Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER » Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature. VOL. IX. NO. 112 Che Cazp Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation a CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1925 Oro, Carey, , Wer eye, “#ery Streets or at Newstands, § ‘ced by Carrier 75 cents The circulation of The Tribune is ere«ter than ony other Wuoming newspaper er Baily Cribune MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS cents a month Tribune Lids. Publication Offices: 216 BH. Second &t. BUDGET TOTAL RAISED $94.500 NATRONA SALARY BILL APPROVED SAND CAVE TOMB [S _ WARCONIINU| More Obscene SEALED BY NATURE (lvluhs; Plays on Fire TWO VIOLATORS SEIZED WITH EIGHT GALLONS OF MOONSHINE LIQUOR IN MOTORBIKE CHASE RESCUE DRIVE | TALE TOLD ON | WITNESS STAND Coroner’s Jury Hears Of Efforts Made to Save Collins. ; CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 18. ‘| —(By the Associated Press) \ The leader of the Floyd Gollins rescue shaft crew, H. T. Carmichael, gave the coroner’s jury here last night the official picture of the two weeks’ effort, as follows: “I have been active in the rescue work at Sand Cave since two weeks this last Tuesday. “It was Monday night before T knew Collins was entombed. I selected Thomas Smith, and sent him with ten men to Mammoth Cave. “They had been instructed to do whatever, they could and to advise me as early as possible of the con- ditions. ‘They reported about) 5:30 next morning that the situation was very serious and there was more or less confusion. “I asked what they needed In the rescue work. They sald that I, myself, was needed. I arrived at Sand Cave at 12 o'clock Tuesday, I got my first real information from Casey Jones as to conditions in the cave. That information was that there was no special diffic.:ty in (Continued on Page Seven) oer eg io “FIVE COACHES DERAILED; NO ONE INJURED ESTELLA, *Neb., Feb, 18.—Five coaches of the Missourl Pacific pas- fenger train number 105, bound from Kansas City to Omaha, leaped the track as the train rounded a curve two miles west of here at 4:10 a. m, today, but none of the ccaches overturned and no one was injured. A broken rail is believed to have caused the accident. A wrecking crew from Falls City, arrived at the scene shortly after a, m. and begun the work of repair- ing the track. Trains will be held up but a short time, train officials said. /\ Congressional Salary Raise Bill Recalled WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The senate today recalled from the house the legislative appropriation bill which {t passed last night, contain- ing a provision for an increase in ralaries of members of congress and the vice president. Rescue Shaft Sags as Mud and Rock Force Timbers in Slow Settling CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 18. —(By the Associated Press) —Sand Cave: hill, torn open in the struggle to rescue Floyd Collins from the grip of an underground trap, was slowly closing in again today upon his body, without human assistance. Unable to release him from the clutch of nature, the volunteers who fought to save him joined his fami- ly in brief and simple funeral ser- vices at the top of the rescue shaft, and six of his friends fulfilled the legal formalities by announcing his identity and accidental death. The cement with which it was planned to seal the boulders over his rocky gtave did not come and the sagging of the rescue shaft and its lateral tunnel indicated nature's intention to seal him up forever. The mud and rocks, held back for few days by heavy timbers in the rescue shaft, were settling back up- on him. Unwilling that the brave miners should risk thelr lives to recover his body, Lee Collins, his aged father agreed to leave him where he lay. A prayer, & few hymns and the ritual for the dead yesterday. fin- ished the story, while movie cam- eras whirled and “still” pictures by the score were snapped. The best efforts of the state of Kentucky, scores of unselffth work- ers, and the sympathy and prayers of thousands had failed. Dr. William Hazlett of Chicago, the only physi- clan to see him in his present sixty foot grave, announced he had been reached at least three days too late. Everett Maddox of Central City, Kentucky, crawled down to wash his face and turn his face upwards, and then six of his friends went down, one by one, into the narrow (Continued on Page Seven.) Clayton Wilson and A. McElheny were arrested in an automobile on First street last night after a mo- torcycle chase by the pofice and fed- eral officers and charged with tran- portation and possession of eight gallons of liquor said to have been foud in the car. Wilson had yes- terday afternoon in police court paid a fine of $50 for possession. Both men will be given a pre- Mminary before M. P. Wheeler, U. S. commissioner, today. WOMAN, 102, IS ARRESTED BY RAIDERS SAN PEDRO, Cal., Feb. 18.— Mrs. 8. Nuncey, who gave her age as 102, was arrested here last night. charged with illicit posses- sion of Meuor. It was the second police liquor raid on her home in the past two months. A. W. Bollan, lunchroom at 216 arrested and charged with posses- sion when a pitcher partly filled with Hquor was found in the place. Violet Mock, there at the time, faces a charge of being intoxicated. Three pints were also said to have been found in a cache In the baseboard of the establishment. BODY OF PNEUMONIA VICTIM TO BE LAID AT REST IN NEBRASKA proprietor of a North Ash, was Remains of Claude B. Starkey, 20 years of age, who died from pneu- monia at the family home, 1007 North Lincoln street, Monday night, will be taken to his former home at Minitaire, Nebr., for interment. Mr. Starkey had lived in Casper for two years and is survived by his wite, Mrs. Beulah Straw Starkey. IN RAIDS AND COURT ACTION Three Bound Over to District Court for Trial; Nine Fined; Three More Seized. Local liquor dealers are finding their paths strewn with broken glass and poison ivy if the day’s activities of the officers can be taken as a criterion. Included in the work were three men bound over to district court for trial; plea guilty in justice court which brought a fine of $200 and costs; the arrest of three men and a woman last night by federal officers; six fines in city court for being inmates of a place where Mquor was being sold; two fines for possession and one fine for being drun a ot H, Mariny was the man who turn- ed in a plea of guilty before Jus- tice Brennan. He had been arrest- ed while transporting liquor in an (Continued on Page Seven.) In New Yor Broadway List Increased to Thirteen and Cleanup Is Assured; Stage Folk Looking Up New Jobs to thirteen, day: obscene plays, and Friday a movement. The name of or NEW YORK, Feb, 18.—With the list of plays under fire Increased | the movement to clean Tomorrow a group of actors will hold a protest meeting against conference managers and reform organizations who are up Bro: y gained {mpetus to will bring together backing the actors, clean-play y one of the alleged obscene plays {s known, That {s William A. Brady's production, ‘A Good Bad Woman.” their ups and downs! smoke. York's most papu closed seemed ala The willingness Brady, co-producer mingly bright of Willam with A. H Banton deems best’ h fervor to the move for plays’ KLANSMAN’S TESTIMONY IS ADMITTED IN PRISON CASE CANON CITY, Colo., Feb. 18.—(By The Associated Press.) Admitting under oath that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, W. W. Ireland, former guard at the Colorado penitentiary and witness in support of former Governor Sweet’s charges of prison mismanagement against Thomas J. Tynan, penitentiary warden, was allowed to resume his testimony today. Ireland’s testimony, which was’ expunged from the record following his refusal yesterday to answer questions re-| cute and 1 believe, garding his klan membership, was ordered reinstated by the state civil service commission, before which the charges Dr. Bu rton of Michigan Dead University President Who Made Nomi- nating Address for Coolidge in Last Convention Claimed ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 18.—Dr. Marion Leroy Bur- ton, president of the University of Michigan, died here early today . Death came at the end of a long fight in which Dr. Burton rallied time after time from the ill effects of a complication of diseases. He suffered his first illness last May but recovered sufficiently to take his usual part in the June commencement exercises of the school. He spent the summer in rest, broken only by the trip to Cleveland, where he made the speech nominating Calvin Coolidge for president. He seemed then to be returning to the abundant health which had carried him through 14 years as a college head. Despite the years in which he was before the public, little was known of the Burton behind the scenes. He was constantly upon the platform, but with little being written or printed about him. Marion Leroy Burton was born in Brooklyn, Iowa, August 30, 1874, HIGH SCHOOL GIRL NAMED AS DIRECTOR CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—Mariam C. Hamilton, 16-year-old high school student, has been elected to the board of directors of the Federal Life Insurance company here. The company was founded by her father. are being heard. The witness continued to testify on cross examination by defense coun- sel where he was interrupted and dismissed Tuesday. Replying to questions regarding an alleged tecret meeting between Sweet, then governor, and kian members !n Canon City on April 27, 1924, Ireland admitted being at the conference. “Who was there,” he was asked. “Governor Sweet, Caldwell, Sweet's attorney, Rev, Sperry and myself,’ Ireland replied. BLAST RAZES BUILDINGS IN QUAKER CITY PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 18,— Three buildings in the Penn Avent wholesale produce district of Pitts burgh were demolished by a series of explosions early today with a loss of $125,000. Windows in a score of other buildings were shattered. Many residents of the region “were thrown from their beds by the force of the blast. They escaped with min- or injuries. After an Investigation, Fire Mar- shal Thomas Pfarr reported he be leved the first explosion was a dyna- mite bomb, set off in one of the buildings. This blast, he sald, was followed by gas explosoins. ' PROGRESS BEING MADE IN A. Woods, of “The Good Bad Woman” —the immediate bone of contention —to “do whatever District Attorney 5 added new cleaner By EDNA MARSHALL (Copyright, 1925, by The Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—How these poor actors do have On Monday, calm reigned on the Rialto because dissen- sion among the ranks of the reformers threatened to send the projected “clean-up” drive against the theaters up in Today, the prospects that at least five of New plays would be _ And today star of “The ( more than fifty so Helen MacKellar, 1 Wom: and ctors of more r less reput ving inthe five “offensive” plays now aimed at by Police sioner Enright and Mr. are looking quietly about Jobs in case their | shows should close, On Monday, Mrs, Mary: Hamfiton, | head of the New York policewomen, with several mombers of her forte and other members of the force, to gether with Rey. W. 8. Younge, of Brooklyn, uttered words discoyrag: Ing to a drive to close up any thea ter productions on the respective grounds of antl-censorship leanings and the fear that any drive against bad shows might only make things worse Toda . however, the district attor- ney himself issued this ultimatum “Mr. Brady, who has always been for production of clean plays, will take this play off if we ask it, I'm sure. If he does not, we will prose will win. ‘The (Continued on Page Four) ernor Nellie T. Ross honored Daniels to Bristow, Okla., on the advice of Oklahoma officers and is sald to have participated in the robbery of the American National bank at Bristow about three weeks pgo. At that time $7,000 in currency was obtained and several citizens Were wounded in a gun battle in the streets while the robbers were effecting their escape. Attempts of McDanlels’ attorneys yesterday afternoon to obtain his release on a writ of habeas corpus were frustrated when the Oklahoma sheriff put the map in an automobile and hurried him over the state line into Colorado. Attorneys Roy H. Bullack and Alex B. King, who represented Me- Daniels yesterday, will also defend him at his trial in Oklahoma. PLANS FOR ARMS PARLEY Notes Exchanged Wi th Great Britain on Proposal for Conference of Powers This Year Informal discussion of a n WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—(By The Associated Press.) ew arms conference, to be called by President Coolidge, has been proceeding in Lon- don but officials here indicate: sults had been attained. d today that no definite re- The state department would not discuss the subject beyond authorizing the statement that the conversations had not yet reached the point of an exchange of formal notes. It is assumed, in the absence of official comment, that the steps ta- ken look to an extension of the Washington naval treaty so as to include a Iimitation on auxiliary craft as well as capital ships. Such a project was under consid- eration here at the time the league of natiohs brought forward its plan for an arms conference to be heid under league auspices, That plan since hassencountered obstacles, and President Coolidge has said he only awaited an Sperm moment to make a conference suggestion of his own. LONDON, Feb. 18. (By the Asso- elated Press),—-A new armament con- ference which President Coolidge would summon has been mentioned here “'n conversations with the American ambassador and 1's at Present under consideration,” For- eign Secretary Austen Chamberiain announced in the house of com- mons today in answer to a question by Commander Kenworthy. Questioned further, Mr, Chamber- lain begged to be allowed ta con- fine himself for the present to the foregoing atatement, THAEE GIVEN TERNS IN JlL Three pleas of guilty to charges of petty larceny this morning drew Jail sentences varying from 30 to 60 duys trom Judge Bryant 8. Cromer. A. C, Carroll, pleading guilty to the theft of a diamond locket at # read camp west of, the city, was given the maximum, 60 days and the cost of the case. Ernest Reed drew 30 days and costs and Ralph Adama 40 days and costs, They pleaded guilty to the theft of several automobile tires. Wife.of Man Captured Here Is Released in First Extradition Hearing Ever Held by a Woman Governor In the first extradition hearing ever held before a woman governor, yesterday afternoon at Cheyenne, Gov- the extradition of J. C. Me a charge of robbery. Marie McDaniels, his wife, was turned loose on technical grounds. MecDaniels was arrested in Casper about a week ago on Gloria Swanson Suddenly Ill, Has Operation PARIS, Feb. 18.—Gloria Swanson the moving picture star, had to be hurried to a clinic in Auteuil last evening where she was operated upon at midnight. The operation Was a sequel to one performed some months ago, after which she did not fore resuming it appears her professional ac tivities. Her condition today pronoiinced satisfactory Miss Swanson last month fvas} married here to the Marquis De La Falaise De La Croud HOUSE TURNS DOWN SENATE POSTAL BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 18,— By vote of 284 to 120, the house today refused to accept the senate postal pay and rate increase bill as a sub stitute for the measure it passed last week. take sufficient rest be-| Bank Bandit Returned To Face Court Charges STRIFE IN BULGARIA INCREASES HOUSE. PASSES AELIEE ACT TO FASE EMPLOYE SITUATION HERE Provision Is Made for State Insurance Of- fice by Conferees in Midnight Session. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 18.— The house this morni ing approved for passage a bill designed to pro- vide protection for three thousand six hundred millions of inhabitans of Wyoming—bees. The measure, House 161, authorizes establish. t of districts for the control of and other animal and plant The house approved for Passage House 205, imposing a tax levy for the support of state experi- mental farms. The house passed House 106, amending the automobile “anti- theft” law to make it more work- able, The budget bill was sent to Governor Ross today. The state reserve bank bill, was received by the house and referred to the cor- Porations committee. shine uudefinitely post. nate 7 reducing the tax levy limit, and reducing the county tax poned munic| Senate levy limit. The committes of the whole senate approved for passage House 166, which liberalizes the “truth In fabrics" law. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 18.—(Special to The Tribe une.) —-Compromise agrees ment by senate and house conferees on a budget total increasing by $94,500 the amount fixed by the House bill sage by the House of the Natr county a salary increase bill designed to correct the county employe situa- tion in that county, approval by the House of the state bank code and passage by the Senate of the state reserve bank bill were outstanding features of Tuesday's late session of the Legislature extending into the night. The salary bill provides for ad- ditions to county office staffs and larger salaries in counties with an assessed valuation of $50,000,000 or more, which affects only Natrona county. The sheriff's force may be Increased to one deputy at a salary of not more than $2,000, four depu- tes at not more than $1,800 each and such other deputies as may be nec ersary to properly administer the af- (Contin) on Page Seven.) - > SOFIA Feb. e strife be a | sween the). nment | Kills Parents, ist deputy, was shot and killed yes pau terday. His assassins, firing on their = oe pursuers, wounded an army off CRESCO, Iowa, Feb. 18.—wWwin At Philippopolis the secretary of] Dunn of this place killed his aged the police department was killed and] parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Dunn, the chief of police wounded in anlin their home today and then taok ambush set by communists. his own life with the same pistol. pany making an iner Creek Rock Creek, $1.70. The change today make the fourth since the initial increase for the new year on January 23. On that day the advance wa: cents. Again January 31 was «a general Increase of 20 cents, with Blg Mud dy recelving a 30-cent rise. The third move in the upward trend of the crude market came on February 13, when Balt Creek was boosted on there New prices are: Salt Creek, THREE GRADES © | OF CRUDE OIL ARE ADVANCED Advance of Five Cents a Barrel Made by Midwest and Ohio in Salt Creek, Big Muddy and Rock Creek _ Crude prices for three Wyoming fields were this morn- ing advanced five cents a barr 1, the Midwest Refining com- n ase on Salt Creek, and the Ohio Oil company boosting quatations in Bi g Muddy and Rock : $1.60; Big Muddy, $1.60; 25 cents, as were Blg Muddy and Rock Creek, while Grass Creek (ght), Ti Basin and Lance Creek (ight), Blk Basin end Lance Creek Thus, in less than a month's time Salt Creek han shot up 76 cents, go- ing from 85 cents to $1.60; Rig Muddy has shown an &S5-cent ads vance from 75 cents to $1.60: Rock Creek has gone 75 cents higheg, from 95 cents to 8,70,