Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1925, Page 1

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NO. 78 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation SHARDING’S COUSIN D CASPER, WYOMING, FRIDAY, JANUA®Y 9, 1925 (a On Stree Del'vered b or. >y Carrier of The Tribune is greater than ony other Wyoming newspaper. ~ pr Bai MEMUER CF ASSOCIATED ly Crifiume at Newstands, cents 6 ts A mo wos ) Tiers, FNIES OFFER OF GRAFT FINAL SHOALSKORETZ DIES ACTION LOOMS B LEADERS WORK ATO SEND BI @ 0 CONFERENCE Underwood Plan Given Preference Over Norris Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.— Having accepted the Under- wood private operation bill as a substitute for the Norris government operation plan, the senate drove forward to- ay in a final effort to get the long pending question of the disposition of Muscle Shoals into conference with the house. © Underwood measure was ap: proved over the Norris plan by a7 te of 49 to 37 but with several substitutes for it now pending; leaders on both sides of the chamber ha@ some doubt that this bill would constitute the final expression of the senate on the subject. Senator Norris, Republican, braska, charged before the vote wa taken that the administration was the Underwood bill solely as a vehicle for the defeat of his own government operation plan and in- tended to drop it “like a hot brick,” once his bill was defeated, On the vote, 30 Republicans, tn- eulding most of the administration leaders, supported the Underwood house bill. Twenty Democrats op- posed it. Immediately after the vote a new substitute was put for- ward by Senator Wadsworth, Re- publican, New York, proposing a esidential commission to deter- ine what should be done with Muscle Shoals, its decision to be final subject to presidential ap proval, nother pending substitute by nator Jones, Republican, Wash- ington, would refer the question to a presidential commission to re port recommendations to the new congress. Whatever measure finally {s pass: ed by the senate—and leaders ex pect final action this week or early next week, it will have to go to ference for consideration along ith the house bill accepting Henry Ford's offer, which since the house tion, has been withdrawn SLAYER DENIED REHEARING BY HIGH TRIBUNAL 9 The last denied his uring of the case. Unless executive clemen' ded he will die on the g City prison during the week rch 16. Woman Slayer Given Parole “rom Prison ITY, Mo., Jan mvicted for the mur band in } as City ed today anon o.— r hu 8 par nitentiary ed 19 years « life he is enjd to haye spent t time in prison ever serve woman in the United States. she from the BEHIND BARS | paattey Prices Up as Result Of State Embargo) With prices on chickens going up as the result of the recent em- bargo against shipments of poultry into the state, the grindstone on more than one Wyoming home stead is whizzing at full speed, put ing a keen edge on the axe that between head and for hundreds of Wyoming chickens. In Casper today the price on poultry leaped up to 85 cents a pound, a rise of more than six cents over night. Retailers in poul- try here have signs out mow for 1 the chickens they can get at g cents a pound. The embargo has become as ef- fective as a high protective tariff and poultry ralrers are believed to favor its indefinite continuance. NEGRO SLAYER IS HANGED FOR KILLING WIFE FLORENCE, Ariz, Jan. 9.— Sam Flowers, negro, was hanged at the state prison here this morning for the murder of his wife, Sabina Flow- ers, at Tucson In February, 1923. Flower went to his death protest. ing that he had killed in self de fense, ‘The condemned man was placed on the gallows at 5 o'clock and.at 5:03. the'trap was spring and 1144 min- utes later Dr, F. P. Perkins declared Flowers dead. Before the trap was sprung War- den R. B. Sims asked Flowers if he wished to make a last statement. ‘Goodbye, and God bless you ali,” Flowers replied. Flowers spent the night joking withguards and did not try to sleep. a Ee FAREWELL BANQUET T0 BE TENDERED RETIRING BOY SCOUT EXECUTIVE Casper Boy Scout executives, scouts and friends will honor H. Roe Bartle, local scout executive for the last two years, with a farewell jbanquet next Tuesday evening at 6:15 at the Henning hotel. Mr. | Bartle leaves next week for St Mo., where he will engage joseph, in similar work, ‘The presence of John H.. Piper xtonal scout executive, will add the occasion and all memvers of scout council, scouts and any ne interested in scouting ts cor dially invited to attend. The pro s being arranged by Stanley tor the banquet Mrs. Laura Taylor, the Ca company or the may Shaw | Frank Sta tlonery per Henning ho Farmer Wants No Assistance From Solons CHIC. Jan. 9. Samuel R 1, agricultural leader,” dec'ared upon his return here from the con vention of the National Council of farmers’ Co-operative assoctation in Washington, that the farmer needs no further assistance from congress, but to be left alone farmers legislative program * he said. “The work of the bloc has been achieved. Agri as all the permissive leg on needed! to accornplish {ts pur: ¢ eubstituting group merchan {ndividual selling.” AGO. asks only The 5 over farm rture lat sing fc A-SOLDIER KILLS GIRL AND SELF {T WORTH, Texas, Jan, 9.— investigation of the mur ® continued their as to the cause J suicide in a hotel here yes- Hu killed when Sergeant on shot and of El Paso, then turned fired Ho died volver on himself and through his lungs. to a hospita, There were no witnesses to the shooting. Bankston, a ‘member of headquarters company, 144th tnfan try, Texas national guard, made his residence at the armory here until a week ago, when he rented a room in which the shooting occurred, and where tho slain girl, whom police claim was the sergeant’s sweetheart, had taken a room two week# before. “INTER-ALLIED DEBT GONFERENGE AT PARIS ($ MAKING. PROGRESE seikeauiees Adjustment of All Problems’ Ex: pected by Next Wednesday, When Delegates Will Leave | PARIS, Jan. 9—(By The Associated Press.) —Present |expectations are that the interallied financial conference | will close by next Wednesday, and delegates are so confi-| to without effect | dent of their ability to achieve this result that they already parliaments. The Anglo-American negotila- tions continue to make headw: many questions of detail already be ing settled. It is hoped that the Wadsworth agreement for repay- ment of the American occupational army costs and other points will be settled by night. Indeed, the Anglo American con troversy over the right cf the United States to share in the Dawes plan annuities, which was at first regarded as the principal obstacle now is placed as third in order of difficulty among the questions of the program. The process of conducting the conference by conversations be tween the various units composing it continued today. The British and Belgian delegations were in com munication during the morning and it was. announced that Premier Theunts would confer with Finance Minister Clementel of, France and, Winston Churchill, British cbancel- lor of the exchequer, this afternoon. The French spent most of tho-morn- are making preparations to leave Wednesday night to sub- | 2usmess from which he nev mit the conclusions of the conference to their respective Death Claims Swindler Who Bilked His| Friends and Relatives Out of Mil- lionsin Panama “Bubble” STATEVILL Ill., Jan. 9.—Leo Koretz, whose phantom Panama oil project took more than two million dollars from penitentiar: one to ten years. jrelatives and intimate friends, died last night in the state? which he entered December 5 to serve from Suffering from diabetes when found after a year’s search in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last his condition rapidly grew after entered the prison and insulin treatments were resorted December, worse Yesterday lapsed into unconsct © rallied. Three brothers and his son, Mentor, were with him when he dled and his wife, arrived at the prison shortly GOMPERS’ HEIRS DENY USE OF INFLUENCE IN WILL THAT CUT: WIDOW OFF WITH SHALL SUM WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Denial of charges by Mrs. Gertrude A. Gompers, widow of Samuel Gom- pers, late preaident of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, that undue influence had been exert- ed upon him by Samuel J. Gompers, the eldest son by the first marriage, were made. yester- . day in the District of, Columbia “supreme. court by the three chil: dren and two grand children of the deceased labor leader. (Continued op Page Eight) The children and grand chil- dren, who ficiaries filed for had no knowledge tion he was making of his es- tate and dented that the eldest son had influenced him in revok ing a will by which the second Mrs. Gompers was left the bulk. of the $30,000 estato and making a new will leaving her only one ‘a@llar. ‘ They asked the court to deny the motion of Mrs. Gompers to admit the earlier will to probate. are named as under the will probate, bene- recently asserted they what disposi- afterwards. Prison officials expected to turn the body over to the famils today Death occurred more than a year after the flight of Koretz from Chi cago which was followed by the dis c'osure that the Bayano river oil scheme he had promoted for up Wards of 15 ¥ears was a myth. With him on his flight he took nearly 000,000 in money and securities, up ward of $300,000 of which and jew- elry valued at several thousands of dollars he returned a few days later to relatives. While a hunt was made for the Promoter the story of tho ofl bubble was investigated by & committee of business men who found he did not even own the worthless land > SHIP GIVEN UP. AS LOST MEXICO CITY, Jan locating the Mextcan doro, which left Frontera for Vera Cruz on December 23, has been abandonéd, according to Vera Cruz dispatches. It js feared the Isidore bearing 37 Passengers, including well known Mexicans from the stat of Tabas eo, Campeche and Chiapas was lost in a furlous, gale. 9.—Hope of steamer, Is! Shark Slain By Diver at 95-Foot Level VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 9 After a 20-minute battle with a six- foot shark, 95 feet below the surface of the water of this harbor, Wednes day, Jack Bruce, Vancouver diver, emerged victor, having killed the ani with an iron bar, he related to The sha several times he said m: day —— = COLLEGIANS REALLY SET | THE STYLES CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—“Eyen though hfs majesty the Prince of Wales may exert a tremendous inf!uence on the rtyle of American men’s clothes, it is the college student who really gives impetus and brands successful any style that the manufacturers might seek to present the publfc,’ J. B, Serack, an official of the In ternational Association of Clothing Designers, said today. “The college man really sets the styles !n young men's clothes,” he id. “As soon ag a style becomes ollegiate ever ‘counter jumper,’ soda clerk and other working youth follows. If a college group takes up a style, it {s certain to go over, and clothing makers aim their advance models to sult the fancy of the cam. pus leader.” -_ Missing Man Is Sought by Brother Word of Eleory Hartley, missing for tem years, is sought by his broth er, A. L, Hartley of Adamana, Ariz., in a letter to the local chaniber of commerce. The vanished Hartley is said to have been in the sheep busi ness here a decade ago, Nothing has been heard of him since that time, and until recently his relatives be Neved he had perished in a blizzard in which several sheepmen lost their ‘ves. Recent informetion bas reached them, according to Mr ter that he {s etill liv Wyoming, and ip marr’ four children. . Hartley's let ig in central d and has FINSTEIN WINS RECOGNITION N RECENT TESTS University of Chicago Scientist Tells of Experiment Jan, 9,—(By Further theory relat iven here last night wl Albert A. Mic e that h CHICAGO, Pr Einstein's nelso: l in his most recent exper furnished Einstein other striking confirmatio: While he preceded the announce nt of his finding with the stat ment that they were prevalent. Pro- fesscr Michelson dec'ared he believed that addtional experiments which he will make would further support Ein stein. The theory was tested by the Ether Drift experiment, the latter also being proven, Professor Micl son said, in which two beams of light were thrown by mirrors in opposite directicns through a 6,200 foot vac: uum tube, Thea two beams arrived at thelr etarting place at various dis: placements, which indicated there had been an tmpediment In the ve locity of light, One of the principal objects to be determined in the ex periments was whether the motion of the earth influenced the velocity of light Had the two beams come home at the {dentica! time then it would have been probable that some of Ein stein's theory would have been diffi- cult to explain rents an Warrants Issued in Denver Court for} KLAN DRAGON IS ARRESTED Group Accused of Kidnaping and Using Coercion in Marriage DENVER, Colo., Jan, 9.—Dr. James Galen Locke, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, realm of Colorado, was arrested shortly after noon today a warrant Is- sued by Juvenile Judge Ben B. Lindsay charging him with con- spiracy and kidnaping in connec- tion with the alleged forced mar- riage of Keith Boehm, 19 to Miss Mae Nash in his office last Tues- day night. vernor-Elect Clar- ence J. Morley went on Dr, Locke's bond, which was fixed at $1,000 by Judge Lindsey. Mr. Morley, who also is a Denver district judge, was elected to the governorship this ‘fall with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, DENVER, Colo., Jan, 9.—Formal charges of kidnaping } and conspiracy were lodged against Dr. John Galen Locke and others, in Judge Ben B. Lindsey’s‘juvenile court today on complaint of Keith Boehm, 19-year-old Denver high | school youth. naped him le 1 ke w rand dragon of Ku of Colo: , and there forced him to marry Mae Nash Judge Lindsay Klux Klan, realm immediately issued warrants calling for the arrest of Dr. Locke, William Pritts, C. A Kirkling end an unidentified man, known only as “Chris.” Service of the warrants began at once Dr. Locke, in a statement issued Wednesday night, admitted that the ceremony was performed in his of fice, but denfed any coercion had been used. The youth a downtown parents, who was taken from hotel operated by hie kKlansman, Dr, Locke declared, and added that he found the boy had obtained a marriage Mcense more than a year ago, “to deceive” the girl, who, he safd was to become a mother soon sa As a klansman, he thought {t was his duty to see that young Boehm did “the right thing by marrying the girl," he declared. He said he talked the matter over with the girl, Tokio Rocked By Earthquake TOKIO, Jan, 9.—(By The Associ ated Press).—Toklo was disturbed to. day by a sertes of earthquakes of high severity, the first of which rock ed the city at 6 o'clock this morn: ing. The last temblor this afternoon ame at % o'clock and caused many Persons to leave their abodes for out doors. Mount Aso. voleano located slx hundred miles southwest of here, has been in aruption since last ‘Tues day and is emitting ashes causing damage to forms ct tts base. a The complaint alleges that the men kid-} ing v st Tuesday night, took him to the offices of her mother ar Agreed to the marriage that coercion tn any employed in the act The day foliowing the marringe Boehm's parents sought a: nulment of the marriage and the case was taken under advisement by District Attorney Van Cise. His findings to day resulted tn the filing of charges against the grand dragon three other men. 20,000 Deaths Are Charged To Automobiles 1 the t la Me form had beer and. the CHICAGO, Jan Although safe ty campaigns in a number of cities caused a reduction in automobile fa talities in 1924 as compared w 1923, the deaths for the entire coun try increased from 19,000 tn 19 to at least 20,000 in 1924, it was reveal ed last night by records compiled by the National Safety council suibiomats TWO BELOW AT LARAMIE LARAMIB, Wyo., temperature at Laramie ing was 2 degrees below At Green River, at midnight was 18 below, and at Rawlins at 4 a it was 10 below, Tho weather i clear here and the barometer rising. Jan, 9 this ‘The morn m | Millionaire Under Arrest As Swindler CHICAGO, operating a confidence game been made In warrants i Jan. 9.— Charges o have ued Thomas Carey, retired aire, once prominent in fe politics and one tim: date for mayor, now home in Los Ar Investments o cluding the Rev ivan, totalling funect motor be involved. $6,000, state_s ATON GAGE million: Demo: cand! zeles khe Fathe $100,000 ine were said tc orneys charged ANNE high schoo? announce Riverton Glenrock, will open the basket Saturday night with t school five. Riverton played at Dou las last night, will clash with Gle rock this evening and tomorrow w come to Casper the first inte: scholastic game of the season her instead last eyentr defeat the visitor those who have seen tho action, and a fast contest | pect PRINCIPALS IN le } | MADISON gagement of Francis: X. and Kited Wis., Jan Miss Lora Palmer Bernard, who» shot ifmséif in a gjris' h de tin Wednesday, ‘was revealed night tn letters seized by Minn., police from there, lowing another man to make love me as long one of the letters from Miss Palm to Bernard said. nard had written to Miss Palmer b had not mailed, Miss Palmer today sufficiently to warrant would recover EXECUTION OF TWO SLAYERS bellet MEETS DELAY BUTLER, Ga., Jan. 9.—Just befor the time tentatively set for the exe ons Gervis Bloodworth ar fe Jones here today, it was a: ed that the executions will n: place, A temporary restraintr r was issued to establish the pi v insured under the the iff of Ta: wit noun¢ 2 ord | ments madé by she 1e orde ald be y |World Court Adherenc_ to | WASHINGTON lution proposir States into the of Pres Jation Jan, 9 world court Coolidge’s recon shall not be bour opinion of th ou dered with pr when the question adhesion ie by the tions amittee. The resolution the sena Willis on basis mar that it other can taken up next We: nesday senate foreign rel was presented Inte yesterday by Sen: Republican Ohio nature of a substitute for fered by Senator Pennsylvania at that « Pepper, Republica: the last session The pricet’a loce was \Million-Dollar FVE COMING ll season here eo Casper high Casper will have to extend {tself to . in the opinion of WERE ENGAGED 9.—The en matory at the University of ‘Wiscon The prc last Hibbing, Bernard's room “There 1s no possibility of my al I am engaged to you,’ Tho police found many l¢tters Ber ad improved she arrang’ Be Qualified A reso entry of the United the J Amert in the 1] | FE. POPE OF SFATTLE GOES SION oTAND IN FORBES TRIAL Bribe Offer by Big Ship Combine is Declared Myth by Witness CHICAGO, Assoc ncis Wash., a President called as defense to son trial. Pope denied he hod ever been of: fered $1,000,000 t hip contractors as “a bribe to help influence tha erle of the ¢ ernment wooden ale He also he ever dent offered the sale Jan. 9 (By ed Pr »— ). Pope, of Spokane, sin of former Harding, was witness for the hes-Thomp- onspiracy v3 cou « mn: il e 8. a veter emphatically had talked with Harding at a bribe tn cor of the f a8 H. Mortir wit sly hag n tt fi Hl 000,000 the ed $1 licat w ch s 3 the war comprising sels Pope identif President dence t counsel mer d re a syt chase time ¥ approximately 260 od a Harding for Ch stor of the secution tion of tho presi court sustathed Ietter algnea to er or objected fent's letlee the intr and tion Pope said he knew Mortimer. THe was asked if Mortimer had reserve 4 his hotel acc Went to Washin Harding's inaug Easb tion a needed not answer Pope said ho had been Participate in a syndi by the pany te plus bi le Chairman the objec. to ‘or dations ton for when ha president Smith objected to the ques. the e¢ ruled the witness ut invited to ate sponsored ineering cx ° the fleet on a cos had appre of the shipping board, with a rather indefinite of- fer under which the yesels would be d'smantled for lumber Lasker stated the fleet then involved in a | could do months. hesapeake En saly wad sult and that he for or she LW nothing three CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—(By the Am sociated Press).—A. M. MacDonald, attle shipbuilder, testified in the veterans’ bureau conspiracy trial tc day that he had invited Pope, a cousin of former Harding, to participate in cate formed in 1921, to the government war-time fleet re Francis F President a syndl- purchase wooden nd n ot v3 ri ug th that Pope 000 for n 13 $1,000,- President cure ex- project to sell den fleet of Nicate in which vart contract were in- terested W. Thompson, ing contractor R. Forbes, f veterans defr 1 t veterans’ hc said by testific had been offered his influen in an eff »proval government ber © with wealthy on trial orme build. Charles of the racy to through “4 Mortimer t © been a party in the ship A. M. MacDonald, a the Patterson McDonal ing attle ton The for m. nd rt bureau, for cor a. syndicate urtner Ship Bu in a company in whict nancially inter witness called day. ushing n ‘the BOSTON, Jan, 9.—After 48 hou deliberation the jury trying Willia J. Corcoran, former district atte ney of Middlesex county, and thr others on charges of conspir: extort $50,000 from Victor A of Boston and Atlantic Cit today reported a disagreement in r to Corcoran and Wills Hartnett, another defend The jury found verdicts tullty in the cases of William spect of + J JURY HUNG IN BLACKMAIL CASE raj Kelly and Thomas F. I co-des m or fendants. Originally 11 eeled in the cas ot tola raid ent in wome persons which wore tndle out he Paul, v imitt ures for 2 blackmall band,