Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1923, Page 1

_ Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Sunday; somewhat colder to- aight in northeast portion. Che Casper Daily Tribune [acne VOLUME Vil. MURDER MANIAC SLAYS THREE WOUNDS FOUR EX-SHERIFF SLAIN ON BASTROP ROAD ME. UNION HELD POSSIBLE, JOINT MEETING ENDED Findings to Be Reported for Final Action to Committee of 16. CINCINNATI, Ohio. Jan. 20.— Adoption of the find!ngs of a com- mittee of ten, appointed to consider plans proposed by the respective bodies, as preliminary report, marked the closing session here yesterday of the joint committee of unification of the Methodist Episcopal church and Methodist .Episcopal church,.south Following its adoption, the report was referred to a committee of 16, headed by Resident Bishop William F. An- derson, of Cincinnati, which wilt meet at St. Louis on March 27. Should its report be favorable, and receive the approval of joint commission, it wll then go to the annua! confer. ences, and, finally be presented to the general conferences. Unification of the two churches when accomplished, it was said, wi’) effect a combined population of 20,- 000,000 persons. 18 INDICTED — IN RAIL WAR HARRISON, .Ark., Jan. 20.(By The Associated Press.)—With eighteen indictments returned yesterday, about half of which were !n connection with alleged depredat ons on the Missour! and North Arkansas railroad, the grand jury here was to adjourn today. ‘The “citizens court’ and the ‘com- mittee of 1,000" are not operating in connection with the grand jury, Cir- cult Judge J. M. Shinn said, and have no authority from the court. a erat BRAZIL STATE IS It REVOLT BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 20.—(By The Associated Press.}—A revolutionary Mer Rouge Murder Mystery A Heravatedl by Killing of John P. Parker, Jr.; Slayer Under G MONROE, La., “Jan. 20.—John P. Parker, Jr., former sheriff of Ouachita parish who was shot on the Bastrop road 15 miles from Bastrop last night by Carey Calhoun of Mon- roe, died at a local sanitarium ing regained consciousness. * The shooting of Parker is s movemen* {s reoprted by the border correspondents of Argentine and Ur- tguayan newspapers to have broken out in the state of Rio Grance Do Sul, Brazil. Dispatches from Rio Janerio Geclare the reports aro unfounded. DRY CHIEF FOR THIS DISTRICT IS SUSPENDED ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. *f.—C. 0. Schweitzer, chief for the states of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, has been suspended from that office under orders sent from headquarters here today. The Desks: tony the action sine or Seeeees but it was stated off.cially that the divisional office would..be investiyated by the bureau's intelligence depart- ment. LEGISLATURE Tl PAY UNIVERSITY GIT ON JAN? 27 Invitation * of Laramie Council of Industry Is Accepted. cial to the Tribune.}—Both houses of the legislature have accepted an !n- vitation from the Laramie Council of| Industry to visit Laramle and in- spect tho Stae university. The trip may be made January 27, Governor Foss: and h‘s staff will ‘accompany the legis'ators. Senator F. E. Anderson of Albany county, has introduced a bill regu- lating the passing of automobiles on public highways. ‘The house passed the Ewart bill extending the period for payment of 1922 taxes without delinquency until June 1, 1928. The Deelman bill pro- viding for establishment of a state industrial Institute for girls and the Hardin bill providing that municipal work shal be let by contract. It EXECUTED IN ERIN JAILS DUBLIN, Jan. 20.—({By The Asso clated Press.) — Eleven executions ‘were carried out im Ireland today. Four persons were put to death at Tral t Athlone and two at Lkmericie This brings the total exe cutions since last November 17 to 45. REID FUNERAL TODAY LAST TRIBUTES PAID sociated executed today in the Traleo “all, K for is arms oreaeert,iereet ae Dal of Killarney; John cliftord ot | Cah'rstven, Kerry; Michael Brosnan, | Ballymacelliyiott, Kerry, and James Hanlon, of Causeway, Kerry. ‘Body of Late Movie Idol Lies in State Until 2:30 o’Clock When Services i Begin in Los Angeles Church LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.—The body of Wallace Reid, mo- tion 2 a ey star, was to go on its final “location” today. ‘That was the word to explain his absence to his small son, Billy, and that was the word used chiefly throughout filmdom but it had a different meaning in each case. < The body was to lie in state from 10 o'clock this morning until 2:30 o'clock th!a afternoon In the ¥irst Congregational church ‘not fat from the center of the downtown busing activity, but several miles from the Reid residence and from the genitarium in the Hollywood datrict, where Reid died The doors of the church were to be closed for an hour heginning at 2:30 o'clock and at 8:80 joint services were to be Id by Episcopal clergy and lodge No, 99, Benevolent and Protec divisional ~ prohibition | uard at Bastrop here early today, without hav- shrouded in mystery. Ouachita parish officials state that the shooting was not reported to them until after midnight, and that no deails were made known, They sated that there were no witnesses to the shooting so far as known, Calhoun, who is superintendent of the McGowan-Brake Fishing and Hunting club near Sterlington, La., was arrested early today. “I was a personal fr.end of saci Parker,” Calhoun said. “I have! known him since boyhood and we |were friends for years.’ I hate the shooting as much as anybody else, but |I have no statement to make as to it. All that I can say {s that I am sorry.” For hours Calhoun, who is well) ;Suarded at Monroe police headquar- tera, has spent his time in weeping because of the killing of hs former friend. !coco CONFERS : WITH GOVERNOR BASTROP, La. Jan. 20.—A. V. Coco, attorney zeneral, announced to- 4ay he would leave here this after. Som for Baton Rouge for a conter- nce tomorrow w.th Governor John M. Parker. The attorney general sald the con- ‘ference is, for the purpose of discuss: fing the 1 gation into masked band activit es and the renort made tu. hiineby department of 'fustice aigents | yesterday that a biack hooded band} ‘coninues to operate In Morehouse par-| FREE TRIBUNE WANT ABS FOR THOSE OUT OF A JOB WHO ARE ANXIOUS T0 GET EMPLOYMENT No Need to Remain Without Work; Trib- une Will Help You Find a Position; | Just Come In and Place Your Ad Are you out of work? ‘Want Ad columns. IT WILL NOT COST YOU ployment. alleviated. and the ad will be inserted. situation in Casper. ‘are some, iget a position. ‘a model city of industrial life. tive Order of Elks, of which Rela was & member. Chief of Police Oakes has detatted 4 large number of uniformed officers to. handle the crowds expected to gather outside the church which will hold only a comparatively small con gregation. Active pall bearers include Benny Frazee, Re!d's chauffeur. Others will be William 8. (B11) Hart, Ed Brady, Noah Beery, William Desmond and Eugene Pallette. ers will be Theodore Roberts, Honorary pall bear: Jac Holt, Sam Wood, Conrad Nage}, An- tonio Moreno and Victor H. Clark. | who will represent Jesse Las } tector of the Famous Players-Lasky west coast studio, where Reid was em: ployed. ‘The body will be cremateg _ If so, the Tribune will help you. It can not, in the nature of things, undertake to run an employment agency; but it can and will help those who are in hard luck, to the best of its ability. If you have no job, the Tribune will undertake to find you jome, through the quickest and most efficient method—its There are no strings attached to this offer. with the hope that where unemployment or suffering exists, a job may be obtained for the individual and the suffering, All you have to do is to call at the Tribune office in person This offer is made in behalf of the working man, and as, this paper’s contribution téward solving the unemployment There are probably fewer unemployed \men here than in any city of like size in the west; and some who have tried honestly but vainly to The Tribune is the sincere friend of the working man. {wants to do all in its power to help him, and to make Casper _ CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1923. The Toys of Pavine on the Installment Plan ae Me W iN oO A CENT. Tt is made but there It} Fair | Weather To Continue Another Week WASHINGTON, Jan, 20,—Weath er outlook for the week beginning Monday: North Rocky Mountain and | RiAtenh saeco (menpealy: telr ex--| cept local snows in the mountains; normal temperature, Southern Rocky Mountain Plateau regions: genérally normal temperature. Pacific states: considerable cloud- iness; occasional rains; normal tem- perature. and fair, —_ | OKLAHOMA CITY—Foderal offi- | c’als launched an ormal inquiry into the disappearance Thursday of Arnold ©, Dolde of the Un'ted States district. court for the western dis- trict of Oklahoma after he had gone | to Shawnee to discuss tho shop strike situation, | things. Wee COME For. THaT PARLOR Purniore MAAT AIN'T Paid FoR YT HOWAT GIVEN PAROLE TODAY PITTSBURG, Kan., Jan. 20.—Alexander Howat and five other former officials of the United Mine Workers, Kansas district, will be released from the county jail at Girard about noon today upon paroles granted in Pittsburg this morning by Judge Daniel H. Wooley of the district court, They have 24 |served 266 days of a sentence of one year given them by for- mer Judge Andrew J. Curran. LATE [LATE FLASHES| A two-line want) -; ad will be run absolutely free for anyone who is out of em- -PITTSBURGH — Dorothy Camp bell Hurd, former United States British and Canadian women’s golf champion, abandoned suit for a di- voree from J. ¥. Hurd, WASHINGTON—The tmport du- ties in Mexido on bu'lding wood, will be ning cents for 100 kilos with heretofore admitted to Mexico free, ® concession of half that rate if im- Ported on the western coast and the duty on carded cotton has been do- creased slightly. by the Mex'can gov- ernment, according to reports. BOSTON—William P. G. Harding, recent'y appointed covernor of the federal reserve bank, aqid the ad- ministrat‘on of Major General Leo- nard Wood in Cuba was looked up on as the “golden age” by the peo- pie of that country. ST. LOUIS—Albert G,° Ellin was aequitted by a jury of the charge of mmrderine his- former fiancee, Miss Edna Ellis, in his second trial. CHICAGO. Dent’ ‘sts aald contrac- tion of the drug habit, among other could be prevented or more strongly res'sted by intelligent care of the teeth. BUDAPEST—Declarine that pic- tures of former King Charies and Empress Zita of Austr’a excite crowds and m'rht lead to disorders. the police prohibited the display of pictures. BRUSSET S—Beleian newspapers recarded the withdrawal of the American forces from Germany from Antwerp as a friendly avt of courtesy, CHICAGO—An injunction pre cred'ng involving an internretation of the 1922 tariff act prolh'biting the importation of trade marked goods, if a similar trade mark has already been registered here, was filed by n WAR ON KLAN PROJECTED BY UNITY LEAGUE NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—An attempt to organize “a war of extermination” against the Ku Klux Klan by combin. ing into one society the various forces opposed to It in New York state will be made by the central committee of the American Unity teague at a pub Lc meeting here Monday night. Speakers will include P. H. O'Don- nell, national chairman of the league and Thomas Dixon, author of “The Klansman," upon which the photo play “The Birth of a Nation” was baned. Chicago dry goods firm, against the tollector of the port of Chicago. Paucengate on Train Are Terrorized by Crazed Man Fir- ‘ing Into Crowd PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 20. —Reports carried on the Southern Pacific dispatcher’s wire said three persons had been killed and four injured by a crazy man on Southern Pacific passenger train No. 1, which left Bi Paso shortly atter 7 o'clock this morning. After running amuck, according to the dispatcher's report, the maniac jumped from the train. to the desert. The killed, according to the mc # age, Included Harry Turner, tris eling lvestock agent for the Southern Pa- eitic. EL PASO, Texas, n, 20.—Harry Turner, Livestock ent of the Souta ern Pacifico at Tu nm, Ariz, P. O. Cochran of Joplin, Mo., and Herbert Brown of Indano’a, Okla., were shot to death at Lanark, N. M., 20 miles from El Paso, th's morning while riding on @ Southern Pacific west- bound train. The slayer jumped from the train and escaped in’ the desert. He {a reported to be insane. After killing Mr. ‘Turner, the man tired at the crowd on the tra‘'n which blocked, the paswage way in order tf make his escape. He hit nobody, according to the train crew, except\tho three men he killed. All the dead were shot through the head. Officers from El Paso sand several ‘mail towns in New “Mexico today were hunting the desert: and” other hiding places for the ithe slayer. Angelo De Gloria, father of the four| when he thildren burned, was injured severely | family. + RADIO CONGERT BY LOCAL MEN OCORES AGAIN Wells Mimic Company Gath- ers Talent for Concert Last Night; Tribune Station Reaches All U. 8. A Wel's Music company program was given from the broadcasting sta- tion of the Tribune-Wyoming Radio corporation last night that was em- inently satisfying. ‘The program opened with a cornet so'0 by.A. G. Davidson, “Oh, Dry " from Teresa De Reigo. delivered two piano solos, one a “Venitian Love Song” by and the other “Raggin} the ." J. H. Shepard pleased with “Concertino” by Weber, a clarinet number. ‘‘Berceause’ by Jocelyn was another clarinet solo by Mr. Shepard. ‘Serenade by Schubert was an additional cornet attraction. It was rendered by Mr. Dayidson. The Tribune-Wyoming Radio cor- poration has received cards and calfa of approval from every ‘state in the union except Florida, stations in these states having received concerts broadcasted from the Casper station. In addition to this message announc- ing that the voncerts had been plain- ly heard caine from four provinces in Canada, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Al berta, and’ British Columbia. This achievement has been made on a broadcasting instrument which only claimed to have a radius of 500 miles. Sli <ieaits SAR TAVELL STORE BANKRUPT. CHETENNE, Jan. 20.—The Richardson corporation of Lovell, Wyo., conducting a general merchan- Ms'ng business, has been adjudged bankrupt in’ the federal court here. Its assets are listed at $12,190.91 and its Mabliit'es at $24,190.21. Father Injured in Leap from an Upper Story When Unable to Save Family in Tragedy Today at Lawrence LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 20.—Eight persons perished in a fire in a five-story brick tenement house today. ‘The dead are: Mrs. Lucia De Gloria, her four children, whose ages jranged from 5 to 10 years. Mrs. Mary S. Kelide. Joseph and Romanis Reysha. by jump! upper story, to save als "NUMBER 88. AEGULATION OF CHILD LABOR T0 BE DRASTIC IF BILL 1 PASSED Children Under 16 to Be Barred from Work- ing Dunng Hours -of School; Time Limited. CHEY ENNE, Wyo., Jan. 20. —Senate File 6, introduced in the Wyoming legislature on Thursday by Senator Stephen H, Sibley of Laramie county, embodies recommendations of the National Child Labor bureau and in the greater part was drawn by Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard of the Uni- versity of Wyoming and State Labor Commissioner Harry C. Hoffman, It Provides that for the purposes of regulating employment, minors under the nge of 16 years shall be regarded as chi:dren, that no child shall be em- Ployed during school hours, and that the employment of a child shall not exceed forty-eight hours a week. The bill says; “No child under 16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or sut- fered to work at, in, or in connection with any of the follow!ng occupation, or-at any of the following ocetipationy or at any of the following kinds of work except for the purpose of tm struction In the public schools: sew= Ing machine belts. in any workshop or factory, or in assisting therein in any capacity whatever; adjusting any belt to any machinery; wiping or cleaning much ners, or assist: ‘nig therein; Operating circular or dant naws, wood shapers, wood jo'n ers, planers, sandpaner or wood pol- shing machiner: picking machines, machines used picking wool, ma- chines used in pick'ng cotton, ma- chines used in picking hair, machines used in picking upholstertng mater‘al, paper-lacing machines, leather bur- nishing machines, burnishing ma- chines in any tannery o rieather man- ufactury, job or cyl'nder printing presses, emery or pol'shing wheel used for polishing metal, wood turn: tig or boring machinery, stamping machines used in the manufacture of sheet metal and tinware . stamping: machines ‘n washer and nut factories, machinery used in the manufacture of roofing and. washboards, steam ma- ahinery or other steam genevating apparatus used in generating or dis tributing electricity, or mach'nery op: erated by electricity dough baker, ctacker machinery of any description, wood or iron straightening machin: ery, rolling mill machinery; metal Punches, drilis or shears, washing, grinding or mixing mills, calendar rolls used in the manufacture of rob- ber, Jaundering machinery or in pre- paring or handling any compor'tion in whieh dangerous or poisonous acids are used in the manufacture of paints, or colors, or white lead; or {fi any clgar or other factory or plac where tobacco is manufactured or prepared, or in operat’ng any place, where gunpowder, dynamite or other dangerous explosive is manufactured, compounded, or stored, or in handling n any manner any dangerous explo- sive: or {n or about any mine quarry or amelter; or in any capacity awhat- ever In the manufacture, d’stribution or sale of goods for unlawful or im- moral purposes; or in any other oc- cupatin, trade, employment or place declared by the Commissioner of Ta- bor and Statistics dangerous, Injurf- ous. hazardous or prejudicial to life I'mb, health, safety, welfare or mor- als of children ler 16 years of age. The commissioner of labor and statistics is hereby clare any authorized to occupation, trade, emp ment, process or place dangerotis, in- Jurious, hazardous or prejudicial to Ufe, I'mb, health, eafety, welfare cr morals of children under 16 years of ag EIGHT DEAD IN FIRE TENEMENT IS BURNED HERRIN FIVE FACE TRIAL ON NEW CHARGES MARION, IL, Jar rhe | Associated Press ed of one |charge of murder ection with |the death of Howard Hoffman, one of | the Horrin riot victims, today faced a new tria weeks on another charg pon out of the outbreaks.