Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 12, 1923, Page 1

Casper Sunda VOLUME 33. STATES UNITE IN W WOULDBE KIDNAPER | FIRST NEWS SECTION SECOND ATTEMPT TO GARRY OFF / NOTORIOUS SLAC Mother in Eberbach, Germany, to Argue for Son’s Surrender to United When Kidnaping Is Attempted. EBERBACH, Baden, Aug. doll, notorious draft evader and fugitive from justice in the United States, shot and killed kidnap him, and wounded another seriously here today. KER FRUSTRATED States Government 11.—Grover Cleveland Berg- one man who attempted to The dead man was said to be Karl Schmidtt, of Nausan- nee, Switzerland, and the wounded man Sperber Roge, of Paris. Two Americans were arrested by German gendarmes charged with complicity in the alleged attempt at kidnaping. They were sald to be a| former lieutenant in the United) States army named Griffith and a} chauffeur named Nielsen. Bergdoll’s mother arrived here early this week to visit her son. Ap-| parently she was attempting to get) him to return to the United States) and serve his sentence as a deserter, | @o that property now sequested by the allen property custodian could be elaimed by the family. Bergdoll fled to Germany in May 21, 1920, after escaping from guards who had accompanied him to Phila- @ephia from Governor's Island, N. Y., where he was in prison following a sentence of five years for desertion from the army. He had obtained permission to gmake the trip by declaring he wished to locate a sum of money he had concealed while hiding from draft of-| ers during the war. pry night's was thé second un- guccessful attempt to kidnap the de- eerter. In January, 1921, two ser-) geants of the American Expeditionary Forces, Franz Zimmer and Carl Neuf, | leaped on the running board of Berg- doll’s automobile in Eberbach and @rew revolvers, ordering his sur- render. ‘The soldiers were thrown off. however, when the chauffeur speeded up the ca PENSIONS FOR OPPOSITION IN RUHR TO END PARIS, Aug. 11.—French forces to- wight were occupying the labor head- quarters at Mayence where German laborers were accustomed to collect their employment doles, according to dispatches received here. ‘The French refused payments for ‘unemployment, saying they would no longer be tolerated in the occupied zone Similar orders were issued throughout the Rhineland, In de- fense of their action, the French an- mounced that if German workers would apply to the Franco-Belgian railway consortium or Franco-Belgian ™ controlled mines they would be fur- mished work of a satisfactory nature ‘with satisfactory pay. ‘The measure was regarded as tm- portant and constituting the first step ef a program to force German labor to accept employment from the Fran- co-Belgians. ‘FOUR CAUGHT BY SHERIT™ 'N RACE ON ROAD * Fleeing toward Rawitns, three men @nd a woman were arrested by at- taches of the sheriff's office about two miles this side of Pathfinder dam esterday afternoon. The woman, Lu- eile Ellison, was charged with pilfer- ing ladies’ wearing apparel from a store at Lavoye, and the men, Charles, Harry B., and Claude W. Green, were charged with passing short checks at the same town. ‘The party were found in a Ford car that is mortgaged to a person in Bristow, Okla. The men who now have the car claim that they pur- chased it innocently. AUTO AND TAUCK CRASH, SEVERAL ESCAPE INJURY A collision between the tduring car @riven by W. J. Sullivan and the truck driven by B. J, Murphy at Unit- ed and F streets about 6:30 o'clock Yesterday afternoon resulted in a Considerable shaking up of several New Shops For D.&R.G. W. at Grand Junction GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Aug. 11.—(United Press.)—New steel ma- chine shops for the Denyer and Rio Grande Western railway company at Grand Junction will be under con- struction Monday. Battey and Kipp, Chicago, have the contract for erection of the shops at an expense of approximately $200,000. Facilities for all kinds of railway machine work are to be placed in the new shop and it will have the great- est capacity for volume of work of | Morning And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1923. JAR — ~ Crthimnw FIRST NEWS SECTION ON GASOLINE PRICES IN BY BERGDOL Cuno Cabinet Collapse Seen; Score Slain in German Riots BY CARL D. GROAT, (United Press Staff Correspondent). BERLIN, Aug. 11.—Germany ended her celebration of “Constitution Days” tonight after riots in which twenty persons were killed and political events which forecast the downfall of the Cuno cabinet when the Rei chstag convenes on Monday. The close of the fourth anniversary of a doption of the Weimer constitution found the republic beset by what many observers considered the most serious situation since the Kapp Putsche of the monarchist reactionaries. In Berlin the United Socialists group, after heated debate, decided to join the communists in voting lack of confidence in the Cuno cabinet. Later the communists filed a reso- lution in the Reichstag demanding that the Cuno cabinet be tried before the supreme court on charges of complicity in high treason, in con- nection with devaluation of the mark. This was considered tantamount to eventual resignation of the cabinet, although it was pomted out President Ebert may hold Cuno in office until after receipt of the reply from Eng- land to the last German communica- tion. In political circles there was much discussion as to Cuno’s success or, with indications that Dr. Gustave Stresemann, leader of the Deutsche Volke partei (popular party) was the man most likely to be charged with forming @ new government. The widespread misery and des- peration of the population was re- any shop on the road. (Continued on Page Two.) DEPARTURE FOR SCOUTS PRIMED FOR BIG TIME ON BIG HORNS TODAY One Hundred and Seventy-five in First Contingent To Take Advantage of Outing; Casper Officials See Successful Results. Careful mothers solicitous of the welfare of their sons bade them goodbye last night and this morning when 175 Casper Boy Scouts prepared to leave for Camp R. T. Kemp, which will be maintained in the Big Horn mountains, 100 miles west of Casper for two weeks. looked forward to annually by to be better and greater than ever. Never in the history of scouting in Casper have so many scouts enrolled, never has there been shown so much real interest in summer camps. The Boy Scouts summer camp this year is the result of the support of Casper busines’ men. The scout budget went over earller in the year without a hitch, and it fs from this that the camp will receive a large part of its working funds, When the men were called on to furnish cars to transport the scouts to camp they did not hesitate to offer their ser- vices willingly. More cars will be needed August 18 and August 26. The scout officials hope that other Casper citizens who can spare a few hours to drive the scouts to camp will do so in order that the burden of transport- ing them may not fall on the shoul- ders of a few willing men. Men who owned trucks were also obliging in taking the camping equip- ment to camp during last week. Truck owners who came forward in this matter were S. 8S. Sowdok!, Paul Marnick, R. N, Van Sant Motor com-/ pany, Midwest ‘Refining company, through Charles Kear, driver, Col!- seum Motor company, and the Camp- bell Hardware company, J, H. Dun- bar was in charge of the freight trana- portation and fulfilled his duty well. Earl G. Burwell, vice president of the Casper council, and Henry 3B. Per- kins, chairman of the camping com- mittee, left early yesterday afternoon to make a thorough inspection of the camp and see that everything would be in readiness to receive the scouts when they arrived. In commenting on the camp yester- day Scout Executive H, Roe Bartle! The pleasurable event the scouts promises this year said that everything was running smoothly and that he expected a very successful session. ONE DEAD, SIX HURT IN CRASH MIDLAND, Mich. Aug. 11—One man was killed, six injured, one ser- Jously and one hundred passengers badly shaken up when the east bound Pere Marquette train number 4 jump- ed the tracks here this afternoon, Thomas Kelly, 53, engineer of the train was killed. Charles Mellill, 30, fireman was not expected to live. A spread of the rafls was believed to have caused the wreck. Two Americans Die in Plane Crash, France PARIS, Aug. 11—Two American students, Arthur and Joseph Seep, brothers, from Ollolty, Pa, and M, Poulain, pilot of the airplane in which they were riding, were killed tonight when the machines nose-dived, crash- ing to earth, Can Casper and Natrona county build schools fast enough to keep pace with the swelling population of those of school age? This question is paramount with the school administration here. For the past three years the annual in- crease over the year preceding has been thirty-three and one-third per cent, In order to have provided ade- quate educational facilities for these additional numbers of children it would have been necessary to expand buildings and equipment one third more for each of the last three years. School population has been more than doubled since 1920. The capacity of the Natrona count: high school is 400, In June, last year, 487 stiidents were betng edu- cated within its halls. In June, 1923, the number was 695, an increase of 158 over the preceding year, or prac- Ucally 200 more than the facilities were provided for. In view of this Past condition it is ‘probably safe to predict that June, 1924, will find 800 students being taught in a high school which was built to accom- modate half that number. Plans for the new Natrona county high school are now being completed by Garbutt, Widner & Sweeney, local architects. The cost of this structure will approximate $500,000 and will, with the present building, care for about 1,000 students. It is expected that during September a call for bids on the addition will be announced and that sometime this fall the actual work of construction will be begun. [ Even with the building of this new high school the big question again arises. Will the entire high school, when fully capable of taking in 1,000 students, be large enough to provide for all those seeking admittance? In all probability it will not. Indica- tions from other and reliable sources point toward the influx of the great- est numbers of permanent residents that this city and county have ever experienced. Naturally this same situation holds with the grammar schools. For this coming fall term a seven-room addi- tion has been attached to the Elk Street school and a new six-room building is being completed in the Burlington addition. West Casper has been taxing its school to the mit, Getting outside of the city it is found that Lavoye, which had no school last year, is now asking for a school to care for 150 pupils. At the Ohio camp there were probably seven or eight pupils in attendance last year. This year it {s estimated there will be about seventy. The growth of Salt Creek school population has been tremendous, Several methods will have to be resorted to this coming school year in order to give every student and pupil the required work, The halt- day room plan will probably be used again in the grammar schools while the larger problem at the high school may find its solution in having all studying done at home with recita- tions and laboratory work alone be- ing carried on in the crowded halls, The lack of sufficiently large hools will not be. reflected in the staff of teachers employed at each building, Tho polfcy in the past has been to add to the force of instruc- tors during the if ag the number of pupils increased and it is likely this same policy will /he continued. COOLIDGE BOOMED FOR NEXT G. O. P. NOMINATION KANSES CITY, Mo., Aug, 11,— (United Press)—The first “Coolidge: for-preaident” club was organized here tonight, Cuths who were in the touring car, but no-serious injuries were received. | Seventy-five prominent Missouri republicans met and launched what they declare is the first organized movement to seoure for Calvin Cool, fdge the republican nomination in 1924, “Calvin Coolidge president club No, 1 of America,” was the title adopted for the new organization, which it is planned to extend to all sections ef the country, Leo Koehler, preminent local re- publican, was elected president, "We believe it would conform to the wishes of the late Preaident Harding that Calvin Coolidge would be chosen (o contigpe for another term the Harding policies,” Koehler said, "Coolidge has endersed the Hard- ing program and for that reason we are going to ciroutarize all the premi- nent republicans of the country in an effort to gain their support.” Copies of the revolution ef organt- fation were forwarded te President Ceelidge, MARVELOUS GROWTH OF CITY AGGRAVATES THE SCHOOL PROBLEM HERE In anticipation of a larger student body at the high school two additional teachers have been assigned places on the faculty. Casper and Natrona county com- prise the richest school district, based on per capita figures, in the United States. The lack of funds sufficient to provide up-to-date and adequate educational facilities for its school population does mot seem to be of primary concern. The whole problem reduces itself rather to being able to estimate the probable increase for the next few years and then to set to work now to build schools capable of easily absorbing it. HAIL, RAIN AND WINDSTORMS PLAY HAVOCIN MIDDLE WEST; _ CYCLONE HITS CEDAR RAPIDS CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—(United Press); many outbutldings, broke down tele- —Violent hail, wind, rain and electric|phone and telegraph poles according storms damaging crops and property |to meagre reports reecived here. ‘The swept the mid-west night. A wind and rain storm hit Chicago | were today and to-|storm was most severe in the vicinity |of Coggon and Manchester but details lacking due to badly crippled tonight, flooding basements and the | Wires at this hour. streets. and . hurling refuse cans through the streets endangering pe-| destrians. Automobiles were skidded along the pavement. Telephone, light-| ing and street systems were inter- rupted, In parts of North Dakota wheat, | corn and grass were beaten into the ground by hail which was as large as hen eggs and lay on the ground three inched) deep near Lamoure. Many barns and smaller buildings were de-| stroyed. The Catholic church at Daw- son was wrecked. Both hail and rain swept parts of Nebraska. Near Laurel hal: swept a swath four miles wide and many miles long. Many windows were broken, the fce balls being as thick as two inches, A few persons wore roported in- Jured. CEDAR RAPIDS, Oowa, Aug, 11.— After a day of intense heat and low humidity, the temperature hovering around the 100 mark, a cyclone struck in this vicinity about 9 ofclock to- night sending throngs of Saturday night shoppers scurrying for cover. The storm, coming out of the north broke trees to the ground, un- No Killing of Antelope And Grouse, Ruling CHEYENNE, Wyo. Aug. 11— (Special to The Tribune}—Wyoming sportsmen who have been cleaning their guns in anticipation of grouse and antelope hunts have taken their pains in vain. ‘The state game commission Saturday exercised its authority to declare closed seasons, by issuing an order that no grouse or antelope shall be killed this Year during the open seasons prescribed by law. Failure of the last legislature to enact a game and fish bill would have resulted in open seasons this year off both grouse and antelope had not the game commission acted. Both grouse and antelope have been protected for ten years by two five roofed farm dwellings and overturned year closed seasons. /PRESIDENT COOLIDGE CENTERS HI INTEREST ON STATE AFFAIRG; CABINET CONFERENCES ARE HELD No Slackening to Be Permitted in Functioning of Federal Government Before es executive. Willard hotel and discussed with each one the condition of affairs in his Jurisdiction. The secretaries then hurried away to their own offices and the business of the government was resumed with a rush. Mr. Coolidge desires to have the fed- eral government thoroughly organ- ized and functioning smoothly before congress meets. No slackening will be permitted. The outstanding matters confront- ing the various departments of the governments as the new administra- tion took hold were: Sate Cepartment decision as to the recognition of Mexico on the basis of results accomplished by the “‘rec- ognition conference’ of Mexican and America’s representatives at Mexico City. The European crisis, which is viewed as menacing to world peace. Treasury department — Refunding war debts to the United States of eighteen foreign nations. Balancing of the government's bocks in the face of diminished revenues this year. War department—Solution of the alarming difficulty of keeping the army up to its authorized strength by recruiting in the face of competi- tion of high wages in industry. Navy department — Scrapping of battleships in conformity with the arms conferences treaties, Justice department — Deciaton on the ruling asked by President Hard ing aw to whether the president has the power to use the army and navy in prohibition enforcement, The pros- ecution of @ large number, of antl!- trust anc) war fraud suits filed in courts and the filing of a number of others prepared, Decision as to gov: ernment policies in the fouthern Pa- cifioCentral Pacific disolution case, Commerce department— Extension of American foreign trade; standard: juation in American industrieg and elimination of waste in American pro: duotion and distribution, Laber department—Handling the immigration fleed precipitated on American sharea by quotas ef July 1, Drafting of leginiation for pelective immigration and alien registration, Possible intervention in the threaten: ed anthracite strike, Interiors — Inauguration of a new regime in development af Alaska in BY WILLIAM J. LOSH, views, formed after his visit there. Postoffice — Inauguration of the new transcontinental night afr mail service this month and extension of the regular air mail service. Agricultural department— Develap- ment of a program for relief of west- ern farmers, hit by the wheat depres- sion, Finding of Body Of Unidentified Man Is Mystery DUBUQUE, Iowa., Aug. 11—(United Press) — County uthorit!es today sought to learn the identity of a man c'ad in winter clothes, whose badly decomposed body was found near Cas- ende, Iowa, 20 miles from here. There were no marks of violence. Two farm women picking berries came upon the body, which appar. ently had been lying in the woods since January. He had on a winter overcoat, a sweater coat, heavy underwear and overshoos, The clothing was partly burned, ‘There were no marks of !dentifica- tion, POSTAL ty NUMBER 3. S, DAKOTA GOES ON AUTOMOTIVE: JAG AS BIG CUT ANNOUNCED. Standard Meets State’s » Price of 16 Cents, and Other Governors Join Clamor for Reduction, ST bed _ (By United Press). =" Middlewestern states unit« ed tonight in plans for a war © on high gasoline prices. While Governor W. H. McMasters, South Dakota, had succeeded in forcing down retail prices from 21 to 16 cents a gallon at least * three other state executives were studying plans to take similar action. Governor R. A. Nestos, North Da: kota, wired the Standard Oll company of Indiana, the dominating distrib- utor of his state, demanding that prices be reduced to a level with thase in South Dakota. He sald he would cause cooperative concerns to sell at 16 cents if the big compantes do not meet his request. rc Governor Charles W. Bryan, braska declared he is “interested” in Governor McMasters plan of estab: Ushing state owned gasoline stations.’ The Nebraska attorney generals of- fice was reported considering a plan to repeal franchise of ofl companies on the grounds that they are a combina- tion in restraint.o? trade. Governor Bryan, a brother of Wil- liam Jenings Bryan, said he had been investigating the gasoline business and had come to the conclusion there too wide a-gap between, refinery wholesale and retail prices, He de- clared the state will give whatever relief possible to consumers, Governor Kendall, Iowa, wired Me- Masters for details of his state retail plan, Four independent gasoline com- panies in Nebraska reduced prices as the result of the South Dakota cut In Minneapolis and St. Paul, mem: bers of automobile clubs disussed plans to build a filling station to, sell = \ Congress Meets; Multitude of Domestic and Intemational Ques. tions Are Discussed With Department Heads. (United Press Staff Correspondent). WASHINGTON, /ug. 11.—With a new figure on the bridge, the shi day moved out into the turbulent sea of nati onal and international affairs, a th of President Ha rding. : ‘ abe Toe ek spon 00 time in takin g the initial steps to establish himself as chief of state to- ter the pause He summoned the cabinet members to his temporary White House suite at the New 1009000 FOR STATE HIGHWAY WORK THIS YEAR Oil Royalties, Gas Tax And Appropriation to Make Up Total. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 11.—(Spe- celal to the Tribune—Thirteen hun- dred thousand dollars will be avail able for highway construction and maintenance by the state of Wyoming during the present fiscal year, the State Highway Department announo ed Saturday, Tho estimates of in- come follow: Federal Oil royalty,, $1,050,000; gas. oline tax, $150,000; legislative appro: priation, $100,000, INCOME BREAKS RECORD Grosa postoffice recelpta for thin year, 1928 will approximate $140,000, er an increase ef about 22 per cent ever those of 1922," saya Edwin M, Bean, chief of the Casper postoffioe, Thiy will mean that each person of Casper'a newly estimated population of 28,000 will spend the average of $6 with Uncle fam here befere the end of the year, Reduced to the basis of an output of two-cent stamps, 000 stamps will be sold, or an average | of 260 ptampa-ta each @€ the £9,000, During the first sig menthe of this accordance with President Marding's| year the grows recelpty are shown to de $63,486.00, Were business to con- tinue the same until the new year a total of $127,000 would be the result, The month of December, however, finda the post office going its limit and, according to past records, fully 20 per cent of the entire year's re: celpts are taken tn during this month, Benides thia another increase due to constant growth of population must be added Since 1916 the income of Caaper's pont jumped ahead gasoline without profit. DAKOTA BUSINESS AT 4 NEW PRICE RUSHING. eR MITCHELL, 8. D., Aug, 11— South Dakota will go on an automo- bile spree tomorrow with gasoline at 16 cents a gallon. Filling stations were thronged as news spread that the price was cut by Standard Oil company of Indiana to “meet competition," Most of the autoists, failed to find the “competition.” Usually actions speak louder than words, but in the case of Governor McMaster'a orders, words meant more than actions. The state supply depot here had only meager supply of gasoline to sel! at 16 cents a gallon compared with the huge stocks of Standard oll and independent companies who met the state price, The 160,000 gallons pur- chased in Chicago by Governor Mc. Master for distribution in carload lots will not be shipped in until ten cities have assured the governor they are ready to handle it at the 16-cent price. Announcement by Governor Mo- Master that he would purchase 600, 000 gallons more if the first lot was disposed of satisfactorily is believe? to have caused Standard oll end in- dependent compantes to act, but if filling stations everywhere begin séll ing gasoline at 16 cents a gallon, it is doubtful if the governor will find it necessary to carry out his inten- tions, His sole aim, {t was pointed out, was to force a cut in prices of at least five cents a gallon. Having ap: complished that end, he may rest on his “oars" until prices go up again, when he may bring about the com- petition, Hoe might find it difficult for the state to dispose of carload lots at 16 conts when filling stations aro offering it at that price, it was plonted out. Meantime autots Une however. are on a gaso- “jag” that promises to last. Hundreds put in as big a supply as they could handle at the low price, fearing that the situation would not last long. Word that the governors of other states were joining in the movement to. forces down prices lent some en couragement that the war may have some permanency, Automobile clubs and private garages, however, took steps to lay in big supplies while the getting la good. Fear that a shortage may be created as a result of heavy buying was expressed in some quarters, Many communities, dealers pointed out, will have to pay heavy demur rage charges on carloads of gasoline h Id on the tracks Jong enough for ent vile the first atx nued on Page montha of Iwo) distribution, This may add to the bE Se 48 65 NORTH DAKOTA oe Ee JOINS IN FIGHT, . BISMARCK, N, BD, Aug, Mee North and South Dakotas tonight (Continued on Page Two)