Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 18, 1922, Page 1

| Weather Forecast f Generally fair tonight and Wednes- | day, except somewhat unsettled in southeast portion; warmer east and central portions tonight. Che Casper Daily Crihime [stu |. CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922. NUMBER 238. WYOMING CRUDE OIL PRICES SLASHED 25 CENTS | Harding Calls for Reopening of All Coal Mines Sm (i & | MONDELL NIGHT PAVING PROTESTS TO _\NEBRASKA PICKS SCHEDULED FOR = BE HEARD AUGUST 21 CANDIDATES WN KANSAS Ib ALSO VOLUME Vi Governors P° quested to Provide Military Protect: ‘or Operation of Mines; U.. oops Promised WASHINGTON, 3 will send simultaneous of all bituminous mines s® < a) ».—President Harding late today *grams directinig the operators down because of strike condi- So - CASPER. FRIDAY Elks’ Auditorium to Be Crowded for Address by Congressman Next Friday night will be “Mondell night’ in Casper. Special Meeting Set by Council Will Be Open for Remon- strances Before Final Action Is Taken on New Districts Petitioned During Last Month : Proposed remonstrances on all paving projects introduced before the Casper city council within the past month must be made at a special meeting for that prypose set for August 21. result. Frank W. ifondell, represent- ative from! Wyoming and can- didate for Senator at the fall election, will address the voters of this community at the Elks’ auditorium at § p. m. am a guest of the Young Men’s Republican club and the Mondell club. Mr. Mondell, aceompanied by Mrs. Mondell, has been making a trip through the Jackson Hole country and was present at the dedication of Ho- back Canyon in the Yellowstone. He will now make a brief speaking tour of the state and will sound the key- note of his campaign here. Congressman Mondell is in no way shirking his duty by being in the state at present as the house has re- cessed until August 15, at which time he will have completed his brief cam- paign and returned to his seat at ‘Washington. ‘An interesting talk is assured and plans for an evening of entertainment include an excellent musical program have been completed by the committee in charge. ‘The Elks’ auditorium ts being used as no other place having snfficient seating capacity for the large crowd which 18 expected could be arrariged for. z ‘The Monell patty will arrive on ‘Thursday afternoon, giving the future senator an opportunity to meet his old and new friends. A delegation of prominent Casper men left yesterday afternoon for Lander to meet the par’ ty and a committee composed of . H. B, Durham, W. B. Haselmire, R. M. oeke, Frank O'wrien, George Jarvis and others went by train to Bonneville this morning from which point they will drive to Lander and accompany the party here. TEN INDICTE FOR FRAUD IN LUMBER SALES WASHINGTON, July 18—An tn- ing conspiracy to defraud the United States out of more than $1,000,000 in connection with the disposition of government lumber following the war was returned today by the special federal grand jury, which has been in session since June 1 investigating the transactions. ‘Those named in the indictment are: John L. Phillips, Republican state committeeman for Georgia, John Stephens, partner of Phillips, Ernst ©. Morse, Charles S. Shotwell, George M. Chambers, Frank F, Sullivan, Rol- and Perry, Charles Phillips Jr., Gus Eitzen and Mitchell A. Touart, Jr. The indictment was tho first to be “ reported by the grand jury impanelled to investigate whr frauds, for which inquiry congress appropriated $500,- 900 for the use by Attorney General Daugherty and a special corps of as- sistants. house in tha heart of Greenwic' do blind battle with the destru ‘The fire started with an explosion about § a. m. Several more followed. By noon, the casualty Net stood at two dead, nearly 30 injured and three mias- ing. The toll was taken chiefly from the ranks of the fire and police de- Mobilized around the burning struc tuxe, which covered most pf tae block t @ictment against ten person® charg-|¢ WAREHOUSE EXP Tons of Brick and Debris Pile Up.as Great Holes ‘Are Torn in Building ‘Adjoining Big Tenement District NEW YORK, July 18—(By The Associated Press.)— Working feverishly to check the flames sweeping a ware- The streets for paving At that time petitions will be heard and voted on, and some real action will be the ready under consideration by the council as a result of recent petitions on the part of residents of this district are Railroad avenue from the end of the eS COAST-T0-COAST AIR FLIGHT IN ONE DAY TO BE ATTEMPTED Present pavement to the alley west of Cedar street; Eighth street from the alley west of. David to Oak street. Bleventh street from Spruce to the alley west of Chestnut street; Ninth street from Oak .to Spruce street; Thirteenth and Tenth streets from Chestnut to CY avenue; Oak, Spruce. and Walnut streets from Railroad to Elm street from Eighth to ; and Chestnut street from Railroad to Thirteenth street. ‘The district advocating the paving of CY avenue from the end of the Pavement to Fourteenth streat to Wil- low and then to Railroad avenue, asked for paving bonds to be purchased through ten annual payments, They also requested that the pavement cost not more than $2.25 per yard. All types of paving must be submitted when the specifications are presented for approval. : Another petition on a new paving Project was received last night. This new district comprises: Kimbali from Third and Railroed avenue to Kirk; on Kirk street from the aller between Kimball and Park to Sixth and Kimball streets; Beech street from the south side of Railroad to the north side of Eighth street; Fourth stréet from the alley between Kimball and Park to Kimball street; Fifth ‘reet from the alley between Kim- ball-and Park to the alley between Durbin and Beech street; Sixth street from Kimball and Kirk to the alley between Durbin and Beech; Seventh street from Beech to the alley between Beech and Durbin streets and on Kim- ball from Second and on Ratlroad to the alley between Durbin and Beech streets. A petition asking that the present paving work on Jackson street be- tween Second and Fifth streets be ful- ly completed by October 16, 1922, was presented. It was pointed out in this request that it is imperative to make Jackson a good winter street, as dur- ing the cold months it has been a terror to automobilists. ‘The only bid for work on city sewer district No. 12 was submitted by the Gordon Construction company, and no award will be mage until late this aft- oon when a short special session wit be held for that purpose. The as- sessment rolis on Sahitary Sewer dis- tricts No. 11 and 12 were approved at last. night's session, and August 14 was set as remonstrance date. ‘The recent case of Gitbert Brothers versus the City of Casper, in which the contracting company was granted judgment to the amount of $7,500 in district court, will be appealed by the city to the state supreme court, it was ecified last evening. ‘The construction company had don? city grading work and claimed they were entitled to more for the work than the council had previously al- lowed. The case was brought before Judge C. O. Brown, and was decided in favor of the company. In order to further plans already under way for a landscape and city planning project south of the city, rep- Continued on Page Four.) h Village, firemen today were unable to pierce the thick cloak of mysterious black smoke which completely shrouded the building and were forced to ctive conflagration. bounded by Jane stréet, Greenwich avenue, 12th street and eighth avenue, on the lower ‘west side, was the great- est collection of fire fighting appar- dtus which has turned out since ‘he Equitable buildig fire. The veteran fire chief, Smoky Joe" Martin pro- nounced the blaze one of the worst he had known during his long years of service, SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 18.-— Crossing the American continent im one day by airplane and making onty one intermediate stop will be attempted by Lieutenant James H. Doolittie of Kelly Field about Au- gust 8, he announced today. Doo- little will hop off at Kelly Field on the morning of August 4 for Jack- sonville, Fia., and few days later will begin a dash from the Atlantic coast to San Diego, Cal., traveling in a specially built De Haviland plane. ‘Authority for the fight was granted last week by the chief of the air service and since that time a new plane has been placed under construction at the Air Intermedi- ate depot here. It will be of a one- man type with gas capacity of 275 gallons and will have an ofl tank of 24 gallons’ capacity: ‘The only stop on the trip will be made at San Antonio, at daybreak for replenishing fuel supply after the lonely pilot’s all night dash from Jacksonville, following the gulf coast line by moonlight. After a half hour stop here Doolittle will again take to the air in effort to reach the Pacific const before sup- set. Nearly a ton of \‘uel wil be car- ried, or enough to ‘make a 12-hour flight without stop. The ship will weigh about 4,700 ponds, or 1,200 pounds more than thé ordinary De Haviland plane. Doolittle expects to make the entire trip in 23 hours, but should favorable wind spring up he will be able to cifp two or three hours from his fiying time, air offi- clals say. STATE PRIMAR G. O. P. Senator Race Features Battle of Ballots Today OMAHA, Neb., July 18.— (By The Associated Press.) — Principal interest in the Ne- braska primaries today cen- tered in the outcome of the race for United States senate nomination on the Republican ticket in which R. B. Howell of Omaha, Re publican natioal committeeman, made his campaign as a “forward looking Republican” with progressive policies. Mr. Howell, who announced he fay- ored the agricultural bloc in congress, & government merchant marine, “ad- usted compensation for ex-soldiers, “paid by the wealth of the country,” A rational tariff policy “framed to @estroy monopoly” and that was opposed by. Albert W. Jefferies. Presimt congressman of Omaha, C. H: Gua'efson, head of the United States Grain Growers, Inc., John O. Yeiser of Omaya, Attorney General Clarence M. Davis and Frank John, of Grand Teland. Mr. Jefferies, rated as a conserva- tive Republican, frequently referred in his political. campaign advertisements to praise that had been given him by Repreasntative Mondell, Republican floor leader, for his work in congress, and declared he has been a “true, (Continued on Page Four) tions to resume operation ~ nors of those states in wi ” such military protection as finé it tmpossible to cope with the situation, federal troops, it tras under- stood, may eventually be employed. Coal operators who remained i: Washington today canvassed the strike situation carefully to deter- mine prospects for resuming produc- tion. Tt was clear that managers of mines in Pennsylvania expect that attempts to open suspended opera- tions would be successful. In south- ern Ohio also, executives of large min- ing concerns said, strong hopes were held of successfully opening at least & percentagy of the pits. The Southern Ohio Coal Operators association today filed a memorial at the White House, declaring them selves “willing to continue the sacri- fice and comply with your request und use every possible effort to open their mines for the resumption ot production speedily as conditions wil permit.’ The memorial particularity voteed approval of the president's assertion “that the freedom of action on the part of workmen ané on the part of eraployers does not measure in tm- portance with that of public welfare ané national security.” The interpretation to be placed upon. President Harding’s injunction for opening the mines waa still a mat- ter of discussion in official circles Operators in part were inclined to ask the federal government for son:¢ assurance of protection for their property. ‘“Bome officials were inclined to take the position, however, that these re quests must all be made to the proper Continued on Page Four.) WEST VIRGINIA MINE WAR LEADERS ARE ROUNDED UP Strike Colony Broken Up on Orders of ‘Authorities as Result of Battle; Slayer of Sheriff Is‘Seized WELLSBURG, W. Va., July 18.—Acting on orders of Sheriff Thomas Duval, of Brook county, whose father, Sheriff H. H. Duval, was killed with three other men in a battle between authorities and a crowd of invaders at thé Clifton mane of the Richland Coal company at Cliftonville, early onday morning, Deputy Sheriff George L. Cardwell has Heiress Will Open Hat Shop In Windy City} NEW YORK, July 18.—A_ milli- nery shop will be opened in Chicago next fall by Miss Muriel McCor- mick, daughter of Harold F. Mo- Cormick and granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. Miss MoCormick confirmed the report that she was going to enter business after being told that Chicago had heard she was j going to open such an establish- ment here. Although hetress to two fortunes, Miss McCormick, who has beeh a guest, of Mrs. James A. Stillman, said she was going to become a business woman because she loved style creation. She first became at- tracted to the art during. the de- signing of her costume for the pres- entation of the ‘French play Le Passant, in Chicago, in which she made her stage debut in the part of the boy lover. Miss McCormick will return to Chicago in a few days to perfect her plans for the opening of her shop. TWO DEAD, MANY INJURED GREENWICH VILLAGE LOSIONS Pungent\black smoke drove nearly 200 families from their homes and torced the police to withdraw the fire nes four blocks from each side of the building. Heat and smoke forced the firemen to prop their hose sets against small tripods set up on the street and cltmb to neighboring roofs to man other lines. Brooklyn was ordered to send a@ 45,000 candle power searchlight, at- tached to # special truck for use in an effort to penetrate the dense smoke clouds about the heart of the inferno. Nearly five hours after the bidbe started, the cause was undetermined. Patrick Driscoll, assistant to the general manager of the Star Publish- ing company, which publishes the New York American and the Journal, said his company had a million pounds of news print paper stored in the ware- He said the New York Tribune broken up and dispersed the tent col- ony of striking miners near the scene of the fight. Forty-five men, arrested by deputies and state police, were in custody here and ‘n Wheeling today. Three of these were in Wheeling hospitals. One of the last to be brought in was sald by officials to be the man whose shots killed the elder Duval. This prison- er’s left arm was found to have been shattered by a bullet when he was captured at the Pennsylvania state Une. Feeling here wss at a high pitch to- day and a heavy guard of deputies un- der Sheriff Duval kept vigilance over the jafl, crowded with {ts prisoners. Sheriff Tom Duval today ordered the abandonment of the tent colony of striking miners and their families near the Clifton mine here. State troopers from. Pennsytvania made the rounds of the tents and not!- fied the “men and women that ther must move out\ without delay. They lost no time tn obeving the order, tak- ing nothing but food with them. The message from the mine said that seven more were on thelr way to Wells- burg. Sheriff Duval.and his deputies ex- Pressed their determination te get to the bottom of the “whole nasty busi- ness,” and with that end in view were scouring every village and all the roads between the Ohio river and the Pennsylvania state line. SHERIFF WAS SON OF CIVIL WAR COMMANDER. WELLSBURG, W. Va., July 18.— Sheriff H. H. Duval, killed yesterday in @ battle at Clifton mine of the Rich- land Coal company at Cilftonville, when three men of the attacking par- ty lost their lives, was a son of Brig- adier General Isaac Hardin Duval, who fought with the union forces in the civil war. The father was later a government treaty agent to Indian tribes of the west. Young Duval went west in youth, living as @ cowboy tor nearly a score of years. Some years ago he returned to Wellsburg and became prominent in Republican politios of the section authorities professed fgnorance as to where they had gone. Sheriff Duval said he waa deter- mined to break up the colony andtthat none of the people who had been Itv- ing there would be allowed to return to the tents. The mine has been open recently on a non-union basis. A number of foreign women, none of whom could speak English, came to Welleburg today from Avella, Pa. the mintng town across the border where the mob which attacked Slifton- ville yesterday was formed. Through interpreters they said they were searching for male relatives whe had not been seen since Sunday night. It is believed’ identification of some of the 43 prisoners held here and in ‘Wheeling will be made through the ‘women. State policemen and more than a score of deputy sheriffs worked all night in the vicinity of Cliftonville | rounding up every man who was un- able to give a satisfactory account of his whereabouts Sunday night and yesterday morning. Forty-three per. sons had been arrested up to seven 4 paper in the wrecked building. o'clock this morning and a telephone ! t! He was elected sheriff in 1920 and was active in the enforcement of the West Virginia state prohibition laws. Aguinaldo Gives . Projected Visit MANILA, P. I. July 17.—(By The Associated Press)—Emitio Aguinaldo formerly leader of the Filipino revolu- tionists who had planned to attend the Spanish War Veteran’s convention in Los Angeles, likely will be unable to make the trip, owing to lack of public funds to finance it. It was said today in official circles that the independence mission to the United States had failed to set aside the 50,000 pesoa necessary to cover the expenses of Aguinanido and his staff on their visit to the Los Angeles convention. A Filipino committee 1s attempting to rise the needed amount but jt fe not believed it will succeed owing to short time left in which to work. Mouse Plugs Up Pipe, Stock Die of Thirst SPRAGUE, Wash., July 18.—One mouse caused the death of 27 cattle on the ranch of Robert Potts. The mouse became stuck in the pipe leading from a spring to the watering trough. The animals died of thirst. Some of them crawled through the fence into another field in their desperate search for water, Mr. Potts reported. No Word Fro Daring Aviator DAWSON CITY, Y. T., July 18.— Word was being anxiously awaited aviator, attempting a flight to St- beria, who hopped off Sunday morn- ing from Egle, Alaska, for Fairbanks. carrying in his biplane only three ap- ples and a pound of candy. Despite the stormy skies when the machine took the air, Prest expected to make the jump jn three or four hours. vee and requesting the gover- he mines operate to furnish ay be needed. If state troops NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati— R. H. E. Boston ....—...100 190 001-5 5 2 Cincitinati .-..030 06 00°—9 14 1 Batteries — Oeschger and Gibson; Rixey and Hargrave. - At St. Louis— New York — ——110 031 O—x « x Batteries—Singleton and Peters, Ald- ridge, Ring and O'Farrell. At Pittsburgh—Brooklyn-Pittsburgh, game |, rain. k 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago -. New York _--330 206 00°14 20 1 Batteries — Blankenship, Schupp, Courtney and Schalk, Yaryan; Shaw- kep and Schang, Hoffman. Batterice— Olsen and Woodall; Russell, and Rod. At Philadelphia— Cleveland . Philadelphia Batteries—Morton and O'Neill; ty, Ogden and Perkins. Greb Suspended By Commission NEW YORE, July 18.—Harry Greb of Pittsburgh, I{ght heavyweight cham. pion, and his manager, George Eng! were indefinitely suspended today by the New York Boring commission from further participation in bouts in this state because Greb hes not signed a contract to box Jack Rosenberg, as he was directed to do. ee PLEADS GUILTY TO AUTO THEFT, GOES 10 WORLAND CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 18.—Jack Robinson, 17, will not be implicated in the theft of another automobile for at least ten years, That is the duration of the term to which he was sentenced when he pleaded guilty before Judge W. A. Riner of the dis- trict court. The term is to be served at the 6 industrial institute st Worland. Robinson admitted .com- plicity ij the theft of an automobile from Wallace Glover of Cheyenne. He and Fiorella Jackson, also 17, were caught with the machine at Brighton, Colo. The girl is not to be prosecuted. Two men alleged to have been !m- plicated in the theft are under arrest at Casper. ORDERED TODAY Prospects of Further Re- ductions Here Raised By Falling Market in Other Producing States Effective this morning, post- ed prices for crude oil in the Wyoming and Montana fields were cut~25 cents per barrel by the Ohio Oil company and the Midwest Refining com- pany, the two principal purchasers. Although no information aan be gathered from offjcial sources as to what may be expected regarding the prices in the near future, other re @uctions are not hed as being tm. possible, a second reduction having been made today in posted prices for Midcontinent grades. Following are the new prices in fields of this district, compared with thone effective until toaay: ola New Mule Creek $1.30 $1.05 Big Muddy 1.40 1 Sat Creek 1.40 Lis Rock Creek 1.50 1.25 Osage . 1.90 1.85 Lander STM 63K Lancs Creek 1.90 1.65 Elk Basin . 1.90 1.65 Greybull - 1,90 1.65 Grass Creek ++ 1.90 1.65 xoreblight race 90 1.65 Hamilton + 4.40 1.18 Cat Creek - 1.90 1.65 The reduction here today ts In lina with the cut announced last Saturday in the southern producing district are indteattve of a sympathetic move: ment here. | SINCLAIR SLASHES OFF ANOTHER QUARTER. NEW YORK, July 18.— The Sin clair Crude Oil Producing company today announced a further reduction of 25 cents a barrel in crude oll in the Kansas and Oklahoma territory, making the new price $1.50 a barrel A similar reduction was announced Saturday, The company also lowered its price of crude oil from the Heald. ton district 25 cents a barrel, making the price 75 cents in that territory. These reductions followed reports of price cuts by the Magnolia Petrol- eum company for crude of! from the Cement, Okla., and Corsincana, Texas, district IMPERIAL CUTS PRICE IN CANADA. Imperial Ol! and Refining company itd., the Canadian subsidiary of the Standard, has cut the price of crude in the Dominion 25 cents per barrel, making the quotation $2,63. AMNESTY IS GIVEN BANDIT MEXICO CITY, July 18.—General Francisco Cabrera, the rebel leader, who has been operating for some time in the Huasteca oil region has received official amnesty and has surrendered to the federal authorities, according to~advices received today from Tam- pico. Cabrera for some time was al- Med with General Gorozave, who was killed by federal soldiers under com- mand of General Guadulpe Sanchez. ASSASSINS OF BRITISH FIELD MARSHAL FOUND GUILTY, SENT TO DEATH Record Established in England in Convic- tion and Execution of Two Who Killed Sir Henry Hughes Wilson LONDON, July 18.—(By The Associated Press.)—Regi- nald Dunn and Joseph O’Sullivan were sentenced to death today for the murder of Fiel Wilson, who was shot in fron’ last month. The men were convinced after trial in the Old Batley. Thus, 26 days from the date on which the noted sold{ér was murdered the men who fired the fatal shots were convicted and the death penalt posi on them. This constitutes a id Marshal Sir Henry Hughes it of his home on Eaton Place record in England, even where mur- der trials usually are completed more quickly than in most countries. The attorney general's case for the prosecution required barely half an hour to present Before opening the defense, Arte mas Jones, of counsel for the prisoners asked that Dunn be allowed to make a statement. The statement was handed to the judges, who declared it to be a political manifesto, justifying the right to ill, and that he therefore could not allow it to be read. The court said that Dunn could give ev! dence if he wished. The defendants counsel thereupon asked the court for a short adjourn: ment for consultation, which was granted. When the attorneys’ re: turned Mr. Jones anounced that the defendants toak the view that owing to the judge's refusal to permit Dunn’s statement to be read they no longes wished to have legal representation. Therefore Mr. Jones stated that he had no ,alternative bat withdraw trom the ease