Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING: Snow today; Colder east portion. Tues- day fair. VOLUME VII. CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1923 NUMBER 52 LAVOYE BUSINESS BLOCK DESTROYED BY FIRE CLAYTON MAN KILLED DURING BRAWLINCENDIARISM -SEVENPERSONS ARRESTED SW | pees egmmmrscmmmscasesrarag | MOLIDNY TRENT ln sont tates Reset Son HE ASSAYED ROLE OF BANDIT) | SSSA 7 | TOMORROW FOR) Weeks Azo Threatened Destruc tion of Buildings Walter Cox, With Six Bullets In Body, Falls CASPER KINHIES Property loss to tho batent of $100,000 was sustained Dead In Disorderly House Near BS Lavoye, 42 miles north of Casper, last night when fire 5 . thought to be of incendiary origin broke out in the Tri- M oth T ] EF St. Nicholas Will Be At angle garage and aided by a strong wind swept through CLAYTON, Wyo., Dec. 24.—Walter Cox, aged 40, was aaa 4 lf a busi f i ke Elks Auditorium half a business block before it could be checked. Rumors dropped dead with six .32 calibre bullets through him were rife last night regarding the identity of those who -) fed th, rn d ere With Presents Myf, eonibiy oh siioes ett mao here early Sunday morning when he is supposed to have lined up the party of four men and three women he had contested town who “cguld not lay | >, z, his finger” on the man who “did Four thousand kiddies | ¢. work" no one seemed inclined to| H eres “ d called f waiting to visit Santa Claus | name the culprit or culprits. Black | been carousing with in a disorderly house, and called for at the Elks home bright and | hana tetters were received by C. C hands up at the point of a SET ssh igs socidamates tpalae early tomorrow! And the Cee a tong a “six weeks pt big busses flying American | ctempt to burn down the garage nouncement is as yet unknown. Cox ' & fairly well acquainted around flags as a sign to: “Come, |ona perhaps all Lavoye was made you youngsters, hop on and ride free| tt was frustrated by the timely ar- more before the holdup, as alleged by the surviving participants which lenrock and Clayton as he had to Center and Seventh streeta whefe | rival of C. . Pettic Che Casper Daily Crime Hi . St summer as a welder and more re- with heaps « cently as a teamster. ‘The other men in the fracas were tankies en- gaged in construction work at the farm. The five had been in the house tegether for ha!f’an hour or rd, the manager T the latter place since early last a ut a day or two E r unsigned 1 ge was | Besides t busses there are] slipped beneath the door of the ga presents for. you.” later dozens of cars that will be carrying | age to the effect that “we have fatl- the same sign of free rides to the] ed this time, but we will do a better sie Elks home. Watch for that Amert-| job in the future. Tex Pool and all Bankers Said To Be In- can flag. All Elks are asked to be) his friends ere docmed. We aro go at Christmas headquarters with thelr|ing through with this.’ Business ~ rt Eka o = automobiles or ready’ to offer their] jealousy was the reasons for these volved Be Washington \ \ / services, at not later than 8 o'clock | threats according to Mr. Pool. Hee ee eee sts | etter feces tik iss| |. pootleg-Scandal ren empoyed at the tank farm at holas is surrounded | of the came without any preliminary flour- ‘There was evidence that rome 1!- I y MANNY, | | wishing to enter, into | this nappy | contragration were sll of frame con- quor had been consumed but no bot Wh | ahhh itt) game of picking up jazper children | struction. They included the Tri- WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. » u tles. were found when the arrests YW ' for the big event, are also invited to) angle Garage, Bank of Salt Creek, Fy et 3 Chase Institutions Deny were made, Y Y be on hand in time. Gendman Mardware, Johnson Drug |, With the mystery of the : 'The trio of women and quartet YY! & i A The busses will pick up children] company, United Statea jiostoffice, Whereabouts of the list of Creating Market For of men are now in jail at Douglas. A d { ies : 1 Uy) mywhere on thelr regular routes.| with office suites upstairs, Dyer 2,500 names reported seized An inqliest’™ into the shooting will K an F Cars and trucks will call for them at/anq Powell Barber shop, Lrowr's! during the roundup of alleg- Mammoth Stock ' te Healt there: edmerims to” . 1 Y . ti ; a4 WAY the Park school, Central school, East} Jewelry store. Mednick's. Clothing p oF day. Preliminary) hearing -of the A Gy ; ' / Casper school, and West Casper|rtare with apartments on sucond &d Members of a local boot- aida tes school between $ and 9 o'clock. All| fioor, nd the Union Meat Market, lessing syndicate growing deeper, seven is scheduled to come Wednes- WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. }%*3: —Neither the Chase natiorial | ines at Turkerton, Disposition of bank nor the Chase Securi-| the body will be made following the ties company had any’ offi- |!mquest of today. investigators are said to be working on Information which they describe as pointing to the involvment of one or more ba: sin the financing of the enterpris { ; ; f schools will bex-reached by 10:30) rhe business block in which these | ) 4 j . sa buildings were located is between t two streets which come together in| an angle. With the exception of a The word of the Elks ts: “Let's go, fellows, we have prepared for 4,000 committee, Early witnesses in the commit- tee’s inquiry into the leasing of | AY ae : me Hf } =X \ e geen small cafe, tho garage formed the| inj “tet a? alleged purchasers * CS AE eT HLL, q a((4))) \ ix southernmost structure. When St ar t cial “ a 3 4 i | | tr N ti \ Fy ° ge however, remained the chief point of part in the "street "tran. Na | ae Ht Third Victim Of _| vas sean that the tire was going to {ntorcat in the tavestigation. as, far sactions in ‘ammoth Oil : Wilts | HH | Hs 4 AN N take the entire block and endanger [hn vrainents af the eerie! wets cone stock, representatives of the two WS s f i act ii 2 \ y ° the town, chains were hitched to 2 | Korned Ns iehats be - New York institutions testified to- A nll ne 1 >it Np asses \ TDS \\ Auto Crash Dies Ghats trie ond, thacarhall: Shading) er eee ce whom: Sele inte Idee icf i Lt competent to enjoy the holidays af day’ betice: tha eelate, Dobie ame nt i | rit me TN housing the Union Meat Market was one . pe pred be ter reading this morning's papers. = After Operation | tom aown to form & vrenk tor the |The Antisaloon league and the asso: flames. Tho Castle Creek hotel was} ciation the next building but !t was prac- Death completed its play yester-| tically undamaged. jay afternoon with the life of James} Fire apparatus from both the Mid- against the prohibition amendment, among other agencies, until another year rolls around to perpetuate the Christmas spirit. And Santa Claus ‘What a wonderful! personage he 1s! What a vast amount of joy and good cheer he brings to mankind at this season of the year! CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 24.— naval of] reserves had testified that 7 é were demanding publication of the F ; H. li S irl i ; ‘ ome near Pine Bluffs last Wednes- d Lt t C t jured at the same time Saturday|was rushed to the scene. The Mid-| w, the syndicate organized to,make @) day, were held Saturday afternoon | Oll ay prt ermeates 1 y Jured at the same time Gaturday | was rushed to the scene. The Mid-) would submit them to the grand jury 1 Oo! >a on, ver Med | voir. Lavoy ro ever bh a vate hey r " Dome reserve. Cheyenne to attend. Over the city the spirit of Christ- Plays Many Roles a great majority ‘of merchants h aq) fag Parkerton, “ware voir. Layoye has never had a water/tney had turned over all evidence Ve" vi I vi‘ " bad been unable to find any record tien of giving, receiving and well-| play in Casper, ent upon the artificial prosperity | '°t? Wet blankets were pinced over | insisted they were not in possession ellow hae hospital. X-ray pictures taken soon|and these structuies received little | 50000 | ae ne eee eee Kindly toward his followmes, whe? | hospitals to bring happiness to litt'e| ‘The manager of a leading local}atterwards showed that his chest|or no damag. Ite greatest loss in| ruly “more blesse! give | suffering tots, he enters prison cellg| furniture store stated that their] was completely crushed in, there be-|:-ese places wie from the loss or produced several cards recording |Chris Harer, 64, farmer, residing 30| {ly feels a little closer tie than @}payiy gown the spacious stone chim-| anything, better than last year. In]arm’ and his left hip were also frac-| Jack Scott Clothing store had men tured. Death resulted from punc-|moving their merchandise out of ture of the pleural cavity and conse-|the danger zona, and prowlers tak- 9 than the market ability and price! he was working collapsed. He was|year in making this Yuletide peried| chimney of the humble cottage. ———_ dealers in candy and confectionery,| There are two to have gotten away with a consid-| A Chr’ s bonus ch “We accept a reasonable amount] is survived by a widow and four|selves to alleviate what suffering]. ‘The proprietor of one store stated ing that prosperity is not confined} pear street. He is married and is|with Deputies Dan Miller and Wil-} Methodist church, by members of never before. last year. This outlook 1s typical of and is a machinist at the Stand- Funeral servi Mrs. officials of the bank and the secur- ervicesi fap. Mrsonixiward names and Assistant District Attor- market for the Sinclair subsidiary | at st. Mary's cathedral here. A| SO Oeeeen tis |for possible indictments on conspl whe! a bri ri awe st be a| . C. P. Biggerman, assistant cashier —o——_— mas predominates, to to const And Santa Claus, while. making a|Who were agreeably surprised to find| When & railing of a bridge elght) system. and water munt be hauled | seized in the raid to internal revenue |Fall From Stack Speck was brought direct from the | the fronts of buildings which flank-| o¢ the 1 € customers’ loans having been wishing. It is the time cf the year!” santa Claus 1s no reapector of| that immediately followed the war | of the ust, foubtedly was taken as additional Such stores as the loans of this class and explained| miles east of Cheyenne, was killed|any other time. neys of the rich and just as gayly|that line, although prices have been high quality has held up. j quent hemorrhage. ing advantage of the attention of collateral fn determining its | precipitated to the gorund so violent-| joyful. Philanthropists and those} Happy the home in which the illu- jewelry, electrical goods, drugs, and) One of these is J. J. Speck, whose | erable quantity of merchandise. was presented to the Rev. C, (Continued on Page Eleven.) adult offspring. there is on hand, and hearts and|that he regarded this year’s busincss to any one line. employed ag a blacksmith at Park-| iam Irving went to the scene early|the congregation at last night's ser- ‘There is joy abroad and its mem- Burial: will be at Platte- : * i * Child With Ruptured Heart Is Given Mes compan, Wore Connected with Dolan, who shot herself at her ranch Speck, age 68, who was severely | west and the Mutual Of compantes! ney Presmont had announced he erganized to operate the Teapot! iarge number of friends came from ‘ord touring car|to the town from the noesrest reser-| racy charges, but police insisted ef the Chase National, declared he muted tomorrow. in joyful celebra-| universal appeal, has many roles to|that their business was not depend. miles east of Casper was crashed|even for drinking purposes bureau investigators and the latter lace of the accident to the county|ed the os'ta Kide of the street. $< —___ made upon Mammoth oll stock, but Fatal to Farmer) tn, 1 mankina thinks mere] cass, creed or cause. He visits the Same in All Lines. plane ots te oDP rollateral for brokers’ loans. He| CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 24.—| than to receive,” and when the fam-|tq cheer the unfortunates, he sails| purely Christmas business was, !f]ing nine ribs broken. His left fore-| theft of goods. that the bank looked no further| Friday when a haystack on which| And Casper has done well tiis|}does he squeeze through the small] reduced, the demand for goods of Similar reports were received from) ight children survive Speck.| which the fire attracted are thought] LOS ANGELES, Calif. eligibility, ly that his skull was fractured. He]in position have extended them-|sion of Santa Claus predominates. FeoIpUy ‘os;puVYyotEUT Jo FeUT] 0430) home is in } per at 705 Sheriff Perry A. Morris together| zell, associate pastor of the First purse strings have been loosened as/as more satisfactory than that of erton. The other, Carl, is unmar- (Continued on Page Eleven.) vice. ory and pleasing effect will suffice |mouth, Neb., Thursday. | eae ee eerie se Snow Pleases CREW OF BLIMP | h 1, live, lov- A to Her P. OnE Rg On Jase ape phot He (CHEYENNE, Wo, Dec. #4—Anyand ono hai miles south of (the Casper People nswer to Her Prayer On Eve pati air mail ship piloted by James F.| Union Pacitic tracks, when it sud . . op ge i y To the adult he typifies the heart-| “Dinty"» Moore and eprovte from|denty nosed downward. The section| q¢ there 1s such m medium of Fifty Men and Officers Drifting Help North Platte Nebraska to Cheyenne, crew hastened to the scene and €x-/thought: transmission as mental 2 Grashed about threo miles enst of | {rey etic ‘and tho, mall from cima Te, wnea oe'tne| Lessty Over Coast of Africa Are Burns, thirty miles east of Cheyenne telepathy at 9.15 oroleeks this morning, moore the wreck. They carried Moore to| Arctic King during the past several inconscious, was pleked up by «| the railroad and took him to Burns| days by thousands in Casper. In Imperilled In Dirigible passing motorist and taken to aj" @ speeder. They took the mail to/ good humored reply to this barrage hospital at Burns, where Dr. H. M.| Egbert. of concentrated requests for snow Hanson gave him emergency atten- Moore was corisidered one of the|the old fellow sent a mantle of ey - % x tion. He later died. Ay 10.26| most experienced pilots in the mail! fluffy flakes to cover the city this PARIS, Dec. 24.—There appeared this morning to be o'clock Dr. C. ¥. Beard left the sir|service He is survived by a widow! morning, so that now rooftops stand |some hope of saving the French dirigible Dixmude, which mail field here for Burns, in a ship| and one child, at North Platte. He| white against the sky and homes / with fifty officers and men aboard, has been drifting piloted by Frank Yeager. A few | Was about 27 years old. lend pated Pge bp te tpace, sx pric helplessly for three days over the Gulf of Gabes on the ——— uniform winter land- i yee 4 minutes later another ship piloted EE apa north coast of Africa and over the interior of Tunis. warming, genial, unselfish and lib- eral spirit which fills the world at Christmas time. The Sixth Sense We have always heard that people have five senses; tasting seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling. of Christmas Day CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 24.—The Christmas season brought to 13-year-old Helen Hamilton the gift she most desired, the one for which she had prayed—death. Racked for months by almost intolerable pain due to a ruptured heart—the result of a childish prank eight years ago— the heroic little girl died yésteday with her. mother’s arms vbout her’ and secure in the belief Then, said Mrs. Hamilton, “her ‘hat she would find a painless, per-)dear thin arms came around. my by H. A. Chandler took off. for Es: : 7 ; { fect happigess in the world beyond.| neck. Three times she kissed me.| Writers recently have suggest- | bert, a few miles cast of the scene j Didn't all the kiddies know that Although news received in Paris hag been sparse, the } Clasped (tihtly to her breast was} Never have I known anything so} ed a sixth sense—‘impression.” | of the accident, to pick up mall fro: No Tribune Will merry Kris Kringle would be sorely | latest advices said that the great warned naval units in the Mediter- put out if there was. no. snow to ke fast going for his reindeer igh full of toys? Wouldn't the | sooty chimney tops be awful places|ing in the yrinit houine, thirty mi » extra lookout by ts playing by er favorite doll which she asked] sweet, so terrible as those kisses. “I| It may be that thls sixth sense is | the wrecked ship. Moore, was cor : be buried with her. Her last words} can never forget them. an outgrowth of the exercise of | ing westward in the teeth of ° vere a prayer for death. “Jesus, take} “A few minutes later I saw her| some of the original five. fifty mile gale and probably was Be Printed Xmas et Take me Jesus!” she said. lips move and leaned over to hear One of the best ways to crate | flying low because of poor visibility." Her pale Hps had prayed that she| “Dear, Dear, Jesus’ she was saying,| impression is through the printed | at the air mail ficla nere surmises| None of the dads, daughters, | for Santa Claus to go down unless ip had‘drifted well inland, taking|T#ean to } northwesterly direction, was hover: |‘ ‘i of Foum Tata- s south of Medin.| da r ing a three uers-Pierrefeu to might live until her birthday, Nov-|‘I am suffering so much. Please,| word. made that the accident may have his the ‘Tribune {each one had its rim fringed with| Miltary authorities at Foun Tata-| Insalah, southern Algeria, the Dix ember 26. She had hoped to die that] please take me’ then her hands stif- With a therchant the best way | been caused cither by Moore's gaso-| 0: 80S employed by the Tribune |rozen flakes? Christmas wouldn't | houlne were rep 1 to have pre-|mude last Frid m headed iy. When it passéd she 4ppeared|fened. She was gone.” to create impression is by care- | line supply becoming exhausted, or | Will miss being at home all dur- | pe half as real as it should be un-] pared a fair landing place, in case eastward for wateiine o rally but soon afterward passed} Little Helen’s case attracted na-| fully planned and prepared adyer- | the ship suddenly nosing to earth in| {mg Christmas Day—for thers | jess all the outer world was white, | the ship was able to descend. Auto-| supply ran low and it was necessary \ into a lethargy from which she rare-| tion wide attention. When it be-| tising. its fight with the gale. will be no publication of this | would it? Of course not—so every. | mobile headlights were set to mark to put her on one of her six motors. ‘ ly was aroused. The climax of her| came-known that she faced feath ‘The way to make sure that the Moore died at 10:30 o'clock, a few| Paper tomorrow. body just almost prayed that the] out the spot through the night." A! She then began “o drift, sending out j uffering came Saturday and twelve] with such fortitude and in poverty,| created impression is a desirable | minutes after, Dr. Beard reached Christmas is the one big day of, | Arctic. King would make this a| strong force of troops was also pre-| distress signals that put in motion ; hours later she told her mother,/a substantial fund was ratsed for| one is to be sure that the adver- |Burns. The aviator's chest when every! wishes | white Christmas in Casper, And | sent. all French naval within call { Mrs, Emma Hamilton, a widow, that| her and gifts of all descriptions were| tising, by every test, proves to be | crushed and his back broken, Beard more than to be with | he has! The Italian authoritfes in Tripoli] and all garrisons the Tunis dis: ; » knew the end was near. “Ta sent her from many parts of the| the truth. and Yeager at once started to return | one’s family around the tree or | It ts probable there will be fair] have instructed all military posts t : ine In your lap mother," she said. country. Buyers of space in The Trib- | to Cheyenne by airplane, | gifts, near the fireside and at the | weather tomorrow, with a possible |to maintain a close watch for the| Last September the Dixmude esta- this is the end. I know that in| She will be buried Wednesday with} uns buy the opportunity to cre- The fall of Moo! machine was| home-coming dinner table So | drop in temper But who] Dixmude, and take all necessary 1 record duration « few minutes I will die. I want to| her doll and in a white satin dress} ate a mental impression in the |observed by a railroad section crew.| it will be Merry Christmas— and | cares for the cold long as there| steps to sid her should help be ) mile She was en- { ee! your arms around mé. I want} and white satin shoes, us she had re-} minds of thousands of readers |The machine,,the crew.reported, ap-]} no Tribune for December 26, as lots of Yuletide snow for the new | necessary. s ‘ reak this record when to be held close before I go.” quested. -——~— who are buyers of goods. peared to be flying low, about one! has long been the custom. | sieds to coast in? ‘ ritish officials at Malta have) trouble overtook her, , ee Toot nee aM RU Dee pound, —