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

The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper: Che Casper Daily Tribune Streets er at Newstands, & cents were Vall. ; Sa uSeeL aT wale The Weather WYOMING: Mostly fair tonight * } and Tuesday; warmer tonight “in ¢west and north portions, and in extreme east portion Tuesday. FINAL HOME: Member of Audit Bureau CASPER, WYO., MONDAlm;)"STEMBER 15, 1924. Publtea: oO 3 of Cireulation S129, ‘Tribune Bidg, 216 BE. Second st : ge MIDWEST BRINGS IN 2.500 BARREL GUSHER IN LAKOTA SAND IN HEART OF SALT CREEK FIELD OUND WORLD AVIATORS LAND AT CHICAGO(",,jmH “ OF PRODUCTION PLANES Mt Soldiers Die IniTlisk$ MOAMERICAN LEGION IS |S OPENED UP HOP FROM OHO Terrific BlazeltlitiilES OPENING CONVENTION [bl DScaveny AT NOON TOOT re CalifornialiiiN WGN AT ST. PAUL TODA Experts Figure That Late Most - Beautiful Girl Well Will Make Pos- = Ay sible Drilling 500 Ad- Fliers Still Have 3,540] Ancient Spanish Settlement In Path of} Recent Contest Re- oe... Miles Before Reaching Terminus at Seattle. AIR MAIL FIELD, MAY- WOOD, Ills., Sept. 15.— Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and his around the. world flying companions. descend- ed at the United States air mail field here at 12:55 p. m., com- pleting their trip from Dayton in two hours and 55 minutes. Lieutenant Smith; in the flag Plane, Chicago, struck the earth at 12:69 pi m., and Lieut. Leigh Wade, with his. Boston. II followed-at 1:01 pJm, , ofthe filers ‘thé’ snapplest tunes. “Applause was so” deaf that it drowned out the roar of a’plane standing with its motor racing. As the three planes, with their escort, circled slowly over the field, the crowds virtually surrounded them, apparently en- deavoring to do as in celebration of armistico-day. Lieutenant “Wade's father and mother, Who live at Cassopolis, Mieh., were the first to embrace him, ,and it. was-done~ over — the yeruggling. forms of others sur- rounding his plane-- Mrs. 0. S. Palmer of Cicero, a Chicago suburb, a. long time,friend of Lieutenant ‘Wade, succeeded in giving him a resounding smack on the lips. The proceeding around the field ‘was preceded by an escort of motor- cycle policamen, flanked by mounted officers. A ‘long trati of motor cars and ‘people afoot fell in back of them. and stumbled and stomped their ‘way around the three-mile speedway race track. The cordon of policemen thrown about the area to which the three planes later taxied into — position, kept the throngs back but it did not deter a roaring welcome and nine sahs. for Lieutenant Smith. Wen Licutenant Nelson came up, the cheering took on a greater gusto. Lieutenant - Wade's - arrival served to increase the demonstra- tion, Tho three filers, before any one could reach them, jumped briskly from their planes and were enftood- ed by the receiving party and the crowds. The police, which up to this time had successfully held the people back, were overwhelmed, The filers had great difficulty in entering the three automobiles hich took them on a tour of the field In order that every one might gent a $3,000,000 Fire Started By Ex- plosion of Oil Tank MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 15.—Monterey, storied old Spanish settlement, seat of the first government of Cali- fornia and inspiration point for noted artists and writers, today was in the path of a devastating $3,000,000 confla- gration which started yesterday when a stabbed a 55,000 barrel crude oil tank, After a hectic night during which four soldiers from the Monterey Presidio were burned to death, the fire spread to elght other oll tanks in the vicinity and sent more than thirty injured to hospitals suffering from burns. The soldiers were canght in the fire when the first SS Se Se eee flame of fire and oil in the the fire figh who were t 2 o'clock this morning # fourth major explosion sent the fire into New Monterey where-five homes Furious Fighting Is Reported From Fronts In China STANGHAT, Sept. 15.—(By The Associated Press.)—The’ heaviest fighting done so far in the civil warfare between rival Chinese military factions striving for the possession of Shanghai, took place yesterday and today along. the Shanghai-Nanking railway Hne directly west of the city. Casualties of the Chekiang army defending Shanghal were estimated tonight to have total- ted over 400, of which ha'f were killed. The Klangeu attacking. army was said to have lost about the same number. Impartial ob- servers declared the lines of the two armies were virtually un- changed in the fighting although Chekiang headquarters claimed substantial advances south of the railway. TIENTSIN, Sept, 15.—The war outlook in northern China today was blacker than ever. The Chih troops of Wu Py Fu, ruling military power in Pe- king, continued throughout the day to move toward the eastern end of the great wall, at Shan- haikawn, while rellable reports were received here that the Pe- king-Mukden raflway had been cut on the Manchurian side of the t of lightning were destroyed. “The local authori- ties early today surrendered leader- ship in the fight against the flames to the military men at the Presidio. Danger to the town of Gid Mon- terey was seen during the night when the run off from the fire made a path of flame to ths water's a and threatened wharves and ustrial fishing plants on the docks. ; os a i IN IS ON THE INCREASE ——- ‘WASHINGTON}-Sept. 15.—Cotton consumed during August amounted 40 357,445 bales of lint and 44,296 of linters, compared with 346,671 of Int and 44,887-of linters in July this year and 492,483 of lint and’ 48,595 of linters in August last year, the census bureau announced tod: TWO MEN ASPHYXIATED IN OIL TANK John Hogenson and Perry Gregson, Pipe Line Workers, In Salt Creek Field, Killed by Fumes While Repairing Pump In Bottom of Steel Tan A 55,000-barrel tank near No. deathtrap for John P. Hogenson, huge container Saturday afterno: covery of the bodies was not The two men, beth employed in the pipe line department of the Midwest Refining company, were with the connection gang which Saturday morning w. dob of repairing a steam coil in the bottom of tank No. 217. Several men attempted to enter the “55” but were driven back by the heavy gas. Thé foreman of the crew ordered the work stopped until all ofl and gas in the tank was pumped dut. Hogenson was left in charge of the pump. It was soon after 4 o'clock in the afternoon that Gregson was seen for the last time. It is pre- ceives Congratulations BALL SCORES mander “a proven quantity,” the American Legion opened its sixth annual national convention here today with pro- Congratulations from H. F. Newblock, mayor of Tul- sa, Okla., where the Interna- tional Petroleum exposition will be held next month, ave been received by “Wyoming's. most - beautiful girl,” Miss Dorothy Logan ‘of Douglas. She found the following letter in her mail yesterday: “My Dear Miss Logan: “Word has just reached me that you haye been. chosen the most beautiful girl among all the pretty girls of Wyoming at the Princess Petrolia ball given by the Casper Tribune, Not only have you the honor to be crowned the beauty, but you have the good for- une to act as your state's official ‘esentative at the Internattoiia state] At American League? At Chicago— R. H. E. New York 100 100 000-2 4 ¢ Chicago - 000 000 000—0 7 0 Batteries—Jones and Hoffmann; Faber, Connally and Crouse. R. H. E. Boston .-. St. Louis - Batteries—Wingfield and Heving; Vangilder and Rego. National ¥ eaene. Boston— R. H. E. Pittsburgh 000 000 200.0024 8 Bow ~He-001 010 000.001—3 10 1 s Mortison— ans posed changes in policy the most important matter likely to come before it. National Commander John R. Quinn’s address, in which he said the legion’s prestige had been doubted by accomplish ments in the last year, and an ad- dress by General Frank T. Hines, director of the veteran's bureau, were among the first session's ac- tivities. A-few hours after the opening of the legion convention, the 40 and 8 Society, the fun organization of the legion, and the auxiliary, composed of women related closely to legion. naires, were scheduled to start their convention. Meeting in the municipal auditor- ium where the five day convention is being held, delegates today heard addresses of welcome by city and stute representatives, greetings from the convention and read to the first session, expressed regret at hfs ina- bility to attend anq expressed “a deep interest in the procedings and every convention welfare, Parades of yarious state delega- tions through the auditorium delayed the convention opening ten minutes, Headed by Miss May Peterson, grand opera, singer, riding the same “old gray mare” that appeared in San Francisco, the Texas delegation marched through the hall. Commander Quinn called the con- vention to order at 9:40 #, m., Rev. B. C. Clemens, of Owatonno, Minn, wational chaplalp, who « pronounce: Schmidt; “Cooney: and O'Neil, Gib- Petroleum Exposition in ‘Tulsa nex th. son, 4 month. “Let me congratulate you on the double victory. We are looking for- ward to seeing you in Tulsa and to entertaining you while you are our guest. We hope we may even hear you perform on the piano, as the ‘Tribune has spoken of your talents. “Sincerely, “H. F. NEWBLOCK, ‘Mayor of Tulsa. AEEERED SPA WASHINGTON, Spt. 15.—Chick Evans, former national open and amateur golf champion, volutteered during a visit today with President Coolidge to teach the chief execu- tivé the rudiments of golf. He re- ceived a promise that if Mr. Coolidge did ‘take up the game he would call on Evans to teach him. 1 pumping station in the Salt Creek field” proved a 26, and Perry Gregson, 22, who descendéd into the on and died of asphyxiation and drowning in oil. Dis- made unitl late yesterday afternoon. as assigned to the stopped the pump and had changea from shoes to boots, . Because of Sunday being a day off no alarm was felt for the missing men until rather late in the after- noon when the search started: It ended at the tank. The specially trained rescue crew from the gas station, equipped with gas masks found the two bodies lying on the the intake pipe became clogged and Hogenson climbed down into the sreat steel barrel to Yix it, despite orders. . In all probability Gregson came along later, perhaps to pick up Hog- enson on the way to supper.. Seeing no one there and finding a pair of shoes alongside the tank, it is not unlikely that Gregson crawled to thé auxiliary and the 40 and 8, ‘sev- eral reports of committees and brief addresses by representatives of the G. A. R. ana United Confederate Veterans. Throughout the night and early today additional legionnaires stream ed into St. Paul and Minneapolis, the convention heads estimated nearly 40,000 were in the two cities before the first session was called to order. President Coolidge in a letter to e invocation, included a prayer that “the hearts oftho — pacifists might be made as soft as their heads.”” ee SE aR SYRACUSE, N. ¥., Sept, 15— Phil “Red? Shafer won the 150 mile national speedway automobile cham- pionship race here this afternoon. Jimmy Murphy, one of the leading drivers was probably fatally injured when his automobile plunged through the fence on the 138th mile ‘CONSTITUTIONAL WEEK GIVEN PROMINENCE AT LUNCHEON OF CASPER ROTARY CLUB TODAY Observance of "Constitutional Week" formed a part of the pro- gram before the weekly luncheon of the Casper Rotar; clu today. The Rev. Phillip K. Eqgwards, At- torney W. O, Wilson and A. E. Stirrett were the spes each delivered strong addresses on the subject. L. A. Reed proposed that the club hold one of its luncheons at ‘the H. H. Wrightsman suggested plan whereby a a guard rail on the Casper mountain road could be pro- vided at small expense. He stated that in the Salt Creek field there 1s great quantity of abandoned wire ble‘that could be otitained without cost. By installing posts along the mountain road this cable could be used to make the road more safe the manhole and getting no response bottom of the tank in about 15 in- country club in the near future. for travel. ditional Wells. Estimated to be producing between 2,500 and 3,000 ° barrels of 384 gravity oil daily from the Lakota sand in Salt Creek, the Midwest Refining company has brought in {ts deep test on a lease of the Salt Creek Producers, section 23-40-79. Depth of the strike is’ said to be approximately 3,100 feet. (Continued on Page Seven) PEASHING WILL Bk UNABLE 10 loll DOUGLAS Famous War General Asked to Be Present at Veterans’ Day Declines Word that Gen. John J. Pershing wiil be unable to attend War Veterans’ Gay ati the state fair Wednesday, was received this morning by Gen. Burke H. Sinclair in a letter from Senator John B. Ken- drick. Accompanying the senator's letter was a copy of the communica- tion from General Pershing, which follows: “My Dear Senator Kendrick: “Your ; cordial letter of Septem- ber 4, transmitting an invitation for me to attend War Veterans’ day at the Wypming State fair in Douglas on September 17, is much app! ciated. It would give me a great deal of pleasure to be present were it at all possible, but I am sorry that I am already committed to « tain plans following my. retirement on the 18th, which will fully occupy my time for several months to cor “Please accept for yourself my thanks for tho Interest you have taken in this matter, and be good enough te cy the other ties interested, my appreciation i my real regret that I can not ticipate on this occasion “With assurances of my high re- gard, believe me, “Cordially yours, “JOHN J. PERSHI haye @ look at them. As the filers passed the speedway Continued on Page Seven. sumed that as the ofl reached a low level in the tank, consequently thickening up with bottom tlings, MORE MYSTERY CROPS CUT IN FINDING OF BOY SLAIN IN IDAHO VILLAGE Pueblo Youth, Found With Bullet In Head In Waters of the Snake River, Had Been Secretly Married Recently— His Wife Has Disappeared Since Tragedy wall. PUEBLO, Colo., Sept. 13:—A new mystery has been injected into the already mys- terious disappearance and subsequent finding of the body of Ekhart C. Shafer, Pueblo youth, in the waters of the Snake river at American Falls, Idaho, it was announced to- day by police authorities here. A body, believed to be that of Shafer, was found Sat- urday lying in the Snake river, with a bullet hole in the head. A few days before a small automobile, bearing a Colorado license issued to Shafer, was found abandoned about a mile north of American) Since that time, according to the | now inclined to belleve that the wo- Falis, girl's parents, no trace "has _been| man was his secret bride of a few Police today announced that they | found of her. days. had obtained information that Sha-| Information received from Amer-| Harrington Shafer, father. of the fer on or about August 24, last, was|ican Falls by the youth's parents} missing youth, {a preparing today to secretly married to Miss Olga’ Land,| and also by police declared that the] leaye for American Falls to identify daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Land | last seen of Shafer alive he was ac-| the body of the man found as that of 1226 Claremont street, this city! companied by @ woman, Police are! of his son, 4 3 to his calls, went down into the gas filled hole to find his friend. Strengthening these suppositions is the fact that .“Hogenson had ches of ail. It was 5 o'clock when the corpses were removed. At the coroner's inquest, held soon (Continued on Page Seven) WORLD'S GREATEST OIL FIELD The future of Casper ts safe. All need for worry upon this point is passed. The great Salt Creek oil field, estimated to con- tinue to produce at somewhere near its present flow for fifty years, has been given a new lease of life up to a hundred years. It comes in the nature of a surprise to many, but not to the informed. Pes- simists who have. of late feared the decline of production of the Salt Creek field and the shortening of its estimated life of fifty years are nonplussed.. But those who had faith and knowledge, like the Stan- SCOUTS WILL HOLD HUCE RABBIT DRIVE SATURDAY NORTH OF CITY LIMITS 450 Boys Will Be Thrown In Circle of Five Mile Diameter to dard Oil company, who went ahead-with extensions and improvements and spent money by the millions, are vindicated in their judgment. The reporting of a twenty-five hundred barrel well at Station 84, Section 23-40-79 in the Salt Creek field in the fifth or Lakota sand, means the mh doa of the present capacity of the. field. It means that it is the simple matter of Srila the present wells to the lower sand which shows in this newest well to be as productive of oil as the upper sands have proven. is well simply proves another Salt Creek field fully and com- pletely as extensive as the existing one and equally as productive. ‘There is a new feeling of assurance among Casper people today. The future has no misgivings for them. . Their property and their invest- ments are secure, even unto their children’s children. Nothing occurring in the past in the way. of discovery or develop- ment has brought more real cheer than the reporting 6f this well. Nothing could have put more heart into the people who had their all ventured, and who had begun to grow discouraged because the former boom days had settled down to everyday business. Casper and Salt Creek will now go forward to. larger prosperity than ever in their history. The necessary millions to double the production of the field ate ready. The necessary millions to enlarge refining capacity are at command. Drive Animals Toward Corral In Center--Farmers In That Vicinity Have Been Losing Their Crops The Casper Boy Scouts are again called upon to render service to this community. This time it is a rather new type of service and one that will require the co-operation of every boy scout in Casper and probably many of their friends. A delegation of dry farmers and people who raise truck and foodstuffs for the citizens of Casper has peti- tioned the Boy Scouts to help them get rid of the plague of rabbits that have been de stroying the crops of these people along the Salt Creek highy Commissioners Taylor and G will be on hand rea for the i rich recetved the petition of the] An invitation wift also be r t farmers and acted upan it scout officials for the*particip Preliminary plans have been made j ton of all boys of the high school for a great drive to be staged next|and the grade schools who are past Saturday and cars a now being] 11 years of age d for to take the boys to the| No guns are to be brought, This Scout Commissioner Frank|has been made a strict ruling and ylor will be in charge of the|no one armed with a gun will be ay ork for tl the about fiv and then the scouts and their frie will form on the circle about feet apart,.the circle will then start to the center on foot and each par ticipant will be armed with a club. In the center of the five mile circle vered t 2 circle at once. | the mils in diam The world’s greatest oil field, has‘run true to form, It, will be the world’s greatest oil field for a hundred: years. Pals drive and it is expected that the full| permitted to participate in the drive, will be a circular corral with a V force of 450 Boy Scouts of Casper! either man or boy. The plan of the (Continued on Page Nine.) t