Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 17

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1924 BASSETT GIVES UP ATTEMPT T0 WIN BACK WIFE Author’s Chauffeur Is Ignored, Fails to Se- cure Audience. MADISON, Conn., Jan. 12.—Little Madison settled down to make up for some lost sleep tonight. Ellsworth Bassett, former pbusi- ness representative of Nina Wilcox Putnam, has departed after numer- tus ineffectual attempts to effect a reconciliation with Mrs. Bassett. who charged that her husband “went away” with the noted writer after proposing that he be divorced. This charge was denied emphatic- ally by Mrs. Putnam. Following many attempts to seo Mrs. Basstet at her home, at the town basketball game and else- where, Bassett today finally swent down upon his wife tn t public library, where she works as li- brarian, Prior to this he had writ- ten her, fixing noon Saturday as the last hour he would await a con- ference. There was no reply to the letter. Then Bassett pushed his broad shoulders through the door of the Ifbrary, and making his way to her side, asked her to discuss with him ‘the tangle into which their marital affairs have drifted. Mrs. Bassett replied that Bassett would have to see her attorney. Bassett countered with the retort that there was nothing between them that could not be explained and adjusted without the aid of an attorney. Mrs. Bassett refused to discuss the matter further, however, where- upon Bassett abandoned his efforts toward a reconciliation and left town. Not being able to gain admittance to his own home, Bassett said he was going to New York, where his brothe? and mother are living. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Elsworth Bassett arrived in New York to- night from Madison, Conn. He was met here by his brother and went rect to the latter’s home. AMERICAN’ FLAG [0 RIDDLED BY CHINESE An MY Still Waves, However, Over Mission at Honan, China. By BAY G. MARSHALL (United Press Staff Correspondent) PEKIN, Jan. 12.—-An American flag, bullet riddled, still flies over the little mission house of the Pas- sionate fathers tn Supu, Order has been restored in the Honan town where regular. troops of the Chinese army, spurred to re- lgious, fanaticism by an incautious commander, descended upon the mis- sion, fired on the flag and nearly killed two Americans. The American legation tonight was investigating the reported pillaging and has: lodged formal protest with the government. The . governor of has promised thorough investigation and punishment of the gullty troops, which kelonged to tho first division. The soldiers plundered. the town, stormed the mission and fired upon Fathers’ Flayian Mullins of Athens, Pennsylvania and Arthur Benson. The latter mfraculously escaped in- jury, but their clothing was ridlied with bullets. General Ho Yao Tsun ts said to have instructed his men: “Destroy the mission and kill the reign devils.” Be I ate Unsettled Photo Barratti recent trial for the murder of her husband, Harry Barratti, resulted in is of Mrs. Grace Cheney of San Francisco, whose « hung jury. She testified her hus- band Killed himself in a fit of des- pondency. oe Mules which have been broken to wear snow shoes are being used to carry the mail in some of the overed mountain regions of fornia, AI-RAM,HI-RAM IVE BEEN THINKIN’ WHAT A GREAT WorLD THIS Wovlr BE. IF Your. SOL DARNED RADICAL IDEss . WERE TRANSPORTED GER -rit SEA! On With the Dance CALVIN, BEEN THINKIN, WHAT A GREAT WORLD THIS WOULD BE, JF YouR Gor DARNED STAND PAT IDEAS WERE- TRANSPORTED CER. _ TH SEA! be CALVIN YVE @ — Sarrerti ele MULTI-MILLIONAIRE SCORNS OSTRACISM FOR YOUTH ADOPTED BY HIM AFTER MURDER TRIAL Lad Who Faced Charge of Killing Child Two Years Ago Now Heir to Mil- lions of Rich Bachelor BY JOSEPHINE VAN de GRIFT CONVENT, N, J.; Jan. 12—Monell Sayre, 48-year-old bachelor and many times a mil'ionaire, has just adopted as his son and made heir to his millions, a 16-year-old boy upon whose head two years ago rested the stigma of murder. “It may be the one thing I have lived for,” he says and thus does this bachelor, millionaire, churchs man ‘characterize his act in giving refuge to’a boy whom his nattve city of Madison, N. J., were perse- cuting. The boy {s Francis Kluxen, 3rd, henceforth to be known as Francis Kluxen Sayre. _ He is tall and ‘awk- ward with the ungainliness of youth but his mouth has an ingenious smile and his eyes are an un troubled blue, It was two years ago that the little. city of Madison,. N. J., was stirred by the brutal murder of 11-year-old Janet Lawrence. Twenty knife wound? were found on the child's body, the deed, apparently, of a maniac. se Francis But tangible c'ues to the mur- derer were lacking. The publia rage, determined to see punishment done, .finally settled on Francis Kluxen, then 14 years old. These were the counts against. the. lad: The Kluxen home was near the woods where Janet's body was found, A handkere] §2f was found in the woods which bore stitching similar to that on» Francis’ handkerchief. The wounds on the child's body might have been made with a knife similar to the Boy Scout knife which Francis carried, _ Presented with such evidence as this two grand juries refused to indict the boy. Then a gardener by the name of Frank Jancarek was arrested, tried and acquitted, Fo'lowing this Francis was ar- rested. The jury acquitted him in 20 minutes, “I knew I didn't do it and they couldn't prove I did, so why worry?” sald Francis, and after that all should have song well. But— Francis Kluxen’s father, a man in humble circumstances, had used his all to defend a boy. He is today without a job. Schoo! children gathered in little groups and pointed their fingers at Francis. There was no money to send him te school outside the com- munity. ede passed him with averted faces, One day when Francis was stand- ing on a lawn with three compan- fons, shots were fired at him from a passing automobile, That .was when Monell Sayre, executive vice president of the Pen- sion Fund of the Episcopal church of America and millionaire vestry- man of the Grace piscopal church of Madison, entered upon the scene, He invited the boy to spend a few days at his home in Convent which ‘fes just outside Madison. “The boy wag being persecuted, says Sayre, “and I took him into my home to protect him.” The days lengthened into 18 months, The millionaire and his cousins, Mr, and Mrs. Friend Pitts, learned to love the boy. Sayre took him to England where Francis had tea with the Archbishap of Canterbury and made friends with British statesmen. Scorned at Church Back home again Sayre took measures to adopt the boy. Prob- ably three lines in a newspaper would have been all that the world wou'd ever have known about it if it hadn't been that Francis, who is a Catholic, elected to attend service a couple of Sundays ago at Grace Episcopal Church, the church of ! | | his foster father. The Grace Episcopal congrega- tion was affronted. The rev. Vic- tor Mort, rector of the church, much |disturbed, called his wealthy par- ishoners about him to consider the situation which had assumed em: barrassing proportions, A neighbor hastily called Mrs. | Pitts to inform her that if she tr- sisted on keeping Francis in the | home, she, the neighbor, would be obliged to go to her town house in New York considerably sooner than she-had planned. Hate Revived The lttle city of Madison revived hate, But Sayre went right om with his Plans. for adoption. “No matter what happens,” he says, “I'm with Francis. T have my independent fortune and we can live abroad if necessary,” ‘I've never beon a society wo- said Mrs, Pitts, “‘and the cold looks of the neighbors don’t bother me in the least.” “Some day,’ says Francis, I hope to show them how much it all has meant to me.' By which he means that some day he hopes to be a famous mechani- cal engineer, | In the meantime a tutor fs ar- riying from England to perfect him in Latin and Greek, a radio and other devices have been set up, Jap servants move over thick car- pets to minister to his\ comfort, motor cars purr outside the door. There will be trips to Europe and quiet taiks with learned men and perhaps a degree from Oxford. for Francis. Just outside the city of Madison,| N. J., some enterprising church; has put up a sign board. “The blood of Jesus Christ, His son,” it z Russel Kaufman and Elroy Yerovi hammered lead with this inscriptio: Powhatan, 1590 Charles R.” The tablet says, “cleanseth us from all sin,” MONELL SAYRE (BELOW) WHO ADOPTED FRANCIS KLUXEN AS HIS SON. BSA SS Naeiataid All of the inhabitants of a city the size of Milwaukee or Washing: ton, D, C,, could be seated at one time in the theaters of New York city. A Rare Find (top photo) unearthed a piece of virgin Dare, Died Here, Captif of is shown in lower photo. The find was made on P street, N. W, Washington. _ Further excavations. will be made by Smithsonian Institute. een EE Casper Sunday Cribune } f | Nina Wilcox By JOSEPHINE VAN. DE GRIFT. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—There's some people that've nearly. killed themselves laughin’ at. the way Nina Wilcox Putnam) kids the life out of folks and their troubles, So when Nina blew in from Florida to find herself confronted by a divorce action that didn't take; and some matrimonial mix-up or ‘other where some woman claimed that she, Nina, was trying to take the other woman's husband, we just couldn't resist lopin’ over to Nina's hotel to find out how she was bearin' up under the strain. We found Nina's little ole sense of humor still thank you. “When I get out of this mess,” hittin’ on all. six, she confided confidentially, WAVE OF GRIME UOHERS IN NEW YEAR IN DENVER Killings, Holdups and Kidnapings Among Happenings. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 12,—The first twelve days of 1924 have brought the worst crime wave in the history of Denver, with eighteen major offenses against the law com- mitted, Four persons have been killed, | more than $13,000 in money and valuables stolen in elght holdups: two young girls kidnaped and left| terror stricken far from hom a nurse brutally beaten; four boys ar- rested charged with stealing an auto- mobile and one man threatened with death in a blackhand note, This appalling list of “more ser- joys” crimes has caused a newspaper to demand.a “General Butler clean- up campa‘gn such as resorted to in Philadelphia. Aside from the four boys arrested for automobile theft no anprehen- sions were ‘made in tho darly 1924 crime wrve. DIPLOMA MILL MEDICAL TRIO: ARE INDICTED Tears to Shame in Jokes About Kansas Drug Store Putnam Puts going out to Kansas and take up ® quarter section of land and start @ drug store.” Just what got Nina, to thinkin’ of the Kansans at that particular mo- ment we couldn't make out. There she was, propped up in a brass bed with dents in it, her hair, which is her chief glory, stuck under one of those lace caps than which nothing looks goshawtuller on a woman, and her shoulders wrapped up in some cafeau-lait mixture of a bath robe. Her eyes were all red and swollen with weeping and her hands were just achin’ to start pluckin’ at the quilt. Why the Kansans? “I'll tell you,” said Nina. “Out in Kansas they prohibit practically everything 4 fellow wants to do. But the folks out there are the kindest in the world. They're big- hearted and they're decent,” “And we murmured huskily, “are men. “You said it.” said Nina, “and if there's anything that a woman with & sense o2 humor needs it's a man that's a real man to buck her up. “Somehow or other the world has got a notion that if a woman's got a sense of humor she hasn't any sensibilities. In reality it's the other way around. A woman with @ sense of humor ts a woman that’s been hurt so much she'd go crazy if she didn't joke about things. “All humorists are unhappy. Mark Twain was. I know I am. And as a humorist I want to tell you that the biggest joke that ever came into my life is the present mix-up, “Here I, who hate divorce, who love my home, who adore my kiad— God bless him—am compelled to get @ divorce because I can't help my- it. “Here I, who never wrote a linc of smut In my life, who refused al | kinds of money rather than write for sex-pandering publications, am dragged into a scandal and accused of doing the last thing on earth that any decent woman would think of doing, “Here I, whose big idea was to bring up my kid to be a real Ameri- can, have to hamper him at the out- set with a lot of.truck that’s all a Ne, a He, I tell you.” She almost screamed the’ word. “Ha,” said Nina. “Ha,” said we. Then we both settled down ot the same handker- chief, ee PRINCE A SUICIDE. BERLIN, Germany.—(United Press.)—Failure to get a position in one of tthe big banks in Berlin is ascribed by his friends as the rea- son for the “sudden death” of Prince Alexander zu Schaumburg Lippe, distant relative of the kaiser. Lippe, according to the press notices, “departed this life unex- Pectedly,” which was a polite way KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 12—{ Three physicians, alleged leaders of | the national “‘d!ploma mi'l" scandal | were indigted today by a grand jury here. | Dr, Ralph A. Voigt, Kansas City;! Dr. D, R. Alexander, secretary of the Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery and Dr. Robert Adcox,! St. Louis, were named in the report | of the grand jury. The jury report says that Mis-| sourl laws governing illegal medi- cal practices were “inadequate and that the men would be charged with misdemeanor. In other states, the charges would be adjudged “ jes," the indictment said. fe aitoasite So <Snanrt atS K.OFC.TO | HELP VETS CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—An appropria- tion of $25,000 by the Knights of Columbus to aid the work of the! disabled American veterans of the world war was announced here to- night. of saying the young man went the suicide route. ASPHYXIATION KILLS THREE TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 12.—Three men were asphyxiated here tonight while repairing a gas leak in a pit At the plant of the Atlas Chemical company. $400,000 FIRE IN TIRE PLANT CHARLESTOWN, 12.—Fire tonignt destroyed the Highlawn plant of the Virginta Tire and Rubber company with an unofficial estimated loss of $400,000. The company employed about 100 men. Origin of the fire has not been determined. W. Va., Jan. BY HELEN ROSS (Written for the United Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 12—(United Press)—The League of Nations may be defunct, but the vivid coloring of the clothes of every nation under the sin* will brighten up Milady's spring wardrobe. Three-quarter length jackets, in Chinese design, with narrow. up- standing mandarin collar, will be worn ovy#: light spring frocks. Plain little schdolgirl frocks will be embroidered on pockets, hems and tunics like a Chinese laundry ticket. Heavy, soft crepes, brilliantly. fiz: ured, and vivid prints in Hungarian fashion, sometimes quilted, some- times cut into’ straight slim little skirt-and-jacket sults, will, be seen everywhere in preference to plain colors. The peasant shawl, first intro- duced as an integral part of the costume at the Soviet Fashion Show in Moscow, proved so decorative that it will have fashions, bri 8 motif Brilliant colors—elaborate f a vince in whole s| COLORS IN GOWNS —siilm, tube-like lines these strike the genera! note of the incoming styles. With the tri-corn hat has come in the little flat-heeled Dutch shoes. with enormous tongues and buckles. Thess quaint llttle shoes are de- veloped for the Broadway trade in every material and color, but those most commonly seen are a soft brown suede or tan kid, with brass buckle, and the ever-popular black patent leather with silver buckle. A short life, but daring one is my prediction for the “shingle” hatr- cut, which is, to say the least, try- i When the flappers weary of its severity, which will probably be soon, I predict an adaptation of it which will permit the wearing of one of those stunning Spanish combs that shop windows are f'aunt- ing in the eyes of bobbed-haired misses nowadays. The beautification of the lowly umbrella is one of the winter’s most joyful notes. The n painted handles aro exceedingly smart as well as utilitarian, and the tips, rib ends and handles of amber and other colored composition signs of dying @ut as a vogue. show no in Radio waves will penetrate just avout everything! recently 90 feet below the surface of the Hudson Ri in the steel tube of the new tunnel now under construction. berfect reception was recorded. Ma. You Can’t Keep Them Out! PAGE NINE A test was made r at New York City, Almost Jor Gleim (extreme left) is chief engineer of the new tunnel, an enginecring marvel. ADDITIONAL OIL HIAWATHA TEST ON STATE LINE PLANNED Midwest Refining Company to Drill Deep Holé In Southern Wyoming Structure With Prospects of U: ncorking Gas. One of the most tmportant tests to be made in the Rocky Mountain region this year, is to be started in| early spring by the Midwest Refin- ing company the Hiawatha structure which les on both sides of the state line between Wyoming and Colorado, Drilling will be started in the ter- tiary, the upper Wasatch forma- tion being the surface exposure, It wi'l probably be necessary to carry the hole to a depth of from 4,600 to 4,500 feet. It is expected that on gas in immense quantities will be encountered. The Hiawatha structure ts one of the largest in the west. Its loca- tion is about 60 miles south of Rock Springs, where {t lies one-third in Sweetwater county, Wyo., and two- thirds in Moffat county, Colo. The test by the Midwest, which controls a great block of acreage, will be spotted just over the state line in Co’orado, and will probably be spudded-in either in March or in April Technically the structure is in Township 12 and Ranges 99 and 100. PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF OIL AND GASOLINE BREAK ALL RECORDS IN LAST YEAR Domestic production and /onsump- tion of crude oil and of refined gaso- Une for the year 1923 completely | outclassed any previous records in| this country, according to the esti- mates of the American Petroleum In- stitute given out by its President, | Thomas A. O'Donnell. Comparative figures are shown as follows: Domestic gross crude oil produc-| tion 745,000 000 barrels, an increase of 187,000,000 barrels, or 33 per cent over 1922. Imports. of crude oil| amounted to 80,000,000 barrels, a de. crease of 30,000,000 barrels, or 27.3, Total domestic production and im.| Ports of crude of! amounted to 825,- 000,000 barrels, an increase of 157, 000,000 barrels, or 23.6 per cent over 1922. Consumption, including ex- Ports, amounted to ‘730,000,000 bar- rels, or 26.7 per cent over 1922, Domestic production of refined gasoline was approximately 179.000,- 000 barrels, an increase of 31,000 000 barrels over 1922, or 21 per cent. Con- sumption of refined gasoline. includ: ing exports, was approximately 17 000.000 barrels, increase. of 35,- 000,000 barrels, or. 25 Der, cent. On January 1, approximately 327,- 000.000 barrels of crude of] were on hand in pipe line’ and tank farm storage, and 138.000,000 barrelay of crude and refined products at re. fineries .a combined total ef 465,000,- 000 barrels, or an increase of 93,000. 000 barrels during the year 1923. Doubtless also a comparatively small amount of stocks accumulated in pro- ducers’ tanks, figures for which are not yet available, Despite the enormous increase in consumption, the Jack of equilibrium between the supply and the demand forced the price of crude of! and of gasoline below the cost of production | of the average producer: and the market value of the total stocks of ernde ofl on hand declined consldor ably below cost. With proper stor age and depreciation charges added. stocks of Midcontinent crude oil! have declined in value on the aver. age not less than $1.25 per barrel below thefr current market value of the dates of thelr accumulatic At present prices for crude off drafts on stocks cannot he made without substantial losses to the! The production situation in 19 Was unprecedented, More large new pools were brought in contemporane- ously than in any previous period of equal length. In the past 2 oll pools, producing at their peak ar proximately 100000 barrels per day or moré, have been dev of these pools reached the year 19: 800 of! wells in a approximat oil da August, Is were required to produce thei per ¥ same quantity of off. In 1918, the last year of the war, there were 208.379 producing oll wells in the Un'ted States, with a daily average Production of 975,145 barrels. ‘The 3,800 wells referred to produced more oll per day by 28 per cent than did the 203,379 in 1918, - The high point in production dur ing the year 1923. over a weekly period, was 2,280,700 barrels per dase Production for the week ended Des cember 29 was 1,927,750 barrels, or.a decline of more than 350,000 barrela per day. - It was a foregone conclusion tha these flush wells in the great. tleld¥ recently developed would fall off ra- pidly once their peak of production was reached. Therefore an equilibrium between. the supply and the demand, and in, fact a draft on stocks, does not. seem far off,—unless there is inten-. sive drilling or new large pools are developed. The crude oil prices pray. vailing at the end of the year are in my Judgment below the cost of finding and producing oil, and there- fore insufficient to stimulate the new. work essential to develop new pools, The influence of price upon new work is well illustrated by the fig- ures as to completions of wells in the Jéldcontinent field. In “May, 1923, under the impetus of price ad vances early in the year, 1,516 wells Were completed. Declines in cru ofl prices occurred, and in Hoveribeay «631 wells were completed. Thi 1928, was the smallest number of comple tions in the Midcontinent field in any month save 2 in the past 5 years. On the average during that period 1216 wells per month were comj- pleted. 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