Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 2

PAGE TWO 48 INDICTED _ FOR BRIBERY Names of Police Department Members it at Cincinnati Turned Over to Chief This Morning CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 20.—A list of 48 names of members of the police department indicted by the United States special grand jury that investigated bribery charges was placed in the hands of Chief of Police William Cope- lan by United States Marshal Stanley Borthwick toda he list included all detectives of the night chief’s force « Eug Weath-; to th charges tn the indictment f indictments contain four conspiracy to possess liquor / A y to transport; conspiracy conspiracy to maintain ot . body could ever find fault with.” m: Under those circumstances Dr. 5 Bain said Fall told him, there was that an adverse opinion up and that if the at- torney ge signed it, he would © stopped from going ahead with © lease negotiations. the deposition of a generous W. Ambrose, technologist of the bureau of mines, - NAVY RECORDS n. Unless unforseen delay the defense will be through <7 o'clock today. Rebutttal of e J purchasing com ernment will require not as £ from n hour, according to when that is finished |the case will be at the stage for] LEGAL OPPOSITION f'talen airumiate WAS SIDETRACKED. Store HEYENNE ~!| PREPAREDNESS NEEDS Press).—Fear! SHOWN RY DEFENSE ‘ t ts : BY FRED R. MARVIN 1 era erse fon on! CHEYE Wyo., March 20,— eo of the Teapot Dome! rhe one thing t prompted Ad nse lations and block execu-| miral John K. Robinson and Secre : f plans caused Albert B.| tary Denby to lease Teapot Dome 10 Fall, forme of the inter! was national preparednegs. This 2F fof, to withhold papers | regardin€| has become more pronounced as the the transaction from the offices of} government through a devious cross- rig) > thavattarney “general 0 He examination occupied the attention Bain, head of the bureau of }of the court today in the sult u said in his deposition read brought to annul the Teapot leases Teapot trial here today. _ to the Mommoth Oil Co. Ww Dr. pain ‘Aeposed that Fall eaid The witness—the evidence is by here are two types of lawyers:| deposition — seemed unconderned one is the lawyer who tries to find! with technical questions, with minor A do things; the other !s the) getatis, with the numerous letters a who tries to find objections. | trom senators and congressmen aak- t Is a matter of knowledge and ex-! ing for information which he re. perience that the governnient was! garded as prying into naval secrets Tec ries ene) ae be Of tW")'Tn thie whole transaction—this and 4€ vers | the contract with the Pan-American Dr. Bain further declared Wall) petroleum Co. for leases on Callfor- said that general amount Of | nia__he could visualize but one thing grief that comes to anyone when he| national preparedness. In thé ex masthing the 60%"! change of crude oll royalties for fuel practically | oi) {n storage the navy had discov in the government | req a way they could secure fuel S the most maln-| oil at strategic seaboard points for odjection® £9) emergency use. That was what 8 bed they wanted. That {s what they got further quoted Fall as| why, then, in their minds all this as substantially | naive hat the attorney general! " white has not been brought out ims fender the opinions! in the testimony and probably can pic nm ea ase 8 | not be so brought out, the motive ss he Lp llhe me lying back of the senate investiga 4 afi eid Agora tion was not, as the people have ore a law clerk, some one not at alll teen ‘torced to belleve, an honest interested in getting , tng done. | desire on the part of the senators never writing n opinion that any involved: ta) prevent: the carrying out of these contracts because found ed on fraud and conspiracy, but rather the Inspiration came from the | “soclalist-pacifist'’ group prominent in the last election through backing ) the candidacy of Robert M. LaFol- | lette. They understood the purposes | and destres of the navy. They pro | Posed to check-mate these destres They lured certain Democrats into the game by dangling before their eyes “political advantage,” The long and tiresome deposition of Admiral Robinson was not being listened to with any degree of in terest. The court room was not filled with spectators, But a ew newspaper men were around the press table. The sensatione] fea tures promised in this trial are ab. sent. The failure of the government to make out a case of conspiracy fraud has relegated the whole let er buck] Candy energy! You need | lic, to the grave yard where other “political expediency” an it—whether you're riding forgotter neHAY cts ad uns,” or putting in Admiral Robinson on cross-exam : iia ination, stated he had been intro eight hours at a desk | duced to Harry Sinclair by Secretary ‘ : nn r Fall; that he told Sinclair the de That's hy you'll find it at's why you'll fine sires of the navy—that is, the build y good plan to buy ng of a pipe line to connect the ee einen with the Atlan nd the erection aa pe ee f storage tanks at atrategical points ‘ : : Le filled w oll for the use of extra one alway - he na the pipeline to remain ey of the‘contractor and onstru from his funds, the anks to become the property of the United States and to be constructed from naval royalties As this work had to be prosecuted with diligence both to prevent drain- age which the navy had become cer. tain was serious and to gain the navy's desires, he felt, as did the naval war board, that the develop You Know It's Good ¥ ment of Teapot Dome should go | Bocuse We ade By to one company with sufficient ¢ The Home of Real nanetal responsibility to carry out andy the contract and without delay, The ess in reply to questions sald proposition of this develop: been put up to the Pan the Texas and be believed company in addition EVERY BITES A DELIGHT | ad an. Gault Amer! the to t that the best 5 ee, [Hs oposal the entire The wit view of reon rather {t could © felt would profit the rayolties ¢ Sinclair lease did ment to profit by © Midwest a was not Vegetable Soup manana. net Baked Turkey with Dressing Irish Stew with Vegetables Pickled Calves Tongue with Potato Salac Apple and Celery Salad | Jello Pudding Tea, Coffee or Milk EYES ma c Kettle |, eee eto | Urholasoma cium Retreshin, developed and | | Witness said, was because since this Was the company that was drilling the lands draining Teapot dome. it | Che Casper Da Wax not considered good policy for | the navy to make a contract fr MERIT BADGES drilling Teapot with this company. | The gr jent made etwoen the | | navy, and interior departmeats not | | to give out any news until all con | tracts connected with the leasing of es and the contracts in ee | resery | cident thereto for tankage, had been | completed, was made in October, : 1921, when this matter was first | considered by the navy, according to the witness. This accounts for es | the so-called “secrecy” surrounding the leases to the Doheny interests | Court of Honor Holds }in California and the terests in Wyoming. Late in the afternoon the defense took up the deposition of Dr. H Foster Bain, director of the bureau who appears as one who ch to do In an advisory way the making of the lease on Tea dome which the government Dr. Bain tes. tified that in the fall of 1921 in | company with A. W. Ambrose, head |of the petroleum division, he made a trip to Denver and into the Wyo. ming fields; that in Denver he met a number of well known geologists and by them was shown maps which Indicated an error had been made in the original map under which Tea- Sinclair in Monthly Session This Week Merit certificates, pins and bad weree awarded to qualified Boy Scouts at the monthly session of the court of honor of Casper Coun- cil, Boy Scouts of America, on Wed nesday evening Chief Judge W. 8, Kimban, with Associate Judges H. B. Dur- ham and B, H. Pester represented the court of honor, while Deputy Commissioner Edwin M. Bean dis charged the duties/of secretary for pot now seeks to cancel. 6r., pot was withdrawn, and wt in-| the court, as well as grand marshal dicated a serious drainage of this|of the meeting naval reserve; that upon his re-| Through the courtesy of the Na- |turn to Washington he attended a|trona Power company its well light | conference in the secretary's office |ed and commodious assembly room served as the meeting place for the court and the attending scouts. A number of the local troops were represented by their members duly qualified and properly certified to receive the desired badge of a first cldass scout Two other scouts were awarded service pins for tea hours and 25 hours, respectively, given for purely community — ser vice. A number of other scouts re celved thelr certificates showing profictency in various scout activi tiles ke carpentry, perso: and public hygiene, bicycling, ete Former Governor B. B. Brooks was present, at the invitation of presiding Judge Kimball, and told the scouts present in simple and pleasing manner of the healthful, neat and altogether splendid appear- at which he (Ambrose), Assistant Secretary Finney and a re nta- tive of the navy, after found to be Admiral Robinson, were present. At this conference he and Ambrose pointed out the loss the navy was Mable to suffer from drainage, at the same time showing that in the development of Teapot dome {t should not be done by strip leasing but that the whole area should be leased to ons responsible party Some months later, the witness said, he waa called into another con | ference on the same subject with about the same persons present- The conference of the fall before | was continued {nt view of additional information. At this conference both he and Ambrose adyised some steps be taken to protect the reserve through the development of the|ance of the Boy Scouts of Amer- same. The witness had, in the] ica troops of the American territory meantime, made a personal invest!-| of Hawail. Governor and Mrs gation of the naval reserves {n Cal-| Brooks have only recently return- ed from a trip to those islands in the Pacific, and his report on boy scout activities there was of great Interest to all who were fortunate enough to be at the meeting. President R. 8 cal council of Boy present, and was called upon for a few remarks, following Governor Brooks. Mr. Ellison called atten- tion particularly to the necessity of the scouts in each troop making par- Hcular effort, at this time, to keep up the full strength and high stan- dard of their respective troops in order that the boy scout movement in Casper would be in splendid shape one of these days when a new Scout executive {is made available for Casper council Chief Judge Kimball and the as. sociate judges particularly express ed the hope that the parents and |friends of scouts, as well as all scouts who can conveniently do so would attend the meetings of the ourt of Honor which are held at 8’ p. m. on the third Wednesday of each month in the assembly hall at the Natrona Power company on South Center street. Not only will it be a stimulus to the court and to those scouts appearing for their earned merit awards, but it should prove interesting and instructive to other scouts, their parents and friends of the movement. TWO GAPTURED -INLAVOYE RAID ffornia and found that one was about depleted and the other suffer- ing materially from drainage; that he had worked out a form of cow tract to be made with some respon- sible of! company to develop the re- serve to protect the same from drainage, and that he and Ambrose were asked to suggest a form of lease for Teapot dome. The witness testified that he had been frequently consulted in the matter of the lease with Harry Sinclair, and that he felt the lease as finally drawn was advantageous to the government in eve way since {t provided against loss from drainage; contained good royalties provided a pipe line to take ofl out of the field into the market; gave the navy fuel where it needed that fuel; and gave the navy an opportunity acquire emergency tankage at strategic points. The witnesses said he had a most active part in the making of the lease which was finally executed with the Mammoth Tho defense expects to close its testimony today. There will be no court Saturday, Arguments, it 1s expected, can be concluded by Tues- day night. CASUALTIES BY TOWNS REVISED (Continued From Page One) to 74! Make your skin a business asset — Get rid of those blotches and black heads! That skin trouble may be more than a source of suffering and em- barrassment—it may be holding you out of a better job for which a good appearance is required. Why ‘take a chance’’ when Resinol Ointment heals skin eruptions so easily. SPOUT RALLY TOCGLOSE WEEK | A. girl scout rally for every girl {n Casper who ts Interested in Girl | scout work will be held tomorrow] Resinel Soap and Resinol Shaving Stick con- afternoon at 3 o'clock in the audi. | tt, the same soothing properties and are used torlum of the high school. Miss Alice | bY discriminating men who like their gene | te 1 «| a ‘© | ous, cleansing lather and wholesome Resinol Sandiford, regional director, will ad fragrance. At all druggists, dre " rls on the ol nd | - ization and Mrs. Christine Reynolds | jlocal director, will preside at the} ESINOL | meetin, Forty badges will be given | |by Miss Sandiford to Casper Giri] | Scouts Tomorrow morning Miss Sandiford will lead the local Girl Scout cap tains and leutenants in a hike, To morrow will be the last day the Miss Sandiford will spend in per. She has been accorded a rous ing welcome during her entire stay this week Sonnac SHOESFOR THE | The 2 for 1 Store, 12-guage Rem: ington smokeless shotgun shells, $1.15 the box. | Indianapolis ts to entertain this year's convention of the American | | Ase jation of Untversity Women. | Mor results try a) Tribune Class fied Ad. Princeton - - 21 200 Owensville Se 18. ees Poneyville ~ “5° go]. Joe Robinson and Frank Rhine- Elizabeth — 3 20 | hart, arrested in a raid yesterday at tatein oe 83 615 | Lavoye, are accused by the federal officers and sheriff's office of being Gallatin . 27 50 | One of the town’s main liquor whole Shelbyville ‘ sale agencies. At the time of the raid Wasreansie 2 | 8lx gallons of lquor and several aeeaetiin o 1 —Jempty barrels, said to have been Kirkland 1 used for liquor storage, were taken. Totals ..- 34-50 |. Alex McPherson, sheriff, Neal Pat. terson, deputy and Hugh Curry, fed Biehle __-- 50 | eral officer, made the ratd. Aannapolis _ » 450| Tom Fish, fined by Juatice-of.the- Altenburg 1 19 | Peace George A. Blake at Midwest Totals 10 80 Beaumont =fiuk tad i Holland seid 0 Lakeland ek ee “ v) | Spr Y)/ | abesagepor <2 allel i! otals 131 id YY | GRAND TOTALS 2.861 of f AT CLEAN SWEEP PRICES SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! COTTMAN-TURNER BUILDING SHCE STORE 120 W. Second-——Next Door to Chase Cafe ilp Cribune for the porsession of 20 gallons of liquor, was unable to produce the | necessary cash and fs a guest cf the county in lieu of the fine CHALLENGE 1S HURLED AT PROHIBITION FOES 70 DEBATE QUESTION Open challenge to debate with any- Jone of the many people who claim that prohibition is a faflure was is- sued today by the Rev. Willis Hugh Germany, pastor of the East Side Methodist Community church, who would set the date for such a clash early in April “So much is being said about the failure of prohibition,” said the Rev. Germany today. “The public mind needs to be clarified on this import- ant issue. We need to see this thing in the large, and view it with some perspective. Our minds are clouded | local infringements. If some of our women want to go out to dinner parties and make a fool of themselves by getting hog drunk, don't blame the law. We people do not have the respect for law that We want to throw all restraint, have no law ex- pt our own unbridled appetite. » help clear the atmosphere I hereby issue a challenge to anybody we should have. oft to debate the question some Sun- day evening in the chapel of the |East Side church, preferably after Easter, April 12 . Or, if some other place is desired, I'll be right there and deliver the goods. fy address is 1614 East Second street, phone 1828-W. LIONS QUARTET TO APPEAR IN MUSICAL HERE Christian Church to be Scene of Entertain- ment Monday. Casper music lovers will be given a treat Monday evening when a mu- sical program under the auspices of the Lions’ club quartet will be given at the First Christian church, Grant and Lind streets. The Lions’ quartet is made up of Baxter Rarie, D. y. McClellan, Frank B. Firmin and John G. Jones. The program will include solos, duets, trios and qaurtet numbers. Thére will be no admission but ao silver offering will be taken The same quartet, which has won high praise in several informal ap- pearances here and ranks among the best ever organized in Casper, will sing on Thursday evening of next week at the annual meeting of the chamber of commerce. ILIOUSNESS sick beadaoche, sour stomach. constipation, easily avoided. An active liver without calomel. CHAMBERLAIN'S TABLETS » Never sicken ov gripe—anly 254 When You Feel s Colé Coming On Take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets to work off the cause and to fortify the system against an at- tack of Grip or Influenza. A Safe and Proven Remedy. The box bears signature of BE. W. Grove. 20¢.— Ady Regular as clockwork Faulty eliminatien is the cause of most éick- ness. To be as clockwork, each day somewayenjoyROMAN anced food WAN FINED FOR AUTO ACCIDENT TAKES APPEAL Blame Fixed by Police Judge Thursday on R. E. Wallace Followng cross examinations of witnesses by attorneys for both sides, Judge Murray in police court yesterday afternoon fixed the re- sponsibility for the auto accident at the corner of Lincoln and Seventh streets upon R. BH. Wallace, 1235 South David street, and absolved B. J. Mullenix of blame. Judge Murray fined Wallace the sum of $100, the highest fine asseas- ed in police court in the case of an auto accident for over a year, Wal- lace filed notice of appeal! and put up a $500 appeal bond. In the collision between the Mul lenix auto and the one driven by Wallace, four oceupants of the Mul lentx machine were injured and the car in which they were riding thrown up against a telephone pole and wrecked, according to the testi- mony of witnesses. The four injured perrons test against Wallace. They were FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925 Mrs. Mullentx and their son Rex, who it ly said, had two ribs broken, and Mise Eveline Davis. Motorcycle Officer Zook who investigated the accident, also took the stand The dccupants of the Mullonix ma chane alleged that Wallace was ex ceeding the speed mit when his auto struck their rear fender, caus: | Ing the Mullenix car to be thrown to | the curb against the telephone pole. Jim Wright, charged with being drunk, was fined $15 which he did not pay and was sent jail. Babe Hammond and Frank Purcell both paid $25 fines which had been as- seased a them a few days ago. phasic a i SHOES GO ON BARGAIN SALE Shoese, shoes and more shoes The Turner-Cottman Building shoe store is putting on a clean sweep sale with the entire stock priced for quick disposal at prices which the store believes will startle the pub- le. In the lot are every kind of shoes imaginable from slippers, through oxfords, sport shoes, sandals, work shoes and army lasts {n numerous colors and designs. ‘The shoes are handily arranged: on tables with the prices plainly mark: ed, making shopping there a plea- sure. Ladies, men and children will all find handsome bargains tn this sale and may well take advantage of the opportunity to stock up on foot ap- —$<$—$$<—$—_——_ WILD SESSION 8 OPENED IN - GRAIN MARKET Early Declines Wipec Out in Trading at Chicago CHICAGO, March 20.—With a sensational break in prices at Liv- erpool reported and with advices that a big grain firm in Antwerp was in financial difficulties, the wheat market here had a wild start today at an immediate setback of more than 5 cents a bushel. May wheat opened at 158% to 160, as against 16314 to 164, yesterday's closing figures, Fluctuations after the opening in the wheat market were at a rapid rate, but rallies soon became the | rule, and extreme downturns of 54 cents during the {nit(il trazsactions proved to be the limit for at least the time being. So eager wi the selling that many brokers beat the opening bell by half a minute. Bevere upsets in the price of other grain were also witnessed. Rye values were smashed down 7 cents a bushel and corn nearly 5 OES your coffee taste like it always did? Have you noticed a change?... quality of Schilling Coffee has not changed -- the traditional blend stands-- untouched. COFFEE INSURANCE 4 * Watch Your Coffees over my counter — instantly, gladly, If at any time you do not consider and without question. Schilling Coffee the best coffee to be found, I will return your money You keep the coffee. ---Your Grocer \ There is but one Schilling Quality - - and it is sealed in vacuum tins only. __ E. R. Williams Stores BREAD 7¢ PER LOAF WHOLE FAMILY ANNOUNCING OPENING OF THE “Weaver Rubber & Valcanizing Co. 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