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The Weather IIt'q instv cloudy tonight probably rain or enow -orthwMt portion, mer- south portions tonight. NUMBER 90 CASPER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1924 i I i i Escapes Grill NEW PLAN TO FORGE TESTIMONY ON MM Twenty-Five Per Cent Reduction In In TEAPOT LEASE PLAIN COFFIN esting Place come Taxes Paid This Year Is Provided'In Measure IS MAI pro Of ilsoh-jMnidecided WASHINGTON, Feb.7. The new revenue bill nro- CONTAINS BODY if NIG TUT' viding for a complete revision of federal taxes and for a District of Columbia to See Erection of Tomb for Late Presi 25 per cent-reduction 1923 income taxes was voted Decision Reached Upon favorably reported to the house today by the ways and means committee. dent In Accordance With Expressed Desire; Cathedral Memorial Plans Are Laid The vote was 15 to 3, eight of the eleven Democrats Advice of Special Counsel; Probe Is Again in Limelight. on the committee voting "present Great Contrast Shown with the announcement that they BRITISH HIT opposed income tax rates fixed by the Republicans in private on the lines suggested by Secretary Mellon but that they did not wish to delay From Great Shrine Enclosing It.

WASHINGTON, Wrapped in the glory of death, Woodrow Wilson has found sanctuary under the. towering arches of the Washington cathedral, acclaimed by his countrvmen and the world. BY EPIDEMIC reporting of the bill. i He was laid to his eternal rest in the silent vault with only the solemn, simple rites ITXOR. Egypt, Feb.

7. By The of religious service, as was his wish, often spoken to the sorrowing widow who today sought again to take up life's burdens with an aching sense of loss in her heart. DRINKS isociated Press.) After the series Staling golden shrines enclosing Before her still is the task of de- rirhSv inscribed with large ng LOXDOX. Feb. 7f There is no sign as yet of an abatement of the epidemic of influenza is sweeping over the United 'Kingdom.

The deaths reported from influenza last week numbered 367. ciding where shall be the fina? nest BULLETIN'. WASHINGTON'. Feb. 7 Full authority for Us oil committee to follow the ever widening trail of its inquiry into the lease of the naval oil reserves was voted today by the senate without debate or a dissenting vote.

At the same time, the committee decided to continue its efforts to examine further the central figure in the investigation Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, who ha rrfuvd to testify under claim of constitutional immunity. of the king and goddesses and ing place of her honored husband. Mimerable bands of hieroglyphics For months, probably, he will li in TO OFFICERS Tutankhamen ETeat eanasione STATE HILL PM TRIBUTE 10 tffm which the correspondent in the vault to which he was committed yesterday. Just as night wted at a special visit this morn- come stowly over the nation's capi is remarkably plain ana EV FOBQER-GOUEBBOR'GAR Spiced Sausage ipiflfd affair.

Jack Scott, proprietor of the Half tal; but a greater memorial will one day be reared for him, to show the Its ightly rough surface or a wniiar reddish hue produces at way House on the Salt Creek highway, was arrested on a liquor violation charge Wednesday afternoon after he had sold drinks to two de glimpse the impression of terra- Kills One; Five Former Secretary of Interior B. Fall (left) will not be forced ftx It is safe to say it is quite honor in which men held him. The dead war president had given thought to the place where he would rest in death, and. it will be within the District of Columbia that his ultimate tomb will be set. That has already been decided by Mrs.

Wil- nike any sarcophagus 'previously covered, in that it bears no fig- to testify before the senate committer investigating the" leasing of the Others Dying puties from the sheriff's office. Scott pleaded guilty before Justice Mc-Kulty and paid, a fine pf 95 and naval oil vn save those of the four pro Mtive goddesses. It is particularly CIEEYEXXE Feb. 7. The State of Wyoming will suspend business all day Friday as a tribute to former Governor Joseph 31.

Carey, funeral services for whom are to be held at the St. -Mark's. Episcopal church Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock A memorial mass meeting is to be held at the state capitol next, Sunday afternoon. Governor Eoss and others will deliver eulogies. that the customary rep- ison In accordance wita nis wish, i WASHINGTON.

Feb. 7. Further efforts to question Albert B. Fall, central figure in the senate oil In-vestigationvere abandoned today byThe oil committee. decision was reached upon advice the special government counsel In the oil cases, Silas H.

Strawn and Atlee Pomerene. They recommended against permitting: Mr. Fall to testify unless he waived M.r G. Anderson, of Lavoye. was -Sfitfattons of Anubis, the 'Jackal although the place where the tomb shall be erected Is still to be aded god of death and the four arrested ion the-- same charge but pleaded not guilty.

He was bound over under $500 bond for trial at the March term of district court. Siren of Horu guarding the sym- 1 STEUBENVILLE. Ohio. Feb: 7. One man is dead, and five- others are reported to be in a dying condition at the Ohio Valley.

hospital, the result of eating- spiced sausage made from uncooked" meat. xlfc canopic Jars are absent. selected. Above the vault where lies the casket that contains his body, the (Continued on Page Four). $125,000 Is Reward For Saving Life Twelve arrest3 were made at La voye Wednesday by Warren Dailey, 11SW BERN OFF state motor vehicle inspector, for operating automobiles on 1923 rrsrzan All those arrested paid rnn? JUifY.

fines of and costs before the immunity. After considering the recommen. dation of counsel for an the committee, adopted this motion by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana: "The witness, Albert B. -ing refused to answer any questions 1 Ml. TO UBGE Justice of the peace and in addition mIEm purchased mew license tags.

livl 11V1 JW JV 1 i i I I RELIEF HERE Economy Plan that might be mit to him touching BLOOMINGTON. Feb. 7 Engineer Frank Zerenberg, of the Chicago and Alton yards at Road house, received word that Inherited $125,000 in the will of a rich Denver resident. bequest. Is a reward for the bravery of the engineer in saving the life of the testator when he was in Imminent danger of drowning in the Mississippi river many years ago.

Authorized by 00TE1 VJILSOll AUO GAREY ARE Postmaster Edwin M. Bean is 'King this afternoon for Washing- the matter under investigation by the committee on the ground that his evidence might tend to Incriminate him and the committee being advised by counsel that the statute providing that a witness should not be excused from testifying before a congressional committee on such ground being less broad in its scope than the constitutional guaranty, so tD. to take up with the postal Rebel Leader In Flight With Principal Aides Following Evacuation of the Port of Vera Cruz French Chamber Wment and other authorities ie the need of some relief er Casper postoffice. An cmer PARIS, Feb. The As war appropriation for an addition Zerenberg never learned the name of his benefactor and the incident had dropped from his mind.

Zerenberg has been notified to appear in Denver February, 24 to claim his bequest. ''fe present structure will oe urs- that proceedings for comtempt or by sociated Press, Chamber-rBy a vote of 333 against 205, the chamber of deputies today empowered the gov Two men were honored by the MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6. (By The Associated Press). i until such a time as congress 33 an omnibus appropriation Casper Kiwanis club in Its meeting a which may be included pro- ernment to enact and enforce measures of reform and economy in the today Judge R.

R. Rose re Even with Wilson off the field of action, the American people will approach a consideration of the things which he advocated. They will change them, modify them, perhape repudiate them, but they will consider them with intelligence." son for a new federal building viewed the life and policies of the St. of the evacuation by the rebels of Vera Cruz which, according to the war department has virtually broken up the revolt against the constituted authority, are to the effect that De La Huerta, leader of the rebellion, was accompanied in his flight by Rafael Zubaran Cap- MILWAUKEE public service" by simple decree of the cabinet council during a period of four months. There was tumult in the chamber fte chamber of commerce, which Postmaster Bean'a trip indictment against the witness for contumacy would probably fail, and that if the witness proceeded to tes tify before the committee under protest he might gain immunity from prosecution and the committee being advised by the.

attorney for the witness that his purpose to stand on. his constitutional rights is irrevocable, I move that the subpoena issued for the witness, Albert B. Fall, today received a mes when M. Poincare waving a copy of many, his high commissioner of in -Pfrom Washington to the effec MAYOR TO BE FLAYED terior and foreign Affairs, Miguel Palacios Macedo, another cabinet ts posta' inspector would be st here again to conduct a sur- late President Woodrow Wilson and when the club arranged for a resolution to be drawn up expressing sympathy and regret at the death of Joseph Carey, former governor Of Wyoming, and to be sent to the family of the deceased. The next meeting of the club wiU be held Thursday evening of the coming week at the Elks' hall, at which time a banquet will be served to the members and wives of members'.

The dinner will be informal of the local situation, a proceed the communist paper Hunftnite shouted "appeals to passions ot the people. such as are contained in this paper are responsible or disorders." Maginot, minister, for war, picked up the paper and threw- it'on be vacated and that he be released secretary and Jorge Prleto Laurens and twenty members of Mexican chamber of deputies. carried out several time in the ARLIS TfWiQ TOOETMEd UFBVL1AG0! LONE DIME ONLY LOOT OF HOLDUP from further attendance of the committee." the floor with a gesture of disgust. A memorandum submitted by Mr. MILWAUKEE, Feb.

7. Declaring that Mayor Hoan's atti IfiOVlOKB Strawn and Mr. romerene, said: tude concerning. Woodrow Wilson does not represent the true American sentiment of Milwaukee, John J. Weiher.city clerk," will ask the whereupon M.

Laffonte.V a communist deputy, flung another copy of Humanite in the general direction of the premier. STEAMSHIP IGDHFIG BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 7. General Adolfo De La Huerta has moved the capital of the revolutionary, government to Tuxpam, Vera Cruz, going to that port aecom-. panied by his staff on the Aguila Oil company boat, according to a radiogram to The Associated Press.

All revolutionary forces left Vera Cruz City Monday going by way of the isthmus railway. Frank Stoeltmann post of the American Legion to adopt tonight a resolution terming Mayor Hoan's w. 10N Feb. 7. An ex IS ADRIFT refusal to participate in national mourning- a "disgrace- to The proprietor of the Jackson Street Cash grocery was held up at 8:80 o'clock last night- by a masked bandit who -fled 'after, securing a dime and a couple of-keys.

These were taken from person of "the store keeper. There was no money in the cash register at the time, the receipts of the day having been put in another receptacle, and these were not shots between Lewis F. and wiU be followed by a program. Afterwards the Kiwanians and their guests will be the guests of the Elks at the dance which is to be given. j-.

At today's luncheon it was announced that the XJeorge W. Vroman post of the American Legion was arranging for a public debate on the adjusted compensation bill for ex-soldiers. It was the consensus of opinion that the Kiwanis club could not very well take action as a body on this subject but that any would be free to take part mor, "If the committee should undertake to compel a witness to answer under duress, either by. contempt proceedings, In the senate or through the criminal; process provided in section 104 of the revised statutes, necessarily the government would be forced to take the position that section S59 is co-exten- sive with Immunity punishment of the fifth amendment to the constitution. "If the witness is menaced by a threat, cither of punishment for contempt or proceedings in the dls-.

trict court fixes District ot he may acquiesce and testify, (Continued on Page Nine) ana a man believed to be Bnv "Mr. Weiher's resolution scores 'Van, GENEVA, Feb. 7. (By The Associated Press.) The disarmament committer of the League of Nations, which has been in session here the past few. today to hold a subsequent meeting in Paris, beginning March 24.

to dfaft a "definite convention for the control of the international traffic in "arms. The work has been entrusted 'to a sub-committee. Joseph C. Grew, American minister to Switzerland who has been attending the, commission's sessions, ig a member." "Le ol Haverhill in the sun CORDOVA, Alaska, 7. The i the mayor for his refusal to sign hrmi 1.1 9 -wainut ilil district steamship Balto was today, drifting in the Pacific ocean without her propeller, a radio message from the steamship Elkridge picked, up here by the robber.

i71. OTU1 men to hospitals, EL PASO, Feb. 7. Mountaineers living adjacent to the Villa Ranch at Canutillo, Dura go, are flocking to the standard of Hlpolito Villa and Manuel Chao and the two leaders now have a rebel force esti-(ConUrii'pi on Page Nine) the resolution of condolence adopted by the common, council, and Adlcrman Charles C. Schad for his refusal to stand when President Corcoran of the council asked for a ned only a slight wound arm -i- vance was round to today, indicated.

The -Elkridge was hurrying to the aid of the Balto. mcai condition. in such a debate, not. however, acting as a representative of the club. rising vote of condolence to Mrs.

Wilson. One of the programs within the next 1 few weeks will" feature a friendly discussion of the question by mem bers ofthe Kiwanis club. j. HflQDVJiGiFinar cousir pUYEK-' BRUTAL Flinn sang two entertaining DR3 OF FAWILIT ESTQAneEWEni KIT AL J0X, Ohio, Feb. 7.

Joseph Pierce, 31; Detroit, Jjayer of Miss Florence Nitzman, 19, early to- honored by the homage that was done the illustrious executive in his death. What honor.then must have CHICAGO, Feb. Chicago and the middle west are come to those who were privileged gradually working back to normal with the abating of ths I snow. and wind, which for two days spread havoc in its The slogan, "Do it now," has long been cpnsldered the very last word in pep. Very few of us have energy enough to conceive an idea or receive a good suggestion and jump in and do the thing right away.

When we read an advertise ment, unless it be a bargain counter rush set for a certain time, we may be convinced and yet not act. This fact emphasizes the necessity for repetition in advertising. The customer, or prospective customer, very sincerely makes up his her mind to act, but it is not entirely convenient right now. The next diy they remember what it was, but not who if was. or recall both, but not where it was and the price.

But pretty soon the reader sees the next, or the next advertise-ment, and now the whole Btory clears up: The Tribure urges its advertisers to after its readers so regularly that thcyj caa't forsret. to be kin by blood to Woodrow Wil son? 1 it Frid es 0 tne spot where the body was found tina where we put her," Pierce said, etaV? he Place, which police identified as being act location. selections at the meeting. He was accompanied by Miss Ruth Parmer of the Charles E. Wells Music company.

"Woodrow Wilson was the best hated and best loved man of his time," said Judge Rose in substance. "Like Roosevelt, he was a man of unbounded confidence in himself and perhaps in this was his greatest weakness. From the standpoint of education he was probably the best equipped man that has held his office, He was. poorly equipped, however, in that he was devoid of the Instinct of a politician. Whether or not, he was unable to use the meth.

ods of a politician or whether he disdained them, it is true that his failure to carry out his peace plan was largely due to 'Coming at this time In. the face of the broken health of the man," the death of Woodrow Wilson is at this time in my opinion not a national ealamlt.ii any more than it was to him a. personal calamity. IIiimVil rvoonle realizing- the vast course. 'Transportation lines and wire communications are being freed from the impeding ice and snow and only this clue by making: the Wooster a fresh storm can prevent the complete resumption of A first cousin to the late Wood-row Wilson.

J. S. Hardwick reclined in his comfortable arm chair, at hi3 home 1240 East First street last jight and recounted to the reporter that had called upon him a few of the facts concerning that But a few hours before a great man.had been iald at rest in a ceme-tery of the national capital and all America, in fact all' the world, had been bowed with grief at the catastrophe whlrhi had struck down the most conspicuous statesman of his time. There were those who during his life had touched his hand, who had received his encouraging smile, who had been within hearing distance of ordinary service within a day. where marooned pas- chasm that separates in the eyes of" the public those who have gained world reputations, and those who have been content to do the work that their modest niche in the world calls for.

Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick trip with Detectives Swope a.nd Pll-cher which resulted in the arrest of confes-11 His, vi, bribed how: he iw. Thurs- 'n with him in the The Chicago office of the Associat 4 ed Press continued to utilize the radio to transmit dispatches to those Pierce. Pierce told police that he had attacked the girl, but that the man were both reserved regarding what came through who was him choked her to ever relationship might exist be Vk newspapers still, cut off from wire communication.

Circuitous routing was employed to reach many points but restoration of normal service is senpers were quartered during the delays. Food fhort 3 rw are reported in northern Wisconsin towns which are cut off by snow blocked roads. Railroad companies report schedules restored to normal except in the extreme northwest. Telephone and telegraph companies place their losses at evera.l million Molars throughout the storm area. death.

He admitted, the officers tween'the family of Wilson and the family of Har'dwlcks. .11 it-' said, that he carried the Tody of the dead girl to "the creek weighted It Mr. Hardwick put down the news in prospect tor today. with stones and cast it ir.to the rr a man In scratc on his nds- Curtis followed tp paper that carried an acocunt of the As stalled trains are being duy out his yoice, and aU these were thrice waters of th stream. Continued cn Page Four i reports are coming cX food shortages.

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