Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1924, Page 1

Che Casper Sund VOLUME 33. $200,000 ADDITION FOUR SECTIONS—40 PAGES. CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1924 (dares u-cAR SHOPS STARTED MURDER HINT RECEIVERS TO IS WITHDRAWN ROXIE. STINSON IS AUTHOR OF NEW SENSATION Hint That Jesse Smith Was Slain Stirs Investigators. By FRASER EDWARDS (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 22.—A sensational hint of murder in connection with the death of Jesse Smith which fell like a~bombshell in the midst of the senate Daugherty committee's investiga- tion today, was formally withdrawn tonight by Roxie Stinson. Twice in her testimony today Mrs. Stinson appeared to throw out that hint. The crowded hearing room stilled to utter silence each time, waiting with bated breath for her to follow it up, but she did not. She achieved, however, an effect as sensational as though she had, and the repercussions of this caus- ed Senator Wheeler tonight to issue this statement: “Mrs. Stinson formally denies that she intimated or hinted in her testimony today her _bellef that Jesse Smith was murdered.’ The ugly suggestion of | murder fell like a bombshe% in the midst of a jumbled recital of Jesse Smith's alleged “ideals” in liquor permits, pardons and appointments, in which the woman linked the attorhey gen- eral. It came after Mrs, Stinson had told of the fears of foul play that haunted Jesse Snilth for six months before he was found dead, a bullet hole in his temple, and a pistol beside him, in Daugherty’s ‘Washington apartment. Roxie Stinson, divorced from Smith 14 years ago but devoted to him and his memory, left the im- pression that Jesse was the tool of “an unscrupulous, kaiser-like man.” ‘When exposure was near, she said that Jesse. died to save Daugherty. The official records show that a certificate of death by suicide was issued by De. J. Ramsey Nevitt, District of Columbia coroner, at the time of Smith's death. The famous “‘deal’’ in the smoke filled room in a Chicago hotel at 2:30 o'clock the morning before the late President Harding was nomi- nated in 1920, featured tho day's testimony. Jake Hamon, Okla- » homa ofl man who was killed by @ woman following Harding's elec- tion, told Mrs. Stinson, she sald, that he was promised a cabinet job for “coming over to Harding, the dark horse.” . The circumstances surrounding the death of Jesse Smith was brought to the attention of the senate by Senator Heflin, Alabama, in a speech ‘attacking Daugherty. “Jesse Smith died under very sus- picious circumstances,” said Heflin. “Some say that he killed himself and some say not. I do not know. But he was a most important wit- ness and he is gone.” Mrs. Stinson related the story of an alleged “frame-up” which she testified Daugherty’s friends tried to engineer in Cleveland to discredit her or “close her mouth.” She (Continued on Page Two) To Let Beard Grow Until He Saves $1,000 BEND, Ore., March ¢22.—Not until $1,000 fs in the bank to the credit of Wiliam Baer, logger, will he permit the growth of beard on his face to be shaved. Baer took an oath before a group of friends that he would permit his whiskers to grow until he had demonstrated his ability to save money. “Every time somebody kids me about my whiskers its going to make me remerhber that $1,000,” said Baer today. “And I figure Ill get so tired of it that I'll work my head off.” Baer stipulated in his oath that the first sum he spends from the $1,000 when accumulated will be 25 cents for a shave. SHOOTS DOWN HUSBAND AT HOVIE ORGA ere i DETROIT, Mich., March 22.— (United Press.)\—Walking down the aisle. of @ crowded neighborhood movie theater late today, the estranged wife of Sigmund D. Rosen, 21, organist, fired three shots into his body as he played a stinring march. As Rosén collapsed fatally wound- ed, the wife, Mrs. Harriet Rosen, 27, drained a vial of poison and fell to the floor. “The audience, thrilled at the western drama on the screen, found itself dazed by the real tragedy en- acted in the flesh. panic stricken, as women and children screamed, the crowd rushed for the exits. A flying squadron of police dis- persed the mob anc carried the two victims to an ambulance. Rosen cannot’ live, doctors say, but his wife is expected to recover. In that event, she faces a charge of murder. She gained conscious- ness long enough to explain weakly that she shot her-husband “because she loved him.” ie The two quarreled and separated not long after their marriage. Soran Sr eds One Man Mine Drill Is Made For Prospector DENVER, Colo., March 22. — (United Press).—On the heels of the greatest Colorado mining boom in years comes word of completion for market an invention that will en- able, prospectors to compete with organized mining concerns in searching out new ore Ceposits. ‘The Denver Rock Drill Manufac- turing company today -announced that it has placed on the market a “one man” dri'l, operated from a Fordson tractor. The new drill, the company claims, will make it pos- sible for one or two men to drive a shaft, sink a winze or run a tunnel. An attachment makes it capable of overhead drilling in stopes and raises. (Continued on Discovery of two photographs identified as those of Alberta Lynch and a post office money order re- celpt for $25 sent to the same wo- man at Oakland, Cal., and bearin GHERIFF ° Gl met death early last Sunday morn- ing in Douglas from bullets fired by Sheriff Albert Peyton while the latter was in line of duty seeking to capture a man resisting arrest, was the verdict yesterday of the coroner's jury at Douglas following an inquest of the killing, A pen-printed bill of sale care- fully inscribed on a telegram blank, dated Casper, March 14, and convey- ing to Attorney W. H. Cobb of Cas- per for the consideration of $250 his equity in his home and property at 412 South Grant street, a house and lot on Glenarm street in North Casper, a lot which his 10-year-old son had been paying for on the in- stallment plan with money mado selling newspapers, and his Chev- rolet sedan, was produced publicly for the first ‘time yesterday at the Douglas inquest. This make-shift bill of sale’ bore two signatures— Fred Van Gorden and Pearle D. Van Gorden. It was obvious that an attempt had been made to show dissimilarity in the writing of the two names. Another feature of the inquest was the introduction of a brief note addressed by Van Gorden to the Wyoming Finance corporation. En- closed with the note was the claim check received for his car by Van Gorden when he placed it in the Overland garage in Douglas the night of his murders and the trip from Casper. It is probable that the Finance corporation was hand- PHOTOS OF ALBERTA LYNCH __FOUND IN VAN GORDEN SAFE MAKE SURVEY AUTOMOTIVE DEALERS READY FOR OPENING OF THIRD ANNUAL SHOW Casper Assured of Greatest Spectacle of Its Kind in History of State in Initial Showing Tomorrow Evening. BY SPARK PLUG Contestants in the greatest game in the. World, the struggle for public favor, will toe the mark at the Arkeon Monday evening and await the starter’s gun which will send them off to compete for honors in Casper’s Third Annual Automobile Show to be of four days duration and to con- tinue to hold sway among the city’s major attractions, Page Eleven.) a recent date, featured, itis under- stood, the inspection last night of the office of the late Fred Van Gor- den, slayer of his wife and young son, by representatives of insurance (Continued on Page Eleven.) SINCLAIR DEFIES SE N GORDEN UTI, DOUGLAS That Fred Van Gorden of Casper] ling the payment on the car for GLEAN BILL IN Van Gorden. It was further brought out that Van Gorden had inquired at the restaurant where he ate before going to his room in the La Bonte hotel, as to the condition of roads both west and south of Douglas. It appears that he counted upon mis- leading those whom he saw and really intended to take the early morning train from Douglas and make good his escape. Outside of these points practically nothing new was mentioned at the inquest. KIWANIANS LAY PLANS FOR FETE DENVER, Colo, March 22. — (United Press)}—Six thousand Ki- wanains and friends who will trek to Denver fyr the international con- vention on June 16 and 19 have rooms already reserved for them in Denver's leading hotels, Delegates wi'l pour in from all parts of the world, principally from this country and Canada, in 25 spe- cial trains. A total of 1,180 cities in this country will be represented among the visitors. PHYSICIAN FACES _ SERIOUS CHARCES Dr. James E. Roach Said to Have Padded Bills Sent State in One Case at Least; $5,000 Worth Dropped Practically $5,000 in physician’s claims against the state treasury under the workmen’s compensation act was promptly dropped Saturday by Dr. James E. Roach of Salt Creek in a hearing before Judge Robert R. Rose in which it was alleged that large discrepancies appeared be- tween amounts shown in the doctor’s bills and the amounts really due him for services actually; tled through the provisions of the rendered, workmen's compensation act, a An investigation of the case is|criminal charge of perjury will be to be made at once by County At-| brought against the Salt Creek phy- torney B. H. Foster and if he finds | sician, according to Mr. Foster. Dr. Roach guilty of falsification in] On March 4th, 19 workmen's making out statements that are set-l compensation claims were present- ed, each of which contained a bill for professional services rendered by Dr. Roach, Upon examination of the claims, Judge Rose became sus- piclous because the physician's bills were so large and the workmen's claims so small, an@ because of the fact that all the claims were from elght to twelve niontha old and had never been previously filed. Tabulation of the bills showed that the total time lost by ail the 19 workmen was 290 days, or only about 15 days on the average; that the total amount of compensacion to which the men in the 19 cases were entitled, was $421.23, or a little more than $20 per man, while the total amount of the physician's bills in the 19 was $2257.50, or about $126 in each case, In four of the 19 cases the injuries were not sufficlent to necessitate the loss of cases any time whatever, and yet in one of these cases where there was no loss .of time, the doctor’s bill was $75 ,in another $80, in another $40, and in another $90. The judge communicated with As- sistant Deputy State Treasurer Arthur Calverly, requesting that a reprenentative of the Cepartment be sent to Casper to investigate the claims. As a result, Malcolm Mc- in Casper about a week ago, and after interviewing a few of the workmen, a hearing was ordered by the court. Saturday morning testimony was taken in one case, after which Dr. Roach asked permission in open court to with draw his claims in all the cases involved. ‘The court-hearing Saturday morn- ing was in the case of S. R. Buett- (Continued on Page Eleven) Cuaig arrived Admiral Strauss Says on ‘Arrival Here That Definite Program for Teapot Will Await Thoro Inspection Definite action directed toward insuring conservation of production and proper and necessary operations in the Teapot Dome field will not be taken until after a thoroygh investigation has been made nent to its development, Rear Admiral Joseph Albert E. Watts of the Sinclair Con- solidated Oil company who yester- day qualified in Cheyenne as re- celvers of Teapot Naval Ol] reserve and who arrived here Saturday at 4:30 o'clock after having been layed enroute more than hours. Admiral Strauss in an interview with a Tribune representative soon after his arrival at the Henning hotel, stated that he will be in Cas- per several days, inspecting the Tea- pot Dome field and conferring with officials of the Bureau of Mines and the Mammoth Oil company. This Preliminary trip is to be followed by a journey to Washington where he will submit his report of recom. mendations to the federal govern- ment, he declared. Immediately af- terward he will return to Casper, he announced. Conversation with Mr. Watts who 4s vice president of the Sinclair Con- solidated Oil company and now a guest at the home of W. L. Connel- de- nine ly, vice president in charge of the operations of the Mammoth Oi] com. of the field and facts perti- geology and output, according to Strauss, United States Navy, and pany, brought out similar plans. It will be necessary, he declared, to obtain from al Judge T. Blake Kennedy at Cheyenne authority to proceed along the lines advised in the Teapot program which the ad- miral and he will prepare, to cover (Continued on Page Eleven.) Dodge Shannon, central figure in the hand axe case that has heen occupying the attention of a jury in district court since Friday noon, was found guilty of assault and battery yesterday afternoon, ‘The prosecution asked for a con- viction on the charge of assault with intent to kill and the jury was out five’ hours before bring: ing in the lesser NATE PROBERS Plans Laid for Contempt Proceedings Following Refusal of Oil Magnate to Answer Questions Put by Commit- tee; Statement Is Issued Re SE BY PAUL R. MALLON (United. Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 22.—Harry F. Sinclair today mittee ‘and the senate ceedings against Sinclair. tempt awaits return to Washington of Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special counsel in the oil cases. Sinclair admitted in his statement that he had loaned $25,000 in bonds to former Secretary of the. Interior Fall in 1923, that he had hired Fall and had giveh him $10,000 expenses to go to Russia after Fall left th cabinet, The outcome of Sinclair's re- fusal to testify may be a long court fight in which the right of any con- gressional investigating committee to summon and quiz witnesses may be the issue. When Sinclair was ordered to take the witness stand by unainmous vote of the committee this morning, he said: “I shall reserve any evidence I may be able to give for those courts to which you have deliberately re- ferred all questions over which you had any jurisdiction and shall re- spectfully decline to answer any questions propounded by your com- mittee.”” Senator Walsh then asked a few normal questions about the story that Sinclair gave Will Hays 75,000 shares of ofl stock for the republican campaign deficit; when Sinclair had first talked to Fall about the leases; if he transferred a large sum of money from New York to Washing. ‘on as rumored in connection wit slush fund reports. Sinclair declined to answer all of them on the ground—not that it would incrimjnate him—but that his counsel advised him not to. Sinclair was then excused Martin Littleton, his attorney, ed away from the committee this parting sally: “Thank you, gentlemen.” Soon after leaving the committee, Sinclair gave out his voluntary statement, in which he said that: 1, G. D, Wahlberg, his former secretary, had been “framed” by the Roosevelt family to testify against him. 2. Archie and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt had attempted ‘assassina- tion of my character.” 3. He paid $1,000,000 to Fred G Bonfils of Denver, for claims to Teapot Dome, because his lawyer so advised. He stated if there was “any fraudulent repre- sentations, or blackmail" proper re- dress would be sought in the courts. 4, He did not enter negotiations and bow- with invalidated with Fall for the lease of Teapot Dome as early as March, 1921. the month Fy took office. Several witnesses have indicated this.) itself to make him talk, ‘accusers, answered some of the questions the sen His refusal to testify before the committee w by Senator Ladd, committee chairman, la Fihal decision as to he came to hire Fall. He said he beleved Fall was a good lawyer. “As he then was a private citizen and ready to resume the practice of his profession,” said Sinclair “I saw no reason why I should not employ him as legal counsel in connection with the negotiations we were about to undertake with the Russian gov- ernmédnt.' The day started off with Sinclair and the committee at swords points, and ended when Chairman Ladd re- Ported the matter to the senate and officially declared that the commit- tee had decided to certify Sinclair for contempt. Senator Walsh, chief prosecutor, however, said that no step would be taken until the return of govern- ment counsel Pomerene and Rob- erts, who are west prosecuting sults against the leases. The committe Walsh said, would either certify Sin- clair to the senate for contempt or punish him themselves. Speaking of young Archie Roose- velt, who first aroused the sus- picions of the investigating commit- tee against Sinclair, the off mag- nate said: “Notwithstanding all the oppor- tunities and encouragement that I had given him, he never would and never’ could make good. Sinclair revealed that young Roo- sevelt's salary from the time he was first employed, graduated stca from $5,000 up to $15,000. Again he said: “This {s the man who attempted to assassinate my character by offer- ing as testimony before the commit tee suspicions and assumptions which he himself admitted to be without supporting witnesses. “During the last few months of his employment, tn splte of his rec- ord of failures I did not wish to dis charge him because {t. was reported to me that he. was looking for other employment and I was reluctant to damage his prospects before he could arrange another business con- nection. “In July, 1919, Theodore Roose- velt, the present assistant secretary of the navy, brought his brother Archie Roosevelt to me and request- I give Archie employment. Although the young man was equip. ped with no previous business ex- perience of any value to us, I acted on the request and took him into our organizatio I gave him op: portunities th: ) other man in our organization had and was en thusiastic in the hope that he would live up to expectations that I had regarding him. I tried him in one ed that Sinclair told in his statement howafter another pf the branches of our AXE WIELDER CONVICTED OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY ONLY and then in a statement assailing his ate probers wanted to ask him. as followed by a report to the senate ying the foundation there for contempt pro- whether he will be certified for con- ay Cribune FOUR SECTIONS—40 PAGES. NUMBER 35 SCOUTS TO scours 0 IINION TANK CAR carDENING|(OMPANY GIVES BIG EXPANSION by Boy Scouts of the city who come under the rating of “first class.” The chance has come for them to Fleet of Over 8,000 Cars for Petroleum Transportation to Be turn their idle time into profit— each may become a gardener or farmer according to his inclination. Ten acres of the Harry Free hold- ings in the old CY pasture will be turned over by Mr. Free to the scout organizations to be used for gardening. The land will be divid. ed into 40 plots of one-fourth acre each and scouts who are unable to secure work otherwise may take ad- vantage of an exceptional opportur: it 'G. M. Penley, county agricultural agent, will assist the scouts in every Operated Here. way possible and Earl C. Boyle has promised the use of a Fordson trac tor to Plough the land free of/ Ground has been broken The land is trrigable and wel! {fOr a $250,000 addition to adapted to the raising of garden|the Casper car repair shop truck. All applications must be injof the Union Tank Car com- by April 15 pany. When completed June 15, the plant will steada ily employ 250 car repairers. Completion cof the projected tms Provement willasake the shops here of the Union company the largest tank car shops In the United States, it is understood, the confirmation of which is found in the slogan, “Casper ships more oil by rail than any other eity in the world.” Assault and battery carries with {t/a maximum. penalty of a $100 This announcement which comes fine and six months tn jail or both as a major indication of the tre« mendous busine Shannon will probably be sen- 3 boom prosperity tenced ‘Tuesday. ai ea has in store for Casper this sum A “auchyeil mer, was made Saturday evening The charge was the outcrop o: " Ag Re tere P of Iby C. H. James, superintendent | pf party at Evansville ember during which Steve @ in the head the company's shops here. Foundation work which Involves the pouring of concrete, will be un- dertaken just as soon as there is a modification in the weather. Tha new structure will measure 185 hy 600 feet and adjoins the present plant southwest of the Standard re, fineries on a lease bordering the Platte river. To push the work of construction 85“men are to be ems ployed by the Austin Construction company to which the contract hag been awarded. Inthe past the tank car coms ‘pany has depended upon the Stand ard for steam with which to oper- ate. Following the installation of a boiler house, electric and alr com. Pression plants, the company will ‘ have a conyplete unit. Where there were from 6,000 to 7,000 tank cars operating in and out of Casper Inst summer, it is estimated that during the coming summer the fleet will be increased to a number lying between 8,000 and 9,000 cars. ‘The new repair shops of the Union Tank Car company which {s a New York corporation active where ever there is oi! to transport by rail, will have a daily capacity of 150 cars. On the company's proper- ty there are tracks sufficient to place 200 cars in reserve. By June it is expected that everything will be in readiness for full time operatio’ pet ahcitlin sw P RSD BANKER GETS SENTENCE TO U. S. PRISON CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 22.—~ Lewis Carr Butler, sentenced today |to 15 months in the federal peniten- tury at Leavenworth by Judge T. Blake Kennedy for misappropri tion of funds of the defunct First National Bank of Rock River, Wyo. filed a petition for a writ of error -Jané provided $10,000 bond. ‘The sentence against Jutler was pro+ nounced in United States district court here after Judge Kennedy had overruled a motion for a new trial, $50,000 WORTH STOLEN DRUGS ARE RECOVERED Fort Russell Pair on Way To Be Rich When Caught Selling Big Supply Stolen from Field Kits CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 22.—Recovery of drugs valued at $50,000 at wholesale prices was coupled with the arrest here today of John H. Ziemens, supply ser- geant at Fort D. A. Russell, and L. Dreher, a cook at the fort, by federal and state law enforcement officers. Both men confessed to the theft and sale of the drugs, which with a hand a: defied the senate oil com- business and each time without suc- ceas,”” Continuing, he sald: “I have read the testimony of Mr, Wahlberg and I think the evidence clearly shows that Wahlberg, to use a common expression, was ‘framed’ by the Roosevelts, But he defeated their purpose when he denied mak- ing the statement attributed to him by the Roosevelts in reference to the $68,000 paymen: French Senate Approves Bill PARIS, March 22.—After the chamber had adopted minor changes| in the senate, the latter body finally passed the program by a vote of 142 to 12 at 10:30 o'clock tonight. Weather Forecast WYOMING—Cloudy and unsettled Supday and Monday, occasional snow; little change in temperature. were taken from field kits stored|agent for $192. The transfer was n an army warehouse at Fort | witne everal officers from ssel an ir om Dret {t is sald, implicated tolen drugs had an agegre- Ziemens in the illicit traffic on be-| gate va f half a million dollars ing arrested after he sold 32 tubes|at prices at which they are retailed of morphine ta a federal narcotic!to habitual users,