Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1923, Page 1

A r VOLUME 33. Solons ‘PUBLIC VOTE ON IMPEAGHIME NT ‘DEFEATED, SAO in re ‘Retaliation Looms Plan to Prevent Big Election. OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok! 29.—({United Press, maze of legal entanglements still = sur- round the possibility of holding a special election here October 2, it ‘was evident as counsel for both + factions went to bed early Sun- day morning. After a day of Htigation In which the status of the case was changed several times, petitions for two writs which kept progress of the election at a standstill throughout Saturday agreed to withdraw their petitions, OKLAHOMA OlITy, ‘ Okla.. Sept. 29.—Governor J. C. Walton tonight had ap- parently successfully met another threat of impeach- ment as a result of his mili- taristic campaign against the Ku Klux Kian. The election ordered for Tuesday at which voters of the state were expected to ballot on an initiated Jaw providing. that..the legislature might convene without call from the governor bad become entangled in such~a mass of legal contro- versies that it was extremely doubt- ful if the ballots could be prepared and the voting arranged for on \ Beheduled time even if it should be | declared regular. Following action of the state su- ; Prome court in refusing a writ of | mandamus which would have com- pelled the election board to include | this measure on the ballot, it was Jpnnounced by Ben LaFayette, chair- “man of the board of affairs, that no ballots for Tuesday's election would ! be printed. Eleven Walton opponents who , had steadfastly maintained that the election would be held despite the supreme court decision, agreed that there would be no election if the Doard of affairs failed to order the ballots printed. Following LaFayette’s declaration W. C. McAllister, chairman of ‘the election board conferred with Attor- ney General Short as to the legality of printing the election ballots with- | out the authority of the board of pffairs. If the attorney general holds such siaction as this would be illegal, re- F sponsibility for an election Tuesday ‘will be left to the board of affairs, McAllister said. An opinion from Short will }made public tonight, nounced. Meanwhile District Judge O. L. Price, 2 Walton appointee, issued a temporary order which forbade McAllister to have any bal- lots issued without authority of the state board of affairs, Simultaneously, District Judge George W. Clark issued a peremp- tery writ ordering McAllister into court tonight to show reason why he should not have the ballots put put. Action of the supreme court in refusing to order the legislative bill on the special ballots was a surprise to both enemies and supporter of Governor Walton. It threw the en- tire question of the election into Jegul confusion. Walton supporters, prior to the (Continued on Page Four.) » Sept. be it was an- Che Casper MAIN NEWS SECTION. ORKERS CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1923. TT Meroe army Again Blocked by Walton Postoftice to Be Open Two } Hours, 1 to 3 General delivery windows at the Casper postoffice will be open from 1 until 3 o'clock this after- noon for the accommodation ot the public. Mails arriving Satur- day after interruption in service | for 36 hours will be distributed and awaiting claimants. Opening of the postoffice for two hours today was authorized) by Postmaster Edwin Bean when it became apparent that it would relieve both patrons and cong tion of the office to distribute | mail. ae INJURED MAN IS SUMMONED Following injuries received on the Salt Creek highway last week when the car he was driving turned over an embankment, James H. Sunderland, died at a local hospital. His death did not come as a sur- prise since no hope was held for him by the doctors who attended him. The body of the deceased is being held at the Muck funeral home pending further arrangements. KNOWN DEAD: D. E, Schultz, baggageman and l expressman, Casper, Nicholas Schmetz, Douglas, Wyo. drowned. 4. Klove, brakeman, Casper. W. J. Nource, Gunnison, Colo, Albert Hill, colored, Dodge City, Kan, AMONG THE MISSING Charles A. Guenther, Douglas, Wyo. M. D. Montgomery, Denver H, Watkins, negro porter, Casper J. W. Goff, conductor, Casper, K. J. Spangler, engineer, Casper, W. E. Hendricks, mattman, Olle Mallon, fireman, Guy Griswold, Casper Mrs, Minnie Owens, Casper, W. Martin, Casper, BR. I. Glorhart, Denver, W. 8S. Wilson, International Or ganizer for Painters Union, Denver, KNOWN SURVIVORS. L. Krews, brakeman, Cheyenne, John Downs, Littleton, Colo, J. M. Shipley, Customs Bullding, Denver, W. M. Buckley, Lincoln, Neb, Ernest P. Kipp, 1415 Wauree, street, Denver. Mrs, Don Sullivan, Casper Genevieve May, Salida, Colo, Henry Wyatt, Casper Mrs. Lewis, Denver, J. J. Giblin, Denver Dan J. McQuaid, Denver. C. Davis, 2727 West Mth St., Den. ver. RHENISH REDS ‘DROP REVOLT DUSSELDORF, Sept. Not be carried out, it was indi French authorities, appar pared to aid in quelling any a fact that caused Herr Smeets and his republican followers to tone down their propaganda. Smeets and his principal Meuten- ants could not be found today and all well Informed officials scoffed at the possibility of a break from the Reich and declaration of a Rhine republic tomorrow. BAVARIAN REVOLT IS SMOTHERED MUNICH, Sept. 29—(United Press) —Danger of a Bavarian revolt against the German Reich appeared to have passed here tonight. The ti menace, in the opinion of most observers was more ap- parent than real while even the fol lowers of Lieutenant Hittler, the Fa- cista leader, were beginning to look upon him as a man of words rather than action, }x-Premler Von Kahr, state direc- tor, seemed firmly in control of af- fairs and guiding Bavaria carefully between what the population con- sidered as the joint dangers of a monarchist break or over submis- sion to the Reich. The Rossbach organizations of monarchist plotters still were active however and holding numerous sec- ret meetings in which they cursed Chancellor Stresemann in Berlin and 29.—The movement to declare a Rhenish republic tomorrow will Plans for Proclamation of Republic To- morrow Abandoned; Bavarian Sit- uation Is Under Control widely advertised cated tonight. ently fearing foreign circles would charge them with furthering the plan, were pre- outbreak by the separatists, the state house and flocked to Judge Clark's court room. Oklahoma City’s rigia martial law zone was being rapidly demill- tarized tonight. Military headquarters at the Huckins hotel resembled a war of. fice breaking camp, Scores of guardsmen were discharged and sev- eral officers released from duty. Additional troops, however, were moved into Payne and Murray coun- ties where investigation of alleged lawlessness by the K. K. K. was ordered by Walton. All guards were removed from tho state house end only those militia men required for post duty and night patrol were retained. Unless, he is legally entitled to issue ballots without the authority of the board of affairs there will be no election, McAllister told the United Press. In this event, the five other meas ures incliiding the $55,000,000 soldier bonus bill would not come to a vote on Tuesda! “It will be necessary to print the ballots tonight or at the latest to- morrow,” McAllister said. “All cther printed, matter for the elec: tions has gone out to the various counties. The ballots will have to ntinued on Page Four) RIG BUILDER dy Morrison Victim of Auto Crash A S IN While Returning From Scene of | Burlington Train Wreck Andy Morrison, 44 years of age, rig builder, was al- most instantly killed at 8 o’clock last night when the car in which he was riding from the scene of the train wreck to Casper turned over on the Yellowstone Highway a short distance west of Evansville. Morrison were T, N. Shaffer, Dave Hess, and William | In the car with Mr. CAR White, employes. The deceased is survived by a widow in Long Beach, Cal., and a brother in, Layoye, Wyo. The ad- dress of the Morrisons in Casper 1s |135 West Tenth street. The accident last night. occurred yhen the car skidded on the slip- pery rond and went off a bank, turn- ing over as it went. Beyond minor bruises, the other passengers in the car escaped without injuries. Mr. Morrison was driving and received the full impact of the steering wheel gainst his t as well prob: ly sufferin skull, pea Mrs, A. Mulock, Thermopolts, Wyo, M. Morwitz, address not known. George Evenson, Caspe Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beck, Due bols, Wyo. Mr. and Mra. W. F. MeGulre, California, D. J. Danker, Brookline, Mass. Mrs. ©, Tweed, Lander, Tod Powell, 281 Washington street, San Francisco. Mrs, Raleigh Brown and two chil- dren, formeriy of Casper en route to Ogden, Uti J, W. Melatz, 348 Elatti street, Denver, Mrs, Nicholas Schmetz, Douglas, Wyo, Gene Carson, address unknown. H, M, Gallagher, 519 Chamber of Coninerce Building, Denver, W. R. Douglas, Prior 1 pany, Denver, Miss Eva Boyer, com- Glenrock or Plant, yo. Gus G. Phillips, Barber, Okla. John Christ's, Parkerton, Wyo. W.. A, Robinson, Salida, Colo, J, F, Blodgett, state superintend- ent of Baptist missions, Casper. Mr, and Mrs. H. P. Bubb, Casper. H, D, Bellrose, Denver, Mrs, L. A. Nord, Riverton, Wyo. gations Rabo hnti cht SON STRIVES TO GET BODY OF HIS ‘DAD’ ~e@o no man who has assisted in the grueling, grewsome, and feverish task of recovering the bodies of those Jost in Cole Creek Thursday night When Burlington train No, 30 prac- tically obliterated itself-in the seeth- ing Surge of water toward the Platte river, is more credit due than to M. M. Gray, who lives in Casper at 644 South Durbin street. Since 5 o'clock Friday morning young Gray has been tirelessly alert in the most rous places. He hi not stopped to sleep, scarcely to eat for there is one buried under the sands that is dear to him—his father T. D. Gray. It is in the smoking car that les crushed and shattered beneath both express and chair cars that this son fs expecting to see once more in this wor'd the kindly face of his be loved dad. Knowing that the smoking car will be the last and most difficult passenger coach to dig out, young Gray stays on the scene, plunging into the chilling and filthy water after those in other more accessib'e cars. Though no one knows it seems that he fights on with a prayer—a prayer, perhaps that he will finally find his dad in the same peaceful posture that Willard J. Nourse was found yesterday morning. Nourse was reclining restfully in his seat with his head back and his hands |folded in his lap over a pipe. To the other men around him he is an inspiration, an example of ‘splendid and philosophic courage. }A ring the b stormy hour of Friday, morning he and several others were n oned on the east bank of the creek after having to »posite sid | braved the swift current in order carry cables from the and save the living from the chai car, } Can Gray be persuaded to: leave | Cole creek crossing after all th miserable and torturing hours? He will not let up and though } goes on and on with the freshest men he bears in his countenanc | Sign of maddening grief—for sur there is in his soul the love fc that does not die with dying. we le Magnus Goes to N.Y. For Attack On Wall Street NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—(United Press.)—Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, a reul dirt farmer, came to New York tonight and told the center of the financial world just what he thought of the federal re serve board and the United States dad department of agriculture, He didn't mince words in telling it, either. Johnson, in effect, charged that the financial powers in Wall street controlled the federal reserve board's operations, ruined farm credit in defiance of economic law and that tho government is now pleading the [CASUALTY LIST JAEVWAL NEARS END, SUCCESS WRITTEN HERE “Big Jim Day” Will Be Celebrated Monday Under Big Top. The great revival will end at the big tent tomorrow, The rain has interfered for the last few days but the tn- terest has gone on, Perhaps never before in the history of th6 city has such Interest been mantfested in a rel'glous gathering. Many declare that not Suna And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW fand hi | wreckage any event has attracted such crowds aa have come to night. the ble tent night after Four weeks aro “Big Jim" Kramer was an entire stranger !n this olty but his name ts a househo'd word, Several of the miniatera aay the re vival will leave no bad taste In the mouths of the peop'e For the first time in years Kramer haa been able to get people of al! creeds and no creeds, business and professtonal men back of him, He has had del. (Continued on Page Four) MA y Criliumne IN NEWS SECTION. NUMBER 10. FOR BODIES |Gigantic Task Faces Workers Striving | Against Odds to Reach Bodies Buried | In Sand; Great Crew Carries on by Light of Big Torches BY ARNOLD B. LARSON Under sullen skies that would not part for the sun which several es tried to clouds, struggling through | over the slipping quicksands, several hundred men at the C. lington yesterday. Desperately all crews hammeret wed and grasped the horrible depths of the What moment will a cold and lifeless hand protrude fram the muddy swirl of waters? No one can tell, It ia a fearful task and requires of every man great fortitude and untiring energy, It was seen yestertay afternoon that something must be one to hasten the recovery af the lost, From Casper an acetylene torch man was hurried with his outtit and he don ned his goge'es and sent searing, cut ting flame {nto the steel of two of the death traps, HOLES MADE IN SMOKING CAR The lower end of the smoking car which protrudes from beneath the tilted day coach was opened up un- der the terrific blows of an ax, A hole waa epened inte ft through the roof, But there was enly mud and weeds so solidly packed in that one might safely stand on it, The re- covery of bodies In this car was abandoned until the thne when the chatr oar above tt Is removed, During the morning all trunks, bags and boxes were hauled by a long rope from the exposed end of the express ear, A heaned up co! lection of these pleces of luggage down int force a rift through the rain swirling waters, staggering going to find death out, were ‘ole creek crossing of the Bur- stood on the west aide of the ally every trunk A great rift of nm away from th « of the express car tn an at mpt to locate other bodies but this work was stopped after tt was real ized that tt would be necessary to creek and beg was tebris bene the lift up the wreck ef the express car in order derneath, OBSTACLES MET to determine who was un More than fifty men were alt day filling and placing sandbags in a dam across the west site of the creek, The matn current was ct verted around the east side of the wreckage, thus having intervening ground uncovered by water and mak- Ing tt easter to proceed with the dts: interment of both coaches ant vic- tims, he stream had lost much of tts force and volume by late tast night, Soon after 1 o'clock tn the after- noon acetylene torches were rushed to the scene and the amoking com partment end of the scarcely visible Pullman No, 19 tn which four Jost thelr lives, was uncovered and its window partition eaten away by the intense flame of the tarch, Men stood by with axes and picks and (Continued on Pago Foun) RIVER BRIDGE SAVED BY REFINERY FORCES settled pler of the Casper bricge would be made today and ir the bridge so that it would bear traffic by tonight or at least within 2 day or two. The bridge went out on the y night and at 4o’clock Saturday orning St Highway Engineer Rowman asked help from the Stand urd of Indiana. The big oll firm re sponded with all its . er V took charge of the nd Mr, Andrus together with other The over Casper Creek resources H Standard forces hand ‘Tolhuret also was on officials work bothered a travel and sightseers and a was vd for the scouts to dle this phase. The whistle call ing the uts sounded at 9 o'clock and over 200 1. Of this number the largest boya were select- ed f Deputy Com sioner Scoutmaster ne, the lads were made into pa s that acted in conjunction with the plant police and all traf fic ‘oss the bridge over the river and also the Yellowstone highway. Traffic north was sent out over the tank farm via the Standarc’s private bridge and a patrol of scouts turned all inbound traffic from the north into the tank farm at the top was respon¢ r duty and unt Taylor and m: t stoppe of the hill, The brid ncross the Platte was pronounced safe for traf fic about noon and the guards wer® then called off and taken to town where they were given a lunch and hot coffee and rent home The promptness of the scouts In turning out on the call was prise to many who witnessed it and is n good example of how the city can depend upon these older boys in of emergency. Scoutmaster 2 sur cases PHLADELPHANS ARE DRY PHILADELPHIA, (United Press)— Little good Nquor can now be found in Philadelphia according to William J. McClure, supervising prohibition agent for Eastern Pennsylvania, In of raids lasting thirty da ons of Mquor were si low it ignoed as a reason for not fixing crop prices. Less than 1,000 peoplo were in Carnegie Hall when Johnson started ng. dry agents here. Twenty gallons that were seized was inferior Hquor 5 us. s ’ great | took charge of the lor handled the work at tho refin rhaps it would be possible to re-jery and bridges. | It was also shown that fn case of need, the scouts’ officials to the \number of 25 grown men could be \turned out in any case requiring ex- st approach Fri-|perienced men to handle critical sit. uations. | The State Highway department reported last night that the road be tween Casper and Douglas was al right and that the Salt Creek road pen as far as Lavoye. F ts received from Lander are to the ef. fect that the high le all |the w from Tander tiver. | The Creek fiel shaking some of the 1 gathered of ‘ay 18 passe to Powder last night water off Salt was it which h past several hours rain fail. Very little information could be obtained from the field because of \the of telephonic communication, though there wa one private telephone line sti!l open Repairs day in pi during absence general were being made yester. lines, and every effort Crossing from Casper West and North Is Made Secure by} Prompt Response of Standard to Appeal for Aid; High- ways Open; Salt Creek Is Recovering With the lowering of the water in both Casper creek and in the Platte river yester- day afternoon and last night, and with the repairing of the Platte bridge by employes of the Standard under William H. Tolhurst so that it was safe for traffic, Casper rest- dents were able to breathe a sigh of relief after several hours of anxiety during which it was feared that if the Platte bridge did not go the river would at least rise to such a height that it would greatly endanger property in the lower portions of the city. The reassuring word came from )Tracy Shaw the State Highway department last /scout headquarters and Scoutmastor night that an investigation of the Stone, Assistant Scoutmaster Woest- Creek |fall an@ Deputy Commissioner Tay- was being made to prevent further damage than that already done. Work tn the way of production ts Practically at a standstill with leases shutdown temporarily, and gas plants stopped while the 1 pumping plant was made a oe wreck by mplete | the storm. ARVADA SPAN WASHED OUT A late report received last night lwas to the effect that the Burling ton span at Arvada between Sheri |dan and Gillette had been wiped out by a heavy flood down Powder river. |The destruction of this bridge para lyzes the Burlington syst in the northern part of the state. Train servi will have to be maintained over lines running through Mon tana and down to Sheridan until this structure can be repaired BY TORRENT CHAIR CAR WILL GIVE UP NEXT DEAD IN WRECK AT GOLE GREEK Recovery of More Vic- tims of Disaster Is Expected Early Today At Scene of Wreck, Out of midnight dlaclness the headlight of the wreck ing train engine stared last night into the holocaust at Cole creek, its eyclopie eye casting an intense and pene. trating gleam inte the lower end ef the chatr car, Sithousttes and shadows gm@ dim, outlines quivered in the pattering rain, A pump manned by several | worked constantly at efecthag the water from the lower end af the chatr Sc ear ush, sqush, sqush bogte went back and forth over the banke af sand that le above these below, ‘The dead are there bot the skevels stush through the muck aaq@ pry for corpses. All work in resoutng bodies from the buried Pullman was abandoned when the water pump auddent {went out. Windowa of this coach are dimly seen tn the dark night and banks of sand tine each ante of ho can, > Taste of the ohate car there are ax men digging aid tate ftbe depths of the sand, Tt ts eed able thay all lost passengers tn thin coueh Will be recovered by Wounning, , There had been vo bodies recovered wly this morning, the toll @f known ¢eac remaining unchanged jetnce early Saturday, Asatstance In the Work fem # wreoking crew rushed from Ablance Nebr, must awatt completion af a [bridge ever Sand Creek, east af the Jwreck, where another washant em curred, It will require 34 hawe ta | build thts sp: |recovery wi from both banks, of the 1g Crew A. J, Bileskie te 19 men fq this wreck Yturkea murky Into the hellish raga o@ flood waters madly smashing down Cole Creek gulch ta the turbw: them hundreda of tons @f saying |banka, the viotima of the infers }bound Burlington train Na, aa af }tast ‘Thursday night were, with {he exception of the first three badies recovered, found Baturday ta he fn terred in care solidly packed with |shifting, saturated. sand and tangled | grnane e ¢ Creek torrent had subs sailed sufficlently Satuntay yerntne to permit resou workers ta get ta the wrecked cars, ‘The first hedy found was that ef Brakeman BR, J Klove of Boulder, Colo, crushed and In by the front vestibule doar chair car, He was utterly , and Hinp, and tt te bellowed Jovery major bone in his body was snapped 1 the blind bagmase was telescoped Sitting back in ® comfortable po- sition on a seat in the underpinned smoking car, hands folded peaceful over a pipe, and head resting on the | of the chair, was the body of Willard J yurse, of Gunnison, Colo. An overhend steel beam was , er his face. Death had prob- n tantaneous. Nqurae Is 1 by a brother, Judge BE. M. of Gunnison, and his son (Continued on Page Two.) STORM TOLL Flood Descends. on Second Time; D OMAHA, Neb., Sept. workers cleaning up the de its banks. 1 Broadwa main street of cloudburst in Council Bluffs were dish when another cloudburst again sent Indian cr Council Bluffs eath Toll In Ne- for braska Now Placed at 22 — (United bris caused —Relief by last night’ rtened tonight ek out of Pre again a roaring edn partly the town wa ' t IS INCREASED The city was placed under mil! control tonight. Three compan ¢ national nen were call out_ by M veral Matthew ng the flood The troops st of whom served world war members of the I \ om. mand of M I Lainron i w pr I ‘ nued rain t ‘ r urd lent Platte river and eanrying With *