Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1924, Page 1

A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, any ois, — FEBRUARY 29, IS 1924 Daily Crih MAP FOITION NUMBER 101 DAUGHERTY DEFIANT Sinclair Arrives; Refuses to “INCOME ‘RATES WILL APPLY TO STOCK PROFITS Amendment Is Voted in House Consideration Of Tax Measure. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. +The house pressed on with consideration of the revenue bill today, leaders hoping for speedy action in view of he disposal yesterday of the income tax section through the adopting of the Democratic substi- tute for the Mellon schedule into the measure. 5 ‘Stock dividend profits would “be made subject to regular income rates rather than the capital asset tax of 12% per cent under an amendment adopted today by the house. ‘The amendment was proposed by Representative Garner, Democrat, ‘Texas anc) received practically un- animous support of the Democrats who were joined by about 16 Re- publican insurgents. The vote was 162 to 112. plese ry Representative Rainey, Demoarat, Minois, in arguing for ite adoption, declared it would. bring enough ad- ditional revenue to permit the re- peal of all available excigo taxes. It would subject the profits to a much higher taxes than 124 per cent as provided now. Representative Mills, Republican. New York, opposed the proposal as a “gesture” and not ppssible of ef- fective administration. The amend- ment is subject to another vote. The capital gains and loss sec- tiona, which contained a recommen- dation of Secretary Mellon to limit capital less deductions to 12% per cent withstood further attack and was approved. Ropresentative Oldfield, Democrat Arkansas, insisted all profits should Frigid Blast Strikes Here; Storm General Winter Weather Returns With Vengeance and Mercury Is Sent Tumbling to Eight Below Mark; New York Reports Worst Weather of the Season Winter weather which held the north Atlantic states in its grip today, characterized in New York as the most severe of the winter, extended.to the Rocky Mountain region with sub-zero temperatures reported from many sections. Three weeks of spring in Casper was climaxed with a light fall of snow and a drop of the mercury to eight de- grees below zero. At 9 o'clock this morning the reading was still two below zero but the temperature moderated rapidly. The weather report for Wyoming for today forecast probably snow with warmer temperatures in the north of the state continuing through 7S FOR TRAFFIC GIVEN 60 DAYS FOR TRAFFI pe RCS CAGE Sr; the central and southern parts to- morrow. f Yesterday's snowfall which whit- ened the ground for the first time Roy Williamson, one time king of} is said to haye pled guilty to pos- the Casper gamblers and alleged | Session and sale of stolen machines head. of the automobile .thett ring)/>US mot to. elther the actual thefi - or interes ‘transportation. It is that aisposed of nine stolen cars in} understood that thé latter two Casper, including six Cadillacs, a/ counts will be dismissed. year ago last summer, received the Williamson, who had been a fugt- Hight sentence of 60 days in jail dive from justice in the federal Sau lity in federal court courts for more than a yoar, showed in Cheyenne to two counts of the up in Cheyenne several weeks ago charges against him. Williamson Cheyenne and along the main Jine of the U, P., 12 inches having fallen in the capital. 14,000 MEN CLEAR NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Rain and sleet today turned the night’s snow fall into slush that made brooks of streets and sidewalks and impeded elevated and surface car traffic. It was the winter's» most serious storm. Four hundred snow plows, , (Contitiued on Page Nine.) ‘ACCESSORIES: SPRING LEAK, ONE IS SEIZED Daryl S. Burgess Lands In Jail After announcing that he was tired of being a fugitive. He surrendered, was released under bond and visit- ed his family here in Casper before returning to plegd guilty. At the time he received his sen- tence Williamson told that he preferred to serve his sen- tence in the jail at Cheyenne rather than in Casper. On the way to the Jail he purchased $10 worth of pro- visions, evidently “distrusting the daily rations at the capital bastile. Somg months after the automo- bile theft ring here was brought to ight it was ascertained that Wil- Mamson had $30,000 in cagh deposit- ed in his old home town in be indie mdiject to regular tnvceie Signing for 30 Gallons of Graih fathead tbe carotiinre Tere od rates, dut his ele gee ag a 3 stolen cars inde reimbursed. A maxima surtax of 44. per cent on Alcohol Shipped by Express focal’ garare handled’ mort of the incomes of $92,000 and over, and for normal tax rates of two per cent on incomes of $5,000 and under,’ four per cent on incomes between $5,000 and $8,000 and six per aent on ip- comes above $8,000, Personal tat exemptions also were nw allow $2,000 exemption for single persons and $3,000 for heads of families, This action, brought about by the combined votes of the Democrats and Republican insurgents, settled the main controversial point of the bill as far ag amendments to separ- ate sections were concerned. A vote must yet be taken on the entire “jy measure, however, and Republican leaders have indicated they will seek at that time to have it re-com- mitted to come and new income rates adopted. § The Garner rates were adopted in the face of a compromise offer by Representative Longworth, Republl- can floor leader, to submit an amendment to make the maximum surtax rate 14 per cent instead of per cent carried in the bill. Republican insurgents reflised the offer, seventeen voting with the 203 Democrats for the Garner amend- ment. Two other substitute pro- posals already have been rejected, one by Chairman Madden of the ap- Propriations committee, providing for the Mellon yates except for a Gurtax maximum rate of 26 per cent instead of 25 per cent, and the other by Representative’ Frear, Wiscon- sin, Republican insurgent, calling for a maximum surtax of 50 per cent on incomes of $200,000 and over and for a 50 per cent cut in normal rates, The capital gain and loss section ‘en up today carries a change re- nded by Secretary Mollon to the deduction on account of ital losses to 12% per cent of the tc The present law limits the capital gain to 12% per cent ¢ did not limit capital loss deduc- Enactment of the c to Casper business men. Poor soldering on a five-gallon can, permitting the liquid inside to leak out through a split seam, resulted in the_arrest Tuesday afternoon of Daryl S. Burgess, alias D. S. Gardner, charged with receiving through the local American Express company a shipment of 30 gallons of grain alcohol. The alcohol was done up in six, five-gal- lon cans in cases, marbles being CREW MISSING Placéd on top of the cans to X!'l the noise of the oceanic undulations of the liquid. « The cases were billed as “auto- mobile accessories” but the express SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Sal- vador, Feb. 20.—The gasoline-driven vessel Colorado has foundered in the Gulf of Ponseca. A ship sent to res- agent became suspicious when tho accessories started to trickle down cue the passengers and crew found no trace of them. ‘Y’ MOVEMENT GIVEN BOOST IN MEETING At a meeting of Y. M. C. A. enthusiasts held Tuesday evening at the city hall plans were made for crystallizing sentiment in Casper for a thoroughly developed organi zation and a ¥. M. C. A. building. ‘The idea has been more or less in a nebulous state here for the last two years but no definite action has been taken. It is hoped that before the end of the present year that the organization will have been completed and the building started. H. B. Durham presided at the meeting last night and appointed a committee composed of C. D. Poling. Sam Neff, Albert Parks and M. A. Jackson ,to push the immediate plans of the local supporters. the side of the box with an odor rem- iniscent of the days of foaming suds that were not originated in Fels- Naptha. The sheriff's office was called to investigate the affair and two deputies were posted to await the arrival of the consignee. When Burgess arrived at the ex- press company office he signed the receipt D. S. Gardner and affixed E, L. Gardner underneath, indicating he was taking the shipment out for another member of the fami'y. The cases had been billed from the Acme Auto company of Chicago, Burgess, who lives at 905 East Second street, is resting comfortably in the county jail ‘this morning pending a preliminary hearing and the accessories are stored in the sheriff's vault as future evidence. No motor vesse! named Colorado appears in shipping registers. fhe Bah as Portray “The Lost Colony” EINSTON, N. C., (United Press). —An historical pageant will be given here April 11, by home talent from several counties. The actor folk will portray incidents connect- ed with “the lost colony” of Vir- ginja. Dave, the first white child born in America, and other events in the early history of the south. BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) WASHINGTON, Feb. = 20.—Re- publican leaders, have about come to the conclusion that while the con stitution says revenue legislation crats would themselves. write if they were in. power. Under the circumstances the sen- ate according to the present outlook will be chiefly engaged in irgning out the wrinkles put in the tax bill of the Democrats are greater than in the house where Representative Garner and Hepresentative Garrett have been able to hold their. forces intact. The biggest fight against the tax measure in the senate will not be tax on ase revenues about , 3 i shall originate in the house of rep-| by the conflicting factions in the| made by those who want high rates annually, Mr. Mellon eati-| “ entatives the bill revising taxes| house. retained but those who will insist rhe earned income section is a} Will have to be finally written inthe} ‘The place where the tax bill] upon making provision in the bill DAW: senate. When the house gets thru with the tax bill it will not be the kind of a measure which either the ad- ministration wants or the Demo- really wil] be written will be In the finance committee of the senate and while there will be a battle on the senate floor on amendments the chances of » ¥ chase in the ranks for a payment of the soldier bonus. Renewed interest has been given bonus legislation by the debate be- tween Colonel Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian and the Provision of the law, also re- >mmended by Mr. Mellon. The nommittee allowed a 25 per cent re- Guction in taxes on earned incomes P (Continued on Page Ning all that were in his weapon. Willlamgor: is said to be broke at|he went back to bed. the present time as the result of thejearly, soon after 10 o'clock. He attachment placed on his bank ac-| Said he woke up later when it be- gan to rain and realized w he LEADERS DESERT HIM Discuss Return of Oil Lease Senator Elkins Ad- COOLIDGE TOD BY LODGE THAT SENATE 6. 0. P. Albert Simpson, 60-year-old sheep- herder, an old timer and known to most of the ranchers in this part of the state, was found shot through the head in an empty boxcar at Arminto at noon today. Beside his body was a small calibre revolver and Indications point to it being a case of suicide. Simpson has lately been employed by the Padlock ranch hear Thermo- polis, Yesterday he spent the great- er part of the day around Arminto and his peculiar actions and in- coherencies of speech attracted the attention of several people there. In the evening he purchased a ticket to Powder River and the last ADMITS ST. PETERSBURG, PARENTS SLAIN BY YOUTH WHO Fla., Feb. 20.—Confession of the murder of his father and mother here last night and his two sisters in Decatur, Georgia a year ago, was made here SPEEDY ACTION ON TAX BILL IS SEEN ALBERT SIMPSON HEADER, FOUND SHOT TO DEATH , WELL KNOWN saw of him alive was when he step- ped off the C. B. & Q. passenger train at the Powder River station. Conductor D. V. Lowe found the body today in examining a boxcar at Arminto. The car had been Picked up at Powder River this morning by the local freight so that the man must have shot himself some time’ during the night when the car was resting on a siding at Powder River. Dan Miller, deputy sheriff, left Casper at 1 o'clock this afternoon to make an official investigation of the case although there is little or nothing to indicate but that it was an outright suicide, CRIME Murder of Fwo.Sisters.. Year Ago~Also “Solved by Confession of Youth Believed Demented this afternoon by Frank McDowell, according to Chief of the judge | Police Goslick and Detective John Trotter. Frank told the police that when he was 12 years old he committed a sin against the Holy Ghost and ever since then there had been an antiChrist element in his family and he felt he had to remove it. Ho said that last night soon after his father and mother went to bed the anti-Christ became dominant anc) he got his pistol and shot his father and mother. They were to him not his father and mother, he said but the antiChrist. He said he shot his father fitst and then his mother, and fired five shots, Then This was had done and there might be n- sequences. So he said he got up and went to the kitchen and bumped his head against a shelf and then gave the alarm to the neighbors, McDowell told the police that he had realized long before the fire in which his sisters were burned to death last year that they were the anti-Christ element in his family and that he must remove them. He said he went into the room where they were sleeping and threw gaso line over their bed and then took fire from the fire-place and set the gasoline ablaze. CARNARVON’S TOMB LICENSE IS CANCELLED CAIRO, Egypt., Feb. 20—(By the Asscelated fPress}—The Egyption government has cancelled Countess Carnovan’s license for excavations in the tomb of Tut-ankh-amen. secretary of the treasury. Col. Milleris prominent in the affairs of the American “Legion and shares the view of the legion leaders that Mr. Mellon’s estimates about the cost of the bonus misleading. Mr. Mellon, on the other hand, thinks the legion estimates are mis! The difference . between two viewpoints is really difficult to settle because both are estimating the cost on what they think the ex-service men will select out of the various forms of aid proposed in the soldiers bonus bill. The beneficiar- Ing. $600,000 SUIT FILED AGAINST F.A. VANDERLIP NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—(By The Associated Press)}—Roy D. Moore, and Louis H. Brush, joint owners of the Marion, Ohio, Star today filed suit in Federal court against Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, for $600,000 damages, alleging slander and libel as the result of the bank- er’s purported utterances in an ad- dress at Ossining February 15. Courthouse Bond Election Will Be Held as Planned Down town reports current Tuesday and this morning that the county commissioners had re- scinded their call for an election on the $500,000 court house bond issue next mbnth, were denied today by Dr. G. T. Morgan, chair- man of the board. It is believed that the unfayorable report by the chamber of commerce at Tuesday's meeting may. have been the basis for the rumor. The election supplies are now in the hands of the printers and will be shipped to poling places In the county outside of Casper the end of this week. fes may take cash or land or voca. tional training. Mr. Mellon thinks ninety per cent will t: cash or will borrow money on the proposed insurance certificates. The legion officials" think otherwise. Nobody has the exact information as there is no way of télling what the choice | of the ex-service men will be they are confronted v tunity itself. Another thing legion estimates are based upon a low cost in the next few years but a higher cost later on. Mr. Mellon bases his figyres on a higher cost in mits Dealings In Sinclair Stock On New York Mar- ket NEW YORK, Feb. 20.— Harry F. Sinclair, returning from Europe on the Presi- dent Harding today, said he had no comment to make on the Teapot Dome inquiry as he was unfamiliar with develop- ments that had’ occurred since he left the country. Mr, Sinclair declined to discuss the question of the possible return of the Teapot lease held by the Mammoth Oll company. ELKINS ADMITS DABBLING IN OIL. WASHINGTON, Feb, 20—Sena- tor Elkins, Republican, West Vir- ginia, said today that he had pur- chased stock of the Sinclair Con- solidated Oil company. He added he was perfectly willing to go before the senate ofl com- mittee and tell all about it. His statement revealed that he is the senator whose name appears on the records of the Benkara brokerage firm, presented to the committee yesterday. The West: Virginia senator visited the committee room today during the examination of Harry Payne Whitney but was not hoard. Mem- bers said if he were called, {t would be in an open session. * “I purchased the Sinclair stock without any knowledge with respect to the oil leases,” Senator Elkins saidin a statement. ‘I bought muck more of Bethlehem Steel and other stock than I did of oll stock. “I am perfectly willing to go be fore the committee if they desire and tell them all about these trans- actions. There is no law against buying and selling stock. Many of my purchases were made solely on my own initiative or on advice of my brokers. “If you stop buying and selling this country will have to stop. This whole thing {s a political drive by the Democrats but they will get the worst of it before it ends. ‘Already William G. McAdoo has been mentioned prominently as has the late Franklin K. Lane and others.”* The statement was issued after Mr, Whitney and his counsel, Frank L. Crocker, had visited Senator Elkins’ office. Mr, Whitney's ex- amination by the committees was brief and Chairman Lenroot said afterward that arrangements had been made to have committee accountants examine his books in New York. Senator Lenroot added that there was no other immediate develop- ments in the ofl scandal in prospect which would require an early meet- ing of the committee. Members would not say, however, whether it might be necessary to hold other sessions before next Monday, the time set for resumption of the pub- lic hearings. While an official record of the executive proceedings is kept, it has been decided not to swear any wit- nessés who appear in secret session so that no questions of immunity can be raised subsequently. The ‘session today, committee members said, was merely to deter- mine the quickest procedure in handling the brokers’ books and determine what records should be searched. It was ,indicated that Senator Elkins would not invited before the committee until reports of the auditors disclose the full extent of his stock transactions. More than two hours after the committee adjourned irman Lenroot issued ‘this statement: "The committee yesterday and today held an executive session at which certain witnesses t The only testimony so given relative to what books were kept and the manner af keeping them and this was for the purpose only of aiding the expert accountants of the committee in the examination of such books. No other testimony (Continied on Page Nine) Senate Is Expected To Rewrite Tax Measure: the first means a few years. difference in Each the te amount of interest that wopld have|* to be paid jn the immediate future. So the controversy on estimated cost probably never will be settled but it will have a bearing on the fate of the tax bill for ate the bonus advoc bonus against the deavor to keep th s wil tax bill rates high they can command support for their | measure. The real fighting on both the tax bill and the bonus will come in the =é plan A SKS. REMOWAL Storm Centers in Oil The dent Coolidge was advised today by Senator Lodge of Massachu- setts, leader, that there is a sentiment senate organization in favor of the retirement of Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty. Scandal Must All Be Ousted, Republican Forces Are Agreed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—(By Associated Press.)—Presi- the Republican senate growing in the Republican After Mr. Daugherty had pub- licly defied his critics in a formal statement, Mr. Lodge and Sena- tor Pepper, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, went to the White House and talked over the whole sub- ject with the president, The Massaphusetts senator frankly informed the chief execu- tive of the position taken by those on the Republican side as a result of several conferences within the past few hours. The concensus of opinion in those who took part have been that Mr. should clear his cabinet of the last of those who have become storm centers in the oil scandal. Whether the advice of the senate leaders would be followed was not immediately apparent. White House officials became increasingly reticent and refused to discuss in any way reports that Mr. Daugherty’s resignation would be requested. WASHINGTON, Feb, 20. —aAttorney General Daugh- erty has reaffirmed to Presi- dent Coolidge his determina- tion not to resign under fire. House this nvorning, the White talked over He visited the situation with the chief execu- tive anc returned to the department of justice, to dictate a statement affirming his decision to stay in the cabinet. It was insisted by those close ta the attorney geyeral that he and the president had found themselves in complete accord. White House officials were silent, They would not affirm or deny that the question of Mr. Daugher- ty’s retirement had been discussed at the conference. The visit of the attorney general to the executive offices had revived a belief among those men who have attacked him in the senate that his retirement was imminent. It was even indicated that some of } be tor of os those were withholding and renewal of fidence that sary. eral the senate yesterday by Wheeler, cerning department of justicy ordering ator Wheeler ate yesterda ‘He makes me in m eral terms. ' peachment demanding his resignation for the present the fight in con- it would be unneces- n his statement the attorney gen- denied the charges made in Senator Montana, con- ration of the Democrat, his admin fe said he welcomed the oppor- tunity to meet any charge “against my administratiar which might involved in the senate resolution. an investigation. I have read the speech of Sen- delivered ‘in the sen- the statement said. rtain ch against official capacity as at- neral of the United States, These charges are mace in gen- I deny,each and all them specifica and generally. I know the facts, and they have at all times been available to the senate. Nelther the senator, nor for him has asked me or the artment of justice in reference » charges made. has been misled and at the time the truth in regard to se matfers will be-given to e charges were all exploit- committee ry to lines being otten, declared them unfounded. water, the report of the comm: was formally adopted by th (Continued on Page Nine),