Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1924, Page 1

‘“ re, 1 Weather Forecast Cloudy with rain or snow north- west portion tonight and in north mpeth cand portion Friday. Warmer central portions tonight. ~-, ‘i NO. 48 Prosperity In Prospect For United States Constructive Program Endorsed in Last Election Means Healthy Conditions, Mellon Says in Annual Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Years of “prosperous and healthy conditions such as succeeded the election of 1896” were forecast for the United States by Secretary Mellon in the annual report of the treasury sent to’ congress today. The secretary’s views are based, he said, on the repud %ion of “various theories inconsistent with economic laws and the indorsement of a program of constructive handling of government affairs given in the last election. He counselled the nation, however, to approach its problems with intelli- gence that the’ progress made and the groundwork laid in the last four years may not come to naught. ‘The United States, he asserted. was the first world power to come “true progress” will continue Sata its oordere) ‘Mr. Mellon urged perpetuation of the prograth adopted by ‘the great majority of our people in the last election” which he inter- preted as one of hard work, economy and ‘sound policies.’ ne iz *In-genbral economic conditions well ‘as in the domain of federa! fis- cal operations, Mr. Mellon recounted how complete the transition had been. He said that in the last four years the percapita tax on siege of the United States had heen from $54 to $27, or exactly one-haif;, ae lic expenditures which in 1920 ceeded $6,500,000,000, were only ay 500,000,000 in the fiscal year ete ended last July 1, and the ‘comy plete disorganization” of the eco nomic structure by the collapse of prices in 1920 and 1921 has been rectified. ‘The lifting of the tax burden, al. though slight as the decrease has)| been, has done much for business, Mr. Mellon said, and he expressed the hope that more could be done soon. He said he Gesired tax reform as well as tax reduction and warned against using the field of. taxation as q field “for socialistic experiment. or as a club to punish success.” If this were done, he said, the condi- tions of a few years ago may come back. ‘While it has taken time for this situation. completely to remedy it- ” the secretary continued, “the ‘adjustment has now been made, and both banking and. business condi- tions are in a, thoroughly sound post-, tion. Prices have been comparatively’ stable for two or three years, prod duction -has increased. twenty or twenty-five per cent, bank debts, fifteen or twenty per cent, and em- ployment eight or ten per cent. In- terest and discount rates as a ru’e, have been reduced more than halt. Discount rates of the federal reserve rank of New York, for example, have been reduced from seven and one-half to three and one-ha'f per. mt. Bank deposits have increased six or eight billion dollars from the low point of 1921, or over twerty, per cent, . “At the same time reserves are unusually high, frozen loans have been almost completely liquidated and the country’s banking and credit structure was never In a stfonger (Continued on Page Twelve) ‘DR. RALSTON last summer for a building and loan company operating out of Salt Lake City, .was brought back to Casper last night from. Kalispell, Mont., by Charles .Young, deputy sheriff, charged with embezzlement of ‘com- pany funds amounting Ralston waived seemed very willing to return here. He hopes to obtain bond.after it has been fixed and is confident of being acquaintted at the next term of court. : According to the deputy who re- turned Ralston here, the latter has a good reputation in Kalispell and Great Falls, where he has been in business since leaving this part of the country. Ralston claims that he reported the shortage at the time it occurred and that attempts on his part tn the interim to effect a settlement on a basis satisfactory to hiniself and the company have been ineffectual. MINORT TOBE ARRAIGNED AT NORTH PLATTE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 4.—The case against Rev. J.B. Minort, for- mer Wyoming state commissioner of child and animal protection, who is charged in a Nebraska federal dis- trict indictment with violation of the Mann act, has been transferred from the federal court at Omaha to the federal court at North Platte and therefore probably will not be tried before next June. Minort has provided new bail to guarantee his appearance at North Platte for trial. Minort’s resignation was accepted by Acting Governor Frank E. Lucas ‘Wednesday. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. Gibbons, heavyweight, signed to meet either Hugh Walker of Kansas City, or Sailor Maxted of New York, here on February 16, it is announced by Ed Douglas, local promoter. Young Stribling will meet “Wild Bil" Reed, of Columbus, January 12, Douglas announced. The circulation of The Tribune wes ‘ f MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED- PRESS Member ef Augit Bureau CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924 SEVEN DEAD. 40 INJ OIL MEN ELECT; ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Former Governor Brooks Is Re-elected _ President; Publicity Urged on Conditions in the Industry Recommending publicity as a means of correctly inform- ing the public as to actual conditions governing the oil in- dustry$ urging expansion of present markets. and creation of new ones for black oil; favoring standardization of oil field equipment; asking general community co-operation in securing further industrial utilization of natural gas; com- mending the bureau of mines for its work in conserving oll and gas re- sources—these were the most im- portant of resolutions passed by the Rocky Mountain Ofl and Gas. asso- ciation in concluding its*two-day con- vention, yesterday afternoon at the Elks building here. To.include as members in its ganization all persons/engaged in or interested.in any of the branches of the oil industry, the association amended its by-laws, leaving the word “Producers” out of its name. The Rocky Mountain region is taken to include Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, New Ms and “all territory maturally . tiguou to the region. Other changes in the by-laws are that the association is to meet ually on Monday and Tuesday ‘Thanks- giving week, and that all meetings are to be held in Casper unless the board of directors specifie otherwise. , In addition to, electing a board of directors yesterday afternoon, the oll men chose the following: officérs: Former Governor B. B. *Brooks, president; Max W. second vice president; John C. How- ard Salt, Take City, third vice president; E. B. Coolidge wis- town, Mont Robert D, Wallace, treasurer; C. W. ‘Sparr, secretary (by temporary ap- pointment by the president). ‘Those who are to serve on the executive board are Minal E. Young, L. A. Miller of Cheyenne, Baker, R. 8. Ellison and L. C, Klein. In the list of directors published yester- day the name. of Judge Fred W. Freeman, vice president of the Texas company at Denver, was omitted. ‘The association's final session was featured with two excellent. ad- dresses. The first of these was de- livered by J. W. Steele, deputy su- pervisor of the Bureau of Mines, whose subject was “Co-operation in Production and Conservation.” The final paper heard by the convention was read by Arthur M. Gee of the Ohio Oil company. Under the head- ing of “Co-ordinating All Branches of the Petroleum Industry,” he thoroughly discussed thé value of organization and the education of the public.. The reading of each of these papers was followed by scat- tered comments of much interest. RESOLUTIONS. Public Information and Relations. ‘Whereas, the production, trans- Portation, refining and marketing of oll and gas has become a major in- dustry in the Rocky Mountain Reg- ion, and i (dwos) _ uy. | Dam. 3815 On Streets or at Newstands, & Delivered by Carrier 75 cen Magellans Fly Over Trai! of "98 Gold Rush Lieutenant Leigh Wade and Mate Near Death in Alaska When Plane Gets’ in “Wash” of the Leader By LOWELL THOMAS? (Copyright, 1924, bs Chi eC! Y Nowspe “Among the experiences at Prince Ri rs Syndicate pert that we will ‘Whereas, the industry, through tts| remember longest were the hours we spent in a fisherman’s large expenditures for payrolls, sup-|shack with old John Toner,” the diary of Lieut. Smith con- Plies and equipment and its support of state governments through taxa- tion, has become an important factor (Continued on Page Nine.) tinues. “John was a queer character who used to row us back and forth from the shore to the cruisers at Sea Cove. John’s home was a floating shack—a sort of an Arctic ark, BOYS GIVEN PAROLE BY COURT AND. CHANCE TO ATONE FOR DELINQUENCY Fout repentant boys, all in their teens, Iearned yesterday that the law has a heart after all,-and is willing to give every contrite culprit a second chance. ‘The quartet, convicted within the last two days of petty thefts and sentenced to jail, two of them for ten days aid two until Christ- mas, were summoned before Judge J. A. Murray last ‘night, the earlier sentences vacated, and all four placgyl under suspended sen- tences of thirty days. The two lads who pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to pawn a stolen camera were paroled in the charge of Don Lobdell. The pair who confessed taking a traveling bag from a. parked car were paroled with instructions to re- Port daily .after school hours to Sergeant Pluckhahn at the police station. Judge Murray cautioned each boy that his parole would be revoked if any complaint of wrong-doing was registered against him during its tenure. “There is no other way to cope with the annual epidemic of petty thefts," Judge Murray said today, Spee aity ih Jail-mekes"an- Tnpres- sion not only on ‘the boy who serves it but on his associates and ‘very boy who hears of it. A good scare is usually the best moral lesson imaginab\ The lads implicated in the camera theft ‘had spent two days behind the bars when their sen- tence was revoked, while the others were in jail only a night and a day. Judge Murray pointed out that the tendency of Christmas shop- pers to leave their cars parked while they filled them with holiday gift parcels was a standing temptation to petty thievery. He cautioned drivers to take special precautions during the pre-holiday season, and broadcast-a warning to boys as well that summary action would follow their detection in this or similar misdemeanors. inhabited by dogs, fish, clams, crabs, and John’s fishermen cronies. About once every hour we used to duck in te John’s shack and sit around his sheet iron stove listening to him spin yarns while devoured the clama, in bold scrawl on his front door and then had it photographed. “John's neighbors were envious, and shortly afterwards some one stole the door! “Because of the unending snow, faimand plercing ‘winds at Prince Rupert, we were mighty glad to get off for Sitka. But in leaving, we felt that we had gained much valuable experience in buffeting storms, and in taking care of ouf-. planes.’ Take Turns in Leading. Leigh Wade, in telling the story of the flight on April 10, up the “In side Passage” to the old Russian capital of Alaska, describes how Ma- jor Martin had decedide that they were all to take turns at leading. Lowell Smith in the Chicago was to lead on the next hop, then Wade was to go a head on the long jump past the glacial fields to Resurrec- tion bay, then Erik on the flight past the rumbling crater of Mount Kat- main and the Valley of Ten Thou- sand Smokes to the remote Alaskan peninsula, then the major again, and 80 on. “From Seal cove,” said Wade, @ontinued on Page Twelve) ‘we ONOW CARRIES DOWN CREW IS SAFE ~ INSHIPWRECK ST. JOHNS, N. F., Dec. 4.—Word of the safety of Captain Noseworthy and the crew of five of the New- foundland schooner Freedom, which had been given up for lost with all hands, was received here late yes- terday. The schooner left Carbonear, N. F., on October 17, for Sydney, N. §., but terrific storms caught her and carried her south to the West Indies. She foundered six hundred miles from Barbados. The six men took to, the open boats and finally landed to- day on Barbaros, easternmost of the Antelles. t CROWDS JOIN WELCOME OF PRESIDENT ON HIS ARRIVAL AT CHICAGO Ss Rain and Snow Squalls Give Reception Somber Cast; Exposition Placed on’ Dress Parade for Occasion CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—(By The Associated Press.)— Président Coolidge arrived in Chicago at 9 a. m. today to tt and speak at the International Livestock Exposition and to address a luncheon gathering of the Commercial club of Chicago. Delegations representing the two organizations acting as hosts for the president and Mrs. Coolidge and their party met them at the station and escorted them to the Drake hotel, where the executive banned te hold several conferences prior to the Commercial elub lunch- eon, scheduled fot 12:45 p. m. Crowds at the station gave Presi: dent Coolidge a hearty welcome. The weather man had arranged a mordé somber welcome, however, a mixture of rain and snow equalls, which with fog and @noke blanketed the loop district the presidential party was driven to the hotel. CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—(By The Asso- ciated Press.\—The International Livestock Exposition fell into dress parade today in preparation for the visit of President Coolidi Blue ribbon winners were arrayed in bin and stall for the inspection of the chief executive after luncheon, Grand champion horses, cattle, swine and sheep, selected in the three days’ stock judging, were freshly groomed, and the finest par- ticle of dust had been -blown from the exhibits of the champion pro ducers of wheatcorn, oats, barley, (Continued on Page Nine) ~~ Snow Heavy in Co ing East; Transp Communicatio lorddo and Extend- ortation and Wire ns Demoralized. _ DENVER, Colo., Dec. 4.—Colorado today was recover- ing from the effects of a 24-hour snowstorm ‘that began yesterday morning and continued through the night. Partially demoralized tel was reported early today and, in heavy with snow-stalled motorists. At Walsenburg where the heaviest snowfall—eighteen inches—w: re- ported, ‘county officials h&ve sent out rescue parties to render aid to many automobile parties reported held up on the blocked roads. ‘With the exception of the south- ‘western portion of the state, yester- day's storm touched every part of Colorado. The fall was less on the western slope, Grand Junction re- porting but a trace of snow. The storm, according to the fed- gral weather bureau here, extended legraph and telephone traffic many instances, roads well down the Rocky Mountain Plateau region And today was raging. in ‘the plains states, extending as far north and east as Iowa and as|?, far southeast as northern Louisiana. Wire traffic between Denver and Omaha, Kansas “City, Chicago and other points east was practically de- moralized. Stock brokers’ wires, Press and newspaper wires all were either partially or wholly inopera- tive. All railroads running into Denver (Continued on Page Nine} DO YOU WANT A CROSS-WORD » PUZZLEEVERY DAY? The cross-word puzzie has come to stay. For two wetks Tribune readers have enjoyed ‘a ‘tri-weekly tussle with this most intriguing of enigmas. The world still rotates. 80 do the Rotary club, the Lions, Kiwanis, the Chamber of Commerce. The clty council harn't missed so very many meetings. Busses still run approximately on time. The theate: of patron: rs report no appreciable diminution Casper’s football team hasn’t yet missed a signal prac- tice in the hunt for an e'usive word of nine letters meaning a Patagon- jan religious festival. Do we dare tempt fate further. —drive another spike in the casket of poor old Father Time? Would you like to make this verbal chess- game adally dozen instead o It is for Tribune renders dec clently voclferous, the cross-word p The Tribune is anxious te get the fon, Let us know your wishes—by whicheyer, is most convenient. Tear this item out, scrawl it, and mail it, if you | If the ayes have ike. Or call you'll get «’ tri-weekly temptation? side, If the popular demand is suffi- puzzle will be made a daily feature. widest possible expression of opin- phone, by letter by wire, by radio, yes or no on 15 or 16. yeur riddle served up daily. If not, it will continue as now—every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. But everybody vote, please! WIRES COMPOSER IS LAID AT REST MILAN, Italy, Dec, 4.—The fun- eral for Giacomo Puccini, the “opera composer was held in the cathedral here yesterday in the presence of a great assemblage of mourners. De- spite rain, the funeral procession to the cemetery was most impressive. The entire route was draped with black. Military honors were paid to the dead-at the cemetery and the coffin was ~deposited temporarily in the tomb of the Toscan! family. is preater than any other Wyoming newspaper: | erDatly Cribune cents menth EDUCATION OF BRIDE DISCUSSED LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 4.— Whether the educatior. of 16-year- old Lillan Louisa AfceMurry Chap- ln, bride of the film comedian, Charles Chayiin,’has conformed to the California compulsory school- ing law since her appearance in the movies as Lita Grey, is under investigation by the compulsory education department of the Los Angeles gchool board, says the Los Angelea ‘Times. The Times, which several days ago, published a birth certificate revealing Mrs. Chaplin as a much younger woman than the’ public had believed her to be, quotes Raymond P. Dunlop, director of the compulsory education depart- ment as saying that “very care- ful attention will be given to see that she meets the requirements of the law just the same as any other person-of her age regardless of circumstances.” Miss Grey, last year, received a permit from the school depart- ment to work in pictures provided she be tutored privately, It was leafned. Her last class room in- struction, says the Times, was a secretarial course in a Hollywood Business college, which she enter- ed in October of last year. CHEST FUND [a NEARING GOAL; WORKERS BUSY End of Week-Expect To: See Close of Campaign. @ clean-up campaign launched Tuesday noon has brought the Com- munity Chest campaign almost with- In sight of its long-sought goal of $45,000, M. A. Becklinger, chairman, announced todiy. ‘Thesend of the week may see the coffer brimming, he predicted. Several of the two dozen solicitors who agreed to be nersonally respon- sible each for $200 of the $4,000 re- maining to be collected have already turned in their pledged quota, and some have e&ceeded it, Mr. Bock: linger said. A tabulated report will be available by tomorrow. The final round-up has been devot- ed largely to catching up loose ends missed in the earlier canvassing. De- spite the thorough organization with which the campaign began, many of those who were able and willing to contribute had never been solicit: ed, and strenuous efforts are being made to get in touch with them now. In one mercantile establishment which employs 43 persons it was dis- covered that only 10 had previously been contacted, and it is believed that when these fugitive subscriptions are tallied up the needed sum will be attained, : —____ FIVE VETERANS ARE VICTIMS OF EPIDEMIC BEAUVOIR, Miss., Dec. 4.—Five confederate veterans, inmates of the old soldiers’ home here, died during the last nine-days from an epidemic which has not been diagnosed. One other is expected to die from the di ase, which affects the patients’ stomach, «uslicatren Offices: aribune Bidg.. 216 BE. Secend St. AN RAIL CRASH PASSENGERS ON TWO TRAING IN CALIFORNIA ARE WRECK VICTIMS Cars Telescoped When One Crashes Into Rear Of Another on Pier Near Oakland. se OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 4. —Seven persons were killed and approximately forty in- jured today on the Key Route system when a train from Sacramento crashed into the rear, of a crowded electrio train bound trom ‘Twelfth street, Oakland, to San Francisco with ear- ly morning commuters. The cause of the accident has not been deter- mined, Five of the Injured are believed to be dying One of the dead was identified as Cc, C. O'Loughlin; 45 Second street, San Francisco. The other four are unidentified. Two were women, 45 and 20 years of age, and two were young men. Another of the dead was, identified as Fred J. Gibson, 65, a marine e- gineer living on Goat Island in San Francisco bay. He died in the Oak- land’ emergency hospital. dent happened a few min- @ 8 o'clock. ‘The three car. Key System train included what MB known as the Broadway special and the Twelfth Street local. These cars were crowded with commuters bound for San Francisco. The train had stopped on a block signal about midway on the three mile Oakland pler. It hud hardly paused wen the Sacramento train, empty except for the trainmen, crashed full speed into the rear of the commuters’ train. The short line train, containing single car, had been running a few hundred yards behind the Key train. It telescoped the rear Key car for about half its length. The front end of the short line car was de- molished. Its conductar and motor man had not been accounted for several hours after the collision. ‘The Key train the type known as “side door or those with+ out front ¢ exits. Hence it Was enec a a way with axes to rescue the 5 ngers. The regular exits had been closed for thé trip across the pier. Some ms were flung bodily from the train and were found lying on the ground of the fill beside the track. Others were pinned in hope- lessly until the rescuers reached them. None of the cars of the Twelfth Street train were derailed. Soon after the accident the two front cars were detached from the rear car that was telescoped and were start- ed for the mole, The motorman fainted soon after the train began to move and passengers ran into the motorman’s room and stopped the train, The motorman soon wag revived and he took the train into the mole. While the air was filled with the screams of those imprisoned in the telescoped car, passengers in the- forward cars remained remarkably calm and went about the work of rescue swiftly. According to one eye witness, the rear Key car “seemed to fold like an accordion,” Both trains had been speeding toward the San Francisco ferry at the ond of the pier. \After the in- jured dd been extricated, they wera (Continued on Page Nine) cars" COOLIDCE AIMS WOULD SET RECORD IN COUNTRY FOR ECONOMY, IS CLAIM Present Administration With Co-opera- tion of Congress May Carve Place in U.S. History By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—-President Coolidge’s place in American history will be made on at least one achievement if he gets the co-operation of He may yet be known as the most economical president the country has ever had. The word “economy” occurs again: and again in his an- nual mesrage,to congress. He em phasizes it, rélterates it and drives it home as the transcendant issue of Casper Tribune) congress, namely, economy. the hour. reduction, prosperity and thé general welfare, all depend upon it. Briefly, the surplus indicated for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next is about $67,000,000. Mr. Cool- idge thinks this is too narrow a mar- gin above receipts to undertake tax reduction but it is only an estimate and he hints that if congresm doesn't spend any more and revenues in- crease due to better business condi- tions, a program of tax reduction will be presented. He carefully re- trains from saying when and leaves the door open to the summoning of special sion before next De- cember if that should be required. The president ws a distinction between ‘tax reduction” and “ta: reform” and says that congress car go ahead. with all the latter it like: when the operations of the presen law are better knpwn. By means a revision §f su ontin w