Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 12, 1923, Page 2

‘GE TWO. JT ATE FACING Bb Between Casper and news letter. The report says: TERRIFIC HAIL HITS NEBRASKA, DAMAGE HEAVY Worst Storm in History Reported From Laurel; Rain Is Also Heavy. OMAHA, Aug. 11—One of the heaviest rain and hail storms in years swept central and northern N braska tonight. A high wind accom- panied the storm. ‘The rain in places approximated a cloydburst, two inches being reported in the vicinity of Crofton in less than an hour. All Northwestern railroad wires west of Norfolk are down and the telephone company reported trouble as far west as Kearney, Grand Island and Holdrege in central Nebraska. I$ is feared bridges and road beds on the Northwestern may be washed out. Streets of a score of Nebraska towns were flooded the water in many places rushing into basements of business houses and residences. All streams in northern Nebraska are reported bank full. A heavy fall of haf! did considerable damage to standing grain LAUUREL, Neb., Aug. 11.—A ter. rific hall storm, the worst ever seen in this section, swept a swath four miles wide and many miles long this evening. Hundreds of windows were broken by the stones, some of which were as large as hen's eggs and so thick as to compiftely cover the ground. Great damage was done to crops. The storm was accompanied by a high northwest wind. COLUMBUS( Neb., Aug. 11.—One and one-half inches of rain fell here between’ six and seven O'clock this evening, The downpour was accom- panied by a brilliantly terrific electri- cal display and within a short time the city had been out from telegraphic communication.with the outside world. The telephones were not put out of commission, however. During t' > woy the thermometer had beef *®.ster- ing in the neighborhood of 100, the heat being most oppressive. Light hail fell a short distance southwest of Co. lumbus, but it is not believed the damage was serious. PAIR FINED IN POLICE COURT 10 FACE TRIAL FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY’ Irene Minardy and William Davis, the first:a Creole and the latter a negro, were turned over to the courts yeeterday and are being held on @ charge of highway rdbbery. The palr were twice fined by the police on the charge of illegal cohab- itation and on the, occasion of their second arrest were charget! with rob- bery. They are allaged to work to- gether in taking money from men who call on the woman. MARION STRIVES MARION, Ohio., Aug. 11—A city saddened and chastened by the trag- edy of death, Marion tonight wast trying to get “back to normalcy.” A sflag-draped flower-strewn shrine at the cemetery, guarded by soldiers, held the remains of the great man who had brought fame to his home town. The clamor of nation-~w'de attention was gone, For three short years, during the height of Warren Harding's career, Marion occupied the spotlight. In the reflected glory of & president, ‘her babbitts, good fel- lows, first-name acquaintances of half the mulation of Marion, became known throughout the country. Tonight the last of the visiting mourners had disappeared. The f tooned crepe had hb removed from The litter of the thous- y was cl On. the front porch of an old-fash- ioned house on Hast Center street an old’ man sat fanning himself with hin king in low tones with 0 sat beside him. Ho e first to ever bury a son who had achieved the office of president of the United States. Military officers who left town to: d some figures furnished ubordinates who had Q the highways figures mber of Marion for the funeral Frida Basing their calculations on the number of automobiles entering by tive main highways, multiplied by the © to ‘MIAINTENANGE OF HIGHWAY EAST Over 3,000 Vehicles Daily Pass Over the Road Failure Under Tremendous Traffic. Traffic between Casper and Evansville has now reached such proportions that the state highway department is alarmed over the condition of the stretch of Yellowstone highway connecting the two places. matter is presented in the latest issue of the department’s GRIEF; ALL CREPE IS REMOVED PROBLEM IN Evansville; Gravel Is The seriousness of the “A tremendous traffic has devel- oped between Casper and Evansville. On account of the great difficulty in keeping up the gravel road between Casper and Evansville, a traffic count was made for a week in order to see what wear this road really had to withstand. Guesses had been made that there were a thousand vehicles a day but a traffic count covering a week showed that the west end of the federal aid project had to with- stand an average dally traffic of 8,064 vehicles per day. Almost all this traffic -covered the entire dis- tance between Casper and Evansville. “It is generally conceded that a gravel road should not be expected to carry a heavier motor vehicle traffic than three to five hundred vehicles per day. Since this piece of road is subjected to several times that traf- fic we can not expect to maintain an ordinary gravel surface road under the conditions which now exist. It is interesting to know that the aver- age 24-hour traffic for a week ran as follows: “Ford class 1243; ‘ass 391; hamlets. Buick class 64: Cadillac class 239: yeles 6; or 2,251 passenger cars in each 24 hour day. The traffic count for trucks showed: 1 ton trucks 229; 2 and 3 fon trucks 131; & ton trucks -37; busses 47; 2 horse teams 88; 4 horse teams 11 or a total of 543 vehic'es per 24 hour day in the class of trucks, “Bome sneans must be found to take care of this heayy and increasing traffic immediately east of Casper as the cost of maintaining the gravel road over this section is very heavy, and furthermore a surface can not be satisfactorily maintained. “A pressure ofl distributor has ar- rived in Casper and will be used in olling the road between’ Casper and Glenrock. ,Oiling the road will, no doubt provide some relief on heavy travelled road between Caspér and Glenrock, but even an oiled gravel road can not be expected to sustain the heavy traffic between Casper and Hvansville during the dry afd windy summers we experience in Wyoming.” See ge Cummins Ready To Aid Kenyon For President . The i DES MOINES, Iowa, August 11.— (United Press)}—If Ex-Senator William 8. Kenyon is a candidate for president he will have the support of his for- (Continued from Page One.) _ flected in serious rioting in many sec- mer colleague, Senator Albert B.| tions of the Reich. Cummins. At Aaschen eleven were reported In an interview with the United killed when frenzied workers from the city and suburbs invaded the rural district and started plundering fields. Farmers repulsed the workers with muskets and hunting rifles, Four were killed at Ratibor, upper Silesia, one in Hamburg and four in Crefeld. Various cities reported plunderings of food and potato transports, especi- ally in the Ruhr. At Crefeld the workers, emulating the exploits o the Itallan communi- ties in 1920, occupied a number of factories. Four were killed and 18 wounded when police attempted to expel them. In many cities the radicals erected gibbets hanging the effigies of Cuno, Hugo Stinnes and Dr. Hermes, minis- ter of finance. Reports from throughout the Ruhr Indicated the communists were doing their utmost to exploit the dangerous situation to bring about a red terror which would put them in power. Food of all kinds was scarce in the cities and workers were desperate, demanding bread and potatoes for their families. Stoppage or interruption of elec- tric current was reported in many places. In Berlin a part of the street railways are unable to operate be- cause of the shortage of power. Press tonight, Iowa's senior senator declared he knew nothing of Judge Kenyon’s attitude but he would not on any account oppose him if he should decide to run. \ Senator Cummins made it clear that fe was not booming Kenyon and would not take a stand until the judge himself had definitely determin- ed what to do. He declared however, that ai success- ful administration would ensure President Coolidge’s nomination next year. “I am not going to take a stand until I know who the candidates are,” the senator said. “I shall do everything I can to help President Coolidge and make his ad- ministration a successful one, If it is successful, his nomination will be ensured. But then, of course, he might not be a candidate. “Judge Kenyon might be a candi- date, I would not on any account op- pose Kenyon. I am very fond of him, But then many things are like- ly to happen between now and the re- publican convention.” TO SHAKE OFF GERMANY ON BRINK OF REVOLUTION, SAID BY CARL D. GROAT -(United Press Staff Correspendent . BERLIN, Aug. 11—Any decision regarding retirement or continuance of the government of Chancellor Cuno 1s one of the questions tonight, average number of cocupants, and adding an est‘mate of those who came by rall the officers asserted 160,000 people were in this little city of nor- mally 80,000 population. Latest photo of the 1, nearing completion at the Na cells contain 2,100,690 cub feet of hydrogen which will lift horse-power motors wil drive it at 75 miles an hour and the ship will to reach the-Nortlr Pole. Comparative ’ size indicated by two men (arrow~ All along the path of the Harding was a member turned out to pay thelr last respects. Here the be-aproned Masons Chappell, Neb., for a brief and sad ceremony at the funeral car CUNO CABINET COLLAPSE SEEN; SCORE SLAIN IN GERMAN RIOTS Air Station, 36.000 ywunds, or the able to fly 4010 miles and return. Che Casper Sunday oporning As Thousands Paid Their Last Tribute chahcellory informed the United Press at 9p. m. It was indicated that the chancellor will await developments in the re!ch- |stag Monday and will not allow him- sclf to be forced into mmediate retire- ment by the action of the socialists this afternoon in adopting a motion to yote lack of confidence in the gov- ernment when parliament reconvenes next week, Meantime communitst, using every opportunity to foment a “red revolt” continued a strange agitation against the chancellor. A group of the ex- treme radicals paraded through the Wilhelmstrasse tonight shouting “down with Cuno,” and hurling abuse at the government. In semi-official circles {t was admit- ted the position of the government appeared hopeless and that President Ebert may have grave difficulty in finding a,man to replace Cuno. Some well informed persons even saw Germany on the brink of revolut- tion and forecast @ recurrence of the bloodw events which followed the re- actionery movement of March 1920, when the workers rose against the Kapp dictatorship, This theory, it! was pointed out, was supported by the) riots today in various parts of the country in which upwards of a score were killed and many injured, The fact that the riots broke out in Upper Silesia, Rhenish Prussia and on the Belgian frontier, simultaneously was interpreted as proof of a concerted effort by the communists to force a situation enabling them to make final effort for establishment of their longed for dictatorship of the prole- tariat. The whole nation today literally |seethed with an atmosphere of im- pending trouble, with the Ruhr and . 3, The ou 6 amount of Lakehurst nelium Lit workers, strike in all Berlin factorles effective Tuesday night, to force resignation of the Cuno government and granting of labors demand for a satisfactory. plan for wage payments which will meet the cost of living. ORY VIOLATORS. SECURE GONTINUATION OF CASES; BAILEY 1S NOT ACCUSED D, Ong of ibune ‘This photograph presents a familiar sight to many thousands of Americans who lined the way of President Barding's funeral train across the continent—a view of the flag-draped casket through the door of the ob- servation car. This picture was taken in Chicago, but it stands for a similar sight in hundreds of citios and) funeral train members of various orders of which the late president: march down the communists hoped to spread disorder to all corners of the reich. The hoplessness of the financial out- look was slightly relieved this morn- ing owing to settlement, of the-strike of money printers who immediate! resumed their task of grinding out billions of new marks. the strike enabled the Reichsbank to reopen but many of the smuller finan- clal funds because of the money shortage. Settlement of institutions remained without Lack of paper caused much trouble part of the rioting being directly at- tributed to the mark shortage which made it impossible to pay unemploy- ment doles in some districts, Leaders of the factory councils of meeting here, voted for a The ¢ase of Tom Crawford, George Graham and 'R. C. Joned charged with transporting liquor, continued until Monday. Appearance bonds of $1,000 have been put up by the trio. has been The casés of C..C. Spears and J. Somers, also charged with violation of the drug ordinance ‘have been con- tinued until August 15. It was erroneously stated yesterday that Mcnk Bailey was connected with the first named charge, Mr. Bailey had no connection with any of the cases, nor was police. he arrested by t! ———“._ Charity schools were introduced the| red Saxony the center from which! into London in 1687. The ZR-1 Will Soon Be Ready for: First Flight is made of sheep stomawhs, Slaty 120,600 pounds. Six 200 and 200 its first flights will be an attempt RESIGNS PLACE FOREIGN GRISTS\STATE UNITE IN WAR MADE ON WLL GALE FOR ATTENTION HERE President Expected to Lean on Advice of State Secretary. BY A. L. BRADFORD. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) i ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — The Buropean crisis, becoming daily more acute as chaos grows in Germany, will be one of tho first big: problems Presented to President Coolidge. Foreign affairs generally will be in the first rank of the problems to be tackled by the new president during! the remainder of his term of office, it 1s conceded. In handling international questions, Mr, Coolfdge 1s expected to lean heav- ily on the afvice of Secretiry of State Hughes, just a sdid the late President Harding. H. 16 hu by eve is now in the throes of a final crash, may soon appeal directly to the United States to take some step to bring an end to the Ruhr and re parations crisis. A diplomatic triumph — settlement of differences between the United States and Mexico and extension of American recognition — is expected to be consummated soon under Pres!- dent Coolidge. A settlement of the Mexican ques- tion will mark almost a complete wip- ing clean of the slate of “routine” questions of fcreign policy before the Present administration. Hughes has made such Programm in cleaning up internation- al questions before the government, that barring’ unforeseen problems that may. arise, the administration of Presicent Coolidge probably can de vote itself in the field of foreign af- fairs almost exclusively to the devel- opment of solcalled high policies de- Signed to bring about international tranquility. One of the first questions of high Policy to be taken up by the new President will be the question of ‘American membership in the world court set up by the league of nations. later President Cuolidge may be found taking a major step in the for elgn field to bring peace out of chaos in Europe. PRESIDENTOF PIGGLY WIGGLY pul wi rail Sor 8. on il a Man Who Built Up Great Company to Retire Monday, Said. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 11—(United Press}—Clarence Saunders, who ran from a three-dollar-a-week grocery clerk to the head of the Piggly-Wig- s'y company, has resigned as presi: dent of the chain of stores, he indi- cated tonight. Saunders’ resignation will become effective Monday when pool interests which financed his recent sensat!onal fight {n Wall Street meet here, the youthful financial wizard intimated following a-conference with the heads of the Memph!s pool tonight. In his conference tonight Saunders Proposed that members of the local pool sanction a plan to act as stock- holders and take stock at $50 a share, enabling him to return to the com- pany and reorganize the business. “I have worked over the other p'ans but this js the best one,” he declared. | “If something is not done to get mon- ey, Memphis is going to lose Piggly- Wiggly. I will say, however, if you let some one else come in and try to run Piggly-Wiggly, a failure is bound to result. “The only remedy is money, re- organization and starting all over| again with a clean slate." Saunders touched on his recent cor- ner {nh Piggly-Wiggly stock which Squeezed the shorts in the market. “I have learned something about human nature during the past months,” he said, “I was a hero when the people spoke’ of me as ‘whipping Wall street,’ but now many of my former admirers give me the cold stare when on the street.” More than a score of members of the pool bolted the conference follow- ing Saunders speech with expressed anger over the fallure to agree on the number of members that should be appointed on @ representative com- mittee of the local pool to confer with outeftown groups regarding Saun- ders plan, of is su: th | Weather Forecast | WYOMING—Generally fair Sunday and Monday; not mueh Change in temperature. —_——— eae ® Violin Repairs All work done at or below city prices, lees transportation charges, 40 why send Worx wut of town unu lake shipping risks, besides wait- be, Bincgerd for return of jnsiru ta, Bows Refilled $1 25 and guaranteed W. G. Buehner Phone 958 443 S, Durbin Or Chas. B. Wells Musio Co. joined forces in a war on high gaso- Une prices. Following the coup of Governor W. ard and other big companies to re- duce retail prices in South Dakota to Nestos sent a telegram to the Stand- ard Oil company, of Indiana, demand- ing 16 cent gasoline in North Dakota. While farmers and other gasoline went on a “gasoline jag,” laying up Prepared to take action similar. to that by McMaster if the Standard re- fuses to sell for the same price as in South Dakota. Governor McMaster forced a five cent reduction throughout his state state highway depot at Mitchell and preparing to dump a half million g: lons on the retail market. Unless prices, cooperative associations to buy gaso- line in carload competition similar to that by the state in South Dakota, he announced. Germany, which some observers be-| “Gasoline dealers must cease ex: horbitant prices, discrimination and the government competition have already been wiped out.” Reports received here tonight sald Governor Charles braska, is also “South Dakota plan.” however, has not intimated what he will do. Consumers swarmed upon filling stations by the thousands throughout the price cut was received. Believing that the price might again go up soon, tanks, sort of containers to haul away stor- lage supplies. The governor's office in Pierre, ever, that the half million gallons which McMaster threatened to dump brought in and sold to keep the re- tail costs down if necessary. GASOLINE SELLS AT Press)—Gasoling retailed at 11 cents tinued a which has sent the cost down ten cents within the last three weeks. ‘The eleven cent price announced to- day by the Magnolia Petroleum com- pany, firms, joyously, anticipating cuts. ‘A few of the ofl companies who re- fused to meet the latest cut, kept the price at 13 cents a gallon. Any fur- ther reduction would mean too great IOWA INTERESTED IN GREAT FIGHT (United Press)—Governor Kendall to- day wired Governor McMaster of Sopth Dakota asking how that state brought about a reduction price of gasoline. ment for lower priced gasoline,” Ken- dall said. South Dakota accomplished it.” stations here have voluntarily reduced their prices since Friday as a result NEBRASKA READY TO ENLIST IN WAR nor Bryan will give whatever relief day following the governor's return from a twenty three day vacation in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. line business and have come to the conclusion that there is too wide a gap between the wholesale price at gasoline in the Ford car user’s tank.” twenty to twenty-two cents. SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 192: GAG PRICES:STANDARD TOFIGHT, (Continued from Page On ¢ Governor Bryan said he was inter. ested in the plan of Governor MoMas. ter of South Dakota for establishing state owned gasoline stations. It was rumored that the attorney general was considering a plan to bring suit to cancel franchises of oil companies on the ground that they are in a combination in restraint of trade. PRICES REDUCED BPs) | IN TWIN CITIES " ST. PAUL, Aug. 11—The gasoline price war was extended to the Twin Cities tonight when the Wilhelm Oj. company cut prices 4 cents to 19 1-2 cents a gallon, effective tomorrow. Officials of other independent com- panies said other dealers would un- doubtedly be forced to follow. It was disclosed that high test gasoline can be laid down in this city at 11 1-2 cents. Prevailing prices range from - | 23 1-2 to 26 1-2 cents. POSTAL INCOME: BREAKS RECORD (Continued from Page One.) this year show an increase of 23.3 per cent over the first six months’ business of 1922, the month of July, 1923, leaps far ahead of this with a 49.2 per cent increase over July 1922. Within the last year and a half the number of residences served by carrier service has leaped from about 4,000 to near 5,500. The building pro- gram on now is the greatest in the history of Casper and it is safe to predict that by the end of 1923 there will be at least 6,000 homes included in the daily mail deliveries. While the personnel of the carrier department has not been appreciably added to the load per carrier has increased 30 per cent recently, During February, 1923, a record was kept of the calls made at the general delivery window. The dally average was 1400. This same record- ing of calls was made last month and the daily average was shown to be 2365 persons making inquiries, a big jump upward of a 70 per cent increase of the business transacted by the gen- eral delivery window in the last half year. Since general delivery business largely handles newcomers until per- manent residence and address have been found, some idea js indicated as to the growth of population. “The post office is the real up-to-the minute and accurate barometer of lo- cal business and popu'ation,” declares Postmaster Bean. “Other businesses show to some extent, though tardily the trend of business but the post office is the only one that r¢ rs the daily fluctuations and neral conditions at the moment.” COLORED WOMEN AGREE TO 60 ELSEWHERE: WW SEARCH FOR HUSBANDS. Several colore¢ women alighted tn Casper at the same time this week, all of them desirous of meeting their husbands here, according to testimony given Judge John A, Murray im po- ice court last night when ten women were arraigned on charges of solicit- ing or similar offenses. The testi- mony in the eight cases of soliciting, however, was not good enough for the magistrate to swallow. Each woman was' given her choice of etiher getting out of town within three days or of paying @ fine of $25 and serving thirty days in jail. “Judge, I's done made up my mind already,” exclaimed one negress while the others appeared to agree with her. McMaster who forced the Stand- cents a gallon, Governor R. A. South Dakota motorists, users ge stores of cheap fuel, Nestos selling at 16 cents through a its urge the Standard lowers Governor Nestos will lots and establish Nestos seid. ‘The ibliic will not stand for this unfair In the case of the discrimination and unfair Il back it up. lroads, W. Bryan, Ne- investigating the Bryan so far. uth Dakota today when word of they brought barrels, . small jugs and every Yonceivable D., has assured the public, how- the market will actually be CENTS IN DALLAS DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 11.—{United gallon here tonight as dealers con- “war” of price-slashing instantly, met by other about further was and motorists chugge: still loss, they declared. Aug. 11.— DES MOINES, Iowa, in the “T am much interested in the move- “I want to determine exactly how Four independent gasoline filling the South Dakota cut. LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 11.—Gover- possible to protect gasoline con- mers in Nebraska from high prices. This announcement was made to- The case.of Dorothy Murray, white, © charged with being an inmate of a © house of ill fame, was continued un- til Monday. “I have been investigating the gaso- _— nes ; A new device for pre-cancelling ' stamps is being tested by the Post * Office Department. e refinery and what is collected for In Nebraska the price ranges from This Portable Brunswick Only $45 am Liven Up the Summer Evenings With Music. gar ~ The famous Brunswick Tone is embodied in this NEW model, = The Chas. E. Wells Music Company “Home of the Chickering” 232 E. Second St.—Phone 194 Casper, Wyo.