Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1924, Page 1

The Weather tenight and Thursday. ture. WYOMING: Generally fair Not much change in tempera- ISSUE INSURANCE AN Chon PROVIDE | IN NEW BONUS PLAN OF DEMOS House Veterans Bring Forward Proposal to Give Service Men Option of Payment. WASHINGTON, March 5. A two-fold soldier bonus plan providing options of full cash payments or paid up insurance was proposed to the house ways and means committee today by a committee of ‘veterans representing house Dem- Mr. Jeffers said, and would enable the government to settle the whole question in a year, If all veterans elected to take the cash payments, Mr. Jeffers said, it would cost $1,319,500,000, which could te met by a bond issue. He favored compensation for army offi- cers up to the rank of captain. The same basis of figuring adjust- 4 compensation used in the bill passed last. session—$1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for ‘overseas service would be applied in the plan and payments would be Umited to $500 for home service and $625 for overseas service. Under the McKenzie bill, now be- fore the committee, which is similar to that vetoed by President Hard- fing, cash paymsents would go only to those not entitled to more than 50. : Before recetving the Democratic plan, the committee inquired {nto the activities of the neers, nex iti-bonus league. - ba President of the organization, sented a Ust of ce th ein to Teague and explained that it was ‘operated on contributoions, the $1 @ues of members being. optional. gsieaebina io Na a ADDRESSES WANTED ‘The local chapter of the American Red Cross, phone 2605, is desirous of getting in touch with Joseph Louis Kissinger and Walter Allison Carte. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of elther of these men is asked to com- ‘municate with the chapter. Property Owners in City Roll Up Big © Majority Against Courthouse Issue} Casper property owners yesterday decisively defeat- ed the proposed half million dollar bond issue for a new courthouse with 527 votes against the proposition and only 99 for it. The record in the Precincts outside of the city had not been compiled at noon today but there are not sufficient votes in the outlying precincts to change the result. A disagreeable day with a three inch snowfall the preceding night resulted in a small percentage of voters exercising their privileges yesterday. The only two precincts where the bond issue carried was In the North Burlington and Court- house districts. The greatest op- position was shown in Nichols and Jourgensen precincts. The proposition was doomed for defeat following the stand taken by the chamber of commerce, which organization went on record as be- ing opposed to both the location chosen and an expenditure of this amount at the present time. The chamber of commerce favors a com- bined county-city building to be put up several years hence when the wants of the county and city can be more accurately estimated. The vote in the 19 city precincts follows: Preeinct y¥es Nor North Burlington ----L. 17 7 North Casper’ ->-----_--- 8 Nelson -----~--.----——-- 10 Nichols ---------------- 63 5 2 3 6 |/Kenwood ~--.----------. 1 20 East Casper ----------- 11 37 Elk’ --.. ae | 23 Reservoir -.--__---__-- 1 9 City’ Hall 87 High School -. 2 at 2 56 3 23 West Casper -. 2 20 Courthouse 26 17 Fire Hall 6 23 Central 3 35 Byran 2 25 Mills .--~.. 4 13 Totals -__-__. 627 The election laws require the judges to file returns on the vote in their precinct within 48 hours after the closing of the polls, either at the county clerk's office or else by mail- ing them at the nearest postoffice. For this reason it will be the end of the week before the result on all the out of town precincts are known. The only report received mornjng by the clerk was from Mid- west, formerly known as~Home Camp in Salt Creek, where the vote was one for and three against. CALIFORNIA DEFEATS WASHINGTON, 32-31 BERKELEY, Calif. — The Uni- versity of California defeated Unt- versity of Washington 32 to 31 in the first game of a series to deter- mine the championship of the Paci- fic coast basketball conference. RAID VICTIMS PAY PENALTIES Judge John A. Murray was at his bench five hours last night in dis- posing of numerous Mquor cases which came up for settlement along with one or two other violations. It was necessary to declare a recess so that the officers and others could g0 home to dinner and to reconvene afterwards, Court was not adjourn- ed until 11 o'clock. Mildred Smith, Jennie Williams, ; Hazel Thomas, and Dixie Porter, all colored and charged with soliciting Were sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $25 each. Mrs. W. M. Gilmore charged with the illegal Possession of liquor was fined $50. L. G. McKeegan, charged with transportation of liquor was alsq fined $50. Stub Lever for violation of the liquor ordinance was fined $100.. Mary Chavaz and Dixie Ran- Gall for soliciting were fined $25 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, Della Pierce paid a $100 fine and re- ceived a suspended sentence of 80 days for liquor violation. Ben Men- dozes was sentenced to 60 days in Jail and fined $100, C. L. Green for being drunk and possessing liquor paid $26. The cases of Jack Cunningham, Mrs. P. M. Fisher, B. A. Schellman and Charlies Miller were continued. The case of Ella McKenna was dis- missed. COUNTY BONDSSUICID IS LOST CIVIL DOCKET OCCUPIES COURT; MOTIONS AND DEMURRERS UP Seven Hundred Cases Pending in Court Here, Including Hangovers From Last Term; 48 Cases Wiped Off Slate. Judge R. R. Rose yesterday began active work in clear- ing up the civil docket in the Eighth district court and bringing the records of the court up to date. When last fall’s court term convened there were 1,200 cases listed but in the intervening six months the total has been cut to approximately 700 cases. In going over the docket yester- day Judge Rose set down for hear- ing all cases which have been stand- ing on demurrer or motion or which have been in default for any length of time. Thes¢ cases, which num- ber:more than 100, will be heard be- fore the jury is called for criminal court work March 17. Judge Rose dismissed 48 Yesterday a great many of which have been standing on the docket for several years, having © been passed from term to term with no action having been taken. The old: est case on the docket, which was filed 30 years ago, was that of the Town of Casper vs. R. Heagney. The defendant, his attorney, C. C. Wright and the town’s prosecutor, Alex T. Butler, are all dead, This and similar cases were dismissed for jack -of prosecution while. others ‘were wiped off the slate by stipula- tion and by motion of the plaintiff. None of the civil cases in this term were set yesterday, the judge advising the lawyers that it would bo impossible until some tion ‘was available as to how long cases the criminal prosecutions, start March 17, will take. The jury will be held long enough to try all civil jury cases, the cases being set sometime in April. which Bay jo E Pe) IN TRAGEDY Mrs. Blaylock, Former Casper Woman, Deliberately Dropped From Hotel Window at Cheyenne, Is Claim CHEYENNE, Wyo., merly of Casper, who plunge March — 5.—(Special Tribune).—That the death of Mrs. Fern Blaylock, 4 to The for- d from a window of a fifth- flobr apartment in the Plains hotel here Tuesday after- noon, was suicidal, will be testimony adduced before a coroner’s jury impanelled this afternoon. testify that the woman crawled through the window backwards, hung for a moment from the win- dow-ledge, then let herself drop. There will be laid before the jury- men a scribbled note of farewell which was found in her room. Mrs. Blaylock, divorced wife of Willis Stidger, Casper attorney, died at Memorial hospital about 50 Minutes after the fatal fall. She Was unconscious when picked up and did not regain consciousness. For a brief period there was uncer- tainty regarding whether she might have been thrown from the window, BANKER PROVES CHARGE THAT WIFE FLAUNTED FALSE CLAIMS NEW YORK, March 5.—Beverly D. Harris former vice president of the National City Bank, has suc- ceeded in proving his charges that his wife, Eleanor Elaine Lee Harris, bad «tales represented) herself as am Fog pe ema family and falsified concerning her moral character in his suit for the annulment of his marriage. Asked to answer six questions, @ supreme court jury last night found in favor of Mr. Harris in five in- stances and the verdict will be ad- prominent | wife, mitted to the special term next Mon- day for final decision. The only question answered in her favor was to the effect that Harris could have ascertained the ‘truthjet his charges before making @ se agreement with his The jurors were not given an op- portunity to say whether they be- lieved the story of the defense about the existence of a half sister named Samuella; nor did they pass on the question ef whether Eli Rayner was Mrs. Harris’ father. Witnesses will fallen therefrom accidentally or have deliberately made the plunge. Tho testimony of several persons who observed her course quickly dis- pelled uncertainty, however. These persons, mechanics tn a karage across the street from the hotel, stated that they had observed Mra. Blaylock seated before the open window for some time before the tragedy occurred. She then Stood at the window for a few minutes, they related, looking down- ward into the street. Then, they state, she seated herself on the window-ledge, turned, thrust her fect out and lowered her body until she was hanging from the ledge by her hands. For a few seconds she dangled, then her body shot down- ward and struck the sidewalk with terrific force, The falling woman narrowly missed P. J. Black, who Was passing beneath the window. Mrs, Blaylock was carried into the Plains pharmacy and from there taken to the hospital, where she died while undergoing = examf{nation. Sheriff Carroll, who was in apartment. pte “halve heen weiiten by Mra. Piry- lock a few minutes before sho craw ed through the window. Only a few words-of this message are decipher- They Include “Goodbye” and able. “God bless you, my darlings.” Mrs. Blaylock recently, it is stat- (Continued on Page Two) OIL PROSECUTOR IS OPPOSED - Classes You have often heard people make use of the expression “dif- ferent classes of people.” Different merchants feel that they appeel to “different classes.” In tlie sense the expression is commonly used there is really no such distinction. The income of your customer is not so important as you might think. Have you ever noticed that it is not altogether rich men and’ women who wear diamonds? People of moderate incomes do not In each case embrace the en- tire Ines of so-called luxuries but collectively the masses of the peo- ple support every industry. Newspaper advertising makes a mass appeal and the world is on the shoulders of the masses. The Tribune readers are the alert, live. forward looking people of the community and they are responsive to the appeal of the advertisers of thelr favorite pa- per. ——___———.—_ FUNERAL OF MRS. HUE DELAYED UNTIL FRIDAY ‘The funeral of Mrs. Clara Huff, which was to have been held Thurs- day afternoon, wil! not be held until Friday in order that time may be given for relatives to arrive. The funeral will be held from the’ Shat- fer-Gay chapel at 2 p. m. Gotham Blast Is Conf essed NEW YORK, March 6.—The confession of Ralph Thurber, prisoner in a London penitentiary, implicating himself and a number of other persons In the Wall Street explosion of September 16, 1920, in which 80 persons lost their lives and scores of others were injured, today was the object of an intensive inquiry by police and the dis- trict attorney's office, which point- é4 out however, that a number of similar inquiries in the past has been fruitless, Officials plainly {ndieated their [desire to plumb the new clue before embarking on extradition proceed- ings which were suggested by the American consul general in London, who sent word of Thurber’s confes- sion to District Attorney Banton (Continued ga Paye Ning Samuel Knight Also Attorney for Rock- efeller Bank, Walsh Declares After Investigation WASHINGTON, March 5.—While the oil committee was obtaining more important information in a private examination of telegrams today, opposition developed to the confirmation of Samuel Knight of.San Francisco, to be special government counsel in the litigation for the re- covery of California oil lands from the Standard Oil Com- pany of California. 33 7-16 pence per ounce. Money 2 Senator Walsh of Montana, prose-| Percent. Discount rates, short and cutor of the oil inquiry, announced that he had been “reliably informed” that Mr. Knight is counsel for the Equitable Trust company of New York, which is a Rockefeller bank. According to this information, Senator Walsh said, Mr. Knight now is cngaged in MUtigation for that bank in California. He added that if the story proved correct, it would be a basis for opposing con- firmation by the senate. Mr. Knight was selected by Pres!- dent Coolidge to bring action under a resolution offered by Senator Walsh an@ unanimously adopted by both the house and senate. Senator Walsh was not consulted in the selection. Foregoirfg its usual public hearing to examine telegraph records sent here from Palm Beach, the oil com- mittee today found further refer- ence to the “principal” mentioned in one of the McLean telegrams previously read into the record. Some committeemen said they. regarded these telegrams as of pos- sible high importance. Every effort will be made to establish the identity of the “principal.” SAN RANCISCO, March 8.—Sam- tel Knight, San Francisco attorney, whose selection: by President Cool- idge as a special oil litigation prose- cutor in California has met with op- position in the sneate, said today that his firm “has no retainer from the Equitable Trust Company of New York,” although indirectly handling Utigation for that firm. NEW YORK, March 6.—Alvin W. Krech, chairman of the Equitable Trust company of New York, ad- mitted today that Samuel Knight, San Francisco attorney, whone ap- pointment as government counsel in the ol] investigation was reported under fire at Washington, was en- gaged in seme of the bank's litiga- on In California, LONDON, March S—Bar allver three months bills 3% @3 7-16 per cent. World Revolt Still Goal of Russian Reds MOSCOW, March 5—The Red Star, organ of the soviet army, com- menting. on the fifth anniversary of the communist international, being celebrated here, says: “The anniversary of the com- munist international must bring out the statement, made in most de- cisive form that all the aims of our enemies to divert the red army from the red goal are in vain. Our red army always has been and re- mains an army of communists and as before, they always. throw itself into the struggle with world revolu- tion as its slogan,” Moonshine Still Forms Nucleus of City Jail Laundry Not every still is a useless ar- ticle. An 80. gallon container re- cently confiscated by the police together with a gasoline stove has been set up in the bull pen for the prisoners to boll their clothes in. It is considered to be doing a more worthy work than Jt has ever been.called upon to do before. Former Pastor Acquitted of Mann Charge BUFFALO, N. Y., March 5.— Rey. Frederick H. Johnson, former pastor of the Pilgrim church of Mansfield, Ohio, has been exonerated of a charge of violating the Mann act In a partial report of the federal grand jury. New Fish and Game Association RIVERTON, Wy March 5.—In order to protect wild game in this region there has been formed here the Fremont County Game’ and Fish Protective association. ‘There are approximately 30 members in the new organization, CANDAL EEN the hotel when she fall, hastened to her He found the door. un: locked. On a table lay a scrawled not. unaddressed, which is believed A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper atly Crimow FR STOLEN CAR RECOVERED BY WOMAN Mrs. opened the state automobile li- cense office’ at the court house yesterday after an absence of a month in Sheridan and Buffalo, this morning caught up with a stolen Ford coupe. The machine is in the sheriff's custody and will be held pending efforts to arrest the man who stole it. The machine was purchased re- cently in Aberdeen, S. D., by a Casper resident who drove it here. Warren Dailey, who re- When he attempted to obtain a license this morning Mrs. Dailey discovered that the original en- gine number had been filed off the block and a new number sub- stituted. ‘The sheriff has issued a war- rant for the Aberdeen man who sold the car. SUNRISE INN OWNER ISFINED Cuff Reagor, erstwhile proprietor of Sunrise Inn when that palace of Joy reigned supreme on the out- skirts of Midwest Heights, pleaded guilty to a Mquor charge before Judge R. R. Rose yesterday and was given a fine of $300 and a sus- pended. sentence of six months. Sunrise Inn was raided just before the Christmas holidays and the Place locked up by the sheriff's office. A. A. McElheney, who was arrest- ed last Saturday night by the sheriff's office at 1335 Cypress street, pleaded gutlty before Judge Rose yesterday to possession of Mquor anid was fined $200. The proseeuting attorney’s office -} has theea pleas of gullty on. liquor charges fo he takenipefore the judge Saturd#y*morning which will make & profitable week for the county coffers, MURDER TRIAL SET MARCH 26 ‘The trial of first degree murder of John Economou, charged with having shot and killed his partner, Thomas Miller, last week, waa set for trial March 26 by Judge Rose in district court yesterday afternoon. The trial of Donald Elliott, charged with auto theft, was set for March 17, the opening day of crim- {nal court. These two cases were temporarily passed yesterday morning when the remainder of the criminal cases were set, NUMBER 113 5 LOOMS GRAND JURY 10 HEAR EVIDENCE IN BRIBE CASES AT WASHINGTON Sensational Proceedings In Unearthing Corrup- tion Is Only Begin- ning, Claim. WASHINGTON, March 5. —Not only the charges against two members of congress, but evidence re- lating to other suggestions of wrongdoing by officials in Washington will be laid befors a federal grand jury here immediately. White House officials said today that all phases of evidence adduced recently by the Chicago jury and not passed on there because of the lack of jurisdiction would be gone into by a grand jury here. The subjects expected to come under inquiry involve charges that one or more high officials use@ of- ficial information for purposes of speculation that Mquor permits were wrongly procured through use of money; and that official government files were turned over to persons not entitled to them. For the present. no official will discuss detafis of these charges nor lisclose in what direction the in- quiry may lead. The development has created a stir in official circles however, second only to that which followed the olf disclosures. President Coolidge announced last night that the charges against the two members of the house, involv- ing acceptance of money in connec- tion with the release of federal prisoners, would be thoroughly in- vestigated by a grand jury. Prior to that, the senate veterans com- mittee had held two sessions to con- sider the charges and a resolution for an investigation had been intro- duced in the house. John W. H. Crim, who was in charge of the Chicago investigation has conferred with members of beth senate and house but he has declined to furnish them the names of those involved or any details, taking the position that the evi- dence requires further development before any of it can be divulged. It was developed incidentally at Chi- cago, in connection with the vet- erans bureau inquiry that resulted in the indictment of Charles R. Forbes. Mr. Crim also has reported the facts to the White House leaving to President Coolidge the deciston as to what action should be taken. Today's announcement was inter- preted as an indication that the executive was prepared to demand a complete sifting of the evidence, regardless of who might be involved. The investigation resolution in- THREE MOTORCYCLES BOUGHT FOR POLICE Three new motorcycles equipped with side cars and guaranteed to travel 75 miles an hour thus handicapped have been added to, the police department with the object of running down speeders and doing other emergency work, ‘The police feel that it will take a fast car to get out of their clutches since they have these new machines. One still of 125 gallon capacity and two p oners fell into the hands of a raiding party from the sheriff's office, assisted by federal officers, in the Alcova country yesterday after- Coolidge Backs Wood In Philippine Dispute WASHINGTON, March 5.—President Coolidge informed the Philippine independ- ent mission today that in his opinion the time has not yet come for separation of the Philippines from the United States. In a letter to Manuel Roxas, chairman of the mission, the president also declared that the United States government “had full confidence in the abilit y” of Governor General Wood. fairness and sincer “In the present state of world relationship, “the letter said, “the American government owen an obil gation to continue extending a pro, tecting arm to the people of these lands,’ ta! Mr. Coolldge's letter was writte in reply to resolutions passed the island legislature asking for in- dependence and attacking General Wood, The president's views are expected to pave weight in house y, good intentions, indepe rer the insular tt This meas: ure, committee members say, was brought in merely to pla the (Continued on Page Twa) troduced yesterday in the house by Democratic Leader Garrett, was re- ferred to the rules committee, but Chairman Snell said today that no action would be taken on it for the present. He reached this decision after a conference with Mr. Crim, who told him no information could be fur- (Continved on Page Nine) STILL SEIZED, TWO ARRESTED noon. The still was found 30 miles from Casper, on the Sch It was in a dugout in a sandhill close to the north bank of the Platte river, The still operators,.“George E. West and John Vogle, who were caught, had made elaborate plans to avoid detection. In going to and from the still they used a boat, crossing the river a mile above the stillhouse. When they saw the raid- ing party coming yesterday after- noon they attempted to escape across country but a couple of rifle st their heads brought them to a halt. Indications pointed to the opera- tors being on their first run of liquor although the still was one that had been used in some other location before it had been set up where it was found er ourteen use and yed, the evidence in the Direct nh will be filed againat Wes a Vogle and they will be tried at the present term of court, 4