Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 1

ita -~ RESOLUTION To PROBE DISASTER INTRODUCED I THE U.S SENATE Investigaton to Cover Entire District Urged By Frelinghuysen in Supporting Movement Weather Forecast Gay warmer with probable snow. VOLUME VI WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.— Investigation of the Knicker- bocker theater disaster by a senate committee is proposed in a resolution introduced to- day by Senator Capper, Re- publican, Kensas, ® member of the penate district of Columbia committee. “Under the rules tho;resolution was re- ferred to the audits and control com- mittee. : Supporting the resolution, Senator Frelinghuysen, Republican, New Jer- sey, sald the investigation should be| ment to the world, made yesterday when the Nacion’s Montevideo correspondent! & “widespread one of the entire dix trict government® adding that he knew from personal knowledge that ede yy it many bulldings in Washington wero iret ved otf “fire traps’ which might at any time |*fotlo voyage, while anghored_ 0 gad otareaee thVeni South Georgia island on January 5. “{ think the time has come when rome committees of congress should be appointed to inquire into the whole pubject of the enforcement of laws in the District of Columbia,” Senator Frelinghuysen declared. “For ono thing, there is a laxity of traffic Inw. as due to aboard the Norwegian steamship Pro; teasor Cruvel. H Captain Hussey bore a death certi- ficate made out at South Georgia is- Also there is no method whereby those ‘Alexander Gfacklin, certify to examined as|my beat knowledge and belief that) to thelr qualifications for driving.|the cause of death was atheroma in Proportionately there are twice as|the arteries of the heart. Before death | many traffic accidents here as in oth-!he had not suffered an infectious or or cities. * contagious disease.” “Tt {= time congress paid some atten- ‘This certificate was signed by Dr. ton to this matter to the end that the | Macklin as surgeon of the expedition. lives of residents here may bo pro-|'rhe body arrived at Montevido tn a tected.” hermetically sealed zinc shell, covered It was stated that the audits com-| wit wood. | Captain Hussey told La Nacton’s orrespondent that the Quest arrived _Bouth Georgia islaad- with her main wireless plant out of commission | Que to damage by heavy storms during the Voyage, which otherwise was un- eventful. Sir Ernost had bean in the pest of health throughout the trip. ‘The dy before his death ho landed) oh the tslavid to supervise the pur- chase of provisions and returned io the ship apparently well. After sup- per he went tosthe cabih and talked with his companions. ‘At 8:80 on the morning of January 5 he felt aharp pains in his back and | called the doctor, who had hardly be- gun preparing remedies when the ex- plorer died without uttering another word. TOWNLEY ACCUSED AGAIN JACKSON, Minn, Jan. 80—A. C. ‘Townley, president of the National ‘Nonpartisan league, was released from the Jackson county jail here today after serving | 90-day sentence for violation of the state act. for St. Paul ) ‘When asked why the Quest did not | ‘Townley immodiately left inform the Falkiand islands with her i to visit his wife who is ill. minor wireless set, Captain Hussey said {t was not sufficiently powerful. JACKSON, Minn, Jan. 30—After|‘rhe wiroless equipment of the Pro-| serving a 90-Gay sentence for viola-|rogsor Cruvel also was cut of order, tion of the state espionage act, A. C. ne declared. ; , president of the National x Ne league, will be released from the county jail here this morn: ing. ‘Townley has promised to appear Fargo, N. D., on February 6 to swer a charge of cémplicity in the alleged embezzlement of $3,000 by J. J. Hastings, from the Scandinavian- ‘American bank of Wargo, Hastings js a former officer of the bank and is being sought. $100,000 Fire In Colorado Town Winter Ascent Of Mt. Rainier Will Be Tried| SEATTLE, Jan. 80.—An ascent of} 14,408 feet of the summit of Mount) Rainier will be started next Thursday by Jacques Bergue and Jean and Jacques Landry, according to their announcement, {n an effort to accom- plish a feat which mountainecrs sny never, before has been attempted in YUMA, Colo. Jan. 30—The main | winter. } business block of Yuma was wiped out| The signal corps of the United by fire at midnight Sunday and three States army has made arrangements firemen were injured seriously in| to send men to the base of the moun- fighting the flames which were|tain and thus afford every possible brought under control at daybreak.|means of communication, | ‘The loss is estimated at approximately| They will carry only light packs Increasing cloudiness tonight with snow, not so cold west portion; Tues CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1922. Sudden Passing of Sir Ernest Shackleton Over Three Weeks Ago Is Made Known With Arrival of Body at Montevideo; Wireless Equipment Too Weak to Send News Ahead BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 30.—(By The Associated Press.)—More than three weeks) d en the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, oes aa y body arrived at Montevideo. a series of wireless mishaps. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, D. C., dan. 30.— Word has been been recetved here from J. W. Sammon, of Kemmerer, whose son was the only known Wyo ming victim of the Knickerbocker horror, that the body will be shipped to Kemmerer. This will be done as soon as arrangements can be made. ‘A shirt service here will be attend- ed by many Wyoming _ SHANTUNG P Choir Member Goes Insane At High Mass ROME, Jan %0.—(By The Asso- ciated Press)—Suddenly becoming violently insaney a member of the pontifical choir today created a sen- sation in the sistine chapel during the requiem mass for the late Pope Benedict XV by shouting: “Down with the pope!” He insisted upon leading the pro- cession out of the chapel, preceding the cardinals and somewhat rough- elbowing Cardinal Vannutelii be- fore he was overpowered by the Swiss guards and locked up, piuebeamse Ss hse 1) STATE TAX IS HELD INVALID WASHINGTON, Jan, 30.—A tax im- posed by Oklahoma upon incomes de- rived fromthe gale of oll and gas pro- uced under leases upon restricted In- $100,000. The origin of the blaze is/and their food will consist of dried unknown. Beef, prunes and cheese. today by the supreme court. t telegraphs, was ascribed | | the British explorer, and its announce- The delay, La} by Capt. L. Hussey, who ac- aboard the steamship Quest, on which he was making another Ant- terre 2 Ss COLLEGE YOUTH ONLY WYOMING the undertaker. Sammon was struck on tho right temple by 2 steel girder, and death probably was instantanepus, His body was not otherwise disfigured. ‘He will be buried in a lieutenant’s uniform. that this could not be done without a settlement of the Shantung railway question and that therefore it was un- wise to refuse the proffered adjust- ment. ‘A refusal, {t was realized might alienate the English-speaking nations, to the detriment of their future rela- tions with her. he decision, it is pointed out, may throw a damper on the efforts of the commercial and other organizations to raise funds for the cash redemption of the Shantung railway, but the funds subscribed, it ts argued, ca be used in redemption of the treasury issue at the first available opportunity, and thus efface the last trace of the dis- pute. ADJUSTMENT SEEN AT CONFERENCE. WASHINGON, Jan, 20.—(By The Associated Press)—Further indica- tions that a settlement of the Shan- dian lands was held unconstitutional|tung controversy was imminent do- veloped today when the Japanese and LAMPITT GOES ON TRIAL FOR CRIME BRITISH EXPLORER OF ANTARCTIC FAME DEAD \ NUMBER. 95. | ORAL HEARING IN PICKFORD CASE I$ HELD CARSON CITY, Nev. Jan. 30— | Oral arguments on a motion by At- | torney General Leonard B. Fowler | | to have the divorce decree of Mary Pickford from Owen E. Moore dis- solved as illogal, were made bere to- | day before the state supreme court by Fowler and by Miss Pickford’s attorney, Gavin McNab of San Fran- cisco. Briefs have been submitted by both sides and a decision by the court {s the next and final step in the case. Fowler attacked the divorce de- cree, which was granted by Judgo Frank P. Langan in’ the district court at Minden, March 2, 1920, | the interest of tho state of Nevada. VICTIM OF BIG THEATER CRASH on the ground that Moore and Miss Pickford were guilty of fraud and collusion and that Judge Langan had no jurisdiction since the par- ties were bona fide residents of Los Angeles. He declared the courts of many states had held the state to be a third party in divorce cases. McNab replied that the attorney general could not have appeared in the divorce trial on the side of eith- er plaintiff or defonlant nor as an independent intervener, and that the district court’s judgment was irro- vocably final since neither party to the divorce had ever appealed. CHINESE FAVOR U. S. ROPOSALS |British-American Plan tor Adjustment of Differences Is Held Feasible; Ques- tion Still Dominates Meet PEKING, Jan. 27.—(By The Associated Press.)——The government is understood to hold that the final Shantung proposal at the Washington conference, as framed by the British and American delegates, While it was felt.to be important that the problem of the port of Kiao Chow should also be should be accepted. adjusted, it was realized Chinese delegations were called to- gether to resume their conversations. BBvery issue of the Shantung prob- lems previously has been settled ex- cept details of the Tsing Tao-Tsinanfu railroad settlement and resumtion of the negotiations was taken to mean th. two groups were ready again to take up discussion of the railroad ques- tion. At the same time, a call was issued for a meeting late in the day of the naval committee of 15, presumably to diseass the Japanese reply on fortifi- cations which is the only feature of the five-power naval treaty remaining uncompleted. ‘The Chinese, it was said, would be willing to grant the Japanese cconten- tlon for Japanese experts with full tive as traffice manager and chief ac countant, but would ask the Japanese to agree that these officials should be subordinate to the Chinese managing airector, who on all Chinse railroads has authority over the traffice man ager. Members of the Chinese delegation indiented that the prospect of a set- flement of the vexing railroad prob- tern was based to some extent on ad- vices lately received by them from Peking. It was thovght in Chinese circles that the Japanese probably would mest the Chinese half way in reporting an agreement on the basis of some modification of the Japanese proposal urged upon the Chinese dele- gates last woek. The Casper Daily SCORES HURT IN rile [| THEATER COLLAPSE Under Falling Roof | Death Toll Mounts as Ruins 0. “heater in Fashionable Section of Nation’s Capital Are Seare d for Bodies; People Caught and Girde _ Broken by Snow Weight, 3” ‘Are Crushed to Death in Splinte?%,¢ Crash WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—With a total of 108 dea % ruins of the Knickerbocker motion picture Zs ad 133 injured removed from the theater at an? ‘ly hour today, the rescuers were still straggling with the heavy wreckage left when the 6 uwladen roof of the structure col- lapsed during the showing of a comedy feature bill Saturday night. Brigadier General Bandholt: charge of the rescue work, said were no mcre dead or injured. | It was believed, however, that the section now being explored would yield few additional to the awtul list of dead and injured, it being near the rear and under the part of the bal cony which held np when the front of it crashed upou the theater pit be neath the impact of the falling roof. A party of the rescuers early today T commandant of federal troops in the district, in personal be said definitely there KNOWN DEAD WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. (By The Associated Press.)— he identified dead in the Knickerbocker theater catastrophe Zz, it might be 24 hours before it could had been struggling for hours to re-| are: sense from tho part of the wreckage now being overtzrned, one man be Meved to be yet allve although tm prisoned under the mass for nearly) 36 hours. The great weight c* the}ter. steel beams and concrete which | crashed with the roof have in many| instances made the rescue of victims| harrowingly slow "snd difficult. x The capital city was bowed m grief today to learn the full extent of the tragedy with the recovery of victims yesterday and inst night. This was| the more intensely shared by the rest} of the country because of the consid- erable number of visitors who sut: fered in the catastrophe. President Harding, in a statement last night, said the tragedy had left him with the “‘same inexpresstblé sorrow which | has come to all Washington and which will »e sympathetically felt throughout the land.” Assutance that an exhaustive inyes- tigation would be made of the disasten, not only with a view to fixing blame but giso of determining whether other theaters and public buildings in Wash- ington are unsafe in event of heavy snow such as that which caused the collapse. of the building Saturday night, was given today by leaders tn congress as well as officials of the District of Columbia. An inquiry already has been under- taken by the commissioners of the dis- trict of Culumbia, while in the senate ‘@ resolution calling for an investiga- tion by ® senate committee was intro- duced by Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas. Representative Mondell, Re publican leader of the house announc- ed, however, that the house would not undertake to investigate the cause of the aisaster until the district of Col- vmbin agencies have concladet an in vulry. Seavetary Hoover deciarod a lessun | been taught at great sacrifice, and announced that an effort to work out a standard building code for use In all cities of the country as a means of preventing similar catastrophes was being made by a committee of leading + architects in connection with the com merce department. Ww Wild rumors that the walls of the| {fated theater had collapsed on res- | cuers, killing many, spread through-| out the city today. Additional excite- ment was caused by reports that roofs of a number of apartment houses and buildings had collapsed under the weight of the snow. All such rumors | proved unfounded. | |K While the best available information | was that tho dead numbered 108 it was|/¥ considered lkely that rechecks of the| death list might alter the total slight. | ; | Representative Mondell in announc ing that no investigation would be| made by the house said the District of Columbia committee would however, keep in close touch with the situation. | ‘A resolution for an investigation, | howeter, was introduced in the house (Continued on Page Four.) fleid, formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘ashington correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle. | brother-Inlaw of | Utah. | Minister Bianchi of Guatemala. Un. Mary Ethel Atkinson. Former Representative A. J. Scott Montgomery. Miss Verunica Murphy. Miss Vivian Ogdeu. Ty. F. O'Donnell. Mrs: D. F. O'Donnell. j Mrs. Carrie Parson. | Miss Louise Pitcher, Miss Hazel Price. | Mrs. Maro Russell. W. B. Sammen of Wyoming, dent at Georgetown untvorstty. W. L. Schofield, Danville, Va. Laverne Sproule, 17, Chicago, nephew of Representative Elliott W. Bareh-| Miss Helen Barchfleld, his pees Albert Baker. Archie Bell, formerly of Vineland, . a. Mra, Daisy Garvey Bowden. Chauncey ©. Brainerd, Wi ae Mrs. Chauncey ©. Brainerd. Alfred Brosseau, North Adams, | , Mass. student at Georgetown untver-| goroule of Tlinols. sity. | | Clarence B. Stephenson, Boston. Dr. James F. Shea. Lewis Strayer, Washingtno corre- | spondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Mrs, Cora C. Signourey. | Miss Marc H. Smith. | Victor HI. Sturgeon. Mra. M. Trade Taylor. William Tracy, Miss Gladys Thomas. Christine Thomason. Charles Cowles Tucker. Mrs. Charles Cowles Tucker. Joseph W. Beal. Miss M. ©. Bikie. Miss Frances Bikle. William R. Bourne. Guy §. Eldridge, Salt Lake City,| Senator Smoot of Albert Bushler. William M. Canby. | Mrs. D. H. Covell. W. N. Crawford. W. M. Crocker. Miss Margaret Dutch, Ludington,| Jacob Urdong. Mich. | Mrs. Jacob Urdong. Vinson W. Dauber. | Louis F. Vallyntine. toca ae ees Mrs. Louls F. Vallyntine. 8 Helen Dorsch. |_H. Conroy Vance, F Kirkland Duke. | Va. ie aces spaapaaye E. H. Ernest. Mrs, Hf. Conroy Vi A. G. Eldridge. burg, Vi Rais eee Mrs. Alfred G. Eldridge. D.'N, Walsh. McO. Farr. Christian Feige. John P. Fleming. Miss Mary Leo Fleming. ‘Thomas Fleming. Mrs. Virginia Farrand, William A. Walters. William Walters, Brooklyn, student at Georgetown university. Capt. William R. Warner, quarter. master corps, U. 5. A. make Mogens M. Wesson, wife of ‘ol. C. M. Wesson, jepart- ment, U. S, A. tne Miss Mildred Walford. John L. Walker, | Mrs. John L. Walker. n J. White. rs. William R. Miss M. E. Walsh. ROBBER KILLED BY ‘TRAP’ GUN DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 29.—Tha M. Leroy Lehmer. robber killed Friday night at the Cutler Laflin, Jr., 16, Chicago. Berwick, Iowa general store, and post- Miss Nannie I,2e Lambert, former-|office has been identified as Cecil of Ashboro, N. ©. |McKay, aged 25, of Ontario, Canada Panline Lamby. Deputy Sheriff Myers says he has John W. Murray, Tho Plains, Va, |information that McKay had an ac: Wyatt McKimmi complice. Julian McKinney. | Since Frank J. Dunkle reported ta dack “McKimmle. the authorities that he killed the rob- Russell Maine. (ver, Sheriff W. E. Robb says it has Mrs. Russell Maine. |bene definitely established that the Ernest E. Matellio. {man was killed by a trap gun which Mrs. Norma E. Martindale. |was automatically discharged when Miss Agnes Mellon. jthe robber pushed his way into the Mrs. Jean Mirsky. ‘store, sister, of Esther Foster. G. 8. Freeman. Mrs. Clyde M. Gearhart. Miss Mary A. Forsyth. FR. H. Hail. Douglas Hillyer. | villiam G. Hughes. | Daniel _K. Jackson. Miss Elizabeth Jeffreys. John M. Jeffreys. Oscar G. Kanston, Chicago, _his| ife and daughters, Helen and Any- Warner. Howard W. Knees! | Kneesi, son of Howard nees!. | L. Lehler. Leroy Lehmer, David H. Lyman. $3,350 FINES ADDED TO | JAIL SENTENCES GIVEN VICTIMS OF BO OZE RAID | torneys Lin I. Noble of Thermopolls, | slightest sound can be heard in eve: Prosecution Opens at Basin of Man Ac- cused of Double Murder in Wrecking William L. Simpson of Cody and C. A. Zaring of Basin, Wyo. Prosecuting At- |torney King of Hot Springs county [sill direc: the production and will be Grass Creek House BASIN, Wyo., Jan. 30.—The trial of A. D. Lampitt, charged with murder in connection with an explosion which wrecked. a bunkhouse in the Grass Creek oil field, 52_ miles southwest of here, resulting in the deaths of Harry Foight and W. GC. Seaton and injuries to three others on May 7, last, was begun in district court here at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon before Judge Percy W. Mets on Aftho state will attempt to prove that change of venue from Hot Springs |the motive for the alleged crime was county. based on jealousy of a woman's affec- The specific charge against Lam-|tiots. pitt is based on Foight’s death and ‘The defendant is represented by At lassisted by F. A. Little, county at- torney of Big Horn county, A. M. Gee of Casper and Raymond B. West of Basin. Fifty jurors appeared in the first panel and if twelve are not selected from among them atother panel will bo drawn. The trial ts being hela in the new $100,000 court house, the only ono In the Big Horn basin in which a large murder trial could be accom- modated an¢ this is the first murder trial in the building. Recently $1,500 was expehded in perfecting the acoug- tics. in the cqurt rooms and. now the part of the chamber, The crime for which Lampitt is on trial occurred in the Grass Creek oil field fifty two miles southwest of Ba- sin at 1.30 o'clock on the morning of May 7 last year. An explosion at that time awoke the camp and it was found that Harry Foight and W. C. Seaton had been killed and Ed Schroe- der, Jack Crandall nd Charles Wilcox ‘were injured. All concerned were em- ployes of the Ohio Oil company. The explosive was placed near the corner of the bunk house where Foight and Seaton were sleeping. Voight’s head and legs were blown off and the body horrilly mangled. Twelve people weve sleeping in the building at the time and it war at first thought that escap- (Continued on Page 6.) little trouble before was giyen 40 days Frannie Physician and Drugstore Owner \sa%0. Among Dozen te Plead Guilty at RRS 9 Lenine Plans Attendance at ved 30 days and $350. Minnie McDonald, mother-in-law of Genoa Meeting LONDON, Jan. 80.—Mikolai Lenine, Russian sovict premier, has tele- graphed tho Italian foreign office thay he will attend the Genoa economic conference, says a Central News w!s- patch from Rome today. (Recent Moscow dispatches an- nounced that Premier Lenine had been yamed head of the sovict Russian delegation to the conference.) Basin and “Take Medicine” the above mentioned Peter was given 30 days and $200 and at that time took occasion to inform the court that the |said Peter had failed to enumerate BASIN, Wyo., Jan. 80.—(Special to The Tribune.)—Jail |somo of his former delinquencies, hav sentences ranging from 80 to 90 days and fines aggregating} $3,350 were imposed by Judge court here when twelve alleged violators of liquor and gaM-jmatter investigated ana promised bling laws rounded up by state law enforcement and county \alter Peters sentence tn favor of Shen ing been confined in the Wyoming penitentiary and also in the state of lOregon. The judge then ordered the te Percy W. Metz in district officers at Lovell, Cody and Frannie entered pleas of guilty. jist Wickwire’s jail should it be found One pleaded not guilty and his case was set for trial ‘Those arrested in raids at C ybull all gave bonde for thetr appearonce. Chester Darling, admitting to being the fathe: in luxury [aya in Jatt that Peter had camouflaged the court, of seven and unable to live} Charles was assessed $300 and 30|the state the tted to al line claimed that one of “dicks had furnished him to buy the articles needed (Continued on Page 6.) money Peter McDonald, who admi