Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1924, Page 1

' any other Wyoming newspaper:) -——-- north portion Saturday. “ ee vy PR at MEMiER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * CASPER, W FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1924 ASSASSINS PLOT IN DEFERRED IRRIGATIO The circulation of The Tribune is greater than Weather Forecast Unsettled. tonight and Saturday, probably snow or rain in north and west Slightllyy colder in On Streets or at Newstands, & cents Member of Auate Boreas Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a menth suaslicatron Offices: aribune Bidg., 216 E. Secen@ st N ENGLAND IS REVEALED N PAYMENTS APPROVED(!3! I | OFFICIALS ARE World Flight Nearly Ended In Far North Lieutenant Wade Recites Exciting Epi- sode That Transpired Near Scene . Where Old Expedition Failed BY LOWELL THOMAS (Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Newspaper Syndicate and the McClure “ Newspaper Syndicate) Leigh Wade, whose world cruiser, the “Boston,” came within an ace of swashing up on the rocks at Sitka, tells a graphic tale of how the round-the-world-flight nearly ended on the rocky Alaskan coast near where the Bering-Chirikov expedition was wrecked in a similar gale two hundred years before. It was experiences such as this that cut years off the lives or Lieutenant Wade and his fellow circumnavigators, ao ms made some of them turn prema’ Mrs. Chaplin Not Truant From School grey. “Near the end of our flight from Prince Rupert, when he left the open sea and flew between the is- lands that partially cut Sitka har- bor off fnom the Pacific, we seemed to be flying into a new world—a sort of-arctic fairyland. The water be- neath us was deep b’ue and smooth as oi, In front of us lay a tiny city clustered around a quaint Rus: slan church with its inverted turnip- like domes adding a touch of the bigarre to the scene. Behind on both uides of this-fairy city; like'the “back- (Continued on Page Twelve) 2. —————_— LOS ANGELES, Dee, Charles Chaplin's - 16-year-old bride, formerly Miss -Lita Louise McMurray, has met all require- ments of the California compulsory schooling law, it was announced today, by: Raymond Dunlop, direc- tor of the compulsory education department here has been investigating the case. The state law allows part time studies for minors under 16, Dun- lop, explained and a report has just been filed by Miss Margaret Peterson, tutor of the young bride, showing that she followed a 20- hour a week schedule of studies up to November 17, last. 5— A aixty-gallon stil! and twelve bar- rele of mash were seized last night by Patrolman McDowell and Federai Officer Robert Owens when they paid an unexpected call at an ap- parently untenanted house at 1336 South Jackson &treet. The operator, either forewarned or lucky, was not at home. Still and mash were carted to the police station and a still hunt launched in the hope of detecting the moonshiner. PROBE OPENED BY STATE IN RAIL TRAGEDY OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 5.—An in- vestigation was started today by the state rai‘road ,commission to deter- mine the causes of a rear-end colli- rion yesterday on the approach to the Key System pier of the San Fran- clsco-Oakland terminal railways. Six rsons were killed and forty were in hospitals today nursing injuries As a result \of the wreck. The accident, said to be one of the worst in the companies’ history, occurred early yesterday when a Sacramento short line car crashed into the rear-end of a Key’ Route train which had been halted by a stop elgnal on the main ine running out to the Oakland pier. Agricultural He!p Pledged resident Coolidge Reaffirms Stand in Address at Chicago; Strenuous “Day Marks Visit at Show let loose: a veritable cyclone pieces the big control head Most seriously hurt was Jack Dart, heavywelght tool pusher, who suffered the fracture of both bones just below the knee of one le; Painful lacerations of the legs was dealt John Moyer and the other four or five men in the derrick were all bruised to some extent. Dart was taken to the Salt Creek hos- pital for treatment. With the first roar of gas the word was passed that No. 33-X was a gi- gantic gusher from the Dakota sand which is of a lenticular and unde- pendablo nature, having been bone ‘dry and but five feet thick in No. 34 X, NW% seg. 23-40-79, which the Mid- International Livestock Exposition, embraced a pledie of continued and increased. government afd to farm- ers, and an appeal to the country’s agriculturalists to take full advan- tage of the governmental assistance. The new insight Into the possib{‘ities of the nation’s farms was grained during a visit to the livestock expost tion, where he viewed the prize prod- uct of the soil. The dozen hours that Mr. Cool- idge spent yesterday in Chicago made (Continued on Page Fourteen) EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON WITH PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, GARRETT, Ind. Dec. 5.—(By The Associated Press.}—Leaving with the middie west a new pronouncement on the farm problem and carrying with him a rfew picture of the poss! bilities of the agricultural -states, President Ccolidge was en route back ‘o Washington today after his visit to Chicago. The new declaration on the agri- cultural question made by the-execu- Uve intan address last night at the tion of Reclamation Director to Ease Problems of Project Owners WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Secretary Work today ap- ‘proved regulations promulgated by Reclamation Commis- sioner Elwood Mead regarding deferment of date: r pay- ment of charges, rentals and penalties due from water users on federal reclamation projects under the second section of the relief act passed by congress last May. Besides requiring water users to file written application for exten- sion with the project chief clerk on or before January 1, the regulajjons direct applicants, among other things, to describe the charges due and set forth the conditions which make the exteyision necessary. The applications will be passed upon in turn by the chief clerk, the director | of finance and the reclamation com- missioner. In cases in which appli- cations are rejected by the letter, appeals may be made to the inter- jor secretary before March 1. ABOLITION OF LAND OFFICES IS DEBATED WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.— Consideration of the interior depart- ment bill was the order of business in the house today with leaders final vote before the week. Debate yesterday over the af tion of an amendment to strike the bill a section proposing end of ti sue pending another vote must be taken before final passage ‘of the bill. The amendment offered by Repre- sentative Sinnot, was accepted b; a heated'@ebate in which west- ern members were charged with in- Repre- sentative Blanton, democrat, Texas, that an effort was belng made to “loot the’ treasury.” WYOMING OFFICES: + ARE RETAINED. i The Cheyenne.gnd Newcastle: land DRILLERS INJURED AS WELL BL of gas that literally blew to on Midwest well No. 33-X, NW% section 35-40-79. Every man in the drilling crew was more or less injured by the flying bits of steel. west brought in several months ago from the Lakota sand at the rate of almost 6,000 barrels daily. With a spectacular flow follow- ing the blow up of the control head, the well cast forth a great volume of oil. Before the gas was tapped at 2,268 feet there had been close to a thousand feet of fluid standing in the hole due to the heavy saturs- tion of shale above the sand. This ‘was shot skyward and the gas which is now estimated to be running about 4,000,000 cubic feet, has since become practically dry, it is said, After the control valve had been destroyed the control gate beneath it was used to direct the ffow into tanks. Production is réported to be a'l gas and no oll-at this time. . . Plana have been made to continue drilling, piercing thé Dakota and carrying on to the Lakota, the well'a original objective horlgon. In the meantime the gas will be permitted to escape. Just how thick the Da- kota is in the section 35 part of the structure is not known. The Lakota sand is expected with- in the next 80 feet and it’ should prove to be. a producer of closé to 10,000 barrels dafly, judging by the flow of No. 34-X ¢1 Section 23 which is more than 200 feet lower struc- turely in the field. ELAINE BEATTY, SCHOOL ‘PUPIL, CLAIMED TODA Blaine Beatty, 8-year old pupil at the Elk Street grammar school and daughter of Mr, and Mrs, R.. L. Beatty of 304 South Washington street, died this morrning. © Fun- eral services will be held tomorrow afternoon,at 2 o'clock at the Shaf- fer-Gay chapel, the Rey, A. E. Cook officiating, 4 { hopeful of putting the measure to a the abolition of 39 land offices had sub- sided temporarily, with i hve ere foes of the proposal resting t! which OWS IN Jack Dart Suffers Broken Leg as Deep||Swindler Draws Test in Salt Creek Pierces Dakota Sand and Control Head Flies Off With unexpected violence the Dakota sand in the struc- tural apex of Salt Creek yesterday afternoon at, 4 o’clock offices, abolition of which was pro- posed in the interior department bill, will be continued, according to special advices to the Tribune from Congressman Chas, HE, Winter. pisces 5 Ea A WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The Dis- trict of Columbia supreme court was asked today to intervene In the cases fornia community property. oo: CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—(By The As- sociated Press)—Interrupted tele- phone and telegraph communication, were the results of the first snow ‘was moving north and east today. the territory, in. the path ‘of mum of destructions, if any: hit, with railroad ‘and commercial inches to a foot or more in Minne- sota, North and South Dakota and parts of Iowa. Sioux City, Iowa, had STORM TAKES HEAVY TOLL IN DAMAGE IN SWEEP EASTWARD; SNOW ANDSLEET ARE GENERAL more than 2,000 broken poles in Ne-| were buried under several! inches of braska and Iowa, and delayed trains | snow. throughout the west central states; ported 18 inches. and sleet storm of the winter, which| territory hovered around "the freez- ‘The fury of the elements was abat-| beneficial for winter wheat, accord- s the long . storm would’ owith @ min!-|the=Pacitic slope from Vancouver, | “Z0mt.® report on the cost. of sup Nebraska and Iowa were hardest/ tation was slight. lines crippled or put out of commis-} owana, sion on-lines west of Omaha. A/sieet and snowstorm of the winter heavy snowfall in the northwest! today throttled telephone and tele- was reported today, with several! graph communication from Omaha of commission. Two, Years For, “Raising” Bill CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 5.— Claudio Cisneros, convicted in Fed- eral court here of having passed at Rock Springs at $2 bill which had been altered to make it appear Uke a $20.00 bill, will spend two years in the penitentiary at Leay- enworth and pay a fine of $1,000 if sentence imposed by Judge T. Blake Kennedy is carried out. Cis- néros maintained throughout his trial that he knew nothing of the currency transaction and must be the victim of mistaken identity. A waitress on whom the raised bill was passed, however, identified him as the Mexican who had given her the bill. Mike Geory, convicted of illegal Pogsession of intoxicating Mquor, Was sentenced to 60-days in_ ja! J Cubola of Diamondville, who pleaded guilty of violation of the ~ pro pa: bition Jaw, was sentenced to y a fine of $150. Earl Justad who pleaded guilty of illegal tran: portation of liquor in Yellowstone park, was fined $200, Theodore Joehnk, who- pleaded guilty of un- lawful possession of a still in Na- trona county, was fined $100. When you are looking for bar- gains in anything from plumb- ing supplies to ready-to-wear clothing, read the advertising col- umns of the chants in Casper, realizing that the Tribune columns is the one yay to effectively reach the gep- eral public, use this medium of advertising regularly. Even ‘if yow’are not interested in saving money through bar- gains advertised in the Tribune columns, the news columns will give you the latest and up-to-the- minute world and local happenings in a way that is unexcelled in tho Sunday Tribune Advertising Crammed With Bargains Manicipal Christmas Tree Is Authorized BY t6YPTIANS Holiday Cheer to Be Radiated in Casper by Mammoth Tree to Be Erected in: Railroad Park; Skating Rink for Bucknum Park to Provide Sport A mammoth Christmas tree will blaze and shimmer in South Center street throughout holiday week, as the result the city council. the Northwestern park on of action taken last night by City workmen will bring a monster spruce down from the mountains and install it in the plot donated’ by the Northwestern railroad, and the Natrona Power nation during the Christmas week. The project originated with the Rotary club, and was ratified by the council at the petition of a delega- tion of Rotarians headed by W.. F. Wilkerson. The park committee was given full power to co-operate on be- half of the city. Creation of a skating rink at Buck- num park, designed particularly to provide recreation for youngsters unable to go to the remoter ponds, was also endorsed by the city, which agreed to provide water and hose facilities and-to do the smal! amount 10 inches of snow in 24 hours. Stoux| of grading necessary to prepare the Falls had seven inches. pond for filling. The Business and States in the vicinity of Colorado] Professional Woman's club presented & request for action by ‘the council, explaining that its budget was too small to permit financing of the peratures in the entire storm] project. | Passage of the "second reading of ‘ater rate ordinance, designed to ease the burden on.large consumers, was deferred until the next meett On the Atlantic: and Pacific nea.| Sf the council. At that time W. Tt )inoderate winter /weather . ed. Rai Syeneral- al Johnson. water commissioner, will Walsenburg, Colorado, re- ing point, making the precipitation | ,,,, SO Cn to Ban put precipi. |__(Continued on Page Fourteen) Neb,, Dee. 5.—The first and seriously hampered transporta- tion and left in its wake damage estimated at $2,000,000. Shorlty. before midnight. last night the alr mail station at Fort Crook announced that radiograms from va- rious Nebraska points indicated clearing weather between Omaha and Cheyenne. A heavy snow fell here last night, but melted immedi- ately. The Northwest Bell Telephone company reported ‘more than one thousdnd poles down in Nebraska and a similar number in Iowa. Omaha were almost completely out Toll lines in all directions from IS WO TOPEKA, Kars., Dec. 6.—With the worst of the winter's first snow storm passed, northwest Kansas was still isolated this mornring by crip- pled wire service and Gelayed trains Fragmentary reports to the weather bureau here indicated the heavieat rainfall in eastern Kansas in four months, and probably several inches of suow throughout the west. eae ing the veins in her forearms. LIQUOR POURED INTO SINK IS PRESERVED AS: EMDENGE BY POLE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 5.—The large, flat hand of the law, as repi rented by Patrolman P. Allard ‘of the Cheyenne police force, preserved evidence essential in the prosecution of Rosa Bell Knight, negress, who is charged with violation of the mu- nicjpal liquor law. As Allard and an- other patrolman broke into the Knight woman's home, they report, she emptied a bucket of whiskey into a sink. Allard rushed to the sipk, MS placed his hand over the drain and CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 5.—Mack | ned it there despite efforts of tit Lewis, who committed the indiscre- tion of attempting to se]l a police man “moonshine” whiskey, will epend the next 30 days in the muni- cipat jail. He was‘also sentenced to pay a fine of $507 Firemen Respond To False Alarm A false alarm ‘turned in at Box 84 routed the fire force of the City Hall station from their beds at 6 o'clock this morning and gave them a fruitless jaunt to Oak street and Railroad avenue. No trace of the culprit was found. Bootlegger Draws Fine and Jail Term negress to drag it away. After the other: officer had subdued the wo- man he scdoped a quart of liquor from the sink and thus preserved “the evidence. SLAYERS ARE — SENT TO DEATH COLUMBIA, 8, C., Dec. 5.—Mort!- mer M. King, of Canton, N. C., and Frank Harrel, of Upton county, South Carolina, were electrocuted at the state penitentiary here short- ly before 6 o'clock this morning for the murder of Major Samuel H. Mc- Rocky mountain region and equall- ed nowhere In-the state, From front page telegraph items, com- ing over our special leased wire, through fhe “realms of _ society, market, sports, automobile news and feature articles the news col- umns of the Tribune are packed Leary, on July 2, Inst with what you want, when you as po want tt. HENDAYE, Spanish Frontier With ‘ts feature story on the | Dec Information arriving here world flight of the United States | foreshadows the early transforma army aviators, its cross word puz- |tion of the milftary directorate of zles and other features, the Tri- | Primo Rivera, who is expected to bune is growing bigger and bet- | return to Madrid. from Morocco, De ter every week. cember 20. It was said that River: | If it’s news you'll find it in the intends to form a civil cabinet under Tribune. himself as prémier. Involving the tax returns on Cali-|cOmpany has agreed to light and decorate the tree and supply the current for its illumi- Koretz Will Be Free in 11 Months CHICAGO, Dec, 5.—Leo Koretz, promoter of the Panama oll scheme in which his friends and relatives invested $2,000,000 will be eligible in 11 months to a parole from the penitentfary to which he was sentenced yesterday from one to ten years. A malignant disease may claim him as its victim before a parole board considers the case, physt clans who testified indicated, His alderable fevers, they suid. Cook” county. jail officials plan- ned to start him to the peniten- tiary today. VICE CONSUL UNDED Young Woman Commits Suicide at Bel- grade After Shooting American Attache During Interview BELGRADE, Jugo Slavia, Dec, 5.—(By The Associated Press.)—Henry Dayton, the American vice consul here, was shot and seriously wounded yesterday at his home by a young- woman who afterwards committed suicide by open- The shooting occurred during an interview between Vice Consul Dayton and Anna Ausaupaitais, During the in- terview, according to reports the vice consul is sald to have told the young woman that thelr friendship the woman, must cease, whereupon she fired three revolver shots which entered the vice consul’s neck and then com- mitted suicige. Dayton'’s condition is said to be very serious. The affair has caused a sensation in the diplomatic body and through out the city WASHINGTON, Dec, 5. — The state department lacked reports to- day on the shooting of Vice Consul Henry A. Dayton. He had but re- cently been assigned to Belgrade. having been transferred to that post from Koyno, Lithuania. He was born in Atlanta, Ga., in 1897. pulse registers 120 and hée has con- MARKED T0 DIE Guards Are Assigned to Cabinet Follow- ing Expose of Plot to Murder Leaders LONDON, Dec. 5.—(By The Associated Press.) —An alleged Egyptian plot to as- sassinate prominent mem- bers of the British govern- ment and destroy various public buildings in London is report- ed by the Daily Mail which declares government quarters regard it se- riously. The paper says news of the dis- covery of the plot was sent.to the foreign office by Lord Allenby, the high commissioner in Egypt | and that a special cabinet meeting was immediately summoned. After the cabinet meeting the ac- count continues, Sir William Joyn- son-Hicks, the house secretary sum- moned the police chiefs of Scotland Yard for a conference and espeeial- ly experienced officers were assign- ed to protect the ministers while an extra guard of armed police wad also allotted to every government department building, Thus far nothing has been learned of the alleged plot from Government | sources. ~«Aecording to the Daily Mall, the plot grew out of propaganda foment- ed by the executive branch of the Egyptian national ~ organizatio which has emissaries unfongbauegi continent and Egypt. ¢ BRITISH OFFICIALS ARE UNDER GUARD. #8.)—The British eistiive: ministers and many officials oF went about their duties todafy ac companied by.body guards. ag a pre- caufion against violence by sypt- lan sympathizers. The discovery in Cairo of a {plot in which the prime movers werd as serted to have been planning gputé rages against the British ministers was communicated to London yejster, day and placed before the ca}oinel here. That body immediately toox steps to safeguard itself andi the others cc ne In the official departments to which the pict was revealed fc was stated today th he facts were meagre, that-the exact extemt of the plotters’ activit: was nok known and that the bodyguards vere being used as more of ® precMution than against the existence of any immi- nent danger, j No arrests have been made in London. but it was said some might be expected soon. 68,161 Arrests Made in Year by U. S. Dry Agents WASHI}.GTON, Dec, '6,—Federal prohibition forces alone made 68,161 arrests fdr violations of the national Prohibition law during the last fis- cal year, Prohibitioh Commissioner Haynes ry ported today to the com- mission: f internal revenue. The figure resents an increase » of 1 r tre number of arrests by the sam agents during the pre- vious year’ and 25,938 more than two years ago. Two Injured in Highway Crash A.C. Chapman Suffers Broken Arm and ' Frank Purcell a Gash Over Eye When Auto Strikes Truck A. C. Chapman of Mills had his] The trio in the coupe was return- arm broken and Frank Purcell of|ing from a rabbit hunt and the Casper, suffered a four inch cut over! crash came on a cur Both Chap- his lert ¢ hen the Dodge coupe| man and Pureell we ed in the in which th were riding six miles| wreckage of t v n was al Salt Creek highway | most pletely 4 * truck loaded with} EE. H. Fosten, pri ting attorne 6:30 Thursday evening.| was returning from Salt Creek and Wilbert Allan, the third occupant of| brought the two injured men to a ve coupe and W. E. Brown of the|local hospital. (¥apman was still Texas Products: company, the driver} confined there this morning but wag of the truck, were uninjured. resting comfortably,