Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 1

: A Newspaper for All the Family, Ciean, U nbiased, and a Booster for City, County-and State The Weather ~ Sunday, probably snow west and north portions. Not much change in temperature OLUME Vill. NINE DEAD, SCOR CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924 (dao, FIVE STATES > & co HH aiei5 Y FILES RELATING] Federal Coure|NOINQUESTHELONECESSARYIN TO REVOLUTION. F'or This City} DOUBLE TAAGEDY OF YESTERDAY AD ARE SECRET Department of Justice Records Considered In Private Today. WASHINGTON, March 29.—A disposition to apply the brakes to its public dis- closures was apparent when the senate’s Daugherty com- mittee resumed its inquiry 0 the official acts of the former attorney general. Instead of examining confidential files of the justice department in public, as originally plarined,. the committee decided to consider in executive session. F dent Coolidge and Mr. Daugherty re- sulting in the latter's retirement. W. B. Burns, chief of the justice.depart. ment's bureau of investigation had deen “to lay the files be- The titness said he had met Wil! A. Orr of New York at “the green house on K Street.” Mannington lived at the “green house” he said. He told of “inter: Yceding with Mannington to obtain an appointment as commissioner of immigration for Philip Giordiano, also of New York, and of being taken to see Daugherty. Chairman Brookhart, questioning the witness in the absence of the committee prosecutor, Senator ‘Wheeler of Montana, who was kept at home by illness, asked if Maning- ton had asked for moncy. “Nothing was ever said about money,” Cimino replied. He had acted on behalf of Glor- diano as a candidate both for tm- migration commissioner at New York and for Commissioner General of immigration, the witness said. Cimino also sought to procure through Daugherty stenographic contracts in the New York federal courts, he said, for two stenogra- phers named Price and Moore. “They paid me money from time ’" Cimino said of Price and Moore, “it ran from $1,000 to $1,500," He said they got some of the stenographic contracts. Chairman Brookhart took up the S New York bootlegging conspiracy. Ghe witness said he had complained to Mannington because “everybody seemed to be getting something out’ of ft," and Mannington told him “to go over.to New York and see what I could do.” He then went to see Orr who told him “tLere way nothing Cimino also sought to get some of hia friends appointed prohibition “Now you met Orr and Goroni during their trial, and Orr told you everything was fixed?” Chairman Brookhart asked, referring to pro- secutions on the liquor permit tran- sactions. “No, he told me it would be all right,” Cimino said. Asked if he remembered a whiskey @eal “where Mortimer got $100,000" the witness replied: “I overheard a conversation where (Continued on Page Four) Is Promising) Federal court for Casper once each year and the ap- pointment of a resident deputy, are the provisions of a bill reported to the house committee. Reason for yesterday by the house: judiciary the necessity of these measures is contained in the*committee’s report which says, in part: “In the hearings before the committee it was shown that In the last 10. years the city of Casper has grown in population from 2,600 to 32,000 and the city ts at present twice the szle of the capi- tal of the state. “The bill has the approval of the United States district judge for the district of Wyoming.” 5 Proposal that federal court ses- sions be held in Casper dates back ro less than eight years, efforts having been put forth by M. P. Wheeler, United States district court commissioner here, on several occasions to have one of Wyoming's representatives in congress secure the enaction of such a measure. ————$—$—=— ROVE CASE I HANDS OF JURY The trial of Walter W. Royce, councilman from the First watd, for liquor violations went to the jury today at noon after occupying the attention of the court since yester- day morning. - The state finished its side of the case last night and the defendant himself was the only witness for the defense this morning. The state's eviderce showed that various amounts of Hquor had’ been stored in and removed from the warehouse on West B. street of which Royce was the manager, Royce on the stand this morning denied having had any knowledge of Nquor being stored in the warehouse at any time during his tenure as manager. FIVE MISSING IN SNOWSLIDE SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 29.—Four or five persons are miss- ing and are believed to be dead in a snow slide in Provo canyon, south of Salt Lake City early today, ac- cording to reports’ received here. Fifty persons are sald to have been caught in the slide but all but four or five haye been rescued alive. The mishap occurred at Bridal Veil and a bridge across the Provo river was wrecked and a portion of the Denver and Rio Grande rail- Toad tracks are said to have been covered. 5 ’ THREE MINERS ARE TRAPPED CLARKSBURG, W. Va., March 29.—Threo men are known to have been entombed today when an ex- plosion of gas wrecked a section of Penshaw. mine number 1 on Biga- mon creek, near Shinnston, W. Va. Other miners may have been trap- ped in the workings, it was said. None secured action on the matter, however, Casper's claims for the most part being ignored despite the fact that the taking of Casper and central Wyoming cases to Cheyenne adds needless expense to the fed- eral judiciary in this state. Representative Charles E. Winter introduced the measure just re- Ported out by the house committee and local interests are hopeful that its enaction will be recorded. <A favorable report by the house com- mittee is a long step toward this ‘goal. THREE ARRESTED WW ANOS BY THE POLICE} Three raids were executed by the police department last night, liquor being obtained as evidence in each instance. Anna McCarthy was taken at 110 West Yellewstone. She had concealed several, bottles of moonshine beneath the stairs of her house, it is sald. Bessie Layer was arrested at 434 South Kimball street. A gallon of liquor was obtained in pint bottles. It also was cached. J. E. Phelps, rear of 221 North Center street, had two quarts of moonshine in his place: A quantity of fake government labels were also uncovered. British Flyer Will Resume Tour Sunday ROME, March 29.—The repairs to Stuart MacLaren's round-the-world airplane which arrived here yester- day, are expected to be completed tomorrow, when the British aviator and his companions hope to resume their flight in the direction of Brain- disi. Investigation Of Solons To Be Postponed WASHINGTON, March 29.—The house committee appointed to in- vestigate charges of wrong doing by members of congress, has put off until next week its decision as to procedure but it expected to be- gin with the allegations of bribery made before a Chicago grand jury against’ Representative ZihIman, Re- publican, Maryland. The committee adjourned yester- day until Wednesday. LIVES OF 125 MINERS IN EXPLOSION AVED BLUEFIELD, W. Va., March 29.— ‘The presence of mind of T. J. Daw- son, who three weeks ago became superintendent of the Yukon-Poc- ahontas Coal company at Yukon, W. Va., today is credited with saving the lives of 125 miners in number 1 mine yesterday when an explosion claimed the lives of 26 men in num- ber 2 mine. Only six of the men in number 2 mine escaped. When the blast came, Superinien- dent Dawson was near the entry leading between the two mines. Realizing what had happened, he rushed into number 1 to warn the men there. Some of these workers were injured when they were knock- ed down by the force of the explos- fon. All the bodies of the victims were recovered last night from the mine, which was thé scene of a similar disaster in 1919 when 18 lives were snuffed out, Rescue work was at first done by volunteer teams from nearby mines and later was in charge of the crew of the United States bureau of mines rescue car from Nemours. Officials of the company and mine inspectors who. have been in the mine since the explosion, believe the explosion was caused by the head lamps of three miners who took a short gut through an abandoned Working, to their places of work. D. Mortimer Dies of Self-Inflicted Wound | At County Hospital Hour After Killing Girl While Insanely Jealous. No inquest will be held {nto the double tragedy of Friday afternoon in which Lee D. Mortimer, business college instructor, shot and killed Norma Ford, g'rl student, while in- sanely jealous and then sent a bul- let crashing into his own brain. Mortimer died at 4:55 o'clock at jthe County hospital about an hour after the tragedy was enacted on West Midwest avenue wher the couple were walking. Coroner Lew M. Gay said this morning that an inquest would not be necessary. The facts as they have already been gathered are considered conclusive. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Miss Ford leaves a mother, Mrs. —_——. Bergdoll Shows Up at Eberbach Hotell Today After Being Reported to Have Sailed Blanche Ford, 1028 South Street; a father, Walter Ford of Cody, Wyo.; a grandmother, Mrs, Rosa Ford, 1008 East Second street; aumts and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. King, 1026 East Second stree' Mr, and Mrs. Hal Ford, 1304 South Odk street, and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ford, 1105 East C street: sisters, Mrs. H. J. Rafferty and Vera Ford, and q cousin, George Rafferty, Relatives who survive Mr. Mort! mer, are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Mortimer, 1211 East Sec- ond street, a sister, Mrs. William A. Walnut Bryant, a brother, Walter O. Mor- timer, president of the Casper Bus!- ness college, and another brother, Mark Mortimer, circulation man: ager of the Tribune. for America EBERBACH, Germany, March 29.—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the American draft evader,; whose departure from his hotel here early in the week was responsible for reports that he was on his way to the United States, re- turned to the hotel today. He said he was not making any preparations to return to the United States. He said that although he was pre- pared to return to the United States under certain conditions, the pro- posals made to him from unofficial quarters failed to impress him as genuine. He and his three com- panions, the Stechter brothers, pre- ferred to await something more tangible in assurances that they would not be dealt with too severely. pial Alea Mayor S. K. Loy to Address Church The congregation of Grace Afri- can’ Methodist church ars to be fa- vored with an address by Mayor Loy at the Sunday evening serv- foe. While the mayor has not an- nounced the subject of his address he will vossibly speak along the line of Ixw enforcement. A large congregation {is expected to be pres- ent to hear the mayor. Self-Examina- tion Some times we need examinction and a frank diagnosis by a good physician. But we all nearly always need self examination made frankly, without fear or favor. The advertising merchant has to think. He must constantly examine and re-examine this Policy and that. He followed one line and things went well, almost by accident he followed a different lead and the Public “ate it up," and then lo and behold his very pet scheme goee “gang a’giee.” Business men with vision of a goal, advertising and serving the public as the method of reaching that goal subject themselves and their plans to constant examina- tion. Advertising right develops more momentum, more horse power. Driving a high powered motor, may be a crash if you don't how to steer. ibune takes pride in its advertisers who know how to em- pley the power of advertising to build great community institu tions, | FOUR DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK NEWARK, Ohio, March 29.—Four Baltimore and Ohio trainmen were reported killed when a freight train on the Shawnee division went through a bridge south of here to- day. High water was said to have caused the trestle to give way. Sr er MEX REBELS ARE OUSTED MEXICO CITY, March 29.—The rebels have been forced to evacuate several strong positions on the road to Oaxaca City, owing to the federal offensive begun on Wednesday, say dispatches to the War Department. They give evidence, however, of in- tending to offer further res stance, and General Jesus Aguirre has been ordered to co-operate in the cam- paign. OIL PROBE IN RECESS WASHINGTON, March 29.—The senate oil committee was in recess today until Tuesday, when it plans to question William Boyce Thomp- son, former chairman of the finance cammittee ‘of the Republican nat- fonal committee about the lquida- tion of the Republican deficit in curred in the 1920 campaign, FRENCH SHIP. IN DISTRESS , NORFOLK, Va., March 29, — coast guard cutter Mar here today in response to distress signals from the French steamship Guurs, reported leaking about 55 miles off Cape Charles, Che Casper Daily Tritnow Situation Now who complied immediately. The decis barrassment was not sudden. He came to the conclusion that the use- fulness of Mr. Daugherty as attorney general came to an end with the re- cent revealtions but out of deference to the wishes of party leaders and politicians, Mr, Coolidge felt obligat- ed to give Mr. Daugherty a chance to be heard. The pretext on which the resigna- tion was requested was not Iong tn coming. Mr. Daugherty furnished it himself by refusing to discloss the files of his correspondence and the records of his bureaus. The senate investigating committee demanded them. Mr. Daugherty asked the president's support in refusing to give up records declaring it would be ‘incompatible with the public in- terest” Mr. Coolidge said he couldn't decide such a question on the advice of a man who had a personal interest documents, SLACKER STILL IN GERMANY in suppressing official Executioner Of Britain Quits Place LONDON, March Eliis, the official hangman of Great Britain, has resigned his job but has not given any reason. For over 23 years he held the position, and dozens of criminals, notorious and otherwise, passed through his hands to their doom, among whom were Crippen, Roger Casement and Edith Thompson, the last woman executed in Eng- land. His fee for dispatching a crimi- nal was fifty shillings and an- other fifty shillings for “good con- duct." The latter amount was paid in consideration of the fact that he was forbidden to stay at a public house near the scene of an execution and earn a commis- sion for attracting custom as was the executioneer’s privilege in former years. Ellis is a breeder of poultry and it is said that he is so devoted to his birds that he gets a friend to wring the necks of those he wants to kil. iW’CRAY ASKED FUND AS LOAN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 29. —I. Newt Brown, secretary of the state board of agriculture, who tes- tifled yesterday at the trial of Gov- ernor McCray, charged with embez- zlement of’ $155,000 from the funds of the state board of agriculture, that the executive solicited the money from the board as a loan for the Discount and. Deposit State bank of Kentland, Ind., testified again today. The prosecution 1s alleging that the governor recelved money as a loan or. deposit for the Kentland bank and that by converting it to his own use embezzled the amount, The defense contends the money was a personal loan. 29.— John on of the president to relieve himself of em- EDITION Altho assiduously endeavoring to sive the impression that he was not trying to “prejudge the issues” in the Daugherty controversy. Mr. Coolidge did make it clear that what had happened had mhde the attorney general of little use to him in dis- charging the duties of the presi- dency in which oftice legal opinions on vital matters concerning the whole government are asked almos' dally of the department af justice. Mr. Daughertys retirement was urged many weeks ago by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican leader, on the ground that the country must have confidence in the department of justice and would not feel that confidence if the conduct of the attorney general himself were under investigation, From all parts of the country letters have been coming telling the administration that every day Harry Daugherty stayed in the cabinet the Democrats were making votes and that Coolidge's ‘strength was dim- inishing. Mr.-Daugherty ts a force. ful personalt: He is one of the “wheel horse: of the Republican He-is influential “in Olio Politics, He was instrumental fn having Warren Harding nominated to the presidency. Such « man Wasn't ¢asy to eliminate and Mr. Coolidge's New England conscienco battled hard with the expediencice of Pre-convention politics. Today the friends of the president were pointing to hig action as a sign of the real Coolidge who dared to fly in the face of the party zealots. It {s an act of repudiation of one of the origional Harding men which will, no doubt, cause considerable resentment in the Republican ranks but the losses may be offset by the gains and Mr. Coolidgo's friends are superemely confident that on the day after the defeat in South Da- kota, their chieftain has expressed himeelf forcefully for clean govern. ment. The incident ts not without tts tragic aspects. Harry Daugherty 1s a likeable individual who has many friends in official iffe, friends de- voted to him and believing in his integrity. When the investigation is completed they contend it will be found that he was a victim not of Personal greed but of eagerness to serve his friends.. To their imposi- (Continued on Page Four) MAS. ROBT. M. COCHRANE WIFE OF AVIATOR, DIES AT, CASPER HOSPITAL Mrs, Robert M. Cochrane, 40 years of agegdied at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afterson at a local hospital follow- ing @he birth of a baby daughter the day previous, She is survived by her husband, who !s well known in this section as an aviator, the infant child, a brother, three sisters, and her parents, Parents of the deceased are Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Gearhart, 1225 East second street. The brother is Charles Gearhart of Vancouver, Wash., and the sisters are Mrs. C. C. Creelin and Mrs. J. B. Brungard Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs. A. Bobst of Schenectady, N. Y. The funeral will be held from the Muck funeral home at 2 o'clock Mon- day afternoon, the Rev. Robert Allingham officiating. The body will then be shipped to Red Cloud, eb., for burial, NUMBER 134 ES INJURED IN WIND STORMS SOFT PEDAL USED IN PROBE Cleared With Daugherty Out BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune) WASHINGTON, March 29.—President Coolidge has jended an intolerable situation for himself and the Repub- lican party by heeding the demand of congress and re- questing the resignation of Attorney General Daugherty, PROPERTY L055 WILL RUN INTO HUGE TOTAL IN MANY DISTRICTS 400 Students Narrowly Escape Death in Okla- homa Tornado; One Death Only in Kansas. CAIRO, Tinois, March 29—(By the Associated Press)—Three littia towns in McCracken county, Ken- tucky, have been wiped out by the windstorm which is still sweeping down from the northwest, according to meager reports reaching here, over the only telephone wire into that county still in tact. Towns named as destroyed are Heath, Maxon and Lamotte, whose total population is less than 1,000, BULLETIN. CHARLESTON, Mo., March 29, —Three persons were Killed, 15 in- jured and many miles of tele phone wires and other property damaged, in a wind storm which swept through southeastern Mis- souri early today. KANSAS. CITY, Mo. March 29.—Nine persons dead, between 75 and 100 in- jured, several probably fa- tally, and property damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. is the toll of the tornado and wind storms which swept part of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Illinois, late yes- terday and last night. Eight persons were killed and more than 70 injured at Shawnee, Okia., where 200 homes in the best residential section were destroyed Four hundred students {n a high school there narrowly escaped death or serlous injury when they wero dismissed only a few minutes before the building was demolished. The Janitor, the only person in the build- ing was in the basement and escap- ed injury. A small boy narrowly escaped death, when at the first sign of the storm, he jumped Into a refrigerator shortly before his home was wrecked. The storm traveling in a north. easterly direction, struck Prague and Noble, Okla., injuring five per- sons and causing heavy property damage. Only one death was reported in Kansas, a boy being killed by light- ning at Goff, but property damage running into thousands of dollars was caused at Harper, Attica, Elks Falls and at Griesfield, where every home was destroyed. Four persons were injured at Ver- non, Tex., where considerable prop- erty damage was done by a wind storm. Wire communication in some sections of Texas is sald to be bad- ly crippled. At Alton, IIL, one person was in- jured and several buildings {n the business district unroofed when a storm struck there last night. Some property damage was also reported in St. Louts. Heavy rain falls were reported in Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas. Rescue parties have been organ- ized in Shawnee by clvic bodies and it was believed by noon today the devastated district would have been covered and any additional fatal- itles discovered, SCORES OF TOWNS REPORTED ISOLATED. “CHICAGO, March 29.—Scores of towns and cities in the northwest snd Mississippi valley regions are virtually isolated today, the result of storms which have seriously crippled wire communication and delayed trains. amage to crops is feared in some sections of South Dakota and Min- (Continued on Page Four) LAVOYE HOLDUPS ARE CAUGHT AND IDENTIFIED J. F. Harris and Fred Keefer were arrested Friday afternoon at Snyder and positively identified by Mrs. Marie Bell of pair who held her up in her place Thursd: ev 1g and shot her in the hip dur! the holdup. The rob- bers took $100 in cash and two rings from the woman's fingers after she had been shot, Lavoye as the Harris and Keefer were brought to the Natrona county jail last night by Dick Vance, deputy sheriff who made the arrests, but denied all participation in the holdup. The’ identification was made by Mrs. Bell as sho lay in bed at t Midwest hospital at Salt Creek yes- tercay afternoon. She said that Keefer was unmasked at the time and that he was the man that had shot her, Mrs. Bell {s reported to be dcing nicely and her prompt re- covery from the pistol wound {fs ex- ¢ the money nor the rings found on the men when t were arrested. They were in a res- taurant at the time they were ar- rested and had changed their clothes since the time of the holdup.