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

treme south portion. change In temperature. Nat mu VOLUME VII ‘RED CROSS REAC Weather Forecast =| Che Casper Daily Critaue | ory WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday except unse&Xled ex- ch CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 12, 1923 aS NUMBER 287 GOAL: RELIEF RUSHED GERMANY TO YIELD ON REPARATIONS ACCEPTANCE. OF FRENCH TEAMS IS HELD LIKELY Change of Policy Will Mark End of Resis- tance in Ruhr BERLIN, Sept. 12.—(By The Associated Press).— Chancellor Stressemann’s address to the German edi- tors was awaited with inter- est today in view of the gov- ernment’s admission that informal “reconnottering” conversations reparations are in progress with “ail the powers” including France the announcement that he might throw further light on Germany's position with regard to the Ruhr. ‘The newspapers concede that a change in the situation is about to take place; the nationalist press being of the opinion that this will be nothing short of capitulation. ‘The government itself is apparent- ly determined to get the Ruhr valley fm working order once more, inas+ much as the industrialists will be needed in the negotiations that even- tually settle the reparations dead!ock. PARIS, SEPT. 12.—(By the As- sociated Press)—Having informed Berlin that negotiations cannot be opened in the reparations seatige while Germany's policy remains One of resistance, the French government fs waiting to see whether the rap. prochement rumors emanating from Berlin are only: trial balloons sent up to attract a full expression of French opinion, or whether Germany is ready to discuss a settlement thati will satisfy France. Acting on instructions from Pre- mier Poincare, M. DeMargerle the French ambassador to Germany, has {informed Chancellor Stresemann that France adheres to her determination to make abandonment of passive re- @istance the first condition to an opening of direct negotiations. The premier has let it be known that he ‘will consider in a conciliatory spirit any well-defined German proposal that is made after obstructionist tactics have ceased. ees CASPER PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEETING The Casper Physicians and Sur- geons’ club organized by 12 Casper @octors a week ago for “the scien- tific discussion of medicine and surgery” held its first meeting at the Henning grill room last night. ‘The organization plans to hold meet- ings bi-monthly. The roster of the organization in- cludes Drs, Neil Charles Geis, H vey, J. C. Kamp, M. C. Keith, n, Allan McLellan, N. E. Morad, J. Riach, George C. Bmith, W. W. Yates, W. R. Wynne, and A. P. Kimball, The officers are Dr. M. C, Keith, president; Dr. A. P. Kimball, vice president, and Dr. Allan McLellan, Secretary ond treasurer. BIGAMIST HAS _ SEVEN WIVES ‘STATE FAIR HAS BIG OPENING TUESDAY; SPECIAL TRAIN WILL RUN TO DOUGLAS ‘CASPER DAY’ fair opened yesterday with a of Wyoming grown product: gram of auto races and wild than last year and excellent hibits grace the various booths. The Casper chamber of commerce has an exhibit in Agricultural hal! showing a working model of a mod ern oil field with seven miniature wells being operated by a central station. Twenty Boy Scouts, under the direction of H. Roe Bart'e, Scout executive, came down from Casper Monday evening and pitched a model camp on the fair grounds. The boys are working in connection with the first aid station and assisting in reg- ulating traffic. Friday, “Casper day,” ts expected to attract a big crowd of visitors from the oil metropolis, a special train having been provided by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail- road. The train will leave Casper at 8.30 in the morning, arriving at 10:30. The visitors will leave at 8:30 in the evening on their return trip. races and wild west events are as follows: Matched Ford Race—Car! Le Bar first; Lawrence Smith, second. Dis- tance three miles; time 5:00. Purse $50 side pet. Chariot Race—Ed Lambert, first; Lem Carmen, second. Distance one- half mile. Time 1:01. Ford Bug Race—George Carroll, first; Floyd Rouse, second; Ed Lam- bert, third. Distance three miles. Time 3:59. “ a Quarter Mile Cow Pony “Race— Jay Miller, first; Harry Hart, see- ond; Louis Cook, Jr., third. 28. Three Mile Stock Car Race—Asa Reese, Cadillac, first; J. J. Morsch, Buick, second. Time 4.06. Roman Standing Race (one-half mile)—Ed Lambert, first; McEIhin- ney, second. Time 1:05. Pie Eating Contest—George Frog: gat, first; Joe Warner, second; Pete Hutchinson, third. Calf Roping (to qualify)—Carl | Hildebrand, 45 3-5 seconds; Pete Shaw, 31 2-5 seconds. Quarter Mie K'ds' Pony Race— Louis Cook Jr., first; Harold Gilles- pe, second; Ralp Cook, third. Time 33. seconds. ‘ord Free for All—Doo’en, Good, second. Time 3:20, Men’s Relay (one miles}—Miller, fir ‘McElhinney, third. Time 3:28. Stake Racey-Lem Carmen, first; Rhea Tillard, second, Joe Reynolds, third. Wild Horse Race (one-half mile)— BANK BANDIT NOW SUICIDE MARSHALL, Tex., Sept. 12 |Cornered by Sheriff Sanders in the |rear of a lunch room here early to day, $ young man, about 25 years old, believed by |have been the bandit who robbed the bank of Mooringsport, La., lapproximately $5,000, shot and killed himself today. first; Distance three miles. and one-half Shaw, second; o! LOS ANGELES, Calif. Sept. 12.—The authorities ' ‘The results of yesterday’s auto Time! local officers to | yesterday, ' hoped today to receive replies to telegrams they sent yes- terday inquiring into the alleged matrimonial adventures of Harry R. Roshon, who was arrested here last Friday under the name of A. E. Woods, and suspected for a time of being Dr. P. V. Allen, wanted in Seattle, Wash., in con- DOUGLAS, Wyo., Wyoming's nineteenth annual state n unusually attractive display s and an entertainment pro- west events. The cattle, hogs and agricultural exhibits are heavier poultry and horticultural ex- Forest Richardson, first; Carl Hilde- brand, second; H. N. Tennyson, , third. | Day money in the bucking con- tests was won by Clarence “Heavy” | O'Brien, | fh TRIBUNE TO GIVE FIGHT NEWS FRIDAY Once more fans—another cham- pionship fight and a real one when Jack Dempsey defends his | title Friday night against Luls Firpo, the “Wild Bu.l of the Pam- The Tribune's service on this | fight will be unexcelled. Direct from the ringside at New York the Tribune's leased wire will carry the news of every round to the Tribune wire room facing on Sec- ond street, thence through the megaphone it will be relayed on the dot to the Tribune family that should pack the street. The big fight starts at 7 p. m. r The wire will be open earlier to get the prelimt. naries. Make _arrangements.to | have your dinner early so you can be on hand to hear all the dope. b-) 8 | Wyoming's greatest industry I# the oll industry and it is this group of interests which is putting on ons of the biggest and most complete exhibits at the 1923 Stdte Fair at Douglas this week. It expected that impartial judges will promptly ward the petroleum products dis- play first place among all other ex- hibits when final decision is made. ‘Through R. 8. Ellison, vice presi- Jaent of the Midwest in Casper, a high class and detailed collection has been made, hibits from Tulsa, Chicago, ‘other tern cities included. All refined products from various grades of Wyoming crude oil are in this display. This comprises every grade and kind of lubricating oils, greases, and motor fuels. There are also varied lines of road building materials, waxes, tars, cokes, and innumerable derivatives including medicines. Candles—from the small Christmas tree type to the large polychrome ones—are a part of the exhibits, A small model field fitted out ‘with a standard derrick equipped | with a gas engine pumping outfit is another interesting feature. This well is pupmped from the beam but there are a dozen surrounding wells which aré being pumped by an eccentric band wheel unit. Special attraction is directed to this miniature field with its several wells pumping of! all of the time. is and as Casper ofl well supply houses have all contributed to the display and have presented various tools and equipment which they handle nection with the death there in 1916 f Anna Danielson of Minneapolis. Investigation had fa'led to con- nect him with the Seatt'e case and authorities were about to release 1 when they decided to give him one more thorough grilling.” Con- siderably to their aston'shment, they said, he then confessed that he had hi SEVERAL STA KILLING FROSTS REPORTED IW TES LAST NIGHT with additional ex- | After the Storm BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Philade!phia— R. H. E. Brooklyn -000 105 000—6 13 0 Philadelphia ..000 102 00I—4 13 0 Batteries — Grimes Ring and Wilson. and At Chicago— s Cincinnati --010 O11 00x—x x x Chicago ___...000 000 00x—x x x Batteries—Rixey and Hargrave; Alexander, Dumovich and O'Farrell. R. H. E RICAN LEAGUE, R. AM At Now York Ist game. Chicago 000 100 000—1 6 0 New York —....001 000 10x—2 6 0 Batteries—Bobertson and Crouse; Hoyt and Schang. At New York—2nd game. Chicago New York 100 000 Batteries—Cvengros and Pennock and Bengough, 8 At Washington— R. HE. Detroit ~--...000 40x xxx—x x x Washington 211 00x xxx—x x x Batteries—Dauss and Bassler; Mo- bridge and Gharrity. —__—> $471.75 NE CASPER TOTAL FOR JAP HELP A total of $471.45 had been donated for Japanese relief work to the Red Cross in Casper up to 3 o'clock this afternoon. The mechanical depart ment ofthe C. B. & Q. railroad sub. scribed $166.45 to the cause and fur. ther donations are yet to come from emplc 8 of this rall ad, it Is under stood. Ten Japanese working for the Burlington each put in $10 while an other gave Thése subscribing the former amount were: S. mto, Nohomato, 8. Kilano, M. Miyagis, tuma, 0. Kukumago, B. Okura, Géorge Nakumto, Harry Walla, § Fiyt¥. donated oshimato, while Shi | for the oil trade, One of these com panies has erected in the midst the exhibits a small } Mr. Wilson, of Stewart & Com- | »f| pany, has done the painting of the | but perfect | model, giving the formations their ftandard drilling rig. This rig hs|real colors. In the background he | atthe gerarmernalig recurred Ma added: real Wyoming tan Nothing has been omitted and an| Scape with a distant line of drilling | rigs in operation. Each sand bears experienced driller will have no ur its name and carried into the mar- favorable criticlam to make when |e watches the rig in operation, for|gin is the name of the field in there is temper scrow, stem, real| Wyoming in which the sand is com: |joints, bit, bull wheels, calf wheels, faly productive. From a geo- baller, etc., just as would be re dpoint this exhibit is of quired for: the real thing. value, and has been well} | Perhaps the most skillfully pre- A together. i pared exhibit is that arr by| Mr. Carpenter, of the Denver of-| M. J. Hopkins, Casper geologist. |fice of the Midwest Refining com-| |who has made up a cross-section of|pany, is due much credit for the| an ideal structure. Every forma-| pet eum industry display since it tion and ofl sand in this state has has been through his efforts that! been given its proper place in re- the greater part of the exhibits haye lation to all the others, (Confinued on Page Hight.) MARTIAL LAW NEARING END MILLIONAIRE BAKER’S SON GOES ON TRIAL FOR LIFE IN NEW YORK ‘Petroleum Exhibit Great Feature of the State Fair Walter Ward, Freed of One Charge In Peters Killing, Arraigned Today In White Plains Court WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Sept. 12.—Walter S. Ward, | wealthy baker’s son, went on trial in the supreme court |today, charged with the murder of Clarence Peters, former saildr whose body was found sixteen months ago on a} lonely road near here with a bullet through the heart. MILLIONS, AOE WALABLE FOR APANESE HELP IN GREAT DANE Horrors of Disaster Re- peated as Surviving Refugees Arrive at Ports in Orient. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. —With the five million dol- lar goal now exceeded in contributions to the Japan- ese relief fund, the Ameri- can Red Cross continued to- day its campaign for funds as late advices on the. extent of the com- plete coniretion on the part of the officials of the organization that the sum originally asked would be inde- quate for the relief needed. A margin of more than one hun. dred thousand dollars above the five millions asked was shown In the lat- est tabulation of the nation’s contri- butions announced at Red Crosa headquarters here. Three divisions of the organization—the Washing- Central and New England die- ricts—reported contributions ex- eding their assigned quota: ton, t A statement of expenditures and committments {ssued by the Red Cross last night included $1,000,000 set aside yesterday in response to he appeal of Ambassador Woods at Toklo, to be placed at the immedi- th St f bureau Japanese emerg- ency r Of the balance of the total subscription up to that time of $5,108,300, expenditures for food, clothing, medicines and bulld- ing materials.ameuwnted to $2,401,000, A further sum of $367,500 had been donated for purchase of rellet the supplies in Japan and the Philippine islands, ‘SS ARE FOUND OF SCORES. ‘ept. 12.—(By The Asso- Preas)—Deaths from the fires and tidal waves TOKIO, olated earthquakes, in and around Tokio were estimated today to number 150,000, Groups have of 100 and more bodies deen found in various spots. smtery is prevalent The government informed the American embassy that the relief personnél en route would be we!- come. American marines cting repalr s bassy The duty on building material im- ports has been removed. Reactional earthquakes have fall- en in number to twenty daily. have landed, a bakery and an automobile op at the Americah em- | “SHANGHAI, oad I Sept. 12.— The indictment on which he is being tried is the second | Associated Press.) "The chee, Eur Ward hae faced. A year ago a grand] sald that a man known to him as press of Australia, which remained jury charged Ward with the death, | ‘Charlie Ross,” another known only |in the zone of the Japanese disaster but when he maintained that he had | as Jack” and Peters had tried to|for nine before she took 200 shot in self defense after Peters had|b'ackmail him. He said he drove |forelgn refugees to Kobe, was part attempted to blackmail him, the in-| Peters to Kensico reservoir and that|of a scene in Yokohama harbor that dictment was dismissed. there, covered with Peters’ gun he|might have illustrated a canto from was ordered to get out of his ma-| Dante's inferno. WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., SEPT, 12, | °P/ne- | arriving in Shanghat —Walter S. Ward, son of George S Ward said he grabbed Peters’ |" ees 6©6of 6€Canada are d, a millionaire baker, became| hand turned it so he couldn't fire |@seribing the plight of the other the central figure in one of the most |ana sho s ow alve Then, |e” baffling murder mysteries of yes “i gai ne i ea cli el ony ee, hours after the first great when, on May 20, he walked into |"° *“ « who had |earthquake, the Yokohama water S@oriff Werner's office in Westches | flowed him began to fire, One of |front was a huge torch. Flaming tee catinte! oduithotan tare con. |them was wounded, Ward said, t rning sampans had made feased he had killed Clarence Peters, | both escaped in a big red racing car » Dantean sea of fire fA gion tatemedariies which Ross drove i | Ip, hovering perilously The body of Peters, poorly clad Bip cesith Sedan mine al eltin Se with a bullet wound through tne siees fated aes SAE 5 ee eee chest, was found lying about six feet of? the road near Kensico reservoir early on the morning of May 16, one week before Ward made his confes. sion. In the pockets of the clothes were a few pennies, part of a pack of playing cards and nothing else. A navy shirt gave the only clue, and by it, aided with finger prints. Peters was CRASH identified and the sheriff tried to find his slayer. The week passed with no results. TULSA, Okla., Sept. 12.—Hopes of local business men | for the lifting of martial law in Tulsa county were raised | today when it was learned that Governor J. C. Walton! was on his way here to make a survey of conditions. The body was sent to Haverhill, Mass., Peters’ home, for burial—the BATTLESHIP IN AT SEA case was practically dropped. And then Ward came in, admitted he killed Peters and was promptly freed on $10,000 b SAN PEDRO, Calif., Sept. 12.—The battleship Texas, bound from San Francisco to San Pedro, collided with the steamer Steel Seafarer, of the Isthmian line, 14 miles north of Point Arguello at 6:50 a. m. today, according to word troops is expected to hinge upon the | governor's personal observations and the result of conferences be- tween him and representatives of the chamber of comm He also been married seven times, declared) orrcAGO, Sept. 12—Heavy to] Drops in temperature have oc-| expected to obt Viewe 106 FT artis that “many a: wife in all seven women were still living but] ying frosts in Montana, North| curred over the trans-upper Missis.|4@utant General B Markham, | +16 home today is nothing but a ser. admitted therefore that six of the/pHaxota and northern Wyoming|sippi region as the cool high area |W has been conducting the mili:| int a convenience, a beggar to alleged ceremonies were illegal. were reported to thedistrict weather |in the far northwest became more |'#"Y inquiry into whippings: witht her huiban#sdnlee out -aitew His first marriage, as officers|pureau here today, while grain|extensive, with freezing tempera- dimes," the Rev. James W. Kramer quoted him, was to Emma L. Jones,|market reports told of a light frost|tures in the Canadian northwest] ‘The first service of clectric inter-|delivered a stirring indictment of in Warren, Ohio, 27 years ago, and} as far south as Dekalb, Ill. The of-|and the frontier sections to the| urban sleeping ca 18 started 20| marital relations inoenother of. his i ust x, all contracted in the] ficial temperature at Rockford, Tlli-| south, according to weather re-| year ‘© between Indianapoli#’ and | series of evangelical addresses at the (Continued on Page Bight) nols, was 40 degrees. ‘ports. (Columbus, Obio, ‘ Baptist church last night, Speaking BY ‘BIG JIM’ KRAMER IN HIS SERMON LAST NIGHT in a church crowded almost beyond capacity, “Big Jim” had an audience that he swayed easily, His subject was one which interested every adult member and had as its title “Who yas’ Cain's Wife?” “There are but three ons," said the Rey. Kramer, Hither Cain married hig sister or some other re It will be the exécutive’s first visit since he placed the| ‘The baker's son told story or reaching here. The collision occurred in the vicinity county under military rule more than a month ago in his blackmail—or part of a story. He Where seven destroyers went on the rocks last Saturday. campaign to put an end to mob ac-- ohtdeveti Oe he Seafarer t here last tivities and bring to justice mem- nig = a vessel of 3,471 net “ss. :| MARITAL RELATIONS IN MANY HOMES INDIGIED © ==" The quostion of withdrawal of K here declare the a large hole in the water line, but ts ate danger, mer the in no {mmed vt sh. bow above steaming ps Mary! México xas was New and (Continued on Page Bight)