en DEMURRER FILED BY BANKER 15 OVERRULED, MUST GO ON TRIAL CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 19.—A demurrer by Lewis Carr Butler, former cashier of the failed First National bank of Rock River, Wyo., attacking the sufficiency of nine of ten counts in an indictment charg- ing him with Segal acts while an officer of the bank, was overruled by Judge T. B. Kennedy in United States District court here today. Butler's trial will begin in federal court here next Thursday. Joyride On Stolen Motor Changed to Train By ‘Arrest CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 19.— Augustus Wyer of Fort Russell, who went.on a motorcycle joyride to Grover, Colo., returned Monday by train—in custody. Wyer over looked the formality of paying for the motorcycle on which he made the trip, it is alleged. He was per- mitted to take it from Reed Hollister’s shop, for a tryout, when he represented that he was inter- ested in the purthase of such a machine. Federal Prisoner Wanted In Omaha CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 19.— Charles Ketcher, arrested at Rock Springs, Wyo. Monday, by a deputy United States marshal, is wanted at Omaha to answer a charge of conspiracy to imperson- ate a United States officer. APPROVED WIT REPUBLICAN Al Maximum Surtax Rate Of 44 Per Cent Is Upheld After Defeat Of Mellon Program. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. —The Democratic substitute for the Mellon normal in- come and surtax rates car- ried in the revenue bill was approved today by ‘the house. The Democrats voted solidly be- hind their leaders and on each vote they were joined by @ large contin- gent ot Republicans. Chairman Green of the ways and means com- mittee, voted against his party leaders on the Macden amendment, which was defeated, 224 to 152. Approval was given the Demo cratic plan which carries a maxi- mum surtax of 44 per cent on In- comes in excess of $92,000 and cuts normal rates in half, while Repre- sentative Longworth, the Republi- can leader, was waiting an oppor tunity to offer compromise, to unite the Repubjican ranks. can ranks, The vote on the Democratic sub- stitute was 222 ta 196. Democratis voted solidly for their Substitute. Sixteen Republicans, most of them insurgents, also vot- ed for it. A teller's yote, requiring mem- bers to file through the center aisle to be counted, was taken, rules pre- venting a roll call. Before a final vote on the bill is taken, however, a rol] call on the Democratic sub stitute can be demanded. The substitute would cut normal, tax rates to two per cent on in- comes under $5,000; to four per cent on incomes between $5,000 and $8,- 000; and to ‘six per cent on incomes above $8,000. ‘The present rate is four per cent on incomes under $4,000 and 8 per cent on incomes above that amount. Tax exemptions under the sub- stitute approved, would be increas- ed from $1000 to $2,000 for single persons, and from $2,500 to $3,000 for heads of families. The Mellon bill proposed no such increase. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—An eleventh hour appeal by the White House today to house Republican insurgent leaders urging agreement with the organized Republicans on the Mellon income tax rate sched- u'e failed to break the deadlock be- tween the groups. As the income rates of the revenue bill were taken up in the house Republican leaders admitted the vote would be close with the Democrats united for the Garner Democratic plan and with the insurgents still holding out against the treasury rates and threatening to vote with the Demo- crats if their compromise is not accepted, C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to the President, informed some members of the insurgent group today that the president was desirous that the party should stand as a unit in the tax fight. This move followed fail- ure of two meetings ‘yesterday be- tween the Republican organization (Continued on Page Eight), DAUGHERTY DEFIANT AS OUSTER DRIVE CAINS MOMENTUM IN CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. —Attorney General Daugh- erty remained silently defi- ant today in the face of the new attack on him, and the Tuesday cabinet meeting passed without an announcement of his resignation. Department of justice officia’s in sisted that he had no intention of surrendering to his critics, but sen- ators who have taken the lead in atwising the president to ask him to retire remained confident that their advice would be followed. Mr. Daugherty arriving at the cabinet meeting a half hour late, would talk only, about the weather. When he emerged an hour later and was questioned, by newspapermen he showed pigin signs of agitation and annoyance, but he insisted that the question of his resignation had not been discussed, and declared he had no statement to make for the present. Just before the cabinet meeting the presifent had been in confer- ence with the government's upecial counsel In the oj! cases and pre y both he and the attorney 1 had been told of the new turn taken by the oil investigation. While the cabinet was in session the ol! committee was hearing be- hind Closed doors some of the evi lence on which Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, has asked that the attorney gen ‘8 attitude to: ward tho oil program and his ci duct generally be investigated. In addition to the information siven by the Montana senator, the committee alro was asking of New York brokers to whether their books show any oll speculations by past and present high officials of the government. White house afficiats also declar the cabinet had not discussed the possible retirement of the attorney general. It was addeg that Mr. Daugherty had not submittel his resignation. Senator Wheeler sald this after- noon he had agreed to eliminate from his resolution some of the language reciting that the country and congress had lost confidence in Daugherty. Senators were that with this change the asure could be adopted with lit- debate. A special committee of five probably will be provided for (Continued on Page Eight) = - @ group disclose ea Mr. agr tle