Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 15, 1924, Page 1

un THEORIES FL OOD DE A D nl EOTATE LA [ ‘tor Dry ti aes POF EXPLOSION |INUMBERS 12 | IITURNED; K. K. K. Case ON BATTLESHIP All Injured but One Are Making Rapid Re- covery in Hospital. . SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 14.—From out of a maze of conflicting and meager tes- timony, the naval board of inquiry sitting in the probe af the disaster in which 48 officers’ and. men of the U. S. 8. Mississippi lost their lives, today sought ‘without definite success to solve the mystery surrounding the xplosion’s origin. © « “Members of the fragmentary w remaining of the sailors who manned the ill fated turret number two, the. prize group of guns on one of ‘the navy's finest vessels, took the witness stand and told what they récalled’ of incidents in the thick steel box ‘atop the Mississippi's deck~ immeciately preceeding: and after the blast. ‘The board saw a possible partial explanation of the blast inthe state- ment of: Casimir F. Mageswki, a plugmaie cn the gun at which ‘the explosion occurred. His duty it was to-turh on! the air pressure that closed ‘the: breech, after the gun was —- loaded. Mageswki (estified: thet. he had noticed the air was low all morning, the register barely to! » Ping 90 pounds, where as it nof- “ mally reached 150 pounds. Ih fact, 80 low did the pressure become that he was forced tov aid in ‘closing the breech: by pushing, the sailor sald. Asked if he had revortec the cgndi- tion, -Mageswki said he did not, as would have been necessary to ‘Slop firing to remedy the difficulty. ‘He explained that he did. not want @iythige to interfere with the crew's chance for a new record. ‘The witness said that the day be- fore a piece of burning silk from one of the bags containing the powder shoved in behind the shells had fallen from the gun bore to the powder pit. Quick action, however, had prevented disaster then, he said. Judge Advocate Boyd asked the Witness if, after the explosion, he had. heard any officer inside the turret give an order to open the hatchways. Mageswki said he heard no such order, but James Smith, a gun trainer, who followed him to the witness stind, testified that he had -heard some order shouted im- mediately. following the blast. He had telephone receivers over his ears, Smith said, and not catch- ing the command plainly asked the officer, standing above him, to re- Peat it. This the officer, whose name he did not know, tried to do, Smith said, but was choked by the gas and could not speak again. Bugene Burke, a sight setter, told of his’ narrow escape through a hatchvay down into the -powder oms. Rushing out on deck, he shouted the alarm of fire, but it was sometime before the other sailors paid heed to his warning, believing it was a fire drill, the witness said. Lieut. Commander Reinecke, chief sunnery officer of the Mississippi, was on the witness stand during the forenoon, he expressed the opinion that the explosion was not caused by any mechanical defect but rather by some mistake made by the ‘Continued on-Page Seven) - Vice Presidential Democratic leaders. of the mountaineous regions The spectacular ‘freak of the ele- ments, accompanied by , blinding flashes of lightning and deafening peals of. thunder deluged the coun- tryside for miles around. . Homes and buildings were car- ried away on the swirling murky torrents, bridges crashed from their cement foundations, long siretches of raifroad tracks were uprooted and tossed about ou ‘the crest* of the flood, and thousands -of acres of rich farm lands laid waste, The known dead. Mrs. Cecil Lewes thildren. Mr. and Mrs. Lum Smith their two children. -A daughter of Neal. Lewis two unidentified workmen. The Big Blue Spring branch and Stony creek went on a rampage and joining with the Watauga river near Hunter swept the business dis- trict. of that ‘little town. Streets were ‘oa a cage a be done: to ingen rick. 4 “dwollings “were car ried away by ‘waters and the tracks of ‘the pees rallway for a.distance of 700 feet were waa, ed away from the roadbed. ~ A bridge near ‘Hampton on the and her four and and Cloudburst In Tennessee Causes Trag- edy in Half Dozen Villages In Mountain Districts ELIZABETHTOWN, Tenn., June 14.—TwWo omnious black clouds rolling a-warning. over the sleeping villages of Carter county clashed to- day, and 12 persons were dead and heavy property dam- age was done by the resulting doubie cloudburst which descended on a half dozen towns. State line road was literally lifted from’ its foundation and hurled down - stream, leaving the road. al- most obliterated and inypassable. Dead -horses and cattle, household goods and debris choked ‘Stony Creek at this and other points in the flood zone. A southern nailway bridge ~ be- tween Garden's Bluff and Siam, 30 feet “high and 100 feet Jong, fell be- for the roaring torrents. At Fish Springs only muddy wastes marked ‘lie spot where the village church iad-stood a few hours before. Many freaks of the storm were re- ported. MRS. HASTINGS SOUGHT HERE A this: city; is in, the; Jocal- postoftice, accord'ng to word recelved’ from) Butte, Mont. VALUE 540,000) E. N. Sprague Purchases Gay Apartments on East First Street. E. N. Sprague, owner wf the Sprague hotel) and num- erous other pieces of real estate in Casper, yesterday purchased the Gay_ apart- ments at First and Botolph streets for a consideration close to $40,000. ‘The former owner was John R. Gay, contractor and builder. The sale was put through by W. B. Barnard of the Barnard Realty company and is the largest turn- over in real estate in Casper in sev- eral weeks. ‘The apartment house is a two- story brick structure contalning store building and 10 apartments and is one of the most desirable ren- tal propositions fh that part of the city. p Tire Company Heavy Loser AGLENROCK, Wyo., June 14.— nA 1$600--worth of and .tubes were stolen. from the Glenrock Tire and Battery Supply company here; A reward of $100 has been posted for information leading to the capture of the thieves. . S. Track Team Is Named by Committee Men Selected Will Sail For Paris Next Monday and Coaches Will Decide on Who Will Compete in Various Events of Eighth Olympiad BOSTON, June 14.—The American Olympfé committee tonight announc- ed approval of the following men ‘as candidates for the A:merican Olym- pic team, to compete at Pari: The men selected will sail .Mon- day and the executive ccmmittee will follow the advice of its coaches as to those who fina!ly are selected to’ compete. ‘Track—100 meters, and. 400 meters relay—Jackson Scholz,, New-York A.<C.; Charles Paddock, Los Angeles A. C. Chester Bowman, Syracuse university; Leon Murchison, Newark A. C.; Francis 200 meters fat PRODUCERS & REFINERS DRILL ‘DEEPEST OIL WELL IN STATE ‘Wyoming's deepest well is that which is being Crilled as a test of ,the Simpson ‘Ridge structure by the Producers and Refiners corporation in Carbon county, At present this well is 5,285 feet deep. As remarkable as its depth is the size of the hole which ts in excel- lent condition. Can you believe it— for Candidate With. Business Background. BY ROBERT J. BENDER (United Press Staff Correspondent) CHICAGO, June 14.—Nomination of Charles Dawes by the Republicans for the vice presidency has resulted in a complete recanvassing of the Democratic situation by They are strongly of the opinion now that whoever is nominated té lead the Democratic national ticket, the vice presidential nominee should be a man commanding the confidence of organized labor and preferably at the same time. a man from the middle west with a strong business background. SSSR Deseats. Ripe Dome cratic chieftain, already has con ferred with Tom Taggart of Indiana, on what shift in the party’s con vention plans are necessary as a result of Dawes being on the Re publican ticket. Tuesday Brensan the bit is pounding down an eight- inch bere. Just how deep this well will event- ually be will be largely determined by the findings of the Producers and) Refiners corporation. It 1# entirely In, a class by itself, sets a record for deep drilling in Wyoming and is a credit to the company drilling it. DAWES’ NOMINATION STIRS DEMOCRATS m Supporters of Jefferson. Comb leaves, for New York to ‘be on hand early for general conferences with leaders from different state Brennan, of course, is for Smith. but the first ballot at the New York convention, will” find» Illinois dis tributing its vote generously among the different candidates. McAdoo will get his nine Iiinois delegates througtout, but the balance of the big delegatfon will be distributed among Senator Ralston of Indiana, Governor Smith of New York and posajbly John W. Davis of West Virginia, and Governor Silzer of New Jersey Bre an igs saying nothing but there are those in his following who say that~as things stand now, Smith's chances for nomination are losing ground and those of McAdoo are gaining ground steadily. There aro many reasdng to believe that a. compromise may Well be effected on ‘Continued @ Page Two) L Ohio State: Hussey, Stuyvesant high _ school; Bayes Norton, Yale; George L. Hill, University of Pennsylvania; Alfred Lecongy, Meadowbrook club; Louis Clark, Johns’ Hopkins university; and Fred Lovejoy, New York A. ( 400° meters: flat and 1.600 meter relay—J. Coard Taylor, New York A. C.; H. Fitch, Chicago A Robertson, Boston A. C.; Wilson, University .of Iowa; J MacDonald, University of vania; James Burgess, Georg and Allen Helffrich, Penn State. 800 meters—William B. Ric son, Stanford: 8. C. Enck, Penn| State; Ray Lodge, Oregon Agricul tural college; Ray Watson, Illinois A. C.; J. H. Waters, Harvard; Larry Brown, Penn A. C. 1,500 meters—Ray Buker, Illinois A. C.; Lloyd Hahn, Boston A. C.; W. ©. Spencer, Mississipp! A and M céllege and James J.. Connoll: unattached. 4,000 meters—Jole Ray, Tilinois A C.; Edwin B. Corby, Cornell; Leo Larrivee, Holy Cross; W. 'T. Tibbitts Jr., Harvard. 5,000 meters—John Rornig, unat- tached; H. R. Phelps, University Iowa; Rilus Doolittle, Butler colle W. L. Cox, Mercersburg Acade and J. &. Lermond, Boston A. 7,000 meters flat and 10,000 me Booth, ters cross country—Verne H Jolins Hopkins; John J. terprise C, Y.-M. C. A. U dgiphia; August Fager, finish, / n A. C., New York; Wayne John- son, Wabash college; Earl Johnson Pittsburgh, Pa.; James Henigan, Dorchester, Mavs.;> Arthur Studen: roth, Meadowbrook club and Sidney Leslie, New York A. C. 3,000 meters steeplechase Payne, Ohio State; Marvin Rick, New York A. C.; Michael A. De vaney, Millrose A. A.; and Jens Jen sen, U. 8. army. R Hinkel, Foster, 10,000 meter walk—Harr and Charles A. neoe A. Cj Detrolt Y. M. C. 110 meters hur Ban Kt H.. Guthrie, of ey, Universit F. P, Johnson, Mlinois Anderson, Lilinol A. GC. Penn State college 400 meter hurdles — G. Taylor, Grinnell college; C. R. Brookins, Towa: ©. F. Coulter, Towa; Ivan Reily, Mlinois A.C. ‘_Running high jump—LeRoy (Continued en Page Two) Hino! ; Kart C. H. Moore, A. ¢ T. Jeeverely dealt with, _ ing lost its first murder case of the three Lilly citizens mortally wounded during the shooting af- fhe commonwealth will go thru with the other indictments of mur- der and manslaughter against the other 30 defendants, according to District Attorney D. P. Welmer. Court will reconvene Monday morn- ion HERRIOT MAKES HIG SELECTION First of 31 Defen'dants Tried for Murder During Lilly Riots is Acquitted By Jury Trial EBENSBURG, Penna., June 14.—The state this even- growing out of the Lilly riot of April 5, when Samuel Evans of South Fork, a member of the ku klux klan and the first of the 31 defendants in- dicted for murder and manslaughter, was acquitted. Evans was on trial for the death of Frank Miasco, one CONCILIATION BEING SOUGHT WASHINGTON, 14—Wor ried over the almost complete es- trangement of the “old guard’ sen- ators’ at the Cleveland conveiition, President Coolidge and his aigieore tonight were studying ot bringing about a reconciliation, The alternative faced by) the White House is continuing along the June OF lo CABINET ‘Premiér Assumes Office With Resignation of President Millerand. By WEBB MILLER. (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, 14.—France's new government of the Left, swept into power after tremendous gains by the radical parties in the recent. par Mamentary elections and the con- sequent resignation of M. Millerand as president of the republic, assum- ed office tonight, Premier Edouard Herriot, former socialist of Lyons, the composition of his ministry s June mayor announcing as follows: Premier and foreign affairs—Her- riot Justice—Renoult. Finance—Clementel. Interior—Chautemps. War—Nollet. Marine—Dumesil. Public works—Peytral, Commerce—Reynaldi. Agriculture—Queille. Baucation—Francois Albert. course of cold disregard of the “old guard” an@ placing all the respon- sibility on congress for the “black marks’ against the president's ad- ministration. Mr. Coolidge is giving a gttat deat of thought to the situation at Clévé- land where William M. Butler; the president's persona! choice for cam: pagin manager, was charged with handling the vice presidential ques- tlon so badly that the ‘old guard bolted and nominated General Charles CG. Dawes over those whom President Coolidge more strongly de- sired. ° MAIN NEWS SECTION TRAIN BANDITS PS LITTLEB! GING State Lesea Tok ean It Is good to hear that good places are still hard to find. The truth about the housing situation in Cas- per is that many are Building their own homes and that there is really no surplus of up-to-date and modern dwellings. Places of every kind wil! be soon again in demand as work, of which there is much to be done around _ he gathers momentum after a long and hard winte After all stockmen in Wyoming have been through since the dread- ful winter of 1919, there is now great rejoicing as herds and flocks swarm out across excellent ranges. One lesson after another has been pay. Then, it is possible to take more busines#ike precautions in protecting stock with sheds and by having feed on hend for emer- gencies. Good may come from evil. As parky says in his Tribune auto seciion, a ore of beautiful places not far from C per are wait on such a day this to make rested, more contented person, ready for this and all future Mondays. Just hop off into the hills, listen to the streams, loll around and dream a little and you'll be better for it. It seems that a 10-year sentence is by far too much to hand the three boys who were not long ago caught with a stolen car, There is no doubt about their guilt, for the; freely admitted it, There is also n doubt about their being the kind of boys who have no great reg; obéyiig She “written and um laws thé world has built up. ‘They have been, ‘given’ mach by their parents in Hastings, Neb., but they have been neglected at the same time. Thirty years of life to be spent in a reformatory is a long time. It is certainly a loss and an expense to the publie. The worst feature of it is that bootleggers can get off with 90 days and $100. U. S. Air Men First Lap of Journey From Shanghai Back to Homeland Should Be ‘Made Tomorrow Morning , SHANGHAI, June 14.—With the dawn of Monday morning, the United States round the world air squadron will again be winging its way westward, according to word received here tonight from Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, flight commander. Hygienne and labor— Colonies—Daladier. Liberated Regions—Dalbt , Pensions—Bovier, Lapler The fate which has seemed to dog the aeri Efférts to make this a big sum- ther for the Casper Mountain park will be. started off today when a water main is strung to the Park tugn so that cars may obtain water at that point, ‘Tho work of improving the park site, laying out the bound@ies, building roads, trim ming trees, and making other tm provements will be largely done this “ummer,, An outing is planned for Sunday of June 22 at which time the yeople of Casper are in vited to go to the park & wil! be under the auspices of the C. per Motor club as will the work of improving the park . The park site bi been pro ced one of the most beautiful a city could hope to have ck door. Very few per. sons have actually explored the romote places of Casper mountain. It {s hoped that in the future a land architect can be employed to several park units so that a regular park program can be veloped. There are numeroug springs and some small streams in the park area and it will be possible ac a moderate expense to build a series of lagoons or small reservoirs along one of the streams Casperites and t r » the mountain are their guns at bh people make their cn the mountain and the discharge of firearms is exceedingly danger: cus. Casper mountain is a stato gome preserve, and anyone caught shooting on the preserve will be frie me nds who ed to,| Many summer -homes CASPER MOUNTAIN PARK WILL BE BOOSTED THROUGH SUMMER A committees has been appointed ft) city ask the 2 sight top on June 22. the committe twenty peopl June nmittees to canvass and people of eoing trip t ich member requested of to get g9 to the mountain on names of ee the ‘Continued on Page Two.) 1 pathway of the commandefs of Uncl race to be the first to circle earth by air, overtook Smith for the second time at Hue, in French Indo. China, when his‘motor, went “dead” and could not be repaired. A new motor has been received from the flight base at Saigon and will be completely installed b day night, according to adv! Monday Smith Will hop off fe to the southeast, where L nts Leigh Wades Ison will join him in the Sun On Smith dropped behind his com panions once before In the flight from Japan to China, arriving here one day ind them. WILL BE CAUGHT WITH ALL LOOT Quartet Arrested and Said to Be Identified; One Near Death From Wounds Received. CHICAGO, June 14.—The entire band of robbers which ,jon Friday morning held up learned during the lean years. For|a Chicago, Milwaukee and instance, there can be such a thing |Ge— pay] i j as too much credit, with money|5t- Paul mail train near easy to borrow but difficult to re-|Rondout, Hl., and escapéd with cash and securities valued at approximately $3,000,000, will be un- der arrest by midnight Sunday, Mors gan A. Collins, Chicago-chief of po- lice, predicted tonight. The loot also will be recovered al- most in full, Collins sald hd believed. J. H, Wayne, who was reported this evening to be near death in the county hospital from a bullet wound, was positively identified, Collins an- nounced, by two of the mail guards from whom the mail pouches were stolen, Wayne was shot, it was be« Heved, by one Sf his comrades who mistook his during the robbery for @ mall guard. Three other. men—Paul Wade of Tulsa, Okla., and J... Mahoney and Walter McComb, both of Chi- cago—were purtially identified by the guards as members of the rob- ber band. Wade, when arrested today, had 2 $1,000 bill and.a.$5,000 bill in Inte al pockets. Heth bills, according to A. B. Germ, chief postal inspector, were similar to those stolen from the train. Wade and Mahoney were arrested in an apartment here and were held together with McComb, owner of the flat, and Mrs. McComb. Mrs. MeComb, although held for ques- ning, had no connection. or know= ledge of the plot, officers sald they relieved. hrough the, men held tn custody, Collins said, he hoped to trail the other members of the band, which {s' believed to number at least 26. One of the losers is the bank of Charles G. Dawes, republican vice presidential nominee—the Central Trust company of Ilindis. The hani made a shipment of $28,000 to a bank at Roundup, Montana, One of the leaders of the robbers asked for the sack containing the packet of money This and other tnoldents: led po- lice to belleve that the job was an “inside affair.” The bandits knew so much about the treasure train that. Collins is convinced persons in the employ of the postoffice de- partment are involved, Eight postal clerks are being questioned by Chief Postal Inspec- tor Gormer. The 70 odd clerks and guards on the mail train have been examined, and several are under surveillance, it was made known. Chi liins advanced the theory that Tommy O'Connor, notorious gunman, who killed a policeman and broke jail several days before he was to be executed, had a hand in the affalr, O'Connor has played hide and seek with thé police since his escape about two years ago While scores of police are hunt- ing Ch. » for ndits, dozens of posses are s the terrl- tory between Chicago and Milwaus keo in the belief that some of the nd may be lake resorts, hiding In one of the ———————— Weather Forecast WYOMING—F day Monday, possibly rtly cloudy Sun- showers in extreme north portion; change in temperature. not much DEATH LIST CLIMBS; VICTIMS NOW THREE K. OF P. WILL HOLD SERVICE This afternoon at 2 o'clock a joint service of the Knights of Pythias nd the Pyt an sisters will be held knights end Pyt a sister ar 1 quested to be present Mrs. Homer Helms will aing “Res ignation” by Caro Roma and “Shad ows” by Carrier Jacobs Bond, The poblic tp invited to attend the gorvices «Avy ww vee wife er younger daughter with during @ fit of insanity. H then slashed his wrists with a r whar Jer-in the barn, and hanged himself from a raft Wife of Fort Morgan, Colorado, Farmer Dies and a Daughter Is Expected To Succumb FORT MORGAN, Colo., June 14.—The death list from the attack of George Bath, crow murderer, on his family near here Tuesday night, swelled to three today. | M Bath died from fractures of the skull, and a daughter, 12 is expected to succumb soon. Bath killed one daughter instantly and wounded his n, Five sons escaped the gory scene | by running: trom, the / house: while their father flailed everything in t with the bigod splattered tron bar. ee WON te,