Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1924, Page 1

‘ 4 | e Names of Congressmen Involved Not to Sunday Tribune | Be Made. Public Officially Until Charges Can Be Probed | Financial page covering the world’s markets with articles by Roger Babson and J. C. Royle, the country’s leading writers on business topics. Automobile section with articles of interest to every car Wanted, a name for the hotel nearly completed at First and Center streets by the firm of Smith-Turner, This six-story struc- ture has been rapidly growing to- ward completion during the winter CHEYENNB, Wyo., March 8.— State, county and city officers Fri- day began a “round-up” of Che; enne t.0otorists who had not com- plied with the state automobile licensing law. A rush for licenses at the secretary of state's office was the result. , - gs ae a8 ; _ A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State the Weati ~ 2 : , a Ss cojder south central. Slowly rising ' temperature Bunday. - Vall. tifae : CASPER, WYO, Satu) IRDAY, MARCH 8, 1924 NUMBER 116 - M02) x; ” nee 4 0}. ; i - é 4 : < ad r - % pies ® : 5 Rat @ babar: : : oc, sj . = ah “> STS Las ag PE ee EES Ee : * ° , Testimony of McLean Writer Referrin FREEPORT, Ills, March 8,—What is happening in Washington “is merely a part of the government system I 5 oes q 7 1 .. to Kansas Senator as “Principal” CALLED i am going to smash,’ Senator Hiram Johnson of California, f candidate for the Republic: » de- . Refuted Today by Solon clared in an address here. ; { “The United States government is so doubtful of its own 5 ; department of justice,” he said, “it [incomes under $10,000 exactly as in ."* he declared. em WASHINGTON, March 8.—Senator Curtis of Kansas, el eeetatee, Genes 06; he) eaatone emer 2 Dou ieds be: Gectared. 1, é assistant Republican leader in the senate, came voluntarily WASHINGTON, March 8. — The ern rey rant (OC, SER OAE EERE sarod generosity. the govern Salt Lake City Report today before the oil committee to refute the testimony of | special senate committee investigat- undo the terrible work of its own | ment extends to manufacturers and : 5 Ira E. Bennett, that he was the person referred to in the| ing Attorney General Daugherty. to- officials. And Mr. Daugherty ts still /raliroads.” If governmental nection Says Coal Mine Is i is celebrated “principal” telegram day issued a subpoena for Leonard — a member of the cabinet. PUREE crsscaitics be wr shes Biv + ” co nod! eo or a i . Fr maeet a teat by Beanett on January 20 tolbiaem: | Wi°a. ‘adi’ enw meds el Rawlin Cc Road | wma waters te mrtnin. Swasineton | hose he purchases, he should bave| On Fire; Rescue Car Patrons Am Society] ptover, Eaward B. McLean, pub-| voted unanimeesly thay te ena | 2. story wlins-Casper, Koad] * Sy to Ce ee eee a | iser of the: Washington ‘Pest and | anmwer a coeere ore Se Big te aera st Fiat tere PS cxarysisueen um, ptae| Rushed by Bureau Folk Revealed “in |s contrat sure inthe on discios-| "the witnees then tostiriea that |%, 0! inter Chicago. Improvement Is control Eovertine. Fe fine am he | 2 conerene, he. sald, “approsimates . “principal” and added there woula | Sater. Curtis had heen asked for | “Other promectics witnesses betore . dividual from the cabinet or other | ‘his And strikes at the rest of the Book Seizure. . be mo POckIae Of the heer anaila | advice as to what the policy uf the | the Daugherty commiltes, inewaed Authorized. part of the government here and | *#feultural troubles. CASTLE GATE, Utah, ‘ , lo. rocking of the boat lon wan | Post should be with regard to pub-| several Ohioans, politicians and oth: there does not break the alliance. March 8.—(By The Asso- Bearer cxpcted from unwersanies fier | abloe matter concerning the olifer'arwocates ct ‘ate: Daugherty ot The American people imeat eae Mtedl (euinhc he te: CHEYENNE, Wyo.,, March 8.—| attacks. et inquiry. * Columbus and other cities. Their] CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 8.—|it. : dred and . ty-fi : ride }anothet " 5s Later Bennett testified that Sen-| names are withheld. The Wyoming State Highway de-| “There is presented to the Repub- : red and seventy-live men bo caer peda absentee i The Kansas senator, the first} ator Curtis had advised PresiCent —_—__.__ partment today announced the let-|Ican party today an issue of 2mployed on the day shift of capital has a “society” bootleg | member of the senate to take the | Coolidge immediately after he came ting of highway improvement con-|greater import than any other of ‘he Utah Fuel company in scandal, with a Ust of prominent | Witness stand, was sworn and im- into office’ to ‘ask Attorney General tracts as follows: ; recent days,” Senator Johnson as- mine number 2 were entombed by purchasers of fllicit liquors in the| mediately began’ an oral statement | Daugherty to resign. "| Grading and culverts on 382%|serted. “It’ is an issue of public m explosion at 9 o'clock this to the committee similar to that] “senator Curtis again taking the service—efficient, reliable, fit public morning. , P which he aeeet zertesey iio it | stand sald that in December he had N AN JAIL b ;|service. It is, in its other aspect, folk, including public officials, are| nial of several features o! e “| told President Coolidge that “I herrock & Purcell of Casper, $93,-|an issue of just common honesty, AK . ae said tq be in a. list of custom nett .teatimony. thought he would have to look for 449. and the Republican party must pillars’ peroocnee prtgit ie OP ack a By are of J. Bs Sommers setzed when Som-| arly in January thé senator said,|a new attorney genera! in a few " Grading and culverts on 7.55 mfles| sweep its house and sweep it clean.” reported entombed an a result of an mers was arrested last night on ®| Rennett introduced. to him John F.| months, as\ Mr. Daugherty was between Moorcroft and Carlisie,| He declared himself in favor of | CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 8,— Uecicalbh ti wisihact® anita de thee federal’ prohibition charge. Federal! yrajor, another of McLean’s men.| sick.’ Crook county, Wickham fros. @|adjusted compensation for “the | Three generations of one family— Utah Fuel company at ‘Castle Gate, Prohibition Commissioner Lon Davia! wng asked him ton see Senater| The Kansas senator declared em- Schweiger of Billings, Mont., $58,-|men who fought the. war," saying | standmother, 85; son, 45, and grand. Pini wagons th thio coracl recone jeclines to make the lst public. |Wwatsh and find out if the commit-| phatically however, ho had never : $01; bridges, Midland Bridge com.| adjusted compensation had been ap-| daughter, 15—were detained by po habeiint. ADABY crenbcke eho stesttte Sommers says he will plead sullty. | tee woulc not take statement from | talked to Bennett as he had ¢laim-| A, W. Lathrop pleaded guilty to| pany. $10,775, Peary Se tained, to SEsae See eee mete ance saey, Hecalee: Che ty ore AgorbiSa’ to: thelecteot that thereby preventing the calling of | +, Publisher instead-of calling him | ed, as to the conduct of the Port in | operating a still before Judge R. R.| Grading and surfacing 5.84 miles companies filling war contracts and|stepfather of a fourth person, a th tne 4 ti = here to testify. the oll case “either (arectly or indi-| Rose in district court yesterday af-|of Sheridan-Buffalo highway, John-|even to civilian employes during i Che hep boy, Nee essa bee Reg ee eees Be . ” nd was sentenced to pay | son county, Charles Wagle of U: the war and afterward.’ leved the boy and girl contemplated Senator Curtis continued that he | Festly. a $250 fine and serve 10 days in Jail. | $60,504; bridges, J. F. Turpin of| Certain big. business intereste|marriage and that the older folk | BUTTE, Mont. March §.—Mine E. 8. Rochester. employed in the |a $250 fine and rpin of is 9 of the Unitea suggested that they ask some Demo- office of Attorney General .Daugr-| Lathrop arrested in @ raid by | Wheatland, $21,225. have directed propaganda against | were conniving in the match. The] "escue car number 9 of the Uni toe eMtabods btboe The saanter tis] arty evan questioned’ elude ils" tele-| tha shorts office tat; Npewmber. © |. Grading and aditacing 17.62 miles} the soldiers’ bonus, he said, adding | persons detained were Mrs. P._C,| States Federal Bureau. of Mines a res i oe tighten) ter ee gram to McLean of Janurry 16) Bhe three pleas of guilty on liquor} of the Torrington-Morrill road,|that in his opinion the subject is|Campbell of Denver, her son, his} eaves here at 12 o'clock with sup- saaen tnt te ss . saying «iuvestigation was being !charges- “in —district- sourt have | Goshen county, Jesse Davis of Bor-jno longer debatable. “We can. re.| daughter and Harry Harvey. Har-| plies from tlie- Anaconda Copper to:Chairman: Lenroot. (Continued on Page Three). Drought In fines. totalling. $750. eaux, $46,219. duce all the taxes now existing on | vey's stepfather, charging that the| Mining company for Castle Gato, Later the same day Senator Cur- ree eens thoy and the/ Campbell gitl were te Utah. Js a Gavin, foreman ts ip raid Senator Underwood “ : be married, caused the arrests to be | charge of the car and 1s accompa: inthe FM Perce ag was in- ; . t" ™ade. Mrs. Campbell, spry andj ied by W. J. Needham, first ald’ in- Pi oo for McLean had 7 % alert despite her four score and five “ceed of the kien at been’ { \ = : ‘ ‘ . E A : Years, indignantly -denied*~ the] tho. Utah Fuel company miue was “So far as he eoult retalt;-Senator’ ; aan | " - % charge, asserting that she and her'| received at 10:30. A special engine Curtis di@ not see Bennett again son and granddaughter had come] was ordered at once. pe start ; to Cheyenne because the son had | awaited only the arrival of the spe STILL h] il oF , secured employment here, and that | cia! engine, Uy 5 384 — - Y ERIE the Harvey boy had accompanied —o_—— ; 5 7 f f ; ‘ uary 30, — = them to Cheyenne because his : '§ “ . ot Miss Th father had threatened to whip him ‘ 4 ; d he feared to return to the On the day of the Norris address, °. * a crne fn. Denver, Bennett came to Curtis with refer-|] ° X never heard anything eo: fool- SHGAR BEETS IN 19 4 ish,” sald Mrs. Campbell. “My son ence to having Senator Norria with- Tustra’ arti: s cle on the natural beauty spots of Wyoming. had planned to come here to be a draw his remarks. »"—~ ted, ; : Ath ee . hef in a restaurant where he has — Before that Senator Curtis test! || an article on Oasper thirty years ago by A. J. Mokler, the sa : J. rked before. X've taken care of In a house on the Swingle acres, | fled, he phates pects bee author of “History of Natrona County.” i his daughter since she was a baby,| DOUGLAS, Wyo., March 8.— four miles west on the Alcova road, | Senator Norris i rd. "Later he - . WASHINGTON, March 8.—The department of justice| and wo came wha him Harry, a | Sugar beeta will be given a fair ba pen ies (Bt ace ah Se emaee to the lobby and told World news over private leased wire, | declined today to disclose the names of the two represent-| friend. of-his, told him yesterday gnasve Hs corer: Speneeines in thie . * itepfs hi cinity this summer. number qi gallon still merrily bubbling, L. A-| him the statements would ba-with- Four page comic section including “The Gumps” and “Gas- ito gel to in ties i ela grand jury report, ie gla ar spc rametlatnaapaoery SEA Alp prio py am ty oa Knapp was arrested as operator | drawn.” oline Alley.” rney enera jaughe:! offered, owever, to come with us and see if he could | trial of the crop, with the Holy Su- of the moonshine manufactury. Senator Curtis flatly denied that , jtransmit to the house in response to its request, evidence | cet work in the machine shops |8@r company contracting for the ‘The house contained 17 barrels | Bennett hati delivered any message The latest pictures of current events from N. E. A. and || id to indicate i ae ¢ ry here. He {s a good boy and he| Output. Upon the success of the 13 of which were full of mash and|to him from McLean. Copic Service. ee pd we “ies (2 aD LOPE use of influence for a considera- used to take Helen (the grand. | Venture and the amount of acreage 10% gallons of freshly manufac-} He ndded that he had not talked jtlon, developed in Chicago. the) hbtse: resolution’-until\'the: de. | Uséd to) take: Helen adeeb ea, | Blantéd|) Aependethe eoustrasten tee tured Hquor. with Bennett about. the political as- Mr. Daugherty took the position |Partment had an opportunity. to but nelther of the children thought | @ beet sugar factory in Douglas. This makes the second still the | pects of the oll inquiry. | he could not: disclose the identity of | more’ carefully go into the charges | but nelther of th berry Serpe cera oa) sheriff's office has brought in this} Bennett then wa recalled and | the two representatives as asked in | against them. “We. never dreamed of” such-a week, the first one being of 125/asked if he cared to make any | He offered to withhold further thing,” said Helen. GASP MA 5 MADE gallon variety, found in the Alcova | further statement. action by the department in the ui _ district. ake Certain'y,” was his answer. “ $50 PO STED case to enable a house committee —_ owner. “Senator Curtis" he went on, “ap- to examine the evidence and develop 4 ; parently has forgotten one and prob- ‘A sport page that covers the entire athletic world. the truth of the charges. I ty ly two addtilonal conversations I t FOR Representative Longworth {mme- p! : with him.” Exclusive and complete society news, with notes of fashion. yak TE L diately moved that the communica- — oe $5 r3 “Bennett sald he did not want to ’ tion be referred to the judiclary 1 : relate sthe conversations as they Local news covered in detail. committee with instructions t CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 8.—~ ‘ Sore Bee edlat pornoaal: N. ‘AM. EH TERE, || vort trameatatety with reeard tc a = | Russel G. Holton of Casper and Pressed to the conversations, he Advertising of all the leading Casper merchants that are s course of procedure. Arthur G. Crane, president of Wyo- s said, ho would not answer unless || indispensable to the shopper and business man. Beforp the. house coulé act.on the ming university, have been appoint- compétled to, as he did not want to fC initercat' to all=to6 nimeroun't8' ientton: Longworth motion Representative eee Sperartn resnieds reserves ae INDEPENDENCE, Kans., March| rpread “scandal.” eS Features 0! ae a ‘ Zihiman, Republican, Maryland, Commission as first Wautenant of 8.—An increase ranging from 12 to} “I hope we won't have any mys- % who has been mentioned in connec- zs x : 26. per barrel was announced today! tery about it,” sa'd Senator Walsh, Weekly program of all the theaters, tion with the charges, took the floor (co rerameirerpge cao at ek gy the Prairie Oil and Gas company for| “go on tell us about tt. Read the Sunday Tribune, compare it with other newspapers to defend his name, made lieutenant colonel in the sant- North Ti Bennett again refused unless com- bs eg ansas, Oklahoma and No: ‘exas months and w x A few moments later the house tary corps. Both commissions are crude oil. pelled to do so, and the committee no’ that it ap. Proaches that state where it will | 220Pted the Longworth motion. in the 103rd division. be ready for occupancy the owners . LD EO WMLLGE OD Dll eee j desire that a fitting name. may be given it. For this reason a prize - 5 of $50.1n cash 1s off for the ; best. The contest starts Monday Di re] and ends April 1. A ballot box will be placed in the Smith.Turner = ae ¥ drug store on Center street where ATENT CONTROL IN U, S Seer ee P ‘ie ——<$$<$<————-— P _ 2 NOW PENDING, IS BELIEF : The Aero Of! Products company P 3 ; » BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Rill build a $10,000 filling station at ower ft) i BY DAVID LAWRENCE ; ‘ (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune) ae Bide oi {4 the corner of Midwest and Durbin (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 8.—The men of science and the master military minds who pre- | streets, work to start as soon as Print ral W (J = eee . dicted that the next war would ‘be in the air, knew what they were talking about. The | weather permits. The structure will iv or WASHINGTON, March 8.—Both. houses of congress are being urged to take instant war in.the air angst oe ae is a i aes i yt tga and bar per baal Bates 30 ne Sa aa ee Hatha ae SIS cans brie edie a 360s Euelee penreae peduchon on the incomes of the calendar year any has announced that it will spend milJions of dollars to assert its control over rooms. of] targety 4 2 : : Pt f pe Bl which in turn control many phases of broadcasting and receiving. brick and stucco material. 1. A,| \“S¢'y Jn constant repetition of a Separation of the proposal relating to 1923 incomes from the bill containing the ‘-| lonical {den till the general public 3 A Spe The telephone company claims that already it has spent millions in developing | Mi" President of the company,| adopts that idea as ite on seaenaerusen effective upon 1924 incomes now appears inevitable. Both the took out the permit for the building radiophony and that it is entitled to. that money which they should be Officials of the telephone company emocrats are agreed that the present law can more readily be yesterday. The newspaper columns pro. amended by the passage of a joint! good deal of confusion. The treas- Th yment of inco: investments. | recelving in dividends was being]say the principle has been recognized vide a general meeti we m mn n. re sources. © payment of income Sore talepione: one an ny also 1s} diverted to the wireless activities. | that telephone communication is a ‘ ing ground for | resolution which refers only to 1923|ury insists that if any legislation | tax returns js being delayed because the formation and crystalization of incomplete and unformed idens, For any idea ta finally prevail it must be founded in logic, ain. cerity and truth, tent sults to pro-| The suits for “injunction” begun| natural monopoly. They are con- Rech ite wes ntaeknoldens Recently| bere’ to establish the right of the| vinced they can miake out just as some of these stockholders have be | American T. and T. company to con-| good a case to the public with re- come concerned over the amount. of] trol the air are at once the answer| spect to radio. . money the company was sinking in| to the tens of thousands of telephone} Monopoly, the radio bugs y At Dou Is its radio experiments and construc-| stockholders all over the country} would simply ruin the game, If all glas tion. The stockholders of at least} and an effort to put radio on @ pure-| radio users were compelled to tune one of the subsidiary companies of| ly commercial basis. in every night on the same station, the American Telephone and Tele-| This latter phase naturally is not| nine tenths of the pleasure in radio graph had ‘protested over the| popular with the several milliony of| would be gone, The greatest of in- 5 Robbed Friday amount spent in building a big) radio fans scattered from one end} door sports these days is too reach broadcasting station which was fur-| of the country to the other. They| Montreal one minute and then strive DOUGLAS, Wyo., March &. incomes so that consideration of the whole tax question may not be complicated with the problems be- fore the American tax payers who are making out their tax returns this anonth, Tho Democrats would like to see the joint resolution put into effect not with a 25 per cent reduction all alon& the lne but with the Garner rates, Thia would mean tn the case apros 1923 incomes is passed it4of a belief that congress may put should be a simple 25 per cent re-|into law before March 15 the re- duction so that when auditing the | duction of 1923 incomes. If con- returns the same administrative s8 is going to act, therefore the machinery now engaged on examin-|treasury would like to see quick ing the returns can be. used and|action one way or the other. the one fourth reduction eusily cal- It would be a simple matter for culated. both houses to give right of way to The Republicans havé the votes|the joint resolution providing a 25 to pass a 25 per cent reduction if} per cent cut on 1923 incomes. The the joint resolution is pressed for | president and secretary of the treas- Golden Rule ; But this tm ‘Hiot enough, The truth muat be firmly tmplanted in \the minds of ‘tire people, ‘This {9 the great principle of ad- vertising; repetition; more and More repetition; till the truth be- comes # part of the mind of the | #mAller incomes a greater reduc-| action and there asems to be a de-|ury have approved it and the two nishing entertainment free to all|see in the sults an attempt to make| for Havana the next, Radio users|. (Special to the Tribune)}—Robbe: reader, ton than 35 per cent and so fur eo size) to eve baie “a Sega a of parties tare rearend upon the seit rho cared to buy or build-} them pay tribute to a “soulless cor-| keep m precious record of al] the| broke into the Golden Rule Store : f the higher incomes are concerned | way #0 as to relieve the uncertainty | ctple involved. ‘or a timo it looke sia depetvie bet The stockhold-| poration’ the idea being that if the] stations they have been able to hear.| here early Wriday morning and got The columns ef The ‘Tribune |not as much as 25 per cent, of the taxpayers this month. A as if the Republicans would keep a ata eo iknow iwhare the com-| patent suite, are successful overy|/ If the use of the radio ahould de-| away with 42 bolts of silk goods | are the mestlng: ‘piace of the | Under the olrcumstances, tho|thp treasury depends for ita financ. | the provision for a 1923 reduction Stee res me {te return for these} peracn’ with a receiving set will be| genera Into’ a condition where] and 12 sil dresses, They have | PaPer's redders and jts adyer. [actual work of checking up the re-|!ng operations and {ta borrowings |{n the general tax bill in the hope side. ine investments. They felti taxed sv much o year for its use, (Continurd on Page Three) not been apprehended, ters, turnm for 1923 will be subject to ajon the steady flow of funds from all (Continued on Page Threa) 4 j