Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 1

90: KILLED BY OKLAHOMA CYCLONE The Casper Daily WEATHER FORECAST Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, except probably showers in extreme east portion; not much change in tempera- ture. VOLUME IV FIELD MANTIS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT ON OSAGEROAD, SUNDAY Alvin A. Trumper Meets Tragic Death at Newcastle; Companion Injured While ‘Another Escapes When Car Turtles (Special to The Tribune) NEWCASTLE, Wyo., May 3.—Alvin A. Trumper, 23 years of age, field man for the Mike Henry Oil company, was killed almost instantly~and Helen Fawkes, 20, a companion, was severely bruised when the touring car in which they were riding turned turtle five miles from Newcastle last night on a sandy stretch of road. M. E. Greisz, another field man for the Mike Henry company, escaped injury. The party was returning from the Osage oil fleldywhen the car hit the sand, turning over twice. Trumper was pinned under the wheel and crushed to death. The girl was caught by one arm and freed by Greisz, who was thrown clear, of the car, Greisz walked three miles for help to remove Trumper’s body from under the machine. Hid body was brot to New- castle, where Miss Fawkes is recover- ing from injuries and shock suffered in the accident. It was the second auto accident Greisz has escaped without injury dur- ing the past month, Only last week on leaving Douglas in a blizzard he became lost and wandeted for, three days in, the | storm before séarthers found him weak and exhausted, facing death from starva- tion. 20,000 TEXTILE MILL WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE (By Associated Press.) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May A strike of 20,000 operatives went it to effect today at thirty-seven cotton cloth mills. ~ It was occasioned by the posting of notices relative to work- ing conditions for loom fixers, who required to operate mor looms than’ formerly. REHEARING NOT | TO BE GRANTED IN STEEL CASE RAILROADERS IN CHICAGO READY TO RESUME JOBS Ask Restoration of Seniority Right Labor Board Quits Capital (By Associated Pres.) CHICAGO. May 3._Nineteen thousand railway switchmen, who walked out in-a sympathy strike, called here April 1 by the Chicago Yardmen’s Association, are willing Cribune CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, MAY 3, 1920. ON OLD RIGHTS Sy\ Saturday’s Circulation 421i NUMBER 173 | LEMON EXTRACT SPREE CAUSES | DEATH TOIRON WORKER, FOUND | TOO LATE FOR MEDICAL HELP Alcohol poisoning caused from drinking lemon extract caused the death at 4°30 this morning of Duncan Joseph Carroll, aged 36, an employe of the Casper Sheet Iron Works. Carroll was discovered near death | by Tom Morley and another man at his rooming house, 215 B Street. He is believed to have drunk the extract some time between 7 o’cock and mid- night Sunday, but was alone at the time and the circumstances are not known. Relatives at Halifax, Nova Scotia, have been notified. Carroll had lived here since March 8. | A coroner’s inquest was held this morning at the Bowman chapel, and the jury consisting of Richard Sen- ett, W. F. Dunn and Michael Rank- witz, returned a verdict of death caused by alcohol lemon extract. The body will be held at the Bow- man chapel until relatives are heard from. ’ poisoning from BILLINGS GIVEN | POPULATION OF 15,100 ON COUNT (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 3.—Billings, Mont., has a population of 15,100, an increase of 5,069 or 50.5 per cent, ac- cording to census statistics an- nounced today. OPENING AND CLOSING Only Three Houses | Left Standing in| | Village of Peggs, Scene of Disaster | (By Associated Press.) | MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 3. j;-~More than 50 persons are known to have been killed and 100 injured in a cyclone which wiped out Peggs, a small vil- lage of Cherokee county, at 9 o'clock last night. Forty-three bodies | have been recovered. Oniy three build- ings remained standing after the storm. Whole families were crushed to death when their homes were torn to pieces, |Nine members of the Levens family were killed, seven of the Littlefield fam- ily, eight ‘of the Frank and five of the Wilkerson families. All coffins in Tahlequah were sent to the scene today. Temporary hospitals have been organized amid the wreck- ages. Those who can stand the trip are being huried to Tahlequah. The stricken village had a popula- tion of 250 people. When rescuers ar-| rived at Peggs they found only a heap} of twisted, mud-spattered debris. Heavy rain and hail accompanied the storm. | dow; Othe ‘Being ing himself from a window on the Chief Flynn of the department archists who were arrested in connec: tion with the bomb explosiofis of June last, and had been detained at head- quarters for six weeks. The attack in- (By Associated Press.) MUSKOGEE, May 3.—Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered from| wrecked houses in the storm-demolished town of Peggs, Okla., according to a| telephone report from ‘Tahlequah.} cluded the homes of Judge Charles Twenty bodies were taken from one} Nott and Attorney General Palmer. building. The suicide revealed for the first time Peggs is 60 miles east of Tulsa, off/that any important arrests hid been the railroad. p John Littlefield his wife and six chil- dren were killed. The only physician in the town, Dr. W. R. Hill, also was j killed. DELEGATES TO SHERIDAN ARE TO BE NAMED The Natrona County Republican Cen- tral committee has been catied to meet} at the Court House at 2 o’cjock tomor- CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 3.—John Cordillo, tried for the murder of Frank Jennings, near Laramie last i row afternoon for the purpose of select- [ing the 12 delegates allotted this county in the Republican State convention which will be held at Sheridan, May 10. \Clock Not ‘Affected by Daylight Saving Plan. in Casper; Refineries Adopt ‘System, Labor Unions Agreeable To conform with the change of hours adopted at the re- fineries Saturday, Casper stores will put a daylight saving scheme of hours into effect beginning ;Wednesday morning, May 5. All stores will open at 7 a. m. and close at 5 p. m. on week- } days and will open at 7 a. m. and close at 8 p. m. on Saturdays. changed their hours on Saturday, the OA TS SELL AT RECORD PRICE shifts running from 7 to 3, 3 to 11 and 11 to 7. The refinery offices open at 7 (By United Press) , May 3.—Oats reached the land close at 3:30. | highest price in the history of the Board jsummer months, opening at 8:30 in- |stead of 9 and closing at 5 instead of | 5:30. CHICAG September, and whose case went to the jury here Saturday night, was found guilty of manslaughtr by a verdict returned after eighteen hours of deliberation, The convictin calls for a term of from one to'twenty years in the state penitentiary at the dis- cretion of the judge who passes sen- tence, The defense announced its in- tention of asking for a new trial, which motion must be filed before: the expiration of ten days. “x aim as tnnocent as either of you men,” Cordillo said as he was led from the courtroom between two offi- cers following the reading of the ver- dict. Five members of the committee are Casper men and the remainder reside in other parts of the county. There are 21 members of the committee in all. A, ‘E. Stirrett isthe county chairman. — LAS VEGAS SUSPECT HELD Photographs of the man held at Las . Vega, -Nv M., -suspetted of murfler of)» sJobn Corbett have not yet-been received at the sheriff's office. Sheriff Royce has wired Las Vegas authorities to hold the suspect until the pictures arrive here. 1,000 VACANT APARTMENTS ARE THROWN ON THE CHICAGO MARKET (By Associated Press.) 1ICAGO, May 3.—One thousand vacant apartments were thrown*on the market over the weekend, and real estate dealers are in a quandry 50 to 300 per cent. Agents are plead- ing that the law of supply and ge- | | | mand justified the increase. | | Real estate agents estimate that 10,000 families who received notice | A number of downtown offices have jalso adopted a new schedule for the of 1 » today when the bid rose to $1.05 cents a bushel. The store schedule was adopted by the Business Men's association and the Re- tail Clerks’ union on Saturday to con form with the action of the refineries and various labor orgenizations and to help further the Twilight ball league, ac- cording to their published statement. The schedule will continue in effect un- til September 1 or until the end of the | Twilight league season. KIEV OCCUPIED WARSHIPS SENT TO MEXICO (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 3.—The su- preme court refused to grant the gov- ernments request for a rehearing of the anti-trust suit against the United States Steel Corporation. NO CARDINALS TO BE CREATED (By, Associated Press.) ROME, May 3.—Confirmation of re. Ports that no cardinals would be created by the coming consistory. was ved today from an official source at the Vatican. The consistory will con- cern itself entirely with the work of the canonization of Joan of Arc and Marie Alacoque, the French mystic nun, who died in 1690, —_—__. STATE LABOR PARTY IN CONVENTIO to return to work if their seniority richts are restored, John Grunau ,pres- ident of the C. Y. A., declared in federal court today. Grunau and forty other officers of the Cc. Y. A. wnd the United Engineers’ As- sociation, were arraigned today on charges of conspiracy to violate the Lever act, and, at Granau's equest, the cases were continued until May 13 Twenty of the defendants ha quit the railroads «nd taken to other work. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 3.—The rail- road labor board will move to Chicago within two weeks, Chairman Barton an- nounced today and will begin hearings there on May 17. pe Cc. P. Plummer, attorney, is in Pitts- burg, Pa., on busines connected with; oil interests. Over Two Score Delegates from All Parts of Wyoming in Attendance; Morning Is Given Over to Organization Work With forty-seven delegates from all pasts of the state in attend- ence the Labor party of the state is holding its state convention in Casper today at the Moose Hall. sent the, state Slack of Cas; Delegates will be nameed to repre- organization in the national convention in June. W. W. per presided as temporary chairman at the opening ses- sion this morning and Jack Crimmons. of Casper was chosen perma- nent chairman. A, Long of hermo) lis was named vice cl 2 se Bessie McKinney of Casper, secretary. a At this morning's session the follow- hairman and Miss|ing committees “were appointed: . Resolutions—John Stefanson of Hud- BY POLES WITH UKRAINIAN AID (By United Press) LONDON, May 3.—Poles have cap- tured Kiev from the Soviet troops, according to an unofficial report made to the foreign office today. Ukrainian troops assisted the Poles. The So- viets are seriously. menaced by up- risings throughout Ukraine. The Poles are maintaining the Pri- pet line without serious opposition. (eramden chs ‘W. R. Dobbin, Casper real estate man, is in the Osage oil fields attending to oil interests. !son, chairman; R. Sturbeau of Sheridan, Cc. C. Saunders of Hanna, Thomas Freshney of Casper and C. B. Queen of Sheridan. Finance—Henry Hamdorf of Natrona County, chairman; H. L. Giroux of Sheridan and F. E. Ford of Hanna. Organization—Bessie McKinney of Casper, chairman; L. A. Norman of Sheridan, J. EB. Bateman of Sheridan, Edna Hoffman of Casper and George Carro! of Hudson. Credentials—John D. Salmond of Casper, chairman; D, A. McCloud of Casper, John Stevens of Lavell, A. Long of Thermopolis and John Garson of! Laramie. The report of the resolutions commit- tee was the first order of business for this afternoon. Delegates from Gebo did not arrive this morning, but were Murder of American Stirs Department; to Action; Carran- za Nearing Fall WASHINGTON, May 3.—| American destroyers were ordered to Vera Cruz and Tampico today to protect Americans there. The navy acted at the request of the state department, where it was ex- plained that the warships would take aboard all Americans in those ports if necessary. . Tt was said that the vessels would not interfere in Mexican affairs, the dis- patch being a cautionary measure. No reports of disturbances in either Vera Cruz or Tampico were received by the state department, but revolutionary outbreaks were reported near both. Ad- vices to the government safd the line} between Mexico City and Vera Cruz had been cut, —_—_— (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 3.—Two Ameri- cans, Eben Francis Greenlaw and his minor son, were killed by Mexican ban- dits yesterday, the state department was informed today by the American embassy at Mexico City. DEFECTIONS FORECAST CARRANZA’S DOOM. (By United Press.) LAREDO, May 3.—Desertions from the ranks of the Carranzista army with) a resultant increase in rebel strength| in the last ten days, ars so widespread | as to create the possibility of Carran-| za’s overthrow, say reliable advices to- day from Mexico City. All that remains for Obregon to do is/| expected for the afternoon session. to effect a national movement from the growing elements of disaffection. If he jof the first named state. ‘sands in his campaign, while his friends |°f the Republican candidates for presi- | i b as a result, Hundreds of families to move on May I refused to do so. Leader in Red Plot Leaps to Rents have advanced in many cases | in N.Y. ombing Outrage of Last June hen Anarchist Hurls Self to rom Fourteenth Story Win- Held, Is Report (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 3.—Tony Tazio, 30, detained by the department of justice as an important witness against a number of radicals in- volved in bomb outrages last June, Committed suicide today by hurl- fourteenth floor of a Park Row of- fice building, where department headquarters are located. said Tazio was one of several an- made in connection with the case. Tazio printed the circulars found on the scene of the explosions Flynn admitted that several other men had been arrested in connection with the plots, that they had confessed to participating and that they had agreed to turn government witnes: A pathetic scene was enacted in an outer chamber, where Cordillo met his wife, The mother of Walter Newell, co-defendant in the murder case, and his wife also wept over the verdict, which does not improve Newell's chances for acquittal. Newell himself appeared indifferent. It is not known what procedure will be taken toward the other defendants. It has been suggested that Pete Cor- dillo and Walter Newell might enter pleas of guilty to manslaughter but the prosecution has not stated its willingness to accept such a plea. and itis possible that it will ask for first degree murder if the cases are brot to trial. It is also undetermined where these cases will be tried, but the de- ‘cision will rest with Judge Tidball of thé Second judicial district. VIOLATION O. U. S. SHIPPING ACT CHARGED NEW YORK, May 3.—An indictment charging Charles W. Morse with violat- ing the shipping board act, which pro- hibits the sale of American registered vessels to foreigners, was returned today by the federal grand jury. Captain W. S. Michell of the United States whose rentals were raised moved out Defying the landlords because they May 1 without warning. could find no place to move. Steamship company and. J. McCol- lough company were also indicted. ean unite with Sonora troops his strat- egy will be for a drive on Mexico City) from the west. (By Associated Press.) EL PASO, May 3.—Mexican authori- jties have closed the’ port of Juarez. }No transportation is allowed across the [ean aia bridge from either side. (By Associated Press.) AGUA PRIETA, May 3.—Mexican| s revolutionary troops here have movea| AGUA PRIETA, May 3.—The ad- south and east. Those going east will Vance forces of Generdl Obregon have join others in the mountains dividing Teached Texcoco, four miles from San Chihuahua and Sonora for an invasion) Lazaro, a suburb of Mexico “City, ac- cording to an announcement this after-| ‘The southward movement is to give, noon by Juan Rico of the publicity staff) reinforcements to Gen. Flores in his of the revolutionary army of the north- march to Mazatlan. west with headquarters here. Obregon's 3 forces reached Texcoco yesterday, rout- ing federal troops there, according to Rico. Obregon himself is at Cuautla, Morelos, ‘organizing forces in Morelos and Guerrero for a concerted:drive upon the Mexican capital. EL PASO, Tex., May 3.—Juarez joined the rebellion in Mexico at 2 p. m. today. Revolutionary troops entering the city were acclaimed amid wild scenes of joy nd playing and the populace crying ‘Viva Obregon.” HOOVER AND JOHNSON IN BITTER CAMPAIGN Mud Flinging in California May Disrupt| Party Strength; Eastern Interest Is Cen- tered in Indiana Preference (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.—The bitterness of the Hoover-| Johnson primary campaign, nearing its close here, will be a sur-| prise to citizens of other states in view of the charges and coun- ter-charges made by opposing factions for the Republican} presidential preference vote. Senator Johnson, who drove the Southern Pacific railroad out of state politics, is now termed as their ally and an ally to reds in the east., the Republican party if he is not nom- Johnsonites reply that Hoover repre-|inated at Chicago. sents Wall Street and Great Britain.|’ Enmities aroused in the primary cam- Hooverites charge that Johnson’is not|paign may threaten party solidarity in a friend of labor. Hoover is accused of | California, it {s believed. a vacillating stand on the League of| Nations and that he is being aided by| INDIANA CAMPAIGN J. P. Morgan, | SEES WHIRLWIND END It is alleged that Johnson, tho a poor _,,, (By Associated Press.) man, has been iipending uncountedithou-|__'NDIANAPOLIS, May 3.—With three | assert that Hoover is not a’ real date but is only being used to dis: Johnson here, It is claimed that Johnson will bolt dential nomination speaking in Indiana today, the campaign for the preferential vote of the state was brot to a whirl- wind finish, preparatory to voting to- morrow. Senator Johnson, Senator ‘Harding and Major-General Wood wound up their campaigns under a number of speeches, but Governor Lowden, the fourth Republican candidate on the bal- lot, had no addresses scheduled. There are no candidates for the Demo- cratic nominetion for president. yYOOD CHALLENGE (OT ACCEPTED (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 3.—No effort will be made by forces supporting Hiram Johnson for president to raise $25,000 to meet a similar offer from the forces of General Wood to guarantee the ex- pense of a recount of primary ballots in New Jersey, A. C. Joy, assistant eastern manager of the Johnson cam- aign, announced today. He declined to make public their names. + MANSLAUGHTER IS VERDICT IN CORDILLO CASE tee on oe