Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1924, Page 1

| .. The Weather WYOMING: Somewhat unsettled tonight and Thursday, day in north and east portions, mABY GLING AT GY HALL. FREE T0 THE PUBL Physical Examinations Made Possible Thru Health Conference. What do you really know about the physical condition of your baby? At this time consideration of this question might as well engage the serious attention of all parents in Casper, for tomorrow morning at the city halt they will be afforded the opportunity of bringing their ct laren, if they are under school age, for free examination by doc- tors'and dentists It Is improbable that any mother vho accepts conscientiously the re- sponsibilities of caring for her children as they grow from infancy to maturity, will neglect the oppor- tunity provided. The Child’s Health conference under the direction of the state and county health boards, and the Casper Woman's club and Departmental ‘club is functioning only for the welfare of the child ren, so that need not, depend solely for ith upon care ‘not based on scientific advice, This is a service from medicil experts that costs the parents of Casper nothing but their time in bringing their small children to the city hall. It is a service that, if accepted may possibly mean’ the difference in later Ee ee fine, upstanding woman! or manhood, or a life of ill health and weakened. constitution. ‘Tomorrow morning between 10 and 12 o'clock the conference will be prepared to thoroughly examine child under school age that is brought to the city hall. For the benefit of expectant mothers an expert nurse has been engaged, She will be in Casper several Gays following the clinic of tomorrow. It is hoped that ex- pectant mothers in this city will utilize the services of this nurse, Mrs, Donovan, in learning more of prenatal hygiene. She may be consulted by phoning 320J or by visiting her at the office of the County, Health board in the city hall, } Kentuckian Is Acquitted Of Murder Charge MINNEOLA, N. Y., Jan, 23—Wil- lam M. Creasy of Fort Thomas, Ky., early today was acquitted by @ jury of murdering Miss Edith La- voy, & Freeport school teacher, tn June, 1922, in her boarding house After their engagement to marry had been broken. Convicted at the first trial In October, 1922, Creasy won an appeal after nine months in the Ceath house at Sing Sing. probably snow north portion. Colder Thurs- A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County and State Che Casper Dai! 7 Probers Will Be ‘Asked by Walsh to Submit Resolution Calling for An- nullment of the Teapot Contract WASHINGTON, Jan. the senate by Senator he will ask the Teapot The senator added that he would also ask that the resolution pro- vide for special counsel to prosecute the case, independent of the depart- ment of justice because of a wide- spread “suspicion throughout the country against the attorney gen- eral. Senator Walsh said that whether this. “suspicion” was a misfortune or @ fault of the attorney general, he was not prepared to say. He added that there long had been a friendship between Mr. Daugherty and Albert B, Fall, former secre- tary of the interior; that they had been cabinet members together, and that he believed the attorney general would be glad to be relieved of the matter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Dec'ar- ing it had become apparent that the Teapot. Dome naval oll lease is “tainted .with corruption,” Senator Carway, Democrat, Arkansas, moved today in the senate for im- Mediate action on his resolution “to cancel the lease. 2 “It was a transfer of public prop- erty for a private consideration,” said Senator Caraway, “I think ‘every one liar with the record of thé investigating committee will “I know, and there is not a sena- tor on this floor who does not know, that this contract was entered into for a corrupt -consideratio! con- ‘tinted Senator Caraway. “That it was for the buying and~selling of Public property for a corrupt and Private benefit, and I do not know how any self respecting senator can refuse to take whatever steps may be offered at the first. opportunity to. go as far as we can'to. stamp our disapproval of this transaction, and order the return of what may be left of the oil to the custody of the government and ask an accounting for all the oil taken out of the pub- ic domain.” Preparedness If it were not worth your while to read the advertising ih this paper and if people generally did not read it, the cost would be wasted. Many of the best minds in the country are devoting their en- tire time to the study of merchan- dising and the writing of att tive, interesting and They are not just literature, either. The advertising in The Tribune represents the plighted word of the merchant, the writ- ten platform on which he stands in his re‘ation to the paper's readers. Continued growth and develop- ment of these advertisers show that the advertising is winning the good will of the community. ‘This fact attests the wisdom of reading the advertising and using it as a shopping guide. Shop in The Tribune before shopping in the shops. Ten Prisoners Back in Irons DENVER, Colo., Jan. 23.—Overpowering three sen- tries who stood guard over them with shotguns, ten mili- tary prisoners from Fort Logan near here early last even- ing bound the guards with their own woolen leggings, took their weaponsand made a spectacular dash for liberty from a sand pit in which the prisoners were working. Six of the runaways were captur- ed a short time later, but the re- maning four, three of whom carried the guards’ shotguns, furnished a chase in which army officers and Privates and deputy sheriffs ahd Police participated until far into the night. The quartet was caught be- fore midnight about 30 miles south Denver and returned to the army es in automobiles, manned by and soldiers from the fort With scores of civilian of- from surrounding towns, ned-in the chase. CANDLE USE STILL GROWING IN NATION, FORUM MEET IS TOLD More candles are being used to- day than ever before in spite of the ctric light has come in the modern home, Dr. S..H. Diggs, chem for ndard Refining com: y here who read a comprehen- ive paper dealing with the history 23.—Notice was given today in Walsh, Democrat, Montana, that Dome investigating committee to report a resolution advising the president to institute pro- ceedings for the annullment of the lease of the Wyoming naval reserve to the Sinclair interests. aT CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1924 BELS AB Senator Caraway was interrupted in his speech by the arrival of the executive clerk from the White House with President Coolidge’s Message on the agricultural situa- tion. Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona, asked that the message be read at once, the contents of which were not for the moment revealed, becau: it might contain an an- nouncement that Mr. Coolidge had directed the attorney general to take action. Senator Caraway re- plied that there was no possibility of that. Referring to Fall's visit to Ed- ward B. McLean at Palm Beach, Senator Caraway declared that the (Continued on Page Ten) the di way. ASSASSIN TRIES TO MURDER PRIEST IN CHICAGO CHURCH CHICAGO, Jan. 23—An un- identified man invaded the rec- tory of St. John the Baptist Ca- tholie church in south Chicago early today and attempted to as- the pastor, Rev.~John vsky. The priest engaged his assailant in a revolver’ fight in which several shots were fired, but neither man was ac: cording to reports to ‘the police. Miss Irene Novak, a the jpriest, sald the man entered The priest, she sald, obtained a ‘pon and returned the fire, the assailant fleeing. Two suspects, were arrested.’ FOUR PERISH ON CRUISER INTER-GITY BUS SERVICE IN WYOMING FOUGHT BY RAILROADS CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 23.—Issuance of a certificate of convenience and necessity authorizing Ivan A. Ray, of Thermopolis, Wyoming, to operate automobile bus pas- senger service between Casper and Clayton, Glenrock and points in the Big Muddy oil field, was opposed before the Wyoming public service commission today by representa- a tives of the Chicago, Burlington and - Quincy and Chicago and Northwest- ern railroads. The railway spokes- men opposed bus service on the ground that the two railroads pro- vide adequate transportation facil!- ties and should not be subjected to bus service competition. The commission gave the rallway companies and Ray until February 1, to file briefs. Ray was not rep- resented at the hearing. The Powder River post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hold an open meeting in the Knights of Pythias hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Newly elected officers will be in- ——__— THREE PETITIONS FOR DIVORCE FILED HERE Pearl Malchow Second {s suing Harry L. Secord, whose last known address was 1210 West 17th street, Pueblo, Colo., for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty. The couple were married May 1, last in Casper. Laura C. Philion has filed suit for divorce from Willam H: Philion on the grounds of failure ‘to provide. ‘The couple were married June 19, 1918, at Gering, Neb., and have no children. The defendant's last known address was Bridgeport, Neb. James M. Sawyer is asking for a divorce from Martha V. Sawyer on the grounds of cruelty. They were stalled. The entertainment com- mittes promises an interesting pro- gram. Engine the train was running forty George Clark and Fireman I. married July 21, 1921, at Casper. |road foreman of engines, were killed. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 23.— An engineer, a fireman and an in- Spector, were killed when the en gine of a Pittsburgh and Lake Erie passenger train exploded at Aliquippa, Pa., today it was said at New York Central headquarters here. va of candle making and the present} 2e'?: Officials said it was feared methods of manufacture before the| foe passengers, also had been members of the Casper Chamber of | ‘led or injured, Commerce at t in the See court hou t Dr. ¥ rt and's Previous to I * paper, the| Poet Laureate a phy- Natrona county high school band|sfcian and bec ssional tinued on Page Ten; poet only in middle age. Closely following the Pathfinder the house and fired atthe, pastor: HOLD OPEN MEETING ? were 20 other cars, carrying enthu- siastic residents of Thermopolis, who were on hand to see the dream of years become a reality, and en- gineers and contractors whose genius and tenacity in overcoming the pranks of nature were there to see the fulfillment of their aspira- tions—making up a party eminently qualified to participate in this epoch-making event. In the car which led the way through the canyon were M. R. Johnson of Wheatland, former chairman of the State Highway com- mission, under whose administration the contract for the canyon road Was let; Sam Conwell of Casper, Present chairman of the board; John Snyder, state treasurer and also member of the highway com- mission; L.. BE, Laird, ‘highway. su- berintendent; Z%. ©. Sevison, high- war dale, member 4“ yihune iat DITION Hearing In Dines-Normand Case Shifts to Bedside of Edith Burns; Prosz- cution Closing Up Its Case LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 23.—The bedside of Mrs. Edith Burns, former companion of Mabel Normand, film actress, was today’s setting for the peripatetic preliminary hearing of Horace Gree, Miss Normand’s chauffeur, charged with attempting to kill Courtland S. Dines, Den- ver oil man, here New Year's night. Opening in the uptown hotel build- ing which serves in leu of an over crowded court h , the hearing shifted late Mon to the Good Samaritan hospital where Dines is recovering from a bullet wound in the lung. Yesterday it was resumed amid hotel surroundings, but when court adjourned for the day and illness still prevented Mrs. Burns from appearing, Justice Js Walter Hanby afinounced that the hearing would be resumed at two o'clock to- day at her bedside. With the testimony of Mré. Burns, who was at Miss Normand's home when the chanffeur left there to call for his employer at Dines* apartment, the prosecution will rest WIFE SLAYER IS CONVICTED CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis:, Jan. 23-—John Astor Harrison Blake McCormick, former Ladysmith, Wisconsin, grocer, today was ‘Tom .Q'Neil of: Pine} found guilty -for- the ‘second “time of. the Kighway com-}"on a ‘chatgé ‘of murdering his mission, and State Senator srthur | wife, and Will be returned to the K. Leo, who drove the car. The (Continued on Page Nine) Captain of the Tacoma Among Quartet, state prison at Waupun to spend the remainder of his life, Lost In Wrecking of Warship Sent to Mexican:Waters WASHINGTON, Jan, 23.—Four lives were lost in the , final wrecking of the cruiser Tacoma at Vera Cruz. The dead were Captain Herbert G. Sparrow; Edward Thaxter Herrick, radio man, second class; Homer Harry | Lussier, radio man, first class and Solomon Sivin, radio man, third class. ‘The remaindet of the force of 48 men on the Tacoma with Captain Sparrow are now on board naval tugs ‘in Vera Cruz harbor. The sof the dead are aboard the cruiser and an effort was to be made today to remove them. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The two northers which beset the old cruiser Tacoma off Vera Cruz, where she was proceding for duty in connection with the activities of the Mexican evolutionists, have done for the ship, her captain and two radio operators, but the remain- der of the skeleton crew left aboard when she stranded in the first storm Blows Up, Trio Dead PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23.—The boiler of an Erie railroad engine, hauling the morning express from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, over the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad ex- ploded at Aliquippa, Pa,. 23 miles west of here today while miles an hour. Engineer L. Kuechler and J. R. Meade, POTTSVILLE, Pa., mother and Jan. 23.—A her four daughters, | e from one to 16. ranging in a. were | burnea’'to. < jport, near 1 | their | Antirew Hi r home w have been rescued in the tenth of the second by rebel: transports. The death of Captain Herbert G. Sparrow and the two operators “through an accident on board the ship during a norther while in per- formance of duty" was reported in a cable message received from Con- sul Wood at Vera Cruz last night by the state department, but no de- tails were given and the sinking of the cruiser was not mentioned. A wireless message signed by Adolfo De La Huerta, reported the fate of the vessel and the rescue of her crew to Alvarez Castillo, his per- Sonal representative here, and it was assumed that Captain Sparrow and the operators perished while the Tacoma was breaking up and before the transports arrived. The crew standing guard on the Wrecked cruiser was placed at 48 men in the last report received here from Captain Sparrow, the other 278 men she carried having been put ashore at Vera Cruz after she piled up on the reefs while trying to enter that harbor at night during the first storm, The 278 are aboard} the crulser Richmond, now riding out the second norther off Tampico. and it is expected that the cruiser Omaha, which has been delayed by the heavy weather on her northward from the : waters with six destroyers to join the Richmond, will pick up the men rescued yesterday, father, was severely burned in at- tempting to rescue them Mrs. Harvilla lost her life heroic gffort to saye her children With part of the house furnace she dashed inside ond floor where s in a} its case, it was announced last night. Greer will probably not be called to} the stand by the defense, his attor-| neys sald, in view of Dines’ failure to testi directly t t Greer wa the man who shot him. | The Uquor question and the for-| gutfulness of important witnesses mingled at yesterday's session. Jus: tice Hanby denounced what he called an apparent “conspiracy on the part of the witnesses to keep from the! court many things that the court should know.” | Twd policemen testified over the strenuous objection of the defense! to @ flood of utterances alleged to have been made by Greer soon after the shooting in which he was quot-| ed as saying he tried to get Miss {Normand away from Dines’ apart- ment because “the dirty rat kept| her drunk,” and that he shot the| Denver man because he “kept Mabel | hopped up,” | Asked whether “hopped up" re- ferred to narcotics or liquor, the| witness repeating Greer's alleged re-| mark explained that to him,| “hopped up” was another way of saying “‘liquored up.” 91,200 DAMAGES ARE | ASKED IN AUTO CRASH ON SALT CREEK ROAD; As an aftermath of an automobile Smashyp on the Salt Creek highway near the Midway cafe the third of this month, C. G. Vance of Salt Creek is suing F. F. Keller of Cas- per for $1,200. Vance claims that when he drove o'clock that evening a truck be-| longing to Keller was stalled across| the road. The truck was loaded with rig timbers and Vance ran into it. The body of the Dodge was de- molished according to the plaintiff. A niece of the plaintiff was in-| jjured at the time and received | treatment at the hospital at La- | Voye but it is on the damage to the} machine and not the injury to the| woman that the suit has been filed. aan ena tema Mine Tragedy Shock Fatal To Victim’s Wife BILLINGS, Mont., Jan. 23— | Vera NUMBER ‘77 DON BLOCKADE PLANS CANCELLATION OF |\COMPANION OF finn suis OIL LEASE URGED MABEL GRILLED i WANED WIND RIVER CANYON TRAVERSE BY AUTOMOBILE FO RFIRST TIME Members of State Highway Commission Occupy First Car Driven-by Arthur K. Lee; Rock Barrier Gives Way to Road. Wind River canyon, that seemingly impenetrable crack in great granite barrier separating the Big Horn basin from the balance of the state, has at last capitulated to the ingenuity of man, and the first vehicle to negotiate ice from Thermopolis through the canyon to the east made its way past the steam shovels at exactly 1:30 Pp. m. yesterday, whon a Paige Se- dan, carrying the members of the State Highway Commission waited for the last shovelful of rock to be dumped down the sides of the great granite walls, and sped on toward Boysen dam, over a smooth road- QF DANGER IN ENTERING PORT New Policy Affecting Tampico Learned at Washington; Federal Garrison in Revolt. ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. —The De La Huerta revolu- tionists in Mexico are pre- paring to abandon plans for the technical blockade of Tampico and to substitute @ policy under which foreign com- mercial craft will be warned that if they enter the zone of possible bombardment there they will do so at their own risk. MONTEREY NOW IN REBEL HANDS. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Jan. 23. —Tho garrison at Monterey, capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, revolted and ent over to the rebels yesterday, aecording to unofficial reports reaching here early today. Federal military authorities at Matamoros, opposite Brownsville, have ordered trains for Monterey held up. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Advices to representatives of the Mexican revolutionary “party -here today an- nounced the capture of Celavo by the revolutionary cavairy, cutting off the Obregon army in the Guadu- lajara section from Mexico City. MORE ARMS SOLD TO OBREGON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Further aid has been extended by the Unitea States to the Obregon administra- tion through a second sale of sur- plus war materials fof use in its effort to maintain a stable govern- ment in Mexico, The situation relating to the “postponed” rebel blockade of Tam- pico and the projected mining of the Frontera, Puerto Mexico and Cruz harbors, meanwhile, is understood to be quiescent as far as the American government is con- cerned. The president .and his cabinet at their meeting yesterday, devoted little time to the question. cretary Hughes reporting no im- ortant developments along the coasts or in the interior. eal in arms, negotiated by the Mexican embassy, calls for delivery at El Paso to Obregon rep- entatives of 5,000 Enfield rifies, 500 army Colt, 45 calibre auto. matic pistols and ammunition for the latter, bringing the number of rifles thus far sold to the total originally requested. The American government is to receive altogether nearly $700,000 for the 10,000 rifies, 5,000,000 rounds of rife ammunition, eight airplanes and other items in- volved in the two transactions. Shock from the death of her hus- | band as the result of a mine tragedy at Bear Creck last Wednescay | | caused the death of Mrs. Pet | Carlischo. She had been in excel- j lent health unti! the fatal accident | when nervous prostration ensued | and she survived the funeral rites | | but, a@ day, dying in hysteria. Liquor Great Britain was signed toda: Secretary Hughes for the land Geddes, the retiring Briti Consul Wood reported the an- nouncement to the state department today but did not say definitely whether the revolutionist’s de was to permanently raise the de or whether it was of a tempo- rary nature as had been previously reported. He was asked for further information, Treaty Signed by U. S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The new rum treaty with y at the state department. United States and Sir Auck- sh ambassador, affixed their signatures to the agreement which provides for extension of the American right of search® beyond the three-mile MOTHER AND FOUR DAUGHTERS MEET TRAGIC DEATH WHEN HOUSE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE [the stairway when overcome by | smoke. In a bt Julia ck bed ro Eleano bed t Umit and permits British ves sels to bring ships stores into Amorican ports under seal. Senate ratification is required be fore effec new a the eb the two govern low a more leni nth. ft