Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 1

| Che Casper Sunday Crime VOLUME 34 FOUR SLAIN IN ‘BLO MAIN NEWS SECTION CASPER,.WYOMING, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1225 di 109) Ue0 ye Fy oieis:/ UUT MAIN NEWS SECTION NO. 26 NATRONA LEGISLATORS JOIN IN “ (INT MESSAGE 5 FORWARDED TO WASHINGTON Sidelights on Legisla- tive Activities Hold Live Interest. By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 24.—(Special to The Trib- une)—The Natrona county delegation in the state legis- lature has addressed to Senator Francis . Warren and Representative Charles E. Winter at Washington their endorsement of former Governor Robert D. Carey for the cabinet position of secretary of agriculture in the following tele- gram: “Natrona county delegation in Wyoming state legislature in com- mittee assembled today have unani- mously endorsed the candidacy of Honorable Robert D. Carey to the appointment of secretary of agricul- ture. We respectfully urge you to communicate our desires to the president of the United States. The fearless discharge of his duties while governor of the state of Wyoming together with his keen grasp of the stogk ranching and agricultural in-| terests eminently fit him to carry on the duties of this high office with credit to himself and honor to those who recominend him.” we HARRY N. FREE, State Senator. E. A. FROYD, + State Senator. MARVIN L. BISHOP, JR., State Representative. M. A. BECKLINGER, State Representative. WILLIAM B. COBB, < State Representative. Cc. M. COLTRANE, State Representative, Cc. W. MAPES, State Representative. COBB AND BECKLINGER INTRODUCE MEASURES. Mr. Cobb of Natrona was active I'riday. He introduced three meas- ures, 44, 45 and 46, relating to quall- ‘ications for voting on school tax and bond elections; relating to quali- fications for yoting on bond elec- tions ard relating to powers of. in- corporated cities and towns concern- ing public parks and park areas, respectively, lt was also Mr. Becklinge?’s busy He added to his record by the introduction of four bills all by re- quest. They are 47, 48, 49 and 60. ‘The subjects are in sequence: Re- lating to married women acting es administrators of an estate; relat- ing to married women acting as iministratrix of estates; relating to roperty exempt from taxation and ating to county memorial hos the senate, Senator Cameron sented a bill to regulate the prac of professional engineering and eating a board of examining en- eineers, SS ator Jenkins filed No. 24 which ? tes to legal holidays. The house passed the senate file relating to the state census which continues to five year state census (Continued on Page Two) BONDED PLANT WOMAN Budget Program Is Taken Up Satur- day in Commit- tee; Session Brief CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 24.—Figures rolled into the committee of ways and means Saturday afternoon following adjournment of the legislature at the con- clusion of its morning session. Heads of administrative departments pre- sented detatled requests for appro- priations to cover their work dur. ing 1925 and 1926. Consideration was given by the committee to Gov- ernor Ross's recommendations that a number of tho appropriations be disapproved. Seeking to speed up business and Prepare the way for bills ready for final passage, the house suspended rules in the morning and among other things put through a measure repealing the law that gives a de- fendant in a criminal trial the privi- lege of testifying without haying beeing sworn. To accept a silver cup won by Wy- oming in the presidential election last November for showing the most material increase in the country in votes cast, both the senate and house agreed to hold joint session on February 7, at which time the cup. will be received by Governor Ross. Legislators not serving on stand- ing committees swamped with work, who live in counties not distant from Cheyenne, took advantage of the ‘adjournment until Monday tu visit their hom Quarantine On... Texas Cattle Declared Off DENVER, Colo., Jan. 24.(United Press.)—Governor Clarence J. Mor- ley today lifted the quarantine on cattle brought to Colorado from Texas laid down several months ago on account of the foot and mouth disease there. LINDSEY GIVES FIGHT TO HOLD GRIP ON COURT Efforts of Klan to Oust Him to Be - Resisted DENVER, Coto., Jan. 24.—(United Press.)\—"“He can't have it.” With those four words Ben B. Lindsey, judge of Denver's juvenile court, today met the first formal demand of the Ku Klux Klan that he relinquish his office to Royal 8. Graham, Klan opponent defeated by Lindsey in the November elections. ‘The demand upon Judge Lindsey for-his office was made by Edward M. Sabin, attorney for Graham, who announced immediately after Lind- sey’s refusal that quo warranto pro- ceedings would be instituted in an effort to oust Lindsey and install Graham. While Graham was making his demand for the office, atterneys for Lindsey were pétitioning. the district court here that. Graham's election contest sult be dismissed on the ground that the time for instituting such a suit has passed. Graham recently filed a sult con- testing Lindsey’s election in which he alleged that his defeat was due to “gross: irregularities” in the vot- ing and the counting of the votes. rials inmate CASPE WYOMING TRUST In new quarters on the first floor of the Daly building which provide splendid facilities for caring for Its constantly growing patrenage, the Wyoming Trust company will Mon day morning open its door for busi- ness, having moved its files and rec: ords yesterday afternoon from the COMPANY READY FOR BUSINESS IN NEW LOCATION old locs Floor space of considerably larger dimensions is afforded in the Daly tion on the southwest corner d and Center streets. building. All that {s modern in bank fittings and furniture has been in stalled, the interior r anged by remo¢ so that convenience for (Continued on Page Seven.) suffered cuts about the head concussion of the brain at 7 @ local hospital where his condition was reported satisfactory at mid night. R Simon Apgar, driver of an oil field taxicab, whose car crashed with ‘the one driven by, Elich, was uninjured as were his two passen- gers except for minor cuts from a broken windshield. Apgar's car was miles north on the Salt Creek highway. Auto Wrecked, Driver Injured In a crash that practically deniolished the bug he was driving, Ivan Elich, 45-year-old laborer who has been work- ing recently on the Tisdale Dome water line to Salt Creek, , an injured hip and possible o’clock Saturday evening five He was taken to badly damaged and had to be towed into the city. Abgar, in reporting the accident to the sheriff's office, stated that Elich’s car was running without ghts at the time of the accident nd that he made an attempt to ditch his machine to avoid the col. sion. URGING CAREY FOR SECRETARY G. 0. P. OPENS OUSTER DRIVE in Iowa Campaign Are Charged DES MOINES, Ia. Jan. 24.— (United Press.)—‘Fraud ond deceit” accomplished the election of Smith W. senate last November, Mean state central committee solved here late today, voting contest his sitting in the senate. Members of the committee made {t plain that thelr action was not done in behalf of Daniel Steck of Ottumwa, the Democratic opponent of Brookhart. Their contest will be prosecuted on the grounds that the name of Smith W. Brookhart fraudulently appeared on the Repub: lean ticket, and they are starting it under the same rules as those apply Ing to the cases of Lorimer of Illi nols and Newberry of Michigan both of whom were unseated Governor Hammill must appoint a successor to serve until the next general election if the mittee succeeds in’ prying the junic nu (Continued on Page Two) the Repub re to ‘OR. SURVEYS. OF PROJECT ASSURED Ten thousand dollars for additional surveys for pumping units of the Casper-Alcova project between the Path- finder dam and Glendo will be forthcoming next spring, according to assurance brought to Casper yesterday by Frank C. Emerson, state engitfeer, who returned to Cheyenne last night after a conference with the irrigation committee of | the chamber of commerce. Mr. Emerson said that state money to the amount of $5,000 would be available to match a like sum appropriated by the reclamation service to finance such surveys in carrying to completion work started by engineers who worked in the Casper region late last summer. ve Sos Joint efforts of the state and federal government will be directed toward ascertaining the cost and feasibility of Seven Seized In Booze Raid “Tom and Jerry” A lso Taken Into Cus- tody by Police at Second. Floor Resort on South Center The latchstring was not hanging out at 243 South Cen- ter street when Chief Bert S. Yohe and his party of officers last night at 9:45 o’clock went upstairs over the Senate pool hall to get a few guests for the city hotel. Knocking on the door with let themselves into a scattering of excited inmates. Shannon was taken into custody as Source of Fake Hootch Is Revealed in Seizure of Revenue Stamps and Labels at Locat “Factory” proprietor of the place and he was surrounded in the patrol wagon with Eddy Shay, Grover Wood George Rafferty alles William Gard- ner, W. C. Hagens, Neal Cassidy LIQUOR RAIDED; IS HELD An insight into the source of Casper’s “bonded liquor” supply, whereby the gullible public is fooled into paying exorbitant prices for home coricocted scotch, bourbon and tye, was gained yesterday afternoon by the police depart- ment in a raid at the rear of 780 Kirk avenue. Approxi- mately 600 fake labels and revenue stamps were un- tarthed, together with a half gallon;are easily obtained, according to the otf moonshine and some beer, officers, and fake bonded liquor is Mrs. Ray T. Grace, one of those | just eastly manufactured, The rominently connected with the|more honest bootleggers use one $8,000 liquor raid on the Grace home| third real liquor as a base and add on Eant First street a year ago last| grain aleohol and distilled water, ‘all, Was arrested and subsequentiy |The rest take ordinary moonshine ‘urnished bond for appearance in| and by doctoring it with flavoring yilice gourt Monday, Pake labelw and revenue stamps xtracts, coloring tnatter and a com- (Continued on Page Two) a sledge hammer the officers D. W. and George Newell, dll charged with being inmates of a bootlegging joint. In the way of evidence the raid yielded a half pint of gin, a pint of moonshine and a large bowl of steaming Tom and Jerry ready for serving. Appurtenances. picked up were an electric percolatoy and a pitcher which was in the trembling possession of a fellow lying under a bed. On demand of Otto Plaga, federal agent who with the raiding party, Shannon was held in fail. Shan non’s six customers were released when he furnished bond of $25 for each of them. Their cases will be heard in police court Monday evening. Besides Chief Yoho and Mr. Plaga, other officers on the rald were Zook, Harlow, Russell, Ideen, Mac- Dowell, Thomas and Plummer. ‘This makes the third cleanup on bootlegging conducted within a week, the American club at 254 South Center street’ having ‘first been broken into Saturday ‘night a ‘week ago and again on the Monday afternoon following. Arrests in these two raids totalled 23, bringing the number for the week to 30 with the episode of last: night. School Burned To the Ground BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jan. 24, (United Press)—Heflin institute with a registration cf 1,000 students was destroyed by fire here tonight with a loos of more a | $160,000, using electric power supplied by plants at the Pathfinder and Guern sey dams by equalizing the trans. mission to a minimum degree. Fur: ther investigation also will be made of the proposed damsite at Alcova and surveys will be run for tunnels and syphons in the Emigrant Gap region. Foundation rock for the dam proposed for impounding water in Alcova canon will be tested by dia- mond drill operations and other fea- tures of the project will receive at- tention with a view to ascertaining costs and their relation to putting water on the fertile lands that lle along the Platte river. Interest manifested in the Casper project indicates a favorable attl- tude toward the consummation of an irrigation program which eventually will supply the Casper market with farm products and transform a bar ren region into verdant fields. Er gineérs who conducted surveys last year of lands available for irrigatior under a pumping system, pre nary to construction of a major pro: ject involving some 100,000 acres of land, have completed their reports and their findings are sald to be fav orable to the continuation of work in project investigation. —_ WEATHER WYOMING: Unsettled Sunday and probably Monday with some rain or snow. Somewhat der M ONBROOKHART Fraud and Deceit Brookhart, to the United States | TWO SEIZED BY SHERIFF | AT LAVOYE “A of the were whoopin' it up" in the Red Bird cabaret on the main street of La voye last night at 10 o'clock when the sheriff's office, assisted by fed eral officers descended on the es: tablishment. Tive minutes later the officers emerged with two pris- oners who gave the names of C. Cc, Tex” Poole and Guy Da » al leged proprietors, and six pints of led Iquor. patrons of the place, who were more or less dejected fol- lowing the sudden interruption of their evening's entertainment, were turned Icose en masse. The Red Bird was crowded to capac ity at the timo of the raid Ed Landers, undersheriff, headed the raid, the officers assisting him bunch boys | being Deputies Carter, Snow and Whittle and Federal Officers Craft | and Easley oak ee ORS 2 ‘FIRGT ANNUAL MEETING ‘OF CHEST FUND TO BE ‘HELD WEDNESDAY NIGHT The first annual meeting of the Casper Community Chest fund will be held at the Court House, Wednes- day, Junuary 28 8:00 p, m., for the election of 12 directors, and the transaction of such other business fag may properly come before the meeting. It Is desired that there be repre- sentation of all arganization mem bers, also orgunizations receiving benefit from the Community ,Chest fund, and those persons who signed the constitution and by-laws at the time the Community Chest fund was organized. All persons interested in this {m- portant and worthy cause are urged to be present CASPER HIGH BEATS GREEK A bill of basketball that vening of exciting play made a in Salt Jast night resulted in the Cas |per high school five defeating the Salt Creek five, 51 to 16, and the | Pearl Whites of this city edging out ahead of the gas plant team, 40 to 87. Stars for Casper in the high school contest were O baugh, Gibson and Davis, while Ullery was outstand ing among the oil field player Jack and Sam Neff, with George Layman did bits of effective work he Pear! White quinte' HOW WOULD SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS EDIT TRIBUNE? READ IT SATURDAY AND FIND OUT Heads up for Saturday { You may not recognize be a paper issued with the fam! he Tribune management hi the paper for that day to the Tau ¢ of the First Christian church. 17 numbers 75 and is the largest high nish all the local copy, edit it, write your T January 31. ribune on that date but there will Tribune label on it made arrangements turn jamma Gamma Sunday school class to over » boys and girls of this class, which school class in Wyoming, will fur- the heads, solicit the days’ advertis. ing copy and do everything in getting out the edition except the me methe Whos {dea {s a plan evolved by the high school youngsters whereby they can make money to carry on certain activities. The entire profits of the edition will be turned over to the class and with the proceeds they hope to be able to completely furnish the new room the yhave taken over in the church building, and to use the remainder towards the expenses of remodeling the interlor of the church building. In addition to handling the paper for the day the class will age? on @ subscription campaign, a certain percentage of the profits o which will accrue to. their fund. Booths will be opened on the down- town streets and a house to house campaign will be inaugurated. The subscription campaign will open Monday, January 26 and close the following Saturday evening Science Scores Great Advance in Eclipse Astronomers Reap Benefit of Thousand Years in Observations Made Under Ideal Conditio ns of Saturday By FRAN (United Press S$ NEW YORK, Jan. 24.— thrilling phenomenon of a tc lions of Americans to stand st K GETTY esponde The sun and moon, the otal eclipse, commanded mil ill—and were obeyed in Never before has the hum of life in a work-day world been so concertedly interrupted; never before have the eyes of so many human beings focussed upon a spectacle, as when the dul! black disk of the moon cut-off the sun's light from earth for a few fleeting seconds. And never was a total eclipse stud: ied “by scientists under such favor: able conditions. “Astronomical sclence advanced 1,000 years this morning,” sald grey whiskered “Dayy"” Todd, 80 fe emeritus of Amherst college While Todd remained c¢ the ground, other men went into the alr on the. bread ba the navy dirigible Los Angeles, and from a special aerial observatory took fig ures and impressions never befor« possible. Airplanes, equipped with giant cameras, mounted "15.000 feet aloft and obtained clear views of th phenomenon, Across a narrow strip of territor in the northeastern section of, the United States, between 9:02 and 9:16 «. m,, darkness descended but a few hours after daylight had come, and an inestimable number of persons witnessed the flashing, leaping cir clet of the sun’s corona at the mo ment of totality. In other sections of the east, mid dle west and south where weather permitted, a more or less tote eclipse was observed, But it was onl) across # 100-mile strip from Minne sota to the sea that the phenomena was viewed in {ts entirity. Factories closed, business house suspended work, wheels ceased t turn as traffic halted. The eerie, pur plish shadow of the moon fell across s and other persons likely to be involved in current repart hool students promise scandal are ad’ d to be prepared, The high sc s to produce local copy that has never been printed in Casper before. the earth, and milifons in towne an cities forgot everything in the won der o” the spectacle, Animals reacted according to their kind, Fowls returned to yoost think ing another night had come, dogs howled dismally in the sem!-darkness (Continued on Page Two) Twenty-Six Arraig A paying proposition is t department by traffic violator ~ HERRIN GUN WAR AN CHIEF fo FIRST TO FALL IN RESUMPA TON OF FIGHTING | a |Feud Flames Anew as ‘Deputy Caries Out Threat to Kill Foe and Falls Himself. HERRIN, Ill., Jan. 24.4 (United Press.)—-Four are dead tonight as the result of the latest flareup, of Klan and anti-Klan feeling here, the scene of so much of “Bloody Williamson" county's vio- lence. Glenn Young, picturesque two-gun man, liquor raider, and Klan leader, met death as he wish- ed, “with his boots on."" The others killed are Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, Homer Warren and Hd Forbes The actual cause leading up to the shooting was not known but it is believed that Thomas was the ins stigator. On previous occasions ‘Thomas 49 quoted as saying he would “shoot it out” with Young if he ever set foot in Herrin again, following Young's flight from the eity last fall When the pair met front of the European hotel, it said ‘Thomas reiterated his threat. A wordy battle ensued which cul- minated when Thomas drew his re- volver and fired point blank at Young. Forbes, an alleged Klan sympathizer and friend of Young, ran to the aid of the stricken leader, firing as ho spproached Thomas. One of his bullets struck Thomas mortally wounding him, A stray shot struck Warren, a witness to the shooting. Forbes recetved his wounds when he engaged Klan opposition lead- ers in a gun battle Deputy sheriffs were rushed to the scene from Marion and they suc- ceeded in breaking up the gangs hat formed without further casual- les. Feeling following the shootings tense between Klan and anti- Klan factions, and the sheriff mo- bilized his force to stop further out- breaks. When the smoke of battle cleared away. Sheriff Galligan put his men to work removing the in. jured ‘Thomas was rushed to a hospital but died before reaching the operat- ing table. Six others were admitted to the hospital, physicians sald, some with wounds which may prove fatal. The Carbondale unit of the Ill nots National Guard has been order- ed to Herrin by Adjutant General Charles Black of Springfield, and other companies may be called out if the situation warrants. Young, while a prohibition agent in Springfield, often expressed the t t desire to meet death in action. In the days when he operated in Springt Young always went hea. med | s departure from this c he toured southern IMinois and ecame active ay & raider for the Ku Klux Klan in Willlamson counts He had beer licted and was out on bonds totalling half a million dol- lars. He was said to have been im- Plicated in several shooting affrays and a short me ago unidentified Persons fired into an automobile in which he and his wife were riding. He was shot in one leg, while his wife was blinded in one eye. His career in Tlinois bh (Continued on Pa da even.) been $140 ADDED TO TRAFFIC FINES IN CITY COURT ned in Police Court | Saturday Evening; Variety of Infractions Is Listed »eing made out of the police rs, 26 of them appeared before Judge John A. Murray in police court at 2 o'clock yester- day afternoon and together c ontributed to the cost of keep- ing cops in Casper to the extent of $140. One-eyed cars are unsightly things in the eyes of the fw, no doubt of that. Every time ne of them is lamped by an officer ft costs the owner $5. Ten vehicles {agged in this class netted the court sment of a red y car in Cas. paht Is something ’ ;9F must have, and no ifs or ands about it Lack of brought a half dozen motorists be- fore the judge who made them cough up ensemble an even $60, | Entire absence of headlights, park- | Ing contrary to regulations, and let- | ting motors run at the curb were i (Continued on Page Two) t “tall Ughts'*