Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1925, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Mostly | Che Casp cloudy to night and Tuesday, probably snow | ““™| in west and north portions. Ris. | ing temperatures tonight. VOL. IX. NO. 79 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation — ee ee EARLY ARRIVALS CROWD LOBBIES WITH LOBBYISTS Conferences on Organi- zation Plans Hold Cen- ter of Political Stage By W. H. HUNTLEY (Special Correspondent of The Casper Tribune) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 11.—The clans have been gathering all day and the last contingent will arrive tomorrow morning in time for the roll call and the ad- dress from the throne. There are always a lot of early birds on an Neg. occasion like this, who, fearful of “WAitsaing something arrive on the scene so long before, they grow lonesome watting for actual happen- ings. These are the official greeters ‘They would not miss extending the nd hand and calling you “old tim for worlds. They are for the most part, former members, or members of what has come to be known as the “third house.” Then there are others who arsive early. ‘They are interested in measures that will be Introduced from time to time. They wovld resent being cal! ed “lobbyists,” but no matter, that’s what they are, and that's the name they will go by. SUll another contingent of early arrivers !s the job hunters. They are quite numerous, and quite ac- tive. Since no legislature can be “successful without clerks, messen- xers, and other help to conduct the business, they are welcome. All day today, hotel lobbies have been the center of interest. While ora, consultation rooms, sleep- aoe rooms and any other convenient ‘ces about the hotels have been used for “conferences” on matters respecting tomorrow's organization f the senate and house of repre- sentatives. ‘ The speakership seems to have largely settled itself, provided the members of the lower house hold to the view they have today. Al most every member has declared for J. ©. Underwood, of Underwood ‘There can on'y be one cause for a change and that is the selection of a presiding offiter of the senate from Mr. Underwood's immediate vicinity before the house takes the nection It contemplates. Even at that, so strong and populer ts the Under. wood feeling that the old rule of se lecting the presiding officers from widely separated portions of the state may be disregarded. In the running for president of the senate, at least in the hotel lob. lies, are Senators Brown of Sweet water county, Horton of Johnson county and Free of Natrona county All are excellent guess If Un lerwood succeeds pror in the mu ‘own's chances lesser ¢ then the che n th t be either Horton or § ach ave thelr strong points their devoted backers and it will be % most friendly contest. One of the most pleasing features the pre-organtzation negotta- (Continued on Page Ten. in TYNAN OUSTED FROM POSITION olorado Governor Terminates Two Years of Animosity With Warden by Suspending Him From Office CANON CITY, Colo., Jan, 12.— omas J. ‘Tynan, warden of the ygrado state penitentiary must ap- before District Judge James I poner next Saturday morning at :30 o'clock and show cause why should not obey the suspension der issued today by Governor eet. Following his refusal to allow riff Clifford R. Glasson, of Fre- t county, who was appointed to DENVER, Colo., Jan. 12.—Governor Sweet today sus- ded Thomas J. Tynan as warden of the Colorado peni- ; He appointed Sheriff Clifford R. sson of Fremont county as temporary warden, Ihe appointment is for ten days only and “may be con- of the incoming executive, Gover- tiary at Canon City. hed at the pleasure” (Continued on | OLONS GATHER FOR Governor Held; Bribe Charged Kansas Executive Out on $1,000 Bond in Case Involving Payment of Money for Prison Pardon TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 12.—(By The Associated Press.) —Governor Jonathan M. Davis, of Kansas, personally ap- peared in court here today to answer to warrants sworn out by County Attorney Tinkham Veale, charging him and his son, Russell, with accepting a bribe. The bond for each defendant was set at $1,000 and a hearing was set for Friday, January) Davis, governor of Kansas, and his 23 at 10 o'clock. son, Russell, 28, were charged with Governor Davis had not decided| soliciting and accepting a bribe of whether he would attend the inau-| $1,250 in payment for a pardon gural ceremonies this noon for his|sworn out here today by Tinkham successor, Governor-elect. Ben §&.| Veale, county attorney. Paulen He had prepared a brief The warrants were issued by address to be delivered as retirng|Judge Paul Heinz. of the court of executive but his attorneys differed| Topeka, and immiediately delivered in advising whether he should at-}to Tom Hurley, marshal of the tend. |court, who was instructed to serve - them immediately Jan. 12. (By the| Col, A. M. Harvey, the governor's Press).—Jonathan M (Continued on Page Two) TOPEKA, Kans. Associated SCORE OF SPEED COPS PRESENT AT HANGING OF MAN CORVICTED wanted him avenged, Finally, the word went forth that he was to die, and the speed cops were jubilant. A month ago, one traffic officer, meeting another at the boundary of their highway beats, suggested that they ought to make their vengeance more complete by seeing Yeager hanged. The idea, passed along from county county, met with popular favor. Two weeks ago, By L. C. OWEN. (Copyright, 1925, Consolidated Presé Association.) SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Jan. 12.— Vengeance may be the Lord's, as the Scripture avers, but California policemen are not among those who heartily subscribe to that belief. Neither is there anything in Biblical lore, as the cops see {t, which for- bids those who desire vengeance to exult when it is administered. When Walter Yeager went to his death on the scaffold in San Quentin prison Friday, it was with twenty. one speed cops as smiling and satis: fled spectators. As he faced death, there was a mutual exchange of curses and as he writhed’at the end of the hangman's rope, not even the terrible agonies of strangulation brought forth expressions of com- passion or regret. The speed cops watched Yeages hung because they believe in the ancient Mosaic law “an eye for an eye and a tootlfor a tooth.” More than a year ago Yeager wantonly to the warden of writ San Quentin received formal (Continued on Page Two.) FACE PROBABLY WILL BE LEADER shot to death Motorcycle Officer Clarence M. Pickett, of Madera county, in San Joaquin valley kett never had a chance for his life. Overhauling a speeding auto:! CppyENNE, Wyo, Jan. 12.—By mobile carrying Yeager and a oa way ol Gentipeoinianttt tireake afesemae panion, he ordered them to stop.!ing deadlock between supporters of In answer and without warning, Senators Frank Horton of Buffalo Yeager emptied his automatic into] ing Pouts Brown of Rock Springs, © speed cop's body. Tater, wher! both candidates for the presidency |the killer was arrested, it was eat df<thio’ site leente, (thay cach) of that he had been driving @ stolen| conator Harry Free of Casper has For almost a year, through tech nicalities of the law, Yeager dodged the penalty for his crime. But the speed cops of a dozen counties did not forget. The slain officer had been popular and his brother officers been brought prominently into the contest and it is not improbable that the choice of the body will fall on him. Political leaders at the capital city today seemed to favor his selec- tion for the leadershh» of the senate in orde rto put an end {o the present impasse. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 12.—J. ©, Underwood of Laramie county will be selected for speaker of the house of the Eighteenth Wyoming legislature at a Republican major- ity caucus to be held late this after- noon. Who will be selected for the presidency of the senate at a simul- taneous Republican senate majority caucus is uncertain, Lewis HH. Brown of Sweetwater county, Clar- ence Gardner of Linco’n county and Frank 0. Horton of Johnson county are active candidates, with Harry Free of Natrona county and Arthur K. Lee of Hot Springs county also considered. Because Underwood. is from southern Wy- oming many senators appear to feel that the presidency of the senate should go to central or northern Wyoming. If this Idea prevails Brown and Gardner will be eliminat- ed by geographical location. nie set te RR te FORUM MEETS TUESDAY NOON Do you know the nature or scope of the second largest local industry in Casper? Arrange to attend t luncheon, Tuesday noon at ning hotel. succeed him temporarily to enter he prison walls to serve the papers, the officer appeared in court and cnined a temporary writ of man- damus, compelling Tynan to appear next Saturday. When Sheriff Glasson, accom: panied by a deputy, went to the prison early today to serve the evic- tion papers, Tynan refused to talk to him. The officers then nailed the order on the prison gate and went to Judge Cooper's court. Forum he Hen Page Seven) OF KILLING THEIR CO-WORKER: CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1925 @rihime On Strects or Del'vered by Carrier 75 cents a month The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. pr Daily MEMBER CF ASSOCIATED PRESS i t Newstands, 5 cents Tribur Bldg tion Offic: 216 B CASPER MAN SHOOTS Wi FE THEN KILLS (du10>) wep20; Loti IS SLATIVE SESSION UNITED. STATES WILL FIGURE I WAR PAYMENTS Small Percentage of An- nuity From Germany Comes for Damages. PARIS, Jan. 12—(By The Asso- ciated Press. —The entire war| claims of the United States, both for its occupational forces in Ger- many and for damages sustalned— roughly $600,000,000—will be paid at the rate of $25,000,000 yearly out of the proceeds of the Dawes plan of reparations and the payments will extend over ubout 25 years. Such, in a nutshell, is the accord officially announced tonight as hav ing been reached by the delegates to the allied finance ministers’ co! ference in session here. The agree: | ment is subject to the ratification of a plenary session of the confer- ence which will be held tomorrow or Wednesday -but this ratification is regarded as a matier of form. In addition the United States will receive annual priority eash pay- ments of 55,000,000 gold marks, be ginning September 1, 1926, to cover the cost of the American forces of occupation in Germany. ~ PARIS, Jan. 12. — (By The Associated Press)—A]- location of 214 per cent of the receipts from Germany under the Dawes plan, be- ginning with the first an- nuity, to payment of American war damages {s the first ‘definitely set: tled point in the discussions of the interallied financial conference. The decrease in percentages will be further offset by the fact that within a couple of years, after Bel gium has been paid her priority in ‘Continuea on Page Two) Explosion of Bomb In San Francisco Mystery ‘Main Entrance of Hall of Justice Wrecked by Infernal De- vice Believed to Have Been Manufactured by Expert; Police Officials Thought Intended Victims SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.—Police continued their investigation today of a bomb explosion which wrecked the main entranc threatened the lives of a number of police officials. The force of the explosion demolished a telephone booth in which the bomb had been secreted, tore a hole in one diator. The authorities today were work- ing on the theory that the infernal device had been placed by some one familiar with the premises and that some member of the department was the intended victim: Search was being conducted throughout the city for a tall, dark featured man, who was seen to en- ter the telephone booth a few min utes before the explosion. After the’ wreckage was found pleces of gas pipe, part of a small bottle labeled mee of Jamaica Official Votes Are Cast Today For President WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Calvin cdolldge and Charles G. Dawes were elected president and vice president respectivély today. The electors for whom the Amer!- can, voters directly cast thetr ballots s ‘ovember, met !n the respective states, canvassed the popular vote, and in accordance with the const!- tution, cart their ballots for presl- dent and vice president. This vote of the electors will be certified to the president of the sen- ate by each of the 48 state meetings and will be opened at a joint ses. sion of the senate and house Feb- ruary 18. KILLE | but F chargeable to escaping gas | The body of Nick Danglis, an em- |} ploye of the shop, was dragged from the smoking ruins fully half an hour after th eexplosion had turned the one-room building into a furnace Coroner Lew Gay sald this morn ‘ k i id aid this morning that the ing that 1@ man apparently) ad been stunned by the force of the explosic nd succumbed to the smoke and flames before the Station No. 2 fire force, answering the alarm turned in by Justice Henry Brennan, could bring them under control. Uneconomic a with California and Nevada t posed Boulder Canyon dam sh not the compact is ratified; that the Boulder Canyon project was unecon- omic and that it would submerge other practical dam sites and prove @ menace to irrigation and power possibilities in the state. Governor Hunt sald every effort should be made to have a flood control and storage dam in the vicinity of Lee's Ferry. The governor characterized as “piffle’ the statement made fre quently that the United States gov- ernment or any of the other Colo vado river compact states ma tep [in and develop the river within the HUNT DEPLORES RIVER COMPACT Arizona Governor Says the Proposed Boulder Dam Irrigation Project Is nda Menace PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan, 12.—Rejection of the Colorado river compact unless a supplemental compact can be made hat will be satisfactory was urged by Governor W. P. Hunt in his message to the sev- enth Arizona legislature here today. He declared the pro- ould be opposed, whether or boundarles of Arizona, irrespective of the state's Wishes In the matter. Arizona is the only state of the seven interested that has not ratified the river compact The governor recommended un appropriation of $100,000 for the services of counsel, engineers and nomists to deter. mine Arizo! 1 statue in the vontrovers ¥ ofa depés a rigid 8 leg recommended the adoption ‘tors’ bank guarantee law, blue sky law, revision of he state game laws and the estab: Ushment of a president preferential primary, * Ginger,” which bore the mark of ® local drug firm, some thirty car tridges of .32 calibre, and a large amount. of iron filings. Recon struction of the bomb disclosed it had been composed of three sections, one containing the iron and car tridges, another powder and the third picric acid. ‘The latter agent is believed to have ignited the pow- der. Police declared that the ma- chine bad been manufactured by an expert. ‘The explosion occurred a few min- By ROBERT T. SMALL. (Copyright, 1925, Casper ‘Tribune.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Where is the senatorial courtesy of yester- year? There is about as much left of it as there would be at a meet ing of a lot of strange bulldogs. Courtesy has been replaced by curt ness and consideration has given way to condemnation. Senators rise in their places these days and talk about each other and at each other in a manner which some of the old of the Hall of Justice here yesterday and wall of police headquarters, and shattered a steam ra- utes after ten o'clock yesterday morning, an hour when Chief of Police Daniel J, O'Brien, Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson and Bolice Captain William Quinn are generally arriving for their regular Sunday conference. The men, how- ever, Were late yesterday and did not arrive until after the explosion. This freak of fate probably saved their lives, they said today, because the bomb was placed only a few feet from the office where they hold their weekly conferences. SENATORIAL COURTESY LOST AS STORMY PETRELS BATTLE ON FLOOR OF LEGISLATURE afolks say is reminiscent of a gather- ing of fish wives. It is all a reminder of the pleas- ant times that are to be had here in Washington between now and the fourth of March. The taper of the Senate is such that it is Bmall won- der President Coolidge doesn't want in extra session of that body on his hands all summer. ‘The presi dent thinks the country needs a rest. He knows it does. Whether {t be regarded as a sad (Continued on Page Two) Blast Wrecks Hat Cleaning Shop on Center Street, Turns Room Into Seething Furnace Where Employe, Stunned, | Is Burned to Death; Hotel Guests Flee Rooms One man was killed and three others were injured in an explosion and fire last night which demolished the T. & L. hat cleaning and shoe repairing shop, 108 North Center street, sent nearly two score guests in the Hotel Gladstone scurrying down the] , fire escapes and shook the downtown section for a block in every direction. Investigations were under way today to determine definitely the cause of the blast, e Chief Oscar Hiestand blame was almost certainly John Langas, proprietor of the shop, was with Danglis when the blast came. Hurled toward the front of the building, he was beating blindly against the wall in @ futile effort to find the exit when Judge Brennan, who had hurried to the door, shouted to attract his attention and succeeded in guiding him to the open air. He was hurried to the Lincoln stre hospital bruised and burned, but it is Heved he, will recover. The force of the explorion at tered the glase and brick of the building like plecrust, bulged the wall of the adjoining Rockaway |tuarant, crumbled the ornaments gauss in the lobby of the Gladstone on the ether side, and showered glass and masonry for a score of yards. ( Papps, proprietor of the Re was cut and bruised and John Poulos, who was parsing the T. and L, suffered superficial cuts from flying glass. Several p rons in the Rockaway were’ hurled to he floor but escaped anything worse than a bad fright A colunmn of smoke and flame billowing up at the moment of the blast sent guests in the Gladstone racing to elevators and fire escap’ One elevator jammed between floors, creating a near panic. Most of the residents eventually seram bled down the ladders to safety, The hotel was saturated with smoke, but thanks to {ts fireproof construction no serious damage resulted. Langas was able ta give no deft nite account of how the gas became ignited. He had een warned earlier in the evening by Mr. Papps and by A. L, Rose, who operates the ta shop to the north of the Roc and was part owner of the devast ed shoe repairing establishment that gas was escaping into the bulid (Continued on Poge Eight) | | D IN TERRIFIC BLAST WILD INDIAN iS NO MORE WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. (United Press)—"The Indians are all civil ized; the wild redskin {s no more. “The tepee, most necessary of all the furnishments of the traditiona’ origine, has vanished."’ the Indian Bureau of the Department of the! Interior announces. Battlegrounds of Geronimo, fierc t of the white man’s antagonists. were the scene of the last stand of Indian The announcement pays: “Plans have been {naugurated for the erection of houses to replace the tepees occupied by the Apaches of Arizona, this tribe being the last to give up their aboriginal mode living. SELF LABORER AUNS AMUCK IN HOME WHEN ENRAGED OVER TROUBLES Wife, Lying Wounded, Feigns Death to Es- cape Further Shots; Children Make Escape Smoldering weeks of mari- tal discord flamed to a sud- den crescendo of tragedy last evening when V. M. Morris, North Elk street, shot his wife twice, fired two more bullets at his step- daughter and step-son, and ended his own life with a bullet through the temple when he heard proach of tho police. is expected to recover. The shooting came as the culm!- nation of repeated threats that had left the terrified family not unpre pared. It was owing largely to this that Morris’ toll of victims was not larger. Fearing that her hus. band’s sullen hostility might some day find expression more concrete than the curses in which it had spent itself before, Mrs. Morris had warned the six children what act to take should he attempt violenc When the first shot was fired the four, who were in the basement huddled through the windows and fled in their night clothes to tho shelter of neighbor's homes, follow- ed by the eldest daughter. It ts Delleved that Morris searched the house with the purpose of visiting on the others the death he believed he had inflicted on his wife. and Placed the pistol to his own templo only when the stutter of the police motor warned him that capture was imminent. Morris fired the first shot as Mrs. Morris stood at the head of the stairs leading to the basement where the children had just gone to bed. ‘The bullet went wide, shattering the ker- osene lamp she held in her hand. He fired twice again in rapid: sue- cession One missile inflicted a flesh wound in Mrs, Morris’ throat the other took a glancing course along the left side of her head but failed to penetrate the skull. She fell in the snow at the door of the shed in the rear of the house, and, though still conscious, feigned in- sensibility in the hope that the maddened man might believe her dead. The eldest daughter, Mrs. Wayne Kelly, screamed a warning: to the children downstairs, and fled through the back door, a fourth bul- let winging close. Pursuing her outside, Morris, at tention was diverted by a glimpse of Oscar Fluno, 15-year-old son of Mra. Morris by a previous marriage, as he skurried down the embankment at the front of the house. He fired after the boy but the shot went wide. Oscar, barefoot and clad only in his nightclothes, raced through the cold to the home of G. H. Shoe- maker, at 212 North Elk street and Shoemaker phoned the police. Meanwhile, Ione Fluno had shoved Virginia, 4 years old, and Donald through the basement window and with the aid of Mrs. Kelly had hur ried them to tht I of nd neighbor, Mrs, Telinde, on the rear of the lot just north of the Morris home. As Morris vanished around the corner of the house tn the trail of the ap- Mrs. Morris a wi the older boy, his wounded wita (Continued on Page Eight.) FIRST MESSACE | _ DUE THURSDAY ‘Mrs. Ross Will Read Address Into an Amplifier; Proposed Bank Guaranty Leads All Discussion CHEYENNE ,Wyo., Jan. 12.—The fir first woman governor of an American s probably will be read by Governor N the eighteenth Wyoming legislature n legislature will conv tions of the two houses, including the appointment of standing com mittees, have been completed by that day, the governor will be notified on Thursday that the legis ture is prepared. to receive any munication she may © to de liver Governor Ross will be the first Wyoming governor to ize “loud Sp ers’ to make her message sudible in all portions of the house of representatives chamber, where | st message of the ate to a legislature ellie Tayloe Ross to ext Thursday. The : i ene Tuesday and at least two days will be occupied in perfecting organization. If the organiza- the legislature will convene to hea her Her volce is clear but not of sufficient power to reach all cor ners of the chamber, She will read into an “amplifier and wires lead: ing from this device will tranamit her lessage to “loud speakers’ located at several points he governor's message, it is fore- cast, will consist of betwepn 8,000 and 6,000 words. Keonomy in state government will be strongly stressed (Continued on Page Tom.)