Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 1

The Weather shifting winds. ( stock int ) VOLUME WYOMING: Snow tonight and Thusday, colder, strong Advise ~ A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State CASPER, WYO., GIANT DIRIGIBLE DIXMUDE AY, DECEMBER 26, 1923 (dwea) Wenopsiy apmiy ld Che Casper Daily Crime HR NUMBER 54 BELIEVED LOST FIVE DEAD INFORTUNE PILED UP BY\ii SiN IP “OAST STORM LIEUT. WOOD EXPLAINEDI(Ii 5i FUE TWO SHIPS: ARE CENT DOWN IN TERRIFIC. GALE Property Damage Will Be Heavy Throughout Northwest. i SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 26.—After a Christmas eve and Christmas day in which the Pacific coast in the vi- cinity. of British Columbia and Washington was lashed by furfous gales causing a death) toll of five’ and the loss of two ships and temporarily disabling two others, the gtorm-swept section was recovering thday with weather con- ditions imptpved. The storm apparently centered about Gray’s Harbor, where the wind reac! a velocity of 80 miles an hour. jJAt Port Angeles, on the south side of the Strait of Juan de; Fuca, and at Tacoma and Seattle, the wind ged from 45 to 60 miles an hou, breaking government weather pureau records in some in- stances. The f: ities as a result of the storm. {yclude four bers of the! Canadian tug Ty! which was wrecked on the docks at Peddler bay, near Victoria, B. C., and Gus Quarn- strom ¢ of Aberdeen, Washington, who was killed by current from a fallen electric power wire. | | / In cities the gales smashed winddws, tore down power lines, throwing entire towns into darkpess on Christmas eve. un- roofed buildings, interrupted tele- phore and. rafl communication and drove many small boats in exposed | harbors upon rocks where they} sunk. The steamer Dawn pounded to pieces at her dock at Lake Wash-; ington, here. j ‘The steamship Author, with a crew of 45 men, was making slow progress, according to reports! recelved here, after being dis- abled by heavy seas Monday r.ight,! and escaping crashing on the rocks) off the Washington coast only by emergency repairs to her machinery. The schooner Thistle, after being, lost by the steamer towing her, ard buffeted by heavy seas, Monday, night, spread her sails and made Port Angeles harbor yesterday, in safety. — > WIDOW FOUND — SLAIN IN BED 1 HARTFORD, Conn., Dey 26.— With) skull battered by a blunt fn- struent, thought to be a hammer, the body of Mrs.: Mary Munsell, 78, a widow, was four.d thinly clad on a bedat her home in Burnside, East Hartford, yesterday. A window at the rear of the house had been forced and signs of a struggle were evident. A hammer was found ona Stairway and an alarm clock which had stopped at 3:15 a, m. These are clues on which the police are working. Robbery is thought to be the motive of the crime. Mts. Munsell lived alone. | | Destitute Mother And Child Given Assistance Here One of the most pathetic cases to be brought to light in Casper in many months turned up the day before Christmas. A woman home- steader living near Sodium start- ed to Casper on foot pushing a baby carriage with a three-year- old chi'd on it. The woman was in the most destitute circum- stances, having run out of food and only the bare necessities in the way of clothing. Luckily a truck driver picked her up and brought her and the child into the city. The woman, whose name is withheld, was well taken care of as soon as she arrived in town. Two Casper business men pur- chased clothing and shoes for both her and the child and a third took the baby to his home. This woman herself was provided for by the county commissioners: The Wyoming Children’s Home Finding society, whidh has an agent in Casper, has the case in hand and expects to find a per- manent home for the baby. arid Shea thea: 100 ROBBERIES CONFESSED BY ONE BURGLAR SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 26. —Kurth Kelm, 18, who says he came has confessed to more than 100 bur glaries in southern California cities, according to the police, He was ai rested in his room here yesterday. . Kelm. told police he received the training for his robberies in a “Fagir.” school conducted by an aged man iin Seattle. Officers found the door to Kelm’s room barricaded and threatened to shoot through the door before he surrendered. According to the police, Kelm con- fesed to scores of robberies com- mitted in and around Los Angeles. The youth declared that not a day | passed but what he had burglarized one or more rooms. The value of the stolen articles is not known. “Mis Word Is as Good as His Bond” Quite often you have heard this expression as an indication of ab- solute confidence in the word of a man. In business it often saves mis- understandings and squabbles to have the bond, The advertising of a reputable business house establishes a bond of good faith between the house and its customers. This bond of good faith ts not only the foundation of the day's business but it is the foundation of existence and sure growth. Therefore a sensible merchant does not violate his bond. Leading merchants regularly use the advertising columns of ‘The Tribune to establish and main- tain good faith with this paper’s readers. Shop in The Tribune before shop- ping in the shop. THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN MADE HAPPY AT ELKS CHRISTMAS TREE Gifts Handed Out to 4,000 at Annual Fete Yester- day Morning at Big tainment- |. Auditorium; Enter- s Enjoyed. More than 4,000 children were packed into the Elks auditorium Christmas morning to be the guest of the lodge | at the mammoth civic Christmas tree. Every child was given a package containing a gift and all kinds of good things to eat. year for the children of the city. Scores donated the use of their) low which had been roped off to! automobiles in transporting the children between the Elks home and the school buildings, without transportation congregated. ‘The Casper Motor bus line also car- ried hundreds free of charge and the manner in which the children were handled saved their parents, any anxiety. In addition to the Christmas tree proper there was a motion picture show and singing led by H. Roe Bartle. Many members of the lodge | devoted a large part of the morning to helping with the work and earned their reward in the happiness which the children had. Announcement was made today by the Elks that children who lost mittens, gloves.and other articles asked to call at the Elks bujld- ‘ing And claim thelr itpert — Ing been’ found. Harry Yesness, “The Man in the Barrel,” entertained the kids in a novel way in the afternoon by throwing $100 in coins from the top where those) ing The annual event put on by the Elks is) gaining greater popularity each year with the children! and was the biggest affair of the) of his store on West Second street. | ‘The children were in the street be- | prevent traffic interferin; affair. ig with the Twins Left By Santa at Home Here Tuesday Santa Claus was doubly gener of Mr. ous yesterday at the hon and Mrs. Gordon R sent the stork during the noon. When he departed from that happy abode there were twins to Join in the day's festivities. Next year on December 25 there will be a little son and a petite daughter at the Dafoe fireside enjoying Christmas and the celebration of their first birthdays at the same time. Three-year-old Bobbie Dafoe was quite overjoyed at the coming of the new brother and sister. The twins and their mother are all in excellent spirits, and their father, Casper's food and dairy tnspecto-, is waiting until tomorrow before he shows up among his friends with cigars. | | PARALYTIC STROKE FATAL TO HW. DAVIS, PIONEER RESIDENT A paralytic stroke of a few days ‘duration caused the death this morning of Henry W. (Hard Win- ter) Davis, more than 40 years of age, and one of Wyoming's best |known pioneer cattleman, | The jdeath of Mr. Davis occurred at his ranch home near Sussex, Wyo., and |60 milea straigit north of 4 His ‘wife “and several 6 Schnee were at home when he passed away. | Mr. Davis -vas born in’ New Jer- sey. He was ra'sed in the vicnity of Philadelphia., A short time ‘after his marriage he moved to Wyoming and settled on a home-| stock of the Standard O!! company | feeling that Lieutenant Wood's trans- wher he has | of New Jersey just prior to its sensa-| actions were not legitimate, but to stead near Sussex lived for the past 43 years, Mr. and Mrs. Davis raised six children Three of these, Mark J. Davis, Win ! 1 ! | good fortune began in September or] of them. Davis and Mrs. M. Tisdale are mar- ried. The three unmarried child- ‘They still live at the ranch Davis is a Casper resident. | tenant Dealings In Wall St reet and Not In Phil- ippines Responsible for His Suc- cess In Finance World NEW YORK, Dec, 26.—Lieutenant Osborne Cutler Wood, 25 year old, son of Governor General Wood of the Philippines, has admitted m $800,0000 in speculation in aking between $700,000 and Wall Street securities con- ducted by cable from Manila, where he is an aide to his father, says a copyrighted dispatch to the New York Times today. The dispatch, by Richard V. Oula- han, in part, follows: Copyright, 1923, by the New York Times company. “By permission of the New York Timi “MANILA, December 24.—Lieu- Osborne Cutler Wood, son and aide of Governor General Leon- ard Wood, will return to the United States soon, probably by the end of January, with the intention of re- signing his commisison and entering the diplomatic service. “This step is not only in accord with his inclinations, but he ts better able to take it for the reason that he has accumulated enough money through fortunate investments to en: able him to follow a_ diplomatic career independent of salary con- siderations. “Lieutenant Wood's streak of October of last year, when he bought tional rise. Although his capital was extremely smali then, so he told me! such today, the fact that this stock rose) cumulate a fortune so yapidly and to approximaely 60 points gave him profits which placed him in a post-| gossip that Lieutenant Wood's tn ten are Frank, Dorothy 4nd Madge.| tion to mike further investments on) vestments-were im the Phikippines. Mar:: a large. scale. Practically all of them) | were profitable. During his lifetime Mr. Davis was in Continued on Page Seven. | j “While Lieutenant Wood said to- General Wood's attention by me on very active not only as a cattleman, day that he did not know off hand his return ‘or some time stories have been in circulation in New York, Wash- ington, Chicago and Manila that Lieutenant Wood had engaged in heavy investments {n securities and it was reported that he had made de- Posits in New York and Chicago aggregating $2,750,000. “In the course of its circulation the story some times took the phase that these large sums had been sent from the Philippines by Governor General Wood, Nothing ever ap- peared or has been disclosed by in. vestigation here to bear out such an insinuation. On the contrary, ac. cording to what I am assured in the | best informed swurces, Governor General Wood remains a man of mall means, which he ts obliged to conserve with true frugal methods. “It was General Wood also who put an end to Lelutenant Wood's | financial ventures when he learned This attitude on his part is understood not to be due to any the belief that a it was wnwise that young man Jshould ac. | a desire to afford a ground. for “The matter of Leute it Wood's financial operations was Wrought to ON BOARD BIG FRENGH AIRSHIP Seas Are Scoured by Naval Vessels With- out Sign of Great Dirigible, Is Report. PARIS, Dec. 26.—(By The Associated Press) .—Of- ficials at the ministry of ma- tine said today that although they had received many messages reporting the pres- ence of the missing dirigible Dix- mude over various parts of Tunts and they that was the offic last Friday there. It w the seacoast, considered trustworthy the latest news I dispatch from Biskra announcing her arrival at this point that the Dixmde was instructed by wireless Dixmude was instructed by wireless violent storm along the French coast. The message was sent at 11 p. m. Friday, at which hoer the dirig- ible was seen 12 miles from Uled Jellal, 33 miles from Biskra, which {s about 125 miles south of the Medi- ter: ean coast. The Dixmude was then. prozceeding southward. If the airship continued to travel as a>free balloon without help from from his Java trip te Which he made large sums of the exact amount of his profits he) Manila in connection with the resolu- money, but was a ploneer in irriga-| estimated them at between $700,000 | tion of representative Frear calling and $800 000, i (Continued on Page Ten) TWO MEN FATALLY CRUDE PRICES JUMP AGAIN IR PENNSYLVANIA PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 26.—Six; grades of crude oil quoted in the! market here were advanced 25 cents| a barrel today. The Pensylvania! grade in New York Transit company | lines and Bradford district ofl in| National Transit company lines ad- vanced to $310, The new quotation| on Pennsylvania grade oll in Na- tional Transit, South West Pennsyl- vania Eureka and Buckeye Pipe} }lines was $2.85. BANDITS MAKE $30,000 HAUL TULSA, Okla., Dec. 26.—Two un-! masked bandits held up the Gold. | berg. Loan company here, forced William Goldberg and R. D. Hana- walt, the only persons in the office at the time, to open the vault, and escaped today with about $30,000 in cash and diamonds, according to a report to the police. Monument to “Bird Woman’’ Is Proposed WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 26— Senator Warren of Wyoming has introduced a measure which pro- poses to authorize the erection of a monument to the memory of Sacajawea, or Bird Woman, on the Wind River Indian Reservation, in order that fitting recognition of her services may be displayed by the government. Sacajawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedi tion of exploration {n the great Northwest and rendered valuable service to the exploring party as interpreter and guide, died on the Wind River Reservation, and her body Hes there in the Indian bury- ing ground, the grave being de- signated by a modest and inexpen- sive marker such as used in other Places of historic interest along the old Oregon Trail. Senator Warren's joint resolu- tion asks for authority to expend $5,000, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, so that a more suitable memorial may be erected. SIX KILLED AND WOUNDED IN K Deputy Sheriff Among Four Slain In| Gun Fights; Two County Fatally Wounded HAZARD, Ky., Dec. 26.—Perry County’s toll from Christmas shootings stood today at four dead, one in a} ion from bullet wounds and a sixth man in a erious condition in a hospital here. Those killed were: William Smith, deputy sheriff; al dying condi man named Hays, J. D. Matt have come here from Evansville or Loogootee, Indiana, and John Rich- mond, negro, Jerry Dunn is thought to be fatal- ly wounded and the condition of Dennis Phillips is reported to be se- rious, Others In Same | i | | hews, a barber, believed to Deputy Smith was killed Christ-| mas eve in a pistol fight at the home} Workman of Phillips, near Glomar, where the/ killed him with a shotgun ENTUCKY SHOOTINGS officer had gone to quell a disturb- ance. Phillips, wounded by Smith, escaped, but later surrendered. Meanwhile reports of Smith's death reached here and Deputies John Smith, Davison and James Witt started to Phillips’ home. As the trio of deputies passed through Karles, a fire cracker was said to haye been exploded at their feet. Believing they had been fired upon, the officers were said to have directed a volley into a store oper- ated by Dunn. A bullet passed through the storekeeper’s body and struck Matthews, killing the latter. When firing ceased a survey of the building disclosed the body of Hays. Richmond, the fourth man slain was killed Christmas day. James was reported to have when the victim attempted to enter Work- man’s home after the latter had told him to stay away. Mail Pilot to Be Buried at Home in Utah NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Dec. 26. —J. F. “Dinty”’ Moore, North Platt mail pilot killed Monday when his mail plane crashed near Burns, Wyo., will be buried Friday from the home of his wife at Coal- ville, Utah. The body will be ac- companied from Cheyenne to C ville by a delegation of fellow mail pilots. Ags | morning BURNED BY FIRE ‘Three Others Also Victims of Blaze HOBO CAT Caused When Gasoline Is Poured In Stove East of Casper Five men were burned, two of them perhaps fatally, | and the house in which they were located was completely destroyed by fire, at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon on the’! Yellowstone highway 11 miles east of Casper when gaso- | | line was poured into the stove by one of the party who was under the delusion that it was kerosene. Bert Jones and Harold Walker suf- }fered burns over more than Jones {s 21 years of age, Walker two} 26, Carney 24, Worth Snuggs 23, Taal | thirds of the body and are not ex-| Edward Snuggs 25. pected to recover. Hdward Carney, | Edward Snuggs, and Worth Snuggs| of the highway. were burned about the face and fore- .rms and are not considered to be in serious condition, Worth Snuggs were only slightly burned and saia | this morning that he was in no pain. His injuries were received mainly | while he was trying to save his com- | panions and to extinguish the flames which were burning thier clothing. | He was able to luad them into a car and rush them to the county hosp j tal. ye were playing cards |house on my homestead,” he said this morning. ‘The fire got low and | one of the boys piled some wood on it and picked up what he thought {was a can of kerosene in order to {make the fire burn better, It must | have been gasoline for the explosion | wrecked the whole place. “The boys became frightened and rani out into the wind. If they had lain down on the ground and rolled | they wouldn't have been burned so badly.’ Battle Fleet Plays Host to 1,500 Children SAN PEDRO, Calif., Dec | Fifteen hundred youngsters Los Angeles were dined and enter- | tained at a Christmas day celebra- ‘tion held aboard ships of the Pacific battle fleet, at which Santa Claus, as |a part of the program, boarded the flagship U. 8. New Mexico over the admfral's gangway for what was said to be the first time in the his- tory of the navy. The entire fleet was attire for the occasion, from in holiday ‘WAR HEROES | in thol 26.—| | portunities of civil life so attrac’ The Snuggs homestead lies south The house, which is of frame material and contains two rooms, is, set in a hollow. Drs. N. E. Morad and A. P. ball are attending the injured men. GRAVES OF DECORATED PARIS, Dee. 26.—Large numbers of Americans, both tourists and resi- dents of France, decorated the graves of nearly 1,500 unidentified American soldiers in military ceme- teries of France and Belgium on Christmas day. The cemeteries those at Belle visited included u Wood, Seringes, esles, Rommagne, Montfaucpn, hiaucourt, Sous, Suresnes and Waereghem, Belgium, Medical Men Scarce in Navy 1 colleges 2 schools are nd of nurses’ train- finding the op- tive ing the medical department nay in getting for its work. Surgeon General EB. R. Stitt, in uitably trained personnel his annual report, made lay, that, despite gn during th: 00 p» public tod n intensive ar, including sonal letters to young doctors, it was not possible to keep the medical corps up to its s ‘authorized strength. Kim-| i the; ., : y . : is having increased difficulty! Former Premier Venizelos, who is has requested C: | RIDES ON C.&N. W. LANDER, Wyo., Dec. (United Press.) —Lander the king of all cat. Tom Thumb, a’ maltese, follows his chosen life lke any profes- sional “knight of the road.” He plies between Lander and Craw- ford, Neb., hopping any train that handy. Tom pays visits all the stations enroute, but | never falis to catch his train, and | never makes an extended lay-over anywhere but Lander or Crawford. Never yet has he gone to sleep on the job, and been 1 beyond the boundaries of his “run”. When the hobo life gets irksome Tom will dose around the depot platform of Lander for several ys at a time. But the “itch” paws and he more, com- 26.— boasts tramps—a hobo 1 | | | | comes to launches forth manding a cabo position be- cause of his cordial acquaintance on) | with all employes of the railway | Working between the two points. her motors, department officials ex- pressed the opinion that she might cover considerable distance ns it was estimated that she had twelve tons of water on board for ballast, without reckoning her motors and accessories. If she has landed it ts considered improbable that the land- ing could have been effected without accident. Regarding the food on board the dirigib’e, it is stated that in addi- tion to fresh meat and other perish- ablo foods sufficient for three days she carried an elght-day supply of biscuits and an eleven day stock preserved meat, together with 350 allons of water, a three day sup- , and her 12 tons of water bal A revised statement of the number of persons on board given out to- day says the total was 50—four of. rs, 10 officers carrie: passeng- ers and 36 men. 1 Lieutenant Du Plessis de Grenedan, who com- manded the Dixmude, was the offl- ser who brought her from Germany with her German crew when she surrendered under the peace treaty. He has continued to command her ever since, but this was to be his last voyage, as he was about to be promoted. The Dixmude, as Zeppelin L-72, took very little part in the war op erations, She has six cars suspend ed from her main structure, each with a 300 horse power motor. Be- ween September 25 and September 0) she estab'ished a record for a non-stop flight with a total of 118 hours flying M. Faroux, ‘the aviation expert, writing today to L’Auto, takes the loss of the Dixmude for granted and expresses the hope that it will in- duce France to abandon her plan of ty creating a fleet of dirigibles. He quotes Field Marshal Von Hinden- burg’s reminiscences stating that Count Zeppelin admitted that dirig- fbles were out of date as war ma- chines, and declared that the future (Continued on Page Seven) | EX-PREMIER DENIES FETE |Arrival In Greece Must Not Be Made Occasion for Demonstration, Is Word Sent by Venizelos ATHENS, Dec. .26.—(By | Athens on Dec. 2 The Associated Pr leaving Marseilles for olonel Plastiras to pre- lvent a public reception on the ground that it is unfitting that the statemen’s homecoming should assume a “‘triumph- which ant public character his return. In ca be out that bh lande | from which he propo: Ito a night conference with Colonel to mote PPE eR LESTE SE would injure the purpose of I stiras on the outskirts of Athens. « el P ng that ly | wishes former premier, plane | « don Page Seven)