Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1923, Page 1

DEATH AND DESTRUCTION MARK PATH OF MISSISSIPPI CYCLONES Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday, except cloudy in extreme north ‘portto warmer in east tortion tonight, colde: Saturday. VOLUME VII. j ___NYO., FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923. The Circulation of the CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Yesterday was 9,793 Che Casper Daily Tribune FINAL EDITION NUMBER 136, RAILROAD CONTRACT IS LET DOZEN KILLED BY WIND STORMS Heavy Snowfall Reported in Northern Districts Swept Yesterday and Which Formed in the Northwest, CHICAGO, March 16,—The northeastward march of the two storms from the west, one ion and the other from the southern Rocky Mountain region| brought relief to the upper Mississippi valley but destruction to the lower Mississippi valley today. The storm that centered over New Mexico Thursday on | its eastward sweep, was marked by death and destruction as it crossed northern Mississippi last night. At Lambert, Mi: four negroes were reported destroyed where 25 persons were blown into the Coldwater river Some were stil unaccounted for to day. Other towns in the vicinity were without MUnes of communication and Yhe damage in that section for that teason had not been checked early loday. Relief parties were making for the stricken area. The storm in the upper portion of the valley left Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois and Missouri par- tially covered by snow. In some por- tiong, of those states, it was reported at a depth of thore than one foot. In Lane county, Kansas, the snow was said to be two feet deep, while La Crosse and Scott City, Kans.,. re- ported 12 and 10 Inches respectively. Snow accompanied by a high wind fell for a short time in Chicago to- day, and more was prédicted by the weather bureau. The temperature dropped 20 oes in St. Paul following a light @now- fall there yesterday Barly today the the thermometer registered 8 degrees above zero. Freezing temperatures and snow flurries were general over Oklahoma. Southeastern Missour! had its hardest rain in five years and rivers in that section were at flood stage. The Missouri river at Jefferson City, Mo., was rising. Gales of 62 miles an hour swept across a portion of Texas and carried the severest blizzard of the year into the Panhandle. The high winds were felt at Fort Worth, Galveston, Pales- tine and Corpus Christi, Texas. EIGHT DEAD IN MISSISSIPPI STORM. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 16.--Hight persons were killed and fifty or more injured {n a storm which wrecked the village of Savage, in Tate county, Mis- sissippl, late yesterday and swept through sections of Panola and Quit- man counties, according to word re- ceived today.from the storm swept area. John Kerr, a merchant, crushed when his store at Savage was demo!- (shed, died early today at Crenshaw, where. he was taken for medical at- tention, according to W. 8. McCoy, a) telegraph operator at Crenshaw who! brought the first definite news of the storm's havoc to Memphis today. He waid three other persons, & man named Chambers, his wife and son, were drowned, when they were blown into Coldwater river. Four negroes were reported killed on plantations near Lambert, Miss. Mrs, 'T. H. Rich, of Savage was 27 SPOONS ARE FOUND IN STOMACH | PARSONS, Kans. March 16.— J. A. Malgrene, 40, an inmate of the Kansas state hospital for | ‘ epileptics, here was recovering to- | Last Night by Storm — | gyenisn nee rot rweovering | Wednesday night when | were removed from his According to doctors, spoons stomach. Malgrene's mental condition was responsible | from the Rocky Mountain reg-| for his mania of devouring sllver- ware. For months his condition had puzzled physicians. | Wednesday noon his meals were | served to him in bed. An attendant reported to her superior that she believed her patient had swallowed @ spoon. X-ray pictures were taken of his stomach and it was said the remains of several spoons showed up when the picture was developed. Surgeons operated on Malgrene Wednesday night and removed the silverware and several small pieces of wood believed to be matches, Some of the spoons removed were shaw, Mom, also felt the effects of the storm. At Sardis 12 dwellings were wreck- ed, the front of a hotel was torn away! and a ratlroad water tank was blown! across the track, according to reports| brought to neighboring towns. Two! persons were reported injured at Sar-| dis. At Crenshaw several homes were damaged but no casualties were re Ported. partly disintegrated by digestive The storm apparently took its! fuids and brought the statement heaviest toll at Savage, which was! from doctors that Malgrene may partly wrecked by a tornado two! have been enjoying his “spoon months ago. Virtually every bullding| salads” for more than a year. which withstood the previous storm SaaEEInEEDcaenEe was wrecked in yesterday's tornado. The injured at Bavage was estimated at 25 or more, - , Several dwellings and a church) Were reported wrecked at Phillips. Ku Klux Klan | Wizard Sought HOUSTON, Texas, March 16.—A| nation-wide search for Edward Young Clarke, the former acting imperial) MISSOUR'BANK IS ROBBED BY | BOLD HOLDUPS ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 16.—(By The Associated Press.)—Six bandits today held up the State Bank of Wellston, west of the city limits. A North American Association It {s not a mere boast to say that the publicaticns of the United States and Canada are the most progressive and farthest advanced of any country in the world, Hight years ago—in co-operation with advertisers and aCver- tising agents—the leading publishers assisted in organizing the association which places the; buying of advertising space on a Basis of Certainty, The Audit Bureau of Circulation has ploneered the way from old- fashioned, haphazard methods to the modern method of buying space with the publisher's books open to the advertiser, Through this work a reniarKably efficient system for auditing publications has been built up and today 4s applied to practically all the leading newspapers, magazines, farm papers and trade paners of the United States and Canada. That this system is economically sound and fils a real need in business, Is shown by the fact that other countries have pat- terned their associations after the A. B. ( England, France and Holland have taken steps to build up Auditing Bureaus that will give the advertiser and the publisher tho same opportunity to meet on common business ground that thoy have in America. Publishers of this continent willingly co-operate with the B. C. because they believe that in furnishing audited circulation ¢ ures to the advertisers they are co-operating in a way that will be mutually he'pful. A. The Tribune is a member of the A. B. ©. and would be pleased to submit a copy of the latest circulation report. INVEST YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLARS BY USING A. B. ©. REPORTS. Prize Autos To Be Paraded Saturday A parade of the six splendid automobiles to be given as capital prizes in the Tribune’s “Everybody Wins Something” ampaign will be held through the business section of the ity on the afternoon of St. Patrick’s day. Final arrangements are being completed by Joe E. Mans- field to have a large truck, with special attractions on it, advertising the spring Automobile Final deta{’s will be worked out to Show of the Casper Automotive As-|day to make the display one of the soc'ation, ‘This float will probab'y|™0st impressive ever held in Casper.| ead the parade. The six big prize: to be given by the Tribune will fol UIT AGAINST BABE RUTHIS irst will come the Buick “ ing Sedan, purchased from the L. D. Branson Auto Co., then the Ricken backer Coupe, bought from the Bene * Tour: s dict Motor Co., and then the Hudson | Coach, the Chalmers Coach, the Nash} | Sedan and the sex Coach. The! 2 . Hudson and Essex were purchased| from the Van Sant Motor Co., and the| — | Chalmers and Nash from the Ken-| NEW YORK, March 16—The $50,-| nedy Motor Co, and the Nash-Casper| 000 suit of Dolores Dixon, against | Motor Co. respectively. | Babe Ruth, Yankee home run slug The parade will give the local con-| Ser, accusing Ruth of attacking her testants in the campaign a chance to| during motor trips to Long Island, see the fine cars for which they are| Was filed in the New York county competing. The truck and automo-| Clerk's office today by George Fein- biles will be decorated with green| berg, her lawyer. bunting, harps, shamrocks, shilli!aghs,| The complaint alleges that Ruth Is and other emblems more or less ap-| the father of a child, as yet unborn Propriately associated with the day| ‘to Miss Dixon. dedicated to the Irish the world over.| ‘The complaint against Ruth, sworn NO INDICTMENT FOR MER ROUGE CRIMES Grand Jury Says Evidence Is Insufficient for ‘Accusations Against Individuals; Prosecutions May Demand New Hearing in Endeavor to Press Charges BASTROP, La., March 16.—The Morehouse parish grand jury which began its sessions to by Barbara Escoe, guardian ad item for Miss Dixon, declares also that Ruth was a visitor at her home| during July and August, 1922, and he treated her brutally. Ruth, who ts training with the New| York Americans at New Orleans, sev- rai days ago, through his attorne | characterized the charges as. black mail. He claimed he did not know Miss Dixon. | ‘Estranged Wife |5,000 me WORK TO APRIL 19, CITY NAMED AS ROAD TERMINUS $12,000,000 Project of Haskell Interests Is Largest Authorized in U.S. in Recent Years OMAHA, Neb., March 16, —Contract involving $12,. 000,000 for the construction of 830 miles of railroad con- necting Miles City, Mont., and Casper, Wyo., was signed late yesterday in. New York, nounced here last night The contract was signed by Edward Peterson of the firm of Peterson, Shiriey and Gunther, Omoha contrac- START THIa it was ane |tors, according to J. P. Stuney of the firm. Work on the proposed road, {t Was said, will begin April 19. “This {s without doubt the largest contract let since the end of the war,”* sadt M hirley. We will employ x hundred men will be erial and equipment and equpmens | 200 cars of n 200 cars of material from here." Involved in the cantract is the building of 350 miles of telegraph system and 660 miles of fencing Fifty thousand tons of steel will be used. Of Clemenceau | Dead in Paris | Haskell wizard of the Ku Ktur Klan to bring! him back on a Mann act white slave! charge was in prospect here today | following the failure of the imperial wizard to appear in federal court yesterday. | lined up eight employes and three} customers against a wall, scooped up) between $10,000 and $153000 from the cages and escaped in automob'les. The robbery was executed in less than two minutes, it was said. here on March 5 in connection w ith the masked band activities in the parish last summer, submitted its report to Judge Fred M. Odom late yesterday, stating its failure to find indict- ;ments on account of insufficient After stating that it had “ca jury as to the activities of mask evidence. refully considered all the evidence brought before this grand ed and hooded men,” the report added: “The majority of this body are of; MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 16—| The death in Paris of Mme. Mary| Plummer Clemenceau, estranged wife | of the ‘Tiger’ of France and war time premier, {s announced today by The Milwaukee Journal. brought to a hospital here today with her skull fractured. Sardis, Hernando, Phillips and Cren-| named in warrants charging viola-| scene from two buried barrels tion of the Michigan law against| Delegates to the convention ap- | syndicalism. parently enjoyed little freedom under Chief interest in today's session! the regulation: CONVENTION RU COMMUNISTS “Ground Rules” of Meeting Where Foster and 75 Others Were Seized Contain Many Unusual Restrictions ST, JOSEPH, Mich.,. March 16.—With Sheriff George Bridgeman of Berrien county, still on the stand in the trial of William Z. Foster, charged with criminal syndicalism, en-| tered the last day of its first week today with taking of evi-| dence well under way. Bridgeman was to be followed by Maurice Wolff and Jacob Spolansky, federal agents, who as-| sisted him last August in raiding they centered in the probable introduction communist party convention in the) by the state of the egulation of the sand dunes near here, as a result of! ground committee” found among the/ which Foster and 75 others were| evidence dug up at the convention | MORE E\ OF IRISH PLOTS FOUND, DUBLIN, March 16.—(By The Associated Press.) —A docyment found in a raid in this city on March 7, reveals startling plans for the destruction of residences and a cam- paign of shooting on sight. “To meet the desperate and barbarous methods being) adopted by the enemy to destroy the government,” the docu- ment says, “the republican army's general headquarters has decided to amend and in some cases make more drastic the action ordered in recent general orders to commandants. “Some of these orders have@peen| cancelled and the action. directed in d in a new order which Into operation if any fv ations by the enemy ar them embod will corae expec el Some of the rules on this document Provided: “No one can leave the grounds without the permission of the grounds committee. All persons leaving the grounds muét register when Yoaving and report when returning. “Persons shall go bathing only be- fore breakfast or after supper. “All persons going in bathing must ,DENCE REPORT wear bathing sults. “No persons shall mingle with strangers. “No persons shall be allowed to| send messages mail letters. ! “No incriminating literature or documents shall be kept in baggage or in rooms, All such matter must | be turned over to the committee every evening. The grounds commit tee must arrange for the safekeeping of this matter. carried out in this area after this! °'4,t” Sersons are prohibited’ from date. ,| throwing away papers or written Among those mentioned as liable to iGontinues ani Pageis eur) be shot on sight are members of the Free State government, army officers of all ranks, judges, legal advisers and “the proprietors and directors of —_——— ‘AIN MAN DEAD OMAHA, Neb., March 16.—John B. the hostile press in Ireland and the| Swearingen, 64, president of the senior officials employed by the same, | United company, and former 8 as editors, sub-editors and| preside Om Grain Ex ader writers in cases where it is! change, is dead at his home here fol known that these officiols are hostile." lowing an attack of grippe the opinion that the evidence provided WAs not sufficient to warrant the find ing of true bills against any particu lar party.” The report of the tvestigators to day caused little surprise here as it had been forecast by many of Bas trop’s citizens. Captain J. K. Shipwith, exalted F ; All ] D= of the Morehouse klan, de- | clared ho was pleased with the ver |dict. “The state has done its duty | and I hope it is satisfied and will le the matter rest,”” he said New Marathon ‘pXBW ORLEANS, ta. ataren 16-— Dance Record = earn sable Madras epi Over 18 Hours | though it makes a second attempt to obtain indictments on murder charges | Of those it believes responsible for the | death of Watt and T. F. Rich-| ard on August ording to T. Semmes Walmsle: 5 , aas'stant attorney | LONDON, ‘March —The latest | general here tox claimant to marathon dancing | He indicated tha t the same time honors {s Santos Casani, a former | the attorney general's office probably | aviator who says that he beat the | would fi'e inforamtion against more| world’s record with a continuance | than two score individuals who he| performance lasting 18 hours and 84 minutes. During this time Casani did 424 fast dances with a succession of | aid had been linked with the More | house parish crimes on minor charges. | If this plan of procedure were car. ried out, he explained, the cases in! partners. The first young woman | Which thé men charged with minor lasted 13 hours, beginning at 9 | Offenses were involved would not re- o'clock yesterday morning. Casani | quire action by a grand jury and the hoped to dance for 24 hours with- out a stop, but sore feet compelled him to quit after he had beaten, state would proceed with their prose. cution in the courts The new grand jury, then, {f It ts by a g00d measure, the record of | sought by the attorney general, he 15 hours, 25 minutes established | added, would receive only such evi recently by Cliff Houghton and | dence as tho state thought necessary Miss Eddie Cole. to bring about murder indictments. N. Y. TRIBUNE IS SUED BY GADSKi FOR $250,000 NEW ‘YORK, March 16.—Mme. Johanna Gadski Tauscher, prima donna, has filed suit for libel in the supreme court here against the New York Tribune and its musical critic, Henry E. Krehbiel, for $250,- 000 damages each, alleging that an article printed fn the newspaper last month ly injured her in her reputation and professio allusion In Mr. Krehbiel’s article to the sinking of the Lusitania and a subsequent celebration at the b of “one of the singers of opera The article did not mention Madame Gmiski_or her husband, Captain Hans Tauscher, but she contends she was referred to. Captain Tauscher, who was agent for the Krupps in the United States, was acquitted on a charg The alleged Hbelous matter, as | of conspiring to violate the neutral described in the Tribune's account ity of the United States carly in of the sult today, ly based on an j the war, | many’s unoffic WITHDRAWALIS AIM OF BERLIN | = | Unofficial ‘Advices Say That Germans Will Not Make Overtures for Adjust- | ment Until Troops Are Moved Out BERLIN, March 16.—(By The Associated Press.) —Ger- al response to the recent announcement that France and Belgium will evacuate the occupied regions as fast as Berlin makes tangible guarantees asserts that only a complete withdrawal of the allies will make possible any negotiations, | members that appear in the Berlin press come from outside sources. SABOTAGE IS CONTINUED. DUESSELDORF, March 16.—4P The Associated Press.}—One French| soldier was killed and three French : men were injured when a —_—— h troop train was wr Although confirmation {s lacking, the above dispatch is believed to re- fer to the railroad projected by the interests {nasmuch as these builders are the only ones known to have projected plans for a line as far south as Casper. This city, it may has not yet been as- sured of a place on the line but the company’s contract will enable the materialization of such plans in the event steps are taken by local inter« ests to co-operate in such a result. also be added, STATE COMMISSION AIDS SQUARE DEAL. ‘NE, V March 16.4 te public service commission today wired to the interstate com- merce commission a protest against granting permission to the Wyoming Railway company to extend its line from Buffalo, Wyo., to Casper and thereby compete with the line pro- posed by the Governor Haskell inter- ests. The telegram points out that the Haskell p ale already are at | work to build a road from Miles Cit: Mont., to Casper, Wyo., and that thi shorter road would « with that proje Railway company filed an applica- tion with the interstate commerce commission several days ago. riously interfere The Wyoming GLENROCK FIVE IS ELIMINATED This opinion so far has been ex-, pertators but none of its LARAMIE, Wyo., March 16.— Pressed only in the press and in| was injured. |Glenrock was eliminated from the elchstag circles, but it is known| Near Coblenz three miles of tele-|state high school basketball tourna- that editors and politicians alike have! phone and telegraph cable which in-|ment here today when the team was been informed by the government] cluded 14 {important military wires| defeated by Powell, 38 to 13. In the that any negotlations on the repara-| were destroyed. The French said it/ other games today. Cheyenne lost to tions question are conditional upon! would take six months for repa | Rock Springs, 9 to 8. nston de- return of them to German control A bomb was thrown at the railway| feated Rawlins 17 to 15 and Laramie Political workers familiar with tho| (Continued on Page Four). overwhelmed Douglas, 30 to 6, attitude of Wilhelmstrasse say that| they have heard nothing of the re-| ported German overture to London. Anygintimations of peace suggestions 2 ACQUITTED OF G LOVER Treves in the Rhineland to@™ | MINEOLA, Y., March 16.—With a smile on her face t of sabotage Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wells walked out of the courtroom This was one of several early today a free woman. Just before midnight she was Cases (oti ssbotags. reported acquitted of the murder of Capt. James M. Pettit, with whom | French from yarlous parts shasta 3 tae se pate occupled territor The train was| She lived at Massapequa Inn, which he kept. | diverted from the main line by a The jur: switch being thrown and crashed into Well acquittal followed , and Mrs. Pa Saludes, t_- a freight train. two convictions of women| lke Mrs. Well n. laving shot Another case of violen® was the) charged with having slain men with| their jeath but pleaded | blowing up by dynamite of the rail-| whom they had been intimate. In| justification and mental insta iby. , road bridge over the Kalkum river| each ase, he trial jury was chosen/ At all times Mrs. Wells maintained between Duisburg and Duesseldorf.| because of a professed ty to] that she did not shoot tain Pettit. This was the first instance in which| Judge testimony against women| The basis of se was that namite has been successfully used. | o xed with mur with t ah had r punish Pett! The Frer pa guarding o' heads rather than with tt arts. | He f 2 was too great, she | bridge was fired upon by the per- H predece Mrs, Lillian | pleased