Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER Rain probable in north night and Thur: Colder Thur day and in north portion tonigh VOL. IX. NO. 141 ILLEGALITY AND FRAU IN TEAPOT CASE GIVEN SCORING portion, partly overcast in south portion to- Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation he Casp MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1925 On Streeta or at Ne 5 Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a month The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper 4 Cribinte stands. 6 cents Publication Offices: Tribune Bidg., 216 B Second St. CHARGES 4° 3 i} Martin W. Littleton| WIDE VARIANGE VISION OF BRIGHT FUTURE UNFOLDED “Monn DELEGATES OF MANY CISTRIGTS | WYOMING SIT IN LAST NIGHT ON OPTIAMSTIC MEETING HERE Former Governor Carey Points to Co-operative Marketing for Farm Problems; Speakers From Several Towns Are Heard. By CARL F. BLAKER The story of Wyoming, natural assets and its vast fu tention of an audience of 40 its development to date, its ture possibilities, held the at- 0 men and women of Casper and all parts of the state from 6:30 o’clock until near mid- night at the annual banquet of the Casper Chamber of Com- merce last nistht in the Hotel Representatives from five other states—Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado and South Dakota were also present. ‘There were 92 vist- tors from other towns of Wyoming and atter listening to addresses de- weriptive of the advantages of the state and of Casper, speakers from each of the out of town celeg ons were given opportunity to deseribe of thelr the needs and the assets particular localitic it, developed. us the meeting progressed that Co-operation Was te keynote of the evening—co-operation not only in the mark ; ming products but a the state and its adve world. Many of the spe ed out that there Is < ounding ignorance regarding this etate in all other sections of the union. Erro- neous impressions ding Wyo- ming’s climate, the fertility of its soils and its possibilities for main: taining a jurge future population, may be corrected only by! the co- operation of every town and every citizen of the state, the speakers said. Proper publicity working through a state-wide spirit of progress will bring farmers to the thousands of unoccupied farms in the state, it will develop irrigation projects, mineral resour and establish industrial plants, it was said. Robert D. Carey of Careyhurst, former governor of the state, de scribed the work of President Cool- fdge’s agricultural committee, of which he is chairman, The com mittee was appointed for the pur- pose of surveying the, causes of financial distress of farmers through: out the nation and for making recommendations for means of re- Nef. Politics and jealousies in the de- partment of agriculture were found by the commission to constitute perhaps the greatest of obstac hampering what relief might be po #ible from this department, the ex-governor sald. “I feel that it wv impossible to do t in hington departinent of a ure 8¢ to fear removal fron ¢ gant zation and new methods are Intro: ed into th Carey “New 1 a new system is needed there. For in stance, the marketing department is comprised of sclers:sts ‘when it should be made up of practical bust ness men. “After of the senate « I am sure that from that source. body seem to have no plans or ideas for bringing about the needed re lief. The not acquainted with thea facts. Until ali the conflicting (Continued on Page Ten, conferring with members ricultural committe no help will come Senators of that Henning. TWO ARRESTED, STILL SEIZED AY THE POLICE Raid on North Jeffer- son This Afternoon Brings Haul. Frank Trumbaugh and R. R. Kennard were arrested and charged ith violation of the drug ordinance afternoon when a raiding party including five police officers raided a house at 707 North Jefferson strect and sefzed 20 gallons of whiskey, 500 gallons of mash, a 50-gallon late model copper still and other equipment for operating a still. Trumbaugh and Kennard were said to be busily engaged in the manufacture of the intoxicants when the officers raided the house, Trum- baugh is said to have admitted ownership of the still, according to police. The raiding party included Lieu- ts Ideen and Plummer, Ser- geant McDowell, and Officers Hager- man and Muck. ‘The raid was planned carefully in advance and the front and rear doors of the house were rushed simultaneously by the police officers who ‘broke through and arrested the two alleged violators before either Trumbaugh or Kennard could destroy the evi dence. \ | ‘This fs one of the biggest made by poll al day it tool transport all |the evi from the house to | police headquarter taal ooo NS Seven Dead In Tanker Blast | BERLIN, March A dispatch from Hamburg reports seven per- sons dead, two missing and three seriously injured as the result of an explosion on the ofl lighter Saturn following » fire, The force of the explosion flung wreckage from the harbor into the city streets. Marriage Of Arbuckle To Meet Delay LOS ANGELES, March 25.—Ros- coe Arbuckle and his bride to be, Miss Doris Deane, may make-an- other start toward the marriage altar about April 8, but they are not tempting fate by announcing that date as definite. The portly former film come- dian yester thought he had everything arranged for a wedding at Miss Deane’s suburban home In San Marino last night, but before his friends could get their rice and old shoes togethe~ ha announc- ed that his attorney had advised him that the Parisian divorce of his first wife, Minta Durfee, would not become effective until April 8, so it has been decided to watt. The day previously. Arbuckle had found it easy to obtain a mar- riage Hcense, but ran into one snag after another in. his search for some one to officiate at the wedding. Superior Judge Hugh J. Crawford finally agreed: to tle the knot, and the prospective bridegroom cheerily broadcast his belief that “all is set.” Then the regulations of the French law un- der which the first Mrs. Arbuckle obtained her decree in Paris reach- ed across. an ocean and a continent and put @ muffler on the wedding bells, ZIMMERS CASE CONTINUED IN CASPER COURT With T. C. Ferguson, the prose- cuting witness, alieged to have sign- ed two affidavits of conflicting con- tent in the principal features, the care cf the state versus Fred W. Zimmers, president of the Western Realty and Lots Sales company, and Byrd Swindler, secretary of the same concern was continued until April 4 today in district court by Judge Bryant S. Cromer. Continu- ance was granted on motion of the defendants who plead for more time in which to prepare their cases. Zimmers and Swindler are jointly charged with forgery. After complaint against the real estate company had been made by W. H. Gerhart, who believed he had sold a lot to Ferguson in a deal swung by the company, Ferguson made an atfidavit to the effect that he had never entered into an agree- men with the companw to purchare for him lot No, 446 of Kenwood ad- dition and that he had never author- ized such a transaction. After the information was filed Zimmers and Swindler were arrest- ed on' order of Prosecuting Attorney George Weedell and were later re leased on bonds of 2,500 each The second supposedly prepared and Ferguson within the last 6, and filed in the district court gets forth that Ferguson had authoriged the real estate company to rign his name to any instrument whatsoever, This authorization was given orally in the presence of several witnesses, one affidavit says. The document also dec that the first affidayit in which Ferguson swears that he did not authorize purchase of the Gerhart lot for him, was signed by him under duress by rious par- ues whose true names he~does not know.” For the past two or three Zimmers and Swindler have years had (Continued on Page Two) CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ACHEVEMENTS SECRETARY STAFFORD REPORT March 24, 1925. I submit herewith a report of the activities of the Cusper Chamber of Commerce from March 31, 1924, to date. This report will later be car- ried forward to March 31 and will then be printed. The board of directors of the Casper Chamber of Commerce is composed of the following: R. S. El- lison, president; B, P. Bacon, first viee president; B. B. Brooks, second vice president; Carl I.’ Shumaker, treasurer; M. A, Becklinger, Earle G. Burwell, R. C. Cather, H. B, Dur- ham, Lew M. Gay, J. W. Johnson, W. S. Kimball L. A, Reed, T. C. Tonkin an! W. F. Wilkerson, There LAST CALL ISSUED FOR MASS MEETING HERE THIS EVENING TOTALK COMMUNITY BUILDING Tonight at the Elks auditorium a mass meeting called to,sound out opinion on the best location for the proposed Community. building -will hold*sway. 1 t Spokesmen for numer posed during recent weeks as alternatives to the building committee’s recommendation for the use of the Center views is expected. street city park site are said to be primed for discussion of the issue and the discussion is expected to pave the way for concerted action. In addition to proposals involving the purchase of business and resi- dential property at costs ranging from $100,000 to $200,000, sugges. tion recently has been offered that Elghth street between Center and David be closed andy the building placed between the Park school and the city hall. Attention is called to the fact that a new city county building will be necessary before many years and the lower part of the block on which thg city hall ts located may be ured for that pur- IVEN IN FU We have followed our freight ra meett bald was e attendance the Interstate c sion in February, 19 represented in the ors nerc | | | 4 ht and Transportation Co-operated with the state public We General Freight Se of St. Louis, Mo., Wyoming was rey Claude Draper of the V le-service commission. ner's reply to’the or counsel for the pleted and state commerce commission on F ruary 20, and-we are momentar! expecting to receive the sion’s dectsion. the $3.89 $500.00 cision orable as the examiner's will result in the saving thousands of dollars annu people of Casper. that will be afforded to deve wholesale and jebbing business was initiated by the interstate com- merce commission and the recom- mendations of the commission were contested at several points in the United States. It {s estimated that this reduction wil mean a direct sper Chamber of to date and s soon as we get repc Ful ‘pression of projécts pro- here that will make bureau for collected a tota auditing of $3,351 has reiterated its policy of maintain- ing an open mind on the question of a site, hence the hearing tonight. Suggestions involving the purch of a site, however, without means of financing have been discarded by a majority of the interested public. Tonight's meeting will be presid- ed over by P. C. ysen, chal man of the committee, and will be- gin promptly at 8 o'clock to check overc simply good business. in will Casper take ing of freight bills. Secured the appointment of W. (Continued on Page Five) closely ever since it was heard | commis- were | ument on service commission in connection | ¢nis case beld’in Washington - in with securing: reduction of express | November, 1924, by our counsel, the rates in this territory. ‘This case ation lee association nd the state of esented there by ‘yoming pub- The exami- argument of carriers was com- presented to the Inte b- commis- This case has cost Commerce we will owe the de- If we get’a decision as fav- The opportunities »p the and the businesses that can be centered Casper the sup ply center of tha istate, are equally as {mportant as the actual reductic Our freigh pose, In the meantime the new Casper firms, during the community building would, tend to} past ar on overcharged freight camouflage the city hall architec-| bills, out of which these 62 firms ture, or at least hide its monstrosi-| paid a collection fee of $983.73, one- tles from one angle. third of this amount of $327.91, being The committee working {n con-| returned to the local. chamber to Junction with A. J. Parkin, rep-| cover local expenses. It should be resentative of Community service, | said that the existence of a bureau arges 18 not a critl- cism of railroad management, it 1s It is hoped that every business Institution and ad- ge of this bureau for the audit- Wilkerson, a member of our traffic committee, on the advisory commit- fense of Lease RECITED sinceriry of OIL QUESTION U.S. ASSAILED IS OUTLINED Executive Order for | | | No Evidence to Up- have been 27 meetings of the board [saving to Casper interests of ap-| 7 of airectors during the past year. | proximately. 428,000 per year ve| OLA Charges, Is | | eas r The time given by the directors at | Indirect would increase | Fi | easing Was Based hese meetings will average not less | figure n than 40 per cent. | r | that on one-halé hours per inal Claim On Denby’s Request, | Defense Declares. CHEYENNE, March 25.— Branding the government's suit to annul the lease given the Mammoth Oil company and Harry F. Sinclair on the Teapot naval oil reser | CHEYENNE, March 2 (By The Associated Press.) —Declaring in effect that the machinery of the govern- e as insincere," Martin W. Littleton, of| ment had been proved by insel for the defense tn the of!|evide i 2 Tex r closing argument today that not a| divided ag: 1 on the nay ul shred of evidence had been intro-| oll questic George P. Hooy r of duced in the trial proving Megality| defense counsel criticized the legis- or fraud. lative and. administrative branches Mr. Littleton's argument was the|f government for incon last legal salvo on the defense side Federal Judge T of the case. He declared congress here today in 1920, under the administration of| In making President Wiison had opened govern- behalf of Har ment land surrounding Teapot Dome Mammoth Oil for drilling b: ing the act of| company, } sald in y | February 25. a result, he satd,| “It s in mind that |it became imperative that leetsia-| W! t 1 { ond tion be adopted to save the oil in| in many i reerni its po tho naval reserve and ithe act of| litical powers, yet when the gover June 4,1 under which Teapot} ment comes into a court o equit ex-| and asks that its t tual obligations be rescir stands upon: an equal footing |the humblest citizen of the Dome was made nvafiable tor ploitation “Was the result, Mr, Dittleton’ said’ in’ part: “When congress, bs act of Febru: r 1920, mado it inevitable that| WN, may seek the ald ofy t! all the lands around Teapot Dome| would be leased to different per-| mee song under different leasea which| /" et ed the exec compelled them to drill and to take out oll, ft became, imperative that] pansering the naval oll reserves congress shbuld enact -a law under | {72™ the navy department to the in which the oil in Teapot Dome could] 0F department, not at tho wre be taken out and saved—hence con-| (est of the then secretary he ss passed the act of June 4, 1920,| interior, Albert B. Wall, but rather “Without detining# the scope of te the Feduest’ of Edwin Denby, the act in legal phraseology, it is| ‘Men * Of the! nav) perfectly sound to say that ft direct-| He declared the evidence showed ed the secretary of the navy to inke Rall had no part whatever out and safely keep all of! there| the procurement of the executive found, and to do so before it could He) further’ aruged ‘that’ no be taken out under the ice Mad s been introduced :prove ases which that the ing order was not le fairly plastered the adjacent lands. Cha eee by tt gal. “When the administration of not tk iy oe ah APS Fa bi ihe jome case that none other (Continued on Page Two) Wacky Fro. Binclnle eaeealicwe. TTOLEN AUTO Rt MOTOMETER AND THE BATTERY ° T Maxwell touring car ed stolen Monday by A was returned to*the police who found the @ “See Ben” gravel pit on skirts of town north of the Burling. ton railroad tracks. The battery motometer had been the tires, side curtains and accessories were in their p Chief Patrick and Officer Free! rode out to the gravel pit and brought the Maxwell to police head: quarters after which Mr. Hammond was notified. An aceldent on Center Street and Rallroad avenue between a Dodge and removed, t other roadster Number 1861 and a Ricken: backer umber 10697 was reported GIRL SLAYER OF MOTHER SWOOMS AGAIN IN COURT Fainting Spells Continue to Seize Girl at Last Brought to Face Horror of Her Crime SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Tarch 25.—Dorothy Ellingson, the girl who killed her mother rather than stay home from a jazz party, fell in a faint court was adjourned for noon der trial. flat on the stone corridors as at today’s session of her mur- The girl, deathly pale, a crumpled, forlorn figure, was carried into an ante of the court, Her father and court attend. ants worked over her several min room [utes before animation, she showed signs of ed to bid on the of the Wyom- Ing naval oil reserve were attacked. Mr. Hoover cited the testimony of G. K. Thomas, secretary “bf the Prairie Ol! and Gas company, to r his contenti declaring Mr. Thomas had te d that the B Sinclair bid was than the 4 Pioneer company could have s mitted. ‘ . * on ye Mr. Hooyer sald Mr, Thomas’ tes- COVERED MINUS Red Cross to Assist in Rebuilding and | siviy tnowes that to. theme) ‘ m4 7 rned of the details of the Sin- Refurnishing Homes in Storm fe iidsin wWashaton) soniey sii : March several days before . . contract and that Region of the Middle West he could ter f i to A ees } : ‘i | _ WEST’ FRANKFORT, Ill., March —(By The Asso ,to-police this morning. ‘The ciated Press.)—The work of the American Red Cross in Joes not sh c e|rehabilitation in the entire tornado district area in five | TEAPOT DRILLING | drivers of the but po | states will begin at once, according to Henry M. Baker, na- ecient sige seeds |Prntimittartoned sestertay atten jtional director of disaster relief here, it will include replac- Drilling of the w Neatot ante | noon W. D. Quinn was fined $100 on |ing and refurnishing homes, clothing and all necessities of | na oll reserve was made mat lconviction of violation of the drug| victims, but will not attempt to re-, his loss will guide attempts to re-| di 1 8 wher ted ordinance. Quinn pald the fine The | Place deficits in investment ses, | establish im on as nearly a pre-|that th : 6 should case against F. W. Richcreek, | ¥ called: busi arid : 9 as, fur i ¢ was also charged with possession and trans-| Hon said E A ls t of June 4, 19 portation of liquor was continued to} Director Bak be made trained wor d this afternoon. The case against narge of five etate | Certain the needs of ay, of if Miller booked for violation of the will conati-| 4nd the Red Cross then compan drug ordinance was continued to et with ar (Continued on Pag Pa ) Friday afternoon. F. EB, Burleson, | While . > 2 sot ay TE WE Mike Coglan and Dan Donovan, | 4s#lstant, in charge 0 | fined a few days ago, paid $10 each. | County work has estat a WN E W BE. W. Adams paid $5 for parking | Porary hea | his car on a crosswalk. The need of the not | R Jean-Up Week | FOR CRA Clean-Up Week (REGION [IS SEEN | Re ae | physicians would examine the girl and report to the court on her con- dition, They sald {t then would be decided whether the court would be asked to delay the trial: The girl screamed hysterically at the opening of the trial today when atlempts were made to photograph her. A ten minute recess was grant- ed to enable her to regain her com: posure. Assistant District Attorney Her- man Skillen predicted that possibly a jury would be selected today, but defense counsel were more doubtful. Mr. Skillen added that he con- sidered the Jurors so far examined of a high class of intelligence—far Defense counsé] announced. that above the avernge. The defense con- curred in this opinion and intimated that {t would not exercise all its peremptory challenges. Miss Ellingson. was fairly com posed when she whe brought in and court convened. Examination of talesmen_ proceeded. Mrs. Dora R. Roche, mother of two girls and a boy, was the first juror questioned. In response to the prosecution, she gaid “I don't think I'm biased,” The defense asked her whether she had talked about the case at the time of Mrs. Bllingson's death. “Probably I did," she eald. “But I haven't thought about it since and I don’t even remember what I s taken a WHEREAS, the people of our city have alws just pride in the rance of their homes throughout the winter months there is alv tion of unsightly and undesirable waste material in the various and WHEREAS, much more can be accomplished by concerted action of all than by isolated individual effort now, THEREFORE, by direction of the city council I do hereby proclaim that the week beginning Sunday, March 29, A, D., 1925, shall be designated as Clean-Up week and do most respect fully urge all the citizens and residents of Casper as well as upon all civic organizations that they, Midividually and col tively to make special effort throughout the week to thoroughly clean their various homes, premises and surroundings through out the city. Done at Casper, Wyoming, this 2th day of March, A. D., 1 said.” She was passed. f 8, K. LOY, Mayor. | | | nd surroundings | ys some accumula: | yards, alleys and streets adjacent to their homes and premises | | | |Permission to Build 297-Mile Line to Connect With Provo, Utah, Asked of Commerce Commission WASHINGTON, March 25,—An application for author- ity to build 297 miles of new railroad running from Provo, Utah, to Craig, Colo., was filed with the Interstate Com- merce Commission today by the Salt Lake & Denver Rail- road company The corporation holds a permit from the state commis- n itld | te of Utah, allowing It to t ded to shorten t ance be miles of the line in that state. | ‘wren and Denver and to Be ; : 1 »rtation facilities to 3 estimates of cost were given.| the Uintah basin area in Colorado The new construction would be in-| and Ut ah, , a DS