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

Weather Forecast Unsettled tonight and Wednesday, | probably rain or snow ih north and west ‘portions. Not much change in temperature. VOL. 1X. NO. 46 APPROPRIATION MEASURE GOES TO THE HOUSE Riverton, Shoshone and North Platte Work Is Assured. LOS ANGELES, Dec. graphic copy of the 1 certificate of Lillian Louisa Mc Murry, who several years ago be- came Lita Grey of the movies, and who several days ago became Mrs. Charles Chaplin of Beverly Hills, was tossed on to the®Chaplain lawn early today about the time the morn- St milk was delivered. it beamed from a prominent page ot. ithe Los Angeles Timi where fate and the activities of inquisitive reporters had conspired to place it for comparison with the Mexican marriage records which last week depicted Miss Grey as a 19-year-old bride and gave Chaplin’s age as 35, COOLIDGELOST NE COUNTY IN LATE ELECTION ‘Sweetwater Carried LaFollette by Small Margin. gress d passed today car- Pies Stee, axteutied legislation for the tele of reaming wea ‘cluding inspection of the Casper- Alcova project and $800,000 toward the construction of the Guernsey dam. “WASHINGTON, Dec. 2— Appropriations for reclama- tion and irrigation projects proposed in the interior de- partment supply bill report- ed the housawteday include the following for Wyoming projects: Riverton, $790,000; Shoshone, $414,- 000; North Platte (Nebraska-Wyom- ing), $510,000. cept ‘four; Winter all except one and Spanish Springs frrigation project, | Po24 all except four, in the election the fight over which stopped all business in the senate last June, was Jiminated from the interior depart- mgnt appropriation bill as presented today to the house. to the There is returns board. 111 some question several precincts and the board wi!l WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—A total of $238,000,000 or $31,000,000 less than the amount made available last year was carried in the interlor de- partment supply bill as reported to- day to the house. First of the appro- priation bills to receive committee approyal, its figures were well un- der the budget estimates. Outstanding differences from the til after this uncertainty has been removed. There is no mandatorially stipulated period within which the board shall issue certificates, but the law requires that it shall meet with- in 30 days after the election. LaFollette carried the single coun- ty not carried by Coclidge, Sweet- water, which gave tho Progressive candidate a plurality over the Repub- Member of Audit Bureau CHAPLIN’S BRIDE ONLY 16 YEARS OF AGE; BIRTH cot litle An a oe CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dee, £—Cool- PROJECT. ELIMINATED. idge carried every Wyoming county ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — The|except one, Warren carried all ex- November 4, according to complete state canvassing, of the correctness of returns from not issue certificates of election un- et Circulation According to the certificate pub- lished by the ‘Times, Miss Grey was born near Hollywood, April 15, 1908. She later attended two schools in Los Angeles, records of which re- veal the sage date: Thus she was a lass of 13 sum- mers when Chaplin “discovered” her three years ago and set her on the ladder of film fame, and a maiden of 16 when he led her to the alta: or, rather into a. civil magistrate’ office at Empalme, Mexico, last week. This, according to the compulsory schooling law of California, makes Mrs. Chaplin subject to ‘the require- mentj of education authorities whos» duty it is to see that no minor se Po schooling until after his or her 1gth birthday anniversary. It does not necessarily mean, school authorities pointed out, that the film comedian’s bride will have to go back to school, since the law allows instructions by tutors to b substituted for the class room brand. her lessons.” Neither »Chaplin~ nor his bride could be interviewed last night, in- But one way or another, says the law, she will have to “keep up with The: ‘clvenlatipié: of The Tribune i is_greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. ‘. sper Dail CASPER, WYOMING, —_e DECEMBER 2, 1924 DGET SAVING SHOWN: TAX REDUCTION OPPOSED WYOMING PROJECT WORK WILL GO FORWARD Fliers Battled Blinding Fog CERTIFICATE PUBLISHED||Qhn Their Long Hop to Alaska 2 e203 2; Ce TH M30. r quiririg reporters invatiably being |. met. Lillian McMurry Spicer, mother of the bride, when she and her ‘father, W. E. Curry, hurried to the Chaplin home after (Continued on Page Five.) « bill passed last year are reductions of $25,500,000 for army and navy pensions, made pdssible by a shrink- age in the number of pensioners; $4,- 300,000. for ‘the reclamation service; brs ae for the Indian service and 000 under the general land of- fen, An increase of $672,000 was shown for the A’aska railroad. The bill would carry out recom- mendations of the interior depart- ment for abolition of the office of surveyor general and conso‘idation of his work with the field surveying service,.a change which would direct- ly result in a saving of $167,000. This plan would also call for the abolition of 89 land offices and do away with the position of receiver at the re- maining offices at an estimated sav- g of $255,000. . . The land offices which would be abolished next July'1 under the bill include: Blackfoot, Coeur d'Alene and Hatley, Idaho; Billings, Bozeman, “Glasgow, Great Falls, Kalispell and (Continued on Page Five.) Mean candidate of 100 votes out of total of 5,003. The vote in that county was, LaFollette 2,219; Cool- idge 2,119; Davis, 688. LaFollette ran ahead of Davis in all counties ex- cept Crook, Johnson, Sublette. and Teton. ‘The four counties not carried by Warren in the senatorial election are Fremont, Hot Springs, Sheridan and Weston. Kindler, the Progres- sive candidate, ran strongest, pro- porticnately, in Platte county, which gave him 310 votes, as compared with the 214 he received In his home county of Park, but his highest vote was in Sweetwater 328. The single county carried by Wan- erus is his home county of Camp- bell. There he received a plurality of 486 over Winter, Republican, the vote being, Wanerts 1,275, Winter, 789. Nellie Tayloe Ross,’ Democratie candidate for governor, ran behind Eugene J. Sullivan, Republican, in only the counties of Lincoln, Na. trona, Sublette and Uinta Vital Problems Brought up in Annual Convention of Rocky Mountain - Oil and Gas Association Two hundred members of the Rocky Mountain Oil. & as Producers association assembled in Casper this morn- g for the third annual convention of the association and hroughout the day have been earnestly discussing the ital problems of the industry. The meeting continues through tomorrow with an elaborate entertainment pro- ram, featured by a banquet and a| Danford of the Midwest Refining “Hance scheduled for this Roh ppd company in the absence of Mr. A paper prepared by C. isher,| Fisher; a short address by B. B. ice-president of the aay Constal| Brooks, president of the associqtion company, on “Comparative Cort: injand a papcr on.‘Possible Govorn- the Industry" and read by Mark|ment Regulation of the Oli Indus- fident that the remaining $4. Reports submitted at the noonday luncheon which ushered in the third week of the dilatory fund-gathering campaign showed the fund $1,607 richer than at the last tabulation Friday. This brought the total to $40,508. Mr. Becklinger arnounced that reports not available at noon probably would send the total to $4,100. Of the sum reported today 3495 was in preliminary gifts. Ti# twenty-two who volunteered to underwrite the existing deficit will conduct a final round-up,’ en- deavoring to “contact” eyery person who has not yet been seen by solicitors as well a&-those who did not subscribe at first call but who may be more responsive now. A OlL AND GAS MEN MEET IN CASPER the Chaplin ‘front gate with @ “yes, we are not at home,” from wing for their-tong: hop to, Alaska. new assignment of cards was made at the luncheon meeting. ‘The emergency squadron includes (Continued on Page Nine) <<< GRAZING COST IS UNCHANGED WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Grazing charges in ‘government forest re- serves will be limited to the “ayer- age annual charge in 1923 and 1924,” under ‘a bill introduced today by Senator Pittman, Democrat, Nevada. try” were the high lights of this morning’s and. early — afternoon's sessions. Both of the papers and Mr. Brooks’ talk opened up avenues of discussion pertinent to the best in- tefests of the production and distri- bution of. petroleum products. One of these was the much discussed dif- ferential -between the Salt Creek and Mid-Continent fields. A letter from the Bédreau of Mines, which department had con- cluded an inyestigation of the dif- ferential, and\dated January, 1923, was read to the assemblage which showed that the differtial at that time was about 25 cents per barrel too high. The actual differential was 65 cents in favor of the» Mid-Conti- nent when it should have been 35 cents according to ine government offictals, Judge Campbgt's Paper dealing with possible regulation by the fed- > @acitic and Atlantic Photo) Sand-Point scrodome at ree eee when the-world flyers took | baptizing Maj. Martin's cruiser Seat- eral government of the oil. industry Was an excoriation of constitutional amendments and showed» how logi- cal it is that one will be proposed that will limit the rlght of contract (Continued on Page Nine) FAHY-MURRAY WRIT DENIED CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—(By The As sociated Press.)\—The federal circuit court of appeals today dénied the ap. peal of Counsel for Wiliam J hy and James Murray under 25 year sentences for the Rondout $2,000, 000 mail robbery for a writ oP super- sedens, 4 PATTERSON HELD FOR TRIAL CHEST FUND CAMPAIGN TO BE CONCLUDED IN NEXT 48 HOURS VOLUNTEERS PLEDGE SUCCESS Two dozen of Casper’s leading business and professional men mobilized today to give the Community Chest drive its final boost over the top by pledging themselves to collect $200 each and to be personally responsible for that sum. With this assurance M. A. Becklinger, chairman, was con- ,500 would be in hand within i nvoluntary Manslaughter Charge to Be Pressed in Connection With Accident in Which Lincoln * Charles F. Patterson Jr., 22 year old automobile sales- man of 1282 South David street, must stand trial for in- voluntary manslaughter at the next term of district court. His preliminary hearing concluded at noon today with Edward Barrett, justice-of-the-peace, binding him over for trial under bond of $1,500, after a day and a half of testi- mony regarding the automobile acci- dent in which Lincoln F. Kelly was killed October 24° last. The maxt- mum penalty for manslaughter is 20 years in the state penitentiary. * Kelly was killed when he was run down by Patterson's car on East Second street’ near McKinley. Kelly a} the time was crossing the street and the fender of the automobile hit him hard enough to throw him off Lis feet. He fell on his head and suffered a fracture of the skull from which he died a few hours later. ‘The disposition in the preliminary hearing all seemed to hinge on the matter of the application of the brakes. The witnesses for the state, Traffic Officers McDowell and Har-| © low, stated that the tire burn on the pavement was 96 continuous feet in length. The witnesses for the de- fense contended that it was only 84 feet and that it was broken by a clear space of nine feet showing that the brakes had been applied, re- leased and then applied again. The defense counsel, E., B, Enterline, tried to prove this was in direct corrolary with the actions of the de ceased who the defense witnesses stated started across the street, stopped, started on again and then stepped back in front of the car. The release of the brakes, so Mr. Enterline contended, came when Kelly. stopped. Defense witnesses also testified that if Kelly had not started on again that the accident would not have occurred as Patter son” would haye had sufficient clear ance to miss him. Witnesses for the state and the defense disagreed violently on the speed of the car when the accident oceurred. It yaried all the way from 10 to 30 odd miles per hour, according ‘to those who were spec tators of the crash. The principal witnesses for the de- fense, Hollis heard this morning, were W. Matthews, a Natrona company employe who was in r with Patterson at the time accident; Hugh Hines, an in surance salesman, who.was about a half block distant F. Patterson and H. A. Walters, his hop fore. 4an, who measured the tire burn. “ Officers McDowell, Harlow and 4 Crihune Kelly Met Death or at New: ds, & cents eer Pattveredb by Cartier 15 conta a month aritune ‘Bia, FINAL HOME, a)pale Heatson Offices: - 218 EB. MILLIONS IS Ships Are Named by Officers’ Wives Before Hop-Off From Seattle on First Leg Over Strange Land BY LOWELL THOMAS (Copyright: By The Chicago Tribune Newspapers “Syndicate and the McClure Newspapers Syndicate) The most impressive ceremony prior to the final ‘depar- ture of the world fliers was the christening of the cruisers. General Patrick had issued instructions that the beverages used should be in accordance with the “spirit of the times.” So New Orleans had sent a special bottle taken from where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The FROST CHARGE ) NEARING CLOSE nonerfillable strop of aqua pura ates drawn with due ceremony from Lake Michigan and with it the won State Medical Board Witnesses _ Lively Session Here. was christened that was to still greater international diva ng the city of Chicago. While the flagship, Seattle was, of course, christened with waters from zane Washington, on whose shores ceremony took place, Officers’ Wives Christen’ Ships To Mrs. David Whitcorib Jr., wife of the president of the local cham: ff commerce, went the honor of (Continued on Page Ten.) Hearing of the charge of unpro- fessional conduct against Dr. I. N. Frost, brought yesterday afternoon before the state medical board at tho city hall with the intention of having his license revoked, was resumed this morning in cross examination of the accused by the attorneys for the state, C. D. Murane ant E. H. Foster, Following prolonged questioning of the defendant, Evelyn Morton of West B street was called to the stand in an attempt to secure evi- dence concerning a charge made by Dr. Frost ggainst Dr. Ralph J. Malott, county health ‘officer, at a meeting of the Natrona County Medical ‘society some time ago and ut of which list of charges has risen the present case against Dr. Frost. Next introduced as a witness was Zook were put on in rebuttal by W. J. Wehrli, assistant prosecuting estorney, who Hee the case for the| Mrs. J. L. Walker of Lavoye, sister of Mrs. Martin Cooper also of La- eo voye and principal witness for the TED MOORE state. Her testimony contradicted in nearly every respect that given yesterday by Mrs. Cooper. One of her answers reversed the claim of Dr. Forst’s counsel that an attempt had been made to subpoena her for appearance at the hearing. She denied having ever having been ap proached with such a summons, nor having knowledge that her presence was wished since she had signed an affidavit briefly stating her stand on the matter. ACQUITTED NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Ted Moore, English middleweight boxer, was dismissed from custody by Magis- trate Leyine today when arraigned a charge of beating his landlady, The magistrate held that there was insufficient evidence to’ hold the} Where Mrs. Cooper had been pugilist who had been at liberty| foremost of the state's witnesses, since June on parole to his lawyer.|her sister, Mrs. Walker, was star witness for Dr, Frost. Just before the noon recess Dr. Mercer Dickerson was questioned as (Continued on Page Nine) The ilandiay, Mrs. Josephine Ward, charged Moore had broken two of her ribs in a fight following ah argument over rent. PRES, GOOLIDGE ADVISES DELAY ON CONGRESS IN TAX PROPOSALS Congress Is Asked to Mark Time in Await- ing Results of the Present Tax Law. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.— President Coolidge informed congress today that present estimates point to a surplus of revenues over expendi- tures of $67,884,489 for the present fiscal year and of $873,748, 714 for the fiscal year 1926, but he advised against any further tax re duction until definite results *from the present tax law are known, “If we continue the campaign for economy, we will pave the way for a further reduction in taxes,” the President said in a special message submitting the annual budget. This reduction cannot be effected immedi- ately. Before it is undertaken, we should know more definitely by ac- tual operations what our revenues will be under our present tax law. But the knowledge of our revertu under the existing Jaw. will-avail us nothing if we embark any new Istge expenditure program.” Tho President recalled his recom- mendation for a reduction in taxes and said that thus far tn this fis- cal year, the results had been borne out. He declared a revision of the estimates for 1925 showed that receipts for the current year should ‘approximate $3,601,968,297 while the expenditure’ should not exceed $3,534,083,808, and compared these with the estimates for the next fiscal year, transmitted in the budget showing probable re- ceipts of $3,641,295,092 and a proba- ble cash disbursement by the Treas- ury Of $3,267,551,378 which will’ tn- clude some funds appropriated, but not all expended, in the current year. In analysing the estimates subs mitted the President said: “For the national defense the es- timates amount ¢o $549,000,000 which is $29,000,000 less than the amount available this current fiseat year, These figures do not include nonmilitary items of the War and Navy departments, This reduction is made in accordance with my be- left that we can have adpquate na- tional defense with a more modest outlaw of the taxpayers’ money. Further study may point the way to additional reduction without weakening our national defense, but rather perfecting it. This nation is at peace with the world. We no longer have international compet!- tion in naval construction of major units. We are concerned primarily with maintaining adequate prepar- edness. We should have adequate preparedness in 1926 within the lim- its of the amount recommended. “Aside from the important factor of training personnel our national defense is largely an Industrial prob- lem, Today the outstanding weak- ness in the industrial situation as it affects national defense is the tn- adequacy of facilities to supply alr service needs. The airplane indus+ try in this country at the present Ume is dependent almost. entirely upon government business. » To strengthen this industry is to streng- then our national defense. For the alr service of the Army and Navy, (Continued on Page Ten.) LOVELL DISTRICT AGOG WITH OIL EXCITEMENT. AS RESULT OF STRIKE Gusher Well of Light Grade ‘Crude Is Uncorked Four Miles Southwest of Sugar Plant Town by Standard Add one more to the “oil towns” of Wyoming. Lovell, basking in the fame of a gusher strike by the Standard Oil company of California four miles southwest of the town, is a new center of interest for the producer. Scores of prospective operators are already in the field or on their way and the town is already responding to its new found prosperity in the large num-| 31-56-96 on what is known as the ber of visitors, Garland structure. Ol under gas ‘The strike ¢was made on section| pressure gushed from the Torchlight sand at 2,760 feet when the bit pene trated the formation, No estimate of production has been made but estimates run as hikh as 500 barrels, based on frequent flows by heads from the 10-inch casing. “Mak your own guess’ is the answer given visitors at the well. Crude from the well ranks among the highest grades ever encountered In the state or nation, being on a parity with thé light crude from the Grass Creek region with a test c 52 degrees Baume, amounting to 70 per cent gasoline content. The sand in which {t was encountered is the first producing horizon in the die- trict and more producing formations are forecast when deeper drilling is made, 1 Previous calculations’ of-