Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1924, Page 1

Weather Forecast perature. yor Ut Fair tonight and Sunday. ot much change in tem- “NO .33. The circulation ‘of The Tribune: is greater ‘tha asper MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS RDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924. Tie Momben ef, Audit Bureau t Circulation oe ail On_ Streets Dettvered by Carrier TS conta’ a month TT NER EI. n-anu other Wyoming.newspaper. 4 Cribunte or at Newstands, & cents yslleatron Offices: aribune Bidg., 216 & Second st CHINES! MAKE WAR ON OPIUM WORLO DRIVE ADVOCATED AT) GENEVA PARL Civil Strife in China Blamed to: Narcotics By Association. GENEVA, Nowe 15.—(By The Associated Press.) — The National Anti-Opium association of China present- ed to the International Gpium conference here to- ; suporis the orl- thar thé 2nd narcotic | y«tly limited to purposes, It eof the whole by ont and secretary of the 1 Shanghai, attributes the recrudensrence <The petition declares that numer- ds Chinese emigrants ‘and traders living in: the’ Straits settlement, the Indies and other. non. territories, have ‘become the wvictins, of opium and narcotics. | cAfter affirming the will and inten: tion of the Chinese” nation ’to eradi- “ate the production and _consump- {ion of opium in the near future, the petitioners asked the conference to opatin an agreement among all the ‘gtions to limit the production» of opium and its derivatives and of co- caine, to the amount’ required for dical and scientific purposes. This, y declare, would help greatly not dhly the Chineze people, but . the people of other lands In the strug- gle to restrict the practice of opium Sthoking to incurables and thereby maure the disappearance of the habit within a definite ‘pert period. ATTORWEY OF ‘CLEVELAND IN - FRAUD PLOT a =PLEVBLAND, O., Nov. 15.—J. V. Yettarelll, prominent attorney here, was arrested today by federal secret service agents on a warrant charg- ng him with possessing, uttering | ud publishing counterfeit war sav- tgs stamps. (He has been the ring lender, ac- aging to federal men, of the Cleve- Ind"headquarters im a nation wide plet that was aimed to circulate mil- ijons of dollars worth of the securl- “es, so cleverly forged that even tmeasury department officials were hilsled for month: Ouiet Reigns In Police Circles; One Drunk Fined Piety and sobriety held unchal- lenged sway ‘over Casper yesterday for a second twenty-four hours, while pollce, attorneys, ambulénce Srivers and firemen cocked idle heels on unclirttered desks ~ and Uifled yawns of somnolent content. One inebriate, yclept Jim Sutton, ‘was the sole contributor fy to ‘city at the daily session of Police tice J. A. Murray's court. El- wood Baines, 314 West B street, ar- raigned for Intoxication, disturb- nee, and Megal possession of li- ‘ior following his arrest yesterday, obtained a continuance until today, end was held in $250 bond. There Ware no other cases on the docket. One auto collision of minor pro- rtlons made up yesterday's toll of saster. A Heht truck driven by C. tarkey, 1027 North Ash- street, a touring car piloted hy John {tis of the Lukis Candy com- iny met in abrupt fashion Idte yesterday s¥ternoon on Center treet near the Arkeon. The truck 1 a whee! smashed and the fen-| rs crumpled, and the other car es-| (*bed with a shattered headlight. | Honey Week Near Tribune to Have Special Article With “honey week” scheduled for observance throughout Wyo- ming beginning Sunday, an article of particular interest to beekeep- ers and the public in general will appear in an early issue of The Tribune by William Mosteller. Reference will be made in this article to the proceedings of the recent convention at Thermopolis of the Wyoming State Beekeepers’ association and the reputation of the author as an authority and observer on the subject involved will recommend it to all readers. pire niet a ack + JTAONG UNITED AULE IN CHINA HELD POSSIBLE Sun: Yak Sen sDéclates In Favor of eel ; Board. - . “THE ABOARD South to. Tient: Associated Press. united government. was in the hands of her people. Sun was accompanied by a experts. fer to another Second Sanity Probe for Kid McCoy Refused NGELES, Calif., Nov. 15. —A motion that the county appoint and pay ‘four alienists to conduct another examination of Kid McCoy, ex-pugilist, awaiting trial for the al- leged murder of Mrs. Theresd Mors, here last August, was denied in su- perior court yesterday after counsel for the former boxer had submitted several affidavits to rhow that his client is a pauper. and therefore, cannot retain alienists at his own expense, Willoughby Is Re-Elected to Indiana Court INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 15.— Out of more than 1,200,000 votes cast, Judge Benjemin M. Willough- by, Republican, has been re-elected to the state supreme court for the first. district over George K. _,Den- ton, his Democratic opponent, by one vote, according to official tabu- lations by the state ,canvassing board. The vote was: Willoughby, 601,861; Denton, 601,860. AIR MAIL TO BE SPEEDED UP ON EASTERN JUMP Chicago-New York Leg To Get Eight-Hour Service Soon. . NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Nine hour overnight mail service from New Yerk to Chicago and an eight hour service over the same course east: ward, due to prevailing winds, will be inaugurated early in April of the coming year. Carl F, Egge, superintendent of the airmail division, postoffice de- partment announced the new service ‘sterday after completion of a re- pert to Col. Paul Henderson, second STEAMSHIP SHINYO MARU, APPROACHING SHANGHAI, Nov. 15.—(By The As- sociated’ Préss)—Dr. Sun Yat ‘Sen, military head of the government of ina, cruising from Canton in where he has been in- vited to sit at a conference which ‘has for its object the unification of ‘war‘torn China, today discussed his aims with a correspondent of the Dr. Sun declared he was-in favor of the appointment of “a national committee to bring about a strong Further than this he said, China's independence Dr. large staff of military men and economic The party will leave the Shinyo Haru at Shanghai and trans- yessg] Tientsin- assistant postmaster general. The report included detailed plans for the illumination of the 780 mile course and provided for emergency landing fields. "The new service will be supplémental to the. transcontt nental’ service ‘which has been a successful operation an sled Se v= SHERIFF HELD FOR ASSAULT HUNTINGTON, W. ‘Va., Nov. 15. —Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan county was at liberty today under $5,000 bond charged with assaulting a deputy United States marshal on election day. A. A. Williams, mayor of Man, W. Va., in Logan county, held on a similar charge, was re- leased on bond. They will be given a preliminary hearing December 15. BATAVA, Java, Nov. 15.— ey the Asscclated Press.}—The death toll in the earthquake which shook the central portion of the island of Java last Wednesday is estimated in official circles at 300, although private reports indicate that as many as 600 persons may have per- ished. BELIEVED OMABA, Neb., Nov. 15.—Mrs. W. H. Plager, 42, said to be the wife of W. 4H. Plager of Casper, Wyo., is be- lieved to have committed sulcied by drowning herself in Carter lake. Saturday night, a.week ago, she crawled through her bedroom win- dow and disappeared. Police were poor horse! har as It was the@growth on her eye. is independent. SUPPOSE NOBODY SUPPOSE NOBODY CARED TOLL IN QUAKE IS NEARER 600 Six villages are completely iso- lated by floods. The damage to pri- vate property at Wonozobo exceeds 300,000 guilders (normally $120,600.) The earth is still trembling from slight. shocks. It is generally ac: cepted here that the earthquake was not of a volcanic nature but merely due to the shifting of earth layers. TO BE SUICIDE informed by a night watchman for the Standard Oil company that he had seen a woman of her description prowling among the weeds near the lake shore. No trace of Mrs. Plager, who was a mental patient, has been found. Her husband is in Omaha at this time. She had’ always fought againat going d._ worked. even ‘after. hereyesight had. pe dim that .she had to feel to see which potato she had over her eyes that had taken her sight. And the doctor, when she told him she had no money, had said that he couldn’t remove: the obstruction to her vision. She was getting old; but she was energetic and. could still % little work. That was two months ago. Today she takes care little boy whose parents both work, and keeps the house # which she lives spotless. She has time left to knit, and she is knitting a pair of golf socks for the surgeon who operated led. * Somebody who cared heard of her and took her to the surgeon. The same somebody found a home for her where she That is the kind of work the Community Chest does. It cares for the old and unfortunate who think the world has for- gotten and has no place for the CARED FOR HER? ONE GONVIGT 15 CAPTURED AND TERROR REIGN NEARS AN END) Two Others Hunted in California Region After One Is’ Shot And Fatally Wounded FRESNO, Cal., Nov. 15.— Three convicts who escaped from a road camp last Wednesday in Kern county, neared the end of a criminal jamboree which terrorized the who.e San Jcaquin countryside for three days when Frank Purio, a member of the gang rode into Fres- no early today, mortally wounded, in a commandeered automobile. Albert Woodworth, Los Angeles, a taxi driver, who was forced to drive the escaped bandtis around at the point of a pistol brought Purio to police headquarters. Police today were searching for two other con- vict members of the party who are still at large. Purlo shot and'rceriously weunded Constable George Boyle at Kings- burg, near her, last night before the constab'@was-able to return fire and cripple the convict. DWORGE oUIT (3 WITHDRAWN ‘The divorce suit of Elaine M. Grif- fin against James 8. Griffin, report- ed in Thursday's Tribune, has been withdrawn and according to the principals was filed in district court only through an error by a clerk in the office of the plaintiff's lawyer. BUTLER’S ROLE IN SENATE HOLDS POPULAR INTEREST Fair Weather In_ Prospect ~ For the Week Nov. 15.—Weath- WASHINGTON, er outlook for the week beginning Monda: “ Upper Mississipp! and lower Mis- souri valleys, northern Rocky Moun- tain and plateau regions: Mostly fair with temperatures near normal. Southern Rocky Mountain and plateau regions: Rains pr snows first part, mostly fair thereafter. Temperatures mostly near normal except for cold spell about middle of week. Foreign Trade Balance Is Up WASHINGTON, Nov, 15.—A fa- vorable trade balance for the United States of $217,000,000 was shown in foreign’ trade figures — {s- sued by the Commerce department for the month of October. Fire Cause is Still Unknown JERSEY CITY, N, Doubt that the cause of yesterday's million dollar fire in the heart of the Industrial section could be deter- mined was expressed: today Fire Chief Roger Boyle. Fiames still raged today in the ruling of the eleven story facto formerly used by the AUantic Sugai by J., Noy. 15—, Refining company. The blaze spread to this plant from the Salt Petre factory of the Battelle and Renwick company. Small explosions and acid fumes from the salt petre facfory hampered the firemen all night. Boy'e sald today that the loss would not exceed $1,000,000. Most of the 19 firemen overcome by smoke and acid fumes hay recovered. By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, Consolidated Press Association) ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—What will William M. But- ler’s position be in the United States senate? Will he be the administration spokesman, the man to whom those seek- ing a point of political contact with President Coolidge will flock? Certainly.no other manager has gone to the senate in recent years immediately after a successful campaign. Nor has any chairman of the Republican nationa: committee been sitting In the upper house of congress though, to be sure, Cordell Hull has been in the house of representatives during iis term of office as chairman of the Democratic. naticnal committee. There is no precedent by which to sguge the future. But certain things may be taken for granted. In the first place, the appointment of Mr. Butler by the governor of Massachu- setts is no mere fulfillment of presi- dential wishes, Mr. Butler has for some time been. anxious to go to the senate, He might have been the ad- ministration candidate in the - Re- publican primaries this year when Speaker Gillett was chosen to oppose the ‘re-election: of Senator Walsh. Mr. Butler, however, had taken hold of the pre-convention campaign of President Coolidge and gave up sen- atorial ambitions to stick with his chief. Whatever sacrifice was i volved then has, by the hand of fate, been offset now by his appointment to office as the successor to the late Senator Lodge. Mr. Butler's vote-getting capacity {gs the subject of some differences of opinion in New England an he is not the spectacular type. It may be that before the next election is held to chose a successor to Senator Lodge in the regular way, Mr. But- ler may be found fn the cabinet. Just now,.with the wecretary of war, John W, Weeks coming from Masesachueetts, the president did not feel like violating custom by having two men in the eabinet from his own state. Mr, Weeks himself may deter- mine to enter the senatorial race some day or to retire to private life in which event Mf. Butler's entry into the cabinet might occur. The whole thing will depend to some extent on Mr. Butler's experi- ence in the senate in the next year. His opportun‘sies to rise to a posi- ton of commanding influence and power are just as great, if not great- er, in the senate than in the cabinet. At the Republican. national conyen- tion in Cleveland last June, Mr. But- ler came into violent cojlision with the “old guard” by issuing orders and instructions which, however, well intentioned, went against the grain of the veteran politicians. That (Continued on Page Four) Clues Break Down in Trail of Katz Slayer LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 15.— Tangible clues to the identity of the person who shot and killed Harry I. Katz, diamond broker and musician at the dcor of his apartment here ast Monday night were still lack- ing today, With the release lust hight of Possibility of Campaign Chairman Be-|Army Church ing Made Administration Spokesman Discussed by David Lawrence Attendance Is On Increase WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Army church attendance 1s on the increase. In his annual report to Secretary Weeks, Col. John 'T, Axton, chief of chaplains, suid that during the last official year, attendance at army re lgious services of all denominations mounted up to 1,339,473, an increase of more than 300,000 over the preced- ing year. The figures, he added, in- dicated that “every one in the mili- tary establishment attended some form of religious service at an army. post eleven times during the year.” fd SRDS eS BANDITS MAKE $10,000 HAUL CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—Bandits to- y kidnaped Otto G, Schmidt, prest- t of a construction company, and his chauffeur in front of his home nd then robbed Schmidt of a payroll of approximately $10,001 Chase Carroll, and his roommate, Earl H. Bridges, who has been in custody since the discovery of a .32 calibre pistol in their room, the most promising lead in the district attor. neys’ investigation of the murder was proven worthless, Questioning of friends and arsoc!- ates of the sli man and investl- Solon Buys-an Auto to Avoid Missing Train VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 15 Congressman Albert *Johnson, Washington, stepped into a taxi- cab at Seattle last night and or- dered the driver to speed over the international boundary’ line for Vancouver to make connection with a train for Montreal. Canadia customs officia's re fused to allow the cab to proceed without a bond, a procedure which would have required several hours. Having only an hour to make the train, 30 miles away, Representative Johnson, in order to comply with the law and avoid the threatened dela: purchased the taxicab on the spot for $2,000. As owner: of tifs machine, Con- gressman Johnson, who was ar companied by his daughter, w free to proceed without the bond required from the occupants of the rented machines crossing the line. SWINDLER WILL AOK NEW TRIAL AT SIOUX FALLS Motion to Be Filed in Behalf of Ben Salinger. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Nov. Motion for a new trial for Ben I. Salinger, Jr., former official of the defunct Midland Packinz company of Sioux City, Iowa, who was found gullty of using the mails to defraud by a jury in federal court here, late yesterday, wil! be made November 29 before Federal Judge J. W. Wood- rough. Judge Woodrough will pronounce sentence on Salinger on that date. The penalty for the count on which Salinger was convicted is not to ex- ceed two years in prison and $5,000 fine, Fred C. Sawyer and C. H. Burlin- game, other officials’ of the com- pany, indicted and tried jointly with Salinger, were acquitted by the jury. The complaints grew out of sale of stock in connection with pro- motion of the Midland company. TWO WOMEN IN ROBBER. GANG UNDER ARREST CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—Two women are under arrest and another is sought in connection with the opera- tions of two gangs of robbers, one of whom the police say, maintained @ rendezvous at and Rapids, Mich,, and have obtained loot of not Jess than $30,000. Seven men are under arrest. The men are to be questioned con cerning the theft of an automobile | belonging to W. 8. Robbins of Los | Angeles. GEN. BETHEL IS RETIRED SHINGTON eral Walter A. Be mato generuljof the 15.—Major thel, judge army, ¢ adyoy pleted toads continuous serv record of more than 39 years, and,| at his own request, Secretary Weeks retired list Placed his name on th on hecount of failing ey eral Bethel was suc by Col. John A. Hull, a forme ing judge advocate general of Gen- the army, who automatically assumed the grade of major general for the duration of his s e in that post. diame gation of his nuinerous cals continued, but ! admitted the status of t for all practical purpo: conse. quentiy eptcemized in coroner's jury verdict returned yesterday to the effect that Ktaz died of a gunrhot wound inficted with murderous in- tent by persons or person unknown tigator e wal oe EL PROVES OIL LEASE TRIAL $100,000 LOAN BY DOHENY WAS GENUINE PROOF OF FRIENDSHIP Highest Impulses Back Of Financial Help Given Fall, Defense Counsel Tells Court. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15. —The “little black satchel” of the senate oil investiga- tion still loomed prominent- ly on the stage of the goy- ernment’s Elk Hills lease cancellation suit as arguments wer al court today but it was playing a dual role. Because it once contained $100.- 000 in currency loaned by EF. L. Di heny to former Secretary of the I terior Albert B, all, the little satchel became a symbol of the gov- ernment’s allegation that. the leasce and contract it now seeks to cancel were obtained from - Fall for Do- heny's Pan-Ame>)zan Petroleum and Transport compaay by conspiracies and to defraud, But ‘yesterday Frank J. Hogan, orenmting for the defense, dragged the * much discnased satchel {nto cow as a battering ram to demolish the government's case. Picturing the 30 years of friend- ship that preceded Doheny’s loan to Fall, the hardships they endured together as prospectors, the natural sympathy which the more prosper. ous of the two must have felt fe his less fortunate friend, Hogan de- clared that the $100,000 Ioan was * personal transaction impelled by im- pulse as fine as any that ever act- uated human action.’* “Does a brided official giva or send to the briber a promissory note in return for the bribe?” He asked “Or if the note given Doheny } Fall was an evidence of guilt, is there any reason why Doheny shouk have obliterated for all time an: evidence of a bribe?” Hogan was expected to conclude his argument today. TUBERCULAR CURE TO BE IVEN TEST CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-—An investi gation of an antl-tuberculosis solu tion, sanocrysine, reported discoy ed by Professor Ho ger Moellgaard Danish scientist, will be made by Dr. Peter Clemensen, representin the Chicago department of healtir He will leave Mo for Coper hagen, Denmart Dr. Clemensen, » by the King ghted two yea: Denmark for hi lical accom, nents and friend of Dr, Moel ard will appl. tho results of his investigations in the municipal tuberculosis’ sanitar jum here Tho scrum tw @ solution of gold and salt, used as an injection, Dr Clemensen saia n Obscene Picture Publishers In Paris Arrested PARIS, Nov. 15.—Acting on nu merous complaints from foreign dlp lomats and the section of the league of nations dea r » suppre sion of pornography, the Paris p ice have succeeded in locating or of the prin nters from which obscene lite and p been shipped all over the Americs Two brothers, Georges and Robert Briffaut, inder bail for trial ge of outraging The police de ows that the rly a million business public thelr its m annual 1 only ney: inquiry rec > put alti wost- supplied througl{ the mails,