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

Weather Forecast Wyoming: Generally fair to- night and Saturday. Not much change in temperature. VOLUME VII. KU KLUX STIRS CRASH ENDS } Auk FLIGHT Aviators Escape With Lives Early Today! As Plane Falls on Mud Flats Near Bay In Attempting Long Flight SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 29.—The airplane carrying Captain Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant J. B. Richter, army aviators, in their attempt to remain in the air for four days and four nights, crashed into the mud flats between Coro- nado and North Island at about 4:40 a. m. today. It was reported by teleph f ckw. i i rope one hes ephons izom Rockwell Field that neither of The Casper Daily Tribune CASPER, WYO. i | GLENROG Business Kevivan Due to Co-operation Wh Rivals War Unity, President Harding SURVEYS AUTHORIZED FOR DRIVES AND LAKE | IN NEW BUCKNUM PARK}. First steps ment of Buc toward the develop- nam Park, which was posed of ground that has belonged to the « for a long period and recently created by the city of Cas- | which was set aside for park or per were taken at a special meeting | cemetery purposes, according to of the council last night when | the rules of the contract under Frank engineer, was | which it was given instructed to make surveys for At the meeting last night the con s ° drives and for a large lake in | tract for Grading District No. 8 the park. Thé drives will wind | was let to L. BE, Blanchard whose through the park in such a manner bid was be'ow the estimate of the as to provide the best view cf the | city engineer. This district Hes in park by autoists, the southeastern part of the ctiy Bucknam park les adjacent to | near the South Casper school house the Highland cemetery. It is com- | and the county road According to officers, the aviators were trying to make a safe landing, a dense fog having made further progress impossible. Lieutenant Hines, in making a re- port of the accident to a newspaper man, said that the wrecked DeHav!- land was turned upside down in the mud but that Captain Smith and Lieutenant Richter had escaped in jury and had been put to bed. Captain Smith and Lieutenant Richter broke at least one record, that for speed over 2,500 kilometers and are believed to have broken that for speed over 3.000 kilometers. ‘When the aviators ran into the for they changed their course, which had | been fifty kilometers long on a certi fied speedway, to an inside air lane of shorter distance. They evidently thought that by doing this they would be able to see their way and still continue the flight. At the sume time, according to re- ports, from Rockwell field, Lieu- tenants Hines and Seifert took off to refuel the racing plane again. ‘They made several attempts to come into contact with the DeHaviland in which Gaptain Smith and Lieutenant STILL Due Dempsey GREAT FALLS, Mont., how, somewhere. Richter were flying. Only one of| nite assurance that held out any these was successful, Lieutenant] promise, except the statement that Hines said, later. In that attempt| we are working “on two or three Hines and Seifert were able to de- ,Aliver to the other aviators only 15 ”" gallons of gasoline. “Byery time they shot ecross North Island on their course,” said Lieutenant Hines, “we tried to make! We made contact at 4:30 SHELBY CELEBRATES ON FALSE ALARM. SHELBY, Mont., June 29.—(By The Associated Press,)—Shelby tore up its contact. a. m. and then the fog forced us to/hats in wild excitement for a few break apart again.” minutes today wt telegram The accident to the racing plane signed “Lou W. Till” was receive occurred 10 minutes after the con-| Mayor “Jim” Johnson's office, sta tact in which the gasoline was de- ing “am leaving St. Paul tonight with sufficient cash and securities, livared, Lieutenant Hines said that the gasoline feed line of the racing plane had started to make trouble and that this was what finally forced Captain Smith anda Lieutenant Richter down. | to “razz’’ the town. ——————>_—_ | Supporters of Jim Johnson, the |mayor of Shelby and treasurer of the |tight, who already has thrown $150, 000 of his fortune into the battle, are |confident t he will put the fight even if he is forced to mort: y he owns indication points to failure, even if actually get citizens of assure you Gibbons friends and fight fans will not allow fight plans to fail, want Tom to have opportunity to put profiteering Dempsey in hospital.” Everybody thought the message was from Louls W. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern railroad, but later develop- ments revealed that the message came from a practical joker trying if gage ever piece of pror over Becau rom, every ete financial mpsey and Gibbons the ring, influential The contract for installing the line} in Sanitary Sewer District No. 13 was |¢ let by the city council to the Gordon| De Construction company, local contract-| into or and low bidders. This district/Great Falls declared today that the comprises South McKinley, South final $100,000 installment for Demp. Jefferson, Mitchell, Bonnie Brae street sey should be pa 8 quickly as pos: and avenue, Oak Crest street and/s ‘ble so the attendance would not be avenue, Lincoln, South Beech, East| further held down, which he said Fifth, East Twelfth, East Thirteenth,|would be absolutely certain if the Hast Fourteenth, and East Fifteenth! payment was delayed until next Man streets, day, the date on which it is due. FIGHT ASSURANCE IS Supreme Effort Put Forth to Raise Last of. $300,000 Guarantee changed; Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons heavyweight championship fight, scheduled for Shelby, July 4, today are straining every nerve and pulling every wire possible to raise the final $100,000| payment due Dempsey on his $300,000 guarantee, to save the fight fro Shelby. The situation, after a night of conferences switching from one hotel to another, was unchanged, although every individual connected with the fight holds out hope that the Johnny necessary $100,000 will be raised some-) There was no defi-| plans and expect to raise the money.”| LACKING TODAY With Situation of Uncertainty Un- O'Neill Denies $50,000 Pledge June 29.—(By The Associated Press.) Backers of the Jack O'Nef'l, a wealthy oil oper- ator and member of the American y that competed in the move, which he hopes, wil! raise the necessary funds, O'Neill, interested nly in averting a fiasco for the state started negotiations for the sale of AMERICAN LEAGUE. the moving picture rights af the|At New York— RK. HE. fight after manager of| Philadelphia —-.020 003 013— 9 17 4 J. Molumby, one|New York ) 022 121-10 10 4 ed to waive] Batteries—Walb arnt ly wgeiinigt the film proc Bush, Hoyt and Hoffmann. rlay ‘as report- - — ed to have promised to advance $50,.-|At Cleveland— R. H. E. 000 of the mo needed to assure | Chicago 000310—x x x Dempsoy's guarantee, declared the re-| Clevela: 000 200—x x x port was without foundation and that s—Cvengros, Leverette and he would not contribute another cent | § Coveleskie, O'Neill, Schaute beyond what he has already ad-|and Myatt. vanced. — ¥ a : io. | At Washington— R. H, E. My only connection with the pic “ me! has been an effort to negoti-|2ston ------ 000 100 0—x x x ate for their sale so that $100,000]. - could be realized for the third pay-| Washington - 100 000 O—x x x mont to Dempsey."” O'Neill said, “The | Batteries—Ferguson and Walters; promoters ‘and Jack Kearns, who|™ogridge and Ruel. jointly contro! per cent of the * — i ities rights, have agreed to sur ahaa at Ris H, 5 rencjer these rights if their interest | © ---- --00 could be sold. I then communicated | §t. Louis Ol—x x x with some of the moving picture peo-| _Hatteries—¢ and Bassler; Van: ple with whom I am acquainted, t gelder and Severeid. ing unofficially only, and promoted solely through friendship for the pro | moters I offered to dispose of the pic ce tures for $100,000, The {dea was that isburgh 000 000 000 0—0 if I could get a purchaser 1 then would turn the whole thing over to|~ atteries—Luque and Harg the promoters to negotiate the final] Morrison and Gooc deal. | — delphia— “If the pictures had been sold, the “pea S13—14 25 1 money immediately would have been siphia 002 000 021—5 15 0 turned over to Kearns, copleting the] jatteries—Grimes and Taylor; Glaz. Dempsey payment, and assuring the Head and Henline. staging of the bout. Up to this time, Z | ‘Administration Prides Itself Upon Its | Accomplishment In Restoring Con- fidence In Trade, He Declares BUTTE, Mont., June 29. President H senting here in Butte today a report on the post-v of busien ich | Asserts Blow Struck Woman Costs Fine and Jail (By The Associated Pre ar re- arding declared | FINAL ! ED TION; ‘NUMBER 226. NIGHT INVASION IS FEATURED AY PARANE, BONEIRE ND BIG. BLAST Demonstration Said to Be Bis » <r that national} 1 Be: 1 was sentenced to 30 ES Bl by busine: labor and government forces to | ys asse a fine of I 5 vercome depression “was no less accomplished than the |*!” n Interest of Law and great co-operation to win the war.” 2 « the steps taken under eral farm loan botrd and the finance | Order Marked by Deliv- gover wipe out un- corporation and the natio , emt t conf ence r sey ory fe re ne ms pone ae nent and hou , ery of Warnings, Claim roce¢ have rather day in the wor iioned, they have yet gpncehere wall’ bel ke W What i considered the no apology.” | said last night that he pant action iene are accused of gett z 1 more se piace Ders of the Ku Klux Kl eat Cetin 5 “ Ace x an n pa Nar,” he added, IDAHO, FALLS, Idaho, June 2) » struck ar have yet tz nin this state President Warren G. Harding an was fined $30 for occurred = his state (Continued on Page Two.) a. wae occurre i at enrock Wed: To ! 1 memt : see er folks have a than we have BoC people in this world would I 1 to exchange their stock of excitement for a modest share in our sab 1 American ac ulation simpie rock \ contentment and dinner » neces: the t The president sald he did present T a h e rep) ived business cond = ath. ons a complishment of « * particular administration or the justi. Lattle Hope Held Out for Aged Man In- x» 1 approxiate! s claim upon the ° p ¥ nbers of the ser ‘ oe t order x Marke a Be eer hg jured at Second and David; Car cas of the ‘Heal Keluoe ieiay ead rene testimony to the supreme sense and . . © asked. cars ere driven sound genius of nation which could Being Driven Slowly, Is Claim hrough the prineina make its co-operation extend to a own (® continent end its alturisms embrac rE. . EET i Psi 1 hundred million of humanity,” he With two ribs fractured and with punctured lungs, Joe) adde ‘That is what the American Gribbs, 63 years of age, | at the county hospital in so seri- ple peep cane in oe last two ous a condition that he is not expected to live. Gribb was cae years. No other people have had the’ ». mai licnintedidaniati can 2 Peery ¢ a Portanestc? oar A ‘accomplish, LUN Over by a I ord ¢ ar at Second and David streets last night tu ments. None other looks out today driven by D. L. Weise. 1 privit upon clear a horizon; and I ven e has been c ioned by the police department con- yeu ture that we stand only in the door- cerning the acc! He stated that sat . that the K way of the new era. Thus convinced, he was not gs more than eight bootle I know that you will permit me to miles an hour and was turning south ng permit add just one word for the pride, the on David street at the time of satisfaction and the Th 1 man stepped out in Klansmen after th demon- the national admin: the car unexpectedly and tration gatl 1 at th of the having been « , Although he the Reservoir 1 tioned and thing « dership and es at once, w to set fire t wood that ec ishment. We/4 1 riking the had “ ed and had will r claim much; for th reat pe: has r i n Ia. from nd could have attained c r oO far \ th m r 40 hrough the complete unity in spirit 1 Thermopolls —<——— fe t e towr purpc nd patriotism of the whole|municated with. Dr A party of a's of the Standard ft American nation jattending the injured man Oi company Indiana headed by | Wh hed “Two years ago we made a careful | a Col. R,,W t, chairman of the ur census of unemployment in the| board of directors, arrived in Casper| While the blaze was a : MenTEn | Atuteasaiint aetna that. tous today direct from Chicago. ‘The men|the Klansmen ¢ 1 around it aria million five hundred thousand, or five went into ¢ this afternoon |sang “America lion workers were without job: ~ with local ¢ is and {t is possible} Wh A died down an That was bad, but since then matte tha er leveropn ts may re forme the el we are disposed to worry about the 5 row looking over beneath problem of unemployment, we have Creek will return to 1 this was to consider ways and means to fill ch ht off r rt and smal} h million, or a million jobs which | Th wh up the part r and sending want workers and can't find them. | besides Col W. Burte to shelter. That is the simplest picture of the| aks ey w BI T been given, the industrial evolution of the last | 3 ube D. | de pompleted ears at is the bedrock fo CHEYI Clarh HW. M 1 robes got on which American business and| From f Br ra mar r, E. J. E nd drove off rican administration have erected | tent 1 or hases; J Curr 1 confidence tha people € ector 1 fi ( a not be led into the paths of de tar J Julian, ed nd I |U. P. SHOPMEN PLAN GREAT yerimentation the maze of te and Dr. 1 sur | TIME JULY 4TH AT GREELEY tried economic theory, the labyrinthys r | i ) oe 29. —Fir doc r lturism. NO CELEBRATION AT Among # taken to achie CAPITAL THIS YEAR Ri this end, th Jent m 1 Car of this cc CHES June 29. mo of the hand of the governme t take | om the tills of r 1 c 1 who the follow « trip ions in the fe ed LU red he t Creek 1 provided inaugurat tem, lghtenir distribution nd Game. 100 001 0 (Continued on Page Five.) SKY PILOT OF VIRCINIA HILLS ADMITS PERJURY IN MINE MURDER TRIAL Second Degree Murder Penalty Brings ys’ Preacher Back to Bible and Truth LEWISBURG, W. VA., June 29.—The Rev. J. E. Wil- burn, mountaineer preacher, who laid down his bible for a rifle during the miners’ armed offensive on two West Vir- ginia counties, has gone back to the bible and the truth, ac- cording to his testimony in the tna! of William Bhzzard here yesterday. Blizzard is charged with accessory to murder. ‘acing e t on: degree mu J th the miner’s march, t Rev. Wi'burn, testifying as a witness for the propecuticn stirred the courtroom in the C at fary term for}when he declare ¢ fe A b y a T. him t Houste in conferen stown jail, --101 003 0* and Pittsburgh Batteries—Benton Bagby and Schmidt. At Chicago— Hargrave. | 020 000 0* 1044051 0* jaines, Barfoot and Ain St Louts - | Chicage Batteries— smith; Kaufman and O'Farrell 4 At Boston—New York-Boston post poned, wet grounds, Dougle headers panic ol tomorrow, | a On cross examination the preacher 1 7 own defense, a story differing sharp. ly in many deta from that of the on ing ot George atunsey and obers|A BOARD SHIP h he told yesterday, From the stencgraphic record. Mr. Townsend 8 read the Mr. Wilburn’s test! LOS ANGELES,.Calif,, June 29 ny at his trial and asked “Isn’t| Several weeks ngo Harold A te what you sald?” alias Harris A, Watson, wa “At first I began to tell the truth| the police of Providence, R. 1, ont but the defense lawyers saia I'd drag under charge of r itd grand larcens Jhire a lawyer, the district officials and my boys into| eafled neatly away from them aboard it," he replied, adding that the law-|tho freighter Swift Star, Je had| ers had made “that frame up” in the] algned as a member of the crew.| fail the morning the first defense| Today, na nm renult of tho eff! witnesses testified with which radio telegraph y he had‘consented| ships and at te ia to arrt Because I couldn't get defended!a transcontinental ¢ on telling the truth and I couldn't Rhode Island jn the custody of officers, 12 MILE DRY ZONE DENIED BY BRIT LiQuaRr WOLATOR Fit American Suggestion ees Prohibition YOUTHS OUND ne 10 QN BOND UNDER ALIAS {a REARRESTED BY SHERIFE 0. D, Kelther week under t erating ma who was arre namo of Howard ll near Emigrant ( southwest of Casper, and who waa re under the same name Thura by the she 1 1 "tively stated tc Enforcement Flatly Refused; All Liquor Will Be Seized, Report WASHINGTON, June 29. s flat rejection of the American proposal for a prohibition 12 2 limit has left administration officials no alternative, it vuthorit but to await the will of congress as to DISTRICT COURT UPON TESTIMONY OF GIRLS revision of the law and meanwhile to refuse atimittance tc ‘a ship liquor storea under penalty of seizure LASKER EXPECTS is oo, A . « ACT AMENDMENT ' t ‘ vot ‘ A tx « ne * 1 ‘ . t y by ‘Jorelem sling te belig Liquos under eupy ae a & theasyure ae 2 my ning esses,