Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING—Fair tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight and in east portion Tuesday. COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES CAMPAIGN FUNDS A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State. Che Casper Daily Tribun CASPER, WYO., MOND‘ (ane 7, 1924, 09) wwy20) 8164 ei STATE PRIMARY ELECTIONS HOLD INTEREST VITAL ISSUE JJVEALOUS HUSBAND WILDS FRSSHOT DISTURBING DETERMINATION Small Runs for Re-Elec- ‘tion; Coolidge-Johnson Fight Also.On CHICAGO, April 7.—The Illinois primary election to- morrow is expected to bring out the largest primary vote the state has ever known. Sharply dtawn issues, both state and ria@ional, have aroused un- usual interest. Chief interest centers upon the contest before Governor Len Small, mning for renomination, on the Republican ticket, and Thtrlow G. Essington, state Senator. Essington Bihas based his campaign almost en- tirely on Governor Small's. record 4 the governor has defended his The fight for delegates to the Re- publican national convention be- ‘tween Senator Hiram W. Johnson land President Coolidge, looked upon las the climax of the middle western battle, is attracting hardly less at- tention, while closely rivalling it is the race for the Republican senator- 1 nomination Medill McCormick, Incumbent, has made a strenuous campaign, confidently citing his re- cord at Washington. Charles’ 8. Deneen, former governor; Newton jenkins,. backed by . LaFol-| Nette, Johnson, Brookhart and others the\ Congressional insurgent block; delbert McPherson, and Gilbert Giles Ogden are his opponents. The national fight on the Demo- cratic ticket 1s between William Gibbs McAdoo, seeking an instruct- ed delegation, and the regular party ganization which wants unpledged delegates. A. A. Sprague fs the regular or- organization which wants unpledged torial nomination, with Willlam’ Me- Kinley opposing him. The Republican party candidates for nomination for state offices have in the main followed the division made by Small and Essington. The Democratic gubernatorial nomina- tion contest has four candidates, Lee O'Neil Browne running on a wet platform. DETROIT, Mich., April 7—Not in several years there been a pri- mary election in Michigan in which interest has been as languid as in to- day's balloting to determine Michi- gan's presidential preference in the two major parties, With no spirit- ed campaigns to spur voters’ en- thusiasm, political leaders predict an extremely light vote, except in those few cities where local issues had livened the interest. United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cali- fornia is the'only candidate to have campaigned in the st His two tours included addresses a half a dozen lower Michigan cities, includ- ing Detroit, The candidacy of Prest- fent Calvin Coolidge, which has been in the hands of Governor Alex J. roesbeck, has been inactive and William G. Simpson, Detroit civil engineer, the third candidate on the (Continued on Page Hight) BOUD OIR LOVE ACT Archie Neil Takes On Two Bullets When He M ices Up With His Wife’s Date—Hubby In Hospital, ‘Assailant faces Criminal Trial A midnight lunch, the intrusion of the superfluous husband; a wild jump of a man and woman through a window, three shots fired, and a fast ride to Casper were high- lights in Glenrock’s latest shooting affray and scandal which awoke the let like a clarion shortly after midnight last night. Bleeping ham- Archie (“Scottie”) Neil, old-time cow puncher and a property owner of Casper, is now at the County hospital here with two bullet wounds, one in his neck and the other in his left is not in a serious condition. Otis Trickett, chfef engineer for the Sin- clair Oll company at Creighton up until the time that the little mixup of last night transpired, is in the elty jail with a charge of attempting to kill against. him. Mrs, Archie Neil arrived in Casper ths morning after her husband and her friend and will be an important witness when the case is tried in court. According to the story as it has been gleaned by Sheriff Perry A. Morris, Mrs. Neil, proprieter of the Carlton rooms in the north side of Glenrock, had not been living with her husband. On the other hand she had been on intimate terms with Le, Sates Neil and Trickett we ndwiches in the wo- Sai Sole anobety efter midnight when Neil arrived and demanded e: trance, This he was refused, and he threatened to break the door down. ‘The man and woman made a hasty exit in the highly approved fashion used by persons caught in tight cir- cumstances ever since windows were invented. Before they could get away Neil came around the corner of the house. He is said to have carried a .22-caliber rifle with him. Trickett fired once tn the ground and twice at Neil with a .32 caliber automatic revolver. The last two bullets wounded Nell though they tore only through the outer flesh of the arm. and neck. ‘Trickett, fearing that Neil might die, loaded him into the Hudson car FASCISTI WIN IN ELECTIONS ROME, April 7—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—Returns from Italy's parliamentary elections today indi- cated an overwhelming victory for the Fascist! The government can- didates appeared to be leading in nearly every region. Final returns from Genoa gave the Fascisti 24,576 votes; Unitarian So- clalists 14,64 Catholics 4,79: Lib. erals 3,709; Communists 2,096. The Incependents headed by Deputy Giffréa were running second te the Fascisti in Cantania with the other purties trafling. Jt was estimated that the Fascist! will poll fully one third of the entire vote. C owned by Mrs. Neil but driven ‘most- by the ghief engineer, and drove toward Casper. The guns were thrown away in a ditch 4 few miles out of Glenrock. ‘The sheriff's office here was not!- fled of the shooting and Morris and arm near the shoulder. He attaches were on the look out for the car. They watched the road east of town and whén the Hudson passed they pursued it. The chase was a trying one taking partict- pants over a considerable part of the city. Cowgirl Students In Large Numbers Playing Baseball LARAMIB, Wyo., April 7.— (Special to ‘The Tribune)—More than 150 co-eds of the University of Wyoming are this year an- swering the call of spring in a manner both strange and new to the state university. “Take her out—she has a glass arm,” “Kill the Umpire,” and pleas of “Just a single, girlie, just a single,” are strange yells on the campus te gome from co-ed throats but the yells are there and graduate students and staid professors are fast becoming accustomed to the sight of co-eds at baseball. In door baseball it is true, but in- door baseball out-of-doors on a real dirt diamond with sideline r@pters, umpires, ‘neverything. Later in the present term of school inter-class fames will be played by the cowgirl baseball players. In addition to baseball many girls are out this spring for track. DAMAGED PLANE DELAYS GLOBE CIRCLING FLYERS PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Ee ia 7.—Pending repairs to the flag pline ‘Seattle, «amaged in making a landing, the four United States army air cruisers on a globe cir. cling Journey. which arrived here Inte yesterday phn will remain in Prince Rupert indefinitely Major Frederick 1. Martin, flight mander, announced, “I cannot make any statement as to the probable date for our depart- for Pa ye ping place, after | oughly inspected the jor Martin said. com- Seattle,” Ma- ‘The Seattle in landing in a com- bination of wind, of snow. flurries, hit the water so hard that two struts |were broken on her left side, Until ‘an Investigation fs made, the extent of her injuries. with not. be known. American. Murders Cause Martial Law ROME, April 7.—Martial law has been proclaimed in 4lbania follow- ing the murder of two American merchants, waylaid on the Tirana Cutaria highway, according to ad- vices from Albanjan quarters to- day. A dispatch to the Stefani agency, which first reported the crime last night, says the Americans killed were named Coroman and De Long, but gives no particulars, ‘The names of the murdered Amer- ipa were given out by the Amer- fan embassy as Robert Louis Col- man of San Francisco, and George B, De Long of New York City, NEW ‘YORK, April 7—George B. Delang of New York and Robert Lewis Coleman of San Franciseo, who were waylaid and murdered on an Albanian highway, were on their way to Paris and London from a trip through the Mediterranean Richard Lounsberry, son of Mrs. DeLong declared today. DeLong and Mr. Coleman left here January 26, and went as far as Constantinople. Returning, they passed through Bucharest, Athens and other cities and were going through the Balkans on their way to join Mrs. DeLong antl her son in London tho nineteenth of this month Mr. DeLong, who is a son of Sen- ator DeLong of California and who up until seven years ago was a resi- dent of that state, was 49 years old and a real estate broker, He was a graduate of Leland Stanford univer- full ity of the class of 1896. Mayfield Is ‘Ahead In Texas Recount ‘WASHINGTON, April 7.—The re- count of the ballots cast in the Tex- Motorists Fined For Speeding In Eastern Suburbs Casper motorists contributed about $200 to Evansy treas- ury yesterday with the result that pay day in the police de- partment there can doubtless be met without difficulty. All of which calls forth the need of a word of caution to auto drivers who would speed through the fair city to the east going at a rate of more than 15 miles per hour. For Evansyille has a speed limit. ‘There is no doubt about it, as twenty Casperites will read- ily testify. That speed lmit is 15 miles an hour, and a fine of $5 and costs {!s assessed against those who violate the rule. The costs amount to $4. With thig arrangement motor- ists are asked to put up a bond of $10 cash when they are ar- rested. They may either leave the bond and go their way with. out further comment or may ap- pear before the magistrate in the evening and get a dollar back. The law was put into effect Saturday though its stringency was not tried out until Sunday at a time when many car own- ers sought the wide oper spaces. These spaces ¢o not begin until one is east of Evansville, it was discovered. ag senatorial election in 1922 ocrat. COOLIDGE EXERCISES HIS INFLUENCE STATEMENT OF BANKS ASKED WASHINGTON, April 7. ‘The comptroller of the curency today is- sued a call for the condition of all national banks at the close of bus- iness on Monday, March 31. ———— FOUR DEAD IN GASOLINE FIRE HILLSBORO, Ii, April 7.—Mrs. Torney Hill end three children were burned to death, and Torney Hill was fatally burned when a gasoline explosion set fire to their home in Hilisboro today. Mr. Hill had mis- taken gasoline for coaloll in start- ing a fire in the stove. Fraud And Graft Seen In Conduct of Arizona Highway Department PHOENIX, Ariz., April 7.—Find- ings ,of fraud and speculations in two funds of the state highway de- partment during the 18 months end- ing Det¢ember 31, 1922, destruction pt records closing the gateway to a clear investigation, proot of the “vanishing” of 117 department mo- tor vehicles and recommendations that steps be taken forthwith to bring “the guilty to justice’ are set forth in the report of the joint leg: islative committee created by the sixth state legislatures which was placed in the hands of Governor Hunt today, Numerous detailed allegations of extravagance, frregularity and un- authorized expenditures of state money, “including a sum of §23,- 760.52, which, the report says, was fraudulently expended within the eighteen months period are cited The report covers the five years Preceding December 31, 1922 in Which it declares, @ total of §11,- 823,574.92 was spent by the state highway department, $156,877.28 of it being for bookkeeping.” "In spite of this outlay,” says the report, “the books were found In a. chaotic condition.” ‘The report declares that records of the department were destroyed "believed to have been burned Purposely"—between the general election of 1922 and the end of that year, when there was a change in the supervision of the department. In suggesting responsibility for the “state of afta found to have existed in the department,” the re port gives an exhaustive analysis of the two funds wherein the alleged irregularities are pointed out—the “state engineer J, H, Allen,” bank account and the general imprest fund, Summing up the “inconsistencies” the investigators report states, the “conclusion is irresistable and be- yond @ reasonable doubt that J, H. Allen and W. H. Inghram" former cashier of the department are “crim: inally and civilly responsible and Hable upon the several items” giv- en in specified detail, “and that the stato engineer” in office during the period “is responsible for the con- duct of such subordinates,"" and that “he is Mable “at least civilly to the sjate and upon his bond for the misuse of sich state moneys, Diseased Aliens Will Be Barred WASHINGTON, April 7,—Allens afflicted with a dangerous contag- fous disease and incapable of nat- uralization, the supreme court held today, can be debarred from admis- sion, ' ’ President Taking ‘Active Part In Legislative Program and Is Holding Special Conferences With Leaders to Speed Up Work BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) i WASHINGTON, April 5.—Congress and the president have been getting closer together this week, Breakfast, luncheon and dinner sees some Republican leaders at the White House discussing the legislative program. Mr. Coolidge is beginning to exer- cise his influence on Capito] Hill. ~- f First and foremost has been the president's intervéntion in the tax situation. senate finance committee is re-writing the tax bill passed by the house. have been so many changes that the senate leadcrs have found !t des!rable to consult the president constantly. His decision against the leyy of new forms of taxation isyaignificant. The house repealed several taxes which Secretary Mellon did not recom- mend for modification at this time. As & consequence the house bill will not, in the opinion of treasury ex- perts, get the needed revenue, This means that the whole scheme has to be reconstructed. The tax on radio sets was musi fitable source of revenue, {dge interfered. And now the senate finance committee will revive the tax on telegrams and telephone messages which were cut out of the house bill but which are in the pres- ent law. Indeed, many of tho so0- called nuisance taxes will be recon- sidered as the cutting of the Mellon plan in the house turned the whole scheme upside down and the senate ts compelled to rehabilitate the meas ure, Mr, Coolldge finds that fn sum moning the leaders for conference he cannot depend upon their getting to the White house during the day because so many of them haye im- portant committee meetings. While the Republicans are not interested in investigating themselves, they must be present to watch that the Democrats do not turn the sessions into campatgn carnivals asking questions that make damaging head. ines and. furnish polltical ammunt- tion-for the coming presidential and congressional contests, ‘The president has found that about the only time of day he can get a number of men from congress into conference is early in t 9 breakfasts have not been numer ous, but they probably will be one of the features of the Coolidge ad ministration henceforth, The spirit of congress at this moment so far as “the legislative program 1# concerned, 14 much bet- ter than it was a week ago. The ag- itation of the country against the alleged waste of time in investiga- tions has aroused the Democrats morning. for the delay is on the Republican party. Nevertheless, the Democrats are so adjusting their campaign as to keep the investigation going, but at the same time insisting upon legislative action, Senator Robin- son, the Democratic leader, who ‘s an Unustially progressive type will not let the Republicans attack his party for delaying legislation. He has begun making speeches show- ing that the Republicans have not made much progress with their own program. In fact, he is likely to turn the occasion into an attack The And there himself for most everybody, in- cluding the president, know that the Republican. leaders have not been particularly energetic in hand. ling the legislative program thus far. ‘The outlook is for a legislative, jam just about the time most of the members of congress want to get away for the national political con- ventions. The biggest fight of the session over the McNary-Haugen bill providing an agriculture export coropration under government su- (Continued on Page Bight) ROBBERS TAKE VALUABLES IN SUNDAY. THEFT A black Hudson seal coat, a mink coat, a platinum diamond laveller, and a .32 caliber Remington revol- ver were stolen from the home of Miss June Tyler, 1325 South Beech Street last night, according to the report received by the police. , Miss Tyler was attending the the ater and discovered the theft when rhe returned home about 11 o'clock It was found that the entrance to the house had been made by persons who cut the screen to a winduw in the rear and then broke the window. DISTRICT ATTORNEY DIES RED OAK, Iowa, April 7.—Ralph Pringle, United States district attors ney for the southern Iowa district, died at his home here carly today. DAUGHERTY COMMITTEE WORKS ON MILLER LAND FRAUDS IN OK LAHOMA Investigations Made Concerning Connection of Department of Justice—A gent Who Worked On Cases Is Put On Stand Today WASHINGTON, April 7.—Dry details of the Miller Brothers land fraud case in Oklahoma were reviewed today by the senate Daugherty committee. A bundle of letters passing between the justice and interior departments and various individuals were read into the record and several witnesses were questioned as to why criminal prosecution of the casa resulted only in imposition of fines, and why no civil suit to recover the land was filed. One of the letters showed Al bert B, Fall tried, w ho was s¢ retary of the interior, to secure pogtponement of trial Wu tthe pf tice. department replied that the commercial suits must go forward Most of the lettera were presented by Edwin 8, Booth, who served un der Fall as interior department #0 Meltor, Senatdr Harreld of Oklahoma made a voluntary statement to the who point out that the responsibility | committee disclaiming any political terest in the the interests of the ¢ ernment I had learned to surprise, he sald, that the justice department had asked for nothing but fines against those found gullty and made no move to recover the lands which are @ part of the 101 ranch, It developed while Booth was on the stand that he now ia engaged \ ¢ to protect v his inl attorney for the ¢ Justice in connection sin the Miller signed to him about 1 of this " Booth said “there is a reason” why elvil cases were not turned oyer to him by the depart ment of Justice ore March, 1924 but that he would prefer to tell the committee that on “in conti dence.” Senator Jones, Republisan (Continued on Page Seven) these was practically completed today and on its face shows » substantial ma- jority for Senator Mayfield, Dem- P EDITION NUMBER 141, CONTRIBUTIONS BY OIL MEN IN ELECTIONS ARE PUT UNDER FIRE Jake Hamon’s Name Is Again Brought Into Testimony With Do- + heny Also Receiving Attention. , WASHINGTON, April 7. — The senate oil committee devoted an- other featureless session today to its inquiry into stories of oll deals and oll contributions in the politi- cal campaign of 1920. Four witnesses followed one an- other in quick succession at the big committee table and none added materially to the information which previously had gone into the record. WASHINGTON, April 7. The question of contribu- tions to national campaign funds by oil interests receiv- ed the momentary attention of the oil committee again today. Wilbur W. Marsh, former treas- urer of the Democratic national committee, the first witness, was uestioned about contributions by E. L. Doheny to the Democratic war chest. March fala fhe had no recollection as to the specific contributions of Doheny in the 1920 campaign. It would be necessary, he said, to con- sult the records of the committee, which are in the Washington head- quarters. He was excused. The committee then called W. L. Kistler of Tulsa, Okla, president of the Producers and Pefiners Corpora- tion. He said he was not at the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1920 but identified him- self as a Republican “at this time.” He was_not requested to solicit cam- paign funds in 1920, he testified, {under further questioning, but was asked to make a contribution, which he did, subscribing $325. The witness insisted under re- peated questions by Senator Spencer Republican, Missouri, that Henry P. Davidson cf the national city hank, New York, never had requested him to solicit campaign funds, nor had he told any one that Davison had done so. J. B. French of Oklahoma City was the third witness to be called in 15 minutes, He identified him- self as an oil operator. “Did you know Jake asked Senator Walsh. 1," said the witness, “I was associated with him in bus- iness from .1917 until the time of his death.” French said Hamon had discussed with him before hand his plans con- cerning the 1920 Republican con- vention. Hamon had wanted first to be elected Republican national committeeman for Oklahoma, ho said, arid then to help nominate General Wood. “While the national man fight was on,” ded, “he and General Wood broke and then be went for Lowden. It was his int control the Oklahoma delegation.” “I don’t think the president had uny place Jake Hamon would have recepted,” French said. “After the nomination of Harding, I asked Hamon {f he would be in the cab- inet and he told me he would not.* Asked what Hamon’s campaign for national committeeman had cost, French said Hamon told him It had cost him “too much” and that he was sorry he got into th to the general election, Hamon told him he had spent $400,- 000 through 4,000 persons in Okla- homa, Records of Hamon's estate show that he was a borrower of money, French said, but added that he could not say whether any of the loans negot k, sas City, O Louls vl other y n obtained at or about the time of the Chicago convention, “Did Hamon eve Hamon?” committee- the witness ad: heayy Kan- anything to pent at the H ve $25). th tel of Mr Hotel bill { t ongress be fixed.’ » wom did he say > Bill’ Miller."* Miller, a Yormer attorney general of Oblo, managed Harding's pre convention campaign 11 Oklahoma. “Did Hamon aver tell you what (Continued on Page Seven) could bs he gave it?"