Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 1

. 000 LEFT HOMELESS IN NEW MEXICO FLOOD SASTER | . Crihune | FAMINE RELIEF OLUME V CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1921. Yor re \¢ only building tert standing in| PLANS Autlined for Transportation of TWO HELD FoR “YNCH MO beriea: < Thaee aie on an With Adjustment of Disputes B OF 200 ¥ j Less Than Haif Dozen Buildings Stand- ing in Town of Hatch Where All Adobe! Houses Crumble; Residents of Valley Flee to Hills With Home Belongings EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 19.—“Send a doctor as soon a: you can. We need a doctor worse than anything. Our women and children are suffering from exposure, hysterics and fright.” This was the plea of H. F. Fieldness as he stood in water a foot deep in a telephore booth at Hatch, N. M., and talked NUMBER 266. | to the El Paso Herald. | Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday, slightly cooler tonight in south portion. “The only water. “Over = dered homeles: are suffering. “The Salvation sentatives here last night Paso. They arrived with he night train “We need somebody to take « of the sitution who is not a People have by the been ren flood and the the row the detailed contract for Am ican relief for the Russian famine, ‘ms granting the Americans freedom of movement and control of the food distri or: Lyman United States, and Litvinoff for So agreed this afternoon to sign ¢ Army sent repre from BH some bread for the Maxim bution RIGA, Aug. 19.—(By The Associated Press.)—Tentative plans for the transport of food to the famine regions of Rus- ia. were discussed by the Bolshevik experts and representa- tives of the American relief administration yesterday. Novorrossisk, on the Black sea, was considered the most available port from which the Russians promises adequate whe are Brown, Pittsburgh ....001 404 122—14 20 6| “We must have food and bedd Philadelphia ..910 000 020— 3 11 1) from the outside, for our people wer Batteries — Morrison and Brottem; | unable to save little of anything wher Meadows, Betts and Bruggy. they had to flee “The houses here were almost all adobe and they crumbled rapidly when the water chme down from the rd Threat to Shoot Them Down “bike Rats” ‘atent | BALL SCORES Any Theory of Murder Must Provide for RIGA, Le a, Aug. 19.—(By Checks Bloodthirsty Crowd Intent National League Burch and Mrs. Obenchain, Says Pros- Associated Press.)—Walter Upon Lynching Negro Trio At Philadelphia (Ist game) R. H. E. really sufferers. BARNSTABLE, Mass., Aug. 19.—A mob of nearly 200 men and women carrying ropes early today stormed the local | jail, threatening to lynch three Cape Verde Island negro pri- i . |soners charged with highway robbery and criminal assault ecutor in Replying to Defense | on a young white woman at Buzzard’s bay. rail tr te Vol Of the northern Riga pC dered be inoff raised the y's rence, America At Philadelphia (2nd game) R. H. BE. Pittsburgh ....010 000 000— 1 question at nee on the LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.—Maleomb McLaren, chief in- vestigator for the district attorney's office, late last night commented Ralph R. Obenchain’s statement that the man /from Sheriff Irving L. Rosenthal. who killed J. Belton Kennedy here August 5 would be in jail| There were shouts of “let's by Sunday. McLaren said that he would act on any evidence warrant-' ing-another arrest, and that the only desire of officials was to see the slay- er of Kennedy arrested and convicted. “But,” he added, “any theory of the case must provide for Arthur C. Burch and Mrs. Madelynne Oben- chain, now accused. Tho facts show oo strong a case against them to be disregarded. Coincident with this statement it was announced by Deputy District Attorney Keyes that the prosecution had examined two new witnesses late yesterday and added that the case against the two prigoners, recently in- dicted, was becoming stronger every da; Mr. McLaren said this morning that while his office had been working on the theft@f agp automobile stolen on the night of the murder and later re- covered at Santa Monica, he consid- ered the automobile and the thief for whom, investigators sent out advance instruetions along the Salt Lake rail- road, asking apprehension yesterday, had been eliminated as a pertinent factor in the case. It was thought yesterday the man might have been~one of the two “for- eigners’’ whom Mrs.. Obenchain told authorities had’ brushed by her in the Beverly glen shortly after the shoot- ing of her fiance. EX-HUSBAND MAY BE JALLED BEFORE JURY. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19.—Ralph R. Obenchain, former husband of Mrs. Madelynne Obenchain, with Arthur C. Burch with the mur- der of J. Belton Kennedy, may be called before the Los Angeles county grand jury to tell what, if anything, he knows of the case. ‘This was ated today by Asa Keyes, deputy district attorney, following the publi- cation of interviews with Obenchain in which the latter was quoted as saying the innocence of the accused would be established and the “real criminal” produced within five days. f Obenchain knows who killed Kennedy the grand jury as well as the district attorney’s office would like, to know also,” Keyes said. He declared he would’ investigate the matter thoroughly today and prob- ably take steps to have Obenchain brought before the jury if it develops he was correctly quoted. The deputy district attorney said the fact that Obenchain is attorney for Mrs. Obenchain would not in his opinion, preclude his being called be- fore the grand jury. He said that an attorney is not privileged to withhold evidence that does not implicate his gwn client. Malcomb McLaren, a special inves- t tor employed in the case by the district attorney’s office, was quoted sterday as offering Obenchain an ointment from that office to aid n the investigation if he “knew who < Obenchain, faen told of this said the offer was cuous and absurd. Final Terms Incorporated in Letter to Irish President to Avoid “Haggling,” Says Lloyd George; Basis of Proposal Not to Be Changed in Negotiations LONDON, Aug. 19.—(By The Associated Press.) —The ritish government, declared ing i sal to Ireland, had decided on pane eee ence er tis pane into the letter e i eR alera without keeping anything back, and the sequel ha proved, he said, that it was right in adopting that course. putting the whole of its heard no suggestions from of te world except Ireland, © remarked, that the proposals had Pot cone the limit of possible conces- He had charged |4 STOLEN At 2:30 this morning 25 automobiles whose occupants in- cluded women as well as men, drove up to the local jail. They demanded the three negroes, John Dies, Ben- jamin Gonez and Joseph Andrews, get them” as the mob approached but when the jail defenders fired in the air the crowd halted. CAR IS FOUND IN RIVER Officers Leave to Investigate Report of Auto Found Bottom Un in River Which May Have Claimed Lives With the top of a Ford Sedan Warton, a local attorney last night, just visible beneath the surface of the Platte river near the Rolla Clark ranch on the Alcova road, authorities this noon set out on which was stolen from Harry 0. an investigation ‘trip which they feared would result in the finding of-one or more bodies in the machine. * the sheriff's office this morning, the machine was standing upright com- pletely submerged in water. ‘Tracks of the machine showed the precip!- tous descent which it made on enter- ng the water. While Mr. and Mrs. Warton were attending a show last night they left the Sedan standing in. front of the Masonic temple. When they returned for it about 11 o'clock they found thatthe machine had been stolen. ‘The theft was immediately reported to the authorities and a complete search was made. Towns for miles around were notified to be on the look- out and the, sheriff's. force took vati~' ous trips along the highways in this vicinity. The fact that the car was able to make a get-away indicates that the thioves drove it at break neck speed to keep ahead of pursuers. It is prob- alde that while the thieves were at- tempting to make their escape they drove the machine over the bank and into the river. ‘The fact that the doors of the ma- chine were both closed further sup-|" ported the belief that one or more bodies would be found in the car. The fact that the car was in the Platte river was reported to the sher- iff's office this morning by Mrs. Rolla Clark, wife of a rancher, near whose place the machine was located in the water. At a late hour this afternoon no advices were recéived from the men who went to investigate the case. ———— S. N. Brooks is leaving for South Fork inn, where he will spend the nd. ‘According to reports which reached | BERGDOLL ON MOVE, REPORT GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 19.— Grover C. Bergdoll, draft evader, says Zeitung today, arrived from Munich three days ago and now is stopping in a hotel at St. Gall. Bergdoll came from Germany avoid extradition to the United the newspaper asserts. He the Amterican has is perfectly safe from extradiuon. Bill, Authorizing Wood to Retain His Rank Fought WASHINGTON, Aug. tion the Maj. Gen. the governorship of the Philippines without’ giving up his army commis- sion. A meeting of the military com- mittee was caMed by Chairman Kahn senate bill which would permit the Thurgovie in Constance to States; an American passport, it adds, and now 19.—Opposi- has developed in the house to Leonard Wood to accept| Chief Warden James Boland warned the mob back, shouting that at the first attempt to attack the jail they would “be shot down like rats.” The warning had its effect, but the crowd remained outside the jail near- ly an hour and a half before dis- persing. Dies and Gomez were held in $15,000 bail each yesterday and Andrews was to be arrainged today. All three have been identified by Miss Gertrude But- ler and William Eldredge as the men ‘who held them up and criminally as- saulted Miss Butler at Buzzard's bay early in the week A crowd yesterday ‘attampted to get John Dies from the Wareham lockup, but dispersed when the police fired over their heads. ; ——— oe ROAD BILL IS AMENDED WASHINGTON, * Aug. 19.—By a vote of to the senate today adopted an amendment to the federal aid road bill reducing from $100,- 000,000 ~-to"™"$75,000,000" the atniount year, a League to Meet PARIS, Aug. 19—(By The Associ ated Press)—The special meeting of the council of the league of nations to referred to it by the allied supreme council willbe held in Geneva. begin- ning August 29. Philadelphia 000 102 10°— 4 Batteries — Zinn and bell and Henline. At Boston— Uhicago . 000 000 200-2 4 3 Boston =~ 001 000 20°— 3 6 3 Batteries — Freeman and O'Far- reli; Watson, McQuillan and O'Neill. At Brooklyn— St. Louis 111 041.100— 9 17 9 Brookly ...000 010 003— 4 13 4 Batteries — Pfeiffer and Ainsworth; Miljus Smith Schupp and Krueger. R. H. E. At New York— Cincinnati 110 010 400— 3 1 New York ....340 010 00*— 8 12 Batteries — Rixey Donohue Wingo Hargrave; | der American League At Detroit— Li Boston 102 200 070—! Detroit 322 000 O10— 8 15 Dauss, Middleton, | St. On Augusi 29) R. 0. BE. At St. Louis— Washington -.... Louis At Detroit— R. HE Boston COAL PRODUCTION UP. DENVER, coal in Colorado during July showed ceding month, according to the re Viscount Ishii, pres-' port of James Dalrymple, state coal ident of the league council, sent out|mine an official call for the meeting today.| total July production was 663,204 tons. inspector, issued today. The Mickey Carroll, a woman who PRINCIPALS IN | COAST MURDER STOPPED HERE Mickey Carroll and W. A. Hightower Were Linked With Redlight, Police Say; Both Accused in Heslin Case has featured in several notorious |escapades in Denver and who is now being held in connection with for today to take up the bill.|the killing of Father Heslin, Colmz Catholic priest in California to- Representative McKenzie, lican, Illinois, said “* dangerous precedent Repub- would be a to tion while he retains his commission. ‘ge military | ‘ing been a denizen of the formerly) notorious Irish World, a David street ther with W. A. Hightower held as principal in the grewsome permit an/crime were formerly residents of Casper. army officer to hold a civilian posi-| Mickey, it is said, is known to the underworld of Casper hay- REACHED IN } Premier Lloyd George today sion. “_ want to make it clear,” continued the prime minister,” that the govern- ment did not put forth haggling terms but put forward everything they could possibly concede to purchase peace and the good will of the Irish people. In Ireland itself, so far as I ran see, the doubt is not so much as to the terms, but as to whether the government really means them. “Trat is a question of working out the térms * * * of elucidation and elab- oration, and not a changing of the terms! The outline cannot be altered nor the basis changed.” “Tn view of the fact that the house is about to separate, and the fact that yery disquieting statements have been made, and even of a few disquieting facts, we are bound as a government to take thought of all possible con- tingncies, however, unpleasant they may be. “The first 1s the possibility of an agreement, will have to be threshed out, which! ‘x | relations sbetween these jn which cage the details| whose.history has been so full of such | times in Casper. will take time. There is always apt) to be an atmosphere of. suspicion sur. rounding relations between 4wo coun tries’ * * * a suggestion of bad faith} if there is a misunderstanding on the slightest particular.” It would thus be the duty of the ex-| ecutive, said the prime minister, to! place a bill embodying the details and| prison had scarcely closed behind him le i principles before the parliament for immediate action, because delay is disastrous once ‘an agreement was! reached. ~ j “] wish it was not necessary to deal|toriety through the developments at-| tendant updn the crime against Fa-| ther Heslin. with the other contingency, but we} are bound to take notice of certain things which have been said. This) contingency is that our terms are re-) jected. “Were that misfortune to befall the two islands, | (Continued on Page 4, ERS TO IRISH resort which was closed here over a | year ago by order of health authori- | ties when an intensive vice cleanup jwas launched. Hightower and Thos. J. Coleman, who is now serving a sentence in the Colorado penitentiary for a hold-up of the Stockyards Na- tional bank of Denver, are both said to have visited the girl numerous Hightower is said to have stayed here for several weeks before the lights of the “red light” district were put out. When Coleman went to jail for the theft of $29,000 he stubbornly main- tained the innocence of Mickey Car- roll Coleman and she went free de- spite the fact that police and authori- ties contended that she was the “brains” of the outlaw gang and en- gineered the whole deal. After pledging to wait until Cole- man was released the doors of the before Mickey Carroll, as she was known here, made for California. She dropped out of sight for a while and came back into the limelight of no- When licensed vice flourished Casper, > been kerown Street” for many of the serious depredations which are said to have emanated {from the district. R. LE. o o and Barnes and Sny- H. E. 0 ue Batteries— Bush, Thormahlen, Karr Parks foothills and flooded the town “The water is standing in the town jseveral fect and has only receded a few inches in the last 24 hours. Two irrigation ditches are holding it the town, both between us and river, The ditch between Hatch and Rincon has been out, to allow the water to flow into the river near Rodey, a settlement in the foothills but owing to the weeds and trees in the valley, the water flows very slow ly and it looks as if it might be sev eral days before it recedes. Residents of El Paso's upper “val- jley. mostly small Mexican settlers heeding the warning of night mes: sengers of the United States ma tion service were busy all night mov ing to-higher territory. Hundreds of persons drove their stock from the lowlands into the foot hills, There was a continuous all- night procession of wagons moving from the valley into the hills, carry ing load after load of provisions and household furniture. Persons without vehicles put potatoes and other provisions into sacks and blankets which they carried on their backs to higher ground, © icans’ were seen carryin bundles clothes and food. on their back! éarrying a child in their arms, and on of also R. HW. B. , Aug. 19.—Production of|‘#tion the greasewoods, Jead@fig another child by the hand while the wife followed leading oth children, Sometimes a burro was led along with them, his back weighed heavily with stuff the family wanted to have. Many slept on the hillsides and along the high roadways without any bedding. Ordinarily Brazito, is one of the dryest looking plac on earth. Located on the side of Bar. ren foothills, the only nearby vege common to desert country, it blisters in the hot a small village, take up the question of Upper Silesia,)an increase of approximately 100,000]%¥" and looks to the average passer jtons over the production of the pre- as if it would be the last place on earth to furnish would wipe a a flood of water that ‘ay a whole town Oftentimes in a few minutes a tor rent of water many feet high will roll down a perfectly dry, dusty can yon, sweeping everything before it The flood at Brazito was of this haracter.* Clouds had been hanging over the ‘“Mesa’'—table land—and foothills aboye Brazito, but clouds are frequent at this time of the year in this section. Suddenly thers vame a loud ciap of thunder, a brilliant flash of lightning and the natives say that these were followed immediately by a solid sheet of water that began to fall. The hillsides, -composed. of hard, white clay, known locally us liche,” not soak up any of the water, but shed it like concrete. The wat flowed off the hillsides and the r: into the nes and into Hatch ¢ yon, Residents of Brazito say that Miles canyon, 30 feet wide, was carrying a head of water 20 feet deep. ‘This water spread out as ft hit the valle. but Hatch was in its direct path, with frrigation ditches barring its way to the river after it passed Hatch. Striking the banks Of these elev ditches the water formed into a and began to rise. a n 4 in} key Carroll is said to have! the “Queen of David) and to have been responsible} received the full force of the Graually: the water climbed about the adobe homes of the town substan {tial in appearance, but weaker than ordinary mud as soon as the water had penetrated the outside coating of jcement in cases where this treatment had, been given. Many of the houses had no outside coating and they svon \melted and crumbled | From the hills tie flood virtims could look back upon the homes and the places of hui s as they bad abandoned. Ons ev another, houses crumbled in the sight of th owners, destroying in many instances the accumulation of a lifetime. Not a building is standing where the thriv valley toni standing thre? days axo. today | The people who lost their business | (Continued on Page 12) the fiour, | =) sta _ SETFORSUNDAY ny of whom are known tizens out ™ sire to return to the United his was referred to Washington SOVIET COMPROMISE ACCEPTED BY HOOVER RIGA, 19—(By The Ass ciated Pre The announcement Washington of Herbert Hoover head the American relief admirt istration that an agreement had been reached on the conditions laid di dministration concern! sliet work among. the erers of soviet Russfa, here as meaning that Mr. has accepted the latest com: of the soviets on the disputed Aug 88) and Public to Join in nal Tribute to War Hero in Service at Methodist Church, Veterans F terpreted Hoover promise points While director + Funeral services over th Stanley who was killed in ac- with the Ist Di the Argonne front, will be the Methodist church at 2 Sunday afte The Rev W. C. Lowrie of nrock Bap. tist ch ge of the ceremonies. Proper tribute to the ko to Reval,|fallen comrade will be paid by ex had planned to}soldiers and sailorg participating in in Rigu not longer ‘tKan two]services through the George W. Vro- ys, Which time the. newspaper de-|man post of the can Legion ‘d-should have been: sutricient forfwhich will furnish pallbearers, color negotiations. Litvinoff’s guards and bearers, also a firing however, said his chiet squad and bugler, thus giving the remain here until tomorrow. last ceremonies a military aspect. pa Dewey Stanley enlisted May 4, A PLAGUE 1917, Rifle Range, near Golden, NING, REPORT. lo., and v signed to Co. A, 1st LONDON, Aug. 19. pt. Bn., Colorado infantry, then ravaging the Volga district transferred to Co., th U. 8. In- but there is a de fantry, and later transferred to Co. cholera epidemic there U of the 28th Infantry, where he waa cow correspondent of the Daily Her-| serving at the time of his death. He ald. During July 22,006 cases were] Was killed in action between the ddtes reported as against 42,000 in June. of October 1 and 1918, and was The soviet government has appro-|buried in an isolated grave at Exer- priated 620,000,000 rubles for the re-| mont, Ardennes, ance. lief committ initial expenses and| The body was later disinterred and has di d to levy one pound per]reburied June in grave No. pood (36 pounds) on goods traded in| 93, Section 81, 2, Argonne the free food markets. Transportation of all rits is free remains of James of Mrs. Al tion Dewey unley Walter L. whi of American Brown, European relief, is await: | Vision on graphic instructions from| held at Mr Litvinoff's o'clock said this morning of Mr. Hoov M Litvinoff serving the Gt have chai the enature chu communication would be compelled Esthonia, today to as he secre would still of Rus: rease in the says the Mos. mine is Americ ate-| et 1 cemetery, Romagne-Sous-Monfaucon, Meuse rance), The above military record an excerpt from information re- corded in the adjutant general's of. at Washington, D. C. The rec- ords show no details concerning the h of the soldier The body, which dnesday morning n held at th y pending fune — — FAMINE AID 0) ED. S AIR Aug. 19. v- ernment officials would be authorized to send 10,000,000 pesos worth of food to relieve famine sufferers of Russia under provisions of a bill introduced in the chamber of deputies by Senor members of the dorsed the measur. TWO DEAD, TWO INJURED AS CAR TURNS TURTLE located reliief rm RUSSIA OPE “QUAKER” WORKERS. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.—Amer fean Qu: will be permitted by t soviet government to send an unlim ited number of workers into Ru to give relief to the millions of ne in that country, the Americ riends Service commi was noti fied in a cable received today from Arthur Watts, representative in Mosco' This will allow the Friends mmediately to increase their number of workers in Russia, and to begin on a large scale the relief of famine con ditions which are reported to exist there. flee arrived here from Hoboken, pr-Gay mor- rrangements. action Woman and Daughter, Latter a Bride of Two Months, Meet Tragic End in Auto Accident at Sheridan SHERIDAN, Wyo., Aug. 19.—Mrs. John Wantolock and her daughter, Mrs. John Somiez, a bride of two months, were killed, and John Wantolock and Miss Eva Wantolock, another daughter, were injured last night when the automobile in which they were returning from Sheridan to their home at Monarch skidded as it Lapproached the Slater creek bridge, crashed into a bridge abutment ° ° BRITISH LONDON, Aug. 19.—(By The As sociated Press}—An announcement in favor of Welsh home rule has been made by Premier Lloyd George, says the Liverpool Post today. The premier, who made the an | nouncement at a dinner of Welsh > PREMIER TAKES STAND turned by and Ab Mrs turtle in the in the creek. ar was: uvinjured. was nstently jomietz died a °e vo nin he was taken from the tourists who Wituessed M utes afte wreckage by the accident Wantolock and Eva Wantolock, pinned down under the wreck of the automobile, would have drowned had not these tourists dragged them to safety, Wantolock suffered fractures of several and Miss Wantolock sustained a fracture of the arm. ionalists, rding to the newspaper, port a measure of Welsh devolu- tion if such were agreed upon by | the Welsh members of parliament. The home rule favored by the elsh Nationalists means a greater ree of local self-government. pledged himself, ac- to Sup- ribe Mrs. I | Kentuck tion for t promin Clay Wii to rec! the first ve. nomina- > of magistrate, fs a of Shelbyville. woman bwoman