Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 1

| i } ¥ th 3 hy » + © SDIES AT FAMILY HOME +, pe wha have gone west. : The Weather and Friday. in temperature. WYOMING: Fair tonight =| Che Casper Daily Cribune PR Little change CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 19: 1M TOLL JUMPS 10 108 D (dwosy gy MOVE OyM; -AD, 500 INJURED The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. NUMBER 162. c307,508 HERE Spring Work Gets Off To Big Start Despite Weather Handicap. Prevented by a late spring from getting under way as well as it fight have done otherwise, building In Casper took a jump during the month of April and reached the total of $307,608. ‘This is more than $100,000 grester than the figures for March and fs only slightly lees than the figure for April of last\ year Ninety permits were granted last month. The majority of these were for residence structures, none of which approached large figures. The statistics rather indicate that many men of limited means are building Somes in Casper. New additions, to jibe city are well represented among dhe locations for residences. EMORIAL DAY — PLANS LAID Preliminary arrangements for the plservance of ‘Memorial day in Cas- er were made at a meeting of war weteran organizations last night in the Consolidate Royalty building. The Spanish American War vet erans will have ful] charge of the ebservance and will be assisted by the other organizations. The plans call for a Memorial day service on Sunday with a parade the following @ay to the cemetery where ap- Propriate honors will be paid to war Representatives from. the two ts of the American Legion, the terans of Foreign Wars, the fpanish American war veterans and the American Legion auxiliary were Present last night. Details of the program will be an- pounced a week or two before the holiday. WIFE OF OHIO EMPLOYE DIES AT LAVOVE HOME Mrs, Myrtle B. Shenk, 31 years @f age, wife of Clarence A. Shenk, warehousemanfor the Ohio Oll com- pany at Lavoye, died suddenly at the family resiGence there last night. The body is being shipped from the Shaffer-Gay funeral chapel to Clark, 8, D., this afternoon for in- torment. MRS. IDK HARRISON Mrs. Ida Harrison, 61 years of Axe, of 255 West BC street, died this morning at the family resi- @ence. She is survived by her hus- fand, and a daughter living at Puck- wana, 8. D. The body is being held at the Shat- fer-Gay Chapel pending funeral ar- mngements, Fears Are Held for Safety of Major Martin; No Word Since Yesterday FATZ .PASS, Unimak Island, May 1.—Anxiety for the safety of Major Fred- erick L. Martin, commander of the United States around the world flight grew today in the absence of any word concern- ing him from points along the route he was to flow to Dutch Harbor, Unalaska island, on a 400 mile jump from Chignik, Alaska. He left the latter station at 11:10 yesterday morning and so far as {s known his giant cruiser Seattle has not been seen since. The fact that the most terrific gales ever reported have been lash- ing the north Pacific ocean for the past five days has increased fears ror Martin. spite adverse weather conditions in an effort to rejoin the other three planes which have been waiting at Dutch Harbor since April 19. VESSELS ASKED TO . TAKE UP SEARCH : CORDOVA, Alaska, May 1.—(By the Associated Press).—At 2:25 this morning no word had heen received at th's station, which fs in constant wireless communication» with the Lwhole notth Pacific region, concern- ing the.fate of Major Frederick L. ‘Martin, ‘ “ Radio stations at Cannery sta- tions along the Alaskan peninsula and the Aleutian Islands westward from Chignik whence Major Martin flew at 11.10 yesterday morning, were expected to open at 9 o'cloc and {t was hoped that some news might come then. Nine o'clock at Chignik, on the Alaska peninsula, whence Major Martin set out in the Seattle, flag Plane at an army flight around the world, for Dutch Harbor, 400 miles westward in the Aleutians, is the same as two o'clock in New York standard time. Vessels that ‘have come north for the annual Alaska salmon pack were asked to take up the'search for Major Martin, with whor trouble has flown since the expedition of four planes left Santa Monica, Call- fornia, March 17. Very few of these boats are equipped with wireless and the number of such craft in the re- and the “ste: CHEYENNE, Wyo. an institution for the mental he was confined there did the inmates co Mike Uran, 16 (Continued on Page Twelve) HIGH SCHOOL! SS ~ pantie BLT a saree “calliope went on sho = es “al and Bel 4 —Photo by Bell, Tribune Staff Photographer. Casper people who expect to attend the “high school ¢ireus’*to be staged at the school gymnasium tonight and tomorrow night were given some idea of the treat in store for them when the performers appear ed on parade at.11:30 today jon broke ran ks in front of the Tribune for the photograph reproduced above. 1 full regalia. Clowns, wild animals, acrobats U.S. FLIGHT COMMANDER LOST AGAIN ) AUILDING FOF MONTH TOTAL May 1.—(Special to The Tribune.)—Hen sub-normal, lay “three orf receive eggs, an ear-old Rock Springs youth, who ran awa and who is under arrest here, awaiting return to Lander. school is run through a separator and only skim milk is "CRA McCray, former governor of homes,” he said. ATLANTA, Ga., May 1.—One day after resigning as governor of In- diana, Warren 'T. McCray entered the Atlanta federal penitentiary to serve a ten year sentence for using the mails to defraud. The former governor, in charge of two deputies, and accompanted by personal friends, reached here at 12:10 p,m. Y PUT IN PRISON ATLANTA, Ga., May 1—Sympathy for the tornado victims to the south was expressed today by Warren T. Indiana, just before he was High wages are paid to experts employed in packing women's trunks, Both in Paris and London, but especially in the French capital, this has become a regular profes- sion, and probably seven out of ten wealthy women who purchase ward- robés in Paris employ a professional packer, who may be supplied either by the modiste or the hotel. JAKE HAMON WANTED TO MAKE SON PRESIDENT, WIDOW INFORMS PUBLIC ‘)Ambitions of Late Oklahoma Politician Wrapped Up In Not In Oil, She Declares’ CHICAGO, May 1.—The Oklahoma politician and oil man, was not to be secretary of the interior—it was to make his son, Jake, Jr., dent of the United States. summoned to testify before th committe and then was not asked to take the witness chair, He waned to be nothing else but ent ¢ This was disclosed today by his widow on her return from Washington where she was Hopes for Son, ambition of Jake Hamon, presi- e Teapot Dome investigation chairman of the Republican national committee,” Mrs, Hamon said. “Ll get it and I'l hold it for years until Jake Jr, in old enough to take it over,’ he told me,” she said Then I'll make him chair- man In my place and let him hold It until he ig wise enough and old en- ough and when that times comes I'll make Jake Jr., pre est president of the United Hamon swung bis support from former Governor Lowden of Tlinois Warren G, Haré in the 1920 Republican convent at her re quest, Mrs. Hamon Harding, she explained distant rela tive of her.famil cata a Women’s Christian association now maintains centers throughout the United States and Canada and in 13 foreign countries. n said wos a The Young committed to the federal penitentiary here to serve a}. term of ten years for using the mails to defraud., “My heart goes out to those who lost their loved ones and their asserts are sold in Lander. The Uran boy was"caught here by railroad detectives a week after he ran away from. the state school, to which he had been committed Feb- ruary 27th, last. When only 9 years old he was. committed to the state industrial institute at Worland for burgiarizing a box car and remain- ed there four years. When he was committed to the training school last winter, the records show, he was credited with the mentality of a child of ten years of age. He talks intelligently, however, and is to answer questions with succint di- Wednesday afternoon the boy was interrogated hy representatives of the state government here concern- ing conditions in the Lander school, and especially concerning beatings alleged to have been given inmates and the food served at the institu. tion, Dain Frazier, an attendant at the schoo; is to be arraigned at Lan- der, Friday, May 2, on charges of assault and battery predicated on beatings he is allowed to have ad- (Continued on Page Ten.) > Up-To-Date The matter of keeping te, in dress as well -as other modern adyance..is very im portant to both men and women It would not be physically pos. sible for the store to be a word of mouth, purveyor of information of the development of art, creation and invention. It would be next for the manufacturer to design, originate, Invent new things of interest, and comfort and wait for public acceptance through over the-counter information. The great lubricant of the ma- chinery of manufacturing and dis- able up to every to impossible tribution is educative, informing ad¢ertising. Advertising bullds factories, rai) roads, cities; peoples these cities with busy, contented people. And day by day, in The Tribune, the products of an infinite variety of industry parade before the eyes of the readers. SHOP IN THE TRIBU FORE SHOPPING THE SHOPS, BE- BRUTALITY AND POOR FOOD AT LANDER SCHCOL, RUNAWAY SAYS yur doen it was when each was given one from the school because, he say Furthermore, says. young Uran, served inmates of the institution. t the Wyoming State Training school at Lander, eggs daily, but only once during the two months | jurea by a he was beaten there, milk produced at the The milk and eggs, he MAY DAY QUIET IN CAPITALS Disturbances of Former Years Lacking In Old World Cen- ters; Russians Pay Tribute to Lenine; Paris FeteIsVery |; “Tame;” No Holiday Is Taken In Berlin MOSCOW, May 1.—(By The Associated Press.) —Bolshevist Russia parted trom its usual custom of observing May Day with spectacular military parades and confined its celebration to peaceful demonstrations at the tomb of Lenine. The authorities having decided to allow two days to the celebration, tomorrow will be given over to parades of the commun f of working classes, who will take the oath of allegiance to the revolutionary principles at Lenine's shrine. Hundreds of thousands of work; men with their families and many government employes marched from all parts of the city today bearing flaming banners and flags and converged up on the mausoleum in Red Squar forming a spectacle less impressive than that at 1 of the premier. Speeches were made Minister Trotzky and others in whigh the socialistic ideals and life work of Lenine were the prinéipal themes. by War Directly behind Lenine's black wooden tomb appeared the huge red placard: “Our weapon is Leninism. ‘The aim of the world is revolution.” BERLIN, May 1.—The workers of Berlin did not observe May Day as the usual Js holiday, all the in dustrial plants and public utjlities continuing in scattering a 1 operatior re by police were monstrations the commu whick quickly dispersed, no 4. ing reported. PARIS, May 1 Wait until May 11, election da © motto of the extremist part was followed out today to a sufficient extent to make [ (ty Bley Day in Paris ono of the WORLD tamest in recent years. Except for the almost complete cessation of taxicab service, a ten minute noon day strike on the auto bus and tramyay Ines, and one day walk outs In some of the small work the city presented much the aspect as on Saturday of Holy ATHENS, May 1.—A large num ber of communists assembled out side the labor cente for a May Day meeting despite strict orders that such gathering must not bo held. Tho communists re fused to disperse even when a fire hose was turned on them. ‘Th troops then fired in the air, This caused a panke 1 a stampede TOKIO, May 1.—(ByY The Asso clated Press.)—Under the watchful 3,000 police reserves and with Mice tationed atrategl han 2 i : i n "Tob t today ta ord Day labor demonstra tions ever Witnessed here An unexpected thrill was fur nished when @ naval balloon sailing over the city was forced down at the busiest intersection amid crowds (Continued on Page Nine.) 4 ’ Easter egg, according | plant | BALL scores |/PROPERTY LOS SEVEN STATES OF THE SOUTH Batterieg—May, Disut and grave; Aldridge and Hartnett. Har- At Brook; RHE, Philadelphia --110 100 100— 4 10 Brooklyn 003 040 30x—10 16 Batteries — Carlson, 3 Hamilton, Betts, Lewis and Henline; Grimes and Taylor. At Pittsburgh— St. Louis R.H.E. o---=-f 002 001 021—6 13 3 Pittsburgh ——-.018 003 O1x—8 12 1 Batt Ss, Bell and Gon- fod sales Nicieera” ‘rene’ ‘and {Death and Destruction Gooch, A . : re Left in Wake of _At Boston— R.H. EB. New York —__..000 701 010—9 12 1) Tornadoes That Cut 3— \ yder} Genewich, McNamara, Yeargin and waths in Lowns. rr BULLETIN AMERICAN LEAGUE. At New York— R. 1. E. Washington -..100 110 000—3 9 0 New York ~ 000 000 200—2 9 0 Batteries—Johnson and Roel; Hoyt, Jones and Hofmann, Schang. ANTA, Ga., May 1.—(By the ed Press).—Report of addi- 1 deaths from tornadoes in Rich- land and Sumter counties in South Carolina, today swelled the life toll to 108 in the series of storms that struck southeastern states yester- day. Seventy-nine known dead had been reported in South Carolina to- day alone. ATLANTA, Ga., May 1.— At Cleveland— Batteries — Blankenship, Connally and Schal Shaute and Myatt. At St. Louis— r.1.5.| (By The Associated Press,) Detroit —wWith ninety-five persons St. Louis ----0lx xxx #xx—x x x|/known to be dead, mo Batteries—Whitehall and Bassler;|than a score missin: ore Kolp, Wingard and Severeid. es ng, ap- proximately 500 injured, some perhaps fatally, the southeast set about today to relieve in regions stricken yesterday and Tuesday by At Philadelphia— R.H.E. Boston 002 003 000—5 9 1 Philadelphia -__000 000 001—1 9 0 Batterles—Quinn and O'Neill; | the worst storms in history. Rommell, Baumgartner, Walberg | ‘Tornadoes, descending with devas- and Bruggy. tating violence upon widely separat- p ccna Slt sections, caused damage estimat- ed at $10,000,000 in the seven states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, and Arkansas, The latter two were the first to suffer, being in the area in which the disturbance originated Tuesday. arly today incomplete reports de+ 1 d by crippled wire facilities, dis- CHEYENNE BOY ELECTROCUTED CHEYENNE, Wyo. May 1—}tributed the total list o} . b if a s' a a Ambition to become a fireman re-| jows: OF Sones vers sulted fatally for Jack Wright, a South Carolina 66; Georgia 13; Ala- 14-year-old. boy scout last night!}pama 11; North Curolina 3: Loule. when he: climbed a pole with a@/ jana 1; Arkansas 1. ‘ * ladder improvised from automobile 2 With many points in the path of the storms yet completely isolated, reports of additional casualties were anticipated hourly Relief work is proceeding rapidly under the supervision of the Ameri: can Red Cross, assisted by rumer- ous local fraternal and civic organi- chains, came into contact with high voltage wires and fell 30 feet. He died at a hospital three hours later. He was a son of John Wright, auto: mobile dealer. FIVE KILLED BY GAS BLAST IN REFINERY | zations, municipal and county gov- KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 1.—Five|ernments and individuals. Hun persons were Killed and several in-|dreds of the more fortunate survi- asoline explosion at the | v of the storms have thrown open of the Interstate Refineries|their homes to the sufferers, while here shortly before noon today. The|in virtually every locality in the af- burning gasoline spread to storage districts, temporary kitchens tanks and an hour later the fire was| have been t up to dispense food to not under control. the hung: A picture of desolation and wreck: age was left fp the wake of the storms, which \traversed a path roughly estimated at more than a thousand miles long. It’s destruc: tive force, however, seemed partly to have been spent as it spread east- ward through Virginia last evening, no deaths having occurred there so far as known, and but slight pro- perty damage caused compared with other ons in which it struck, Dead and injured and many of those unhurt were picked up by the fierco winds and hurled through the air hundreds of feet. Miles of tele phone and telegraph lines were torn wn, hundreds of dwellings and other buildings were ripped from thelr foundations and demolished, trees uprooted and numbers of live stock were killed; while bridges were washed‘away and roads flooded in many sections by torrential rains which accompanted the storr ia today de- Women and children made up a large part of the known dead. del naar ,| Entire communities were destroy: boy scouts and children of the) ee ne nia: thele las (Continued on Pago Nine) SELF SURGERY FATAL TO ONE, OTHERS DYING Tragic Results From Personal Efforts at Rejuvenation In Goat Gland Operations by Four People By L. C. OWEN. (Copyright, 1924, The Casper Tribune.) SAN RAFAE Calif., May 1 Pursuit of Ponce de Leon’s chimerical fountain of eternal youth, as exemplified in this modern day and age by the widespread belief in the efficacy of and operations, was held responsible to- day for one strange death and may bring a similar fate ta three other men. The dead man is ton of Elverano, Bu Joreph E. Mer. near here, Merton umbed as the result of a goat and operation, self performed The three others who are critically (Continued on Page Ten.)