Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 1

Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Che Casprt Vill. CASPER, HOUSE SESSION BREA WYOMING: Fair tonight and Wednesd Warmer tonight. U , And a Booster for City, County and State. Daily C: FYO.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923 rd Nothing Unusual In Purchase by Inter- ior Secretary of Blooded Stock for Ranch In New Mexico WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Harry F. Sinclair, who holds the lease to the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve, was re- called today by the senate public lands committee to tes- tify regarding shipments of blooded stock from his New Jersey farm to Albert B. Fall, who ag secretary of the in- terior, signed the lease. From the account book of Ran-,a race horse is broken down, he cocas farm, G. D.. Waldberg, Mr.|{s good for nothing except the stud.| Sinclair's auditor, testified that a| These are. usually given to some check for $1,100 was recetved from | station of the army remount ser- Mr. Fall's business partner on May | vice in order that they may be used 24, 1922, in full payment for six|to improve the national strain.” hogs at $50 each, one registered bull} In answer to a question from Sen- at $200 and six registered cows at|ator Walsh, Mr. Sinclair said he $100 each. The’ stock had been|had the freight on the ehipment, shipped February 16, 1922, Waldberg | amounting to between $800 and $900. jsaid, to the Fall ranch at Three WHITE. WAY T ‘AE DIMMED. PAY 1S SLOW Council Discusses Plan To Secure Payment Of Assessments. THE TEST IS UPON US Today, the men and women of this community go forth to pledge the people in their ized Christian and humani- tarian duty. They are not citing nor begging. They are collecting a debt owed by you to the less fortunate. The judg, ment against you coming from the highest authority in the universe, The obvious necessity of ineuring the well-being of society needs no argument nor explanation. There is only one means of performing this work. It is incumbent upon every individ- ual in accordance with the prosperity that has come from his own efforts and industry. A division of his own harvest with those who have failed and for other purposes that will be of benefit to our entire In a rich and beink tee: carpal like Casper $54,000 for all purposes of charity public assistance in building future citizenship is an investiment whose turnover will pay higher dividends than any similar investment in any other direction could possibly yield. Such institutions as Boy Scouts, great white way on which Casper's Girl Scouts, Salvation {tt has so justly prided itself may be “Leaving you between $200 and] Army, Y. W. ©, A. Y. M. ©. A. and other organizations are come the darkest spot in gaa 4 baba 8 New Mexico. Refine tid to cere er on the sale?” asked Mr. the worthiest efforts we have in the interest of better things. it owners against om | questions by Senator . Demo- | Walsh.” the installation of the new|crat, Montana, he said there was no| ‘That's right.” The helpless orphans of Wyoming, the orphans of the Near lights has been assessed do not take immediate steps toward paying thelr assessment. The counci! has found {t extremely Wifficult in some East, and the emergency help of the poor and unfortunate, in- sistently cry out to us for necessities and comforts no Christ- ian people can deny. The amount needed to fill the Community Chest is in no record in his office of correspond- Mr. Sinclair said he would order ence upon the subject, and that he|the men in charge of the farm to | attached no significance to the de-| report to the committee with all doc- lay In payment. uments, memoranda and other infor- instances to collect the money even) Mr. Sinclair then told the com-|mation they might have bearing} sense a staggering one to Casper. It is laid out as a three where property owners signed a peti-| mittee that while visiting the Fall| upon the transaction. day’s job. It will be accomplished in less time if the stock- tion to have the lights insta'led.' ranch in January, 1922, he noted an| Kenner Taylor, stockman of holders in this it humanitarian corporation respond lib- Sentiment ‘expressed at tho regular) absence of milch cows and suggested | Frankfort,” Ky., testified resarding| erally and cheerfully. meeting last night was to the effect|to thé secretary that he be per-|the shipment of four registered that if all the assessments are not) mitted to send some from the New| Hereford bulls to the Three Rivers Let us set am paid then the lights along the entire} Jersey farm. Mr. Fall demurred, he|farm in May, 1922. Mr. Fall made Dlock shall be turned off. It is testified, declaring he could not af-|an initial inquiry tn January of that thought tn this way that’ public sen-j ford such expensive: stock. year, he said; as to sire-stock to im- timent would be aroused and that “IT told him, they would not be| Prove his herds and finally ordered the Melinquent property ‘owners | expensive unless he insisted upon | the four‘antmals at $750 each. ‘wou'd soon get busy and settle their; show cattle,” Mr. Sinclair said. @ccounts with the city. “And after some er conversa- Whether or not the Burlington, tion he agreed té my proposal. end ir Burlington additions are] Later I telephoned the farm man- to be included within the city limits} ager to get together a bunch fit i'l more or a subject for de-| for milk cows and send them ,with to the state and the world in doing our duty quicl and thoroughly, and then resuming our us- ual occupations with the consciousness and satisfaction of having performed our part in a manner befitting the object, and our own standing as supporters of civic and Christian causes. & horse Thad given to John- DEA Ber 29. Petitions of remonstrance “have been filed and will be investi- wated. Some of the remonstrances charge that ‘the petitions “circtlated mong the property owners of the suburbs were illegal because many persons aid not know what they were signing. ‘The ite Service Station was given permission last night to insta’! & gasoline-pump between the curb and the sidewalk at its location on Notth Wolcott street. The pump ‘would be for trucks only. The per- mission was granted after consider- able argument and after it was con- cluded that such a pump was neces- sary at this place, although the council;has been endeavoring _ to avoid having further pumps in stalled next to the street. MAN LURED INTO HOUSE (5 CHOKED AND ROBBED D. E. Patterson lost $18 and a ood deal of breath Sunday night when Jack Mitchell and an uniden- tified negro tured him into a house on West “B” street, choked him, and took the’ money from him. The Police arrested Mitchell but could not find the colored man who had escaped. Mitchell was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $25 by Judge John » A. Murray. last night. HUNT FOR BODIES IS CONTINUED the farm manager and the latter wag unable | to bill the shipments. In May, he| continued, “Mr. Fall's: partner, «| Mr. Eberhart” came to his office| in New York and asked fora state-| ment. The prices then were fixed. he sald, a check tendered and the account closed. “I recently made a similar ship- ment to the Whitney Hunting Farm in Georgia,” Mr. Sinclair said, “and I do not believe that has yet been paid.” Senator Smoot asked if sales of stock from Rancocas were frequent. pt at all,” replied the witness. “We show our best stuff and people who see them some times come in and buy but I have never held a vale.” “Have you made other gifts of horses than to Johnson?” “Oh, yes," said Sinclair. Hurls Otto C. Plaga High In Air Along: With the Roof and Debris with timbers and planks falling all arrived there this morning they, Federal agents Plaga and 8. jaround him. He escaped with a) found that operations had ceased.|Owens and jgash on the head, lacerations about) The still had evidently been remov-| Irving took part in the raid. the face and a sprained ankle. jed within the preceding 48 hours The still house was a large one,| but the bootleggers had evident! 30x50 feet in diameter and had been| been in too much of a hurry to take! yesiden at Kirby, Wyoming, well fitted out. When the federal) all their possessions. Included in| he is the proprietor of a hotel. SUIT FILED TO =: -==--$11,245 Aishes and other paraphernalia, Aii| of it went up in smoke. | e . : The lost result o: Government Brings Action to Drive Ten| saiuaine tne micro oe ee | The still house was cleverly con-| cealed in the cottonwoods on the ants From Oil Field Town; Renita <5 cok sap oslo Interference Is Charged out was carefully covered with bull- bushes and the entrance discernib'c from only one direction. Water from a nearby artesian well was piped into the building and the foundations for the still indicated that it was of 80 to 100 gallon capacity, | south bank of the Platte. The dug-| | Sounded like a 16-inch gun and track | repair men on the C. B. & Q. three mites dway hurried to the scene to learn the cause of it. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 4.—(Special to The Tribune). 5 —Alleging that Lous P. Lavoye and his tenants are inter- Tires of Age, | fering with the operation of a government lease that is ex- j DRY AGENT IS NEAR Blast From Gasoline Soaked Still House East of Casper Otto C. Plaga, federal agent, mirasculously escaped death this morning during the destruction of a gasoline saturated still house on the Robert Veitch ranch, 12 miles east of Casper. The still house was built in dugout fashion and Plaga, standing on one cor- ner of the roof, threw a burning sack down the skylight. The explosion that followed tore the roof off, split the house wide open and hurled timbers, parts of barrels and de- bris 100 feet in the air. Plaga was thrown in the air and fell back among the wreckage R. Undersherif¢ William Robert Veitch, owner of the ranch y| on. which the still was located, now where | Optimism Greets Army of Workers as| Success Greets First Efforts In Campaign for Funds Never has such a drive been known in Casper as that which gathered its forces this morning following days of | CHEST FUND IS CLIMBING PRIZE WINNERS) ag GET GASH IN)” EOOAY CONTEST aso In Writing on Late Ad Feature. It's all over! The Tribune's prize essay contest, in which children of Casper wrote constructive essays upon Casper business houses whose advertisements appeared upon a full page in the Tribune for a period of fourteen weeks, came ‘to a close at 6 p. m. Monday. In judging the es- says, the Tribune contest committee took the age of the writer into con- sideration in every case, as the age Umit covered a wide field The first prize of $20 in cash was awarded by the judges to Mildred Lampson, a seventeen-year-old high school girl, for her essay which she calls, “A Flapper Operator's Busy Day.” Miss Lampson lives at 636 EB. Twelfth Street. Second prize, of $10 in cash was given to Frank J. Moye, a young- ster of 12 summers. His essay, which is entitled “Why Worry” was chosen largely because of its marked originality. The title we take it, springs from the recent Harold ioyd comedy, which was enjoying @ run at the Rialto at the time the essay was written, 35,000 25,000 work. Lincoln. Reva Beer wins the third prize of $5 in cash. Her prize award is also based largely upon the originality of her essay. She lives at 161 North Washington street. line Barker, student at the Na- trona high school, was awarded the fourth prize of $3 in cash. Miss Barker's essay was well worded and thoroughly original. Her home is at 706 North Center street. Six prizes of $2.00 cash each were awarded to the following contest- ants: Roberta Denny, 342 South Mc- Kinley; William Barger, 502 C. Y. avenue; Carma O'Malley, 309 West Eighth street; Chester Richardson, Box 315, Lander, Wyo.; Bernadine Scherk, whose address was not given; and Robert V. Moye, whose name also appeared without an ad- dress, Youngsters of Casper who are tn- (Continued on Page Eleven.) POURS INTO — CHEST THIS MORNING VACCINATION RULING TO BE PUT TO TEST CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec, 4—Fol- lowing a mass meeting last evening, EDITION UNMBER 35 KS UP IN VOTE DEADLOCK SINCLAIR DEFENDS DEAL WITH FAL RE-ELECTION OF AEP. GILLETT 18 ‘BLOCKED AGAIR BY INSURGENTS Definite Indication of Compromise Lacking In Republican Ranks: Message Is Deferred. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. |—After four more inconclu- sive ballots the house ad- |journed today with the dead- lock over election of a speak- er unbroken. Throughout the session the in- surgent Republicans stood by thetr guns and the four roll calls were almost an exact repetition of the four ballots taken yesterday. ‘There was much talk of a possible compromise to permit an election tomorrow, but there was no definite indication whether compromise nego- tlations would be successful. Should the leaders of the Repub: Mcan organization and of the in- surgent group fail to come to terms, President Coolldge will be obliged to abandon his plan for addressing a joint session tomorrow and the whole legislative program of the new congress will remain at a halt. On the four ballots taken today, Senator Gillett, the candidate of the Republican conference, and Repre sentative--Garrett of Tennessee nominated by the Democrats, ran neck and neck, each less than a dozen votes short of the majority needed to elect. ‘The «seventeen Republicans who voted for Representative Cooper of Wisconsin yesterday stood solidly behind him on every ballot today, while a handful voted for Repre- sentative Madden of Illinois, Meantime the senate, whose lead- ers maintain it can only meet and adjourn until the house has per- fected its organization, held a brief session at which there was no at- tempt to transact business. Adjourn- ment was taken immediately after the opening prayer and without even a roll call to develop whether “4 quorum w present Senate leaders on both the mafor- ity and minority sides, however, were busy with assignments o senators to the standing committees and with preparations for the fight for senate reorganization which is to come after President Coolidg has delivered his first annual mcs age to congress. Whether the president can carry out his plan of appearing at a joint session tomor- row, also is contingent on a break in the deadlock in the house. The leaders of the Republican house organization have taken the position that they cannot consistent: y discuss a compromise with the insurgent bloc as such, although they said today they were willing to listen to individual requests for changes in committee assignments and in rules—the two points on which the insurgents have focused their attack. Although most of the Republican votes lost by Gillett were given to Cooper, a small contingent con- tinued today to vote for Repre- sentative Madden of Illinois, who has announced he does not want to be speaker and whose own vote was cast consistently for Gillett. The 17 who supported Cooper BERGAMO, Italy, Dec. 4—~(By ‘The Associated Press)}—The work of finding the bodies of the 600 or more victims of the flood disaster continues over the extended zone devastated by the waters, but the rescue parties are encountering dif- ficulties. “The water has receded, leaving Bergamo valley buried un- der several feet of mud. DIRECTE CONTROL SEEN LONDON, Dec. 4—(By the As sociated Press)}—Signor Marconi said today that within the next few ‘weeks he planned to begin tests be- tween London and New York of his system of projecting radio waves ina desired direction. “You see that lamp there,” he sald pointing to the electric light over the desk in his office in the Strand. “It’s light rays spread all over the room in every direction, but ff you put a reflector behind it the ra¥s shoot but in one direction. That's what we are doing with radio pected to produce fourteen thousand barrels of oil per acre | and to yield federal royalty approximating one million dollars, Albert D. Walton, United States district attorney for Wyoming, has filed suit in the town of Lavoye, in the heart of the federal court here for an injunction Salt Creek ofl field, will be wiped to prevent further Interference. The; from the map. It has a population action was instituted by direction | of about 1,800. of Attorney General Harry M.| Lavoye, it is said, has executed | Daugherty. leases on many lots in the Lavoye| If Walton’s suit is successful, the | townsite and is enjoying an income of seven thousand dollars a month therefrom. a ‘RECKLESS DRIVER GETS SUSPENDED SENTENGE reflector behind them. Heretofore,| Elden Burkitt, 18 years of age,| we have been unable to keep radio| was fined $50 and sentenced to serve rays from going through a reflector, ce eat but now we finally have got a sort|19 @ys in Jafl by Judge Murray in of screen which stops them.” | Police court last night. The sen- The phrase “sort of screen” was|tence was then suspended. Burkett as far as the inventor would go in| was arrested by Captain William describing his new appliance, which| ciayton of the police department on| is erected behind and at the sides of the wireless sending apparatus.|® charge of reckless driving. The young man is said to have been So far, he said, he had been able to keep the waves within a radius of| going at a speed of 40 miles an hour two or thre degrees dissemination|and to have collided with another! instead of 360 degrees, lear, rays. Our experiment is putting a Man Suicides OMARA, Neb., Dec. 4.—Guests at | a. local hotel said today after Daniel Gunniman, 55, of Templeton, Iow: was found dead in his reom by hanging, that he entered the hotel last night, downcast and remarked that he was getting old. Gunniman, a bridge laborer, used his belt to accomplish his purpose. { preliminary work, and broke over the city with $54,000 as its objective for the first noon, with only two hours’ volunteers for the campaign hotel headquarters that a total of $11,245 had already been raised. The luncheon of workers today was the first call to arms of the drive, The: hall was filled with the hum of enthusiasm that now seeks to concentrate the command of charity upon a single purse—the Community Chest. Songs of joy FLORAMAE TO AID SHOPPERS Christmas shoppers in Casper are lucky. Floramae has arrived! Who is Floramae? Well, you will soon know her for she is here to help you do your Christmas shopping. To- day she {s making a very careful and complete survey of Casper’s shopping district and torhorrow and every day until Christmas, she will tell you through her column in The Tribune, about all the seasonable of- ferings and where to find them. Just think how much time this will save the busy housewife, the tired business man and the boy and| girl in schoo! who have so little time | for shopping. Casper merchants| have literally filled their shops with| tempting merchandise for the Holi day trade and Floramae is here to bring hundreds of these beautiful gifts to your attention. Remember to read what she has to say in The Tribune each day. You will find her column on the Society page begin ning tomorrow, Community Chest. here. By) work behind them, the 250) announced at their Henning filled the air and it was to the tune of the banana ditty that every man and woman present joined in letting the people know that “Yes, we have no more quitters”—and “We want co-operation, one solicitation.” For the tremendous exertion that will be made throughout the city tomorrow and Thursday, came the words “And we won't give up till it’s over every- where.” ‘There {s apparently no reason now to believe that the drive here wil! not be a éomplete success. Other cities have not been able to fill thetr cot- fers of charity at a single try. But Casper stands alone in matters that require pulling together for the welfare of the community. The keenness of spirit In which the cam- paign is being waged was obvious today. As the different leac ported the result of their t brief initial efforts, they began with @ haven't started yet, but we have—." One of the outstanding features of this Community Chest work is the co-operation that has been ex- tended headquarters by the school children. «That they have Bb on Page Nine) learned | 150 Cheyenne parents announced to- throughout the voting yesterday and day that they would institute court n voted for him on the fifth proceedings to test the validity of it today were: the ruling announced ten days ago| Beck, Browne, Frear, Lampert, by the Wyoming board of health and| Nelson, Peavey, Schneider decreeing that every” child would all onsin Repub: have to be vaccinated before re-| | gue, Davis, Keller anid maining in school. When the order] Knutson, Republicans of “Minne- went into effect yesterday 157] sota; K Minnesota Independ pupils left the schools and did not return. ent; Wefald, Farmer-Labor of Min (Continued on Page 1¢tne) ALLIES DEFINE PROBE DUTIES PARIS, Dec. 4 ed Press)—At a conference between (By the Associat-and no 4 would by was expected that pproved Premier Poincare and Louls Bs +H] SOBe: SDB AUESOVE Franch government thou, president of the reparati an invitattor commission last night a revised text defining the ¢ the exper mmittees w > investigate | Jermany's re nd financial | co assistance upon. This text is worde which re. paration circles hope will overcome the objections raised by Secretary of State Hughes to the participation of the United States. M. Barthou planned to submit this tex tto the reparaion commission this afternoon Should the United States govern- ment still fee! that !t could not ta an official part in the work of these committees steps will be taken here to for unofficial American representation on them, provide |