Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Colder Wednes- day, and in northwest portion to- night. “VOLUME Vill. REMO The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. AL OF LAVOYE 0 Che Casper Daily Tribune CASPER, Wye aay, APRIL 22, 1924. RDERED BY NUMBER 154. U.S. COURT ROYCE TO GET. S. READY TO SCRAP ARMS CITY HEARING PETITIONS FOR| RAIL PERMIT|LARGER MARKET FOR WYOMING GOWN PRODUCTS HELD POSSIBLE Systematic Marketing Plans Would Mean Big Boost to Farming, Horticultural and Stock Growing Industry, Report. Hl REMOVAL GIVEN GOUNGIL Climax Scheduled for Next Tuesday in Public Meeting. A public hearing on the case of Walter W. Royce, alderman from the Second ward, will be given next Tuesday evening at the city hall at which time the city attorney expects to read an opinion by the attorney general of the state on the method of getting Royce off the council and Royce either, per- sonally or by attorney, will be given an opportunity in face of his con- viction on Hquor charges in district court here and in spite of the pub- le clamor for his removal, to state why he should not be fired. An attempt to get through a mo- tion calling upon the city attorney to draw up an ordinance providing for the removal of officers was de- feated last night when the council met in regular session. Ambrose Hemingway, the attorney, advised against such {astruction until the council was further enlightened on the matter and knew just what kind of an ordinance it desired to have drawn up, Alderman Lowndes pro- sented the motion which was second- ed by Hoffhine, These two gentle- men were the only ones who voted in favor of it since Whisenhunt, Tuck- er and Pelton cast negative votes and since Royce had discreetly stay- ed away from the session. Mr. Pelton disclaimed for the council any right to intercede in the quarrel between Councilman Royce and the citizens of the second ward, saying that it was a matter for the courts to decide, “It is not up to us as a council to vote out a man who got his position the same as we did,” he said. “Such action will be used as a pretext in the future to get out of office any man whom the remain- 4ng members of the council do not want to serve.” Mr. Whisenhunt stated his agree ment with the city attorney that hasty action should not be taken on the matter and then an ordinance should not be drawn untjl there was something definite in the minds of the aldermen, Mr. Tucker voted “no” without ex- planation, The petition which had been cir culated throughout a great part of the Second ward Sunday and Mon- day was presented with 798 signa- tures last night by Captain J. EB. Frisby. ‘The petition asks for the removal of Royce on the grounds that he was found guilty of violat- ing the lquor ordinance and on the supposition that section 1866 of the state statutes gives a city the right to provide for the removal of an of- ficlal found guilty of misconduct. City Attorney Hemingway said that he was not prepaned off hand to give an opinion on the power of the council to remove Royce in com- pifance with the petition and that he would like to have further time to study it. He had written, he said, to the attorney general of the state for &n opinion since he had been un- able to find any record of previous case similar to this one in Wyoming. (Continued on Page Four) IN WYOMING IS NOT GRANTED WASHINGTON, April 22.—Per- mission to bulld an extension to its present line in Johnson county, Wyoming, was denied the Wyo- ming railway by the Interstate Commerce commission today. The Une would have paralleled an ex- tension by the North and South railway recently authorized, ——— SUN’S HEAT HARNESSED — SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.— Marcel Moreau of San Francisco, today announced he had found a way of harnessing the sun's heat. He declared that, working from ex- periments credited to Archimedes and Buffon, hundreds of years ago, he had succeeded in devising a com- bination of lttle mirrors set in ia bowl about four feet in diameter, which, when focused through a number of small lenses, would pro- duce tremendous heat from the sun's light. He said he could regu- late the heat produced td the exact degree desired. Moreau claims to have produced with hig machine heat sufficient to melt a-diamond and cause.dt to dis- appear as gas. An edtcational campaign among Wyoming farmers who desire to market their products in this state, a grad- ing law for the entire state which would mean higher mar- keting standards and an increased interest in home- grown products are.expected to result if a line of action urged upon the members of the Casper Chamber cf Com- merce today is carried out. The topic for the meeting today was that of Wyoming produce and was the outcome of recent favorable agitation for the Casper-Alcova irrigation project. Several wholesale men were called upon to address the forum today and these men generally expressed their opinion that most wholesalers desire to buy their products In Wyo- ming whenever they can do so and get something of standard equal to ‘that shipped in from the outside. T. C. Tonkin, manager of the Cas- per Supply company, introduced the subject: “Keep in Mind Wyoming Products an@ Demand Wyoming Products,” said Mr. Tonkin. “When you are asked to bnuy from the out- side remember that agents of dealers in other cities offer attractive pri¢es (Continued on Page ‘Nine).- the impression—of course reason COURT IS STARTLED WHEN THAW SPEAKS Granddaughter Of Cody Will Unveil Statue NEW YORK, Jane Cody Carlos, 14, granddaugh- ter of Col. William Cody, will un- veil the bronze equestrian statue April 22,—Miss of “Buffalo Bili" at the Cody, Wyo., entrance to Yellowstone park, the Buffalo Bill American association has announced. The statue is the work of Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney. a GLOBE FLYER OVER PERSIA BOMBAY, April 22.—Stuart Mac- Laren, British aviator in an attempt to fly arounG the world, arrived to- day at Abu-Shebr (Bushire) on the Persian gulf. PERSIA, April 22.—Stuart Mac- Laren, British aviator essaying a world flight, flew here today from Bagdad and after a short halt set out again bound for Bender, Abbas, near the soithern edge of the Per- sian gulf. Flight Chief Joins Comrades Major Martin Hops Off On Journey to Dutch Harbor After Installation ' of New Engine In Airplane KANATAK, The Portage Bay, April Associated Press.)— Frederick L. Martin, under of an United States army squadron flying around the world. Was prepared today to hop off from here on a 550mmile flight to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, to rejoin his three other companions who landed there from Chignik, Alaska, Satur- day, com: Martin was forced down uo today enroute from A new ajor a week Seward, Alaska to Chignik ngine was rushed here by the United States coast guard cutter Algonquin from Dutch Harbor and installed in his flag plane, the Seattle. Major Martin expects to make the trip to Unalaska Island without stoppage. He was prevent- ed from starting yesterday on account of a heavy gale, GOTHAM LIQUORTOGOON BARGAIN COUNTER DURING CONVENTION, "LEGGERS SAY BY ROBERT T. SMALL, (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune). NEW YORK, April 22.—From present prospects it looks as if New York would be about as wet as the Atlan- tic ocean during the Democratic national convention. The bootleggers of the metropolis seem to have gained he convention was voted to this city was b President Coolidge Says Nation Would ‘Agree to Further Limitation; Other Topics Discussed In Address NEW YORK, April 22.—An international conference to consider further armament limitations, provided the European situation is sufficiently stabilized by the suc- cessful operation of the recommendations of the Dawes committee, would be favored by the United States, Presi- dent Coolidge announced today at the annual luncheon of The Associated Press. Asserting that nothing of more importance than the Dawes report had occurred tn Europe since the armistice, the president sald he trusted that private American capt- tal would be willing to participate in the proposed German loan. There are sound business reasons why the United"States should take part “in the financing of works of peace in Europe," Mr. Coolidge declared. In announcing that he favored steps toward the convocation of a conference to consider armament limitation where the Washington conference left that problem, the President made it plain that a pre- requisite was “na certain and defi- nite settlement of German repara- tions” and the attendant stabiliza- tion of European affairs. “We have determined to maintain and can maintain our political inde- pendence,” President Coolidge said, “but our economic independence will be strengthened and increased when the economic stability of Europe is restored.” Mr. Coolidge asserted that upon the “integrity and fairness": of the Associated Press depended “in large measure the course of public opin- ion in the United States. “This work is done,” he said, “without any. tinge of personal or of political opinion. A very prac- tical need exists and it/is met by a very’ practical service. © It 1s indl- vidual in its nature. It is a perso- nal service for each one of us, mak- they are wrong—that one of the efficiency of the bootlegging trade, So they are taking no little pride in the arrangements they are making to care for what they be- Neve will be a thirsty army descend- ing upon these hospitable shores along about June 24 next. The profession desires to show the delegates~and alternates—exactly what real high class bootlegging means. They ex- pect above all things to amaze the pilgrims with the low prices which Prevail in this market. (Continued on Page Six) BALL scones |All OF LAND IS NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Cincinnati— R.E.E. Chicago ..--..100 xxx xxx—x x x Cincinnati -..000 xxx xxx—x x x Ratteries—Kaufman and 0’Far- rell; Mays and Hargrave, At St- Louis— R.H.E. Pittsburgh -..202 xxx xxx—x x x St. Louis. 000 Xxx XXX—xX xX xX Batteries—Kremer and Schmidt; Dyer, H. Bell and Clemons. Boston-New York game postponed; rain, Brooklyn-Philadelphia game post- poned; rain. RE AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Chicago— R.H.E. Cleveland 000 00x xxx—x x x Chicago -000 00x xxx—x x x Batteries—Coveleskie and Myatt; Blankenship and Crouse, At Detroit— R. HE. St. Louls. 010 000 Oxx—x x x Detroit ~. 101 000 3xx—x x x Batterles—Bayne and Collins; Whitehall and Bassler, At Washington— New York ---.041 Olx xxx—x x x Washington _.200 10x xxx—x x x Batteries — Hoyt and Schang; Zahniser and Ruel- R. ELE. Philadelphia-Boston poned; rain, game _post- James Quinn Home ing its appeal entirely to the Iintelli- gence of the individaal’ and recogniz- Saddened by Death The 10-day-old son of Mr, and Mrs. James E. Quinn, 137 Hast Seventh street, died at the family home at il o'clock last night. The funeral was held at the Shaffer-Gay chapel this afternoon, the Rev. Father Mor- ton officiating. —————— PARIS, April 22.—Patrick Cardi- nal Hayes of New York, returning home from Rome, where he was elévated tp’ thé purple laat month, left for“Cherbourg today to board the United States liner Leviathan, QUARANTINE ON STATE LINE IS STILL DISPUTED Slayer of Standford White Gets Excited as Plea Is Fought; Verdict Near Today In Sanity Hearing PHILADELPHIA, April 22.—Just as the Harry K. Thaw sanity trial recessed for luncheon today, Thaw rushed to the press table and burst into an excited speech in denunciation of William A. Gray, who had been ad- dressing the jury in opposition to Thaw’s release. When he calmed down Thaw said that he had not been excited because of Mr. Gray’s speech, but was nervous because of the danger of losing the jury if certain records were introduced. PHILADELPHIA, April 22. Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, whose sanity is being tested by a jury in. common pleas court probably will know the verdict today. Testimony was completed yester- day, former Judge John M. Patter- son, counsel] for that had finished his summation and Arthur G. Dick- son, representing the trustees of Thaw's estate. who are opposing his release, had begun his address to the jury. Mr. Dickson was expected to conclude at the morning's session of court. He will be followed by Wil- lam A. Gray, counsel for Evelyn Nes; bit, divorced wife of Thay, whose 13- year-old son, Russell, William Thaw, was permitted by the court to inter- vene, and after the judge's charge the case will be given to the jury. Counsel for Thaw intimated yes- terday that the case would be ap- pealed to the state supreme court should the verdict be unfavorable. PHILADELPHIA, April 22.—The question of the insanity of Harry K. Thaw was given to the jury to determine at 3:20 p. m. today. Final addresses to the jury which will determine the sanity of Thaw, were delivered today. Arthur G, Dickson, counsel for the trustees of Thaw’s estate making the first speech in opposition to Thaw’s re- lease from the Pennsylvania hospit- a! for mental and nervous diseases. Mr. Dickson went extensively into ‘Thaw's career, He laid great stress upon the allegation that after Thaw was released from the New. York state asylum at Mattewan he ad- ministered a beating to the Gump youth ané that as a consequence he was declared insane by a jury in Philadelphia tn 1917. Mr. Dickson said that Thaw has always been in- sane. “He suffers from a moral dent,” said Mr. Dickson, “and his condition is a mental affair that goes deep down and does not show on the sur- face.” Mr, Dick#on asserted that Thaw showed his real nature by the way he treated his rabbits, During Thaw’s first year of confinement in the hospital, he had been seized by recurrence of “brain storms,” the attorney said, in which he revealed “a continual moral depravity.” For the last six years, the attor- ney said, Thaw plotted for his lib- erty. He cultivated friends, talked freely with everyone he might ure later, as a witness, and prepared in every way to get out,” Mr. Dickson said Thaw and his counsel had “jockeyed” the Gump affair so that they waited seven years until the case was settled be. fore Thaw made an effort,to obtain his freedom. Mr. Dickson added that if it had, not been for the trustees of the ‘Thaw estate, there would have been nq contest. - During Mr. Dickson's address, Thaw glared at the hospital doc- tors from time to time as the speak- (Continued on Page Nine) Bill Proposes Project Relief WASHINGTON, April 2 A bill designed to relieve distress among farmers on reclamation projects in the west along lines recommended by the special advisory commisr which invest!yated conditions w: n troduced today by Chairman Smith of the House irrigation committee. Sweeping changes in the reclamation law are proposed. Representative Leatherwood of Utah, a Republican on the com: mittee, introduced a bill whieh would Suthorize appropriations for alx. ir ion projects as follows North Platte, Nebraska- Wyoming, for continued investigation, com: mencement of construction of the Guernsey reservoir and incidental operations $800,000; Spanish Springs, Nevada, $800,000; Owyhee, Oregon, $1,250,000; and Salt Lake Basin, Utah, $1,600,000, the funds for each Project to be used for continued in- Naturally the committee of ar- rangements for the conventions has had no truce with the bootleggers. The committee has recetved the guarantee of the hotels that they will not boost their prices in. any way. The New York hotels will not insist, as the Cleveland hotels are doing, that there shall be paid for three persons {n a room regardless of how many occupy the chamber. Nor will the New York hotels insist upon a sixor seven day contract. They say the delegates may come when they please and go when they please. Of course the local bonifaces know the Democrats. They know the convention will last far more than any six or seven day period, so the contract idea would mean nothing. After committing the hotels, the committee set about to line up the restaurants. Here {t was found that some had made plans to boost the! rates during the Democratic con clave. This prospective rise has been promptly squelched, however, 1 normal rates will prevail in all the eating places, cafeterias and automats included, The bodtleggers have agreed among themselves that they will not be outdone in hospitality by the hotel keepers and the restau- ranteurs. They, too, will not go on a profiteering basis. Instead of think- ing of increased prices they are con- | cerned at the moment only with the thought of getting enough hard (Continued on Page Six) vestigation, commencement of con struction and incidental operations; Vale, formerly called Warm Springs Oregon, $250,000 for continued in vestigation, and for first payment toward purel: of an Interest in the Warm Springs reservoir; Yakl- ma, Washington, $1,500,000 for con- tinued investigation, commencement of constriction of the Kittitas di- vision and incidental operations. Introduction of th tw bills fo! lowed the transmission to congre yesterday, by President Coolidg message in which he re enactment of legislation at sion to relieve distress in mation district . The Smith bill would require the secretaries of the interior, ricul ture and commerce to join in approv- ing projects before they authoriz- ed, would specify that all lands must (Continued on Pago Six) ommended this ses the re Sheriff of Imperial County Gets Order to Break Down Barrier Against Tourist Traffic, Report YUMA, Ariz., April 22.—(By The Associated Press). —tThis torrid town, on the Arizona bank of the Colorado river, nestled as comfortably as possible between frying pan and fire today while awaiting the outcome of two ap- parently antagonistic methods of solving the quarantine problem which has arisen since Arizona closed the state line here to eastbound vehicular traffic, Word from Phoenix last night in- dicated that the western boundary of the Yuma Indian reservation, which is on California soil, would again be made the west line of the Arizona foot and mouth disease quarantine. A statement from the Imperial county (California) board of super- visors made It cle however, ‘ac cording to Dr. E Stam, quaran tine supervisor here, that authorities of that ¢ounty stood squarely behind the sheriff who last Friday is said to have broken down a quarantine. bar- rier on the Indian reservation and sent a frantic, hungry, heart-ridden throng of delayed motorists on their way to the Arizona line, which they Were finally permitted to pass after fumigation. Should another quarantine barrier be erected in Imperial county, Dr, Stam quotes the supervisors as say- ing, the sheriff alreatly has his in- structions to demolish it Meanwhile another congregation of motorists 19 forming at Knob Sid ing, 14 miles west of here on the edge of the reservation, waiting to be fumigated and admitted to Art- zona, PROTEST FILED BY CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO, Calif,, April 22,— A protest against the establishment of a foot and mouth epizootic quar aniine line in California along the vweatern bound yf the Yuma In dian reservation was telegraphed to- day to Secretary Wallace of the de partment of agriculture by’ Gov- ernor Richardson of California. To stop automobile tourists at the weat boundary of Yu nm would be is neith fr availed 1a Indian ree inhumane as “Ml, water nor this point overn “Tt ja a desert waste at this point” the gov telegram continued “The quarantine on the Arizona lin has caused suffering enough with out shoving the line ten miles over the desert into California, A stat highway runs through the reserva tion which should be kept open.” Black Blasting Powder Warning Issued by U.S. TON, April —A warning against “the continued use of black blasting powder in the coal mihes of the United States” was is- sued today by the Interior depart- ment, which safd in the period from 1908 to 1923, black blasting powder or black blasting powder and dj mite had caused 71 mine explosions with fatalities. 857 Substitution of permissable explo- sives which have passed tests pre- scribed by the bureau of mines was recommended NEEDED BY Onl0 IN DEVELOPING OIL PROPERTY Louis Lavoye Expected To Take Appeal From Decree Just Issued by Judge Kennedy. Upholding the contention of the Ohio Oil company that it needs all of the pres- ent townsite of Lavoye in Salt Creek for oil opera- tions, Judge T. Blake Ken- nedy In United States district court at Cheyenne late yesterday entered a decree calling for the removal of “all buildings and structures and all deposits of filth and refuse" and ordering the defendant to “forth- with place said land as nearly as possible in its original condition.” The injunction sets forth that the defendant, Louis P. Lay and all others, are “perpetually restrained and enjoined from occupying, using or asserting any claim to the occu- Pancy" of the land involved. Decision in this suit, which was instituted by the department of jus- tice of the federal government fol- lowing a similar ruling by the in- terior department, marks another important step in the fight for pos- session of the land, The Ohio com- pany claims prior right by virtue Of iteoll dease, while Lavoye is seeking to establish homestead rights to the land. A measure was recently introduced in congress by Congressman Winter which would permit maintenance of the town on the property. Fifteen hundred residents of La- voye are interested tn the litigation inasmuch as the eventual ousting of Lavoye would mean the removal of the entire town as set forth in the ruling by Judge T. Blake Ken nedy, Louis Lavoye is expected to appeal his case to the cireult court of appeals, it being the announced intention of attorneys for the de- fendant to stay final action until netion can be secured on the con- gressional measure. The injunction issued by Judge Kennedy follows in full, the case being that of the United States of America vs. Louls Lavoye: ne above entitled cause coming regu'arly on for trial before the court this day, and the plaintiff ap- pearing by Albert D. Walton, United States attorney for the district of Wyoming, and the defendant, Louis P. Lavoye, appearing in person, the trial was proceeded with and divers and sundry witnesses were duly Sworn and testified on behalf of the plaintiff, and the defendant, Louls P. Lavoye, stated to the court that he did not desire to contest the suit on oer any evidence in defense t of, “Th ; court, after hearing the evi. dence d being fully advised in the doth find that all of the premises, allexations contained in plaintiff's bill of complaint f¢ herein are true, and that all of the surface of the land involved in this suit is ry the proper develop- ment of said land for oil and gas purposes by the plaintiff herein and its lessee and its assigns, and those {ming under or through the said ne Ase executed by sald plaintiff. te the New York Oil company, “The court further finds that a Portion of the land Involved in this suit has been leased by said defend. ant, Louls P, Lavoye, to divers persons purposes other than for the development and operation of sald Ignd for the production of ofl (Continued on Page Six) Confession to Save Five Men One of Six Sentenced to Hang for the Murder of Cafe Proprietor Takes Responsibility for Killing NEW ORLEANS, April Leona, one of six men sente be hang of Dalla prieto: 8,1 Calmes, restaurant pre May jon last at Independence, La., in a signed confe night stated he killed Cal des dd the other five men innocent. a and were Leona which was Father Ray- Patrick's Cath- und signed in the pres- lic church ence of a police official and news- paper men. “I am responsible for everything. I fired two shots and they killed him, ‘The others are absolutely innocent."