Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1924, Page 1

ee SPAT RE I) “TAajp form’ the bas's of the administra- . utilization of the projects also was < Member ef Audit Bureau ef Circulation oeee MEMMER GF ASSOCIATED PR = WYOMING, SA Ge) eae DECEMBER 13; 1924 MH eee, + _ The circulation of The Tribune is areater t than Rh! other Wyoming newspaper. On Streets or at Newatands, & cents red the OMIT GRAM DENT _ Legislative Measures In- cluded in Plan for Pay } WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. — Legislative and. . other measures to meet the need of a settled Ls npg pre f e col as affecting ag f and Rue Ces Seat WOE We Pitigracs ak mitted to Presideht Coolidge. The it 's reclamation’ policy, proposes the appointment of a congressional co! draw up a compre- hensive ‘reclamation i In. addition to the legislation program the economy of com- euch work ns is necessary to realize the best investment of gov- ermment funds and the complete raoommended. Where conditions nt, the secretary urged that ‘conitral ‘of existing works be trans- ferred to the water users them- The proposed program also would lay down definite procedure “for the engineering, legal, agricultural and other investigations held to be es- sential to sound undertaking in fu- ture projec! CASPER MAN DIES ON TRAIN William La Pash, 45 years old, and for @ year owner of a bog ranch near this city, died last night on the train enroute from Thermopolis to Casper. His wife was with him at the time. Mr. La Pash had goxe to Ther- mopolis a week ago to take baths for rhéumatism, sud Mrs. La Pash joined him yesterday. A heart at- tack was the cause of death. The body will be shipped from the er-Gay chapel tonight to Chey- » Mr. La Pesh's former home, for interment. VOTE DELAYED ON POSTAL PAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—An- other ‘effort for an agreement for consideration of the postal pay in- crease bill failed today in tho senate. ‘The plan proposed would have pro- vided that the bill be taken up Jan- very 8, but Senator Reed, Democrat, Missourt, blocked it because it con- templated reference of the measure meantime to a committee, He de- clared it was an effort to kill it. ———_—_ SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 13.—Be- lieved to be one of the band which yesterday held’ up the Nanaimo branch of the Royal Bank of Can- ada, an: unidentified man was sur: rounded in a wooded urea north of the city by Seattle potice today, All| available police reserves haye been | Wushed bo the scenc, By REX LAMPMAN (Copyright, 1924, Cosper Tribune) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 13.— “I am almost glad that mother died before this trial. She knows that I am innocent, as she did before, but now she is ‘able to do something to help, and that will please her.” Thus spoke Kid McCoy, on trial charged with the murder of Teresa Mors, in their love nest in Los An- geles last August. ‘Mother was gtowing old,” Mo- Coy said, “Life held little for her It in. not easy to think of the death of one's best friend, but it {8 prob- ably all for the best. No man ever had a better mother.” ‘The Kid's eyes were down-nst, his voice low. The background of his thoughts may have been happier days when, for him there were no judges nor juries nor trials of any sort, in the little town “back home again in Indiana," and Kid McCoy again a little boy, Norman Selby, with never a’care. , | McCoy is satisfied that his mother, who died while his trial was pend- Ing ‘and whom he was allowed to visit ‘shortly before her death, now je of mother on i he Kid dust an over. tis toe, His face was lighted and his eyes were soft. One forgot the shinned ‘receding hair, the marks of time and dissipation ‘upon: his fea- tures. Gone were the McCoy :his- trionics, the heroics, vanished the hard bolled ring veteran who could cut a man to ribbons without» in- crease of pulse beat. Instead there was just a lad ta’k- ing of his mother. McCoy did not ery, as he has cried many times since his arrest. He has passed thut stage since the trial began. Each day he is- more -poised, alert, deter- mined. Besides, the Kid is firm in his faith of a Ufe beyond this life, a conscious, useful existence in an- other realm. He believes that his mother, conscious in that other world, is hovering over the court HEART BALM SUIT THROWN OUT OF COURT OAKLAND, Callf., Dec. 18—The $50,000 breach of promise action in- stituted by Mrs. Elizabeth M. Lex of Los Angeles against Chief of Police August Vollmer of Berkeley, was dropped from the superior court calendar here yesterday be- cause of the failure of plaintiff or her counsel to put in an appearance, Vollmer is former chief of police of Los Angeles, KID M’COY LOOKS TO SPIRIT OF HIS DEAD MOTHER TO AID HIM room, directing his thoughts with a mothers’ intuition strengthened by a | aigher knowledge just attained, in- luencing his attorneys—doing all -hat a mother can do, and more than a mother could do in the flesh. “This trial would havé been an awful thing for mother," he said, just before the baliiff's gavel called up the court room after a brief re- cess. “But now she understands. She has no fear now. She could nev- er have believed me anything but innocent. Seeing thing as she does now, I know she undefsetnds it all, and I like to think that Teresa and mother are there together counseling me and helping me.” The Kid chucked his cigarette and pushed Rapeeh ep seine the swinging doors. W’COY TRIAL WILL RESUME NEXT MONDAY Los ANGELES, Dec. 13,—‘Kia" McCcy, Brummel of fistania of other days, was-in his cell in the county jail here today recovering from. the legal pounding he received in the superior court yesterday in the fight for his life on a charge of mutfder, Be tng. Lppm. the dearlf fi) ‘Mrs. "Theresa it her, apartment here. The Kid's attorney was unsuccess- ful in his efforts to blcck testimony re‘ating to McCoy's rampage after he left the.apartment in. which Mrs. Mors was found shot to death on August 12. The trial will be resumed on Monday. PREMIER OF SWEDEN ILL COPENHAGEN, Dec, 13.(By The Associated Press,)—Hjalmar Brant- ing, premier of Swe(en, is seriously iil, according to advices reaching here today. It was said that he had developed inflammation of the lungs and that grave fears for his recovery were entertained. ao ECKERSALL TO REFEREE BIG XMAS BATTLE COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 13.—Selec- District Elder To Conduct Meetings The Rev. A. Randall, district eld- er of Cambridge, Neb., will be at the Mills Free Methodist church from December 16 to 21 inclusive, There will be special services every evening, beginning at 7:30, during the time he {s here. Both Confessions of Slayer Are Admitted tion of Walter Eckersall, of Chicago and B. C. Quigley, of St. Mary's, Kansas, as referee and umpire, re- Spectively, for the Missourl;Southern California football game at Los An- geles, Christmas Day, was‘announc- ed last night by C. L. Brewer, Uni- versity of Missouri, director of ath- jetics. Eckeraall is a football writer for the Chicago Tribune and Quigley @ National League umpire, is known SECOND LARCE STILL SEIZED BY THE POLICE Basement on South Melrose Gives Up Liquor Plant After Concealed Entrance Is Discovered Nine officers, led by Chief Bert S. Yohe and Federal Agent Bob Owens, sniffed and prowled their way for a half hour or more last night through the untenanted house at 609 South Melrose in futile search for an elusive purr of burning gas and a tantalizing fragrance of fermenting mash that hinted but did not betray the presence of a still somewhere within the echoing walls, barrels of mash, and 26 gallons of Upsthirs and down, poing curious] newly manufactured Mquor. A 15 flashlights into cluttered, dusty cor’| gallon jar under the snout of the ners, sounding walls that seemed| still was almost full. solid as pavement they went, ever Less than f've minutes later a spurred on, ever baffled by that] car drove up and Gus West and J intriguing odor, that steady chuckle! Sawyer stepped out into the ms of the hidien burner. of the ting posse. The two were At last Captain Farris’ eagle eye | confined for the rest of the ni detected a suspicious dampness in| the city jail, but this morning were a pile of sacks'on the basement] turned over to the federal officers floor, and lifting them, he disclosed | for prqsecution under the federal a frugal trickle of water, no bigger | prohibition act. than .a wheat straw. Encouraged| ‘This was the third distillery to be by this discovery, they continued | interrupted midway of !ts | opera- thelr search and shortly, largely by | tions in Casper or its immediate vi- accident, someone dislodged an ap-| cinity during the last two days, and parently solid two-by-four ostens'bly | enforcement officers were. gleefully supporting the basement stairway. | acclaiming a noticeable dearth sand revealed a cleavage in the sup-| the available suply posedly solid sponnets wall under | jiquor. sthe_stair, tin in of | spirituous Last Photo By NEA Airmail Service, Fatal illness of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, dated from thé hour that he climbed the steps of the Mexican national palace in ‘Mexico City for the inaugural cereinfhies of Elias Plutareo Calles as president of Mexico, Mr. Gompers in the above picture 1s shown congratulating the new president. (By United Press.) .. Samuel Gompers was the control: ling spirit of organized labor in the United States, Starting.at the age of fourteen, when he was an apprentice cigar maker, Gompers devoted virtually his entire life to advancing the wel: fare and intereats vf the working masses, ca proeecteimatey, as well, ps a . Gompers was one bf the founders ‘A tug, @ heave, and the big cowl setback yesterday. afternoon when of the American Federation of Labor erete block swung aside, releasing a| four pol'ce officers, led by. Roy gust of fetid atmosphere that sent Officer Owens gasping backward. When the cache had. been permitted to ventilate a minute, the officers entered and found tucked neatly away under the stair a plump still of perhaps 60 gallons capacity, 13 at332.North Ash street, 15 gallons of home-made wine and four gallons of whisky, and took Arbes to headquarters to answer a charge of illegal possession. He will have his hearing this afternoon. GASOLINE TAX IS OPPOSED Oil Producers and Distributors Will ‘Wage Campaign Against Further Increase of State Levies By ROBERT T. SMALL (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) FORT WORTH, Dec. 13. “As a result of the informal conferences held here during the late meeting of the American Petroleum Institute the oil producers and dis- tributors of the country have decided to make an aggres- sive. fight against a further increase of state taxes on gaso- line. “Nearly all states now impose a Some states already are assessing | tax in some amount on each gallon a tax of three cents a gallon and aj of gasoliné sold. The tendency 's few of these are proposing to raise] pronounced and continuous. The It to four. states that are lower than others The tax burden {s being borne! are not inclined to increase their without any great complaint at the| rates. Each seems afraid that it moraent because of the low price of | may not obtain its production in gasoline but the moment the cost of motor fuel begins to mount, as | revenue compared with other states What will be the situation when pro- Plummer, descended on E. A. Arbes ized some the oil men say, it must within the next few years, there is certain to be a great outcry and the oi! com- pantes feel they will-be heavily as- saled. Therefore, while they do not have to stand the tax which {s al- Ways passed on to the consumer, they feel the industry owes it to the motoring public to do all it can to keep the tax within reason, There {s a tendency in virtually all the states to look to a gasoline levy ns m means of rateing addi- tional revenue, Judge Amos L. throughout the country also as a basketball and football official, Benty, head of the Texas company, said: MOUNT VERNON, Ill., Dec, 13.— Successful in having Lawrence ‘M. Hight's two jail confessions of guilt admitted as evidence against him, the state today rested on its laurels during a recess until Monday in the trial of the former pastor and Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, who are charged with the murder by poison of Mrs, Anna Hight and Wilford Sweetin, Following the reading of a thied letter written td Mrs, Sweetin by yesterday, neighbors of the Sweetins »when they lived in Ina, were put on the stand in an attempt to establish the alleged guilt of the dead tnan's reer Moreland, R, ¥, Taylor and oe itunes Fisher, great aunt of ra Sweetin, gave the first testi- mony in the state’s case against Mrs. Sweetin, Moreland and Taylor said they had seen Mrs. Sweetin give her husband tomato soup one Sunday morning. Hight, a sequel to two notes pead! arly the next morning he died. Doctors at that time, sald death was due to ptomaine poisoning or harden ing of the liver, Then Mrs, Fisher told of how the tongues in the village began to was and that she had warned Mrs Sweetin that her name was being lined with that of the pastor. Hight's third letter, writte from Nashville jail, Oc chided Mrs, Sweetin for not when 11, answer. be ing his two former missivos prosecution probably will bo cluded Monday, duction declines and is less than po- tential consumption? Prices will advance. ,They will advance and these taxes will apply nevertheless and be passed on to the consumers. They will be just that much added to a price already considered high for a product that must be had. The taxes are not so objectionable when the price is low and in most states they serve an important purpose. But when prices go high without the taxes, it may be found necessary to revise the rates downward. What the traffic can stand now it may not stand then, It is always d fficult to reduce taxes and we may see the timo when these taxes will oppress consumers on the one hand and cut into our sales on the other. That will be bad for the industry, bad for the public and bad for the state.” The ofl men of the country are going to try to protect the public tn another respect—that of ridding the industry of the fake and flashy pro- moters. This {s ono case in which the co-operat’on of the government at Washington ts desired. There ars no actual statistics available but the statement has been mado here that the chance of a wild- entter drilling in hit or iiss fashion bringing in a production well is just about one in several hundred, Eyen where geologists have sur- veyed field and reported co:id'tions favorable, chances are enhanced to only about one tn fifty—certainly not more than one in twenty. The best advice given to a public that is lured #0 often to Invest fn of! ver (Continued on Page Three, and was the last survivop. of the sroup which, planned its @ tion! For more than a half tury, political ambitions, lucrat: busi- ness opportunities and the lure of fam were unable to deter him from his trade union activities. jganiza- RAILROAD WAGE NEGOTIATIONS COME 10 HALT Southern Pacific’: Em- ployes Awaiting lecision. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. —Negotiations between the 8 Pacific Railroad company af railroad brotherhoods haveg™@alted pending a definite reply of the com- pany to the demands of the em- ployes, it was stated at the conclu- sion of a conference here late last night, J. H. Dyer, genera]-manager of the railroad company, sdid that he expected to draft the ri@ply in time to be delivered to the eyaployes tomorrow. Following the Morning session today the’ employes ~ sub- mitted definite proposals and the answer of the company has-been agreed on at a conference of of fictals, Dyer stated, but the terme of neither proposition have been made public. State . Rie. 13. hern the by Carrier 75 cents a m e€asper Baily Tribune BNR . etbune sue! 216 £. Seger tp ee ae eee OMPERS. NOTED LABOR IEFTAIN, PASSES | AWAY TODAY RETURN TO U. S. FILLS LAST WISH End Comes in San Antonio 11°Hours After Close of Race With Death from Capital of Mexico SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec, 18.—(By. The Associated. Press.) Samuel Gompers, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, is dead. labor leader—that he die on The last wish of the veteran American soil—was granted when eleven hours after he returned to the United States from Mexico City where he labor. gathering, the aged leader breathed his last in a hotel here. Labor associates of the aged lead- er who accompanied him on his trip into Mexico were at his bedside when death came at 4:10 o'clock this morning. He had been ill for sev: eral months but h’s condition wes not regarded as serious until last Saturday when in Mexico City the _ LIFE. SKETCH Gompers was born in a. London slum quarter, January 27, 1850, and at the age of 10 was put to work in a shoe factory, but soon became ap- prenticed to the cigar trade. With his parents and several relatives he came to America in 1863 and was naturalized .an. American citizen when he became 21 years old, It has, heen. often’ sald» that Gompers was one of tie most skilled cigar makers;in the trade and’ al- Ways was assigned to “rolling” the most expensive cigars. First Union Member. In 1864 he became the first regis- tered member of the International Cigar Makers’ union and was soon elected secretary. Shortly afterward he was advanced to the presidency and was never removed from that office, When the American Federation of Labor was organized in 1881, Gompers was offered the presidency, but refused and served as vice presi- dent. The next year pressure was so great that he became president and he continued at the helm until 1894, when he was defeated by John McBride, representing the coal miners. . He was again elected president the following year and led organized labor for many years thereafter. For contempt of court in the fa- mous Buck’s stove case in 190% Gompers was sentenced to one year imprisonment. An appeal was made to the United Stetes supreme court and after dragging the case until 1914, the high court ruled that fur- ther action was barred by the statute of Imitation and he was relieved from serving the sentence. During his first five years as head of the American Federation of Labor Gompers received no salary, but was allowed his expenses, which amount- ed to $13 for the five years. When the federation underwent a reorgan! zation in 1886 Gompers was given an annual salary of $10,000. Including every important. union ip this country, the federation be- came a powerful organization under the guidance of Gompers. He al ways successfully combated tend encies toward socialism in the ranks of the labor movement and was an earnest advocate of industrial con cillation. Settled Many Strikes. It is said that Gompers settled more strikes by individual effori than any other man in labor history. During the World war, Gompers kept the labor forces behind the gov- ernment and served as chairman of he labor committee of the Council “f National Defense. He also made (Continued on Page Three) how Is Closed Friday With a final pompous displey of plumage accompanied by parting outburst of raucous squayking, the | first annual Wyoming Poultry, td Jand Potate show passed out last night at the Elke building tn a clow }of fine feathers and was acclaiméd by attending crowds as a grand success, Blue ribbon eggs were Humpty: Dumptys in for m great fall at 30 cents a dozen. The table on which hen fr as displayed was swept at the bargain | soon tee 4 Chickens, Glean turkeys uu dp vabbits | were sold right and left as Casper folks, made enthusiasts by the show, bought purebred stock to start back. yard poultry farms with. Many of tho premiums awarded yesterday went to local exhibitors. That there will be increased interest {n poultry here from now on as the result of the threedey show, is certain, At the concluding session of the growers yesterday afternoon tenta- Uve plans were made for forming a permanent organization of poultry vin this state. Depending upon (Continued on Page Fous) attended’ the Pan-American rarified alr is said to have aggra- vated’ his weakened condition. Surrounding him in his last mo ments were the men with whom he had fought many of labor's batik through a generation of American un‘on labor development. Hold'ng his hand were James Duncan of Quincy, Mass., vice: president of the federation,’ who has stood shoulder to shoulder with his leader for 44 years.. Their..parting was, pathetic. Holding his hand also was William D, Mahon of Detroit, prest- dent of the Amalgamnted Aasocia- ton of Street and Electric Rallway Joyes,- whom ‘the dy'ng federa- tion president affectionately called “Bill and whom he had told several days ago that he wished.to shake his hand just before he went. ‘There were others no less close te Mr. Gomp: ler of ‘the federation, ‘Martin | of Kansas City and Mathew Wolf ofChi- ago, all: members of the executive committee, were there. Frank Mor- Teumeererotery of the federation was close at the death bed. There also was his, nurse, Miss Mathilda “May of New York ‘City. who: had been with h'm since hie finess of last August. She remain- ed kneeling at the foot of his, bed as the shadow of death crept over the stricken leader. Death found Sam Gompers as life found him—a fighting. ‘man. He never gave up. When told by his Physician that he was passing, h jaw clenched as tightly -as. feeble strength would permit. He breathed heavier. Mr. Gompers’ last thought was of the American institut’ons he had labored so long to maintain. When he was convinced he could not win the battle he said to his nurse: “Nurse, this is the end.. God bless our ‘American instiutions. May they grow better day by day.” ¢ These words took his last strength and after that he was not able to utter a syllable. The great heart pulsed feebly and soon it ceased {ts wearled work. Until the moment when he slipped ‘nto unconsciousness, about an hour before his death, he was able to look into the future and was mas- ter of his own situation. He gave a few simple directions for his fun- eral, should the end come before morning. He talked to his follow- ers and called for life-long friends whose hands he wanted to clasp he- fore slipping off into the unknown. When Mr. Gompers became ill in Mexico City a few. days ago he ex- Dressed the wish that if he was'to die he wanted to pass away on American soll. * His _physiclans would not let him rise from’ his sick bed to go to the train, but had him taken on a stretcher and: plac ed him on a special conch, the stretcher being passed through oa window. This was sald to havegiven rise to the report that he was dead. His w'sh to reach his own coun- try before death should overtake ‘um almost was defeated for he sank very low on the journey up from Mexico City. ‘Dr. W. 8S. Cockrell, his physician, sald that had Mr. Gomp ers remained In the high altitude of Mexico City six hours longer he could not have reached the United States alive. The complications which combined to end‘the career of the famous la- bomleader have beset his aging body for"reveral years, according to his physicians, but the final acute at- tack was brought on bya change weather in Mexico City, which re- sulted in a cold and congestion of the lungs and the body worn by in- tense labor at the recent American Federation of Labor convention’ in El Paso, could offer little resistence to the assault. His mind and. wil, however, resisted with all their might, and their determination to ‘ive if only a few hours longer en- abled him to go to his final rest in the country where live laboring men he has championed and defended through a whole lifetime. In his dying moments Mr, Gom- pers had an opportunity to witness the affection in which he was held by his own people and the public as well. As his cot was being lowered from the special car in the railroad yards a great throng gathered to have a peek at the sick man. According to C. N. Idar of San Av- tonio, general o r for the (Continued on Page Three)