Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1923, Page 1

/ BOY SCOUT RALLY 10 Weather Forecast WYOMING Somewhat unsettled tonight and Satur- day. Not much change in temperature. VOLUME Vii LIQUOR TRAFFI CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1923 mn £ UDOT amd ‘A Newspaper for All the‘Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: Che Casper Daily Critume |, LECTION MACHINE THROWN INTO GEAR BY. LEGIONNAIRES QUARTER BILLION FOR TEN-YEAR AIR SERVICE PROGRAM 15 UAGLD Special Army Board Frames Recommendations For Joint Army-Navy Plans to Be Submitted For Consideration of Congress. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19._Adoption of a joint army- mavy air service development program to be completed in ten years is recommended in the report of a special board of general officers of the army made public today. Un- less measures are taken immediately to provide for ‘the up- building of the air service and the airplane industry, the report, said, the alr service will have sng the ten year development period been ractically demobilized’ andyat the rate of $25,00,000 a year. of the American aircraft industry vir-/that annual sum, the board maid, disappear within a few years.|the first few years should see $1¢,- board recommended that the {000,000 a year devoted, to operating expenses and $15,000,000 to the pur- chase of new aircraft. ‘The board was appointed to make a survey of the alr service situation and was headed by Major General Witiiam Lassiter. It found that an alarming condition vxisted in the army service due to shortage of flying personnel and equipment and to the failure of the aircraft indus try to Cevelop commercially. ‘The industry, the board said, was solely dependent on government or- ders which had been limited, due to lack of appropriations and the fact that airplanes manufactured during the war were being used up. The deterioration and loss of these war built planes nas reached a point where the situation is “crit- ical” the board said, and where “there will be available by July, 1926 less than 300 serviceable air- planes to meet a requirement of over five times that number.” Bighty per cent of the existing equipment of the army alr service is composed largely cf obsolete training types of planes ‘ unsuit- able for combat use” the report said. Secretary Weeks has forwarded the recommendations to the joint army- navy board for a report to be pre- sented to congresa, having already approved in principle the sugges- tions of the specia! board. Pes bees ne cy Faith and The army air service program be fram- ea to provide for the expenditure of approximately $250,000,000 dur- AUTO THIEF fa GIVEN 7 YEARS From seven to 10 years in the state penitentiary at Rawlins, at hard labor, was the sentence meted out to Art Baish by Judge R. R. Rose in the district court this morn- ing following Baish’s conviction of grand larceny in connection with the theft of an automobile. The jury which convicted Baish was out only 40 minutes before bringing in ® verdict of guilty. Baish was found guilty of stealing ® Hudson touring car belonging to Pete Wray, proprietor of Wray’s cafe. The car was stolen from the Rodeo grounds last June. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Braham, ar- rested at the same time and charged ag accomplices in the offense, will be tried next Tuesday. ~~ BE HELO THIS EVENING Knowledge Faith leads us into a much larger field than does knowledge. District Two, of the Casper scouts comprising Troops Three, Four, Nine and Fifteen will meet tonight John R. Quinn of California Leads In Balloting for Commander; Captain Plummer Not Among Candidates SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 19.—Five names were before the American Legion convention for national com-| mander when nominations closed here today. There were Wilder S. Metcalf, of Kansas; John R. Quinn, of Califor- nia; James A. Drain, of Washington, D. C.; Clarence R. Edwards, of Boston and William B. Healey of Pennsyl- vania. date for the office of national chap- ‘Wilder S. Metcalf of Kansas re-| lain. ceived 305 votes on the first ballot} Within twenty-four hours afte: for national commander of the] his election, the new national com. American Legion, the four other|mander must name his delegates receiving votes as follows:| assistant adjutant, treasurer Quinn of California 247; Drain of] other appointive officers. Washington, D. C., 195; Edwards of Wilder 8S. Metcalf of Kansas was Massachusetts 171 and Healey ‘of Pennsylvania 60. A majority of the total of 993 votes is necessary to elect the na- tional commander. Quinn of California, took the lead on the fifth ballot and continued to forge ahead on the sixth ballot, having a total of 453 votes. Quinn needs 44 more votes to be elected. Others were: Drain 259; Edwards 155; Metcalf 67; Healey 54, date for national commander. United States Senator Key Pitt- man of Nevada addressed the con- vention, telling the delegates that the wounds the legionnaires re ceived in the civil struggles in the convention are but scratches that time. adjutant, | and ths first man nominated as a candl- will be healed with the passing of | The convention formally adopted | the constitutional amendments com: | offer of the prohibition party to give! of th FORD GAN HAVE NOMINATION OF Uso, DRY PARTY 'So Says National Chair man of Prohibition Forces Today. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 19.—The prohibition party’s nomination for president in 1924 is Henry Ford if he | wants according to a) statement issued here by Virgil G. Hinshaw of Washington, D. C., chairman of the prohfbition Inational committee. Mr. Ford looked favorably on the| On the seventh ballot Quinn polled | mittee’s report. him the nomination in 1920 and 456 and with the satch of New York| John R. Quinn of California, was| would have accepted it had he not and Pennsylvania votes to drain | nominated as candidate for national|teen persuaded by followers of off Washington, D. C., the latter| commander by California delegates.| Woodrow Wilson to stay out of the took second place with 382. Edwards’ Minnesota seconded the name of race, Mr. Hinshaw asserted. Pro- had 89; Metcalf 61; and Healey| Quinn. | hibitionists generally favor Ford ines Indiana seconded the nomination | more than any other man discussed of Metcalf of Kansas. for the presidency, according to SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 19. —Balloting for a national com- mander of the American Legion to succeed Alvin Owsley of Texas, for vice commanders and a national chaplain, began at the last da: session of the fifth annual conyen- tien of the 1} Among the r prom: nently mentioned “as theeballoting began were William F. Deegan of} New York; Clarence R. Edwards of Massachusetts; James A. Drain of Washington, D.C; John R. Quinn of California; Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett of California; Wil- liam B. Healey of Pennsylvania; C. H, Plummer of Wyoming and Joseph H. T. Thompson of Pennsyl- vania. Ezera C. Clemans of Minnesota, apparently, is the only active candl- was the third man to enter the race for the national commandership when the delegates from Massa- chusetts presented his name, James A. Drain, District of Colum- bia, was nominated by Maryland delegates after District of Columbia yielded. William B. Healey, “buck private’ of Pennsylvania, was ‘the fifth man to be placed before the conveation for national legion commander. His name was presented by Pennsy! vania delegates. ST. PAUL CHOSEN CONVENTION CITY. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. was the big task confronting Ameri- (Continued on Page Thirteen.) Clarence R. Edwards of Boston / 19.—| Selection of new national officers | opinions expressed at a conference yesterday between Mr. Hinshaw and dry leaders, and wi!l be willing to }compromise with other parties to ecure an agreement on his nomi- | nation. Anothér conference with prohibt tion party leaders was scheduled for today, after which Mr. Hin- | shaw planned to return to Wash- ) triiston In connection with his statement rning Mr. Ford the national committee chairman issued a call for a national conference at Wash- ington December 12, the two fold purpose of which will be to alyze and remedy present con- ditions as to the enforcement of Prohibition laws, and to arrange the time and place of meeting of the national convention tn 1924."" EARTH AND STONE ARE MOVED TO OPEN TOMB OF THE ANCIENTS LUXOR, Egypt, Oct. 19.—(By The Associated Press )—Preparations for lifting the 2,000 tons of rth, stone and wooden joists that now rest over the tomb of Tutenkhamun are proceeding apace. Howard Carter and his American associates, Messrs ndler and Burton, have re-estab- hed themselves in their lonely concrete domictles at the entrance to the Valley of Kings, and have | made a preliminary survey of the work that must be done before the inner tomb believed to contain the mummy of the Pharaoh can pe opened. The archaeologists estimate that at least a fortnight will be required to clear away the vast heap of |rubble that now shields the king |from the outside world. It is pos- sible that a narrow gauge railway loaned by the American archaeo jlogical mission will be used to hasten the work | Nearly 100 of the native excava- tors who helped Mr. Carter uncover the tc b last summer have been re. engaged at stipends which mak American union wages look like fortunes. Each digger ts to recetve twelve | ]cents a day with a slight bonus at the end of the season if the Pharaoh's body is found in the sarcophagus. Most of the laborers are boys of from 10 to 18, but some em are grown men who sup: port two or three wives on this slender remuneration. It is probable that Pharaoh Tutenkhamun will be undisturbed for many weeks, as the dismantling of his multiple tabernacle of gold will require the most painstaking labor and skill. UL, 5. COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS GOES ‘TO-SHOSHON! HOLDINGS | Charles H. Burke, commissioner lof Indian affairs, Washington, D. C.,, and Thomas B, Roberts, Sr., are passing through Casper today on thelr way to the Shoshont Indlan reservation. Mr. Burke was for: merly a member of congress and was appointed to his present office by the late President Harding. His [home ts in Plerre, S. D. GOVERNORS PLEDGE DRY AID at 7 o'clock at the old high school gymnasium {n preparation for the rally that is to be held this eve- ning in the high school auditorium. District Two is preparing to place severu! little entertainments at the rally tonight that will be an excel- lent example of what the Boy Scouts; of Casper are doing and learning | in the matter of training to be bet-)| ter men. | a SLAYER GETS 30 YEARS. IN STATE PEATENTIARY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 19—Don \. Conception Santcheg, recently con- of murder in the second de- gree for slaying his wife here !ast spring, Wednesday was sentenced | by Judge W. A. Riner in District | court, to serve from 30 to 40 years in the Wyoming penitentiary. victed What any one person really knows would fill a very small book—the things one believes would fill volumes. The foundation of business suc- | One of Casper’s most handsome right ken patel fat eee residences will be the new two-story 2 > WEST BADEN, Ind., Oct. 19.—(By The Associated | rick house of B. B. Brooks, to be The foundation stones of suo- Press).—A formal resolution pledging President Coolidge | '0cated on the west mide of Wolcott cess for a merchant are fal in ’, ae . ry ars is 3 . | street between Twelfth and tr himself, his buriness, his city, the Worland Bia sechoelis fonipall pean ene opponents the “fullest co-operation” in the enforcement of prohi-|fatrth and to cost in the neighbor people, and faith in the great of the Casper hig! nt oo} on the oat ‘the b Stle The bition was adopted by the fifteenth annual governors’ con-| hood of $55,000. A building permit | principles which bind all these to- | afternoon, will arrive this evening ready for the battle. The ference here today after a stormy debate. Adoption of | for this amount was taken out of | Seepee Fi Pas Ee Fl Big Horn Basin team is in the best of condition and pre- the motion was accompanied by a tumult of shouting and | the city engineer's office yesterday a “ising? with good’ service and”’|Pared to give Casper a hot game tomorrow. atanping® during’ which Governor and enforcement of law is the pri.|@"d work was to be started at that fair dealings all’ persistently fol With snow in the air this morning, the prospect for a} Jonn M. Parker of Louisiana left|mary duty of every official. | S08, eae TEaTtAlapaeitl vonntatn Gum jowed, will bufld a position in the | midseason game looked good. The | Houser and McKelvey at halves aa the meeting. ional prohibition ts now, by|rooms and three baths, It will community which will endure 8° | game will be played regardless of Arobemibeult of ell pack ns) ine} ‘rhe resolution was placed before | [constitutional amendment, the law| have two fireplaces. ‘The interior long as these principles are up- 1 Rechibinete: igeee tte be practically the same 25/the conference by Governor Wil-|of our land. An overwhelming ma-| wi] be elaborately finished held. the rent ile wil be at 2:30 | uted the opening game against) iam 1. Sweet of Colorado with =| fority of the citizens of the United|” q garage will be constructed tn Merchants of great faith and [opening whistle wi ase | Lander. demand for a record roll call. Its| States sre Iaw abiding and desirous connection with the residence foresight, understanding the great | o'clock. If opportunity presents the entire! sdoption, however, was by a voice|of the enforcement of law. 8, Webb is the architect, and Metnetdactchaihe power ae ah The Casper team is in good shape. string of substitutes will be sent in| \ot5 | “7he® national government alone! eon acy enclose ited vertising use The Tribune con Captain Hanson is baa dali het to give Lise the valuable exper! | The text of the resolution, which | (Continued on Page Five.) pity fash n stantly to build an enduring rela- | be in at tackle. In the backfield will| ence of playing against another’. 01 ine form of a memorial to] tionship with its readers. be Davis at quarter; Hales, Stanton, WORLAND HIGH SQUAD ARRIVES ONIGHT FOR BIG GRID BATTLE team. TWO RESCUED ALIVE FROM ROCK TOMB IN UTAH MINE Mine Superintendent One of Pair Spar- ed In Tragedy; Bodyof OneVictim | Brought Out Early Today BINGHAM, Utah, Oct. 1 Pa / tons of rock and wedged under once friendly timbers the bodies of two miners are still No. 20 of the Utah-Apex Metal mine, while Superintendent Joseph Norden und Jose Ratalaza, saved by the choice of fate, are now basking in Utah’s sunlight. O. C. Nelson, 50, formerly of Butte, Mont., was recovered early today. Norden and Ratalaza were rescued shortly before midnight last night and were taken immediately to the surface, Ratalaza was untouched and Norden sustained minor leg bruises. € ‘ouched under the only imbers in the upper r lid set ches of Jana with an occasional fall of rock] from the darkness above, into _the darkness below, the men began/ their 56-hour vigil. The discovery of the bodies of two! of their comrades hidden except for a foot and a hand was their only} reward and they made their way back to thelr protecting timbers and continued their wait. It was almost mid-forenoon yes- ; |terday before the rescuers received held in the clutches of Slope} intimation that any of the five | missing were alive. By noon they were able to hear voices weakly The.body of | penetrating the rock, and by eve- the stope these men clasped each) ning they were able to learn that| other in terror while the under-|at least two were alive. | -—Mangled and crushed by The rescued men reported the Io: cation of the two bodies but were unable to say which of the three they were. Because of the perilous | nature of the work the relief party decided to continue slowly and sys tematically work for the bodies from below rather than attempt to recover them from above. The third body {s# probably near, the other two. BINGHAM, Utah, Oct. 19.—The| body of O. C. Nelson, 60, formerly of Butte, Mont., was recovered from the Utah-Apex Metal mine early to- day. Two more men are known to have lost their lives but their bodies have. not yet been found Stormy Session Pr President Coolidge, follows: “To the president: “Observance of law is the Sint) mental base of American citizenship Farmer-Labor Party Asked to Join Peasants MOSCOW, ciated Press.) Iabor party sked to aff! ternational p. ing to W. H. ¢ Oct. 19. ‘The Asso: lerated far The of be with the nr sant council, accord een of Omaha, Neb vice chairman c the national com- mittee of the party. Mr. Green, who| was elected a member of the pi dium of the council is sailing America next week to lay the propo- sition before He asserted that the for principal alm ground avalanche struck squarely! From then on the work proceeded| among the tons of rock and other|of the council is to avold war about them and split, passing harm-| slowly because of the danger of| debris cleared away. is not confined exclusively to com- lessly to each side, and sweeping| starting another cave and it was| munists or to commur parties the stope clean of timbers, fully as} not until 11:30 that enough debris} The motto, “E Plurfhus Unum,"|but will leave local questibns to the large and apparently as well placed| had been cleared away to permit was taken from the title page of the|national parties, o acting inter as those which acted as the haven| Norden to wiggle through and drop|Gentleman'’s Magazine, at the time|naticnallly for the common alms 0! for them. Then with lights gone,|into the arms of the rescuers. |of the revolution having a very large|the peasants and farmers with th with tools buried under the cave-in|Ratalaza followed at once, lcireulation in the colonies. |e orking man of the cities, INNER The delicate parts of the outer and inner shells will have to be treated chemically and the utmost care taken to guard them against breakage. In addition to this, tire entire wall shielding the sepulchre from the other chambers probably will have to be demolished so as to permit the archaeologists sufficient room in which to work. Mr. Carter is still sanguine that the body of the king will be revealed just as it was buried. The fact that the Inner coffin ts of stone precludes the use of the X-ray in determining what contains the mummy. It is possible that when the labors of the season are over the Egyptian government will arrange to place a large glass slab over the sarcop hagus so that visitors from all parts of the world can see what will prob ably prove to be the first perfect example of a royal mummy ever discovered. If this is done, the tomb will be illuminated by electric light and the hitherto neglected and re mote Valley of Kings will have be come one of the world’s show places. stated acit | SPORT BRIEFS PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19.—The Pennsylvania Railroad and several of its officials are accused of co spiring to break the labor associa tion of its clerks and freight em- ployes in a bill in equity filed in the federal district court today by the Pennsylvania System board of ad justment of the Brotherhood of Rail way and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Em ployes. DUBLIN, Oct. 19.—(By The As- sociated Press)—BPxciting scenes oc- cured outside Mount Joy prison here today when crowds of women con gregated in an effort to prevent the removal of hunger-striking prison érs. The troops failed to clear the streets and shots were fired, causing a stampede in which many persons were trampled’ and others fainted. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Prohi bition Commissioner Haines has launched a new campaign against home brew. In order to stamp out what he characterized as ‘the men- ace” of trafficking in home brew In gredients, he announced today that he would revoke the permits of all breweries which continue the prac tice of making malt syrups, now widely used as a base for home made beers. ——eE— NEW $55,000 HOME ON SOUTH WOLCOTT 10 Bt Resolution and Louisiana Execu- tive Leaves Meet In Huff the party | ecedes ‘Adoption of BUILT BY 8. B. BROOKS FINAL |} D jEDITION, ee 319 AST COAST DEALT BLOW WAR OPENED BY Uo. AGENTS ON REWERIES Aq OTHER oQURGES Eleven Are Seized on Bribery Charges- in Start of Big Cleanup In Gotham and Jersey. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. Federal prosecutors and .pro- hibition forces have dealt bootlegging strongholds of New York City and the state of New Jersey hard blows. Developments in the last 24 hours have been Disclosure of a plot to swamp New York with New Jersey beer to the exclusion of the product of breweries in other neighboring states Arrest of eleven persons, includ ing a New Jersey state official, a prohibition agent, a warehouse man, four wealthy brewers, two dealers in alcohol, and two alleged “go- betweens.” Charges by Un States District orney Hayward that his agents, posing ns “corrupt”? led par ticipants in the plot passing over $80,000 in part payments af bribes that were to have reached $800,000 Disclosure by H. D. Esterbrook, special agent, that sixty | Pim ‘hoats; $500,008 worth-of Manor custo and 130 prisoners had been taken In fds on off-shore craft Seizure of three truck loads of New Jersey t brought into Man | hattan shortly after the arrest of | the eleven alleged bootleg con ors, most of them at the Hotel yivania yward filed sult to invoke the padlock law against 54 saloons, cafes and cabarets, announcing it ts only a preliminary to the closing of 2,000 openly icted places in w York City. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The antl- climax tn the federal government's double-barreled volley fired yester- day into the wet s of New Jersey came inst ight of three trucklo: New York f ore in charge of tw sents thought by the alleged rs of the Iquor to have been successfully bribed. Six men wore arrested. Chief Enforcement Officer Yellow: ley said this cargo was only the first of # hundred the New Jers Ha men thought they tection of agents. rin the day federal agents conspirators in the I nia and else where who . ged to hay used $80,000 to bribe agents, not to | stop brewing in New Jersey let down the bars for entry into New York. 4 turn wer making reg lections to United of their co! ey Hayward t had confiscated ns bribe bly $700,000 Tr en.) ZEV WILL RUN IN BIG RACE CLASSIC Decision Not to Substitute My Own Is Reached by Jockey Committee Late Today at Belmont NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—(By The Associated Press) .— Zev late today was pronounced fit and will race Papyrus Winomee in the $100,000 international classic at Belmont ‘ark This announcement was made by Major August Bel- -|mont, chairman of the Jockey Club’s race committee, after condition despite the eleventh hour upset in plans I ain a little sorry," said Admiral we did not have notice, but if M n enters Storm Damages Cruiser Omaha j® careful inspection had been made |timore excellently, according to at of the Rancocas colt, which develop-|tendants, who declared Admiral ed a sudden skin malady overnight,|Cary T. Grayson’s colt was in tip|new cruiser ( ar but which it was believed) would not|tup condition and ready for any |navy depart that d interfere with the animal's running. | test | tainea hea The announcement followed the — ne t rrival of Rear Admiral Grayson's| WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Rear|dow to a My Own frem Laurel, Md., after] Admiral Cary T. Grayson, owner | Mare One |the « had been brought here to | My Own, said today that if his three |of the , 18 ! jserve a® a substitute for Zev if the| year old were called upon to m a Y t | latter was unable to enter the race. yrus at Belmont Park tomorrow, | aged r My Owr od the trip from Bal-| the race would find My Own tn good | ou alt