Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1925, Page 1

‘eR , Weather Forecast Genevally fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. he Casp Ok. 1X. NO. 72. Member of Audit of WOMAN IS SOUGHT IN TA Circulation MEMBER GF ASSOCIATED PRESS The circulation of The Tribune is greate r than any other Wyoming newspaper. er Daily Crihune Bureau CASPER, WYOMING, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1925 at Nowstands, Carrier 75 cents 5 cents a month Publ cation Ott 216 Tribune Bldg FOUR DEAD IN CELEBRATIONS AT REW YORK BRIEF ILLNESS FATAL TO OL NEW YORK Jan. 2 Score hurt, and more than a hun- dred patched up in local hospitals —— | de up the total of New Year's F | A c bration in New York; a check of unera! rangement | police records revealed today. Two deaths were traced to poison Iquor, to Await Arrival ne to a street brawl, and the _ fourth to an automobile’ accident of Relatives hat occurred during the revelling. The lineup of those arrested for intoxication was the slimmest since since the advent of prohibition. The death of one of the victims of bad liquor at Belleyue hospital brought a total of 18 deaths from the same cause during the past 15 Succumbing to an attack of pneumonia contracted last aturday following his re- (urn from an executive meet- g at Houston, Texas, Fred- 2d-| days in that institution, \ rick B, Capen, superin-| Most of those injured participat- ent of the Texas company’s Cas-|ed tn brawls or were automobile refinery, died this morning at 4] victims. < at his home, 519 Milton ave = He was 33 years old bad cold afflicted Mr. Capen as sult of his trip south. He arrived December 23. Four days later oped pneumonia. Dr. James neil, lung specialist came from ver yesterday morning, called in | tation by Dr. J. C. Kamp. At} lcek in the afternoon the pat suffered passing this morning, 12 hours later. AL re TEAGHERS. NAY OSE POSITIONS pen, a graduate of Yale] entered the employ of | company in 1912 as power | at Port Arthur, construetion “ro the company’s 6,000 barrel refin t the here, Mr, Capen came to Cas- M il in July, 1922, remaining as su- | MANY Fal “to Retin | intendent of the plant. Recog- (s das capable nd admired for Vacations; Some an-cut character, he was one of Have Cause mest popu'ar refinery executives er to live in this city. Surviving him are his wife and uryear old son, Frederick, his} summary dismissal will be the Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Ca- penalty several Casper teachers will of New York, and a sister, Mrs. | have to pay for failure to return on H. Lapham of San Antonio,|iime from the Christmas holidays, 8. if their reasons for tardiness are ‘he mother and sister will arrive | deemed unsatisfactory by the Board e Sunday morning, having left | of Education. Each of the fifteen in- No funeral made, it is sper. n Antonio last night angements are to be 1, until they reach C: oe structors who were absent when school work resumed last Monday mcerning has been required to sub- mit a detailed report in writin, Denver Street | the board will pass on the v: of these excuses at its next meet T ll Q M th meeting. oli in ontit Supt. A. A. Slade was inclined to ° ° believe, however, that the majority Ts Hight Lives) tr tie’ sisentees ‘were not biune. worthy. Although the total number DENVER, Golo. Jun. 2.—Denver] of AWOL's exceeded the casualty sts\took a toll of eight lives| list following any previous ho {day ting December. A total of 369|!n the history of the city schocls, sons were injured on the streets} Many of them were occasioned by ing the month, podlico statistics | "ness. Other teachers, Mr. Slade wei said, had waited for the last possible and missed connections e seems to have been an epl. n ay Of fourteen attempted suicides, one was successful Total "Heathe from eeiotds, demic of legitimate reasons," he re tee Sintte t cadaes marked oantean | It was acknowledged, however tet | that the board's: inqu would be | Wh illness was ¢ norough f n ex eq 1 nit a y mner of urchins w y { similar dere iction The epidemic of absences Monday LOS ANGE Calif, Jan. 2—J) morning kept the superintendent's y of California ay set on foot a \lumnt of Univer pd Notre Dame tc office scur substitute ying tg mobilize enougs chers to carry on the Movement to have the Golden Bears] sual cla acl et Knute Rockne's football p!ay eG ALS ers in the Los Angeles Coliseum here January 10. Rockne says the} DETROIT, Mich.—An_ industrial | ¢ argument he has against the| revival will start early in 1925, gain | proposal {s the condition of his team| momentum during the year and wh was “badly battered’ in the| reach the peak in 1926 or 1927, an Year's day clash with Stan-] ‘ndustrial survey of the Society of ford at Pasadena Industrial Engineers said —rour aeaa, {Elks Club of Colorado Town Is Included In Buildings Destroyed by Flames; Several Stores Wiped Out TRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 2.—Fire that started about 2:30 a. m. this morning by daylight had swept through half a block on Main street in the destroying the Tarabino building of stores and offices and damaging adjacent buildings. ing $500,000 has resulted, it i The ‘¢ rooms and club rooms of Elks were In the building destroy- ed; also the lodge rooms and para- phernalia of the Eagles, Red Men, and several other organizations, Practically ali property of these lodges was lost. Establishments wiped out Liberty Stores, Dry Goods; Piggly Wiggly grocery; Ingram Powder, gents furnishing store; and in add tion to the fraternal organizations, one real estate office, one insurance office, and two physicians offices. Adjoining buildings housing business establishments were greatly dam: aged by smoke and water. Cause of the fire has not been dis- covered, but it {s thought to have been started in the rear of the Elks uilding. The blazing buildings col- lapsed at 5a. m.,*throwing flaming wreckage into the’ street. were wos)” 7: q Off and Flam O00 FIRE TOOAY LEWES, 200 p sonville, c ent winter off the New Jersey Del. The bl idly, and « €d to get reac The r stated that the fre was under control, and that th gers would be landed at Lewes, and returned to New York or sent to their destinations. ; which ngers were order the ship. leave to 0 report last e passer business district, completely > far as is known, there were no Loss and damage aggregat-| casualties is estimated. The Mohawk left New York New were still throwing streams of wa-| Year's day about noon ter on the smoking wreckage at 10 The fire was discovered when the o'clock this morning. The fire to-| SUP, was seventy day !s the most destructive in local history. TARIFF COMMISSION PROBE | MAY BE HEXT If SENATE le, accompanied by owing. WASHINGTON, San. 2.—An in-;bear on members of the commis. . CAPEN OF 200 Passengers on I bTEXAS IS DEAD Barning Ship Sa TRINIDAD BUSINESS DISTRICT [a SWEPT BY S000 0 Liner Mohawk Beached on the Delaware, ‘ mpany. and Coast After Passengers Are Taken es Controlled Jan. 2.—The Clyde liner Mohawk, engers from New York for saught fire in one of the wildest storms of the pres- coast last night, and 1 Delaware bay to save the passengers. arted in the Seterenalug spread rap- | Mohawh and unio: steamer eighty PHILADE! message yard, stated t the Mohawk had bi inued oni WITH DENVER Funer Firemen, aided by scores of yolun- teers combatting the fire all fight Parcel Gurgles When Jostled; Owner Arrested Before Chr'stmas a paper par: cel] of any shape or dimensions ts But on New Year's different story, West A street, of the police de commonplace. it is —especially Captain Farris partment opines. afternoon a on So when he saw 5 West A st John Arbogast, t, strolling past about 3.20 yesterday, the perapie acious captan gently inquired of him the contents of the parcel. Mr. Arbogast's reply was . according to the captain, joggled him and the parcel ar ected a liquid gurgle. It w ugh. Parcel and Mr. Ar bogast were conveyed police eadquarters re the former as found to contain a gallon of whiskey, the police assert. gast was charged with vio: lation of the drug ordinance and released on $200 bond for his ap- pearance this afternoon. The charge of carrying con- cealed weapons was added to that of intoxication resting against Ken- neth Rice, 2 9 West A street, when search at the station led a sizeable revolver. Rice rested by Officers Hagem re was a n and Russell at the Hong Kong a West A, NECOTIATIONS LAUNCHED BY FRANCE FOR FUNDING WAR DEBT OWED n-Year Moratorium Proposed in Set- tlement Meets Opposition in Great Britain but Hope Is Rife 2 PARIS, Jan. 2.—(By The Associated Press.) —The ‘rench foreign office today confirmed reports that nego- tiations had been opened between Finance Minister Clem- entel ‘and Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the United States treasury, regarding the funding of the French war debt. A note signed by nt fofward Tuesd: Clementel It suggests M able to do in the way of payments. Although the note is signed by the en year moratorium, and gives | tninifter cf finance instead of by fica ui as to wh the Fren: “Pranisy and Foreign Minister Her- Government thinks Py e wight be’ riot, it is admitted by tha for o TO U. S. office that {t contains the first tan- gible propositions France has made toward a settlement. WASHINGTON HOPEF' UL OVER OUTCOM WASHINGT Jan, 2.—(By The Associated Press)}—Officials here ap- parently see hopeful tendencies in the New Year dispatches from Great Britian regarding war debts, al- though they have recetved thus far no communication declaring the will- ingness of the British government to approve specially indulgent terms for France. When shown a story published in London, to the effect that Great Britain had assured the United States she would not stand jn the of a Franco-American settle (Continued on age Nine.) vestigation of the tariff commission | sion in connection with the sugar in was asked today in a resolution of-| vestigation fered by Senator Robinson of Ar-| Under the rules, the resolution kansas, the Democratic leader. went over for a day. The inquiry would be conducted Senator Robinson made no ex by the senate finance committee} planation beynod having the text with a view to determining whether |read and Its introduction led to no any oe ee oe RR ae Ae aaa had been brought to | immediate debate. Charleston and J M. 5 KENNEY FUERA | TOBE HELD SATURDAY Is Appoint fe U label | E. P. Landers ed nd P. local Insv Landers, t Capitol Life campaign agent iran manager Democratic party in N. t county during last fall's | ca n, this morning appear Sheriff's office udly nfirming Y \ cP Mr. McPh with} pointn i ek-| ment m ran into at | Although star mmirsioner Mr of Landers’ t ally unt!l do not acted| day he is the ve the | £ amiliarize nself with t } t f the office. | io | og RECEIPTS 1924 is Shown County Clerk BURIAL Leads to Suspension of Six Veterans in Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Official investigation into the use of money.to influence pending postal pay legislation, has culminated in the suspension from duty of six veteran officials of the postal service, the discharge of an employe of the senate postoffice committee, and the resignation of the clerk of the house postoffice committee All six of the officials, Yocated in| master, Detroit; Harvey M. Tittle, as many cities throughout the coun-|assistant postmaster, Springfield, try, are members of the executive] Ohio; J. J. Fields, superintendent committee of the National Assocla-|of mails, Louisville;, and Willlam tion of Postal Sur ‘ors, and held| Swanson, assis superintendent some of the most responsible post-|of delivery, Chicago. tions in the service. The report of postal inspectors, The suspended officials, whose |™ade public statement last service averaged more than twenty | Might by New years, are Peter McGurty, charged tha the superintendent of mails, New Y ged th City; James M. Greig, postal cashier, cor ‘ ° Boston; Peter Wiggle, ting post f ipe vistors nd that Freder ick ©! Riedsel, clerk of the house mmitte 1 * of $1 ) from soclatior | resigned Riedesel TANK BUILDER — that foreign travel during Ae ing summer will be the i iS n F M OV FE D since 1922, the year of th ok | Play. A major ction John W. Wilson, 38 years old, «| = son will be cele tank contractor in the Salt © at Rome whe and other Wyoming oll fields sin {eal pageant 1s to 1919, died at a local hospital last J {tors from all parts of t) Wednesday night, following a hem —— Five Casper i morhage of the brain which he suf-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Walter| fF 4 trip fered two weeks ago. the New Jersey as-|b¥ the Dean Tours, Othe Mr. Wilson, whose former home United rney who] /® this city are plany was in Texas, is survived by his | refused to res pant Of] Perr eee or, tee wife and two children, Milton and| Attorney General Stone, was re-| B¥idance f gh as telp Harold, of Carper and two brothe; moved from office today rs a Cc. O, Wilson of Quahnah, Texas and Mr. Van Riper's paration from} J. O, Wilson of Paducah, Texas, re-|the service is ive immediately spectively. and was ordered by Mr no with Funeral arrangements are uncom: |in a few hours after he had *cely pleted pending communications from jel a letter from the outgoing axsist-! relatives but it 1s expected that in: | ant district attorney refusing to re terment will be at the former he sign and attacking officials of the of the deceased in Texas, department | WATCH THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE The New Year sees the Sunday Tribune aspiring to greater ambitions and growing bigger and better eyery issue. The corps of special writers who keep the Tribune sup plied by wire with the latest in politics, the general trend of events, business activities and sports will again be on the job, David Lawrence, J, ©, Royle, Lawrence Perry and Walter Camp, all experts in! their partiewlar lines, will be aided by a corps of other writers in bringing to Tribune readers the kind of in formation they want. The automobile section, comics, radio and women’s pages will be on the job as usual, making the Sunday Tribune the biggect and best paper published in the state. Watch the Sun of justice POSTAL OFFICIALS OUSTED Use ny) Money te inftience Legislation FOUR | KILLED duties M ensuing days he de “> COUNTY OFFICE Of YEAR 326,000 Increase of $6,000 in by Kenney of ¢ who died in Den ver, Tuerd ire to by lin Den-| Natrona county's business as con ver tomorrow mornit ¥:30 | ducted through the county clerk's o'clock at the Immaculate Cuncep- | office, showed an income for 1924 tion cathedral. Among t who | totalling $26,800, approximately will.attend.the funeral a 1 Schul- | $6,000 ater than dn 1917 which té and M.S. Todd of Carp | s the record a year heretofore. | he expenses last year, including salaries, books, supplies, equip- ment and printing, amounted to ap preximately $22,000, permitting Mrs. Alma Hawley, the retiring county clerk, to turn into the county trea surer & profit of about $5,000 for the year, While the gpeatest office income is from the recording of deeds and mortgages and transfers on lots and land, the new automobile law re quiring all owners to record their ownership helped greatly to swell the total, Some 11,000 car owners in Natrona, county recorded their ownership of machines during the year just ended. DELPHOS, Ohio, Jan. 2—Four| The income of the office for the men were killed at a grade cross. |Preceeding five years has been as ing here last ni ‘t when their | follows: automobile was struck by & train. |}! Seeena meena $12,361.20 Three ident'fled are nee ” tleve Harpster, 30 e a - 11,841.05 Cley saree 20: Spider” Jer a0'817.40 irth man | Elihu Dri A. A. DEAN, MANAGER OF TOURS, SAYS EUROPEAN TRAVEL IS. INDAEASING) Europear n Chicago for Sheridan ause of the fact that so mi hly incomes have been January February ch wners were registering th went far in exces: months {n receipts. ~ 2,089. 26,800.00 the year just past, be any cor eir mA: of all The as fol (118.45 97.05 25 ER MYSTERY LONE CLUE 15 BEING TRAILED BY The POLICE “IN HULSE “Chat Telephone Call Ma Be Linked with Dis- of appearance Here Man Believed Slair Sketched background, vaguely in the but forming a framework on which local authorities are basing al! th investigations, appears the inevitable woman in the John Hulse murder mystery Just who she is the officials are unwill- ing, or unable, at n ne nounce. Fiest intimation that Hulse, for seven years one of the best-known and liked tdxi-drivers in the cit had met foul play, came yesterday when Chief Bert 8. Yoh iswer- Ing a call from Ross Wardell, 951 South Cedar, found Huse’s Nash sedan parked on the cast side of Cedar street near (he Wardell res!- The front cushion w blood, and a pool of blood had « lated on t of the ton- neau and trickled down through the left rear door, staining the on the running board. A cap, i fied this morning as Hulse’s lay in the tonneau. It was soaked with blood and a pullet-hole, rimmed by powder strains, had neatly driled it.in the rear and slightly to tho Fight side. The car had stood there since Sunday evening. The clue that injected the femir Ine element into the most baffling erlmé committed in Casper tn’ mar months, was furnished by a te phone conversation the record of which to date is exceedingly nebu- lous. The conversation {n question is supposed to have taken place be- tween Hulse and the woman shor ly before the crime is believed ta have been committed. One end of the conversation was partly over heard. At the time=little or no rig- nifidance was placed on it but since the finding of the b'ood-stained auto- mobile it has assumed major import- ance. It also became known last night that when Hulse drdve his machi to the Green Lantern apartment house at South Jackson str Sunday noon, some few hours he- fore his disappearance he had with him a womon. MreLucy 8. Smith, proprietoress of the Green Lantern, noted the fact particularly becauso Hulse invariably was alone and had few intimate acquaintances or friends, Mrs. Smith gave the woman only @ cursory glance and is unabl to describe her gene or how she was dressed Hulse came into the house, obt ed his overshoes, had a casual conversation w and departed Smoke actions are 951 South Cedar st evening the commission rf is definitely ublished as betwee the hours of 6 k It is also }rec by Erichsen that Hulse recet pel at his taxt stand, in front of the American hi tel, at 7:45 go to the homa of Roy S. 339 South Jac son street. Thi ull was . never April ; es! ptember - f Dean | October ‘ aquarte eniher morning | Decerab 350.00 Mr. Dear the com-| SON ILL, FATHER souGHT, heaviest Passion| An appeal for help in locating {his sea-| Dick Harris, believed to be employed Holy | somwhere in Casper or {ts vicinity hat r-| has been received by the local po 1 lice from Mrs. Nora Thompson, 1811 Washington, St. Louls. Mra. Thomp- ole son writes that Harris’ son Oral is mmer | Seriously ill. Anyone knowing of the man’s whereabouts is urged to com 1] municate at once with police head judrters of herelor to Wits direct to Mrs, Thompson. INCREASES IN RATES AND PAY OKEHED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Second Class Mail Rate Increase to Be| a... Less Than Originally Proposed by Posto WASHINGTON, Jan. tee approved today increases in postal sz Rate incre ment, day Tribune. ae mn posed, ffice Department ~The se the administration bil prov laries and rates. ses recommended by the postoffice de however, were reapportioned so that second class|\\., mail wil] be charged considera aljy less than originally pro iate postoffice Saati | bs iding for! part- The it is in the er the c Hulse t knew fet and well mannered and regular in his h (Continued on Pas ven.) POSTAL rovides for a 4 1 1 rate on all f eq mat spr posed pa The pi % on all m xcept that ) religious, edu onal « non-profit materia \ w char 4 cents a eight zones for mail with ad. vert are grouped under |the n into th livisions, | with three cents a pound jn a cents a { e fourth, fitt nd sixth (Continued on Page Twa)