Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1922, Page 1

“VOLUME VI. Che Casper Daily Tribune CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1922. _ SPORTS MARKETS NUMBER 288. BRITISH FLECT TO HALT TURKS a — eee BALL SCORES R. H. E. ----010 000 005— 6 12 3 022 000 21*—7 941 Batteries—Osborne, Stueland arid O’Farrell; Hill, Scott and Smith, Snyder. At Brooklyn— Cincinnati =__ 8 4, Brooklyn 110 030 02*—7 13 1 Batteries—Keck, Gillespie and Hargrave; Ca- dore and Deberry. At Philadelphia— R,. H. E. St.Louis ______---_-101 520 000—9 14 0 Philadelpnia ___._-.009 332 002—10 15 2 Batteries—Sell, Doak, Pertica, North and RH E ‘~ Clemons; Ring, Winters, Weinert and Henline. At Boston— Pittsburgh _- 000 000 100—-1 8 Boston -001 200 10*—4 8 2 Batteries—Glazner, Carlson and Schmidt; Marquart and O’Neil. | AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago— New York _-______.010 000 000—1 4 0 Chicago _001 001 O0O*—2 8 0 Batteries—Mays and Schang; Blankenship and Schalk. At Detreit— R. H. E. Philadelphia ______.000 002 000—2 8 2 Detroit _-----201 040 10*— 8 10 1 Batteries —- Harris, O’Neill and Perkins Ehmke and Bassler. At Cleveland— R. H. E. Washington 300 000 002—5 8 1 Cleveland ________- 011 010 603—6 10 0 Batteries—Johnson and Picinich; Metevier and O'Neil. . At St. Louis— R. H. * * E. TARIFF Before adopting the report, 108, a motion again recommit the bill with instruc- tions to lie house managers to insist on the house rate of 1.6 cents 2 pound on Cuba raw sugar. The rate agreed upon in conference was 1.76 a pound. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.— Ti wee and senate conferees on the rivers and hariors developmen bill frent measure back to the house today SHOPMEN RE ON BILL IS APPROVED WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The conference report on the administration tariff bill was edoptec late today by the house. It now goes to the senate, where final action next week is hoped for by Republican leaders. the house voted down, 193 to tive Garner, Democrat, Texas, to with an agreement on all’ senate amendments excepting the provision for the purchase of the Dismal Swamp canal and authorization for the deepening of the East river, ‘ew York. The house managers: declirnd Zatly, to accept the former a fused to accede to the 6 cation of the latter mw house provision. e itt whi e L7aY R. H..E,|Chicago & North Western Strikers Are Among Those Reported to Be Going Back to Shops CHICAGO, Sept, 15.—While railway shopmen’s union 7 ing with th leaders were proceed unions Wednesday, s men July 1, were rep ir campaign to bring more agreement adopted by the who ‘had been on strike since returning to work on the Chicago & North Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- roads, the two large western system’ among the approximately 50 roads in- 9 | volved in the agreement with the un-! fons. Officials of the two compantes said they. expected virtually the fu force of old employes would be bac! at work next Monday. Northwestern shopmen coyld be ob- tained here early this afternoon. While | a} telegraphic advices indicate that separate wage agreement will be ne: gotiated between the railroad and the leaders of the. Northwestern shop- shopcrafts, unfon men here have re-} ceived no: advices from union head- quarters to this effect. They are ex-| Sheriff-Chaplain in Iowa Seeks Seclusion | for Prayer After Carrying Out Court Decree Against Weeks FORT MADISON, Iowa, Sept. 15.—Eugene Weeks was hanged at 12 noon today for the murder of George Fosdick, Des Moines grocer. Sheriff Robb was one of the first to leave the enclosure following the hanging. He went away by himself to pray. At 9:30 a. m. Weeks was led from h row ard taken to the little barred room above the turnkeys office to spend his last hours with Mattie Weeks, his wife. As he left his cell he turned to Orrie Cross who is sen- tenced to hang on October 27, for the same crime and said: “So long Cros Cross did nof reply. Mrs. Weeks cried and screamed as her husband was led away. She had requested Warden Hollowell to per- mit her to accompany her husband to the gallows. Her request was re fused. FORT MADISON. Towa, Sept. 15. URNING Big Dirigible Leaves Dayton DAXTON,: Ohio, Sept: 15. — Tha United Sta*es army airship C-2 left Wilbur Wright field, near this city, at 4 o'cjock this afternoon on its way to St.’ Louis, Mo. The airship had been at the local field for avout two hours. She sailed directly toward “incinnsti from the flying field, not Passing over Dayton. | No confirmatién of the above dis-| patch: regarding the return to work of | | _LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15.—G. W. Price, a king kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan and its present head in south- | $m, Californio, today sought pro- tection through the law against the Ku Klux Klan. Price asked the sheriff for permis- sion to carry a revolver, saying that @ nearby kien had ordered him to KING KLEAGLE DENIED PERMIT TO “PACK GUN’ FOR PROTECTION | leave Californa within three days and that he Mid not want to go. “That Klan is a bunch of rough necks,” he tole the sheriff, “and I don’t believe they would hesitate to kick me to death.” Phe sheriff told Price he did not wish to mix in a family quarrel and no permit was issued. Slayer Goes to Death with Jokes On Lips, Ordained Minister Springs Trap cell in murderer’s —({By The Associated Press.) — A breakfast of bacon and eggs, oatmeal bread, butter ‘and coffee started the day for Eugene Weeks, scheduled to hang at noon today for the murde~ of George Fosdick, Des Moines gro. cer. "One might as well die with + full stomach as with an empty one,” Weeks remarited to the guard In an interview late last night with Winfred FE. Robb, the sheriff-chaplain who is to spring the trap, and Des Moines newspaper men, Weeks de- clard that he is innocent of the mur. clared that he is innocent of the mur- I con't mind; but you will find out some day that you bumped off the W,OME man,” he said. Weeks joked with his interviewers. Sheriff Robb has received letters urging him not to go through with the hanging of Weeks. He has re ORDERS evening. Thi: for the protection of the neutral zones Dardanelles, and Constantinople It was announced that the British government msiders the Whvie Turkish question should be the sub Ject of a general conference of the powers, including the minor powers, such as Rumania and Jugo-Slavia. It has not been decided whether the United States shall be invited. Italy, France and Great Britain will send a note to Mustapha Kemal (Pasha, head of the Turkish national- ist government, intimating that pend- celved hundreds of letters from church members in all parts of the country imploring him not to act hangman. “Some of the letters were from re- Ngtous fanatics yho tried to scare me by’ anying T would burneceriast- ingly in hell,” the sheriff-preacher said. “Others were from thoughtful people who discussed the iden of cap- ital punishment.” He has received lettére «threatening him with death if he pulled the trap on Weeks. The Poik county sheriff spent the night at Warden 'T. P. Holfowell’s home, adjacent to the prison, “I took the oath to perform the duties of « sheriff and I will not evace my duty today,” the sheriff stated. It probably, will be the first time in history of legal executions that an ordained minister has acted as the executioner, eS LATE SPORTS | ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 15.— Phillip Miller of Dallas, ‘Texas, who was the star in the shooting so far in the Grand American Han- dicap, was leaging this afternoom in the preliminary everts at 100 tar- gets in the handicap, in which 462 nimrods are entered. Miller broke his first 50 targets without a miss, but fell shy two in his next group of 25, shooting from ing permanent arrangement the neutral zones’ must be respected. on both sides of the straits of the| not GIVEN TO BLOCK WAY INTO EUROPE British Cabinet Issues Proclamation to Navy to Allow No Turks to Cross trom Asia Minor LONDON, Sept. 15.—(By The Associated Press.) —The | British fleet has been instructed to allow no Turkish troops to cross from Asia to Europe, it was officially announced th: announcement followed the cabinet meeting, which developed a complete agreement reached with the French Bestdes the instructions to the fleet to allow a Turkish crossing of the straits the British sre making Preparations to send rinforeements to the “etitral suucs, It is learned that Rumania and Jugo-Siavia both view with greatest concern the prospects of the Turks entering Thr: CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 15.— (By The Associated Press)—Smyrna has been completely wrecked by the conflagration which has been raging here for the past two days, according to information from authentic sources reaching here. ‘Thousands of persons are believed to: have perished, HUNGARY ADMITTED TO LEAGUE mously tod GENEVA, Sept. 15.—(By The Asso- clated Press.)}—The assembly dis armament committee has decided to recommend to the assembly of. the league of nations a resolution intro: duced by M. De Jouvenal, of France, asking all countries except those whose juridical situation has been changed, to reduce their expenditure for armaments to the figures of 1913. This would exclude the United States, Canada and Spain. * The reductions are indicated by the statistics of the mixed commission which show that the following coun- tries are spending more for military purposes than before the war. Great Britain 19 per cent; Indla 14; Australia 17; Canada 7%; New Zea- Portugal 7%; Japan 62; Den- mark 33; Holland 48; Sweden 20. Belgium, which is spending 82 per cent more than before the war, in excused because she had virtually no army in 1913, but was protected by treaties of neutrality. OF NATIONS, WASHINGTON ARMS GENEVA, Sept. 15.—(By The Associated.)—The politi- cal committee of the league of nations assembly voted unani- y to admit Hungary to membership in the league. The countries which are spending less than in 1913 are: South Africa 25 per cent; Rumania 23; Italy 46: Brazil 48; France 43; Switzerland 39; Norway 14.3. M. De Jouvenal remarked after the session that he had not included the United States, because every one felt that the stronger the United States fs the greater the guarantee against war. BRAZIL TO REFUSE WASHINGTON ACCORDS. NEVA, Sept. 14.—(By The Asso— Press.}—Unexpected opposition: to the extension of the Washington* naval accords to members of «the league not present at the Washing- ton conference developed before the isarmament today. rilian dclegation said that he had orders from the gove ernment not to accept even the prins ciple of the Washington accords, ‘Be- cause two capital shops were fot committee enough to protect Brazil’s long coast line. the limit of 23 yards. Miller also was leading for the governor's cup and the Jim Day cup, being but 47 down in 800 clays * * Batteries—Pennock and Chaplin; VanGilder and Severeid. pecting information at any hour which | : Will throw some light on their position. | ‘The Burlington railroad, it ig-under- | TE stood, will negotiate no i umnee WA ana strikers here are not affected by! 2 Prospects of settlement on other rail-| EPISCOPAL DEPUTIES NOT ALL - IN FAVOR OF DIVORCE CHANGE ed States district court for Wyoming who was critically sick at Governor Carey's home at_Careyhurst for sev- eral weeks, returned to’ Cheyenne on Thursday and immediatley resumed his official duties, although still very weak. He expects to be able to go 15. —|to Denver next week, to<sit in the nit-{ federal court for Colorado. Judge Kennedy Returns Home CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. Judge T. Blake Kennedy of the MINE RESCUE WORKIS SLOW, DRIFT FILLED } JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 15.—(By The Associated Press.) —For the first time since the rescue workers have been try- ing to break through to the Argonaut mine ‘to release 47 trapped miners, blasting was necessary on the 3,600-foot level of the Kennedy mine last night, according to a state- ment made by Fred L. Lowell, safety engineer of the Cali- | fornia industrial accident commission, |donel tunnel also are hampering pro- who is in charge of the rescue opera- ne $,900-£556 tovell eosoceing lie be unofficial figures, 76 feet remain to Unofficial figures issued today/ego with five feet drilled but not show that 22 feet still remain to go/blasted. After this a 15-foot winze on the 3,600 level before the '77-foot| will have to be sunk, to connect with rock barrier is reached. However,| the 4,600-foot level of the Argonaut Lowell states that the 3,600-foot drift h mine. las squeezed together to such.an ex-| Extremély heavy ground is now be- nt that rock hes been forced into| ing encountered in the 3,900-foot the passage, while old. timbering and | level, Lowell stated today. and work @x70 the-old iron rails of the aban has_been slowed -up materially, road lines. CLINTON, Iowa, Sept. 15.—Negotia- tions for a settlement of the strike of the shop crafts are progressing in Chicago today, said President W. H. Finley of the Northwestern railway upon his arrival here this afternoon to participate in the formal dedication to the city of the new Fourth street sub- way. ©The Northwestern railway,” he added, “was one of the original roads in the settlement plan.” No call to-return “to work’ had’ been re- | ceived up to late today by the 900 men mn strike here. NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—(By The As- sociated Press).—The entire Pennsy]. vania system today signed a new work. ing contract with the Big Four run? ning brotherhoods and the. New York Central lines signed with two of them, the trainmen and conductors. This announcement was made late today by W. G. Lee, head of the brotherhood of rallroed tratnmen. The contracts cover the period of one year. ee Tourist Hotel Plan Being Encouraged CHEYENNE, Wyo. Sept. 15.— Archie Allison, a local building ‘con- tractor, today reported on an investi. gation at the proposed site for a tour- ist hotel at the summit of the Lin- coln highway) 42 miles west of Chey- enne, siating that there was in the vieinity of the site an ample supply stone suitable for the erection of a {rustic building. Efforts to recover the body of James Erico, laborer, who was drowned yesterday in the Platte river east of the city were without result up to an early hour this afternoon. At this hour the water in the river was lowering us a re- sult of the flow being shut off at AID SEARCH FOR RIVER VICTIM Pathfinder dam and hopes were en- tertained that the body would be re- covered when the channel was emptied. Erico was drowned when he fell from a boat while crossing the stream. He was employed by the Texas company. ROGERS HORNSBY SMASHES TWO PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15.—Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Cardinals knocked out his 36th and 37th home runs ‘of the season in the third and fourth innings of today’s game with Philadelphia. Ring was in the box for the Phillies and Hornsby’s second circuit clout was crashed out when the bases were full. COAL BILL IS THRU HOUSE WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—By a vote of 228 to 70, the house today adopted the cénference report on the adminis- tration’s coal distribution and anti-profiteering bill, with a provision limiting its life to one year, unless the president meanwhile should declare the present emerge~-v to have ‘passed. It now goes to the senate. i in the former aud breaking 169 out of 195 ir. the latter. Frank Troeh of Vancouver, Wash., and Frark Hughes of Mo- bridge, S. D., were tied at 53 down for the governor's cup and Hughes was second with 169. out of 193 in the Jim Day cup event. ABOARD DESTROYER MAHAN, Off OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Sept. 15.— Two British boats, Reg and Colla finished first and second in today’s international six metre yacht race, the fiftt of a series of six for the British-American cup, and the Brit- ish team also. won the day’s event, 19 points to 17. The Yace today brought Great Britain's total points to 80 against 97 for the United States. The en- tire British team of four boats must finish ahead of all the American yachts tomorrow to win the cup. GLEN. ECHO COUNTRY ST. LOUIS, Sept. sociated Press.—» Memphis and Mrs. Curtls Sohl, of Columbus, Ohio, will meet in the finals of the western women's golf championship tomorrow. Mrs. Gaul teday defeated Miss Frances Hiad- field of Milwaukee, 6 and 5, and Mrs. Sohi defeated Miss Virginia Pep of St. Louis, 6 and 4. pod ee be ate CLUB, SPENCER AT LAIR. CHEYE: Perey ©. Wyoming Republic mittee, today attended the closing day of the-stato fair at-Douglas. Wyo,, hairman Sept. 15. — of the sericer. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 1 ment in the house oz deputies of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in regard the change in the divorce canon enacted jyesterday by the house of bishops showed that there is no unanimity of opinion among the delegates for con- currence in the action of the bishops; according to expressions. of delegates today. | Prominent members \York delegation express: opposition to any change in the present divorce laws of the church, which forbid a to of 1 the New -Sent{- clergyman performing a marriage cere- money except in ci where a divorce has been granted on grounds of in- The amendment which was y the house of bishops was proposed by Bishop Charles H. Brent of western New York The divorce amendment approved by the bishops provides in effect that no member of the church shall marry a divorced person, exception being made in cases where a divorce hag been granted on grounds of infidell- ty. 15—(By The As. | Dave Gaul of | 1 com.) ¢ FOUR OF BIG ‘PACKERS TO MERGE, CLAIM | CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—A merger of meat packing com: panies, involving two and possibly four of the “big five” packers is heing considered, according to a story printed by the Chicago Herald and Examiner. | Sore ger of Armour & Co. and Wilson @ CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—In the ab-|Co., possibly to include the Cudahy sence of J. Ogden ur, of Armour| Packing company and Morris com /& Co., and Thomas Wilson, pres-| pany. ideat» of Wilson & Co., who were in| Cudahy, president of the Cur the east, no official emeny on|dahy company, on behalf of his coms published reports of a meat packing| pany, dénied tat’ that company was merger was ainable {rom those! involved in a merger proposal companies Mr: ¢ said he had no know edge of what Reports pt here were | panies were doing. proposals bad been made for a mei r packing com-