Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1923, Page 1

\ Weather Forecast WYOMING: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Lit- tle change in temperature. A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State. CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, OC” é Che Casper Daily Crime | FINAL |! (EDITION, —— 316 OKLAHOMA CITY INUNDATED BY FLOOD WATERS Berlin Police Battle Big Mobs FD AGITATORS OF CAPITAL ON WARPATH, oAlD Food Riots in Outside Cities Continue as Trouble Grows. BERLIN, Oct. 16.—(By The Associated Press).— Several thousand unemploy- ed attempted to storm the rathaus, or town hall, in the! heart of the city today but were repulsed by the police, who ed the mob with fixed bayo- demonstration, which the au- the s say was led by commun- istic agitators, completely blocked traffic In what is normaly one of the most congested quarters of the city and foreed numerous shops to| down their iron shutters as a tion against looters. gregating mobs in the outly- tions of greater Berlin kept yolice busy a'l the forenoon. At point the police were forced to ito the crowd, ing three demonstr: ne food riots ‘ous pul pre tors. newed f nume A jous sh heim, where one police sonstrator were killed. continues to be the scene of newed rioting and ma of the keepers chose to give av 41 antl oleomargarine in pref o having the!r premises looted oceurred in Mann- bre ence LONDON, Oct. 16.—A mob tried! to force its way into the Berlin stock exchange this morning, says a Central News dispatch from the German capital, The doors were promptly closed and the police took up the task of dealing with the at- tacking throng. The mob also tried to storm the “nopped off’ in a government mail, Oct. all, the message states, but the airplane at 10:49 a. m for Chicago ty seriously wound- | are reported} points in Germany. | sergeant and) WORTHY AIM BEHIND CONCERTS WILL ASSURE MILK FOR PUPILS There is, perhaps, nothing so re- assuringly prophetic of Casper's) broad progressiveness toward metro- | polltan living as the winter series of | | four outstanding concerts arranged | for the people of this city by the charity department of the Woman's Departmental club. A cultural distinction such as comes to but few cities of the a) of Casper, which has passed through rapid transitory stages from a strag-| gling towh of several hundred plo- nees to the well-kept city of some 28,000 population of the present, Is| granted this year by the program of the club. That this organization has assumed the initiative is of it- self exceptionally worthy. But there is yet a more commend- | able motive behind the concert series. The membership of the Wo man’s Departmental club has long | been cognizant of the needs of Cas-| per children, In past work it found that numbers of children here were undernourished. Milk has been| lacking in the diet of these children | and it is primarily for their benefit | that the Woman's club seeks 1o| augment its milk fund at the same | time it provides the city with music | | of a kind that is seldom heard in | the west. Toda, the work of disposing of | season tickets for the winter series | is being started by the Woman's | Departmental club. As a matter of » pride it is hoped by the mem- | bership of the club that it will not |be necessary to bargain for re sponse, that it will be unnecessary to do more than provide what keenly wanted. First of the that given by four concerts will be | Anna Case, celebrated | » SEC. DAVIS TO CHICAGO | BY AIRPLANE SAN FRANCISCO, Callf., Oct. 16 —Secretary of Labor James J. Davis po'ice appeared in strong force and/to meet David Lloyd George, form-| see number of persons were injured, sev- eral seriously. For the moment, adds the mes- sage, the city hall and the stock exchange have been locked and strongly guarded, and the Wilhelm- strasse closed to pedestrians and ve- hicles er eee CREW IS GIVEN UP FOR LOST: KEY WEST, Fia., Oct. 16—Search for the crew of 16 men of the steam- ship City of Everett, which last rted she was sinking about 150 s west of Tortuga, has been abandoned, it became known upon the arrival here of the const guard cutter Saukee, which had made a ‘search. Leon Trotzky Seriously Ill LONDON, Oct. 16.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Munich today says that Dr. ed to be masters of the situa-|or British premier. tion after fierce fighting in which a! ona company | Fernand Sauerbruch, the noted sur- | geon, has left for Moscow in an air- plane to attend Leon Trotzky, war minister of Soviet Russia, who 1s suffering from cancer of the stomach. —_—_—_— Legion Committee Meets. ‘The entertainment committee of | the George W. Vroman post of the} American Legion will hold an portant meeting o'clock at the club rooms, The meeting will be brief and all members of the committee are re- quested to be present. im-| Benjamin this evening at 8/ It was his sec-; attempt to leave by airplane today, the first having been stopped by a heavy fog. C. K. Vance is his) pilot. The race horse practicing alone | does not develop his utmost speed But the race is on and one horse } is leading on the home stretch and | the others strain themselves to | the last limit. | There are pace setters in bus}- | | | | | ness in every community. Pace setting in mercantile lines, {um one important respect, 1s very evident on every hand. Merchants generally must recog nize that the pace setters in ad- vertising are not only getting the business day by day but their ad- vertising 1s acting as such a thor- | ough buying guide that they are | hastening the day when buying without consulting the advertising columns will be practically un- known. | ‘The day is rapidly coming when the non-advertiser and the spas- modic advertiser will hold the | trade of a few old-timers whose minds revert to memories of other days. Shop in the Tribune before | shopping in the shops. sh Sk Dies Suddenly GREENVILLE, Miss., Oct. 16.— Grubb Humphreys, for more than twenty years a member of congress from the third Missis- sippi district, died suddenly at his home here early today. Death was due to an attack of heart trouble. NEW DISTRICT TO GET SEWER ‘The city council Inst night created ® new sewer district in the south- west portion of Casper to be known as sewer district No, 15. This com- prises two blocks, one of which les in the Community Park addition and one in Casper proper. The district was created as a result of a petition which had been circulated among property owners of that part of the city, the majority of them being in favor of the sewer, The counct! will go this afternoon to a meeting of property owners of White's Sheridan Heights, Ken- wood and Casper View additions to discuss with them the matter of proposed grading. It is understood that many residents of this section are objecting strenuously to the grading improvements which are being contemplated by the city, and the council will endeavor to explain (Continued on Page Nine) : \T wo ‘DEAD IN \Ex-Congressman' LEE WEATHERS, TAXI OPERATOR, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Who, on October 22, will appear at | the America theater, ‘The reception given the women | of the club who are selling season | tickets by personal solicitation, will | be clearly indicative of the breadth | of mind and depth of appreciation Casper people are capable of in mat- ters of an abstract kind such as operatic on Serta oo | BOOTLEGGER DRAWS ‘SO00 FINE AND LON |No Reason Ascribed fer Suicide Last Night at East Second street Home; dees Oil Man Brother of Vice: “Ring me several times when you go off shift, for I shall probably be sound asleep and will not wake up easily.” Cheerfully slapping his employe on the back, Lee Weathers, 35, taxicab operator and brother to W. D. Weathers, well known ofl man, gave no intimation at 5 ,o’clock last night that an hour and 20 minutes later he| would be found on the floor of his) minute or two she heard the noise JA i| | bedroom immersed in a pool of blood| of a gun shot in Weathers’ bed flowing from a bullet wound that} room. It was followed by a heavy he himself had inflicted. | thud as of a man falling. — | The employe did not ring, for the| Mrs, Miller feared for the worst Stiff sentences for bootleggers and) news of Lee Weathers’ suicide! and without opening the door to other violations of the Mquor laws traveled quickly and no mortal| the bedroom she ran to a neighbor continue to be handed out in the| sound would have awakened him| and told her, saying at the time, “I jelghth district court by Judge R. R.| from the state of unconsciousness | think he has shot himself.” | Rose. Car! Peters, who was convict-| into ed by a jury trial Monday on two| Mr. Weathers died at the county; and accompanied Mrs. Miller to her counts, possession and sale, was giv-| hospital at 11:20 o'clock, five hours} home. When she opened the door en a fine of $500 and 90 days in the | after he had shot himself. to the northwest bedroom and found county jail, Peters was arrested! When Mr. Weathers went home, | her husband lying in his own blood the rear/he asked Mrs. Mary Miller, ajshe fainted from the shock. which his act had sent him. Mrs. Weathers was soon found of 220 South Center street. | roomer at the Weathers house, 1013] Dr. J. C. Kamp was called. Joe A. Rohm and C. T, Bruner,| East Second’ street, to call his wife| Examination of the bullet wound picked up in a raid on South Ash| who was visiting at a friend’s|showed that the lead had entered street last Decoration day evening,| house. Mrs. Miller did not know at| the right temple and had made its are to be tried today for possession/ that ingtant just where Mrs.fexit from the opposite side. Al- of liquor and maintaining a nuls-| Weathers was, so she hesitated |though unconscious the man still ance. pout going on the errand. In a (Continued on Page Nine) :- VICTORY HOST PARADES IN FRISCO AS FOG HANGS LOW: LATE SPORTS Great Legion Parade; “Capture” of Coast Metropolis Is Complete SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. —Heavy mists, succeeding and bring the city championship 4 typical October warm spell, tried in vain to take some back to the White Sox of the Amer- | of the color and snap from the great pageant that was the fean league. Tony Kaufmann was |chief event today in the national convention of the Ameri- anxious to try his hand at stopping|can Legion. The mists, dropping down from a fog-veiled |the Cubs’ rivals, and Manager St Killefer gave him’ the assignment. |SkY, made the streets wet and slippery, but the legionnaires stepped out with the same carefres;ernor Friend Richardson of Callfor- Despite the gloomy weather, about | abandon that they would have dis-/ "ia, and others at the opening ses- COMISKEY PARK, CHICAGO. | 16.—“Urban Red” Faber was Manager Gleason's choice today to win the sixth game of the seri The Cubs—Kaut- | played on the sunniest of days. | Slon of the convention yesterd: mann nd rrell For White The dampness had an effect upon | They paraded through the down Sox—Faber and Schalk town district, small groups on the Score (incomplete): R. H.E. | the crowds, however. Long banks) sidewalks, larger ones in the south Cubs 000 101 0—x 6 1 of umbrellas appeared carly making many and varied noises, all White 000 000 1—x 7 | Market street ana there was not t inten to inform fellow legion } usual ie tec! about Add 4 y R00d8 | naires, residents of the city and vis —- and grocery box seats that has ¢ ; 7 3 é LAUREL, Md. Oct. 16—Spald- | acterized big parades here in the|yerton ot this Gc that ite ee ing Lowe Jenkins, president of | past. The crowds also were smaller | 05 sts valet aie the Maryland State Fair associa- was well represented at the conven than they would have been other-| tion. tion, which is conducting the | wise, although they swelled some - ees meeting here, wired tramers Sam | what as the parade progressed aaah Diesiee oe “ a Reoteh iit, Hildreth, who looks after Zev, The Coldrado contingent boasted) their marching te sou ec udex and Basil Jarvis, who is prepar- jo giant drum major, while Texns, TR GL tie oe etn ing papyrus for Saturday's match | tiome state of National Comman¢ netataloouate tia’ ral ntact sang race at Belmont Park, an offer | Alvin Owlsey, appeared with @ pret-| paince hotel eta big sh a me 4 of $50,000 to have Saturday’s win- |iy gir! astride an old gray mare,|the puesta of honors at the “Poems ner meet Admiral Cary T. Gray- | which personified a lively tune play-| nade of the. Allies re aplin aooed son's “My Own" in a special race at this track on T' © | the kilted escort climbed onto a win. dow sill of the hotel and delivered ec: by the accompanying band. Texans were appropriately cortum- arsday of next week. ed vaquero make up. A group of) an impromptu oration to a crowd Montana bad men, dressed in the/tnat locked the street. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Checks for} ld time range eee Eee | Neha tonto thine on this morning’s | $4,112.88, the losers’ end, were dis-|P*rade at intervals. program was the parade. Admiral tributed today to members of th¢ R. §. Coontz, United States navy, New York Giants as their share of SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 16—| General Joseph Haster of Poland and the world's series receipts. The|(iy The Associated Press}—Another| National Commander Alvin Owsley total distributed among Glant play-| city, larger perhaps than any cap-| of the legion, were the reviewing ers and att 8 was $110,634.91. | tured by the American forces during| officers. Other civic and military —_——_—_— the world war, has fallen before the] officials also were given places. in American Legion and the legion-|the reviewing stand naires planned to celebrate their Iat- The Knights of Columbus invited est triumph today with a big vic- the National officers of the legion tory parade. and other distinguished visitors to AUTO CRASH By last night the legion members| be their guests ay a reception and who began to arrive In San Fran-|luncheon at the Palace hotel this cisco last week for thelr national] noon, convention, were admittedly masters} Frank T. Hines, director of .the PENDLETON, Ore., Oct. 16.—I..| of the city. They had been told so| United States Veterans’ Bureau was H. Bentley, 45, a prominent Pendle-} 4, Mayor James Rolph Jr., United | the first speaker on the program for ton business man, and Wilfred | states Senator Hiram Johnson,|this afternoon's business session, Davis of Boise, Idaho, 25. his em-| tarvey M. Toy, representing gov- (Continued on Page Nine) ploye, were killed late last night when, as the ywere returning from Walla Walla, Wash., a car which Bentley was driving skidded on the LLOYD GEORCE highway between Weston and Athena. Two others in the machi were injured, BODY SHIPPED. | The remains of Mrs. Emma P. Wetzel who died here Sunday were shipped to Fairmont, W. Va., this afternoon, the husband, Lewis Wetzel, accompanying the body. we CARS IN COLLISION. A collision between a Ford tour. ing car driven by A. F. Bond and a Chicago Turns Out to Greet War Time . Premier of Great Britain Today CHICAGO, Oct. 16—(By The As- through the downtown streets. sociated Press.) ~ David Columbia touring car driven by | George, Britain's war time premier, me sepa ncs of eect F. E. Stevens this morning resulted | reached Chicago at 11:59 a. m, today | NUVINE and shouting, Bae in some damage to béth cars. No a ba és se pth i eae and was greeted by great throngs|taken to the Hotel Lasalle, where igi gnats and an official reception committes|he and his family, Dame Mar headed by Brig. Gen. Charles G.|and Mins Megan Lloyd George, w A. L. Barnes is here attending to} Dawes, retired. to be guests at the Chicago A business matters from Denver. Mr. Lloyd George was escorted| ciation of Commerce luncheon TAKES OWN LFEINDESPONDENGY bes as Mists Fail to Take Color Out of deco. | Lloyd) rated with the American and British | Padadanals Driven From Homes In | South Side Early Today as 9-Foot | W all of Water Is Released by Reser- Oe Many Have Narrow Escapes OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 16.—The first definite report of loss of life in the flood here today was received when police rescued | pitals suffering from exposure, { one of whom is not expected to live. The river here was falling at R. H. Loose and his daughter, p. m, and all danger to the busi Bessie, 10, from a tree top in ness district ha apparently Wholer Park and learned from / passed, The water got no closer them that a boat in which they | than three blocks from the main had attempted to escape had been | business cemter. Rack flow from capsized, drowning Mrs. Loose | sewage mains, however, flooded and a daughter, Clara, 8 years old. virtually every basement in the Nineteen persons are in hos- | district. OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 16.—(By~ The ewer Press).—A catastrophic flood gripped Oklahoma City | day. With virtually the entire south side inundated, flood} waters of the North Canadian river rising rapidly and creeping relentlessly upward from the lowlands, already Mterally are lapping at the very So far, there has been no loss ot | threshold of the retail business cen-| 11% reported, but numbers of per | ter of the city, with every prospect | song are believed to be imperiled | that the crest of the high water will | sor dtin A swirling current with a power not be reached for some time. inavina cdateatea’ ubloite at | ful firemen to reach 15 persons maroon Sweeping savagely southeastward, j the raging torrent, swollen to Un-| oq in the Mulligan Grove dist@ect in precedented proportions by rains the lowlands. Rowboats wer® un which have fallen virtually without | atte to breast the current and of [interruption for four days in the} tect a rescue after earlier efforts west and north central sections of|naq resulted in the rescue of sev the state, broke through the munt-| erat persons, al reservi 9 8 Ww 2 cipal reservoir, 10 miles west of hers One man is said to be hanging des: arly today and flung a pent up z | nine foot wall of water downstream | Perately to a rafter in a church| while the angry waters sweep to spread further disaster to the d already stricken lowlands on Okla-| ‘rough the structure below him. its A family of 12, five of them small homa City’s south side. children, also {8 marooned in a This volume of water reached here) house in the grove district, it wae about four o'clock this morning and! reported. : within an hour had spread to within| Tn mmall grocery store a man 18 blocks of the principal business! ang his wife, proprietors of the piace section, both from the south and] arg isolated, awaiting the reactors southwest corners. |who have been unable to reach them. | Boatman succeeded in carrying several persons to safety before the swiftly rising water isolated the | Mulligan Grove neighborhood. Re: Deated efforts to reach the helpless flood victims will be made, but fire men who battled the current there it war Impossible to navigate | in rowboats. Ordered to places of safety last Jevening by city authorities, approx ely 15,00 residents abandoned thelr homes tn an area tn the flood’s path comprising 117 city blocks and are being sheltered and fed by hast-| CHEST FUND TD = tho stricken residential sections. The surging waters battered thru {the dam embankments |frantic efforts of workmen to save despite the | them by hastily erected sand bag The west bank was torn open late Inst evening. In a few benrsuapsfeccaieen shatter nice All Civic Clubs and) Societies Will Be moments | to 23 feet. By midnight 300 fect of the bank had been carried away.! | For two hours the 23 foot depth w: maintained. Then the torrent's furious attack Represented. agalte her net harrier juan iatae i, fous and almost the full sweep of | water in the dam was released The organization meeting of the| This sent the ri *# crest to 25 Casper Community fund will be held at 8 o'clock this evening at the Na- feet, a height never before attained and nine feet above Inst spring's dis. trona County high school auditor-|astrous high mark. jum. The high school orchestra] With the additional rise, emer will give a short program to open|gency sirens in Oklahoma City the meeting. It is hoped that del-| blared forth their warning signals gations will be sent from the and evacuation of the entire area tn have been in-|the flood’s path began At the! vited to become members of the| sound of the fire siren, streets south | fund. The following organizations} of Grand Avenue, a principal t have received invitations: jness thoroughfare, became choked Budget Members | with refuge Casper Chapter Salvation® Army,| Rellef stations were set up and Natrona County Chapter American personal warning was broadcast by Red Cross, Casper Young Women’s |the toca! tal caribaly th each ]Christian Association, Home Wel-|of its subscribers in the threatened |fare League, Caspe Council Boy | district nm cars and volunteer outs of Ameri ‘asper Council| motorists, venturing to the very! Girl Scouts. |edge of the advancing waters, alded| Association Members in bringing the helpless and crippled Rotary Club, Chaniber of Com-!to havens of safety merce, Kiwanis Club, Lions Club,| A stream of grim faced refugec Literary Club, Real Estate Board,| trudged on foot, backs bent over th Business and Professional Women’s| burden of pitiful ttle bundles of Club, Casper Trades Council, W | belongings snatched frantiaally from men's Departmental Club, Standard|thetr homes, which only a few m Athletic Association, Texas Athletic ciation, Natrona County Home- Association, All the} | utes later were charged by the swirling waters. | Following a report at police head-| Churches, Natrona County Bar As-| quarters that a band of 75 to 100 plation, Natrona County Medical|men were looting homes deserted by Association, Cusper Clearing House,| refugees, a force of specially dep: eorge Vroman Post American Le-|utized police were despatched to the gion, M. J, Hawley post American| scene with orders issued by Mayor Legion. |0, A. Cargill to shoot to kill any Ex-Officio Members | persons found pillag g Mayor of per, Chairman Coun-| With the coming of a cold, gray ty Commissioners, Sheriff Natrona| dawn, the homeless ventured from A county, Chief of Poli City Health| thetr emergency shelters and the | Officer, City Milk and Food Inspect-| streets were filled with them.Bread or, County Health Officer, City} (Continued on Page Nine) | fai HURRICANE. OFF LOUISIANA MAY PLAY HAVOC ON REACHING COAST |\Warnings Broadcasted Say Storm Is Grow- ing in Fury; Texas Coast Line Escapes. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16. —The gulf disturbance, re- ported yesterday 200 miles off the Tex coast, was headed this morning for the Louisiana coast, and accord- ing to warning tssued by the weath- er bureau at Washington, wou'd strike the mainland at about longi- tr 91 we | move northeast. e warning Jed that the storm had reached hurricane intensity, Tt was 1 1 here that this would place several parishes west of New Orleans in the immediate path of the storm and that its cen- ted would be close to Morgan Clty, 75 miles west of her Practically the tire Loutstana coast s being swept by strong winds, which in some Instances had 1 gale proportions. High tides were re from all points, Dr. Cline of the local weather bureau was takin rgency steps to distri the ngs to all points 1} to t ected. Small erafts on lake Pontchartrain, warned by the hig nds, which during the nig had reached a velocity of more than 25 mile# an hour, were réportdd safe—emdevesssls in the harbor were t to be pre should 1 ng every precaution © the storm ff !t edu an amusement park, and fishing resort, both P chartrain, were reporte: today to be partly flooded and fan a living at the latter ace wel reported moving out Four persons were injured In New Oreans during the night as a result jot accidents trageable to the high wind WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—The Gulf storm has moved inland over Louisiana and its moving north ward, the weather bureau announced today All hurricane warnings have been ord town but south east are dispiay: from Bay St. Touls to Cedar Kays. Florida orm warr HOUSTO? wart ordered down weather headquarters. en an hea Oct. 16.—Storm xas coast were early today by the from New Orleans This mersage Is tak- that the gulf storm ia east xas, Bar the coast to m showed gr al rises, 5, La., Oct. 16 duled to strike ast early today had ccording to reports organ City, where the center a, reported rong winds The ¢ the Louisiana « d to do 40, a here miles of the with no dama _— Takes No Chances On Using Pistol; Man Sells Weapon James ¥ reve that he wouldn't be t er, sold a 1 with it as made gun out of an trate with it to point “but ther: for six any mc after he had no the gun hadn't been a Nurse, Public School Nurse, County Agent. All eltizens who believe in the | Casper Community Fund {dea are in vited to become individual members. Any organization not listed above that desire to become budget mem- bers may make application to the Board of Directors of the Commun-| |ity fund after it Is duly organized. | piss acbedste FOREST STILL es DULUTH, Minn., Oct. 16.—The $50,000,000 FOR REFOKMS. ~ | hy north wood lazing to ALBANY, N. Y., (United Pre<s.)—| Sead plby be sah aenga : ar TOPTRIALE wiuieeth ohne éay and running fires, driven befor ber 6, on a proposed bond issue of eavy southwest gale, are burnin bring the state Institutions up threatening homes of settlers. | (ate. Alarming conditions have : jeane and other charitable institu-| broken out afresh in tions, ‘Wisconsin and fires to] FIRES RACING west of abborn n thu tric