Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 1

CHAUFFEURIS The Weather WYOMING: Unsettled to- night and Friday, probably snow. Colder tonight in south portion. VOLUME Vin. HELD, GLAIMS SELF EFENSE Must Have Been Full of | Hop, Is Victim’s Only Theory of Attack. | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3.—' What drove Mabel Nor-/| mand’s chauffeur to shoot! Courtland S. Dines, Denver oil operator and clubman, in Dines’ apartment here New Year's night in the presence of Miss) Normand and another motion picture | actress, Edna Purviance, today was a matter on which those most int! mately concerned in the shooting | seemed utterly unable to, agree. | Horace A. Greer, the chauffeur, also known as Joe Kelly, in- sisted that he put a bullet through Dines’\ lung in self, defense. The police were equally positive that in- fatuation for Miss Normand, coupled| with an ambition to be her. hero and: protector, led Greer to shoot when balked. in his effort to “rescue’ the actress from Dines: Miss Normand, ignoring her chauf-! feur’s self defense plea, ridiculed the police theory of {nfatuation. with: ‘The man must have Dines, lying on his cot at the Good Samaritan hospital, said he didn't know ‘why in the world that fool ever shot me,” but in the same) breath declared “he must have been! full of hop.” The theory advanced by Miss Pur- viance was that Greer was foolishly jealous enough to have shot any man he might have found in the apart- ment with Miss Normand that night. | Meanwhile Greer remained in the city jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon; Dines was said to! be recovering at the Good Samaritan! hospital; Miss Norman was in the; same hospital suffering from what her physicians termed a nervous breakdown brought. on by excitement and worry; and Miss Purviance was) resting at home after announcing| that reports of her engagement to! Dines were not entirely unfounded. “Mr. Dines and I were engaged— and yet we were not engaged, if you! understand what I mean,” she to'd newspaper men last night, explaining | that while the Denver man had “never given me an engagement ring, there was an understanding be- tween us that we would be married. “I am not ashamed to say that I am most terribly fond of him,” she! added. Charlie Chaplin, who starred Miss} Purviance recently in a picture of his direction, and who was reported to have decided to use her as femi- nine lead in his next comedy, an- nounced today that it is porsible some one else may take the role, but denied that the publicity arising from the Dines shooting would influence his choice, “It was unfortunate for Miss Pur- (Continued on Page Seven.) | bedded 30 PERISH | DINES SHOOTING JEALOUSY THEORY RIDICULED HARBIN, Manchuria, Jan. 3.— (Correspondence of The Associated Press-—The first sentence of death ever pronounced against a white man in a Chinese court, one im- posed by the Harbin District tri- bunal upon Alexis Korniloff, has. created a tremendous sensation in the foreign community. For a time there was talk of an attempt to rescue Korniloff by force from the jail. He has appealed. Korni- loff, a noted desperado, is said to be of a good Russian family. The trial was dramatic, in keep- ing with Korniloff’s career, which at times has bordered on the cine- matographic.. Fearing a possible attempt at liberation of the prison- er, the hour of opening court was kept secret. Witnesses were sum- moned unexpectedly at dawn, court officers wakening many from sleep. The prisoner was guarded heavily and the court STATE SHARE IN ROYALTIES [ED INBILL WASHINGTON, ‘Jani The state of Wyoming would be given 20 ‘pery cent of ‘all edsh royalties’ from’ the lease of Teapot Dome under a bill in- troduced: today by Senator Kendrick, Democrat, Wyoming. BANDIT WHO SHOT MINER IS CAPTURED DENVER, Colo., Jan. 3.—Shot by a holdup he resisted during the at- tempted robbery of a soft drink parlor at Hartville, Wyo., early Monday morning. Charles Argeros, a Greek coal miner of Hartville, was taken through Denver today to the /hospital, at the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo, where he will undergo an operation. Argeros has two bullets from the gui of the alleged holdup man im- in his brain, The bandit, according to George Argis and Gus. Kavas, companions of the injured man, was captured by Sheriff George Burkhardt of Platte county, Wyoming, after a 25 miles chase. Argeros refused to comply. with the demand of the holdup man that he hold up his hands, countering with the remark that. the allege bandit wasn't big enough to make him do it, according to Kavas. The bandit replied by firing’ twice at Argeros and then is said to have started a systematic search of all of the patrons of the place. peaks ee Ne ©. P. Wheeler of Cleveland, 0., is here on business for a few days. He will leave Sunday for Salt Lake City and San Francisco. WHITE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY CHINESE FOR THE FIRST TIME room picketed inside and out by armed men. Korniloff was charged with escaping from the court room during a previous trial, murdering a Chinese Constable and two secret Service agents, and attempted mur. der of two other police officials. denied participation in any of the aJllings, but blaming them on a companion in the escape. ected ase cach SLAYER MUST DIE MARCH 2 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3.—The ex: ecution of Aurelio Pompa, 22, con- victed and sentenced in March, 1923, for the murder of William Donald- son McKue, a carpenter, was yester- day set for March 2, in superior court here by Judge Russ Avery. Pompa heard the death penalty imposed without emotion, but his aged mother broke down and was escorted from the court room. Testi: mony showed that Pompa had slain McKue in a quarrel which started over a carpenter tool. Pompa is said tebe former~official of Mexican gov- ernmeft, now dead. He was con- victedl last March after a previous jury had disagreed. He failed in an appeal. the son of a THAW REPORT IS CONFIRMED i | Korniloff admitted the escape but | CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924 UNSOLVED; WHITNEY TELLS (aos) MeO iF, OTIS 4 i i | FINANCING OF OIL COMPANIES ‘Purchase of H eavy WASHINGTON, Jan. and a considerable interest in the Sinclair Oi company’ were purchas- ed by him in October and November, | 1922, Mr. Whitney said, in three blocks, ,For the first block com- prising 50,000 shares of Mammoth and 5,000 shares of Sinclair oil, -he said he gave “adequate securities In exchange” including 8,000 Standard| Oil of New Jersey 2,000 Standard Of} of New York, and 6,000 Reynolds! Tobacco. The second block of 50,000, shares of Mammoth, he said, cost $1,025,000. and the third, of 65,000 shares, was obtained in exchange for 23,000 res of Reynolds Tobacco. Mrs” Mr. Whitney was. called, the committee decided to ask Ed ward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post tovappear before it} later and testify regarding a loan of! 33 PEARLS ARE FOUND |, IN PATTIE} VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 3.— Thirty-three pearls were found in an oyster attie yesterday by Ernest M. Allen, son of the su- preme court registrar here. He | purchased the oyster pattie at a local restaurant. Plans for Fight for Rlease From Asylum! Followed by Announcement of Damage Suit Settlement NEW: YORK, Jan. 3.—Confirmation of reports that! Harry K. Thaw would seek his freedom from a Philadel- phia asylum to face charges of having whipped Frederick | |Gump, Jr., of Kansas City in a New York hotel in 1917 today was followed by announcement that Gump would | agree to settle a $650,000 civil damage suit against Thaw out of court and indications that he would let the criminal charge lapse. Shortly after Bartholomew B. Coy- ne, a New York lawyer representing oo SS le | | BERT JONES IS |Thaw had confirmed reports that he | would goon institute in the Pennsyl- | vania courts proceed'ngs to have his . |client declared sane, he went into The funeral of Bert Jones was held! from the Mark’s Episcopat} chureh at 2 o'clock this afternoon, | the Rev. Philip K, Edwards officiat-| ing. Mr. Jones died recently as a result of severe burns. The funeral of Joseph Nolan, two- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J, Nolan of Mills, was held from the Shaffer-Gay chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon, The Rev. Father J ‘F.| Moreton officiated. conference with Frank P. Walsh representing Young Gump, wh father is a wealthy mantfacturer. The announcement concerning the civil suit settlement then was made by Walsh, who said that his client was married two months ago and | now was living in California. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Bartholo- mew B. Coyne, a New York lawy who for several years, has repr sented Harry K. Thaw, today di nitely confirmed reports that h WAR ON LIQUOR DRINKING BY OFFICIALS IS OPENED Congress Should Clean House, Upshaw Declares In Urging Resolution On Floor of the House WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Drastic action to put a stop to. alleged liquor drinking by members of congress and other high government officials and to prevent leakage of “diplomatic” liquors into bootleg channels was de- manded today by Representative Upshaw, Democrat, His demand was embodied in a resolution and have liquor illegally acquired in his office.” He also suggested that all federal cabinet Georgia. @ speech. Mr. Upshaw said congress should “clean around its own doors by passing a resolution declaring per- sons non grata to the floor of the house any member found under the influence#of liquor in the capitol or house office building, or known to appointees, of- ficials, army diplomatic and consular representa- tives abroad, bo required to give a pledge of total abstinence. ‘The “ex- ecutive guillotine,” he added, should including | be used on all government officials known to drink liquor, In reference to “@iplomatic” I-/dences and offices intoxicating quor, Mr. Upshaw said: “The flagrant abuses of diploma- tic immunity on the part of many of the attaches of foreign legations and embassies puts into Italics the|lay or equivocation that the White necessity for revoking a privilege| that should never have been allowed | under our national prohibition. Re- cent investigation have convinced me that some of these diplomats would be heartily glad to be relieved of the expense and all their other troubles and responsibilities for lquor tm. munity. I am introducing a bill to relieve them of their Bacchalalian temptations in our prohibition land.” Geo % representative ex- essed the opinion that the state department should respectfully re. quest that discontinue sending to this country diplomatic and consular representa- all foreign govérnments} fluence upon our official and social} life by dispensing from their resi- i quors prohibited by to American citizens. If he were president, Mr. Upshaw sald, he “would declare without de-| our laws House shall be dry, the president! shall be dry, all his appointees shall| be dry, and I here and now call for the immediate resignation of every| executive appointee, including army, naval and cabinet officers who drink| the liquor that has been founey| by the constitution of our country. “I have faith in President Coolidge —faith in his character, faith in his courage,” continued Mr. Upst “but I want him to give me a | th—I want him to give the |country a larger faith in his dynamic| Initiative by using the executive guillotine on the head of every drink-| ing official within his appointive tives who exert a demoralizing in.’ power.’ Mammoth and Sinclair Concerns Are Detailed On Stand 3.—Harry New York banker and sportsman, told the senate public lands committee today of his part in floating corporations organized by Harry F. Sinclair, to operate the lease of Teapot Dome Naval oil reserve. IGPORTA. A total of 55,000 shares of the Mammoth Oil company | ¢rine jess than $1,000,000 has been |BiX of the Stock Holdings In| Payne Whitney, of precipitation and Temperature Range Is 90 In December With a temperature range of from 55 degrees above zero on the 16th to 35 degrees below on the 3ist., December presented a wide range of climate. The weather re- port tabulated by George S. Me- Kenzie, showed a total snowfall of 17% inches and a total precipita- tion of 1.64 inches. There were eight days with .01 or more inches the heaviest was on the 29th. when there was 0.88 inches, During the month there were 21 clear days, two partly cloudy and eight cloud: ————— PROFITS IN LIQUOR ARE DIVIDED UP B. Cc. Jan. A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County.and State Che Casper Daily Tribune INJURED FILL HOSPITALS NUMBER 60 EXPLOSION OF ILLINOIS TOWN ‘Fire Follows Blast and Adds to Horrors of Death Dealing Tragedy In Corn $100,000 he made to former Secretary, qistributed by the British Colum- | Albert B. Fall who was head of the! interior department when the Teapot Dome lease was signed In addition to the stock owned out- right, Mr. Whitney said he had “taken a 00 share interest" in the Mammoth oil syndicate, which Mr.| Sinclair has testified was organized to carry out the lease. “What was the object of the syn-| dicate?” Asked _ Senator Walsh, | Democrat, Montana. “I don’t know,” said Mr. Whitney, “I was inyited to participate and it gave me a chance to get that ad. ditional stock ‘on payment of the ‘amount of call, which was. $10 a} share. Of course, I was lable for the balance any time.’ He said the price to be paid under| (Continued on Page Seven) ' client, the slayer of Stanford White, | now in a Philadelphia asylum, would soon seek his freedom. Mr. Coyne's announcement fol- lowed printed reports from Phila- delphia that if he succeeded in hav- ing himself declared sane, Thaw would surrender to the New York authorities to face charges of hav- ing whipped Frederick Gump, Jr. son of a Kansas City manufacturer, in a New York hotel in 1917. Tho Coyne statement also followed nials of Philadelphia attorneys rep- resenting the Thaw family that any efforts would be made to have Thaw declared sane in the Pennsylvania courts. Philadelphia, 3.—Former} Judge James Gay Gordgn, counsel for Mrs, Mary Copley Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw, indicated today that any attempt to have Thaw re-| leased from Pennsylvania hospital! for, mental and nervous diseases | would be opposed. RAIL CONSTRUCTION: = CLAIMS IN DISPUTE: CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 3.—The White “& Johnson Construction company, in a suit filed in United States court here against the Wyo- | ming North & South Railroad aye pany, Roberts Bros. and Pete Shirley & Gunther, claims $78,102. for construction work on the North & South railroad. The work, the pleadings relate, was done on verbal | orders. Fry FuneralWill | Be Held Saturday) The funeral of Mrs. Fry who died y erday will be at 2 o'clock § the Shaffer-Gay chapel, on Friday as announced | Edward D.| hela yesterday. | Dia government to the municipall- te: | big of the province during the last | number 33, the starch powder house, Starch Plant PEKIN, Ul. 3.—Dumb | Sorrow and tf r held the littlo | city of Pekin in its grasp at noon | today, as the list of dead or miss- PEKIN, Ills., Jan. Between 20 and 35 dan. starch building in the Pekin 3a |Refining company early today. At 10a. m., m identified, had been recovered. At that hour two buildings of the plant were in ruins. Building week, according to figures made |where the blast occurred, being re. public by the department of |duced to a mass of smouldering de finance. bris, and building number 27, the The share of liquor profits for |starch house, still blazinz, its walls the last six months and of the pari mutuels and motor taxes for the last year amounted to $983, 090, a large incrense over the dis- tribution made in 1922, when $909,- 654 was given to the cities and or- ganized districts. The money distributed last week included the following items: IAiquor profits for six months ending September 30, $466,231; share of motor taxatién for’ the Jast twelve months $293,666, and share of taxation on race track betting $223,593. Extravagance or Economy Does the reading of advertising induce extravagance? The careful, intelligent reading of advertising—comparing offer- ings and prices—knowing the in- stitutions whe: PERFORM CE follows PROMI -—leads to econ- omy in the big job of making a moderate income cover needs and reasonable wants. Extravagance is buying on im- pulse without due regard for whether the item is needed, with- out investigation as to the best thing to buy under the circum- Stances and without the complete information so easily had by fol- lowing the store news. ‘TRAVAGANCE is bound to follow embarking on a shopping expedition in the stores without first shopping in the newspaper. Responsible and _ trustworthy mercha| announce the latest store news daily in the advertising columns of The Tribune and these announcements are for your guid- ance. MORE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED The new year has been started off in Casper by the issuing of more than $30,000° worth of bullding permits. The firm of ‘Larson and Jourgen- | sen are the contractors for a $15,000 duplex house to be erected by J. E. Keith et al..on Oak Crest avenue between Divine and Eleventh. A permit for his structure was taken out yesterday. Excavation work for the proposed completed, and a permit was taken out yesterday for the construction of the basement cost $16,000. 200 Men Added to proximately 200 men ha ded to the Union Pacific shops for: bere during the last three days. | standing but giving off h at so in- tense that no efforts could be made to search for bodies.‘ BODIES BURNED AND MANGLED PEORIA, Ills, Jan. 3.—Between 25 and 85 men aro believed dead and more than a hundred others injured in a terrific dust _ explosion at the starch plant of the Corn Products Company at Pekin today. Tt was estimated it would be sew eral hours before the ruins could. be penetrated and the bodies removed. Eighty injured, many of them badly mangled, had been removed from the wreckage by eight o'clock and taken to hospitals in Pekin and Peoria. Two hundred and fifty men were working in the plant. With the estimates on the known dead running as high as thirty-five, six men had been identified as dead. Fire kept rescuers from’ removing bodies, which could be seen in the blazing ruins and it is feared many bodies will be burned The identified dead are: George Harms, Pekin. Lee Harding. 45, Pekin. Louls Schmidt, Pekin. William Rumler, Pekin. John Hooper, Pekin. William Vogelsan, Pekin. The Corn Products Compan plant, known as the sugar fac | | Eighth streets has been practicaliy | who w; U. P. Shop Payroll |x | the ory ince it was built 24 years ago, was the prin cipal industry of Pekin. It was built by The Hlinols Sugar Refining Company. About 18 years ago the plant was sold to the Corn Products Company and since has been enlarg- ed many times. It was one 6f the finest equipped plants of its kind in the country, the factory having re- cently been enlarged and improved at a cost of $1,500,000. It was safe- guarded by all the known safety ap- pliances and this is the first serious accident at the plant. The plant employed about eight- hundred men. The 250 at work in the starch house when the explosion occurred were members of the night shift which went on at 11 o'clock last night. Among the victims also were workers on the next shift, due to go on duty at 4 a. m. The cause of the blast has not yet Near Peoria ing in the dust explosion at Corn Products company plant here mounted and perhaps may pass the number of forty. 3.—(By The Associated Press).— 3 K persons were killed and 100 injured, according to estimates, in an explosion and fire in the plant of the Corn Products seven bodies, been determined, but it ts bellevea t was caused by a dust explosion. The explosion was so terrific that several box cars alongside the plant were shattered blown off the tra The force wrecked the starching dopartment, table and re- te houses and the kin house, causing more than $500,000 damage to these departments. Immediately a call for help was ia, eleven miles away Peor'a firemen, doct and police, with ambulances, were rushed to Pekin. When the Pekin hospital was filled with injured, the others were rushed to Peoria hospitals as fast se they were taken from the wrecked plant At 7 o'clock the Pekin fire dep mont apparently had the fire control and none of the oth ings of the big plant danger. An undetermined number of bodies are believed to be in the runs of the wrecked starch plant building, according to unofficial reports reach. ing here by telephone. Fire broke out after the explosion. Rescuers could see the bodies of ap- Proximately between 25 and 35 vic- tims lying In the ruins, but the flames prevented attompts to reach the bodies, bulla. appeared in CALM WORK Trapped in the third floor of the burning Pekin plant, Frank Licht- weiss, 26. Peoria, sang to his fellow workers for nearly an hour to calm them and when the last retreat was cut off, he jumped from a window of the blazing building. Lichtweiss was at work on the third floor when the explosion oo- curred that soon made the building 1 seething furnace. He has a good voice and some of his companions went to their death with the strains of songs in thelr memory. He did not jump until all the men who were able to leave the floor had done so. He was severely burned with an in- jury to his eyes and 1s in a hospital here. pie Re Ae WASHINGTON, secretary of the interior, would be authorized under a resolution in- troduced today by Senator Phipps, Republican, Colorado, to defer col- amation charges ac- ing due before Jan- uary 1, Interest at six per- cent would run on deferred pay- ments. OIL FOREMAN NEAR DEATH Burns Received by Max Hosuis, Mam- moth Company Foreman at Salt Creek, Will Prove Fatal Hope for the recovery of Max Hosuis, production fore- | Presbyterian church at Center and |man for the Mammoth Oil company in the Salt Creek field, as burned in an explosion of gas Tuesday, was prac- tically abandoned this morning, according to word receiv- The basement witi ed from the Union hospital there. | be 100 by 128 feet in size and will|/ougs during the night and toda [next r the burns he had received were such that would make his recovery | ® matter of very small chance. The injured man was burned when he st a fire in the > in but night and) w kitchen rar the Mr. Hosuis was deliri- » and it wag thought that uck the match, He was burned ove eral parts of his body. M Hosuis was sleeping in the or Th pre Jo School sition ach He