Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 1

bar laq an OL OE iE 34 MAIN NEWS SECTION Che Casper Sund MAIN NEWS SECTION EIGHT CARRIED TO DEATH WHEN ay Crime CASPER, WYOMING, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1924 NO. 22 RAIL CAR TAKES .60-FOOT DIVE LESLIE PARKER LAYS CLAIM TO TEAPOT OIL TWO FUGITIVES WANTED HERE UNDER. ARREST >Garl Peterson and- L. L. Lee Captured in Denver Two Casper fugitives, one under sentence for bootlegging, the other facing a charge of forgery, are be- ing held by the Denver officials and ® member of Sheriff Perry Morris’ staff will leave for Colorado today to bring them back. Carl Peterson was apprehended in Denver’ more than a year after he jumped his appeal bond and van- ished. Peterson was convicted on Oc- tober 15, 1923, of bootlegging, and ‘Was sentenced to spend 90 days in the county jail and pay a fine of $500. He filed notice of his inten- tion to/appeal, but never appeared. I. L. Lee will be brought back to stand trial on a charge of fcrgery. Lee is accused of parsing a fraudu- Jent check for $18, signed with the mame of U. 8. Miller, contractor, at the expense of Ge orge B. Johnson, who @ grocery store at 100 South Ash. Leo was arrested on No- vember 7, but Was released when Mr. Miller declined to prosecute, aut the he-tras not to ERROR CONNECTS: NAME OF BEGKLINGER WITH HOME BUILDERS’ LOAN ‘confusion in names in reporting Sthe trial at Cheyenne of officers of the United Home Builders asso- clation of Casper made it appear that MM. A. Becklinger of Casper had par- ticlpated in a loan made by that or- ganization during its operation here. ‘The error of this report is empha- sized by the fact that the books of the company show no such loan hav- ing been negotiated. Mr. Beck Inger in fact, was one of thcse who testl- fied for the government {jn the prose- cution of officers who were con- victed and sentenced for using the mails to defraud. Like other con- tract holders here Mr. Becklinger sustained a loss on a small invest- ment without having received a loan in return or any other remuneration. The above was confirmed in a tele- phone conversation last night with A. D. Walton, of Cheyenne, United States attorney for the district of Wyoming. NO FORUM MEETING 10 "EHELD THIS WEEK ry No forum luncheon will be held on Tuesday by the Chamber of Commerce, Charles B. Stafford, sec- retary, announced last night, due to the proximity of Christmas. The next luncheon meeting will be Tues: day, December 30. FIVE KILLED One-Seventh Interest Worth $7,000,000 Claimed in Petition for Interven- WHEN TIMBER CRUSHES CAR CHEHALIS, Wash., Dec. 20.— (United Prers)—Five persons were killed 21 miles east of here today when, a tree, hurled over a bluff by a high wind, crashed down up- on an automobile —— The dead: Dan Shuler. Shuler’s seven waned son. tion in U. S. Action | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 20.—Motion of H. Leslie Parker of Denver, formerly of Casper, for permission to intervene as an interested party in the government's suit for annulment of the Mammoth Oil company’s lease on the Teapot naval oil reserve furnished the feature incident of yoney ‘8 hearing i in United States district court here on the aso lee Pomerene, special) made by one Daniel B. Dorsey, and government counsel, for a continu- these interests, the Parker petition SANTA CLAUS IS: AN ELK TO _ CASPER KIDDIES; BIG PLANS LAID FOR CHRISTMAS FETE | Santa Claus and reindeers are as- sociated the world over—except in Casper. To kids here, and grown folks too, to say Santa Claus means to think of Elks, For the sixth consecutive year the | jolly old whiskered saint has estab- | ished his headquarters and his wa house tn the home of the B. P. O. on South Center street. Thither on Christmas morning all the children in Casper—4,500 of them by approxi mate census—will troop in hordes reminiscent of the c'assic procession- al that pursued the Pied Piper out of Hamelin ‘town in Brunswick. And there every one of them, from the toddlingest tot of three or four to the freckle-faced. urchin of a dozen pee cf the, hetring: of, the \eultO6t| - secs” have’ beens tradhtacred td for February 6. The entire morn- ing was taken up with arguments on Parker's claim, while the after- noon court sessfon was given over to Attorney Pomeren argument for a continuance. Judge T. Blake Kennedy took the arguments under advisement, and gave counsel until December 29 to present memoranda concerning the petition for permis- sion to intervene. Parker, whose activity in the of! Buck Belcher. S. L. Chapman, Mossy Rock, Wash. All were residents of Klickitat Prairie, Wash, The stage was inbound towards Chehalis from Morton, about noon and just as it was passing a mo- tor truck from Mossy Rock the tree plunged down onto the bus at a point near Halkum. Several person were injured. industry dates from the time the Big Muddy oil field near Casper was located and drilled, and who realized a fortune on holdings there and.in Kentucky claims title to a one-seventh interest in the Teapot reserve, based on placer locations madé before the land was withdrawn for a naval reserve. This interest, his petition set forth, is worth $7,000,000. The locations on which the claim is predicated were sald to have been 29 IN CHICAGO, Dec. The stage top crumbled under the impact. Men in the auto truck went to the rescue and succeeded in freeing the victims. LEGGERS AT PUEBLO ARE ROUNDED UP PUEBLO, Colo., Dec. 20. (United .Press).—Pué tia ing liq rill avs to get their spew ecne c at the rate they are City police ‘detectives and mem- bers of the sher'ff's office have been staging a pre-Christmas clean up of the bootleggers in this city and sur- rounding territory. More than 1,500 gallons of fine wines, 250 gallons of whiskey. and several thousand gallons of mash have been taken in raids stae-4 Aur- ing the past six days. Bulk of Estate Goes to Three Sons and Grandchildren in New Will Written on November 8 WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—(United Press.)--Samuel Gompers, late president of the A. F. of L., cut his young wife off with the minimum amount required by law in the District of Columbia in his will filed for probate in court here today. The bulk of the estate, the amount of which is not yet determinable was willed to his three; after his marriage his present sons, Samuel Gompers, Jr., chief} wife. The first will ‘ete the entire clerk of the labor department, Henry | estate to her. Gompers and Alexander Gompers, of} Under the local law, a widow is Brooklyn, N. ¥., and his two grand | entitied to a dower right which may daughters, Henretta and Ethel Mit-| not be taken away by a will. This chell. ranges from one twentieth to one The will was drawn on November | sixth of the estate, depending upon 8, this year, the day before Gompers| the age and health of the widow. left for El Paso, to attend the an- Gompers married the present Mrs. hual convention of the federation,| Gompers, who was Mrs. Gertrude and supersedes the one made in 1921 (Continued or Page Five.) him. Harry Sinclair has not made settlement with him in compliance with the provision of the Teapot (Continued on Page Four.) years, will find Santa waiting with Qn armful of Christmas remem- brance for him—a tcp or a game, a sack of candy, a sack of peanuts, an apple, and an orange. HUGHES U. Ss LONDON, Dec. 20. (United Press). —Baron Hayash!, Japanese ambas- sador inyan interview which the Sunday Times will publish tomor- row revealed that when Secretary of States Hughes was in London for the meeting of the bar association he conveyed to Hayashi the follow- JINGOES SCCRES ing assurance on behalf of the Unit- ed States government. “We all have disregarded the jin. goistic tendenctes of some of our principals.” The ambassador declares he is very. confident that the Japan-Amer- ica. “were never more cordial” and that the outlook “never was more In one particular the crusade will differ from Piper's procession. The F ed in days when transpor cilities were not good, his y s followers must have had! v legs and bliste toes. when they came cut of the mountain into | the promised land. Not co Casper’s Kiddies. An Elk in an auto wi'l call | for every single one of take | him to the Elks’ building for the two hour: program and afterward carry him and his armful of bundles home ward. Christmas the Pica * parad 1 fa- | |\Spectacular Wreck them, Since a regi is a pretty for! ent of 4,500 children ple cohort to pack reel motion’ picture show, a comedy, of course, of the sort the kids like best. There will be a talk by Dr. J. C. Kamp. A Christmas fantasy, dl- rected by Miss Genevieve Fitzgerald and Mirs Afleen Butler, will be en- acted by a cast of young folk. And Two unidentified women and two men, bodies recovered. Workers are searching for other bodies in -the car. three to five bodies are still inside. The known tnjured: then, as the climax, the who'e 2,000| Harry Jones, Stoux City, Towa, odd ‘kids will storm downstairs to|**rOue a seattle Kris Kringle’s own headquarters, to receive from the hands of Kzis him- self, or of his twin brother, who has Wash., dean of School of Journal. ism, University of Washington. Promising.” DEATH TOLL NOW THE MIDDLE WEST Mrs.Gompers. All But Eliminated from Will Drug Addict In Jail at Own Request Not often has a. drug addict the common sense or the will power, or a combination of both, to want to be sent to jail in order to place himself beyond the reach of nar- cotics. This morning a Salt.Creek man, whose name is’ withheld for ob- vious reasons, was discharged from the county jail after serving 60 days there at his own request. He was sentenced by Justice Blake at Midwest. a The man has not had anything in the way of narcotics during his incarceration, ‘has ‘taken on weight, improved tn health and be. Neves he has conquered the habit. WOOLEN MILL FOR CASPER ASSURED Plant on West Yellowstone to Employ 100 Men in Next Two Months, Is Claim of Company Officers A woolen mill employing a factory force of more than a hundred workers is promised Casper for the new year. With a 60-day option on the Bailey Furniture building on West Yellowstone avenue and all plans made for be- ginning operations within the next two months, the Utah- Wyoming Woolen mills is now perfecting its organization, intending to incorporate at once on $150,000 ‘capitalization. The concern’s plans include the _the addition of another story at a On the first floor close to 30 men are to operate the knitting machines. The shipping department wil! be in the basement. As a sales force work- ing in all parts of -the country, the company contemplates sending out at least 100 men. In charge of the Casper factory will be Oscar Borkman who was for- merly owner of the Cash Knitting mills at Logan, Utah, and who has had 40 years’ experience in the bus- iness, according to the company’s local representative, In a “letter written to a person here not long ago Mr. ‘Borkman sald: “If labor can be obtained in Casper there is no reason why in a few years Cas- per will not have the largest mill in the west.” Arrangements have already been cost of close to $20,000. The upper floor will be used it is sald as n finishing room in which approxi- mately 70 women will be employed. te made for shipping nécessary machin ery from a mill in Utah.. The point of finding out ‘whether or not Cas- per {s in a position to provide need- ed labor, the company plans on hav- ing a special dance at the Arkeon some time in the riear future. At this ‘affair’ the concern will have on display various articles manufactur- ed by {t, and will also be prepared to accept applications for positions in| its projected Casper mil! Having completed the major part of its financing, the Utah-Wyoming Woolen mill will offer a small issue of preferred stock to draw 6 per cent dividends, to cover the cost of bringing its machinery here from Utah. As soon as the plant. is in operation the company will tmmedi- ately get into the local market for raw wools. 20.—( United Press) After taking a toll of at least 29 lives and many millions of dollars in property damage, and tying the lines of communication into knots, the cold wave and storm that held the middle west in an icy grip for the past 36 hours swept eastward tonig ht. Reports: compiled by the United Press showed 29 deaths with more expected from the isolated sections. Property damage in the ten’states‘of this region probably will exceed $10,000,000. Intense suffering from: the cold:was:experienced in the Cities, Thousands of peop: refuge from the elements in “free” hotels and charitable quarters. Many families in the tenement dis. tricts were forced to leave the'r es because they had no coal descended with floaters and the army of unemployed upon char- ity organizations. Michigan led the middle west in the number of deaths with twelve. Oklahoma reported five dead, Mil- waukee and Chicago, four each, Missouri, three and Kansas, one. Injuries were numerous, especial- ly in the larger c'ties where traffic was tangled-up by icy streets and sidewalks. Taxicabs, private auto- mobiles, and other conveyanceer were knocked over and their oppo- nents hurt in hundreds of crashes. Temperatures ranged from 35 be low zero in northern Wisconsin tc a few points above the zero mark in sections of the more southern states. The entire region from Can ada to the gulf was struck by the frigid blasts; considerable snow add- ing to the hazards of the storm in many ‘sections. Train service was badly disrupted from Ohio to the Rocky mountains, several roads reporting all of their trains far behind schedule. Rail- road trains were crowded with peo- ple trying to get to their homes for Christmas. Many of these were col- lege students, homeward bound for their holiday vacations. Telegraph and telephone com pan‘es were hardest hit in property damage, hundreds of miles of wires being torn down. by the winds and from communication by wire and slow and Irregular service on steam railroads ‘and interurbans added to the dfficulties in communicating with then. Damage by fire will run into hun dreds of thousands of dollars. Near. ly 200 fires were reported in Chi. cago. alone during the last 24 hours. Most of the 1 were started by overheated stoves and furnaces. The rush of scores of fire fighting equipment down the streets added to the traffic hazards Huge loss of livestock on the farms and ranges ‘was reported over the entire middle west Central and southern Muinc ally enjoying easy commun usu tion marshal's office for assistance. Th are without water, light, powe heat. COLD BLAST NEAR PEAK IN MICHIGAN. DETROIT, Mich. Dec “As the two-day cold blast nears its pre: (Continued on Page Four.) the weight of sleet and snow. Poles were blown over in some sections. Cities and towns remote from the) big cities were completely cut off and transportation with Chicago | were entirely cut off. Reldents of Rockville, Ind., sent out an appeal to the Indiana Public | Service commission and state fire | | and Mrs. Helen Spencer, his wife. Miss Marion Lawson, ;30,. Men- asha, Wis., teacher. Mrs. Alma, Buzt, 31, John Lewis, colored, St ing gar porter. (Continued on Page Four.) of Pardoe, who was traveling. with him. One of the unidentified bodies: was believe? to be that of Richard W. Sharp, Vancouver, B. ¢. A note book on the body contained the name of Sharp and one other name. With only a moment's warning, the coach hurtled from the bridge into the icy water and. waa ‘sub- merged, The cheery. warmth, of a Industry Near Normal Basis State Labor Commissioner Says Situa- tion Satisfactory; Wyoming Payroll for Year Is Over $52,000,000 le in Chicago alone sought Industry throughout the state, though suffering a tem- porary ce ranging around normal, according to Frank Clark, state commissioner of labor, who was in Casper Friday and yes- terday to attend the safety banquet of the Standard Oil company Friday evening. Mr. Clark has just completed his months of 1924 and Rawlins show- report covering industrial conditions| ed a contrast of $563,978 with $199,- during the two years-of his incum-| 084, Laramie, with no figures avail- bency and will depart Christnias day | able for 1923, had authorized $65: for Chicago to attend the meeting of in new construction this year; Hette $162,000, $50,000. Wyoming's total payroll for the 21 months covered by Mr. Clark’s re- (Continued on Page Elght) labor commissioners from the Unit- ed States and Canada to be held there from December 28 to January and Thermopolis In the s Mr. Clark will fall considerably short which was a ban Figures Building Indicated, of the 192 ner year for mi for the first nine rm give Casper's total permits av: ton of. $2,092,066.99, compared with | for the twelve months of fous year. Cheyenne, which | uthorized buildings worth had permits for | vp to October 1, Sher- | ) $616,571 to} n of the en y iret 1 nine issued only $468 {dan she $23 tire year « TEAS STORM AILLOCATTLE DALLAS, Tex., Pres: ‘Texas with dead cattle as a cold wave, reports react . United night sald. | Several thousand head have per: | fleet here tonight. | ished in the Panhandle and on The work of the speedy govern. jend to the biting cold will | ment boats already has sent the oth cattlemen here were a 5 cat waildaw th j Slackening throughout north ana} PF olidey .Nauoy sdering. ang central Texas tonight wiih renewed | Scotch bought hore two weeks ago cold late tomorrow was forec »y | at $88 a case, rose to $75 and $95 the weather bureau ere. & case over night, It’ 1s helleved | Beindeapeie: Sam Curtis, colored “St; Paut, cook. Information.from Minneapolis led to the belief that one-of the unider- tified dead is’ Mrs. -Hegis, a daughter sation during the blighting cold of last week, is} ICY WATERS OF STREAM FILL DINER of Crack Soo Line Train at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Turns Holiday Cheer to Tragedy CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Dec. 20,— (United Press)—= | Eight persons died and seven were injured today when the | last coach of a crack Soo line passenger train fell from'a moment turned to deatli dealing cold. of those who. escaped. with thelr lives had frozen limbs to add to the angulsh of lacerations, bruises and broken bones. least injured smashed their way out through car windows or the and climbed to the top of the wreck, made slippery by rap- idly forming ice. At that point the current {s swift and ice seldom forms on the water. But the car was quickly encrusted. Firemen who rushed to the scene reached the car with great ditfi- culty. It was more than an hour before the suffering injured and the boat of the dead could be taken away. Then search continued for more bodies. Darkness fell and the temperature dropped:.. Workers tossed: about in the water and struggled against forming, Ice inthe dim, “weird flare of track torches: ‘The great gates of the power dam were closed to hold back the water from the scene of the wreck. This lowered the level of the river at: the bridge about two feet and permitted the fastening of cables at the bridge to’ holst the car for a thorough search. No more bodies were found. County officials and ratiroad oft cdrs tonight were winding up inves- tigations of the wreck. The-car was derailed at’ a point where a new switch knife had just been installed. The train had just left the station. Approaching the bridge the rear trucks of the diner left the tracks at a switch. Investigation later proved, that the switch bolt was broken, probably by the intense cold.. It was two below zero when the accident occurred. Bumping along the ties for 300 fest, the coach was pulled out on the bridge by the engineer, unaware that anything was.wrong. The trucks ran @long the ends of the bridge ties, then slipped off. The coup- ling to the car ahead broke and the car toppled over the bridge. Sixty feet it fell. Then with a deafening splash it was engulfed in the icy water. It lay upside down. TRAGEDY REIGNS IN DEATH PLUNGE. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.,. Dec. 20.—{United Press)—Death over- took = crack Soo Line train carrying whole families to Christmas reun- fons today. Eight are known to have died when a combination diner and chair car filled with passengers toppled from a bridge and crashed Into the icy waters of Chippewa river. It was two below zero. The car was half submerged in the water. Two passengers were drowned. Others were dashed against the sides of the conch and killed. Some were terribly Injured. Four’ of the victims were dead when taken from the coach which included a baby girl. Some died in St. Joseph's hospital soon afterward. Seven serlously injured were in (Continued on Pago Eight.) into any one building at any time. the program will be divided into two | trestle into the Chippewa river here. sscein: Cuter! from I ah ORS Most of the dead and injured were on their way to join Jefferson,’ Washington and MeKin ley schools will come at 9 o'clock relatly’ 8& ros eae Christmas holidays. and> when they go home at 11 the| Jon, Pp Dunne New York City. second battalion, from Rooseve't,| jpn” jy Dunne, New York Clty. | | Most Lincoln, Garfield, Willard, Witson,| Cheiite ai Pete. Minette Mills, and Evansville will troop in eernbeatae tel ies Gelber Tt Each division will joy the me Barbara Spencer; six’ months old program. Christmas caro Heacadt Npce | OR UR RE Es OF 5 Pectamere ae thot by the Fitzgerald sisters, with Roe fetan "ste tegen ay Bartle leading the chi‘dren in sing- bn Fear. door ing them, will be followed by a two- eeponeth see cep) pment HOLIDAY BOOZE RUNS WATCHED ON COAST LINE ~|Submarine Chasers Pressed Into Serv- ice as Part of “Dry” Fleet to Cut Off the Supply PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 20.—(United Press.) —A fleet of reconditioned submarine chasers flying the colors of the | coast guard are patroling the Atlantic coast to prevent rum smuggling into the United States for the Christmas and New Year's trade it was learned at the base of the “dry” Operation of the “dry" navy Is conducted from a coast guard head quarters at the Philadelphia navy yard and it St was ‘indicated that More 100 rum chasers are now fn operation and the new ships are be ing commissioned almost da'ly,