Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1925, Page 1

The circulntion of The Tribune is ereter than ony other Wuoming newspaper WEATHER “WS WYOMING—Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. Not so cold in north- Ere east portion. VOL. Ix. NO. 110 Member of Audit WHOLE SIDE 0 MAIN STREET 1S DESTROYED: 10 ALILOINGS GONE Low Water Pressure in Hydrants Hinders At- temptto Control Blaze; Loss Is $100,000. . SHOSEONI, Wyo., Feb. 16.—(Special to The Trib- une)—Practically every bus- iness hozse on the west side of Main street here was de- stroyed in an hour’s time by a fire ct unknown origin which started about 2 o'clock Sunday morning. Property loss is estimated at $100,000. Places wiped out by the conflagration were: The Shoshon! State bank, Savory hotel, John..Bray pool hall, Price barber shop, Parks Sweet shop, Park cafe, Bancroft Sweet shop, Leichtweise barber shop, and a res- taurant and a soft drink parlor, both belonging to Mrs. Emmett Can. dle. Once started, the blaze swept from the mfddle to both ends of the block, fanned by a terrific west wind. Due to the fact that its water system has been out of commission for some time, Shoshon! had been securing its water supply from the station tank of the Northwestern railroad. In emergency of yesterday the low essure of 40 pounds was incapable of supplying more than one hose which could scarcely send its stream above the first story of the two two-story structures that were among the buildings consumed. Had the town's own syetem been in operation, affording pressure of from 80 to 85 pounds, it is believed the fire could have been prevented from doing more than small dam- age. Inside of an hour the fire, combatted only by the feeble spray of water had completed its devasta- tion. All of the places destroyed were of framework construction with the exception of the building occupied by the Shoshoni State bank which was of brick. This structure was yeduced to an empty shell. All of the bank's papers, currency, notes and records were saved, according to Harry Shad. cashier, A new lo: cation with necessary equipment has already been moved into, !t is paid. Buildings saved from destruction included the First State bank, the (Cpntinued on Page Eight) ee OVER Bureau of Circulation DISASTROUS SUNDAY FIRE HITS SHOSHONI UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 16.—The eighteenth legisla- ture enters the last lap of the session, with absolutely noth- ing distinguishing, nothing outstanding to its credit To say that its accomplishment has been mediocre, is giving the session all the best of it. From a political point of view, there is positively nothing to hang an issue upon for the state campaign which ought now to be in the forming. The people expected that some- thing in the shape of banking legis- lation, would be adopted, in a meas- ure, placing the profession in a more advantageoussgosition and establish- ing a greater confidence on the part of the people. But the crazy patch- work that has come from the senate to the house in no sense does this. It ts a banking bill and that ts all. It 1s not a satisfactory measure and cannot be made so. If it is adopted by the house in the last hours of the sersion, the old code will be wiped out and some untried eaperi- ments will be the future law. The only thing that will happen is that (Continued on Page Eight) MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASFER, WYOMING, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1925 103 Che Casper Daily Crilunie On streets Delveced by or at arrier Ne stands. cents 3 a month Tribune OENATE Alot FINAL WORK ON PENDING SaUE3 Much Remains to Be Accomplished in Last Two Weeks. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. —With the senate inaugu- rating regular night sessions, the sixty-eighth congress set (Continued on Page Bight.) Boney Earnest Noted Pioneer, 80 Years Old Boney Earnest, plainsman, hunter, guide and Wyoming | pioneer, yesterday celebrated his eightieth birthday at his home at Alcova, 30 miles southwest of Casper. Among those who motored to Alcova to congratulate tle famous scout were Mr. Gwynn and Guy Gwynn and Shoenig of Lysite, and Sam Twidale, prominent Wallace Creek rancher. The party was served an excellent dinner by Mrs. Earnest and a part of the. festivities included the recount- ing of his early day experiences by and Mrs. Nate Wilson, Ed family, all of Casper, Dave the 80-year old pioneer. In telling of his friends in the territory of Wyoming half a century ago, men toning “Wild Bill” Hickok and” But. falo Bill,” he displayed a letter re- (Continued on Page Eight) AVIATION PROBLEM STIRS CONGRESS Man Rescues Dog Which Saved His Life During War CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—When Hor- ace Love, torn by machine gun bullets, was waiting for death in no-man’s land, a dog saved his life, Yesterday he saved that dog.” Love, now a student at North- Western university, was severely wounded while fighting in the Ar- gonne, when.the dog, Bolivar, then working for the German Red Cross, found him, went back to surgeons and took them to the stricken mam, Later, American forces captured the position, and when Love returned to this coun- try he brought Bolivar with him. About a month ago, Love, with another student, lost Bolivar while exploring the desolate regions of Skokie valley. For a few days they searched In vain. Meanwhile, reports were brought in by motor- ists that a “wolf had been seen running across the bleak land. Yesterday, Love still at his quest, Was stopped by a policeman be- cause his automobile lacked a li- cense tag. At a suburban station he explained his search. ‘Why, we've a dog like that,” the sergeant sald. Caught him— took half a dozen of us—after he had scared folks in the roads.. He looks half starved; he's scheduled to be shot tn the morning.” “You'll have to shoot me first,” Love said. Bolivar was brought in. He was a skeleton, But he cleared the room in one bound and almost floored his master with his joy- ous assault There will be no execution. SCORED BY FARM LEADER ‘FOR ACTIVITIES Secretary of Commerce Said to Be Domt- nating Policies of Agricultural Depart- ment; Investigation Proposed WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Appearing before the house agricultural committee today, s the American Council of Agriculture, entered a protest George N. Peek, president of over what he termed the domination of American agficul- turg by Secretary Hoover of the commerce department. The recommendations of conference, the witness said, con- taining nothing which had not al- ready been formulated by Mr. Hoover and he quoted Mr. Hoover as having said the function of the department of agriculture should end with farm production and preparation. Transportation and marketing, he declared, were held by Mr. Hoover to be the functions of his depart- ment. Mr. Peek said he believed the pres- ident was relying on Secretary Hoo ver and not the secretary of agri culture for agricultural information. Last year, he declared, his organiza tion wrote to Secretary Slemp urg- ing that the agricultural secretary, the president’s agricultural convenes a commission to study agri- culture whose members should be non-partisan and not representatives of self interests. Enactment of a revised MoNary- Haugen firm export measure was advocated by the witn who also favored a special session of congress {f necessary, to enact remedial farm legislation. P A congressional investigation of the activities of Secretary Hoover in agricultural matters was proposed by Mr. Peek. Farm leaders {n general, he said, do not approve of Mr, Hoover's ag- ricultural tiews and will protest against his “domination” of the de partment of agriculture, as Controversy Raised by General Mitchell Drives Debate On Relative Values of Aeroplanes and Battleships Into Open; Separation of Defense Units Urged (Copyright, 1925, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16~ William Mitchell with respect larger problem of aviation, past five years. the By DAVID LAWRENCE the debate into the open and out of} mercial concerns interested in alr- the realm of red tape and service prejudices. From the beginning? General Mit- chell has gntagonized army and navy bureaucmtts by insisting that the air service be a separate institution, in- dependent of either. His thought was that in no other way would aircraft receiye proper attention, The tend- ency, however, has been the’ reverse, for President Coolidge hag been, urg- ed to put the army and navy into a single department of national. de- fence. He has been inclined to recog- nize the merit of the argument that economies could be effected by buch an arrangement but has felt, on the other hand, that the traditions of the two services required separation. Under the circumstances, he did not favor the creation of another de- fense unit with separate purchasing departments and personnel officers. He came to the conclusion that cen- tralization was desirable and one out- come of the discursion ultimately may be the combination of certain bureaus of the war and navy depart- ments, though this {s tled up with the whole question of reorganization of-the government, which is drag- ging along and may not be acted up- cn, for another year. General Mitchell has been the most active influence in favor of avi- ation that the army has developed. He has the sympathy of all the com- WHEELER CASE WITNESSES ON STAND TODAY WASHINGTON, Feb, 16.—Contin- uing its, new Investigation into the case of Senator Wheeler of Mon- tana and others, the special District of Columbia grand jury today heard testimony of Homer G. Murphy, a Great Falls, Montana, attorney and L. C, Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson was a partner ‘of Gordon Campbell, who headed an oll Producing enterprise in the course of which leases of government land became important. The jury also heard testimony of several women members of Campbel office staff. Last Delegate To Help to Nominate Lincoln Is Dead CHICAGO, Feb, 16,—Addison G. Proctor, last of the delegates to the Republican convention in Chicago in 1860 which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the prealdency, died here today at the pf a7 craft and he has built up a following in congress. It {s an interesting eit- uation in many respects, for he risks the displeasure of his superiors by contradicting them in the open. The war department, however, is amen- able to congress because it must be. Appropriations must come from con- gress and it so happens tnat General Mitchell has acquired in recent years a number of friends on the congress- fonal committees. Were it otherwise, he would today be detailed away from Washington where he could be silenced. His method of campaigning for the thing in which he is interest- ed is not popular with army and navy officials who insist that an opinion of a subordinate.can only be réndered to his superior officer and if the latter disagrees with {t, that's the end of it. Thus is opinion of a subordinate in the army squelched as a rule by the use of military dis- cipline. Officers who have violated the rule have usually been punished. Congress will not countenance pun- ishment for General Mitchell but the war department can do many things to éilence an officer. After the fourth of March, General Mitchell will prob by The Casper Tribune) -—Back of the controversy raised by Brigadier General to the value of the aeroplanes as against battleships is the which has had a difficult struggle to get attention during the, General Mitchell may not have chosen the most tactful way to force the issue, but friends of aviation think he has succeeded in one respect—he has managed to drive ably have to lead a quiet life, so far as agitating the aviation prob- lef. It may be that he intends to re- tire anyhow, for there have been re- ports that he might become a candi- date for copgress from Wisconsin. In both the senate and the house, there {s a disposition to keep the gon- troversy going so that the members and the country may be enlightened. If battleships are out of date and air- plane attack js much more powerful than hasbeen suppored, congress wants to know it. The trouble is the defenders of the battleship fear it will be abandoned some day and they are insisting that {t should not be made a secondary institution. The advocates of the airplane as a first line of defense concede the useful- ness of the battleship. The difficulty Is that, in service rivalries, the air- plane and the battleship are consid- ered as alternatives instead of as supplements to each other. This is one of the principal arguments made by the people who contend for a sin- gle department of national defense— that all weapons of warfare would then be considered on their merits and combination attack and defense will become paramount. ELIHU ROOT, CELEBRATES 80TH BIRTHDAY AFTER GIVING MOST OF HIS LIFE IN U. S. SERVICE < ELIHU ROOT , By ROBERT T. SMALL, (Copyright, 1925, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—It has been well sald of Mr, Elihu Root, who Sun- day celebrated the elghtieth anniver- sary of his birth, that if the United States were a kingdom, Instead of a republic, nothing short of an earl- dom could™be cited as a reward for the distinguished services of the man, Mr, Root would be, under a benevolent king, the Barl of Clinton, for {t was in that little community up in Oneida county, that he firet saw the light of day, February 16, 1845, The thought of an earidom tn con- nection with Elthu Root hardly is the adequate one, The wonder to the ordinary citizen is that Elihu Root never was president of the Untied States, He has held high public office. It was something to haye been secretary of war under McKinley and to have served the restless Roosevelt so long and so well fg secretary of state, It was a mark of distinction to the senate that Mr. Root should have served there for six years, ‘The truth fa that Mr. Root never has had the desire to “run” for pub- Ue office, If the seventeenth amend- ment had been in effect when the was chosen for the senate he never would have gone there, Mr, Root often has been olted as the type of man lost to the senate when it be came 4 constitutional provision that the elder statesmen would be elected by the poople rather tian chosen by the state legislatures, Mr, Root and Mr, Taft are much (Gontinued on Page Stix) Famed Journalist With Spectacular |Career Passes On SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16,—M. H. DeYoung, one of the last sur- vivors of the dwindling school of personal journalists in the United States, who built a great newspa- Per from a theaterical handbill he started on a borrowed $20 gold Piece in 1865, died here last night. He was 75 years old. His death was as sudden as many of the events in his spec- tacular career which made him a national figure. Early last night he underwent an operation for in- testinal trouble, Two hours Jater he was dead, Mr. De Young was a director of the Associated Press for 25 years He was the leading figure in the mid-winter exposition in San Francisco in the nineties. He built the steel frame Duilding tn the west, the old Chronicle. He re- built it after the San Francisco fire, only to abandon it for what William Randolph Hearst was re- cently pleased to term the most modern newspaper plant in the United States. His benefactions to San Francis- co were many. He leaves as a monument to his fondness for the city where he spent his best days, WOMAN LOSES OUT; MAN IS NAMED JUDGE WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Adolph us E. St. Sure, was nominated by President Coolidge to be fe al dis. | trict Judge for northern (¢ ifornia, The place to which Judge St. Sure was nominated was that for which | Mrs, Mabel Walker’ Willebrandt, as sistant attorney general ad been seriously considered BRUTALITIES. OF CANON CITY PEN TOLD AT TAIL Prison Guard on Stand| In Tynan Case Relates Many Irregularities. CANON CITY, Colo., Feb. 16.— (By The Associated Press.)—John B. Johnson, prison guard, took the wit- ness stand today at the re- sumption of the trial of Thomas T. Tynan, warden of the Colorado penitentiary and nationally known prison official, on charges of prison mismanagement former Governor Sweet. brought by Johnson continued alleged brutality and his recital of other prison irregularities which was interrupted last Wednesday in Denver. Johnson declared prison officials lived in fear of retribution at the hands of conyicts whom they had flogged. “We had instructions to tell these men, when they left the prison on pardon, parole or termination of sen- tence, never to return to Canon City,” Johnson said. He said in one case a Denver detective named Maiden was employed to follow the ex-convicts and see that they did not ubL CDITON cation Offices: Eldg., 216 ©, Second St. ND DEAD WORKERS, HAKE WAY TO TOME, ASSISTANCE. I FOUND TOO LATE Days and Nights of Frantic Work Useless; Had Been Buried More Than Two Weeks. CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 16. —(By the Associated Press) ‘he body of Floyd Collins, entrapped in Sand Cave on January 80, was found in his tomb this afternoon at 2:45 o'clock ul Carmichael, man to go to Collins, ap) was the first He sald that arently he was dead. The announcement of the finding of Collins was made by Dr. W. D. Funkhouser, geologist of the Untver- sity of Kentucky. Preparations were made tmmedi ately for Major Moss. and Captain Francis, medical officers of the 149th Infantry, Bowling Green, and Dr. William Hazlett, Chicago, to go to Collins. Guards stood about the mouth of the spaft with bayonets fixed and there was lttle commotion on the surface. An official statement was promised Within a few minutes. All physicians were hurriedly call- ed to the mouth of the cave as a j Precaution if their services should be needed. Homer Collins, brother of the en- tombed man, was at the. mouth of the shaft. He had been there the greater part of the day. Mr, Carmichael and M. FB. 8. Po- Sey, executive secretary of the state highway department and personal representative of Governor Willlam J. Fields, were to accompany the physicians to Collins. No estimate was given as to how soon Collins could be extricated from the natural rock vise which trapped him January 20, It was reported by a workman that the roof of the cavern over Col- lins gave way causing them to reach him several hours before they had expected. When the miners crashed through Into the passage leading to Collins, H. T. Carmichael, rescue director went down the shaft into the cave, where he said, he saw Collins lying apparently dead. He returned to tho surface and announced the end of the struggle. Homer Collins who had made heroia efforts to save his brother, Floyd, bore up well when Dr. Funk- the De Young museum in the | come back houser made the’ first announce. Golden Gate park. Ho gave him- The prison guard also declared! ment, = self and his money without | that prisoners had been taken trom] “I had never really hoped to sea thought of the return to the de- | the penitentiary to Warden Tynan‘s| Toyd allve after the first lide in velopment of his museum inorder | Private sheep ranch nd Cave,” said Homer to news- to gather one of the tecognized On cross examination, Johnson ad. per men. art collections in the® world mitted his information on the ques At 1:30 o'clock the Jatéral heads Funeral arrangements will be | tion of taking prisoners to the war-| Ing, at a distance of 12% feet from completed today. den’s ranch was most) earsay (Ce ued on Page Eight) LEWD PLAYS EXCORIATED WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Charg- ing that plays ‘‘so obscene and in- decent in plot and language as to shock the moral sense of the com munity,’ have recently been staged in Washington theaters, Representa- tive Dallinger, Republican, Massa- chusetta, today introduced a resolu. tion asking the District of Columbia commissioners what steps had been taken to prevent improper produc- tions. Expert Opinion Is Sought in Capital Aircraft Probing WASHINGTON, Feb, 16,—More expert opinion in the alreraft con: troversy was sought by the house aircraft committes on resuming hearings here today with a definite line of inquiry charted for the week. To obtain further light on thie question of the effectivenoss of anti- alreraft guns, ay to which sharply differing testimony has been pre wented, the committee called as n witness Lientenant Commander Bad ger, of the naval ordnance bureau, Any other Information of value from this source, particularly as to de- velopment of anticraft weapons, also was sought. ANTI-TOXIN IS RUSHED BY DOCG TEAMS TO NOME Musher Successfully Fights Blizzard During Trip; Two Dogs Fall Into Fis- sure in Ice; Epidemic Controlled NOME, Alaska, Sunday, Feb. 15.—(By The Associated Press.) Ed Rohn and his dogs arrived here at noon today in a blizzard with diphtheria antitoxin. Crossing Norton Sound two of his dogs fell into a fissure of the ice. The round trip of Rohn, who left here at 8 o’clock Wed« nésday morning and drove to Golovin, 865 miles eastward, A@parting from Golovin on his’ re turn at 7:30, battlfhg storms both ways, was rated high hore by mush- ers, He tried to drive on to Elim, 15 Yeyond Golovin, but turned back ‘in the face of a storm. From Elim to Golovin, teer, Julius Kaigsnk, serum with a dog team, This antl-toxin a volun- brought the was tho second shipment recefved here—both com ing by relays of dog teams from No nana, 80 miles east on the Alarka rallroad—since an epidemic of diph therla that has taken six lives struck Nome the middle of January, This epidemio has been reported under control though two new oases ap- peared last week. Quaraptine {s to ba lifted Friday and the schools opened February 23 GEO. W. MYERS NOT DISBARRED The Tribune is fn error tn an art: iclo published Sunday in which 4t was stated that George W. Myers was disbarred trom practicing as an attorney in Wyoming. No disbarment proceedings have been instigated against Mr. Myerg ia this or any other state. ri ;