Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1923, Page 1

\ + Weather Forecast WYOMING: Generally fair tonight and Friday. Cooler in east and south por- tions tonight. THE CIRCULATION OF THE CASPER:DAILY TRIBUNE YESTERDAY WAS: 10,070 OLUME VIL. SAVE SU CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1923 | MAN'S NECK BROKEN IN FIGHT {ONEDEADAND ANOTHER WOUNDED SERIOUSLY IN DRUNKEN BRAWL) RR Grading Camp Northeast of Casper Is Scene Of Tragedy When Both Principals in Bloody Fight Come to Grief. One man is dead and another man lies in a critical con- dition at the county hospital as a result of a drunken brawl shortly after midnight last night about half a mile east of the pest house at a camp of the Arnett Grading Com- pany. Hugh Honeycutt, the dead man, had been pound- ed so much about the head that his neck was broken by his cpponent W. H. Crambliet, accord- ling to the reports received. Honey- jcutt had taken a pocket knife from $500 000 Loss jhis trousers, and opening the little 7 blade, had inflicted a wound in the IN HOTEL FIRE NARRANGANSET PIER, R. I. Bept. 6—The Imperial hotel here ‘was destroyed by fire early today, 40 guests escaping scantily clad The ioss was $500,000. The Hotel Massasoit also caught fire. Private houses nearby were dam- aged. ‘The fire started in the attic of the five story wooden Imperial hotel. Narrangansett Pier is an exclusive) resort rivalling Newport as a New ett summer place for the @realthy. Fight Is Made In Turkey to Restore Harem —— JANGORA, Sopt., 6—Persistent ef- @orts are being made in Turkey to Yestore the harem as a national in- stitution. Polygamy was abolished amore than a year ago by resolution passed in the national assembly, but gince then several unsucessful ef- forts have been made to restore it to a legal status. At the head of the current attempt > put through the assembly a resolu- tion recognizing the harem as a na: tional economic necessity, is Salib Hlodja, a teacher. The “old guard” $m and out of the assembly is rally- tng to his support. GIVIL CASE HEARD IN DISTRICT COURT HERE ‘The attention of Judge R. R. Rose fm district court this morning was to a motion in a civil case in which the defendants, Anita and Robert Whitmore of this city, seek * to dismiss an attachment taken on their local property by the Metropoll- tan Bank of Denver. ‘The attachment follows a failure to meet certain promissory notes given In connection with a real estate transaction in Denver. The defend- ants assert that the real estate which they purchased was not as described. M. E. Enterline and bana ar kins a) red for the defendants end cop. win of the firm of Irwin @ Friend of Denver, assisted by W. G. Perkins of the firm of Purcell, ‘Casey and Perkins. chest of Crambliet which probably |Plerced the lung. He still clenched the knife in his hand when he was picked up prior to being brought into Casper. Pay day and the first visit to town for a lengthy period 1s given as the reason for the drunken condition of several of the men in the grading outfit of E. A. Arnett, contractor. The outfit was being transported from a point on the Wyoming North and South railroad to Clayton. A truck load of men came into town during the evening and had just re- turned to their camp when Cramb- let and Honeycutt got into a quar rel. . The fight took place just in the rear of the Arnett tent. It so-em cited Mrs. Arnett, wife of the oon- tractor, that she was seized with a fit and had to be taken to the hos- pital. It is said that after Crambilet had struck his opponent several times, the latter fel! dawn and Cramblict continued to strike him with terrible force. The more successful contest- ant received a scratch of some na- ture over the nose besides the wound he received In the chest. Dr. Allan McLellan, who is attending the injured man, stated this morn- |ing that the seriousness of his con- dition could hardly be ascertained as ‘yet but that he hed good chances {for recovery. Crambliet wore a ring the symbol- ism of the Elk’s lodge upon it which 's consicered responrible for a gash across the cheek of the dead man. The gash would scarcely have been inflicted with the naked fist. J. F. Jones, H T. Walker and EB. A. Arnett brought the wounded man into town after the serious fracas. This morning BE. A. Arnett and com- pany proceeded on its way to Clay- ton prepared to answer a call to be present at the inquest, the time of which has not been set. Regarding the connections of the dead man nothing is known. He was about 85 years of age. Crambliet has a wife in Casper who is residing at the Wyatt hotel. He is also about 35 years of age. Sunday School Record Perfect For 19 Years OMAHA, Nebr., Sept, 6.—Nine hundred and eighty-eight times con- secutively in Sunday school attend- ance during 19 years is the record claimed by Joe Bird, recently ap- pointed secertary of the Boys Di- vision of the local Y. M. C. A. Bird comes from Enid, Oklahoma where he graduated from Phillips University this year. Use of Mufflers equired by Law By SPARK PLUG. What man or woman doesn't toss uneasily and awaken to utter or at least think a curse or two when a heavy truck rolls by the house at midnight with popping exhaust wide open, and no sem- blance of a muffler? The statute books of Wyoming contain a defi- nite law against operating a motor vehicle within the limits of an incorporated city without a muf- filer closed. The law is there, but sad to say it Is not enforced, and in many cases is not even known. There is a remedy for every evil, and the cure for the roar of an open exhaust is a simple one. dust a little stricter enforcement, s few martyred examples, and mufflers would undoubtedly begin te appear upon the trucks that mow run rampant through Cas- per’s residence sections at all hours of the day and night, leav- ing restfulness farthest from the thoughts of the people of that particular neighborhood. Late President Considered for _the Nobel Prize, COPENHAGEN, Sept., 6.—The late President Harding is included in a list of 30 persons who are being pro- posed as recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, says the Christians Af. tenposten. Others in the newspaper's list in- clude Miss Jane Addams and Secre- tary Hughes. Passenger cars are no exception. A heavy, powerful touring car can cause the same complaint to arise among the residents of a neighborhood. Cars nowadays are built without cut-outs, so that temptation will not be thrown in the path of the exuberant motor- ist. However, many cars have cut-outs installed in them, and their use at the wrong time in the wrong place should be prohibited. Scores of letters have poured into Spark Plug’s office request- ing that something be done to eliminate the open muffler evil in Casper. This can be done positive- ly only through the authorities. The law is there. Let's use it. NO CHANGE IN MINE STRIKE; HOPE IS HELD “Princess” Fights $2,450,000 Action LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 6.—Princess Ola Humph- jrey Hassan Broadwood, formerly an actress, the widow of Prince Hassan of Cairo, Egypt, and now the wife of Cap- tain Broadwood of the British army, was expected to ap- pear in the superior court here today to defend a suit for $2,450,000 brought against her by Herman L. Roth, for. merly her attorney. Roth charges the princess engaged HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 6—(By!|him to bring suit against the prince | The Associated Press)}—Anthracite| for a divorce and entered into @ con- mine operators and officials of the|tract with the attorney to share) miners’ union, who today resumed/|jointly and equally with him the conferences with Governor Pinchot ;Property award expected as allmony | for diseussion of possible terms of| Settlement. While the action was settlement of the differences which|Dending, the World war broke out. caused suspension of operations in| The prince joined the Turkish forces the hard coal fields September 1,|9nd was killed. The British govern: adjourned at 12:50 until 2:30 this}ment turned over his entire estate, afternoon. Leaders of both sides|said to have been valued at $4,900.- reported little change in the situa-|000, to his widow. Then, according tion. to Roth, she married Captain Broad- After the meeting adjourned Giy-| Wood and failed to comply with her ernor Pinchot made this statement:| alleged agreement with the attorney. “We continued discussion over the} The princess has entered a denial Individual points proposed for settle-| of Roth's allegations, saying no dl ment with each side, in the effort] vorce was obtained, asked tho to bring the demand closer to agree-|court for the surrender of the al- ment.” FIRE AND ZEAL OF YOUTH NEEDED IN CHURCH ‘BIG JIM’ KRAMER OUTLINES ITS OBLIGATIONS “The average church in this coun- try is dead and doesn't know it.” In these words the Rev. James W. Kramer of California struck the key- note in his second revival address in the First Baptist church at Fifth and Beech streets last night. Stating that ‘the church must have go-power or it will go out vf business,’ the noted revivalist made a plea for pro- gressiveness that could not fail to find an attentive audience. “The church is changing in spite of what you want and it is going to change in spite of what you believe. I am speaking of the gospel. We do not need a new gospel any more than | we need a new sun to shine or a new ITALIANS SEI $125,125 DAMAGE SUIT OF POSVAR OCCUPIES ATTENTION OF COURT ‘The first of numerous damage sults instituted by George W. K. Posvar on the present docket of the eighth district court, in which the defendant asks for $125,125 naming as defendants Patrick Royce, former sheriff of Natrona county; H. L. Seidel, former undersheriff; Hazel C. Conwell, present clerk of the court and F, M, Brown, was brought to the attention of the court Wednes- day afternoon. The are asked in con- nection with the performance of a writ of execution upon the plaintiff during the terms of office of Royce and Seidel. It is alleged that in serving the writ that automobile ac cessories belonging to the plaintif! and his friends and customers and a safe containing valuable papers and $125 in currency were seized. ‘The former were sold at public auc- tion and the latter ,so it is asserted, were disposed of by the county offh cers to their own interests. The incidents took place in 1918, Judge Rose yesterday listened to arguments on @ demurrer filed by the plaintiff against the answer of the defendants. At the conclusion of the hearing he overruled the de- murrer and gave the plaintiff until September 20 to file a reply to the defendant's answer, The defendants were represented by A. E. Stirrett of the firm of Nichols and Stirrett. TEN DEAD IN TRAIN CRASH BERLIN, Sept., 6.—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—Ten persons were kill- mother to comfort us." The speaker illustrated the great change found in the church by pointing to the plano, the Sunday school, the B. Y. P. U. convention as signs of it. “If the church of God is to hit the bull's eye,” he remarked, “it must be a young people's church... God bless the old people who have | held up the banners so long, but we need the fire and zeal of youth.” He scathingly denounced the church that {s @ prison to youth and the old time ministers that made themselves orges to children, saying at the same time he did not blame some boys and girls for not wanting to go to church. ZE MORE TERRITORY Three Islands Northwest of Corfu Occu- pied by Invaders, Says Dispatch; BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburgh— Chicago —. Pittsburgh Called on account of rain. Batteries — Alexander, Dumovich and O'Farrell; Hamilton and Gooch. At New York— R.H.LE. Philadelphia --000 000 100—1 7 0 New York 020 100 lix—5 10 1 Batteries—Mitchell and Henline; Bentley and Gowdy. AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Philadelphia— R. HELE. Boston 000 002 000-2 7 0 Philadelphia 100 020 03x—6 10 2 Batteries —Quinn, Pictnich and Devormer; Rommel and Perkins, a MAS. LS. JOHNSON DIES ed and 15 injured in a collision to- day between a Berlin-Amsterdam ex- press train and a Dresden-Amater- dam express near Hanover. Two coaches of the latter train were de- molished. U.S. INTERVENTION TO AID REPARATIONS ROW URGED Fred W. U pham, Treasurer of Republi- can National Committee, to Place Recommendation Before Coolidge CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—(By The Associated Press).— American intervention with a firm hand to break the deadlock between France and Germany on reparations was advocated by Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the Re- polis National Committe e today. He expressed the elief that congress should give President Coolidge author- ity to appoint 2 commission of Am- proposition, he said, and should be erican business men to determine] settled by business men. quickly what reparations Germany ghou'tl pay. Mr, Upham before going to Eu- | It’s largely a business rope, where he spent three months, was asked by the late President Harding to give him his impression of the European situation. The president died before he returned. Mr, Upham ts going to Washing- ton next week and expects to see President Coolidge, who, it is ex- pected, will receive Mr. Upham’s im- pressions first hand. Without asking permission of France, the United States, in Mr. Upham's opinion, should make an inquiry into Germany's ability to pay and France then should be in- formed the figure arrived at should be followed by a demand upon France to pay at once the debt she owes the United States, according to Mr. Upham’s plan, “The European nations seem pow- erless to bring order out of chaos. Without any regard to leagues of nations, world courts or any otiwr sribural that may be advocated by weu meaning Americans, the time has come for a business-settlement of the whole problem. “That a commission of American business men would be fair to both Germany and France goes without saying, and in my judgment we shovld not ask France’s permission to take this step.” Mr. Upham announced that un- less President Coolidge vetoed the present plans of the national com- mittee, the republican national con- vention sf 1924, will be held in Chi. J cowe. AT HOSPITAL; BODY 10 BE TAKEN TO ILLINOIS Mrs. Mary Johnson, 25 years of age, died at a local hospital at 10:30 o'clock last night. She 1s survived by her husband, L. 8. Johnson, who is service manager for the R. N. Van Sant Motor company. Other relatives survive the deceased in Oak Park, Ill., where she leaves a brother and sister. Her father re- sides in Hollywood, Cal. ‘The remains were taken care of by the Muck funeral home and were shipped this afternoon to Hindale, Ill, where burial will be made. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson formerly lived in Peoria, Ill, coming to Cas- per a short time ago. ESSEN—Work was resumed in all mines in Essen without the in- tervention of the government and in most of the others in the Ruhr men are returning to work, having accepted the employers’ terms of rine million marks per week with weekly readjustments for fluctua- tions in the marks’s value, leged contract. "In hell there is surely no music, no laughter, no children,” he con- tinued. “If there is harm in danc- ing, and I believe there js, if there is harm in card playing, and I be- Meve there is; the church that takes these things away without subsitut- ing something better is committing ‘as great a sin. I would rather that the walls of the church were scratch- edad than that characters should be scratched. The church of God is not a bachelor’s spotless apartment or an old maid's paradise. “The church of God must be an organized church,” he said offering as proof of this that “hell” was or- PONY EXPRESS RIDER SPEEDS OVER NEVADA WENDOVER, Utah, Sept. 6—A Nevada horseman early today was hurrying over the barren, sparsely settled region of his native state with the pony express mail which was brought here late last night by the last of the Utah riders, after a hard five hour ride over the Great Salt Lake desert. Will McCallister, riding from a sta- tion in the desert where he relieved one of the seven riders who took part in the ride over that area, tossed the mail bag to the Nevadan theat 11.30 p. m. A few moments later the dash to the Golden Gate was on in the fifth state since the mail left St. Joseph, Missouri. AUTO DRIVER FINED FOR LACK OF GOOD BRAKES L. P. Banse was fined $10 in po- lice court by Judge Murray Wednes: 4ay. on the charge of allowing his car to be driven with insufficient brakes. The charge arose out of a collision between a coupe owned by W. J. Lindsay of the Golden Rule e Casper Daily Crihinie [584 NUMBER 282 [LAND NATION FAGES BIG TASK IN CARING FOR [To SURVIVORS Yokohama Worst Hit of Nippon Cities; Tokio Death Toll Reduced to 30,000 in Estimates. (By The Associated Press). The Japanese nation, stricken by what is probably the greatest disaster of the modern era, turns bravely to the tremendous tasks ahead, marshalling her shattered resources to succor the hundreds of thousands who suffer from injury and from hunger, and laying her plans for the rebuilding of her ruined cities. While the rest of the world hurries its ships of war and com- merce, deep laden with relief sup- plies, to Japanese waters, Premier Yamamoto broadcast a message to his people urging them to unite in the trying hours through which they are passing, and appealing to them to make a supreme effort to relieve the suffering and expedite the work of reconstruction. Tho cables say that already orders for building materials have been re- ceived in England, while leading construction engineers and archi- tects in New York have proffered their assistance in making a new Japan, The terrible sweep of the earth- quake is being disclosed in direct cable and wireless dispatches now coming from Iwaki, the radfo sta- tion connected with Tokio, and from Nagasaki and other points con- tinguous to the devastated region. department store and the Mills taxi driven by A. R. Thompson and owned by Mr. Banse. The police concluded that the accident had Continued on Page Seven. Greece Marks LONDON, Sept. 6.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.)—A Central News dis- patch from Rome says that reports | are current there that Italian forces have occupied the islands of Mer- lera, Fano and Mathraki, northwest of Corfu. CORFU PEOPLE MUST GIVE UP ARMS. CORFU, Sept. 6—(By The Asso clated Press.)}—The Italian occupa tion authorities have ordered the confiscation of the arms of all na- tlonalities resident here, including members of the Italian colony. The city is quiet and orderly. GREEK FORCES ON ASSASSINS’ TRAIL, MILAN, Sept. 6.—(By The Asso ciated Press.)—The Popolo Italia, organ of Premier Mussolini, has re- ceived a dispatch from Trieste say- ing: occurred because of poor brakes on the taxi. Yokohama has been literally en- gulfed, the area of destruction cover- ing not only the city itself, but « zone more than a hundred miles square, including Tokio and four other large cities. This ts one of the most densely populated sections of Japan, with some seven million people within the stricken area. A direct message from the Iwaki station, with which Tokio has estab- lished courier connections, says the Japanese home office announces 30,000 dead at Tokio, 100,000 injured and 350,000 homeless, Osaka cables that the great com- mercial port of Yokohama is totally destroyed and that only one fourth of the capital elty of Tokio remains. It estimates that seventy per cent of the cities and towns within a radius of a hundred miles of Yoko- hama and Tokio are destroyed. Order has been restored in Tokio, where thousands of homeless people @re encamped in parks and other open spaces. The government is feeding them scanty rations. Yokohama is a city os cesolatio: far more severely smitten than is Time In Crisis confirm the news that government is on the track of the assassins of the Italian mission. Many suspects have been arrested at Janina and also along the Greco- Albanian frontier, and among them are two of the assassins. The au. thorities are hunting the others and| hope shortly to arrest them.” the Greek the capital, Tokio. The city's LEAGUE SESSION streets and canals are filled with IS POSTPONED. |dead; one dispatch says that only ee. j |three or four houses have been GENEVA, Sept. 6.—(By The Asso-|spared. The harbor is practically of clated Press.)\—The efforts of the|no value to the relief ships, for the League of Nations council to reach|foor has been raised, the break- some @greement on the Greco-|waters torn asunder, and the many Italian situation constituted the rea-|jighthouses, with only two exoep- son for the sudden decision to hold| tions, demolished, no session of the assembly today. | five hundred foreigners are sald Lord Robert Cecll and other mem-|to have been killed in Yokohama. bers of the council desire to go be-|Included in this number, according fore the assembly with something|to the various reports, are the fol- definite, for they realize that if the|lowing Americans: world nations met together as a| Captain MacDonald, of the Grand forum before any tangible results| hotel; Mrs. Roland Son; Max Kir- are obtained there would doubtless|jassoff, the American consul; Chief “Telegrams from various sources be a forensic explosion on the floor.! (Continued on Page Nine.) CONVICT DISGUISED AS WOMAN CAUGHT Otto Cole, Life-Termer at Nebraska State Prison, Joins Visitors In Bold Attempt to Escape LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 6.—Faultlessly dressed in femin-| ine garb, Otto Cole, lifer at tiary, attempted to escape yesterday afternoon by casually | walking out with a large cro had been permitted to inspect that institution. was the convict’s masquerade that by vho guards before being detected Deputy Warden Kavanaugh, was stationed near the outer As the visitors were leaving prison confines, Warden Kava- jer the warden was startled by seeing the tell-tale growth of beard under a liberal veneer of face powder and rouge. Immediately several guards quietly guided “her” out of the crowd. Cole was sentenced to life tm prisonment from Omaha April 21, 1922, for the alleged murder of an the Nebraska state peniten-|Omaha pawnbroker following a quarrel over a watch, Cole was Py hel) known to Omaha police a Immune wd of state fair visitors Who |fadie Engligh of Chicago” because So clever | of his ability to evade arrest. he passed several} The feminine clothing of his dis- naugh’'s attention was ttracted to) guise had been designed and made a “woman"’ member e himself from various remnants he thought strange and ned from prison stock, his the|could not r as having rown silk hose being the sleeves Edging close obtain of arded silk Jersey.