Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1923, Page 1

as. Weather Forecast ture, VOLUME Vil. 3 ot them as can be found will be questioned, he said. ‘That’Mount was drowned as the re- sult of a hazing episode and his body covered with some strong chemical and stuffed through a hole in’ the con- crete pier where it was found by a 12 year old lad, is the: opinion of Coroner Wolff, Charles W. Leggett, chief of police of Evanston, the e: clusive north shore suburb which is the home of Northwestern university; Dr. George Tyson, the Mount family physician, and Dr. Joseph Springer, coroner's physician. Drs. Tyson and Springer pointed to the well preserved and bleached condition of the bones as evidence that some strong outside chemical influence was followed. At her home from which she has for twenty months directed a nation: wide search for young Mount, Mrs. J. L. Mount, the mother sobs for the lows of her son, But is happy in that her faith in him has been vin- ~-dieated. “It was bad enough to fear that God had taken away my boy's life,” she said, “but then to have gossip unfounded ard malicious try to take away his soul—I thought at times I could not stand it,” she said. “I was ashamed to face anyone in Evanston.” ‘Three days after Mount's disappear- ance university and police officials * WOMAN HANGED FOR KILLING IN DOMINION FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alberta, May 2.—Mrs. Florence Lassandra and Emilio Piccarillo were hanged to- ay for the murder of Constable Law son last September. Both protested their innocence on the gailows. Pic- cariilo paid the penalty first and 41 minutes later Mrs. Lassandra was executed. She was the first woman to be hanged in Canada in 24 years and the fifth since the confederation. Constable Lawson was slain at the Coleman provincial police headquar- ters after an unsuccessful attempt by the police to capture Piccarillo and his son, Steve, with an automobile oad of liquor which they were :1l- leged to have run through Crow's Nest pass. Piccarillo and Mrs. Lassandra, wife of one of his chauffeurs, appeared at the Coleman police station, called the constable out and after a few words Mrs. Lassandra ehot him four times. Desperate efforts were made to save Mrs. Lassandra’s life, protests against her execution being sent the government by various organizations, declagzing the execution of a woman would place a stain on the good name of the province. rf aS » J. L. Cavaness was the only occupant of the truck went over with the machino, but CAv- aness was not badly injured. A man at the half-way etation saw Fair tonight and Thursday. ' Not much change in tempera- the plight of the driver and rushed | man's so his sssistancu, Both men were} sorte’ to, but the blow had besn toofuneral home. The Guaranteed Circulation of The Casper Daily Tribune Yesterday was 10,735 Che Casper Daily Tribune REPARATION STUDENT LIST “TO BE ASKED Inquest Over Skeleton of Northwestern Youth to Be Marked by Complete In- _ vestigation Involving Scores CHICAGO, May 2.—A complete list of freshmen and sophomores who were attending Northwestern university at the time Leighton Mount, freshman, disappeared in Septem- ber, 1921, will be demanded at the inquest today over the skeleton found Monday night’and identified ‘as that of the missing youth, according to Oscar Wolff, coroner. ‘As many called off the hunt. A week later a story was circulated that the “Mounts really know where he is.” From time to time since rumors of Leigh: ton's appearance and as sudden dis- appearance at widely separated placce have’ been broadcast, one story being that he disappeared the night of the freshman-sophomore class. rush be: cause of trouble with aryoung woman with whom he had spent some time. Mrs. Mount stoutly defended Leign. ton’s character and said that he had kept company with the ycung woman because she was of a similar religious faith. “And the rain, oh, nearly drove me mad,” said Mrs. Mount. “I would lie awake at night and listen to it. And I would pray for Leighton, out in the rain, with no money, very little clothing, and perhaps a loss of memory. In the cold it was just as bad. I have always sald that if I'd only heard’ definitely that Leighton was renlly dead, I'd be happier ~ worrying every night “that hel was out of his mind, wandering around, in-néed, without me.” OR. OALATHE OF OIL GEOLOGIST FAME 1S DEAD Played Big Part in the Development of Oil Districts Here. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., May 2.— Dr. Fredrick Saiathe, 57 years old, ‘national'y prominent as a chemist and o!l geologist, died in a local hos pital yesterday after a long illness, Dr. Salathe designed and but't the first oll refinery in» California 30 years ago. Later he opened up the Salt Creek oil fields in Wyoming, and won recognition by a discovery of processes for extaracting oil and paraffin from shale beds existing in Utah and Wyoming. He also was the inventor of a number of other chemical by-products widely manu- factured. : Dr. Salathe was a graduate of the Polytechnic Inatitutae of Zurich, Switzerland. He was a director of the Chicago Chemical company, at the time of his death. Among surviving children are Miss Antonette Salathe of the Chicago Art Institute and Fredrick Salathe Jr, of New York City. His widow resides here, % Tom Keogh, Employe of Ilowa-W yoming Oil Company, Is Victim of Tragedy on the Salt Creek Highway Slowly choking but conscious up to the last minute of life, Tom Keogh died at a local hospital at 2:30 o’clock this morn- ing after having broken his neck yesterday afternoon near the half-way house on the Salt Creek highway when the truck he was driving escaped from his control after he had turned off the motor and was coasting down a steep grade. other’, brought Both men| showed that when Keogh went over) such a way as to into town. Examination he hal fa‘len in cause @ most severe injury, Every effort was made to save the BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. Philadelphia Batteries —Genewich, _Fillingim, Oeschger and Gowdy; Winter, Wein- ert and Henline, At Cincinnati— Chicago --. Cincinnati R. H.E. * oe Batteries—Morrison, Kunz and Schmidt; Pfeffer and Ainsmith. gli cried wnihiscwe AMERICAN LEAGUE. R.H. E. Batteries—Morton and Myatt; Pil- lotte, Cole and Woodall. P At Chicago— Chicago -200 110 00x—4 4 Batterles—VanGilder, Pruett Severeid; Robertson and Schalk. At Washington— New York Washington Batterice—Shawkey Johnson and Ruel. vow eae BATTERY ON HIKE. . FORT SNELLING, Minn., May 2.— “C" battery, ninth field artillery, United States army started on a 452 mile hike to Fort Pierre, 8. D., early today. ‘The battery has orders to reach Fort Pierre by May 30. HARDING TO SPEND 4TH IN PORTLAND WASHINGTON, May 2.—The tenta- western trip as now arranged will permit him to spend the Fourth of July in Portland, Ore. The day fol- lowing the president plans to sail for Alaska. ——— BANDITS MAKE KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 2.— Three masked bandits who surprised I. J. Adelson, a jeweler and his wife in their apartment in the fashionable Bellerive hotel here early today, escaped with insured jewels valued at $10,000, TRUCK DRIVER DIES OF INJURIES RECEIVED AS MACHINE GOES IN DITCH great and had taken its victim be- yond surgical power. With the ex ception of the period during which Keogh was under the anaesthetic, he was conscious. An effort was made tile, because of his inability to speak without choking. It was however, that he had a sister, Mrs. J. B. McCarthy of McGill, Nev., who was wired by Dr. H. R. Lathrop. He also has a cousin, Mrs, Tom Walsh, in Thermopolis. Keogh was an employe of the Iowa Wyoming O!l Company. He was about 35 years of age and singte. The inquest into the manner of his death will be held before the court jot Judge Henry F. Brennan at five o'clock this afternoon » and an operation was re- The body Is being held at the Muck tive schedule for President Harding's! to learn from him the names and| addresses of relatives was nearly fu-| learned, | CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1923. ‘ : Piggly Wiggly | : ONE DEAD, FIVE INJURED, TOLL ST. PAUL, Minn., May 2—One death and five injured besides prop- |erty damage was the toll of severe electrical storms in Minnesota yester- day. Arthur Trouth of Pilot Grove township was killed when struck by lightning. Persons injured included: Mrs, Hubert Lentz, of Little Falls, and | Sister Bonaventura, of Portland, Ore., struck the Lentz home. ‘The most severe property damage reported was near New Ulm where two herds of ‘prize cattle and swine and three large barns owned by | Frederick Cron6 were burned in a fire caused by lightning. The loss was $100,000. $25 FOR FIRST | | | { reached, it is still incumbent to pass that mark. been obtained. more. made strong to carry on the share, think it over. |] gage on Prosperity! | “Uncle’s Perfectly Willing to Be Neighberky IN MINNESOTA | burned and stunned when lightning|of the rum fleet. $10,000 HAUL U.S.EYE ON-BIG RUM FLEET \Two Coast Guard Cutters Will Stand Watch Day and Night on Jersey Coast to Fight ’Leggers _ WASHINGTON, May 2.—While government officials con- tinued to puzzle today over application of the supreme court decision on ship liquor, coast guard headquarters issued an order concentrating all available coast guard boats in the north Atlantic along the New Jersey shore. It wag said that henceforth the rum fleet massed off Atlantic highlands would be under surveillance of two coast, today decided to make June 15 the guard cutters day and night. Con-| effective date of the new prohibition clusion of the sinter patrol work| regulations, issued as a result of the makes available a dozen or more|*¥Preme court decision. The resolu- boats for cutting off shore contacts| tons are in preparation and - Secre- It is the declared | t#ry Hughes will immediately inform Durpose of coast. guard headquarters|®!l foreign governments of the con- to “ put the screws down’! on cus:| templated action. tomers of the rum ships and office éf| The decision means that foreign Assistant Secretary Clifford of the| shipping treasury in charge of the guard, 1s} month and a half to adjust their aer- convinced the fleet can be driven out} vice to meet the new interpretation PROSPERITY! If the teams representing the Chamber of Commerce have missed you in the membership drive, be sure that you send in your subscription anyway. 5 Today is the last day of the drive, and with the virtual assurance that the goal of a thousand members will be About nine hundred subscriptions have Make the number well over a thousand, and in this way benefit Casper and yourself just that much Fifty thousand population in 1925 is Casper’s goal. can only attain that figure if the Chamber of Commerce is city, bringing in outside capital, and supporting the many activities which will go to make us the second city of im- portance in all the Rocky Mountain region. Do your share, and if you have already done your Perhaps you can do a tittle more. One more membership at $25 is little enough for the vast amount of good you will enjoy through Casper’s growth. Twenty-five dollars is too little to give for a First Mort- for lack of customers. of the law. Some complications are ‘A conference of treasury officials | @nticipated with foreign governments, and the date fixed {a considered amplo in which to work out an agreement | with them. NEW YORK, May 2.—The govern- ment, centering a triangular attack |on the rum fleet off the Jersey coast, today hed seized a tug and motor launch carrying provisions and fuel to the alien craft anchored outside | the three mile limit. upon everyone to do his best It good work of publishing the With but seventy-two ho | | which the hustling + ss vass for subscripions as these lines will have nearly a/| “Street”. Splurge to Cost Saunders Big Fortune MEMPHIS; Tenn., May 2. —Clarence Saunders, Mem- phis .grocery mian and _presi- dent of the Piggly Wiggly stores, Inc., fluctuation of which stock recentlf created a sensation on the New York Stock Ex- change, resulting in short ‘sellers be- ing caught short on thousands of shares of class A” stock, in an ad- vertisement published today calls on Memphis people to afd in his stock selling combination, the failure of which would restlt in'the wiping out of his private fortune. As a result of the Wall Street flurry in Piggly Wiggly, the stock exchange board of governors granted a five days’ extension of time for de- livery of the stock by “shorts” for which hetion Mr. Saunders vigorously denounced the board and asserted his intention of entering suit against the |’ board in an effort to collect damages. The.stock was withdrawn from the exchange. ‘ ‘Today's selling campaign announce ment is written in the first person. ‘EDITION FINAL ~ NUMBER 176. OND ISSUE ASKED Chief *Broke”, Asks Aid|GERNAN OER OF 90 BILLION GOLD MARKS 15 SENT TO ALLIES Sum Represents Extreme ‘Limit of Ability -to Pay, Germany Declares _ In Note to the Allies. PARIS, May 2.—(By The Asso- citted Press.}—The new German proposition for a reparation settle- ment are so far from acceptable to France that a flat rejection of them is regarded by persons. close to Premier Poincare as inevitable. This rejection it is stated will prob- ably be followed by an extension of the occupation of the Right bank of the Rhine. BERLIN, May 2.—(By Tho “I did not go into the market oper-| Associated Press.)—-The lat- -| ations to make money,” the statement says, and, “but to save money for others, as Wall Street says, unless 1 est German reparation offer proposes that the sum total of am able to sell the stock which I/her obligations in cash ‘and- have on hand asa consequence of the/kind under the job I took for myself, there is only one outcome. fortune will be wiped. out.” Versailles treaty be fixed at 30,000,000,000 gold That is, my personal | marks. The German government in a note The géver‘isement is under the| made pubifo here today simultancous- 2 men caption:” “Wall Btreet is right whenhy with its recerpt by the entente and it says that unless I sell the Piggly | Washington ‘Wiggly class A stock, I will broke. 3 “Several millions of dollars have been made collectively by those whose zo governments, proposes that twenty biltions of total be raised before July 1, 1927, by a bond issue at normal rates of interest on the international money market. Five interests I risked everything to pro-| billion gold marks woll be raised be- tect. Still I am not sorry that I did.{ fore July 1, 1929, in the same manner Neither have I any bitterness because | and the remaining sum similarly be- many, who saw a chance to make] fore July 1, 1931. money for themselves at my expense, ad not hesitate to do it. “The particular reason for statement, which is unusual, 1s to answer tho reinark, so often made, ‘why, 1¢ Saunders made so manz mil- lions, ¢oes he want to sell Piggiy Wiggly stock?” Ths advertisemen: concludes by an- rouncing in bold type: “The New York Stock Exchange sult will be undertaken and settled later.” ee MOB LEADERS ARE HUNTED BY | JERSEY POLICE |_ BOUND BROOK, N. J., May 2— | Police today sought the leaders of |the mob which caused one hundred |‘Hoty Rollers" to barricade them- elves in the Pillar of fire church | after a melee in which many women and men were injured. Mere than 600 men were in tho party which attempted to rush the stalrwarys leading to the second floor | where the beleaguered 100 had bar- ricadede themselves. The first floor was a wreck as the | result of the fight which began last |night when an unidentified speaker extolled the Ku Klux Klan. Ellas Horn and Lawarence Wint members of the Pillar of Fire church, were arrested on char,es of assualt and later were rescued from the mob which clamored about the jati with shouts of “lynch them.” The meet- ing had been advertised as a move- ment for the organization of a chap- ter of the Klan. urs remaining after today in candidates in the Tribune’s mammoth prize-winning campaign’ may entrench themselves behind encugh votes tc win, such a gigantic, tireless, thorough can- energetic men and women are The note asserts that Germany, in accordance with existing treaties, will also make payments in kind which are to be credited to her account, The note expresses the govern- ment’s conviction that the new pro- Posals represent the utmost limit of Germany's capacity to pay, and ex- Presses grave doubt as to whether the offér does exhibit her ability in view of the heavy dislocation and weakening of the reich’s economic or- ganization caused by the Ruhr occu: pation. In case the credi governments do not share German: ef thet no unprejudiced party could arrive at higher estimate in view of her gen: eral condition, the Berlin government proposes that the whole reparations question be left to the decision of an | international commissions free from | every political influence as suggested | by Secretary Hughes. The note asserts that Germany ts making her offer without desisting |from her program of passive resist- ance which will be continued until (Continued on Page Four.) a || Klan Donates $33 to New ’ Church Here The Ku Klux Klan for the third time in Casper within the past few months-made a dontation ato a church fund when ‘ta gave $33 ato the North Side Christian church on the day of {ts dedication last Sunday. In two other instances the Klan here has made donataions to the Baptists. STEP ON ‘ER! ONLY 72 _ HOURS UNTIL WINNERS _ KICK STARTER ON CARS '\Candidates Silent and Vigorously Push- | ing Effort as Time Wanes in the Trib- une’s Great Prize Race It is truly a most wonderful race between the most popular and the most capable representatives of the people of this community that has” ever been inaugurated in th section. All Casper, in fact all V waiting and watching, wonde! hustling for the favorites. And when the value of the prize at stake is t to consideration, ken LORY, AWAIT AND A SMALL FORTUNE making these last few days has never been seen in Wyoming. |THE VICTORS SATURDAY NIGHT, ‘ | | |