Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING—Fair tonight and Tuesday, except probably rain or snow in extreme northwestern por- tion. Warmer in east portion to- night. VOLUME Vill. CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1924 HOUSE RENEWS FIGHT ON TAX MEASURE SCHEDULES MOBILE, Ala, Feb. 25.—Holds full and decks piled high with cases PRAIRIE: VOTING Move for Reduction In Automobile Excise Taxes Gains OPERA TROUPE eee ae ana States. coast guard Strength—Democrats Want Income Rates Retro- active for a Year cutter Tallapoosa reported here te POLICE RAID IN RAIL WRECK GAGB, N. ing crews 25.— Wreck nd a relief train were hurrying here today from El Paso and Deming following the wrecking ON INGREASE OF CAPITAL STOGK WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—An by Kepresentative Ramseyer, Re- increase in’ the estate or_inheri- of the Democrats joining the Re- publican, Towa, was bitterly op- publican insurgents in support of tance taxes was voted today by | posed by Republican organization | the near here of the second section of NETS LIQUOR the house in amending the reve- leaders, maximum rate from 25 to 40 per | Southern Pacific train number 101 nue bill The change, proposed The vote was 190 to 110, most ! cent. carrying members of the San Carlo 1 in automobile excise tax. A move for reduction of these taxes hag gained considerable strength and, though defeated in committee, propon- ee ee Saas i": | SHREVEPORT TEACHER UPHELD BY COURT IN USE OF PADDLE IN CHASTISING UNRULY PUPILS least. By WALTER MARTIN Considerable interest also hi been aroused over the propose:| (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) SHREVEPORT, La., Feb, 25.— per cent flat reduction in 1923 per- sonal income taxes payable this The wooden paddle has been recog: nized by the courts of usiana as year. Democrats have indicated they would seek, instead to make a legal meang of inflicfing punish- ment on unruly school children in the new rate schedules they suc- ceeded in incorporating in the bill retroactive a year. This section is the last in the bill. With a final yote on the measure not expected before the end of the week, Re- publican organization leaders have not pushed their efforts to win over som of the insurgents who voteli to put the Garner income rates in the| the case of Miss Myria Woodward, Principal of a local school, who was free today after a trial in district court on a charge of assault in con- nection with the whipping of a six year-old school boy: On the witness stand, Miss Wood- ward admitted chastising the child with a small paddle, but claimed she was within her rights in enforcing bill, Walsh Denounces the rules of the school, Judge B. P. Mills upheld’ the principal’s, claim G. O. P. Critics and found her not guilty, + ef WASHINGTON, Feb. . 25.—The news bureau of the Republican na- tional committee was charged today Miss Woodward's vindication came as a climax of events which have agitated the whole city for the {n the senate by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, with “a delib- last. week following her; arrest by the sheriffs department on a war- erate and malicious” misrepresenta- tion of the facts in the statement it issued yesterday that the naval oil rant sworn by Mrs. C. L. Tamplin. mother of Willie Roy Tamplin, the recipient of the paddlings. leases were made under an act sponsored by him. Miss Woodward, a member of a Prominent family, is a veteran of No one ts believed to have been in-| women arrested. jured except a woman member of | hi the opera company, although sev- eral are suffering from minor bruises. Dr. J. G. Moir left Dem- ing in a special train immediately after the accident and treated the woman, She will be taken back to the horpital at El Paso, it is said. Her name was not learned here. They are being for violation pf the liquor laws. W. Holmes was arrested at his place on South Oak street about two hours earlier. Five gallons of moon- shine were found. John Williamson, T. F. Donovan, Bunil Allan and L. BE. Sale were arrested yesterday for the illegal possession of lquor. JEALOUSY IS 2,500 Times CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 25.—Voting by stockholders of the Prairie Oil and Gas company of Wyoming on a proposal to multiply the cor- poration’s capital stock 2,- 500 times, by increasing it from $10,000 to $25,000,000 was postponed this morning to a time to be an- nounced later. At the hour for convening a special stockholders Weeting at which the increasé was to be considered, J. L. Havice, pres ident of the company, was serving on a jury in federal court. Trial of the case in which Havice ‘s p juryman probably will not be con cluded for several days . Tax Reduction Is 2 4 Scored in Address CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—The demand for “tax reduction at any price is threatening education in this coun- uy, s Olive M. Jones, president of the National Education today told the convention:of the depart- mont of superintendence of that or- ganization. ‘She used extension of school privileges and_ costs unti every child has ‘“‘an equal opportu- nity for the type of education best fitted to his needs,” 5 1. press, as well as the chief topte of conversation in social circles. Testimony at the trial was con flicting the teacher testified the child was unruly and chastisement was nof excessive. The principal claimed bruises led to the paddling were suffered when the child fell down a flight of steps as he sought to play after she had begun using the paddle on him for playing on the school grounds after hours. An interesting angle was, added by the fact that a number of youths sent Miss Woodward a note of warn- ing to leave town at once, ‘stening the note “"—K.-K.-K:" This: brought’ an offer of a reward of $100 from the Shreveport Ku Klux Klan for information leading to the arrest of the signers of the note. Judge Mills said in acquitting the teacher that the prosecution had failed to show any malicious intent, on the part of Miss Woodward. “When a parent sends a, child to sckool’ He said “the delegation ot authority to school teachers is im- plied.” He added that the testimony of the child's mother was that the Former Secretary Thought to Have Been Mixed Up In Duffy Slayings— Mystery Still Unsolved CHICAGO, Feb: -25.—Pelice investigation of the mysterious slayings Friday of John Duffy and his wife is centering on a jealousy theory as a result of disclosures said to have been made by Ruby Downing of Louisville, Ky., an intimate of the couple, brought here for ques- tioning. < Authorities in other cities have been asked to look tor a Chicago girl named Dolly, said by the police to have been a former sweetheart of Duffy, and for James Zolar, for- mer business promoter from a Mem- in Columbus, Qhio, according to Miss Downing’s alleged statement to the police, According to the story the Downing woman is alleged to have told Harold Levy, assistant’s state's WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Sena- tor “Wheeler, “Democmt, Montana, | thirty years in school work, and her| boy was hard to control and that|phis or Nashville fiym. Zolar at one| attorney, the Exley girl, daughter * - charged E. L, Doheny, in attacks on| arrest has been the subject of dis-| she instructed his teachers to|time employed Mr. Duffy, when] of a wealthy retired ofl operator M ore Fanatics Are him was trying “to draw a-redvher-| course by local ministers and the| “paddle”? Willig if necessary, Miss Leah Exley was his secretary! and farmer of Norwalk, Ohio, at one ring across the trail of the oil in- vestigation.” Mr. Doheny had requested that Mr. Wheeler. be called before- the committee in connection with a sen- até speech mentioning the oil oper- ator. Senator Wheeler sald he had ob- tained no information regarding At- torney General Daugherty or Mr. Doheny from Gaston B. Means, for- mer department of justice operative, although Means had called on him. Means was indicted last summer in connection with a Pennsylvania case involving charges of sale of alleged influence with the depart- ment of justice. Wilson Wills All Estate to Widow Killed by Soldiers MANILA, Feb. 25.—Three more religious fanatics have been killed by the constabulary in the moun- tains of Agusan province, near the scene of last week’s battle in which nine constabulary soldiers and 35 fanatics died, stated, a mersage re- ceived today at constabu'ary head- quarters here. The three slain, ex- plained the message, had returned to the scene to await the resurrec- tion of their dead comrades. SENATE FIGHT CENTERS AGAIN ON DAUGHERTY 7 Wheeler Wants Brook- heart Retained on In- vestigating Squad WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. +The report of the senate committee on the resolution providing for an “investiga- tion of his administration of the department. of- justice was a signal for a renewal today of the fight on Attorney General Daugherty. Action on the resolution was pre- Vented last week because of the Provision incorporated in it naming the special committee to conduct the inquiry and Senator Wheeler, Dem- ccrat, Montana, who introduced it, Was prepared when the senate con- vened today to modify this feature in such a way as to permit election Crew of Shenandoah Disconsolate Because Coolidge Called Off Flight—British Airmen Will Have First Chance at Trip Girl Prefers To Be Loved Rather Than To Be Heir DENVER, Colo., Feb. 25—Pre ferring to be a young man’s dar- ling rather than an older man's heir, Mrs. Ethel Bagett Webb, 24, has left the Denver home of Charles Eichold, 58, her foster father, to return to her husband, she announced today. Mrs. Webb recently was adopted Eichold after she and her husband had separated. At the time of the adoption Eichold said he would make her his heir in exchange for the companionship she would give him. Although Mrs. Webb, by leaving Eichold’s home and returning to her husband, relinquishes her legal right to inherit any of Eic- hold's wealth, her action will in no way “make any difference in my fatherly feelings toward her,” her foster father said. ’ BY ROBERT T. SMALL (Copyright, 1924, By the Casper Tribune). LAKE HURST, N. J., Feb. 25.—For a creew of men who have been saved by ‘“‘execu- tive clemency,” from almost certain death, the blue jackets of the U. S. 8. Shenan- doah are about the most ungrateful lot to be found on the top-side of the earth. They are moving about the hangar of the big airship long faced and moping. They look for all the world as if they were hanging Danny Deever in the morning. Their gloom has known no bounds since word was flashed from London that the British transoceanic airship R. 36 ers, meterologists, astronomers and has determined to make the dash| various scientists of low and high for the north pole abandoned by | degree that the chances against the the Shenandoah on orders from success of the proposed polar pil- President Coolidge. grimage were about 1,000 to 1. Yet Polar conditions prevailed over all| the spirit of adventure in the crew, the Lake Hirst air station today.| or call it faith in the Shenandoah, The ground is covered.to a Cepth| i¢ you will, is such that every man of eight inches or more with snow| jack of the outfit feels a personal Slazed hard along the top with fro-| grievance toward Washington for zen rain. A northwest wind swept | caning off plans for the voyage un- the thermometer down toward the] +i congress can have time to con- zero point. But, cold as the wind| sider and pass upon the scheme. was, it compared but ill with the] tr congress is to take charge of cold in the hearts of the Shenan-| the Shenandoah the members of the doah’s crew. They have been told| crew say they will be spending the time and time again by geosraph, | summer and autumn months doing Reparation Experts Near End of Labors is recalled, and the congressmen who can bring the mammoth dir- PARIS, Feb. of reparation WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — The will of Woodrow Wilson, filed for probate toCay, leaves the estate to his widow, Mra. Edith Bolling Wil- son, with the exception that his daughter will receive a smal! an- nual income of $2,500 as long as she remains unmarried. $< »—__. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.—Secre- tary of War Serrano declared in a statement today that a crushing de- feat has been administered by Obre- gon troops on rebel forces under Jose Moran at De La Curue. This defeat, according to Serrano, makes the occupation of Tuxpam a ques- tion of only a few days. ‘The occupation of Jalapa by forces of Almazan also Is expected. stir the sporting spirit in congress sufficiently to authorize the pro- posed journey of the Shenandoah. Later advices however, have not added much to their hope. Scientists who are opposing the trip say it would be nothing nic: than a “stunt” even if the ‘‘miracle” of successful accomplishment should be worked. They assert that little could be gained in sailing over the pole at fifty miles an hour and the conditions of the trip would not (Continued on Page Seven) igible to his own district an ex- hibition will have a distinct advan- tage over one and all’of the oppon- ents. Naturally such a program does not appeal to the men of the air, They have been anxious to somewhere and accomplish some. thing big. Other airships have mae longer flights than the Shenandoah, It is true quite a lot of them have come to grief in doing 20, but just Be Steps toward creating a detention e for women and young giris In Casper were taken at a special meet ing sponsored by the Casper Cham- 25.—The committee experts headed by the mark, especially the estimates as to the amount of German capi tal abroad. Premier Poincare referred to him n the chamber of deputies Saturday : ber of Commerce yesterday and a of the. inquiry personnel by the| Brigadier General’ Charles _G.| “G1. of the greatest surprises the} " S@¥ing that one of the experts|as almost every soldier of the world | committee was appointed to inves: chamber, He was determined to| Dawes, began today its final task—| experts met with in Germany, ‘It 4s | recently told a French colleague “we| war felt that it would be the other| tigate the subject. and see what make a fight however, to have Sena-| the preparation of its report to the] understood on the best authority | should have been unable to reach] felloty to get hit, so the Shenandoah | could be done. v committee {ot Brookhart of Towa, Republican | reparation commission. The experts} was the amount of foreign money | ur prsent results were you not in| men feel that thelr craft would be] consists of P. C. Nicolaysen, W. 0. insurgent, selected as chairman de-| are anxious to frame a plan which| inside that country. The total i: | he Ruhr.” the exception to prove the rule.| Wilson, H. B. Durham, Mrs. Harry © the opposition of organized | will require no revision. said to have gone far beyond thc “Certainly I said it,” said Gen-| Their recent experience in a storm| Astin and Mrs. D. Murane. The ublican leaders. His other sug-| The secret of the conclusions re-| expectations of the experts and to| eral Dawes. “I repeat it; ‘if the| with a partly disabled craft makes| meeting y was held in the Sestions for the committee member-| ported by the committee with the] have contributed not a little to the] French were not in the Ruhr, we| them feel they could meet any em- f the city hall s Senator Jones of Washing- mand McLean of Connecticut, ublicans and Ashurst of Arizona, and himself, Democrats, have “roused no geriqus objection, exception of the few fundamental points already revealed, {s still being kept. All the guesses thus far haz- arded are declared by members of the committees to be well beyond individual opinion of some members that Germany was far better able to pay that any one had expected. General Dawes was asked yester day by the correspondent -whether xperts would not be here. “I said it as early as February 1923. I repeated it to my colleagues on the committee and I am telling it to you now because I believe it.” ergency. Some of the officers here at the station have hoped that the an- nouncement of the English attempt to reach the pole by dirigibie might was not for me! 2 of the cham- ber of commerce exclusively but for all persons who are interested in the welfare problem. Judge John A. Murray, police — srand opera company to the Pacific] A visit by the police at the| WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Another week of strenuous work on the revenue bill Fe Tae), PHLMRGAR. F tars tag eo ot ee eT ae Gom Pro to heheh sight when consideration of the measure was;resumed today by the house. Gare: the endins(and abe Giting ane] lat. night sstich: two arrests Gad pany poses , pon completion of the fight over an increase in the estate tax, which came up|tert ‘the tracks, plowing into the|six pints of moonshine. Betty Rich M ipl ital St | first today, the entire miscellaneous rate schedules were next in order with sharp con-| soft sand at the side of the raits.{ard and Giadie Lazelle were the ulti ly Capi tests: indicated, Particularly A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and Stat?» Che Casper Daily Trine DITION SENATE FERRETS OUT $100,000 LOAN TO FALL VESSELS THAT SAILED IN 1923 STILL LOCATED ON ‘RUM ROW’ The two ships are anchored about six miles off Breton island, one under the Honduran and the other under the British flag. Both are beyond the le limits of seizure, The “runners’ mitted they had Uquor and greeted the coast guard officers cheerf, when the cutter came within hailing distance, ac- cording to officers of the Talla- poosa th ships have been on “rum since last October. Both al show clearance papers to mpico, that legal appar and proper. DENVER COP IS SUICIDE DENVER, Colo., Feb. 25.—Luls R. Agnew, 35, Denver patrolman, shot and killed himself today in the yard of his home here. According to his wife, who found the bocy, Ag: new recently had been worried be- cause of financial reverses. A shot- gun was found bealde the dead man. SAID CAUSE OF MURDERS time attended a Calffornia institu- tion, where she was a creditable student. Dissatisfied with farm life, ac- cording to the story, the girl went to Columbus, wHere she met Zolar. Later she left him and went to Louisville, Ky., where she received letters making threats from Zolar, Miss Downing says. Duffy and Orlando Hr Who is being sought in connection with the slayings, visited Louisyille last fall and later Miss Exley came to Chi- cago. She and Duffy were married in Louisville one week priot to the finding of their bodies. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25.— Police today were detailed at express offices and the postoffice to await the appearance of Mr. or Mrs, Jack Horton, wanted in connection with mysterious slaying of John Duffy and his bride in Chicago. Baggage of the missing pair reached here last night. POLAR TRIP REVOCATION REGRETTED Deserter Says He Was Robber Of Local Store With the charge in Casper against him of having robbed the grocery store of Pete Mallis on West B' street January 4, George Dewey Knott was arrest- ed in Waukegan, Ul, on a charge of desertion from the U. S. Army and is now serving time, it has been revealed. Knott con- fessed to having burglarized the Casper store, and stated that he had as his accomplice Frank Mil- ler, a man who was killed in o gunfight with a deputy sheriff at Lysite on Fencuary 1. Knott had several checks in his pos- session which had been taken from the Mallas establishment. He will not be brought back to Cas per it is understood owing to the long term that he will have to serve in a federal prison. stirred rate, considerably when the deplorable conditions that ex- ist in Casper dangerous to the wel- fare of giris. Judge Murray said that Casper needed a deten- tion home for girls and women. This wever would require a state sta his he audience emphasized state The. magistrate cited several instances where he had come in contact with girls and women who had ‘been well started on the road to vice. Well grounded in his facts, his address had more . elo: quence than a Sunday sermon by one forced to deal only with gen- eralities. Vice has entered the hich school here, according to Judge NUMBER 105 OIL GOMMITTEE ASKS DETAILS OF DEALINGS WITH AVLEM Publisher Did Not Have Account Enough To- Cover Money Sup- posedly Loaned Fall. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. —tThe senate oil committee opened another bag of sur- prises today when it resum- ed hearings after a ten-day recess. Taking up the trail of the $100,- 000 logn made to A. B. Fall by Edward*B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, the committee was told by officials of two Wash- ington banks that Mr. McLean's checking balance in neither of them was more than $10,000 in December 1921. ‘The publisher has informed the committee he gave Fall checks aggregating $100,000 on the two banks during that period but that they were returned uncashed. C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to President Coolidge, was questioned about a visit he made to Palm Beach while McLean and Fall wero there last December and January. The secretary declared he talked with Fall several times, asked him for the truth about the oll charges and advised him to-tell everything. Mr. Fall replied, he said, that he had nothing more to tell. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—The relations between Albert B. Fall and Edward B, McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, were sub- jected to further scrutiny upon the resumption today of the oll inquiry, with C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to President Coclidge, called as the chief witness. The committee set out, after the week's recess in its public hearings to determine whether administr: tion officials or individual members of the committee itself had com- municated with persons involved in the scandal since about the middle of December In addition to inviting Secretary Slemp to appear because of his visit to Palm Beach at the time Fall and McLean were both there, the com- mittee had subpoenaed the local managers of the Western Union and Postal telegraph compantes to Produce copies of messages sent from Washington to the publisher or the former interior secretary be- tween December 20 and January 20 at the Florida resort or to be later when he was in New Orleans. Mr. McLean's testimony at Palm Beach to Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, that the $100,000 he pre- viously had stated he had loaned to Fallhad been in the form of checks which later were returned to him uncashed, also) led the com- mitt: to su nmon officials of the Federal-American and Commerciat National banks of Washington for questioning about the piblisher’s accounts, The committee had not decided this morning, however, when it would call McLean, who ts under subpoena for further ex- amination. Expert accountants sent to New York to investigate the records of Harry Payne Whitney, and the Stock brokerage firm of J. P. Ben- kard and company were ready to report today on their findings as to deals in oll shares by public officials but the committee had decided to go into the FallMcLean matter before returning to that phase. of the scandal (Continued on Page Two) Detention Home May Established Here not alone confined known as incorrigible. 0 take girls out in auto- and offer them liquor are guilty of crime. They are nothing less than kidnappers and ought to said the judge. Slade, superintendent of oke in defense of those institutions, maintaining that the ral mo y was good though there might be a few delinquencies which would be difficult to ¢ i: Mayor S. K. Loy assured those present that the council was consid- ering some kind of detention home and that something would be dene in the matter even if only a tem: porary home could be provided, sel Pr a a m ite st