Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1924, Page 1

A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper Daily Tribune | f (Ww. 7 —_ CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, ‘ma..... ye UN Seay en The Weather WYOMING —Unsettlead tonight and Tuesday probably snow. Colder tonight in central portion, _——————— VOLUME Vill. FINAL HOME DITION PLANS SET FOR SENATE PROBE MONTANA FEL sn REOPENS WORK FIRST OF APRIL Shut Down in Kevin- Sunburst Is Off—All Companies Resume . GREAT FALLS, March 38. Orders were! received in Shelby today at the Ohio Oil company heatiquarters there from John McFadden of Casper, Wyoming, general superintendent of production for the Ohio company in the Rocky Mountain district for the resump- tion of production in the Kevin-Sun- burst field Apri] 1 next. Produc- tion in the field was closed October 20 last on agreement by the big companies of the Kevin-Sunburst field because of the low price of oll, and today the Ohio notified the Mutual, the Midnorthern, the Home- stake, the Western Petroleum, the Sunburst Oil and Gas, and the Cal- ifornia Oil companies of the date for resumption and those companies will also resume on that Gate. Three Killed As Navy Plane Falls ‘WASHINGTON, March 3.—Boat- swain A. F. Dietrich of Washington was killed and Machinists George L. Cing-Mars of Providence, and Wil- Nam J. Morris of New York, were seriously injured here today when @ navy seaplane fell into Anacostia river. FIVE TAKEN; IN POLICE RAID A raid at 1001 North Harrison street by the police at 3 o'clock this afternoon resulted in the arrest of five persons and the confiscation of @ gallon of moonshine. Those ar- rested were L. C. McKeegan, said to be the proprietor, Ralph Bulger, F, W. Myers, C. W. Boyer and Mrs. ‘William Gilmore. Extra Dividend For Producers NEW YORK, March 3.—'The Mountain Producers corporation has declared an extra dividend of 20 cents a share in addition to the regu- lar quarterly payment of 20 cents. An extra dividend of 10 cents a share was paid last quarter. erty Soon — All Charges to Be Run Down by In- vestigators WASHINGTON, March 38. Members of the Daugherty investigating committee, de- voted their time today to working out a plan of pro- cedure for the inquiry into the attorney general's administra- tion. The investigation which was au- thorized Saturday by the senate af- ter two days of intensely bitter dis- cussion, is expected to get under way without delay, and, in the opinion of some, will vie with the oll inquiry in its ramifications. The members had before them to- day the request of Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty's personal counsel, Paul Howland of Cleveland and for- mer Senator George E. Chamber- lain of Oregon, for the right to ex- amine witnesses, have process ser- ved for witnesses and documents and present department evidence and for ample notice of charges to be met. Senator Brookhart of Iowa, the republican insurgent, who was elect- ed chairman of the committee by the senate, feels that the inquiry should not be conducted as though it were a trial but along nes to bring out all facts, taking evidence and running down charges as they develop, _He and Senator Wheeler Democrat, Montana, author of the investigation. resolution already have a large amount of information and correspondence with which to start investigation. Mr. Daugh- erty, the chairman asserts, will be “given a fair” hearing, regardless of what it takes. Besides Senators Brookhart and Wheeler, the committee is composed of Senators Moses, New Hampshire and Jones, Washington, Republi- cans, and Ashurst, Arizona, Demo- crat, Buffalo Meat On Washington Menu WASHINGTON, March 3.—Secre- tary Wallace, has been feasting on buffalo meat, a rare delicacy in these'days, but one which may. be- come more common in time, since the extinctién of the buffalo has been averted. Heavy increase of these animals on the national bison range in Mon- tana has enabled biologica! survey experts to experiment wtih long ‘dis- tance ‘shipments to determine whether the buffalo meat will stand transporting to eastern markets, There are now about 4,500 heac. of buffalo in the United States and about 11,500 elsewhere in North America. Experts say their perpetu- ation is assured, with an ample sup- ply for exhibition and breeding purposes and a surplus each year for marketing. OIL COMPANIES’ SAFES CRACKED BY HIGHWAYMEN PHOENIX, Ariz., March 3.—After binding and gagging two night watchmen, safe robbers operating in the shipping district of Phoen'x early today looted the safes in the offices. of three cil companies and escaped: with approximately $1,500 in currency and checks. Many shots were exchanged in a gun fight be- tween one watchman and the bari- dits, No one was reported hit in the exchange. The fighting watchman ‘was subdued when the bandits, three in number, attacked him KING GEORGE ILL AT HOME LONDON, March 3—King George is confined to Buckingham Palace, suffering from a cold. On the advice of his physicians he has cancelled various important engagements he had made for the present week. from a rear window, Police today spread a dragnet about the city, but up,to noon no arrests had been made. The gagged watchmen were thrown together into a box car. They escaped several hours later and reported to the police. The first robbery occurred about 1 a. m., it was reported, at the Union Oil company's office where the vault was hammered in after the watchman was overcome. After a gun duel in the office of the Standard Oil company the safe there and one in the Texaco Oil company’s office were robbed. ——————___ GREAT FALLS—Six indictments alleging grand larceny as an in- dividual and fraudulent entries in reports submitted to the state su- perintendent of banks were return- ed by the Cascade grand jury Sat- urCay against L. B. Lockhart who is under arrest in Los Angeles. The offenses were alleged to have been committed while Lockhart was con- nected in an official capacity with banks at"San Coulee and Belt, Mon- tana, HIRAM JOHNSON NUMBER TWO Io DROPPING OUT Complication in Michi- gan Primaries Promise to Be Eliminated SAGINAW, Mich., March 8.—Hiram J. Johnson, of Milwaukee, Saginaw county, does not want to be a candi- date for president of the United States. He so de- clared in a letter to Secretary of State Charles Leland in which he asks that his name be withdrawn as a candidate on the Republican ticket to be voted upon in the Michigan presidential preference primary election April 7. Johnston, an aged dirt farmer, was placed in nomination by peti- tiona prepared by friends and neigh- bors. His name threatened to cause considerable confusion in the minds of voters because it is similar to that of Hiram W. Johnson. United States senator from California, an avowed cand'date whg carried Mich- igan in the 1920 primary. Johnston wrote that, he has no ambition to participate amanational politics, and. expressed embarrass- ment that his name should have been used. There is some question whether the secretary is empowered to re- mote the Milwaukee farmer's name the time mit for withdrawal hav- ing expired Saturday. If Johnston's letter was in the mails before the expiration of the time limit, believed that fact will be considered in conformity with the law and per- mit withdrawal. CHICAGO, March 3. —Senator Hiram Johnson of California has no thought of abandoning his cam- paign, but because there is no pri- (Continued on Page Eight) it. is |” TEAPOT CODE TELEGR Messages From Stewart of Standard and Blackmer of Midwest Among Those Examined by Committee MIAMI, -Fla., March 3.—Attor- mey General Harry M. Daugherty will send a message to Coolidge late this afternoon “which may be considered important,” he sald at the Nautilus hotel here to? day. He refused to divulge the nature of the communication. WASHINGTON, March 3. White House officials said today that President Coolidge did not by the declaration of Frank A. Vander- lip yesterday that the president had asked but not received the resignation of Attorney General Daugherty. That story repeatedly has been denied by all those in a position to speak authoritatively. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Cipher experts of the war department who have been translating code messages found in the McLean telegrams will be called first tomor- row when the Senate oil committee resumes hearings. its public Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, chief prosecutor in the inquiry said today transla- tions of the telegrams by the gov- ernment experts did not differ ma- terially from the paraphrases fur- nished the committee last week and arrived at by the use of an old code of the department of justice. William J. Burns, chief justice of the department's bureau of investi- gation will be questioned by the committee tomorrow as to how em- ployees of E. B. McLean came into possession of this code and whether MeLean is on the rolt of the special agents of the bureau at.a salary of $1 a month. Burns also will be asked about the “Mary" code message sent to one of McLean's confidential men at Palm Béach“in which reference was made to Burns and to “the McLean investigation.” Mrs. Mary Duckstein, former pri- vate secretary to Burns and now an operative in the justice depart- ment, who sent the “Mary” tele- gram to her husband, W. 0. Duck- stein, probably will follow Burns on the stand. = McLean may be called before the committee before the end of the (Continued on Page Two) USE OF MEXICAN HEMP MAKES ADDICTS THINK THEY CANNOT BE SEEN OFFICIAL DECLARES CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 3— Wachtel said, adding that examina- The use of marajuana (Mexican hemp) inspires in the user the hal- lucination- that he has become in- wisible, and therefore frequently in- spires crime by culprits who be- eve they cannot be seen, and therefore, will not be detected, ac- cording to M. C, Wachtel, Wyoming state commissioner of law enforce- ment, who states that: his depart- ment will use all its resources to prevent cultivation and consump- tion of the herb in Wyoming. In a score of criminal cases in which Mexicans have been involved in Wyoming receritly, stated Wach- tel, the offender in every instance was under the influence of mara- juana, In the case of several Mex- ican moonshiners arrested here, the defendants expressed amazement at their detection, asserting that the marajuana has made them invisible, tion of a Mexican who started to disrobe in a Casper hotel dining room established that the man sup- posed himself to have been made invisible by the drug and-did» not suppose that the other persons: in $he room would observe his course. Wachtel is calling to the atten- tion of all Wyoming sheriffs the Prevalence of the use of marajuna by Mexicans and is requesting the county peace officers to cooperate with the law enforcement depart- ment in its campaign against the cultivation and consumption of the herb. Marajuana grows readily in this climate and appears so much like alfalfa that it generally is mistaken for that plant by persons unfamiliar with the Mexican drug. _Its effects may be obtained by elther smoking, chewing or brewing. NUMBER 111 IMS ARE INVESTIGATED HOUSE STARTS BONUS WORK BOND ISSUES UP TOMORROW FORAPPAOUAL Taxpayers to Vote On Half Million Dollar Court House Citizens of Natrona county will have an oppor- tunity tomorrow to voice their approval or disapprov- al of the court house bond issue for $500,000 which has been proposed. Ballots were distributed Saturday throughout the rural communities and the polls will be open from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. Because of the heavy fall of snow it is thought probable that many who would otherwise go out to vote will be deterred. This should not happen. The success or failure of the bond issue ts of the greatest importance. There should be a full voicing of opinion at this time. The bond election was scheduled by the county commissioners for this very purpose. The commissioners them- selves were unable to determine the desire of the people and decided to hold the elction in order fh=* they might be guided by popular . wice in the matter, Plains Hotel To Go Up 5 Stories CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 3. — Work has been begun on a five- story addition to the Plains hote! here which will add 180 rooms, each with bath, to the hostelrySs capac- ity. The improvement will cost about $35,000. Various Measures Introduced to Be Gone Over by Committee Be- fore Report Is Made WASHINGTON, March 8. —The house ways and means committee began hearings today on soldier bonus legislation. The committee's study will be based on the McKenzie bill, similar to the measure vetoed by President Harding and several pro posals to make the principal form of the bonus payment a paid-up life insurance policy. The McKenzie bill provides four options: Adjusted compensation based on the number of days served by veterans; vocational training aid, ‘arm and home aid or adjusted ser- vice certificates embodying the in- surance feature. Representative Bacharach, New Jersey, a Republican member of the committee, announced a plan yester- day to restrict the bonus to endow- ment life insurance policies, limited to enlisted men and payable at the age of 62. Representatives Andrew, Massa- chusetts, and Fish, New York, Re- publicans, also have introduced bills making the insurance provision the main feature of the proposed bonus. Mr. Andrew, like Mr. Bacharach, would exclude all officers from bene- #* of the bonus while Mr. Fish would limit the payments to men below the rank of captain in the army and marine corps and of Heutenants in the navy, as is pro- vided in the McKenzie bill. WASHINGTON, March ~ 3.—Pro- posals to make soldier bonus pay- ments in the form of paid-up insur ance led to several arguments to- day at the opening public hearings by the house ways and means com- mittee today on adjusted compen- sation. legislation. (Continued on Page Bight) SINCLAIR EXPLAINS TRANSA The Crowded ||°"* Mind Impressions in the mind become blurred by the succession of many events. Refreshing the memory {s one of the important functions of ad- vertising. % A merchant's interest and ab- sorption in his business should not cause him to overlook the fact that other people's minds are oecupled with many things and they forget easily. The same story, clothed a little differently, must be told over and over again, so that people will not only remember, but can’t forget. The Tribune is read daily by thousands of people and store news is never confused in their minds, for many of these readers see only The Tribun WARSHIPS OF PACIFIC CALL ON EAST PORT NEW YORK, March 3.—With the flagship Seattle showing the way, the ten battleships of the Pacific fleet steamed. up the Hudson river today to pay New York its first vis- it since July 1919. Admiral Coontz, commander in chief of the entire United States fleet; Vice Admiral H. A. Wiley, com- high officials were Admiral Ss. 8. Robison, commander of the battle flet; Vive Admiral H. A. Wiley, com- manding the battleship divisions and Rear Admirals W. C. Cole, L. A. Bostwick, W. Pratt and L. M. Nulton. The visiting vessels are the Call- fornia, making its initial appear- ance in New York harbor; the Ten- nesse, Maryland, Seattle, New Mex- ico, Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, Texas and Nevada, : f Owner of Mammoth Gives Relationship of His Inter- ests With Standard of Indiana and Other Pipe- line and Oil Company Groups SPECIAL TO CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE NEW YORK, March 3,—Harry F. Sinclair, chief owner of the Mammoth Oil com- pany, whose lease of the Teapot Dome oil reservation from the government is being investigated, today issued a statement to stockholders of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation, explaining the relationship and responsibility of other companies with which he is connected with regard to the government project. “The Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation owns slightly more than 25 per cent of the stock of the Mammoth Oil com- pany, for which it exchanged 250,- 000 shares of Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation common stock, hav- ing a present market value of ap- proximately $5,750,000. This repre- sents its total investment in the Mammoth Oil company and is the equivalent of less than $1.25 a share on the total number of Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation com- mon shares outstanding. It has Piggly Wiggly Store Robbed Four hundred dollars in cash was taken from the Piggly Wiggly store 786 CY avenue at some time last night..A bar holding.the back win- dow was bent and remoyed and the window was broken, enabling the maraucers to gain an entrance. The money was taken from the cash register. Luckey’s Meat Market, 740 CY avenue, was broken into also evi- dently by the same party since it adjoins the Piggly Wiggly store. A hole six inches square was made in Going Rough On ‘Ash Containers CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 3. — The city of Cheyenne SaturCay be- gan confiscating all ashes and garb- age containers which do not con- form to @ new city prdinance, the door and the bolt on the in- side was then unfastened. Nothing was taken so far as the manage- ment has been able to learn. The Northwestern Iron works re- Ported this morning that the rear end of a Forti car had been stolen from their place, 526 East A street. G. C. Gorsuch, contractor, reported that a road plow and a fresno had been stolen from his campany. THREE BURNED IN HOME FIRE MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 3. Three children of John Bridges, ne. gro, were burned to death and his wife and another child were injured when their home here was destroyed by fire today, not loaned nor obligated itself to lend money to the Mammoth Oil company, nor has it guaranteed any financial or other obligations of the Mammoth Qil company. The Sin- clair Refining company, all of the stock of which is owned by the Sinclair Consolidated Oil corpora- tion, has almost completed construc- tion of a storage installation for the United States Navy at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the total cost of which will be less than $1,000,000. The cost of installation and of fill- ing it with ofl for the use of the navy is to be liquidated by the pro- ceeds from royalty oll accrping to the government through Mammoth Oil company operations. The Sinclair Refining company is under no obligations for the con- struction of further installations or for the delivery of additiona) oil ex- cept as and when such construction and such delivery are fully warrant- ed by the actual production of roy- alty ofl by the Mammoth Oil com- pany on naval reserve number three, and the Sinclair Refining company has no other obligations of any nature in connection with the Mammoth Oil company’s con- tract with the govemnment. The contract with the Mammoth Oil company was signed forty years after ofl was first produced in Wyo- ming, and twelve years after that state had become. one of the great- est oll producing districts of the world. All of this time the W: ming oil fields were isolated. - The capacity of local Wyoming refin eres was much less than the avafl- able Wyoming production and the producers of crude ofl in the Salt (Cantinued on Page Seven) CTIONS INJUNCTION IS SET ASIDE BY COURT RULING LINCOLN, Neb., March 3.—A temporary injunction was granted the Investors Syndicate, Minneap- olis late today, preventing K. C. Knudson, deputy secretary of state from preventing their operation in Nebraska through refusal to renew their license. ‘The Investors Syndicate claimed to have $5,000,000 in cdntracts in Nebraska. The. injunction expires March 28. Knudson gave no reason for re- fusing to renew the license. LOCAL JURY DECIDES STATE BANKER [3 EMBEZZLER Three Counts Charged For Misapplication of Bank’s Funds CHEYENNE, Wyo. March 3.—Lewis Carr Butler, vice- president and cashier of the defunct First National Bank of Rock River, Wyoming; this morning in Federal court here was found guilty on three of ten counts of an indict- ment charging embezzlement and misapplication of the funds of the bank. The jury had been out since Saturday afternoon. Sentence has not. been pronounced. MRS. CANDLER IS FREED OF DRUNK CHARGE ATLANTA, Ga., March 3.—The case against Mrs, Ana G. Candler and _G. W. Keeling, was dismissed and W. J. Stoddard was bound over for ancther trial under bond of $300 here today when they were given a hearing in police court on charge of having been in a placo where intoxicating liquors were be- ing drunk. The original charge against Stod- dard was also dismissed but he was bound over on a new charge of yio- lating the state prohibition law when he assumed résponsibility for the partly filled bottle of liquor found by the police on a table when Mrs. Candler and the two men were arrested, Police chief James L. Beavers tes- tified that he raided an apartment at 48 Juniper street on the afternoon of February 9, upon a complaint from Asa G. Candler here, the aged millionaire husband of the young woman. There ho found Mrs. Cand- ler and the two men seated around a table on which sat a bottle partly filled with whiskey, he testified, aes Bank Buildings Will Be Built WASHINGTON, March 3.—Bills authorizing the Kansas City federal reserve bank to erect buildings for its Denver and Omaha branches were passed today by the ‘senate. Each building is to cost $550,000. PASTOR TO HEAD TABOR IOWA COLLEGE Announcement that he is resign- ing as pastor of the First @ongrega- tional church here in order to as- sume the presidency of Tabor « lege in Iowa, was made public to- day by the Rey, Robert Allingham. In telling of his decision to make ‘s in the ministry of churches of Ameri- ca making ‘hundreds of acquaint- ances and friends across the conti- nent undoubtedly will contribute to certain phases of fitness for the ever increasing opportunities of this new day. ‘The offer of the presidency of Tabor college, Iowa, came totally unexpected and unsolicited. It is not a big college, but it is a historic one. Sixty years old. It has a fine campus, modern equipment, the largest student enrollment in twelve years and a faculty of high academic standing. “In my interview with the trus- tees and faculty last week I let it be known that I had some outstand ing convictions concerning the ideals of a modern civilization and iE part a college should play in the promotion of thise ideals, Humble living and high thinking would have a timely application in a mod+ ern curriculum. The eighteenth amendment will be respected on the campus. ‘Tabor college will be no military training camp or an- nex of the Army and Navy club at Washington. Reason rather than riot will be the ideal of this insti- tution, “But to leave Casper at this time finds but little enthusiasm with us. The record of the new First church has been truly meritorious. Les$ than six months old it has a mem- bership of 170, twenty-seven uniting last Sunday morning. Functioning with an ease and faith that woul make one think that it was 20 year old; centrally located; finely equip. ped, good music, efficient church school, a women's association, bas+ ket bal Iteams, a new young peo- ple's society and a remarkably con ducted nursery for the little one h And nning of the which First church h sper, But we must go, and make the new adjustment, for here 1 Continues pn Paxe Hunt,