Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING—Unsettled. to- night and Friday, probably light rain or snow. Some- what colder Friday. VOLUME VIII. (duos) yy, SUI oeig: CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1924. A Newspaper for All the Family, Ciean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State ** Che Casper Daily Tribune FR (AIRCRAFT COUNSEL ‘FIRED’ FOR INTEREST IN FEDERAL PROBE John Economu Pleads Guilty to Man- slaughter for Killing Partner Who Bilked Him In Poolhall Deal CAPITAL LEW DEFEATED BY BRITISH HOUSE Commons in All Night Session to Consider Many Measures. ,,John Economou, Greek, who shot and killed Thomas Miller, his partner in a poolroom on West First street, February 26, pleaded guilty to manslaughter this morning before Judge C. O. Brown and was given a sentence of eight to 20 years in the.state penitentiary. C. D. Murane, his attorney, in presenting the plea this morning stated that if the case came; testify that Miller had a gun in his to trial on the first degree murder|Posession at the time he was killed charge which was filed that he| 24 that tt was in his hand when he would produce witnesses that would fell. This would make a conviction on a first degree charge improbable. The fact that Economou is a man BURNING SHIP well along in years and that his a health hag been very bad since he underwent a major operation last December was urged on the judge is asking leniency in the sentence. The killing came as a result of a business dedi in which Economou ts sald to have been bilked out of ap- proximately $1,200. He shot Miller ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, April 3— (By The Associated Press.)—The British steamship Frangestan has been abandoned on fire in the Red sea and the,1,200 pilgrims aboard “her transferred to the steamer Clan Mac Iver, says a message to Lloyds ia from~thé latter vessel. The LONDON, April 3.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.}—The howfse of com- mons rose at 5:20 a. m. today after fan all night session during which it rejected the policy of a capital vy, the chief labor plank in the last election, by a vote of 325 to 160. Action camé on‘ conservative mo- tion, designed to force the govern- ment to define its attitude on the question. Johnson Robert Clines, govern- ment leader in the house, admitted that the laborites bay not’ hope for the passage of such a measure in tho-present parliament but main- tained that the country would ultt- mately be forced to. ing burden of debt. : ies Miss Margaret Bondfi Dorothy Jewson and Lady Terring- ton stuck to thelr posts throughout the session. Most of the discussion concerned the army and air force*annual bill to which the extremists proposed several amendments. They were re- jected. ™ One sought to abolish the death malty for desertion, cowardice and ar offenses in war time. <An- er would give a condemned sol- ‘ dier the right of appeal to a civil court. The third. proposed that upon enlistment @ soldier be given the option of refusing duty if called to aid the civil power in connection with a trade dispute. The amendments were moved and debated over the’ government's pro- tests. The government aided otherwise inevitable defeat in connection with the rent bill by consenting to re- vision of the clause, objected to by both the Mberals and conservatives, providing that = tenant should not be Mable to eviction for non-payment of rent when such failure to pay was due to inability to obtain employment. The government announced that it was prepared to substitute a clause throwing the cost of main- taining the poor unemployed work- men upon the public. Further dis- cussion was postponed. ASSAULT WITH INTENT 0 ILL 1S -GHARGE FILED AGAINST PAIR J. F. Harris and Fred Keefer were yesterday formally charged with as- sault with intent to kill as the re- sult of the shooting of Mrs. Marte Bell at Lavoye last week. The shooting took place during e@ holdup in Mrs. Bell's’ house when sho was robbed of $100 in cash and two rings. She was hit in the hip but is recovering nicely from the wound. She positively identified one of the pair now under arrest as hav» ing been the man that shot her. He was unmasked, according to Mrs. Bell, while the other man had a handkerchief over his fac Keefer and Marris were arrested two days after the shooting at New nine times, emptying one gun and then going jnto action with a second. Mac Iver is proceeding with {the passengers to Port Said. Miller died almost body being riddled with bullets. ‘The pilgrims are bound for Jed- dah, the seaport of Mocca, tho Eeonomou’s trial was set down Mohammedan holy city: ee for April 21, a continuance of a month having been granted to per- mit the defense to produce material witnesses. —_—___ SAN SALVADOR, April 3.—A dis- patch from La Esperanza says the revolutionary general, egorlo Ferrera, has been compelled’ by heavy artillery fire from the defacto government troops holding Teguci- galpa to withdraw and seck a bet- ter porition from which to prepare for another attack on the capital. a MOTORCYCLE GOP HURT IN STREET ACCIDENT Rex Mullenix, motarcycle police- man, has an injured leg as the re- sult of-turning over last night when he struck the curb with his ma- chine. This is the second man on the loéal force to be thus injured recently. Roy Plummer was able torreturn to work today after hav- ing been off duty for more than a week following a similar accident. several months ago charged with maintaining a gambling establish. ment in West Casper, yesterday pleaded guilty and was fined $300 and costs by Judge C. O. Brown in district court, Contas was to have been tried for the offense next week Jap Warships In Collision TOKIO, April 3.—{By The Asso- clated Press.}—The superdread- naughts Nagato and Mutsu, prides of the Japanese navy collided du ing minor maneuvers off the islan¢ of Kyushu and both were damaged, said an official report today. There were no casualties. The accident, due to high seas, took place during towing exercises while the flagship Nagato was draw- ing the other vessel. Both battle. ships made Kagoshima bay and after being patched up were able to sail. Secure; Town BY HERBERT LINCOLN Springs. especiaily “fast” town and has made no pretense at being y Five Hun- du! 14 in dancing in tho hotel ball | have played bridge and Balt i: speseay So doamiey: abarith eae cae Jaze, thay |4red and maybe poker, and it prob- — tie’ Rallies : ably has not been unusually diffi. cult to obtain the best known by- product of the corn field. But such few vices and near vices as Sulphur Springs may have had are slated for the axe under the new regime, No dancing, no card playing, no jazz music, no more hooch drinking, no more tipping of walters—yes, that’s an evil too—no profanity—and no “rough stuff.” ‘That's the new order of the day, as set forward by the new proprietor, There will be tennis, swimming, boating, fishing, horse back riding, and music of the classical and near classical variety. There will be bands and orchestras at the hotel, and there will be an occasional gi (Continued is | Page Four) IOWA DEMOS IN STATE MEETING DAVENPORT, Iowa., April 3.— An Iowa Jelegation to the Demo- cratic national convention. in New York next June favorable to the Presidential candidacy of William G, McAdoo was apparently assured to- day when nine of the eleven con- é Sressional districta in Pre-conven- tion caucuses named delegates who favor the election of Clyde L. Her- ring of Des Moines, McAdoo's Iowa manager, as this state's national committeeman. A. J. Power is a Colorado Springs business man in the city this wee! for several days, _ LAYER DRAWS FROM 8 TO 20 YEARS Political Expediency Ignored by Coolidge Harlan Fiske Stone Chosen for Attorney General as Man to ~ Be Trusted and One of Ablest Lawyers In the Country; Kenyon Seriously Considered ‘BY DAVID LAWRENCE, (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune). WASHINGTON, April 3.—President Coolidge has decided upon the type of man he wants for attorney general. Unless present plans go awry, the man will be Harlan instantly, his Aleck Contas, who was arrested Student Morals Made (Copyright, 1924, The Casper. Tribune) LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 3.—To establish a university with a morally ideal at- mosphere and to develop a summer resort devoid of all worldly evils, John E, Brown; widely known educator and evangelist has purchased the entire town of Sulphur The Sulphur Springs of the past, fairly well known as a resort, has not been an Fiske Stone, former dean of the law school of Columbia University, New York City, whose appoin:ment was sent to the senate yesterday for confirmation. The president has had a battle between political expediency and the dictates of his legal training. Knowing that the head of the department of justice should be the best available lawyer, in the K F country. Mr. Coolidge has felt that he could not use the prospective ap. pointment as a means of reconciling With the jury in the Ray T.|two sets of witnesses are the same. Grace liquor violation casé seeming- Mrs. W. 8. Grace, who collapsed the two political factions of the Re- publican party The opportunity for an expression of his political friend- ship for the west will be given when the time comes to select a vice presidential cancidate and there is no concealment of the fact that Mr. Coolidge would be highly pleased if ly deadlocked at 3 o'clock this after-| yesterday following her testimony,| Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa noon after being out 234%hours, sthe} gram in -court .againé this 2) Were} to-be his runing mate. ‘The trial of W. 8. Grace, father of Ray,| She ts the principal witness for the| present gave an indication of how on the same charge, was proceed-| defense. he fhels toward the former rena- ing rapidly. The testimony for the prosecution and the defense in this case is most identical with that of the first Grace trial. The state contends that W. 8. Grace, in whose house the Mquor was found, had a hand in the remoyal of it and Is there- fore & party to the law violation. The defense assérts that Orville Grace, Who died last October 31, was the sole representative of the Grace family interested in the liquor. The ‘The jury in the Ray T. Grace trial is reported to have taken innumer- able ballots without having been able to come to a decision. Judge Brown has given no indication of how long he wil} ask them to stay out without reporting. It is presum- ed however, that when the second caso goes to the jury that the first jury will be discharged. ‘There are not large enough tuarters in the courthouse to handle two juries out on cases at the same time. tor from Towa when he asked him to be secretary of the navy recently. The argument for the appoint. ment of Kenyon as attorney general was strong and there is no doubt that the choice has been between tho Iowa judge and Dean Stone. But the deciding influence has been legal ability and talent of adminis- tration. Some idea of Dean Stone's position in the legal world can be obtained when it is realized that (Continued from Page Four.) LA FOLLETTE HOLDS LEAD Coolidge Swamped In Wisconsin In Vote For Delegates-at-Large But Wins Two District Delegates The Inner Circle The salesman calling on trade spends a great part of his time kidding the outer guard. The man he wants to see is hidden behind stained glass parti- tions, “busy” or “én conference.” Newspaper selling contends with no barriers of any kind. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 8.—(By The Associated Press).—Returns from 1,161 precincts out of 2,575 in Wisconsin for Republican delegates at large to the Cleve- land convention give LaFollette 154,323 ; Coolidge 69,842.| The newspaper follows the big. Two district delegates pledged to the support of Presi-| fYhtin, ‘ dent Calvin Coolidge were elected in the first district, com-| The newspaper is invited into idge) 13,880 and Scott (Coolidge) 13,- 310, Presidential delegate to the Democratic convention, pledged to Governor Al Smith of New York, carried the city of Mil- waukee over the McAdoo delegate list by 5,293 votes, with but 21 pre- cincts of the 242 city precincts miss- ing. In the state, lMkewise, maintaining a comfortable Plete returns from that district re- celved today show. The total for the district giv Christoph (La Follette) 11,007; Coop- er (LaFollette) 12,836; Craig (Cool- the most exclusive and influential circles, Selling through advertising is not resisted—thero is nd talking back—no argument; just the sow- ing of frult-bearing seed in the oren mind. The selling talk in The Tribune is invited daily into the circle of thousands of readers, who are buyers of what you have to sell, candidates Smith, is lead in Glendo State Bank Opened For Business The Glendo state bank reopened its doors April 1 after being closed since February according to a statement by Byron S. Hute, state bank examiner, on his arrival in Casper yesterday afternoon. The bank losses totalled $16,000 at the time it closed all of which was made god by the sharehold- ers and others interested in the establishment. Deposits totalled more than $5,- 000 the reopening day and the bank has every prospect. of suc- cess undér its new officers which include Gordon C. Wilson, presi- dent and director; Henry J. Hu- ghes, vice-president and director; James A. Carney, cashier; George M. Black, J, W. Vaudrey and H. Cundall, directors, Ie) hs TE ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA DIES IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, April 3.—The body of an elderly man who died in a Bronx hospital Monday under the NUMBER 138. FILES OT RIPPED Ot PAPERS ON CAGE, WITNESS TELLS PROBERS Adjustment of Lincoln Motor Case Is Also Criticized Severely by Senate Witness. WASHINGTON, April 3. —The storm swept course of the Daugherty investigating committee took a sudden turning today which led it into a swirl of charges and recriminations centering in the war department. Thomas F. Lane, until a few days ago legal adviser to Major General Patrick, chief of the army air ser- vice, testified that when he refused to comply with an order ‘to “stay away” from the committee he was | name of O. N. Orlow, doctor of} dismissed from the air service and philosophy, but whose death certi-|his desk and brief case rifled of ficate beara the name of Johann| valuable papers bearing on aircraft Salvator, long mysteriously missing | transactions, 4 archduke of Austria, is to Me in St. Andrews chureh in Fifth Ave- nue, So strong is the conviction among his friends that ho was the arch- duke, that some of them propose to keep his body in a vault so that a small birthmark on his right arm may establish his identity forever later when the royal documents are found, it is said. As far as possible, it ts stated, the funeral will be accompanied by the honors to which an archuduke is en- titled. Miss Grace Wakefield, 51-year- old ward of the “archduke,”” who committed suicide the day after his death, will be cremated with two parrots and a pet spaniel, drowned by her just before she killed herself. The Vicomte Henry De Fries, an Austrian nobleman and friend of “Orlow” said today he was con vinced the distinguished and cour: teous elderly man was the archduke. He also said he and several other persons of Noble birth would at- tend his funeral services. z pot se eichccs otc CONVICTED MEN TAKEN TO RAWLINS PRISON a James A, Herman, convicted of manslaughter, and J. H. Daily, con victed of a holdup, during the pres: ent term of court, were taken yes terday to the state penitentiary at Rawlins to begin serving thetr’ sen. tences, Herman was given eight to rs and Dally six and a half to ears, Counsel for Herman announced an appea} after the trial but has been unable to raise the $20,000 bond demanded by the court, Re- gardiess of whether or not an ap- peal will be taken Herman will have to spend the intervening time at the penitentiary. early returns today. EPIDEMIC HITS MEXICAN Bought REGION Fiery VERA CRUZ, April 3.—Advices received here state that an epidemic of black smallpox has broken out on the isthmus of Tehauntepec and that there have been a Inrge num- ber of deaths from the disease. Re- ports form Orizaba say that small- pox also is prevalent there. Four cases of the disease were re- ported in Vera Cruz today. such. But its guests have Tribune Advertising Given Credit In an interview with H. E. Grude of the Baker-Grnde In- vestment company, as to the reason for their success in putting over Mountain View Suburb resulting in sales of over $200,000 in nine months, his spontaneous reply was, “I attribute our success to continuous and consistent advertising in the Casper Daily Tribune. When one has something to sell that is really worth the money and keeps it before the public at all times, under ordinary conditions his success Js assured, I consider newspaper advertising used judiciously the best medinm for selling of any form of ndvertising one can employ.” While the cross burned, Wella re mained in his locked room heedless of calls and Ienocks. The cross ‘was brought campus in an automobile by men tn civillan clothes. ‘They left land scattered in every direction on | to reappear in a few minuten eh ed in the regalia of the Ku Klan. As soon an the crons was burned out, the men again scattered, ery- ing, “down with the negro,” to the | the ear ud | Klux Dean Hawkes a short time ago re- fused to act on a student's petition asking for Well's Gamissal from the dormitorys , : ‘ Cross Lights Campus NEW YORK, April 8.—The fiery cross blazed midnight on the campus of Columbia University. It was set up and fired by a group of white robed and hooded men opposite. Furnald hall, where Frederick W. Wells, a negro law student, has a room from which fellow students have recently tried to oust him. last The officer named by the witness as having given him the order and taken the papers, Captain W. F. Volandt, followed Lane immediately on the stand and told the committee he did advise Lane not to appear before the committee. He confirmed also that he had taken certain of the records in the possession of Lane, and sald Secretary Weeks had instructed "iim ‘to say that a subpoena served on the secretary himself would be necessary to bring the papers before the com- mittee, Volandt denied that he had de- sired to suppress Lane's testimony; declared he had taken only “official records” from Lane's desk and brief case and insisted that he was tuated only by a desire to see that the committee should come through the proper channels if it desired to secure possession of the documents. Senator Wheelér, the committee pro the o immediately instructed mmmittee clerk to “get out = subpoena for the secretary of war describing the papers'* wanted. Lano had. described the missing records to the committee as relat- ing to many aircraft cases on which he had worked. These cases, he sald, included the Lincoln motors case; the Standard ‘aircraft case; and the Bosch Magneto case, in all of which he charged that over pay- ments had been made by the gov- ernment. In the Lincoln case, -he sald, the department of justice mag a settlement over the protest of the war department and “so bad” that when it was broached. General Patrick and the other war depart- ment representatives ‘walked out’ of the conference. Volandt insisted he was. “not under orders’ when he searched Lane's brief case. He said he had “suspended Lane last Saturday when he “refused to come to the office,” and that Lane was’ later “separated. from the service. by action of Secretary Weeks. The witness said that Lane failed to appear at the office he had wahted him to work on the Starid- ard and Willys-Knight cases, in order to rush them to the depart- ment of justice for action. The Standard case went ov bout five days ago, he said, but denied. that, the mr e's proceedings had any effect on the procedure with this case. Lane's brief bag was emptied of Papers at the air service office the next day, the witness said, and they Were put “in the ante." The papers in possession of Lane, Volandt said. were needed in order to complete the records that “ws Were rushing" to the department of justice for action. ‘Oh, so you'd get them over there (Continued on Page Nine) HAMON AIDE TO BE SUBPOENAED WASHINGTON, April 3.—Sub- poenaes were insued today by the sonato oll committees for the appear- ance here noxt Monday of J. B. French, of Oklahoma City, Olda., and Robert ¥, Wolfe, of Columbus, editor of the Ohfo State Journal, Both will be questioned as to gossip Jabout ofl deals at the Republican na- 1 convention in 1920, French is described a# a political associate of the Inte Jake Hamon, Republican committeeman from Ok- Inhoma, Wolfe was one of the managers in Ohio for Leonard Jyood,