Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1925, Page 1

Weather Forecast Unsettled tonight and Wednesday, | probably snow in northwest portion. Somewhat colder tonight in extreme routheast portion and in east por- | ticn Wednesday. The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other W Che Casp VOL. IX. ' NO. 93 Member of of Cireul Audit Bureau ation er Dail: 7 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1925 Pex, et yoming newspaper. ° rthniw1e On Strects Del'vesed by or gt Newstands, 6 rier 7 COUNCIL FIXES LIMIT ON CITY EXPENDITURES STATE BANKING CODE IS NTRODUCED IN SENATE CHOOLBIBLE PEADING BILL FACES DEFEAT Measure Escapes the Senate Shelf by Tie Vote CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 27.—-(Special to The Trib- une—Senate 15, providing that at least ten verses of the Holy Bible shall be read in the public schools at the opening of each school day, still lives. Its prospécts, however, are precarious. It escaped legislative execution Monday by the “skin of its teeth,” when there was a tie vote $n a motion that it be indefinitely postponed. Thereafter it was just where it had been before it went be fore the committee of the while Sen ate, except that it had been amendec in several details, including that the reading provided ‘for should b “without comment.” Senate 16 stirred up a lively little fuss in the committee of the whole Senate and the majority of the com mittee decided that it should be in definitely postponed. When the com- mittee's report was rendered to the Senate, however, that body declined to approve the recommendatfon con cerning the bill and it thus repriev ed. Opposition to the bill centered chiefly in the contention that the reading of the Holy Bible in the public schools by mandate of the law would have a tendency to incite strife. Among those who addressed themselves to the bill and against it were Anderson, Pearson, Wanerus, Meyers and Mercer; senators who favored the measure were Fowler. Sjbley, Daly, Gardner and Jenkins. he end js not yet insofar as the Senate is concerned not to mention what .may take place should the measure get through the Senate and go to the House. The biennial county commissioner district bill (one crops up every ses- sion,) went into the discard Monday afternoon when the House indefi ultely postponed House 14 following the most prolonged debate that has been incited by any measure during this session. The vote was close— jl to indefinitely postpone against ’6 in opposition to such action. The opponents of the, bill appeared to be of the opinion that it would not serve to correct existing abuses in the county commissioner selection system and that it might result in marked Injustice to the larger towns of the state, notably Casper, which asts 11,000 of the 16,000 votes in Natrona county but, were the bill enacted, would represented only one of the three county commission ers while the rural regions casting less than half as many votes would © represented by two commission 8. Among those speaking in sup ort of the. bill were Heyer, Waegle, | ¢, Brough, Fowler, Vance, McAvoy, | g¢ Rohan and Jackley; among those speaking against It were Jack, Mc illough, Beck and Bishop. The House Monday afternoon rul- ed by inference that a police justice 4 worth only one-fifth more than is a mayor to a city of the first clo hen {t amended Cobb's bill, House 8, fixing the salaries of the offi rs of such citties, by r@ducing the salary stipulated for police judgesw, $5,000, to $1,200. Other pecified in the bill were not a (Continued on Page Ten.) w that Miss Leginska becoming !mpat jent at waiting for the taxicab, had w: edness. She was attired in evening dress and did not carry her purse. Hunters Will of the peditions, one to thé White Sea by Josefland, Bear Island and Spitzberg, and the other to the remote {sland of Jan Mayen and the east coast of Green- land musk game sought. ern the Oxford university arctir expedi- tion in 1928, will be the Quest. HEAVENLY WEDDING Perhaps the most unusual view those in the area of total shadow, but by those in lower New York where | the eclipse did not appear quite complete at any moment, speck of sunlight was at its smallest it appeared to be a diamond setting in a brilliant ring. bolized it as “the wedding of the moon and sun.” unusual photograph, light being available. FARIOUS PIANIST HISSING IN Those who beh no explanation of the eclipse was obtained, not by When the eld this, beautiful phenomenon sym- It is shown in this for the presence of two circles of NEW YORK; MUNZ SUBSTITUTES FOR CARNEGIE HALL RECITAL NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Ethel Leginska, famous English send out a general % Miss Leginskas disappearance was reported by her secretary, Miss Lu- cille Oliver ,who said that while she had gone to fetch a taxicab, the not- ed pianist left her home unescorted. Search at Carnegie Hall and again at whereabouts of the pianist. In order not to disappoint the concert audi- ence, Mieczyslaw Munz, just off the train Mountain region, service and gave the recital, her home failed to, reveal the from tour a in the sam f was pressed in' Miss Oliver advanced the theory andered off in a fit of absent-mind- Invade Polar Region, Report , Norway, Jan. 27.—Sir Er- leton’s famous explc Quest, sturdy veteran this year will pene zen realms of the polar will carry two hunting ex the It ate a and Franz way of of Néva Zembla, returning by ay. Seal, reindeer, polar bear and oxen Will be the. principal n Schielderup, noted north and sailing master of Capt skipper pianist, conductor and eomposer, is the.center of intensive search today, began last night after her alarmed when she failed to appear at a scheduled concert at Carnegie Hall where a large audience awaited her. deep was concern over her disappearance that police were requested to alarm. tiends became So Hotel Guests Forced Into Cold by Fire CHEBBOYGAN, Mich., Jan. 27,—With the mercury 17 degrees below zero, ninety guests of the new Cheyboygan hotel were forc- ed to run from the hotel in their night clothes early today when fire broke out. Several guests became alarm- ed and started to leave the build ing in their bdre feet, but were stopped by firemen and compell- ed to put on shoes, patina St ae SUN YAT SE DEAD, REPORT SHANGHAI, Jan. 27.—(By The Associated Press}— Dr, Sun Yat Sen, on of Chia’s most noted political leaders, is dead at Peking, accord ing to a dispatch received here this in command of afternoon by the Japanese semi- of ficlal news agency. Repeal of All Laws In Force Now Pro- posed in Measure Finally Prepared. CHEYENNE. Wyo., Jan. 27.—A bill repealing all Wyoming banking laws and substituting therefore a code modeled largely on that of the state of Oregon brought in by the senate corpora- tions committee this morning. It was prepared by the state examiner's office. Consisting of oixty-five type- written pages, ft is the longest bill the session has produced to date. President Brown referred it directly to the committee of the whole sen- and other banking bills have been ate . A number of bank guaranty held up since early in the session, pending the Introduction and con sideration of the new code bill, the title of which is Senate 27. A bill repealing the state law en forcement department statute and providing for a state department of safety and a state policd force was brought {n this morning by repre- sentative Waegle but was rejected by Speaker Underwood because in seeking to repeal law concerning deputy game and fish commlssion- ers, it violated the rules of incor. porating more than one subject. It will be reintroduced as two bills The house this morning indefi- nitely postponed the Hasbrouck Dill, house twenty, drastically reducing the rates for public printing. Rep- resentative Alcorn, speaking for the Wyoming--Press ie wit sale that if the bill were enacted it would put fifty per cent of the newspapers of the state oft of business withir six months. Repeated efforts by (Continued on Page Seven.) Direct action in obtaining the long sought Community building for the city of Casper was taken at last night’s council meeting when the community committee presented a petition asking for’a 99 year lease on the city park at Seventh and Center streets as a site for the building. The matter was referred to the parks committee for an investiga- tion and report. The committee appearing last night included P. C. Nicolaysen, Harry B. Durham, W. O. Wilson, George Jarvis, Cha A. Cullen and A. J. Parkin members took the floor individua urged the site as the only r the building. Mr. Parkin, in his discussion of the stated that the Standard Ot! npany of Indiana would gi 0,000 toward the constr: of the building, The committee feels that a building such as Casper needs would cost approximately $500,000 and that if any other site had to he purchased at least $100,000 would be expended for the property alon The remaining $250,000 needed for the building will be raised in Casper but not by a drive on individual {zens, according to Mr, Park! Rather will other large companies and service organizations be asked ‘DEPUTY SHERIFF FIRST TO FIRE IN HERRIN KILLINGS ewitness to Late Gun War in Which Klan Leader Wsa Slain Tells Story Of Shooting at Inquest Hearing. estifying today at the inquest oung, Ku Klux Klan liquor raider, Deputy Sheriff Ora homas, Young’s arch enemy, and two others, Henry Peter- fon of Herrin, told the coroner’ eé first fatal shot in the fatal affray Saturday night. Peterso nsaid he was standing on| deputy sheriff's hands were in his pockets and hi an @ walk near the European hotel hen Thomas entered the more in the building, Canary The HERRIN, Ill., Jan. 27.—(By The Associated Press.) — into the deaths of S. Glenn s jury he saw Thomas fire right hand ¢: automatic, Peterson said, The witness, peering through the ped window sald Thomas walked past Young who was talking to Lisp" Green, a miner, The deputy then pulled his gun and fired. Peterson testified, the bullet crashing through the window. As he dropped to the walk, Peerson said, E. D. Forbes fell inside the building near the win- dow. Peterson said he did not see the shooing of Homer Warren, whose body was found later at the curb, some ten feet from the window. The witness said he did not see any one fire from an upstairs win dow. He added, however he be Meved he had seen gun flushes out side the hotel building. HERRIN, Ul, Jan, 27.—(By The Associated Preep)—Four guns, uo cartridge belt and a holster were first exhibits to face the coron jury inquiring today into the deaths of S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux liquor raider, Deputy Sheriff Oro Thomas and two others Saturday night Thomas's gun a black .45 calibre automoatic, with a wooden handle was the first weapon laid on the table by Coronor George Bell. The gun was empty. On the right side cf the handle two notches had been cut. Whether more notches belong thre is to be decided by the jury. Young's guns, two sparkling pearl handled .45 automatics, followed One of these, which he {# said to was | STATE. AESEAVE BMNK BILL T0 BE INTRODUCED IC. W. Erwin of Lusk Is Author of Proposed Banking Measure CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan, 27.—The “State Reserve’ bank bill prepared by C. W. Erwin, cashier of the Lusk State bank, which he says will be introduced in the legislature, js at- tracting much attention from. Sen ators and Representatives, the ma jority of whom who have expressed selves appear dublous concern he constitutionality of some of ases ang of the advisability of its enactment, The draft for the bill follows A BILL K An act to create State Re. serve bank, defining {t« capital, how the same sball be provided and mak ing appropriation refore; pre serib the number {rectors and how they shall ected, prescrib ing for the management of such bank, defining the dutles of direc tors and officers, defining the powers and duties of such State Reserve bank, and making obligatory upon State banks members of such State re bank, to subseribe to the capital thereof, providing for the supervision of State banks and au- thorlzing the directors of the Stage sere banR to profide rules and (Continued on Page Four.) to make contributions that will pro. duce the money needed The date of initiating the drive has not been determined Mr. Parkin | told the council oN y facts relative to the building were brough out in the discussion that fol’owed the presentation of the petition? Among others were that while the building would cost $30,000 to $50,000 annually in up kéep, the bullding should be self supporting from the activities in which it participated The rough architectural plans drawn up provide for a building 140 by. 200 feet, outside dimensions, with an auditorium seating 1,800 to 2 gymnasium, swimming pool, mittee rooms, banquet hall, dance hall, and all the other accoutrements of an organization of this nature, In the petition presented eight reasons are enumerated why the city park is the only site that would satisfy the proposed plans Stripped of the petitions verblage they are as follows 1. Centrally located, easily acces sible to all This general location ts the center of population Butldings on property adjoin gare in harmony HOME BURNED, FIVE PERISH BARNUM, Minn., Jan. 27,—Five persons burned to death here today when the farm home of Mrs. John Gerard was destroyed by fire, Three persons escaped The dead: Mrs. John Gerard, a have carried on his left side, held « full elp of cartridges, One or two (Continued om Page Seven) hullets had been fired from the oth: | widow; her two children, Ruth, 14 und Fussell, 12; two grand children, ther Walberg, 2 and Arthur, Jr., lone year old. UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY. E, Wyo., Jan. 27.—(Special to The Tribune.) That is, the parlia-| Nothing but the plainest proposals coulc Questions constantly arose in both houses. It was in committee of the whole in the house that a ballec CHEYENN —The jinx was abroad yest mentary jinx. get over right. up condition of proceedings required the speaker, who was sit ting on the Democratic side to come to the rescue. The senate had but Iittle better luck. Its committee re. ported on engrossed bills was faulty which precipitated a snarl, with sev eral senators vainly ‘attenipting untangle.” The president returned to the chalr, made a ruling, brought order out of chaos, and sent the par Mamentarians to the Ifbrary and else where to settle the disputed points among themselves. Oratory was rampant also, and members of the house listened spellbound while McAvoy, of Wes ton and McCullough of Albany flung Shakespearean and other erday. occurred several times, that classic quotations about the cham ber with utter abandon. The staid senate used up an hour and a half in debate over Senator Jenkins’ "bill to compel a reading of the bible in public schools, there were a dozen participants and when a vote was finally reached, it re sulted in a tie, 13 to 13, with one sentee. ‘The bill was saved by a omittment. One of the strongest cases 4. City park is now used .only short time in summer by the publi for band concerts 5. The building would develop this vicinity a real civic center. 6. City park 1s too small tor ke activities 7. Community committee cannot afford expenditure of large sum for site 8. The acquisition of the site would greatly help in the subserip Uon campaign. real pa The committee reported that they had given several months to con fon of every availabie site pro One after the other had been rejected, for one reason or another until th city park remained as the only logical place for the communit; building In the house the ‘same thing hap. pened ¢4o the bilb creating county commissioner districts. A similar fate saved the Hasbrouck bill reduc ing t legal rate of advertising. It will gain with certain slaugh er as its ultimate fate. All in all it was a bad day all around and adjournment was taken early in both houses. Some fire works are expected when the budget is brobght in from the committees on ways and mea Nothing is iven out fro mthe com mittee, but outsiders familiar with the situation, have been engaged ever’ since governor's printed budget re mendations, made their Spearance, and they say that while the budget is apparently balanced, ounting is taken of something like $700,000 fixed venditures Tax revenue {s inclu or 192 which dées not come i 1 until the middle of the next and similar situations are presented in both revenue and general expense sides of the ledger. It is said that the budget is a fearfully and won (Contimued on Page Ten.) RECLAMATION PROJECT WOULD BOOST LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY IN COUNTY, FORUM MEETING TOLD ever advanecd herein favor of the imemdiate construction of the Casper-Alcova irriga* tion project wag heard at the forum luncheon of the cham- ber of commerce today noon when Thomas Cooper, pioneer Natrona county flockmaster, declared the project would be the means of doubling the livestock industry in this PARK SITE FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING PETITIONED HERE Program Approved by Carey Interests Affecting Grant to City Is Carried to Council Here; Standard Ready To Match Donations Up to Quarter Million. county. In pointing out the posst. bilities in this connection he said: “In the balmy days of the sheep business five to seven million pounds of wool were annually shipped out of Casper, our ranges sustaining from 500,000 to 783,000 sheep. I want to again call your attention to figures quoted before; in round fig ures the stock of Natrona county vrought to this community $3,000, 000, If the ranges of this county are capable of carrying double that amount—and I contend they are— we are losing annually $3,000,000, and what a tremendous loss to this community. are approximately 300,000 sheep in the county today, valued at ),000. Tf the Casper-Alcova pro- Ject were a reallty this number could be increased to 500,000 and the value would be approximately double the present value, or $7,100,000. The lip of woo! annually could be in creased from approximately 2,500,000 pounds te 5,000,000 pounds, and its value from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. The number of lambs raised annual ly could be inereased from 200,000 to 400,000 and the value of the lamb crop would be close to $2,688,000 us compared to $1,344,000 at the pres ent tin The railroad: ead of nually in fre charges on wool hey would col abe $140,¢ Ir 1 of rece $78,000 yearly ir ights or ep shipped to mar ket, they would take In close to $156,000 And where they now get $44,000 for cattle shipments, they would get $88,000." In further exposition of the possi bilities of the sheep industry tn this community Mr. Cooper sald: “With the Casper-Alcova project completed und the land in successful cultiva tion we would be able to purchase hay in the stack, eliminating the cost of baling and freight charges and the hay we must feed would be in better condition, With adequate and intelligent system of trails, we would be able to trail our sheep Into (Contituel on Page Seven.) jrent FBAUARY WILL WITNESS. SLASH UNDER FIGURES OF LAST MONT Ordinance to Require Bonds of Poolrooms and Rooming Houses Held Up Last Night Total payroll and opera- tion cuts in municipal de- partments amounting to $2,- $00 in February over the cur- month were agreed upon at last night’s meeting of the council after a minimum bud- wet for February had been recom- mended by C. E. Hoffhine, chatr- man of the finance committee, The budget allows each department head maximum and ‘the sum total hows the total for February will $18,040 whereas at present it mounts to $20,640. The maximumer allowed each doy partment is as follows: City clerk, janitor — 490 Clty treasurer —- 350 City attorney --. - 500 and cemeterie - 500 Fire department ----- - 4,010 Water dapt. administration Water dept. operation, repairs City engineer administration_. City engineer forces —-. Street and sewer administration s Street operation including endump.man - = 2,260 City garage - 350 Police dapt. administration including chief, judg and sergeants 850 Police dept. other men ~.-----. 3,360 TAA necsanacitaentan Sanne $18,040, Although the couneilmen passed for the third and final reading the ordinance making Inmates of a house or building where law breaking a Uvities are going on subject to prose- cution, the two ordinances requiring bonds for the proper conduct of pool- rooms and rooming houses were’not acted on A. EB, Stirrett, representing the Ppoolroom proprietors and certain of property owners renting buildings for poolroom use, called the atten- tion of the council to the fact that he believed the proposed ordinance not only prejudictal but unconstl- tutional. He stated that no surety company would bond a poolroom un- der the sweeping provisions of the proposed ordinance and that all bonds provided would have to be cash or collateral. This, he claimed, would force some of the proprietors out of business Mr, Stirrett suggested as a substi- tute that the police depatrment be given instructions to keep these pool- rooms under strict vigilance, which elieves would produce the me ules in eliminating the evils which 16 proposed ordinance is expected The council delayed action on thé hird ling and asked Ambrose Hemingway, city attorney, to advise them next week as to the constitue tionality of the ordinance. ‘The ordle nance requiring bonds for rooming houses, being sithilarily worded, was placed in the same caetgory. Mr. Hemingway presented twa ordinan| new for consideration, The first, which amends and brings up-to-da number of other ordi. ni vering duties and salaries al officers, was passed on first reading. The second creates the office of city auditor with its attend- ant duties and ralary prescribed. The councilmen seem to feel that when this off is created it should be given to a certified public accounts ant Permission Refused Former Attorney General to Tell “Situation” at Capital in Scandal Probes. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general called us a witness for the defense today in the’ Means-Felder trial,‘was refused permission by Fed- eral Judge Lindley to tell the detai s of the “situation” existing at Washington during the events leading up to the indictment of the defendants. Meane and Fe'der aro being tried | \' on charges of conspiracy to bribe federal offic including Mr, Daugherty, Burns yesterday testified nt the} Mr. Daugherty sald that for some| DAUGHERTY TAKES STAND FOR MEANS Ume the state of affairs in Washe ington was such that there were men in the capital who were “hells ound and spell-bound,” “I would like at this time to tell the true story of that situation if am permitted to do so," said Mr. Daugherty. Judge Lindley, hows ever, refused him permission. Mr. Daugherty denied that Thomas B. Felder, one of the de fendan ever talked to him about indictments then pending against the system, a company manufacturing glass caskets, Feld. er and his former client, Gaston B, Means, being tried on charges f conspiring to bribe high govern. ment officials, including Mr. Daughs (Continued on Page Seven) Srager