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

\ Weather Forecast WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, probably local thunder showers. Not much change in tem- perature. t Daily Tri ret VOLUME VII. BOOZE RUNNERS ESCAPE; SHOTS LY IN GHAGE Bullets Whistle Over Atlantic City’s Famous Board Walk In Battle ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.,-June 16. —A running fight in which several hundred volleys of shots were ex- changed occurred early today between rum runners and governmnnt boats. Many bullets whistled over the board walk, driving night owls to cover. Shortly before midnight two gov- ernment boats from Barnega, patrol- ing the inlet waters, sighted several runners about 200 feet from shore attempting to make a landing. The government craft, calling on the smugglers to stop, attempted to sur- round them. The runners escaped in the for after putting on full speed, sweeping in #0 close to the shore that they almost touched bottom, and then dashing in single file out to sea. Both sides exchanged shots freely. Wet Setback In Illinois Puts Repeal Off Year SPRINGFIELD, Ills. June 16.— ‘The last hope of wet forces in the state legislature to repeal at this ses- sion the Illinois law providing for prohibition enforcement vanished last night when the lower house, in a “cleaning up” preceas preparatory to adjournment next weck, wiped from the ‘calendar the O'Grady bill which wouls have submitted the question to ref “The-senate at the same time’ went on record against a repeal of the law when it voted down a bill similar to the O’Grady measure but without the referendum clause. Girls’ Camp Near Foot of Mountain + Damaged by Wind Reports reaching Casper this morn- ing from the Kiwanis girls’ camp mear the foot of Casper mountain, were to the effect that’ the heavy wind last night had blown down four wall tents, a pyramid tent and the cook shack, The girls who spent the first week at the camp hiked in to town yester- day afternoon so were spared the in- conveniences of being temporarily under @ wall of canvas, H. Roe Bartle and Stanley Griebel, accompanied by several Boy Scouts left town at 9 o'clock this morning t repair t damage done to the camp by the storm, ————{, Park Cars Two Feet From Curb In Small Hours To Be Rule From the number of persons who have had to be told rega:ding the matter it seems that many do not know that between 1 and 6 o'clock &, m, they should not park their car at a smaller distance than two feet from the curb after the sweeper has passed that section of the street, ‘The ordinance really calla for no parking whatever but a liberal interpretation of it by the police department per- mits persons with cars to leave them if the sweeper has cleaned the por- tion of the stréet on which the car is Parked, However, men with brooms sometimes follow the sweeper and for this reason the two-foot parking rule ts carried out, A local business man appeared in court last night and paid a fine of $5 te Judge John A, Murray for having violated this ruling, ANOTHER RAIDScores of Fir NETS STILL IN EFFEL SECTION | Not Content With Haul of} Day Before, Sheriff’s | Office Is Active Not content with having made a haul on two stills on West Poison Spider yesterday morning and having | arrested two men, the sheriff's office made another trip into the same sec- tion of the county yesterday after- noon and unearthed another still. The second tocation was one and a half miles from the Effel shearing pens on Meadow creek. R. A. Burd and C. R. Blackburn were appre- hended, charged with operating the still. The raid resulted in the discovery of 15 gallons of Mquor, several bar rels of mash and a still house con- cealed in a cave on a side hill. Burd and Blackburn attempted: to escape by running, according to the sheriff's office, but several rifle bullets that stirred up the dust around the men brought them to an abrupt halt. ELEVEN GASPER BOLFERS LEAVE OR TEAM PLAY Three Other Local Players May Also Go To Chey- enne For Matches Eleven Casper golfers, members of the Casper Country club, will leave tonight to play in Cheyenne the first of a series of team matches arranged for the summer months. The local golfers expect to play home and home matches with all of the clubs in Wyo- ming ‘before the season ends. Chey- enne Is scheduted to send a team here for a return match August 19. Each match will score as a point in the scoring, the club winning the greatest number of points to be de- clared the winner cf the match, The delegation playing tomorrow Includes A. C. Riker, Glen Littlefield. Guy Gay, Homer Shaffer, Don Phil- Ups, Bernie Webb, Frank Knittle, Jack Sutherland, rank Firm!n, George Campbell and Cleigh Powers. The men made the trip by train and will return to Casper Monday morn- Ing. Harry Adams, Art Schulte Ralph Schulte were included in the group chosen for the trip but the trio were undecided this morning whether or not they could make the trip, Alex McCafferty, the club profes- sional, reports a big increase in play for the corresponding period last year, on the local links, Not only are there more members playing golf this year, according to Mac, but men that came out on the average of only once a week last season are coming out three times weekly now, and NEW YORK, June 16.—A He said he obtained some of the best men in his plant at West Orange, N. J., from colleges but ad- mitted that the sixty in his employ had been cullea out of 2,000, “There 1s something wrong with the college system,” he said, “I don't know what the trouble that is not my line, I can only judge by the result, “But one thing is cer tain, The present system’ of educa FLOOD MAROONS | Late sports COLORADO TOWN Cloudburst Isolates Loveland. Part of Fort Collins Under Water LOVELAND, Colo., June 16—Be- cause of a cloudburst Loveland ia marooned today and it is impossible to get in or out of the city by rail or automobile. A deluge last night in, the Buck- horn Valley caused the Big Thomp- son river to rise to such a point that the approach of the Colorado and Southern raflroad bridge was washed (Continued on Page Fight.) ‘COLLEGE ALL WRONG,’ EDISON _ SAYS BUT DOES NOT KNOW WHY Famous Inventor Comments on Graduation of Son From Institute of Technology; Denies Opposing Institutions. Ithough denying that he op- poses colleges, Thomas A. Edison declares that he is convinc- \ed there is something wrong with the college system, in a statement today to the New York Tribune in which he dis- |cusses the recent graduation of his younger son, Theodore, |from the Massachussetts Institute of technology. tion in the eolege does not train men to think, “Univeralty presidents, In eriticts- Ing my questionnaires, sald that the college does not try to fill the stu- dent's mind with a lot of information but teaches him where to find it, Yet when we tried my questionnaire at one ‘college, the students couldn't pasa it because they didn't know where to find what they wanted.” STAMBOULISKY [IS FIFTH . BERLIN, June 16.—¥x-Premier Stamboulisky of Bulgaria is the fifth statesman among those who partici pated in the Genoa conference of April, 1922, to meet a ylolent death it is pointed put here, Three of the participants have been assassinated These were; Premier Narutowica of Poland; Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau of Germany; Vaslay Vor oveky, Russian Soviet — diplomatic agent sinated at 1 month). The fourth victim was ex-Premier Gounaris of Greece, executed last fall by the Greek revolutionists, It is noted further that the dele gates to Genoa of most of the repre sentatives the western powers have since been dropped from office by their respective governments. PARIS, June 16.—(By The Asso ciated Preas.)—Alexander Stamboul isky was completely unaware of th correspondent of It was not until he tried to tele GENOA DELECATE KILLED phone to Sofia last Saturday morning from his home village that he knew something had happened. ‘The tele sraph line connecting the villa and the premler’s offices had been cut As he pondered the reason for not getting a connection, an officer friend informed him of the revolution. Confident in his own lucky star and ignorant of the exact course of events in lofla, Stamboulis) Tatar Bazardjik, the induce the garrison the (Contivued on Page Eight. hastened t town to supy CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1923. umy.,rapped; Showered With Blazing Oil in Pittsbur A Suitable Present BREKENHAM, England, June 16. (By the Associated Press—William M. Johnston, American star, won the Kent Lawn tennis championship to- day by defeating D, M. Greig in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, formerly of Philadelphia, won in the women's singles, defeating Mrs. Satterthwaite, British star, 6-3, 3-6, 4-3, LONDON, June 15—Another post- ponement of the Cuarpenter-Beckett fight fixed for July 4, in this city, is possible according to Sporting Life. Beckett's left hand was damaged in his fight with Diek Smith last month and is said to be again giving him trouble, NEW YORK, June 16.—Many cabie- grams have been read in the last few days by Pancho Villa, wishing him success in his effort to win the flyweight championship from Jimmy Wilde Monday night, The one he opened today was from his bride in Manila. The message read: “Wish- ing you success, Do your utmost to win, Honor of American-Filipino people at “stake,” “Cerin” Drinks and Gas Mix But Result In Man Being Knocked over Complete details of B, J. Stoddard's mixup with Alexander Nisbet, chief of police, were received last night. Stoddard had been drunk, according to the testimony of the chief, who ought to know, and when he backed out from the curb in one instance he badly bent the fender of an adjacent car, Within a minute or two he was prepared to infilct greater damage, for at Second and Center streets he ran into EH, L, Evans, an’ old man who was crossing. The pedestrian’s front teeth were knocked out and his leg twisted, The unique part of the situation was to be found tn the fact that Stoddard was not driving his own car but was out with his friend and his friend's new car, When Nisbet ar rested the driver he showed no dis porition to tolerate the law and had| to be knocked around considerably before he would behave, i ny Sorrow Visits Home| At Loss Of Infant, The infant daughte rof Mr. and Mrs Carl J, Wickert med yesterda family wery be held 3 from the Shaffer-Gay chapel, home. Funera MUST OPERATE, HARDING SAYS President Declares Running Ships Is “Our Only Resort.” —Praises Lasker WASHINGTON, June 16.—Pres!- dent Harding, in an informal talk at a dinner tenae:ed by members of the shipping board last night to Albert -D. Lasker, retiring chairman, declared that ‘at present government operation is our only resort.” “We must accomplish its complete success," sald the president, with an added statement that the government “must organize shipping lines and control them efficiently.’ “I have not discussed and won't discuss the details of our program,” Mr. Harding told the shipping board members, “I want you to be sure of your ground and hope you will come with a pretty unanimously supported program. I know nothing technical- ly of ships but I do know that the only possible way to enter into suc- cessful competition is to have the best of everything that makes up a marine.” Expressing disappointment at the failure of the administration ship- ping bill, the president said he had seen “so many manifestations of the desire of other nations to impede our work, so many evidences of the de- sire of others to halt our plans.” Mr. Harding praised Mr. Lasker for his services while head of the board and urged board members to give the new chairman, Edward P. Farley, the same support accorded Mr. Lasker, Amundsen Will Win To Pole By Plane, He Says LONDON, June 15, — Commander Frank Wild, who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton on his last antare- tle voyage, {3 optimistio about Roald Amundsen’s prospects for reaching the north pole by airplane. “If Amundsen is the man he used to be, I think he will reach the pole by airplane,” paid the commander, “Years ago such a project would have been regarded, as in the case of Andre, as sheer madness, Sines then, however, the polar regions have be- come much better known and the actual conditions there are, on the whole, favorable for the nate descent of an aviator, “Ot course there t# the uncertain factor of how the engine will work in such co! latitude, But many ree- ords have been attained by flying men n lower temperatures the 1 en at the north p: feal difficulty should we wot not [EXCHANGE FIRM FAILS IN N.Y. ANNOUNCEMENT Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne Suspend Business With $11,000,000 Liabilities g Fire All Ambulances in City Called to Tank Yards. PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 16.—A score of city firemen . | ‘The firm was admitted to the ex were trapped at the Atlantic} change March 28, 1896, and did a large Refining company storage] business between this country and ‘. Germany. It also engaged extensively yards when a big oil tank, 8 e in commercial investments and for. burning since yesterday, col-| eign exchange NEW YORK, June 16—Knauth. Nachod and Kuhne, members of the New York Stock Exchange, fatled to: day. lapsed this afternoon. Two explo-| An involuntary bankruptcy petition sions, following the collapse of the| filed in federal court estimated labili tank, showered flaming ol! over an|ties at $11,000,000 with assets in area of two squares All ambulances! securities of about the same amount in the city were summoned to the} M. 8S. Borland was appointed re. scene. } ver under $50,000 bonds. ot! Suspension of the firm was an peeponay wratoting the. venwroes Of ba Wineed | fromthe. rdatrain of | the the fire were burned when they were | caught under the showers of oll. The! work {nthe storage yards near the| ca Sh eee 2 firemen who were trapped were at tank. Without warning the big con-/ tainer sagged and a moment later the! entire plant was a sen of flame. Fire-| men attempting to rescue those trap- ped found it difficult to get near the PRESAYTERIANS yards because of the intense heat and Insecure footing. Campaign for $15,000 to Be- gin At Morning Ser- exchange at the opening of business. A general alarm of fire calling al! available apparatus in the city was| rocked the nelghborhood. It ws the| second general alarm tn two days, the first being sent in last night when the fire started by lUghtning got be- yond control. The fire which started yesterday afternoon when lightning struck an ofl tank, continued to spread through- vices t. i 12 tanks wi put the night. Nine of 12 tanks were! ne North Casper Community church after a month of preparation. {s to launch a drive for $15,000 for a new church edifice, at the morning services Sunday. Burning fiercely through the night and resisting the efforts of all avail- able firemen and fire fighting appara-| tus, the plant was not set under con- Rev. McMartin, the campaign dl: trol early today, many hours after ft) rector, will be in direct charge of Wan utarteds the canvass and will address the The blaze had consumed thousands| morning congregation at 11:00 a. m. of barrels of oll and gasoline stored) Following this service the various in huge tanks at the plant, which| canvassing teams» will: begin. their covered four city blocks, and burned] ojght-day labors. a number of other buildings including| - In the evening special services are the Pattern shop of the United En-/to be held and Rev. McMartin will gineering and Foundry company, and/ again address the congregation. Spe- the garage of the Pittsburgh Bushed| cial music is to be rendered. The Steel company. net committee in charge of the campaign Firemen threw up dirt banks in an| is: effort to check the flames. No esti-| Promotion mate of the tota! damage had been| Sturdevant, chairman; Mrs. Tyler, made, but fire officials sald {£ wWould| secretary; Mrs. Sturdevant, Messrs. approximate a half million do! Tyler, Peterson, Brown and Finc STATE HIGHWAYS ARE REPORTED IN GOOD CONDITION TODAY IN SURVEY TAKEN UP TO TEN A. Mi. Route No. 80 in Excellent Shape—Nos. 11 and 81 Said to Be Good, as Are Routes 30 and 41, Report to Tribune Says. committee: Walter Reports received at the third district office of the State Highway department at Casper, up to 10 a, m. Saturday, June 16, indicate the following road conditions: State Highway Route No. 11, Yellowstone Highway, is generally in good condition entirely across the State. Doug- las to Powder River excellent, then under construction for about six miles between Powder River; across the Pass by June 20th, About and Waltman, There are f#hort/thirty miles of this road across the stretches of grading work under way/|‘Continental Divide has been built between Waltman and Richards but| during the past two years and was this road igs generally in fine condi-) completed last fall, The maximuin tion all the way to Bonneville. From} grade is 8 percent and this thirty Bonneville to Birds Bye Creek, the| miles should be in excellent condl- trail is in fair shape and Birds Bye] tion this season. While this road will pass {s easily passable for cars in| be open and passable by the twentieth good condition, and not overloaded.| of June, travellers will find much bet Recent washouts due to cloud bursts|ter travelling conditions a week or have been repaired. ten days later as the road will be State Highway Route Number 81—| opened through two or three feet of Bhoshone-Lander road: This road {s|snow at the summit and the road es and will not be thoroughly dry much be- fore July ist. State Highway Route Number T1— Salt Creek-Sheridan road—This road is rough and under construction for ten miles north of Casper, then fair to Salt Creek and through the oil fields, then good to Sheridan. Travel- lers can expect this road to be torn up on the south end during the ‘sum- generally in good shape, being pecially good between Hudson Lander, State Highway Route Number 80— Rocky Mountain Highway is in ex- cellent condition between Hatley and Lander and the road 1s good across the reservation as far ay Crowheart, then somewhat rough to Circle, then better to Dubois. This road is now UNION OFFICERS POSTPONE. WALK: OUT OF 5,00 Shopmen To Stay At Post ’Till Tuesday, Pend- ing Discussion DENVER, Colo., June 16.—; The strike of 5,000 members; of the shop crafts unions oni the Denver & Rio Grande; Western and the Rio Grande Southern, called for 10 o'clock this morning, was postponed) until Tuesday when Governor W. Est Sweet late last night interceded andt requested that he be given an oppor tunity to present a plan or settle ment, it was announced definitely at; the governor's office today. } In accordance with the request, union officials held the walkout in} abeyance. Governor Sweet will meet: the shop men and representatives of} the raflroad companies tonight on’ preliminary discussion of the matter, it was stated. When the strike call was {issued yesterday, it was sata that 6,000 men would be called out. First City Band Concert Received Well at City Park Casper’s first muntctpal band con- cert of the summer, American Legion band, met with an enthusiastic reception last night from the large audience which gathered at the city park on Center street. The band has been practicing for three months and shows the result of careful and thorough training. This is the first opportunity that the pub- lic has had to hear the organization ip._concert work. The schédulé calls for a series of weekly concerts to be given through the summer months. LABOR LEADER PRINTER CHIEF DIS AT HOME McParland, President of Ty- pographical Union, Suc- | cumbs to Heart Disease INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 16. —John McParland, president of the International Typographical union, and a well known labor leader, died here today of heart trouble, brought on by @ severe attack of influenza. He was 655 years old and his honie was in New York City. Mr. McParland was born in Talbot, Australia, January 6, 1868, ‘and served his apprenticeship to the printing trade in Ballarat, joining the ‘Typographical union at New Castie, New South Wales, in 1886. He camo to the United States in 1888 and later located in Chicago where he first gained prominence as a union leader. He became a citizen of the United States in 1998, In 1902 Mr. McParland went to New York and had a prominent part in the campaign fo rthe eight hour day in the printing trade. He has been serving his second term as rnational union, ‘BONAR LAW'S GONDITION HOW THOUGHT SERIOUS LONDON, June 16, ciated Press)—The condition of An jdrew Bonar Law, which seemed to |have improved after his resignation {from the prime ministership, does not j continue 0 favorable, according to }reports circulated among his friends president of the int (By the Asso. in pariilament. It is believed thai he passable as far as Two-Go-Tee Inn at|mer on account of paving work being| has grown worse during the last few. Brooks Lake and will be opened up (Continued on Page Eight.) nd that he {s now seriously 1, DRY AGENTS “SMELLED”: LIQUOR; MAN IS KILLED SAN FRANCISCO, Callf., June 16.) moment later Artuffo, a bullet —Two federal prohibition enforce-| through the heart, Iny dead. Mrs. * h warrant Artuffo and Thomas A, Warren, one ment agents served a search Re’ ths aokdta, wath wonddeds: the on @ butcher ahop in the Miasion dis! woman seriously, the agent. slightly trict yesterday, They ransacked the] Warren and his associate, Earl 1 place, but found nothing. Then ac detained by the pollo for a cording to their official report Jater,| while, were released last night, It they “smelled Mqauor next door," was sald that no charges would It was the home of Ramona Ar against them, as they were he tuffo, Mra. Artuffo refusetl to ad a x acted in self defense, mit them, ‘There was a strugg! x Mra. Artuffo was «ubdued, her hu ured that Artutt band appeared. Shots were fired. A the shooting, fearing nelghbors, Warren violence at fled and the hands a candy store notified the po- Artuffo hand: of her husband, uel F, for Calle > house, o still in the bases Miller, | After to cuft Pc Rutt forn The 1 beside th foe, a prohibition hurried te nd @ lar Artuffo children, Ramona, cared for byl played by the }