Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 1

The Weather "YOMING—Partly cloudy onight and Sunday. Not much change in tempera- ture. OuME VL CASPER, WYO., OES MAY WISH Pres. C oolidge THEY HAD LEFT ales in Ohio IM IN PEACE Reputations of Several May Be Blasted Be- fore Row Ends. BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, The Cas- per Tribune). WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. —Attorney General Daugh- erty will not retire without a fight and perhaps before he gets through he will blast some of the reputations of the man attacking him. Secretary Denby of the navy department, who withdrew without presenting his side of the case in a public héaring, the at- torney general insists that it is his constitutional privilege to be heard. And in that view President Coolidge concurs just as he did in the case of ‘Mr. Denby. ‘The secretary of the navy, however, yielded to the per- suasive arguments of his friends that he was embarrassing the presi- dent and the Republican party by remaining In the cabinet. ~~ Considerable resentment has been shown by the friends of the attor- ney general that Senator Lodge and senator Pepper should be advocat- be a resignation without a hear- . The argument of Messrs. Ledge and Pepper, however, is that the attorney general by de- nding an investigation and a hearing simply gives the Democrnts the opportunity to keep the Teapot Dome controversy on the front pages of the newspapers indefinitely an thus force the Republican party 0 the defensive. The attorney general is a keen politician himself dnd‘ knows that his resignation would not end the COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 23.— President Coolidge formally entered today the Ohio Republican presiden- tial preference primaries for pre: dent by filing Ms declaration with Secretary of State Brown. Simultaneous with Mr. Coolidge’s filing, Arthur L. Garford of Elyria, Okio, also filed with the secretary {of state an authorization for the use of his name as a second choice candidate in compliancé with the Ohlo primary law. Both President Coolidge and Mr. Garford also filed with the secre- tary of state formal notice of the designation by them of Hoke Doni- then of Marion, Ohio, President Coolidge’s Ohio campaign manager as their representative “to sign a'l declarations and statements ~=e- quired of me to conform to the DELEGATES 10 ee LABOR MEETING pissoLuTION OF REICHSTAG LEAVE TONIGHT! 'S THREATENED BY CABINET .BERLIN, Feh,.23.—(By The : As- sociated P-ess)—The cabinet has de- cided to Wissolve the reichstag in the event of a conflict between that body and the government over the continuance or discontinuance. of the “state of emergency” which has’ prevailed throughout Germany since primary election laws of the state of Ohio.” In his declaration on his candidacy Mr. Coolidge also re- quests that his name be printed on the official primary ballot, thus of- ficlally entering himself in the pre. ferential primary of April 29 at which delegates to the national con- vention will be elected. Mr. Coolidge's declaration was signed at Washington February 14 and is witnessed by Edward ‘T, Clark, Edw'n C. Gesser, White House’ secretaries. Mr. Garford’s authorization for the use of his name as second choice by Coolidge candidate for delegate was signed here today and witnessed by Stella O'Neall, and Virginia Chadwick, clerks {n Coolidge headquarters, A full complement of Coolidge candi- dates for delegates, both delegates- at-large and by districts, have been selected by his managers and are expected to be filed within a few days. | Candidates.for delegates at large will file with the secretary of stat ment Duffy shared with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil C. Horton, A search is being made for Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Horton, thought to have left ten days ago on an auto- mobile trip to Detroit and since re- turned, although papers and letters in the apartment indicate that the dead woman mty be Mrs. Horton. Police learned from letters that the woman formerly lived in Louis- ville, Ky., where she was known as Miss. Exley and Miss Virginia James, and at some time had lived in Berkeley, Cglif. A letter from her mother, writ- ten here on February 13 indicated that she had left home suddenly and been married to a stranger of whom the mother apparently had claimed by presidential decree. State " Canpeeion to Open Monday at Cheyenne. . to the foreign correspondents espec- chief of the press bureau, remarks left a strong impression near future. Casper delegates to the State Fed- eration of Labor Convention, which convenes in Cheyenne next Monday and lasting four days, will leave for the convention this evening over the Burlington. The Casper delegation {s composed of Edna Hoffman of the Laundry Workers; P. O. Shelvick and Joe Smith, carpenters and joiners; Wm. controversy but would simply give] Howard, Bakers; Alex Hamilton and the Democrats confirmation of their | Burkett, railroad shop crafts; Charles charges. He thinks it would be a|E. S. Moore, culinary workers; Wm-< confession of guilt when he insists | Dittman of the sheet metal workers; he hag done nothing wrong and|Wm. Stransnyder, “painters and that a hearing and investigation will|John D. Salmond of the Casper prove he has been innocent. Trades Assembly. If the Republican leaders could These delegates are also delegates persuade their Democratic brethren | to the state convention of the con- togkeep quiet after Mr. Daugherty | ference for progressive political ac- resigns there might be a politica! | tion, which wi'l be held at the Min- value in his retirement, according | ers’ Hall in Cheyenne from Febru- to the attorney general's friends,!ury 29th to March Ist. but the Democrats have no inten- The local delegation will make an tion of letting the Tearot Dome effort to land the State Federation scandal slumber. convention and the district conven- They tntend to keep on. talking | tion of the United Mine Workers for about it from now until election |Casper next year. They will have day next November. It has become the [erates oe the Salemston th am-|from centra’ yoming and are pete issue of the c: Heel ot athoseeed The Piledriver time has come to turn on those who have been accusing him and make Watch ‘the pile driver sinking a pile or post in the ground. a fight. If he can prove has Two or three men alternate STILL SEIZED, OWNER DODGED When a raiding party composed of deputies from the sheriff's office and federal prohibition men made a midnight call on a moonshine dis- tillery last night they found a 60 gallon still bubbling merrily but no one operating the plant. A thor- ough search of the surrounding premises, which are five miles out on the Ormsby road, northeast of the city, failed to locate the men. Fresh tracks, leading to the Salt Creek highway, indicated that the operator had been warned of the approach of the raiding party and had made a clean get-away. The bootlegging manufacturing plant was cleverly concealed in a dugout, the roof of which was level with the ground. In addition to Frank McDowell, tion that he possessed a “dual per- sonality” were oyernight develop- ments in the case of the youth who shot to death his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McDowell at St. Petersburg last Tuesday night. In a new confession made and signed by McDowell last night he said he’did not know what caused him to murder the members of his family, but that ho had had a “brain. storm" during several days preceding the shooting of his mother not been connected with t oll leases and if he shows that the charges against him are baseless will have impaired the Demo- cratic case so far as. membera of the present administration are con- with the heavy blows” of thé | the still there were nine barrels of : . cerned for neither Mr. Fall nor Mr.| ¥ er. ‘They never work |™mash and the customary equip-|4Md father while they slept. : Denby are any longer responsible eas veep mighty, successive, | ment. elating incidents in connection to the president and are not a part of the government in any sense. The president's part in the dis- cussions that have arisen inside the Republican party about the wisdom of calling for Mr. Daugherty’s resignation has been judicial. He feels strongly that nobody should be condemned without a hearing. He felt that way about Secretary Denby and would have preferred that the latter remain until he had presented his case, though there was an awkwardness in that situa- tion arising from the fact that gov- ernment counsel had» decided to attack ‘the validity of the leases made by Mr. Denby. jointly with Mr. Fall, The attorney general ts accused in a general way of being mixed i» in’ the oll lease controversy, though no specific act is charged against him. He is reported to have purchased stocks but there is no proof that he did so with any nowledge obtained through gov- mment sources. At any rate, it uld, he lost by his transaction 1d that they were relatively small. The fight on the attorney general began before the oi] lease irregu- larities were discovered. There has been a general suspicion on the Part of the Democrats that because t Mr. Daugherty’s previous activity with the burning to death of his sisters at Decatur, Ga., a year ago, he said, his father found him in the hall outside his sisters’ room as he escaped from the,room following the application of a torch to the gasoline-soaked bedding. He said his father never talked of the All the plant and supplies were smashed up and burned by the raid- ing party. Ecuador Puts Down Revolt GUAYAQUI, Ecuador, An insurrectionary movement in northern Ecuador has been sup- pressed by the government. Troops are pursuing the insurgents, who have taken refuge in the Cordilloas mountains, blows do the job in jig time. It is by the same principle that advertising puts over a definite idea in the public mind. Advertising plants an impres- sion in the mind—constant repett- tion pounds and drives facts so deeply and thoroughly into the tn- ner consciouness that positive conviction is the result. Each successive advertisement in a consistent plan begins where the previous ad left off. The Tribune's advice to tts ad- vertising is “keeping everlastingly at it brings results.” Leaking Gas Is Fatal to Four WATERVLIET, N. Y., Feb. 23.— A mother and three smal] children were asphyxiated and thirteen other persons suffered from the ef- fects of inhaling gas which leaked it was pointed was a type of insanity men- tioned two decades ago during the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White in New York. Water Supply Protection Is Asked in House WASHINGTOD Feb. 23.—The house irrigation committee was told today that something must be lone about the water supply in the fam- ous Imperial valley of California or else the inhabitants there would have to move out. Mark Rose, director of the Im- perial irrigation district, declared an all-American canal should be built, Feb, 23.— Mrs, Joseph Prenzi; her. son John, 8 years; daughter Clara 3 years, and an infant son, Dantel, eight months. ‘The father and five other children were resuscitated by the police. in politics he was not inclined to/from a main in Second Avenue to- The gas main was broken by frost} connecting the valley with the be as rough on offenders and as| day. Members of four families were| and the freed gas followed a water| Colorado river, and replacing the \!gorous in prosecutions as anot’.cr} rendered unconscious by the fumes.| lateral under the pavement into thelone which now passes through (Coytinued on Page Five) The dead: Cellars of two dwellings. wortherp Mealco, =| Che Casper BD last November when {t was pro- The cabinet's decision was given fally summoned by Herr Shieker, whose that dissolution was probable in the Horton until atlhy Vat 202) Sestover meg SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 23, 1924 SLEMP ACCEPTS CALL TO TESTIFY IN PROBE )AUGHERTY READY FOR BATTLE DOUBLE MURDER MYSTERY IS SEEN BY THE CHICAGO POLICE IN FOLLOWING UP TWO CRIMES CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—A double murder mystery, in- volving the theories of bootleg killing, revenge or domestic troubles centers the activity of detectives seeking clues to the slayers of John Duffy, found in a roadside snowdrift at Argo, Illinois, early yesterday, and a woman, partially identified as Mrs. Duffy, found last night in an apart- According to the Chicago Herald and Examiner, Duffy's real name is John Daugherty, murders in Philadelphia. The news- wanted for four paper says he was an accomplice of they quarreled be- cause of jealousy. Fair Weather Forecast for Coming Week WASHINGTON, _ Feb. Weather outlook for the beginning Monday: Northern Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions: Generally fair east, occasional rains west of the divide, Temperature above nor- mal much of the week, probably followed by colder at end. Southern Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions: Unsettled, pos- ‘ly enow or ‘rain at beginning, mostly fair thereafter. Temperi- ture near normal much of the week, Pacific states: Generally fair in southern and probably central California, frequent rains else- where; temperature near or some- 23.— week Murder of Parents by 19-Year-Old- Is Charged to Insanity by Expert; New Confession Secured CLEARWATER, Fla.,. Feb. .23.—The intimation of 19, confessed slayer of his father, mother and two sisters, that his father knew he was re- sponsible for the fire that caused the death of his two sisters a year ago; the opinion of Dr. Mason Smith, Tampa alienist, that McDowell is insane, and McDowell’s declara- Don’t Miss . The A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Crituae FR Secretary to President Coolidge Will Be Quizzed Qn Communications He Has Received Since Investigation of Oil Leases Was Launched WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. —C. Bascom Slenyp, secre- ary to President Coolidge, agreed today to appear before the. senate oil committee Monday. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, chief prosecutor n the oil scandal, called Mr. Slemp on the telephone and the secretary readily agreed While Senator Walsh declined to indicate the subject matter on which Mr. Slemp would be question- ed, is understood the committee desires to talk about the extent of any communication he has had with government officials and others concerned regarded the oil inquiry since the beg!nning of the startling disclosures a month ago. The program of the committee thus far has been mapped only for next Monday.. The order In which witnesses will be called after that time will depend on the reports from the expert accountants now examining the bovks of stock brokerage firms {1 Washington, Cleveland and New York. Senator Walsh cxpects to confer late today with the calef accountant who has been conducting the ex- amination of the books of Harry Payne Whitney an¢ J. P. Benkard and company at New York. Chairman Lenroot announced to- day he would lay before the com- mittee the letter written him by BE. L. Doheny and demanding that Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon- tan , bé called to give the facts on which he based his recent attack BODY OF LOST CHILD FOUND her parents home last Sunday and is believed to have succumbed to the severe cold shortly dering aw: after wan y from the house. SLAYER SAYS HIS FATHER KNEW OF KILLING GIRLS ANOTHER ARRESTED BY PGLIGE IN BOOZE RAID; FIVE GALLONS SEIZED Five gallons of moonshine was taken by the police in a raid at 504 West Second street shortly after midnight last night. Several empty kegs were also confiscated. Mike Hannan was arrested in connection with the case. There was no still Sunday Tribune Every Sunday edition of the Tribune is getting bigger and better, and the circulation is climbing accordingly. In addition to our regular leased wire service the Tribune is now using the Consolidated Press association feature sery- ice. This organization is composed of the foremost writers: in every field in the United States including David Lawrence on political articles and intimate stories of Washington; J. Cc, Royle, the leading business and financial scribe in New York; Walter Camp of sport fame and others too numerous to men- tion. ° As a woman’s paper the Tribune is the leading paper in the state with current style articles and the most elaborate so- ciety news published in Wyoming. The comics, the sport page, a complete financial page and other features make the Tribune the ideal Sunday newspaper. SLATER, Wyo., © Feb:: -33.—The body of two-yearold Venita Baker was found a mile from her home southeast of here. She had been missing since she disappeared from | to appear, in the senate against Attorney Gen eral Dau, herty. The committee, Lenroot said could take whatever action it might deem appropriate. When his attention was directed to the letter, Senator Wheeler said that of course he would appear be fore the committee if invited. “This is merely an agreement by Doheny,” he said “to drag a red her ring across the tral] of the Daugh erty investigation. What the people want is an investigation of the at torney general himself That is the main issue. After that is over they can investigate me all they want BOK IS SUEL FOR MILLION NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—A sum mons and complaint for $1,100,00¢ damages was filed against Edwaré W. Bok, donor of the American peace award, today by Franl Hendrick, a lawyer who was on of the more than 22,000 persons to submit: peace plans in competition for a $100,000 prize, Hendrick based his suit on the contention that the plan submitted by him, “if fairly considered” woulc have unanimously been selected as the prize winner. The demand for $100,000 ts for the prize- offered. by the former publisher and the suit for $1,000,000 represents, Hendricks contends, the value of the: publicity Mr. Bok has recelved'as a result of the prize award. SUIT AGAINST FORD IS LOST NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Federal Judge Knox today dismissed the complaint in the $200,000 lbel sult brought by Herman Bernstein editor of the Jewish Tribune against Henry Ford for alleged defamation of character. TWO FIREMEN FATALLY HURT EW ORLEANS, Feb. 23—Jules , assistant fire chief, was suf- ted when trapped in the w: use of the Marks Isancs company al street department store, which was destroyed her firemen, aie, were hurt by falling walls. lim‘nary estimates plz at $o0 000, Zs King of Italy Reported IIll ROME, Feb. 23.—(By The Assoc'- ated Press.}—King Victor Emman uel is confined to his bed with in fluenza, His projected trip to Fiume in connection with the annexation of that city to Italy has been post poned. The king has been suffering from Influenza for more than a week. His trip to Spezia on February 19, as gravated this condition and he w forced to take to his bed. His phy- iclans insist he be allowed a com plete rest and he will probably re main in bed for several days, his public functions meanwhile cancelled. Brutal Slaying And Arson Are Confessed EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 23.— Solution of an apparent murder mystery, or Inck. of solution, de- pends upon chemical analysis of certain bones found in the smoulder- ing ruins of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Mummey, at Seattle Heights, near here, it appeared to- day. Mummey, aged Klondike pioneer, is in a hospital at Seattle,. perilous ly injured. Nis. Mummey has dig- appeared and the authorities; is believed dead by Carl Ryberg, who married Mrs. Mummey's grand daughter, {s in the county jail here charged with her murder. Accord- ing to Sheriff James McCulloch, Ry- berg has confessed to injuring Mummey, shooting Mrs. Mummey setting fire to their house, ds evenge for their supposed enmity toward him. Ryberg and his wife @ divore Lagt night five Seattle physicians examined the bones found in the ruins of the Mummy home, and unanimously declared that they were the bones of wo different People. No skull has been found. A duck pond near the Mummey home will be sea ed for further clues. In the meantime, deputy sheriffs are trying to reconcile the state. ment of the Seattle physicians w Ryberg's supposed caniession. NUMBER 104 STOIC CALM OF TIGER WOMAN I UNBROKEN BUT BABY MAY WIN Kitty Malm on Trial For Her Life Turns Deaf Ear to Appeal to Show Emotion. BY J. P. YODER. ‘Copyright, 1924, The Cas- per Tribune). ‘ reece Feb. 23.— <itty Baluk Malm’s two- rear old daughter may yet lo for her what she has been nable to accomplish for terself—lead her out of the rit of life inp which she has fallen, nd where Today there is only a um ray of hope This child of the streets, uneteen can look back on more life in the raw” than nine tenths ¢ her sex encounter in a life time, as sat in criminal court here for wo days, determinedly living up to ner reputation of “tiger woman.” Her stoic calm has been broken ccasionally by a sneer that curled er lips when one of the more im- wressionable jurors cringed in his eat when the cold blooded’ shoot- ng to death of Edward Lehman, aight watchman, was described tn jetal!, or when a girl “friend” of <itty’s tO 6f an alleged confirma: ion she had made. Twice during the eelection of urors,.she smiled rather pityingly at talesmen who sald they couldn't vend a mother to the gallows. She stared out of countenance the police captain who testified to having wrung from her husband under a grilling that failed to shake her, a confession that he had shot Lehman in the latter's home, whither he had gone with Kitty. In an ante room her lawyer was heard to plead with her not to hold her {cy attitude before the jury. He wanted her to show a little motion—a little appeal. who at “What,” she exclaimed, “turn white lvered before them guys and them rubbernecks? I'll say I won't. But that was before her mother brought her baby to the court room. She turned twice to look at the child when coughing spells were shaking its thin body. But she quickly killed the flash of hunger in her eyes and turned almost flercely back to the court. At noon recess the baby was car- ried to her. She stepped toward it —then halted and stood immobile until the jurors.and the “rubber- necks” had filed out. Then she seized the child and sank sobbing in a chair. It was her first show emotion. She w 8 again the stoic during the afternoon session. When court udjourned she asked for the baby. he was told it had been taken to hospital with whooping cough. 2e stiffened and stood motionless until the crowd had filed out then she fainted. Whef she regained consciousness, she said: “‘Well I hope the gang don’t learn about that. They'd sure guy me.” “That would be good stuff for the jury to s id the bailiff who helped restore her. “Well the never get a picture of me doing that,” she flashed. But tho bailiff, who is wise and old in his business, said after she had gone of course that jury is locked up a well guarded, know but I'll bet a hat the ull about it and that th is going before Congressman Laid at Rest W ORLEANS, Feb. 23.— al services for Henry Dupre, member of the second Louis! died in Washingtc emer represen: Louisiana, Qexrger of Ca }