Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, probably showers in northwest portion. in temperature Not much change F) VOLUME Vil. BILLICN-DOLLAR Clara Phillips De TANIMER? oTORY TO BE REFUTED, OME OAYS, WHEN TRUTH (5 BARED Alleged Murderess Arrives Today at New Orleans In Custody of Officers and Will Be On Way to Los Angeles Prison:Late Tonight TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May 29.—(By The Associ- ated Press.)—-A second message from Clara Phillips, setting forth more fully her declaration of innocence and hope of clearing her name of the charge of murder on which she was e~victed in California, has been received by The Associated Press. The message was sent from Puerto Cortez after the fugitive had boardea the steamen‘p_ be taken to the Pacific Coast on the ure, probably at 11 o'clock tonight if there is no great delay in the arriv- with a man known as Jesse Carson. without arousing suspicion as to hor Mentity. She remained here several | | , if t : } k iit i Ht He | i ! { i He | 3 { i } | TRIBUTE TO BE PAID HERO DEAD The Casper Daily Tritune FINAL | EDITION! | CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1923. MADE FOR U. S. MARINE ~ NUMBER 199." nes Guilt In Second Message With si The Press Agent SEE WAAT 1 DID For You? fT WOULD CosT You A LOT OF MOREY TO GET ALL OF THAT PuBuCciTy st gis WILL BE RACT ATEPTED IF IT FOR BIG PLANT» BURINTEE | Plans for the Natrona Power for the erection of a plant of 3,500 horsepower -which will tater be quadrupled | Postal Supply Company Chief Files Proposal as necessity demands it, were-brought to a.climax last night} when Larson and Jorgensen and George W. Cottrell and Son, contractors, were awarded the contract for the-construc-| tion of a $50,000 fire-proof building between ‘Center street | and the Platte river fust north of the Burlington tracks and south of the Burlington notel. Aithouzh the unit at present eut- ned and which should be completed by September 1, will cost around $250,000, the completed plant with tts four units will be nearly a mi- Non dellar proposition. This, how- ever, will not be consummated un- ti the city grows much larger than It fs at the present time. The mit as started this morning will take care of Casper for at least threo or four years to come, according to a statement this morning by EB. P. Bacon, manager of the Natrona Pow- er company. ‘The lot on which ft willbe located is 300 by 200 feet wide in stze. The bulld@ing will be 65 by 75 fect. The first unit of 3,500 horse power will be larger than either of the present plants by more than 1,000 horse power. Mr. Bacon potnted out this morn- ing that the ofl and gas pressure plant at Raflrond and Kimball would in all probability be maintained merely as a preserve plant after tha new place 1s completed. This would mean that the company would use steam pressure entirely except when an emergency arose. ‘The proximity of the Platte river to the new plant makes such a matter an easily solved problem in engineer- ing. A high steam. pressure will be maintained. W. D. Johnson, emgineer af the Natrona Power company, will be in NOW DEFINITE Six New Districts Covering Big Area ‘Are Officially Created: by City Council; Other City Proceedings With the creation of six new paving districts, one-grad- ing district and one sanitary sewer district, by the city coun- cil at a special meeting last night, Casper took another step forward in the way of improvements. Paving districts 29, 80, 81 , 32, 88 and 84 were created last night. District 29 comprises parts of South Beech, Grant, Ldneoln, and Oak Crest from Eleventh street to two blocks north, District 60 includes Beech street from A to C street, District 31 includes Market from First to C and B street from Ash to Center, District 32 embraces Elm from Midwest to Yellowstone and one block each way on Midwest, Dis- trict 33 has McKinley from Fifth to Becond, and District 34 ‘¢ composed ot South Durbin from Thirteenth to Fifteenth, Fourteenth East to Mflton and Oak Crat from Fourteenth to Fit- teenth. Only one or two remonstrances were heard during the creating of theso districts, most of the property owners seeming to be in favor of the improvements, Grading district No, § was creat- ed, It includes Oak Crest a half Game) FB. HB PhBadriphia 000 000-7 14 6 Ln Boston -___831 080 10x—10 13 3 cat Batteries—Mitohell, Bishop, Hab- Itiet tom fomooent Holiday Declared for Observance Here of | At Bestomecmt gun) m. 1. cre of which I .. : Se coriaal. "Iintnt-to tere oe ax| MemorialDay;Paradeand Services |"™= eet pa Weed rtrtet attorney end the people of Los’ ' Miller and O'Neill, Angelov-ioarn Che trath-and at Cemetery: Announced Loule— jogteome,.and know that Iwill St. Louls re ooo per )ousspted in the hearts of the people . Batteries—Donchue Hergrevs; rs; ‘ewe ae-betore the sot the Inw. Stores -will:be. closed .and -all*business:will: be at a stand- Pelca ey mary, a1: geal ” ‘Leowld stay baro-in Honduras:if ‘tomorrow’when Casper renews its tribute and pledge to! At New York— BH. M. |X wied. ndihpnayaavdlieredlreared the nation’s war-dead.and to living soldiers of many wars. Brooklyn -—-000 110 18-3 13 © here from California know Public homage: will find in the wearing of thou-| New York —-000 000 008—-@ 5 1 (60, But beceuse I want the truth to : Battcrics—Heney Deberry; So and beeauso I want tho| Sends of poppies, sold by the American auxiliary and McQuillan, Seemea end Buen ‘ \@cople toxknow Iam inmpcent, I am|the Veterans of Forsign Wars and the eto ‘ returning to Los Angeles fresty and f Socc ehaemenens heen be opened iby a prayer wy Rov. 1. KE. Amertogs ‘Laogus. ety and integrity of the officials Carter of'the Method'st Episcopal) At Philadeiphin— B. HE. a aon traceaatteall Tr wat Boston ._000 000 OFI— 1 4 3 tradition anf am returning to Los Philadelphia 010 101 0@x—3 9 1 ene: pms i ty Batteries—Pirecy, O'Doul and PL Angeles | own inyior and Perktns. “Wisned) RHE “OLARA PHILLIPS.” one 000 vee Tay Diy 28 —| cA: eee Sad apn ; Holloway, Francis and Honduras efter At Chicago— RE Cleveland ___008:003 oo*— — — Chicago ——..000 000 03s — — Batterfies—Covelesiio anil Myntt; Robertson, Coengran, Blankenship and Schall, At Washington—— RE Now York -089 00° ees — — Washington .100 01° ees — — Batteries—Flayt and Schang; Ya cbary, Russoll, Gharry-and Buel, Another Mysterlous Murder Added to é Long List for Which Police Have Been-Unable.to Fix Guilt pon Sa ‘ Petlabeed Mapa a Ala,, May-29.—Birmingham polies were today seeking to seive the murder of Charles Graffeo, the Jatesty of a series of axe pesaulis whieh during the-past AQ ee of keen the lives-of 19 persons and reectaA Injuries te 17 ethers, Graffeo was found dead i and hig throat psiashed A hk spattered pxo stood pebipd the dc sould pe earsied beneath the goat, its handle was shortened, so that it| police believe, { night with his skull crushed in an alley, apparentiy the yictim of | group of persona, AXE SLAYERS KILL “19 AT BIRMINGHAM Alleged perpetrators have been twenty-cighth aseanit during the 44) sent to jall in only three of the long mouth period, the firgt™belng on the) ilat- of cases, Polloe claim to have Right of Movevmber 88,1010, when| syived throo- other cases, docinring ®& merchant waa killed and his’ storo| the wounded victims refused to prose was robbed, Jt waa the fourth ease of its kind thig year, Gostis Tertikis.| Pallos have divided the axe cases A poutaurant owner, was pltacked) into two classifioations, In the first and slightly jnjured at hig place ef} insignee grocorymon and cafa own: business on January 25, Two days) ora have been tho-victims, and in prior to that Mr, and Mrs, Lalgi| the other group the intermingting Vivetellarg were yictimg-of<n-similag) ef) the xaces-Je ealdxto havo been tn- asswult, nnd poth died, volved, ° On January 10, Joseph Klein, grain Because of the simfarity in tho dealer and his a er, Hthel, were] attacks upon tho storekeepers, it has assuujted, Kiein dyin, Harlev in the! been suggested that the orimes wery month & man wag found unconscious) committed by the: same person or block on Fourteenth, Mitchell south from Wifteenth and Fifteenth from Oak Crest to Bonnie Brae, The sanitary sewer d-strict which wae created last night was No, 13 and inclndes-part of the Butler ad- dition,<the new Carey tract and Ken- wood, Councilman Pelton submitted an ordinance through City Attorney Ox- don calling for mix inch paving tn all future work instead of five inch. ‘This suggestion created eonsiderabio Gisoussion. Mr, Chase, a representa- tive of the Warren Construction company brought.out tho fact that tho state does not nusess all its tnx | payers in: order that a few heavily Jonded trucks will not wear out the paving but that instead it limits the Joading of trucks, Ho stated that at tho present timo-there aro-trucks loaded #0 as townake a gross weight of 15«tons that movo over-therpave- mont*of Casper, It im highly probable that the eounc!l ‘will take some stops toward Mmiting-the loading of trucks, This could be done by an ordinance just ag any other ~traffic- regulation is mado, which the city bad contemplated would be executed according to the plans already made and that in case (Continued on Page Stx.) ———_—_. 1,500 MINE WORKERS OUT HAZLETON, Pa, May 29-—~The 1,500 anthracite mine workers of the Jeddo No, 4, Jeddo No. 7 and Eber- vale mines of the Jeddo Highland Coal company struck again today on thetr repeated demand that the pay Gay hour be changed from 8:30 in the afternoon to 2:30 to accommo- Gate men quitting before the end of the eight-hour shift. ‘These strikes have occurred every pay day for some time and,the com- pany says, the workers have lost $55,000 in wages. charge of the instaftation of the ma-| machinery, all of which«wiM be done} by the company ftself. ‘The General | Electric company will furnish all of the machtnery and equipment to go into the plant. | A considerable quantity of the| equipment to be used in the plant was purchased through the Casper Supply company. OA. L. G. SUT 5 NEW COUN HEALTH OFFICE Local Physician Re- cerves Appomtment Today From State Dr. L. ©. Smith, practicing. phryal- clan of Casper, todav recetved from the Wyoming State Department of Health™ hie appointment. ae register of Yital statistics and health officer for Natrona: county; effective June 1, suc ceeding Dr. J. F. O'Donnell, who re- signed the first of the year. Tho ay pointment was delivered to Dr. Smith! by Dr. G. M. Anderson. state health officer, who arrived in-Casper yeater- day after attending the. national con- vention in Washington. Dr. Smith's appottrent has: the en- dorsement, it ts wn@erstood, of 18 Casper physicians, who joined tm reo- ommending his selection. The new health officer has offices in the Wood buflding, having come to Casper in 1918 He ts a-graduate of Rush Medical college, Chicago, and practiced in orth Dakota before com- ing here, having been on the staff of Governor Burke of that state for eight yours. Hoe is fitted in every ent periods of his carcur he has held| similar posttions. eared GREWERY YIELDS LARGE BEER SUPPLY ON RAID BY SHERIFF'S OFFIGERS HERE The “Casper Brewery,” as it has been dubbed by the sheriffs offi was raided late Monday afternoo and a seizure made of 80 gallons of| beer in the making, 11 cases of beer, 10 empty bottles, a modern capping machine, funnels and other para- phernalia. The house ts located at the rear of 347 West A street on the Sandbar. | When tho deputies arrived at the shack they found no one there. Harry Ehlers was arrested a fow minutes later at 245 West B street. He ts said to have had on his per son keys to the shack where the beer was merrily brewing. to Take Over Govern- ment Fleet, Is Report WASHINGTON, May 29. he shipping board will in- | vestigate thoroughly the offer \of more than $1,000,000,000 |Peceived yesterday for the en- tire government merchant fleet, Chairman Lasker mid today |an@ ff tho bidders back up thetr pro. pom “there can be no doubt’ the | | board wilt make the awar? to thent?’ |. The offer was presented by John |W. Stack, president of the Columbian |Postal Supp’y company. of Sfver | Creek, New York. It Droposed te pay |$1,051,000,000 “for all ships, acttve | and inactivo and all other Property of | the Untted States shipping boart | real, personal and mtrei.” An initial Payment of $51,000,000 wil be made on October 1, 1923 and $50,000 yearly thereafter until the entire sum had been paid. ‘The proposal as made public by tho ehtpping board continued: “We agree to operate 60 Ines with at least as-good service as that ren- dered by the United States shtpring | board, Guring the entire life af the agreement. The government to have/ |the right to repoasoss al the prop-| erty nt any timo that there in a de-| fault In payment of any part of the |principal gum or any fnstallment of |Interest. Interest to be paid in full on | |the unpaid blance quarterly at tho} samo time-as quarterly payments are | mado on the principal. | “We are prepared to furnish a bond | of one milion dollars guarantesine that wo wif sien a contract If award- 4 sume, and to dincuns any or all| other details of such a contract.” BUFFALO, N. Y., May 29— Slack | ot Silver Creek, who has made an |offer of one mfilon dollars for the| | federal merchant fleet ts president | and pole owner af the Columbia Pos. | tal Supply company which makes| stamp cancel’Ing machines for tho |postoffice department. —$—»— Bar ‘Association To | Hold Last Banquet | ‘The Natrona County Ber sssoc!a- [tion will hold the final banquet of the ; year nt 630-o’clock this eveaing tn the banquet-room of the Henning ho- |tel. Philty Winter wil! give the prin ctpal address of the occasion, WOMAN SUES '\HER STEPSON| FOR DIVORCE | NEW YORK, May 2.—John M. Vandergrift, grandson of a founder of the Standard O11 company, has been |sued for divorce by his step-mother, Mrs. Sybil M, Vandergrift, it was re vealed today Vandergrift, a member of the Lambs | Club, {s described as “of the theatri- cal profession.” He is a grand son Jot Jacob J. Vandergrift, formerty of Pittsburgh. Atter his father @e1 at Pittsburgh | |in 1915 he married his step-mother, 12 | years his senior. A sult by Vander- grift over $150,000 he alleges he turn- ed over to his wife, from his grand- father’s entate, ts awaiting decision, ONE DEAD, HUNDREDS OF HOMES WASHED AWAY IN OKLAHOMA CITY FLOO Hundreds. of “houses and stores tn Paes? . | Crisis Near in Flood Conditions With | ine souneen ottams ot the city had been washed-nway or wore flooded Two-Foot ‘Rise Expected’ Today on | Bottoms in Southern Section | OKLAHOMA: CITY;Okla.,.May°29.—With damage from | suit the-man s A.property owner ot Etyhth and the overflow of the North Canadian-river already running | jours to m Oak streets naked the counc:l regard-| {nto hundreds of thousands of dollars, the crisis was expect ing the rightotwny of the new rail-| od to be reached in Oklahoma City today in the flood situ road and whether ne ought to go| m od 3 ese ahead with any improvementa on his} @tion. A two-foot riso reported upstream yesterday was ex property. Ho was told that any work pected to arrive here during the day. thia morning. More than son were hon 1,000 per- was known-to have be tified man gave his to rescue work last night. Garbed In a bathing am out to a flooded the den sure tha’ te ha was