Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast and Friday. Rising tempera- ture Friday. VOLUME Vil. TOTALSUMTOO | SMALL CABINET LEADERS STATE Lack of Guarantees Also Unsatisfactory, Says French Decision. PARIS, May 3.—(By The Associated Press.)—The new German reparations propos- als were unuanimously re- jectede today by the French} cabinet. . i The reasons given for the rejection were lack of guarantees and the in-| sufficiency of the sum offered by/| Germany. Premier Poincare will consult with the Belgian government as to the re- ply to Germany and when it is ready it will be communicated to all the allies. ‘ BERLIN, May 8—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—Although the new German reparations proposals are criticized in some circles as too pliable, opinion in government quar- ters holds that the offer affords a statting point for negotiations. News- paper comment is varied, the Tage- blatt declarng that Germany has of- fered a ground on which the allies meet her, while Die Zelt be Mevem, that Germany cannot pay thirty billion gold marks. KRUPP MAGNATE GOES ON TRIAL TOMORROW. WEREDEN, May 3.—(By The As- soclated Press.)—This little town only . a tew miles from Essen, will be cut off from the outside world and sur- rounded by a cordon of troops during the trial of Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, president of the Krupp works, and the three Krupp directors.. The proceedings are sched- uled to open tomorrow. DUESSELDORF, May 8.—(By The Associated Press.)}—The assertions of German newspapers in this region that the arrest of Dr. Krupp von Bohlen was a political move by the French on the eve of the dispatch of the new German reparations note 1s denied at French headquarters. Offi- clals reiterate that the Krupp presi- dent was arrested legally because he had violated a decree issued by Gen- eral Degoutte. ESSEN, May 8—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—Two directors of the Heinrichs Mine and Machine Works at Hattingen have been sentenced by a French court martial to five years in prison and to pay fines amounting to 250,000,000 marks. r: The directors, whose names are Jaeger and Zoellner, are charged with having caused the sirens of their plant to sound when occupation troops and officials appeared on the property, thus rallying an sssembly of workmen which endangered the lives of the visiting authorities. ARSON NORTH PLATTE, Neb. Souder and Deputy Treasurer and $60,000 in money-and bon placed against the two men, however, wes for arson. Both penned * their. innocence and were re‘eased on bail of $4,000 each, which were signed a few minutes after their arrest. ‘The arrest of Souder and Baker came after a two days’ investigating | by the state fire marshal and a com- mitte of seven business men. Ac- cording to the report of the com- mittee, a number of half burned books and ledgers, containing rec- ords of transactions which were to} be examined the day follow!ng the fire of auditors upon| a “oltizens committees who | ropriation of the county's money, were found saturat-| ed wth oll in the building’s ruins. number WYOMING — Fair tonight TWO SEIZED ON County Treasurer and Deputy Held for Robbery and Burning of Courthouse at North Platte Last Sunday , May 8.—County Treasurer S, M. der arrest here late Wednesday afternoon, charged with set- ting on fire the Lincoln county courthouse last Sunday night. ; In addition to the total loss of the building, official records|tne fieia im figuring the actual fly- The Guaranteed Circulation of The Casper Daily Tribune Yesterday Was 10,748 | The Casper Daily Tribune | Fn NATIONAL LEAGUE. Boston Philadelphia -_...012 000 2**—* Batteries—Benton and O'Neill; Ring | and Henlins, At New York— R. HE.) --—--001 262 000—11 17. 1| New York -—.001 000 020— 3 10 4 Batteries—Deckerman and Taylor; Scott, Lucas, Walburg and Smith, Gaston. Pittsburgh Batteries—Donohue, Benton and Hargrave; Adams and Gooch. At St. Louls— R. H. E. Chicago Pee ec icce— exe) St. Louis —___-.000 e#* e002 © & Batteries—Alexander and O'Farrell; | Haines and Clemons. O'Neill; Dauss and Bassler. At Chicago— St. Louis 002 001 eee—* * * Chicago - 000 011 * ° 9} Batteries—Danforth and Severeid; | Blankenship and Schalk. At Washington— RH. E. New York -.--..010 10° e#s—* © *| | LATESPORTS j PHILADELPHIA, ‘May R.H.E. CHICAGO, May 3.—Articles clos- ing the agreement for the 15-round battle between Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons at Shelby, Montana, July 4, will not be signed until to mo!Tow, it was announced late to- day. The postponement was due to @ protracted discussion of the referee quoeStion, the promoters having bene unable to agree as to the third man in the ring. tbe iy Contract for Annex To Elk School Let St The contract for a seven-room ad- dition to the Etk Street school was let yesterday to George W. Cottrell. ‘The plumbing contract went to the Donohue Plumbing shop. CHARGE Elmer Baker were placed un-| ds were missing. The charge Now Comes the Struggle CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1923. SEVEN KILLED, 30 INJU FRENCH REJECT GERMAN © aie FER | nounced in Monday’s Tribune Climax in Tribune Race Due Saturday The climax comes Saturday night! | Twelve weeks of enthusiastic work and hustling on the part of the candidates in the test will culminate in the final at 11 0’clock. The awards of ‘The list of prizes includes a beau ful new $2,410 Buick “6" Touring) Sedan; a new $2,125 Rickenbacker Coupe; a new $1,675 Nash Sedan; new $1,825 Hudson Coach; new $1,840 Chalmers Coach; new $1,385 Essex| Coach; five prizes of $200 cash and five prizes of $100 cash. Cash com-! | missions will be paid to all other con- \ main until. the closing hour of the testants who have remained active) throughout the campsign, as indicated | in the formal announcement at the| beginning of the enterprise. Never | before in the history of Wyoming has there been such a distribution of cost- ly awards—and never before has there been such an exciting battle to land them. Absolute Fairness to All. In order to maintain the strictest secrecy as to the number of subscrip- tions turned in by each’ individual candidate during this, the last week of the contest, the race is being ballot box. No subscriptions whatever are be- ing accepted through the campaign department this week, but instead their final collections in the sealed ballot box—located at the Wyoming National bank. By so doing, no one, not even the campaign manager, can REFINERS CUT SUGAR PRICE “NEW YORK, May 8.—Reduction of the .price-of refined. sugar from 10 cents to 9% cents was announced by one large refiner today after Cuban raw had dropped % cent to 6% cents cost and freight, equal to $7.91, in trading on the New York coffee and eugar exchange. COAST-T0-COAST NON-STOP FL Army ‘Airmen Who Started from New! York Yesterday Morning Land Safely at San Diego Field This Afternoon SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 8.—Completing their transcon-| tinental flight from New York to San Diego, Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John A. MacReady, United States army aviators, arrived at Rockwell Field here at 12:26:56 p. m., Pacific coast time, today, as officially timed by representa- The plane left Hempstead, N. Y., at 1:36 p. m. yésterday, thus the first non-stop coast to coast flight was completed in approximately 26 hours. The. two airmen left Hempstead, N, ¥., at 12:36:18 eastern standard time yesterday afternoon, making their unofficial time 26:50:38. Actual arrival at Rockwell Field, however, was several minutes earlier, as the airmen circled about for more than two minutes before landing. ‘The two airmen flew directly over the heart of the city on their arrival, being grected by the blowing of whistles by factories and warships in the harbor. A fleet of airplanes from Rockwell field and a squadron of sea- planes from the North Island navy air station met Kelly and MacReady on the outskirts of tne city and escorted the transcontinental filers to Rockwell. ‘The plane was landed in the middle of thé big fleld and {t was some time later before friends had reached the two men. Some difficulty was experienced at ing time and nearly an -hour after tives of the National Aeronautical association, the landing no official time had been given out. fe ‘The flight of the T-2 traversed the continent over the ,Alleghenies to Dayton, thence ‘to Indianapolis, St. Louls and Kansas City. The avia- tors next were heard from this morn ing in New Mexico and soon they were humming over. the deserts of Arizona. * The aviators were next reported over El Centro, Calif., and finally the big monoplane was soaring over this city, establishing a new airplane record, WASHINGTON, May 8.—General Pershing recetved first word of the suecessful non-stop flight of Lieu- tenants MacReady and Kelly from New York to San Diego at his resti- dence here, and requested The Asso- ciated Press to send the following: personal message to the two pilots: “We have been following you with great interest. The army 1s proud of your wonderful accomplishment. Please accept my official and personal greétings*and congratulations. Signed) “John J MAN WOUNDED.§IN LEG BY ACCIDENTAL SHOOTIN Howard Keniman, Lavoye taxi-cab driver, Ralph Adams, of] field worker and “Babe” Hightower, a woman Barber employed at Salt Creek, were employment in the ofl fislds. The shooting took place in a soft drink parlor at Teapot townsite on the Salt Creek highway. An investigation of the shooting arrested early Wednesday evening|by Les Snow, deputy sheriff at Salt following the shooting of Walter|Creek, indicates that the shooting Brosias through the lower part of the| was accidental, Tt is belleved that leg with a .45 Colts revolver, The|Kentman had the cocked revolver latter is an itinerant cook who left | stuck in the top band of his trousers Casper yesterday morning to seck and that the gun exploded by strik ing against the bar. Brostas was sit- ting in a chair directly behind Kent- man when .the gun went off, accord- ing to the evidence. No formal charge has been placed against the trio-p nvestigation of th was given medical attentic Mitchell of Lavoye and his not considered serious, IGHT COMPLETED TODAY 10 CENTS EACH OFFERED | FOR NAMES OF FAMILIES WHO DON’T GET TRIBUNE From now until Saturday noon, the end of the big Automo- bile Contest, the Tribune will giv: family in Casper that does not e ten cents for the name of every take the Tribune. This is twice }| our original offer, and collecting the names of those who do not subscsibe to this paper should be an easy way of picking up a bit of spare change. The Tribune thinks that there are not more than a hundred familfes in Casper who are not subscribers. If there are, you can prove us wrong, and we will gladly pay for the knowledge. We want it for our records. names of families who do not tak for every name turned in. It might be truthfully said that its way out from under the “bla: ing cold from not being property The names must be brought to day noon. At that time this offer end. : r The Tribune “blankets” Casper, surrounding Casper, and even sizeable citiex some distance away. portion of the state. But wherever a Casper family has worked we will pay ten cents fot the name of that family. All you haye to do is to turn in the e the paper and receive ten cents the territory imniediately it “blankets” the whole central nket” and 1s in danger of catch- covered with the complete news, the Tribune office before Sdtur of double our original price will BOOSTERS FOR *J, F, Sweeney, mhnager of the R. N. Van Sant Motor Co., toddy pur chased fi large block of Rodeo seasdén tickets, to help put the Rodeo over. Likewise did Benny Bergquist, man- ager of the Yellowstorre Motor com- pany. 3 f The contractors engaged to put up, and bufld tho-grandstand, and the ‘eachers expect to have thelr work mpleted by the last of May, thus tn ample t'me for the big 5 bout | box The on wishes mn to the fi to | will be held to « taken off the market by the aasocin- tion on May 20, the closing date of the ticket sales contest in progress. brought to a close under a sealed} ‘| hour, | which {s now | Tribune’s big automobile con- scene Saturday night, May 5, the valuable prizes will be an- possibly know the voting strength of the respective candidates, which pre- cludes any possibility of favoritism and insures fairness to the minutest degree.” Locked and sealed, the ballot box now reposes in the lobby of the Wyo- ming National bank where it will re contest—11 o'clock Saturday night. When the final hour arrives the contest will be declared closed. The judges will then break the seals, un- lock the box, and immediately there- after, or as soon as votes can be issued on the subscriptions contained therein, the Iast count will begin. Most Successful Campaign. And never before tn this section FINAL EDITION NUMBER 177. — ED IN TRAIN WRECK CANON DISTRIGT WN UTAH SCENE OF TRAGEDY ON THED. A.W Baggageman Listed as Missing in Casualty List Resulting From Smashup of Passenger SALT LAKE CIFY, Utah, May 38.—Seven persons are dead and thirty are injured as a result of the wreck of Denver and Rio Grande Western train No. 2, east- of the state has there been such a successful subscription campaign. | Bach of the leading candidates has turned in hundreds of new as well as renewal subscriptions, and the en- thusiasm of the contestants has been augmented by the hearty response the people have made to their solicita- tions. The final week will give the total volume of the campaign a big boost. All contestants are now devoting every minute of their time to getting in all the votes before the closing and the enthusiastic boosting of their friends ts proving an impor- tant factor in the race, The award ing of the prizes will be the biggest event in the history of Casper. In- terest bordering on excitement will | prevail all day Saturday. ee Anti-Nareotic Meeting Opens WASHINGTON, May 3.—The logis. lative aspect of combating the illicit use of habit forming drugs in the United States was considered at to- day's session of the anti-narcotic con- ference called here by Rexford L. Holmes, a Washington church worker. A number of speakers were heard on both the federal and state phases of the question, it having been brought out yesterday that the chief source of supply for the addicts was from the smuggler and the peddler. ph Sta SYNDICALIST FOUND GUILTY 8ST. JOSEPH, Milch., May: 8—(By The Associated Press.)\—Charles EB. Ruthenburg of Cleveland, Ohio, con- victed here last night, is the first person who has been found guilty of violating Michigan's syndicalism law, Ruthenburg faces a sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of $5,000 or both., Sentence will be given on June 4. : bound, at Woodside, Utah, at 11 o'clock last night. ‘The death list was increased by two this morning when Mrs. Irene Mohr and her in- fant daughter died aboard a special train upon which they were being brought to Salt Lake City. The dead: Arthur Hookey, attached to the naval training station Great Lakes, nk: Mrs. E. C. White, Solder Summtt, Utah. “bee B. C, Partridge, professor Brigham Young university, Provo, Utah. F. R. Rader, locomotive engineer, Grand Junction, Colo. | Albert Anderson, locomotive fire man, Grand Junction, Colo. Mrs, Irene Mohr and infant deugh., ter, Salt Lake. : The train baggageman, according: to, advices, 19 missing: ‘The injured: |. Joseph Wels, | bruised. ‘ B. J. Irving, Soldier Summit, scalpi ‘wound and shoulder wrenched, Mrs. Barney Mohr, Salt Lake Citys shoulder and hip bruised. 5 Sam R, Goldston, 1902 First ave, Minneapolis. Great Hudelson, Cambridge, Idaho, cut about head and small arteries severed. ; Charles EH. Sampson, 111 Common- wealth, Boston, Mass., back eprained and bruised. Mrs. Olive Stores, Grand Junctio: Colo., bruised. : James L. Taylor, Salt Lake City, nose broken, ribs broken and cut over eye. R. 'T. Goennel, 914 Avenue P, | Brooklyn, N: Y., cut and bruised and | shoulder crushed. Mrs. B. F. Goennel, 9t4 Avenue | Brooklyn, N. ¥., bruised. 4 Edwin 8. Rogers, Denver, scalp ‘wound. Mrs. L. B. Calkins, right shoulder bruised. | R. G, Johnson, Ogden, wound and eft arm bruised. Albert Newauer, 48 Manitou Ave- nue, St. Paul, Minn., cut over left eye and concussion of the brain. Mrs. Ina Savaht, Pueblo, Colo. right hand broken. ; George Dimickson, Gozas, Nel punctured left lung and back broke: (Continued on Page Two.) Denver, alightty Pp, York, Neb., Utah, scatp’ 1 CRUDE PRICES REDUCED AGAIN Posted prices for all grad crude oils purchased by the companies were reduced 10 ce of the market this morning. “WASHINGTON, .May 8—Definite decision -has been reached by admin- istration officials charged -with pro- | hibition enforcement to put, the ship lUquor ban { to notif elgn torial waters on and afte 0 effect on, June 10, and A hes has been r that date light, Lance Creek, Osage and MIEDCROMIE LIQUOR, RULING court. The situation growing out of Monday's court decision which de clared that American and ‘foreign ships must be “bone dry” inside the three mile limit, was discussed yes. terday at a conferenc officials. $ Among diple beertain th ensue t ments aff of treasury The new prices follow: Gra Midwest and Ohio Companies ‘Authorize 10-Cent Cut Following Reduction Yesterdayin Midcontinent - * es of Wyoming and Montana fidwest Refining and Ohio Oi] ents a barrel with the opening Creék, Elk Basin, Torch- Greybull, $1.90; Rock Creek, Salt Creek, Big Muddy,’ and milton $1.45; Mule” Creek, $1.5; | Cat Creek, (Mont.-, $1.95; Sunburst Qfont.), 90 cents. ° The reduction 1s the second with! he last ten, days was forecast arday when M tinent érude Were cut 1 +A further tioh in -Mid-fontinent ts pend- 6 as'a result of to | ay’s cut In Penn- syivania grades. 3..-A cut was announced les of+Pennsyl- PITTSBURGH, ning REaNEMRVONITeNIVe i a | | b= |