Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1922, Page 10

Veather Forecast Fair tonight and jay, warmer tonight. VOLUME Vi. Wednes All il Texas Company to Pro-Rate Crude Acceptances for Plant TURK FACING SOLID British Seek Co-oper Balkan Countries man at Dardanelles, Report PARIS, Sept. 19.—(By The ter of the allied deliberations shifted to this capital today with the journey here of Lord Curzon, British foreign secretary, and te Jugo-Slav pre-| mier, M. imehitch. ja:d Curzon’s tas OAY LAW ISSUE IN PRIMARIES OF NEW YORK Republican and Democratic Candidates for Congress Being Chosen at Polls T < ; estas Kemel Morag hi court will have no sympathy with es: 5 ention of attacking the neutral zone’ those who delibtrately clutter up ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 19.—State-® ee n | BS mA Bead eat today tojot the Dardanelles or of crossing to} the calendar and take up valuable Wale eerimass ee ¥ lphrace has served to strengthen the nominate Republican and Democratic candidates for congress, the legisia- ture and county otfices and to select delegates to state conventions which | will nominate state tickets and candi-| dates for the United States senat: It fe the first time since the enact- ment of the direct primary law that candidates for governor and other) state offices have not been nominated | at the polls. ‘Most of the Republican contests for the congressional nominations ere in the rural districts up state and in| helf of these the issue is the entorce- ment of the prohibition law. The “ary” forces have conducted vigorous campaigns in behalf of candidates who have pledged themselves not to tamper with the Volstead act. There are fourteen Republican and eight Democrat contests for congressional nominations. B..8. BROOKS PRESIDES OVER ANNUAL MEETING OF STATE BANKERS LARAMIE, Wyo., Sept. 19.—The Wyoming State Bankers’ association, began a two-day session here today with former Governor B. B. Brooks of Casper presiding and W. J. Bailey of Kansas City, governor of the ‘Tenth Federal Reserve Bank meeting. Representatives of banks at Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Kansas City and many towns in Wyoming were also in attendance. Tonight the association will honor Edward Ivin son of this city, the oldest banker in the state, who will be 92 tomorrow. k. press dispatches indicate, is to con- Chamber Forum; are tied uj). FRONT ation of French and) in Opposing Otto- | particular case is a prorating Liquor Cases Speeded Up In Federal Court LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.—Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe ef the United States district court, has devised | and promulgated from the bench a | new method which he hopes will pre- yent congestion of the “liquor cal- endar” in his tribunal. It is this: All persons charged with viola- tions of the Volstead act that are punishable by fines and who plead guilty when arraigned, instead of waiting weeks to enter pleas of guilty, will be fined $150. Ail who delay their pleas will find their fines “materially increased and in most cases serve much time in jail.’ The $150 fine will be the regular Associated Press.) —The cen-| on the near eastern problem vince Premier Poincar, that the Brit- ish do not intend to make another ibraltar of the straits of Darda- but that bigger issues than are at ntake and that the the Balkans and the rela- Turkey whole of tions of Soviet Russia with the near east. depend upon safeguarding Con- stantinople from Turkish occupation. | The Balkan states are expected to/ foliow France's lead and thus Britain | hopes, by ging the latter to her point of v' to present a solid front the Turks. Premier Ninchitch Is quoted in a dispatch from London as) order, irrespective of whether the declaring “I am inclined to think| gefendants have counsel.” said atter my interview with the British! juage Bledace. minisi--s that England and France| “and the government will benefit can yet agree on this thorny ques-} py a cleared calendar. tion.” “T want to encourage those who are gu¥ty to plead guilty, for thie of further assurances that time in the hope of postponing or French attitude, and it is said here; Eight-H our Day On Great Lake Carriers Asked Se ded . Trae Lovd (Cibrnoal TRE tA SORTER | eR cae pare eer ing Premier Poincar, is more likely! to be converted himself. i Indeed, the French government is} 20 confident that there is no fear of trouble from the Kemalists that two French battaliens have been or short ERIN NOW 436 ly will be withdrawn from Chanak, | the key position on the southern! shore of the'straits, | a Ae ‘The Italian detachment also has! BELFAST, Sept. 19.—Figures given ‘been withdrawn and competent opin-|out here of the fatalities in dis- jon here is that the British may leave|turbances since July 21, 1920, show a also, as, according to the Paris morn-|total of 436 persons killed, of whom ing newspapers, signs are not want-/it is stated 189 were Protestants and ing that the government, or rather/247 Catholics, Prime Minister Lloyd George, is al-} Since January 1, 1922, the figures Persad paon ee fey Seat Sear: give 92 Protestants and 133 Catholics lay’s semi-official statempnt of policy | killed. no longer represents the British atti-| — tude. The British cabinet now is under- stood to be largely concerned with} political preparations for proposed general conference for settlement of the entire question. PARIS, Sept. 19.—(By The Assoc!- ated Press)—The French cabinet to day unanimously approved what is} characterized as the ‘Pacific™ policy of Premier Poincare in the Near Hast and the withdrawal of the French troops from Asia Minor to the French side of the straits of the Dardanelles. ‘The cabinet went firmly. on record} as being »7posed to any form of mili- tary action as a means of stttlement in the Turko-Greek ‘situation. It em- phasized the necessity of reaching an agreement through diplomatic chan- nels and eventually by a peace con- ference. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 18.—(By The Associated Press.)}—Seamen on vessels of the Lake Carriers’ associa- tion.on the Great Lakes will refuse to sail_on any association vessel which does not establish the three-watch system, or eight-hour day on October 1, K. B, Nolan, of Chicago, general secretary of the International Sea- men’s union, notified EB. J. Sullivan, local union agent, eee MERGER APPROVED. as I can see it, is over-production. jor | So Says President Beaty in Address to) Refinery to Be in Operation by December 1 “Our policy, when we commence buying crude oil, will | be to prorate our takings from the operators with whom we} Your,greatest problem in the oil business here, | The one solution in this Otherwise we will | of runs. | have a grand scramble to get the oil out of the earth, its 4 natural reservoir, and a subsequent | useless expenditure for steel tank-| aget { The foregoirg statement of policy | of the Texas Cil company was miade| Monday evening at the banquet given | oy the Casper Chamber of Commerce} in honor of the Texas officials ‘by Amos L. Beaty, president of the com- pany. It seemingly sets at rest anv doubts that the Texas, will contract for the entire output of one or more! independents in the Salt Creek field| to the exclusion of the other: | “Our refinery here in Casper,” Mr. YY continued, “will be in partial | operation December 1 and in fall op- eration by January 1. Werwill start taking about 10,000 barrels daily. This wilt be continued until we have @ reserve of crude in tankage to run/ our) refinery six months. Then we will take 6,000 barrels daily, the c pacity of our plant, keeping always| on hand a six months’ supply for any | emergency that may arlte.” | The banquet was attended by 200, members of the chamber of commerce! and their’ wives, It was the first forum dinner since the summer re. cess and particularly arranged for the Texas officials who are on a tour of their Wyoming properties. Mr. Beaty paid tribute to the! warmth of greeting and assistance of| the chamber of commerce. calling -it the -livest organization of its ‘kind with which he had come in contact If you keep up the pace you have 8 he said, “you wili have soon one of the finest cities in the country. Your location and your natura! ad- vantages, coupled with your high sense of civic pride, insure your| growth into 4 wonderful cit | The post-prandial talks, owing to| the fact that the Texas officials were| leaving on the evening Burlington! train south, were necessarily cur- tailed, The only speakers in addition | to Mr. Beaty were W. 0. Wilson:of| Casper, David Connel 1 stion company, | the Texas Prod (Continued on Page Five) he Casper Daily Tribu CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922. — ARGONAUT TOLL REVEALED, BODIES ARE FOUND | | Wife Battles Style Beauty Rival ‘ | { j ! | MRS. MELVILLE REEVES. i D | Peacock Alley in the Congress ho- | tel, Chicago, was treated to an unus- val thrill when, during the style show of the Fashion Art League of America which is in convention there, Mrs. Margaret S. Reeves suddenly appear- ed with a» bailiff and demanded the jewels worn by Miss Edna De Werth queen of the mannekins. Miss De Werth refused to give them up and Mrs. Reeves attacked her. the two) women battling furiously until Mrs.| Reeves obtained the gems. .She ex-| plained that they were worth $7,000) and had been worngfully given to} Miss De Werth by Meville Reeves,’ her husband. HENNING TO RESIGN. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19,—Edward! J. Henning, assistant secretary of) Jabor, was said by his friends to have! practically: decided to submit his resig-| nation in order to accept nomination as United States judge for the south- ern district of Californ! MISS EDNA DE WERTH | | Bohemia Hit By High Rent, Artists Move NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Green- wich Village is about to lose its Bo- hemian residents. Rents have been forced sky high, the artists complain, by the com- petition of idle rich, who know nothing of art but like to wear flowing ties and live in the midst of temptations. Julian Bowes, chairman of the | BUFFALO, N. ¥., Sept. 19.—Stock- TURK ATROCITIES holders of the Lackawanna. Steel com- WILL BE PROBED. pany unanmously approved the terms GENEVA, Sept. 18.—By The Asso-jof the merger of the local plant with (Continued on Page Five) the Bethlehem Steel corporation. rent committee of the League of American Artists, has called a meet- ing of artists and realestate men to arrange for wholesate studio build- ings on the tops of commercial buildings along the Hudson and East river: ae ARREST PENDING IN DOUBLE CRIME CASE Questioning of Relatives May Solve Mur- * der of Rector and Choir Leader, Found Dead in New Jersey Orchard NEW BRUNSWICK, N., J., Sept. 19.—(By The Associated Press.)—-All. members. of the families of Rev. Edward ; Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, the minister and choir leader whose bodies were found Saturday in an orchard near here, were notified to appear'for questioning at the district attorney’s office today immediately after the funeral of Mrs.~ Mills. to the services yesterday over the All of last night investigators ques-| body of_ Rey. Hall, attended by 28 tioned two persons. It was learned) ministers and a bishop. that one of them was Willie Stqvens,| Less than a dozen mourners at- the dead minister's brother-in-law, |tended the services. No one was Prosecutor John Toolan announced|there from the household of Rey. that “before the day {s over a man|Hall, in whose church both Mr. and will be arrested on a short affidavit charging sugpicion of murder.” ‘Another bit of evidence was placed in the hands of the detectives by George Deinsor. It was a woman's handkerchief, pierced by three holes upon the casket. Potato Week Will Be | distant Mrs. Mills bad for years been work: | The Casper Tribune Two editions daily; largest ¢ircul. tion of any. newspaper in Wyrming Mme Suspense Finds Climax in Great Sorrow When Hopes of Rescuers Are Shattered MINE VICTIMS LIVED BUT FEW. HOURS, BELIEF Desperate Fight Against Death frem Gas Revealed When Bodies of 47 Men Are Found in Tomb a JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 19.—(By The Associated Press.) — Jackson, mining town in the mother lode country, has paid | the toll demanded of those who delve in the earth for gold and stands unafraid but not dry-eyed today. Forty-seven of her men died in the Argonaut mine ear on the morning of August 28, she learned last night, and to- day she awatts the bringing of their sign of any miner left in them, eit! bodies from the rock tunnel, walled/deac ¢. alive.‘ The rescue men, ham) in with flimsy bulkheads of. their own |ered by thelr oxygen helmets -.nd ths building, taat has been their tombjheat of the underground workings, for three weeks. But Jackson is un-|turned their attention to explori afraid, for her men showed -hey kriew | the cross cuts and drifts leading from howto die. Moreover, those who 4id}the tunnels already traversed. In ons not meet that fate showed they knew/they found a bulkhead that had not how to lve, for they gave of them-|been there when the miners went Ww selves without stint in the effort to| low that fatal mid-night three weeks mine| saye their entombed fellows. ago. This was California's worst Hope argse anew at this evidence disaster in one of Califernia’s greatest |that some, at least of the entombed gold producers, and it was the hard-|men had not died an inatant deat est blow Jackson ever has had to suf-|from the gasses thrown off by the {irs fer. ;in the shaft, and the rescuers pressed Three weeks ago last Sunday night|0n-» They found another bulkhead, not men deep tn the Argonaut believed{Duilt of planks and timbers/and stuffed they smelled smoke. A shift. boss|With torn clothing like the first, hut took two men and went to investigate.(¢fected earth, rock and debris. It was They found the shaft afire at. the ® Pitiful structure, gaping in placecs #5 3,600-foot. level, chanced death from|that the rescuers could see through gas rnd were carried through the|!t. but it checked the air current sowe: fire to the top of the mine. ‘Then|What and the men in the oxygen hel- began the work of fire fighting which|™ets halted before it, afraid to tear presently emerged into one of rescue|it down while the air before it was for the men below, for the fire|P0lsonous lest thereby cause sudden blocked the shaft and prevented the| ath to any who might be alive be- escape of the miners. Youd it, Men. came from all. over the west| Hope stood at its highest when this to offer their services, the curious|8¢cond bulkhead was found and from fellowship of miners bringing hearty (tat height it made its greatest plunge, offers of service from all who could] Before those who waited above for get to Jackson. Mining companies in|¢W8 of their loved ones knew even ates, even in Mexico, tele-|that the rescuers had broken throvgh graphed proffers of assistance. ‘The|the bulkheads word came that the Kennedy Mining company, operators |bedles of 4,200 foot level had beeq of an adjoining shaft, sunk the bit-|found and ‘counted. ‘ terness_ of a lawsuit In its willingness} Not-long after word came up from to be 8f service and loaned all tts|the télephone station, hurriedly ad property and facilities to the work|Vvanced to the 4,200 foot level, near of rescue. ‘ the bulkheaded place, that the other For many weary days, disappointed | five had been found, dead. sometimes by unexpected difficulties} Jackson took the blow calmly, ant and heartened sometimes by equally| Presently found comfort in the sur unexpected bits of good luck, rescue] knowledge, gained from notes left by crews.drove through the choked tun-|two of the men and from the reports nel that once lad connected the two] of rescuers regarding the men's work mines or battered at the rock sep-|before they died, that a quick, merci- arating one of the Kennedy's drifts| fu! death had come to them instead of from the Argonaut's 4,200-foot level.|the agonies of starvation. Early today a drill was driven|no lingering in inky darkness 3 through the last barrier of rock into|feet below sea level. The gas cs the Argonaut. then lethargy, hen olbiivion. | Sweating shoulders and unbreakable} Records scrawled on paper ); jwills drove steel picks at the rock|man and scratched on a timber until this hole had been enlarged}another showed they had lived but }enough to permit a man to pass. Five|tle more than three hours after erect jmen made a hasty and unauthorized|ing their pitiful barricades. Saddest | exploration of part of the Argoneaut, | of all was the mute record. of the bare seeking survivors at the tmminent|beginning of a third bulkhead when risk of their own lives. Ths opening|gas had driven them from the scen? was enlarged so that rescue crew{of the second. could pass, and all day explorations} Identification: will be difficult went on without any result. length of time since they died, The levels were clear, there was no {Continued on Page Five) MINE MASSACRE. HEARING NEAR END AT MARION One Hundred Witnesses to Testify in ‘There wes q on 2 7 The . 1 NORTHWESTERN STRIKERS RETURN TO DES MOINES Britisher to Visit America Windup of Probe on Which Prose- cutions Will Be Based around which. the detectives said were powder burns, Charlotte Mills, 15-yearo.d daughter of Mrs., Mills, took entire charge of Observed in C apital| 1 CHEYENNE, Wfo., Sept. 19.—In the arrangements for her mother’s furieral, held. privately in an under- j attempt to convince the housewives of this city of the superior quality of MARION, Iil., Sept. 19.—(By The Associated Press. — Closing up loose ends of the evidence with which they hop? to convict participants in the killing of 22 persons at the strip mine of the Southern Illinois. Coal compary near here last June, the prosecuting authorities today rhad on hand? number of the more than 100 witnesses to testify before the 7 special grand jury investigatins th? |mine killings. oth hain he tos.“ number of the more than 100 DECREASE OF TWO PER CENTIN 2 e228 2 => sumed a routine nature, following Laramie county potatoes grown on} dry land, the city; and county will! cviebrate “Potato Week” early in Oc- tober. All dealers wil be asked to sell during that week dry-land Wyo- ming potatoes, R. H. Zeiger, county agent, is handling the detalls. “TONDON, Sept. 19.(By The Asso-| taking parlor. Although the family ciated Press)—Sir Robert Stevenson|has only small means, Charlotte se- Horne, chancellor of the exchequer,|lected. 2 hapdsome casket. Her will be the leading member of thejmother was her pal, she said, and British refunding delegation that | she wanted an expensive funeral for to visit the United States. The chan-|her. — / cellor’s purpose, it is stated, is to sail ‘The funeral was simple in. contrast LARAMIE SHOP STRIKERS Chet Sutiers SHOPS, ALL TAKEN BACK ! There were rising hopes that Bert Agreement Calls for Return to Work in 30 |x. sewen, the anoncrafts teader, would - 3 iron out with officials of the New Days; Differences on Other Lines \ York Central lines, differences which ; |prevented an agreement between striking shopmgn and the roads which form the N ork Central system. has 2% s These hopes were strengthened ‘ : ee Whee tip Boituicn Ratiwag the Mee Broken Bone In teconvening yesterday after a recess DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 19.—Striking shopmen of the bile and Ohio, controlled by the South- SiGN UIP NEW AGREEMENT ; | Reis the sealord yesterday be Chicago & North ve ; z \ern, and the Monon, fell in line with H. 2 A Ss ' nesses were heard. tena. cots iA Ai Misrasopsel EAST OnG shops Tete pended YeS-\ roads accepting the Baltimore plan — oisting tew pereee SS, Before the recess the jury returned t t ir places in the local shops this morn-|ana signed the agreement. Many] yARAMIE, Wyo. Sept. 19.—Shop- WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The ‘Among the cities showing a de- |indictments against 58 men, 3S % ing. Under the agreement all striking shopmen are to get|strixers ion these roads were expected /orat employes of the Colorado, Wyo- retail cost of food to. the average | crease in the price level ‘Den. | Whom were charged with = muri their jobs back in 30 days and all but five or six found work back today at the jobs they left July| ing & Earie-n railroad, who went on W. T Broach is in’ the Casper | family in-the United States de- | — Drice level were. Den- | conspiracy to commit murder snd open for them today. 1, wher the nation-wide shopmen’s|strike here July 1, have signed anj Private horpital as a Tesult of a | creased 2 per cent’ in the month | Ve” 5) percent; Omaha, and Salt | rioting: Striking shopmen of the Northwest. misunderstandings and differencees |*tTK® Dewan. egregment with F. V. Miller, receiver] ‘broken collar bone insurred when | ending August 15, according to fig. Lake City, 8 per cent. Nineteen | Eleven of the men charged with den shops at Boone wers scheduled to]which delayed settlement of the vail.) Reports of a general return to work! for the railroad, The striktrs are ré-|he liffed a can of stew Monday by the bu: | other cities showed a decrease of |murder are _still at lerge. having tert work toda way shopmen’s strike on some of the bY striking shopmen on, roads which} ported to have returyed-to work Mom-|. morning. Rroach who is 2 cook on | ¥ ; of the de cent or less, while Butte and | been arrested Attorneys ia — ads favorable to the Baltimore peace Agreed ti the Baltimore plan, brought}day rollowing the signing of tue] the Northwestern, got in a strain- ' partment of labor, based on reports 16 . showed increases of iess es have fiJed petitions for ¢ > iddAG Re Fabien embijuamebbes prransement was-apparent totam |, Continued pucPase- Five, wgreement. ed position, anf the bone enapped. —{rqm-Bi- cities Shen 74 of 1 pst gatite _ dlease. on bond. =