Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 1

vw Weather Forecast Snow probable tonight and Wed- nesday, colder. Cold wave tonight ‘mn north portion with zero to 5 be- low. Fresh to strong northerly winds. VOLE NOG FRENGH PLAN [oREVEALED IN LATE ADDRESS Sentiment Is Behind Finance Minister in New Declaration. PARIS, Dec. 30—By The Associated Press) Finance Minister Clementel’s sugges- tion of pooling the inter-al- ied war debts, made in his lance sheet of France’s neial situation issued last Sat- y {8 regarded in the highest King circles as actually repre- ting the sentiment of the French ernment a8 well as of French hance. ‘The minister was bound, {t was marked, to avoid for diplomatic ons, being drawn into a cate- 10. 69 =| Che Cas Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation M'COY ESCAPES ONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER INTER-ALLIED DEBT POOLING URGED NMUCLINTOCK DEATH PROBE FAILS TO REVEAL CRIME Axe Wielded By Woman to Crash Door Mrs. Eugenia Sheppard of 330 South Oak street, who was tried last week by a jury in district court for insanity and turned loose, was rearrested Monday evening charged with destruction of property. The woman !s said to have used an axe in st-cshing up a door on property belonging to Jack Daly of 240 South Spruce street. County authorities plan to have the woman retried on the insanity charge with more exhaustive ev!- dence in the case. prical statement to that effect. lence his declaration in the cham- r of deputies last night in which argued pro and con on the ways settling the Inter-allied debt ques- on. Inquiry among financiers and ong public men closest to the abinet, however, indicates that the mch generally believe that the hole post-war financial settlement hould be revised. ‘This claim te a new deal is bas- don the fact, they point out, that the treaty of Versailles has been re- vised to French detriment; that largely through the influence of their principal creditors, Great Brit- ain and the United States, they have made concession after conces- sion until there fs little left of their claims on Germany, they insist while thelr war debtors show little disposition to pay and their war creditors demand full payment. Of the 15,000,000,000 francs, gold, owing to France, for advances made during the war, the government counts om collecting nothing. Italy contests part of the claim against her and says she ought not to be called upon to pay any part of It. Rumania has shown the greatest rensitiveness when suggestions were madé€ that she let it be known how she thought the matter of her debt ought to be adjusted. France has made no move with reference to Belgium's 3,000,000,000 franc debt, while the 6,000,000,000 francs owed by Russia have been theoretically written off as uncollectible. As for Germany, it 1s pointed out that she apes not only the pa ment of French pensions, but ac cording to the most Mberal estimates possible, will rever pay more than half the material damage France sustained, These are the reasons ‘given for desiring a new liquidation of the r time financial operations. The French financiers and pub- Ne resent sharply the suggestions that such proposals are a cover for repudiation. They recall that Ger- many, after what they characterize as the most formidable repudiation the world has ever known, was re warded by a reduction of her war debts and with a loan to put her economics on a sound basis again. UNITED STATES “MARKING TIME. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Prest- dent Coolidge has drawn no hasty conclusions from the recent swirl of developments surrounding French war debt, and sees no occasion for action by the American government on the basis of present advices. The president is watching the sit- uation closely however, and should there be any indication of a move (Continued. op Page Elght) the first of the year. consist of Dr, G. T. Morgan, Jack E. County Winds up Year * The board of county ‘commissioners is meeting today and tomorrow for the last time under the present regime so that all bills, salaries of county officers and other financial matters for the month of December may be adjusted before | CHICAGO, Dec. 3f —Although the incomplete report of Coroner’s chemists who examined the vi William McClintock, “millionaire orphan” was kept secret by Coroner Oscar Wolff, it was reported today that the pi er Dail MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924 (4uroay were i Canny on PRIS? On Streets or at Newstands, Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a month mNGING WHEN The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. yCrthune 5 cents examination showed death resulted from naturai causes. Five more tests remained to be made before the final report Friday. which 'the coroner said “might be given a wrong construction,” While the chemists finished their work, William D. Shepherd, foster father of the youth and heir to his estate, guardians and conferring upon them) tion c brought a new development into the investigation with the announce- ment that the probated will of Em- ma Nelson McClintock, mother of the boy, was not the first she had made. The probated will, he said, which Board The new board of commissioners, after January 1, will | Scott and Earle G. Burwell, Dr. Morgan, the present ehairman, has two of his four years yet to serve; Scott is beginning a long term of four years and Burwell a short term of two years. Tom Hall, eran commissioner and prominent stockman, concludes a four-year term on the board with tomorrow's meeting. He was not a candidate for re-election in last fall's election. SONG COMPOSITION BY WELL KNOWN LANDER MAN READY FOR RADIO Hon. E. H, Foust of Lander, a gentleman well equipped to contrib- ute to the literary upbullding of Wyoming in either prose,or verse, is the author of the words*to a mu- sical compositions by Albert Beau- mont entitled ‘Where Rails End and Traf’s Begin," a Rocky Moun- tain song of great beauty. It is dedi- cated to the lovers of nature—out of-doors people and its appeal will not be entirely to those of the wide spaces of the west, whose history it recounts, but to those who live in the older sections of the country, and those everywhere who are de- voted to art and beauty in all their forms. “Where Rails End and Trails Be gin,” will easily win its own way. Mr. Foust, is the publisher and holds the copyright. Two Ministers at Rome Leave Cabinet Posts ROME, Dec. 30, (By the Associat- ed Press)—The council of cabinet ministers has been urgently convok- ed for this afternoon. The meet- ing has been summoned, it was stat- ed, to discuss the resignations of the liberal; ministers, Senator Ca- sat! and Gino. Sarrocchi, ministers of education and public works re- spectively. |SOCIAL-.LAW. ON INCREASE CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The next 10 years will sce more social legisla- tion passed than the last ten, with regard to insurance against illness, old age and unemployment, accord- ing to Professor Paul H. Douglas of Amherst College, who presided at a session today of the American asso- cfation for labor legislation. NAVAL PROBE | | Mrs made his wife co-guardian of young McClintock with Attorney Alex ander F. Reichmann, replaced a will naming Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd as @ substantial the first will, duced in bequest. A copy of he said, would be pro- connection ‘with legal ac 00,000 ASKED INPETITION FOR DIVORCE: . J. T. Norms Seeks Alimony Pending Final Order. for $300 per month and a final settle- ment of $50,000 as her share of the estate, Anna Norris has filed sult in district court here for a divorce from Jess T. Norris. The grounds of the action are cruelty and indig- nities. The couple was married October 28, 1921, at Denver, Colo.. and have no children living. The plaintiff contends in her ac- tion that the defendant {s worth $150,000 and has an income approx!- mating $25,000 annually from his in- vestments in Casper and Greybull temporary alimony” of} Cobb Apologizes For Correcting Report of Death NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Irvin 8. Cobb, Mark Twain, has had the pl » of denying a report of Ni. Mark sald the rumor about him olf w. eatly exaggerated. The latter humorist, in a telegram to the New World. today from Paducah, Ky., says: “I bate to disappoint anyone, but the Chicago report that I am dead is, so far as J can learn, en- tirely unfounded.” MUSICIANS END MEET LINCOLN, day Mu Dec. 30.—The three- national convention of the Phi Alpha-Sinfonia, music frater- nity, concluded its sessions here last night without selecting a conven- tion city for 1925. This will be done later by the executive committee, It was anounced. The closing ses- sion was taken up with reports of &tanding committees. Election of officers took place Sunday night Certain phases of the incomplete report, | prev ented its being made public. | al organs of Convict Runs - on Slayer in State Prison SAN FRANCISCO, Callf., When Bartholomew Betti Dec. 30. of San Francisco began serving a six months. term ootlegging he recognized in cellmate a holdup man who had robbed Bet ti's soft drink stand and shot to death his partner, Jullus B. En- venutee, in wary, 1923. Bet- ti's cell mate was also the jail barber, however, which caused Betti to keep sient until he com pleted his term yesterday. Now William I. Hollingsworth, after wielding a razor blade over Bett!'s Adam's apple every day for six months, faces a charge of murder in addition to that of robbery on which he is serving a year’s sen- ntemplated against persons he sald instigated the investigation (Continued on Page Seven.) tence. proved by the Western Und members of the Chamber of this noon at the weekly forum luncheon tn an address by Frederick Williams, secretary of the associa tion. Mr. Williams’ presence at the Hen- ning luncheon was the regult of a protest fathered by the Casper Motor Club last summer and fer- warded to the underwriters board by the locol chamber. The speaker po'nted out that the recommenda tion for a reduction was based on the material reduction in automobile losses effected during 1923 and on the expectation that figures for 1924 will show still greater improvement. Mr. Williams’ appeal for the co-op eration of local off'cials was answer ed by M r 8 K. Loy, Chief of Police Bert 8. Yohe, and Sheriff. elect Alexander McPherson with a joint pledge that they would bend ‘Mike’ Kenney Dies Suddenly Illness Leading to Operation Christmas Eve Leads to Passing of Well ° Known Casper Man in Denver Michael J. Kenney, secretary-treasurer of the Rialto Theater company and for many years one of Casper’s best known residents, died at 7:15 this morning in St. Luke’s hospital, Denver, following an operation Christmas Eve. Word of his death come to M. H. Todd from E. J. Schulte, who had gone to Mr. Kenney’s side when his condition became serions. Mr. Kenney was a native of Terre Haute, Ind., and was in bis 36th year. Mrs. Kenney, who left for California a few weeks ago, was on her way to Denver when death came. She will arrive there tomor- row and funeral arrangements awaited word from her and from Mr. Kenney’s two sisters and a brother who reside in Indiana. Mrs. Kenney’s uncle and aunt have ex- pressed the wish that interment be in Denver, but his many friends here hope that the city which had been Mr. Kenney’s home for nearly DEATH MYSTERY _LCOMS HOLLYWOOD 1% SETTING HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 30. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Holly, said to have been well-to-do tormer residen’s o2 New York, were found in their bungalow ccurt apart- ment here last night, lying in the midrt of Christmas decorations and presents, the cause of their death ® mystery. The couple apparently had been dead since Christmas night, they were last seen by Theodore Covel, who to’d police ho was a nephew of Holly, and that his uncle's only other relatives were two nieces in New York, Ccyel seouted the theory that Holly and his wife had ended their lives with poison, though @ cursory examination indicated they might have died of poison. Police said gas when could not have killed the couple, since a fire was burning in the gas grate when the bodies were Yound, and the ventilation of the p'ace seemed satisfactory, Investigators differed in theoir the- ories of how the middle aged couple came to thelr death, but agreed that until an autopsy could be performed the affair must i a 4 mystery. a decade may place, Mr. Kenney underwent an opera tion a year ago for an abscess of th chest, but never completely regaine: his health, A week ago he went to Denver for a second operation. which was performed last Wednes day, with apparent success, Two days ago, however, the patient's con- dition became suddenly worse, and he failed to rally. be his final resting Mr, Kenney came to Casper in 1917, and he was associated with the Webel Commercial company, first as head bookkeeper and later as assistant manager, until that firm discontinued business. He then joined the Rialto Theater com- pany. Prior to coming here, he had been in the employ of the Union Pacific Coal company, with headquarters at, Cheyenne, Mr. Kenney was a member of the local lodge of El QUAKE FELT IN MEXICO VERA CRUZ, Dec. 30.—An earth- quake brief in duration and not of a violent nature, was felt here at 7:34 o'clock last evening. |he had been informed unofficially, President Coolidge expected a con- ference to be held within a year, looking to further naval disarma ment. It was at the suggestion of Mr. Butler, however, that the motion for an inquiry was made, The Chair man said he supported ‘such a step because he had been charged with attempting to override the will of the committee. As adopted, the motion represent eda compromise between those de iring to take up a bill proposing naval building program and mem bers who sought to have the com mittee direct its attention to a mea sure designed to adjust certain ir regularities in the naval establish ment. The appearance of Secretary WI! bur before the committee is expect ed to open up a! wide field of in quiry as to the administration’s at titude toward naval strength in gen eral, and toward further attempts armament limitation. The sec tary previously has appeared before a house appropriations sub-commit tee, and has given his views regard-| ing the regular appropriations con: | tained in the annual supply meas: | ure, and today he was questioned along similar Mnes by the senate naval committee. The « te dis ised however, related principally to routine disbuisements. In discussing with his colleagues the feasibility of questioning the secretary on broader phases of. the naval question, Chairman Butler, of the house committee sald he wanted the cpmmittee to do nothing that might incite any other nation, and WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Investigation into the of the navy was decided upon today by the house naval committee at a stormy session. call Secretary Wilbur before the committee January 8 to make such recommendations as he might seem expedient. Chairman Butler announced that during the discussion, (> AUTHORIZED House Committee in Stormy Session Or- ders Investigation into Needs; Wilbur to Be Summoned needs A motion was adopted to “We are ina feverish condition," the chairman added. Representative Britten, the ranking mittee, declared there seemed to be a “definite and avowed purpose” by some members to keep the secretary of Ilinols publican on the com from appearing he as serted, this was the ques tions might go “If wo a retary come bef “let tis go on rece ) that effect Representative Vinson, of ¢ fa,| the ranking Democrat, favored cor sideration of pending bill to| smooth out cert irregularities in| ice, and several Republican | mbers sypported his view. Asked | by Mr. Britten if he opposed call ing the secretary, Mr. Vinson replied he would welcome a sweeping in ts turned over ight) hen the Deme (Continued on Page cago early in the New Year, ar Insurance Saving Likely : A material reduction in automobile theft insurance rates is promised for Casper motorists if the recommendation of the Rocky Mountain Fire Underwriters Association is ap- erwriters conference in Chi- This assurance was given Commerce and their guests every effort toward coping with the theft epidemic that up to" 1922 gave Casper an unsavory notoriety in in- surance circles, “If-any officer falls to extend hin fullest 00-¢; We can find plenty of othérs to fill bis place, Dr, Loy summed up his outline of the clty’s program. High rates effective in the past have not involved undue discrimina- tion against Casper, Mr. Willlams declared. He cited figures to show that up to 1922, when improvement began to be noted, the joint losses from fire and theft were so far in excess of receipts from premiums that many insurance companies de- clined to handle automobile business here. In 1921, he pointed out, the companies having membership in the Rocky Mountain association re. ceived in premiums about, $31,200 and paid out in claims. more than $51,000, a ratio of 164.7 per cent With a stndard expense charge of 45 per cent, automobile insurance in Casper talled a 200 per cent loss to the companies,. zven in 1923, with the ratio of to premium pared to 55 per cent, the business just broke even when expenses were figurd in, The st of the state, the speaker show- ed, had a ratio of loss approx!mat- ing 15 per cent, exclusive of ex- penses. if only the figures for 1928 were considered,”’ Mr. Willams remarked, be small chance of a reduction We hope, however, that the improvement in 1924 will be sufficient to warrant action by the Chicago conference.” | As a further measure toward curbing auto thefts Mr. Williams 1) that one or two members |of the police force and one deputy sheriff be assigned exclusively to these pases. A. J. Gormley, special agent of the Mountain Field club of Denver, supplemented this with a plea to every sonal intere: citizen to take a per in reporting suspicious characters and providing the offi clals with evidence. He urged fathers in particular to be sure that their sons were not being led astray by bad company. We have more trouble with the sons of good citizens than with any other type of criminal,” he declared Chief Yohe and Sheriff-clect. Mc- | Pherson spoke briefly to pledge their full co-operation tn the drive on thievery. The chief said that all but four of the mutomobiles stolen here year had Bees recovered. He suggested tt essory thefts could be materially leasend if drivers ld mark tires and tools and keep ‘ord of the serial numbers for identification purposes, The cup awarded annually to the team hanging up the record total (Continued on Page Seven.) Pu Tribune Bidg., bieation Offic 216 B. Second St FORMER BOXER WILL BE TRIED ON FOUR MORE CHARGES SOON Pistol Play in Mors Antique Shop Stil May Result in Life Sentence, Belief. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 20.—Kid McCoy will not have to pay the hangman for the shooting of Mrs. The- resa Mors here last August 12. This much was definitely mined when a superior court yesterday brought in a verdict vieting. the former pugilist of man- slaughter, which carries a pen of from one to ten years in pr Whether McCoy will spend . the deter- jury rest of his life in prison as the re- sult of the slaying and a shoot affray closely linked with it, remaing to be seen. His trial on four counts of rob- very and three to wit with a deadly weapon with intent to growing out of the shooting orgy which raged in the Mors antique shop the morning after Mrs. More died of a pistol wound, Is set for next Monday. Should he'be convicted of robbing four men in the Antique shop at pistol’s point and convicted of shoot- ing and wounding Mr. and M William Schapp and Willh Ross, three) who crossed that morning when he a his “lights were out," McCoy could be burdened with sentences aggregai- ing far more than a lifetim On each of the three counts of assault, for instance, he could be sentenced to from one to 14 years in priso and these sentences could be 1 . to run consecutively. The pena ery is from one year onment Whatever he might think of the fal still ahead of him. ver, Coy was bitterly disappointed when yesterday's verdict was ro- turned. Tears came to his he heard it, and to those said: +I don't believe it was a just ver- dict. If & am not gullty as charged, T am not gullty at all.” Defense attorneys took the samo view, insisting that if the charge of murder on which McCoy was tried could not be proved, he should bo set free. They announced notice of appeal would be filed m when McCoy comes up for re_n¢ cir ve \d do,” Even the jurors ally satisfied with t was the best we oo w chosen to decide Me( f had been out for 78 hours when they reached a verdict, and had t 4 ballots. NINE WOMEN WERE FIRST FOR ACQUITTAL LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 30.4 Nine women jurors of the panel which weighed t! dene t Kid, McCoy hter ed of manslaughter in connection with the m t Mrs. Theresa W. M ust, fave an acqt the deliberations it was 1 led t day. It was the Influence of t s men, according to the t the jury, that discarded t t of the state for the extre penalt there wero « 1 the prosecution laid heav {ts arguments, falled to swer 8 women jurors. “Although we reached a compro mise verdict,” one (Continued on Pa. Bes MOBIL Ala., Dec. 20.—An un identified man, believed to be the] man who robbed a h of the Marine Trust and ng ~ com- of $13,000 on pany of New Orlea Christrnas eve, was shot and killed in a pistol fight at the Loutsyille depot early today but not until afte the man had seriously wounded | did not care at this time to take up an examination of war conditions of other countries, Charles Ferrer, spec agent of the L and N, and patrolman Walter Pis tole, of the Mobile po'ice force. The ; shots that killed the man were f! by Detective Gibby Wilcox after a running fight from the platform of a Pullman car through the station to the fruit wharf where the man dropped dead of New Orleans and manager of the ba are en route here lon: Friess, was robbed, day The sum of $2,033 was taken off MOBILE BANDIT SLAIN SL OFFICER WOUNDED the ma 4 t dollar. bLIs. . 2 ped to his He also had two ots. mate caps pockets. It the 1 Wright and had be f the bullets wh (Continued on Page F en plerce