Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT SPT NE FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924 RADIO PROGRAMS MAY STRIKE BLOWATTHEATER CROWDS, IS | BELIEF; PERFORMERS WARNED By ROBERT T. SMALL (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, March 14.—Vaude- ville performers and hundreds of other members of the theatrical pro- fession are being warned against the radio. “Don't broadcast except for pay—and do very little even then.” This the slogan that {s being rais- 4 in the professional ranks and it has started a lively debate along the great white way as to the ultimate effect of the radio upon the theater @s a means of popular amusement. Many of the stage workers and Bot a few of the ater managers am divided on the question. Marcus Loew one of the biggest managers of them all believes that radio can which called forth the whole battalion of lawyers of’ the powerful, American Telephone and ‘Telegraph Loew's at time that people should be golr the thea It waits until crowds are safely in and ther starts up for the stay-at-homes. station advertises all the acts : actors that are appearing at the Loew theaters, all that have appear. ed, and all that hope to appear. Other managers believe that so long as the broadcasting stations continue to send free entertainment thru the alr thousands of would be theater patrons are going to sit by the recetving apparatus and wear that smile of contentment which comes only with the sense of getting something for nothing. The theatrical papers are taking part tn the discussion and at least one of them has told the managers that all too many persons are be- coming allenated from the theater by the high pricés charged for mediocre shows. This paper does not believe that the radio will hurt the theater, provided the theaters ‘wake up to the fact that they have one more rival In the fleld and im prove thelr offerings accordingly. At least one manager is quoted as say- ing that the broadcasting of his show brought many patrons to the theater who frankly sald they had been attracted by what they heard and now wanted to see what it was all about. It {ts estimated that today there are between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 radio receiving sets tn use in the United States. Theatrical men estimate that there fre ten million potential theater moers to be appealed to every day. They say it {s foolish to overlook the fact that many of the latter are today putting their money into radio apparatus and,are gotting their money back in the way of free en- tertainment at home. It is not alone the 8,000.000 or 4,000,000 owners of tho sets that = Worry the theater folk, but all of “the radio owners have friends and ‘invite them in of an evening to isten” when a particularly big fea- fture tx advertised “on the alr.” The ftheater men say they suffer nc- i cordingly. There is no question but that the Fadlo has been very upsetting in ™any quarters and no one, in the business or out, seems at the moment to know just where he is It is expected however, that the theatrical people and the song writ- ers might take a hint from the news- papers. Radio once was hailed as} taking the place of the newspaper | in the home. No prognostication could have been more erroneous. The newspapers joined hands with the radio and now the two are in- separable. No o t in papers. PARIS SENATE OPENS BATTLE "ON TAX PLANS PARIS, March 14—(By the As- sociated Press)}—The real battle in the senate over Premier Poincare's financial reform measures began late this afternoon when the sen- ators started thelr discussion of ar ticle I, giving the premier power to refused to withdraw this article, al- though assured by M. DeJouvenel that the other 108 articles would be voted quickly {f he did s Memel Dispute Is Settled By League, Claim would know what was je radio without the news: | MELLON'S NAME GENEVA, March 14.—(By The Associated Press.—Norman H. Davis of New York, head of the League of Nations committes on Memel, won a complete victory, and one of the serious problems of Europe was settled today when the league council, representing the great powers and Lithuania com- pleted the convention he presented for the administration of Memel. Ford-Muscle Shoals Probe May Be Next| — WASHINGTON, Marph 14.—No- tice was given in the senate today (Continued from Page One) Scaife “thousands of dollars” in connection with his investigations, Scaife was an investigator at the department who agitated investiga- tion of alr craft scandals Means testified that he too, worked for President Harding. The ‘charges against the attorney general, Means declared, were not true, Means said he knew Under- wood represented the president. A letter from Underwood to Smith Means said, declared President Hard- ing wanted some “confidential un- by Senator Brookhart, Republican,|der the cover investigations made” Iowa, that he would introduce a res-|by Jess Smith, Underwood and him- olution for investigation of alleged| self. lobbying for the Ford-Muscle Shoals} Sidney Thompson, Means added, offer. was “the messenger for Underwood.” “I have considerable information| Underwood, Means explained, was along this line, I hope to give the|“‘the man who worked with Jess senate,” Senator Brookhart sald. Smith” and helped him (Means) make oO investigations. He understood Thompson was a friend of Smith's Model Killed had and without any connection with the department of justice, Means said he understood Under- wood wanted information regarding. his diaries and the testimony in the New York trials, HUBER IGE ‘AUSTED HERE {_ Paul Huber, who was last Novem- *ber sued by his landlord for posses- *sion of his premises, and who has In New York, Means said he inves- tigated reports of ‘arrangements fone into by Secretary Mellon for certain permhs. “But the first time he through our fingers” he said. These investigations, he sald, re- lated to violations of the Volstead act. ; Means also said he had a Laura slipped held same under a $15,000 bond, i will be released from his bond, it ts Sunderstood, and all other obliga- tions, and Mr. Huber has agreed to ‘vacate his premises and give same ‘ over to the landlord in a short time, Swith the understanding that he is fto be allowed sufficient time to «make a final disposal of his remain- hing stock of jewelry through the } means of an auction. {__Mr. Huber has employed Col. E. {H. Hart, prominent Kansas City ‘auctioneer, who closed out the local "firm of Winter-Henthorn about two years ago. Col: Hart will close out the entire remaining Huber merchandise by auctioning same to the highest fbidder. During this sale nothing twill be reserved Seecnd = EMh -WOULDBE SUICIDE IS STILL LIVING TODAY Harry H. Miller, who shot himself gust below the heart in what fs held "to have been a sutcide attempt at }the Kimball roo Wednesday morning, was still alive at about 3 o'clock this afternoon, it an- nounced from the County hospital. Miiler’s condition !s reported to be somewhat improved and a certainty of either his life or death has not been reached. MADE A HIT WITH HIM “My wife has taken your medicine and has been wonderfully benefited For over four years she has had trouble with bloating and could scarcely eat any food because of this condition. Doctor's medicines did not help her and an operatior was advised. Her brother, a druggist, sent her a bottle of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and it helped her at once, I cannot praise your medicine enough.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and all mmmation wi the ti testinal ail: citis. will ince 0} At all druggists. } money ri Advertisement, rs Jacobsen investigate Senator Cara- way, Democrat, Arkansas. The Caraway investigation was made after the Senator had attacked President Harding and the attorney general, Means said. Senator LaFollette also was inves- tigated, Means sald, adding that he saw to it that the LaFollette office was gone through, although he did Mot do {it personally. . Senator Bruce, Democrat, land, also was investigated after election, Means declared. The investigations of Senator Bruce were ordered by “Jess Smith or some of them” he sald. Means sald he thought Smith was a closer friend of the president of the United States than he was of the attorney general. Smith, he said, got reports con- stantly on the stock market, over the attorney general's telephone, but in the attorney general's absence. Some times Smith would later read the stock reports to the attorney general. The Bruce inquiry, Means quall- fied, was “not a regular investiga. tion"? he promised to find out from his records who order the investiga- tion of Senator Bruce. Means denlfed making an investi. gation of Representative Woodruf? of Michigan, During the house impeachment of the attorney general, Means sald he knew the department of justice had Mary- right This magazine-cover girl is dead. Miss Mata Stoddard, 22, artist 22, gents follow! vitrimbisoas Gis model, was killed in @ Loa Angeles | Watching the Invetintinn ne automobile accident. Her face |" Eenator wheoler ve Hen oeeD raced scores of mag: vers. | ? = REO ONE rece!pt of money. | “Who aid you’ pass the mo: vas received by you on He “Mr. Jess Smith and Mr. Under- Capital Given Reputation of [Sian haa ott the men 12 hud employed “and who were “Wettest City’) working under me.” A man named Jarnicke also col- March 14.—Rear| Plunkett, com- lected some money and paid it to Brooklyn navy Underwood, Means declared. The first money he collected, Means said, was one hundred one- thousand dollar bills in connection of the ned his superiors in| with the Standard Aircraft case. he merely The $160,000 was received in the old Bellevue hotel here in Februa: 1922 t ore th w o Fle sald, Mitsul Beware! DRAGGED INTO CAPITAL MIRE IN LATEST PROBE and was given to Jess Smith, Means testified. “Jess Smith came along and got it that same night,” Means said. Smith came to his hotel room for the purpose of getting the $100,000. “I didn’t know what it was for at that time,” he said. Smith had told him he was to get the money and to count it, Means declared. Senator Wheeler brought out that one of the charges against the at- torney general In the recent impeach- ment case was In connection with the Standard Alrcraft case. 4 Prosecution of the aircraft case, Means testified, was withdrawn by the war department from the de- partment of, Justice. Means said he was assigned by Burns to assist Captain R. L. Scaife in the war fraud cazes and Scaife had assigned him to the aircraft case. Means sald he was “balked” at first in his investigation by Harry Mingo, an official of the aircraft corporation. Mingo, he said, later expressed willingness to “make a settlement The one hundred $1,000 bills Means said, he received in February 1922. Mingo had told him, he said that the Standard Alrcraft Company owed the government “two or three million.” “Burns told you to go to Mingo and he'd come through? ‘Means was asked, “No, he led up to him very. easily," said Means, but de- claring Burns was absolutely honest and would “kick anybody out of his office,” at the suggestion of graft.” When the aircraft case was taken out of his hands, Means safd, he told Burns that Captain Scaife threatened to “blow the roof off the place.” Scaife was outraged because his Investigation of the case was stopped, Means said, and he “warned them repeatedly” ot \Scaife's feelings. Means said he did not report to Burns on the “$100,000 deal” with Jess Smith because Smith told him to say nothing about it. “I stood pat and watched,” sald Means. Smith told him particularly to say nothing about it to Burns. “But I discussed it with Jess Smith before ho killed himsel said Means. Then he told of: relat- ing the story to Senator Wheeler about a week ago. “A friend of mine asked me to come to see you,” said Means, addressing himself to Senator Wheeler. Referring to his recent indict- ment, Means said: : “When the department was say- ing I was in Europe, I was in my house. They told me to le low and I did. I poned over to Assistant Attorney al Crim and told him T was rendy to see him, but they said ‘Oh no, we don't want to see you’, In the aircraft investigation, Means said, he looked into sale of American models to the Japanese government by the Standard Atr- craft company. But. the sale was after the war, Senator Jones, Re- publican, Washington, brought out. Senator Wheeler emphasized to the committee that the record of the Daugherty impeachment case, brought out the attorney general's alleged failure to prosecute the air craft case. An over-payment by BAKE SALE St. Mark’s Synurgae will hold a sale of delicious home baked goods at the Midwest Commiss Sat- urday morning and after- noon. the guvernment of over $6,500,000 was alleged. After payment of the $100,000 In the aircraft “deal,” Means said he learned the source of the money from Jess Smith, who asked him if he had told any one about it. “He seemed to be very uneas: to see if it had been mentioned, said Means, stating that Smith was annoyed because several “progres- sives” had been elected to congress and “might cause trouble.” Going back to the investigation of Senator LaFollette, Means said “people went to his office and went through it. Means declined to tell who “went Senator LaFollette’s of- “They were innocent,” he said. “I am solely responsible. Means could not say whether the aircraft case was withdrawn by the war department from the depart- ment of justice before or after the $200,000 payment to him. Smith told him of the source of the $100,000 in the fall of 1922, Means said. “After he had become apppre- hensive about the election of pro- gressives?” asked Senator Moses, and Means replied in the affirmative. Senator Moses referred to a con- ference between him and Means on the Bosch Magneto case, and Means said Smith had feared that he (Medns) was telliag Senator Moses something of the $100,000 trans- action. 5 Men were sent to Arkansas to in- vestigate Senator Caraway, Means testified and Senator Wheeler said he had telegrams that five depart- ment of justice agents were ‘‘check ing up” on him in Montana. Chair- man Brookhart interjected that he had heard that “one is out in Iowa checking up on me too." In Florida last month, Means said he told W. T. Underwood that he was going to give his information to congress. Underwood said, the witness declared, that he would be indicted if he did. Means said he did not discuss with E. B. McLean his intention to testify Means sald also that some “gum shoe man” had called on the tele- Phone and told him he would be shot or jailed if he testified. Senator Ashurst referred to the search of Senator LaFollette’s office. fice, Means replied. ‘‘We went after him in a different way.” “You went over the state of Ar- kansas to find something on him?” Senator Wheeler asked. “No, we brought ’em here,” sald Means. Means sald Thomas B, Felder, his attorney, had told him that if he 220 East Second Street Tribune Bldg. Men’s Wearing Apparel and Shoes New Store New Merchandise New Prices WATCH FOR OUR DAILY SPECIALS On Sale Saturday, March 15 Men’s Dress Shirts Large assortment of neat and fancy patterns. Regu- lar $1.50 value 95c Walk Down Four Steps and Save Money had received money for non-inter- ference in showing the films and the money was turned over by him to Jess Smith. “He collected it for himself but whether he turned {it over to any- body else, I don’t know,” said Means. x “The here at fight film was first shown E. sulting a note book, included Secre- tary Hughes. The owners of the pictures, he said, were Jess Smith, Howard Mannington, Will Orr, who he identified as ex-secretary to former Governor Whitman of New York, and a Japanese named Muma. Payments to Smith on the fight pictures, Means said, were “some times $3,000 or $4, brought to Smith by Jess Smith afterward told him, ‘Means said, of receipts of money as his part from the showing of the films. Means answered “yes” when asked if he had not also received money in connection with -lquor transactions, which he had referred to. Means said that in receiving money from Smith in the film case, the most he had received at one time was $6,000 or $7,000. In the ownership of the fight films, Senator Wheeler sought to dentify Smith as the representative of the attorney general and the Japanese Muma as being connected with Mr. McLean. Means sald that was his understanding. Means said he had handled “maybe $50,000" in money delivered to him by messengers in connection with the showing of the fight films for delivery to the owners of the pictures, The committee adjourned until 10 a m. tomorrow. MEANS AND FELDER - BOTH SUBPOENAED. WASHINGTON, March 14.—Gas- ton B. Means and Thomas B. Felder them when it became doubtful late yesterday whether papers warted by Miss Roxte Stinson would arrive froth Ohio in time for her to con- ney general had requested that testimony not be taken. Mr. Daugherty cailed attention that both Means and Felder are under indictment on bribery charges, and based his request on the possibility that thelr testimony before the sen- ate committee might raise certain questions of immunity in the court proceedings. The committee, in calling them, held that it would be possible to question them without going into matters involved in the indictments. ( Felder’s name figured briefly in the maze of Miss Stinson’s testi- mony yesterday about “deals” in which she insisted Daugherty and Jess W. Smith of Washington Court House, Ohio, her former husband who committed suicide in the attor- ney general's apartment here a year ago, were associated. In an- she said, she between Smith and Felder, although she had known of the sending of a telegram to the lawyer by her former husband who was Daugherty’s “bumper and friend.” The Daugherty committee also has joined the oil committee in ef- forts to subpoena James G. Darden, identified as president of the Mutua} Oll company, which was ejected from Teapot Dome by marines after the reserve had been leased to Harry F. Sinclatr. Darden was mentioned yesterday by Miss Stin- son, who said Smith told her he and Daugherty each had given the ot! man $2,400 for investment, but, she said, they later “dropped” him. Attempts to find Darden to serve the ofl committee's subpoena have failed. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of Jess Smith, who has been telling of alleged “deals” between him and Attorney General Daugherty, was reported ill and unable to continue her testimony today. At the request of the attorney general's counsel, Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, gave assur. ances that Miss Stinson would re- main here until cross examined. Means is under two federal in- dictments, one in connection with a liquor case and another with the New York bribery case. Means, a large heavy set man of the typical “officer” type, waved acquaintances in the room as took the stand. TRIO ESCAPE SENTENCES TO ATLANTA PEN NEW YORK, March 14—Prest- dent Coolidge has commuted from one year and one day to one year the sentences of Dr. Edward A Rumley, former owner of the New York Evening Mail, S. Walter Kauf- mann and Norvin R. Lindhim, who Were sentenced after conviction for defrauding the alien property custo- dian during the war. The president's action was an- nounced :n a telegram, William C. Hecht, United States Marshal re- Ported receiving today, the date the convicted men were to have sur. rendered to be taken to Atlanta i itentlary. The action means, said Marshal Hecht, that the trio will have to be recommitted, as Atlanta penitentiary aceepts only prisoners sentenced for more than one year. RECLAMATION WORK IS URGED WASHINGTON; March 4— Legislation to encourage new recla- mation projects in thé west was Proposed to congress today by Sec- retary Work. 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