Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 6, 1922, Page 12

t H i | VOLUME VII. AVIATION ENDURANCE RECORD SMAS IN TEAPOT IS. UNCORKED GIANT GUSHER "|| Che Casper Daily Crihune CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1922. ‘When Champ INITIAL FLOW OVER 28,000 BARRELS DAY Twelve-and-Half-Inch Column of Oil Ob- scures Derrick; Control Head to Be | Installed Today, Is Belief Shooting a continuous flow of oil from the mouth of the 1214-inch casing high over the top of the derrick, the great-| est figw of oil ever tapped in the mountain states came roar-| Jack Dempsey, champion fighter, Meets Champ likes to meet champions, so he wel- comed this opportunity to meet Bob Shawkey and Carl Mays, two star ing iff from the Mammoth Oil company ‘weil on the southwest | "wzlers_of the New York Yankees. quarter of section 2-38-78 in the Teapot yesterday afternoon! and is still flowing at the rate of over 28,000 barrels per day. With the entire crew of the Mam-|ductivity of the Teapot and the Mrcon- moth working in an endeavor to hold/ moth will go forward with its plana of the fiow, four earthern dams have|developing the reserve with no furth- been constructed, only to be washed |er restrat away by the unprecedented flow of} Leases around the reserve are rais. erude and the fifth is now under con struction with oll spreading out over the floor of the valley forming a huge lake. 1t f& apparent today that the hols is ing rapidly jn price and fow can be obtained at any figure. Stocks of companies operating on adjotning leases are showing strength today and with the drilling of surrounding ter caving and bridging which {s diminish-|Titory which will result it is predictedi ing the flow and an attempt will be! !" local oil circles that the bringing| made thiu afternoon to place it under!!n of this wel! ts the beginning of an control peribrcrss Lan ae cand the Salt| motion picture actresses are beaut!- , paused |< ea) istrict such as was! hut dumb. foot" the pan fram thie, walt iocease aa er) eccrine n | Writing to the Chieago Tribune, pe flat and the fumes can be wh'ch published the interview, Be- | Chicago, Oct. 6—George Beban has expressed amazement at being | quoted as saying 80 per cent of the } | | — over a mile and half distant | ban sald he did not intend to con- | are riding the reserve to keep ' vey_any impression reflecting on the any Ganger of. fite.-and the] ~ intelligence of film players. The | siden stream of wealth continues to} letter was written from St. Louis. Scie fourth i'n eabroket oftman. | t { distinctly recollect that your in- canta nee : pea | rviewer asked me whether I be- T hormous: usher was. tapped | at eiacpth of Adc aesticynd ttte ea | Keved that this new idea of combin- es from o fis ing the silent and spoken drama as posed that the : VETERANS OF sure lead! ne second W presented by myself and company in | Creek ag there !s no known anna “The Sign of the Rose’ would become Sark Cat ideptH Tai Ghee Ghetriet universal," Bebra wrote. | “My reply was that in my opinion only about 20 per cent of the motion | picture stars of today were, by vir- tue of previous stage experience, qualified (o appear in a play o bining both the screen 2nd the stage. | is ties of this well are beyond compute true this contention posait as the entire pool underlying the Tea pot structure is connected with this one opening to the surface. The flow came entirely unexpected CITY ORGANIZE New Post Here Has Approxi-} BEBAN DENIES ATTACK UPON MISS DANA CALLS HIM CHEESE OF FILM CLAN, I did not say that the remaining 80 per cent, were too dumb to do so. “Lack of stage experience does not presuppose dumbness, on the part of the screen as€st. There are many instances of men and women, recognived leaders of the dramatic stage, proved unsuccessful when called upon to act before the cam- era. The Tribune published Beban's letter in full in its columns devoted to communications without comment other than the head customarily placed over published communica- tions, Over Bebang letter was printed: “He didn't know what Viola Dana was going to call him.” Wher: told in Los Angeles of the Beban Interview, Miss Dana was quoted as sayin, “George Beban ts a big piece of cheese.” and drillers were forced to leave the tools in the hole and run to eave the'r lives from the deluge of ofl which fo! lowed the tapping of the sand. Other| operations of the company were closed down as quickly as possibile and every ayailable man called to help save the precious flow. Men, teams and scrap ers were transported by truck to the mately 40 Service Men as j Charter Members; Meeting Held. Foi former soldiers, sailors and| marines met Thursday evening at ‘court house for the organization call to establish a post of the Veterans o: Forelgn. Wars in Casper and perfected | arrangements for the installation of a/ chapter here. The next meeting of the organization will be a week from this evening, Friday, October 8 o'clock in the circuit court room mcene and the work of constructing the earthen reservoirs began. There was no possibility last night of capping the well as the oil was com ing in such volume as to make it im- possible for a man to live in the der. rick. There were no control heads in|the court house. At that time t this part of the country for 12% inch|Charter will be signed and the nost casing but a local supply house is now | Will be an actuality 2 5 endeavoring to manufacture a combin-| Robert David, of the Texas com pany, called the meeting to order last night and E.R. Purkiser, of the vet-| eran's bureau, was appointed tempor ation that can be successfully used Frank B. Taylor of this city was a short distance from the we at the State Federation To Adjourn Today ian at hand, ower PEACE MEETING ary chairman. Mr. David ts a former| 7 ‘fe! 7 Bore : pa jce-commander of the Loury|_ TORRINGTON, Oct. 6.—(Special to The Tribune.) —The post of the Veterans in Denver. Tho/State Federation of Women’s Clubs, which closes its annual other temporary officers appointed /sessions here today, has been blessed with the most beautiful jee J. & eepensic Bei Siar *~| Weather that comes in October, and the large number of dele- nery, y and is 2 an Fi 7 BEGt phy hak ceactecchastae jgates and visitors have enjoyed the magnificent hospitality A membership committee was ap-/Of the citizens of Torrington. A great amount of important pointed to pass on credentials of alll federation legislation was considered day, and Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard further applicants. |looking to the future and it has ad-}of Laramie, in her usual convincing The meeting was an enthusinsti>|Mmittedly been one of the best meet-jand spirited manner reviewed (the jone and augurs inuch success for post|ings held. during the’ seventeen years| question in all {ts phases. Dr. Hebard' here. All of the members of the Vet-| of the federation existence. has been and is a leading figure in erans of Foreign Wars want it] Two past presidents of the federa- {Continued on Page Seven) thoroughly understood that the organ 3 time it blew in and reports the time as in the afternoon. T. F. Algeo and a party of other Mammoth otncicis had been at the ¢amp for din ner and left for Casper a short time before the flow started, having no idea that a well would be brought in during the day. Steel line measurements of the flow taken yesterday afternoon show the Well-to be flowing at the rate of 28. 400 barrel per day and when the qual- Sty of this oil is considered it is with Out question the world's greatest out- being 3:25 putter of hich grade oll nithough| ee inet the organ-{tion, Mrs. B. B. Brook and Mre, F. ——._— Southern wells come in with a much] !zation is in no way in opposition to| A. Morton were present at all the ses- J d: mM t: t larger output of crude. of a lower|the American Legion and that they| sons. uage atson to ghia. will continue to support the Lezton in] xfs. Cora M. Fisher, a dramatic its work for the former service :nen. s ‘This is the first well known to well- reader of note, of Casper, entertained a < ——__—_ informed local oil men where oil flow- Sa eee the federation yesterday morning and Be University Tpesotnciala:siecline to ieive: nde, |SBY./9, 2h reom jmost ‘phenomenal rises in real estate, a aiGer the trie teen roe | Ayadueni a dsiak. : ¢ ail what the Turks were demand-| Most of the other newspaper ex-lever witnessed in’ Weoming, e h ick tep from a casing Home Saddened B y| her offerings were enthusiastically re x |press_-similar. view: The Teapot Devel a .: outlet of this size, and the fact that it Y|cetved. In the afternoon Mrs. Marie Trustee Claim‘* Ieee ' pot Development's: - office; is continuous instead of by heads | Montabe Savare: of Thermopolis, > reaayy | : = j Will be onen day and night in the Mid-| makes it all the more remarkable. DDeQth of Inf amt: who is wel-known to Wyoming people FRENCH UNEASY OVER | RESUMPTION OF PARLEY Nest building “and all possible - pur-| ‘There was a time last night when from her writings and dramatic work, re LATE DEVELOPMENTS. | SCHEDULED TODAY. jchasers will, be given complete, de-| ‘ 5 there were signs of bridging and the ao Tar faually well received. Both the| CHEYENNE, Wyo. Oct. 6.—(Spe-] PARIS, Oct. 6.—(By The Associated! CONSTANTINOPLE, ~ Oct, 6.—(py|{@#€4, Information op the lots’ stilt) flow eased up temporarily, but the| Tittle Lucille Peterson, 9-monthold| ladies relieved the tension of hard|cial to. The Tribune) — Governor|Preas.)—The Near Eastern situation) The Associated Press).—After confer-|°V*2@Ple | earn eee emeged, the ‘stones and | daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. James Pe-liwork of the convention and gave the; Carey will today appoth: Vudge H- Nis saain causing» unieasineasi/‘Thel ring tor mest of the nicht wine weal { sand In the casing and continued un.|terson of Mills, died yesterday after-| delegates renewed anergy. Matson of Cheyenne a trustee of the Quai d’Orsay is in “the dark to|high commissioners and anilitary ex.|,™F- Oman. a Denver businens man | § abated Poon after a Ahort, itiness, “The body |’ The laws affecting. child labor pen | University of Wyoming to succred|the latest develupments at rthe er-;perts gre the allied generals this) Crh ve ar the ty yestirdas avEne en gar mcets % The bringing: in of this well has|is now at the Shaffer-c Chapel haps received more attention than any Charles S. Beach of Kemmerer, re-|mistice conference in) Mudania, its|morning prepared to leave again for(Toute t© the northern part of the| CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. ar settled for all time the question of pro-! pending arrangements for the funeral,other one thing at the meeting yester. cently deceased. only information being. contined in| Mudania for a resumption of the arm-/"*'* The Associated Prees.)>-The Kems) ARIZONA BUSINESS MAN TO BE ARRESTED FOR MURDER } Deputy Sheriff Bell is here gather-| ing evidence on the alleged crime, as- isted by J. B. Fox, Los Angeles deputy sheriff. They are said to have questioned nine women hgre, with the} had kept a diary in which appeared the names of 22 women, all wealthy, and all except one, who. wag a widow, narried to men of prominence. Some were declared to be residencts of Art- Prominent Western Clubman Strangled| to Death by Man to Be Seized Within result, according to Bell, that he will/ zona. Next Few Days, Prosecutor Says return to Phoenix with hie “list of| —— ———s suspects narrowed own to three! rhe largest locomotives in the world jare those used on American railways. According to the officers, Dernier,/Some of,these have a weight, includ: before returning to Phoenix from Los|ing tender, of 400 tons, while. the Angeles three months ago,” confided!heaviest British locomotive swelghs, in to a friend hy working order, only 140 tons ‘If I return to! Phoenix and see a 5 ertain woman there IJ will be killed. The officers further s LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6.—tThe arrest of “a prominent Ari- zona business man” as the strangler of Guy N. Dernier, club- man of Phoenix and Los Angeles, whose body was found floating in an irrigation ditch on the outskirts of Phoenix sev- eral weeks ago, is to be expected, according to F. M. Bell, deputy sheriff of the Arizona capital. a Proctor, Vt., has the largest marble ed Dernier, quarry in the world. @ BASEBALL IN THE TRIBUNE IS COMPLETE Tho great mass of Casper base- bail fans and the public in general again depended yesterday on The Daily Tribune tor ynexcelled service on world’s series news and were not disappointed. Hundreds were thrilled by watch. ing The Tribune's big electric score- board while the game was in prog- ress, and thousands read The Teit une after the game to get the news. ‘Three editions of The Tribune were ate: $ - the program, They are T. 8. ( = og AS rage Raia edo cries - and Oakley Kelly of the manager of the Rocky Mountals stale world news for public consump. sf United States army, who at’ vision; R. M. Andrus, manage tion, but all were complete ne: —s 8:20 o'clock today had been aloft in Casper plant No. 1; John McCieliar, papers and in addition to the latest HOYT—YANKS their monoplane T-2 for 26 hours and!painter at plant No. 1 and H. w. local, state and world news, gave the real news on the world’s series. It remained for The Tr. une alone to give the complete baseball news— play by play, box "score, the roar of disapproval by Polo ground fans when the game was called on ac- count 6f darknes. the box office receipts and other information which every fan deman: Tie fribune was the only one to ba this news 80 watch Tho Tribune sore. board: and read Tie Tribune if you want the complete nex. TRENCH CAVES, MAN IS CAUGHT: James Elix, a worker employer on the large sewer being laid on West Yellowstone avenue, had a narrow escape from, death “yesterday after. noon when he was completely covered by dirt when the wall of the trench caved in. H The derrick for iggitig the ditch Ad by ite aid JOHN SCOTT—GIANTS the dirt was quickly removed. Elix suffered no injuries other then severe bruises of the left hip, thigh anc the shoulder, He was. in ia condition of shock for s¢Veral hours afterward: DEADLOCK Conference Between British and. French Must Be Held Before Mudania Con- ference Is Resumed, Report LONDON, Oct, 6.—(By The Associated Press.)—The Mudania conference is not ended, it was officially stated at the conclusion of the British cabinet meeting this morning, | but it is deadlocked and cannot be resumed before the Brit- ish and French governments have conferred over the situa-/ tion. Lord Curzon, tRe British foreign secretary, will leave im- mediately for Paris to see Premier forcement of the Greek army in }Poincare. Thrace, which could be of no prac- It was al&> officially stafed, jn {tical result and would be bound to rough outline, that from the Britiah ;cause further strife, point of view the Turks are demand-|! ‘Ihe French press sees no réagon Ming more than was offered in the/for pessimism. Excelsior thinky the allied note, and’ on the other handjdelay is caused by the atitude of the that they are not accepting the con-/Greek generals who fail to realize Aitions of that note. It was asserted that the Turks want to obtain thejnewspaper asks if they are not play- concessions of the note without the/ing for time to enable them to con- conditions, jeentrate what remains of the Greek press dispatches from London. intice this. morning. Nothing has been received from the| The result of the deliberations here Near East except a long mutilated| W@5 not announced. It'was conceded wireless dispatch from M, Franklin./that the situation was very Bouillon, filed on Wednesday. Due / Dut it still was hoped that a basis for to the*errors in transmission ittle | Common agreement among the British, could be made of this, but the French} (Cintinued’ on Page Nine) envoy appeared to suggest that Bri-| jthat they must evacuate Thrace. The| serious! pr yesterday. 4 The Casper Tribane Two editions daily; largest circuts tion of any newspaper in Wyoming —— NUMBER 5. —————_ —— Sci Over 29 Hours in SAN_ DIEGO, Cal., Oct. 6.) —Shortly before 11 o'clock) MacReady and Kelly, flying the army monoplane T-2 in'Joint General Committee ; dropped a note on Rockwell/ Work; Many Speak- field stating that the airplane ers to Talk. that they would remain in the} ne jont general committes of 1 air until their gasoline and 6i!'st.ndara O1 company of In. a i ir 9 ed nAss meet 0 be held 6 preside and refinery employe: their + |families and friends are cordially —All aviation endurance rec- vited. ae ords have been smashed by{ Four Record Smashing) CCHEDULED Fl Flight on Coast | this morning Lieutenants an endurance record flight.) Award Prizes for Athleti: mg was performing perfectly and| —_—— was exhausted. At that time trom the Casper plants has o& ]12, at 8 o'clock. Dr. 8. K. Loy wi SAN DIEGO, Cal., Oct. Lieuts. John A. MacReady/*°™ speakers, representing and the employes will b 34 minutes. The previous record waa|Eberstein, stillman at plant No, 3. 26 hours, 19) minutes and 25 seconds.| The prizes offered for the workir ‘Out of a desigr, for the Standard ( NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—The world’s! Athletic and Recreation assoc record for sustained flight in a heay-|will be awarded to W. A. Hard fer-than-air flying machine ts held by'bojiermaker at No. 1, frat; A %. ard Stinson and Licyd Bertaud,| Johnson, of the p:pe, gang at N who vn December 30, 1921, remained second and Charles B. Perce, c j aloft above Roosevelt field, Mineola,!3, third. This contest Se for 26 hours. 19 minutes and) urated several weeks ago 35 'seconds, it was stated today by avia-! prizes tion authorities. St'nson used the all respectively. metal, monoplane JI-6. The previous, ‘The meeting will be thrown opag reewrd was held by two French fllers,/tor two minute talks by those seck Luclen Boussoutroy and Jean Ber-\ing nomination to the joint general nard, who in June, 1920, stayed in the| committee in the pending pr:mary air 24 hours, 19 minutes and two 8ec-/ or by those wishing, to make a nomi. onds. |nation. Persons wishing to speak it was, stated that the San Dilego|are requested to hand in their names flight had probably broken a record to the publication committee, which for United States army ‘aviators, |is, made: up’bt-R. Heinze, 44,.W.\E = =o ste n, J. D, Critchfle'd and W. H. }hurst | ———____— | ‘BOOZE RULING AS RESULT OF , OF DAUGHERTY GREAT STRIKE HITS AT Sates | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Transpor tation or sale of alcoholic liquors on American ships anywhere, qvhether privately or government owned and on foreign yessels witbin three miles Barre) Well. |of the American coast was held illegal en lunder thy prohibition lawa of | th News of the bringing in of the 20,-|United States in an opinion rendered 000 barrel gusher by the Mammoth today by Attorney General Daugh- Oil company at 3:25 Thursday after-/ erty, noon, has boomed interest in lots in| |the townsite of Teapot. [the Teapot Development comer wn an Placed Upon ja hive of activity this morning and re- Pe quests are pouring in personally and| Dancing In the |to the lots. The company had already! e s Billings School ‘e No. was ina and $10, $5 and $2.60 in g¢ Holders of Townsite Prop-; erty Manifest Keen Interest | on Strength of 28,000- — |by telephone for information relative jannounced an increase in price on all} |lots commertcing October 15 but there! seems every indication that by that time they will be selling at 7. adai- tional premium. The townsite is direttly west of the} 20,000 barrel gusher and within the escarpment. The possibility of oil be- ing found on the land has increased « |hundred fold with the bringing in of| Shool buildings under proper sup- the Mammoth gusher and every lot) *t¥ision. The action was taken fol- owner this morning in the vernacular; owing the presentation of a peti- lof the west, is ‘sittin’ pretty.” tion containing a number of signa |. Geologists who have examined the| tures and declaring that dancing Is townsite, are positive in their asser-; the first step in the moral downfall |tlons that the land is off bearing and! Of Many young people. The board the bringing in of the huge Mammoth! tok the stand that the schoo! build- jwell seems to back up their asser-| 18 should be used in a sane way |tions. ‘The faults are believed to be so| t0 meet the natural desires of the jsituated as to make the townsite aj YOUN people instead of forcini veritable pool of oll and if this is so| them to seek amusement in- queé- the peak of which the value of the| *lonable surroundings. |lots will rise cannot be determined. BILLINGS, MONT., Oct. 6— Members of the Billings school board refused at their meeting hast night to put the ban on dancizig in the high school gym and other Be. LE epee Pee j{sts in an ultimatum to the allies ‘0 | Hck Baker it a rancher trom Cody,/day, demanded Wyo., | Casper. the occupation of who is spending the week in) Thrace by, 2:20 o'clock this afterns0% but later extended the time limit to —_= [6.30 o'clock this evening. UW. W. Camplin of Cheyenne, ts a SSeS SS business visitor who arrived in Cas-| Hf. A. Wagner came up from Dem lver yesterday, gadier’ General Hefington’s personal| conciliatory predictions were cree AY AITE Hi by “his limited instructions from the British: government. | Some alarm was caused by a re- port that the Gréeks have dispatched two trainloade of troops from Saloniki to Adrianople, the capitol of eastern ‘Thrac Dispatcnes from General \Welle, French high commissioner in Constantinople, represent the Greek attitude in unfavorable light. In authoritative quarters, it is said : ot to be probable that Premier Poifcare| POLO GROUNDS, NEW Y will call the attention: of the former| Huggins shuffled the deck of Greek premier, M. Venizelos, and ths|his third ace, Waite Hoyt new foreign minister, M. Politis, both |Giants who are already of whom are in Patis to the impru-| epee dence of such measures as the rein jae eee critical eye SERIES, duty until game time. ‘ IN LAST YEAR'S WORLD t, in hopes of winning a first victory in the world series from the in the proud possession of one game. over the Giant hurlers but gave no inti OYT, YANK HER TO PITCH TODAY ORK, Oct. 6.—(By The Associated Press. the Yankee pitchin )—Manager Miller g staff this afternoon and then led with Manager John McGra¥ mation for his choice fot