Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING—Snow probable to- night and Saturday. Colder in west and north portions tonight, and in southeast portion Saturday. VOLUME VIII. SUNDAY CLOSING ORDIX . A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, U nbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State * Che Casper D CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1924. thy Crile Stinnes Dead RELIEF FOR PROJECT SETTLERS SEEN DEBTS RUNNING “INTO MILLIONS MAY BE. LIFTED Charging Off of Great Sum as Total Loss Is Recommended. WASHINGTON, April 11. —tLegislation looking to the relief of settlers on govern- ment reclamation projects is expected to result from the report of the interior de- partment’s special advisory commit- tee of experts, which has been dis- banded after presenting {ts report on a six months study of the prob- lems to Secretary Work. The re- “port was in the hands of President Coolidge today for his consideration with a view to making recommenda- tions to congress. The committee suggested among numerous proposals, the charging off of $27,391,146 of the approxi- mately $150,000,000 expended on rec- lamation projects as total loss, and basing the payments of settlers on actual crop production of their land rather than on a fixed percentage of construction cost, as under the present system. ‘The committee of experts, now dis- banded, has been making a study of the reclamation problem for six months and its report was present- ed with the recommendation that it be used as a basis for prompt rem- edial legislation. Members of con- gress from many western states have made vigorous pleas during the sitting of the committee for aid to the project settlers and it is prob- able that President Coolidge. to whom the report was submitted to- night, will have some recommenda- tions to make to congress in the near future. Declaring conditions are serfous on many of the 28 projects located in 15 western states, with three already having failed, the committee stated that of the $143,000,000 already spent in building irrigation works, $18,561,- 146 will never be recovered with a probable loss of an additional $8,- 830,000, the whole representing losses in construction to supply water for lands found to be of little or no return value, The principal recommendation of the committee, of which Dr. Elwood ‘Mead, of California, recently named commissioner of the reclamation bu- reau to carry out the new policies to be approved by congress, was a member, is that repayment of con- struction costs be based on the act- ual crop production of the farm Yands rather than the present sys- tem of a fixed percentage of the construction cost per acre, which was held to be “inelastic and un- sclentific.” “After the first few years,” the report said respecting the pretent method, ““an annual repayment charge of 6 per cent of the acre ‘cost is made for al! propects, yet the acre cost and crop producing pow- er vary greatly among projects. It 1s dle to assume that lands of equal fertility can bear widely different an- nual construction payments, or that all lands—good, indifferent or poor— {Continued on Page Two) INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION OF TRIBUNE ENDORSED BY CASPER REALTORS The Casper Real Estate Board endorsed The ‘Tribune Inter- Mountain Industrial Exposition today, after listening to an expla- nation of the purposes and possi- bilities of the Exposition by W. J. Rau, who is managing the exhibit which will be stagod here in May. ‘That the exposition will be a great advertising medium for Casper dealers is the concensus of opinion of all who have studied the matter. The Board today also endorsed the proposition ef making photo- graphic copies of alr county feo- ords instead of having these cop- fes made by, hand. It is held that photographic copies are far more accurate than the old method, that they are more permanent, that they make possible the de- tection of forgeries and that they reduce the cost of securing and maintaining records. Cyrus 0. Wertz of the Natrona County Ab- stract and Loan Company read a paper before the Board, in which he set forth the history of public records and the advantages of the photographic system. Mr. Wertz estimates that this county would save $10,000 a year by installing such a system. Furthermore, it would make recording possible im- mediately after transactions, The County Commissioners laat Week sent the county clerk to Denver to inspect a photographic machine and make a report on it. Blanket Denial of All Charges Contained In Replies of Pur- Legislation which will make suck ® system legal in Wyoming wili be urged, Snow Reported From Chicago and Northwest CHICAGO, April 11.—A_ light snowfall here today and in northern Iowa and other sections of the northern plains and northwest, with predictions of snow tonight or to- morrow in northwestern and middle- western states is attributed to a western storm moving eastward. Rain gr snow within 36 hours be- tween the northern Rockies and eastward to the western lakes and lower Ohio valley is predicted. Lit. tle change in temperature is inci- cated except colder in southwest Ne- braska, Kansas, southwest Mon- tana and northern Wyoming. DES MOINES, Iowa, April 11— Northern Iowa merchants are post- poning their spring openings as a result of an eight inch snowfall which covered that nection of the state last night. Weather bureau predictions are that the snow will Sweep the southern part of the state today. Republican Support Is Safe for Coolidge Nothing But Political Earthquake All That Can Defeat President In Candidacy, Says Lawrence In Comment- ing Upon Victories In Two States By DAVID LAWRENCE. (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune.) WASHINGTON, April 1.—The break in the Coolidge campaign for the Repub- lican presidential nomination has come. Nothing but a political earthquake can now prevent the nomination of the president at Cleveland in June. E Mr. Coolidge had had from the start the support of the regulat Republican organi- zation which is all-powerful in the eastern states. his strength in the presidential primaries. ONE ARRESTED, BRACE OF STILLS SEIZED IN LONELY DUGOUT RAID Two stills, one of 75 gallon capacity and one of 20 gallons, and one prisoner, Merle McGowan, fell to the lot of the sheriff’s office and federal officers when they swooped down on a dugout in the Poison Spider district Thursday. In addition to the main elements of the manu- facturery there was a 10 gallon keg full of corn liquor, 250 SINCLAIR ASKS FOR — DISMISSAL OF SUIT ‘ chasing and Pipeline Companies to Federal Action Seeking Annulment of Leases CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 11.—Dismissal of ‘the bill of complaint of the United States of America against the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company and the Sin- clair Pipe Line company is petitioned for in answers by the two corporations, filed in federal court here, to the government’s suit against the Mammoth Oil company for annulment of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve lease. The answer of the Mammoth company, the chief defendant, has not been filed. The thirty day time limit set for its filing will expire April 14. The answer of the purchasing company sets forth that, relying upon the rights of the mammoth under its lease, the purchasing com- pany “became the owner of seven- teen steel of] storage tanks and con- tents thereof” situated upon the naval reserve. Tho pipe line company alleges that it has spent, or will have spent on completion of its pipe line, $13,- 000,000 as well $700,000 for a pumping plant, Machinery and ap- purtenances thereto and that this was done in faith that the Mam- moth company's lease was valid. Specific denial of every allegation DAVID STREET ‘COURTHOUSE? IS POSSIBLE HERE County Commissioners Authorize Draw- ing of Plans for New Building fo Relieve Congestion Possibuity of a new building on David street to con- tain justice office and court, prosecuting attorney’s office, sheriff’s office and quarter and the county garage, is se , women’s and children’s jail, en in the action of the county commissioners which authorizes the drawing of plans for such a structure, At this time only tentative con- sideration is being given the pro- posal. There is no doubt that the Present court house lacks facilities to care for several county officials, and that at this time there is scat- fering of these officials about the city, making county business incon- venient to transact. The commission of preparing the plans has bepn given to che firm of Garbutt, Weldner and . Sweeney. The building is intended fb be con- structed on lots 87, 38 and 39 on (Continued on Page Vive) of the government attacking the validity of the Teapot Dome lease {s contained in the answers. Dental is made of any knowledge of the al- leged {legal means by which the lease was procured, In their answers the purchasing and pipe line companies admit all information carried in seven para- graphs of the government's bill of complaint admit parts of five para- graphs, deny allegations in four anc profess no knowledge or infarma- tion of allegations carried in sey- enteen other paragraphs. The an- swers pray that “Bill of plaintiff be dismissed as to defendant and for such other and further relief as may be equitable and just." No information {gs available here concerning the answer which is to be filed by the Mammoth company. King George Cut Cold by Indian Braves -, April 11.— All kings look alike to Wyoming Indiana except, possibly, those they encounter in a poker game, according to Major Tim McCoy of Thermopolis, Wyo., who recently returned from Europe, where he took a party of Arapahoes in the interests of a moving picture con- cern The Indians, Major McCoy told Cheyenne Lions club, were eoted by King George of Eng nf while they were watching a royal procession in London. The king leaned out of his conch, smiled ond waved at the redskins, Tho Indians never batted an eyo in response to this expression of royal friendship and, for perhaps the only time in his career, the king was “cut col by persons he had saluted. th rs la It is intimated however, that coun- se! for the Mammoth will petition for an extension of time in which to answer, setting forth inability to obtain within the original time limit information essential to the an- swer. Whether the government will resist a request for an extension of time will depend on the attitude of the special oil counsel, Atlee Pomer- ene and Owen J. Roberts, who are at Washington. There will be no proceedings in court when the Mammoth answer is filed, the time of filing merely automatically beginning the period within which, uncer the rules of equity practiced, the government will have in which to reply to the answer. JAPAN FIGHTS EXCLUSION ACT PROPOSAL HERE Gentlemen’s ‘Agreement Scrupulously Observed, Ambassador Declares In Letters to Sec. Hughes WASHINGTON, April 11.—Japan has scrupulously observed the gentlemen’s agreement and is prepared to ssador Hanihara declared in a letter to Secretary Hughes which was sent today by the latter to Chairman Colt of the senate immigration com- sontinue to do so, Amba mittee. ‘Tho agreement is viewed by Jap an as a “self imposed restricti-n” ot immigration to the United States, the ambassador said, and designed to Fellove the United States of the unforunate necessity of wounding the “sonsibility of @ friendly na- Mons of mash, gasoline bur- ‘Ne. ana hill the equipment that goes to make up @ 1924 distillery, ‘The stills had evidently concluded a run just before the arrival of the officers as they were still hot al- though shut off. The liquor was being made from cornmeal and cane sugar, Iberal supplies of both be- ing confiscated. The dugout was located a few miles west of the main Poison Spi- der oil field. It had been dug in the bank of a dry gulch and was invisible afew yards away. A well worn trail from a nearby homestead- er's shack to the stillhouse led the officers directly to the dugout. The still and the mash barrels were disgustingly dirty with all kinds of debris floating on the top of the mash barrels. The brown sugar had made a corrosion on the inside of the barrels that the own- ers had never tried to clean off. After blowing up the dugout and burning the barrels and mash, the officers brought the still, coll and quor to the city for evidence in the trial. The rald was made by W. C, Ir- vine, undersheriff, and Otto Plaga, and W. R. Owens, federal officers. ——————— Prince Visits Spain Thursday SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, April 11.—The Prince of Wales, who 1s visiting Biarritz incognito, made a trip here yesterday accompanied by Lord Gladstone. He walked about town visiting the various places of interest. Although aware of his presence here the authorities allowed him to Preserve his incognito as the Warl of Chester, showing him no official attention. Secretary Hughes, submitting the letter suid it was intended to Bly congress officially the in “nd purpose of the gentlemen's agreement” and the methods used in executing it. The famous “Gen tleman’s agreement” under which (Continued on Pa, Five) It was not known what would be The victories in Nebraska and Illinois— states in which the weakness would be expected to develop if at all—has knocked the wind out of the ‘sails of the Hiram Johnson campaign and left the fleld to Mr, Coolidge Although presidential primary votes are not considered binding at & national convention, they are nevertheless an index of popular feeling. Mr. Coolidge's strength in the primaries is a surprise even to his own friends. To carry Mich- igan, Illinots, Nebraska and North Dakota is a feat which a regular Republican has not achieved in a g00d many years. Republican sup- port of the president in the eon- servative areas of New England and the east has been unchallenged but (Continued on Page Two) Hugo Stinnes, leader in German industrial life who died yesterday at Berlin. BROTHERS ARE FOUND GUILTY Carl Powers and B. J brothers, were yesterc each and enced to & in the county jail when they were found guilty of operatin a still by a jury in district court. The still was taken in a raid November 6 last on the Carl Powers’ homestead 18 miles northeast of Casper. The still was in a dugout in the sand hills, The Powers brothers offered little or no defense other than that they knew nothing of the still. ‘The tes- timony for the state showed that a federal officer waited at the still until one of the defendants rode up on horseback and then arrested him, Powers, fined $800 ser PROBERS ARE HANDED SLAP President Coolidge Calls Upon Investi- gators to Confine Themselves to “Le- gal Rights” In Inquiries WASHINGTON, April 11.—President Coolidge in a message to the senate today advised that body to main- tain its “constitutional and legal rights” in conducting investigations. The president supplemented his message with a letter from. Secretary Mellon in which the treasury head de- clared that should “unnecessary in- terferer with the proper exer. cise of his duty be comtinued;* neither, I nor any other man of ake responsi. sury. couched direct oceastoned by the action of the senate committee in- vestigating the internal revenue bure in employing Francis «J. Heney of California as special prose- cutor at the instance and at the expense of Senator Couzens of Michigan, a Republican member of the committee, Employment clared by the conflict with law in langua, was of Heney was do- resident to be in and a procedure “Bet on the Horse That’s Backed By the Owner” ‘The advertising merchant ts “on record” regarding his goods, his service and his prices. He is out in the open backing his advertis- ing with the reputation of the house, x It is not always safe just to fare forth to buy on one’s judgment, saying, “I, know goods and what they are worth.” Read the advertising and shop in the s experience ing f promise organi implte columns s where y dealing fo! the square alt re tion ing The g adverts, paper fc the wis buying ing. Shop in The Tribune shopping in the shops, eat merchants use the columns of thi we their public cont and shopper programs the reading the adgvertis before likely to throw the government into disorder, “It is time that we return to a government under and in accord- ance with the usual forms of the law of the land,” the president said, “the state of the Union requires the immediate adoption of such a cour The presia to the senate, “Herewith from the sec Hon. Andrew which’ I feel ‘s message addressed said ia a copy of a letter y of tho treasury, Mellon, me, mstrained to trans mit to the senate for its informa- tion, Also a copy of the resolution adopted by the committee investi- gating the bureau of internal reve- (Continued on Page Five) NUMBER 145. nivuc HERE REPEALED STATE LAW 16 SUFFICIENT IF PUBLIC WANTS IT ENFORCED Former Action Recon- sidered in Meeting; High School Band to Give City Concerts. The Sunday closing ordi- nance which was passed by the city council: March 24 and which was the cause of much subsequent torment was repealed by that body last night on the motion of S. Fy Pelton seconded by J. W. Tucker. The council voted unanimously for the repeal. The résolution for ra- pealing the ordinance was drawn on the grounds that the state of Wyo- ming has a statute amply covering the regulation of Sunday work and employment and that {f any citizens desire to make complaints they may file them with the justice of the peace, Other matters of importance tak- en up by the council included the granting of the contract for city park concerts this summer, an agree- ment to pay part of the cost of a detention home in Casper, petition- ing the county commissioners for roadways to the east and west, and the enforcement of the early morn- ing parking ordinance, The closing ordinance was dis- cussed voluntarily by the council last night, no citizens appearing either for or against the measure. The career of the Casper ordinance has been.a brief one. It had been passed on the recommendation of the clerk's union, various churches and other organizations, Much dis- cussion as to its validity was en- tered into immediately after ite adoption, That the council had the right to pass such an ordinance was admitted though there were many who declared the ordinance dlscrim- inatory in that !t was aimed dl- rectly at the community grocers who have small stores in various residen- tial parts of the city Attorneys W. W. Lacy an& Roy Bullack handled the case for the grocers and Mr. Lacy maintained that the ordinance in many ways conflicted with the state statute re- garding the regulating of Sunday mercantile business and was there- fore a nullity. The council, how- ever, decided to continue the ordi- nance at that time. When the ordinance was adopted many members of the council saw that {t would be impossible for the city to take aggressive ateps in en. forcing it since that would require many extra policemen. The policy to be followed was that citizens finding men who broke the law should file a complaint with the po- after which a warrant would issued and the man would be brought into court. No complaints were ever file and consequently no arrests were made. The council discussed further the mater of granting licet'ses to cer- tain rooming house proprietors, . A. motion was passed to the effect that Ucenses should. be issued to houses the proprietors of which had not been convicted in court this year on Uquor charges or to houses (Continued on Page Two) be HUNDREDS ARE DESTITUTE IN DAKOTA FLOOD Belle Fourche, South Dakota, Sends Appeal for Assistance to Red Cross In Behalf Suffers CHICAGO, April 11.—(By The Associated Press.) — A call for help for flood sufforers, dec families are in want and that has was received today from ring hundreds of $200,000 damage already been caused by the waters of the Belle Fourche river, Belle Fourche, 8. D., by the central division of the American Red Cross and a relief rker already is on th flood {# in Butte ¢ unty South Dakota, and houses, furniture and other personal property has been carried away, Appeal n and relief we ors was made The flood began April 6 but ts assumed Red Cross officials to have become worse in view of the telegram r A today, No loss of life was mentioned assistance