Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1921, Page 1

HUNDREDS ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS AS DIKE BREAKS Che Casper Dai Cribune [NIGH FARMERS FIGHT ANN EXCHANGE REGULATION ACT AS TOWNLEISW Trains Pour Big Crowd Into Springfield As Action on Measure Is Pending in House! SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 31.—Farmers from all sec- tions of the state swarmed into Springfield on special trains today to make a stand for the Chicago Board of Trade and against the Lantz grain exchange regulation bill pending in the house. A dozen trains were char. tered to bring what. was expected to be the: largest lobby which ever de- scended upon an Illinois legisiature. “The entering wedge of ‘Townley- ism in Illinois,” was the labe! placed on the\ Lantz bill by President Grif. fin, of the board of trade. Emissaries of the Illinois Agricul tural association, backers of the Lantz bill, also were on hand today in en effort to duplicate in the house their recent victory in the senate. Madame Curie Cancels Trip NEW YORK, May 31.—Madame Marte Curie, codiscoverer of radium, on advice of physicians, Saturday can: celed her plans for a trip to the Pacific coast, scheduled to begin next Weanes- day. ; She, will, however, leave next ‘Wednesday ‘for Chicago to fill dates pik the west and visit the Grand Can- yon.|, It was decided, however, that university functions arranged for her in California would prove too trying. ES Mail Privileges Are Restered WASHINGTON. Stas Sith By waukee Leader and the New Use of the malls was denied these two daily newspapers by former Post- master Burleson, because of the war. acter of matter appearing in their columns in relation to American pa PR ah the war. FOUR SLAIN.IM. IRISH AMBUSH, OTHERS HURT CORK, ‘Ireland, May 31.—(By The Associated Press)—Four soldiers were killed, two mortally wounded and 12 slightly wounded when they were at- tacked at 8 o'clock this morning while marching from the Youghal barracks to the rifle range. Near the golf Ynks the road had been mined and an intense fire was opened on the sol- diers. Bombs also were used. The uninjured soldiers replied to the fire of the attacking party. A curate, who was driving to cele- brate mass, got in the line of fire and was wounded. His driver was killed. pantie tii ~-Risaabe acl Coins and banknotes issued by the new Hungarian government bear the picture of the Virgin Mary. TWO KILLED, 12 ARE INJURED BY BOMB EXPLOSION Army: Officers and Victims of Tragedy From Blast as Bomb Is Hoisted by Airplane BALTIMORE, May 31.—-Two soldiers were killed and 12 others, including three officers, were injured, two perhaps fatally, by the explosion of a bomb at the army proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., today, according to a brief state- ment issued by order of the afternoon. ‘The ‘followng list of casualties ree included in the statement: The dead—Privates A. W. Sherman | and ©..H. Grimmer, both of the 14th| Bombing Squadron, air service. Probably fatally injured—Capt. Jo- seph B. Hall, air service; Private Sam-! uel’ Weinstock, 34th Ordnance aa pany. Those injured less Bares! Lieut. Charles C. Ellazon. air serv- ice, of Hagérstown, Md.; First Lieut. I, B.C. Reese; Corp. R. F. Cohle, 34th Ordnance company; Private F. © Naabe, 47th Ordnance © company. Private -L. F. Hite, 14th Bombirt Squadron; Private 1.. J. Bigelow, 34th im {Continued on Page 5) Nl ite bolindgries to. be from the mouthy | dation. VOLUME V EXAS AND G U. 5. fe & Land Matters Cite court by Frank W. Clancy, co river. Declaring that the present claim of ‘Texas would put the Rio Grande “on rock bluffs or sand hills, far above any possible bed of the river,” the brief called attention of yee a to what was described as “t atory and unscrupulous chaatiee: of the defendant (Texas) in, the land mat-| ters.” + “That a coinmunity may have a) character, as a whole, apart from the individuals composing it, ought <0 be | conceded,” the brief declared. “Re-| garding Texas, then, as a community with a psychology, character or soul of its own, let us briefly examine its record as a would-be land grabber. “One of its earliest demonstrations was in December, 1835, as noted by this ‘court’ in No. 162 United States, the Republic of ‘Texas at that time adopting « resolution declaring one.of of the Rio Grande to its source. Thid c'aim was without a shadow of foun- Yet the effontry of Texas in making this preposterous claiin was rewarded by the payment of $10,000,- 600 from the United States by the act of September 30, 1850, which estab- lished the territory of New Mexico. Next attention should be called to the Greer county controversy to. settle which the United States was com: pelled io institute suit against Texas in this court * * * and as a final re- sult Texas.was deprived of land it had unjustly claimed amounting to more than a million and a half acres. “The claims of Texas to land in the vicinity of El Paso have involved our. government in a prolonged diplomatic controversy with Mexico as to the merits of which I am unable to speak, but T have been told by o1 for whose judgment I have great respect, that Mexico has rather the best of the con- tention.” ‘More than 1,000 pages of the briof Wisconsin Dry Bill Is Vetoed MADISON, Wis., May 31.— Gover- nor Blaine today vetoed the Matheson prohivition act, as in conflict with the federal Volstead act terming it “in- fefinite and uncertain” and the Anti- Saloon league lobby “‘pernicious.’” Enlisted Men Are CALLED RABBER BRIEF : “Unscrapulous Character” of State in d in Contest Over Rio Grande Line by New Mexico WASHINGTON, May 31.—The state of Texas is attacked as a “wouldbe land grabber” in briefs filed today in supreme | unsel for New Mexico, in the! original suit of that state against Texas.to obtain an official delineation of the interstate boundary along the Rio Grande} } jare devoted to abstracts of testimony of veteran citizens of the territory in! dispute, regarding the location of the river channel in 1850 when the ter- ritory of New ‘Mexico was created, WASHINGTON, May 31—Exist- | ing freight rates are not for the stagnation in the building in- dustry and have not operated to curtail road construction, Edward Chambers, vice president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rall- way company, said today in resui ing his testimony before the sen- ate Interstate commerce commit- tee, which {fs inquiring into the transportation situation. “In cities on the Pacific coast and throug’iout the west, ‘south and east,” Mr, Chambers sald, “condi- tions surrounding the building in | dustry appear to be about the same. The general report that a com- paratively small amount of building is being doi At San Francisco, Seatt’e and Portland, where lumber is at the door, conditions aro the same as at Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago or Cleveland.” WASHINGTON, May 31.—Com- plaint that freight rates to and from | the lewer Rio Grande vailey were | ALIBI OFFERED IN DEFENSE OF DENNIS CHESTER, REPORT Caddy Chases | Ball, Is Shot “By Gardener| DENVER, May 31.—Frank Valen- tine, a caddy, was wounted in the left leg yesterday when he tres- passed on a gardener’s land in pur- suing a golf ball that had been driven off the course at the Lake- wood Country clu) near her®. Ex- cltement prevailed among the ree- ord-breaking crowd of holiday golf- ers and an emergency call was dis- patched to Sheriff Gary Kerr of Golden. No arrests were made. CITIES SEIZED BY ANTI-REDS TOKIO, May 31.—(By ‘fhe Associ ated Press.)—Anti-Bolshevik leaders who haye established the new Viadi- vostok government have extended their authority to the northward, be- ing in control of the cities of Spassk and Grodekovo, says an official report received here. The majority of the vommissars and the higher clerks em- ployed by tbe railroads in the southern part of the maritime province have fled, or have been arrested, but the railroads have continued in operation The Japanese have recognized the new militia formed in Vladivostok on con- dition that it obey the president of the government. Resolutions have been adopted by the Vladivostok chamber of commerce declaring that’ recent events there were the Outcome of communist meth- ods, which “drove the population to desperation.” Union Bakers Under Arrest CHICAGO, May 31 bakers were arrested today when strik ing employes of'a large bakery com- pany are said -to have threatened non- union men who took their places yes- terday. More than 1,000 union bakers, said to have baked 85 per cent of Chicago's bread, whose agreement ex- pirea at 4 o'clock yenterday, were on strike today. The strike was called bécause .tho Master Bakers’ insisted on a 20 pet cent reduction in wages if the bakers’ ve union joeneeee officers late this agreement were renewed. MEX SEES NO MENAGE IN REDS {¢ SOCIALIST DISCREDITS “ALARM | MEXICO CITY, May 31, — Bol-.| shevism does not constitute a men- | | | the chamber_of deputies, last night, . shevism,” he asserted, during the course of an uddress, “Its prole | tarian classes, because of their lack | of education, experience and gen- eral worldly knowledge, are not in a position to supplant the present ruling class. Bolshevism, however, is ripe in England, France, Italy and even in the United States, but Mex- | ica must wait for further deyelop- ment before such ideals ran come to fruition here.’ > today in the trial of of Mrs. Florence Barton near last, with tes: street corner was fatally wounded. was on automobile mechanic at the Grand avenue at. Vighteenth street at about two minutes before midn ght on October 2. KKANBAS CITY, Mo.. May 31..—Den- xel Chester, charged with the mur of Miss Florence Barton, who was shot to death, supposedly by a high- wayman the night of October gst, while motoring near the city w.th toward Winter, her fiance, came into court today prepared to testify in his own behalf at his trial which has been in progress for a week. Chester has nbt spoxen since last fall when he .made. two unsuccessful efforts to commit suicide in the Brok en Bow, Neb., jail, following recapture after a sensatio! escape from a train near Broken Bow. Arrangements were made for the defendant to write his replies to questions, which must be read to the jury ACCUSED FRIEND OFFERS ALIBL KANSAS CiTY, May 31.—Fred Rob- erts, awaiting trial on a churge of first degree murder in conneguion with the death of Miss Piorence Barton, today went on the stund in the defe of Denzel Chester, on trial charged w the murder, declared Chester was with him the night of the tragedy, neither of them had’ been near the} scene of’ ther tragedy. and then said repeated attempts had been made | by members of the Barton family to induce him to sign -a statement say- ing that Choster was the man wro had fired the shot that killed Miss Parton. lioberts waid he.was offered a. zara in any town he cared to locate he would sign such a statement more money thar’ I had ever seen and release from ail charges per.ding Apainst him. These offers wers made to kim a number of times, ho sa‘d, while he was awaiting trial on charge of highway robbery in Joseph, Mo: Once he was taken to a denti office, he saig, handcuffed to a deputy | sheriff named Bush, then handcuffed to the dentist, and. kept there all afternoon, while an attempt was made to, persuade him to sign a statement. that Chester had fired the fatal shot. William Barton, a cousin of the slain girl, made the proposition, he eaid.- Blanche Ryan. urged him to sign such a statement, he sald, tell- ing how she had gotten $1,500 and the freedom of Ernest McKowan as a result of:making a statement. } Roberts said: his wife also urged | him to sign the statement, but that) he refused to do so because it was not! true. . Several trips were made by var- ious persons to St, Joseph to induce him to make a statement, he said: Twice members of the Barton fain- ily were there, and once I. B. Kim brell, specia! prosecutor, visited him. B. J. Curtin, a f-rmer. assistant Prosecuting attorney, . testified tha‘ Ernest McKowan had been released St. 1000,000 provided in NO OBSTACLE TO BUILDING OPERATIONS, IS| |CLAIM OF SANTA FE OFFICER] Ege ara prvjodiiial to Sted bieicrtes wan” |) made to the interstate commerce commission today by shippers in that territory through chambers of | commerce and various commercial organizations. Practically afl rates to and from Texzs are based on what is known as Texas common point tertitory, the complaint said, but to this rate was added numerous and varied dif- | broke. ferentials described as neediessly | ‘The area known as Woodland Dik high. Request was made that the ]ins District No. ‘5 is approximately Texas railroad commission be au- ! nine miles long and two to three miles thorized by the commission to make @ readjustment of these differen- tials. — SHOP FORCES CUT. TOPSKA, Kan. 31.—Approxi May ) head will be laid off at the hops in Topeka and a cor- forces reduction Albuaue, ; Richmond, Cal.. Th: go. vice presi 4, an Alleged Slayer of Kansas City Girl Seen on Downtown. Street About Hour of Crimey Defense Shows ~ KANSAS CITY, veRy, 31.—The defense developed an alibi Denzel Chi ester, accused of the murder here the night of October 2, y that Chester was seen at a downtown t the time the state alleges Miss Barton on & $10,000 bond furnished by an em- William Neville; who testified he{P!oye of tho Barton Shoe company. “I knew the Bartons were back of municipal garage and a friend of the|‘h® bond and knew what dependable defendant, said he saw Chester on people they were, Curtin testified. le to admit Mc- “L deemed it advi: Kowan to pee ‘ig EFFORT T0 CUT NAVY ACT FAILS WASHINGTO? fort to'cut $15 0 the bill for continuing the naval appr 1916 in the priation building program failed today senate. The vote was 35 to ten Republicans and ten Democrats vot ing to reduce the building fund and seven Democrats voting with the ma jority of the Republic to stand by the oopamittse Reieind tions Aged Man Gives Life in Saving 3-Year-Old Boy ALLIANCE, Neb., May 31.—John J. Vance, sixty years of age, died suddenly ‘yesterday a few minutes after he had jumped into a pool of water to save a three-year-old boy from drowninz Prior to the reseue Vance had been at work building a cement sidewalk and physicia: ; said the shock of plunging into the cool water while in an overheated condition caused heart failure. Man Accused ‘Of Stealing Battery Is Returned Here H. charge of stealing a battery from the Exide service station, was arrested at Wheatland on information wired from the sheriff's office in Casper. Sheriff Lee Martin left yesterday afternoon | to return the man here. The party | arrived at Orin Junction last night }and-were forced to remain there until today due to a breakdown. r —————_— STATE OFFICE ABOLISHED, WASHINGTON, May 31.—Abolition of the <ffice of general manager, Prisoners’ Relief society, held by Denver S. Dickerson, of for. [mer superintendent of fede was announced today 1 L. Bowles of the society's board of directors, Ir. E, 5 udding. presi. dent of the society, will resume active charge. Mr. Dickerson 1:0 longer be- ing connected with tha ‘society. |Washington People | Are Driven From | Home and Crops | Flooded, Report. WOODLAND, Wash., May | 31.—Flood waters of the Co- | larnbi river which broke \through 75 feet of dike six miles north of here last night were spreading today after having flooded nearly 5,000 acres io @ depth of 8 to 10 feet. No loss of life was suffered as warning was given all residents of the flooded area. Dam age wan chiefly to crops and w > ¢ mated at from $300,000 to $500,100. | At 5 o'clock this morning the wa | jter broke through a culvert on the| orthern Pacific fill, causing further | | spread of the flood. The culvert had| jbeen blocked up with sandbags| against the rising wators during the | night / either the town of Woodland, | which {s on high ground, nor the} railroad tracks. which parallel the appeared to by in any danger Crops of whe: ots and potatoes | were destroyed and sume cattle were endangered. Meagre reports received here were that 490 or 500 of the refugees has escaped from the district with com: parative ense but hastily. The pump. ing station at Burch Slough was swept . Of rifle force. P. Wood, wanted in Casper on a| away within 30 minutes after the dike wide, and contains 12,000 acres. Preparations have been made for the accommodation here of the refu gees. The pressure of the rising wa- ters tore a hole 7° feet wide in the dike, which is 15 feet high, 70 feet wide at the base and 20 feet wide at the top. The dike burst at the mouth of Burrows creek, two miles into the lowlands with When first reports of th (Continued on Page 6.) nrough Florida Now || Residence Of ||. Bryan, Report NEW YORK, May 31.—William Jennings Bryan will vote in Flor- ida in the future. While here today he announced that his actual resi- dence in that state would become his legal residence. He was | fluenced in making the vhange, he said, by the state of Mrs. Bryan's health, and in his new home ex- pected to concern himself as much aus ever with public affairs. He said: “Mrs. Bryan's health is such that it is necessary fer us to live in the south, and, having lived in Miami for eight years, we have chosen that city for our permanent home.” cis whiemesnaca har | State Rights In | Road Work Looms As Federal Issue WASHINGTON, May 31.—The is sue of the rights of states as opposed to those of the federal government is threatening to become the subject of debate in congress in regard to high ways. The issue thus far has reached the Stage of discussion, only in the sen ate postoffices and post roads com. mittee at hearings soon to be com Ieted on the Townsend bill to estab- an interstate highway system | and to create a federal hign commis sion. Members of the committee from the southern states have indicated, however, that the question of author- ity as between the states and the fed-| eral government will be raised when | the Townsend bill reaches the senate Provisions of the Townsend bill give | the proposed highway commission of five members authority to pass finally on the roads to be constructed with the $100,000,000 federal aid appropria-| tion. Negro College Building Fired MACON, Ga, May 3 31.—The main} building“ of Central City college, a} negro institution of 300 students here, | was set on fire and destroyed early today by an insane negro woman who appeared on the campus stripped of all clothing and who stoned the build- | BALL SCORES UN SBS Puc) Sega VES EE Sa) NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati— R. H. E. St. Louis ___-__ 93000032005 8 2 Cincinnati ___ 0000010401—6 13 2 Batteries—Walker and Clemons; Luque and Wingo. At New York— R. H. E, Philadelphia ___011002114—10 15 2 New York______ 0000200125 9 3 Baiteries—Meadows, Hubbell and Brug Barnes, Sallee, Perritt and Smith. At Boston— R. H. E. Brooklyn _-____ 0000001214 10 0 Boston 000100100—2 10 4 Batteries—Grimes and Miller; Fillingim, Scott and Gowdy. At Pittsburgh— R. H. E. Chicago __1000010013 0 1—7 17 1 Pittsburgh 0001000113006 14 2 Batteries — Vaughn, Freeman and Daly; Cooper, Carlson, Hamilton and Schmidt. At Chicago— _ St. Louis 010022003—8 14 2 Chicago 200013010—7 16 3 Batteries—Kolp, Palmero, Shocker and Sev- ereid, Collins; Mulrennan, Davenport, Hodge and Yaryan. At Philadelphia—(Fi Boston 00 0 rs R. H. E. Game)— R. H. E. 5 10 1 101—5 011—3 8 3 and Walters; Harris and 2 Philadelphia ___ 0 0 1 Batteries—Mye Perkins. At Philadelphia— (Second Game)—R. H. E. Boston 000031040—8 lil 0 Philadelphia _._.000000004—4 9 6 Batteries—Pennock and Ruel; Hasty and Perkins. At Detroit— Cleveland 00031 Detroit ___.01010 Batteries—Mails an Ainsmith. At Washington— R. H. E. 3—7 12 0 O—4 8 1 Dauss and 3 1 R. H. E. New York _____ 000020003—5 13 2 Washington ____6 7130100 *—12 17 1 Batteries—Hoyt, Sheehan and Schang, De- vouner; Zachary and Gharrity. RUTH GETS HOMER WITH TWO ON WASHINGTON, May 31.—Wit 31.—With two men on base, “Babe” Ruth hit a ome run in the ninth inning of the game here between the New York and Washington Americans. Zachary was pitching. It was Ruth’s 15th home run of the season. PILOT IS GIVEN CLEAN BILL, NEW PROBE ORDERED WASHINGTON, May 31.—Investigation by the inspector general of the army of the airplane crash at Morgantown, Md., Saturday, in which four officers and an enlisted man in the army and two civilians lost th lives, was ordered today by Secretary Weeks. Instructions transmitted by |Major General March, chief of staff, directed that every ing before entering to apply the toren, |Wns!® of the disaster be carefully re-| This investigation will be independ All students got out of the building | Viewed. Tae report will form the basis CD" Of | wihut injury. The loss 8 esttmated!for any ft n which may be | OO ¢ at $100,000. decided upon by war department. | Por wict at port exonerated the pilot, Stantey Ames, and said t DISARMAMENT ATTITUDE BEING ~~~ | machine. The by the inspector gen- 1 presumably will be of wider Sco} wever, and jot the statement made air attache of the who re in the WASHINGTON, May 31.—“Infor- high administration quarters. The |plane from Was on mal feelers,” with respect to an in- | purpose, it is understood, was to de- | field, but who a ternational agreement for a reduc- velop the aftitude of foreign gov- (it, saying that b ot | tion of armaments already have | ernments on the question before any way down ct of balance been put out by the American gov- | ‘informal negotiations are under- and that was mes out of ernment, it was learned soday in | taken. icontrol of i « | | | |