Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1924, Page 1

| The Weather WYOMING: Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Not so cold Saturday in north- west portion. VOLUME Vin. Che Caz Commander Is Selected For HANGING GOSTS IOUT $70,000 IN INSURANCE ~ TESTIFIES 10 WASHINGTO: Jan. 4—Stock sa'es, transfers and exchanges which brought the Hyva corpora- tion a present bank credit balance jot $2,000,000 were detailed to th World Flight WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Major Frederick L. Martin, commanding officer of the air service techni- cal school, Chanute Field, Ilinols, has been selected to command the army air squadron which will at- H ; blic lands committee to * 4} tempt around the world flight | S¢nate pu P. it | day by Harry F. Sinclair, oll pro- next sprit $ 3 Supreme enalty Paid Lieutenant Lowell 3. eimtth; [Stee sind: lem’ Of the Teapdt 1 i Rockwell Fie’, San Diego, Cali | Dome naval oil reserve. By Californian for fornia: -Laebisient Lelew -Whdei:| Git Stoomitc | Gd, mot. vepeds.tha | McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, and | Protest made on his last appear- Brutal Killing. FOLSOM, Calif., Jan. 4.— ance against being called upon to ‘answer questions concerning the |“private business affairs’ of him- self and his associates. He told of Lieutenant Erik H. Nelson, air nervice liason officer askigned to the office of chief of air service, will act as pilots. | : Lieutenant Leslie Pamold, at |the transfer to the Hyva corpora- Alex A. Kels, confessed Bolling Field, D, C., and Lieuten- |tlon of 1,000,000 shares of the Mom- slayer of an aged wandering| j7, Tb. Schulze of Mount |moth Ol! company, organized to op. worker near Lodi, Calif.,| ciemens, Mich., air field, were |@rate the Teapot Dome lease, and |Said that Hyva purchased outright from the Mammoth 191,200 addition- al shares for $3,250,000. Hyva sold 100,000 shares for $3,000,000 he said, and 50,000 shares, with a block of Sinclair Consolidated to H. P. Whit- |ney for securities which later were | disposed of for’ $3,250,000. Sept. 12, at last paid the pen-| alty on the gallows at the state prison here this morning. He went to his death niling. The trap was sprung at 10:06 o'clock and Kels was pronounced dead 10 min. Utes and 45 seconds later. Kels, involved financia’ly to the extent of $70,000, conducted a meat Califom He designated as alternate pilots. The officers have been ordered to proceed immediately to Lang- ley Field, Virginia, for a special course of training. They are all record holders and pilots of wide having had from 1,400 00 flying hours, and in some instances having flown more than 00,000 miles. STILL SEWED IN AUNCH AMD An wll night’ raid Thursday by market at) Lodi, told the court when he appeared for ser.tence that he had more than $75,000 in Mfe insurance and that} he killed the man he had hired to| work on his farm and burned the body in hopes that it would’be iden- | tified as own. | He disay red September 12, 1922) ‘The body Water was buried as that Robbers entered the grocery store of Peter Melins at 307 West A street sorie. time “Thursday,.exening and - 5 with the si Nvotfice brought to light eRe hetae tr safo, escaped a 50 gallon ‘stiN 1¢éated on tHe Jonn | §1, ' Svare ranch, 10 mtiles:southwest of |Ucovered that would lead to the the city.’ The! deputies located the !dentity of the men who her the ae stillhouse but found that. the’ still] The robbers aon d 6 : had been recent!'y moved and the| “or of the store with a pass key, mash barrels emptied. The atill|broke the glass'in a second doof to was found hidden in the underbrush |two miles from the stillhouse, . No} liquor was found... | | The raid foljowed the arrest ecar-} gom-'jier in the, evening of Frank Omer} palegt gp bave-sher,. hus S$ $8D-\ and Michael MeKenna in a house tence commuted to lfe imprison-|, West A street. There was sev- made to see if he showed traces of oral gallons of Mquor in. the -house insanity. Governor Richardson nd-\ nq ‘numeous empty: bottles. Omer| vised Mrs. Kelas this week -that he’ ong McKenna are being held for | could not find any evidence which | },.iminary hearing. It is believed’ id warrant commutation of the 4 the sheriff's office that’ they and) sentence. not Svare, ‘the ranch owner, were One ‘insurance company announc-! the operators of the still, ed it would pay Mrs. Kels the in- surance Kels carried, but another recently attempted to have Mrs arrested ‘BureKa,- caitf rich the muzal gun in his mouth, just} ar he ut to pull the trigger. | Ke's . refused to employ-legal counsel and October 10 was sentenced to death. His wife was ill the time of his arrest and ehe not advised that he was alive untib after he was in prison. | A few weeks ago she gave birth to a boy whom she named Alex A. Kels, Jr. Mrs Kels waged a vigorot _A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unb ROBBERS MAKE $1,200 HAUL IN RIFLING GROCERY STORE HERE cash. No clues shave ‘been: CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1924 é STOCK DEALINGS “What sum remains to the credit of Hyva from these deals?” aske Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana) “About $2,000,000," sald the wit ness, The price of the stock distributed to the 15 members of the Mammi Oll Syndicated group averaged §1 a share, Mr. Sinclair said. analyzed the composition and hold ings of the Selah corporation, another of his subsidiaries. He excused from the stand with the as surance from the members of the committee that his return probably would not be required. W. H. McFarren, a surveyor in the general land office, was calle; scribe the history of sections 36 in the naval reserve number 1 California. by t sect d to de- 16 and Charges have been madd he former witnesses that these ions were illegally patented, since they were known to be bearing” when title was passed. The (Continued on Page Eleven.) open it and’ then worked the com: bination on the safe. Both the po- lice department. and: the Office are gvorking on the case. ‘The robbers @lso made an’ entrance, through a ‘partition. doot intd. the United Bakery which is located in the. same. building. Five dollars in cash was taken form the till, but this is the only thing reported mis- sing from that establishment. He also! “mineral | Kels accept the amount Kels’ had paid-in premiums, This she re- fused to do. | Kels safd that he killed the labor-| er and disappeared so that Mrs. | Kels would be able to claim the in- surance and would not have to wor- ry as to the future. Wood’s Plunge | | Taken Through LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4.—How and why and when a Chicago Broker |25 calibre pistol belonging to Mabel. Normand, motion | picture actress, found its way into the hands of the chauf- /feur who used it to shoot and seriously wound Courtland Probed for Explanation CHICAGO, Jan. 4—The bulk of Lientenant Osborne C. Wood's stock market operations were with reput-! able Chicago houses and not in| occu: Wall street, agcording to Frank 11. | Beyin, vice president and general! manager of Bishop's Service, Inc., who said anjinvestigation of Lieu: tenant Wood's trading in LaSalle t had been made here. i } | | Miss Normand, in whose presence the shooting occurred was recavering at the Good Samarfan hospital from an operation for chronic appendicitis, performed yesterday, while, Dines 1s FIRE DAMAGES MUTUAL PLANT Nothing suggestive of any irregu-|in the same hospital recovering AT GLENROCK larity "had been found, Mr, Bevin| from a mild attack of pneumonia re-| \ | Sid. He declaredyhowever, that‘ the | sulting from the bullet wound in hi ement of Lieutenant Wood, who|lung. Both patients, it was an- an aide to his father, Governor | nounced early today, were “resting GLENROCK, Wyo.) Jan. 4.—!General Leonard Wood, of the| very comfortably. (Sp¢clal to The Tribune.)— The! Philippines, that he never possessed Interest in the small bore shooting| breaking) of a charging Mne early} this. motning at ‘thes Mutual ‘Oir| company, refinery heré resulted, in damage %o one of the battery of coking tills amounting to about $1,500. No one was injured, accord- ing to @ statement from the plant superintendent. An hour and a half paesedy béfore the blaze was xtinguished. more than $700,000 or $800,000, “ig somewhat contrary to rather defi. nite impressions existing in certain quarters in Chicago.” The inquiry here was entirely in- dependent of one made by Bishop's iron with which Dines was shot was revived late yesterday when Miss Normand’s chauffeur, Horace Greer, told police that Mrs. Edith» Burns, the actress’ companion, knew. that he carried a pistol when he went to Serylee in New York into the oil| Dines’y apartment, and warned him stock transactions of Leonard Wood | to bel‘careful.” Lievtenant Wood's brother, Mr. |. Both Mrs. Burns and Miss Bevin said. Nor- mand insisted Wednesday that th RESCUE SQUADS BRAVE DANGER IN SEARCHING RUINS. FOR MORE DEAD PEKIN, Ill., Jan.'4.—More than a score of boidies are still buried in the ruins of part of the plant of the Corn Product company here, where an explosion early yes- terday morning caused the death of upwards of 40 employes and serious injuries to 28 more. Rescuers, working in the ice-covered debris of the wrecked buildings are in constant danger from tottering walls and may consume days before the last bodies ere found. One building of the $20,000,000, homes. plant thas collapsed completely and| covered are expected to be unrecog| her, ‘state fire marshal, attributed {t two adjoining plants were swept by|nizable and may never be identitied./ |, Sn eapicbian OM AGaL ptetlae tack fire, which was stil being fought] ‘Throughout the hours of the night,|'° °" ©xPiGsn pee last night, and partially wrecked by|in the bitter cold while the rescuers| recent explosion in a plan he Most of the bodies when re- ist for the company. John G. Gam. the explosion. Streams of water|dug into the wrecka groups of|same company at Argo, Illinois, ana| directed at the smouldering ruins| watching’ women waited outside tho| another at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. covered them with a thick sheet of| steel fence surrounding the plant. | Nearly all of the dead were ico, Which has added to the difficul-| | Several tes of the searchers. | for th@ explosion. A spark from aj had families, explanations are offered) Americans and at least 26 of them S. Dines, of Denver, here New Year’s night continued to py. the attention of police detectives today. had no idea how Greer could have obtained the pistol. “Why, I mentioned the pistol to Mrs. Burns at least three weeks be: fore New Year's,” Greer asserted. he told me she was afraid Miss Normand might use it and I asked | her to get it for me and told her I | Would put it away where I could get it if they needed it in the house.”* When Mrs. Burns after telephon- ing Dines' apartment shortly before the shooting, turned to Greer and said: “See, he won't let her come home,” the chauffeur thought that this was atime when “they needed’ the pistol, and thereupon ran into Miss Normand’s bed room and took it. So he told the police, when Mrs. Burns was questioned again last night she jat first denied positively having made such a remark but later ad- mitted that she might have said something to that effect. Greer sald he had also discussed) the pistol with Miss Betty. Cross, Miss Normand’s private secretary,| and had asked her to get the weapon| for him so that he could “put it away. “She refused, however, he told| the police, with the remark: | “No, Miss Normand looks for the| gun every night.” | MAN HUNTED. THREE MONTHS 1S ARRESTED. Harry Jennings was arrested on Thursday night by the sheriff's office on a bench warrant that has been hanging fire since October 6 last. Jennings was | } | according to the Red The plant. which covers 20 : hi héck is being made to} drive Wheel was the cause in the| Cross. te soe | (Continued on Page Four) tdentify the men missing front their | opinion of S, 8. Sherwin, chief chem-| H implicated in the sta that time and was wanted on al liquor selling charge. } Several others involved in the} raids at that .time ,have not yet M = 0a)” | | Pittsburgh In It was expected the Ohio | weather bureau expected would be a most disastrous flood. } Mills along the streams had bee }compelied to shut down, throwing | hundreds of men out of employment. At day break streets in the lower {north side section were under two feet of water, Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks were submerge: bringing freight movements to a standstill and several industrial {plants were forced to close. CINCINN. BURNS FATAL TO WAX HOSUL Max Hosuis, 26 wears of age, died ; afternoon as a result of burns re. explosion occurred in his home. escaping for some time. Hosui . Another relat him is a Wrother who resides in British Honduras. This brother will arrive here soon, and then it will be determined whether the body will be shipped to Honduras or to London. The remains are now at the Muck Funeral home. Dont’ Gamble Ever: you ei time you buy something “take chance" or you go to an institution that has been tr 1 and proved by the white light of publicity. Eyery wise merchant knows that it is the “repeats” that pay so they do not take a chance on losing the good will of the cus- tomer. Advertised value, to stand the @st must be true. v: In other words, worthwhile institutions has come to be a sort of assurance of your money's worth. The Tribune has watched its advertisers grow greater and stronger through constant con- tact with, and fair treatment of, its army of readers. SHOP IN. THE TRIBUNE BE- FORE SHOPPING IN THE SHOPS. eee eee: 18 PERISH ON FISHING BOAT VIGO, Spain, Jan. 4 ighteen Persons were drowned off this port today when a fishing boat was cap- sized by huge waves. Seven were saved. BABYLON, ¥., Jan. 4.—As the Atlantié off the coast of Ireland subsided today from the storm which raged all of yesterday, coast guardsmen cruised about looking for the bodies of nine men believed to have been drowned last night. E. arth ‘Sho cks In Italy Alarm ANCONA, Italy, Jan. 4.—(By The Associated Press.)—Slight earth shocks continue to terrify the popu lation of this district, especially in the: towns of Senigallia. Fano, Mon- dolfo and Marotta. ‘The residents, ing left their homes, a amp- in the open air and are suffer ing greatly because of the cold weather. One report says a sm crater sending forth lava, ha been found but will eventually be picked up. opened on the slope of Mount Sasso near Fano. MEEOIS EL As dustrial Plants Forced to Shut Down by Encroachment of Waters From the Ohio PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4.—Flood waters of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, pouring into the Ohio, reached the crest today when a stage of 27.3 feet was The timely arrival of a cold snap prevented what the | -jcold gripped the narthwest today,| at a hospital in Salt Creek yesterday ceived New Year's day when a gas The deceased had struck a match to light a stove from which gas had been is survived by a widow whom he “had been married for ‘hree months at the time of his ve who survives iased, and a Booster for City, County and State t Daily Tritmae DITION NUMBER 61 _ Queen of Car Thieves Gets D Seven Months e o-called automobile theft recently convicted in United States court here of trans. porting a stolen automobile from Denver to Cay r, Thursday was sentenced b: T. B, Ken nedy to seven onths imprison ment in the Laramie county jail here. She has been in jail since July 12, which was taken into consideration in pronouncing sen tence. reported. ! D, Earhart and William’ Collier would begin to fall. both of Cheyenne, pleadéd guilty of vio'ation of the Federal p bition law and were se | respectively, to fines of $20 nunexpected cold wave which swept! $100 Cincinnati last night d sent the SET ae ERTS mercury down to approximately ten degrees above zerc threatened serious , flood, according to W. C. Devereaux, weather fore- caster, The Ohio river here registe: ed 52 feet, flood stage. prevented a BANDIT KILLS MALE VICTIM PASAD liam Jacobson re | Jan. 4.—Biting} ST. PAUL, Minn., 4—wi shot and kill witn Minot N. D. reporting the low i bandit appeared, the girl told police PRODUCTION COSTS USED FOR TARIFF PURPOSES HELD SECRET WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Items entering into the cost of production filed with the tariff commission form part of the “trade secrets’ \of those furnishing»them and are pro- tected by law, the tariff commission said today, in filing answer to a suit brought by the Norwegian Nitrogen Products Company of New York. The Norwegian company seeks. to compel the commission to disclose information in relation to the cost of production of sodium nitrate as of Seattle, Washington, for an in. grease of fifty per cent {n impor: duties, Asking that the cose be dismissed the tariff commission asserted th opinion “that thé Norwegian ce: is the exclusive agent of Norwegian corporation manufactur. ing nitrate which had declined its business when requested, GUN MAY HOLD CLUE IN DINES CASE Chauffeur’s Possession of Pistol Belong- ing to Mabel Normand Being \chautfeur Arraigned fer ‘Assault With | Intent to Kill and Preliminary Hear- ing Set for January 11 LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 4.—Horace A. Greer, the slim little chauffeur who drives for Mabel Normand, film actress, appeared alone without counsel before Justice J. Walter Hanby today for arraignment on the charge of as- saulting Courtland S. Dines, Denver Oil operator, on New Year’s night, with a deadly weapon “with intent to kill.” Greer’s bail was fixed at $10,000) shot is resting easily following her and his preliminary examination ‘set operation 5 rday for ap for January 11, provided Dines 's/ according to an announcement in condition then to appear as aj r: the hospital of the Good witness against the prisoner. | where both are under In default of bail, the chauffeur| tre was removed to the county jail. ac Dines is holding his own and Miss| tenda is c Normand, with Dines when he was! than he was MOVIE STAGE IS DESTROYED: LOSS $200,000 LOS AN Jan od night this morning. SLAYER DIES ON GALLOWS a | 4.—Fire | z SALEM, Oregon, Jan. 4.—George which started 1:30 o'clock this} Parker, slayer of Sheriff W. J. Dun. morning on the property of che! lap of Linn county, w anged at Univer: Film company, at Uni-|the state penitentiary this versal City near here, destroyed the| The trap was sprung at 8: west stage, including the Von/and Parker was pronounced dead at Stroheim set, causing a damage esti-| 8:46 a.m. The murder was com mated at $200,000. ‘mitted May 20, 1923. shown in an application by the Am- erican Nitrogen Products Company dirclose to the commission details of FIELD CONTROL KELS GOES TOFLOOD MENACE IS|tnocm TRAP SMILINGLIFTED BY COL SINCLAIR LAYS ASIDE PROTEST; ALL DISTRICTS WRESTED FROM FEDERAL ARMY, AEPORT STATES Sale of Munitions to the Obregon Govern ment Presents Diffi- cultyRegarding Payments GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 4.—All of the Mexican oil fields are now in the Posses- sion of the rebels, according to an officiai dispatch re- ceived here today by Adolfo Jiminez from De quarters at V Huerta head- est temperature, 33 degr below | ed by a bandit hy ly today when nt Meee he me meng Sf zero. Fargo and Grand Forks re-| he tried to protect his fin arid theleity in expected tang tame | ported 25 below. | Ethel Todd, 18, from the m within two days.” Prieto Tanne Other below zero temperatures re-| vances after the latter had he who" was ise ir: bekeon ent ported Were: Winona, Minn, 27:\up and robbed them. They were|\\" Sethitaten oe cas Cena Watertown 8. D. Huron, sitting in an automobile, planning| vices said BOVTROFs the ad- Sloux Falls 20 and Duluth Minn., 19.| thelr wedding next week, when the| ” et ee Sfece Melle 20 asia'Du waurenz, head of the Co-ope.atista party, is directing De La Huerta at Ve deposition as governor of the state of San Luis Potosi was one of the es leading to the revolt WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The United States government has sold 5.000 ‘Enfield rifles, mode! 1917 million rounds 30 calibre rifle munition; and eight airplanes to the Obregon government of Mexico. MUNITIONS 1. HOLDS PROBLE: WASHING? t BI ME. Jan, 4 Als ugh nothing has developed to af. fect the America: government's de- isien to sell war materials to the Obregon government of Mexico, in- sofar as the general policy 1s ton- erned, it is known that certain de- tails of the transportation are pre- senting a difficult problem. Consideration of a method of pay- ment for the arms by the Mexican government apparently has raised @ question as to whether a credit arrangement might be construed as a loan to Mexico, in which event the president would need congressional authorization be th it is not known tion of the same no com the ad dispose on goy- ernment, and a solution of what ap- 3 to be tho most difficult prob- in completing the arragements may be found, it is thought, in some in a cash payment agree- uch transaction, it is pointed out, wou'd remove any em- ba ment that might otherwise deve Disapproval of the sale of arms from any American source to the Mexican revolutionists was expres- t the te depart. ricans 5 such wo! do so “at risk.” vetary Weeks, in a brief state- ment toda d the terms of the sale called for one half of the pur chase pri cash and one hal | within thir | _ It was explained that the articles | Mamed did not include all of those | Tequested on the original list sub- mitted by the Mexican government would irements”. the but that they present req Orders for munitions, S “meet the delivery ary Weeks said, | would go forward within 24 hours. Arrangements have been made to ‘turn over the ammunition and rifles (Continued on Page Four.) of the SARCOPHACUS OF KING LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 4—(By The Associated Press) khamun has been brought to light after remaining hidde in the tomb of the Pharaoh in the valley of the Kings. liant than the other of the dead shrines enclosing t Pharaoh , Alaba sarco he phagus, touches " tt 1 it rounding a mons museum in Lor The sarc elabora owing u a it will prove to be of even gre eded with, and in the ; artistic value than the pink sarco-|of Professor Percy E. Newt he phagus of Harmahib, or the famous| noted Egyptologist, and the other The long sought for treasure of antiquity, carved from pinkish Assuan stone, lies within the fourth casket of blazing gold—a TUT FOUND INTACT; RICH TREASURE IS UNCOVERED n for sarcophagus to Tutene more ‘than 3,000 years granite, probably casket even more bril- with covered s doors ng p [had realty been