Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1922, Page 1

TEAM HEADED | BY NICOLAYSE ~ GRABS Cup for Largest Number of Points in Chamber of Commercé Membership Campaign Is Awarded Today The chamber of commerce forum luncheon reports on the recent membership drive, the took up mn of the beat McKinley subway, and a number of other subjects: Chamber of commerce team No. 7, headed laysen, again took the cup for getting the grea of points in the membership texm collected $1,000 in dues and re- piiated its triumph of last year, when it also finisted with first honors. The building of a Burlington sub- way at McKinley. street was i from the standpoint of public safety) vy B. B. Brooks. Mr. Brooks sald that/ so far as the committee from tho! chamber ard from the city had been able to find out there were no diffi- culties in the way of the construction of such a subway, end he urged that every pressure be “ought to bear un- Ul the thing be accomplished. ‘The recent deplorable accident at the regular Burlington crossing was brought up as an example of the greay need for a safe and sane crossing that would permit the children and grown people alse of getting to the main! part of town. without taking chances| with thetp lives, } The matter was Tecerred) to the board of directors with the hearty en-/ correment of the chamber of com- merce, . F, Wilkerson read ® report on months ago the Casper Commerce entered in a contract with © General Freight Service assoria- tlon at St. Toufs to the effect that! the latter was to investigate the mat- ter of discriminatery rates against Casper, A letter was recently received trom the association tabulating the re- sults and offering recommendations for procedure. It may be some time Lefore an actual reduction can be ac- complished. ‘The legal right of the county com- missioners to acauire the school sec- tion om the top of Casper mountain for a.public park had been investi- ted By W. H. Patten, and had been by P, C. Nico- number laysen’ of cont: campaign. Mr. found to exist: ‘The o! merce will urge that such @ park be establish. ed. Indian Maid Is Ostracized for Bobbing Locks HATFIELD, Wis., Oct, 28.—Prin- cess News “Gayfish, Winnebago Indian beauty of Hatfield, “Wis, upset a thousand years of tradition and her own domestic lite when | she bobbed ber hair. Her {ther, Chief Running’ Water and her husband Dan Cayfiesh, put on @ war dance thai made the silent foresta sound ilke a reunfon of botlermakers. After the storm had cleared New~ ana fount. herself én exile so far as her relatives were concemed. But no: being ecsiiy disturbed) she nurepted her rmilsfortune with # smile and that evening, she and her little son turned their backs on the old reservation, Newana isn’t worrying about the future. An uncle who lived in Ne- braska died two years ago-and left her $15,000 In cash and a large tract of land. There she has gone and where she will attempt the cul- tivation of the queathed to her. Newana is 18 years old and has been married three years. |LATE FLASHES NEW YORK, Oct, 24.—An indict- ment, charging first degree murder was returned by the grand jury to- day against Mrs. Paulette Saludes, French woman who shot and killed Oscar Martelliere, broker, of whom she was enamored. | CHICAGO, Oct. 24,— President Harding has accepted the office of honorary president of the Ameri can Sentimels, a better citizenship | body formed here on Oct. 4, it was announced today by Arthur Brook- well, director general of the Sen- tinels, aceérding to the announced purpose take up citizenship work where the boy scouts quit. _CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—Many mis- sionaries were here today for the one hundred and thirteenth ammuatl meeting of the American board of commissioners for foreign mission of the Congregational ‘church, the oldest organization of its kind, which opened sessions for three days in Evanston this afternoon. ‘Tne. first session was to be devoted to Africa and the Philippines. CHICAGO, Oct, 24—The last of the Pennsylvania railroad’s wooden dining cars have been retired and the reas ining service eclared the largest in the world, now cony 125 all steel cars with 1,555 em- ployes, capable of serying 4,236 GLIDER FOR MOUNTAIN | LEAP IS ON EXHIBITION Garry Gordon's glider, complete except for the linen that covers the wings and a few metal fittings, will be taken to the Arkeon tomorrow and will be an added attraction of the Tribune Automobile Show for the last two afternoons and eve- nings. This offers to everyone in Casper an opportunity to see the glider and pect {t before Mr, Gordon takes t oul for @ trial epin and later hops off Casper mountain in his attempt ‘o break the worki’s record for sus- tained flight in a motorless plans. | | i i people at one sitting, according to an announcement, The cars form a mobile restauramt approximately two miles long. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct, 21-—Dr. Adelaide Hunt, 78, of Providence, R. L., died in the state hospital here today asthe resul¢ of — sufferings she ¢ndured when lost in the moun- tains west of Scranton MINNEAPOLIS, jOct. thieves finished working on a drug store here last night, the only thing left was the building and the lot it occupied. They backed an automo- bile truek up to the store and clean- ~ ed out the entire stock. 24.—Atter CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—Dr. Stephen. S. Wise, New York rabbi, speaking here before a congregation of Jews, the U cam- paign in Texas, is indicted by 9 letter he has written to BR. B. Crea- The wings and fuselage are com- pletely assembled and the ship fs just as it will be flown with the exception of the linen wing cover- ing. : Several former aviatoi now tn Casper, who hav+ inspect the Gor- don ship, express all kinds of con- fidence in the ability of the glider to make a successful flight. They base thelr hopes largely on the large wing spread, ‘the tlight head resist- ance and the extremely ight weight of the ship. it will weigh when in the alr just 140 pounds, one‘ of the lightest gliders ever’ constructed, iM anaging Director of War Finance Corporation Points Out Needs of Industry and Fingncial Interests in Finding Solution for Permanent Aid for West CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 24.—Contrasting conditions'in Wyoming last year with the) re hopeful and clearing financial situation of today, Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing di- rector of the war Finance Corporation, in amaddress Monday before the Cheyenne Cham: | ber of Commerce, spoke in an optimistic trend of the present but pointed out problems} which must be solved for future financing of the stock. and agricultural industries. Loans HOwORS Bees | mo land that was be--~ | t { } from the War Finance corporation, it is conceded, saved th —_——$—<—<—<—$—<—<$—————— 1 Political Frappe BY I. G. M'CANN, gi RC { BURIED ALIVE IN SEWER Ae A PRAYERAURWaner | AS HE DESPAIRED OF RESCUE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 24.—Pearlie Engst, 15 years old, one of two victims of the sewer cave-in here yesterday morn- 1 to the surface, yesterday after- neon, after five and one-half hours of benumbing cold and suffering through a literal-“hell on éarth,” tried to stand up ing, when finally broug and succeeded. The doctors had to force him to lie down. Employes Loyal During Strike to Get Stock Git KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 24.—Pres- ident Fairfax Harrison, of the South- ern railway, has written a lettyr to every employe of the system from trainmaster down who remained loyal te ths company during the recent strike, expressing appreciation to them, and offering a gift of either $350 in cash or five shares of preferred stock, according to reports here. Minimum Wage Business Aid) | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 24.—A minimum wage helps business, Mrs. | Florence Kelly, general secretary of the National Consumers’ league told the, chamber of commerce here today. “A -minintum wage tends to stimu- late IncompMtent etloyers to im-| Prove thelr \(ndustria! methods and to seek and :\eep a bigh quality of employes, and) toystimulate employes to exertion to tiiake themselves worth keepitig,” Mrs.\\Kelly eald. ‘Many under paid worters improve visibly when a living wage ruling is put in force.” The air currents in the Platte valley are also conducive to glider fiights accdrding to the ex-eirmen, as they normally have a distinct upward trend. The loan of the glider to the Au- tomoblle Show by Mr. Gordon will hold up work on the ship a couple of days but he feels that there is sufficient interest on the part of the After pital he ra‘sed hi at the crowd. Tngst, ag he lay 1 | Monday morning, | Was buried alive, by inch, neck, It. stood cede. . asked. “Well, gone through, Every once in raise his head up, dow and amtie. minute," he said, neck., I believe. faith" sigh of co: French / public to warrant delaying his test flight. The Automobile Show is*running from 2 to 5 o'clock arid from % to 11 o'clock daily, s “I said my prayers , the water from th: | sanitary sewer kept creeping higher I sa’d my then,—just waited.” As Engst lay on stretcher the only signs the layman °*emptions. A third plans to take | could see, of the experience he had, “He of the financing of co-operative | was trembling of the lips. He without nervousness. “I never lost consciousness for a only one time when ‘when the water got up around my "No, I'll reyer fox And he lay back Record If PARIS, Oct. 23.— of the French army, break the . world’s reached the height of day. His record beat ti His mother rushed to his side and inquired as to his condition. “Oh, I'm all right,” he said, he had been placed in the ambulance for the trip to the hos. is head and gazed then,’"? in the ambulance. He was speaking of the minutes wher, while he jand higher, covering hig body inch until at last it feached his %. agencies there for what | Seemed ages to the boy, without get_ | ting higher, finally beginning to re_ “And what. did you think, after district, cnd relying upon its ability to you had said your prayers?” he Was! self bonds or ¢ebentures to the invest- prayers, and the ambulance a pronounced awhile he would look out the win_ talked freely, “And there was I lost hope; “The wall fell without warning, |system. but it did not crush me, getting dim, somebody got through. with a bar,|ery to the fullest possible exteiit con- and let in some fresh air. low with the bar srved my life then, | believe, Byerything though, when That fel_ Aitinancing the orderly i 2 orc. He was forced doy trouble. The world’s altitude rec made by Lieit. John A. Mack Dayton; Ohio, on Serember 2 when he reached 49,800 fe TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922. said; = tock industry involves a long turn- CRIMINAL ‘Livestock Financing Is e livestock industry of Wyom- (ng from disaster, but this arrange- ment can be only temporary, Mr. Meyer pointed out, and he reviewed activities and suggestions which have to do with permaunert assistance for the industry. | ‘It is only a little more than a year since I first rad the pleasure of visit- , ing Cheyenne,” said the speaker. “You will agree with me that never oad a darker outlook confronted this inter- mountain country. Your banks were in dahger; your farmers were in deb your labor was unemployed; your ag- ricultural products were unmarkot- abl pur breeding herds and flocks were being sent to slaughter. Your spirit alone remained unbroken. These perils, confronted and overcome, are now largely forgotten because of the very success with which they were overcome, If the War Finance cor- poration deserves even a emall part of the credit which the peopie of the west have generously attributed to ‘It for its part in meeting thelr difticul-| tiles, then, indeed, every one of us who has been connected with that public service may justly take satistaction. “We in Washington have received too large a portion of praise. I ask you now to join with me in giving| praise where praise is due. I mean to the public-spirited committve which hag madesuccess possible th this state. | |L ask you to give just recognition «tn George. B, vAbbott, chairman of” our Vyem'_conamities: to. Johny W: Hay, A. f{. Marble, “B. B. Brovks, members of the Committee, and to EB. D. McAll ter, secretary of the committee, ‘I am. here not.only to take counsel with our local committee and to study conditions, but also to discuss witk you the adjustments that should be made if.we are to adapt the mechin= lery of finance the needs of our agricultural anc: livestock industries, 2s tt is now adapted to the needs of manufacture and commerce. With} ‘the pasing of the disastrous conditions| jof the crisis of 1920-21, let us not fail! to ccpitalize our hard experience for the benefit of she future. When the War Finance Corporation ceases to funetion, as I hope may be possibie on July 1, 1923, we should not feel satisfied unless, from our knowledge |and analysis of the causes of the col- lapse, we are enabled to bring about | better methods of dealing with the | future, j Various Plans Proposed. Many plans haye been proposed. ‘These plans are of three general types. One proposes to provide finencing through centralized government bank- ing instlutions, operating with large government capital, and making loans, somewhet as the War Finance Corp- eration has Gone, through branches Another dontampiates financing through a number of finan- clal corporations, each with moderate capital furnished partly by the gov- ernment, operating within a limited | {ng public in order to raise the feces. | Sa.) tunds, Under this type of or- ganization it is proposed to facilitate ® snes of securities through tax | marketing orgatizations through ex-| isting financic! machinery by modify- ing. the Jaws and regulations govern- ing the eligibility requirements of the Federal Reserve system, and the ti- nancing of the livestock industry by amending the national banking act so as to authorize the creatioa of federatty charterec loan companies, operating with private capital under the superviston of jthe comptroller of the currency or the Federal Reserve ‘The third pizn is based upon the aily Cribune | business {lice to the new type of holdup which Tubbs. | SPORTS | MARKETS NUMBER 20. SON FOR ALLEGED ALIENATION OF HER HUSBAND'S AFFECTION One of the most unusual cases recorded in the sixth dis- trict court, ,is the suit filed here this morning by Della Pratt in which she demands a judgment for $25,000 and costs from | Milton EB. Pratt and Elizabeth Pratt,, her son and daughter- in-law respectively, for alienation of her husband’s affections. According to the complaint, William H. Pratt, husband of the plaintiff, has been so influ./1916, from which injures che has enced by the defendants that he has| never fully recovered, | turned over a large amount of his| The plaintiff and her husband property to them. This property,, were married for the first time in/ the plantiff asserts, should rightful_| 1986 and werg-later separated for «| ly belong to: her, jnumbr of years. ‘They re_married ‘The suit also states that the de_|in February, 1914 and, according to| Yondantd instituted proceedings |the charges, the husband deserted agains her questioning her eanity| the plintiff about Decmber 1, 1917./ and had her taken in custody by the| The separation has aentinued to the sheriff of Natrona county and con_| present. fined to the county jail as an incom.| The plaintiff alleges that the sep- petent. The suit recites that the|aration, the insanity proceedings plaintiff was roleased through the|and the cruel treatment she received | efforts of her other children. all resulted from a malicioug con. It is also allged the plaintiff's hus_|spirecy on the part of the defend. band’s mihd was so yolsoned by the| ant a his wife to defraud the band “mind was so poisoned by the| plaintiff from her rights in the es- the plaintiff about November 80,tate of her husband. K.C. PEOPLE LEAVE VALUABLES — AT HOME, BANDITS ON NEW TACK Five men owere helf up in three) KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Oct. 24.—Pre) valence of holdups'in Kansas City his|pights, but only ene of whom escap- made the night pedestrian so wary cf/ed with his clathing 1s the record to- carrving valuables | thatthe. holdup) doy. Last night-asheldyp netted rob- has become demoralized,| bis another complete outfit of cloth- forcing tendits to adopt new “tactics. |ing, except underweur. In each case, This-is the explanation given by po-|the police have been snformed the \robbery was accomplished by two| has invaded this clty—clothing reb-| masked men. | beries. | One of the victima was beaten { The new method of stripping per-|when he did not remove his clothes} pons of clothing is beleved to have) quickly enough, Police are assisting started some time ago when bandite,/the victims to the extent of lending Decoming disgusted on finding but a/them untform overcoats in which to| few cents in the pockets of their vie-jreturn to thelr homes. One suspect | tims, took his clothes, was atrested early today. RESIGNATION OF JUSTICE DAY . TENDERED TO HARDING TODAY WASHINGTON, Oct. %4.— The resignation of William R. Day associated justice of the supreme to President | | in his apartment as umpire on the America-German claims commis sion. Fixing of the effective date as November 14, it was sald gt tho White House would allow Justice | court was tendered Harding today and waa accepted, It | Day to participate in decisions cn will be effective Noyember 14. cases which had been argued before ‘The justice submitted his resig- | the supreme court prior to the three | nation primarily in order to permit | weeks recess which began yester- him to assume the duties involved day | ROBERT A. ROSE WILL ADDRESS MEETING IN NORTH CASPER TONIGHT Robert R. Rose, Democratic candt- BOY 15 BOUND Clarence Miller, age 14, was hud under $1,600 bond on the charge of Fi date for congress, will speak at the assault with intent to kill In connec | Voth Washington street hall tonight tion with the rifle ahot he is allexed The speech of M Rose to have fired at W. R. Shipley, CY nature of a reply to that at tis hearing avenue gtoceryman, yesterday before Justice of the Peace ‘The trial will come up at the November term of district court. Young Miller iy sald to have fired the shot because Shipley refused to Mondel! which w auditorium 1 ce So ast ni CHICAGO, Oct, 24.—Steps to organ, ize a ‘permanent “vigilance committee” having for its alm the prevention of! eee ee town rday aft {discrimination against woman teachers ent occurred at 6 o'clock & y Si. {will be taken at a mass meeting ernoon about three miles west on the} Wil be ‘Ken Of a Mine lnder the! Alcova road. auspices of the Chicago Council’ of Administration Women, Miss Gene-| vieve Melody, principal of the Park} Manor school, said today 1 H. R. Snyder, wholesale manager for the 8. B. I.’ Motor Sales company of show principle of utlizing existing machin-| Denver, ts here for the auto [We feel that the Chicago public| showing Hupmobile cars. school system is already in the hands 'sistent with’ sound policy and “will, I* ae of, men and that the men are seekin: furnish the best soiution.| ww, 1,, Talbert made another busi- to carry their control even further, {Under this plan, with certain adjust- ments in the «eligibility, rules of tbe Federal Reserve system there would be available, through the system and its member banks, ample resources for marketing ef our great. non-perishable staple com- modities when properly _warehoused, inspected, and supervised. ‘The live- g5"2reblem, which 1s of vital inter, 1. Gpeople of Wyoming anc of the WHolo west, presents some special ‘aspects and requires special consid- eration. The reason is that the live- jver and has neyer been properly ‘i- nenced. Livestock Industry Needs Refornt, “During the past year the directors of the War Finance Corporation have ad an unusual opportunity to study dsting methods of conducting the} tock industry and of Cnancing its To put the breeding end o ness trip to Gasper yesterday. said Miss Melody. ULES Problem Ne TRAGEDIES MOTHER BRINGS SUIT AGAINST INVOLVING Fhi SEX STAND Ol IN DAY'S NEW Five on Trial for Life; Others Are Featured in Cases Distributed Over Entire Country. CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—Nine tragedies stand out as dra« matic spectacles in the news of America today, and all of them present women in the leading roles. They have their settings in six sections of the country, my Five murder cases, five with women as defendants, are in varioug stages of trial. -Another woman, “Peggy” Beal, won her freedom from, a jury in Kansas City last night, and a seventh, Medalynne Oben, chain, awaits her third trial in Los Angeles, Most of the cases present the “eter. nal triangle” with variations. Briefly, the mine cases appear as follows: Kansas City—Marle F. “Peggy Beal stepped out to freedom, acquit. ted last night after @ short trial on @ charge of murdering her lover, ‘rank. Warren Anderson. Los Angeles—Arthur Barch Gf Evanston, Ii., faces his third trial on a charge of killing J. elton Kennedy. Eight women and four men constitute the jury, with two women. as alternate jurors. _Mads_ lynys Obenchain awaits her third trial on the same charge, Los Angles—The jury to try “Mra. Clara Phillips accused of beating Alberta Mealows to death with @ hammer was tentatively completed Mrs. Meadows was the alleged riya? for the love of Mra. Phillips’ hus. band. (Philadelphia—Mrs. Cathering Ro- sier, accused of killing her husband, Oscar Rosier, and his stenographer, Mildred Geraldine Reckitt, faced trial for the murder of Miss Reckitt. J. Hackensack, N. motion picture dir —George Cling, or; Alice Thorn, | ton, and Charles Scullion, brothers In-law of Cline, were on joint trial for the murder John Berger, motion picture or. The defensp began its testimony today. Cleveland, O.—M Mabel Cham. pion, 19 on trial charged with the murder of Thomas O'Connell, Yale graduate and carnival _ prontoter. Three of four jurors selected ace women, White Cloud, Mich—Mrs. Meda Hodell, on trial for killing her father-thlaw, David -Hodell, with poison, repudiated her previous con. fession to police, declaring the con. fession was obtat by threats of being haunted by the spirit of her father_inlaw and her husband, Romie Hodell, w Brunswick, N. J.—Stiite offi. clals took over the task of attempt. ing to solve the murder of the Rev, Edward W, Hall and his choir lead, er, Mrs. Hleanor Mills. Fresno, Cal—George T. Harlow, acqu'tted’ by a coroner's jury after he clubbed his wife to death, will be tried for manslaught ‘ to District Attorney Dalley. H. Blanchard, 19, who Harlow ‘found jn his home with Mrs, Harlow, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for dis. orderly conduct DIVORCE PETITIONED. Anna M, Jensen ts suing Joseph Jen- sen in district ‘co! for divorce on the grounds of misconduct by defend- ant that makes the martial condition intolerable. She is asking for coup- sel fees, permanent alimony and an equ division of the property.. THe couple were mzrried July 9, 1921 fn Den: CONTEST "The Natrona hizh school soccer { Qudin Houser, Helen McKin, Thel- tournament which will be tield this | ™8- Bergman, Hazeltine Julian, Catherine Stell, Marie Heuber, Clair week under the direction of Miss nae pea Martha Heliner -wiil begin this i Shie. Bortent evening at thd athletic grounds. © Wagner. The freshmati and sophomore tedimis will compete this evening, the ) seniors tomerrow even- juniors. a: ing, and the winning teams of each day Thursday eve Those on | the different teams are as follows: | M ys Wil ra Freshr The Miss Continued on Page Five) HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TO SOCCER TITLE r af Duncan, Noy Love Marjorie Fra Ev. Driver; Giblin, Rouch, I und, Moser. Harrison. 1 R cap. th Part ise Fris- 2 Miler Heler Hobby