Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1924, Page 1

ENCH WOULD CEDE ISL EAL OPPOSED IN -GAPITAL AS ALAST RESORT Vierdl' Wears: Delay 1s Likely Before Trade Comes Up. , By. LUDWELL DENNY. ed Press Staff Corrospondent) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. nto the dull discussion of res; on- refunding the mch. debt to’ America ré burst today the color- f “and romantic words, b and Papeete, he magic isles of the southern », Which drew Stevenson, Gaug- ‘qhd Melville to their fronded may yet float. the Stars and+ negotiations on the French lowed down and a settlement in sight for several months, to- cal ‘trouble this couritry Paanour any gain that the Society islands would even tert Sreat Britain, however, is said tc pr..the plan. because she prefer: h6 United States to France as a shbor to Australia and New Zeal- »and would welcome us. @| Society , islands are. said to ar : value as a naval basc ntintied(on: Page Eleven.) RS. ROSS TO 30 TO TEXAS v Texas, ‘Dec. 13,—(United Unk ‘official duties inter- two natfonal figures—Governor mith of New York and Mrs. Nel- , Ross, governor-elect of Wyo- attend the inauguration Ma" Ferguson, as° governor of Dg $ } Samuel Gompers. re No one‘is apparent in seems strong’enough to av is hoped for: is that a satisfactory regent’ be established )to» tide ‘Jabor, over until the annual labor. conyen- tlon in Noyember, 1927. Gomper ruled as dictator anq his policy was to suppress internecine quarrels to one! aim, defeat of the open shop and the procurement and maintenance of, wage increases. All these now Come to the surface, with the same alms of ‘labor to’ de- feat these questions. . The presidency of the’ fede: naturally {s/the prize sought. by all for the strategy advantage in, disputes and: every faction iss mined to ite aturday. Marks Close of Campaign in Casper With Total of $45,167. to ‘~~ \Carry.on Work for Year . fhe Ferguson inaugural commit- sent invitations to both and py have indicated they wou'd at- less duties of state inter- j{nauguration takes place Jan- ten, days after Mrs. Ro! ugurated at Cheyenne. the intervening time she to dispose of all official bust- that she may witness “Ma's” wilt ry 80 Casper’s $45,000 Community Chest is crammed and brimming, with a good handful or-two of shéekels spilling over for good measure. . Word that the fund had reached its goal, assuring Sal- vation Army, Red Cross, Boy and Girl Scouts, Y. W. C. A. and their associated services a budget adequate for their vital work of salving human suffer-;M, A. ?Becklinger as general chair- ing and reclaiming human wreck-|man, has fought’ forward in the age, came yesterday as the climax|teeth Of discouragement.and rebuffs of four’ weeks of strenuous, almost! innumerable, grimly determined that Cesperate effort.» Since the drive|nothing short of conclusive victory formally Jaunched at a dinner|should be permitted to end the , owomber 19, th> yalian: | battle. army 0f aodlicitors, ieaded by! Tha: victory was clinched yeater- tec: luie sfdent and the reppesi _E LOOM Organized Labor Prsparel for Certain Struggle Expested as Result of Death of Veteran Dictator By WILLIAM J. LOSH (United Press Staff Correspondent) _ WASHINGTON, Dec. .13.—Organized labor tonight girded for the certain war. among the leadérs of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor over succession to the throne of le whole empire of labor who the struggle. The most that The executive council of the fed- eration in'which is vested the power to- pick the temporary successor to Gompers will meet here in the next few weeks, to do It’s job. If cool heads prevail, a compromise candi- date will be picked and the ensuing months before the annual conven: tion will be devoted to perfecting altenments for the major struggles. If they do not, the big battle may be precipitated at.once, and while the fight rages, the.empire that Gomp- ers built may disintegrage: , Matthew Woll, seventh vice prest- mtative of the (Continued g day afternoon, when reports’ from several of the cleanup teams shove the fund past the goal to a total of $45,167.40 collected or pledged. , It was expected that one or two ovt- standing reports would swell | this slightly.. There will be no difficulty in finding a use for any excess, since there invariably, is a certain deficit due to failures to pay up the entire sums pledged. Credit for financing Casper's wel- fare and social serviceynext year is divided among 2,810 individual sub- scribers. “Casper has made good once more, as we knew it would,” was the ver- dict expressed last. night by “Mr, Becklinger. “#here were some who said {it couldn't be done. We've showed them that Casper's heart is just as big, her pocketbook just as well stuffed and as open to legitimate demands as it. has ever been. The (Continued on Page Eleven.) ‘ CASPER, WYOMING, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14,1924 eee ILDING HELD ASSURED Ames) weO HH sig" ANDS TO PAY DEBT e.- Ss Itinerary o Gompers Train SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 13.— (United Press).—The itinerary of the Gompers funeral train over the M. KX. and T. lines follows: Leave ‘San Antonio: 11 p. m., ar- rive Fort! Worth, 7:45 a. m.- Sunda: depart 8 a. m., arrive McAlester, Okla., 245 p..m., depart 2:45 p. m. arrive Muskogee 4:25. p. m., leave 30 p. m., arrive Parson: 25, EIGHT-CENT CAR FARES FOR DENVER DENVER, Colo., Dec, 13.—{United Press)-—Eight cent fares were made permanent in Denver today by the ruting of Federal Circuit Judge Rob- ert BE. Lewis, who held that the val- uation of the Tramway company was $23,514, and that {t was entitled to earn 7% per cent on its ‘money. Judge Lewis also held that the Tramway company must pay the city of Denver $5,000 a month for the use of the city’s stréets, until 1926, after which time old ordinances of the city will come into effect giv- ing the Tramway company perpet- ual right to the streets under ‘ease- ment. ice MEMBERSHIP OF RED CROSS. 15 CLIMBING With less‘than one-third of the chapters in central division Ameri- can.Red Cross reporting a total of 411,407 members have been enrolled in the eighth annual roll call... This represents an) incre: of’ 68,000 members in those.chapters. over last complete membership. Michigan, Minnesot: Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyo- ming, seven ofithe ten states in cen tral division have increased their membership according to’a report. {s: sued today at headquarters in Chi- cago, In Illinois and Nebraska prac- tically every chapter reports an in- create. A substantial increase in tho {inal result throughout the di- vision is anticlpated. D. m., leave 7:25 p. m.; arrive | Se- dalla Mo:, 12:15 a.\m. Monday, leave 20 a. m., arrive St. Louis 7:30 a. msMonday. The car will remain in St. Louis until 12:05 Monday, then will fcllow this schedule: Arrive Vincennes, Ind.) on ‘the Ba‘timore {and Ohio at 3:50 p. m.; Jeayes 3:50 p. m.; arrive Mitchell at 5 p. mi; leave Mount Vernon, Ind., D.-™m.; arrive Cincinnat!,8:55 p. leave 9:20 p. m.; arrive Midland ¥, Ohio, 10:48 p. m.,/leave 10:48 p. m.; arrive Parkersburg, 3:40 a. m. Tuesday, leave 3:45 a, m.; arrive Graftoh 7:10 a. m., leave 7:15 a. m.; arrive Cumberland 10:50 a. m., leave 11:55 9. m.; arrive Washington 2:46 Dp. m., Tuesday afternoon, OFFICER AND NEGRO SLAIN ~ANGUN FIGHT TLKHART, Ind., Dec. 13.—(United Press.)}—Henry W. Westz, an Elk- hart patrolman, and ag unidentified negro were killed, while. Lyna Fonda, a deputy sheriff, and two others were wounded in a shooting affray at a road house hear here tonight, Westz, Fonda and several aids answered'a riot call from the road house. and found an argument in progress between white and colored patrons. , Without warning a negro shot Westz, who died almost. instantly, A epectator shot the negro gtinman, the latter dying a few minutes later, General shooting followed, Fonda, one of his aides and. several road house patrons being struck by flying bullets. y Mrs. Ella McConnell, 30, died in Elkhart hospital a few hours after the shooting, raising the death to'l to three. The Weather Wyoming—Unsettied with prob- ably rain or snow in north and east east portion Sunday or Monday; colder Monday. Crifnme OVER SUCCESSOR TO POST Hundreds'File Past Bier in Tribute to Late Labor Chieftain Before Train Leaves San Antonio & By S. A. BARKER (United Press Staff Correspondent) 13.—Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, began his last journey tonight—a journey ‘that will take him to Sleepy Hollow cemetery, Tarrytown, N. Y., his last resting SAN ANTONIO; Dec. place. \ The Katy.Flyer, bearing the bronze casket enclosing the rema‘ns of ,the vetefan labor men- tor, pulled, out.of the M. K. and T. station here at 11:07 o'clock. Gompers'’ associates—fellow mem- bers and executives of the federa- tion—stood at their leader's flower bedecked casket and offered silent Prayer’ as\the train slipped out of the station. Outside,- in. the station — sheds, union labor officials stood uncovered and (prayed. . Tear-dimmed eyes watched the trails move slowly into the n’ght as massed bands of San Antonio labor temple softly played Chopin's funeral: dirge. ‘With local labor organizations and detachment from the local army Post for an escort, the body, in a great bronze casket,-moved slowly to the railroad station ton'ght where it was placed on an observation car for the first leg of thé journey to St. Louis, All day long hundreds of persons filed past the bier of the venerable labor leader. The streets were. jam med as the funeral cortege started its slow march to the station. So dense was the throng that police were compelled to break an avenue. When tha casket was lifted on to the observationgear, the little body of labor leaders’ arranged themselves around the casket. The guard will be maintained until the body reaches ta destination. Huge, masses of flowers were pil- ed high about the casket. Many brief stops will be made Lalong the route, according to the present schedule. In Washington, from where Gompers directed the activities of ‘his organization, a stop of several hours will be made. Funeral services were tentatively scheduled for Wedneslady morning in New York, All funeral arrangements were placed tn the hands of fedefation officials by Mrs. .G. A, Gompers, widow of the labor leader, who talk- ed to fedetation officials here by tele- phone from Wawhington. Tenative funeral urrangements, sho, sald, inglude brief service in MAIN NEWS SECTION NO. 21 ‘DREANT GOMINE TAUE IN NEXT YEAR, PUBLIG TO AEAP RENEFITS City Park Suggested as Site for Magnificent Structure to Answer Civic Needs. Magnificent in architec- ture, imposing in propor- tions and designed to meet every ci demand, that dream building of Casper’s —a community building and public auditorium—is soon to be- come a y. Inviting use by all Casper Intended tu be convenient in locas tion and at the same time fit in with other beautiful buildings in the city, the community hall will Probably be erected on the ground now devoted to the city park. The Suggestion on location comes from many citizens who believe the plot all too small for park purposes now that the city has outlying acreage that can be improved on a more elaborate scale. On the park site the Community building would with+ out doubt, be the dominating pile of a surrounding group of Casper's finest public and»quast-public bulld- ings. By being’situated in the city park {t will contribute to the metropolitan echeme of a civic center. Already three new structures stand as monu- ments of the civic center idea: in effect. ‘These are st. Anthony's Cathy church, the Elks building The foundation"? n = the First Presbyterian church on the south, and the ground adjoining cleared ‘for preliminary work ‘on & new First Methodist church. Though occupied’ by the old city hall, th block west of the city park’ will eventually be the site of a combined city and county building. Not ‘a great deal farth west are the high school buildings to which are being added a $600,000 structure. Tt is probable that in the future ground between the city hall and the’ hig school will be taken over by th munieipality and converted into a parkway. That it 1s now. possible to lool (Continued on Page Four) anh dbase 41 sci) UNITED HOME BUILDERS TO GO ON TRIAL CHEYENNE, Wyo,, Dec. 13. — (Special to the Tribune)}—William T. 8. Barnes, his son, Arthur L. Barnes, and William D, Hooper, of- ficers of the United Home Builders association of Casper, wi'l go on trial here Monday morning in the federal court on the charge of using the mails to defraud, unless they plead guilty, it was announced Saturday by United States Attorney A. D, Wal- ton. The defendants offered to plead guilty Friday, Walton stated today, but changed thelr minds after Judge Kennedy had been summoned to the court to receive their pleas. YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLE SCCRED AS TOO SELFISH \Omaha Health Commissioner Explains Attitude Based on Failure of Many to Bear Children dead New York, Wednesday morning, Rabbi Stephen 8, Wise and Rabbi Morris Wilder will officiate, Gompers' ‘associates bowed and wept unrestrainedly as the casket was placed aboard the special coach, in readiness for the journey to Tar- rytown. Gompers died at the St. Anthony hotel here at 4:05 o'clock this morn- ing after a race with death from Mexico City where heart affliction (Continued on Page Five) By DR. A. S. PINTO (Omaha City Health Commissioner) : (Written for The Casper Tribune) OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 18.—Selfishness of young married couples is threatening the stork and unless some drastic steps are taken, children of our foreign-born inhabitants will soon predominate in the United States. It was with this idea in mind that I made my recent statement advocating divorces after two years if 20 chil- dren are born with only selfish ends in view, Both Although very few people seem to] husband and wife keep on working agree with me, I am sticking by my | and ving in erowded apartments guns, or family hotels with no idea of The chief reason for the decreas raising a family tn their minds, ing birth rate among our native This is produo'ng the “clinging stock is m fed women tn industry. | vine’ they possess As long as the A ver lars perey our) wife continues working, the hug you cople now are marrying | (Continued on Puge Four) ntago of