Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 1

« The Weather WYOMING—Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, probably snow in extreme south portion. Rising ‘tem- perature. VOLUME VIII. $ CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1924 LDIER BONUS BILL PA CHURCH PACKED IN FINAL TRIBUTE ceo S (dmos) TO MRS. VAN GORDEN AND HER SON ALVIN SUTHERLAND, ON TRIAL FOR HENNING HOLDUP, BREAKS BURDEN OF GRIEF LIGHTENED BY re FUNERAL SERVICES HELD TODA Hundreds Crowd Presbyterian Tabernacle at Sixth and Durbin; Bodies Leave Today «For Iowa for Final Interment. A ray of hope offering relief for pent up feelings burst through the shadows that have borne down the friends of Fred Van Gorden and his family when at 10 o’clock this morning fufieral services were held from the Presbyteri- an church for Mrs. Pearl Van Lloyd, innocent victims of a m ‘The Rev. Charles A. Wilson offi- ciated at the services today, The bodies were afterwards taken back to the Shaffer-Gay chapel where they were to remain until 4 o'clock this afternoon when they will be started to Greenville , Ia., to be Joined at Douglas by the body of the husband and father. A. J. ‘Woods, intimate friend of the fam- fly will accompany the remains. ‘The large. number of friends pos- sessed by Mrs. Van Gorden and her gon was forcefully demonstrated this morning in the throng that at- tended the services. There were more than 300 persons present, most of them women. So great was the crowd that it’was impossible to find seats for them and many were forced to stand during the hour. An occasional cough, scarcely aud- ible whispers, the crunching of snow on the outside announcing the arriv- al of others coming to pay their re- spects and give vent to their: sym- pathy marked the preparations for the ceremonies, Two hearses drove up and the gray caskets covered with floral of- ferings were wheeled: up the aisle. The pallbearers were L. A. Reéd, Jv R, “Healy, A.-J. Woods, Carl H. Gompf, John G, Jones, A. A. Slade, ‘W. M. Yard,'P. C. Loveland, G. L. Ladburry, B. L. Scherck, and Alex Marshall, The choir composed of Mrs. J. F. Leschinsky, R# B. Leggett, J. A. Williams and Charles B. Wells sang “Fade, Fade, Each Earthly Joy,” and the Rey. Wilson lead the con- gregation in prayer. Following this Nearer, My God to Thee” was sung by the choir and the pastor delivered his sermon, taking as his text Pro- verbs 2.1-11; 3.1-6;,13-18. “I shall not attempt to appeal to your emotions already so greatly stirred by the saddening events of the past few days, nor will I furth- er play upon heart-strings tremb- ling with tragedy and sorrow,” said the Rev. Wilson. “Rather let us eet our minds to pract things and encourage ourselves in thought- ful obedience to the great principles set forth in these words of wisdom from the Book of Proverbs. By cruel tragedy a virtuous woman, Zoving her household, a faithful wife and mother, active in public affairs, devoted to her church, has been taken from these earthly scenes to her eternal reward. A multitude of friends is, 2 testimony to the place she occupied “in popular esteem. No women of this church was more zealous in service. Hand and voice were given in untiring labor. We have the Scripture word for the con- fidence we have that her labor was not in vain. Faithful in the Sun- Gay school, indefatigable in toil through the society of women she filled a large place in useful activ- itles, Mrs. Van Gorden will have a lasting remembrance in the loving hearts of friends. Nor would I withhold a word of praise from lit- tle Arthur, a good boy, loved by his playmates, faithful in Sunday school, and growing up with the promise of (Continued on Page Ten) Gorden and her son, Arthur an’s mania. Newspapers in New York Are Now Combined NEW YORK, March 18.— The New York Herald and the New York Tribune, two of the nation's oldest newspapers, published their last separate editions today and tomorrow will appear as the New York Herald-Tribune. The Herald founded by James Gordeon Bennett in 1835, was sold yesterday by Frank A. Munsey to Ogden Reed, owner of the Trib- une, for a consideration not dis- ‘withthe provision jthat the name Herald be perpetuated | In the velns of the Hérald- Trib- une will flow the bl of five he chased by the Tribune years ago; the Press, which Mr, Munsey con- soliated with the Sun; the Sun, which he merged with the Her. ald, and the Herald and Trib- une. Mr. Munsey now owns two New York evening newspapers. Last summer he bought and merged the Globe with the Evening Sun and in January he bought and cons#idated the Mail and his Telegram. Last Sunday the Tele- gram ceased Sunday publication. —<—___ One of the great problems itn certain kinds of selling efforts is the large percentage of calis on Prospects who are not seen for various reasons. This problem does not arise in the case of printed salesmanship in the advertising columns. There are no misses when the Printer’s ink method, in the news- Paper, is used to deliver you sales message. The fact is the prospective cus- _ tomer either cails on the news- dealer for or arranges delivery of your sales message, paying his or her good money for it. This selling method has several things in its favor, it is invited by the volunteer newspaper reader, the message is gvhere the reader expects by habit to see it, the invitation to use your service is in the medium which the reader trusts, in the paper through which the prospective customer has indicated a preference to be approached. Many thousands of people of this community, dally readers, and their dependents habitually read and make use of store news in the Tribune. DOWN AND SOBS ON STAND Money Saved to Go Home and See Mother Was Found on Him, He Says, Fails to Explain Denials in Denver With Alvin Sutherland for crowded courtroom was tacle of the defendant s: Sutherland, who was not statement to the jury in a halting voice and used a big white hand- kerchief as he wiped up his tears. Several times he was so overcome that he had to stop talking and cov- ered. his face with the handker- chief. Sutherland ‘claimed that he came here last July and worked from then on until he left in September as a wa'ter, He said he had savel his motiey to go home to see his mother in California and inat accounted for the $82¢ found on him when he was errested. He left here in a car with a friend, drove to Cheyenne and then vent to Denver where le was picked up by the pole. Following brief closing argu- ments the case was sent to the jury at 3:30 this afternoon, It is the first case on the criminal docket this term. “ 5 The ‘defense put on just-one Wit- ness this afternoon, Joe Sullivan, who is serving a term in ths pen- itentiary, after confessing to his part in the holdup which netted the robbers $1,700, of which $1,500 was in currency, Sullivan was arrested the next night and $800 recovered, including # 10-quart pail full of sil- ver dollars, Sullivan, on the stand this after- noon, said that Sutherland dia not participate in the holdup. Perry Morris, sheriff, and Dan Miller, deputy, contradicted this ev- FIVE SHOT BY GEBO MINER TWO REPORTS IN ON BONUS WASHINGTON, March 18.—Two reports on the soldier bonus bill were presented to the house by the ways and means committee four Republicans signing a minor- ity statement opposing the meas- ure, Chairman Green, in the majority report stated that expenditures un. der the bill, estimated at $2,119,000,- 000 could be met from prospective savings in current government ex- penses and called for no additional taxes. , ‘The minority statement declared if the bill were enacted its. require- ments threatened the Mkelihood of future tax reductions. Prospects for passage of the measure tomorrow were declared bright today by. proponents, A two thirds vote is necessary. MELLON AND WEEKS MUST GO ON STAND FILM GRAFT AIDE GRILLED BY PROBERS. WASHINGTON, March 13.— W. A. Orr, former secretary to ex-Governor Whitman, one of the alleged parties to the fight film “deal was the first witness today in the Daugherty investigation. Orr testified he owned 20 per cent of the picture contract in return for his “services”. Tex Rickard asked for his help in getting the films shown, as Rickard knew of Orr's previous attempts to get films past Subpoenaes Issued Today for Secretar- tes In Connection With Aircraft Contract Involving Daugherty WASHINGTON, March 18.—Subpoenas were issued today for Secretaries Mellon and Weeks by the senate committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty. They were to be questioned about the government contract 4 4 . the New York state censors and with the Standard Aircraft corporation, in connection | aiso of his political connections with which Gaston B. Means testified he accepted $100,000 | His part was to help overcome dif- for the late Jess W. Smith to stop; missioner Blair, Prohib&ion Commis-] ficulties of censorship and also in further legal action. sioner Haynes and H. H. Votow,/| publicity. Orr told of knowing Daugherty, Continued on Page Seven, superintendent of prisons and a rel- ative of President Harding. Others for whom gubpoenas were issued were Interval Revenue Com- on trial today in dist rt the’robbery of the Hennin Se ee g hotel last September 22, a presented with the unusual spec- obbing copiously while he made a statement on his own behalf. put on as a witness, made his idence when they related how Sulli- van, just} before being sent to the pen, had ‘told them that Sutherland was the man who had helped him in the robbery. From the opening be brought out in the. case. and Joe Sullivan held up the hote and that Sutherland would be posi tively identified by Clift Habenicht the night itentiary sentence crime, months ago, Mr. Foster also stated that the (Continued ‘on Page Seven) SLACKER NOT COMING statements of the prosecuting attorney and the counsel for the defense, some very contradictory evidence was due to Mr. Foster, the prosecutor, said that the state would show that Sutherland clerk at the Henning. Sullivan is now serving a long pen- for the same having pleaded guilty. some INQUEST FAILS TO THROW NEW LIGHT ON REASON FOR TRAGEDY Mrs. Van Gorden and Boy Found to Have Met Death at Hands of Husband and Father; Douglas Verdict Is Delayed. No material change in the theories affecting Satur- day night’s murders, was recorded at the inquest yester- day afternoon into the deaths of Mrs. Pearl Van Gorden and her 10-year-old son, Arthur Lloyd Van Gorden, Both were pronounced by the coroner’s jury to have met death from gunshot wounds inflicted by a gun in the hands of Fred Van Gorden, Sheriff Perry Morris, Deputy Joe Thomas, Coroner Lew M. Gay and City Clerk H. H. Price were intro- duced as the only witnesses. These four related stories of findings at the Van Gorden home following the tragedy and the recovery of bodies of mother and son in the Platte river Sunday. No new angles to the case were presented. Questioning was conducted by Assistant County Attorney W. J. 1| Wehrle. Serving on the jury were Ray Cook, David Harris and G. W. "| Breon. Previous to the formal in- quest at the Shaffer-Gay chapel an investigation of the Van Gorden home on South Grant street had been made by the ‘jury. INQUEST OPENED AT DOUGLAS. Inquest of the killing of Fred o— Pe pero reat UNLESS TERMS ARE REACHED EBERBACH, Baden, March 18.— (By The Associated Press.)—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, American draft evader, authorized his secretary to state today that Bergdoll had not agreed to return to the United States, as reported, but that he was willing to consider propogals. giving assurances as to the exact punish- ment he would have to undergo in such case. James Briggs Takes Up Quarrel of Friend and Blazes Away With Auto- matic.In Cleaning Up Poolhall THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., March 18.—(Special to The Tribune).—Blazing away with a .45 calibre automatic revolyer.into a crowd of Mo have been parties to an altercation in a poolhall at Gebo, James Briggs, an American Greek Coal company, dropped five of them with bullet wounds. None were fatally wounded although the condition of one man is reported serious. Briggs not only emptied hig gun but reloaded it and fingd again. This melodramatic episode found its origin in a fistic row between a friend of Briggs and one of the for- eign miners. There had previousiy existed Inthe camp a factional, feud of long standing, in which Monte- negrins id Anglo-Saxon workers were split into opposite camps but poorly concealing thelr mutual animosities. The rough and tumble scrap was unceremoniously interrupted by Briggs with his .45. When the last OT. MARK’S PARISH APPROVED PLANG FOR 3 ntenegrin coal miners said to miner employed by the Owl shot was fired a survey of casual- ties reyealed Chris Badonovich with three wounds in the breast and an arm; Mike Radich with a bullet in an arm; George Radonovich with a gouge across the stomach; Wiley Bassett plugged in a shoulder; and William Kapp caught in the groin, Only one case is thought to have possibilities of a serious outcome, and that is the shooting of Kapp in the groin. Sheriff Scott Hazen was called from Here to Gebo. He arrested Briggs who had made no attempt to escape. Until the five victims of Briggs’ escapade are out of danger no arrangements will be made for a preliminary he: 120,000 GHURGH Plans of the vestry of St. Mark's Episcopal church for the erection of a°$120,000 edifice this year at the corner of Seventh and Wolcott streets; were given final approval last night at a meeting of members of the parish when tho bullding Program was outlined. The church will be built of brick and the con- tract will be let to John A. Johnson, who is building the university gym- nasium. and library at L Completion. is expected to require approximatel, eight months. The nave and chancel will be built at “this time and the combined cost will be $115,000. The tower may be added later in the year. Furnishings, it {s estimated, will cost approximately $5.000. The church, it was stated at the meeting last night, has $56,000 cash on hand, The vestry expects to raise $25,000 more, part of which has already been pledged, and the remainder will be carried in bonds for retirement at stated intervals. gee trunk at Ogden, Utah, last Saturday morning, confes the|he killed her and placed her body in the trunk, accore Captain ME. March Banco Hipotecario de Credito torial failed when fals v against Nquids creditors, seeking fon, eral ‘The total loss is estimated at 9,500,- 000 pesos, Van Gorden in the LaBonte hotel in Douglas early Sunday morning by Sheriff Peyton, began yesterday in Douglas. Coroner Hoffman of Converse county conducted the hearing in which no evidence of consequence was introduced. The inquest will not be concluded until Friday when the return from Den: ver of County Attorney Stansbury is expected. The body of Van Gorden ig to be shipped on the same train today that will take the bodies of his wife and son whom he mur dered Saturday night here, to Green- field, Iowa, for burial, At the time of his death Van Gorden had'but $6 with him, accord- ing to Coroner Hoffman. He had previously paid in advance for his room in the LaBonte hotel. His let- ter to a Mrs, Foley in Fairview, S, D., had contained a $20 bill, Had he. succeeded. in. Jeaving . Dougias ithout having been discovered, it is safe to presume that he could not have gone far on $6. WOMAN ANGLE OF CASE UNSOLVED. The woman angle of the Van Gorden case remained unsolved to- day, no information having been obtained which would fix the iden- tity of Alberta Lynch, whom Va: Gorden addressed as “‘sweetheart" in a letter written at the LaBonte hotel, Douglas, a short time before he was shot to death by Sheriff (Continued on Page Ten) Le, SED BY THE HOUSE A Newspaper for All the Family, Ciean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State | Ch Er Casper Daily Grihune ee PICTURES PAGE TEN Scenes around which the Van Gorden tragedy were written last Saturday night appear in today's Tribune on the back page. The group includes an exclusive view of the basement at the Van Gorden home showing where the double crime was committed. The pictures are from the Bell studio, a flashlight being taken of the basement. SUICIDE DIES AT HOSPITAL Harry H. Miller, 35 years of age and for eight years a resident of Casper, died at 3:40 o'clock yester. day afternoon at a local hos- pital to which he had been taken March 11, after he had shot himself just below tho heart with a 32 caliber revolver in an attempt to end his own life. Miller showed some improvement after the act and it way thought that there was a possibility of his recovery The funeral wit! be held trom the Shaffer-Gay chapel at o'clock Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. L. . Carter officiating. HOUSE SOLON 1S KARAICNED ON PAINE CHARGE Representative Knutson Arrested With U. S. Employe. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Rep- resentative Harald Knutson of Min- nesota and Leroy M. Hull, a 29 year old government empleye, had a preliminary hearing today at Ar- lington, Va., on grave charges pre- ferred against them by officers who arrested them on March 9, on a Virginia road just outside of Wash- ington, Knutson was accompanied by MABEL TALKS ON SCANDALS LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 18. —Mabel Normand, motion picture actress, is on her way to New York for appearance there in con- nection with several picture pre- sentation late this week. She plans to return via Chicago where she is expected to talk to the Fed- eration of Women’s Clubs concern- ing her connection with the Court- land S, Dines shooting case. Both Miss Normand and Edna Puryiance, the other motion picture actress cdlled as a witness in the case of Horace Greer, chauffeuer charged with shooting and seriously wounding Dines here New Ye night, are under subpoena to ap; again at the preliminary hearing of Greer, which is scheduled to be re- sumed next Wednesday. Dines has been recuperating at a mountain resdrt not far from Los Angeles, according to his friends. He is under $5,000 bond to appear at a material witness at Wednes- day’s hearing. counsel and by Representative New- ton and Larson of Minnesota. He had entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned a week ago and in a statement had declared he was the victim of a “terrible mistake” and wholly innocent of the charge. John Wise, one of the officers who made the arrests, testified he and another Arlington county traf- fic policeman named Burke camo on Knutson and Hull in an auto- mobile parked about 150 feet from the roa, and that Knutson offered them his automobile as collateral until he could obtain $100. Wise raid he told him “there was nothing doing,” and that he would have to submit to arrest. Arriving at the jall, Wise testi- fied, Knutson made further offers to “settle out of court” even ten- tering a blank check and telling the officer “to name the amount.” Seegupeecocenlite PATSY BURKE WILL RECOVER, IS BELIEF Patsy Burke, prominent sheep man of this county, who suffered a broken back in an automobile ac: cident several months ago ts reported by the Denver specialist who is at- tending him 'to be on the road to recovery. His life has been hang- ing in thé balance over a long period. DITION NUMBER 124 BIG MAJORITY ROLLED UP FOR MEASURE WHEN VOTE IS TAKEN House Sentiment Would Override Presidential Veto With 82 Over Two Thirds Majority. WASHINGTON, March 18.—The house today pass- ed the soldier bonus bill, 355 to 54. The result indicated that there are voters in the house to override a_presi- dential veto. The vote came after 40 minutes debate under rules requiring a two- thirds majority and barring amend- ments. The margin over the neces- sary two-thirds was 82 votes. As sent to the senate, the bill pro vides for paid up 20 year endowment life insurance policies and cash pay- ments to those veterans not entitled to more than $50 tn adjusted com- pensation. The adjusted service credit ts fig- ured on the same basis as in the old bill, which twice passed the house, $1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for overseas duty, the first sixty days of service not counting, OUTLINE OF BILL REPORTED TO HOUSE. WASHINGTON, March 18.—For the third time in four years the house came to ® vote today on a soldiers bonus bill. It passed both previous measures, and except for the “die hard” opponents to any bonus payment, opposition centered today in a group of veterans advo- cating incorporation in the bill of a fyll cash payment option. No doubt of its passare was held by leaders of either party. The bill provides for paid up 20 year endowment life insurance polictes and cash payments to vet- erans not entitled to more than fifty dollars in adjusted compensa- tion. he two measures passed pre- viously proyided for a similar cash option payments, adjusted servi certificates, a form of deferred pay- ments; vocational training; or farm and kome ald. The first time the senate failed to act on the bill. Two years ago it was passed by the senate, and vetoed by President Harding. Tne house passed the bill over the veto but the two thirds vote necessary for short in the senate. Chairman Green of the ways and means committee brought the new bill up today under an agreement for suspension of the rules, This action automatically Mmited debate to forty minutes, except by unant- mous consent for an extension, and prevented the offering of amend- ments, A two thirds majority was necessary for passage. The same basis for figuring the amount of adjusted compensation is provided as in the old bill—$1 a this action fell day for home service and $1.25 a day for overseas service, The first sixty days cannot be counted. tf rved between 60 and © would be paid in cash; otherwise an insurance policy would be given. A maximum of $500 is allowed as adjusted service credit for home service and $625 for Overseas dut. ervice any time between April, 5, 1917, and July 1, 1919, may be counted, though enlist- ment must have been made before November 11, 1918. In computing the value of the in- surance policy, one fourth of the amount of adjusted service com- pensation due a veteran is added (Continued on Page Seveh) TRUNK MURDER AT DENVER ADMITTED Fred Janssen Confesses, But Doesn’t Know Whether Wife Was Dead When , HeCrammed B DENVER, Colo., March 18 ody Into Trunk .—Fred Janssen, arrested in Pueblo, Colo., yesterday afternoon in connection with the slaying of his wife, Belle, whose body was found in a amparo filed/to an official announcement W. A. Rinker According to Captain confession after of question, t 30 this morning. Rinker, the three hours at 11 came During that time hej had employed a Mexican, to kill hi d g by had me told 4 rest in of Detec tt t ow tive his that E erday wife, was the truth, At of the end the three hours, n, in tears, finally declared: , I have not been telling the truth. I killed my wife and placed her body in the trunk and shipped t to California.” A later statement Rinker declared that Imitted that he had s ns of strikin: Captain en had his wife r over the He also con aptain Rinker, andkerchlef s not posi- Jar k head with a hammi ording to trunk has been borag the (Continued on Page Seven)