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SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1924. rr he Casper Sunday Eribune CANADA DENIES: __ Depetiy, Buk ape by Two! REPORT OF lg WHEAT OAMAGE Rust and Drought Not As Bad as Chicago Rumors Claim. OPTAWA, Ont., July 26.—(United Press.)}--Chicago reports that Can- adg's western wheat crop is bad] damaged by black rust and the r sultant rise in grain prices there do not conform with Canadian govern- ment reports. Contending that the wheat mar- ket has been “rigged” or the dominion government's million qol- dar statistical system of securing erop information is a faflure, offi- clals this afternoon ordered a com- plete investigation. 3 All rumors of black rust and Statements that the 1924 Canadian Wheat crop is facing a serious out- look are sald by government au- thorities to be entirely unfounded. A thorough investigation ig to be made, however, and if the informa- tion eireulated by brokers is found to he correet the statistical bureau is likely to. be serapped. If it is found that Canadians have been working in co-operation with brokers in the United States to. in- fluence the market through false adverse reports, government . au- thorities “declare charges will be made against any found to be in- volved on this side of the border. The government income tax de- partment fs also cheeking up on re- ports that a group ef Canadians are said to have made several hundred thousand dollars by dealing in wheat in. the Chicago and Winnipeg mar- kets. © BERLIN AWAITS INVITATION TO HLLIED PARLEY Marx Government Gets Vote of Confidence From Reiclistag. By CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent) EBWRLIN, July 26.—Having re- a strong expression of con- fidence from the reichstag, which Voted three to one against a Folkist motion to the contrary the Marx goy- ernment waited complacently tonight for an invitation to attend the Lon- don reparations conference on Mon- day. The resolution of lack of confi- dence in the government was defes ed, 172 to 62, with 79 abstaining. Communists deputies joined Folkists in voting against Marx, while the nationalists abstained. Chancellor Marx, Foreign Minister Statesmann and between 39 and 40 experts and secretaries will go to London, The German spokesman will have chip on his shoulder for the Mandatee from his parliament that he go to negotiate concerning the Dawes plan not to be dictated to as in the days of Versailles, After expressing its confidence in the Government, the reichstag ad Journed sine die. During today’s debate, the na- Honalist deputy, Hetzsch hinted that his party still desired to enter a coal!- tion government, saying the. present regime is “built over too narrow a bal Anti-America Day Grim tragedy stalked in the wake, of the love of two old men for 70- year-old Ida Hubbell (above) in the county relief home at San Francisco. Henry Mueller, 75 (below), @ Quarrel with Hugh McCloskey, 71, his rival for Miss Hubbell's favor. ‘You lexve that woman alone,” piped one of the old men. Then MoCloskey tripped on a cane, toppled down the stairway, and was dead. THREE DROWN AS AUTO GOES INTO RIVER, BAGNELL, Mo., July persons were drowned and three others barely escaped with their lives when the atitomobile in which they were driving onto a ferryboat in the Osage river here today, plunged bff into the water. The dead: Mrs. Henry Vinyard, Mrs. James Vinyard, 75, and a two- year-old child of Mrs: Henry Vin- yard. The driver, Henry Vinyard, and a brother and sister were saved by employes of the ferryboat. 26.—Three —___ | FOUR KILLED AT GROSSING CAPE MAY COURT J,, July 26—Four kifled late today when am automo- bile in which they were riding was struck by a Pe yivania railroad locomotive. The dead were: Julius Myers, his wife Bertha, their son Jobn, 21, and Jennie Eltiott, 15. All lived in South Mill ville. HOUS persons were —e. For results try a Tribune Clas. sified Ad. awaits Possible trial for manslaughter after Giant Torch In Colorado Still Burns BODY BELIEVED WOMAN. FOUND FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 26.— ‘The Mitchel! Gas well on Wellington fhe Casper Sunday Cribune TO BE MISSING, Husband Now Serving Life Sentence for Another Crime, MONTROSE, Colo., body of Mrs, Genevieve Woods, wife of John Woods, who disappeared | shortly before her pusband was tried and sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary at Canon City | for the murder of Fred J. Dobler, a neighbor, was believed to have been found late today, A posse of neighbors and county officers found what is believed to be a woman's body, mixed with de- caying carcasses of horses and cat- tle, In a well near the Woods ranch. The body will be sent to Denver} for examination, A blanket, covered with blood spots, was also found by the posse in the cabin on the Woods ranch. Members of the posse expressed the opinion that Woeds had killed his wife, partly byrned her body, thrown the remains into the well and then thrown in the carcasses of | the animals to cover traces of his erime. | Disappearance of Mrs. Woods led July 26,—The | gone to the home ef her parents in| Michigan, but her absence there re-| | sulted In the seareh for her being started. i Woods {s serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for killing Dobler during an argument oyer a fence between the ranches of the two men, | “DEFENSE TEST’ CRITICS. DEALT STEAN AEBUKE | | | © By DALE VAN EVERY (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, July 26,—Bring- ing the fight against the war depart- Dome, near here, will the huge torch. Preparations to snuff out at the well declare. TEN SWINDLERS World Cities Broken Up by Arrests. MONTREAL, Press).—A. nensational haul leged swindlers wanted for operations in many American cities, London and Paris, has come to light with the arrest here of “English Cappie” Lewis. alias Edward Long, heading a gang often, Lewis, according to United States police inspector H. N. Graham and Bert Donaldson, who participated in the raid, proved a master of ‘the wire tapping. fake in some of his American operations, and among bis victims are said to have been II. Christen of Chicago, who lost $ 000; Simon Touch of St, Augustine, Fla. who lost $50,000, and J. EB. Blu- menthal of Jacksonyille, Fla., who July KES S -iailia oe The streets of Tokyo were thronged with demonstrators on Ant!-America Day. Here is a group of Japane: citizens in a “solemn, unswerving Protest" against the tmmigration law whic excludes Japanese from the United Statps. The demonstrators boasted that Americans in Japan fear ..t0 venture eutside their homes at night... Host $20,000. Operating in the Christen swindle with Lewis, is sald to have been Yallace, who was caught in the men here. ently was ready to do u slmila » of business on a pretentious sc by the fact that in thelr quarters, eight false telephone sets had been installed and two outside phone lines, several “dummy” telegraph: sets, wired in series, and a black: board for listing quotations, As bait for prospective suckers, also, there were many bundles of false $100 and $1,000 bolls, fuirly good imitations of the real things, stored in the money boxes of the “head office.” To give color and substance to the dealings of the concern station- ery with the -heading of J, P. Mor- gan and company, was available for use when needed, Along with Lewis and Wallace were the following, who were held to be m{inor_ characters in the swindling play Abe Green, Boston; William New: burn and renchy” Russell, In- napolis; Harry Foi James Morgan, ‘New York; Hillard, Chicago; Me'bin Grew, 8t. Touts; Jus Jobanssen, Winnipeg, and Frank Hazelton, Detroit, ———— Jame: For results sified Ad, try continue to squrt its stream of fire more than! into the open, President Coolidge to-|Belgian military forces two hundred feet into the air for the | a¥ delivered a rebuke to peace or-|sreat German industrial basin of the next three or four days, in the opin- ganizations epposing this tr ion of the men trying to extinguish | defensiy the | letter from flame by a 100 pound charge of dyna-| Frederick J. Libby, executive secrer Holgians refuse; mite will not be fully completed be-| tary of the national council for pre-| ton ay Tuesday of sextet, officiais| vention of war, in which the prest-|fleulties of the conference revolve, ARE CAUGHT BY GANADA POLICE Gang Wanted in Many) 26,— (United of al their} It is a non-militaristic gesture for le here was indicated | Boston; | ® Tribune Clas ing Mille on the quarter ment’s proposed ‘defense te out jal of the resources of the nation, | |, The White House made public al President Coolidge to dent declared he sympathizes fully with all “practical efforts to pre: vent wars but objects to orgunised interference with the defense test. Mr, Coolidge revealed this govern- ment’s preparedness policy and point- ed out the United States has a stand- ing army,” in proportion to our nar tional power and interests, one of the smallest in the world.” It pas been the constant endeavor of the government to keep the regular rmy at the smallest point possible, “In the face of this record it seems unfair that the plans for defense day should be condemned out of hand simply through the device of misrep- resentation,” the president wrote. He explained the proporal of the war department to test on ber 12 the extent to which na guard and reserve units can be d pended on in an emergency is only 4n added assirance that the profes: sional army can be kept small and civilians continue to “assume thelr own responsibility for a defensive establishment.” “Instead of being a gesture this plan is opposite,” asserted the | military | the exact president, | | the purpose of keeping down to the lowest point the professionally military organization of the United States, Our country always has relied chiefly for its defense upon the readiness of its patriotic many hood to take up arms when néces sity presented.” 4 President Coolidge’s sharp rebuke Jof the peace societies and his char acterization of thelr « ition to defense day as “utte unfair," | brought an immediate reply from | Libby. \ Libby wrote the president today. | defending the campaign of the na- tional council and declaring the) “mobilization” planned for defense jday was a of “our tradi tional poll! said would have a bad effect on inter relation’. and would tend tarize th youth of the Simultaneously with Libby's ply to the president, the council gave out a statement announcing It proposed to make the question a political issue in this campaign. “How far will you co-operate for world peace?” willbe the question | asked every candidate, tho state: ment said. "Churches, Gunday schools, civic, educational, farm labor and women's organizations in every state," have joined in the campaign, it was sald. ——————{—_ CASPER—MILLS BUS LINE TAKEN OVER SATURDAY The Casper Motor Bus Line yes- terday completed a transaction through which it purehased the Mills-Casper bus line. Under the new management the busses will operate on 30-minute schedule, leay- ing the corner of Second and Center streets on the even hours and leay and three to country. re- | | quarter hours. TROOPS CALLED OUT TO PUT DOWN RIOT AMONG STUDENTS AT WAR OVER BOBBED LOCKS By ALFRED G, HART ((United Press Staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, July 26.—Troops were called out to- bob their hair. day to quell a riot among 4,000 embattled students, at war over the question of the right of Mexican school girls to The school of medicine here was converted into a fort- ress, with seyeral thousand young men and women massed in and around the pbuilding await- ing the attack of 1,000 military stu dents marching tg avenge the be haired victims of @ series of out 8 that took place this neon Pitty Yacqui troops, armed with rifles whioh they fired into the atr, and 60 mounted police were unable to restore order. the arrival of reinforce- from the main barracks dls persed the rioters, Trouble started with the organtza- tion by students in their first year of Mexico Ctly's preparatory and medical sehools of an’ “antl-bobbed hair defense league.” All girls with bobbed hatr passing the schools after the morning ses sion were descended upon and as- rauited, Senior students in the university Schoo's organized in defense of the bobbed haired gir!. ‘They invaded the class rooms and chastized those who had molested the passing girls and women 4 seniors demanded expulsion of four Jers of the “anti-bobbed to the bellef at first that she had| hair defense Jeague,” and suspend-| night sion of the classes in biology f remainder of the term. Th r the de mands were granted. In the pieantime students from the military schol announced their intention of taking direct action ainst the “leaguers,” The seniors in the university schools then declared the underclass ts had been sufficiently pun: ished and transferred their support to their school mates. The entire of university building was into an armed camp, some 4,000 students awaiting the attack by the military undergraduates. With the first skirmishes of a pitched battle under way, 50 Yaequis fired ever the heads of the students. ifty mounted police came galloping up, but the battle raged on. Finally the minjster of education arrived, with mere troops, and the Students dispersed, all classes being suspended until Monday, when a masa meeting will be held and the bobbed haired adherents and their foes will be asked to make up, Further trouble was in the alr to: however. CONFERENCES OVER WEEK-END EXPECTED TO BRING SOLUTION FOR DEADLOCK IN ALLIED MEET By LLOYD ALLEN. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) LONDON, July 26..-Delegates to the interallied conference attempt- ing to solve the tangled question of German reparations will hold a series of informal meetings over the week-end in an effort to agree on vital points, it was learned tonight. The second plenary session will he at four p, m, Monday and ft ts desired to harmonise the conflict: ing French and Anglo-American viewpoints before that tim Prime Minister MacDona’ it was forecast tonight, may raise the question of evacuation of Franeo- from the Ruhr at Monday's meeting, If he does the mooted question will be browght into the open and a crisis will jresult if the Franca: is this out which nearly all the dif. The Anglo-Americans bINE wert Hurop- te impossible Jo gullible visitor to New York. swindled. Selling this famous old bri, as French and Belgian troops con- tinue their occupation of the rich German industrial gone and Ami can bankers headed by Thomas mont have gone even further than this, declaring they will not at tempt to raise the proposed $200,- 000,000 lean to the Germans unless the occupation fs ceased and a clause put in the agreement that no new occupations shall be at- tempted. ° While no Invitation has yet been sent Germany to participate In the conference, it is expected the mes- sage will be sent carly next week and the Germans arrive before next Saturday, There {s great Interest In the ex- pected arrival of J. P, Morgan, de- spite his statement in New York that he does not intend to particl- pate in the conference. Morgan, the allies admit, holds the key to the situation as no banking syndicate American Money king now is vir- tually in the position of a dictator and his word will decide the fate of the conference. Morgan sailed from New York today on the Minne- waska and should arrive in London a week from Monday. There was no formal meeting to- day. Sunday’s Five Best Features For Radio Fan (Copyright, 10 ess monfe orches ern |. by United Press.) ew York, Phithar- ra at 7:30 p. m., east time, through WJZ, (455M) (380M). —Religious service: Union open alr service with music by state prigon concert band, through WOS, Jefferson City (440.9M) at 8 p. m. central standard time. 3—Concert: Capitol _ theater, Grand orchestra and solosists and Roxy's famous studio program at 6:20 p. m. eastern standard time, rough WEAF, New York (492M), WCAP, Washington (469M) and WJAR, Providence (360M). 4—Chapel sePvice: Walnut Hill M. 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The advertisement would give the world confidence in the enterprise. PAGE SEVEN. INDIA FLOODS TAKING TOLL BOMBAY, India, July 26.—Many persons haye been drowned and more than 10,000 homes inundated in, scores of towns by terrific floods which are sweeping sections of south India, according to advices here tonight. Several rivers, swollen by recent Keavy rains, are out of their banks. An accurate estimate of the dam- age is impossil Steamer With; 400 On Board — Is Beached July 26.<The Nor mer, Bergensfjerd, from istiania to New York with 400 passengers, wi beached after fire had broken out, following an ex- plosion in the engine room, @ Copen- hagen dispatch says tonight. The passengers were landed in small boats and the fire extingutsh- od. 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They teach you to spend wisely—economically —and with the knowledge that you are buying merchan- dise which is minus all vain regrets or misrepresented values. Read the advertisements every day. @) ADVERTISING IS A BRIDGE—SPANNING THE RIVER OF DOUBTFUL VALUES-—-TO THE SHORE OF WORTHY MERCHANDISE

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