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? PAGE TWO. Une Casper Waly Crioune 45 BODIES RECOVERED FROM ¥<!! MINE, SEARCH FOR 66 MORE z,- VOTERS G0 10 POLLS IN TWO STATES TODAY Contest in Ohio Holds Lead; Massachusetts Voting Light. COLUMBUS, Ohio., April 29.—Ohlo voters went to the polls today to select delegates to the National con- ventions of the two major political parties and to register their prefer- pandidates to be na by the ntion. Little int was being nm and Secret State Thad Brown declared he did not expect more than 500,000 to vote Final statementa of leaders of the Coolidge, Johnson, McAdoo and Cox campaigns predicted victory for their respective candidates, The most interesting feature of today’s election is the contest of for- mer Attorne General Harry M. Daugherty, a Coolidge candidate for ate at large. ‘orts of Johnson supporters have centered largely on attacks of the former attorney general since his re- tirement from the cabinet. Daugh- erty in 1 a Harding delegate was defea ence as to cony BOSTON, April 29.—A light vote is expected in the Massachusetts presidential primaries tod with no opposition to the Republican slate of seven delegates at large pledged to President Coolidge and only one in- fividual seeking a place on the Dem- ccratic delegation at large at the expense of one of the eight candidates in the official group. Brig. General Charles H. Cole en- tered the Democratic primary fight as a protest against failure of the party leaders to put the name of a world war veteran on their slate. He has announced that if elected he will support Governor Smith of New York. LARGE ATTENDANCE IN PROSPECT AT CHURCH BANQUET ON THURSDAY The men’s dinner to be given at the First Presbyterian tabernacle, Sixth and Durbin, on Thursday eve- ning of this week promises to one of the most largely attended fairs in the history of the church here. Already a large number of men haye.made reservations. Tickets are furnished free by the men’s class to all members of the church or their f ai and reservation may be made by phoning 7 The Rev. Albert F, MeGarrah, D. D., of New York City will be the main speaker of the evening. Dr. MocGarrah is one of the most noted men of the Presbyterian church, be- ing especially expert as a church or. the author of a num- He will give a busi- ness men's talk . Gregor Stewart will provide mu Bic on the bagpipes as an entertain. ment feature and other things are promised to enliven the gathering Mr, McGarrah will speak to the “ church at a meet , 14 ‘Thursday afternoon at o'clock in the church par lors, Full idance of members is requested friends are invited. “TIZ” FOR TENDER, Majority of Victims of Wheeling Disaster Burned Beyond Recognition; No Hope of Finding Any Men Alive Held Out by Searchers in Rescue Work WHEELING, W. Va., April 29. The burned and crushed bodies of forty-five vic- tims of yesterday’s explosion and fire in the Benwood Mill mine of the Wheeling Steel corporation, have.been found by rescue workers and search for 66 other minérs who were entombed continued under direction of experts of the United States Bureau of Mines. time in exploring the underground recesses, Gun Is Pulled quarreled in the oll field town, azcord- ing to the their testimony after the arrests and had continued it when they met in Casper. The quarrel developed into a rough and tumble and Smith hit McCarthy on the head with the butt end of a revolver and then fired at him, missing him. C. G. Vance, deputy sherrifft of Lavoye, who happened to be near the scene, disarmed Smith and placed both men under arrrest. The two men will probably be tried today in justice court, with And Fired in Street Fight The firing of a revolver in the street at the corner of First anc Certer streets yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock resulted in the arrest of Robert Smith and James Mc- Carthy, both charged with assault and battery, and the collection of a large crowd to see the excitement. Smith and McCarthy, both residents of Lavoye, had more serious preferred against Smith. The streets near the corner were fairly well crowded at the time but the bullet did no damage, many taking flight at the crack’ of the pistol. Smith went to Lavoye four months ago from Denver and claims to be a tailor. He {s about 30 years’ of age. MgCarthy is a mechanic but has been working at the Baussel & Avery poolhall at Lavoye since g0- ing there from Denver about two months ago. charges W. single handed when he ran down a Buick coupe about seven miles east on the Yellowstone highway, The Buick contained two men, Edward Parsons and Claiblain Williams, who were believed to have been in the act of delivering a load of liquor to Cas- per. Two kegs of 10 gallon capa- city each were found in the car and the liquor, men and the car are now in the hands of the sheriff. Irving had been patroling the high way hours before he abgut 11 several the for rum runners o’cloc In the meantime S. R. Owens and Otto Plaga had been lying out in the rain along the banks of the Platte about 10 miles east of town trying to locate a still that they had been working on the last few days. They located the still on an {sland oppo- site the Badger ranch but in the dark they. could not find a crossing the river. After turning in his prisoners Ir. ving went back down the river and Joined Owens and Plaga. At day- break the trio found a boat, crossed the river and went directly to the stillhouse which was in a tent 40 NEW CONGREGATIONAL PASTOR WILL APPEAR means of DORE, TIRED FEET Ah! what relief. No more tired feet; no more burning feet, swollen, had smelling, sweaty feet. No more 1 in corns louses or bunions. matter what alls your feet or under the sun you've tried relief, just use all the poisonous ich puff up the feet “Tle grand 1 never limp or ¢ Your nd your or get sore, Ww up your won't will never swollen or vain, hoes Get a box at any drug or depart ment store, and get relief for a few Advertisement Wiring Supplies FIXTURES, LAMPS, ELECTRIC APPLIANCES Radio Supplies Motor Repairing Electric Supply And Construction Co, 142 E. Midwest Phone 483W Estimate Gladly Furnished nn East Terraces is convenient | to school. NEXT SUNDAY MORNING Dr. H. N. Dascomb, who becomes pastor of and preaches at the First Congregational church jin Casper Sunday morning, in the America theater, comes here from the First Congregational church of Columbus, Ohio, where he has been for six months, Born in Vermont, a stu dent of Dartmouth college, and Un: ion seminary, Chicago, after eight years in the First Congregational church in Cleveland, Ohio, he en- tered war work with the Y. M, CG. A and did notable work as regional religious work director in a terrt- tory that served 350,000 American soldiers, In 1920 he took the big Plymouth ehurch in Denver, at the solicitation of Governor Sweet, where he accom- plished a great constructive worl, TWO KILLED IN LABOR WAR CHICAGO. dedd and Two men are V others slightly wounded as 4 result of a mysterious shooting at a labor union hall last night, believed by authorities to have heen caused by a factional contro April versy Samuel 8. Bills, a business agent for the fee cream wagon drivers’ Union, was killed and Rob: ert Devere was fatally and died in # hospital, wounded, VIOLATORS, STILLS AND CAR SEIZED BY COUNTY-FEDERAL FORCES IN RAIDS YESTERDAY Four prisoners, two jarge stills with all their appurt-| enances, a Buick coupe, 1,900 gallons of mash, 371% gal- lons of liquor and numerous other articles of moonshining equipment Were taken in all night raids by the sheriff’s office and the federal officers Monday. 9 C. Irving, underslieriff, made the first capture t 14 feet in dimensions, A run had just been completed in the 80- gallon still and Tom Murphy, 60 years old and in trouble with the officers before, was found in charge. Just a short distance away the officers uncovered a 50-gallon still bubbling merrily away in a dugout even with the level of the ground. ‘Theodore Laird was arrested charged with operating the piant. The three officers had a strenuous time this morning in the rain and snow packing their evidence to the boat and then ferrying it across the river in the small boat. -~ / BAYES [R SPIRIN While the rescuers despaired of reaching any of the men alive, they lost no As the bodles were located they were placed to one side in the mine tunnels, and the rescuers, weary and worn by a night of hard work con- tinued their fight against fallen rocks and earth and poison gas. None of the bodies will be brought to the surface until every tunnel and chamber has been explored. The bodies of only three of the 36 recovered had been identified, the most of them being burned beyond recognition. Governor Morgan of West Virginia left Huntington last night for the scene of the disascer and is expected here today. Rescue workers in the Brown's run entry, where most of the bodies recovered were Zound, and those in the Benwood entry are less than 3,000 feet apart and the two groups Probably will have the rock fall cleared sufiiciently to-join by noon ‘Wednesday, it was declared by those in charge. J. W. Carpenter, of the Benwood Plant of the Wheeling Steel Corpor- ation this morning announced that 111 men were in the corpvration’s mine at the time of the explosion and he issued a ist which he said had been carefully checked and was official. Earlier in the night George Holliday, Sr., superintendent of the mine had announced that a check had shown 114 men in the workings when the blast came. French Deputy Is Beaten by Gangster Mob SOILLAC, France, April 29, Prince Joachim Murat, member of the chamber of deputies and a de- cendant of Napoleon's famous ¢com- panion-in-arms, Joachim Murat, King of Naples, was assaulted in a campalgn rally here last night by hoodlums who beat him severely and threw him from the platforms. The Prince today had several bad face and body wounds, but onlook- ers agreed that he took his punish- ment Uke one of his illustrious fore- bears among the old guardsmen. Soillac is the home town of for- mer Minister of the Interior Louis Malvy, who was removed from of- fice and banished to Spain for: five years in 1918 for his pacifist atti- tude, and who fs now active in push- ing the radical and socialist attempt at a comeback in the forthcoming elections. Consequently the’ political feeling against the nationalistic de- puties, such as Prince Murat, is ex- tremely strong. a Tribune wantads bring results. ee Casper and Midwest Taxi Cars ‘eave the Henning dally at 8 a. m, %, 1 2:30 p,m. with 7-passenger tour: ing car, (15 of us) will take cere of a: passengers at the Henning stand pr call at your home—with 30 minutes notice. Remember cars will leave at any time during the day with four or more passengers. Fare $3 each way. Call the Henning. A few chickens will pay the grocery bill. See Mowatal View Suburb, tein Say ‘*Bayer’’- Insist! 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(Copyright, 1924, WASHINGTON, April 29.—As the climax of the tax revision fight approaches in the senate, the administra- tion has become convinced at last that the rates proposed by Secretary Mellon cannot be adopted. : Instead the president will have to be content with a compromise between extremes. pelled to sign the bill presented him for there is no chance of modi- fication even if ho should veto the Sentiment in congress No amount of pressure from the ad- measure, has crystallized. It is fixed. ministration can alter a situation which a combination of Democrats and insurgent Republicans hold the real power. series of amendments. Representatives Longworth, Repul can leader, did in the house, endeavoring to get a record vote’ the Mellon rates and will be conti to get through that kind of a which represents the mean between The Democrats and com- two extremes. insurgent Republicans have bined to support rates much hig! with respect to large incomes than Mr. Mellon recommended and much lower rates so far as persons smaller income are concerned than was originally proposed by ‘the ministration, house has been won by the lat! scientifically applied tax system been rejected in favor of a scheme which reduces slightly the burden on the wealthy but materially cuts the taxes of individuals with incomes up to ten and fifteen thousand dol- lars a year, There are ever many more voters in the latter group Fear that reductions granted wealthy would be the subject for Finer Texture and Larger Volume in your bakings Same Price over 33 years 25 for 2° for Millions of Pounds Bought by the Government. The senate is about to vote on a Senator Smoot, chairman of the finance com- mittee is starting exactly the way He is The battle between sound econo- mics as represented by Secretary Mellon and good politics as reflected by majorities In both the senate and Mr. Mellons idea that rich and poor alike would ultimately benefit by a The Casper Tribune). to sition has been vulnerable in would profit personally as he has been affiliated. had a deterring effect too. bli- on ent bill WOMEN! DYE her of Said And he will, be com- criticism on the stump has prevailed in congress. Mr. Mellon's own po- for), awhile if analyzed to the last detail it would be found that he is not affected very much by any bill Passed, the impression has been spread by his opponents that he would others of large income with whom! The discussion of the bonus has The be- Met that the bonus would cost a good dea] more than has been esti- OLD THINGS NEW Sweaters Waists Draperies mated is a controlling influence. Congress 1s in a@ spending rather than a saving mood. _ Mr. Coolidge in his New York speech pointed to the number of measures seriously Pressed which if approved would re- quire just double the entire income of the United States government. Political pressure is in many cases yesponsible for the desire to appro- priate for specificate objects benefi- clil to certain constituencies. Per- has when the presidential campaign is tver End a new congress has been elec'ed, there will be a renewed de- mani\ for tax reduction, The pres- ident will certainly not express him- self a. satisfied with the bill given him and he will sign it with what may be termed left handed approval. He will be in a position to carry the fight for further tax revision and it would no‘ be surprising if in the campaign itself the cry of lower taxes were raised as an issue. 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