Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1924, Page 1

__The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper: night and Saturday; probably rain north and east portions; not much hs. r Change in temperature. TWO HURT IN EXPL Pair Hurled Through Side, of Rig by Explo- sion of Gasser LARAMIE, Wyo., June 13.—T. A. Reed and J. G. Mussleman, working at the Wertz gas well near Raw- lins, were severely injured when some of the’ gas ex- ploded,. hurling both men through “withe side of the rig, causing body bruises ahd bad burns about the face and hands. Both were taken to the hospita!. The well was making three million feet of gas, and flames are stil! playing about the badly damaged rig. Steam boilers are be- ing used to fight the fire. wi cE i lh de At New o¥rk R. HE. Cincinnati -.100 000 000 3— 4 16 6 New York 000 000 010 0—1 9 1 ou agupe Fagan ppey and Wingo; Wat- son, and Gowdy. | 4 Louts Brooklyn — _..110 000 010— 3 BRatteries—Southern and Gonzales; Osborne, Deberry. At Philadelphia RHE. Pittsburgh-Philadelphia—Rain. nell ee American League At Chicago— R. H. E. Philadelphia ..000 201 400—7 11 1 Chicago — . 003 000 003—6 10 1 Battries — Meeker and Perkins; MeWeenly, Connelly and Crouse. At Detroit— New York -. Detroit «+--020 022 00x—x x x Batteries — Jones, Gaston and Schang; Stoner, Cole and Bassler. At St, Louis— R. H. E. Washington 004 xxx xxx—x x x St. Louis —--.000 xxx xxx—x x x Batteries—Johnson and Ruel; Danforth and Severeid. At Clevelana— R. H. E. ~100 001 O3x—x x x 002 010 O0x—x x x Batterii4—Ehmke and O'Neill, Uble axa Wyatt. ny all a Se. REFUSES TO - QUIT; FIRED After having been given an op- portunity to . resign, Sergeant Charles Young of the police depurt- ment has been discharged. Officials continue to. maintain secrecy as to reasén for Young's dismissal. Commission Is © Sitting Here Hearings on applications RAWLINS WELL) = ACs ELAND, O:, June 13.—The campaign to elect President Coolidge to suc- «eed himself and Charles G. Dawes of Illinois to be vice- president got formally under way today with organization of the Republican national committee. The Repub‘tean ‘convention, which. stant- ed with almost depressing. calm, worked -up steadily through, the three days of its session into a roar- ing climax, Jast night, and ended amid scenes that soothed the hearts of the old timers. Fi Frank O. Lowden of Ilinols had been named by an overwhelming vote, and- had. declined. . That had never ‘happened before in the party’s history, nor was it in aé- cordance with the convention man- ager's plans. ‘The convention itself, as President Coolfaige wished, had named his running mate. Nomination and: acclamation” of Calvin Coolidge was accomplished at the morning ‘with decor- ‘ous enthusiasm, orily the Wisconsin and North Dakota’ followers of Senator LaFollette dissenting. Ev- knew, what) was going: to. sion began, ’ no riearer crystalization than it had however,;sentiment was been the preceding days and nights of conférring /and maneuver- ing, and the first ballot carried 16 names, only eight of whjch had beer Placed formally, in nomination. ‘As the delegates'gathered for the afternéon: session from lunches, or conferences, -or both, ‘hand bills, posters, bands. and other campaign- ing material appeared. The floor soon was littered, still puzzled lead- ers put their heads together, dele; tions caucused, Individuals ‘and groups were urged, beseeched, ar- gued with. ~ Some heard :that Judge William 8. Kenyon, of Towa, was the favored candidate. Others heard the same thing about. Senator Charles © Cur- tis of Kansas. -But while-the noni inatlons were being placed befor: the convention, the: name. of/Former Governor Lowden, presented despite. aroused. the. Jarg- his protestations, est demonstration. «| On the first’ ballot; Mr. Lowden received 222. votes, Judge Kenyon 172, General Dawes 149, and Repre- sentative ‘Theodore E. Burton 139. The administration leaders “made plans to nominate Representative Burton on the second ballot, Wil- liam .M. Butler; campaign manager for President. Coolidge was. openly, working for him. The tide, however, swept overwhelmingly teward Low- den on the second ballot, and soon, in the midst of, wild confusion, dele- gation after delegation, was striv- ing for recognition to change votes cast for others into his column. The. final count gave him: 779 votes, Bur- ton. 90, Kenyon 74. and.Dawes 32. Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio moved that the Lowden nomination be made unanimous. The only dis- sent came from the Wisconsin sec- tion, and more confusion followed. Chairman Mondell managed to es- tablish order and réad an undated letter prepared in, advances by Mr. Lowden for presentation In event he was nominated. It was advised to the convention, expressed apprecia (Continued on Page Fourteen) for bus lines wete started here yesterday before Claude L. Draper, head of the state public utilities commission. Previous to. these a hearing had been given to an application by the Intermountain Water corporation for permission to extend water service to points in the Salt Creek field from the Shiloh well at ‘Tindale Request of Fred Huffard for cert! The lowing applications were|ficate of public convenience and heard yesterday: necessity to operate bus over same Request for certifieste of public| route. Attorney "William B. Cobb convenience by Anderson and Noel|for the Casper Motor Bus company to operate bas from Casper to Moun-| entered objectiong since, he stated, tain View.. This mpplication was|his company jiad.alréady filed ap- withdrawn. (Continued en Page Fourteen) of Audit Bureau Circulatt When General Charles G. Dawes’ nameyis mentioned, the word “hell” immediately pops into mind. slight, energetic bundle of nerves, the human dynamo that foreigners like to picture all Amer- iecans, was the man who popularized “cussing” ‘in “Washington. - Besides running a great metro- Ppolitari bank, piloting the. nation's national banking system, keeping America’s army in France fed and supplied, putting the government on @ business basis with a budget, and settling Europe's financial ills, at various times in his career, Dawes immortalized. the expletive “Hell an’ Maria” and it is probable that this phase, inextricably linked with his name, will survive where his other accomplishments perish, Born in Marietta, O., in 1865, thé son -of Union General Rufus R. Dawes, young Charlie led the usual boy’s life of those days, finally en- tering Marietta College, from which he received an A. B. degree at the early age of 19. s After an educational excursion of two years to the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received an L.L.B., -he returned to Marietta for another year, finally receiving his SHERIDAN, Wyo., June 13.—Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Chappell of Casper, here for the district Lions convention received: word this morning that their son, Ensign C. A. Chappell of the U. S.° 5S. Mississippi, was uninjured in the explosion yesterday. His friend, Ensign Mark Irwin, was killed, according to the telegram. The two had been close friends at Annapolis .naval academy, from which they were grad- uated last year. One Flier Down But No Trouble Is Anticipated HONG KONG—June 13—Per- sens competent to judge do not ‘apprehend that there will be any difficulty in the way of Lieuten- ant Lowell H, Smith, cofimander of the Amepican round the world aerial expedition, continuing around the globe with the other members ‘who have reached Tou- rane, Indo-China. Smith was foreed down near Hue, Annam, by motor trouble. “However,.as there is no sult. able equipment where he landed with his mechanican Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, there is expected to be some delay before they ean install a motor and start om. Their landing place is about 630 miles from Saigén, or one day’s.run for the American de- stroyer which is to’ convey a new motor to them. Smith's engine has given him serious trouble on three of the six stages of the Journey since it was inatalled at Kasumigara, Japan, Man Hanged For Murder WALLA WALLA, Waah., June 18.—George FE. Whitfield, 20 years KILLED IN ‘DAWES TO RUN WITH GE FOR REPUBLICANS ‘HELL AND MARIA’ DAWES WHO! WILL RUN WITH COOL HUMAN DYNAMO * « CYEVELAND, 0. June 13. —, master’s degree, and | from the law, to, which’ he has never BANDITS GET MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1924. 0OLIDGE IS “OF CAPITAL there his “schooling” ended. Dawes was admitted to the Ohio bar after his Cincinnati study, but after his graduation from Marietta, he took his legal training west and entered practice at Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, where, for seven years ke doled out law to citizens of that thriving western city. At this time he met young Lieut. Jack Pershing, who was an instructor at the Uni- versity of Nebraska, a meeting that was to have an important sequel in years to come. : The east drew him back at the end of that period, however, and late in 1894 he abandoned law and went into the prosaic business* of furnishing gas to the inhabitants of Evanston, Il], Subsequently, he has, among otter things, done the same seryiee to citizens of La Crosse, Wis., and Seattle, Wash. ley Boomer, In pois he got his first firm toehgld in politics in the prelimin- aries of the 1896,campaign when he hitehed himself to the McKinley kite, He was.an executive in the McKinley movement in that state, and after McKinley was nominated member of the: execu- f the Republican dyring. the cam- Is Cav It wns, at this stage of his ca- teer th:t his driving personal force, ats io’ personality. and his keen. business and financial acu- nien ifinally obtained sway over his legal lea; and sweryed. him repurned. . The Republican organization end McKinley were grateful to the 30- yearolq. dynamo, and when Mc- Kinley was installed in the White House in 1897, Dawes went along as Comptroller of the Currency, an extremely tmportant post with the national banks expanding and the silver fight still hanging in the air. For three years, Dawes applied himself to his job, but, in 1892, he quit to go-into business again, this time as president of the Central Na- tional Bank of Chicago, a post he held for 15 succeeding years. There- after he made his home in Chicago. When war broke out, Dawes en tered the army, and was assigned to the engineering corps with the rank of major. In June, 1917,,he was sent to France with the rank of Meutenant-colonel with the railway engineers, but three months later (Continued on Page Fourteen) Imogene Wilson and Frank Tinney. asper Daily Tria south Blond Beauty Of Broadway e-Lady? By Rowland Wood yright, 1924, Casper Tribune.) 2W YORK, June 13.—Imogene Wilson, the beautiful, tear-stained high stepper of the Follies chorus, may be just a “little broken flow: er” as the prosecution in her as- sault case against the comic Frank ‘Tinney maintains. But if you want to believe Frank, sho, is a rip-snort- ing, wild-eyed cave lady, whose ex- ploits in manhandling make his own little essays in woman taming look as pallid »8 a joke gone wrong. Magistrate Levine has been un- able, in two highly spiced hearings, to decide whether Frank should be believed or not. So he passed the problem along to the grand jury at the end of a hilarious court session late Wednesday. ‘ Building up his cave lady case against the fair Imogene, Tinney testified and produced witnesses to testify, to the following moves made by Imogene in her conquest of his affections: She smashed in the door of his own town bachelor apartment, brought in her trunks and stuck so determinedly that he was com- pelled to move out. She wooed him with blows from a heavy handbag. She caressed him with blows from her pretty pink fista. She staked outy her claim with deep. fingernail marks on his face and neck. . She kicked the window out ‘of a (Continued on Page Fourteen.) CASPER MEN ENDORSE TICKET SELECTED AT There is universal rejoicing among ‘asper Republicans today over the G, Dawes, famed for his “Hell and Maria” forcefulness and his outstanding ability as an expert on national and international finances, as running mate for President Calvin Coolidge on the Republican ticket this fall The appeal of this combination ts seen in the welcome joining together of’ eminent statesmanship and sound business judgment and exper- selection» of Charles Mail and Express Train on C.M. & St. P. Held Up 32 Miles registered mail. cuted with precision and by a large| declared the loss would not exceed 9,000 is opinion. band, the exact number of which | $100,000 in his opin has not been ascertained, A. E.| ser bank officials said all ship- Germer, chief postal inspector here,| ments of currency and securities Dawes Ready | For New Job MARIETTA, O., June 13.—Flooded with hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from all parts of the country and surrounded by his family and by the friends of his boyhood, Brigadier-General Charles G. Dawes, nominated Republican vice presidential candidate last night, is plan- ning to leave Marietta this aft: on for his home in Chie preliminary plans ‘84, the fortieth anniversary of their for his participation in the camp: will be made. He b w Marie and boyhood home, renewing o! so where graduation The now ly to Mr briet to the Associated Pre he had no statement to + s been spon Dawes a week in a, his birthplace statement of ept night, nke tocay old, was hanged at the state prison here today for tp murder of a ten year old girk quaintances, attending the com-| "71 0) cines was enjoying a quiet mencement exercises of Marietta | reunion in the old Dawes homestead college and celebrating with other | here with other members of his fam surviving members of the class of | lly when word of the new honor North of Chicago; Gang Escapes with 45 Sacks of Reg- istered Mail—Large Group Involved CHICAGO, June 13.—Authorities of several counties were watching all roads to- day for trace of four automobile loads of train robbers who robbed ‘a Chicago, i waukee and St. Paul-express and mail train last night, carrying away a fortune in Postal and’ bank officials, however, said the amount would be much less than early estimates which had ranged from $1,000,000 to $2,000,009. Although the holdup was one of the most daring in railroad history and was exe- Mil- from the federal reserve bank » of Federal ré-| Chicago aggregated $75,000. The train, enroute from Chicago St. Paul, was stopped at Ron-| ut, IIL, 32 miles north of Chicago. | he train, carrying eight, mail| coaches and two express cars, left Chieago at 8 o'clock, central stand ard time. Fifty minutes later tho bandits took possession of the train. In 65 minutes more they gathered between 42 and 45 pouches of reg istered mail "and sped away . into the darkness. The loss early today was estim- ated at‘about $2,000,000, but federal reserve bank officials sald a care ful check may show the loss to exceed that figure Only one man was shot. He was a member of the robber gang, mis taken by one gf his fellows for a member of the train crew. Although the train carried more than 70 mail clerks and guards, all only those in three coaches 1 to face the guna of These 1 first class mail 4 their w the coach bombs fitled clarks and guards, overcome by the deadly fumesywere forced to open (Continued yon Page Twelve) armed coaches carried the regis The t the curs by y into breaking _ throwin, gas. Th windcw with chi DRIVING IT HOME Reading Between Lines in the Day’s News of Casper. Today ‘s Friday the thirteenth. You have probably already observed that it js, but not with the fear that used to make your ancestors trem- ble. Not so many generations ago it was customary to view the com- ing together of Friday and the thir- teenth day of the month with super- sitious misgivings, You may know a few péople in this day and age who consider the day unlucky. One of tho marvelous advantages of living today les in the fact that we are. too much absorbed in keep-| ing up with the race to. halt long enough to be supegstitious. Ignor- ance is the direct cause of fear and its’ fellow, superstition. | Whatever else scierice has done, t has removed from life a tremendous amount of fear, and fear always retards | de- velopment, We have great interest in our- selves And our friends. When we learn today that Mr. and Mrs. H, ©, Chappell of Casper, have a son who was in the dreadful nayal explosion at San Pedro yesterday, we are astounded. When we hear that he is safe, we rejoice—just becatiss we live in the same’ town with his parents. Then we immediately re- read the whole story of the disaster in order that we better picture just what Ensign C. A. Chappell went through and how miraculous was his escape. The detalls of the tragedy and the fatalities naturally impressed you, but not half as much as they do now that you know a Casper boy was in it, It's funny what kids will do—it they want to. Paul and Mary Han: cock trudge 30 miles up the west Yellowstone highway and then get a Uft to Lander... They. will be: brought home to mother. Now, if they .had heen -forced to walk 20 miles, there would be an awful howl and they would consider themselves. the most abused childrén in the world and.so miserable they could°eat worms. All of us are more or less like children in that way. What we want to do but don’t have to, we enjoy. What we have to do we don’t want to do, (Continued on Page Two) G. 0. P. MEETING fence. It 1s no wonder, then, that such delight greets the candidacies of Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes. Some indication of the en- thusiasm with which the anounce. ment.of this ticket is received in Casper is shown in the following opinions expressed by prominent men here today: Governor B. B. .Brooks—"It is a winning ticket. I might call it a leation Offices: Pub Pee Tribune Bldg, 216 E. Seaon@ 8% WARDHIP EXPLOSION GUN i URRET OM MIGSISSIPPI IS OUENE OF GREAT NAVAL TRAGEDY Three Officers and 45 Enlisted Men Killed When*“‘Flare Back” Pours Out Gas : SAN PEDRO, June 13.4 Friday the thirteenth, and the navy mourns their dead, forty-eight of them; three officers and 45 enlisted men, their lives snuffed out aboard the dreadnaught Mississippi yesterday in the fleet's greatest ‘diss aster, a disastér that brought tos tragic climax a week of’sham bat- tles and target practice. Aboard the hospital ship Relist laid the dead, killed by a premature explosion in the Mississippl's No. 2 turret, and the injured, aboard the U. 8. 8. New Mexico, flagship’ of division four of the battle fleet, mems bers of a naval board of inquiry Prepared to open their Investigation of the disaster, Aboard the Misns issipp!, anchored outside the break- water, officers and men watched the flameshattered turret where a 14+ tnok gun, with an as yet unexploded charge 4 id in breech. eae that whe it.. of Mil another plosion had not yet passed. It was a “flare back” from one of these guns that shot death In flames. and poisonous “gases back inte, the turret through its open breech. A second, the breéch locked, let loose.in the harbor here as the Mississippi steamed home with itw dead and injured fromthe drilt grounds and hurled.a. steel projectile dangerous. near to an outbound paa- senger liner. Should the third gun's charge explode before jt can be re- moved, however, tw it belleved’ that Preciutions already taken will render the firing harmless. Meanwhile, this harbor community today, was overrun with messenger “ys, thelr pockets stuffed with tele. grams—envelopes containing the anxious queries of miothers, wives, sweethearts, from all parts of the United States. Through the. gloont of the early morning hours they hurried back and forth in the dark+ ened and deserted streets. Then came automobiles from nearby cities and towns, carrying relatives or friends of the dead and injured. Of these injured there were strangely few. With a death. loss (Continued on Page Seven) 92,000,000 IN HOLDUP Wyoming Boy Is Included .'Among Warship’s Dead SAN PEDRO,. June 18.—The list of dead, their~next’ of kin and city of residence as officially announced aboard the U. 8. 8. New Mexico late last night by Lieut. L. N. Morgan, communi- cation officer, acting for Admiral H, A. Wiley, includes Floyd B. Kimball, seaman; next of kin Louis F, Kimball, 1416 Twelfth #treet, Greeley, Colo. Paul H. ‘Christensen, first class, next of- kin M ah G. Klanesnr, seaman, Lander close to the half hundred mark, only eight men were numbered among the hurt, and the injuries of these were comparatively slight, consist- ing mainly of minor burns .and lacerations. Just how the fatal explosion. occurred was still undetermined, though’ from witnesses,aboard the Mississippi and other vessels. near here when the disaster broke. up thelr scheduld target practice, a fairly compregensive pleture of the adeident was gptaisies battleships Missiasippt, The ‘Ten- nessee, Idaho and California, the r towing the target, were off San Clemente island, 45 miles from here and were engaging in secret gunnery practice. “The firing was under way, about 1 o'clock. In the plotting room of the Mias sissippl, electric bulbs flashed one by one thelr signals as each gun was fired: and reloaded Bight of the 12 scheduled aalvdd had fired, each rocking the great ship as the guns belched thelr It wad been steel at the target. - After the eighth salvo. other’ guns «in other.’ turrets reported ready for the next volley but no flash came from turret No. 2, near the bow of the ship, In the plotting room, anxléty grew. Attempts to communicate (Continued on Page Twelve) Wool Buyer Is Suicide LANDER, Wyo., June 13.—The victim of a self-inflict. ed bullet wound in the head, L. L. Sine, manager of the Western Hide and Fur company, was found dead in & room of the Fremont hotel here yesterday by a chamber- maid. It is believed that worrie sales caused the suicide of Sine who in wool $$$ ni’ financial lo: was well known here and through. out the Big Horn basin where he formerly carried on his business Ba oe 2 Christopher ed with the’ Wren and now threats demolition have become subjept of a plan to remove and rebulld them in ,New York and other American cilies. The London churches built by Sir