Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1925, Page 1

Weather Forecast yoming.—Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, prob snow or rain In northwest por. , The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper. to Warmer tonight in northeast portion. VOL. IX. NO, 98 WO KILLED, FIVE INJURED IN CODY ACCIDE FIRST }IMPANEL JURY AND FIRST CASE j GETSUNDER WAY 25 Liquor and 3 Illegal Sales of Paregoric on Court Docket. Natrona county’s ~ cow house became this morning by virtue of courtesy, tem- porary federal domain with the beginning here of the first session of federal court ever held in central Wyoming, the stars and stripes streaming from the mast in front of the building in rec- ognition of the event. Soon after 9 o'clock the gavel of ise T. Blake Kennedy was heard in™whe courtroom and the jury was impanelled for the first case, that of'the United States government ver- sus Willlam: Beadle of ,Washakie county, charged with violations of the federal prohibition act. Thirty cases are shown on the docket, with dates of trial set, bring- ing the conclusionsof the session on February 11, if the schedule {s fol- lowed out. Of the thirty cases twen- ty-five concern lquor charges, three to do with illegal sale of pare. goric, one with thefts from an inter state ht shipment, and one with contempt of cow BP; La- vowe and Wweral ot! ‘Thermop- olis furnishes half of the cases to be heard here. For the occasion there are besides Judge Kennedy seven attaches of! his office here from Cheyenne. They are Assistant United States District At- torney Clyde M. Watts, progecutor in the place of A. D. Walton who was Friday called east by the ser- ious illness of his father but who intends to be here for the final gpethe docekt, Charles J. Ohnhaus, “Terk of the United States court; Cap- itola G, Allison, deputy clerk; Anna Tl. Ahrens, stenographer; Hugh L. Patton, United’ States marshal; D. N. chief deputy marshal; Earl deputy United States mar- hundred people here from othe vlaces In the state for the hearings, the myJjority of them being defend- ants and witnesses. Lin I. Noble, W. L. Simpson and ©. W. Axtell of ihprmgpolis and W. L. Walls of Cheyenne are some of the out-of- town attorneys here for the term. ‘The docket includes the following cases: William Beadle of Washakie coun- ‘, charged with unlawful posses- sion and sale of liquor on three counts; case opened this morning. Teresia Gams of Washakie coun- ty, charged with unlawful posses- sion and sale of liquor on two counts case set for today, James Atfield, charged with un- awful possession and sale of Hquor on 10 counts; case set for today. Tke Carson, charged with unlaw possession and sale of liquor on © counts; case eet for today. Hf, S. Cover of Thermopolis, charg- \with unlawful possession and sale or"quor on seven counts; case set tor today. George Fisher, of Thermopolis, is charged with unlawful possession (Contihued on Page Two) WILBUR Member of Au of Cireul FEDERAL COUR UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb highway over which thousands of American forefathers toiled by ox team, to erect the Pacific coast em- pire and to preserve to the great American republic that yast and valuable territory. The Oregon Trail is regarded as the world’s most historic highway, and Mr. Smith's bill would per- petuate it to remind the generations of the heroic sacrifices of American pioneers in developing the greatness of the western group of states, by making of the old trail a national highway for east and west travel. Through Wyoming, from east to wost, there remains to this day the deep rutted evidence of the hegira, every mile of the way marked not only by the wheels of the ox carts, but by the mute reminders of the courageous souls who gave up the struggle against the hardships of the trail or succumbed to the treachery of hostile Indians. Markers have been erected along the trail of empire, at various points by historical and patriotic societies but this, in Mr. Smith's opinion, Js not sufficient. The old trail, for its er Batl MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 4yCrihune ‘The Casp dit Bureau ation . 2.—Hon Addison Smith, member of congress from Idaho, on January 23, introduced in the national house of representatiyes a bill known as house joint resolution 828, which is of deep interest to the people of the state of Wyoming. The bill provides for designating the route of the old Oregon Trail, the historic length of over two thousand miles, through the republic's greatest and richest territory, should become a broad improved highway, of service to the people for all time, penetrat- ing the most profound natural beauty on the western continent. It is the idea of Mr. Smith, that the highway extending from Council Bluffs, Ia., and Independence, Mo., to Seaside, Ore. and Olympia, Ww thfough the states of Mis- sourl, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, known by variqyus names, as the Overland Trail, the Mormon Road, the Emmigrant Road, end the Oregon Trail, coinciding as near as may be with the federal system of highways through ‘these several states shall in the future be known as the Old Oregon Trail. That the road so designated shall follow as closely as economic and topographic conditions will permit, the route traveled by the pioneers, through Kansas City in the state of Mis- sourl; Kansas City, Gardner, Law- rence, Topeka, Rossville, Louisville, (Continued on Page Two) CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1925 WORKERS HOPE TO RELEASE MAN Squad of Men With Portable Drill Trying To Cut Away Boulder CAVE CITY, Ky., Fb. 2.— Hope came with the dawn today to Sand Cave, where in one of its crooked little crevices, three hundred feet from the entrance Floyd Col- Ins, 35 has lain pinioned by a huge boulder sincs Friday morning. A.squad of men, with a portable drill, was to leave Loutsville early today. A truck was here, ready to transport the equipment to the cave six miles away. Wh this drill, the reecners hoped to cut away enough of the stone to release the victim. His strength slowly ebbing, Col- Uns gevoted his conscious momenta to directing the workers, who, for more than forty hours, have been chipping tiny flakes from the huge rock in a futile effort to release (Continued on Page Two) Auto. Accident Toll_. On Coast Totals 15 Majority of Fatalities Occur When Trains Strike Machines; Three Plunge Over Trestle Into Bay SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2. .—(By The Associated Press) —Fifteen persons were killed yesterday in ‘automobile ac- cidents in California and Washington. Four men in an automobil eon the grade crossing. of the Sacramento Northern Electric line at Del Paso, near Sacra- mento, were killed when:the machine was rammed by a north bound train. At Los Angeles three women were killed and ten other persons includ- ing five children, were seriously in- jured. Mrs. W. F. Jamieson, wife of a physician, and her mother, were killed when a Pacific Electric train struck their automobile at a cross- ing west of there. Mrs. Sakiki Urush- ibata, 29, was crushed to death when she was pinned beneath her over- turned automobile. Walter Cummings, 15, was killed and his brother Andrew Cummings, ‘was injured, when they were struck by an unknown autoist who hit the youths on their bicycles near Reed ley, 30 miles south of Fresnd, The autoist fled and the killed and tn jured youths were picked up by passing motorists. «An unidentified man was fatally injured in Oakland last night and M. C. Morgan was held by the police when a witness sald the automobile he was driving struck the man. Three high school students return SCOUTS DESTRUCTIVITY FROM NEXT WAR Annihilation of Whole Communities by Poison Gas Said Absurd‘and Imagina- ~~ tive Physical Impossibility WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Pictures of the “next war” as a process of annihilation of whole communities by poison fases, germs and high explosives are viewed by Secretary Wilbur as “absurd” and not only physically impossible but Balso probably outside the possibility of human will. The secretary, that such methods of destruction had veen perfected are “not true and Hiot justified by past history or pres- nt conditions.” Production and raneportation of poison gas in suffi- jent quantities would be impossible Mr. Wilbur said, while the use of erms, would mean a spréad of dis- t wo the as employing them. in a statement last night, asserted reports “There' Is no doubt," the secretary added, “that modern warfare is a serious and frightful thing, an we have been so lately reminded, and that unpreparedness of such war and {ts possibilities is inexcusable in any. hation that has means for prepar- ing from a basketball game early yesterday morning were killed at a grade crossing at Prosser, Wash.; when their automobile was struck by a east bound Northern Pacific train. The dead—Marie Miles, .18; Doro- thy Wilson, 17; and George’ Joen- suu, 18, An automobile driven by John A. Peterson, Seattle, Wash., and oc- cupled also by Mrs. Peterson, and her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Fitch, Toledo, Ohio, plunged off a trestle Into El- lott bay yesterday, drowning all three. Ice on @ mountain trail near On- tarlo, Cal., caused Albert Sweensy 16, to slip and fall 200 feet to the floor of the Ice House Canyon. He died of a broken back Near Nome, Alaska, a trapper and his son, were frozen to death, cording to word from Cape Thomp- ron. PLANE MAIL PLANNED FOR FAR ALASKA WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The out efforts te rush antitoxin there by dog team er by airplane have spur red portoffice department officials in their plans for developing alr mat! routes in the territory. Authorization has been granted by congress effective July 1. to estab. lish air mail routes in Alaska pro vided the cost is not greater than by present methods. Paul Hender son, second a fant postmaster general, already has made expert ments between Fairbanks and Mo- Grath which have demonstrated the superiority. oi ‘i mail over other methods. It Is considered likely by postal officials that the air mail service be established in Alaska the fF, and prove Invaluable Pane Dr, Louise Stanley {= director of the newly established bureau of ing to avoid the hideous pcesibilities of modern warfare,” ’ home sconomics in the U, 8. depart- ment of agriculture, break of diptheria at Nome and tho |) Chicago Journal Left to Employes By Ofvner’s Will CHICAGO, Feb, 2.—The Chicago Daily Journal, the oldest dally pa- per in Chicago was left by John C. Bastman, who died last week, to a group of employes, it was disclosed in the filing of the will today. East- man was sole owner. No estimate of tlie value of the property was made, but the probate judge fixed a $1,000,- 000 bond for the executors. The entire estate is left to three executors, W. Frank Dunn, 0. L. Hall and H. C. Deuter, who announc- eda planof Mr, Eastman under which Harry L. Spencer, Richard J. Finnegan and O. L. Hall would be asociated in the publication. All those named in the plan of or. ganization were editorial and busi- ness execiitives , of the Journal under Mr. Eastman, Mr. Dunn is business manager, Mr. Finnegan, managing editor, Mr. Hall dramatic critic The Journal is one ‘of the Jeading afternoon new and the old est daily The 4 plan which had b Mr. Eastman, the n would be published by the ¢ Journel company papers exe 1ounced coneurr unde out by worked spaper More yed ate women than men in the civil service of Massachusetts. are em the filing.of the will that | | reached VET DELIVERED TO ALASKA CITY Musher Speeding Along River in Race With Death. NOME, Alaska, Feb. 2 — (By The Associated Press.) —Faithful, fleet-footed dogs, comprising the fastest avail- able team in the Arctic regions, were believed speed- ing along over the” ‘blizzard-swept course of a frozen river today in a Tace against the advances of a diph- theria epidemic here which counted its gains in the. death of three vic- tims within thé past 48 hours, when the dog team under L. Seppalls fall- ed to deliver 300,000 unite of prized serum. * Filctrig€he inset frigid condition that has prevailed here for yedrs Seppalla was somewhere between Unalaik, 200 miles from Nome and Safety, 21 miles away. His exact whereabouts wore indefinite as communications with any stations along the dog team path was diffi- cult. A bilzzard raged along the coast of the Bering sea yesterday which shot temperatures down to 10 below zero with a wind of increasing ve- locity blowing along the line taken by Seppalla, thus rendering the time of his arrival here more uncertain than ever, Seppalla, one of the prize mush- ers of the Alaska country, started out to bréak a world’s record for advancing storm, and the danger of destroying the prized serum, it was believed there today that discretion gave way to speed and Seppalla was now working over the last stretches of the hazardous journey with cau- tion. The danger of the 800,000 anti- toxin units being frozen and de- stroyed through the breaking of the glass containers in which they wero put up, increased every hour the dog team remained on the blizzard beaten road. Anticipating distress, a team | picked dogs was waiting at Safely, 21 miles from Nome, to take up the journey. should the Seppalla team pull tn there. Without the prized | health and medical organization here are making a losing fight nst the inroads of the epidemic hich lists out of the population of 1,000. The serun up from Tidewater ver the railroad to Nendn layed by fast dog teams Unalik, where Seppalla started on his 300-mile dash over the serum, the now 28 cases was originals at brought ichorage last stretch of the dangerous road to Nome last Friday. detective was wounded. timize Rev. Ernest d'Aquila of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic church, in the foreign section of the city known as the “Iron bound dis- trict’ received two letters last wegk, demanding $10,000 6n threat of death, PRIEST FOILS BLACKMAILERS FOUR ARRESTED Demand for $10,000 on Threat of Death Is Made by Quartet; One Seriously Wounded by Police NEWARK, N. J., Feb, 2.—Four alleged blackmailers are under police guard today. one of them probably dying, after a gun fight with three detectives, who trapped them in an attempt to secure $10,000 from 4 Catholic Le The priest whom the alleged blackmailers tried to vic- est. One The second letter the priest turn: ed over to the police, who directed him to place a dummy pack in the appointed place. The three detec- tives hid near the rendezvous until four men picked up the package. Then the firing bogan. On Stre Delve tands, & centy cents a month T TERM OPENS HERE Toaldresser Killed | -. When Blown Off Rig CAUCHTBY ROCK gaTTTOXIN NOT John W. Stewart Falls 85 Feet from Crown Block in Salt Creek Field and Fractures Skuli Blown off the top of a rig Stewart, 86-year-old tool dresser employed by the Midwest Refining company, fell 85 feet to the ground this morning in the Salt Creek field and was instantly killed. Stewart was pulling’a line over the crown block when He fell on a wagon tongue and frac- the wind struck him. tured his skul Stewart is survived by a wife and two children living in the field, and by r@atives In Scotland, his home previous to coming to Wyoming. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but the services will be held at Buffalo, Wyo. Steward had been employed by the Midwest since August, 1921 | dient A juniper tree, believed to be not less than three thousand years old, is still standing in the Cache nation al forest in Utah. Experts who have examined the heatwood have found that the first two inches of growth took two hundred years. Lat- er the tree grew at the rate of two inches tn sixty years. Famed Pianist Finally Found Ethel Leginska, Missing-for Week, Has Been Suffering From Amnesia; Was at Friend’s Home Near New York NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Ethel Leginska, concert pianist, dog team travel, but in view of the| Who disappeared a week ago, has been found at the home of friends outside New York. This announcement was made by the bureau of missing persons In the police report it was stated that her disappearance was apparently caused by a ner ous breakdown resulting from over. work. It was reported that she re members nothing from the time she vanished here until she was locat- ed. “On request of Miss Leginska, the LEGION HAS BOXING CARD ON TONIGHT iled fo: rounds of the Stanton and Tea an Py nd Leo down f a three-round go, M Reagan Jimmie Mallody fot three and Kid Spike and ! ton for two r and round 0. Cla of the bee ity. is to fink the Legionnaires of important their byainess ance is asked yun) ho brie teur se rain t 1 out the evening fo who haye & number | matterasto consider at sessin. Full attend Premier Advises Reconciliation In Greco-Turk Brawl} PARIS, Feb. 2 and Greek ambas Premier Herriot to advised conciliation in tt : ed by the expulsion of th triarch Constantinos tinopie and urged both sides to avold any acts calculated further venom the controversy The impression in French official circles is that the question of the expulsion of the patriarch and all other probleme arising from the ex change of pulations between Greece. Turkey will be referred to the per- manent court of international jus tice at The Hague tribunal, the old arbitration eourt. 4 Both the Turkish Hed on mier caus eek pa from Constar by a gust of wind, John W. Mrs. ‘John Grieve Named on Board CHEYENNE, Wso., Feb, 2.—The first appolntments by a woman gov- ernor to be transmitted to a Wyo- ming Senate for confirmation were confirmed by the senate this morn- ing. The appointments are those of three of nine members of the board of trustees of the University of Wyoming. Those appointed and confirmed for terms of six years be- inting February 16th are Mrs. John Grieve of Casper, J. M. Schwoob of Cody and Patrick J. Quealey of Kemmerer. location of her friends {s withheld so that she will not be bothered by rep resentatives of press,” the report sald This, as far as police are con: cerned, closes the case According to Mrs. Richard Mar wedge, a close friend, Miss Leginska is In a sanitarfum in Boston, having | been taken there after she was found in a town in Pensylvania sut. | fering from partial loss of her mem. | ory. Incessant overwork, was tho| reason Mrs, Marwede ascribed for ED Tribune Bide iON E on Off 6 NTS CODY WOMAN, WYOMING MAN ond St EAD FROM CARS TURNING. OVER School Teacher Suffers Broken Back; Second Woman Has Fractured ‘Skull; Both May Die. CODY, Wyo., Feb 2.— (Special to The Tribune.) — Two persons were killed and five others injured, two of whom are in a critical condi- tion, as the result oftautomo- bile accidents occuring near Cody G. C. Davies of Cody died time after the car in whick was riding between here and Powell left the road on an ineline er A canal culvert and turned over ceveral times. The accident happened at 8:30 this morning. Miss Vaun Beatty of Ames Towa, riding in the same machine, sustain ed a fractured back and is in a erit ical conditipn. Miss Mabel Anderson of Wheatland, Wyo., had her hip fractured and Stanley Langren, local bank employe, an arm broken and his leg injured but both will recov er. The young Indies are pubilo school teachers here. The second fatality occurre4 en the road between Greybull and Cody when the car arty by Patrick Flor ida of Meeteetse, Wyo., plunged over a high eg; bap aaeD killing Florids instant ii Weller of Meetaetse, riding with suffered a fractured ekull and may not live Miss Marian Swain, also of Mee teetse, has a fractured arm. Florida was attempting to pass another ma chine and turned out to far. J. A.-Shuler, the driver of the machine in which Mrs, Davies met her death, was uninjured. - oe Ball Player Sale Tax Is Proposed Mrs short she WASHINGTON, Feb, 2.—A nine per cent federal tax would be levied 1 the sale of professional baseball! ayers whenever the amount chang ing hands exceeded $5,000 under» bill Introduced today by Represente- tive Laguardia, Republican, New, e tax would not be assessed yiayers received the purchase Laguardia said professtonal bureball was the only fieid in which n individual failed to profit through proved ability qnd transfer of his ervices LINDSEY WINS the breakdown of the famed pianist. | When the pianist Miss Lucille left h Leginsh Whe wan found her | etary Oliver, is said M ppeared a week | left her home Miss er went to call a taxic while e pianis ted in th trance of apartment house tary, when that Miss Le ed. Police were sist in the search, heard from ment yesterday ecre had d asked to s but noth yJoin he i‘ COURT BATTLE DENVER, Colo Feb. 2 the De —Judge Din 1a de nade b Judge JUVENILE CRIME | CAUSE LAID AT DOOR OF |\Colorado Attorney grams Are Unsui CHURCH General Says Pro- table and Fail to Wield Influence on Youths “DENVER, Colo., Feb. 2. juvenile crime was laid at the torney General Boatright, ad club. Declaring that the majority were being committed by pe years, he said. “It is regrettable that churches adhere to a program tittel for persons of 35 and therefore | lack tnfluence over young people. "The great trouble/with law en forcement,” he sald “Is that the in 4 Blame for a large portion of » door of the churches by At- dres the Business Men’s sing of crimes at the present time rsons close to the age of 21 Nvidu holds >f self above ‘thie law. If the law does not suit: bin, ne in the © not obliged to abide by it. The quickest way to repeal ime cticable vw is to enforce show it 1s tmpracticable and then have it change