Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1924, Page 1

The Weather WEATHER—Partly cloudy to- night and Friday with showers in north portion tonight; cooler in west and north portions tonight. VOL. VIII. Sy er Dai MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS per CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1924. The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper: ” ly Crime (dma) uvri0} On. Stree Delivered ts vr at Newstands, & cents by Carrier 75 cents a month F 1S FACING BREAKDOWN TWO BANDITS M’COY CRIME _ARE DROPPED BANK ROBBERY FRUSTRATED NV WASHINGTON Only One Escapes in Gun Battle With Bandit Gang. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 14.+-Frustrating a carefully planned daylight robbery of the Snoqualmie Valley bank at Tolt, Wash., Sheriff Matt Starwich and six deputies yesterday. saved the institution's funds from a bandit trio, killed two of the criminals and captured the NEWARK, N. J., Aug, 14.—Rev. James K. Shields has resigned as New Jersey superintendent of’ the Antl-Saloon League to become candidate for United States senator. CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—Senator Ar- thur Capper of Kansas, in a letter today to Representative Everett Sanders of Indiana, chairman of the Republican speakers campaign bur- eau, expressed his willingness © to ald ig the fall campaign. — Repre- sentative Walter Newton of Minne- sota visited Republican headquarters and volunteered his services for’ a tour of the northwest, ELK POINT, 8. D., Aug. 14.—The vacancy at the head of the Demo- cratic state ticket created by the death Monday of Andrew Anderson of Beresford, party nominee for gov- ernor, will be filled at a special meeting of the Democratic state committee at Huron, August 20, L. N.’Crill, state chairman announced today. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Cotton consumed during July totalled 346,671 bales of lint and 40,880 of driver of the robber automobile in a] linters, compared with 350,277 of fiveminute pistol and shotgun| lint and 39,583 of linters in June battle, this year and 462,654 of lint and Deputy. Sheriff Virgil! Murphy,| 45,933 of linters in July last year, former University of Washington crew star, was the only other man injured. He suffered a slight wound in hig left teg. A suspect, William the census bureau announced. . DEADWOOD, 8. D., Aug. 14.— A. C. Tipple, only survivor of the ‘Sant, was arrested on telephone in- group which saw the slaying of formation from Tolt to Seattle a8/ «wd Bill” Hickok, by Jack McCall being @ partner in a rent car busl-|in 1976, and a pioneer, Is dead. ness with the driver of the bandit Se ee machine, Jack’ E, Bench, D.C. Malone, allas A. J. Brown, leader of the bandits, was Killed in the bank after-n battle. Ted Lashe ot Great Falls, Montana, was fa- tally Wounded ‘by Brown when he stood in the line of fire, according to deputies. Lashe, before he died last night asked that his father, L. O. Lashe of Great Falls be notfied. The success of the daring plot by Starwich, which resulted from a tip received several days ago from a criminal was due mostly to Miss Isa dore Hall, vice president of the bank who!was ordered to remain at tho cashier's window and “attend” to the bandits when they entered, ac- cording to the sheriff. When Brown. rho’ entered the bank with Lashe, ordered Miss Hall to throw up her hands she obeyed. The sheriff and his deputies then ordered the bandits to surrender, but they responded by firing their revolvers. Miss Hall stood between Malone and the offi cers in direct line of all guns. One bullet from Malone's gun pierced a cheek protecting machine “on the counter in front of her heart. “I did not do anything,” said Miss Hall as she applied wet towels to the mortally wounded Lashe on the floor of the bank after the encount- er. “Everything happened so fast I didn't have time to feel nervous. T merely tried to do as I was asked Aeronautics the Nevy tests at sea within the next Iowa. held up employes: of the } pr escaped in an automobile. suit. DMN BECKER SURUIVES INJURIES IN TO CHAS YESTERON to do.” ear: ho Se Dan Becker, who was injured tn "‘JOWANS HOLD PICNIC the automobile accident yesterday CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 14.—| morning on the Salt Creek highway Several hundred Wyomingites who|in which J. M. Hammond was killed formerly were residents of lIowa|is reported to be’ getting along nice- gathered at Campstool, 15 miles/ly at the Midwest hospital. Mr. southeast of Cheyenne, reday,| Becker suffered several broken ribs for the annual county “Iowa” picnic.jas well as bad bruises. Addresses Were made by several No funeral arrangements have yet been made for Mr. Hammond. The body is now at the Shaffer-Gay chapel. prominent ex-Iowans and there was @ program of sports and a basket pienic. ~GIRL NOW HELD AS INSTIGATOR OF LATE CRIME Sweetheart of Emil Zupke Admits She Knew Rival In Love Would Not Return Alive, Says Sheriff BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Aug. 14.—Florence Mc- Kinney, the pretty 19-year-old sweetheart of Emil Zupke today is charged by Sheriff George Bridgeman with being he instigator of a secret pact that resulted in the murder of Cora May Raber. 3 Bit by bit, according to the sheriff, the laughing coun- try girl has admitted that she knew Zupke related how he choked Miss for affections her rival Zupke's Raber, who was soon to have be- Was to “be done away with come a mother, after she had re “I knew {t all the time,’ she ts quoted as saying. “I knew when | fused to rgease him from a promise to marry her so he could wed Miss McKinney. He choked her, he de- clared, as they were driving through a desolate country near here, while Miss McKinney was at the wheel of the roadster. Zupke and h today face charges, went riding with Cora and Emil that she never would return alive.” Zupke-and the girl were arested Tuesday night after he had admitted that he had choked Miss Raber to death and his sweetheart had yolun- tarily surrendered and €onfessed that she was with him when the crime was committed, youthful sweetheart first degree murder WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—On re- commendations from the Burean of department today ordered the airship Shenhn- doah at Lakehurst to continue her few weeks, preventing the carrying out of her proposed flight to Des Moines, JOLIET, Ill, Aug. 14.—Six bandits Lockport si bank today, gathered up ap- ximately $20,000 in currency and Members of the sheriff's force started in pur- FATAL ALIBI DENIED NEWS BRIEFS |BENEFIT RODEO FETE PLAYS T0 BIG CROWD; PERFORMERS PARADE 'Half Holiday Declared by Mayor Encourages Large Attendance for Show Staged as the various events. prize money obligation. Rain which fell this morning was not expected to interfere with the program un- less a more severe stcrm develops. The program was preceded by a parade through the downtown sec- tion of the city this morning and with Mayor Loy having declared a half holiday starting at noon a rec- ord crowd at the grounds, was ex- pected. ‘The advance sule repo by the ticket committee last was approximately 2,000 tickets, A citizens committee of Earl Bur- well, Barney Slack and Edward Mu- rane is taking charge of the finances of the affair and will distribute them to the various performers at the conclusion of the show. The admission price hag been set thé grandstand or for parking cars. ‘The program for the afternoon is as follows Eyent No. 1.—Quarter-mile race. Event No. 2.—Bareback bronc rid- -dJimmy Shannon, Buddy Tim- In mons, Tad Barns Lucas, Warren Sears, Bristow, Buck Lucas, Harry Bowles and Pinkey Gist. Event No. 3.—Trick and fancy roping, Bob Calen, Roy Kivets, Tom- my Douglas and John Judd. Event No. 4.—Eighth of mile race. Evént No. 5.—Steer-roping, Fred Beeson, Ike Rude, Lee Robinson, FLIERS Benefit for the Stars. Today’s benefit rodeo program, weather permitting, will be the best that Casper people have ever seen, accord- ing to the cowboys and cowgirls who were entered for Detectives Scout Story of Ex-pugilist That Divorcee With Whom He Had Been Living Killed Herself LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Evidence to be eae to the county grand jury today will completely disprove the story of Norman Selby (Kid McCoy) that Theresa W. Mors, latest of the ex-pugilist’s heart fancies, killed her- self, according to police detectives in charge of the case. The bullet that killed the divorced wife of Albert Mors, wealthy antique dealer, en- McCoy, his sister, Jennie Thomas, tered her temple without any ac-;to whom he is sald to have confessed companying powder burns, an ex-|that he killed Mrs. Mors, and Mors amination showed. It must have|will be brought face to face today been fired from a distance of at|in an effort to reach the bottom of least three feet, officers say, and|the mystery of the slaying, sald Dis: that, they declare, would eliminate |trict Attorney Asa Keyes, BALL SCORES ALLIES THROW TO FRANCE IN Cooper and Gooch, At Cincinnati— R.H.E. Brooklyn 000 011 003—5 9 1 Cincinnati -000 000 000—0 3 2 Batteries— Vance and Deberry; Benton, May and Hargrave. = ~ } AMERICAN LEAGUE. A {| H f SPITE At New York— ; 133 000 01 010 000 00 No Agreement Found Gaston. \. SEF. At Philadelphia— R.H.E. For Time Limit on Detroit —-_---- 110 001 020— 5 13 1 * oitaa Patlodetpiia «100 103 15%—11 16 1 Evacuation; British Batterits—Holloway, Cole, Pillette, Stoner and Bassler, Woodall; Burns and Perkins, At Washington— May Intervene. R. H.E. The proceeds will be used to put the performers on their feet financially following the inability of the Casper-Mills Roundup association to meet their at 50 cents with no extra charge for the suicide theory from the tangled skein of the affair. Further, it is pointed out, the body bore scars and bruises that in- Lioyd ‘Saunders, Herb Myers, Bill| dicated an ante mortem struggle. Kingham, Bob Crosby, Bob Calen, McCoy said Mrs. Mors attempted Ray Bell, King Merritt, Lem Car-|to stab herself with a butcher knife men,” Curley Lewis, Roy Kivets,|hefore she used the pistol but police Buck Stewart and Mike Stewart investigators, brushing this state- Event No, 6.—Bronc riding, Lee|ment aside, asked for an explana- Sapuly: id Dad"; Buck, Lewis, “Bed Wagon"; Leo Robinson, “Made in Germany”; Bob Crosby, ‘Red in’; Lem Carmen, “Jack Johnson’ Mike Hastings, “Sweet Mamma’ (Continued cn Page Eight) DORY MARINER BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED IN PACIFIC MANICA; “Aug. 142 ny tiie" ae sociated Press.)—It is bélleved that Ira Sparks of Peru, Ind., who sailed from Honolulu in January for the Holy Land in a 23-foot dory. perished off’ the coast of Zam- boango. A” deserted boat named “Dauntless, Honolulu," has been found stranded ‘on \Gatusan’ {sland on the eastern coast of Zamboango, according to "a telegram received by constabulary headquarters. There was no trace of Sparks. TO HOP OFF tion of a cut on the lip which drove the teeth far into it, a depp wound under the left breast that might have been caused by a hat pin, cuts ;]on the left arm and throat and sev- eral other abrasions. Sparks avfWed™ tn Honolulu from San Francisco in a packing box aboard one. of the ‘trans-Pacific steamers’ last year. On: this’ de- parture in the dory he announced that he was bound for the Holy Land to “seek the true word of Godi"" He arrived at Tandaga, Surigao province, Philippine Islands, on March 22 and soon afterws announced his intention of continu- ing his journey to Singapore and thence to the Holy Land, Who will she be? Dazzling question, that. wanted. your say. Send in a lst of the names and addresses of the girls whom You be- Meve to be eligible for the consider- ation of the judges. If photos are available, shoot them glong, too, Address the contest editor of the Tribune. Remember—the Tribune commit- tee is looking for the most beauti- ful girl inthe county. Their selec- tion will be made on the basis of beauty and of beauty alone. No votes are being taken, no subscrip- tions asked—nothing, just beauty. The big reason the judges want help is so that no eligible girl will be overlooked. Miss Natrona will be our representative at the Tribune's great Wyoming Princess Petrolia ball, September 9, where the other 22° counties of the state will have thelr winners. She must be the fatr- est of our daughters. Inno time August 26, that fateful POLICE SEIZE STIL I AAD A rald at the homme of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Kellys 1507 East Second sirec late yesterday | afternoon netted a 20-gallon still, one of the smallest that has n taken re cently, and seyeral gallons of moon- shine. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly were arrested by the police on a Mquor violation. charge. ©. W. Reed was arrested on a charge of liquor possession at 200 West B street. A half pint of moon: shine was found, DO YOU KNOW PRETTY GIRL? SEND IN HER NAME FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF JUDGES “It is the most complicated case of its kind that I ever have investi gated,” Keyes declared. Mrs. Mors’ body was found in her apartment here yesterday with a bullet hole in the temple and nu merous cuts and bruises elsewhere She and McCoy had-peen living there as “Mr.'and Mrs; N, Shields.” Almost simultaneous with the dis. covery, McCoy appeared in the fash- fonable ‘West Lake residential shop- Ping district armed with a revolver and invaded the Mors antique shop. There he held up attendants and patrons shot and wounded W. G. Ross, a chance arrival, then went next door and slightly wounded Sam Schapp and his wife, Ann, who, it is said, had attempted to effect a reconciliation between Mors and his wife. McCoy was captured a short time later running across West Lake Park. He was dazed and incoherent in speech. At first he refused” to throw any light on the Mors slaying and later declared that the woman killed herself in his presence late ‘Tuesday night. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Kia McCoy, veteran of the prize ring whose clever fists fetched him fat purses and ‘ighting renown more than a quarter of a century ago, sat in a jail cell here today facing the most desperaté battle of his (Continued on Page Seven) FRIDAY Cruiser Richmond Sails to Take Up Her Position Off Iceland to Await Passing of Globe Airmen REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 14.—(By The Associated Cleveland —....000 000 o*"—* * * LONDON, Aug. 14.—(By, Washington -..000 001 o**—* * */The Associated Press.)—« Piece nate vane and’ Sewell!’ The deadlock, between the 5 tee 2 a ee French and the Germans on t Boston— » H.E.}¢ sti i ope “010 020 000-3 9 othe. question of the time Bee” “112 000 00*—4 4 0| limit for the military evacu- Battdries—Robertson and Gra-| tion of the Ruhr fs impertiling the bowsk& Fergus and O'Neill. success of the international confer " = c] ence, it was indicated today after @ hurried meeting of the French, Bek gian and German premiers at Down: ing street early this morning had LATE SPORTS DENVER, Colo., Aug. 14,—With a score of 71, William Creavy of Ok- Jahoma City today turned in the low- est score for the first 18 holes of the first annual Colorado open golf tournament at the Cherry Hills coun- try club Tink: Jock Hutchinson, former British open champion, who shot a 30 in the first nine holes of play was second with a score of 72 for the first 18 holes. Hutchinson after securing six pbirdies-sard one par in the first nine holes of play took a 42 for the last nine holes, tosing his ball in a lake hazard at the 18th hole. A stiff wind which blew across the links hindered the players somewhat on the second nine, Bobby Cruickshank, runner up for the national open tilte in 1923 turn- ed in 74 for the first 18 holes, He was paired with L. D. Bromfield, seven times Colorado state _cham- pion, who turned in a score of 78. Cyril Walker, present ‘national open champion had not yet com- pleted his first 18 holes early this afternoon. He had a 36, one above par for the first nine holes as did also Bill Melhorn, Mel Smith of Californ’a took a 40 on the first nine, Bromfiel as low m n for the Col ateurs participating in the tou with his 78 among the eurly finish N. ©, (Tub) Morris, present Color- ado state champion turned a score of 81 for the first 18 holes. This mark was tied by Fred Bell of Lake Wood Country club. Harold Fisher was second among the Colorado amateurs with an 86 score, The last nine holes proved to be the stumbling block for champions and near ampions alike, Cyril Walker, national open champion tak- ing a 41 or six above par for the failed to prodtce tangible results. Delegates to the conference hop and expect, however, that Americatt or British intervention will save the Program, which the allies ha agreed upon for instituting the Dawes reparation plan. On his return to his hotel after the morning conference, M. Herriot said: “The allies are with us and wa are in complete control of the sit+ uation,” At 2.15 o'clock Chancellor Marx visited M. Herrigt at the latter's hotel. It was intimated that the Gers mam chief delegate might hayd brought with him the German ans swer on the allimportant Ruhd question. . After the meeting between Prew mier Herriot of France, Premier Theunis of Belgium and Chancellor Marx of Germany which lasted about twenty minutes, American Ambas- sador Frank Kellogg and American Representatives James A. Logan, Jr., rushed to the American embas: and joined Owen D. Young and tha ether — American experts on tha Dawes plan to consider what action they might take to solve the new complications. The Germans returned to thei hotel where direct cables to Berlin carried the news of the unf. able turn in the conference to the membera of the German cabinet ati the other end of the wire. After a brief German cabinet meeting, ne« gotiated by tho cables, which ard xchanged directly with Wilhelm S. Str ellor Marx and Fors eign Minister Stresemann returning to Downing Street at 12:30 o'cloc!: Meanwhile Prime Minister Mac Donald cf Great Britain saw M. Here riot and urged upon him that he accept a compromise on the time limit for the evacuation of the Ruhr, We want a winner—the very keenest‘ of them all! It’s a knockout for the seven men who are on the Tribune’s committee to name the most beautiful girl in Natrona county on August 26. Can’t you hear their howls for help? Here's your chance to have| day, will be here. Suggestions are Let’s start right now to find who's who in beauty in this county. Labor Illinois Okehs Support Of La Follette CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—The execu- tive board of the Illinois state fed eration of labor today adopted a resolution concurring in the en- dorsement by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor of the La Follette and Wheeler can- didacies for president and vice prest- dent. Press.)—-The American round the world fliers will leave on their hazardous flight from Iceland to the northeast coast of Greenland tomorrow if weather permits. 4 The United States cruiser Richmond, flagship of Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, will leave at 11 o'clock 13,115 DEAD IN FLOODS, IS NEW REPORT PEKING, Aug. 14.—(By The Asso ciated Press.)\—The International Famine Relief committee announces that the Intest estimate of the num- ber of deaths from the floods which have been sweeping China is‘13,115. The committee estimates that 1 000,900 persons are affected in the flooded areas in the Provinces of Hunan, Chibli, Kiang Fukien Kewangtung, Shantung, Hohan and Hupeh. HOUSEWIVES Of course you are following the advertis ing of the many national brands of food products being advertised in The Trib- YOU SHOULD follow these advertisements closely; note especially Friday an- une. nouncements of the market. You can appre pensive advertising ez to be the best. The advertising ate tion-wide demands, that he manufactures at is cheaper to you. BY ALL MEANS BUY manufacturer that mpaign in the country, his product has sells to the national he-embarks on an ex who befor tes such. he lesser cost, he does ¢ vy na: nd it NATIONAL TRIBUNE APVERTISED PRODUCTS this morning to take up her pi tion 270 miles off the coast of Ice land to await the passing of the fers. The destroyer Reid and Bil lingsley will occupy stations near Iceland. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 13. —(By The Asnociated Press)— The departure of the United States cru- iser Richmond, flag ship'of Rear Ad- miral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up its station 150 miles off the Ice- land coast to await the passing of the American around the world avi- ators, which had been planned for 8 o'clock this morning, was post Poned until tomorrow on receipt of news from the cruiser Raleigh off the Greeland coast that the baro meter falling and that half a gale was blowing. Spanish Troops In Morocco to Be Reinforced MADRID, Aug. 13.—(By The As sociated Press.)—Battalions under the command of General Alberto I Castro Girona, will be sent to re inforce the Spanish troops in Morocco, it announced this eve ning “af special meeting of the | military directorate called to con sider the new situation created ir Morocco by the renewed activities of the enemy native: The government, it was stated, did not, for the moment, plan to send new regiments to Morocco but would send battalions under the command of General Girona who ts well acquainted with the problem in Morocco, 4 it The anxiety which was felt for the final mine rounds, Hlw-seere:for the | coc rerénog, was reflected ae oe 18 holes was Bill Methorn of | °° St. Louis made the course in cial expressions and in the Dick Linares of Long Beach, Cali-| 2°Port™ the allied, fornia, was the last starter of the|®"@ At represen day and had not completed the 18} {ey arri and departed holes at 2:30 o'¢ Downing street The fons between BULLE PROVII , R.4.,| French, Belgians and ¢ Aug. 14 rald L, Patterson of| be resumed at 3 p. m., after which ‘Austraila, nzo Shimizuo| there will be a meeting cf the “Big of Japan, , 6-4 in the first} Fourteen.” singles match of the final round of| ‘The French delegates declare that play in the American zone Davis|they have agreed upon one year aq cup competition here to ay, (Continued on Page Seven.) LOEB-LEOPOLD HEARING DRAGS TODAY IN COURT Defense Slows Up Case In Cross-Exam« ination of Dr. Patrick, First ‘Alienist for the State CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) —+ The defense consumed the morning session of the Franka hearing with.a cross examination of Dr. Hugh T. Patrick, alienist for the prosecution, designed to shoyr that his conclusions that Nathan F. Leepold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, are sane, were based on inadequate information and A examination conducted under {m manded that Dr. Patrick recount proper conditior details t inaping and Ta ph ! irder of y¢ t Franke and ntly 1 tale to told many timed for t thi minutes the }consumed an additional large part hearing yesterday Benjamin Bach-|of the mornin lon, 7 rach of defense counsel finally reach — ed his objective late this morning] ~ CHICAGO, 14.—(By the Asm with the question. Press)—The state's firs’ “Did you ever in your life make Dr. Hugh . Patrick of an examination under such c having asserted his. belle tions that Nathan F, Leopold, Jr, and “No,” replied Dr. Patrick Richard Loeb, were sune when they The defense almost immediately (Continued on Page Seven) }