Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 30, 1924, Page 1

l OPEN TUESDAY AT ELKS HALL Entire City to- Join Annual Fete for Producers. Oil men coming to Casper Tuesday and Wednesday of this week for the annual con- vention of the Rocky Moun- tain .Oil and Gas Producers association will probably number more than 200, according to advance information received of in- tentions to be present. That Casper will be en fete for the occasion which greatly strengthens its position as the ofl capital of the Rocky Mountain region, is a cer- tainty. Merchants have volunteer- ed their help in making the business district of the city as attractive as possible. The convention will conduct. {ts sessions at the Elks building, start- ing the initial program at 10 o’clock ‘Tuesday morning. ‘Jnvitations to attend the meetings includes ell Cas- per people who are asked by former Gi +B. B. Brooks, president of the ciation, to assist in making the: rention a success. In. preparation for this gathering of oll men from Montana, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, besides all sections of Wyoming, several com- ittees have been actively at work. In direct charge of arrangements is Midwest itig company. His entertal it committee is com- posed of Jack Leary, chairman; Don Lobdell, Tracy Shaw. C. A. Cullen, W, L. Ronaldson, Cleveland Storrs, prea Sn cegsind and Mrs. J. B. Barnt ; ‘ As tentatively planned, first on tke program of entertatnment comes the banquet at the Elks on Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock.’ This event is to be followed by a dance for which Rawhauser’s Dance Artists will furnish the music. Others feat- ures include selections by Marguerite Fitzgerald, pianist; Miss Genevieve Fitzgerald, harpist; Mrs. Margaret Kurtz, violinist; Mrs. Made'yn Treb- er, soprano vocalist; Mrs. Don Lob- dell, soprano vocalist; J. A. Leary, baritone vocalist. 4 Expectations are that more than 250 people. will attend the banquet Tuesday evening. As toastmaster, Governor Brooks will make the event one-of lively and witty repar- It ts hoped that to provide for a number (Continued on Page Twelve) ———— Italian Station Caught by Radio Fan, Wheatland ~WHEATIAND, Wyo,, Not. 29. —In feeling; out the air one eve- ning last week during the “silent hour” whyn> all stations on the North <Araerican continent were tilled, F. T. Dearinger picked up » broadcaster in Italy. Announce- ments ‘rere made in Itallan, the one word “Italla” being all that cams home to him with any mean- iny. For half an hour afterward “ke listened to a musical program that chime in distinctly from the “European station. VALIDITY OF GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION T0 BE CHALLENGED _ IF NEW LAWS STIR UP FIGHT By ARNOLD B. LARSON: “On a slender thread strained to the breaking point a sword of Damocles will hang suspended above her and the ink in her pen will be as water.” This foreboding prophecy is being heard throughout the state and it concerns Nellie Tayloe Ross, will become governor of Wyoming. That the next legislature will be impotent to place on the statute books any acts against which inimical sentiment is pronounced, is a further prediction and’ its fulfill- ment fits in with the declaration that “the ink in her pen will be as water.” This dismal outlook for the com- ing session ofthe legislature is based on the contention that no pro- posed law, if opposed with deter- mination, even by a meager minor- ity, will become a law in fact. Behind all this blackness of legal lights are shining that s to point out that “the nomination of Mrs. Ross was not in accordance with the provisions of tho statutes written for such an emergency as that which arose out of the death of Governor William B. Ross. Nor is’ this slip-up in naming gubernatorial candidates prior to the resent election a case that has bear- ing only on Governor-elect Ross, the widow of a governor, it is said. Had the election had a different result the standing of the new governor, woman or man, standard bearer of either political party, would -be equally precarious. It merely /hap- peng that Mrs. Ross is Wyoming's next chief executive. Only a fam oe had passed after the of liam Bradford Ross took down its. com: fronted’ with’ the unprecedent prob- Jem of providing itself with a governor on short notice. = ‘There was no doubt that the suc- cessor-to the office must be elected for under the ‘heading of “Executive Department,” ‘paragraph 97, chapter 12, the law states that shou!d the governor be removed by death cr other causes 20 days or more before a general election, then the person succeeding him must be alected at the general election to, fill the un- expired term. : In what manner were candidates for the governorship. to be nomi- nated? That was the question that bedeviled the situation. An out- who in January standing part of the proviso men- tioned above says plainly, “And such election, together with the returns and canvass thereof, shall be con- ducted in all respects as though it were an original election for governor.” The manner of making nomina- tions of candidates for county and state elective offices in Wyoming is by primary nominating elections. There is no question about that. There cannot be an election with- out candidates and there cannot be candidates without nomination— therefore, there is first the primary, an integral part of the election. “An original election for governor” would naturally call for nominations of candidates by the primary sys- tem. It is simply a case of suppos- ing the process to be an ordinary one coming on schedule. When Governor W. B, Ross was elected he submitted to the workings of “an original election.” He was nominated in the primaries. In the opinion of many lawyers, the meaning of “in all respects as though it was an original election for Crag ib " emphasizes “In all respect = ‘That the time remaining before | Lieut. Lowell Smith (right) and his mechaniclan, Sergt: Tarmer, at Clover ENTION fe ‘ : JUST BEFORE THE HOP-OFF the election on November».4 swas|Field, Cal., just before the start of the world: flight on: March 17, 1924, BRITISH ARMY CRUSHED MUTINY * (Pacific and Atlantic Photo.)- Thrilling Adventures Of the World Fters | Introductions End, Now Begins Real Flight Story By LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright 1924, By The Chicago Tribune and» McClure Newspaper Syndicate) | % Just whe originated the idea of American airmen setting forth on the most hazardous adventure of mod- ern times, has not been dis- closed. But General Pat- rick, chief of the air service ; Gen. William Mitchell, his chief of staff, and Lieuts. Erik Nelson and R. J..Brown were among the first to become enthusiastic about it and to ‘translate their enthusiasm into action. Of course, it had long been ‘the ambition. of aviators of all lands to be thé first to circumnavigate the world by air. This had been espe cially so ever since the*wor'd war because of the sensational advances made.in aviation during that period As a matter of fact, British, French, Italian and Portuguese airmen had already either crashed in trying to fly around the world, or were ac tually engaged in the attempt at the moment ‘when + Amefica ‘announced her intention \of entering the race. Yankees Take All Precautions. «But there -was a-vast difference be- tween the way. America.andéall-oth- (Continued on’ Page Bight) FIRST STORY OF REVOLT TOLD CAIRO, Nov. 29.—(Copyright, 1924, by United Pr ss.) —The crash ‘of British’ shells demolishing a hospital com- pound: on the bank of the slow-moving Blue Nile where a few scores mutinous Sudanese had taken refuge under cover of night:awoke Khartum Frida; y. For a few hours shells screamed overhead, bursting with devastating effect, and great clouds of smoke and mortar dust in the compound, or falling harmlessly into the river beyond. The British were smashing a mutiny, effectively and methodically. Middleton Is Given Limit For Gambling Jail Sentences Aggregating 120 Days Meted Out in Police Court: to Alleged Violators Here J. W. “Wes” Middleton drew the maximum sentence of sixty days in jail on two separate counts, operation of'a gambling house and violation of the drug ordinance, in police court yesterday afternoon. appeal to the district court and deposited $2,000 appeal bond. E Sentences totaling nearly pending against Middleton. He was convicted on a similar charge in the district court March 27 last, and MAN SOUGHT IN FEE’ CASE Search Made for Criminal With Grudge Against California Banker; Young Woman Exonerated of Blame AN BERNARDINO, Cal., —{United | Press.) — Search for dgar B. Glauque, at one time charged with the attempted robbery of a Los Angeles bank, was started today by officers investigating the mystery death of William R. Fee, wealthy banker, Glauque, according to District At- B. Johnson, had a against Fee which gre put his capture aft&r Iee had thwart his attempts to lodt the Los les bank. The man has been in this vicinity and will be Noy. ’ George n questioned regarding his movements during the first three days of last week, it was stated. . Miss Mary Watkins, young Alham- bra business woman, has been prac- tically exonerated, it wan stated by officers. Her “platonic love’, affair with the banker and the fact that Fee's body was found near* h mountain cabin in Lytle Creek canyon, had resulted in several ses- sions of close questioning by Sheriff Shay, but officers have gnnounced themselves oe satisfied that she can shed no further light on the mystery. He promptly took an two years in jail are now was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,500 and to serve 18 months in the.county Jail, on the strength of evidence gathered in a previous raid on his Place, 254 North Center street, De- cember 1, 1923. His appeal ta the state supreme court from this con- viction is now pending. Middleton was arrested along with 21. others. Thanksgiving eve when police battered their way through a four-inch barracade at the Center street resort and found a full gamb- Ung layout going full blast. In levying the maximum sentence per- mitted by the city ordinances, Police Magistrate John A. Murray took into account Middleton's: unsavory record and cited the number of pre- vious instances in which he had evaded arrest through the refusal of underlings to implicate him’ as owner or operator of the joint. ‘The two sixty-day sentences will run concurrently for a total period, of virtually four months. Fines of $100 each were assessed against Frank Maher, $21 Bast 12th street; George Mackordes, Evanston, and P, F. Farrell, 311 North Lin- coln street, all convicted of operating gambling games, Maher also signi- fied his dmtention of appealing and deposited a $500 bond. Maher was linked with the actual operation of the resort through the Former U.'S. Diplomat Now With Rumania WASHINGTON, Nov. 29,—What is believed. to be the fir'st case’ American diplomat becoming the rep: resentative of for government in this country was disclosed today by the state departmen' uncement that Sir Nelson Morris, 8. Minister -to. Sweden, Rumanian consul general cago. former U. has! become at Chi nto SE ES WEATHER REPOR'’ Wyoming—Fair Sunday and Mon day: not much change in tempera ture. an | Chinese’ Gordon, there 40 years before by the Mahdi's dervishes, und of Lord Kitchener of Khartum, who avenged Gordon two ater at Omdurman, Peril had arisen ursday evening or grumbiings among some dissatisfied platoons of blacks had give rning of trouble, about 200 Sudar troops mutinied and left thelr barracks. The cause of their (Continued on Page Twelve) Se years a new after a day's “Fuzzy Wuzzy’ ||: Lore - Recalled || By Bloodshed British troops have seen action again in the land of the fanatical uzzy Wuzzies” of whom Rud- yard Kiplin of years ago wrote. “So ‘ere to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy, In your home in the Sudan. “You're a poor benighted ‘eathen. But a first-class fightin’ man; So ere to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy With your ‘ayrick ‘ead of ’alr, You, big, black, boundin’ beggar, For you broke a British square.” ‘GO TO THEATER WEEK’ TO ~ PROVIDE TREAT FOR PUBLIC Now, Casper, all. together for one of the biggest, brightest, happiest weeks this town has known In yea Beginning Monday, December 8— One week from tomorrow—Casper will have a “Go to Theater Week in which everybody is urged to join. It will not only apply to the attrac. tions at the local playhouses, but to every merchant as well, It will be a general turn-out week—a sort of winter carnival time. During, that week all of, the Cas- per theaters will have special at- tractions. They will decorate thelr playhouses, put7on special musical programs, and muke ever gala event. Specal lght! will make the streets In th of the theaters bri cat t a testimony of one of the rafding of- ficers that as the prisoners were (Coftinued on Page Twelve) tiv pote thelr illumination + corners. M will be encour: [town and swell the merry-making | throngs. Svery merchant in the city will | be urged to make particularly attrac- \tive window displays. Cash prizes, | totalling $25, will be given for the | best window display during “Go To | Theater, Week"'—es well as tickets to all the theaters. | Arrangements ate already being |made with the leading men's and | women's furnishing stores for the appearance. of Hying models, wear- | Ing"the, niftiest gowns and suits, in the store windows. Spectal “dreswun nights” for the crowds on the streets will be staged land awards of paswes to all the the: « will be giv t the co’ In the ancient city, replete with the history of who was killed Northwestern and were granted engineers and éng of contempt charges against rep- resentatives of the émployes who re- fused to appear before the board to arbitrate. The carriers were granted moditi- cations" in certain ‘working condi- tions requirement to which the em- ployes objected. The modifications, though considered a victory for the Yfoads, contain requirements for a different method of figuring the pay of enginemen, which the em ployes contend will increase their pay.” Chairman Ben Hooper of the board saf@ the’ increases would pour millions of dollars into the pockets of the employes within one year in the event they elect to adopt the new working conditions and pay in- creases, a privilege granted them tn the decision. . Decision to award the employes’ wage requests and carrier working, gondition modification requests was reached in executive session late to day after the board hed balloted more than 100 times on the ques- tion. No dissenting opinion was ix- sued. It was explained by Chairman Hooper that the dispute was likely to tle up the roadé within a \ time unless disposed | Btrlke votes 6 taken or i (Continued on Page Twetye) Pay Increase For Rail Men neers.and Firemen to Share in W. age Raise Ordered by Board CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—(United Press.) —Wage increases approximating 5 per cent more than present rates of pay roads tonight by the United States Railroad Board. The pay boost affects more than 75,000 employes. the raise petitioned for last May that resulted in the bring- Negro Bride Thinks Hubby Is Prisoner NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Nov. 29.—Alice. Jones Rhinelander, whom Leonard Kip Rhinelander, is suing for annulment of their marriage “October 14, proclaimed today through her counsel belief that her husband is being held a prisoner tome place by his fam- ily. Announcing that young Mrs. Rhinelander “would fight the: an- nulment, Judge Samuel Swin: burne, her counsel, said she had recevied a note from her hus- band reading: ‘Honey Bunch—Old Scout. 1 hope you will win this case. Get the best lawyer. Leonard Rhine- lander.” . Young Rhinelander sued his wife on the ground that she fraudu- lently pretended to be white when they were married. Judge Swinburne belleved that the note was genuine. F ed the opinion that Mrs lander thought . that the family were keeping her husband in bid ing. VIOLATORS ARE BROUGHT HERE TO-SERVE TINE Four Federal Prisoners! Turned Over to Na- trona Shenff. Four violators of the federal pro- hibition laws, who. pleaded guilty be- fore the United States district court &itting in Cheyenne were brought to this city last night in the custody of Jack Allen, deputy United States mai Pto commences sebying terms of varying lengths in’:the ‘county’ Jail. €. EB, Parsons, who acknowledged his ‘guilt on three counts involving the manufacture, possesion and sale of Mquor, was sentenced to a 90-day term. Jack Pendleton, who pleaded guilty to a similar offense, will serve 45 days in jail. Ora O. Swain-and Charles McMurray were committed to jail.in default of pay- ment of their fines of $200 and $150 respectively. Deputy® Allen » also . brought Cortez.and Louis Charves. who in transit to Lander and they be held here awaiting the arr a ‘emont, county officer. Morris had no record of their cases EB. are will Burlington Engi- firemen of 45 western rail- It is LEGISLATION BE LIMITED, 1S BELIEF OF ALL PARTY. LEADERS Appropriation Bills May Be the Only Ones Passed at Session Opening Tomorrow. By PAUL R. MALLON (United Press Staff Corre- spondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, — Under hovering storm clouds forecasting a fighting session members of the re- turning” congress reassem-' bled in Washington tonight ‘or the formal opening of the short term on Monday. varied groups came forward with statements on their programs but the general tone of each gave indisputable evidence that Pt little beyond the apprepriation + important legislation will be shelved. The lines that held the same con- gress in the are only. mi tightly leaders feel, and ction instead of breaking tbe ked ions on import n ntuated their differ- Leaders of th approximately last session drawn deadle legislat ences. Both houses convene at noon Mon. day for routine organization and will adjourn immediately over Tues day in respect to the memories of Senators Lodge, Colt and Brandegee, who died during the recess. Formal business: will not be undertaken un Hl AVednesday,. wien” the Muscle Shoals question is to be taken up by the # Deme c le intact and wel ranks ‘Senator ders hela their lines med back into their Burton K. Wheeler, vice presidential candidate with Ben- ator LaFollette. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader indicated no punl- tive steps will be taken against him Such as were taker® against LaFol- lette, Ladd, Frazier and Brookhart by the Republican caucus which ousted the Insurgent quartette from their’ ranks. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, a power in the Democratic party id there was not the slight+ est intention of disciplining Wheeler. Confronting the returning mem- bers e vital problems of legisla. tion, including World Court, Muse’e Shoals, farm relief, railroad legisla- tion, Russian recognition and tax re- duction, Of these the general im- pre is that Muscle Shoals is one having a chance for tor Curtis, 1 Senator Robinson Democ leader a Nor ris, | the P. party, agree in thelr pre-session statement that the situations now appear to be against final aetion on any of the other measures. Tax reduction must go over until late in 1925, Senator Smoot, finance feader of the Republicans, announe- ed. He intimated that an extra ges- sion by President Coolid et to go into this problem Nothing treasury of the raid Simultane he had dropped per cent re®& Republican leader returning atic 1 Senator ader of ive in Septem can be done until the lance scare in at the end next June, Smoot an friends agree. announced that s plan for a flat ction this year, be done about the seems impossible will be adopted. Rankin, Demo ign re‘ations Twelve) Swan r of the nued on Page 25 YEARS IN PEN FOR FAHY Postal Inspector and Politician Con- victed of Mail Holdup Sentenced to Prison in Federal Court CHICAGO, Nov. 29. (United Press). —Unless their appeal on writ of er. ror {s upheld by the United §' Court of Appeals, William J formerly Fahy, ot and James W. politician must 25 years each for 000,000 matt is June “Crack” postal inspector the Chicago area, Murray, a Chicago serve sentences of complicity in the robbery at Roundout on Mu T jury whic! returnec Verdict last Tuesday. Walter Mo- Comb, their co-defendant, was found Not guilty. Immediately af: for} senten was passed attorney ahy and Mur ray filed an appeal, claiming they could show 177 cases of error in the arrest, trial and sentencing of their clients. The arguments will he heard Monday m which s:x n who cor