Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1924, Page 1

: A Newspaper for All the Family, Ciean, U nbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State The Weather Wyoming, rain or snow probable tonight and Tuesday. Colder north- west portion tonight. and in south- east portion Tuesday. VOLUME. VIII. 1A. MEETS FIN CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON Women Want Better En- forcement of Dry Laws Throughout U. S. WASHINGTON, April 14. An appeal of law enforce- ment, particularly with re- gard to prohibition, and’ for faith in the government, was made today by Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president-general, in her annual message to the thirty- third eontinental congress of the ‘Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. The congress, assembled in Conti- nental Memorial Hall here for a week's session, with ‘about 2,000 del- egates from practically every state will -hear President Coolidge this evening. The French: Ambassador Jules J. Jusserand, and the British Ambassador, Sir Esme. Howard, also will speak. President Cool- idge’s address will be broadcast by radio, Election of the president-general does not take place this year, but eight vice presidents-general will be elected later in the week. KINGS PASSE WITH GREEKS ATHENS, April 14—The Greek people have voted by a large:major- ity for the éstablishment of a Re- publican form of government to suc- ceed the Glucksburg dynasty. Com- plete returns in yesterday's refer- endum show a majority of 75 per- cent in favor of the change. A decree will be published today, says an Agency dispatch from Ath- ens, nominating Admiral Coundour- jotis as president pro tem of Greece- The assembly will be divided into a tenate and chamber of deputies and after the Easter vacation will elect © president who, the dispatch says, will probably be Alex Zaimis, for- mer premfer, favored by Venizelos. To insure domestic stability and peace, discussion of the constitution will be prohibited for five years, the dispatch continue: BREAD LAW IS INVALID *. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Ne braska's law prescribing the max- imum as well as the minimum weight of loaves of bread was de- clared invalid today by the supreme court, Admitting the right of states to fix the minimum weight of loaves, the Jay Burns Baking company and others contested the right of Ne- braska to fix the maximum. ‘ Office Structure to Be Erected On Center Street By Tripeny Bros.— To Cost $300,000 Work will be started this fall on a six-story office structure to cover the ground now occupied by the Tripeny drug store and the building immediately north, to be 53 feet by 140 feet in alze and to cost approximately $300,000. John and William Tripeny, brothers, who own the Tripeny drug store, completed a deal last week wherein they pur- chased from Ida M. Hughes of San Diego, Cal., the lot adjoining the drug store and now holding a small frame structure of considerable age. John Tripeny is now in San Diego and will return Wednesday. The present Tripeny drug store will not have to be torn down in order that the greater structure may be erected for it was originally put up with the intention of adding more to it. The drug store has a front- age of 28 feet. and the lot adjoin- ing a frontage of 25 feet. The space next to the drug store on the first floor will be used as a store build- ing while office rooms will take up the remainder of the ‘structure, Architects’ plans for the edifice have not been drawn but William Tripeny today consulted’ with a lo- cal architect regarding them and work will begin immediately in that direction, The Tripeny brothers feel that there is a.demand for the type of building which they will erect. Hav- ing done business here many years, starting with a small confection- ery store, their faith in Casper has never failed them nor has it ever been misplaced, Lots. along Center street are now selling at $1,000 a front foot and with this price upon them the Tri- penys consider that the ground should haye buildings which will be a credit to the city. TEAPOT PROBE NEXT TUESDAY WASHINGTON, April 14—William Cooper Procter of Cincinnati, and several others who have been sub- poenaed by the senate oil committee arrived here today and conferred with Senator Walsh of Montana, the committee prosecutor. Senator Walsh said he desired to ascertain just what these witnesses could,tell the committee with refer- ence to campaign contributions in 1920 and gossip of of] deals at the Chicago convention. The committee is to resume its public hearings tomorrow, but Sen- ator Walsh has not decided whether he will call Mr. Pocter, who largely financed the pre-convention cam- paign of Leonard Wood. Prince of Wales Visits In Paris PARIS, April 14.—The Prince of Wales, who has been visiting Biar- ritz incognito as the Earl of Ches- ter, arrived in Paris today, planning to leave for London tomorrow. BOOTLEGCER IN ILLINOIS GIVES OFFICERS FICHT CHICAGO, April 14.—Alone in his home with his Seven weeks’ old son, Anton Ulmonek, reputed bootlegger, ,/exchanged scores of shots with besieging police yesterday on his farm at Hodgkins, Illinois, before he finally was subdued. distillation. Ulmonek threw his through a closed window and irled after her two of the children 11, and Tony, 18 months. Ulmonék, who had been cut glass, ran screaming to. the f neighbors. After Ulmonek frustrated efforts of neighbors remove the baby, an appeal for ssistance. was sent ot the neigh: wring town of La Grange. By firing rifles and shotguns from windows on all sides of the house. Crazed by moonshine liquor, said to have been of his Ulmonek kept the police at bay, He was captured after he had bold!y stepped out in front of the house and fired point blank at Chief I G. Matthews of the LaGrange force mireing him by a hair. Three po licemen then grappled with the mad man and shackled him Half a dozen rifles and shotguns and several revolvers as well as A large stock of ammunition, were found jn the house, The baby John, CASPER, Sass: te G. 0. P. RENEWS OFFENSIVE IN MELLON ISSUE Electric Rail) SIX STORY BUILDING PROJECTED WYO., MONDAY, APRIL 14 dy LOS ANGELES LADIES CRITICIZE ACTRESS AS REPRESENTATIVE ts Club and Soc'+1 (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune). LOS ANGELES, April 14.—There was a time not so long ago when Los Angeles was proud to be represented by a lady star of the fifth—now the fourth or third—industry distribution and exhibition of motion pictures. was a time when Hollywood was the brightest jewel in the crown of the city of the Angels. But that was before divorce became the first industry now the fourth or the third—and when one husband to a lady of Barbaras personal of the United States, the making, stead of five or four, or three, was considered quite sufficient. | Now times and customs have changed. Take the case of Barbara La Marr, not only one of the most fa- mous beauties of the screen, but vir- tually brought up in Los Angeles, and brought up ifn the divorce courts four or five times, Just now Bar- bara in all her radiant beauty, and with not a husband in sight, is somewhere east of Los Angeles on a special train with members of all the chambers of commerce of south- ern California and the Los Angeles chamber of commerce in particular, bearing the glad tidings of southern Californias matchless climate and opportunities to the residents of the hot and cold belts of the country. On this train, run as a “southern California message of welcome,” who could better typify the warmth of climate and of welcome that awaits the newcomer in southern California? It was a rare stroke of genius, the presence of Barbara and one of her lady friends on the train. A few years or months ago Los An- geles would have basked in the re- Germans May Use American Grown Hops WASHINGTON, April 14. — American hops, barred from their traditional uses in the United States, may find their way into German beer. Consul Cornelius Ferris at Stet- tin, Germany, reported to the commerce department today that shortage of fertilizer in Germany has reduced the Bavarian and Bo- hemian crops below the German requirements. na 6) ROR sell OF MEX GENERAL BATTLES WITH REBEL TROOPS VERA CRUZ, April 14.—General Eugenio Martinez sailed with 3,000 troops yesterday for Progreso, to launch a campaign against the reb- els in the southeastern states. The contingent is being transported by the gunboat Bravo and the steam- ships Jalisco, Montezuma and Frit- z0e. Government information is fow rebels are operatin; that in Yucatan. Evelyn Nesbit to Intervene for Son + In Insanity Trial PHILADELPHIA, Apri! 14.—Rus sell William Thaw, claimed to be the 13-year-old son of Harry K. ‘Thaw, was today allowed to intervene, through a guardian, in the Thaw im sanity proceedings which began in mmon ple urt today PHILADELPHIA, April 14 Judge John Monaghan in permitting the boy to intervene, announced he could do so, not through his mother, but through a guardian. ‘Thomas E. Cogan of counsel for Evelyn New bit, was then appointed guardian lay crying but unhurt in the crib, Jduring the proceedings, ” y Matrons Object to Barbara La Marr, Five Times‘Married, Advertising California’s Match- less Climate In the East BY FORREST WHITE, flected glory appearances. Not now, There of the fifth industry— y star of the screen in- Los Angéles, by its club women (Continued on Page Eight) WORLD FLIERS MAY HOP OFF TO FAR NORTH ALASKA STOP TODAY SEWARD, Alaska, April 14. — journey, a flight to Chignik, Alaska, With 2,900 miles traveled out of 27,000 in a circuit of the globe, four planes of the United States army were expected to leave here today for Chignik, a lone cannery station 455 miles to the west on the Alaska peninsu'a. SEWARD, Alaska, April 14. — After cutting a day from {ts sched- ule itinerary by flying direct to Seward from Sitka, without a stop at Cordova as originally planned the United States army air squac- ron making .a globe encircling trip is at anchor in the harbor here pre. paring for the next stage of its 450 miles distant from Seward. The time of departure hinges on weather conditions to be reported today. The four planes reached Seward Puuadogy Che Casper Daily Crimowe HR (duos) “HON oeig NUMBER 147, ‘ ESIDENT 1S Line Proposed lit OPPOSED To Los Angeles|| LOS ANGELES, Calif., half a dozen long dormant railroad enterprises in Colora- do, Utah, Arizona and California, with a view to opening a new line between Los Angeles and Denver was the sub- PROBES. OF TREASURY DEPT. April 14.—Consolidation of ject of conferences here yesterday, according to the Los Senator Watson to Re- Angeles Times. Provided the plans of {tg pro moters materialize, the new line will be electrically operated. Options have been obtained.on 21 power sites of 150 acres each, it is sald. The proposed new road, says the Times will be called the "Colorado- Utah-Pacifia Railway.” The pro- moters of the project have not yet incorporated and do not plan to of- fer any stock to the public, but have opened offices in Los Angeles, Salt Lake and Denver. Those associated with the project are listed by the Times as follows: Judge John 'T. Pope, former at: torney general of Utah; George Blair Sturgeon, former consulting engineer, University of California; H. M. Gilliam, of Los Angeles; Arch L. Mitchell, former state corporation engineer of Oklahoma; C. B, O'Hearn of Los Angeles; I. Sterling, former- ly_of the Gold Seal Refining com- pany, and Utah and eastern capital- ists whose names the promoters say cannot be made public pending com- pleting the negotiations now under way. Powder Plant Man Kills Himself By proposed shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon, a little more than seven hours after they hopped off from Sitka, There’ was much disappointment at Cordova where the people, eager to give the aviators a rousing wel- come, clung to: thé hope that the alr cruisers would swing in over the town from Katalla. Instead, the fleet passed well off shore and was not sighted elther at Vordova or at Cape Hinchinbrook. Use of Dynamite HOPATCONG, N. J., April 14.— David Wright, 51 years old, raw material store keeper at the plant of the Atlas Powder company here, committed suicide by tying three sticks of dynamite to his belt and discharging them with an electric battery, according to Coroner Voel- ker. President Throws Down Gauntlet In Demand That Senator- ialInvestigations Be Conducted With Constitu- tional Limits by Committees (BY DAVID LAWRENCE) (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune). WASHINGTON, April 14.—A topsy turvy week it has been in presidential politics and in legislative developments in the national capital. has furrlished the climax—the demand that senatorial within constitutional limits which carries with it the impli he can express what seems to him a growing resentme gation. The president's defense of Secre-, Means of striking at the extremes tary Mellon was prompted by the| Of the senatorial inquisitions knowledge that he might lose a ca pable secretary of the treasury if the sniping by congress continued. Men like Andrew W. Mellon are not tempted to stay in the public serv- ice under conditions that approach muck-raking and the president has seized upon the Meilon case as a Many Hazards Encountered by World SEWARD, Alaska, April 14.—In a flight of 610 miles here from Sitka, Alaska, yesterday the fliers had the most perilous adventure, they reported, that has occurred in their expedition, which began March 17 at Santa Monica, California, Off the Pacific ocean terminus of the Malapina Glacier, about half way from Sitka, Licuten- ant Leigh Wade, flying the Boston, after dropping dangerously low be cause he had lost sight of the shore line, was unable to discern the surf in a sear a sign of the ocean's edge Lieutenant Wade led the formatio from Sitka to Seward, and the B ton, flag plane for the day, by banking, turned across the course of the Seattle, the plane of Major Frederick L. Martin, commander of the expedition, to make a The fight between Senator Couz ens of Michigan and Secretary Mel- lon had its innocent beginning in the exchange of letters over tax re- duction. Had Mr. Mellon been a more experienced politician, he would not have rubbed the Michigan senator the wrong way in that cor- Fliers The trip from Sitka as a whole was the most dangerous of any jump In the expedition #0 far, Major Martin The depart Sitka was in ideal ¥ ather t F rtly therea r larg Li v kon of sr w 1 | freight by powerful gusts of w 1 Visibility was so low that some time the planes kept so close to each others aw fifty feet, as their pilots had previously agreed, in ‘order not to lose one another. (Continued on Page Seven.) investigations be cation that the executive feels nt against government by inyesti- President Coolidge himself conducted respondence and would have omit ted the sting in the letters and con fined himself to dispassionate an- Swers. Instead the reply which ator Couzens recelved aroused his wrath and the feud resulted a few days ago in the proposal of Mr. Couzens to pay out of his own pock- et for the employment of Francis Heney to prosecute by investigation the bureau of internal revenue which is/in Mr, Mellon's depart ment. ven the Democrats admit that Secretary Mellon is not the usual type in government service and that his integrity is not being questioned but they disapprove of the president's statement that con gressional committees should not un dertake to inquire too clonely into the workings of the executive de partments. For a long time, the ex ecutive bas felt under this and pre ceding administrations that he could refuse information if “incompatible with the public interest.” But the right of congress to interrogate of. ficlals of the executive departments, especially before agreeing to appro priations {9 one that congress is not likely to surrender without a fight Meanwhile, the president feels himself growing stronger within his own party for his message to the Senate was aimed at a Republican fenator—not a Democrat, and Mr. Coolidge had just won an over whelming victory jn the primaries of the very state from which Mr Cou : ka and Michigan h en t stimulate his supportera but most to stiffen him in his own deter mination to assert a leadership over his own party. His opportunit are near at hand. The soldier bonus bill will comé betore the senate (Continued on Page Bight) new Action for Termi- nation of Investigation By Committee MYRTLE HAYS PLEADS GUILTY WASHINGTON, April 14.—The administration is preparing to renew with in- creased vigor its counter of- fensive against the fight on Secretary Mellon in the senate. President Coolidge conferred at length today, with the treasury sec- retary and with Senator Watson of Indiana, one of the administration senate leaders and chairman of the special committee which is inves- tigating the internal revenue bu- reau. It was indicated Senator Wat- son would make another speech n the senate, probably tomorrow, set- ting forth in greater detail the ar- gument for discontinuance of the inquiry, Other senators on the Republican side are expected to join in the counter attack in support of Presi- dent Coolidge’s charge that the rev. enue bureau committee has not kept within its proper rights and his warning that the time has come for the senate to “return to a govern- ment under and in accordance with the usual forms of the law of the land.” ‘Whether Secretary Mellon will take any further direct part In the argument remains to be devel- oped. In renewing his request for action on his resolution to end the revenue NEW YORK, April 14.—Mrs. Myr- tle Bowman Hayes pleaded guilty in Sessions general court today to,a charge of attempted fofery for en-] bureau investigation, Senator Wat- dorsing the name of Charles M.|80n will reply to the statement is- Mwabisto:ca 000 note, Her| sued last night by Governor Pin- chot of Pennsylvania, who suggest- ed employment by the committee of Francis J. Heney. The Indiana senator takes the position that noth- ing is to be gained by the inquiry proposed by Governor Pinchot intd prohibition enforcement under Sec+ retary Mellon. The general question of the strat. trial was to have a been resumed to- egy to be employed in the next phase of the battle discussed at to ‘s conference etween the president, Secretary Mellon and Sen- . ator Watson. Afterward Senator Fretich’ Girl _ Int |\Wateon eaia no detinive conclusions were reached. He hastened to the capital to report the views of the president on the conference of Re- publican senators which meet prior to the convening of the senate. Should an agreement be reached by the Republicans to proceed with the immigration bill, Senator Wat- son indicated he would make no move to bring up his resolution to- day. Parachute Makes Thrilling Jump Possibility safely set down by a low f being ing of @ passenger airplane without using a spe ‘The impression was given tn ad+ landing ground, Madame Ger- | ministration circles that the opposi- maine Granveaud, 22 years old, | tion to employment of Mr. Heney lay much deeper than the technical with a special parachute jumps legal grounds set forth by the presi- from a speeding plane as it w a dent in his message, and that the crossing the Invalides Espanade | right against such a step would be yesterday to the mingled admira- | continued regardless of Democratia tion and appre nm ¢ the | proposals to make Mr. Heney's re- crowds there waiting for @ last | tention legal by a formal senaté reso« giimpse of the king and queen cf | jution Rumania, A strong wind was The president potnted out in his blowing and Instead of dropping | message that to employ the famous into the planade the aviatrix | California prosecutor with the un- landed on. the rallroad property derstanding that his expenses would outside the Invalides terminal nar- | he paid out of the pocket of Senator rowly missing a ducking in the Couzens, Republican, Michigan, Bene. Sho was promptly accosted | would ict with the revised state by a policeman, who utes. There appeared to be a come summons to court for br plete agre nt today, however, the city's flying regulations. » | that Mr. Heney’s employment under ared perfectly content at hay- |any circumstances would not only proved her point (Continued on Page Hight) JOHNSON TAKES RAP AT JAPS IN EXCLUSION BILL HINGTON, April 14 On mo The Californian senator declared Senator Lodge, Republican] that jt was, “me strous’’ that Seere. ie i errs bp ae ad the tary Hughes had not sharply re exclusion provision of the|#ponded to the protest. ution bill | Senator Lodge told the senate i¢ ® session lasting| was with regret that he sald the thre of an hour tor | letter addressed ry Hughes the pr Ambassad "1 ed a veiled hara inst the exclusion provi 2 of that, he said, lor 1s an “impertinent” communt.|%® Could not support the amend. cation which would not be “tole.| ent in the pending bill which would rated” even by a fourth rate power. (Continued on Page Two)