Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER Wyoming: Friday generally fair except snow flurries probable north east portion. Warmer northeast portion. VOL. [X. NO. 118 The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper Che Cazy Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation INDIANA DEMOCR: pr Hail MEMBER OF ASSQCIATED PRESS y Cribun CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, EERO ERY 26, 1925 n Streets or at Ne Delivered by Carrier ie ~ SENATE AND IGNORE “TEAPOT TRIAL POSTPONEMENT FOUGHT “: LT NATIONAL DEFE 72) GASts ON COURT DOCKET FOR NEW TERM ERT OF WEEK Liquor and Gambling Cases to Predominate Again in Cnminal Tnals Here. Civil cases totalling slight- ly more than 600 and crimi- nal cases totalling 125 are shown on the docket for the spring term of the eighth dis- trict court which goes into session next Tuesday in the court- house here. The criminal docket is compara- tively light as about half of the cases listed ‘will not come up for ac- tion. In some of them the defend ants have never been apprehended, in others witnesses cannot be ob- tained and others will yoluntarily plead guilty or be dismissed by the prosecution attorney for lack of evi- denee, ‘The majority of the cases deal with liquor and gambling cases. Those of greater magnitude include Beneito Codero and Manual Chaney for highway robbery; Ralph Le Mas- ters, grand larceny; Mrs. W. D. Volker, passing fraudulent checks; L, Lee, forgery, and several min- or cases of larceny. A test case may be made out of the refusal of Oddmund Josendal, prominent Natrona county sheep- man, to dip his sheep in conformity with the state law. Mr, Josendal and many of his associates In the business claim that the law constitutional. Wl ARRESTED FR GAMBLING W. H. Howard and Charles Guros were arrested yesterday on a bench warrant charged with proprietorship of a gambling house in Lavoye. A week ago the two men were handed over to Judge Henry Brén- nan in justice court, but the case against them was dismissed on the basis of insufficient evidence. Both’ are out-on “bonds, of $1,000 each, awaiting trial at the next term of district court.» * . HOUSE PASSES MARKET BILL WASHINGTON, F* By a vote of 284 to 95, the Dickinson co- operative marketing bill was passed today by the house, SCREEN STAR GETS SALARY OF $17.500 LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 26. —According /to the Los Angeles Examiner today, competition among motion picture producers for the services of Gloria Swan- son, screen star, has resulted in the signing of a new contract with Famous Players-Lasky, by which Miss Swanson will receive a week- ly salary of $17,500. The salary which the star will receive under the terms of her new contract is said to be the highest ever paid to a motion picture performer as a direct salary where no percentage is involved. The screen actress had been getting $7,500 a week under her old contract, the Examiner says, in relating incidents of the scramble among producers for her services, and rumors were heard from Paris that she was going to ask for $10,000. However, Famous Players sensed keen competition and offered her $15,000 but Warner Brothers came in with a bid of $17,500 and stuck to it, relates the Examiner, until Will Hays, prest- dent of the Motion Picture Pro- ducers and Distributors of Amer- ica, induced them to withdraw the bid and leave Lasky a clear field. LITTLE DAUGHTER NOT TOLD OF ILLNESS. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Gloria Swanson's four year old daughter Gloria and her adépted son, Joseph, two years old, who arrived from Paris on the steamship France yesterday, have not been told of their mother's Illness, it was learned today. The children, accompanied by a nurse and a governess, came in care of Rene Hubert, motion ple: ture scenic designer, in whose charge they were given by their mother. Miss Swanson and the Marquis de la Falaise, to whom’ she re- cently was married, were to have sailed on the France but their reservations, were cancel'ed when the actress fell ill. Osborne Wood To Sail For United States SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Feb. 26. —Osborne C. Wood, former Ameri- can army officer and son of Gov- ernor General Wood of the Philip- who came here after leaying France, early this week, Sebastian two days ago, intending to go to Madrid and Bar c it was understood. It is be lieved here that;he intends to sail from Barcelona for the United 5 It is reported that while here he recetyed a cablegram offer- ing him @ post with a cattle breed- ing establishment with headquarters in Buffalo. When the former army officer quit San Sebastian he left a letter for a friend saying he intended to meet all his obligations. Judge Kennedy to Announce Decision Tomorrow on Arguments Concluded in Cheyenne Federal Court CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 26.—That Harry F. Sinclair, who negotiated with Albert B. Fall, secretary of the in- terior, for the lease on the Teapot dome naval oil reserve granted the Mammoth Oil company, either “directly or in- directly” passed to Fall $280,500 worth of Liberty bonds, was charged by Atlee Pomerene, special oil counsel for the government, in presenting to Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the United States district court here this morn- ing a petition for continuance for sixty days of the trial of the govern- ment’s suit in equity for annulment of the Teapot Dome lease. The trial is set for March 9. Judge Kennedy at the end of three hours of argu ments by Pomerene and District At- torney Albert D. Wulton, for the government, and John W. Lacey and Martin W. Littleton for the Mammoth company, stated that he would announce a, decision on the petition tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The government's petition for a continuance was predicated on the argument that the testimony of H. S. Osler, at last report sick at Cairo, Egypt, is essential to estab- lishment of the government's con- tention that fraud and collusion be- tween Sinclair and Fall entered into the negotiation of the Teapot Dome lease and that the lease, therefore, shoulq be annulled and that it will be impossible to obtain Osler's evi dence before March 9. Several affi- davits in support of this contention were filed by Pomeféne, one niide by Pomerene and Owen D. Roberts, also special of! counsel for the gov- ernment, setting forth in detail allegations concerning how liberty bonds supposed to have been in the possesion of Sinclair later turned up in the possession of Fall's son-in- law and partner, M. T. Everhart of Pueblo, Colo., and were applied to the settlement of debts owed by Fall, Everhart and the Tres Ritos Land and Cattle company, in the own ship of which Fall and Eyerhart at the time were associated. CHE NE, Wyo., Feb. Government counsel presented to Judge T, Blake Kennedy an affi- davit made by Pomerene and Owen D. Roberts, the latter also special oil counsel for the government, setting forth that certain liberty bonds worth $140,500 which were in the (Continued on Page Seven) RICH GIRL” WILL WED | POOR MAN ERO SERVED FUGITIVES SUPPORTED IN WAS commit HINGTON, Feb. 26. sions recedtly announced by the special nayy board” which he snid represented the “mature judgment" Mrs. Under LOS ANGLES, Cal., arah A. Crowe of Cas rested here yesterday by federal offl- cers charged with using the mails to defraud in connection with pro motion of the United Home Builders’ association, of Casper, revealed it court ‘today that since coming to Los Angeles she had taken another husband and now 1s known as Mrs. J. O. Summers. Her removal hearing was postponed until Saturday by re- quest of the federai public defender, who is appearing for her. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 26 Mrs. Sarah A. Crowe, formerly of rowe Is Arrest rrested here yes. terd on a federal warrant ch ged with using the mails to defraud, in connection with the operation of the United Home| Builders’ association of Casper> ‘The | woman escaped from Casper befor? a warrant could be ed on herjearly last fall and had eluded the suthorities since that ume. William Barnes and his son, Arthur 8. Barnes, heads of the same company, have been tried and con- vieted at Chfyenne on a similar charge and are serving sentences of wo y 'S aztl sixteen months re- spectively. Navy: Judgment Submitted to House Committee | By Rear Admiral Jones; Bomb Effects On Battleships Discussed. ee resumed the aircraft investigation today, Admira}! Hilary P. Jones, head of the navy general board, 2 summoned for questioning on the recent report of the spe- cial nav:\] board on the relative values of surface shiy marines |and aircraft, read to the committee “the conclu- NSE UNITS AIRCRAFT PROBE (33 BORDER E FLOUTED they will will be Rhode Island System Used in Effort to Defeat Republican Legislation, Report. DAYTON tion of in their ing the —When the house aircraft] neighbors at 3 Rear| Seal Harbor, st 8 e 1 childhc years thelr Ohio, Feb, 26, —(By the As ated Press) —The blanket warrant for the arrest of Demoratic sen- ators of the Indiana general assembly who bolted the eislature terday and came here Tay 18 served on all but two members ler is 21 and h | Mr d ® Brown, mandated to take | nduate ¢ eta) Danks Was arreste¢ she was driving Mr. Milton's mobile. In this situation he came to her and defended her in court 8 was ni na “If we were assured there would} ™Omber of the bar be no trouble for the next few| _,/¢ champloned her so a years,” sald Admiral Jones, ‘we | “"e Sot 4 suspended ser would know better how to spend the | , *1!88 Rocke y allotted us, But as it is, it ave tile] personal opinion that all units va o that make up the ional defense peal should be ready for immediate duty.” | “Ve s the navy r ice?” Asked Democrat, New Yor “There are a g we would like replies of tion.” d what would be the effect )00 pound bomb dropped from an airplane on @ battleship the ad miral said that if st were armor plercing boma “the effect probably would be local’? with no serious damage to the ship's motive power or the personnel in inclosed ub- of the navy. that ¢ brother is a g % lege and of the state | lis, said the men | ity nate anhee, to acknowledge the EEO ullenged his aus | HGH SCHOOL DEBATERS = | UISH HERE TONG to his next plans, He de- | jare wh Columbia They c! many things the admiral constru submarine Ak ver the “runaways’? | ivens offered but told Mr, senators would not to Indiana, * ly read the warrant nator King and Batt whom he ason | had not’ served in the morn- winning seven out of eight | ing. The senators are expected to will meet the Wheatland | leave for Columbus at once. debaters, state champions, at apditorium tonight at Lite substitute 2 senator not an which this ye had a ‘o0l's debating team | to Si uccessful ae ar, high = APOLIS, Ind., Impri j ¢ shteen 1 for Cap- | members of the senate stopped legis- utive machinery in the upper house of the Indiana general assembly to- day, The Deme in a minority, but in sufficient strength to break a miral Jones testified that 1,400 pound non-explosive were dropped from an airplane on the battleship Washington one of which “struck fair’ on the ship's deck, the other missing. The (Continued on Page Seven) ment ital Should I Punishment and Heta Schopf, will uphold the ide of the argument. one rats, WARRANT IS ISSUED FOR SCULPTOR FULL EXPRESSION OF OPINION ON BEST SITE FOR PROPOSED COMMUNITY BUILDING SOUGHT Mass Meeting Scheduled Next Month to Take CASH BONUS TO BE PAID MARCH 1ST WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 70,000 tre Approx checks for senting the cash payments to be made immediately to war veterans under the compensa tion act will be mailed March 1 by the veterans’ bureau. ‘The aggregate value of the checks is about $2,250,000. Nearly 300,000 such payments will be made, officials imateiy $50 or less re said, going to veterans Who served only a short time, | their opinion. Up Question; Com Favoring Park mittee’s Reasons in Site Outlined. The que nity house is before Casper. during March when all will h is chairman, has looked the recommends a portion of the city park. of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday fayored the prope Governor Robert Carey has given his consent. The city council now has the matter under consideration, The committee's reasons for want- forum ing to use the park are given below. The Community House movement Wife of ‘Insane’ Officer Hurls Charge at Superior “Annapolis Combination” Responsible for Hounding of Victim, She Says; Scandal Hinted in Accusation SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 26.—The United States attorney here will represent the navy department next Monday when a writ of habeas corpus seeking the release of Lieut. Frank BE. Kennedy from the Napa hospital for the insane is argued before the superior court at Napa. : Lieutenant Kennedy was sent to the Napa hospital with- out a formal commitment after he had been suspended by Lieutenant R. W. Christie, commander of the Submarine 8-17, who filed charges of unofficer-IMke conduct against him at Manila, naval records show. Ken- nedy was not tried on the charges, hut sent to Napa from the Mare Island navy yard, Four physicians who examined Kennedy assert that he is sane; Dr. James WW, Brownlle of Vallejo says Kennedy “has been hounded by n doctors at the behest of somebod. who has an ax to grind.” Mrs. Autumn Margaret Kennedy, wife of Lieutenant Kennedy started the proceedings for her husband's re- lease. Mrs, Kennedy today described the plight of her husband as due to the enmity of the ‘Annapolis combi- nation.” ‘1 was recelved well enough,” Mrs, Kennedy said. “Although I earned my own living by playing the violin I came from the concert stage and wasn’t ‘too awfully bad.’ “What bothered me and finally came to be a deep hurt was the re- grettable incident with Lieutenant Christie, my husband's superior of- ficer, He asked me to go for an auto ride with him in Hong Kong and all the world knows what that means.” Lieut. Albert Pierce Burleigh, an Intelligence officer who shot \him self to death at Mare Island on Feb: ruary 15, was driven to euicide after he had tried to obtain a trial for his fellow officer who was sent to the insane hospital, according to Kennedy. “After hounding my husband as near to insanity as they could and failing to unseat the reason of a brave man, some avy officers have determined to sequester him in a mad house because they are part of an organized system which objects to any one who has not come through Annafolis and because they are scared of what he about Lieutenant Burleigh's cide." Mrs, Kennedy sald. Lieutenant Burleigh w from Bar 1 n wat t» his family the Atian ‘ when be ciimmitted suicide, He wa married, Mrs stion of the best location for The committe Casper’s commu- A mass meeting will be held ave an opportunity to express , of which P. ©. Nicolaysen city over carefully and now A Jarge meeting erns you, The| committee repre | sents you. It is to be your: building Do you want it? Would you put it n the city park? | If not, where? Think about it and write us your opinion, if you will. Wateh @or the ate of the mass meeting and at- tend 1. The cated accessible zens. conc city park, 1s centrally to: and would make th bullding for the majort of citi- 2. The building should be erected in this vicinity, within which there is no other vacant property of ample size, 3. The park was city for the good of|all the people, for thelr use and @njoyment. At present it is not used except for the brief period of summer concerts. With the building on it the Park ould be used daily the year ‘round | by young and old, 4. It given to the would be anpther big step | for 1 in the development of this section into a civic center which would reflect credit on Casper for all time. 5. This three-hundred foot square really not large @nough for a Park, While alf admit it Is a beautiful green spot in the heart of the city, it will be fiir more beau- tiful and useful with the building on it, and a large part of the greén will still be preserved for band con- cert 6. Ample land sultable for park with large open spaces 1 kinds of reereatjon, may be juired on the outskirts of the purposes, 7. The building on this accessible tlon will help us njake Casper the Convention City of the State, quorum, fled yesterday in an ate tempt to block tion on the Gerry mander bill and today @ixteen were reported to be within the hospitable borders of Ohio, from which state extradtilon is improbable. Two of the minority senators were unable to leave Indiana because of illness, Repub! in senators met as usual at 10 a, m. but devoted their ns which might be employed to return the fugitives. In- dictment under Ww providing $1,000 fine for a leg ts himself was sugg mittedly was not a solution to the problem of getting the minority members back to their seats. Thus far Republicans have de. clined to talk of a compromise on | Gerrymander bill which the | Democrats insist would give their | opr nents a strong ad congressman 1a district, Designs and Models ‘Are Destroyed by|* Gutzon Borglum on Dismissal from Work on Confederate Memorial ussion to me |, but ad- y were of the Stone ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—Armed deputies tod: guarding Stone Mountain and the property Mountain Confederate Monumental association after the | developments of yesterday when Gutzon Borglum was dis- | missed from his post as sculptor of the memorial. | Deputy sheriffs armed with warrants charging Borglum | J + Tucker, que 1a ing he had auth operatic 1s tat 1d from now classed © of the superintendent | was untain, with | orize ir and mode to t | en Pe £ SHE Under the contract with Bo attorneys for the association said the models and designs for the w were the property of th x They however, it was can be replaced by the s P Be lected to continue the construction from phot in the archives of th An injunctior trance of Borglum agents to the premi The models were day within a few lum had been dismissed by t tors of the association. Th destruction was carried out, it was charged, at the or Borglum last night de action of the as: n sing him was “a blow not ly against me, but It was struck at me northern man,” He char had been unfairly treatec serted his record for years would show that 4 committed. Sam W. Venable. ot mountain and a member of the utive comm of the a n | attended yesterday's meetin left before the vote for Borg dismissal was taken to accomp the sculptor and Tucker to the m tain to view the work. Though quoted last nig’ ing the memorial could pleted within the limit and that he further space on the mountain fc carving as long the pi ministration yremains in control o the assoclatign, Mr. Venable toda nction upon tate m special ses- said = Ponzi Is Held Guilty, Faces Prison Term Goutal Financier Who Bilked Investors Out of Millions Given Until Fri- day to File Motion b superior ¢ former lum eS | | the f or bars Tucke ‘glum lared in dl parti owner the 26 \ ket 26.—/ BOSTON, F verdic Suffolk county Charles Ponz ilty by Wwe a s returned in urt tod jury trying international postal return coupon financier, on charges of rceny from clients. Judge Sisk increased Ponzi's bail from ,000 to $10,000 and gave him until tomorrow to file a motion for ast of judgment. The jury found Pc : owed that the former of had taken In mil un ht as sa 14 count th of time | would not cede guilty In 1920 to sand was rt to a term rearrest-