Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 1

Generally fair tonight and Thurs- day, except probably rain or snow in extreme northwest portion, Warm- er in northeast portion. tonight. or at Newstan pics Lt i eee RS DEMO! PIN a Carrier 75 et ‘month lUN TO BE DELAYED PARTIGN PLWWOZL LEASE - 'cnisis saci ELIMINATED IN) CASE ENDS 'EILEVED WITH FEDERAL PROBE Declan Bolate Esters Te Preniec PRICES ON THe FOR FARM AND CLIMB, REPORT Eik Hills Lease Contract pegs ‘ LOS ANGELES, Calig.. Now. 49 19.—A decision in the gov- i i gine is 0 rae Rela got, ls naval olf Ieages and con-|Labors of Newly Ap- ide Scope for New pointed Commission Inquiry Into Agricul- To Be Carried. Past tural Status. March 4, Is Belief. transport company, may be expected before February 1, 1925, accodring to an announcement by Judge Paul J. BY-DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, Nor. 19.—Sen- (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) ator Warren of Wyoming, who is McCormick when trial 5f the case was concluded in federal WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, in line by the seniority rule, to court here yesterday. “Third, that a fraud was worked In summing up the government's|on the United States by what was done.”" Gn the basis of these allegations which he said the government had amply proved, Roberts called on the court to cancel the contested leas —The most important politi- Terie | succeed the Inte Senator Lodge cal and economic: problem:in as Republican leader. in the sen- the-after-the-war period in ate, had a 30-minute conference po- American history is at last day with President Coolidge. being tackled from a- non- Mr. Warren said the leadership certian re sone standyeays question was not taken up bub without either the pressure of party that the president showed consid- interf. by Politics or interference by sectional erable interest in the legislative groups. A commission of nine selected by situation and expressed a hope ail the president has been” given the of the appropriation bills woulé@ widest possilffe scope for its’ in- be disposed of at the short session quiry. The appointment of the com- fol congress: mission is a sequel not only to the failure of the last session of con- As chairman of the appropria- tions committee, Senator Warren predicted that these measures gress to get together on a farm re- Mef program, but to the. unreconcil- ‘would be out of the way by the regular adjournment day. He be- ed conflict between the “department of commerce and the department of lives littte other legislation will be acted upon. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation CASPER, WYO. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1924 FARM RELIEF LEGISLATI TENSION RELIEVED IN AQUEDUCT WAR WATER SUPP] Y/RIOT SQUAD CALLED OUT WHEN SPHRURE. STILL! FREE Foe-RLL AY EMRE Hee IN STATUS QUO Use of Armed Force to Rout Ranchers Denied » Baltes CANVASS | OF VOTES LAUNCHED Natrona county's official board began at 10. o'clock this morning the’ laborious process of making a canvass on the? votes cast for the various offices in the last gen- . A little international imbroglio got under way in the CY-restaurant shortly after midnight last night and hos- tilities ceased only when Patrolman Hughes led an im- promptu riot squad into the place and conducted eleven battered combatants to the city jail. Police Justice J. A. Murray will pass tonight upon the fine points of racial dissension” at issue. call of the pibroch and still others It all began when one of the | Plunged in to keep the shamrock un- party, hailing from somewhere up sulied. Though fists served in i ry oe ait 4 with place of shillelahs and there was no Edinburgh way, an imbue kilted musician to pipe the clans on INDEPENDENCE, = Inyo} -riitciat hilarity py Caspers best ‘ to victory, the fray was as bonny a County, “ Calif., Nov. 19.—} substitute for Haig and Haig, told| one in its'way as either of the more ( By The Assoicated Press)—} one on Pat and Mike. Another | famous affairs of Bannockburn or Boyne Wather. in County Clare, responded with No decisian was rendered when of passive resistance, today | merry quip anent the traditional fru- threatened, according. to when the officers interrupted the gality of the Scot. They mixed.| melee but mutual satisfaction is Inyo county authorities, to snap the | Others present rallied to the ancient said to have been recorded. tension of a situation created ‘south a 5 i H Os. H. er@ electiong Indications are that the canvass will not be con- cluded until some time tomorrow: The ba‘lots: from Miller precinct, which has been virtually: cut off from the outside world ever since the election beéause of snow and bad roads, were received only last night. . The official” board «includes Alma” F. Hawley, county clerk and Henry Brennan and Edward Barreaq, justidessof-thepeace, The canvass, holds no unusual significance as no election” con- tests remain unsettled. —OQNSHED BRIS S500, FINE AND 90 DAYS IN COUNTY JAIL Ninety days in the county jail and a fine of §500. was the sentence meted out to Guy Brown yesterday sel appointed by President Coolidge declared that “we have averred and still. in “First, that there was.and has been proved a conspiracy between Albert B. Fall, secretary of the in- terior in 1922, and Edward L. Doheny. “Second, that the $100,000 trans- action between them contained every element: cf a bribe. gave the navy a fuel.oll base in re turn for Elk Hits oll, and notwith- standing the defense portrait of Doheny as ‘‘a shining citizen.” BANKERS HERE IN CONFERENCE ON LECISLATION Anticipating radical revision of the state’s banking laws at the next session of the legislature, members of the Wyo- ming Bankers association committee on legislation met here at the Townsend hotel. During the morning the committee gave its attention to of herg last Sunday in the seizure of the Los Angeles aqueduct by Owens. Valley ranchers, and to plunge this part of Californig: into ‘HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov, 19.—Thomas H. Ince, nat- vivil . sie the . approximately 100 ranchers took.over the Alabama gates of the aqueduct and diverted ionally*known motion picture producer, died at 5:30 this ; 3 le} prot i avelliinecy a Sha ni EER aeenttnet kp Sobor daa a a ae ee eof nb We Se cae eee fate Se , ; z Death was due to angina pectoris became. Hy Loe & she front tea eb Mon- agriculture on the placing of. the bureau of ‘markets in one depart- ment or the other. WASHINGTON, Nov: 19. —Early action at the coming short session of congress\on farm relief legislation. ap- ared improbable today in view" of the announcement by farm bloc leaders that agricul- tural depression has been some- what relieved and the decision..of the agricultural commission ‘nae by . President . Coolidge. to ti- gate and recommend steps fs. bilization of the industry, eae tented itself, with peaceful court ‘ac? tion to Tecover /its Property. : cehag a purpose. of ; a ane of a state bank guaranty law will be it} considered, though it is donbtful that the committee will Include such @ measure in its recommendations. Such laws have generally been fail- ures, according to moet bankers. That thought will be given to i creasing protection for depositors is likely. Some mention was made this’ morning of creating the’ state Los Angeles’ chief source of water reese to his home supply into Owens Lake,»they have n age last e PieE, ‘The, attack was | sudden, be seerial oo pes 4 we ‘to the “was cess, after today’s session for or four week: : Edith Gould Is Sued For Hosiery . Bill PARIS, . Nov.. 19.—Edith Kelly .Gould’s’ silk stockings got into “court today with a suit by a mer- chant for 4,000 francs which he has been trying to collect since 1918. The merchant's bill covers the year 1917-18 and shows that Mrs. Gould bought. sixty-six pairs of silken hosiery in October of the last year. Frank Jay Gould, her former husband, who was divorced in 1919, refused-to pay th il and the merchant now is ase Mr.> Gould and the actual purchaser jointly. = Independence — Is: Demanded By Filipinos WASHINGTON, Nov. 19:—The Philippine legislature, {h convention as a commission of independence, has adopted unanimously a_resolu- tion demanding immediate and com- plete independence, the Philippine Press Bureau here was advised to- day in a cablegram from Manila, | 9 Baar In ‘Philippine headquarters here Funera} services for , David ‘Brown killed yesterday mornimg by a fall from a.scaffold at. the Stan- dard Oil ‘refinery, will be held. to- morrow at jthe Cathdit:. ahurch, with Father Mullin officiating. The local lodge of Eagles, of which he ‘was a» member will conduct -ser- vices at the (ann sade PAIR SEIZED FOR KILLING OF O’BANNION CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—Frank Vale, suspected New. York gunman, and reported Heutenant “of Johnny, Tor- rie, alleged beer runner, and a 'com- panion, Sam Pollacio, also of New York, were ‘selzed yesterday by, the police as suspects in the slaying, ten days ago, of~Dion O'Bannion, gang lender, gunman and hijacker, as the, couple were-about to board a train for New York city. The pair were arrested on orders of Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins, who said he had received a tip that two of the men who shot O'Bannion mate that Los Angeles’. still “has about ithree months’ ssupplyot a un tap in: its reservoirs. Now, according to their aiee: ten, the ranchers are not in any mud ‘to: give up their fight, nor are they: in any mood to remain on‘the aqueduct for three months. They demund immediate: “settlement ‘ot their dispute: with the ‘city, and each day that this settlement {s delayed increases the. tensity of the siti tion .and! the likelihood of a more OIL EXPLODES WOMAN DEAD DENVER, Colo, Nov. -19—Mrs. John Montoya, 21 ;firs old, was fatally burned here when a can of coal ofl exploded in her home, 1417 Tenth street, and Mrs. Marie Gal- legos, 27 years old, same address, was severely burned in attempting to extinguish the flames. Mrs. Montoya was pouring kero- sene into the kitchen stove to speed up the fire when the explosion oc- curred. She was covered from head to foot with fire and ran from the room calling for assistance. Mrs. Gallegos was attracted by her screams and came to her aid trying to stamp out.the fire which was consuming Mrs. Montoya's clothing. Several chiidren in the house es- caped injury. thoroughly sald District Attorney Jess) Hessian » “that unless state troops tween anyo county residents and the city of Los Angeles, there will bé amazing loss of life and distruction of property.” Sheriff Collins erat sictocuptts “T am powerless. 1! attem: oust the ranchers it\willmeans pos- sible loss of life and the dynamiting of miles of the. aqueduct... The ranchers aré not armed now, ‘but I know’ that enough arms are avail- able in the valley’ to . supply 175 men and. women with “weapons in- side of one hour, At Jeast a score of women are holding themselves in readiness to bear arms and they are not novices. “They “can” ‘shoot, straight. Today 8. B: Robinson, special junsel for Los Angeles, is expected to arrive here to-seek warrants for the arrest of those who, Monday, de- fled a Buperior court. order ..com- manding them to cease’ interferring with ‘the city’s *water ‘supply and leave the aqueduct- Citizens pre- dict, howover, that. any. attempt to. make arrests under such warrants will only “be the signal. for “real trouble.”* Egyptian Army Ch hief Wounded By an Assassin CATRO,. Nov. 19—(By the As- Stack, his alde de camp, his chaf- vociated Pregs).—Two bombs, one of |feur and a policeman. which exploded, were thrown at| * —_ Major Genbral Sir Lee Stack, sire- Sar of! the Egytian. army, | while driving from the ministry of war oday, General Stack was also attacked with revolver shots and badly wounded In the stomach. He was femoved to a hospital. The three or four assailants in- Ived in the affair eventually es- Funeral of David Brown to Be Held Here on Thursday ‘he resolution is taken to mean the Filipinos plan to prosecute their in-' dependence campaign at the coming session of congress. ‘The medical bulletin states that General Stack’s condition 11 st ous. He is suffering from shock and has three bullet wounds—in the stomach, hand and foot, respec- tively. Major General Sirles Stack, was appointed governor general of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Tgyptian - For the present ped: bomb | army in . 1919, which Pay! ager if After | under the constitution granted to|to death in his flower shop ‘could be ‘ords they fired several - rounds | Egypt when it ceased to be a British} found if detectives watched the “ith revolvers, hitting Generkl (Continued on Page Seven Twentieth cone limited, Total Subscriptions at Noon Today Are $10,935 With Long Way to Go In Reaching Goal of $45,000 A grand total of $16,052.95 had rolled into the Com- munity Chest at the end of 36 hours of canvassing, marking nearly 40 per cent of the year’s charity quota, $45,000. Approximately half of this sum represents cash already The noon-to-noon roundup reported today was $10,935.20, nearly double -yesterday’s figure. Lee Doud’s team again led. the field of 39 with a day's acctmula- tion of $1,001.50. 7 was the group of hustlers captained by A. L. Wallace; ‘who’ re} their total $914 in» subscriptions. Mrs. Gertrude Hill's staff led the women's division ‘with $420, Reports were submitted at the second campaign lunchéon at the Hotel Henning, with M. A. Beck- Unger presiding and Charles B. Staf- ford, secretary of the chamber of commerce, recording and compiling Pledges from five teams whfch were not ready to report: at noon were expected to swell the day’s fund materially. stances the captains announced that their reports were incomplete and represented the contributions’ turned in by only a part of their squad. A request that each team be care- ful not to transgress on territory not assigned to it was made by Mr. ‘The original assign- ment of districts willbe maintained paid in. the results. Becklinger. for 24 hours more. ‘A close second “as| top. anything smalle: Nelson declared, In many in- Chest authorities. prompt relief. Join the Crowd for the Tribune’s Cross-Word Puzzle A caustic portrait of an unnamed citizen who after digging laboriously through his pockets finally, laid a Jone dollar before the .canyasser— probably because he couldn't find George Nelson, exhorting solicitors not to be too ready to accept one dollar pledges from men who they knew were able to give $50 or $100. “To my personal knowledge,” Mr. ‘that man has sold $50,000 worth of wool this fall.” One unexpected result of the thor- oughness with. which the present canvass is being conducted is the of many ‘cases of acute need which otherwise might not have come to the knowledge of the After tomorrow noon, the field will be thrown open ahd the canvassers'in a final whirl- wind drive will bend every effort to send the fund (otal Looming over the ‘was drawn by Such cases are referred to the proper division for While Los Angeles battles the pneumoniec plague.and in Néw Jer- sey man after man dies raving in the grip of some strange madness, another epidemic, over these United States. You've guessed it—the cross-word puzzle. far thore insidious and deadly, has run rampant And now !t has dome to Casper. The Tribune today prints the first of a series of these brindled, time-annihilating, work- destroying cerebral acrobatics. You. will find {t on page eight. Thrice a week hereafter, on each succeeding Friday, Monday and Wednes- day, there will be a new enigma. Just thrice a week to begin with, 80 that there may be some few'hours/of\the week remaining for the routine labors of the community. But {f the demand warrants it, if the outcry is sufficiently vociferous, the puzzle;page may be made an occipital dally dozen, part of your regular diurnal fare. And if the affairs of city and county suffer—then-so much the. worse for .city and county. If you are proud of your vocabulary, If you are wont to vaunt your fund of esoteric knowledge, the cross-word puzzle—will reduce you to humflity. If you are ambttious to augment your culture, the cross-word puzzle will give you the essence of a Mberal education And if you're just one of those shameless persons who like fun for fun's sake, there's moro. of it to be found ina bout with the cross. word puzzle than In eleven dozen Sunday comic ‘pages, Remem- ber—every days. other’ day Turn to page elght and join the majority, and ‘solutions will be published on alternative TEACHERS ARE Representative. Tincher, lican, Kansas, spoxesman for. thd House farm bloc, announced yester- day, after a conference with Sen- ator Curtis, Republican, of the same state, that no effort would be mad¢ to press farm legislation at the in pending session before. the . Presb dent's commission reports. In. th opinion of farm. bloc members, «ht explained, agriculture, especially. ir a large section of the West, har been given sufficient stimulus te tide the farmer over for the time being. office of bank commissioner. Those who are here attending the special bankers meeting are C. R. Massey of Sheridan; J. D. Thorne of Sheridan; Victor Fascinnell of Rock Springs; Kent Snyder of Wheatland; George F. Westbrook of Lander; Harry B. Henderson of Cheyenne; M. R. Collins of Douglas. Casper bankers on the committee are R. C. Cather of the Wyoming Trust company, A. J. Cunningham of tho Casper’ National bank, and B. B. Brooks of the Wyoming Na- tional bank, Mr. Collins 1s chat GATHERING FOR MEETING HERE Special class teachers from all over the state were gathering in Casper today for the two-day annual session which opens at the ‘high school tomorrow. Among the out- of-town visitors were Mrs. Katherine A. Morton, state superintendent, of public/instruction; Miss Beatrice Mc- Leod, state director of special class education; Dr. G. M, Anterson, state health officer, and Dean C, R. Max- well of the college of education, state university. A tour of the special classes here will, open the conference program tomorrow, The afternoon session an‘ the sessions on Friday will take Up, special clags problems from vari- ous angles, with addresses by the state’and university officials, Super- intendent A, A. Slade and others. Cc. H. Townsend,. president of the school board,” will welcome the visitors pt the afternoon session tomorrow. man. It is believed the, meeting will| | Recognizing the rmmenslty : of close this evening, their task, members of the admiris- tration’s agricultural commission have decided that any effort to for- mulate a program to provide lasting prosperity for the farmer would, be time wasted until official statistics on all phases’ of the question could be prepared to guide them. Evi agency of the government charged with administration of farm regulg- tions, the gathering of ‘product! and marketing. statistics, ‘financing and transportation, has been asked to compile ‘the desired: informatiéh for the commission and will "reas- semble a8 soon as the duta Is ready. While the work of the commission’ is expected by Chairman Carey) of Wyoming to earry its activities past March 4, when the present Congress expires, emergency problems’ are to OSAGE WOMAN KILLS MAN IN SELF DEFENSE OSAGE, Wyo., Nov. 19.—(Spectal to the Tribune).—Cornered by the drunken threats of Matt Hilgers with whom she had been living for a number of years, Mrs, . Lydia Roy on*Sunday evening sent a bu!- let into his abdomen with the re- sult that he died the following’| be disposed of as quickly as possible, morning. to permit legislative action, in ae- At the inquest which immediately | cordance with the wishes of Presl- followed Hilgers’ death Mrs. Roy | dent Coolidge, without undue delay. was exonerated, the finding @f the} With: this purpose in mind, the cat- coroner's jury being that she shot | tle industry, described by the corm- in self-defense and the case was | missioners as being in.a “depressed” ‘ classified under justifiable homt- | condition; to be given first considéra- cides. tion. Timber-Saving Program Aim German Sugar Is: Contracted By Importers petition with the German product when it was announced that 1,600 tons of German refined sugar had been sold for December shipment NEW YORK, Noy. 19.—The e American ‘sugar. market was con-| fronted with the prospect of com- r e S i e n 3 to New York at a price of about six WASHINGTON, Nov, 19.—Presi- of timber is left in this country, he * cents a pound, more than a cent be-|dent Coolidge today asked for aypointed out, and against this sup- low prevailing quotations in New| pecific program of timber-saving ply there is an annual drain of York. in gpening the national confe 25,000,000,000 cuble feet, while the No.German refined sugar had/on utilization of forest products.| annual timber growth {s only: six sold in this market for. several|The nation faces timber exhaus-| billion feet. In the fact of this years. Several weeks ago, however, | tion¢ the president warned, and the] situation, ho declared, the nation American buyers obtained a sub-;situation must be met, he insisted,| must turn to the problem of grow- stantial priee concession on 7,000|by diminishing waste and increas-| ing wood from the soil like any tons of German raw sugar, part of|ing the supply other croy which will be shipped to refiners! The resources of the nation are} “To bridge this fatal gap between here. @ trust, Mr. Coolidge declared, sub-| cut ‘and growth however, Mr, With the European sugar crop e-| ject to use by the present genera-| Coolidge said tent action has mated at almost two million tons} tion, administered frew of monop-| not yet been taken and the country larger than last) year, local sugar|olies and from those who will “un-| must consequently adjust {taelt authorities today predicted that thix| wisely permit them to be dissipat-|tmmediately to a reduced per cap- market would encounter growing] ed," but there must be restoration | ita consumption. foreign competition during the as well as use. The president saw “hopeful mainder of the season. About 745 10,000,000 cubic feet (Continued ou Page Seven) 4