Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1926, Page 1

Fair tonight and Friday; warmer in east portion tonight. | WEATHER /OL. X NO. 69 Memb: oy Audit HureaD ot Ytrenianion Che Canp CASPER, WYOMING, THURSD. er Daily MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS yy Deliverea oy Carr On Streets or AY, JANUARY 7, 1926 anda Crihime # 1 1b cents « month Ni A cente , Pubitcation Uffices: fripnne Ridge 18 @ Sacona st CROWN PLOT SCENTED IN HUNGARIAN CRISIS FLOOD Tel TO RIVAL Wa SEINE WATERS CREEP HIGHER, MENACE. PARIS Belgium Looks to Par- liament for Early Re- lief Measures. PARIS, Jan. 7—(—A_ rapid rise of the river Seine last night and this morning brought its | height at the Austerlitz bridge, in | the heart of the city to within eight feet ‘of the disastrous flood level of 1910, when the most de- structive floods in the history of Paris occurred. Tho river. is with- in less than six fect of the level of the 1924 overflow. The peak of the rise probably will be reached Saturday when tho flood waters of the upper valley ar- rive. Hundreds of families in sub- urbs of Paris have abandoned their homes for higher grounds. PARIS, Jan. 7.—(#)— Official forecasts thrice hay- ing been belied by events, Parisians are regarding with considerable apprehension the waters of ,the Seine, Which are slowly bvt surely rising. The authorities, however, main tain that even at the worst there {sno possibility of a disaster, since it wil require a rise of nearly twenty feet in the suburbs below the elty and nine feet at.the Aus terlits bridge in the city proper to equal the 1910 flood marks, and fro: six to twelve feet to equal that of 1924, M ce Monzié, minister of works, nevertheless, has decided to confer daily with all competent officials and discuss necetsary measures and promptly take steps to carry them out. ‘The principal sufferers thus far mre the eastern suburbs, where thousands of houses have been in- Naded by flood waters. Even where pecupants are not obliged to decamp, |- they are suffering discomforts, Officiais say that the Seine will continue to swell until tomorrow. Along the Oise, disaster has been Wrought the length of the valle: where the water is nearly a mi wide. At Guise the people are living {n the supper stories of their homes and are being victualed by means of boats. Soissons. on the Asine, ts cut off from raflroad communication The lower quarters of the t@wn havé been evacuated. The Marne ts way out of its banks. Chateau THerry fe undly flooted. In Belgium, with the exception of the territory lying along the river Escout, which has a tendency to rise still higher, the situation continues to improve. Normal conditions are returning slowly as the flood water® fall back. There has been much devasation, however. Some pe ns estimated the destruction by the waters as| nearly as great as that done by und sword in 1914, The vall the Sambre and Meuse just been restored from t fon of the war, present a pitiful aspect. It is estimated that the dam {Villiam Ay Lawrence, Ok Flees to Woods to Escape Jazz Lew Sarett, poet and profes- sor in Northwestern University, is preparing to renounce civiliza- tion and live the life of a recluse in the northern Wisconsin woods inorder to escape “modern jazz life. OUTLAW MUST PAY PENALTY EARLY FRIDAY PHO xX, Ariz, Jan. eaey out. aw ana slayer, must go to the gal- lo t dawn tomorrow for the mur- ler of 2 policeman. His last hope for a commutation of sentence to life imprisonment van- hed late yesterday when the rtate board of pardons and paroles de- clined to intervene in his behalf. No- tified of the action in his cell at the state prison in Florence, Lawrence denied he committed the murder of which. he. w: convicted. Asked whether he wanted a clergyman, he asserted his executioners “will need the prayers more than me. Lawrence's aged mother and his 16-year-old sister are,expected to pay him a visit at the death cell before the execution. His mother collapred vesterd: fter appealing to the par- n board for his The United States supreme court refused to review «Lawrence's case after the death sentence had been af (irmed by the sta court He* was °¢ Haze Bure supreme nvicted kh Phoenix policeman age throughout Belgium will run into hundreds of millions of francs. Par- liament has been called to meet next Tuesday and vote relief and rehabili tation funds. GAELIC USE IS ON WAN DUBLIN, Jan. 7.—(/)—Eamonn dé valeria in a speech at Rathmines, « Dublin suburb, last night said the Gaelic language was rapidly dying, EVELYN THAW TO RECOVER CHICAGO, Jan. 7—Evelyn Nes- pit Thaw will recover from her at- tempt at suicide and is sorry, She made this statement to her phys!- clan today when told that the eight gunees of powerful disinfectant she ee anise attempts to save He complained of the attack be ink made against {ts preservation, saying they were designed to destroy Irish nationality. drank Tuesday would not be fatal. Asked why she tried to end her life, the former model, stage star id wife of Harry K. Thaw, replied: I was full of gin, beer and whis. key and jusk drank it. I drank plen- ty In hopes that {it would be enough.” CHAPMA NATION NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan, 7.—() —Gerald Chapman, under sentence to be hanged March 3, for murder- ing a policeman, owes the United States government one million dol- lars. A judgment for that amount in fayor of the government was hand ed down here yesterday by Federal Judge Edwin S. Thomas tn an a~‘ion brought by Postmaster General New and John A. Danaher, Hartford, taken in New York on N OWES MILLION Conn,, assistant United States dis- trict attorney, while Chapman was rtanding trial in Hartford. The order of judgment cludes interest on the lars at the rate of six nnum from October the cost of the court. The sum represents the value of bonds and other securities still miss. Ing from the $1,400,000 mati toot August 24, also in- million dol- 1921. by CNapman and others, * & “ele, Td CITY FINES TOTAL $190 WN DAY MURANE CONQUCTS FIRST COURT Hour of Holding Police Court Changed From Evening to Morning Under New Program; Knife and Bottle Hurled in Fight. One hundred ninety dollars in fines were assessed this morning at the first police court session over which Judge Edward Murane has pre- dided. Incidentally the session marked the change from the »ractice of holding court in the afternoon to holding it at $:30 o'clock each morn ing. Lola Hill, colored, was fined $25 because she had a fight Wednesday night with C. Richardson, otherwise known as “Greyhound,” at 209 North Ash street. She had thrown a ket- chup bottle at him and had cut his arm with a butcher knife of no mean proportions. Patrolman Clarence Benson had arrived on the scene in time to take the knife from her hands at the request of Richardson. Richardson said she had become angry because he was going away It developed, on questioning by City but when shown the lauor he rec ognized it . Wilson, colored, porter at a loca a hotel, was fined $100 for ille, possession of liquor and for procur- ing women for immoral purposes. He pleaded guilty to both charges, The case of Juanita Le Deux, the woman, was continued. She is charg: ed with soliciting. Officer Williams made the arrests. Walter Whittenberger, youth, was fined $15 drunk, 16-year-old for being Attorney Kenneth McDonald that Richardson who also was charged out of town permanently because of| 87 LOUIS, Jan. 7.—UP)—Com: hesticud’ OM UMETE LE that he haa] Mtment of John W. Thompson, p Saale tees ee that he had) wealthy St. Louis. contractor, ito slipped back into the city. He was at Sls ; ; sentenced to sixty days in jail, the| Leavenworth penitentiary will be sentence being suspended on the| (PPosed by his counsel, {t was an nounced today on the would endanger his life. condition that he leave the city with- srountaye in twenty-four hours. The convictions and two year xen- Veterena, a Mexican who was ar-| tences of Thompson and Col. Charles rested Wednesday night by Patrol-| B. Forbes, former director of the man Patrick Sullivan, was fined $59] veterans’ bureau, in the bureau for being drunk and having half a] fraud conspiracy, case, was affirmed pint of liquor in his. possession. \Vet-| last Saturday by the circuit court erena does not understand English] of appeals at Chicago. very well. He was not willing to ad-| Thompson, now at Palm Beach, mit that he had possessed lUquor,| Fla., was examined by a physician WEALTHY CONTRACTOR ARGUES DANGER 10 LIFE IN FIGHTING PRISON TERM AT LEAVENWORTH LBREAK LOO _IN MINE MEET Workers and Operators Remain Stub- born in Face of Deluge of Appeals for Compromise of Strike Issues NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—(4)—Uncompromising oppostion to peace propositions has developed at the conference of anthracite miners and operators. After each side yesterday had placed itself on record for or against various schemes to end the suspension, the 12 conferees professed willingness to go on if there was any- thing to consider. Pin- The peace plan of Governor Alvan Markle, of Hazelton, chot was 1 by the to chairma the joint conference, in| and th: nan Markle by tt the hope that another day might} miner bring something new, suggested an} ‘The Pinchot plan provided fc adjour’ overnight and both|inguiry to det ne if wages sides agreed be increa’ for a volun President John L. the | check-off. ‘The kle proposal was United M Workers, for thr imy izens to decide would regard a br t an] questions not « by the x agreement a publi ers and operators The miners suggest 2 Op-| A -proposa: examination of erators rejected a proposal that the] hooks of the coal companies by the two sides join in presenting to con-| miners’ negotita » met Bress a bill to regulate the cite industry The operators said such regulation would be unconstitutio anthra-| with objection: They offered, however, to submit pertinent records to a board of arbi tration. While the conferees were strug gling to end the tie-up, reports that a settlement had been made reached anthracite region by radio. rman Markle said that the clr culation of such reports among peo. ple distress was “almost crim inal Publishers of newspapers tele graphed from Scranton an appeal tc the miners and operators to “put an end to the calamitous incubus that now hangs ov anthracite before he left here a week ago. This physician prepared an affidavit for the appellate court, stating a cmpeie dacane of wwe mart mise LLoyd, George’s Daughter Ill in the mild climate of Florida, a from all causes of worry. Removal from Florida, thy physician certi- fied, would be “fraught with serious LONDON, J danger to bis life.” Lloyd George, dat Thompson's counsel have indi-|!and’s war time premier, underwent cated they would first endeavor to] successful operation for appendt- take-the case to the supremé court} citis this morning. A bulletin issued after the operation said the pat fent's condition was entirely satis factory. reg! anemia tea (A) — and keep Thompson at liberty on a supersedeas bond until the highest court has paige on the appeal. Miss Me- hter of Eng- Prince of Wales’ ‘ Queen-to-Be? ROYALISTS Ut RIVAL FACTION LAY PLANS TO SEIZE THRONE Fascisti ree With Mobilization South of Budapest to Open March on the Capital. BUDAPES iT, Jan. 7. —A report that there is plot to restore the throne of Hungary is in circulation. On the one side it is asserted that the fascisti purpose to 1 tt wn to Arch supp I King The latter r Vienna, whe that the rtin, Faécist) 50 miles southeast of gathering ther men for on the 1 within: two. ¢ three days Bethlen was co! Count mists means to put and elevate Otte Rumors that Princess Astrid, Closely come 20. niece of the king of Sweden, | the re-cstablishn will be the bride of the Prince | archy is the thirty case socialists of Wales, are being heard again in London, following the an- | Pescisti aro at nouncement that she will be the |v oney obtaine < guest of King George and Queen | of spurious I ia Mary this winter. The report | tion was to in ng was denied when first given cur- | Albrecht’s ambition a = the powers, who banished nina to LARAMIE, Wyo: Jan, 7.—(P)—|Madeira, where he died, Premier What is believed to be the hi hlen has been wrathful against score € ade in a highi school | the regent. ‘The counterfeiting case basket ame was made here last |} is sald to have given him a chance night when Laramie high defeated | for revenge. the freshman team, 123 to 16. At| He set at liberty Edmund Benfezky, nd of the first half the score | former minister of the interior, on BRIBE CHARGES HURLED IN PARDON=:: RELEASING DENVER BANK WRECKER Grand Jury Summoned to Sift Reports|NEW AIRWAY MAIL STARTS FEBRUARY 1)" BRIDE OF NOTED JAZZ COMPOSER ‘HAPPY’ BUT WANTS DAD’S BLESSING W YORK, Jan. 7.—(?)—Mrs. Irving Berlin ts supremely happy in her recent marriage with the the following telegram via the Postal Telegraph company: “We desire to avold publicity, of Money Exchange in Commutation of Maurice Mandell’s Sentence DENVER, Colo., Jan. 7.—(4")—District Attorney Foster Cline this afternoon announced that the Denver county grand jury would be summoned tomorrow to consider al- leged money transactions in the commutation of prison sen- noted Jazz composer, she says, but | but we have been misquoted so |tence of Maurice Mandell, Hibernia bank wreck er. is heartsick because her father, | much that we wish to make this The district attorney also stated that new charges Clarence H. MacKay; president of | statement in order to set at rest | ; at aes by {thes Hibernta-Bank and Trust oot the Postal legraph comp: the fabric eg that hav | had wired a] par which f 1 n res has net given them his blessing published in certain newspaper request t ry Warden] operations of Mande 3ack in New York, in the com- | We have never sald one word for |-rhomas ‘Ty Mandell, Floyd and John Harri poser's roof garden apartment to pubis pate mee that we are | for these charges.” ployes of the bi day, Mr. and Mrs. Berlin were bt haga ‘ md Feira xg we The tiew char; Cline announced,| Cline said thi w charges would | awaiting some word from Mr. | Tepes L MONG ORL Wwe nave “ill aller heaclawnen sak Hea. | le ‘andell induced Floyd to turn Mack: to whom they have sent | "0thing more to say. % ut Shews embessiement, misapplicn, over certain bonds to Mandell for a: epetial ailivery Sitter in the Ellin Berlin, Irving Berlin tion and abstration of the funds of] the jatter’s use, and that Floyd hope that he would approve of who already has served a peniten the marriage. Thus far, however, tary sentence, would be called upon he has added nothing to his state- to testify as to the nsactions ment that the wedding was with- BY CABLE ‘ out his knowledge or approval. s DENVER, Colo., Jan. 7.—(P)—An The couple dined with: Mrs Antville, Underground, U. S. A., January 7 investigation of the commutation of Joseph A. Blake, the bride's (Special Correspondence) the penitentiary sentence of Maurice mother, and received her blessing Mandell, Hibernia bank wrecker, Monday after the wedding, the Ants have for years been noted for the constant || will be instituted the Denve World says. busy atmosphere apparent in their communities. This fol i ae Range ah op ies antic = reels Sa et Attorney Fo: VW. Cline an Before leaving Atlantic City strenuous activity has been thoroughly investigated ated: Mrs. Berlin said she was coming . unced toda and a study of their method s discloses that their news- to New York to attend the wed- | § es Evidence tending to v that ding of Consuelo Vanderbilt to papers are responsible for this condition. mo: has passed somewhere al Earl E. T. Smith, this afternoon, * ‘ the line in the Mandell commuta in welbes plan he eaten tonight | Seems as though long ago the Antville Journal } Continued on on, Page Twelve) or early tomorrow to Atlantic opened its Classified Ad City, where Mrs. Berlin said she shrewd, and with great visi will entertain tomorrow night at . hotel so that her friends can fied Ad pages. They meet her husband have been invited Thelr proposed honeymoon trip to Europe aboard the Leviathan leaving here Saturday, for which the ship's presidential suit has been engaged, probably will be eancelled, Mrs. Berlin has said. ‘The bride appeared nervoug and on the verge of tears on leaving Sixty guests earth. Al to Classified Advertising. Times are never dull; prospered, cue tunnels underground, large sandy hills and grad- ually established thriving cities over the face of the this growth they unhesitatingly attribute always busy; rushed, in fact, delivering and hauling, ‘trading and exchanging. ‘and young alike hustling around handling calls and demands created by their Classified Ads, Columns. Wise old- ants, on patronized these Cla: built long curly-me- CONDIT: ION OF |, MERCIER IS ‘UNCHANGED’ BRUSS Mercler’s E 8, Jan, 7.— condition was Old || this morning but with temperature nor mal feeble, It pulse was an Atlantic City. Her husband put 5 ry nounced tl! no medical bulletin an arm around her consolingly Now it makes no difference would be issued during the day “I am #0 disappointed that , Te tes ‘ is lear that Cardinal Mer father didn't come down to see M us,” she said. “I am supremely | Ants or en cler last night expressed a desire to happy, but oh, so heartsick. T | ied Ads do the work for you! receive the holy sacrament although have a very heavy heart his condition bad not become oggra vated. Accordingly the sacraments SW YORK, Jan, 7.—(%)—The PHONE 15 OR 16 were administered {n strictest pri Associated Press today recelved vacy. AAR hn aks ad ME te | | | the day Windisch-Gr was { prisoned. Beniczky had accus Horthy of being indirectly a mw derer. DAPEST TURNED ‘TO ARMED CAMP, vI A, Jan. 7.—(P)—The stree of Budapest are bristling with armed police, seemingly in expe disorders, say reports from the Hfun rian capital. Wiener Tageblat correspond ndministration frar to have mill felting ple 1 over night f ype m elyil to ands without notic nch police agents in Budapest in connection with t complain t they their ches by the demands of the military for special passes. states attorney is said to have that will sea announced he sialic te ple 3 the property of all persons impli CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 7.—(P) | cated in the counterfeiting including Air mail service between Cleve-| the of Prince Ludwig Wind land and Detroit is ta t Febru- | isch-Gr Ay) we Cope t signed bY] a nied Dench “otticers 1 F c land air 1 at be |Mine Inter CBLSA® lass Fight Increase |: In Rail Tariffs} in ¢ KANSA § CITY, Mo., Jan. 7—@) 'M Mining interests in the w eTe Hungaria organizatior TXICO USED terests in’ opposing MEXICO CITY, J 7-4 freight rate ir i | Mext government tinul western rallroac A its “iron hand’ y 1 ug Salt Lake - City retary the Utah chapter American Min ng Cong ed testimony hefore the Inters mmerc t ‘ miesion hearin 6 propose { hike toda designed to 1 that mining interests are in no tI pa adds al freight charge M . BIG CONVENTION IS COMING HERE CHEYEN Wyo., Jan. 7.—Cas-| per as the mec , ling per has been selected as th nve to W. A. R tate di tion city for the vocational educa MiG \SRaRi fia oboe Ki 1 tion officials of the Pacific region.| western states, Colorado, Ut Art uccording to an announcem zona, New Mex Nevada, Cal here Wedr the convention t nia, Ores ‘ M open a one-week session on Ma tana, Idaho and Wyomin pprox {n® Spokane, W efforts inter t and made to have the sessior agrt ‘ i and Wyoming, and th rm fr m the vocational ed: n the F lo