Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1924, Page 1

_ >». A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper Daily Crit HH CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1924 DAUGHERTY FOES LAY PLANS TO DRIVE HIM FROM CABINET VANDERLIP ‘WELCOMES’ SLANDER SUIT.t0 | CAMPAIGN. WILL OFFIGER NAB James M. Cox: Will bel stores were|BE LAUNCHED IN STORE ROBBER Convention Candidate)" SUSE ATI PUBLIC INQUIRY WHILE ON JOB Correspondence From Ohio Supporters Uiistng Candidacy Dealings in Sinclair Oil Made Public by Former Governor When Approached _ | sn in stereace io Wasnineions | By the Attorney Gen- Finds Former Employe For Statement by Associated Press eral Hinted at by Under Bed in Huber noon in deference to Washington's Enemies in Senate. MIAMI, Fia., Feb. 21.—Former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, who is in Miami Building, Lavoye. Says $600,000 Libel Action Filed by Owners of Marion Star May Result In Making Public Some News That Great Newspapers Did Not Print NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, in a reply today to the $600,000 libel suit filed against him yesterday by the owners of the Marion Star declared he welcomed the suit and expressed the hope that it would be the forerunner of “court proceedings that would make public some of the news that the great news- Papers @id nct see fit to print.” ing $200,000 damages, a: clted in “I am prepared to spend quite as | their petition on file today. much a8 has 5 been” asked ‘for in! rns papers assert Mr. Vandertip these court proceedings in an effort tccikabes Gable Ssuiny news,” the} Wickedly and maliciously charged acter that ordinarily are open on Sundays. The banks will be closed all day and a number of the business offices downtown will also take the same initiative. There will be no school sessions tomorrow. birthday, the few that will remain had no statement to make with respect to The Associated Press dispatch from Cleve- open being businesses of a char- . : “3 5 Par; WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. land yesterday, in regard to his probable candidacy for the Democratic nomination —Having failed to induce statement said, adding that “there | Brush and Moore with bribing the/for president. He did, however, give out copies of the following correspondence: Although ey i ie ap President Coolidge to imme- ‘When Dick Vance, deputy sherifflis nothing this country needs so] late President Harding “to fail to The first letter is from James E. Campbell, former governor of Ohio and one of] observance walled error ete at Salt Creek, looked under a bed in| much at the monient as some court diately remove Attorney General Daugherty from of- fice, Mr. Daugherty’s critics in the senate today laid out a plan of campaign which they predicted would force him to resign. Preparations were made to lay before the country in a public in- quiry new information and charges that recently have reached the ears of senators and to make ever clearer the belief, of Republican senate leaders that the attorney general should no longer be permitted to sit in the eaoinet. It was revealed today that much of the material collected by those opposing Mr. Daugherty as well much of the data fathered by indi- vidual senators in the olf inquiry has been withheld In the hope that the president voluntarily would clear his administration of those who recently have been attacked by congress. Among other things, a special in- vestigator has reported to at least one senator that the name of @ cabinet official appears among those Usted as having purchased Sinclair oil stock, This development has been reported to the ofl committee and to the president to establish the accuracy of the report. Senators say the name of the cabinet official will not be revealed until any evidence produced on the subject is formally presented in the ommittee hearings after their re- mption Mond: It ts known however, that the investigators list of reported stock buyers also in- cludes ‘at least one man who for- merly held a high post in the government but retired some time amusement places in the city are all offering feature programs for the benefit of the public. perform certain of his official duties as president and that the bribe con- sisted in the payment to the late president of $550,000 in the purchase of the .Marion Star, which was more thi twice its fair value.” The Vanderlip speech it was charged, was an attack upon the integrity of the late president by implying the sale of his newspaper was involved in the naval reserve oll leases investigation. It was further charged the Van- derlip statements accused the plain- tiffs of “being financially irresponst- ble and insolvent and not able to meet their financal obligations and not entitled to credit. "the inarkét the patriarchs of the Democratic Party. the San Francisco convention in 1920 and will be asdelegate at large at the New York convention. His letter to Governor Cox reads: “Columbia, Ohio., Feb. 7, 1924, My dear friend: I feel it my duty to disturb your vacation long enough to say that many influential Democrats from various parts of the state have importuned me to write you. Most of them, like my- self, are members of the ‘old guard’ who have no personal presidential ambition but who are exceedingly anxious to have the Democratic Party succeed in the forthcoming national election. It is their. RR fon; in which. 1-fully concur, you. would be the most a’ and the most deserving presidential nominee whom the Democrats could » (Continned on Page Nine) Insurgents and Democrats Continue to Vote Together In Framing House Revenue Bill He was chairman of the Ohio delegation at HOLLYWOOD ATTORNEY FOUND GUILTY ON EXTORTION CHARGE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—Her- man L. Roth, Hollywood attorney, hwas in the county jail today await- ing sentence for attempted extortion of hush money from Arthur H. Sawyer, manager for Barbara La ‘Marr. motion. picture actress. A dury in the superior court late yes- terday convicted him affer a/ scant eight minutes deliberation. He will appear next Monday for sentence, the room et the rear of the Huber Proceedings Initiated by grund. fur- Jewelry store in Lavoye early Wed-|ias and pressed by incorruptible Frege bebe bs Be se Savarely, prosecuting attorneys.” nto the muzzle of a 8 i Migs ized the man holding|. The statement continued: ‘the gun Le alabaed Karpany, a for-| “Twenty-two months ago, in mer employe of the store, and’ call-| April, 1922, the senate, by resolution ing him by name told him to come| called for the facts in the Teapot out. Karpany put up his gun, sur-| Dome leases. That resolution was rendered, and when searched prov-| 0 framed that the red flag of su: : ve several small articles of | Picion was run up. oe ie answer at) all was offered and none ‘was pressed for, and thereafte: quite recently the search for the facts was made without vigor. ‘What were the newspapers doing Representative Dupre Dies at Louisiana Home WASHINGTON, Feb. 21,—Rep- resentative Henry Garlan Dupre of Touisiana died early today at his home here. A stroke of apoplexy ten days ago was the cause of death. Representative Dupre was serv- ing his sixth-term in the house from a New Orleans district. He was a Democrat born at Opolusas, La. July 28, 1873. FOR SENATE CONTROL Jilted Lover Precipitated Tokio Crisis at which time, he announced last night, an appeal will be filed. Roth, the evidence showed, threat- ened to file an amended divorce complaint against Miss La Marr, naming several prominent motion picture actors as co-respondents, unless Sawyer paid him’ hush money. He also threatened, it was testified, to file with the complaint an affidavit charging Sawyer and Miss La Marr with intimacy, tion of the building when he dis- covered a window in the rear reat had been. It is assumed t! he arrived ji after Karpany had] for 22 months? What. was Senator forced an entrance and before the} Walsh doing? It looks as if some latter ha@ “a chance ‘to pilfer the} body liad beer asleep at the switch stock. At the time he made his en-|——or perhaps asphyxiated at the trance there wes mo one in the/ switch. At Teast, no court proceed- building. : :| ings have yet resulted’from the Tea- When he was brought :to the] pot Dome:situation. county jail. last night Karpany, who} “Nor have there been, so far as is 23'years old and a Hungarian by | I'am aware, any court proceedings extraction, told the authorities that} initiated as a result of the criminal he had quit his job some time ago} m: ent of the veterans as a clerk in’the Huber store, He| bureau. The wholesale dishonesty tried to get other employment in} there is a matter of official record the field but had failed and this ledjin the committee proceedings of him to the attempted robbery. congress, and Mr. Forbes and his Karpany will be given an op-| friends have as yet encountered no portunity to plead guilty today andj court proceedings. ‘will probably receive a light sen-| © “There have been no proceedings tence as his previous record is £004} nor even a thorough investigation and he has never been in trouble} of the alien property administration. with the authorities before. There are other directions’ in which MIN SrHTFD FOR SALE ssa proceedings would be admir- OF LOT HE DIDN'T OWN In , consequence, value of the proferred and common stock (of the nuwspaper) has been. greatly reduced and the plaintiffs (Continued on Page Nine) Republicans Expect Upper House to Re- gain Advantage Lost In Early Consideration of Tax Bill “Congress too is spending its time solemnly and partisanly in de bating an income tax measure. It is discussion the size of a faucet you would put in a° barrel leaking between half the staves. If we WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—House Republican insurg- ents and Democrats united again today in overruling a,de- BY DAVID LAWRENCE, TOKIO, Feb. (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune). 21.—(By The As ago. ; cision of the chair that an amendment to the revenue bill | *°°!8e4, Press)—How an obscure WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—The Republicans have | RELEASED ON BOND Mee exe. fuahtienss erred proposing a tax on undistributed profits was in order. thts Lariat rig iatastial 4 lost control of the house of representatives. Whether they |DAUGHERTY STOCK rate of income tax will take care of Representative Frear, Republican insurgent, Wiscon- | today by a police statement regara-|can regain it by effective leadership is doubtful. The in-|DEALS INVESTIGATED. pace itself. ing an attempt to wreck a train sin, author of the amendment appealed from the decision Seer SaRiaie aioe niettston ss fagoya : surgent Republicans from the west have combined with|_ WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘If this country were invaded by an alien foe and I were a young 21,—(By to, or at least hastened, dissolution of the Imperial diet. Enraged because his sweetheart |had jilted him, so the explanation goes, a farmer named Daruse gave vent to his wrath by piling logs and rocks on the railroad track, having no idea of the political con- sequences of his act, Daruse is being held for trial in a Nagoya local court. A stormy session of the diet ter- minated January 31 in a riot ac- companied by fist fights among members and the hurling of water container: The disorders followed Premier Kiyouri's refusal to reply to the opposition'’s demands that he explain an attempt to wreck a train on which three opposition leaders were traveling. man, I believe I would offer myself for its defense. It has been at- tacked by something more danger- ous than a military invasion by a foreign foe. Corruption has at- tacked the government at its heart. I believe I am a patriotic citizen and I propose to offer the same ser- vice in fighting this danger that a young man should offer in fighting a military invasion. I am really enlisted in this matter because of profound conviction. “My attitude hides no motives of partisanship. I have been a life- long Republican. I believe that tho facts are not fully presented to the country and even when presented are not being acted on.” BIDS ASKED | (22sec ON TIMBER and after a sharp fight, won 164 to WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Bids 150, on approximately 17,840,000 feet of ‘timber on 3,480 acres of the Spo- kane Indian reservation were asked for by the department of the inter- jor, the proceeds of the sale to go toward replenishing the tribal funds. Minimum price terms for timber cut and scaled before April 1, 1927 were fixed at $3 a thousand feet for yeilow pine and $1.25 for fir, tamarack and other species. After that date the stumpage price will increase 12 per cent. Bids will be opened April 15 at Welpinit, Wash. After the sale, bids will be asked on an additional 15,000,000 feet on 3,500 acres. ‘NOT SO LOUD’ CAUTIONS SMITH CN WEAK REPLY TO ENFORCEMENT PLEA ALBANY, N, Y., Feb. 21.—The state capitol sat back in its chair today, rested its feet on the legislative desks and awaited the reaction to last night’s conference on pro- hibition enforcement, attended by several hundred municipal and law enforcement officials from all parts of New York state. ; s hé conference ended when, at the request of Governor Smith, who presided, of- which he had no equity, was releas- ed on $1,000 bond yesterday by Judge Henry F. Brennan. He will have a preliminary hearing Febru- A. K. Knight. is the com- the lot having ‘sold” to him, it is said. peatibbeaditeser¢ har rey LAUGH IS FATAL, TO AGED MAN READING, Pa., Feb. 21.—A hearty laugh resulted in the death of Emmet Crowell, 64, in a thea- ter here last night. With a neighbor, Crowell was enjoying a comedy and ished uproariously. Suddenly he slump- ed in his seat . He was taken to a hospital where physicians pro- nounced him dead. ————___ LARGE STILL IS LOCATED The sheriff's office located a 60 gallon still 10 miles west of the Yel- Jowstone highway Wednesday after- noon on property said to belong to A. B. Compton. Compton's’ home in Millis was raided the previous night and eight gallons of liquor found there. The still found yesterday had been dismantled but evidence pointed to it having been operated very recent» ly. Compton will be charged by the Prosecuting attorney's office with ownership of the still. eS ASKS DIVORCE FOR ASSAULTS Charging in her complaint that he frequently beat her up, broke up furniture and dishes, tore her house and threatened to kill her, Jane Wilson has sued in district court for a divorce from Curley Wilson, her husband, on the ground of cruelty. They were married Oc- tober 5, 1922, and the plaintiff as- serts that in the interim she had had to support her husband. Wilson was recently arrested by NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Roy D. Moore and Louis H. Brush, joint owners of the Mario Star, are plaintiffs in federal court against Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, for $600,000, alleging slander and bel as the result of the banker's purported utterances in an_address at Ossining on February 12. Three separate causes of action, each ask- Increasing Horse Power Last spring there came a new concern selling a product never sold before in the state. The first week's advertising exceeded the total of the first week's business. The sales of the thirteenth week were ten times the sales of the first wek and several times tho advertising cost. The question {s why would the same size advertising expenditure in the same papers sell ten times as many goods the thirteemth week as the first week? The answer is, all the ads of the whole period were working during the last week here men- es . : : * joned. ficials pledged themselves to a program of cooperation with federal agencies in en-| the police and given a jail sentonce| ¢ cote the momentum of a forcing the national prohibition ;¢ In his address the governor sald:;ion because they have come by it| for assaulting his wife, GGE (snater ‘develope and «tn laws. But the chorus of “ayes” “There seems to be an opinion in| in error. Every peace officer of the} William L. Hakes is asking for a creases horse power, just so does which brought the meeting to a] the minds of some of our officials} state is in duty bound under his'| divorce from his wife, Katherine J. advertising| develop cainitakive close was very weak, so noticeably | that there is no obligation upon|oath to enforce the Volstead act|Hakes on the grounds of cruelty. ; So that the governor, bringing his|the various law enforcement | and this irrespective of what may| They were tharried September 9.]| PoWer from consistent continui savel down to nment, | agencies of the state to enforce the} be public opinion of any locality is|1912 at Cheyenne and have three The advice to Tribune adver- remarked aottt ese vouare and so-called Volstead act. Let me here |to the wisdom or otherwise of fact.| children, aged ten, eight and four} tisers is; “Keep everlastingly at laughea, and now relieve them of that opin- (Continued 9 Page Nine.) years respectively, it she. age administration has been beaten -nd the Democratic plan substl- uted. Over in the senate an almost identical situation prevails for the combination of western Republicans and Democrats has been sufficient to override the regular Republicans as for instance in the resolution calling for the resignation of secre- tary Denby. The Democrats emerge from the house debate a_radical party—at least their plan is the least favor- able tothe people seeking a reduc- tion of surtaxes on large incomes. The so-called radical group of in- surgent Republicans was willing to decept a forty per cent surtax in- stead of the Democratic plan for forty-four per cent but the regular Republicans wanted 35 per cent and @s a consequence the Democratic Proposals have been inserted in the revenue bill which 1s before the house. The fate of tax legislation rests with the insurgent groups in the house and senate who must finally be won over before the differences the almost solid Democratic strength and the resul: the first important piece of legislation sought by the Cool- that naturally will arise in con- ference between the senate and housg,can be ironed out and a meas- ure presented to the White House for signatures The Democrats in the senate for the most part favor the plan of Re- Presentative Garner of Texas, the man whose plan has been successful in the house, But there are a num: ber of Democrats from eastern states who will be under consider- able pressure to vote for lower sur- taxes, They are conservatives at heart and when the final show down comes the Democratic defections from the Garner plan may offset the few Republicans votes that go to Garner plan or one of similar character. This means that the senate will write a lower surtax rate than the house but just how much lower canrlot be forecast at this writing tho a compromise at 35 or 87 per cent is in prospect. The Democrats however, plan to adopt in the senate the same tactics they have in the house, namely to let the American people know that {Continued on Page Nine) It is that The Associated Press.—A report that Attorney General Daugherty has bought and sold Sinclair oil stock is under investigation by the senate oll committee. Such a report was submitted by ® special investigator and was laid befure the committee in executive session. A check up of brokers’ hooks td establish whether it is true is now in progress. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon- tana, author of the resolution pro= posing an investigation of Mr. Daugherty's administration said toe day he understood information in- dicating that the attorney general had dealt in Sinclair stocks had been laid before the president. “Information came to me through @ special investigator;" said Seas. tor Wheeler, “‘indicating that Mr. Daugherty had dealt in Sinclair o!! stocks and I understand that these facts were laid before the presi- dent.” It can new be disclosed that this information formed the subject mat- ter of last Sunday’s conferences be- tween Chairman Lenroot and Sena- tors Wheeler and Walsh, Demo crats, Montana, and Atlee Pomer (Continued .on LPageNSix) BRITISH DOCK STRIKE IS SETTLED; RATIFICATION OF AGREEMENT IS SEEN LONDON, Feb. 21.—(By The Associated Press).—England awoke today to find the apparently hopeless deadlock in the dock strike broken. dock workers and employes, meetin agreement in the early hours of the morning. The terms will be submitted to a confer tions of the country, approval of the men, w resumed immediately relieving tl congestion which has prevailed the ports for the !ast few days. In dications are that this approval will be forthcoming. The conferqice last night was se- by the will be Labor ministr y tonight cret and the terms of the a were not ma but it is t lieved they provide for the extra shilling aCvance for which the men Lave been_ fighting. and comer fe pu PLYMOUTH, England, Feb, 21.— tA member of the dockers' Representatives of the g at the ministry of labor, arrived at terms of ence of the dockers’ delegates from all sec- should they meet with the mittee today p: ented tho moving of 5,000 bags of mail from America, which have been stacked on tenders here since the outbreak of the strike. + Ln cas senate eee ewe aa onan ee ee wees s |