Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1921, Page 1

The € Criln VOLUME V BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York— R. a E. Cincinnati ____.000040-0 0 0— 4 New York ---__-20005000*—7 Batteries—Coumbe, Napier, Wingo; Toney, Ryan and Snyder. At Boston— : Chicago __--.-_010000 Boston ________ 012004 Batteries—Vaughn, Jones McQuillan and O’Neill: At Brooklyn—. St, Louis... 011 ge 2 ; F Rogge - and| 0— 1 000 00 *— ; 14 0; and O'Farrell; R. H. i3 . Philadelphia _.. 0 0 Chicago __-.... 0 0 At Cleveland— R. H. New York _ Cleveland Batteries—Mays and Schang; O'Neill. At Detroit— R. H. E, Washington ___ 24100004 0—11 15 4 Detroit'___-___.40160420*-17 20 1 Batteries—Shaw, Schacht, Courtney and Ghar, Brottem; Middleton, Cole, Woodall and ler. At St. Louis— R. H. E. 00010340 2—10- 11 0 St. Louis_____.000202001—5 10 0 Batteries—Bush and Ruel; Sothoron, Deber- ry, Bayne, Van Gilder and Billings. i 3 Mails and ols CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921 VICTIMS CREMATED ALIVE IN RAID Enemies of Irish Constabulary Gag Victims, Drench Houses With Gasoline and Fire Them; Execution and Ambush Mark Bloodshed in Erin Over the Week-End 1.SVERPOOL, May 16.—Six houses in widely separated parts of this city were raided ‘™ | and set on fire by unidentified parties last night. The occupants of every house thus visited have relatives serving in the Royal Irish constabulary. The inmates were in some cases gagged and bound, the furniture was drenched with kerosene and set on fire, and in some George's attitude relative to P< TWO KILLED BY NITRO EXPLOSION PREME ALLIED COUNCIL TO DISCUSS POLE-SILESIAN ROW AT SPECIAL MEETING, REPORT LONDON, May 16.—There may be a full meeting of the supreme allied council for the purpose of discussing the situation which has arisen in Sile as a result of the Polish Dispatches from Paris indicate that Premier Briand in- NUMBER 186 / tends to lay the situation before the French chamber when it | There has been an/ mects Beri change of views between the British | and Preach conns but sugges tions that a meeting be held have been met with assertions in Paris that it would be impossible for the French Premier :> discuss the Silesian ¢ with Lioyd George until afie Adv over the weekend appeared to Indicate a cessation of fighting in Upper Silesia, but there was nothing to show that the Poles were withdraw ling from regions they occupied dur ing the past two weeks. | Indignant comments of the. French [Press regarding Prime Minister Lioyd |George's speech on Poland before the © of commons on Frid led much attention fr newsp: y they although {ho at. London in quarters where I instances the helpless people were left to the mercy of the flames by the raiders who fled! condemned, blame was attached by fia a aes aaa em hn. tele: Ana tates Mista ne BROOMSPUN WINS $40,000 RACE : BALTIMORE, May 16.— Broom- spun won the $49,000 Preakness at Pimlico this afternon. Polly Ann was second; Jeg third. The time was 1:54 1-4. ‘The entries included Harry Eayne > FLIER KILLED IN PARACHUTE #RAND 18LAND,) Neb., May 16.— Warren DP. Kite, formerly of Spring- field, Mo., was killed here yesterday when foretd to leap from hig airplane a height of 800 fect after ‘the tail his ‘machine was~ ie off bythe Jor of, ner plane ‘piloted by J. Smith, with Whon he was 46- ing \aerial tbh Kit parinta. liye af Springfeld. Smith was unhurt: | AUILDERS' ASSOCIATION WILL BANQUET TONIGHT Theo Casper Bullders’ association wiil hold a banquet at 6:30 o'clock this evening at the Henning hotel. All members are requested to be. present and to bring as their guest a pros- pective member of the association, Places at the banquet tables will be laid for over 100 guests. After the dinner impromptu talks and addresses |, will be made. ~~~ + DREADNOUGRY ON TRIAL. ROCKLAND, Maine, May 16.-—The superdreadnought Tennessee — went into Penob&eot bay today “to begin her trial runs. ‘These trials had been de- layed several times by major machin- ery mishaps since the Termessee was commissioned, nearly a year ago. | Whitney's Trysten and Broomspun; | | Xatapa’ farm's 's Leonardo I; E. J. | | Salmon's little filly © | stables Touch-Me-Not, }-mutuels Broamspu: be es. $2.40; Polly Ann, $5.10; § re deg, $6. \M. agnetic Storm Paralyzes Wire by | which... virtually zed wire. itransmission fh the U |. States Saturday ‘and Sunday: , Cables be- tween E: and the United this morning and transmission was bad: ly delayed. © The disturbance \is_ believed to have*caused a fire which destroyed a telephone exchange at Karistad, a Swedish town about 160 miles west of Stockholm. The building was totally destroyed. Miners Starving, Leader Asserts MUSKOGED, Okla., May 13.—John Wilkinson, president ‘of District 21 United Mine Workers of America, is- sued a.statement here yezterday. in which he ‘said ‘there are miners in Oklahoma who are actually starving.” FIRST BASEBALL TO BE TOSSED FROM AIRPLANE IN OPENING BIG LEAGUE SEASON HERE TUESDAY Can any of the Casper or Laramie baseball players catch a baseball dropped from a height of between 300 and 400 feet? That event has been arranged as one of the novel- ties which wili be staged here to- morrow on the opening of the offi- cial playing season of the Midwest league in Casper. Jay Y. Stock will take a brand new baseball, attach a $10 bill and just prior to the game will soar over the baseball park to drop tke ball. The players will be lined up and will each have a chance to. catch the falling missile and earn the reward. In case the ball is. touched and dropped the money will go"to the baseball fund, of which Roy Wyland is custodian. Aerial bombs will be fired at the opening of the game which is sched- uled for 4:15 in order to give the re- » finery workers and business, people a chance to see all the games. The honor of hurling the first ball. will go to L. A, Reed, father of baseball in Casper, and whose sportsmanship is partly responsible for the wonder- fal baseball that is being played in the Midwest league. i Either a carnation or a rose wiil be given to every lady aitending the opening game ‘tomorrow, W. W.. Keefe of the Casper Floral company has donated sufficient of these flowers to the baseball association to take care of every lady attendant. TAX MILLIONS ARE Communication | in automobiles. ‘The raids wore in all ways similar | to those made in suburban districts! of London and in this city Saturday ght ace house that was raided was oc \oippee by Mrs. Jennins, a widow, and her daughter. The latter opened the |@oor when there was a knock and jahe was seized by the throat’ by the |intruder. She struggled and fied to jher mother and then fainted. The | women were too terrified to raise an \alarm. In another house were three sisters, who were overawed by a dozen men, |who displayed revolvers and threat }ened to shoot them if they stirred. A terrier attacked the raiders when they assailed his 77-year-old master, and prevented them from setting fire |to the house. When the raiders ran, the dog chased them, but was shot dead A sailor named Bralsford, who Jost & leg in the famous naval raid on Zeebrugge, refused to throw up, his ‘when -membroke.into his house. fit threw: @. sewing machine at the intruders, who fled after firing their revolverse-—" "2 None ¢-the-¥alders have been ar- | Fested. MAN EXECUTED AT CORK BARRACKS, . CORK, Ireland, May 16. -— Daniel O'Brien of Knockindbone, Liscarrol, County Cork, was tried by drumhead court-martial Saturday, and executed in the- Cork detention barracks at 8 o'clock this morning. O’Brien’ met death bravely, main- taining the same attitude that he dis- Played at his trial, when in answer- ing the request to plead he replied: “I have no defense; I was caught as a soldier and you can try me,” BRITISH PREMIER TO MEET LLOYD GEORGE. DUBLIN, May 16.-(By Tho Asso- clated Press,}—Premier Lloyd George, says the Freeman's Journal tday, has offered to meet Eamonn De Valera or other Irish leaders, without condl- tions. Mr. De Valera, adds the news: paper, replied that if the premier made such a statement public, he (De Va- lera) would give a public reply. arly this rhonth a conference took place between Eamonn De Valera and Sir James Craig, the Ulster premicr- designate, at which these two Jeaders of their respective sections of opinion in Ireland, talked over the situation. The: meeting was said to have been without tangible results, with respect to the warfare in Ireland, but the fact that it was held was commented upon in Dublin Castle and other quarters as a hopeful sign. FOUR SLAIN IN NIGHT AMBUSH. DUBLIN, May 16.—Three govern: ment officers and the wife of one of them were shot and killed in an am- bush last night at Ballyeirn, four miles from Gort, County Galw The victims were District Inspector Blake and his wife, Captain Cornwaliis and. Lieutentant MeGree The cap- tain and the lieutcnant were attached to the Seventeenth Lancers, The party was riding in a motor car when it was ambushed by forty men. Military and police reinforcements sent to the scene were fired upon and one constable was seriously wounded pune te: thas WACCINATION HELD VALID. DENVER, May 16.—In a decision handed down in the district court this morning. Judge Clarence J. Morley held valid*the Denver city ordinance him. BERLIN, May 16.—German news: Papers express pleasure over deciara- tions made on Frid ister Lloyd George of Great Britain, relative to the situation in Upper josia, but. most of them give warning against a German march into Silesia, unless such a movement should be re- quested by the entente powers. They declare that such an advance would result in war with both France and Poland. “If Adelbert Korfanty should pre sume to tak: pesnesstin of any dis puted territory without _ permission from the entente,” said the Lokal Anzelger. “we shal! be exempt from all our obligations and d American Relief Workers Report . Narrow. Escape LONDON May Tt: women éngaged in relief work ¢t Cofi- stantinople narrowly escaped jdrown- ing in the Bosphorus yesterddy, says the Constantinople Correspongent of the Daily Mall. They werg-in' a row. boat in mid-stream, when it sprang a leak and quickly sank. aged to seize her dog by the collar and the animal dragged her to safety. Miss Aslers and Mrs. Uhis swam | ashore. The fourth member of the; party was a Miss Caldwell . sas “Aira CHEYENNE, “Wyo., May 16.—The city of Cheyenne has sold $500,000 of 6 per cent sewer bonds at par. The proceeds will be used in the construc tion of a sanitary and storm sewer) system. ay by Prime Min-| IGF “Aghericnn | : y ken. Th A Mine cuan.{Rearly all of which were broken. The man sank, but upon recovering, man-| BONNEVILLE IS ROCKED BY BIG BLAST SUNDAY Village Damaged and Narrowly Escapes Destruction From Explosion of Death | Truck Claiming Lives of Nelson A. | Glass, Casper, and Unknown Party | | (Special to The Tribune.) SHOSHONI, Wyo., May 16.—Nelson A. Gl of Casper, about 30 years of age, driver for the Independent Torpedo company, and an unknown man where blown to atoms and |the village of Bonneville, about three miles north of here, narrowly escaped complete destruction at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon by the explosion of a cargo of nitro-glycerine being |transported by truck to the ejof structures were knocked out | r plant at Thermopolis from an-)plumb and walls and piasteri p Pr */ufacturing plant at Casper. Giass’ werres and loosened companion in tragedy may remain un |identified as he is believed to have been @ stranger who was given pat g “it” on thardantn' oar |. Shoshoni felt the offects of tho The light truck bearing the two|Dlast: several windows being brokeu . here. me and driven by Glass stopped in} HonnGiiic Nose’ enbigh= to. eepiantent Beveral Bonnevitie residents W |the gasoline tank at the filling cut by fying glass and others sutf- ten BEEP OAS |fered injuries from shock, none se: some 200 yards west r tion an equal distance from the | witnesses stated that flames houses, a rough piece of road was|{T0M the explosion covered fully, 190 Jencountered and the explosion oc. varda, 3 the 20¢-yard dis acco 9 the curred. A mammoth column of dirt)" lidings. Structures _ex- | tended in a circle on every side of ot up from the spot where the truck : . a ‘cet | the spot where the explosion occurred ee eye fant atroee oe 78 f° and all Bonneville is congratulating itself today that none were nearer. TRUCK AND . Further losa of life would haye BLOWN TO BITS, curred, it is believed. had the acri- Tie men and the truck were liter-);dent happened at any other point ally blown to bits, small pieces of|within a distance of a quarter of a flesh and breakable parts on the car} mile on the road out of town. being scattered far and wide. Some of the heavier pieces of the car were thrown a quarter of a mile and the largest piece of flesh left intact was a hand, which was identified by a UNIDENTIFIED MAN MAY BE OF CASPER, No description of the unidentified man who met death with Glass was available here today. It is considered plain gold band ring as that of Glass-| possible that he left Casper on the This wis hurled 100 yards from theltruck, He wan a stranger to. thore scene of the explosion. who saw him in Bonneville. Wer LAGE WALLS 5 — CAVED IN Glass had been in the employ of the Independent Torpedo company SRS y every, one of the -moro f than 75 Buildings which comprise the|#ince last November and his duties lvilage,af Honneville,. and: house were largely: Confined to transporting 150 residents was damaged, in addi-|th® explosive used in shooting oil wells over the state. was the first reported by the Torpedo company in the last year, following several tragedies of like nature in the Wyoming oll fields in previous years. |uon to the shower of debris previpi. The explosion tated by the blast, iron parts of the jear were hurled. through windows, jdoor to the Burlington station was s y blown in and the bullding otherwise| Glass. it is said, came to Casp | damaged about a year ago from Clarksvilie, RES, Ind., after being mustered out of serv- |, The greatest damage, it Is reported, |ice, having served in the overseas occurred to the stofe of Bancroft-&larmy. A brother, Albert Glass, lett jSon, the interior of which was badly|Casper a year ago and is now Jocated jwrecked. Shelving was torn down,|e: where. |precipitating groceries onto the floor \und the rear end wes caved in. |same damage was repeated at the I’, A. Wright store on a smaller scale land other buildings severely damaged include the Bonneville hotel, the rail- road cating house and roundhouse, ‘school and postoffice. The majority Daughter of Gov. Cox Claimed by gating $75,000 for missing members of the Industrial Workers of the the World, who are under sentences. were ordered forfeited to- day by the federal district court of appeals, The cases of nine men, in- cluding William D. Haywood, who is believed to be in Russta, were af- fected. All were suppose? at the Leavenworth, Kan. tiary following the recent supreme court decision refusing $75,000 IN BONDS FORFEITED Fight Against Amendment Instituted in California Eliminated Among Other Sudden Illness “DAYTON Helen Cox } age, daughter of forme overnor James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for president last fall, died suddenly at her. home in Oakwood, a suburb, early today he hgd- apparently been in | their convicti for conspiracy to h until the moment of her obstruct the war draft. Mahoney The men whose bonds were for- 5 feited were: ernor’s ziewspa: prison William D. Haywod, $15,000: Viad- imir Lossieff, Chicago,» $10,000: George Andreychine, Chicago, $10,- —< 000; Charles Rothfisher, — Chic: CHEY Wyo., May 16.— The $5,000; Leo Laukki, Duluth state highway commission's tender to Fred Jaakkola, Duluth, $10,000; J. H. |. 5. Laird of Worland, member of ta report | Beyer, Seattle, $10,000; rover | the commission, of the office of state peniten- | Perry, Phoenix, Ariz., 35.000; Her- superintendent, vice D. C. bert“ McCutcheon, Miami, Minn, | McCalman, resigned. was taken under to review | $5,000. ndvisement by Mr PROHIBITION ACT IS MADE SAFE AGAIN BY DECISION OF COURT residents in the United States have no legal right to demand the admi tance of relatives, the supreme court ruled in effect today in upholding de- cisions of California courts in the ap- empowering the school board to re- . peal of Yee Won, a Chinaman, who quire vaccination before a child be ad- Supreme Court Rulings Today sought to bring his wife. and two . mitted to the schools. The ordinance minor children with him on his re- 4 is not an ie eat eee turn to this country from a visit to ; ; judas eee et ee ae WASHINGTON, May 16.—The requirement that the pro- China. , “ 7 P| RE fees) hibition amendment be ratified within seven years by three- hae en authorities re- + BANK iS SHORT, fourths of the states does not invalidate the entire measure, 2 the supreme court today ruled. NEW YORK GAS a high government official as “the|méinber banks, the. supreme. court The decision was given in the appeal of J. J. Dillon of RATE IS UPHELD. WASHINGTON, May 16.—The government won Joes most important Jegal suit affecting | ruled today in effect. San Francisco from decisions in lower courts refusing his) WASHINGTON, May 16.—The su in the supreme court its contention that increased value of federal finances to arise in several] The court revereed. decrees of petition for a writ of habeas corpus,jas succeeding acts in a common en- preme court today dismissed for want any capital assets must be considered in a corporation’s | decades. Georgia *courts which had refused to on the ground that the limitations} deavor,”’ the opinion sald, “and there OY jurisdiction the appeal of the city profits when taxes are computed. | The court was unanimous in its de-jenjoin the federal reserve bank of ~ made the amendment invalid. is a fair implication that they should|/of New York from decrees ‘of lower The a in theca lof the La | “20%. except that Justice McReynolds | Atlanta from taking steps to force col-|_ TUSCOLA, IIL, May 16.—Warrants| Dillon was arrested while trans-|be fairly contemporaneous s holding’ that the S0-cent gas court’s decision was given ppea |concurred only in the'result. Asso-| lection of checks drawn on a number | were issued here today for the arrest| porting a case of wine to the home| In the « © of the decision, the | la was unconstitutional. The Belle tron Works from a ruling of the treasury that ore lands ciate Justice Pitney read the opinion. !of Georgian state nonmember banks |of John Quirk, ¢ashier of the Arcola|of. its owner, -His counsel asserted|court rulec Ny that= the’ prohi-| mi rdered on the gro: burch. :e@ for $190,000 in 1904 must be) sald. “It was to cover actual cost| —— “except throush the usual and ordi-|State bank at Arcola, Ul, eight miles|that section 3 of the amendment, orig-|bition amendment went into _ effect |th or teturned in the 1917 report at. $10,-/ of. property, er er Sevan || GEORGIA CHECK nary, channels. |from here, and for his father, M. T.|inally proposed by Senator Harding. | Januar: fi o's alleged of-|gal interest 000,000 and a profits tax paid on the| that does not change the form of the i = —— Quirk, vice president. The bank was| placed a limitation oh the action of the|fense w 17 :. opinion today sus-| investment. | RULING REVERSED. During the past two years the Brit-|closed by State-Bank Examiner Whit-|state legislatures and was therefore cag A missel recently de | -tfundreds of millions of dollars’ inj WASHINGTON, May _16.—Federal|ish parliament has passed’ more bills| lock. following a reported shortage of| unconstitutional. RELATIVES HEKE NO |tected building of artificial of she act 4s to in-|excess profits taxes were. involved i3| reserve banks have not the right to in-|in to-law than in any other ten years | $400,000. ‘The warrants were sent to| “We find that proposal and ratif-|AK) TO IMMIGRANTS, flowers obtained from wreaths in “a is eear,” tho courtjthe case which was cbsracterized by} sist on par collection of checks of of its history. Arcola to be served. cation of an amendment are treated * 4 WASHINGTON, May 16.— Alien!cemetery,