Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Fair tonight and cloudy In ex- Warmer to- Cooler in north portion Wed- Wednesday exaept treme south portion. night. nesday. VOLUME VIi if COMMUNITY CHEST PROGRAM FOR CASPER GIVEN FINAL APPROVAL Incorporation Plan as Outlined Today Before Chamber of Commerce Forum Will Unite AUTO DRIVER BARRED FROM CITY STREETS The most sensational sentence yet to be passed upon a car driver in Casper was that meted out to John Belous by Judge John A. Murray . ° jlast light when he fined the man All Campaigns for Funds in One bsip6, an: Sus a oouectdeahe tor straining him from driving a car for six months. “If you want to prac tice driving, go out on the highway. Deom't practice on the streets of Cas- |per,” declared the magistrate. Belous was the man who knocke¢ down and rather badly injured Wal- ter Storey of the Casper Buick com- pany September 7 when he lost con- trol of his machine while driving it into the Buick garage on North Wol- cott street. Chief of Police Nisbet testified that the car had been driven in such a manner that there must either be something wren with the machine or with the driver. Belous was not the only man to receive the pudgement of an irate court yesterday for reckleas driving. William Mahoney was fined $50 for having run into the car of Oscar Heistand, fire chief on Elm street the night previously. The fire chief was answering an alarm at the time. R. D. Stewart who had smashed Into an. electric ight ‘pole on First and Durbin was fined $50 for being drunk and ériving a truck while in The report of the Casper Chamber of Commerce com- tmittee on a community chest fund, and the articles of in- corporation for an organization to be known as the Casper Community Fund were adopted today by the members of the chamber of commerce at the initial luncheon after the summer vacation. With the adoption it remains now for the chamber to begin the organi-|in one big drive. This is not to be tion. The|construed to mean that no other ere ee Ain 7 fair drives will take place by individual articles will be filed ani organizations. If a building is to twill be in readiness for the consoli-} ne erected, or if an emergency arises dation of the drive to obtain the] special drive will be needed. The Annual budgets of different chari-| current running expenses however table organizations including the | will be taken care of by the fund. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Salvation! whe community chest {dea has ‘Army, Young Women’s Christian | worked out in many cities through- Association, American Red Cross, | out the United States and it has been Associated Charities, Wyoming) round in most instances that more Children’s Home, Armenian Relief,| money is collected by, this method U. 8. Pacific Health, Red Cross/inan py individual drives. The Beals and such other bodies as may | -os2on ts to be found in the fact that be included later. the city is more widely canvassed A paid secretary will be employed} and the burden of giving does not by the Casper Community Fund who] fall on a particula: group each time. ‘will be a year-round employe and Many persons will give a great deal will have as his exclusive business! more because they can be assured | that condition. the matter of seeing that the budgets that they will not be the target of} G. Goss, also charged with driving are y distributed. While -he| another during the year for the | while intoxicated was fined $50. will not have the privilege of direct: | expenses i an organization. a as a ing the internal policy of any of the cera ings Ss organizations that are members of WOMAN KILLS the Community fund, he will have a GROUSE OPEN general supervision of the business of the Fund and will have access fo the books of the different or ganizations. ‘The general purpose of the Casper Community Fund shall be to promote bre, Floya Dera of Bie orn, Wye, ¢ooperation and service adequate to} Cryin, Wyo., Sept. 18/—(Spe-| eee ee oon pig Horn, Wyo- the needs of the community among ‘EYENE, + - 18.—{Spe-| ming goes the honor of bagging the cial to The Tribune)—The Wyoming | first deer of the season in this local- State Game commission today an-|ity. Mrs. Bard, with a party of 15 nounced withdrawal of its order pro-| friends went on a hunting trip to hibiting the killing of Grouse during | the Willow Glenn country near here 1923 and substitution of an order| Sunday, The only deer sighted, a creating an open season on Grouse, from October 15 to November 15. ocial service agencies and to assist fn the organization of new social ser five-point buck, was brought down by Mrs, Bard in a single shot, NEWSPAPERS IN N. Y. SUSPEND ® board of directors. The Casper Community Fund will Rake care of the annual expenses of the social service agencies included in its makeup. That is, it will de- termine the budgets to be obtained by each and will obtain all the money EL PASO, TEX., Sept. 18.—Two i . ’ ° ° : : men. giving the names of J.B. Dur! Pressmen’s Strike Ties Up Publication bin and W. R. Gallinger, who said Of Leading Daily Journals of Gotham; Suburbs Score ‘\\. they wero traveling. ws The brides, said to be daughters of ; . nt Casper families, were not put in jail,|, NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Leading New York City dail= but today were at the police station |ies—morning and evening—were compelled today to cease waiting for their husbands’ release. | publication because of a strike of 2,500 members of Web Pollce are waiting for a telegram) Pressmen’s Union No. 25 last midnight. from's Gallingerie! father " conésening Only limited pre-midnight editions of the morning hi t bile. th meantime they eeponene ae cord with «| papers were run off befors the pressmen walked out. Up message from the chief of detectives|to noon none of the leading evening; vantage of the situation, ‘went to in Casper which says: papers had attempted to go to press} press early with extras which were Batu ¢ except the New York Evening Post,| rushed to the metropolis along with ownership af an automobile. ‘ The Somos feaed the names of|Printing pressmens’ and assistants’| sociation that they would make no George G. Smith, 30, and Margaret | Union of North America.” effort to meet heads of the striking La Rue, 25. Smith, it ts sald, told}. While the usual news stands were| local but would attempt to regotiate the police that the young woman|empty and deserte¢d a few s«maller| with officers of the International was paying for the car, having pur-| Papers not hit by the strike enjoyed| Printing Pressmen's and Assistants’ chased it in Casper. unprecedented sales — emergency | union of North America. The two other couples, said to be| newsboys reaping a harvest at five) Before going into. conference with newlyweds, detained here yesterday, | cents a copy instead of the custom-/the publishers, George L, Berry of have no acquaintance with this cou-| ary three cent price for afternoon|the International Union issued a ple, although all are said to hail| editions, statement characterizing the strike Dailies in the suburbs, taking ad-|of the local as “illegal, without the they were from Casper, Wyoming, to- ether with their brides of only a i Y til ft thee hag them ail’ until furs) ‘yhich recruited enough men to run| scores of newsboys. ° an edition off at 11 a. m., then held| eclaring the walkout was taken from Casper. —————$—$K$$K———————————nnnnens | Kanction of the board of directors of - B fj N D iTS ST 1 N D the international, and In violation of few days, were detained here yester- Police detained today another if up further editions to await the out«/ without due notice and was unjusti- an agreement between the Interna- MANKATO, Minn., ownership of an automobile in which other investigaXon concerning the so nvestiaxsion ers and officials ot the international | nounced through the Publishers’ As- day while police investigated the couple from Casper and began an- Legh tecrrboemys or come of negotiations between publish-| fiable, the newspaper owners an. tional, the local and the publishers to arbitrate difficulties that might arise.” Berry's statement took the form of an appeal to all. newspaper Web pressmen to return to duty and) an announcemént that the international “purposes to meet this illegal atrike CLEVELAND, Minn., Sept, 18—A Sept., 18— . é f by executing and publishing the news banai litte | Holding many citizens of Cleveland, cand p i * it gang peeroraet. this ho [Bear here at bay early today, five | Papers of New York City in order Village, early today, wrecked the |), naits worked for two hours, ex-|that the integrity and honor of the Vault of the First State Bank by | pioding charge after charge of dy- | international may be maintained and mix terrific explosions and fied in |namite against the vault door of | the principle of collective bargaining ® stolen automobile with cash and|the First State Bank befdre they | upheld.’ et oy bonds estimated in value between | gained access to the currency and! Lester Jones, executive secretary them escaped with about $9,000, $14,000 and $18,000, (Continued on Page Two.) Levislators To Defy Gov. Threat of Oklahoma Executive to Send Solons to Jail Will Be Put to Test; Martial Law Extended , OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 18.—(By The Asso- ciated Press).—A clash between members of the state leg- islature and Governor J. C. Walton over martial law was imminent today. ._,, Despite the governor’s warning that he will send to jail any legislators that attempt to convene themselves in move- ents have reported, your community extraordinary session, ,the ment for an out and out test of the executive's authority grew and took definite form. OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok1a.,Sept. 18. —(By The Asociated Press-.—Exten- sion of absolute martial law to Mus- kogee county, one of the most im-| portant centers in the eastern half] of Oklahoma, loomed today as Gov- ernor Walton's next military maneu- ver against the Ku Klux Klan, which already has encompassed the entire state. “It is regrettable,” sald the gov- ernor in a telegram to the Musko- gee Phoenix, “if as my secret ag- D Che Casper Daily Critame CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1923 ‘alton 1s dominated and controlled by an organization that would usurp all the powers of the civil authorities and courts in Meu of which citizens both guilty and innocent are sum- marily seized upon, maimed, beaten and, we believe in some cases, mur- dered by hooded, masked mobs. I am afraid that in order to clean up your situation, we will have to take your county under complete mar- tial law.” In the same message, Governor Walton spread consternation to many hearts by declarfng it would be necessary to put off for a time (Continued on Page Two.) MURDER CASE OF IZORA ALLEN TOREACH JURY THIS EVENING Rapid progress in the first degree murder trial of Tzora Allen, colored, charged with the death of A‘berta Yoakum,..rgn: Stirs ecariae Bar last July, inficated that Judge R. R. Rose would send the case to the jury some time this afternoon. This is the first case of a long list of criminal actions scheduled for the present term of the elghth district court. The state rested {ts case at 10:30 this morning after calling a half dozen witnesses and the defense pro- ceeded immediately with its side of the case. Self defense was the plea of the defense in the opening statement by attorney Henry EB. Perkins who 1s being « ed by John H. Hendrick Mr. Perkins stated that the evidence he would introduce would prove that the defendant shot and killed the Al- berta woman after the latter had en- tered her heme, started a quarrel and threatened her lite, privilege of premptory challenge was exercised but five titnes once by the prosecu- tion in the case of G. H. Smith, colored, and four times by the de- fense against J. A. Wiggins, F. H. Seaman, V. E. Hansen and A. Le. Johnson. Earlier in the afternoon Smith, who declared he knew both Izora and her deceased enemy, Al- berta, haci admitted during the qual- {tying questioning that he had been held in jaf] here last March on the charge of hitting a woman. The jury as agreed upon is as fol- lows: Glen Glover, Howard Miller, liot Helfrse, A. B, Countryman, Clarence Link, Harry Stark, W. A. Lester, W. R. C. Miller, W. H. Sut- (Continued on Page Two.) 68 ARRESTED FOR SWINDLE OF ONE MAN| DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 18.—Sixty- eight men have been apprehended through the personal efforts of Frank Norfleet, deputy sheriff and ranchman of Hale Center, Texas, since he was fleeced out of $45,000 in Fort Worth on Dec, 2, 1919, Mr, Norfleet in conference with local officers today reported. Mr. Norfleet has made a personal chase ail the country, going track down the self styled brok- ers who he sald swindled him out FINAL EDITION NUMBER 292. 200 PEOPLE LEFT HOMELESS IN BERKELEY FIRE; STRUCTION TO INTO MILLIONS BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. --At Cincinnati— Philadelphia game 45 BLOCKS OF Postponed account of ¥ grounds. At St. Louis— R. H.E New York — x x St. Louis 00—x x x Batteries — Nehf and Gowdy; Haines and Clemons. At Pittsburgh — i. Boston __ 100 000 010— 2 Pittsburgh _-_320 250 00x—12 17 Batteries—Barnes, Oeschger, Fill- ingim and Smith; Morison and Schmidt. ae EE AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Philadelphia—ist game. R. H. FE. Detroit _-_..--118 200 010-8 13 1 Philadelphia .-000 001 001—2 10 3 Batteries—Holloway and Bassler, Woodall; Rommel, Kelly and Per- kins, Bruggy. At Philadelphia—2nd game R. IN BIG BLAZE Conflagration Starting From Brush Fire In Hills Eats Way to Heart of California College City; Deaths Lack- ing In Tragedy Late Monday i. E. Detroit —_..---100 100 0ix—x x x| BERKELEY, CALIF. Sept. 18— | the northeast residential section Philadelphia --100 010 70x—x x x]! More than a thousand houses were | of Berkeley yesterday, accordin, Batteries—Oole and Bassler; Rom- “4 to the reports of a survey com. pleted at noon today by City As sessor Harry J. Squires. Sept. 18.—A search for bodies among the charred ruins of the Cragmont section of Berke- ley, laid waste by yesterday’s disastrous fire, is being con- ducted today, so far without result. Acting chief of Police Clarence I a destroyed with a property loss of mel, Harris, Hasty ‘snd Perkins. | $3 999,000 ina fire which devasted At Washington— f St..Louls ,.-..020 010 002—5 10 Washington ..000 000 001—1 9 3 Batteries—Danforth and Severeid; Zachary, Russell and Ruel. 1 BERKELEY, Calif., At New York— R. H. E. Cleveland 000 120 212-8 10 1 4 ice Lee has issued notice New York --.000 020 010—3 9 2/that all looters will be shot, and it was announced that no Bateries — Shaute and Myatt;|0ne will be allowed in the burned) Berkeley’s most beautiful homes area unaccompanied by a police of- from the University campus up the hilltops, north and east, have been devastated by the fire which te said to be the worst experienced by any Callfornia city since the San Fran- cisco disaster of 1906, The problem of housing the home- less families and occupants of fra- ternity, sororiety and apartment houses is now occupying the atten- tion of civic authorities, the Red Cross and other organizations, Shawkey, Pihgrass and Schang. ae cer. Berkeley and the rest of the East Bay District were obscured by a heavy pall of smoke which converted the sun into a glowing red ball at dawn today. More than 2,500 home less persons are facing the task of R. H. E.| reconstruction. Tho latest estimates St. Louis OXX XXX XxX¥“Hey fi plnss the mone loss at between Washington —1xx xxx xxx—z 2 z/ $3,000,000 and $5,000,000. More than Batteries—Kolp and Severeid; Zah-| 600 houses have been destroyed and niser and Ruel. j upwards of 40 persons were injured. _—_— |Phere are unconfirmed reports of HIGH RIVER, ALBERTA— | thers killed. Lord Renfrew, known in England | The Berkeley fire department, still as the Prince of Wales, helped | augmented by portions of the Oak farm hands at his ranch fill silos |land department and hundreds of with chopped sunflowers, taking | volunteers, worked throughout the the lead in chopping the silage. night to keep the flames back into —————___ the burned area. They continued At Boston— Chicago Boston « 000 001 001—2 Batteries—Blankenship, Howe and Crouse; Quinn, Blethen and Picinich. At Washington— BERKELPY, Calif, Sept. 18— By The Associated Press)—On the wings of a hot dry wind that swept furtously from the landward «= brush fire in the Contra Costa coun- ty hills above San Francisco bay leaped down the velley into Berke- ley yesterday afternoon, and for a CHICAGO — Former Governor | their work long today as did the na-|time gnawed its way unchecked Frank O. Lowden of Illinois in an |tional guardsmen, members of the|toward the heart of the college address warned against continu- | reserve officers training corps of the | town It burned 35 residential ance of the rapid movement toward | University and Berkeley and Oak centralization of the government |land policemen and citizens sworn at Washington, saying that if this |in for emergency duty to guard the foes on the value of the federal | ruins, blocks, in one of the prettiest sec- tions, causing damage estimated at 10,000,000 and leaving about 2,400 homeless before early last evening, Principle will be dissipated forever. | Forty-five squqare blocks of |!t W@8 brought under control. BOND ORDINANCES ARE There were no reports of deaths r serious injuries today. Many persons were slightly in- jured Berkeley, the home of the Unt- versity of California, situated across the bay from San Francisco, today faced the greatest task of recon- struction in its history. The fire sweeping through the prosperous und thickly settled Cragmont, Bu- clid avenue and La Loma Park dis- of north Berkeley laid waste ut least six hundred buildings, in- Final Steps Toward Financing Water and Sewer Exten- sions Taken at Monday Night Meeting; New Ward cluding the homes of many wealthy and prominent citizens. Today only a forest of stark, flame charred chimneys, great masses’ of . : B smouldering debris and piles of fur- : iiture and personal belongt: it Created; Ban Lowered On ‘All Gambling iered’ in. the helterakeltes consi jon mained of what yesterday i mor was a peaceful surburban Approval of an ordinance for the issuante of $200,000 worth of ¥ bonds and} ai t to every state except Maino, to [one for $75,000 worth of sewer bonds, instructing tha elty attorney + w an ordin- conflagration began in a small jance for a new municipal ward, approval of the assessment roll in seven NEAT Pete TE Pilea pel betes [22 2 sie MEH I \tricts, prohibiting all gambling devices in the city, and granting the State Public Utili- eos Lone the high Hage: whois fies of his property. DENVER, Colo,, Sept. 18.—Frank| Norfleet, who reported at Dallas, Texas, that 68 men had been arrested | through his efforts after he was swindled out of $45,000, figured pro-| minently in the arrest and conviction | of a score of members of Denver's | alleged “million dollar bunko ring.” —_— |ties commission the use of the council chamber for a hearing on incre ‘ 1 i n se in local tele-}on the northern edge of the city. phone rates, were among the important things which the city council did at its regular | At noon an ominous cloud of smoke session last night. time it is probable that the parking) city on Ash from Wess Yellowstone|!’nketed the city, and blackened The meeting was an exception-|ordinances of the city of Casper |to B-C, on David from West Yellow. |mbers of burning Eucalyptus trees ally busy one, and although quick action was taken on most of the things that came up, {t was con- cluded that another session should be held Wednesday night. At this YOUR ADVERTISING BARGAIN To further compare the display advertising rates of the Casper Daily T the surrounding country, ¢ Tribune space in consideration ar cheaper than the me New bune with those of newspapers published in id thus prove to advertisers that of circulation and conditions, jority, let us cite the Norfolk Daily , published in Norfolk, Neb. The local display rate of the Norfolk paper is 70 cents per inch flat. No discounts of any kind are allowed. The min- imum displ obtainable by discounts, is 51 cents per inch. dvertising rate of the Casper Daily Tribune, using sufficient space and taking advantage of The circulation of the Norfolk Daily News as counted recently by the Audit Bures bureau audits the Tribune 1 of Circulation is 8,954. This same circulation, Since the auditing of the circulation, however the Tribune's total has advanced to well over 10,000. Despite the fact that Norfolk, Neb., lies in the heart of a farming country, where roasting ears sell for tens a do: n and a five-room modern house rents for $35 2 month, the dis- play advertising rates of the Norfolk Daily News are approzi- mately 29 per cent higher than those of the Casper 1 Tribune, ty | should be drawn Will receive weighty consideration. | stone to First, on Industrial avenue| ‘ll 7 the heart of Berkeley's bus- Most of the councilmen neem to be |from David to Ash, on A from tho] ness district At 3 olcok the lin favor of parallel parking instead | Burlington tracks Ash, a paving| "mes roare over. Shai Grmeeicot of parking at an angle as at pres:| dintrict was created for these por.|‘h® Tidze, driven by the high wind sae tionateeintoneea: anid swept into the residential dis- The water bonds, for the issuing| A proprietor of a local confection Spreading tn three directions the of which the taxpayers of tho city| ery requested the council to give him| fire leaped from home to homer recently voted, will be dated Nov. 1 back his mint vend ng machine spark. arried by the wind enkind- and will be due in 30 years, redeem-| Which had been taken away from|iing trees, roofa and bushes, With. able in 15 years. They will bear 5|him several weeks ago when the] jn a few hours the flames had Per cent interest payable semt-an-| council ordered the police to stop|spread out ten blocks to the south- nually, The sewer bonds will be|all card games, dice games, and slot|enst, and were stubbornly defying dated the same as the water bonds | machines. The order which the coun-|the efforts of hundreds of treatin but will be due in 20 years and re-|cil had given at that time had been| householders, police and fire depart- deemable in 10 years, Both ordin-|reseinded within less than a ments from Berkeley and adjacent ances were pansed by the council. | (Continued on Page I (Continued on Page Two.) City Attornéy Robert N. Ogden was | ———__________ — - instructed to draw up an ordinance for the creation of a new municipal ward in North Casper. It was the at torney’s opinion that no ordinance up until it was| seen whether realdents of the Nelson] addition who are not now within the} corporate limits of the city have !n tention of coming {n at an early date. | The council decided however that the} matter should receive im at tention. ‘The assessment roll in paving dis tricts 19, 20, 25, 26, 30, 31, and 32 was approved and the date f strances was set at October 8 WASHINGTON, Sept, 18 in the courts, the board may throw ew scores of war ing hundreds of mil- In brief, the ts- id to be whether the gov- limit the amount of profit © taken by a corporation ‘ in return for emergency If sustained jto point raised t tle settlem On the information that in creat ing recent paving districts the alder-|t men had overlooked that part of the!