Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1924, Page 1

Che Casper Sunday Trifnie EJEC RESIDENTS T0 STAND PAT AND AWAIT ARREST Next Move Still Up to . The Government in Ouster Drive. No trouble was experi- enced by Hugh L. Patton, United States marshal, in serving ejection notices Sat- urday on 48 residents of La- voye as a preliminary of de- partment of justice efforts to wipe the largest town of the Salt Creek ofl field of fthe map. Marshal Pat- ton together with his deputy, Eat! Scholze, completed the work of pro- cess serving in a short time by de- livering to all those on band who were, specified in the court decree cop! of the order issued by Judge Ty Blake Kennedy in federal court some weeks ago. ‘The serving of the notices was. an- other step by the federal govern- ment to get rid of the “squatters” on land which has been a bone of con- tention between the Ohio Oil com- pany and Louis Lavoye for more than two years. The federal court upheld the argument of the oil com- pany that the land. should be turned over to it for drilling purposes and Judge T. Blake ‘Kennedy a short tne ago issued a blanket order to the effect that.the residents should get off at once and should take their buildings with them. The Lavoye residents preferred to wait until th: arrival ofthe U.S. marshal and even continued with construction work. Now that the marshal has arrived there {s little likelihood that the peo- ple of Lavoye will move. ‘They will simply continue their‘ policy . of watchful waiting though they have been assuered by A. D. Walton, Unit- ‘ed States district attorney for Wy ming, that if they do not obey the edict, they will be hailed into court for contempt. With such arrests there will be started another phase of a long legal battle which will cen- ter around the claim of Lavoye res- idents that they are no longer ten- ants of Louis Lavoye through or- ganization of the Lavoye Townsite association and application made to the interior department for the townsite, FNL TOURIST TRAVEL HEAVY FROM THE WEST COAST, SPECIALS AUN CHEYENNE, Wyo., May sht special trains, each carrying approximately 250 persons from California, passed through Cheyenne Saturday on the Union Pacific. In addition, every regular train of the road was crowded with persons bound from California eastward. The hegira results from excursion rates eastward which went into effect Thursday and from tho desire of per- sons who have been visiting in Call- fornia to get ovt of the foot and mouth disease infected region. The Union Pacific will handle about 30 *pecia] trains before the first exo- dus ends. 24.— MAIN NEWS § TION Valedictorian Of Class Put In Busy Years After going to high school for three years and working nights at the Standard refinery at the same time, Robert Lindsey will be graduated from the local institu- tion June 5 with the highest hon- ors for academic work. Lindsey obtained an average of 93 per cent for the entire-course which he made in a year less than the average student. He ‘s one of the, very few boys who have been graduated from the Natrona County high school with valedictorian honors, this distinc- tion usually falling to girls. Miss Helen Bishop has been named salutatorian. Her ‘average was 91 per cent. Ten other girls fell just below this ‘average. In recognition of the fact that Lindsey and Miss Bishop have the highest average of scholarship for the boys and girls respectively of thelr class, each will be given a scholarship to the University of ‘Wyoming. STATE HIGHWAYS ALL PASSABLE, 15 REPORT CHEYENNE, Wyo:, May 24.—All state highways in Wyoming are in passable condition, despite Tetent rains 2nd siides, is the report of Le- roy E. Laird, state highway super- intendent. Trucks, he reports, still e being used to pull cars across the river at Bonneville, where the ‘Wind Toad !s again ope: not yet in good condition. CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1924. ORDERS SERVED ON LAVOYE MEMORIAL CAY PROGRAM BEING. ARRANGED BY SPANISH WAR VETS Other Organizations to Participate in Simple Ceremonies on May 30; Memorial Ser- vice at Theater Today. With Poppy Day observed in Casper by the greatest display of memorial tributes ever worn in a Wyoming city, plans are going forward for observance on May 30 of Me- morial lay, which will be in charge of the Spanish-Ameri- ‘can War Veterans. Mones J. Hawley posts of the Auxillary of the Vroman post, and the Powder River post of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars have all ar- range; to take part in the proces- sion and other fraternal organiza- tions are also invited. The procession will start at 9:45 eelock from the City Hall and the line of march will be down Center to Second, thence east to Conwell! and south to the cemetery. Captain J. E. Frisby, veteran of the Span- ish American war and of the World War, will be marshal of the day. The procession will be headed by the American Legion band. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will organize a firing squad to give the salute at the grave. H. Roe Bartle, chaplain for the George W. Vroman post, will deliver the ad- dress at the cemetery. The four mil- itary organizations will read their various rituals. It in the intention to make ‘the whole’ ceremony as simple as pos- sible. The official Memorial Sunday services will be held at the c r at 10:80 o'clock this morn The George W. Vroman and the American Legion, the Ladies’ ing. The Veterans of Foreign Wars will sound the chureh call. 50 TO JOIN IN BOOSTER TRIP WITHIN WEEK Approximately 50 men will take in Commerce booster a week from tomorrow afternoon and takes the tourists eastward into Nebraska for a four and a half day tour. The Riverton, Shoshoni and Lan- der chambers of commerce have also been invited to send delegates onthe tour. All of the trip will be made by auto, ‘ ertosce achacement will: be n “along and by the af different con- cern: MAIN NEWS SECTION NUMBER 44, AJORITY FOR TAX BILL (two DRIVING IT HOME Reading Between Lines in the Day's News of Cas, Marriage and divorce are in the hands of the women. With an un- seen power they usually guide the way in the Alphas and Omegas of matrimony. For that reason they should take the lead in regulating the laws by which marriage and divorce operate. And they are doing it. Probably no subject is today gathering a Sreater force behind it than a na- tional uniformity of marriage and di- yorce laws, In Casper the Business and Professional Women’s club went over the matter yesterday. One of these days the individual states will have nothing to say about it, but congress will. And that will mean no hops from one state to another to get remarried the day following a divorce, Minnfe Blue Diamond 1s her name. In a recent national milk and butter- fat contest she ranked twenty-fourth. ‘That may seem a lowly record, but don’t forget there are 48 states in the union. Entered among the Jer- Sey wonders in the country, this Wy- oming cow belonging to thé Carey Interests, achieved such a distinction. More cows of her kind in this state and it won't be necessary to tmport milk and butter. Do not forget the name of Robert Lindsey. He is valedictorian of Cas. per high school’s graduating class this year. In three years he has done the work of four. While classmates have swarmed together for gay even- ings under bright lights, he hi gone as a solitary figure to work night shift at the refinery. Time will speed onward” and again you will hear the name of Robert Lindsey, towering above those content to do but four years work in four yAars, content to be “average.” When death comes as suddenly as it did to Jack Portwood who yester- day Cled at the wheer.or the car he Was driving, no time is left to pray for a receptign in heaven. In this Beneration it seems that dying ts a hasty affair. The age is gatherig speed, civilization building up a mo- mentum. asit goes along. Beyond is eternity, a Jong time, so very long New School Building Program Is Projected Rapid Increase in School Poopulation Here and in, Salt Creek Oil District Leads to Provision for Three New Buildings to Cost About $100,000 An increase in school population unprecedented in the annals of Casper and the Salt Creek oil field led the schoo] board yesterday to plan more buildings. Two new grade schools in Casper and a $40,000 high school in Midwest are among the stfuc- tures projected. A six-room_ grade school building will be erected in the Standard addition and an- other six-room building in Bucknum park. Each of these structures wil] cost in the 111 FEDERAL PRISONERS AT LEAVENWORTH GIVEN PAROLES LEAVENWORTH, Kans., May 24.Cook in the alleged Texas oll frauds —Paroles were granted to lil fed- eral prisoners in Leavenworth fed- eral prison tonight. ‘The parcle board considered 605 cases. Twenty-five of those paroled were former soldiers. Among them were eleven participants in the Houston. race riots. They were orig- inally sentenced to death. Seven associates of Dr. Frederick were recommended for parole, Fed- eral Juge Killets, trial jurist and the federal prosecutor recommended that the men be freed as soon as possible. They received sentences of @ year and a day. rejected were “Big Tim" Murphy, Chi- cago labor leader, and Vincenzo Cosmano, both convicted of conspir- y to rob the mail CRIME ADMITTED IN ANONYMOUS LETTER Writer Tells of Remorse in Message to Father of Robert Franks and Says He Intends Suicide CHICAGO, May 24:—Receipt of a remorseful letter from a person purporting to be the slayer of Robert Franks, 14, was the latest development tonight in the mysterious kidnaping and slaying of the millionaire’s son. . ane said he would be dead, a suicide, by the time the letter lane ; was received. Chief of Police Morgan A. Collings Announced receipt of tho letter, ad- fressed.to him. I was mailed at 6 p. m. Friday. The letter follows: “Dear Chief: “I am the murderer and kidnaper of Robert Franks. When you get The writer this lotter I will be a dead man. 1 intend to commit suicide. I am sorry that I did that inhuman plece of work. “A sorry man." This letter climaxed a day marked by the receipt of a threat of death at the Franks home, and the faflure of the police to make tangible pro- gress toward the solution of the tragedy. A letter was received earlier in the day by Jacob Franks, the father of the victim, theatening death for Josephine, his 17-year-old daughter, The letter was abusive, and termed Franks a “dirty skunk.” Police are inclined to believe it was sent by a crank. The missive was incoher- ent and illiterate, Later, a woman telephoned to the house, stating she had been Hving with a confidence man whom she : haying engineered the idnaping amuel A. Ettleson, at torney for Franks, received tho call He said the woman gave her Dame and that of the confidence man A cordon of police was established about the Franks home at the re. quest of Ettleson. The keenest brains of the police and detective force are at work on the case, under the direct supervi- (Continued on Page Two) neighborhood of $30,000. ‘Thesone in the Standard Addition will be known as the Harding school and the one in Bucknum Park as the Wilson school. The City Coungll recently leased suf ficient ground in the park for this Purpose, A four-room high school was es tablished at Midwest last year, but the school population there grew out of bounds. There are now approx! mately 100 high school students en rolled and there will be at least 150 students next fall, it is thought. The buildings now used for high schoo! Purposes will be turned into grade schools. ‘The board.also passed a resolution yesterday authorizing as many one-room buildings in the field as may be necessary. It is expected that at least threo buildings of this size will be erected. A. A. Slade, superintendent o schools, stated yesterday that the school population next year would show an increase of more than the customary 33 1.3 per cent over the preyious year if present growth con tUnues, MOONSHINE AND BEER ARE SEIZED IN ALD: THREE UNDER ARREST Six pints of moonshine, some and some beer in the process ure was found by the raided the place at et last night vam M the new edi tor of nemi-monthly newspaper published by. the stu: dents of the Cheyenne high school. He was elected in a contest for the Dow in fact, that we cannot begin to com- prehend how. everlasting. it 1s, Ob- viously, the right moment to pre- pare for life without end is before ane {8 snapped off driving along. Think it over. Dairymen in Laramie county will now g0 to school like nice little boys and learn how to deliver clean milk. It is about time. For the past 20 years health authorities have been hammering at the housewife and mother to scald this and that. to prevent germs from getting in baby’s milk. At last there will be a start ing at the foot of the class, with propaganda directed toward giving the housewife some really clean milk to be clean wtih. The ‘Female ‘Bible Society” of Philadelphia, after carrying on its work under that name for 110 years has decided to change its name to the “Women’s Bible Society.’ "er, FGPPY DAY SALES BIG Fifteen Thousand Worn in Casper and Natrona County and More Will Be Disposed of in Oil Fields Fifteen thousand poppies had been sold by the Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary and the Powder River post of the Veterans of the Foreign wars in the campaign carried on in Casper and in the oil field yesterday. About $1,500 was taken in, as the result of the sales. A spirit of willing cooperation was manifested by those requested to buy the poppies yester- day and the work was much easier than at any time in the past. The public did not have to be told the purpose of Poppy Day. The auxiliary sold 1,000 poppies in Lavoye, Midwest and other sur- rounding communities. On Friday it had placed 3,500 poppies among tae school children of the city. Central sckool pupils purchased 900 LONG FLIGHT OF AIRPLANE CONTROLLED BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 24. — Sailing through clouds, 7,000 feet above the earth, an airplane m= chanically controlled. reached Bir- mingham late today after a success: ful flight from Dayton, Ohio. The plane brought Lieut. Alexan- der Pearson, Jr., pilot and Bradley Jones, civilian navigator, as representatives of McCook field at an aerial carnival. ‘ A severe storm forced the intrepid airmen to descend once during their Journey, but they hopped off short. ly after landing at Nashville, and arrived here after seven hours and poppies, the greatest number any. Bight thousand poppies were sold by the auxiliary in all, Tho Veterans of Foreign Wars sold 7,000 popples but limited their activity to Casper. A committee is scheduled to go to Lavoye and other oil field towns today to dispose of poppies. A full report on the sales will be issued Monday or Tuesday of this week. Orin Theige, commander of the local post of the V. F. W., issued the following message of apprecia tion last night: “It is most gratifying to me as commander of Powde River post No. 991 and direct representative of our commander-in-chief, to kno’ how well the public has responde to our plea for funds with which to continve our werk in assisting our disabled comrades. “On behalf of every member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and for every service man in Natrona county I wish to thank the public for their liberal support.” Funds realized by the auxiliary will go to decorate the graves « American heroes buried in France a ~ Weather Forecast Partly cloudy and somewhat un- settled Sunday and probably local showers, not much change in tem. perature. % of Track Stars Get Big Trip Gorrell, Gobel and Hales to Represent Casper in National Track and Field Contest, Chicago Three outstanding track men of the Natrona County high school together with their coach, Dean C. Morgan, will be sent to the Inter-State Track and Field meet at Chicago next month. The men are Odie Gorrell, George Gobel, and Clyde Hales. The board of education of the high school met yester- FIRST STORY OF NEW BLOCK ON CENTER GOING UP SOON The first story of « brick building on South Center street at the pres: ent site of the Mint cafe and Pep's New Depot and just south of the Nationa! Bank of Commerce will be started by July 1, according to plans being made by Jack Daly who owns the property at that location. The lot is 34 by 140 feet in size. The structure would cost in the neigh- horhood of $150,000. SUGAR COMPANY MEN TO BE BANQUETED HERE ON TUESDAY EVENING The chamber of commerce forum meeting scheduled for ‘Tuesday, May 27, will be an evening meeting in- stead of the regular noon luncheon W. L. Lawson, general manager of the Holly Sugar corporation of Colorado Springs; Colo,, with a group of officiala wil! be making a trip through ‘this section of the Platte River valley next week and will be guests of the chamber at this evening meeting, Mr. Lawson‘s pany js contractin te at and Careyburst hoped that tt ested in the project f sugar 8 the Casper duetion of — DE MOLAY INITIATE CHEYENNE, Wyo., } 24.—The Cheyenne chapter of LeMolay Thurs- day initiated a class of 60 youths. office with Wayne Towner. 3 to a1, The chapter is tho largest in the state, Mr. Daly originally planned to construct a four or five story bulld- ing at this point and had the arch- itects' plans drawn for the edifice. This idea has been reconsidered al- though it will be carried out at a later Cate. The structure to be start ed this summer will be temporary according to present plans. Daty is the owne: of the Wyo ming Theater building also. He one of Casper’s old residents. day afternoon and appropriated whatever funds would be needed for the expenses of Coach n. A committee of three, M. A. Beck ling! ieorge B. Nelson and Dr mp, volunteered to solicit subscriptions toward tt of the track men. The expense would amount to $250 and the greater p tion of this was y so it appears that acle le in the way of sending the W ming stars compete representatives of other schools The policy of sending a state championship team to the big meet was inaugurated last year by Ther mopolis which sent its entire ganization, Casper thought best to send only such men had chances to make good in the Comparison of the records (Continued on Page Two.) we no ot wi to with the or real meet made FINAL PASSAGE BY HOUSE ALSO ASSURED OVER COOLIDGE VETO Both Republicans and Democrats Rally to Support of Measure In Senate, 60 to 6. By PAUL R. MALLON WASHINGTON, May 24, —Displaying an overwhelm- ing sentiment. for the new tax bill, the senate today adopted the compromise by a vote of 60 to 6. 4 Republicans and Democrat rallled to the compromise, despité strong objections made to it by Sece retary of the Treasury Mellon. Their action was taken as emphatic warne to Presid Coolidge that the bill could be passed over his veto. The measure with the Democratia rates and a flat 25 per cent retros active reduction on taxes paid last March, and during this year, now goes to the House, where similar ac- tion is expected Monday. The bill then will be ready for president, The conference report was sup- ported by 30 Republicans and 30 Democrats, while negative votes were cast by five Republicans and one Farmer-Labor member—Johnson of Minnesota. Others voting in the negative were Senators Brookhart, t, Norris, Moses and }rasier. MAN-DIES IN AUTOMOBILE fs along the road that leads r to Rawlins, via Alcova, his 82-y father beside Jack Portwood sudden and without warning slumped down on the wheel of his ar, dead This startling s life to eterni lunged off Dri from ¢ with him, tt ‘ ir’ years been intermittently 1 near Carner by the Hope ing company. Yesterday he ind his father Portwood, were on thelr way to Rawlins. The elder Portwood was not injured when the car proceeded some dis+ tance uncontrolled by his son’s hands, then lifeless. Tho young man had died of heart failure. The body at the Shaffers Gay nm fo’ d even is ni ments surviv California his father, a and in 2d sivter in Hamp-+ shire. TAYLOR FUNERAL TO BE HELD HERE TODAY Funeral Taylor services for r carpenter Frank J. who died held this Shaffer-Gay » will be L. E. WIFE SLAYER GETS SENTENCE FO Young Kansas Farmer Pleads Guilty to» Killing Wife and Cremating Her Body-in Burning Barn INDEPENDENCE, Kans., : young farmer, pleaded guilty today to murdering and cre-| May 24.—Harley J. Etter, mating his wife and baby and was sentenced to life im prisonment. The confe Etter wag held He exonerated his br who was arrested toda charged with the crime. Mra, Btter’s body and th: baby, were taken from a blring barn on the Etter farm last Mon day. Her husband subsequently arrested. er's confersion ended gruelling by pylice. He said he shot on wa and j t of her lumt Kar rried it t Later confes an axe the barn under that day, police said he ed ho killed the baby with carried the lifeless form to and. buried the two bodiew, a pile of hay, R LIFE He set fire itted. r next cornfield thorities the ¢ to the barn, police said ad drove two miles de 1 and neight house Ho said he had been away me all day, and re en his car his car distant, He his to m Ally abandoned ar way to's from turning sald he Bitte un Ho 1 taken Lenaing CHEYENNE Cheyenne Co: 1924 season Wyo., May ntry elu opened its Thursday night with a to which 260 guests 24.—The dance were invited,