Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1924, Page 1

a OREI STUDENTS TURN OUT TO BATTLE INDIANA BLAZE Damage Piles U p as Forest and Prairie Fires Spread in Many Sections; Long Drought Is Unbroken INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,"Nov. 8.— (By United Press. )— Hundreds of. coNege and ‘high school students in Indiana today aided farmers in fighting forest ‘and prairie’ fires which have laid waste hundreds of acres of valuable tim- ber lands in a dozen counties curing the past three days. Damage from the fires will total $100,000-to $200,000, according to estimate received here.| extinguishing the flames ‘which Responsibility for the fires was|Metiaced among others the home of laid in practically all cases to care-| Charles E. Mitchell, president of the lexs of hunters with lghted cigar-| National City bank. ettes In dry hills of leaves. ‘The woodlands were dry following « drought of more than a month and the flames spread rapidly through the dry leaves and under- brush. ‘The state prison farm near Mich- fires for two days despite the efforts of t>» Michigan City fire department and «hundred. volunteers, aided by triatees from the prison, to stop the flares. Warm «houses and, barns were saved. by plowing furrows around the areas of ‘burning trees and} | trol, forest ¥ . board states’ Can border ani Maryland and west i fur as Kentucky. Two companies of . Massachusetts: militia were ordered out by Goy- ernor’ Cox to fight a fast spreading fire “Im the Hoosaic mountaini atening North Adams. = Hundreds of fres were raging in the qmountainous regions of New York and’ New Jersey. Marines and soldiers “were attacking the flamer around ‘the naval arsenal on Iona isiand and at West, Point. At least 10,000 citizens of threatened towns and villages of this state aided fire rangers in combattitig the fires. Kentucky, West Virginia and other states reported the worst fire conditions. in years. In Pennsyl- vania, mile-wide ‘sheets of flame were crackling their unchecked way, with forty. fresh fires reported’ by the state department of forests- and waters. tat The drought in New York veached thirty-one days, sufpassing by seven days a record that pre- viously stood for 62 years. At Newburgh, N. Y., conditions were said by authorities to be “most menacing.” ‘Two fires were roaring over the thickly wooded slopes of Storm King mountain, one of them eating brush and timber high #p on the mountain and the other en- dangering the homes of A. G. Pach- enstecher, multimillionaire paper manvfacturer, and Dr..E. G. Still- man. Boys from the Storm King Sy200l worked all afternogn to the institution and by 10 o‘elock to- night apparently had stayed the pata of the blaze. teristically clamped on the censor- The .exclusive Tuxedo Park com-| ship and an offictal communique ex- munity, twiee called out today to] plained -that “except for an outbreak combat fires, had succeeded in in the Piazza Popolo, during which Senator Lodge Losing Ground Condition Last Night Less Favorable After Lying Unconscious for 80 Hours Following Stroke Would Take + duel with General Varini, ling .before he rose to power. General Garibaldi aroused the ani. mosity of General Varini by issuing a manifesto protesting against an elleged attack by Fascisti militia against unarmed ex-soldiers last Tuesday. _ “For what has taken place we con- sider directly responsiblé the head of the government,” Garibaldi wrote. The Fascist! government charac- supreme vd CAMBRIDGE, .Mass., Nov, 8.— (United Press.)\—An unusual com- motion occurred in the room in Charles Gates hospital where Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is a patient, at 1:26 o'clock this morning. Hospital physicians wduld out no word concerning the 2 ator, but it was « at his fumily was summoned At midnight the following. bulletin Has lost. ground during the last 24 hours.” The senator’s family was still at his bedside at that hour with Drs. Cunningham and Wilson, indications were the end was expected during sive} the night. condi aid AMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 8. (United Press).—Senator. Henry Ca- bot Lodge suffered a sinking spell Saturday afternoon and hia condi (Continued. on Page Nine) Lue ouilook remains untayorabie i N POLICY SOLUTION President Cool ‘ge Will-Strive for Com- mon Ground on Which All ‘Republi- can Solons Can Meet, Claim By LUDWELL DENNY (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Noy. 8.—One of the chief problems of the next administration, upon which President Coolidge has started to work, is to arrange a reconciliation of divergent views within the Republican party on foreign affairs to in- sure smooth sailing of administration measures through the senate. The problem was intensified by] is said, will ask Borah and the next the prospect that Senator William B.| secretary of state to get together on MAIN NEWS SECTION OFFIC Seana, a eo Pin! me. 10 BE SOUGHT PROSPERITY LOOMS FOR STATE’S WOOLGROWERS AS RESULT OF ELECTION Confidence Based on Return to White House of President Coolidge Means Big Future; Contracts of 1925 Clip Piling Up in Central Wyoming “For the next four or five years sheepmen wineretiy! will enjoy a brand of prosperity they have never known before, not even during war times,” declared William E. Wimer, Borah who has often opposed ad- ministration measures in the past, will be chairman of the senate for- elgn relations committee. White House advices from the bedside of Senator Lodge, indicate that if he wins his battle with death he will be permanently incapacitated unable to continue his public du Although Borah is the j member of both~the forel tions and judiciary com) lowing the death of Se: dage, it is understood cided to choose the chal: the former if a choice is offered. Borah is opposec to the present anti-Russian policy of the state de- partment, and critical of the depart. caus tn Latin-American and Carrib- Borah's views on Rusia, were a campaign issue this week./in Idaho where ‘the senator polled a vote 50 per cent larger than Coolidge. It is ere ots Borah considers this 2 continue as a forelgn including “Russian recogn}- a Russlan.policy which can be car- ried through to the senate. George Harvey, who resigned as ambassador to Great Britain to be- come a Coolidge _manager-advisor and who is considered a likely cun- didate to succeed Hughes at— the and} state department, is said to repre- int-a middle ground as between nd Hughes’ tendencies in Jr., buyer for Charles J. Web! for The Tribune. “Already the door is opened on this golden period of profit for flockmasters and I feel confident that it will be ofa kind and degree unequalled in the past. cept the war days, for though high prices were paid then for sheep and wool, the prices charged for labor and for varlous needed commodl- tes were also high. “Cause for, this turn in -events Street By ser Commneiaini. lon in’ Soy t today Gatket sevens peace INI | FACING General Garibaldi, Grandson of Patriot, Refuses to Fight Militia Chief but on Premier y THOMAS B. MORGAN, ed Press Staff Correspondent) noe . 8.—General Peppino Garibaldi, a grand- son of. ‘amous Italian patriot, today declined to militia commander, but indicated he would fight Mussolini if the latter desired: All Italy awaits the outcome ofthe affair with anxious suspense, for Mussolini used to have a predilection of duel- ta 11 persons were injured, the cele- bration of the sixth anniversary of the Italian armistice last Tuesday passed off in orderly fashion. Mus- solini’s censors did not permit Gart- baldi’s protest to be cabled abroad. General Varini, who commands the militia in the tenth zone, took Gartbaldi’s “manifesto as a per sonal affront and sent Generals Nobks, Guglielmo, Motti and Pizzari to call upon Deputy Benclevenga and 8. Clamarra, who reported the offender. The latter’s seconds re- Plied that the letter was a political manifestation concerning the chief of the government.and moreover ap- Pied to the entire militia, hence a challenge could not be entertained. Varini seconds insisted he had a right to challenge but Garibaldi sec- onds confirmed the refusal of their principal to meet the militia general. he Giornale d’ Italia say i other words, Garibaldi's sec- onds will accept a duel with Mus. solini, not with Varint. Italy is anxious te see if the dig- nity will be resented. The prowess and fighting qualities of the Garibaldi’s always has. been Italy's pride. Leave Smokes At Home When Visiting Mecca| BOX, LONDON, Nov. ‘Wast bis tribesmen who recently occupied Mecca, Holy City of Islama, after expelling the aged king of the Hed- jaz, have forbidden smoking within the confines of the walls of the sa- eréd domain, according to telegram afency dispatci from Cairo tonight, CHALLE NGE TO:DUEL Alien Property Custodian Will Retain Position WASHINGTON, Nav. 8. (United ent Coolidge has in- duced Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien Property custodian, to remain ‘in of- fice until after March 4th, despite his desire to resign and take up his duties as-president of the Fidac,-an inter-allied veterans’ | organization, it was learned here tonight, Miller was elected to the veterans post last summer and offered his resignation to the- president, who asked him to withhold it until after the elections, By agreement between the prest- dent and himself, Miller will remain at his post until after Mr. Coolidge’s inauguration. Miller will sail for Paris December 3, and return to this country about the middle of January,’ Following the “inauguration ‘he is expected to again go to Europe, No Forum Meeting Here This Week Because of the holiday Tuesday there will be ‘no meeting of the Chamber of Commerce forum. The next forum meeting will be held Tuesday, November 45, Severan ying: orders from all parts of ‘ket—brokers handled close upon a million ‘and a half|’ morning.” ‘ two hours’ trading this That ‘the. boom is: in’ investments as well was -evidénced by, the fact that more than. $13,000,000: worth of bonds were bought. ‘The market fairly boiled,-as they say in ‘the street, and rails and lead- ing industrials ‘showed gains of from one to three points. Individual sales of 8,000 shares’ were not uncommon, ‘and the ticker ran half,an hour:over time recording the doings: of the busiest, market In five years, Half an hour after the market opened at 10 a. m., 25 railroad stocks were in. new high ground. for -the year. Leading industrials were not far behind, ~ United - States Steel went. to 112% up 4%. Stock market. officials declared the public is. entering into the trad- ing more than in many years. Pos- \sibilities in rail stocks, with danger of anti-Railroad exchange apparent: ly removed by the Republican ma: jority, seemed to have enough, of the public imagination, ‘There wero some scenes on Wall street today in the feverish flurry of buying that recalled the wild in- flationary era of 19 920. Addt- tional clerks were rushed into serv- ice by stock exchange houses, while bond brokers were hard put to han. dle the volume of business. Near- ly $25,000,000 in bonds were bought yesterday and more than half that number in two hours today. pate ahabettb art tan AUTO STOLEN FIOM STREET ‘Theft of his car which was parked in the business district, was .re- ported to the police yesterday after- noon by H. D. Wilson who lives at 519 North Park street. WEATHER WYOMING—Mostly cloudy Sun- day and Monday, probably rain or snow Monday and in northwest por- tion Sunday; colder Sunday in, north. ce Tax Proposal Dead “CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. Tribune.)—The severance 8-—(Special to The tax proposal as embodied in a constitutional amendment submitted to Wyoming voters at the recent electi from 467 of the state’s 690 nite figures are unavailable. on was defeated, returns precincts indicated. Defi- Adoption of the amendment providing for the ap- plication of a portion of th permanent school funds to current needs is indicated by the same vote. b Sons company of Philadelphia, in a statement yesterday T do not ex- idge would be elected and we were paying good prices, Now assured of sensible government fer at — led four years under the administratior Coolidge, flockmasters will see profit in raising sheep hitting the high places within the coming period. “It would seem to me that instead of reducing flocks, owners. should ure every. reasonable means to in crease their herds so that advan- tage may be taken of the years of plenty, The range this. winter ap- pears to be above average and sheep are entering the season in excelient condition. My belief is that Wyo- ming will have a record breaking wool clip next spring.” According to Mr. Wimer, practi- cally 65 per cent of this state's next year’s wool has been already con: for sheepmen lies in the election of Calvin Coolidge as president of. the United States, When we buyers started contracting at an unpre- cedented time, signing up the 1 clip, we were gambling that © ent Boom I[n Soars T VIOLATOR FRAME UP SEEN BY SOME HERE IN ARREST ON U. 5. WARRANT Journey Into Nebraska With Two Incorrigible Gils Is Basis of Formal Complaint. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 8—(Special to The Tribune) —Reyv. B. J. Minort, Wyo- ming state commissioner of child and animal protection, who was arrested this after- noon on a federal fugitive warrant based on Nebraska federal court warrant charging -violation of «the Mann 4ct, waived a plea when ar- raigned before United States Com- missioner D. W. Gill and was hela In $3,000 ball for the Nébraska federal court. At a late hour he had unable to arrange bail. The Nebraska information against Minort charges that he transported Rose’ and: Mary O'Hearn from Cas- per, Wyo., to Mitchell and Scotts- bluff, Neb., on or about October: 24 of this year, for immoral: purposes. The two girls, both alleged delin- quents, were turned over to Minort by local authorities at Casper to be brought to Cheyepne, it is charged. Minort, -however ‘took ‘the ‘girls to Nebraska and later turned. then: racted, Prices have ranged, trom. 40 to 421g cents. Since tho recent lection and the return of Coolidge to thé presidency. the disposition of growers who have not signed up their 1925 clip, is to hold ‘for higher prices. That the remaining 35 per cent (Continued on Page Ivine) °, TONG KILLER SLAYS ENEMY Hatchet Minden Uncovered in New York on Advice from Akron That Body, Would Be Found in Tenement peculative boom: continued E t next week will see three ie United States — — showing NEW YORK; Nov, &—(By United Press.)——-New York members of the ‘Hip Sing Tong‘received word from Akron, Ohio, today that they would find one of their members dead | in a Chinatown tenement. They notified the police, and when the door to a blood-spattered disordered room was broken in, a dead Hig Sing, his face cleft. with a hatchet blow, was found. The murder occurred October » though the police and local Hip} ata loss to say ho the ion “was: available, ‘This on the eve of.a truce be tween the On Leongs and the Hip Sings which will terminate next week. The slain man was identified Smallpox, that dread disease, “has broken out in Casper. Today there are 13 cases under the watchful-eye of the county health department which {s trying to stamp out the epidemic and pre- vent it from spreading. lhe wishe Toone, the information charges. The are now In the custady ofthe police at. Scottsbluff, according to Information here. Minort was formerly 2 at Torrington, Wyo.. A few monttis ago, he was appointed ‘state com- missioner of child and animal pro- tection to succeed’ W. G. Harris, who died. OFFICER DEFENDED BY CASPER FRIENDS. Five or six months ago the tro girls, Mary, 19, and Rose, 22, wére brought here from the Good Shep- herd's home in Denver by an uncle, D. C. Cornell; proprietor of the. Mon- tana rooms. He was to take care of them and see to it that they: kept out of trouble.» But under. his guardianship they were entirely un- tble, it is sald,-and were fin- ported to city authorities, af: ontinued. indiscretions and dls- ly conduct. They were held for clinic and thelr case taken -up with the state humane ‘officer, Rev. Minort, who came to this city in or- der to return them to the ome for delinquent girls in Denver. ner uncle, thoroughly disgusted it seems, gave $25 toward paying thelr ral. road fare, Instead of betng.taken back to the Denver institution they’ were» per- mitted to go to Mitchell, Néb., on thelr plea of Rev. Minort that they could get work there and would be all right. It ts alleged he accom- fed them to their destination, long afterward the sheriff at ttsbluft called the uncle in Cas- r by phone and asked him what done with the two girts who were again In the hands of the law, ‘This was evidently the. first time the relative here had-been tn- formed that the two unruly girls had not been returned to Denver, for he at once phoned Minort and yJasked for an explanation That the state officer was only at- tending to his duty in going with the girls to Mitchell, if he really did accompany them that far, is the bée- lief of several men connected with the state department who were in (Continued on Page Nine» as Low Tal. He makes the fit member of his tong to die sin fued started. « He’ } trained hatchet men wound told that plant detectives who ha their vigil in Chinatown since that the declaration of a truce began a eh for a possible rendezvous of the imported murderers, : Origin of the contagion 1s believed to be.in the north part of the city, for all of the cases have been re- ported from that district One of those now quarantined js Miss Lona Williams, teacher in the Roosevelt school. Several children in one of her classes contracted small pox and from them she caught the disease, All teachers in North Casper school have been yaccinated by the health authorities who are asking that every ution be taken throughe:t thé city to ward off the eptde: Vaccination is recom- mended ak the only sure preventa tive. To Be ——— CONDITION OF INJURED MAN HERE UNCHANGED | “About the same,” was the report late last might from the ¢ Pri vate. hospital..on the of Ole Swanson whose bac in tho speeder ¢ nt near ton Thursday evening. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Noy. ed Press),—Construction. of plane hangar-to replace burned Friday nigh | neces 8. (Unit- | an air-| the one] thi rans- | enn | portec spe onditic i was b River-! shelter going through edule in apit silanes in the fire matt | planes, on} al ven | built | were being Plane Hangar Rebuilt Skyway Mail Service Not to Suffer by Destruction at Cheyenne of Big Hangar and Seven Planes Investigation showed the gasoline tanks on each of the seven planes fire soline in burned exploded when the reaced them, spraying ga and hastening the de. ork of the fire. Each ntained 104 gallons of gaso- joss Caused by the fire an $150,000, it ts a. “io insurance. being car/ied the government. ull direction structive plane ¢ Ine