Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1924, Page 1

Weather Forecast probably “fn west and north Unsetties tonight and Wednesday portions. r tonight in west Member of Audit Bureau £ Circulation LIC FINAL A aT On Streets or at Newstands, & cents Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a month 4 OME} ON Publication. Offices: Pa) Tribune Bidg., 216 E. Secong #6 IS HELD ILLEGAL TRUTH ABOUT THE CASPER __ IRRIGATION PROJECT FIELD VOTE TO BE LARGE AEGISTRATIONS| aca. stumeT 1Co WN SILT GREEK NUMBER 9,99 Total for Natrona Is Raised to 15,348 On Late Count. ition totals for the’ field, including all of 416 precincts in that district as. compiled this morning by Republican headquarters, - show that 3,388 voters are eligible to vote at . the. general eléction November 4. Riser fs. od added to the Casper of 11,560 and the out- aide county precincts estimated at : 450, make the total registration for Natrona county 15,348, the largest » ever, recorded here and more than twice the number of votes cast in Ntarona county-in the general elec. tion of 1920. i The figures for the various’ pre- cinct regis in the Salt Creek fleld are-as i. Salt Creek (Snyder)_---------- 198 otal en aa 8,888 oo ; Bar Association Meeting Cancelled The meeting of the Natrona Coun- ty Bar association scheduled for this everiing has been postponed and no IS RECEIVER FOR TEAPOT Appointed to the place of Admiral Joseph Strauss who re- signed several months ago, Com- mander H. A, Stuart becomes re- ceiver in the Teapot Dome litiga- tion on November 1 as repre sentative of the United States government. The order was signed yesterday in Cheyenne by Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States District court. ‘With <Albett E. Watts, vice president of the Sinclair Consoll- dated Oll cérporation and the other receiver, Commander Stuart will administer the operations of the famous naval oil reserve, known as No. 3, for sometime to come, as the opening move to settle the case will not be made until January. Since April 1 of this year the commander has lMved ‘in Casper attending to.the government’s in- terests at Teapot Dome, Prac- tically ‘all the work involved in the receivership has been handled ‘ Commander Stuart is one of the navy'’s foremost oll experts, hav- ing spent the last 10 years in studying and solving many of its petroleum problems. Coolidge to the presidency by a very large majority, including a New York state majority of at least 500,000. “So far as the Republican na- tional ticket is concerned,” said Mopdell, “I do not think there is any question except one of majority. BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS As important as the presidential election itself is the ques- tion of who will control the next house and senate. David Lawrence will seek to answer the question in a dis- patch analyzing his study of various senatorial and congres- sional Cazpalgys made during a trip from ‘coast to coast. This. 7 md. will be the of a* pre-election series by Mr. . Lawrence, foremost political observer. It will appear in Casper exclu- sively in Che Casper Dailp. Cribune. nnecticut to Give Coolidge Great Vote LaFollette Strength Recruited from Democrats, Political Analyst Deciares After Survey of State Showing Division In the Democratic Ranks BY DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright 1924, Consolidated Press Ass’n) HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 28.—Out west state after state showed a distinct friend: liness to’ the McAdoo cause and Democratic leaders said if he had been nominated the Democratic party would not be third. Here in Connecticut is the other side of the story. Had Al Smith been nominated this would have been a doubtful state. The Democracy of Connecticut is not exactly shirking its task. something deliberate. Far ALBERT HENRY from it. LOEB, FATHER OF YOUTHFUL MURBERER, DEAD CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Albert Henry Loéb, first vice president of Sears Roebuck & company, father of Rich- fard Loeb, co-murderer with Nathan Leopold of Robert Franks, died at his home here last night ufter a long iiness. Members of the family,and physi- ;clans. said his death was not hasten- Fire early this morning virtually razed the ancient one-story frame building at 315 North Wolcott, oc- cupled by the Burlington cafe, oper- ated by George and William Kiskis:, The structure, one of the oldest in Casper, was burning like a torch when the fire fighters arrived, and they were able to do little but pre- vent its spread to. adjacent build- ings. A high wind fed the blaze and made it difficult to quench. No one was in the resturant when the fire started, and its origin so far has been undetermined. The flames were first detected by F. A. Chis- PLEA > ? AML GOODING BILL DENOUNG Refusa: to permit railroads to af- fix higher freight rates for short hauls than charged for long hauls on certain trunk Ines would résult in no appreciable dimunition of living costs-and would deprive VIOLATORS LOSE HEART IN FAGE OF FIGHT TO FINISH IN HIGH COURT Appeals Taken In Attempt to Defeat Justice Prove Boomerang; Another Pays Fine and Withdraw: The way of the transgressor in Casper is paved with broken glass and lined with detour signs, and the trans- gressor§s beginning to appreciate this melancholy fate. This, at least, is the interpretation placed by police and city officiais on the recent disposition of persons convicted in police court of violations of the liquor, drug and gamb- ling pitas, to take their medl- cine with as good grace as possible, rather than cast themselves upon the uncertain mercy of the district court’ as has been their wont in days past. “They realize now that an appeal does mot @utomatically end thelr 2 tribulations as it once did,” one city official commented. “Formerly the city refrained from pressing appeal cases, and judgment went to the defendant on default. Now the bootlegger or dope vendor realizes that he has a fight on his bands— a finish fight. Hyven if he cun ob- tain a reversal of judgment in the higher tribunal the cost of his ap- peal is almost sure to be heavier than the original fine of $100, the Umit permitted by city statutes. Accordingly there is excellent rea- son for him to pay up and keep quiet. The actual percentage ‘of convictions is not so important as the moral suasion exercised by the tightening of the lega} net. W. W. Whaley of 245 North Dur- bin; scheduled to appear in district court this morning in an appeal against iis conviction on May» 27 of violation of the drug ordinance, appeared with his attorney, L. H. Sennette, ten minutes before the designated hour, paid his $100 fine, into the city coffers, and withdrew his appeal. Several liquor viol tion cases, also scheduled for hear- ing this morning, were continued. | D. W. ‘ Wes" Middleton, through (Continued on Page Seven) & ed by the trial and ceretation of his son, iow serving ‘a life semence in Joliet penitentiary. Whether the son would attend the funeral was. con- sidered doubtful for, although the prison authorities always permit prisoners to attend funerals of near relatives, the crowds of curious that would gather made. it: likely no ap- plication for’ permit would be made, holm, proprietor of the Chisholm hotel just across the street, who had been: aroused at 4:30 by the arrival of some early morning guests. - He’ phoned the fire department and two engines were hurried to the scene. > The restaurant: building is separ- ated by qa vacant lot from another old frame structure on the south, and this enab'ed firemen to. check the spread of the flames despite the wind. The Kiskis brothers, who also op- erate the Modern Grocery at 1232 South Poplar, estimated their loss at $3,500, only partly covered by*in- surance. the roads of their sole weapon against the competition of subsidiz- ed waterways, J, A. Leary, divi- sional freight and passenger agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Qunicy, told the weekly forum luncheon of the Casper Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Henning today. Mr. Leary’s talk was in refuta- tion of the plea of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce that the Cas- chamber supply moral and financial backing in Spokane’s fight for the Gooding bill, which will come up for consideration at the next session of congress. Mr, Leary, in a talk packed with figures and obviously the product of exhaustive study of the question, de- nounced. the Gooding. proposal ‘as one more skirmisli in the demagogic assault on individual liberty and constitutional. guarantees. He grouped Gooding with Senators ia- Follette and Brookhart as one of the chief representatives of the patern- @listic theory in government, and paid high praise to Senator Warren for his firm stand against attempts to rewrite the Esch-Cummins trans- portation act. “He pointed out that of 184 bile introduced in the last congress. (designed to curb the rail- roads by one method or another, net one had become law, This Mr. y lalmed a victory for the fundamental soundness of American economic thinking. Ih introduction the speaker out- Mned briefly the purpose of the Gooding bill, which, if enacted, would deprive the Interstate Com- merce commission of its power to sanction an elastic basis of fixing comparative charges on long and That would imply The Democrats of Connecticut have been dis- heartened and while the leaders and organization workers are laboring to poll a good Democratic vote, for it has a bearing on future campaigns, the rank and file are dividing as be- tween LaFollette and Coolidge, The conservative Democrats are turning to the latter because they can, not swallow Bryan on the vice presidential end of the national ticket Other Demo- crats, especially from the ranks of labor, are planning to vote for La- Follette as a. protest, Opinions vary as to the probable size of the LaFollette vote in this state, but most of it will come:from Comparisons between the Cox and Davis votes wi!l be difficult to make for the temptation is to.add the La- Follette and Davis vote ‘together to ‘wet an idea of what the non-Cool- idge vote really is, but one can not be sure how many Republicans, es- pecially among the working men, will vote for LaFollette, Al Smith meant something to the Democracy of Connecticut. Labor would have been solid for him. The “wet" sentiment, which is by no means negligible, would have been his. This is one of the states which has no particular objection to Davis, in fact he is admired by those who (Continued on Page Bight) CT LET BY CITY FOR GUT IN LONG HAUL RATES; ARGUED ED IN ADDRESS 10 FORUM short hauls. He pointed out that the issue had been thrashed out in chamber of commerce circles before, | and that the Gooding proposal had met a stunning defeat. In a refer- endum conducted some months ago by the United States Chamber of Commerce among its 641 member units, 1,921% votes were cast in favor of adfusting rate disputes through the L. €, C. while only 67% ballots advocated legislative restric: tions. Mr, Leary said it would be (Continued on Page Seven; REPUBLICAN WOMEN TO HOLD TEA Republican women of Natrona county wil hold their last pre- election . social event Saturday afternoon in the form of 4 tea at the Elks' auditorium, Seventh and Center streets. All women who are interested in the present and future welfare of. the Republican party in the state and the nation are cordially in- vited to be present. The hours of the tea have been designated as from 2 until 5 o'clock. The Republican women have been particularly. active in Na- trona county during the present campaign and their work will have & large influence im the election next week, The building of the Casper-Alcoya irrigation project has only become possible in the last two years. The leasing bill peeeet in 1920. The public sale of oil leases in Salt Creek was eld in Douglas in June, 1921. Wells began drilling and pro- duction on a large scale on government lands begin in 1922. It was then that royalty oil money accumulated in large fig- ures, the size of which was not realized at first. The fund which has been paid into the government from Salt Creek alone is over 000,000. Nearly all of this has accumulated in the last two years. Fifty-two and one-half per cent. of this goes into the reclamation fund, and puts the Casper-Alcova irriga. tion project in position where it can command attention bes cause of the equities involved. Originally this project was considered too expensive and the reclamation service did not have sufficient money to un- dertake it. It lay dormant like the Saratoga project, the upper stretches of the Riverton project, the Powell project and many others. Our own people had little faith in it, and gave it hard- ly casual attention. Now, however, the oil royalties give Natrona county’s project an equitable claim of commanding importance. Dur- ing the last year, President Coolidge received the report of the Heclamation Fact Finding Commission, appointed by the Re- publican administration, recommending that in building future Erojects considerable attention should be given to marketing possibilities for the products raised by the farmers. ‘The tre. mmendous market provided at Casper for such products adds a new and tremendous factor to the probability of securing this project now. A new survey made recently shows that this project can be put in much cheaper than was originally supposed by the reclamation service. The findings of thé mission also showed that a number of the projects alr built cost more than the Casper-Alcoya project. These facts, developed in the last two years, make this project entirely feasible and probable, if we do not sleep on our rights and let Nebraska ‘steal a march on us. The people of Natrona county are fully alive to the situa- tion, and we cannot afford to let our opportunity pass, “A Casper Home Owner” who hesitated and then failed to divulge his identity recently caused to be published some “Thorns” in “the Rose” admits that Senator Warren and Con- gressman Winter “got an appropriation of $125,000 or so much thereof as. maybe necessary” to carry on this work. Our dele- gation in con; has done more. They have brought about an orderfrom ‘the’ head of the reclamation service reserving 150,- 000 acre-feet:of water from the Plutterivér for this project. Tn Paap aa the. reelagiation’ service has said. to Nebraska— off of Wyoming water. Let’s look at that Casper-Al- cova project. We've been over it and it looks good-to us.” This much: has been-done, actually done not promised. We are right in the middle of it.. Warren and Winter are pledged to take up the work. when congress. convenes in December, where it was left off last spring. They will succeed. Has the Democratic candidate ever said one word in fa- yor of this project? If he has, it has not cqgme to our at- tention. No doubt he is fully conscious of the fact. that as a new member he can hardly expect to do much the first few years. In the meantime, we will probably lose the water. The author of “Rose in the Thorns” says “How many of us will be interested in the project when it is builded?” intimating that the people of Natrona county are not much interested in this proposition anyway. The people of Natrona county are not going to be fooled by the flippant statement that Warren and Winter have done nothing and that the people ure not interested anyway. Every property owner in this county knows that it means dollars and cents to him to liave this projeet. and that Warren and Winter are the boys who have got it so far and who can be depended upon to finish the job. GEORGE H. ABERHOFF, Ornamental System for Second, Center and Wolcott Streets Authorized; New Paving District Created Authorization of a contract for additional lighting on Center, Second and Wolcott streets, the creation of paving approach of the audit the tax rolls of Natrona county, were the most important matters con- district No. 51, which will include the McKinley street subway and a vote to sidered at Monday evening’s session of the city council. The lighting contract, approximat- . AGREEMENT ON ISSUE REACHED. BY CABINET IN MEETING TODAY, Formal Statement Left To Attomey General. Following Discussion By Other Officers. BULLETIN. WASHINGTON; Oct. 28.—With- out determining finally the legal: ity of publication by newspapers’ of facts relating to income tax payments, Attorney General Stone announced late today that the de partment of justice will have an “appropriate case presented in the courts,” to secure » judicial con- struction of the law. ‘The attorney general declined to - indicate what procedure would be followed In the test case or what publisher, editor or publisher would be selected as defendant. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. —After a meeting of ‘the cabinet today, Attorney Gen- eral Stone said a general agreement had been reached on the question of publica- tion of income tax returns and indy cated that such publicaticn was re- garded as in ylolation of the law. The attorney general ‘said }-he would formally declare his position this afternoon, No statement was made aftér the cabinet meeting, Mr. Stone. limiting his comment to the remark that he found the members in general agree- ment with him, Including Secretary Mellon who has insisted publication of the returns tobe illegal, WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.— The federal government's attitude toward publication of income tax returns was further beclouded today after the cabinet had discussed the ques- tion at its regular Tuesday meeting. Leaving the cabinet meeting, At- torney General Stone said he had found his colleagues in general agreement and weuld make some Statement late in the day. Asked whether he and Secretary Mellon agreed as to the legality or illegality of publication, the attorney general repiled in the affirmative. Mr. BMel- lon previously had taken the posi- tion that publication is illegal. Some time after the mi broke up, however, while house) of: ficlals said President Coolidge war unaware of any decision as to: ruling for or against the legalit publishing the returns in papers. Mr. Coolidge was sald to the opinion that government must enforce the law, but that one must be presumed inno until proven guilty. FOREST FIRE. CONTROLLED *S DOVER, J., Oct, 28.—The forest fire which since Saturday has approached the tons of explosives 1 the Pickatinny arsenal declared to be under ‘control. ing $18,000, will provide post lights similar to those installed some months ago in the business district, for those sections of Center, East Second and Wolcott streets not al ready provided for. Larsen and Jourgensen, Casper contractors, will make the installation and furnish al) the equipment. The tax rol! audit will go back as far as 1921, will be conducted by Stephen and Gray, auditors, and will determine if all assessments have been enterd correctly and to learn if the city has received all funds col lected by Natrona county for its ac- count. Water Commissioner Johnson an nounced that the steamer bydrants, recently, ordered, had been received and Would be installed immediately With the installation of these hy drants the business section of th city will be given addtional fire tection Bids on the new paving distr: No. 51 will be opened November The recommendation of the Cas- per Chamber of Commerce, rela tive to the establishment of a teat district to determiné the cost of garb- age colletcion in Casper, was read and placed on file, The recommen dation followed a meeting held Oc. tober 10, attended by Charles (Continued .n Page Eight) it was learned yesterday. ging by the trawlers, Foam Spray fron ith an tong: tor Tie salvage of the ship were ng . The operations of the trawlers B, | were shrouded in secrecy and plans TREASURE SHIP SUNK 13 YEARS AGO LOCATED Fortune in Gold, Silver and ‘Jewels to Be Salvaged from Liner Merida Off the Virginia Capes ¥, 3 NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The Ward liner Merida, which ank off the Virginia capes in 1911, with a fortune in gold jsilver and jewels aboard, has been located by trawlers and the work of salvaging the treasure will be started soon, The finding of the Merida came after ten days of drag+ and sweep a mile disclored because of fear of high+ jJackers. The location of the Merida, will also remain # secret. The value of the fortune ts said to be between $2,000,000 and $5,000, 000. ,