Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 1

The WEATHER : Unsettled tonight and Sunday. Not much change in temperature. VOL. IX. NO. 109 circulation Che Canp Member of Audit Bureau reulation STATE RESERVE BANK HALF CENT of ¢ HAEE FEET OF MESTONE TO F PENETRATED Cave-in Slows Up Work . On Shaft Reaching | » Toward Collins. ho CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 14. }—(By the Associated Press) —Only a few feet of earth today separated. the Sand Save rescue party from the tavern they believe will lead jo Floyd Collins, imprisoned in Sand Cave for two weeks by a boulder on his foot. The shaft was more than 50 feet down and at 60 feet, a diamond tore drill has indicated a cavern approximately nine feet igh, al- though the depth at tho shaft is small, due to accumulation of mud and sand. Collins is stil! alive the members pf the. state’s. military board in sharge of the situalivn.decladia see terday evening. Five of the miners mm the rescue squad said they heard poughs or groans from him, come through the crevice’ located yester- flay morning in the shaft wall, and heard them from the upper side of the cavedn down in Sand hole. Ed Brenner of Cincinnati and Alex Bailey of Louisville convinced Gen. H. S. Denhardt and others of the military board that they had really heard these sounds from Collins, and the court collectively and Individu- y expressed their convictions that fee is alive. “Before hearing this testimony, General Denhardt said, “some of the members of the board said they had felt resigned to the fact that Collins was dead. There had been no airing of those opinions for fear they might exert an adverse influence on the morale of the rescue workers. Now these members are optimistic that a rescue will be effected and the pris- oner will be found alive.” cL IMHARD IN SHAFT. CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 14.— Men In the natural passage to Sand Cave talked to men in the rescue shaft TALK IN TU yd Collins, en- while making being sunk toward Fi tombed cave explore soundings at i* o'clock this morn- Ing. “HH. 'T. Carmichael, and Albert Marshall, a miner, went to the bot- tom of the shaft and held distinct conyersation with Ed Brenner and the two other men who were in the passage as far as the cave-in,” raid an officlal statement. “It is estt- mated that we will reach Collins in approximately twenty hours provid ed no other difficulties occur. We still have six more feet before we ‘aach the original limestone top, be- Meved to be the roof of the cavern leading to Collins.” The shaft according to Mr. Carmt- chael will tap Sand Cave between Collins and the point where the cave- in occurred in the natural passage last week. The point between the cave-in and Collins was estimated at twenty feet. The penetration of Sand Cave will be in front of Collins. Previously it had been believed that {t would be behind Collins, CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 14.—Due to the "very rotten character of mater- lal encountered, the progress last night was the slowest on record, gald the official bulletin of those in charge of the shaft belng sunk in an effort to extricate Flyod Collins from a trap in Sand Cave. Rain, snow, and colder weather was experienced during the night. he and one-half hours were re- tees to complete a three foot sec- ton, sald the bulletin, irsued this morning. “Four separate and distinct times when excavations were ready to tim- ber, cave-ins occurred and it 1s esti- mated that 12 cubic yards were re- moved in this section alone, “The total depth of the shaft fs now 54 feet. A timber section was completed at 6 a. m. and excavation on a new section was begun imme- fiately thereafter, Within the next three feet the Hmestong roof should be reached and after breaking through the same depth of three feet the long hoped for avenue should ap- pear and at this time all indications point to the correctness of our orlg- imal theory, (CAVE RESCUERS ON Snow to Be Followed By ‘Cold Weather WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—The weather outlook for week begin- ning Monday: Northern Rocky Mountein and plateau regions: Frequent snows east and rains or snows west of the divide; colder at beginning and temperature below normal there- after, Southern Rocky Mountain and Plateau regions: Considerable cloudiness and probably occasion- al snows ¢ast and rajns or snows west of the divide; temperature about normal first part and cold- er middie and latter parts espec- fally east of the divide. FLOODS CAUSE THREE DEATHS BOSTON, Mars., Feb. 14.—Three deaths, the destruction of bridges and dams and the disruption of rail, telephone, telegraph and highway communication in various sections were listed today among thé results of the floods and ice jams that have occurred throughout New England Goring the fast twoGays. Pete Silver lost his life while help- ing to strengthen @ railroad bridge in New Hampshire, Carl Hooper, a lumberman, was drowned while try- ing to prevent logs from being car- ried away in Maine, and Alden Lor- ing, nine years old, was drowned in a brook at Stoneham, Mass. REY ah Bandit Leaves Gold Trail To Delay Pursuit GUANAJUALO, State of Guana- jualo, Mexico, Feb. 14.—Threaten with capture in a running race after a payroll robbery near here, the ban- dit carrying the loot threw gold pieces in~the path of his pursuers, who halted to pick up the glittering coins. The bandit on his overburden- ed horse improved the time thus gained to reach a tortuous canyon, from which he vanished into the mountains. The escape was the climax cf an attack by a band of a dozen robbers upon the paymaster of the Cubo Mining and Milling company, who was en route to this city with a halt dozen armed guards. Although mor- tally wounded, one of the guards killed two of the bandits before suc- cumbing, while his companions, who had scattered when ambushed, join- ed in pursuit of thé robbers who bore away the paymaster’s sack contatn- ing 5,000 pesos gold Young Mothers Carried Babies In Holdup Work CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Two 18 year old mothers, charged with taking their babies with them on several of eight holdups were held today with four men alleged to have been their accomplices, Mabel Robertson and Genevieve Watier, the women, ad- mittedmitted, police said, that they kept their husbands tn ignorance of thelr operations, which they said they did “for fun.” ONE VIOLATOR SENT TO JA OTHERS FINED Illegal Possession of Liquor Draws 30 Days in Jail. Six_liquor cases, five of which re- sulted in fines and the sixth in a Jail sentence, and two disturbance cases which drew fines made up Judge Murray's docket in police court last night, a Harry Barth, illegal possession of Uquor and also booked for petty larceny, drew the jail sentence, 30 days behind the iron bars. A. W. Ballaw paid $50 on a lquor charge; James J. Rusk, $15 for be- ing drunk and also $25 for carrying concealed weapons; J. T. O'Neil and Jack Munson $10 each for being an inmate of a place where liquor was being sold and Gus Storm forfeited a bond of $25 on the same charge. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Collins, negroes, paid fines of $25 and $15 on disturbance charges. BREWERY GIVES UP AIG SUPPLY Mills’ miniature brewery, was dubbed by the officers, was raided by the sheriff's office last night and produced 15 cases of home brew, hops, malt and vats. The alleged proprietor, Charles Trainor, was not present at the time of the raid but a warrant has been issued for him. The officers also stopped in at the Wilkerson pool room in the same suburb and seized seven gal- lons of moonshine, according to their statements. Wilkerson, ar- rested, is out on bonds of $1,000. as it JARDINE MADE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—William M, Jardine, president of the Kansas agricultural college was selected to- day by President Coolldge to be sec- retary of agriculture. He is to take office on the retire- ment of Secretary Gore who on March 4, becomes governor of West Virginia, Along with Mr. Jardine's nomina- tion the president today sent to the senate the nomination of Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, now ambassa- dor at London, to be secretary of state after Secretary Hughes leaves the cabinet March 4, Slayer Walsh Hanged Today BOULDER, Mont., Feb, Walsh, 14.—Roy convicted slayer of Albert Johnson, Renova, Montana, store- keeper, paid the extreme penalty for his crime on the gallows cf the Jefferson county jail early today. The trap was sprung at 1:48 this morning and he was pronounced dead six and one half minutes later, Eating an orange and cheerfully stoical, Walsh went to his fate, “I wish the world well,” were his final words, Last Night Walsh prepared a long statement for newspapers in which he urged boys to avoid the pitfalls into which ho had fallen, In a rambling discourse he praised the horse as a faithful servant of man and an example of fidelity and duty. After being informed yesterday that Governor Erickson had refused to extend executive clemency he laid dow in tho @tuth cell for a nap, 4 Crilumne On at L Streets or rel a by ¢ ot The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper pr Bail MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925 Newstands, 5 ce: rs Fine sary week. lads snapped into action and in no time at all showed the large crowd of parents, brothers and sisters, and interested citizens in general, what there is to being a real scout. Piles of poles leaped up into signal towers when boys representing the three districts of the local council, threw the poles into the air, trussed them in place and sealed them, semaphoring across the hall to each other by way of concluding the act. With nothing but bows, blocks of wood, avings and sticks the scouts of district No. 3 made the sparks | fly. Out of the smoke that made smudges around each contestant, there arose here and there in quick succession darts of flame as the sawing was at its height and the fanning was furious. It was Martin | Green of troop No. 2 who took first CHEYENE, Feb. 14.—There was a great rallying to three cent gas- oline tax yesterday afternoon and much oratory, even Speaker Under- wood joining in its defense. Bill thirteen, which was its number, had the further misfortune of being brought qut of committee on Friday the thirteenth, When the smoke finally cleared away the priginal bill had lost a half cent and was other- wise skinned up by amendments It is optional with dealers to dis- play placards showing the prices charged for gasoline and the amount of tax levied by the state. month. Firemen were hampered in their work because of the lack of water plugs near the building, and it was teveral minutes before they could play streams of water on the build- ing, which was a mam of flames when the first companies arrived. The explosion of gasoline tanks on the exhibits also held the fire fight- ers in check, Within two hours after firemen from tho two Kansas Citles were called to fight the blaze, the walls fell tn. Captain John J. Crane, 65, the oldest fireman on the department was caught on an incline between the annex and the main building, where he was attempting to work BROCERY STORE HERE ROBBED Petty thieves, by tearing out a board next to the rear door and waining access to the bolt, broke into the Alvin grocery, 930 Bt, John street, last night and departed with UNDER THE. CAPITOL DOME By COL, W. H. HUNTLEY 5 There was much oratory expended for and against the measure, Mann, Austin, Harris, Wilson, Jackley, Fagan and Underwood took part in the debate which lasted for several hours. it was six-thirty before a vote was Teached on the amended bill, fixing the rate at two and a half cents, and the bill passed the committee of the whole. The bill is half way through, com- ing up early next week In the senate. it will pass the higher body sub- stantially as it now is, there being little or no opposition to the mea- sure in that body. 8. hose, and was burned to death. Firemen who had noted his disap- pearance found the body wher they penetrated the ruing, Three hundred pleasure cars, ap: proximately 75 trucks and two air- planes were burned. In addition the exhibits of about 200 accessory man- ufacturers were destroyed. Most of the cars on display had been shown earlier in the year at Oldtimers and tenderfeet found last night that they had booked for the evening's entertainment’more revelations in the proper and speedy way to be out-of-doors he-men than the cards called for, when nearly 300 Bay Scouts romped into the high school gym- nasium and staged their jamboree as the final program in the celebration of an niver- Having been reviewed in formation by scout officials, headed by R. S. Ellison} the prize and smashed a record when with *his makeshift equipment he created a blaze in one minute and seven seconds. A few seconds after Martin bad achieved first place, Kelth Bahrenburg of troop No. 17 announced to the word that he too had a fire. Demonstrations of camp Ilfe, first aid, and signalling were given by separated groups of boys all per- forming on the floor at the same time. i Three teams of nine scouts each, representing ¢ach of the three dis tricts,' put the finishing touches on. part.dn.the program by con- testing in 4 knot-tleing race ‘in which a variety of. complicated hitches and bends of. rope were cleverly and speedily knotted. The boys of district No. 1 were’ declared winners, Presentation of his trophy to the troop taking first place in the an- nual window decorating contest, was made by W. O. Wilson to troop No, 2. Having won for the three consecutive years, the troop came last night into permanent possession of the trophy. As the concluding number of the jamboree program, came to the award of the high honor of Eagle Scout to Gaylen Wood of troop No. 10. Presentation of the Eegle badge was made to, the lad by R. 8. Ellison A word of greeting addressed to (Continued on Page Six) FIRE WIPES OUT BIG AUTO EXHIBIT AT SHOW IN K.C. Three Hundred and Seventy-Five Pleasure Cars and Truck Models Destroyed With Loss of $1,500,000 as Roygl Livestock Pavilion Burns KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) —Fire starting in flimsy decorations, supposedly from defective wiring, destroyed automobiles valued at $1,500,- 000 and the American Royal Livestock pavilion, valued at $650,000, early today. All of the exhibits at the annual Kansas City motor show were a total loss. show had closed for the night, and no one was in the building when the fire broke out. The exhibits were to have been moved to San Francisco for a showing there late this The New York, Cleveland and Chicago. The fire started in the last fleeting minutes of Friday the thirteenth And {t was the 713th fire of the year here. The ghosts of the recently proud kings of the motor world, it seemed shrieked and moaned fromi the inter for when sirens and horns on the cars were set off as insulation burn- ed from switches and wiring. LADY PEEL TO REMAIN ON STAGE GO, Feb, 14.—Miss Bea CHIC. trice Lillie, appe: hero in a revue, who yesterday became lady Pee! of Drayton through the death of he law, Sir Robert Peel, will n: quish the stage for some time She announced she will fulfill the-terms of a contract to appeat in America in the same revue opening next Septem! in New York, but will return to England early next month,to rejoin her husband, now in Australia The title inherited b: r hus band, Sir Robert Peel 1, origins conferred on the famous Engl statesman of the last who | was prime minister, will eventual! g0 to their four ert Peel III eee PENNSYLVANIA CRUDE UP 25 CENTS BARREL PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb, 14.—An- other increase of 25 cents a barrel in the leading grades cf Pennsylvania crude ofl was announced by purchas- r old son, ing agencies today. The new prices were Pennsylvania grade in New York Transit, lines and Bradford district grades in National ‘Transit Hnes $3.85, Pennsylvania grade fn National Transit, Southwest Pennsylvania, Eureka’ and Buckeye lines, $3.76 Other, grades qu creased yesterday The price of the leading Pennsyl- vania grades has been bi times since Dec HAYWOOD SAID TO HAVE COME BAGK TOU. 6 Federal Agents Probe Reports That He ed here were in mber Will Surrender. CHICAG( Feb, 14 ederal agents today investigated reports that Willlam Dudley (Big Bill) Hay wocd, who fled to Russia In 1919 after he and ninety two others were given penitentyry sentences for ob structing ‘the government in prose. cuting the war, had returned here ta settle his affairs preparatory to giv ing himself up. Officials of the 1 Ww. W nied knowledge of his prese also did William I Lloyd, the wealthy communist who paid the government the $10,000 bonds he provided for If od: The I headquarters said it would not t surprisin pear before Ic STOLEN GAR RECOVERED BY SHERIFF'S. FORCE The sheriff's-office last night re covered an tomobile oxvned b Leigh Townsend of the Stockmen’s National bank, two miles east of Evansville. The machine had been abandoned, although the gas tani was well filled, after having been s#folen from in front of the A n where Mr. Townsend and friends were attending the Forty & Eight formal], BERLIN, Feb, 14.—The Lokal An- zieger today publishes from what it described as “hitherto very rellable Russian source,” the alleged details of secret clauses included In the Rus: roJapanese treaty signed at Peking last month, According to this newspaper's {n- formation, one of these clauses pro- vides (hat should either England, Amerien or Wrance take military @ small amount of groceries, meat, Cigarettes and tobacun. measures against tho Peking govern. mont or against Chinese territory, which {4 not neutralized, Rusasta, will place at China’s dispoaal 200,000 men who will be armed by Japan, Jt iH also stated that Russla re nounces in favor of Japan fifty per cent of the shares of the Chinese Eastern Railway which Russa hith- erto has claimed. Another clause tx declared to give the entire island of Sakhalin to Japan within five years on condition that the latter rupplies Kussla with four small cruisers, one | Far East Alliance of Powers Is Reported seven destroyers, Vladivostok is to be made a first class fleet base Japan paying sixty per cent of the cost of conetruction, it is added. A Chinese army of the pence strength of 800,000 men shal receive ruction from Russian and Japan. ese officers, the newspaper declares end China undertakes to buy weap ons and war materials only from Russia and Japan, The treaty is sup: pored to have been concluded for a battle abip, tWirty submarines and sgeriod of thirty years, ED Tribune DEFEATED; LOPPED OFF GAS TAX ROOF OF CAVERN Jamboree Holds Climax in Scout Week Three Hundred Boys Join in Demonstration of Real Work Before Big Crowd at High School Gymnasium; Gaylen Wood Wins Eagle Badge Publication Office: 16 HOUSE SESGION LASTS THROUGH DINNER HOUR IN UMELY DEBATE Two and a Half Cent Gasoline Tax Is Now Expected in Final Approval of Measure. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 14.—(Special to The Trib- une.)—Wyoming will not have a state reserve bank. The majority of the senate decided that late Friday afte 14 strong, they vote ar Senate 83, the Sibley- Mercer-Hartwell measure providing for such a bank, with an initial cap- | tal of $500,000 to be raised by sale of the bank's bonds to the state of Wyoming. Thirteen senators, one less than the constr majprity ed for bill. The defeat of Sen- 83 akes Senate 10 also intro- | ducea Mercer-Hartwell, a completely useless bill. It authorizes Investment of state permanent School funds In bonds of the “State Reserve” bank The committev"or the whole house decreed late Friday, after a debate that carried the session beyond the supper hour, that 1f Wyoming mo- torists are to pay a gasoline sales tax it shall be a tax of 21% cente per gallon. The committee amended House 13, the highway department's oline tax bill, by reducing the pro- posed tax from 3 cents a gallon to 4 cénts. The bill was further amended by deletion of its authort- zation to the highway department to use 15 per cent of the proceeds from the gasoline tax for adminis- trative expenses and 10 per cent for the maintenance and purchase of equipment. Tho bill aq {t now ts Provides that the entire proceeds from the tax shall be devoted to highway maintenance. An effort to | write info the bill a provision that every retail dealer in gasoline should display at his place of business a sign stating the amount of the state tax, and providing a penalty of fine for failure to do so, was defeated, The bill now 8 the innocuous provision that uler “may” dise play such a sig As amended, the bill was ‘proved for passage. Consideration of House 13 {ne volved much dine ussion and some resounding tory, — Representa- tives Harris, Alcorn, McCullough and Underwood spoke in support the Dill, Harris and Underwood 4l- lustrating thefr arguments with a large map of the state highway sys tem. Representative Fagan opposed the measure and made the Hall ov | representatives reverberat with his |dnunctation of the proposed tax and his criticism of the State Highway lepartment offered an ird > tax r appli- | © Mann sup- ported the Austin amendment and criticised the Highway department for what h Was excessive over: | head, The amendment was reject- ed | Representative Jackley posing: idinent commanding that re- the rs display signa stating the unt of state tax, charged that It | was the result of a compramise be- | tween the Highway department and the gas producers | entative Fagan, pointing to a 1en oll roya income will | de und to a later period when ib: will ¢ ie, asserted that the con- | struction program of the H | department was so arra 1 larger counties would receive the enefit of cons 1etion anced by the royalty incom that smaller counties might be in the lurch gh exhaustion this source ama mapped out would be completed. The Highway department, he charged, had pre- lcted iget on expenditure of $880,000 In excens of its estimated Income durir the next two years. He argued that the department Should not be authorized to exceed its estimated Income and that main- tenance expenses should be met from this income and not by a tax on gasoline users. The highway de- partment, he said, has spent $13, 000,000 In four years and contem- plated expenditures that it estimated would bring its total to $19,000,000, But, he asserted, the total before the program was completed prob- ably would be found to be not $19,- 000,000, but $45,000,000. The con- t (Continued oh Page six)