Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1925, Page 1

The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday, except probable snow or rain in yextreme northwest portion. Warmer tonight In northwest and central portions. NO. 89 VOL. IX. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, JANUAP’ ret 09) UwroysiTT 3y¥;5 109 On Streets or. Del!ve- 1 by Carrier 75 cents a month Che CasperDaily Crinum | at Newstands, 5 cents Tv; ribune Bldg., 216 NINE INJURED AS CRACK TRAIN Publication Offic a) ON D.&R.G. GOES OVER BANK PRIMARY REPEAL IS PROPOSED SENATE VOTES d STATE CENSUS FOR FEBRUARY Date Advance Ordered In Reversing Atti- tude Today. By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY * CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 22.—(Special to The Trib- une)—Reversing its attitude expressed late yesterday in voting in committee of the whole to abolish the state ‘&nsus, the senate today approved a bill amending the statutes to ad- vance, the date from April to February. The law provides for tak- ing the census every ten years mid- way between the federal censuses. The house in committee of the whole ‘recommended a bill author- izing pellet. judges to issue search warrants: Under recent interpreta- tion of the state law it was held’ that such warrants must be issued by justices of the peace. Discussion also which sould pre- vent county commissioners profit- ing from public contracts. Among the bills introduced in the house is No. 87 by Mr. Bishop of Na- trona. county for the creation of a state board of chiropractic examin- ers to regulate thepractice of chiro- practic and to provide penalties for the yidlation. Another bill No, 88 was by Mr. Mapes of Natrona county, was for an act relating to payment of interest om the deposits required by any pub- \peor ‘municlpally, owned utility. Senate files Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10 from the committee on public build- ings and institutions, were recom- mended for passage in committee of the whole, with the exception cf No. 10, which was laid over for one/dey. ‘These bills all relate the Rawlins penitentiary except No. 9, which cre- ates a fund known as Saratoga Hot Springs fund. Senate file No. 1, considered in committee of the whole has been sent by the standing committee for further consideration. ‘The entire legislature will visit the state university at Laramie, leaving at ncon January 29, and returning the same night. The object of the junket is to inspect the new gym- nasium which has been subject to state-wide talk since its completion Incidentally the university needs will be gone, into with a view of reduc ing the appropriation, in common with other rtate institution, A din ner twill be served and an entertain ment given by the students. ¢ The road machinery people who fcrmed a part of the lobby of the highway commission, for the three cent gasoline tax, have disappeared from view. Whether it was injuring the cause or‘aiding it, it was at least coming obnoxious to members of Tie legisiature, Friends of the bill were quick to see the point. If this bill is defeated, it will be defeated by the persirtence of its backers. The constitutional committee of the house and the members of the legal profession of that body wrest- led with the question of what be- comes the house's duty in view of (Continued on Page Nine.) Return to Party Convention System in Wyoming Provided in Bill Just Introduced in the House Cc CHEYEN. SPER PROJECT AID PROPOSED BE, Wyo., Jan. 22—(Special to The Tribune)— Senator Harry N. Free of Natrona county teday introduced sen- ate joint memorial No. 1 which requests congress to make pro- vision for the financing of the Casper-Alcova reclamation proj- ect by setting aside a portion of the oil royalty income from the Salt Creek and other fields for that purpose. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 22.—Wyoming’s direct pri- mary law will be repealed, and the party convention sys- tem of nominating for public offices therefore automatical- ly restored, if house bill 42, brought in this morning by the committee on elections, is enacted into law. The bill re- peals chapter 159, Wyoming compiled statutes, 1920. The state census law, threatened with repeal when the senate yester day afternoon approved for passage Senate 10 was rescued from jeopardy this morning when the senate passed Senate 1, a bill to amend the census law, under suspension of the rules. There after Senate 10 was with- drawn by unanimous consent Senator Roy Cameron is the author of both bills. Senate 10 ad- vances the time for taking the state census from Apfil te February, A memorial ‘to congress against legislation increasing postal rates was introduced in the house this morning. A special committee was appointed to hold a hearing on the memorial and it will be reported back for action this afternoon. Employes of the postoffice depart- GIRL SHOT BY LOVER IS DEAD PEKIN, Il,, Jan, 22,—Mary Elten- miller, 20, who was shot and wound: ed Tuesday by Fred Lichtenberger, 28, her sweetheart, on her appeal to him to kill her, died today. Lichten- berger, who also shot himself, is re- covering. ment urged before the special com- mittee that the memorial do not be passed, arguing that increases in their rate of pay would be depend- ent upon higher rates of. postage. A bill providing for application to current school expenses of one third of the income from state oil and other leased lanils, during the com- ing two years, was before tht legis- ingtwo years, was hefore the legis- Senate 16. Bills to authorize Bible reading in the public schools, introduced by the committee on education, and to prohibit the employment.in hazard- ous occupations of children. under 16 years of age, are Included in bills introduced in the senate date y: TMEFIG MOTORS , CITED INTO COURT Twenty-five arrests were made yesterday by the police department traffic officers. ed are slated to put in an apyiar- ance before Judge Murray this eve- ning or to forfeit their bonds. Two special traffic officers have been assigned to the police depart- ment to try to curb reckless driving and their attendant accidents, POSTAL BILL IS TAKEN UP ACAIN IN THE SENATE Increases in Salaries for Employes and Rates Proposed in Measure Under Consideration WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The postoffice salary bill, carrying also drastic revision today by the senate. of postal rates, wes taken up A move to make the pay increases retroactive only until January 1 of this year instead of July 1 of last year, gained headway after Republican senators had conferred on the subject. Definite decision however, was postponed. Another attack on the rate in- creases applying to newspapers was launched by Senator Walsh, Demo- crat, Massachusetts, who offered an amendment to exempt weekly and daily newspapers with a circulation nt 5,000 or less from any advance watever. Without debate the first half of the bill, revising the pay schedules was given initial approval. All of these arrest- NO TRACE OF BOY ROBBERS FOUND HERE Police officials had failed up to this afternoon to apprehend the two youths who were surprised by, a plain clothesman early yes- terday morning with three gunny- sacks full of merchandise stolen from the Pioneer grocery store at A and Jefferson streets. When the officer stopped the pair to question them, they dropped the sacks and ran down the street. Two shots from the officer's re- volver failed to stop them. The sacks contained cigarettes, candy, tobacco and some groceries, the only loss being $10 in change which had been taken from the cash register. The robbery of Basket store No. 5 on North Center street, Sunday evening, when merchandise to the value of $125 was taken, is also blamed to the same men. HISTORIANS OF NATRONA ORI “DRGANIZATIO Interesting Records to Be Assembled and Preserved. Officers and Trustees of Natrona County Historical Society Thomas Cooper, president. R. 8. Ellison, first vice prest- dent. Mrs, Ethel Wilson, second vice president. H. A. Wagner, treasurer. D. W. Greenburg, secretary. Board of Trustees, Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, ex-officio. Secretary of State F, B. Lucas, ex-officio. . State Treasurer John M. Snyder, ex-officio. W. 8. Kimball (three year term). C. H. Townsend (three year term). Mrs. Bie Rogers (three year term), Mrs. Tessa Schulte (three year term). G. T. Morgan (two year term). Albert Park (two year term). Mrs. Frank Sturgeon (two year term). G. R. Hagens (one year term). P. E, Winter (one year term) A. J, Mokler (one year term), | ee | A live and lusty new baby was born last night in Cas- per when leading pioneers and historians of Natrona county gathered at the rooms of the city library and organized Natrona County Histort- cal soctety and despite the fact that {t 4s less than’a day old, officials of the new organization report the (Continued on Page Nine.) ‘Moral [niquity’ Charged to . U.S. in Pressing Debt Claim French Deputy Waxes Bitter in Address » at Paris; Declaration Not Accepted Here as Official Expression gan WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—Deputy Martin's declaration he French deputy forgotten, it apparently was pointed out no except he chamber of deputies yesterday that it would be a ral iniquity for the United States to compel France to y her four billion dollar debt 1s regarded by officials of American debt commission as an {solated explosion er than an echo of French official opinion, claim for German reparations a small pereentage for the » thet the Uniled States inadg cost of the army of occupation and damage claims. This is regarded here as a fact which tha French government cannot be allowed to overlook, M. Marin fe a deputy on the op- position side from the present French administration, it {a pointed out, and could be expected there- fore, to voice’ an extremist view. PARIS, Jan, 92,—The spesch do- livered in the chamber of deputies yesterday on the subject of inter- allied debts by Louis Marin, former minister of liberated regione and now an opposition deputy, js re- ceived with enthusiastic comment address was that it would be a moral iniquity should France be compelled to pay the enormous sums demand. ed of her by the United States, “It {s not only an admii for the French caus table document of histor; saye the conservative Echo de Paris of the speech, while L'Hre Nouvelle, supporter of Premier Herriot, de. o i should not be {gnored at Washington that on cértaln ques- tions French opinion {fs now unant- mous. We want to pay, right enough, but we desire to establish an account of compensation, There are war debts but also debts of hon- or, The allies contracted one of the | “It by the morning newspapers, regard- less of party Hnese, The substance pf Deputy Maria's latter sort with France, andave ave convinced that they will acquit jt,” THREE SEIZED ON CHARGES OF DOPE PEDDLING White and Two Negroes Arrested in Joint Action Here. Two negroes and one white man arrested last night in’ West Casper by the police department, co-operat- ing with federal agents, are being held charged with sales of norcotics. It is understood that none of the men had any dope in his possession at the time of the arrests, The white man, arrested in the rear’of 238 West~A street, gave the name of Charles W. Jackson, the negroes, who were picked up in the rear of 257 West A gave the names of Wilbert Williams and F. W. INQUEST WILL HEAR LETTERS OF SHEPHERD CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Four letters which Harry Olson, chief justice of the municipal court sald were vwrit- ten by William D. Shepherd, chief hetr of William McClintock, the ‘millionaire orphan” to Miss Estelle Eleanor Gehling, a nurse, will fig- ure in the coroner's inquest of Me- Clintock’s death when it {s resumed next month, Judge Olson said last night. McClintock's will, leaving the bulk of his $2,000,000 estate to Shepherd was made last April, about the time he became of age.’ He died’ last month, in the Shepherd home of ty- phoid fever, according to patholo- gists. No Verdict in’ \NAAAIWESCIPE Rum Scandal Retrial of ‘Dozen Police Officials and Citizens Planned by Prosecutor of Jersey Rum-Running Case JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. twelve Weehawken and Jersey City police officials and citizens reported this morning that it was unable to agree The judge discharged the jury. The twelve men were charged with conspiring to violate on a verdict. the state prohibition laws. 3:07 p. m. yesterday. Assistant Prosecutor McMahon of Hudson county, announced that the case should be retried, possibly within two weeks. Senator Edward I. Edwards, for- mer governor of New Jersey, whosé name was brought into the trial when prohibition . agents {dentified him as a “chief backer" of the boot- leg conspirators, did not take the stand. Prosecutor John Milton of Hudson county has announced that he will submit that part of the evi- dence referring to Senator Edwards to a grand jury. Laborer Gets $115,000 But Stays on Job OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 22.—Lorehz Koenig, 72, father of Dri Albert H. Koenig, who committed suicide in his South Omaha office last Sunday, leaving $115,000 _nego- tiable securities to his aged parent, will continue to “stack shingles” in a local lumber yard und draw his weekly salary of $28. Koenig, a jaborer all his life, made this announcement ast night, adding: “If I'd quit work, I'd die, I'm going to be with Mr. McCaffrey (vice president of the lumber com- pany) as long as he will let me. I sure hope he doesn't fire me, be- cause I have been left this money. ‘This, with the money earned at the lumber Yard, wil keep me going the rest of my life.” FARM RELIEF. PLANS ARE BEING DRAFTED Agricultural Commission Will Submit Recommendations in Week; Modified McNary-Haugen Bill Urged WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The president’s agricultural commission exp to submit next week its recommenda- tions for the relief of agriculture. Sections of the report are being drafted but members | decline to indicate the nature of their conclusions. The commission several days ago gave the president a prelimins report suggesting elief for tho livestock in. dustry, Since then it has studied marketing, export problems, tariff protection and freight rates. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—En dorsement by the farm group in con- gress and early enactment of a mod- ified McNary-Haugen farm relief measure is sought by the American Counci! of Agriculture. Arguments in favor of the modi- fied bill were presented at a joint meeting last night of the senate and house egriculture committees. Hearing of the council's spoke man by the committee was in line with a plan on the part of the con- gressional farm group to get behind some farm relief bill in the hope that it can be passed at this session. No decision wana reached as to what attitude should be taken on the counctl's bill, The committees was told that the bil, while following the genera! nes of the oriinal McNary-Haugen measure, which was defeated In the house last session, contained none of what Were considered as the main objectionable features of that meas- ure. Not only will the tariff law be let alone by the new measure, wit- nesses contended, but the price ratio prov'sions of the first bill have been stricken out, A farm export corporation would be “organized and financed by an | lett advance of $50,000 000 from the War Finance corporation, to be retm- bursed by commission charges for handling farm commodities, The purpose of the bill would be to divert surplus products into the profitable prices. American farm foreign trade at [KANSAS MAID IS OFF FOR WHITE HOUSE HUTCHINSON, Kan., Jan. 22. Vada Watson, 19, Kansas farm maid, here today to deliver to Presi- Gent Coolidge a sack of wheat har. vested by the late President Hard ing. With it she will bear a message, deciaring “Kansas grows the best wheat in the world.” The late president reaved the wheat on a farm near Hutchinson, where he paured in his trip to the Pacific coast in 1923 It Is hard wheat such as recently sold for §2 a bushel, —.—_ EIGHT SLAIN BY ASSASSINS 22.—The jury in the trial of The jury had been out since JUDGE BRYANT CROMER TO BE HONOR GUEST OF BAR ASSOCIATION Bryant S. Cromer, newly-elected Judge of the eighth judicial district, will be honored with a banquet by the Natrona County Bar association this evening at the Henning hotel. W. H, Patten, the president, will preside. Possibilities of creating a court with greater powers than the jus. tice court but less than the district court will be discussed. ‘This court would take care of a great amount of legal work that now clogs up the machinery of the district court. of ee CASPER CONTRECTOR SHIPS EQUIPMENT 10 BEGIN COLORIDO JOB Harry Brown, Casper contractor, today shipped a carload of horses and considerable road building ma chinery to Denver where the first of the week he will start work on an $53,000 road contract west of Den ver and near the foot of Lookout Mountain. BRITISHERS AT CORK ARE IS CHALKED UP FOR SCORES: IN GRASH IN UTAH Baggage Car Plunges 40 Feet, Two Coaches Roll Over, but None Are Killed in Wreck. GRAND JUI olo., Jan. ne pas- Sengers were injured early today when Denver and Rio Grande train No. 1, west- bound, was wrecked near Mack, Utah, 19 miles west of here. The engine broke a rail while traveling 35 miles an hour, accord- ing to railroad messages . received here. The bag ge car rolled down a 40-foot embankment. Light of the ter ches that made up the train the track,' twg stopping from © 25 feet down the em- y bankin The engine did not leave the tr W. Il, Goddard, engineer, ran to a ra 2 use nearby and tele- Phoned to Grand Junction for aid. A relief train tmmediately was dis. patched* to the scene, carrying nurses and others. Below zero tem- peratures added to the discomfort of the passengers. The train, known as the “Scento Tamited,” left Denver yesterday morning for San Francis: The relief train brought all the passengers, including tho injured, back to Grand Junction. A list of Lthe injured follows R. H. Messa, Salt Lake City, Utah, back sprained Ben Guycon, address unknown, head injured. Joe Lopez, Walsenberg, Colo.. scalp wound. J. C, Myers, Cedar Edge, Colo., two ribs broken, shoulder injured. Robert R, Cochran, Grand June tion, head and ear cut; back injured. Frank Burkhalter, address un- known, concussion of the brain. Frank Jackson, Salina, Utah, cut and bruised face and head. A. A. Berchostead, 1330 Chase street, Denver, Colo., contusions and Injured right ankle. J. A, Scorup, Provo, Utah, scalp wound; possibly fractured skull. ——— ET. WILLIAMS COMPANY SUED A suit against the ©. T. Williams LONDON, Jan. 22.—The Cork cor. respondent of the Evening News| says two shots were fired last night | it a sentry at Templebreedy fort which is manned by a British gerri son The guard was called out, where upon more shots were fired. The British raked the surrounding coun try with machine guns, but were un able to locate the attackers with a powerful.searchlight, No one was in jured Oll company asking for an account- ing on the proceeds from certain oil producing land in the Salt Creel fleld, avas_ toc filed in district court. The plaintiff is listed as the T. Williams Annex Oil company the plaintiffs tually eking accounting are Michael Clark 1 Ro: Mint M Clarkson, es in Denver, is a former Casper’ banker and Mr. Minty fs a wool buyer known by the majority of the sheepmen in Wyoming. The sult also asks that the defen- dants be enjoined from disposing or ssigning any of the property in volved Crude Due for Rise; Wortham Pool Declines Menace_to Good Times in Oil Industry Pass as Producti on Takes Fallin New Texas Oil Field An advance in the prices of crude oils is expected shortly, all indications giving assurance that such a wel- comed increase is an immedia te probability. ROME, Jan. —Dispatches from * ; 9 ri Py A Cagliari,’ Bardinie cs pod ds Fading out of the limelight in the crude market as the that unidentified arsuswins invaded a| dominating gusher pool in the country, Wortham field in» home and killed elght members of /Texas is now slipping rapidly, its production off 29,000 one family as they slept barrel from the peak cf its dally; outcome 1 disheartening to those ‘The messages stated that « search | output of 160,000 barrels u weok »| directly interested but ts greeted was instituted for the criminals | New wells are disappolutmen 1} by operators tn other whose motives were not known, water is Gnerouching swiftly, ‘This | ed on Page Six)