Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1925, Page 1

~ le Weather Forecast Wyoming—Unsettled Tuesday, generally fair, colder. tonight; eolder in east and north portions. VOL. IX. NO. 86 STORMS TAKE BIG PROPER Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Che Casp The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. er Baily MEMBER CF ASSOCIATED PRESS Crihiune CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1925 iON On Strects or at Nev Del'vered by Carrier tands, 5 75 cents’ a mo th Offices EL Second teatic Tribune Bldg St. Tareas y — uve sata! | a Bo s LEGISLATURE DUE FOR FIRST ACTIVE WORK ON GAS AND LAW HOLD ‘MAIN INTEREST Highway Commission in For Censure in Lavish Expenditure of Money CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 19.—The resolution for ratification of the federal child labor amendment came back to tho senate of the Wyoming legislature this morning without re- commendation by the judiciary com- mittee, It probably will be consid- ered in the committee of the whole senate this afternoon, the second measure of the session to reach the committee of the whole stage in either house. Ratification of the amendment is regarded with dis- favor by 2 considerable element in ~jo'h houses and inasmuch as_ the r&tifying resolution must receive a two-thirds majority ‘in each house its prospects are uncertain, Both senate and house were In re- eess during the greater part of the morning, awaiting reports by stand- ing committees. Both adjourned until 2 p.m. A joint committee of the two houses will consider the advisabll- ity of recommending an adjourn- ment for a day or two in order to enable legislators desiring to do so to attend the stock show in Denyer. Senate members of the oleh aga were Inted this morning. Five | Bite were brought in. _ this morning, three in the house and two in the senate. They increased the total introduced to date, the sev- enth day of the forty-day session, te 82. The house this afternoon will hear resolutions memorial of members of the legislature and prominent state pioneers who have died recently. 3By-COL. W. H. HUNTLEY a HEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 19.—(Special to The Trib- une.) — This morning the rhembers of the eighteenth legislature will resume their crocheting, having en- joyed a two days of doing ncthing. Many of the members ai back tn the city from the stock show or from a brief*visit to nearby homes. Those who reside at the farther corners of the state for most part remained in the city dividing time between the legislative halls, hotel lobbies and the picture shows. This morning's trains will bring the’ remainder of the membership and then with the decks cleared for action for the first time since organ. ization, law making will begin in earnest. date there is noth except two subjects over troversy can arise, an three cent gasoline tax and bank guaranty. It is just possible that there may not be so much dust stirred up. over these matters as some members anticipate. If the pro- ponents of bank guaranty get geth*Jon a reasonable program of tterment of the banking laws, cotpled with proper protection of de- posttors, with all the frills and im- possible and unsound theories elim inated, there is a fair chance for the success of such an act. But the acts so far presented need consid erable modification before any on them can successfully run the geunilet of committee scrutiny much less the (Continued on Page Eight) Extradition of HijackerAsked British Columbia Official Charges Man Arrested in New York With Brutal Murder on Shipboard NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—Inspector Willidm R. Dun- woodie of the British Columbia provincial police, has ar- rived here to press the extradition of Owen Benjamin Baker, ex-convict, arrested here as a leader of a band of hijackers that murdered the captain of a small vessel, and his son, off Sidney island, near Vancouver Island, B. C., last September. schooner, Captain Gillis fought to A hunt fs on in two countries for} protect his cargo of 300 cases of another of the alleged hijackers,|tiquor. He was fired upon and pet Dame beaten with fron bars. When his Inspector Dunwoodle said the son went to his assistance he also was attacked. Then father and son were trussed up with ropes and fastened to the anchor chain. The hijackers then started the schooner's engine to drown the groans of their victims. Gillls and his son were drawn and churned about in the waters as the schooner strained at its anchor. After their groans had ceased, the bodies were torn from the chain and sank. The hijackers removed the lquor and escaped. murder of Captain Willlam J. Gillis and his son William, Jr., aboard their auxiliary schooner, the Bery! G, in the early morning of Septem- ber 16, was one of the most ruthless crimes of which he had ever heard. Awakened in the middie of the night, when the pirates boarded the CHAPMAN TO BE HELD FOR _ FEDERAL MEN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 19.— Gerald Chapman, to whom crimes ranging from robbery to murder are attributed, and who was arrest- ed at Muncie, Ind., yesterday will be held for the warden of the At- lanta, Ga., federal prison, Alexander G. Cavins, United States district at- torney, said today. Chapman es- caped from the Atlanta institution in March, 1923, a few months after he had been sentered to serve 25 years in connection with the $2,- 400,000 mail truck robbery in New York In 1921. BY EMMA MARSHALL (Copyright 1825, Consolidated Pres: Association) NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—A gover: ee FORUM MEETS TUESDAY NOON C. H. Kircher, generat manager of the Wyoming Sugar company at Worland, Wyo., will be one of the speakers at the chamber of -com- merce forum luncheon scheduled. for One $10 Bill Is Able to Produce Much Happiness When Jim Avery: let loose of that $10 bill the other day he started Puesday noon a e h Toavday “noon at! the, Herhitig” ho: | Cometting that'made \domen other L people happy and never stopped cal speakers scheduled to ap: !until he had the $10 bill back again, sc Baits Binieceong 8 3h will, be ate It was the druggist who first was Future of the Wholesale Grocery |{vored with Jim's present “on Business in Casper;” B. ‘T. Cullen, |ecount’ . whose subject will be “The Future} 4”4 the druggist smiled, for he of the Wholesale Fruit Business in |S able to pay the shoe store for Casper,” and R. C. Cather, whose|® Pair of slippers his wife had subject will be “What the Wholesale | 5otten. ; Business’ means to the Bankers of| And the shoe store proprietor Casper.” smiled, for he was able to settle with the music store for some records, And the music store owner smiled, for he was able to cover his bill at the hardware store, All members who are engaged in the production, distribution or sale of food stuffs are especially invited te atone And, in the end, tt was Jim who t 1 ling, for that $10 bill had At Thomasville, N. C., a bag of | 8% smiling, . mail which had dropped from a mati | ™ade the “pay-your-bills” round and was home again. out that way. ‘The moral is: lay alongside the tracks within Tt alwaye, works feet of the main street for a fe’ four days before anyone noticed it Pay a bit—and when you pay an- other pays, and soon there'll be The bag contained $8,000. LAST QUEEN OF BOURBONS DEAD Famous Sovereign Who Placed Herself t Head of Troops in 1860 to Repel Garibaldi Lives to 84 Years MUNICH, Bavaria, Jan. dozens doing it. ——_—_»—___ TWOSTARSIN CONCERT HERE Richard Crooks, tenor, and Mieczy- slaw Munz, pianist, are to appear at the America theater this evening at 8:15 o'clock in joint recital. * This event will be the third of the season's series of concerts held in this city under the auspices of the Woman's Dapartmental club and for the benefit of its charity division's 19,—(By The Associated Press.)—Former Queen Marie Sophia Amelia of Naples | mitk fund for undernourished schoo! ied here today. She was born at Posenhoff on October 4, | shildren. 4 ea the Hanevter of Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria, and | ..77°r8 18 eae etiia yeas was married in 1859 to Francis II, last of the Bourbon Kings) win be acclaimed outstanding in the of Naples. Francis was routed in 1860 by Gart- bald! when the latter conquered Sle: fly and Naples in his triumphant ex- pedition for the unification of Italy. When the queen and king were forced to withdraw to Gaeta with their troops, Maria Sophia placed herself, with flag in band ,at the series, for both of there artists have head of the forces encouraging them | attained world wide prominence for to resist the invaders, their accomplishments, Her courage was unavailing, as Tickets will be on sale in the lobby the fortress was betrayed and capit-| of the America theater until the time ulated on February 12, 1861. Naples | of the concert at 8:15 o'clock, The became united with Sardinia in one| request is made that children in kingdom and the royal pair fled,| arms be left in competent care #0 SHOTS FIRED BY WIFE. ARE FATAL TO LARAMIE MIAN Woman Says She Acted In Self Defense in Killing Husband. LARAMIE, Wyo., Jan. 19. —wW. D. Richmond, a grad- uate pharmacist, who for- merly lived in Kansas City, Mo., died Sunday of gunshot wounds he suffered last Friday and his wife, in a hysterical condition since the shooting, is un der guard at a hospital where au thorities are investigating the trag- edy. Mrs. Richmond admitted, accord- ing to the county attorney, that she shot her husband in self-defense. The coroner took charge of the case and will conduct an inquest on the body of the dead man today. The Richmonds came here from Kansas City last September. The victim's father, C. S. Richmond, of Kansas City arrived here late yesterday and was with his son when he die THOUSANDS FROM ALL WALKS OF |LIFE GATHER TO PAY¥-TRIBUTE TO LATE TAMMANY HALL CHIEF nor and a ragged little newsboy knelt side by side in St. James Roman Cotholic church today and (Continued on Page Nine.) TWO DIE overturned. As it was, two person were killed and three others injured when the engine left the tracks because of the breaking of a rail in the intense cold afterward leading a wandering life| that there will be no interruptions during the program. of the past few days and fell over the cliff, U, S. Unentangled By Conference at Paris Secretary of State Hughes Declares That “No Obligation, | Legally or Morally, Was Imposed and This Country Is Free from Commitments in European Matters” x “1 WASHINGION, Jan. 19.—Secretary Hughes issued today a formal statement as serting that the agreement reached in Paris at the conference of the allied finance min- | isters imposed “no obligation, legally or morally,” on the United States and that this | country remains as free from commitments in European matters as it ever was. The statement said the full text of the agreement signed by Ambassador Kellogg and the other American representatives would be made public as soon as it was received here. ence in order to protect its interests. ) States under no obligation legally The resolution asking for a copy] (2) The conference at Paris was|0r morally and the United States of the agreement, proposed by Sena-|not a body, agency, or commission | Will be as free as it ever was to tor Johnson, Republican, California,| Provided for either by our treaty |t#K® @ny course of action ‘it may is pending in the senate with the|with Germany or by the treaty of | think advisable. approval of others of the irrecon-| Versailles. In taking part in this| “(4) The agreement at Paris cilable veterans of the Versailles treaty fight. From these and other quarters the state department has heard charges that the Paris agree- ment, signed by Ambassador Kel- logs, the secretary of state desig nate, had drawn the United States conference there was no violation of the reservation attache by the Senate to the treaty of Berlin. “(3) The agreement reached at Paris was simply for the allocation of the reservation attached by the neither surrenders or modifies any treaty rights of the United States.”* Mr. Hughes’ statement was said by White House officials to have the full approval of President Cool idgé who it was said had been fully Dawes plan. It does not provide for |@dvised of all angles of the con officially into an involvement against | sanctions.or deal with any questions | troversy. which it had been guarding itself|that might arise if the contemplated | Suggestions that the Paris agree ever since the close of the war. Payments should not be made. With | ment requires submission to con The Hughes statement said: “The portion of the agreement reached at the recent conference in Paris which relates to the participa- ton of the United States in the Dawes annuities has already been published in the newspapers, The full text of the agreement is on its wWay.-taahig,-cai and will be published as soon a: In the meantime it may be said: “(1) The conference of finance ministers held at Paris was for the purpose of reaching an agreement as to the allocation of the payments expected through the operation of respect to any such contingen agreement in Paris puts the y the Inited gress are not regarded by adminis (Continued on Page Four.) WYOMING CITIZENS ASKED TO AID IN PRESERVING CENSUS RECORDS TAKEN HERE IN 1870 Officers Rush Past Doorkeeper on South Center Street and Take Prisoners; Throngs Crowd Street to Witness Matinee Party Against Bootleggers TRAIN HURTLES OVER PRECIPICE Serious Disaster Is Averted When Coup- ling Breaks on Main Line Between Mexico City and Juarez MEXICO CITY, Jan. 19.—(By The Associated Press.) —Breaking of a coupling when the engine of a passenger train which left Juarez for Mexico City Friday plunged over a precipice just south of Seacalecas Saturday, carry- ing an express car with it, probably prevented the wreck from becoming a serious disaster! Forty Wyoming citizens are ask-jtaken {n 1870, one year after the the Dawes plan. In view of the in-|ed to step forward with contribu-|territory was established, clusive character of these payments, |tions of $10 <ach to make possible| The names of more than 9,000 of it was necessary for the United| the preservation: for posterity of the |the earliest pioneers are included in States to take part in tho confer-|census of the Territory of Wyoming (Continued on Page Four.) DAYLIGHT RAID HITS AMERICAN CLUB All New England Shivers in Grip Of Winter Blast TOLL IN SOUTH ABANA. FEELS WORST EFFECT OF HIGH WATER STILL ON RISE All High Water Marks Eclipsed and Roads Immersed by Floods; Travel Held Up. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 19. —(By the Associated Press) —wWith rain continuing to fall in half a dozen southern states today, rivers were re- ported steadily rising with considerable property damage ex: pected to foNow over a wide ar The death list was three killed and two others probably lost. ‘T'wo train- men were kill n a passenger train broke thre a weakened le near Selma, 4 and one nman was killed when a train struck a slide six miles from Carters- ville, Ga Hope has been abandoned at Al- bany, Ga., for the fety of Asa and Will Tift, who failed to return Sat urday from a canoe trip on Flint river Georgia and Alabama bore brunt of the fi 1 waters force although almost unprecedented high water 1s also reported in other states. Macon saw new marks regis tered for the Okmulkee when the river passe] 27 feet. At Milledge- ville the Oconee reached more than 36 feet. Apprehension was felt over the power of levees and bridges (o Withstand a pressure not heretofore known-on=the streams. Columbus found the C ttahoochea river at a stage of 45 feet. The city’s gas supply was threatened as water entered the plant MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 19. The rain continued to fall in South- ern. Alabama today, with rivers and streams already swollen far beyoud their flood stage. Although the Alabama river is still within. its banks, precautions are being taken along the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers Convicts have been removed from state prison number four to Kilby, and store- keepers. are removing goods from basements at Wetumpka Three hydro-electric plants of tho Georgia-Alabama Power pmpany have been placed out of commission near Columbia The entire sectton was in darkness last night and it 1s estimated that months will be required to repair tlio damage. Tourists to and from Florida are being held up on both the Georgia and Alabama sides of the Chatta- from the room {n which she killed her mother and danced and drank at a party on the evening following the killing. ‘The slaying of Mrs. Ellingson by her daughter was the subject of much comment from the pulpits of various churches yesterday of the most prominent pastors of the city dwelt at tehath on the episode All of the discussion stressed the need of more solidarity in the home and society. Up until yesterday the girl's age was accepted as sixteen. Word received from Los Angeles, how ever, set the authorities off on a new angle of investigation. Mrs. Eric A. Bloom, who claimed to have had the care of Dorothy in Decem ber, 1912 and January 1913, notified the police here, they said, that she was positive that her former charge was now more than 16 years old In response to this development AS MEX Some MANILA, Jan. 19.—(By United States destroyers, con American navy will have 12 d SHANGHAI, Jan 19. (By The As ‘othy said yesterday that she each aT a hext ‘April, ae sociated Press)—The telegraph wires said that her father was going to} have been cut and the Chinese Tel Three other cars were | send Wast for her birth certificate. | egraph Companteu are not accepting The engineer and fireman strange-| Meanwhile the police announced | mossages. ly escaped death, although they were | that if it were developed that the} Twelve thousand of Chang Yuen badly burned. Those killed were a| girl is 17 she could be held Hable} Ming's troops, who had been tn man and # woman in charge of the] to the death penalty instead of life|terned in the foreign settlement amsnunition boxes in the car which | imprisonment, although «a woman] here after Chang's defeat at the followed the engine over the pre-| has never been subjected to capl-| hands of Chi Hsleh Yuan, have em clpice, tal punishment in California, barked for the Tsing Tao vere hoochee river due to the overflow és * . from the lov nds adjacen ‘o th Barely recuperated from the paralyzing blow struck it Saturday night at midnight bridge. ‘The ferry at ee hee when 12 prisoners were taken in a raid, the American club, at 254 South Center street, | : BOeTON fii idee been washed away. again attracted the attention of the officers shortly after 3 o’clock this afternoon, when Sasi Cacoltae eaese Oct eter they charged past the doorkeeper and gave nine prisoners a joy ride to the police sta- | to be the lowest { ars, The| tion. About one gallon of liquor was seized official th Gardiner Undeterred by the fast falling snow, a throng that numbered several hundred visage ae» Kelow jammed around the Center street |ed to appear before Judge Murray {n j———————_____ | zero, the, recorded BIG PRESERVE entrance of the club to witness the| police court this evening r scapes bigs proceedings. It was the first day-| Officers in today’s raid included | tions here have started a campatgn| | In Beas ySecnt the meroury light rafd of its kind in Casper and|Ideen, Zook, McDowell and ong |against the activities here of young Moninelide: thort tein ee Pabst 6) those who were in the vicinity e agent. women designated as “vamps” and| from os to 30 helo ee emistered " ae oR quickly gathered to watch the fun ——— Sadiveatlad ““Ghiitees”) ag! a tebull’.Ge 26 elov WASHINGTON, Jan Pur: Those taken in the raid gave the eeahies vabsoinerteds toaatlc oy oe chase by the government 7 names of Frank Maher, J. C. Burns, be 2 CRIs Gn AG rae acres in Wyoming as an addition George McCortos, 'T, Bentley, John night life of Miss Dorothy Elling-] WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Pros.|the Winter me (elk) reservo, Dapovars. Tima. Mecerthy.” Yolo son, 16, who shot her mother to|Pective profits: cannot be recovered | established law passed in Wamhoof, Tim Crowley and Tim death when the parent objected to|{"™ the government on war ci ist a bill introduced Donovan. the company and hours ter daugh.|‘ict® the supreme court held today | today By ive Winter, Res This lst includes three who were pany a *]in a case brought by the College| publican, Wyoming. Appropriation taken in Saturday's rald Maher 1 ter was keping. Point Boat corporation of Long| of $223,150 for acquiring the tract te Burns are held for operation of the Mrs. Ellingson revealed after her | Island, New York carried in the bill club and the others as frequenters —-- arrest’ in a rooming house — “ All prisoners taken in both Satur-|_ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan.1%—|here, 48 hours. after the day's and today’s raids are edul-! Women’ ubs et organiza 2 N shooting, that she had taken $45 | FOR CHINA PORT Six Additional Destroyers Are Sent. to Shanghai to Protect American In- terests in Factional Battles The Associated Press.) —Six nprising division No. 45, left here today for Shanghai where factional leaders and mili- tary governors were contesting for possession of that city. With the arrival of the ships, which cleared today, the destroyers off Shanghai. re they will pr bably be disbands ed. It is feared that Ch! Hsieh Yuan, who {is a supporter of the ousted Peking government, will shortly be defeated by the “pacification com. missioner” Lu Yang Hsiang, leaving the foreign settlement again endane gered by routed troops The presence of a brigade of Rus. sians with Lu Yung Hsiang is alsa expected to complicate the sttua. tion. he m- m nd he ar. he he are he