Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 1

Portion ~ tonigh: ith minimum 10 to 15 below zero. bli wave south d cold Wednesday. VO NEAGURY HERE WILL TAKE BE DWE TONIGHT Temperature Today of Two Below Zero Is Recorded. B-E-W-A-R-E! Mr. Weather Man, work- ing out of the Cheyenne weather bureau, predicts a temperature drop of from 10 to 15 degrees below zero for ‘onight. means the coldest sther since the 30 below drop of the! first week in January of this year, Get your automobile radiators in shape for the cold blast. Protect the water pipes, keep the home fires burning and dig up the red under- wear seems to be the advice of the hour. ‘The blizzard which yesterday par- alyzed parts of northern Montana, has arrived in parts. What is still lagging behind will be here before Bete nppopine. to the weather toca reat “showed the almost unprecedented temperature drop of ai cy situs resttas afternoon at 4 o'clock to two below zero in tne! early hours of this morning. ‘vhose two figures are the maximum and minimum of the last two days. The mercury hovered around two velow all through the forenoon and sent pedestrians scurrying throygh the streets in search of warmth and shelter. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 16.— A light snow began falling here this morning shortly after 10 o'clock fol- lowing a’drop in temperature in the hour period ending at 6 o'clock, 32 degrees. The temperature at 0:30 this morning was 10 degrees above with the forecast of a drop to 12 degrees below. with continued snow throughout today, tonight and tomorrow, SHERIDAN REPORTS 16 BELOW ZERO. SHERIDAN; Wyo., Dec. 16.—With the thermometer indicating tempera- tures fluctuating from 13 to 16 de- grees’ below: zero, Sheridan Tuesday was suffering from far the most se- vere cold spel of the season. The mercury dropped steadily last night and early this morning until it regictered 16 degrees below zero at 6 o'clock. At noon, the thermo- meter read 13 degrees below, but it was predicted by the weather bureau here that the next few hours would see another drop. WINTOSH REW “COMPTROLLER WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Joseph M. McIntosh of Illinois, deputy comptroller of the currency, was nominated by President Coolidge to- day to be comptroller, succeeding Henry M. Dawes, who recently re- signed,,. NO. 58 The circulation " The Tribune. is. greater than ed ollie Wyoming newspaper. | Che Casp Mi 18 : Se BAST Harbor Fleet at Seattle Turns Out to Rescue 14 Girls On Ship Torn From Moorings By Gale The Camaraderie, used as a h moorings. Rudderless, without captain or crew, the girls were at the mercy of the gale as the vessel swung from its moorings and crushed three »ouse boats in which families were iving, side swiping a coast guard vessel as it was carried into mid channel. While several tugs were out searching for the Camaraderie early today, a police boat found the craft tossed about at a spot where nine government rum chasing craft were anchored. Police Captain E. C. Collier said the girls would not be removed until later in the day when the gale was expected to subside, Attempts were being made early today to refloat harbor patrol boat number 1, which was beached last night southwest of Seattle, after the harbor ship tried to render assist-' ance to.a tug in distrers. The tug disappeared after cutting loose her lumber scow. The scow was beached near the harbor boat and was a loss, Heavy seas also damaged 9 third vessel. A seam was opened mi the sound steamer 46 Handy, a 150 ton freighter owned by the ‘Merchants Transportation company. The Vessel was half filled with water. She was saved from sinking bythe strong mooring holding her to a pier. The gale which lashed the waters of Elliott Bay, Lakes Washington and Union, and Puget Sound follow- ed the first heavy western Washing- ton snow storm of the season. The snow fall ranged from five to nine inches in Seattle, to 11 and 12 inches in other cities on this side of the Cascade mountains. Similar conditions existed in the Canadian province of British Colum- bia, -joining Washington on the north, Near Vancouver, B. C. the wind reached 80 mies an hour and the mercury dropped to three de- grees above zero. The storm was forecast to go south to California. A wireless dispatch to the Assoct- ated Press from Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutians, related that a gale blowing since Saturday had damaged a Russian church there that had figured in history. The steamer San Pedro, a lumber carrier,/was ashore early today with a cargo on the south spit at the entrance to Gray’s Harbor, Washing- ton. Tugs’ were standing by, await- Ing high tide and favorable weather before attempting to extricate the craft. 27 BELOW ZERO Is RECORDED AT HELENA. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 16. Heléna’s temperature of 27 below was the lowest temperature recorded in Montana last night at any of the six weather bureau stations in the state which reported to Helena head- quarters this morning. By seven o'clock this morning the mercury had dropped another degree her Fine snow, apparently drifting wit the storm which since Sunday night has been sweeping along the eastern slope of the Rockies from Canada, is gencral in jhe state. Last night the cold wave had spread west over the continnetal divide. Seldom in Montana have there , Wash., Dec. 16.—Fourteen girls, aboard the Camaraderie, formerly an ocean going shipping board ves- sel, were carried adrift on the storm tossed waters of Union Lake here, during the night, and early today tugs, harbor boats and coast guard craft organized to rescue the girls. been ranges in temperatures as have come with the present blizzard. In He’ena ouse boat, was torn from its such sudden and extreme the range has been 91 degrees since Sunday afternoon, a drop of 78 de- grees being recorded in 24 hours. ‘This has been true generally of oth- er Montana points. Sixteen below zero was the highest minimum last night at any of the (Continued on Page Seven) HUGE CARGO OF TOYS AND EATS LEFT AT ELKS BY SANTA WHILE RIDING CREST OF BIG STORM ‘With the storm from the frozen North, which swooped down upon Casper last night, came old Santa Claus .and his» reindeers, and. strange as it may he mad only one stop in the city—at the Elks Club, corner Seventh and Cen- ter streets, where he left great loads of toys and candy and nuts for the little folks of Casper. “There: were Uttle choo-choo mec! nd ‘little fizzy dogs and innumer- mama. dolls, able other toys to delight the heart of the little folks of Casper. All trains, hanical toys, climbing monkeys these) things’ which Santa BODY OF GOMPERS LIES IN STATE ME EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1924 TWOVETERANS DIE. IN FIRE BEAUVOIR, Miss., Dec. 16.—Two confederate veterans were burned to death and two injured when fire destroyed a dormitory of the Jeffer- son Davis Soldiers’ home today. Bauverse boc N RUN DOWN BY CAR LEFT. &rO DIE BY UNKNOWN DRIVER TORM AND COLD SWEEP NORTHWEST WATER FATE TO SMALL CONSUMER 1S UNCHANGED CITY ORDINANCE APPROVED ON SECOND READING Commissioner Points Out Danger of Deficit If Rate Reduction Is‘Extended by City; Contract Claims. Are Discussed. Any slash in the of city water would be. cil last night. resent rates paid by small consumers made only at grave peril of a defi cit, W. H. Johnson, water commissioner told,the city coun- On the strength of his report the proposed rate ordinance, reducing the charges for large consumers but leaving the figures in the ower branches unchanged, Claus left are going to be given away to the children of the city at the: Elks (Club) on Christmas ‘morning, and every child in Casper ds invited to, be there and ‘receive the good things which the Elks and Santa Claus. have’ provided fir them. : Howeve: ing: the toys°are co! under with work, and they are call- ing for volunteers to be at the Elks ‘Club ton’ght and help wrap and label the. good, things which. Santa TRIBUNE PUZZLE FANS: GRAB OFF PRIZES IN CONTEST LAST NIGHT Puzz'e fans who romped into the Tribune office last Friday with © their eolutions for the first big prize enigma an\ hour or so after the papers were off the presses found the second riddle, published yesterday, not quite so simple. ‘There was horizontal number eight, for instance — a word of three letters, now obsolete, indl- cating an overflow of water. It took laborious toil with the dictionary to unearth R-E-E, even with ver- tical number three, “‘what the newsboys yell in Casper,” as a clue Nobody. had any trouble deducing that as T-R-I-B. Nevertheless, though the suc- cessful so!utions were not quite so numerous ¢r quite so prompt, they ‘began to dribble in during the eve- ning. Again speed was the deciding criterion, and to the first four cor- rect solutions the Tribune will award the four prizes. The lucky persons need only call at the! Trib- une’ office, Miss Ida S. Newell, of the New York Oil company, was not only the first perscn to submit a cor- POISON TOLL IS CLIMBING ine Deaths in Gotham Are Charged to Moonshine, 67 Other Victims in Single Hospital, Claim NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The death toll from poison liquor during the last three days mounted to nine with the death today of Abraham Botnoy in a Brooklyn hospital. Sixty-seven, other poison victims are in Belleyue hospital. Twelve of them are not expected to live. y The death list for December is 25, a | thorities haye started unusually en- tic activities to curb the sale of nous liquor #4 the, Christmas may be blinded. “cord number, \roused by the wave of alcohol! Ccaths, the police and prohibition au: | pot holidays approach. The police are sending to federal authorities the ad- dresses of suspicious places. enty-five prisoners arrested for drunkenness, some of them found unconscious. in gutters and exposed to the bitter cold, were arraigned last night. Denouncing liquor traffickers who sell poinsonous concoctions, Magistrate Simpson dismissed most of the prisoners with a warning. A few old offenders were sentenced to workhouse terms. Federal prohibition officials say that the prevalence of poison Mquor is due to the embargo against smug- Several others | ging which has been established off the coast by the coast guard patrol. Two of the poison victims who died during the past threo days were wo mca. rect answer but was first under the wire with any sort of solution. To her goes the $7.50 merchandise order as first prize. J.P. Golden, 634 South McKinley captured second prize. He was fourth man in. He will receive an order for $5 worth of merchandise. Third honors, and a merchandise order worth’ $2.50, be:ong to L. W. Sherer, 548 South Lincoln. Mrs. C. K. Fletcher, 429 East Railroad, will receiye a year’s sub- scription to the’ Tribune, the fourth award. There will be another puzzle con- test oné of these days. Be on the watch for it. Another ad puzzle contest will be found in phe Meets issue. SLUSH FUND PROBE ENDED WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—The sen- -ate campaign fund committee made short work today of its inquiry into a “million dollar Republican slush fund" purported to have been hand- led through four western reserve banks. Finding no. evidence to sup- port the story,-the committee gave up the trail after a brief hearing. Counsel for Senator LaFoilette, who originally suggested that line of inquiry, informed the committee through Chairman Borah that they themselves believed that telegrams supposed to deal with the “slush fund” were forgeries. ALLENBY IS THREATENED LONDON, Dec. 16.— Viscount Allenby, British high commissioner for Egypt, received a letter threaten- ing his life and signed “The Black Hand" before leaving Cairo Monday for His visit to*Alexandria, says a dispatch to the Dafly Mail, The Daily Telegraph's Cairo cor- respondent reports that a great ma- jority of the British and other for- eign officials haye decided to exer- there remains a big:job to be done, and Co]. Alfred Brile, Jim Wiederhold and the other Elks fm charge of wrapping and distritint- wed first Claus left for the ltle folks of: Cas- per. joy doing things for left for Casper . kiddos. BEDFORD, lowa,; pj ea fuvssziral Hough, 23 years ol pdistriet court- here degree murder in: coi with the slaying on August’ of Lilian McKenney” of Herrick, 8S. D.,{,was sentenced’ today to life imprisonment. If you are @ good Elk and en- the children, be at the Elks Club tonight and help the personal representatives of Santa Claus wrap the presents he moose of ‘was passed on second reading. Mr. Johnson pointed out that at present the expenses of the water department, including the cost of supplying water and the bonded in- debtedness, amountéd to about $120,000 a year. The annual income fon Baba: peparent oe about $146,000, if $26,000. - The ditnstion in So) cokdcmeaee by the three refineries. and the proposed :re- duction to larger consumers, a step deemed -vital to the encouragement of industry in \Caaper, will virtually wipe out this: ‘aepcha’ Mr. Johnson ‘asserted. ithat the” thousand j gatlons,- with in the weat. “Phe Thermopolls rat fhe cited, ts ‘60 cents ee Budsbahd: and/tariffs: in Colorad6 cities range from 30 to 40 cents. : @Wontinyad on: rage Seven) National Headquarters Receives. Re- mains at End of Long Journey From San:Antonio, Texas WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—-Within the halls of the structure where he had carried on his toil of years for the cause of organized labor in America, a space was/set apart today to receive the body of Samuel Gompers in a last tribute to his Jeadership. _ The familiar corridors of Labor, headquarters, silenced utterly, of all activity since the hour of hig death, has seemed to sense the mean- ing of It even before the body of the dead Jabor chieftain was borne there for a last brief stay. It remained only for th® quiet tread of his host of friends and associates in the te fonal capital, seeking their last sight of him as the casket lay there in ‘state, to make the meaning wholly clear. Reaching in the mid-afternoon the end of its long journey here from San Antonio, Texas, the body from thence was claimed the special charge of Mr. Gompers' closest as- aoclates here in arrangement for the funeral procession from the Union Station to the headquarters bulla-ng in Northwest Washington. « Borne through the president’s room in the station, the spacious plaza fronting it was the forming point for the procession, including members of the federation’s executive council and other labor chiefs and associates arriving on the train w'th the body. John B. Colpoys, Washington puv- lisher, was named marshal of ‘the procession, with six labor heads des. ignated as active pall bearers. Reposing in state in the federa- tion building for six hours, the body shortly after 10 o'clock tonight will be borne for the last time through : the ‘American Federation of its portals to be started on the way to its last resting place in Sleepy Hollow cemetery at.Tarrytown, New York. The hour for opening the doors of the building to the public had been arranged to permit a first op- portunity to the family to remain with the body for a brief time after its arrival. Ritualistic services conducted at the bier tonight by the Washington lodge of Elks, to be followed by the placing of a wreath on the casket by members of the Mystic, Shrine,” were the only cere- monial features of the tribute. The reception hall of the building selected for the casket's repose, is a plainly, almost: barely, furnished room, with sweeping wall; space broken’ only by an oil portrait of the dead labor chtef and‘an antler's head, giving to him by Wyoming Trade Unionists. « ENTIRE NATION TO SHARE IN HONOR NEW YORK, Dec. 16—The en- tire nation, officially and through representatives of finance, business, Industry “and professions, will share with labor in honoring .its dead chieftain, Samuel Gompers, at his funeral here Thursday morning, it was indicated in completed arrange. ments announced by Hugh Frayne, (Continued on Page ‘Et, The Seainsentones. also _recalled rcpate, 20 cents per 23 -wint- inj mum. per quarter, was .byfar the lowest. charger" ‘obtaining anywhere cise their option and quit the Egyptian service next April. AD) READING SAVES STEPS How many steps do you waste on a shopping tour? The majority of women waste miles of .walking in the course of a year’s shopping. The reason for this is simple. It is all explained by the fact that they do not know where a certain item or items can be found at a price that is commensurate with what they want to pay. One Casper woman, shopping last Saturday, walked past four stores where a certainitem she wanted was on sale at a spe- cial price. She bought the itegn but paid more for it than any of these four stores were asking. Read the Tribune advertising carefully and you will not only save money but miles of unnecessary walking. at Newstand Cartier 18 cents’ FOR ARREST OF SLAYER The Casper Dally Tribune will pay $100 reward for information leading to the arrest of the motorist who last night ran down and fatally injured Mrs. C, Kest- ing at the corner of Durbin and C streets, and made his escape without any attempt to assist his victim or atone for his criminat carelessness, No more cowardly crime has ever mt Perpetrated in Casper, and Tribune takes this means et encouraging officers and police to bend every effort to the spprehension and conviction miscreant. of the -—_ SIX LIVES ARE LOST IN BLAZE' NEW YORK, Dec, 16.—Six per. sons are dead as the result of a fire early today in an apartment house on lower Fifth avenue. The “fire occurred but'two blocks from Mount Sina hospital and the at- tendant noise and confusion awak- ened patients who found the sky about the institution a quivering red. Doctors and nurses assured patients there was no danger. OGDEN, Utah, Deo. 16.—Lewis Hoopes and his two dalighters aged. 10 and “14)-were burned- to pdeath. early this morning when fire destroyed the Hoopes home at )Tetonia, Idaho, according to word recelyed here. Mrs. Hoopes ‘who ‘escaped unharmed notified her, brother here of the tragedy. Letter of 44 Words Put In Needle’s Eye WASHINGTON, Dee. 16.—A forty-four word letter, reposing in the eye of a needle, has been re- ceived at the Smithsonian Institu- tion. The microscopic missive, which was rent to the institute for display before the annual meeting of the board of regents, {s so small it has to be magnified 88 times before it can be read. The text of the letter follows: “This is a crude, hurriedly pre- pared, large sample of micro-en- graving. I trust: it will contdin a moment of interest, to the regents, and regret that the time prevents preparing an exhibition more worthy of their inspection. Be- Ueve me to be, yours cordially, Alfred McEwen.” 'StOOREWARD |||NJURY PROVES FATAL TO. MAG. RESTING, FOUND ON W. DURBIN Driver Drags Victim to Side of Street and Leaves Her in Uncon- scious State. Hurled to the pavement by a motorist who raced on leav- ing her unconscious in the bitter cold, Mrs, C. Kesting, 60 years old, 282 North Park avenue, died at 4:30 this morning in the County hospital. Death came to her nameless and friendless, officials were making fruitless ef forts to ascertain her fdentity. Identification was not made until 10 o'clock this morning, when Mrs J. J, Condon, proprietor of - the Bachelor's club, 230 North Park, be- came alarmed at her neighbor's ab- sence and went to the Shaffer-Gay chapel, where the bo had been taken. Efforts were being made to- day by. the police to locate Mr. Kesting, a. brick mason known to bo employed at present in Denver. Mrs..W..H. Looyestyn, Mr..Ker- ting's sister, who lives at 1249 South lrose, was notified this morning and Mr. Kesting’s Denver address obtained from her. Up to 3 o'olock this afternoon Coroner Lew Gay had received no reply to his tele- gram notifying him of the tragedy. No clue to tho fdentity of the death driver had been discovered up to noon. A pool of blood on the pavement, fifteen feet from the curb- ing in front of 351 North Durbin where the injured woman was found, and a trail of glass, apparently fron a shattered headlight, leading east- ward into © strest, are the only shreds of evidence on which police pinned their meager hope of running down the magn. First knowledge of the catastrophe came about 6:35 last night when Bert Lawton, 706 South Lawton, left the office of the Casper Coal and Coke company, 359 North Durbin, to enter iS Car on the opposite side of the t and came racing back with word that a woman's body~ was lying on the opposite curb, While Leslie M. Nelson telephoned police headquarters, Mr. Lawton and O. W. Twiggs attempted to apply first ‘aid Measures, helleving at first that the aged woman was suffering from a heart attack. The Shaffer-Gay am- bulance was summoned immediately after the arrival of Officers Plum- mer, Ideen and McDowell and the Woman was taken to the County hospital. Examination there dis- closed that she was suffering froma fractured skull and internal injuries, and despite the efforts of Dr. N. C. Geis she never again regained con- sciousness. That the driver may have stopped his machine after rounding the cor- ner, returned to the sido. of his victim, dragged her over to the curb- (Continued on Vago Eight.) SD CONFESSION OF MRS. SWEETIN IS RUL ED OUT Partner in Crime of Pastor Slayer De- nounces Hight as “Mad Man” on Taking the Witness Stand 3 MOUNT VERNON, Ills., Dec. 16.—Judge J. C. Kern ruled today that the alleged confession made by Mrs. Elsie Sweetin to officers after a night of questioning could not go to the jury as evidence in her joint trial with Lawrence M. Hight for the poison murder of her husband, Wilford Sweetin. SRNON, Ill., Dec. 16,— disie Sweetin, who with La M. Hight, is on trial for the of ther husband and Mrs. Anna Hight, today was eager to en large upon her denouncement of her alleged former r, which she be. gan on the witne stand yesterday. There was no tr of love in her vo! as she called Hight a * ad man,” denied she had ever loved him and accused him of frightening her into a confession. Hight, according to Mrs. Sweetin, during their Ione meeting in the Jef- ferson county sheriff's office after their arrest, said “ ‘I’ve told them you killed your hueband,’ I insisted that I had not, nd h ‘never mind, they all ve you did.’ Finally he said,’ she continued ‘if you,don't say you did it, it will only be a few hours before you are (Continued on Page Hight) while poltce and hospital ,