Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1924, Page 1

The Weather Wyoming—Unsettled to: night and Saturday, snow probable. Not much change in temperature. VOLUME VIII. DAUGHERTY A Newspaper for All the Family, Ciean, Unbiased, and a Booster for City, County a Che Casper Daily Tritume CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924 H aS DOPE RING BROKEN UP SLAYS GIRL, SHOOTS HIMSELF TEAPOT RECEIVERS WILL SUBMIT PROGRAM TO CHEYENNE COURT Measures Decided Upon for Economic Operation WORK PLEDGE U3, HELP FOR IRRIGATION OF NATRONA LAND Cost to Settler to Be Made Reasonable in Plan to Be Worked Out, Says Dispatch. WASHINGTON, March 28.—(Special to The Tri- bune). — Congressman Charles E. Winter and State Engineer Frank C. Emerson held an extended conference with Secretary Work and Commis- sioner Davis today regarding the Alcova-Casper reclamation project and other matters pertaining to the interests of the state in the service. Assurances of sympathy, interest and co-operation as to the Casper project were received. t Special study and consideration will be given to a plan to make the cost to the settler reasonable, thus removing the main obstacle. ROYCE PLACED ON TRIAL HERE — AS WOLATOR City councilmen seem to have few acquaintances, Such was indicated this morning in district court when Walter W. Royce, councilman from the First ward since January 1, 1923, faced a jury charged with five counts on violation of the liquor laws. Out of the 12 jurymen only two admitted knowing Royce and they only casually. The crowd in the court room was the smallest that has attended any trial during the present term. Oo. G. Belcher and Fred B. Belcher of 418 North Melrose street, former employes of Royce, are the star witnesses for the state. The former on the stand this morning testified concerning various amount: of liquor which were kept in a warehouse at 136 West B street of which Royce was the manager. / The state's case is being con- ducted by E. H, Foster, prosecuting attorney, and the defendant is charged with possession, transpor- tation and sale of the liquor as well as maintaining a nuisance. Frank Perkins and Alex King are the attorneys for the defendant. Lee Mortimer, Business College Instruc- tor, Sends Bullet Into His Own Brain After Shooting and Killing Sweet- heart Late This Afternoon. Lee Mortimer, aged 24 years, and a teacher at the Casper Business college, shot and killed Norma Ford, 17 years old, while they were walking on Midwest avenue, near David street, at 3:40 this afternoon and turned the gun on himself, shooting himself throught the right temple. Mortimer used a light .32 calibre pistol and shot only twice. At 4:30 he w: still alive, but in a dying condition. Mortimer and the Ford girl have been going together for a month, according to people who are acquainted with the couple. They left the business college together at 2:30 this afternoon. Jealousy was given this afternoon as the reason for the tragedy by friends of the girl. “Gee, I'm happy I've just made up with my old sweetie,” she is quoted as telling one of the girls at the business col- lege this morning. Mortimer is be- lMeved to have decided upon his trag- ic course after receiving this in- formation as it is known that he was enamored of the girl. Mortimer and the Ford girl were walking west on Midwest avenue arm in arm. Just after they passed the intersection of Dayid street, Mortimer released tis hold on the girl’s arm, reached under his coat and pulled out the gun. Mortimer fired ‘twice, both times at close range. The first shot hit the woman in the back of the head and she dropped like a log. The sec- ond shot was in Mortimer's right temple with the gun close up against his temple. —<Pherwoman died about three four minutes later as she lay on the ground between the sidewalk and the edge of the lawn. Mortimer was dying when they loaded him into an ambularice and took him to the hospital. Arthur Pohiman, an employe of the Keith Lumber company, was standing in a window of the com- pany’s office across the street, He was watching the couple as they strolled down the street and wit- nessed the shooting. The Ford girl is said to have an aunt residing on Hast Second street but little information regarding her could be obtained this afternoon. Mortimer is a brother of William Mortimer, president of the business MINE BLAST IS FATAL TO 25 WORKERS WELCH, W. Va., March 28.—The bodies of 13 miners who met death today in an explosion in mine No. 2, of the Yukon-Pochahontas Coal company at Yukon, W. Va., were recovered by volunteer rescue workers. Thirteen other men, trapped in the workings, also were believed to have been killed. this morning; college, with whom he conferred just before leaving the school this after- noon with the girl. Girl Found Who Leaped Train MILES CITY, Mont., March 28— The young lady who jumped from a Pullman car attached to an east- bound Northern Pacific "passenger train on Wednesday night was found one mile east of Gladstone, North Dakota, today, according to information received at the local Northern Pacific offices here. The identity of the young lady was not given in the report received here but the information Is given that she is ‘allve and apparently unhurt. It is d that she will be put aboard-an eastbound ‘tratn.and car- tled.,.to.-her.-destination,’ which is understood to be Chicago. © PAGOES OUT IN By SPARK PLUG, Packed to the doors, and with interest in every display running high, the Third Annual Automobile show came to a close of a blaze of glory last evening when 1,500 people visited the Arkeon to im- Drove their automotive education and to obtain first hand information upon the automobiles represented in Casper. Without a doubt, this year's show was far in advance of any that has been held in Casper before, and dealer enthusiasm is indicative of a financial as well as an advertising success. The Casper Automotive Dealers’ association, sponsors of the show, have decided that the spring show is far more essential than a like festival in the fall, and there will therefore be no exhibition of motor cars in November of this year as has been the case in the past. The Of Naval Reserve IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, March 28.—The New York end of an alleged narco- tic smuggling combine, which fed- eral agents charged had sent many packages of opium to Holly- wood nd other Pacific Coast cities, was believed today to have been broken up by a raid in a low- er East side apartment last in which $750,000 in cont was selzed. Two men who gave their name as Michael Heller and Max Not Available but Include Protection for All. After having spent five days here in cramming infor- mation relative to the production, proper operation -and geology of Teapot Dome, Admiral Joseph Strauss, receiver representing the government, er, representing the and Albert E. Watts, receiv- arry F. Sinclair interests, left last night for Cheyenne where they will submit to Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy their recommendations as to the most economic program of operations for Teapot field while it is held in litigation. No mention of what measures hi report would advise, was made by the admiral yesterday evening. He announced that from Cheyenne he (Continued on Page Fourteen) LAMBS BEING CONTRACTED AT 11 CENTS FOR FALL DELIVERY CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 28.— Wyoming lambs for fall delivery now are commanding 11 cents per pound, which ts one-half cent higher than the quotation of a week ago and a cent higher than the price ob- tainable-a year ago at the corres- ponding -period, according to Byron Wilson, secretary of the Wyoming Wool Growers association, An in- crease of a cent @ pound in the | of lambs, Wilson stated. represen’ THIRD ANNUAL AUTOMOBILE SHO BLAZE OF GLORY next show will not be conducted until March or April of 1925. Although the true objective of an automobile show 1s not the projec- tion of rapid fire deals, and the making of floor sales, but rather to work up interest in the motor car and to obtain good prospects for future solicitation, Casper dealers will probably average actual sales during the period of the show. This is a record which has never been equaled in this section of the coun- try and which speaks well for the sales ability and personality of the local dealers and their sales forces. The total attendance for all four days of the show just closed is well over 5,000. This of course includes the complimentary tickets which were issued to the exhibitors and their friends. This is more than half the total attendance at any (Continued on Page Seven) OHNSON DEFEATS COOLIDGE IN RACE Two Thousand Majority Rolled Up By California Senator in Presidential Primary in South Dakota SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 28.—Reversing the result of the North Dakota primary of March 18, Senator Hiram Johnson of ‘California, defeated President Calvin Coolidge in Tuesday’s primary for South Dakota’s Republican pres- idential endorsement, unofficial returns, compiled by news- papers showed today. The president will be victorious in North Dakota by several thousand votes, while Senator Johnson won out in South Dakota by nearly 2,000 majority, the undfficlal returns in- dicated. Returns from 1,684 precincts, tabulated by three of the state's leading newspapers, gave Senator Johnson 40,243 votes, and President Coolidge 88,500, when compilations of figures ceased last night. The remaining 146 precincts scat- tered through a score of counties, will not change the result, the three newspapers—the Sioux Falls Press, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and the Mitchell Republican—declared, each announcing Johnson as the victor. Governor W, H. McMaster, who won the Republican senatorial nom!- nation from Senator Thomas Ster- ling, had a majority of more than 11,000 today, 1,456 precincts giving him 40,808 votes and _ Sterling 29,195. Other results claimed by the news- papers on the face of unofficial fig- ures, were: W. G. McAdoo won the Democratic’ presidential en- dorsement; U. 8S. G. Cherry, major- ity candidate, the Democratic sena- torial nomination, and Tom Ayres the Farmer-Labor senatorial nomit- nation. 1 DAMAGE SMALL FROM ONE FIRE YESTERDAY ‘The fire department answered two calls, one of them false and the other of small consequence, last night and this morning. Smoke pouring from one of the windows in the Ideal apartments at Center and A streets at 5 p. m. yesterday caused some- one to call the fire department be- fore the whole building should be burned to the ground. The call was answered. A tenant was frying meat somewhat too thoroughly. A bunch of burlap sacks caught fire at the Chase Brothers cafe, 116 West Second street, this morning. They were quickly extinguished, ‘lessly pulled over his face. $600,000 for the flockmasters of the ctate. Wilson announced that organiza- tion of the Wyoming Co-operative Wool marketing association had been completed. He also stated that he had re- eeived from Washington informa- tion that the senate inter-state com- merde committee would: report were arrested b six agents he ed by Ralph H. Oyer, chief of the narcotic division in Washington. The agents said a long search for one ounce ting of opium bearing @ picture of a white wheel on a black background hitherto had failed to disclose such cans in any point save Hollywood and a few other western cities. Many of them were found in Heller's apartment, they charged. The arrests were made after a lively chase along Avenue A, and Heller was captured only after he had run to the roof of an apart- ment house and had thrown away what the federal agents said was a package containing narcdtics worth $20,000 at street prices, sos al teenie dlls New Altitude Record Is Set DAYTON, Ohfo, March 28.—Iieu- tenant Harold R. Haris, of McCook Field, established a new unofficial altitude record yesterday for air- planes carrying a load of 551 pounds, Instruments on his plane showed that he reached a height of 28,411 feet. Little change is expected-on final official calibration. The former record wan held by Adjutant Bury snd was established in Bourget, France on June 1, 1923. fayorably the Truth-in-Fabtie bill, ‘wnich) has)an important_beasing-on the interests of wool grow Adjutant Bury reached a hieght of 27,768 feet. WOMAN IS SHOT BY ROBBER Mrs. Marie Bell, Victim of Lavoye Hold- up, Expected to Recover; No Trace of Bandits Found Efforts to capture two men responsible for the highway robbery of Mrs. Marie Bell’s home at Lavoye last night and for the accidental shooting of the woman as they were making their get away proved unavailing today, although county officers scoured the Salt Creek ‘field for miles with the hope of getting some clue to their hiding place or to the direction they had taken out of the country if they were found to have fled. Mrs. Bell is in the Midwest hos- pital at Salt Creek with a wound in the right thigh just below the hip. ‘The wound was made by a bullet from a .38 calibre revolver thought to have been accidentally discharged by one of two intruders who enterea her home at 9:30 o'clock last night and robbed the place of $100 in cash, a platinum diamond ring and a black gold ring. The woman was washing dishes and was alone in the house at the time the crime was ‘committed. She herd a knock at the door and without going to see who was there told the yisitors to come in. Two men entered. Only one of these wore a mask that was rather care- She was commanded to throw up her hands BOY SCOUT HERO WINS CITATION CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 28.— Jewell Brummet, member cf the Boy Scout troop of the little town of Chugwater, Wyoming, has been granted a certificate of -heroism by the National Court of Honor of the Boy Scouts of America for sav- ing the life of a companion, Wayne Hulett, July 4, last. The Chugwater scout troops was encamped on the Fourth of July beside a small lake near Chug- water, Young Hulett went swim: ming, became exhausted some dls. tance from shore and sank. E mett, observing Hulett’s distress, leaped into the lake, ewam to the drowning boy's assistance, rescued him in unconscious condition and then, by application of “first aid” measures restored him. um- and one of the robbers pointed a gun in her face. They ransacked the house, according to her story, and found the money and jewelry. As they were going out the door the man who held the gun discharged it accidentally and shot her, wound- ing her severely. They fled and she screamed for help. Neighbors heard her cries and came to her assistance. Deputy George Vance was notified and he immediately got in touch with the sheriff's office here. ‘Two deputies were sent out to run down the fugitives. All cars were stopped during the night but no trace of the men could be obtained. One of ‘the culprits {s known to the authorities, it is said. nd State NIGHT MAIL | EDITION NUMBER 134 ES UP POST OUSTER DRIVE OF PRESIDENT IS SUCCESSFUL Scandal Target in Senate Probe Forced to Step Out at Request of Coolidge on What He Calls “Untenable” Plea WASHINGTON, March 28.—At the request of Prest« dent Coolidge, Attorney General Daugherty today sub- mitted his resignation effective at once. The president's decision was based on a conviction that Mr. Daugherty could not give disinterested attention to his official duties while under the stress of the senate inquiry Into his conduct. While disclaiming any Intention to “prejudge the issues raised in the investigation, the president wrote Mr, Daugherty that his cor tinuance in office must inevitably be a source of “ever increasing em barrassment.” In a letter of three terse sen- tences, the attorney genera] replied that he «was resigning ‘:mplely out of deference to your request." The correspondence was made public at the White House without comment, but at the department of justice Mr, Daugherty immediately prepared a statement setting forth again his side of the question. This statement took the form of a second letter to the president in which the retiring Attorney general declared: the grounds on which his retirement had been forced seemed to him “untenable.” Any suggestion that he could not “function as attorney general and defend myself against these charges at the same time,” the letter said, was “hardly warranted by the facts. Mr. Daugherty recalled that he twice had offered since Mr. Cool fdge became presicent to retire but had been requested to remain. He said he was aware that the argu ment of “party expediency” had been used to secure “his retireme: but added that “‘Cowardice and sur- render of principle are never ex- pedient.”” Declaring the attack on him was only part of a definite program to discredit the administration as a whole, Mr. Daugherty declared the country was confronting a grave crisis which must Cetermine wheth- er the country is to be governed by law and order or by “slander, ter- rorism and fear.” Immediately after signing the last letter to the president, Mr. Daugherty left Washington for a rest at Atlantic City. The second letter from Mr. Daugherty to the president states: “Under separate cover I have just handed you my formal resigna- tion as attorney general of the Unit- ed States to take effect forthwith. Now that I am no longer a member of your cabinet, I feel constrained, as a private citizen, in all kindness, to call certain matters to your at- tention. “Your request, Mr. President, for my resignation {s based on grounds which seem to me untenable. As you will perhaps remember, I did not intend to seek your advice with regard to compliance with the de- mands of the senate committee for the indiscriminate delivery of the confidential files of the department (Continued on Page Fourteen) NORTHWESTERN ADDS SIX BIG ENGINES HERE Mikado Type Locomo- tives to Haul Oil Trains, Report. Need for greater freight carrying eaphelty has compelled the Casper division of the Chicago and North- western raflroad to take a far step in advance and as’ the result of this there have been added recently six powerful Mikado locomotives that are the largest engines evep used on the Casper division and the largest freight engines used any- where on the Northwestern line. It {s announced that there will be as many more engines of the type sent here. The pany ts striving to replace its less powerful locomotives with these steel monsters. The r ype can- not be run west of Casper to Lander however because the bridges a not strong enough to sustain them, Measuring 79 feet 41% inches and hing 579,100 pounds, one of these engines puffed contentedly in the yard after making an elght- hour run from Chadron to Casper yesterday dragging a mighty train of cars behind it. It had done a good day's work and had earned the approval and respect of those who had it in charge, for the rail- road men are proud of these new giants and are familiar with their merits. The engine fs known as the class It is made by the Locomotive company, Y. It is an oll wn as a super-heater. 900 gallons of oll in the h is good for about — 200-mile trip and carries 8,275 gal- lons of water. It has twice the tonnage of the R-l which is the largest engine used on this division up to this time. The locomotive has a 3,000 tons rating out of Casper and can haul (Continued on Page Fourteen) MIDDLETON CONVICTED ON GAMBLING CHARCES; HEAVY PENALTY FIXED Proprietor of “Crooked” Games Appeals from $1,500 Fine and 18 Months in the Natrona County Jail It took a jury 30 minutes in district court last night to find D. W. “Wes” Middleton guilty on two counts of a gambling charge and and it took Judge R. R. Rose three minutes to sentence him to pay a fine of $1,500 and serve 18 months in the county jail. Cobb, Middleton filed an appeal bond of hearing. Middleton's place above 254 South Center street was raided December 1 last and 16 players found follow ing the elusive ivorles in a game of baseball crap, ; the supreme court for a re Through his attorney, W. B. 3,000 to take the The ar were given ing during Harry Cass, attorney. jurors a lessor the tr! assistant Cass attributed his fa- millarity with the bones to his ex-| of silver perience in the a:my and he was ask tric The most testimony put out by Cass was that in the raid he selzed two pair of crooked dice on the tak One pair was minus any 4 having double on each dice. 4 her was ved on the sides so that they would not roll true. to explain the detall and in- no’ of the wit- just as 1gh the in the was me of which 8, He's Coming All the evidence se includin zed in the raid, oked dice, the beg totaling $400, the (Continued on Page Fourteen)