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PAGE TWO. WEDDING STIRS WEDDIN GSTIRS WHOLE NATION _ . . . | Forthcoming Marriage of Prin- cess Yolanda to Commoner Arouses Nationalism. BY CAMIL) United ROME, April 7.- Noodless Fascis swept Premier M shirted foll erved to unit flame of na’ ing wedding eldest da ing house of Savof, Berg While all the amenities incident to a royal wedding are being observed— functio gifts: and orps which | as strictl: | 10 CIANFARRO ‘espondent. t since the revolution that ssolini and his black nto power has so t revivify an ism as the the Princess ghter of the reign to Count Calvi Di ow: Mrs. Italian radical] are being have a part in the however, that might ished the wedding of an| Italian princess to a foreign potentate been overlooked. The princess y presided at an intimate lunch and tonight, with her dashing t her side, she received mem- of the diplomatic corps. The 88 a’so Went to communion and 1 herself for the wedding cere ye embel fiance ers nc prepar mony Exchanges of gifts between bride and bridegroom, and miliiions of lire worth of presents from royalty and people are reported in the Queen Elena gave a mag The the princess’ mother, cent string of pearis. mother, Margherita, and P necklace. in waiting a set of solid queen a no a ndies “collar of the large silver plates. e her fiance a go!d with platinum. will particl demonstartion of loy- of the quirinal, during the guard. of England, is he man of her the people, since » in Italy. Moreover an Italian, when 1d have given her oyal birth from an smo, in sam cause. Mary onse. age of triumph for its he princess signals her approach- nuptials with an act of kindness that results in 2,000 working girls be- ing returned to their jobs from which they had been discharged BILLION MOVED IN MERGER OF CHICAGO BANKS West's Largest Combination of Financial Houses Effected In Windy City. CHICAGO, April 7.—(United Press) —Treasure, securities and gold of greater value than combined wealth of King “Tut” and all other Egyp- tian rulers, moved through the streets of Chicago tonight, in com pletion of the west’s largest bank merger. 8 Trust and Savings bank Merchant Loan and Trust moved Into the new ten mil lion-dollar Illinois-Merchants bank building begin business Monday as the Illinois Merchants Trust company in affiliation with the Corn Exchange tional bank The trio of banks will start their consolidation with capital, surplus and undivided profits of $50,000,000, commercial and savings deposits of $300,000,000 and trust funds of a half billion. making the institution second in the west only to the Continental Commercial National bank. compa Several hundred guards, policemen, ers and other transfer of old. which Armored trucks routes and time secret, carried fon being tract attention men armed professional mov- participated in the ecurities, tonight rays, thelr of movement kept the treasure, every taken not to at- was co} van preci Streets about the Merchants Loan and Trust company were roped off while a part of the street was torn p to move the monster safety de posit vaults holding millions in se curities. As the cars left each bank, guards armed with rifles rode inside and men clothes who kept their r bulging hip pocketas pre. d followed at intervals every Value of the money and s near a billion dollars. In the merger the two banks that moved will ret » separate identity as the Illinois Merchants Trust com The Corn Exchange National nich will move into the same as soon as {t is further com retain {t's identity. be called the Mill hants bank. J. Mitchell, who started his in a messenger boy ois Trust at $12 a the three banks, tt admitted tonight, He a papers moved kW building pleted but will > w career for the r week, will head erally | pital se HOSPITAL FOR SALT CREEK TO Contracts Will Be Let Tomorrow On $50,000 Structure in Heart of Field. Salt Creek has taken another step toward the status of a real live city. The bu ng of a thoroughly ern hospital which has been needed so long is to be an actual fact and contracts will be let tomorrow. This Institution will be located at Lavoye, which is almost exactly the popula- tion center of that great oil field, and will cost approximately $50,000. Adequate facilities along th line have always been sadly lacking but no concrete plan was advanced to overcome this handicap until Dr. Mitchell and Mrs. Eva Roy, 1 of whom are familiar with the sional’ viewpoint such matters, saw the real need and settled u a plan to give this communt rvice that id b econd to country Wyoming res'dents pos nite knowledge concern- on difficulties 1 ear in Wyom a strong if r argument in fay of this new en recognized haza duties of the o' great that the estimated & in time for the workers to be gained having this service close at hand is very great in on wot the none in All are was tending the the an ideal location for a hospital roads from the various camps con- verge at or near this little city, mak- ing it desirable in the extreme for this purpose. The Midwest Refining company, always among the first with assiat- ance along all lines have ever kept the doors of their hospital open to all, but at limes the size of the build. ing was a barrier to ing for thoss who really needed hospital care. There are no words but those of praise for Dr. Roach, Midwest surgeon and his staff for the work they have done in and around Salt Creel: Wesley Grooms, who is actively In charge of financing and building, ts clalist in this line as eo has many buildings to be used ox- yy tmembers of the medical 8 very enthusiastic over n this venture was ac corded in the region in which it js| to be built. The breaking of ground, early next | week, will be in the natur cele: | bration in which all the residents of Lavoye and Salt Creek will be in sted. | it who believe in this sort of] L. P. Lavoye came with the donation of a lease of} ground for a building site. ‘The value | of this gift is inestimable on a basis | of dollars and cents, but Mr. Lavoye| places a h'gher value on the heal of the community, hence the gift. KANSAS TEAM IS WINNER IN CAGE FINAL ford Basketball Quintette For Championship. April 7. — The speedy| Kansas City, Kansas, team won the national Interscholastic basketball championship here tonight by Gefeat- ing Rockford, Tll., in the title game by a score of 43 to 21. The Kansans were the flashiest and fastest aggregation in the tour nament, completely outplaying the heavier Iiiinois team, ‘The meet just ended was participated in by forty teams from al! parts of the country The Kansas team defeated Musk- eson Mich., 30 to 26 in the semi-final game of the tournament and gained the right to meet Rockford for the title. Charleston, 8. C., won third place by defeating Muskegon 35 to 26. OAKLAND WINS FROM L. A. 7-4 Northern California Team Takes First Series of Season, Two Games to One. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 7.— (United Press.}—Oakland defeated Los ‘Angeles today, 7 to 4, giving the northerners a lead in the first series of the season of two games to one. Los Angeles almost drove Ira Col- well to the showers in the first inning with a single, triple and two doubles for three runs, but the youngster braced and allowed only four more hits during the remainder of the game. Oakland retaliated in the second in ning by driving Tom Hughes from the mound. Ponder, who relieved him a'so was hit hard, BODIES OF NINE SAILORS. FOUND IN VINEYARD BAY CHIGAGO, mod: } 1, | Tavoye with ite central location Ja) au iH | T Y |the organization. Speedy Five Defeats Big Rocker- | BE AT LAVOYE Casper Sunday The Uninvited Guest! Morning Cribune TRIUMVIRATE RULES KLAN: HEARING IS‘DUE Officials in Injunction Battle One Another—Simmons Asks Authority. ATLANTA, Ga. April 7—A trium- virate ruled in the Ku Klux Klan to- W. J. Simmons, emperor of the Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wiz- ard, and J. M. Georgo, marshar of the| forward | ; Janta municipal court, wera in tem- porary authority over the empire” following a court order issued by Superior Judge E. D. Thomas late The activities’ of the secret order will be directed by the committee of three until a hearing is held on the petition of Col. Simmons asking that he be placed in absolute command of The petition is ex- pected to be heard some time next week. The triumvirate is the fourth legally constituted governing body under which the klan has functioned with- in the past week. At the beginning of the week the klan was under the leadership of Dr. H. W. Evans and his staff. Late Monday, Simmons, in Fulton county superior court, secured a tem- porary injunction ousting Evans tnd piacing himself :n absolute authority. Following th Evans at 2 a. m Thursday morning obtained a court order vacating Simmons! injunction and pltcing Sheriff J. I. Lowry in charge of the imperial palace of the klan. During their one day's rule at the imperial palace, Simmons’ adherents claimed to have discovered ®umerous shortages in the funds of the klan and |swore out warrants against N, N. Fur |ney and T. J. McKinnon, members of Evana’ imperial staff, charging lar. ceny after trust of approximately $107,000. | Late this afternoon Municipal Judge T. A. Hitchcock dismissed the charges against the men after he held that sufficient evidence had not been intro: duced to warrant a case against them. Dissension broke out in the ranks of the klan when Simmons promulgated the Kamelia, a secret order for wom fen, on the nes of the klan, and Evtns isued an edict denying klans men the right to partcipiate in tho organization. ete RUSS EASTER IS USHERED IN; OR 1S. IT EASTER? Calendar Changed So Often No- body Knows—Kissing and Music Popular. BY JOHN GRAUDENZ (United Press Staff Correspondent.) MOSCOW, April 8.—(Sunday)—The Russian Easter was ushered in with pealing bells on a hundred Moscow churches, while the bolsheviki demon. strated their disbelief in all forms of religion at meetings throughout the city. Orchestras and brass bands vied with the solemn musié of the organs as young communists who last year VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, April 7.| —United Press.}—Bodies of nino pall-| ors, believed to be practically the en-| tire crew of the little steamer John afted from his present ca chairman of the board of| 6 Merchants na fight for| Dwight of New York, which found: ered in Vineyard mound early yester had recovered tonight des ife belts aroun were floating near the spot vessel wan last ween in the of the The dragged effigies of Christ through the streets, sought by contrast to appeal to the populace, without this year's demonstrations reaching the extreme of other years, There was even some dispute among Russians as to whether this was Faster or not, the calendar having un dergone various unofficial changes at the hands of recent Russian adminis trations since the czar's time. General kissing, authorized by cus “invisible | tom, was indulged in by rioters in the! streets, and no richly gowned lady, however haughty, dared refuse the! | dirtiest begger's embrace, for fear of bad luck. carried home their lighted candles, | which must not be permitted to go out unless the bearer would risk bad | | luck for a year. WOMAN KILLED BY FRIEND IN VIEW OF CROWD | Colored Girl Killed, and Another Arrested by Police, Calmly Admitting Crime. TUCSON, Ariz., April 7.—In plain view of hundreds of merrymakers, Josie McDonald, a young colored woman, was stabbed to death last night. The stabbing occurred in front of the Hawaiian dtnce hatl on the mid- way of the Snapp Brothers’ carnival. Letha Jordan, a comely young col- ored girl, a short time after the stab- ping, was trrested by Detective Fran- fo and Patrolman Wein, at the home of her mother, 566 South Meyer street. On arrival at the police station, the igirl who had killed her bosom friend of three years was perfectly calm and freely tdmitted having stabbed the McDonald woman. ‘The victim had been married but two weeks, iked why she had stabbed her firend, the Jordan girl answered ithat “if had to be done.” Questioned more closely, she said that Josie had approached her before the Hawai'an Those who attended the|dance hall and demanded why she, church services, despite the scoffers|Letha, had been laughing at her. Without waiting for an exp'ana tion, according to Letha, Josie had then caught her by the hair and start jed to rain blows upon her face and body, when Letha struck her with the knife. ee NEW WEEKLY FORD PLAN ANNOUNCED AT DETROIT; $8 ENOUGH 10 START IT DETROIT, Mich., April 7.—United Press)—A new Ford weekly purchase plan, to be carried out by the com- Pany’s organization numbering 9,000 dealers, was announced by the Ford Motor company today. Under the plan, according to a state- ment issued by the company, as “lit tle as $5 will start anyone toward the ownership of a Ford car, bis initial layment, as well as subsequent pay- ments, will be deposited to the cus- tomer’s credit in a local hank and draw interest at the regular rate, todd Se PHILS BEAT ATHLETICS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 7.—A sixth-inning rally by the Athletics which netted Connie Macks team two runs, failed to overcome a three run lead and the Phillies took the initial contest of the Quaker City teams annual spring series, 3 to 2. BABY CARRIAGE DERBY WON BY SPEEDY MOTHER (Continued from Page One.) feet in response to applause at the finish line. Edwards, pudhing « light fold- ing baby carriage, was made a favo- rite by the bookies and got away to a lead of two lengths in the first half mile, Mrs. Rose Firmager was striding strongly in second place. At 12:34 p. m. the half-way mark was reached and male pacemakers who had led the way afoot, cracked under the rain. Conditlo of the contest required that each mother minister to the wants of her juvenile jockey enroute. Consequently sudden halts punctuat ed the contest, while wails were quiet- ed. Skillful methods of motherhood on the part of Mrs. Groom saved the winner many valuable minutes and drew applause from those who fol-| lowed the contest in automobiles and on bicycles. Caches of other requir axle grease, milk and ments of “prams” and babies were arranged along the route, It was nearly dusk when the win- ner panted up to the finish Iine and was awarded the cup symbolic of the great “pram” pushing championship of all England, Two other starters finished be- hind Mrs. Groom, while two dropped out en route, Te eareets f | | ONE SHOT, TWO HURT IN CHASE OF BOY KILLER RATON, N. M., April 7.—One man was shot and wounded and two were jmjured when a motorcycle overturned on Raton Pass during a day of wild hunting for the two youthful slayers| of Oscar Davis, chief of police. Davis was killed by the youths} jwhen he leaped on the running board of their car and sought to arrest them. They overturned their car in fleeing from the city and escaped on foot, a posse taking up their trail this morn- ing and the posse és still out tonight, bloodhounds being added in the hunt for the boys. Lee Davis of Raton was shot by guards posted on one of the main} ‘hways when he refused to heed a command to stop his automobile. — MISS ALEXA STIRLING 13) AT HEAD OF RATING FOR, AMERICAN GOLF WOMEN NEW YORK, April 7.—Winning of| the national golf title thrice by Miss, Alexa Stirling against once for Miss Marion Hollings proved suffictent to| give the former plus on rating this Hoff-Schroeder’s Our own farm products delicously cooked Free check stand—Rest room It Also Has Hudson’s New Motor The Coach is a beautiful closed car, Speedster . 7-Pas, Phaeton. Phone 1406 than 6% Now it adds the Six motor. Performance is wholly altered—a glorious sense of motion, free ai to Super-Six owners. See the Coach today. Examine the closed car advantages offered at this orice, charm of this greater Super-Six motor in a ride. MUTUAL CARSALES CASPER, WYOMINo. above the price of open models. THIS COACH $1825 CASPER costing less attraction of the new Super- flight. It is a revelation even And learn the Second and Yellowstone year against scratch for the latter) in the annual handicap Ust of the} Women's Metropslitan association, is- sued tonight. Last year there was no one above seratch, and the same held good in the Men's Metropolitan list, which last week jumped Jesse Sweetzer .nu- tional champion, to the coveted niche. Miss Hollings is alone at scratch this spring, her partner last time, Mrs. ‘William Gavin, having returned: to England to 1 SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1923. WASHINGTON, April 7.—The fea- eral government does not expect te take any further action against tho Herrin riot miners after the state's move today in no‘le prossing the n- dictments, Acting Attorney General Seymour said tonight. > CLEVELAND, Ohio—The Cleve- land Indians meet the C’ncinnat{ Reds at Lakeland today in the first of flve games scheduled with National league clubs for this week. 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