Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1924, Page 1

The Weather ‘WYOMING — Fair tonight and ‘Thursday; warmer tonight and in ex- treme east portion ‘Thursday. PLANES SPEED AOUGH NIGHT ON SAFE. TRIPS Giant Beacons: Guide Flyers on Record. Air Voyage. CHICAGO, July 2.—(By The Associated Press).—On the final stretches of the maiden flight of the day and night. coast to coast air mail service, speeding air- planes are nearing the Golden Gate and Long Island, with conditions favorable to their arrival even be- fore the scheduled time. The 8$5-mile long late of beacon light between Chicago and Cheyenne safely traversed, two roaring cour- fers at dawn. were winging west across Wyoming bearing 590 pounds of mail, comprising 23,600 letters for an Francisco, and toward the ris- ing gun above the prairies and dunes: of Illinois, another ship sped with 376 ‘pounds of postal cargo. Between Omahafand North Platte, Neb. high tn the air above tho; il- luminated. route, the ships eee each other early: today... Prevail! winds favored the eastbound ens elor,, -who.is due .to-complete the. tran: continental trip in 32 hoursand standard flag ie 45 minutes of flying Is expected to put the wpa planes in San Francisco at 6.45 p. m., Pacific time today. In the malt chamber of the east- bound plane is a package of flow- ers from M, H. de Young of the San Franelsco (Chronicle, addressed to President Coolidge. The accbmplishment of flying mail in’ the darkness is considered by Rernautic! experts and postol offi- c'als here directing the air mail ser- vice as putting America far ahead of other/ nations, few of which, they say, have attempted the transporta- tion of mail by airplane in daylight. The lighting arrangement, with a total ‘candle power of 5,279.000.000 functioned satisfactorily, it was sald. At the main stations of the night vice, Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte and Cheyenne, power- ful electric beacons flooded landing fields and between the main termi- nals, divisional fields and acetylene Tlashes | every three miles apart guided the course of the air navi- gators, < FOG ADDS TO PERILS IN SOUTHERN WYOMING CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 2.—Head- (Continued on Page Nine) ponents Sian bel SPECIAL TRAIN 70 BE AUN TO DOUGLAS FOR FOURTH CELEBRATION The Chicago and Northwestern will run a special train to Douglas July 4. ‘The train will leave Casper at $:30 a. m. and will return the same day, leaving Douglas on the return trip at 9:50 p. m. and arriv- ing here at! 11:30 p. m. Attractions at the Fourth of July celebration at Douglas, in addition to the wild wesi fete, will be the appearance of Madame Schumann- Heink, celebrated singer, who was secured for the otcdsion by the American Legion post at Douglas. The circulation of The Tribune is grétitér than any other Wyoming newspaper. OH Seer VOLUME: AD VO Nee awe: NUMBER 418.5 > 215. ne | BALL SCORES | AMERICAN LEAGU! First Game. At Philadelphia E. New York «_-_001 030 121-8 11 2 Philadelphia 300 011 013—9 13 3 Batteries—Shawkey, Bush, Hoyt and Schang; Harris, Rommell and Perkins. R. HE. At © Cincinnati Chicago 600 001 00°—7 7 1 Batteries—Rixey, May and Wingo, Sandberg; Keen and Hartnett. Batteries — Vance and Deberry; Watson, Nehf and Gowdy, Snyder. At Boston— Philadelphia” . ._010 000 020-3 4 . Boston 000 000 001—1 Batteries—Carlson and,, Herlline; Barnes and O'Neil. a DRIVING IT HOME Reading Between Lincs in the Day's News of Casper. R.H.E. For the purpose of “selling” Cas- nee to our hbors east of here, ‘"" leave this city July age the merrier, There ix strength in numbers. ‘We have one er trip each year. The men who make these journeys. carry with them Casper’ right hand. .They. ‘steam into a town and say, “Shake! Glad to’ see you so. prosperous; come up and see us once in a while. So it’s a case of turning out in legions, if you? want to make the right impression. Casper should be able to put on a parade of ifs own every town its boosters hit. If any delegates are having fun at the Democratic convention’ they can easily be pickéd out frém_all the rest because they are wearing 10-gallon hats and hafl from) Wyo- ming. Having mentally arranged their. presidential “aspirants in circle, the six delegates from this state are playing “Drop the Hanker- chief, i The start was made with John B. Kendrick who was notitied in ad- vance just what to expect. Since then, with the sizzling days and the number of ballots stacking up, the Wyomingites” have galloped breath- lessly around the ring, ‘letting their votes fali behind one would-be White House tenant and_then ‘another. Our delegates are probably fervently praying in secret for the balloting to continue until they have favored every man before *the convention. Then they can at least rub their hands together with satisfaction and consider their time in New York well spent. , ‘ Wyoming Legionnaires will have their annual state convention - in this city next. month, It will be their time of celebration. They will look batk over the ‘few years of their. organization, recalling § the fight oyer the bonus measure. They will have to convene this year with- out that great question before them. So théy will, of course, resign them- selves to having a good time—and Casper will help them have it. There are now “ships that pass in the night” through the air, crash- ing through clouds, flashing acrous the sky in a race agafnst time. They are, winged messengers bear- ing mail. This morning’ a package of 40 letters was dropped from the train here. » They: were only ordinary let- (Continued on Page Nine.) g Broken as C. i Hits Bike ‘ Clyde Koons, 18 years old, of 135 South Jackson: street, had his leg broken yesterday afternoon opposite the Industrial Helations Wullding of the Standard Oi! company on West Yellowstone .when the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a’ Paige touring car driven by C. H. Besseit of 43% South Elm street. Accorfg to Mr. Besseit the boy 3 a ac a Ne turn his motorcycle around where there was no street intersection and the accident re- sulted. Mr. Besseit and ©. C. Verley, of 432 South Elm street, who was riding with him, picked up the Koons youth and took him to a local hospital. », Neither the car, nor the ..notor- cycle were materially damaged. Koons is employed as an office boy by the Standard Oil company at the local refinery, aise bee: of reer eae ie MAIL ARRIVES FROM FRISCO IN 23 HOURS Effects of New Night Flying Shows Up in Casper Office.’ Two score of letters addressed to Casper people were shot through the postmarking machine in San Fran- cisco yesterday morning at 65:30 o'clock. They were delivered here this morning at 7 o'clock. It took just 25% hotrs to speed this mail from the Golden Gate to Casper. Cheyenne and brolight the rest of the distance by train. This is the first instance of the way designated ntail will from now on come to this city from distant points east and west, because of the inauguration yester- day of night flying of airplane mail carriers, Ban Placed on Red Delegates At Cleveland CLEVELAND, July 2—(By The Asscclated Press.)—Communists yl not fave a part in the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which meets here July 4, if the sentiment of the national commit- tee, meeting here today is carried out. This committee agreed that critically inspected and munists, when known shall not be seated) it was said, accredited organization. —>—— that com. to be such, Each: delégate, Veteran Justice Of Peace Buried CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 2.—Fun- day afternoon for W. H. Edwards, veteran justice of the peace, who eral services were held here Wednes. succumbed to a protracted illness, MRS. S STORES OPEN UNTIL 9 P. M. ON THURSDAY Casper stores as a, result of being closed all day Friday in celebration of the Fourth will remain open until 9 o'clock tomorrow night. Shoppers the | credgntials of all delegates shall be | will shave to report an4 CASPER, WYO.,. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1924. Ruins in downtown district of Lorain, Ohi: Were buried in the debris when this It was sent via airplane to|) photograph was made. Jookinz down Lorain’s niain street at dawn Sunda: ee Pr as Crihune | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS On Streets or. tN watands, 5 cents Delivered by Ca: Seores The cries of the dying stilt were rising from the ruins-Wwhen this photogr: Service airpl: are urged to take advantage of the additional hours’ in order to prevent disappointment: oe Ne ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF BEAVER HIDES AT AFTON LEADS 10 FINE AFTON, Wyo., charge of having 87 beaver hides illegally in his possession, “Ben Welch has been convicted and given a fine of $75 and 30 days in jail, He was also convicted on trapping in the forert reserves, for which of- fense he was given a fing of $50 and an additional 30 days behind the bars. The second jease has been ap- pealed. f : July -—On the lane at dawn Sunday at Lorain, Ohio. ture theater where some 150 women and children were -trapped beneath red were bélieved to be in adjoining ruins when this photograph w The white structure in thi enter is t falling walls. taken. LAS N. BROOKS DEAD Star of Frontier Days Wins First In British Fete CHEYENNE, Wyo.; July 2.—Bon- nie MeCarrol!, woman broncho-buster who | ant at F in vecent y s been a conspicious contest- ntier Days celebration here cabled from London, Tuesday, that she had won first in the women’s. rough riding. contest held in connection with the British Empire exposition. The message ad- ded that she would return to the United States in time to compete in the world’s championship women's broncho-busting contest of the com- ing_Frontler Days celebration, July 22, 23, 24 and 25, Relatives and Friends Are Plunged Into Grief Today by Sudden Passing of Popular Young Matron Relatives and friends today mourn the loss of Mrs. Silas N. Brooks, 29, one of the most popular and known of the young society matrons, who passed away weHl ata local hospital at 4:45 o’clock this morning following an illness of only two days. Mrs. Brooks apparently had been enjoying good health until June 30 at which time she was taken ill. She was immediately removed from her ranch home south- east of Casper to the: hospital. Her death came as a shock not only be- cause of its unexpected nature, but because of the wide popularity t Nuisance Tax Ends WASHINGTON, July 2.—The pub- lic purse will have another sigh of. relief at midnight tenight when fur- ther cuts jn the nation’s tax bill under the new revenue law become effective after the thirty day period stipylated’from its enactment. ‘The socalled nuisiance taxes are abolish- Tonight ed el y while in the cellaneous taxes gener reductions take ef: Included among the old law qssess- ments which are eliminated outright are these on telegraph and, telephone messages zd the stamp fax:of two cents per hundred dollars on drafts; checks and promissory notes, field of mis- material she had always enjoyed he deceased was formerly Miss Irma Patton, only daughter of U. 8. Marshal and Mrs. Hugh L. Patton, Pioneers of this city. She was born Aug. 9, 1895, at Casper and attended the public schoola here until. her Junior year in high school. The fan ily then moved to Cheyenne where Miss, Patton was graduated from the Cheyenne high school in the spring of 1914. She attended Wyoming uni- versity, from 1914 to 1915 and be- came a’ member of the Pl Beta Phi fraternity. After spending year home she enrolled at Ct Chase, Wa ington, D. C., in 19 d was gr unted from there in 1 Her ularity with her fellow stud the famous girls’ colleg by the fact that she presiGent of her class senior year During the was connecte pun. in«the uk at pop. nis at was shown was elected during her summer of 1917 she with the Casper Tri- gpacity of soclety eal iContinueatdil’ Page Thirteen.) M’ADOO JITION Pi ibtsation Offices ‘Tribun Second st GIVEN TWO VOTES BY SMITH FORCES First ‘Break In Ranks of Empire State Delegates Followed by Declaration of Bryan for McAdoo; ‘Adjournment Is Taken Until Night After 38th Ballot MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, July 2. —At the end of its 38th ballot and a riotous’ session in which William Jennings Bryan declared for William G. McAdoo’ amid roars of “oil, oil, oil,” tional convention adjourned night. SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, July 2.—The first break in the big block of ninety votes which, constitutes the corner- stone of Governor Alfred E. Smith’s strength in the Democratic national convention today came on the 37th ballot. Two members of the New York delegation cast their votes for Wil- liam McAdoo and started the sup- porters of the former secretary of the treasury on another big demon- stration. Smith supporters sald the) two men casting the votes for McAsioo were personal friends of that eat didate, but the McAdoo forces} got as much encouragement out f it upparenthy~as $f they “Hva*-w: i te state delegation. Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaten manager for Governor Smith and chairman of the+New York delega- tion, broke the unit rule himself at San Francisco and consequently in this convention he gave instruétions that delegates were to vote as they personally desired. On the! six ballots before the thirty-soventh, the McAdoo . and Smith totals’ had fluctuated consider- ably. The McAdoomforces won over Mississippi early in the balloting and that with gains elsewhere carried his total to 444 or within thirty of his high mark on the: fifteenth ballot. Results of ballots from the 34th to the 37th, inclusive, follows: 34th ballot: 1%; Saulsbury, 6; Owen, nderwood, 39%; Mc: Adoo, 445; Robinson, 24; Smith, 311; Davis of West Virginia, 107%» Ritchie, 16%; Cox, 64%; Davis of Kansas, 3; Giass, 24; Ralston, Total, 1,098. ‘Totals 35th ballot: Robinson, 24° Smith, 323%; Davis of West Virginia, 107; Ritchie, 16%; Cox, Davis of Kansas, 3; Glass, Ralston, 33; Walsb, Sauls- bury, 6; Owen, 25; Gerard, 1; absent, 44: Underwood, McAdoo, 439%. , 1,098. als ith ballot Underwood, MADISON McAdoo, 438% Robinsen, 24; Smith, 323; Davis’ of West Virginia, 107 Ritch 6 Davis of Kansas, ston, aM Walah igh. 6 Owen, ; rd, 1; absent, Total, 1,07% ‘otals 31th ballot: Underwood Robinson, 24; West Virginia, Cox, 55; La Ralston, bury; 1,097%. doo, 444; ; Davis RYAN EXPLAID VOTE FOR M’'ADOO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, WwW YORK, July At the begin- ning of the ballot, William n pings Bryan asked unanimous con- sent to explain his vote for McAdoo, He got it and moun the platform “When I am through I hope you will feel T have improved my time for the benefit of the Democratic party,” began Bryan. “T have only one de sire and that is that we shall win this next election. I only desire that (Continued on Page Ten.) | the Democratic na- s session until 8 o’clock to- RESULTS OF 38TH BALLOT Totals 38th Ballot. Underwood, 3 McAdoo, 444; Robinson, mith, + Davis of West Virginia, 106; Ritchie, 17%3 Cox, id Davis’ a of Kansas, 3; Glass, 24; sRalston, $2; Walsh, 114; Sauls« i absent, %. Total, Underwood, 24, u Davis’ of West Vind Sint, Underwood, 1%; McAdoo, Arkansas, 18: Californ Colorado, ginia, 3%; Smith Underwood, 1; a Connecticut, 14: Adoo, 1; Robinson, 18. McAdoo, 26. Davis of West Vir 3%; McAdoo, 3143 nt, %. Smith, 12; Me. Saulsbury, 6 Florida, 12: McAdoo, 10; Smith, 1}- Ralston, 1. Georgia, Idaho, 8: 28: McAdoo, 28. McAdoo, McAdoo, Virginia, Davis of Davis of We Robinson, 4; Kentucky, 2 rites 3 20: ginia, 20. Maine, 12: Underwood, 5%, Maryland, 16: Massachusetts, MeAdoo, 2%. Michi, McAdoo, Davis of West Vire McAdoo, 2; Smith, 4%t Ritchie, 16. 36: Smith, 33%4¢ McAdoo, 16; Smith, ; Cox, 1. Cox, 1; McAdoo, : Passed McAdoo, 1 Smith, McAdoo, 6. ampshire, 8: Walsh, McAdoo, 314; Smith, New Jersey, 28: §: Mexic York, 90 i uth, 28, McAdoo, 6 w Smith, 88; McAdoo, North Carolina. 24 Davis of West Virglt North Dakota, Smith, 5. Ohio, 48> Cox, Oklahoma, 20; Ovegon, 10; M Pennsylvania, rAdoo, } Davis of K 344; Davis of West Rhode Island, 10 South Carolina South Dakota, Adoo, 9. ‘Tenne SHO, Megdoo, 2014; 3%. McAdoo, 8; 48 Owen, 20. 10. jmith, ; Ritchie, % 38%: ; Robinson Underwood, Virginia, 6 + 10. Walsh, 1; nsas, 1 18 10; 18, Me+ 24: McAdoo, McAdoo, 40 LcAdoo, 8. m4 Glass, (Continuea on P: 24, Thirteen.) Foreign Office Shakeup Is Due WASHINGTON, July 2.—An un wrecedented shake-up in the/foreign service announced today by the state department under authority of the recently enacted Rogers bill for re-organization of consular and dipl matic activities. Retirement for age nd esignations removed sixty mes from 'the permanent rolls, and in addition a, re-classifieation from top to bottom was announced. wag One diplomatic and ular ofs ficials were ed the matic retired a ving of 68 year f reach+ Umit © diplo- attaches who had been carried on as unassigned w: as “not reinstated ight diplomatic and 13 consular officials were demot- ed as failing to reach the required standard of efficiency and two names were removed by resignations, o re-designated