Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WYOMING: Unsettled to- night and Friday, probably snow. waimer tonight in east and south portions. VOLUME Vill. OIL MERGER IS EFFECTED Continental and Mutual Companies Combine Refining, Producing and Marketing Interests t NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Details of a proposed merger of the Mutual Oil company and the Continental Oil com- pany have been virtually completed and it is expected the deal will be completed late today or tomorrow, the Mutual Oil company said today. Basis for the merger will be exchange of four shares of Mutual Oi! shares, with a par value of $5 each for one share of Conti- nental stock at a par value af $25. The Mutual off company produces in the Wyoming field and markets in the Pacific northwestern states, while the Continental Company, formerly one of the Standard oll group, carries on producing and marketing Operations in the Rocky SHERIDAN, Wyo. Jan. 117.—F, D. Coffman, 25, brakeman on the Burlington railroad, died at the Hardin, Mont., hospital last night, after being run over by a freight car, actording to word received here this morning. The man had fal- Mountain region. ten between two cars and a wheel of the car passed over his hip, it was stated. No bones were broken and he died of internal injuries. He The Continental Oil company operates three filling stations for the marketing of refined products in Casper as well as other Wyoming points, having entered the state two ears ago under the Carey adminis- ition. Offices are maintained in Casper together with offices of the Continental Oil Producing company, which has production in Salt Creek. The Mutual Oil ‘company owns and operates a refinery at Glenrock, ‘Wyo., the output of which supplies its trade demand in the mountain region and the northwest. > TO BE. LEGTURE. TRI BY STAMOIAD CHEMIST The Manufacture of Candles’? will lived in Suavibnar +i Seen REALTORS IN AUGUSTA, Ga, 3 meeting of the of Real Estate Bourds ned here today ‘with pia Ba sony a ok "Or real estate boards in all’ sections: of ‘the country in . attendance. The pro- gram. for today’s meeting “included addresses of welcome, a response by L. F. Eppich of Denver, president, five minute reports by vice presi- Jan. “W—The dents, reports of divisional chair- men and reports.of committees, be the subject of an address given by Dr. 8. H, Diggs of the Stand- ard refinery to the members of the fmsper Chamber of Commerce at an open forum meeting of that organ- ization to be held at 8 o'clock next Tuesday evening in the court room of the courthouse. “Dr. Diggs’ ad- dress ‘has been made available through the courtesy the’ com- mittee of industrial relations. ae MAS. HGBNS SIL WNGONSCOUS, CHIGE CONDITION. LACKING Mrs. J. E. Higgins, who was hurt in an auto accident Friday after- noon, wwas reported today, to bave undergone no great change in her condition. The injured woman has not at any time regained conscious- ness ep re Ras the accident, * SLAYER TRIE SUICIDE UPON BEING SEIZED PUEBLO, Colo., Jan. 17.—Louis Donati, wanted for. the murders of Chief of Police Rose of Walsenburg, and H. E. Robart, state prohibition Agent, was captured 4 miles from Walsenburg this morning. Donati attempted to kill himself when sur- rounded. C. Underwood of Cheyenne, told delegates attending the sociation here today. tion is now eligible to do business with the intermediate credit banks,” he said, adding that he was also “authorized to say that. two per cent spread will be allowed to dis- counting agencies for cattle paper from this time on. It is the hope of those who are charged with the administration of the intermediate credit banks, ot make them as pro- .| ductive of good to the agricultural interest of the country as safe loan- ing conditions twill allow. “To the stock man we’ are pre- pared to bring a capital that will be safe and dependable, and in which his opponents for renewal will be safe where he shows he is able to handle his business. The farmer INVESTIGATION OF RECLAMATION WORK IS OPENED SALUT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 17. which is recognized by observers as —With all the members of the fed-jone of the most important) irriga- eral reclamation fact-finding . com-j tion meetings ever held in ‘the mission, with the exception of Julius| country, is to consider the actual H. Barnes, president of the United} cost of the’ projects to thersettlers, States Chamber of Commerce in the|to consider why the actual cost of city, the commission is prepared to} many projects has been many times Plunge into its Investigations here | the original estimate, to get an tod Water uses from prac y | understanding of the difficulties, the ev one of the twenty-eight re-/setilers are having n meeting the clamation projects are prepared to sive their testigiony to the commis. sion. The objects ¢f the investigation, | payments to |sider what appears to be mistakes jin Engin:>ring or in the business (Continied on Page Nine) “Any agency that hag been securing réediscounts throug the government, to con-| Paro alt: RE ME Sa a at NE A N ewspaper for All the Family, Clean, Casper AIRSHIP. CAST ADRI CASPER, WYO., Lm aaah JANUARY 17, 1924 MRS. JOHN CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Jan. 17.—(By ‘rhe Associated Press.) The Pacific. or Bipe fleet of the Unitec States navy is making “good progress in its passage through the Panama Canal de- spite the efforts of the enemy or Atlantic squadron to prevent it from joining the hypothetical American fleet, which according to the regulations of the nava! war game now under way, is bas- ed far up the eastern seqboard. Several units of the biue squad- ron are already here. The enemy bombarded the can- al yesterday, both from the air and with its long range guns. The officiat umpires announce that an aerial attack on the Ga- tun locks was frustrated, but that they have not yet determined how much damage was done by the naval guns that shelled Fort Ran- dolph from a position beyond the range of this defensive work. A bulletin issued by the umpires last evening from thetr: headquar- ters abroad tho Seattle said: “Black aircraft operating from a base established off Porto Bello attacked the Gatun locks, but were driven off by the blues’ antl- aircraft guns. “At about 10.30 o'cisck » this morning, blue aircraft including five bombing and five navy tor- pedo planes attacked the black Plane carrier at the. base off Por- to Bello. Three black planes were in: thevair and three were =| the carrier’s decks: -A come bat followed at zy: eae ‘The chief umpire wil lassess the dam- ‘age tater, “Back destroyers. were réport- eQ moving eastward from Porto Bello laying a smoke screen and were fired upon by coast defense batteries at gbout 1:15 o'clock, at ranges up to 10,000 yards. m: the black. fleet's main -body opened a long range bombardment on Fort Randolph “At 4 p. LIVESTOCK CREDIT IS EXTENDED BY NATION Wyoming Director of Omaha Federal Bank Outlines Pro- gram; Two Per Cent Discount on Cattle Paper Author- ized; National Association Elects OMARA, Neb., Jan. 17.—The federal. intermediate credi tion to. offer. capital to the stockmen of the ran ze states director in W yomi annual convention who has crops threshed and ready 1 market where these mfy be in | warehouses, may obtain a fair loan upon such crops for a period that will carry him to a reasonable and remunerative market.” Up until, January 29, 1923, the intermediatb credit banks had made loans of $42,617,7 5, the speaker said, adding that “as time goes on and people better understand the nature of their operations, their usefulness will increase.” It was not the purpose of the banks to compete with commercial banks, but rather to stimulate them. “We would prefer to have bankers or- ganize the rediscounting agencies because we feel their thorough familiarity with all forms of paper makes them better versed in pre- paring such papers for the needs of the borrowers,” he said. KENDRICK ASSURES FIGHT ON RAIL LAW. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 17.—(By The Associated Press.)—Delegates to the | 27th annual convention of. the Na- tional Livestock association which will be concluded today with selec: tionof a 1924 convention city, adop- | tion of resolutions and elections of | officers, today have the prediction of | Senator John B, Kendrick, Demo- crat, Wyoming, that a move to re- peal section 15A, of the Esch-Cum- mins act-will be made soon in the Interstate Commerce committee and that the “Norris-Sinclair bill to ‘sta- bilize grain prices will be favorably | reported. | Senator Ke peonvention y two steps. Albuquerque, N. ML, probably wil! | ndrick, addressing the » forecast these RECOVER F FLEET MANEUVERS IN PANAMA CANAL ZONE FURNISHING THRILLS from a position beyond the rang® of the guns of this fort but it is. impossible at this hour to ésti- mate the results of the action.” “Black aircraft conducted a raid south from the base at Per- to Bello and returning were 6n- gaged by the blues’ anti-craft batery the planes were fiy- ing low and it is believed one Was brought down. “The ‘blue fleet is making good Progress in transiting in the canal and its a@vance elements are now arriving at Cristobal.” Only skeleton forces have been left in the army barracks on the Pacific side. The others are “somewhere in the bush" occupy- ing vantage points so as to op- pose a landing by the attacking force, It is expected that the entire Pacific fleet will be assembled at Cristobal by Saturday. It will sail next Wednesday for further man- euvers in the Caribbean Sea. | badly injured shortly after 5 ; when the Chalmers tourin; Cantlin into Casper from the creek skidded and turned ¢ Creek highway three miles from the Women’s and Children hospital today were to the effect | that the injured woman will make a satisfactory recovery. Although unconscious for sometime she _re- gained consciousness during night.’ Examination by. Dr. H. Lathrop brought out the fact tha she suffered'fractures of the eighth | and ninth ribs on the right side | about one inch from the spine, and | a fracture of the eighth vertebra. | Minor injurtes were also received. James Cantlin had taken Mr. and Mrs. Grieve to the ranch earlier im} the day and was returning with the latter. They had come by way of | Lavoye and had taken off the ‘chains there, Cantlin was driving the car at a speed of about 15 or, WARMER WEATHER. AND MORE | Casper and. central prospects of snow, following” the. crest of a cold wave last the zero mark and then gave way to a stiiff gale, that brought about | ¢ moderation. ‘Storm conditions were stilt general today. east of the Rocky mountains with the east and middle west in the stip of a cold ‘wave. night felose to t which sent the temperature to near | suburbs a: SHOW FORECAST FOR WYOMING; COLD WAVE GENERAL IN EAST ‘Warmer pia aaa is forecast, for: sob Wyoming Aaste of the winter sub- ther today, with th Tatars registering five below en below in neighboring nd towns. Frigid temperatures are genera! hroughout, the. Great Lakes north central section of the coun- try. The mercury ranged from close ta 20 below zero in tho region of Duluth, M:nn., to zero and’ slight- eer Seriously Injured In Automobile Crash Late Yesterd~~ But Condition Is Improved Mrs. John Grieve, pioneer of central Wyoming, was | !" @ box car on Re ear carrying her and James ltruck driver Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County ard State Daily Trinme . Transferred To This City The Huerta and Obregon forces got drunk in Casper last night and started raising cain. Tho only casualty. which was not a very gerious ona resulted in sending Jose Pazas to the county hespital with several wounds in his scalp and face inflicted by an expert wielder of a butcher knife. The scene of the battle was laid road avenue. Julian Cardona is being held by the police in connection with the disturbance but it was not known this morning who had done the cutting act o’clock yesterday afterrioon Grieve ranch on Lone Bear ompletely over on the Salt wore Tein north of Casper. Reports 20 miles an hour and did not expect to need them. When within three miles of Cas- per the car skidded. the back wheels going entirely off the pave- ment. he machine made a com- | plete turn landing again on its wheels with the engine running. Grieve was left on the ground Where sho had fallen when the car turned, but Mr. Cantlin was pinned to the seat. It was some time be- fore he regained consciousness. As soon as he did he hailed a passing who brought Mrs. Grieve as far as the Standard re- finery. The Muck ambulance was | then called and she was transported BUILDING HERE $200, 000 Home Is) Planned for Construc- }to the Women’s and Children’s | hospital. W. H. Tolhurst of the Midwest tion Next Spring. Refining company drove out to the Grieve ranch and brought Mr.| A $200,000 lodge builcing to be Grieve into Casper early this morn-|erected on West Yellowstone ave- ;ing. Robert Grieve, a son who is/nue at E’m and Industrial streets | attending the University ming at of Wyo- will be started this spring by Cas- and ing for the Omaha federal land bank, of the American National Livestock as- h the War Finance Corpora-! ly above throughout Nebraska, Iowa and Indiana. CHICAGO, ‘Jan. —Cricago had NEW YORK, Jan, 17—One of the} most Severe January wind and rain | storms that -has etruck New York City and vicinity in years, had sub- |sided, today after causing indirect- ty loss and camage to small ship- ping in the harbor and along the New Jersey coast, Two unidentified vessels were re- Ported in distress. Four men and & woman were missing after the sinking of a berge off Long Branch ew Jersey, The wind reached a velocity of 70 miles an hour. The liner Henry B. Mallory, pitch- ing in heavy seas, today succeeded in taking off the twenty cfficers and erew of the disabled Danish | freighter Normannia. ST. PAUL, Minn, Jan. 17.— Minot, N. D., was the coldest spot reported in the northwest this morn- ing, with a temperature of 29 de- grees below zero. Winona, Minn., reported 28 below and Sioux Falls, |S. D., 17 below. it: banks are now in a posi- as well as to the farmers, J. | SHERIDAN, Wyo., Jan. 17.— Sheridan felt the coldest’ tempera- ture last night of any place in the} United States, according to the Weather chart of the federal weather | observatory here. The mercury sank to 17 degrees below zero at 9 | rere o’clock last night. St.’ Paul re-| ABERDEEN, 8. D., Jan. 17.—Ac-| ported minus 16 and Rapid City, cording to a report today from Mar-|S. D., minus 14, the nearest ap- marth, North Dakota, three cars of| proach recorded from points in the the Chicago, Milwaukee and St./ United States. The coldest record Paul's passenger train number 18,|made was at Edmonton, Alberta, | eastbound were derailed two miles| with 40 degrees below zero, and east of Bucyrus last night, No onel Swift Current, with 36 below. Miles was injured. City, | be chosen for the 1923 convention, | Phoenix, Ariz., having withdrawn | from the race yesterday, —————.—___. NO INJURIES IN | TRAIN WRECK | Mont., reported minus six. The Tribune’s Annual Industrial Edition The most complete, informative anil autlioritative col- lection of facts, figures’ and stories about Wyoming will appear on Sunday, January 27. It gs kept throughout the state as a reference work, and advertisers “who: take spice in. it are mak- ing a valuable all-year investment for their business. Orders for this great state-wide edition are pouring in rapidly. If you haye not ordered your copy. or the copies you want to send away to friends, do so now. Later we may not pe able to fill the order. Requests for last year’s edition were received as late as December, and we had to refuse some of these because of shortage of copies. Look for the— TRIBUNE'S ANNUAL INDUSTRIAL EDITION Call 15 or 16 and order-your supply of copies nov $s! | the hotel to inquire if Mr. jly five deaths, considerable proper- | 'hooa” “FALL MOVES TO Laramie, has also been summoned and is on his way to | Casper. Mrs. Grieve is one of the best known residents of Natrona county. Saati ee Last Type Set By Harding to Be Preserved SEATTLE: Wash., Jan. 17.—Pres- icent Warren G. Harding's last bit of handset type—set while visiting in the office of the Fairbanks (Alaska) News Miner during the trip to the territory last summer— {will be presented to The Associated |Press at its annua! meeting in New |York City, April 22, according to a per Lodge’ No. 306 Order of Fagles, according to an announcement this morning. The structure will consist of four stories including a full base- ment and will be about 60 feet by 140, feet in size. It will be built of brick and absolutely fireproof. Tho grand Ledge will take care of completed th's summer. Tho usual facilities such as rooms, a spécial lodge room, haps a gymnasium and other con- veniences will be included in the edifice. One floor may be turned over for office rooms, The Eagles now have 250 mem bers in Casper and are carrying on a membership campaign which when completed will make the new building a necess! When completed the Eaglo bulld- } per message received here teday from W. F. Thompson, editor and pub- lisher of the Fairbanks newspaper. TEAPOT MARKIN investigation which inspired senate floor yesterday by Se days. charge of the inquiry, will canvass the situation to determine whether it would be advisable to again sum- on Albert B. Fall, tary’ of the {ntertor, accused by Senator Caraway of having ‘‘: Na) the navy's oil reserve for a “cor- rupt consideration” and of having told a “wilful and deliberate false- to the committee when it sought to determine the source ot | certain funds he obtained to pur- chase ranch property in New Mex- ico. former secre- Chairman Lenroot left Washing. ton last night and until he returns next week there will be no meeting} of the committee. When a meeting is called Senator Walsh, Democrat,| Montana, will make a-report on his! recent trip to Florida to examine! Edward B. McLean, the ,Washing- ton newspaper publisher from whom Mr. Fall said he} borrowed $100,000. Senator Walsh said today he, would not ask Fall. the committee to recall Mr. | NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17. M eresfrom Florida d toda and y When news men aper wish. Ing shou'd be one of the finest structures of its kind in the city. PROBE G TIME Senate Committee Discusses ‘Advisabil- ity of Recalling Former Secretary Of Interior Fall for Inquiry WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The senate’s Teapot Dome a sensational speech on the nator Caraway, Democrat, Arkansas, probably will remain at a standstill for several Meantime members of the public lands committee, in ed to say anything re; attack yesterday in the senate on the former secretary’ by Senator Cara. way of Arkansas in connection with the leasing of the Teapot Dome oil reserve, Mrs, Fall informed them that her hushand was fatigued by the journey from Florida and was too ill to see them. She said, how ever, she did not think he would care to make a reply “to Senator ; Caraway's remarks. ‘ding the It wis said Mr. Fall had engaged rooms at the hotel for several days and was under the care of a physi cla KID PL the -business..of floating bands, “it and the greater part of the Bbulldihe if not all of it should be club FR NUMBER 72 IDES GALE IN SAFETY RL EVE VE WI L L Mex Warfare OM IN NJURY | lwoman Pion TEAAFIG WIND d BATTLED BY BIG LINER TORN FROM MOORING | Shenandoah Returns to Hangar After Being Out All Night; 22 Men in | Crew Safe. TIN. TRE Jan. 17.—Ac- |cording to information received by jstate police heede ers hero this afternoon, one of members of the crew of the Shoenan¢oah is miss- ing. He is believed to have fallen to death @ few minutes after the dirig- | ibie broke loose. | mare ES | | LAKENURST, N. J., Jan. 17 ‘The reported loss of one of the crew of the Shenandoah, who was said to have been lost overboard when the airship broke away from her mooring mast here last night, was denied at the naval air station here today. LAKEHURST, N. J., Jaz. 17.—(By The Associated Press). The Shenandoah, largest airship in the world, poked her nose into her hangar, at the naval air sta- tion at 4:24 o'clock this morning after completing the most remark- able flight a ship of her type ever made. The flight was a fight against the mostestubborn element of ma- ture, a wind that blew at 72 miles an hour at times. This gale twist- ed the giant craft from her tower- ing mocring mast at 6:52 o'clock last night and swept her on a mad chase up the Atlantic coast to Sta- ten Island@, New York City, where Captain Anton Heinen, in command when she broke away, turned her nose into the teeth of the storm and maneuvered her back to her home port. : Not aman in her crew of 22 was injured, not @ man was downheart- ed, Bach of them declared it was the finest trip he ever made and each was loud in his praise of the navy’s pride. They took it as a joke and won the envy of their mates who ‘had watched them drift away into the Carkness. _'The ship herself lay {n her hangar lfke a naughty school boy whose truancy had brought him ill luck. Ifer nose was battered and she was somewhat ecratched up. A hasty inspection showed that her front castellor gas bags, had collapsed en she was torn away by the wind; the covering of her upper fin had been stripped off and wrapped around the rudder, making the craft exceedingly difficult to. steer, while there was slight. damage to her outer covering, the material beng rent nearly up to her nose. Captain Heinen, who had seen the Shenandoah built and who had tried out more than 100 other aircraft on their maiden voyage, sald after he had landed that without a doubt the Navy craft was the strongest con- ed ship of her type ever made, do not believe any other ship ‘ch I had flown would f ully gone through the ¢ She did last night," he said.” There is not a bit of doubt but what she will successfully complete her polar region lanned for next month, kely experience such & terrific was raging along the Atlantic coast yesterday. If we do we can easily enough run around it. “We had the ship under perfect control within five minutes after the nose cap was torn off. We rose 500 feet and continued flying at that elevation until we reached the coast near Summit, N. J., when we went up to about 1,200 feet. “The flying ‘conditions favorable as it was rs However, when we (Continued on Page ANK were un- ning hare IS EXONERATED OF ‘CASPER HOLDUP Joe Plank, better known as “Kid” Plank, prize fighter, was released by the local’ police department yester day afternoon when Phinne was much shorter who had held up n the filling man station the police en he at- there on to Denver te in some boxing matches. take part