Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1923, Page 1

ape Weather Forecast day. portion tonight. WYOMING—Fair tonight and Fri- Somewhat unsettled in north: west portion. Warmer in northeast | per Daily Trihiune FINAL EDITION VOLUME Vit CASPER, W70., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1923. JURY DISCHARGED IN MURDER TRIAL NO AGREEMENT POSSIBLE, NEW TRIAL ORDERED “Blackie” Campbell on Trial Again for Moore Killing. When C. E. Hoffhine, foreman of the jury in the first degree murder trial of John K. “Blackie” Camp- bell, reported at 10 o'clock this morning that the jury had failed to agree and showed no possibilities of coming to a verdict, Judge R. R. Rose discharged the jury. The case was set immediately for retrial and 10 minutes later the} work of impaneling a new jury was begun. Campbell is charged with having shot and killed John Moore in a Dootlegging establishment at 240 ‘West First street July 24, last. The case waa sent to the jury last night at 9:50 o'clock. The jury agreed during its deliberations not to make Public the result of the various polls which were taken on the verdict. ‘The evidence produced in the late hours of the. trial yesterday after- moon and evening @id not produce gnything material in the way of Rew disclosures. The selection of *the jury this morning was much more studied by both the prosecution and the de- fense. At 11.15, when the state had) exercised six peremptory challenges) and the defense had used up 10, the) Panel was exhausted and it was mecesary for Judge Rose to order county clerk Hazel Conwell to draw a new venire. All of the jurors ‘who had served on the original jury ‘were excused from serving again and two jurors, A. B. Countryman and W. A. Lester, were adjudged unqualified by Judge Rose because | they had formed definite opinions | ‘on the guilt or innocence of the defendant from what they had read in the newspapers. “The jurors excused by the state this morning were Walter P. Galles of North Casper, proprietor of a dance hall; Fred Laney, of 426 South Kimball street, C. N. & W, brake- man; Hlliott Helfrse, of 907 West| Midwest avenue, refinery worker;| G. H. Smith, of 709 East C street, Janitor of the Blackmore apart- ments; J. C. Zuttermeister of 923 South Center street, proprietor of the Casper Steam. bakery and John Cullen a Natrona county sheepman. The defense excused Glen Glover ©f 1300 South Ash street, a refinery worker and Howard Miller of 1317 South Durbin street, a lumber yard foreman and passed up its other challenges. The jury which wil sit on the re- trial of the case is composed of V. B. Poinoncahy, -Deety etrest. mechanical | engineer; W. R. ¢. Milter ot ‘v4 (Continued on Page Nine.) ‘CRUDE PRICES GIVEN SETBACK ————$— PITTSBURGH, Ps., Sept. 20.—A cut in the price of Pennsylvania crude oi] and other grades, ranging from 15¢ to 25c was announced when the market opened here today. The new prices of Pennsylvania grade oil in New York Transit com- pany lines is $2.75, FINDLAY, Ohio, Sept. 20—A 20 cent reduction in quotations on central west crude oil was an- nounced here today by the Ohio Oil company. The new quotations ar Lima, $1.68; Indiana, $1.48; Tlinois and Princeton, 94.47; Waterloo, 95 cents; Plymouth, 85 cents; and Wooster, $1.50. Casper today awaited announce- ment of reductions in Wyoming crude prices expected from head- quarters of the Midwest Refining and the Ohio Of! companies. Re cent drastic cuts in the price of Midcontinent crude, and fresh re- ductions today in Pennsylvania and Central West grades indicate that similar action {s forthcoming here. ‘REDS’ FLAYED BY ‘BIG JIM’ j | “Big Jim” Kramer, the “fow!l- mouthed” evangelist who sadly de- plores the fact that for him there have been but few deaths among chickens in Casper, rose in volcanic wrath last night and turned loose the molten mass of his oratory against the things that undermine America, against making this coun- try the dumping ground of Europe’ putrid refuse. The big revival tent at Eighth and Center streets The 1,200 seats were filled and scores had to plant their feet in the sawdust and lean against can- vas for support. And so Kramer Gd not have to eat hiv nat, ae he had "publicly guaranteed to do had there been less than a full house. to hear his talk on ‘Americanism’ last night. Under the expert di- rection of the Kistler Tent & Awn- ing company immense stretches of Old Glory were draped around the sides of the tabernacle and from pole to pole. The whole atmosphere lent itself to the stirring topic of the evening. The red flag of Communism wi ripped to shreds, the whiskers of Bolshevism were yanked from their moorings, the feverish speed of the present age had its gears stripped, and the violators of the Volstead act were blasted from their smug positions when “Big Jim” had fin- ished with hig portrayal of what “T saw at Third and Market streets in San Francisco." He said: “The proudest declaration any man in this world can make is ‘I am an American.’ But if we are to continue to make this truthful hoast, this expression of the su- preme sovereignty of the people in this country, we shall have to look about us and take stock of the po- sition we are now standing tin. The fight {s on! We have been blow- ing the tin horn of squeaky truth too long and now we must take up the great megaphone that has been | filled with cob-webs and send out our message, “I want you to know that Iam a booster and I boost for California because that is my home state. But there is one part of California that! I cannot brag about. Francisco, “Do yo. Rrow «what ¥- sare Third and Market streets in that That ts San POLICE BLAMED FOR DE CHILD, ATH OF REPORT <: Mob Threatens Detroit Station When Story of Third Degree Tactics ‘Against 13-Year-Old Spreads DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 20.—While three physicians | appointed by Coroner James Burgess today examined the | body of Gladyslava Lorenc, 13-year-old Polish girl who, f her father alleges, died Saturday as a result of mistreat- ment by P ceny, poli prevent any demonstration. Two riot calls were sent to police headquarters Inst night and early today as a result of alleged demon- strations, John Loreno, father of the girl, says his daughter to!d him, Just before she died that police had “bused her and forced her to take {ee baths in an attempt to make her confess to the robbery of $100 from Joseph F. Anderson, who iived in the same building. » report of James! superintendent of | olice while under arrest on a charge of grand lar- ce are on guard in the vicinity of the girl’s home police, the sirl was arrested on September 11 and sent at once to the juvenile detention home. The sons, many of them Poles and other hospital and died Saturday as the result of acute pleurisy. The re- port says the girl was. delirious when she talked to her father. The father’s story of police abuse was received by hundreds of per- sons, man yof them Poles and other foreigners, coming to view the body. Last night a mob éstimated (Continued on Page Two.) was jammed. | city? I saw the surging, hetero- geneous mobs, the multitudes of every variety, character, and color of humanity. A crowd doesn’t amount to very much after all. Give me the magnificent, sublime, imperial man. “I do not believe in the god of statistics. It is a fallacy that strength Hes in number for true strength is always in the individual, in the outstanding character. “The blighting and damning sin (Continued on Page Two.) | additions, from Secono, Conwell Square to Fifteenth. gill after a petition had been per. The council also passed a resolu- tion of creating a sewer district embracing all of Kenwood and Cas- per View, and between Twelfth and Fifteenth streets on Botolph, Fen- way, South Conwell and South McKinley. The matter of zoning Casper again came up for discussion last |night, and it was pointed out that although a preliminary investigation and report had been obtained, council was not able to go ahead with the matter unless it had expert advice and that it was not financial- ly able to get such advice. It is probable that some steps will be taken toward getting a zoning sy tem outlined in the near future. + Continued on Page Two.) | BALL SCORES | "Naw yorK, Sept. 20—The New York Yankees today clinched the 1923 American league championship third successive pennant victory, by j defeating St. Louis, 4 to 3. The | Yankees, who have made a run away of this season's race. now can lose }land, in second place, wins all of its remaining 19 game: National Leagui . At Cincinnati—First 6. | Philadelphia _.000 110 001— 2 6 0 | Cincinnati |_ Batteries—Glazner and | Luque and Hargrave. Henline; At Chicago— [Brooklyn -....301 010 — Chicago -041 000 — Batteries Grimes and Taylor: | Wheeler and O'Farrell. At Cincinnati—Second Game | Phindelphia -_033 10 | Cincinnati 200 50 Batteries—Ring, Head and Wilson Benton, Harris and Wing. New York Pitisdurgh 6 Sota | Rain—Two tomorrow. | American League At Boston—First Game Detroit Boston At Philadelphia— cago 000 001 110— 310 2 Philadelphia _.002 100 02x— 5 10, 0) Batteries—Thurston and_ Crouse; Hasty, Rommel and Perkins. At New York St. Louis 000 000 111— 3 9 1) New York 021 001 0Ox— 4° 8 2) Batteries—Vangilder and Severeid; Jones and Schang. At Boston—Second game Detroit 000 000 02 — Boston 001 000 01 — Batteries—Holloway, Davis Bassler; Percy and Devormer. KILLS FAMILY AND SUICIDES ALEXANDRIA, Minn., Sept. 20. After beating his wife and one daughter to death with a small jhandaxe and / inflicting possibly | fatal injuries on another daughter, {J. Willis Knox hanged himself fn his home here. No motive has been found, ™ and » .{s an Oakland coupe, Grouse Seaso Open Only in Sheridan, Said | CHEYENNE, Wy the effective from October 15 to Novem- ber 15. Such an open season has been declared in. Sheridan 000 000 000— 0 6 4 only and elsewhere in the state it! will be illegal to kill grouse. | MORTEAGED AUTON | | POSSESSION OF PAIR ARRESTED IN TEXAS George -G. Smith and Margaret a Rue. a Casper couple who were arrested at El Paso, Tex., Moz: are being held for the local sheriff’ office on the charge of having left the state with mobile in their possesion. The car the property of the Patterson Motor company of deputy will leave tomorrow night for | 51 Paso to bring them back to face the charge. The Colorado ‘Springs Ga newspaper field in Colorado S under one management. In the edition and the evening paper On Sunday, a consolidated issu rado Springs Gazette and Tel For purposes of comps advertising rates with those of first glance at the circulations. of the Gazette is 5,804, establ Circulation. The i 7,762. The combined 7,551. The Casper Daily Tr with a circulation of over 10,06 The local display advertisi the Tribune, the rate rises to une’s minimum rate for local di rate is made fyailable to advert amount of space and by the se the | a mortgaged auto-| ths city. fmith and Miss La Rue have! waived extradition and a special) line of Casper vs, Colorado Springs ing Casper Daily Tribune display The action was taken NEW GRADING AND SEWER DISTRICTS IN SOUTHEAST CASPER ORDERED BY COUNCIL IN SPECIAL SESSION Three Additions Included in Improvement Program Given Preliminary Endorsement; Zoning System Discussed But Lack of Funds to Carry Out Ideas Reported; Other Matters Taken Up. At its special meeting last night the city council passed a resolution of intention to create a grading district to cover ail of Kenwood, Sheridan Heights and Casper View| street south on McKinley, Jackson, Washington, Melrose and on a motion by Councilman Pettin- presented from the property owners of this part of Cas-| The date of remonstrances has been set for October 165. ONE LIFE LOST; OTHERS SAFE IN RAMMING OF DESTROYER BOSTON, Sept. 20.—The heroism of members of the crew of the de- |stroyer McFarland,. prevented fur- ther loss of life when the destroyer |Was rammed by the battleship Ar- |Kansas off Cape Cod yesterday and |Spencer W. Brown, second class | Seaman, was entangled in wreckags |e nd drowned in the flood of ofl that noured into the hold as the ofl tanks were burst open. Brown enlisted from North Carolina. Two firemen, A. M. Smith and George Stack, disregerded their own safety to enter the hold, through of] and water and make fast a rope by which others caught in the trap were able to make their way out. The McFarland was out through on the port side a few feet in front of the bridge, and the bow was badly shattered. AUTOS FIRE DESTROYS SIX n | Another Is Damaged In Blaze Caused By Ignition of Gasoline From Tank Emptied In Collision Six cars were practically with a tankful of gasoline. Ni damage was done to the filling sta- the space provided came within | the radius of the fire. destroyed and a seventh was Sept. 20—|damaged considerably while a workman received burns, )all of their remaining 13 games and The state game commission Wednes-| about the face in a fire at the filling station belonging to |zens and set aside the processes of | still finish at the top, even if Cleve-| day issued a denial of a report that) Pat Royce on West Yellowstone avenue last night which | commission had declared an| resulted from an explosion when a Dodge touring car was open season on grouse in Wyoming,/ rammed into the rear end of a stationary truck loaded swim | | \Legislators Mobilize to | Make Test of Threat To Put Them Behind Bars. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 20.—(By The Associated Press).—Events in Oklahoma moved today toward a showdown _be- tween Governor J. C. Wal- ton and members of the state legis. lature over the executive's exercise jof authority and his war on the )Ku Klux Klan and mob floggers. | A call for an extraordinary ses. sion of the lower house, to consider a series of charges that Governor | Walton has taken unto himself the powéts of a despot and has suspend ed constitutional government with & dictatorship, was tssued early this morning. The call as made public by W. D. McBee, representative from Stephens county, bore the names of 45 house members, with the promise that during the day the lst would grow to 54, constituting a majority of the house. Noon of next Wednesday is the hour fixed for the assembling of the lawmakers. Representative McBee declared that he anticipated no attempt by the governor to carry out his threat to jail the legislators in the event that they convened. At almost the same moment the legislative call was promulgated, Governor Walton appealed to the people of the state in a proclama- tion to repudiate the attempt of the lawmakers to assemble, charging |that those sponsoring the movement are “klan members" of the legisla ture,” “inspired by the invisible empire and afded by the klan press.” It was asserted by Representative McBee that Governor Walton, in conjunction with Murray F. Gib- bons, speaker of the house, was con templating the fssuance of a call for almpecial) searion. McBee re- leased the call drawn by house Members, he explairied, “to beat the governor to it.” | If the special session of the house lis convened the members present | will s{t as grand Jurors to hear tho evidence against the governor. Should impeachment be voted, the case would go to the senate, which would be required to convene and act as a court. Editors of a number of repre- sentative newspapers of the state, meeting at Tulsa, issued a state. |ment last night addressed to the |people of the country, attacking the governor for what they termed his attempt to abrogate the con- stitutional rights of Oklahoma citi | \ | h| Republican government The editors also urged that the legislature he convened at onco. Challenging the governor's procla oMr. Phinney was badly burned/mation that a state of insurrection about the face in the sxplosioniand rebellion exists throughout The fire quickly spread to the A Paige| other cars, and the gasoline in the; tion nor to adjoining property, but| which followed, but got away be- Oklahoma, the editors declared that county! every machine that was parked in|fore he received further injuries. |his decree of martial law is a libel lagainst the state. coupe was removed from the dlaze| different tanks was ignited. Al-'- KLAN L ADER n time to prevent anything except|}though the fire department was! ISSUES STATEMENT a ruined surface. quickly on the job, the machines) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept 1d not be saved. |20.—A signed statement declaring age was as follows:| CU 2 rs statemen laring Deas eae car, damage from A great crowd gathered to the} that G ernor J Walton has collision and from explosion and|®°ene of the conflagration and.re-) made the Ku Klux Klan “the peg fire resulting, owned by Edwin|Peated warnings that {t was a very|on which a political bankrupt has Burritt; Ford. touring car, dangerous locality because of the| hung the tattered habiliments of Phinney; Gi M,C truck ‘Casper | likelihood of an explosion failed to) grotesque failure while making his Brouteien company; Ford coupe, P.| keep them away. |lst bid for public favor," was {s s i! Poa! ea Ee }mued to the Asso a. Pre: ere V. McLaughlin; Essex roadster, un- su aes % as ated Press here known; gasoline truck, Pat Royc oday by N.C. Jowett, «rand dragon | ‘The charred ruins of the above | Oe re eae: a GiARoniay cars still stand near the filting| {4 Wat GHAlnlinenls Gkeee ne station on the cement pavement the offer of ‘protection’ “if they provided. for the parking of paca iat amelie The damage” cow ranging somewhere around $8,000 or $10,000. Ray Phinney had just filled Mr. | Burritt’s car with gasoline, and was in the act of parking !t behind the truck belonging to tho filling station. The car jumped ahead, causing a disconnection in the gas he tank which was struck. Three hundred gallons of gasoline were loosed by the accident, and in some manner {t became ignited. zette and Telegraph lead the prings and have recently been consolidated and are now operating morning and evening morning, the Gazette issues an is cared for by the Telegraph. ue is published called the Colo- legraph. this double newspaper we may The daily morning circulation shed by the Andit Bureau of circulation of the Telegraph is circulation of both papers is yune exceeds all of these figures 0. ng rate for either daily paper is 50 cents per inch flat. There-are no discounts. On Sunday for the combined edition and for a circulation far below that of cents per inch flat. The Trib- splay is 51 cents per inch. This isers by contract to use a given yeral liberal discounts offered, “UNGER ARES CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 20—W. B. Houck, employed by the Colorado and Southern as a brakeman, was arrested here Tuesday night, charged with responsibility for the |death of an unknown man whose \body was found beside the railroad track between Wheatland and Uva. The unknown had been shot to death. VICTIM’S BODY ISRECOVERED SANTA BARBARA, Calif,, Sept 20.—Another body recovered from |the wrecks of the seven destroyers |at Point Honda was {dentified today Jas that of 1. Torres, a wardroom j attendant Ten are missing. It |believed that the possibility ing any more is alight Baden Strike Is Called Off BERLIN, Sept. 26—<(By the Asso- ciated Press.}—-The general strike which broke out early this week in ral distric f Baden off today, the order, we 2ad_en ARREST IN MUR of Mother Found LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20 NUMBER 294. A =EPARE TO MEET PRESS OTRIKERS ARE OUTLAWED IN GOTHAM ON ORDER OF UNION International Orders Charter Revoked as Illegal Walkout of Men Is Maintained. NEW _YORK, Sept. 20.— George L. Berry, president of the International Press- men’s and Assistants’ Union of America, announced to- day that 2,500 members of Web Pressmen'’s Local 25, whiok have been on strike nee midnight Monday are no longer affiliated with the International which has decreed the walkout illegal. Members of the striking local will recelve no cogniance from the inter- national organization, said Berry, but pending reinstatement of the ex- isting union or Institution of a new branch, strikers, who destre to carry on their obligations will be issued working cards by the international. Berry's statement was issued after a conference of international offi- cors with David Simmons, president, and other chiefs of the strikers’ lo cal called after the publishers de manded that the parent body, hay ing characterized the action of ths local as illegal revoke its charter and organize-a new branch here. The international president an- ncunced further that he would sub- mit to the publishers’ association a plan for ending the strike, whereby the international would contract to keep all press rooms supplied with crews necessary for normal ‘publica- tion. ——ek SKULL BROKEN IN HARD FALL Falling from a scaffolding to a concrete floor a distance of 14 feet, at 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, ; William Beck, employed in construc tion work at the new Natrona power plant, suffered a fractured skull and severe bruises on the left shoulder and leg. He was reported at the county hospital this afternoon to be still in an unconscious condl- tion. Beck's fall from the scaf- folding 19 not accounted for except for the fact that he probably slipped. YEGGS BLOW BANK SAFE BURG, IIL, Sept. 20.—Five blew open the safe of the Farmers Bank at Joy and escaped with $4,000. All of the telephone wires leading the town were robb 8 into IS NEAR DER OF CABARET SINGER Two-Year-Old Son Sleeps Beside Body In Los ‘Angeles | Room; Suicide Discounted 0.—Detectives hinted, but not strongly, at the prospects of an arrest today in the slaying of Ethel Williams, a cabaret singer, 25-years-old, who was found stabbed to death on the floor of her room in a lodg- ing house late yesterday. | Both eyes had been blackened, her nose broken and in jthe mouth were a number of stab! she had been preparing o wounds, which, physicians said ke ak WN ae hagas oe , Foxy |might have been inflicted by a pair | her ye a ane ica rehpticg ever of scissors. Iaueritie tattec aia (alee oie 4 Her bot was nude, and asleep be but the latter did not know the side it was her two-year-old son | Indications were that death came Jeight or ten hours before the body Was discovered by the landlady, Mra. B. R.. Crowder, who told the officers the dead si m er not the world. had n aunt's name. | The polico weapon | poss The said the absence of any m ruled out the y of suicide. woman was arrested a tew for n minor offense. The 1 was in connection a ~s with ck, i