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

The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. | Che Casper Daily Tribune F MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1924. t } (da —— The Weather WYOMING: Fair tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature; frost probable tonight. —————————— Publication Offic Tribune Bldg, 21 nd St. “WOLUME VIII. NUMBER 173. Member of Audit Bureau r 75 cents a month of Circulation Delivered by Carrie: e On Streets or at Newstands, 5 cents Bootleg Union )ifl\ LEADERS REPUBLICANS NAME DELEGATES a . Action Flayed Mf CALED IN COWENTION AT Platform as Adopted 7 WASHINGTON, May 14.—(By The Associated Press) —A recent petition from the “Bootleggers’ Union of America” protesting modification of the Volstead act to New Mayor CONFERENCE BY INDER CLOSE; By State Republicans WITH ELECTION All Issues Covered in Platform Approved By Delegates. LANDER, Wyo., May 14. +The largest and mest har- monious Republican conven- tion ever held in Wyoming came to a close at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, with the selection of delégates and alternates to the Republican national conven- tion to be held in Cleveland in June, the selection of three presidential electors and the adoption of the ommittee on resolutions which out- Nned the policy and platform of the Republican party in Wyoming. The following were unanimously elected as delegates to the national convention to represent the eight judicial districts of the stat District I—R. N. Matson, delegate; Georgo Houser, alternate. District 2—L. H. Armstrong of Rawlins, delegate; Emma H. Knight, alternate, District $3—Mrs. Mildred Mikelson, delegate; Fred Lovejoy, alternate. District 4—Lyman H. Brooks of Sheridan, delegate; Ritchie Young, alternate. District 5—Jake Schwoob of Cody, delegate; “Bear” George McClellan of Worland, aiternate. District 6—Robert D. Carey of Careyhurst, delegate; J. EB. Higgins of Glenrock, alternate. District 7—Ora G- Frazine of New- castle, delegate; Emma Fredericks of Gillette, alternate. District 8—Mrs. B. B. Brooks of Casper, delegate; John B. Barnes, Jn. of Casper, alternate. Delegate-at-Large—frank W. Mon- écll, delegate; H. M. Huntington, alternate. Three presidential electors, coming from different sections of the state were selected, as follow: From the southern section, Henry Perrott of bany county; central section, James Graham of Lander; from the rthern section, Lee Simonson of ermopol: elections were made by roll call of the delegations and were unanimous, The address of former Congress- man Mondell was the feature of the closing session of the convention. Appearing for the first time as a private member of: the party which had honored him for more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Mondell ade a powerful plea for party lidarity, and the return to the meé-honore@ traditions upon which @ party was founded. Mr. Mon- 1 was accorded an ovation by the esr tes when\he came to the plat- to deliver his address. The following telegrams were read Chairman Dijion during the clos- hours of the conhvention: The White House, Washington, D. C., May 12, 1924. John Dillon, Chairman, Republican Convention, Lander, Wyo. Please express to the Repub- can delegates my deep apprecia- (Continued on Page Ten.) We, the Republicans of Wyoming, in convention assembled, again re- new our allegiance to the policies and principles of the grand old party and point with pride to the leaders, dead and living, whose tives 2 achievements have been the buiw: of the republic and the very essence of American history. It {s safe to say that after eight years of uninterrupted Democratic control the Republicans found the nation in chaos and have returned it to a plane of wisdom and econ- omy. A comprehensive budget sys- tem has been adopted and our internal tax laws have been so ad- justed that the people are relieved from no end of annoyance. The revenue laws are being still further revised in the present congress and greater relief is promised the people. Integrity of Government. Any wrong-doing or corruption must be sought out and destroyed. The senate investigation ordered by Republican and Democratic senators alike, disclosed facts upon which the president has acted in a man- ner to insure the impartial, ener- getic and orderly prosecution in the courts of any one guilty of wrong- doing and the righting of any wrong done the government. He said that no one shall be shielded because he is 2 Republican, and no one prose- cuted because he is a Democrat. His calm resolution, quiet dignity and firm insistance on orderly jus- tiee stand out in happy contrast to the unfair, disorderly and demogogic attempt to destroy the confidence of the people in théir public servants, which has impeded the public bust- ness, insulted the intelligence of the people and lowered the dignity and standing of the senate: The Tariff. The protective system has once more justified itself by restoring emnfidence, promoting industrial ac- tivity and employment and enor- mously Increasing our purchasing power, all of which are reflected in our great volume of production and in maximum peace-time exports and imports. High wages and steady in the Industrial centers have re- sulted in an increased domestic consumption of food products which has largely counterbalanced any loss of foreign markets resulting from depressed world conditions. We indorse the flexible features of the tariff act of 1922 as laying the foundation for future scientific tariff making. Immigration. We commend the Republican con- gress for its stand in restricting employ- immigration, believing that those who seek the benefit of our free institutions should prove them- selves worthy before entering our Highways. We recommend a continuance of the policy inaugurated and carried forward by a Republican adminis- tration on highway construction and maintenance, believing that it tends to a reduction of the cost of marketing farm and ranch products and transportation generally. Labor and Employment. The Republican party took over the federal government at a time when Samucl Gompers estimated (Continued on Page Bight) JOHN D.SHEEHANISNAMED - EVANSVILLE MAYOR; JAMES STEWART CHOSEN AT MILLS Municipal elections were held in Evansville and Mills yesterday, John D. Sheehan being chosen as the new mayor of Evansville and James -Stewart achieving the same honor in Mills. The Citizens party in Evansville won a clean cut vic- tory, both councilmen in the‘party, Ward Tubbs and Harry Sweeney, being elected. ‘The résults in the voting shows ~total of 156 votes cast in Evansville while “Mr? Sheehan receiving 102 against 49 for Virgil B. pendent ticket. In the yote for Stutzman on the -Inde- councilmen, Tubbs won from Har- ver Eaton by a vote of 105 to 31, and Sweeney defeated Bert Reed 103 to 49. “We are going to give the citizens of Evansville progressive, honest FEDERAL COURT SESSIO N HERE HELD ASSURED Senate Approval of House Measure Is Voted Late Tuesday; Deputy Marshal Also Provided WASHINGTON, May 14.—Approvai by the senate late yesterday of a bill previously passed by the house providing for holding one session annually of the federal court for the district of Wyoming in Casper will eliminate the trial of central Wyoming also provides for the appointment of a States marshal for Casper. of a federal court ses- sper may be credited in large part to Congressman Chas. B, Winter of this city, who intro- duced the measure in the house and secured the co-operation of Wyom- ing senators, M. P. Wheeler, fed. eral court commissioner here, and others first encouraged such a movement years ago but no concrete Securing sion for Ci The bill deputy United f ‘ould be obtained. Although Proposed at intervals the stiggestion ga ned no recognition with the result that unnecessary expense and in- convenience has bi Incurred in taking Casper ca to Cheyenne. When the time arrives for the erection of a first-class postoffice building in Casper it is probable that ample provision for federal court rooms will be made. At the pres- ent time the postoffice ts too crowd- ed to permit such provision. cases in Cheyenne. administration,” said Mr, Sheehan in discussing “the election. this morns ing. “There were no prominent ts- sues up in the election. It was merely q matter of candidates.” ‘The Mills mayor will be support- ed by Julius Jensen and Clyde Riley, new councilmen, who were elected yesterday. The town of Mills yesterday awarded an $18,000 contract for graveling streets and installing sew- er lines to Tom Mills, WHEELER IS EXONERATED WASHINGTON, vote of four to one, the senate In- vestigating committee late today held that the charges in the indict- ment returned against Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, by a federal grand jury in his own state was unsupported by the facts. Senator Sterling, Republican, South Dakota, declined to sign the majority report, which bears the signatures of Chairman Borah and Senator McNary, Oregon,. Republi. cans, and Senator Swanson, Virginia, and Caraway, Arkansas, Democrats. Senator Borah immediately laid the majority report before the sen- ate. It declared Senator Wheeler “wholly exonerated” of the charges against him. 50 PERISH IN EARTHQUAKE CONSTANTINOPLE, May 14.~- (By The Associated Prers)—A vio- lent earthquake {s reported in the region of Erzerum. Several vi'- lages have been destroyed and about fifty lives lost. May 14.—By a SHIP SALE CHARGE IS _ FALSE, SAYS HUGHES Secretary of State Issues Formal Denial of Accusations I. wv nvolving Return of Seized Vessel ha) Cr ‘ WASHINGTON, May 14.—Secretary Hughes today declared to be “absolutely false” the statement that “he d anything to do with the Washington,” to its former o In a formal statement pre respondence before the house shipping board investi-| & committee in which Se to have re ap former ¢ fore of state, Mr. shes declared*he had nothing to with the subject since he entered cabinet, Representative Davis, Democrat of secretary sale of the steamship Martha wnerg by the shipping board. ompted by the reading of the th yesterday read Merchant Marine committee to show that Mr. Hughes in December, 1920, three months before he pecame secretary of state was potive as counsel for a Trieste corporation to have title of Tenne cor well the ship, seized from Austria during the war, transferred back to that company. He also produced a resolo- tion to the shipping board two years later when the ship was sold for $60,- 000 to the corporation after the board had been advised by the state de- partment that the Trieste company was then Italian owned, through an- nexation of Trieste, Correspondence read by Mr. Davis Included that between William P. PUilips, under secretary of state, A. A, Adee, ns second assistant secre. tary and Chairman Lasker of the shipping board. It involved the for warding the representations on part of the Italian ambas other Interested persons a information to the the company the ador’ an well as national statuy of claiming the ship, “The statement that I had any. thing to do with the sale of the Mar. tha Washington,” said Soretary Hughes in his statement coday, is absolutely false, { have had nothing to'do with th/s matter since I be- came secretary of state. “In 1920 then I was practicing law and befure I had any iden of be- coming secretary of state I was con- sulted by the attorneys for the Ital- fans who claimed the vessel. I be- Meved thelr claim was @ just one and took the matter up. While the vessel had been pelzed by tls government because she flew the Austrian flag she belonged to Trieste and to a corporation owned end contro‘led by Italians. When Trieste went to Italy the corpora tion was recognized by Italy as an Italian corporation and the Italians ought the return of the vessel “The question was whether the government should confiscate a vos. se! which really belonged to ite as: Sociates in the war, My connection with the matter completely ended (Continued on Page Seven) Photo by Burt Bell—Tribune Staff Photographer. John D. Sheehan, who was chos- en mayor of Evansville in yester- day's election, is 29 years of age @ bachelor and a member of the real estate firm of B, H. Banta & Company, Evansville, He was halted in his work this morning for the above photograp! VIGTIM OF RAILROAD CRASH EMD AT REST F. Moreton directing the services, the funeral of Arthur J. Schimmel of Salt Creek, who died Saturday night, the Shaffer-Gay 10 With the Rev, Father J. will be held from chapel tomorrow morning at o'clock. permit sale of 2.75 per cent Wayne B. Wheeler, beer, was assailed today by general counsel for the anti-saloon league, before the house judiciary committee, as a “sample of the lengths the opposition goes to make people believe that prohib! tion ts a failure.” He branded the petition as a “fake”. Wheeler told the committee, which resumed hearings on bills propos- ing modification’ of the prohibition laws, that “there never has been such a determined and widespread attention and effort by bootleggers of beer, rum runners, brewers and their allies to discredit any policy of the government, as that used to break down the enforcement of pro- hibition,” Beer of 2.75 per cent ts no cure for lawlessness he declared. He predicted the sale of beer would restore the saloon or its counterpart, ang frustrate the pur- Pose of prohibition. “Even if the Iaw were enacted.” he said, “it could not legalize the sale of per cent beer in three fourths and more of the states where it is prohibited by state law Americans will not swap the con stitution for a mug of beer.” Body of Neill To Be Shipped This Evening DOUGLAS, Wyo., May. 14,.—The remains.of R. G. Neill, Cole Creek wreck _ victim, evil) ‘Dever from here this evening, in accordance with instructions re- ceived by wire to Coroner Hoffman. No relatives of the deceased have come to Douglas after the body, but it is understood that the funeral will be held in Denver within the next day or two. Neill's body was found near Park- erton yesterday morning. be. shipped. to. NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Chicago— R. H. E. New York ..--.000 101 022—6 11 1 Chicago . 100 210 000—4 9 0 Batteries—McQuilan and Snyder; Kaufman and O'Farrell. At St. Louis— Brooklyn St. Louis. and = Taylor; Sotheron and Gonzales. » At Cincinnati— Boston —.. Cincinnati _. Batteries—Genewich and O'Neill; Sheehan, May, Harris, Rixey and Wingo. ————.—___ AMERICAN LEAGUE. At New York— St. Louls_ New York 000 000 0O1I— 1 7 4 Batteries—Shocker and Severeid; Hoyt, Pippgrass and Schang, Hof- mann, At Philadelphia— Detroit -100 2 Philadelphia ..-100 031 000—5 11 2 Batteries—Stoner, Holloway, Clarke and Bassler, Woodall; Nay- lor, Baumgartner and Perkins, At Washington— R.A. EB. Cleveland, .»,.020 20% xxx—x x x Washihgton ’,.110 00x xxx—x x x Batteries—Edwards and Myatt; Johnson, Zachary and Ruel. At Boston— Chicago —__...000 000 000—0 4 4 Boston 022 202 3Ix—12 19 2 Batteries — Connally, Steengrafe, R.H.E. Cvengros and Crouse; Quinn and O'Neill. GLOBE FLYERS PREPARE TO TAKE OFF ON RECORD HOP OVER THE PACIFIC Giant Planes In Tune for 800-Mile Jump From Attu But Favorable Conditions Are Awaited; Major Martin’s Failure Charged to Squadron's Ambition BREMERTON, Wash., Ma: permitting, the three United Island. Each of the giant air cruisers ha stretch journey. Smith, pit is tn char of the flyers’ 900 mile Lieutenant Lowell H ing the cruiser Chicago, e of the squadron Major Frederick L. Martin, fight command: and Staff seant Alva L. Harvey, his mechani who were believed lost for ten days after their flag plane Seattle crashod into a mountain 100 miles northwest 6f Chignik following their departure —<___ W. L. FENEX 15 NAMED MAY OR OF GLENROCK GLENROCK, Wyo. May 14— (Special to The Tribune.)\—After sev- eral weeks of furious campaigning in which both: sides’ repeatedly crowned each other with showers of burning epithets, W. L, Fenex was yesterday elected mayor of this town. John W. Anson, mayor here for the past two years, lost his race for re-election by 28 votes. Results of the election’ follow: Ww. L. nex, 223; Jolin W. Anson, 195. For councilmen of which th are two Dy Jenki Robertson, 195; Guy Chris Kenn: gh, 191 So violent had been the leading up to yesterd: election here that Editor Williams of the Glenrock Gazette is now being sued for Mbel by Guy J. Sax ton, editor of the Glenrock Inde pendent. A record vote was cast. the mpaign ‘8 municipal y 14.—(By The Associated Press).—Weather conditions States army around the world aviators will leave Attu Island today for the longest hop of their expedition, Paramashiru Island, 878 miles distant in the Kuriles and their objective. They arrived at Attu last Friday from Atka from that point April 30 for Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, today were aboard the Pacific-American Fisheries vessel Catherine D., bound for Seattle. The ship ts 3ellingham, Wash., to reach expected May TRIED TO OUTGUESS WEATHER IN TROPICS By WILLIAM ©, LYON (Copyright, 1924 Casper Tribune) WASHINGTON, May 14,—Efforts to outguess the weather dope in the tropics brought grief in the arctic to Major Frederick L. Martin, com 8 been thoroughly overhauled for the most exciting mander of th the-world ficers at air service The ul plan for the contemplated the hop-off from Point Field Seattle, about the first of June. Major General Mason M Patrick, head of the air service, had approved this plan. All efforts were on making such a But preparations for the more dispate! and the fliers army's f fators, rding headquarters of eet of round to arm: origin: ft nd THE PRESIDENT Postponement of Date For Barring Japs Is Asked as Measure Bill Goes to Vote. WASHINGTON, May 14. —Further steps were taken by the administration today to obtain postponement of the Japanese exclusion. With the immigration bill embodying the exclusion provision bending for final action in the h use, President Coolidge called into conference at the White House Secretar Hughes and the ranking house leaders of both parties. The president is understood to ha Presented again the admiriis- tration’s views that Japanese ex- clusion. should be postponed until diplomatic negotiations can be con- duc with Japan. The pasis for the administration's anxiety also over the matter was set forth to the house members by Secretary Hughes. The house rejected tast week a conference report adopted at the be- hest of the president to delay the effective date of the exclusion until March 1, 1925. The conferees since then have reported to the house an agreement based on the origina) house provision, making exclusion effective next-Juty T; but action on the report has been deferred until tomorrow, The house leaders called into con- ference by the president were Rep- resentatives Longworth of Ohio, Re- publican floor leac and G of Tennessee, Democratic leader; Chairman Johnson of immigration committee; Representa tive Garner of Texas, a ranking Democratic member of the house rules committe nd Chairman Snell of the same ¢o: mittee, By calling in Ttepresentatives Garrett and Garner, the president initiated an effort to gain by-parti san support for the pleas for time in which to negotiate with Tokio. The house members who conferred with the dent said no definite Policy with pect to exclusion was put forward by Mr. Coolldge or by cretary Hugh but declined to discuss the tenc of the conversa tion, er to be off on their record (Continued on Page Ten.) On his return to the capitol, Mr. Longworth, acting as spokesman for the house group, predicted that the house would adopt the conference report on the immigration bill, mak- ing exclusion effective july 1 of this year, but said action on the report might be defe: ia dey or so beyond tomorrow. He declined to give any son for the possible postpone- ment. It was understood that the discus: sion on immigration at the White House was general and those present insisted that no definite alternative to the exclusion pre agreed to by how and ser onferees was Proposed. Mr. Longworth said he knew of none that would be offered when the report comes up for house approval rity indicated, ion ate ¢ floor lead » that there might be a last minute shift of post. tion, He declined to say whether there would be any effort made, even though {t appeared futile, -to revise the conference report or re commit it to the conferees. Repubiican insurgents in the house at a conference today decided to Continued or, Page Seven. CHURCH MEET IN UPROAR, REPORT Communist Charge Hurled at Editor as Outgrowth of Stand Taken In Prosecution In Michigan SPRINGFIELD, Mass,, May 14.—A charge that the Methodist church had been supporter of communism and the brought into ill repute as “third threw the Methodist Episcopal general conference into an uproar today. It was finally voted that Har F chairman of Civil Liberties Union and editor of the Meth- odist Federation for social services, was beyond tho jurisdiction of the conference Circulation by the Civil Liberties Union of bulletins of tho federation in regard to the arrest of a group Berrien oc internationale” | * Ward, | of munists in unty Michigan, about two years ago was the basis of a report by a sand ing commission which was adopted the conference's final action, rhe church ought to take ac. tion," John C, Willits of the Michigan delegation. “The church has brought Into great proach in Berrien county. We ask a deliverance whereby the people of that county will know that the hureh does not stand for commun ism and the communists that seek the rthrow of the United States beon re rd's cha tinued. C. Bromley Oxnam, recelved an ovation that the matter of free speech was at issue in Michigan and that the sending out of bulletins was in de- fense of the federal constitution, California, when he said