Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER Mostly cJoudy tonight and Satur- day, probably rain or snow in north- east portion. temperature. VOL. IX.NO. 114 ———— Not much change in Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation CASPER, WYOMING, FRIDAY, FEBRU MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS (dios) 2898 5 POV sree £ The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper Che Casper Daily Crthinte Tribune ide, 2 SEVERANCE TAX KILLED: ROYALTY FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS ARE DENIED 30 MINERS TRAPPED BY BLAST DEATH TOLL IN INDIANA MINE DloASTER MAY AUN HIGH, oAlD Two Unidentified Men Are First Victims Removed Today From Sullivan Diggings SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb; 20.—(By The Associated Press)}—Two men are dead, three seriously injured and thirty-five are entombed with little chance of being brought out alive as the result of an explo- sion in the City Coal company's mine here today. This information was given to The Associated Press by G. M. In- gleman, an official of the coal company this afternoon. “There appears to be little chance for those now in the mine,” said Mr. Ingleman: SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 20. —The fate of fifty miners entrapped by a blast in the City Coal company mine near here was unknown at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Two unidentified dead had been taken from the mine and three men seri- ously injured had been rescued. Reports brought to the top by men engaged in seeking the 1 and injured indicate it is prob others are dead. All mine rescue teams in the dis- trict have been rushed to the sce and physicians and ambulances are held at the shaft awaiting develop ments, The explosion, which {* said to have resulted from ignition of gas, wrecked the interior the mine, The explosion occured at 10:30 a m. One hundred and twenty five miners were in the shaft at that time, At 0 this afternoon, the work of rescuing the entrapped miners Was proceeding slowly owing to the debris {n the mine entries caused by the explosion. Men in charge of the rescue work reported it was hardly probable that the approximately fifty men still in e many of the mine had escaped injury or death. It was stuted that it might be two or thre r before the men could be r him. All cots from Sullivan furnitur stores were taken to the m about a mile east of the city in case of emergency One of the two dead taken out of the Clty Ccal company’s mine at Sullivan, Ind, has been identified as John Salmon, 26, of Sullivan. The other dead miner is believed to be James Boyle but an identification has not been positively made. 4s in the mine is hampering the work of the rescue teams. Fifty men are reported to be entombed in the m for use here were 140 men in the mine at the time of the explosion, Mr Ingleman said, but 100 of them man: aged to get to the surface from (Continued on P; Six) CITY FIREMAN | ADMITS ARSON Portland Man Helps to Battle Some of Score of Blazes He Started PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. Chester Buchtel, local firem under arrest here today with starting fires during the last yenr and a half which damaged prop. erty worth $1,000,000. It is al'eged he confessed to starting twenty fires with a total loss of $50,000. Buchtel took fire officials around town to. day and showed them places where he sald he started fires, In some in. Bill Aimed Fire Climaxes First Reel of Chaplin’s Suit Court Action Against Charles Amador Is Given Movie Setting as Blaze Scatters Court Attendants LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20.—Survivors of the Chaplin- Aplin film comedy fire and philosophy fest, which signal- ized the opening here yesterday of Charles Spencer Chap- lin’s suit to bar Charles Amador from using Chaplinesque stage names or makeup, ventured back into superior court today for the second reel of the celluloid comedian’s court duel. CAREY DENIES | Chaplin furnished the philosophy a | |CURFEW IN CASPER TO RING AT 10 Drug store cowboys and 1925 model. flappers will be allowed two. hourg more freedom in the evening in Casper if the ordinance anent the ringing of the curfew, now being prepared by the city at- torney is passed by tho council. It provided that the curfew shall be sounded at 10 o'clock instead of THREE SEIZED BY POLICE IN OUR AAD Eddie Shay is Held As Operator of Second Floor Resort 8 o’clock as has been the custom Police offi ded the rooms 4s long as the memory of man | above the cafe on Center runneth. street last n , the second time In the la t few weeks, and made three All of which brings to ‘mind the lines of some famous poet (it Boke hei sounds like Shelley); : alleg' ceperieter, Hip pocket bulge is the latest aw and Charles Wil ams, both of 429 North Jackson street, are charg- ed inmates rage, And juvenile houre are getting late, The raid was mide @ squad At least ‘till ten they must ram- | headed by Lieutenant FI Plum- mer and consisting of Officers J. page, “The curfew shall not ring at eight.” E. Muck, Howard Zook, Baker and State Officer C, W. asiey. Divorce Ways Are Greased By State Bill Reno Must Look to Colors if Measure Passed by Senate to Cut Residence Requirement Here Is Made Law By COL. W. H. HUNTLEY CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 20.—(Special to The Tribune) —A partial invitation has been extended by the state of Wyoming to unmated and incompatible married folks to bring their domestic troubles to Wyoming and secure such lega? relief as the courts are willing to grant. Senator Hor- ton’s divorce measure, reducing the time of residence within the state 0 six months, is,in that suppos dignified and through the senate and o in the} serlous body. Senator Horton's house. It is a bid to put I out of} sponsorship of the measure is said business, but the bid to g the large and lucrative business, should have gone Reno, one better by making the residence require ments five rnontlis. While tho senate poked a lot of fun at the proposal, {t is in r not half as ridiculous as per cent of other matters er in to have been act ed by a pure selfish He conducts a Je ranch and surmer resort in Johnson count d his object tn obtaining such a law was an oppor- tunity to app to the idle rich of the east who desire to change part ners to spend the summer at his divorce resort and in the fall be re motive. NOTORIOUS at yesterday's session and a film featuring Amador under the screen name of Charlie Aplin, furnished the ‘ire. With scholarly precision and many an explanatory wave of the hands, Chaplin set forth his philosophy of humor, and particularly his phil- WASHINGTON, eb, 20-—Charges that the president's Agricultural con- ference report was ‘dominated’ by Secretary Hoover, were denied today before the senate agricultural com- mittee by Chairman Carey of the conference, who said none of the cab- osophic conception of the inner meaning of the baggy trousers, dent: inet members “had the slightest in- fluence” on the drafting of the re- ed derby, trick moustache and wil- port. lowy cane with-which film fats the World over-are-familar. — * Relating how he happened to gathdr the derby, the cane and the other component parts of his char- acterization into a un!t which he called bis satire on humanity, “his symbol of the serio-comie dignity of mankind, Chaplin said: , “My inspiration came from the (Continued on Page Twelve) Prison Bribe - Takers Convicted in Trial MUZZLING OF ALIEN COUNT TOBE PROBED WASHINGTOD Feb. 20.—Chari- man Borah was directed today by the senate foreign relations commit- tee to ask Secretary Hughes for the fa regarding charges that the state department has “muzzled” t Michael Karolyi, former presi to accept and receive bribes. receive bribes from wealthy inmates ary, during his visit to| of the Atlanta federal penitentiary ere A, E, Sartain was warden, a ae and L. F. Fletcher was deputy war At den. Riehl's James N. Linton of Columbus, at- torney for Riehl, filed a motion for a new trial and Judge Irvin nounced that he would defer passing sentence unti, noon that counsel might be 1 320 EACH FOR ARAPAHOES IN Flirting With College Girls an RALEIGE with d be under a state —Fiirt- college girls or teachers outlawed in North Carolina, measure now before the senate committee on education. The bill would class it as a miisde- meanor, punishable with a fine of not less than five or more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment for not less ing 20.—I stances it Is alleged loss of life re- was | charged | man than ten nor more than thirty days U. S. AWARD WASHINGTON, Feb. 20,—S¢ tary of the Interior Work today au thorized tle expenditure of $38,000 for pereapita payment of $20 to 1,900 Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming. The funds are intended for the Indians’ spring farming ac Uvities. a ae CASPER BANKS 10 BE CLOSED ON MONDAY Casper banks will be closed all day Mohday in observance of Washing- ton’s birthday, which falls this year on Sunday, according to announce. sulted from fires started by the fire- Among the buildings Buchtel ts alleged to have fired are 15 churches, two parsonages and a ‘school build: ing. It was said that Buchtel, after starting a fire would often hurry back to his station and then make A.E.Sartain and Laurence Riehl Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Accept Money from Atlanta Convicts ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 20.—(By The Associated Press. ) —A. E, Sartain and Laurence Riehl of Columbus, Ohio, were convicted, and L. J. Fletcher acquitted in United States court here this morning on charges, of conspiracy The three defendants were charged with conspiracy to John ‘lerigarin, the proprietor, Was arraigned immediately, pleaded gullty and was fined $300 and costs by Judge Bryant 8. Cromer. Deputy Sheriffs Carter and Pat- terson and Lee ft of the state de- partment made the raid. UTAH SLAYER IS EXECUTED SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 20.— Henry C. Hett, a George Allen, was executed by a firing squad at the Utah state prison here at 7:46 o'clock thi the murder of Polics . Plerce on November The execution took place at’ the prison yard at 7:46 a. m. He was pronounced dead two minutes and five seconds later, Hett was 23 years old The jury was out 16 hours. occurred VALUABLE ART): wing day and Hett subsequent- ly confessed to the shooting and IN | was sentenced to die. Hays is now serving a life sentence. Hett lost an appeal to the supreme court’and was twice denied leniency by the board of pardons. : <_ — HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 20.—Ren- aissance paintings and other art trea-} sures valued ut nearly half a million dollars, missing from the Hollywood | N+ ¥: home of a German art\collector, were CANDIDATE DOUBTFUL NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—The Re- being sought by police and private | publican county committee was on detectives here today. rec today being willing to SUDe rtin Welnschenck, president of | port a suitable non-partisan candf Dantzig, Germany, firm of M.| date for mayor oc New York at next Wejnschenck and company, owner of | fall's election to prevent the continu- the stolen collection, discovered the] anco of the Hyland-Tammany re: loss when he returned to his home | gime. ‘om Catalina Island Jast night he] ‘The attitude of the committee was told police. announced at a meeting last night OFFICER WEDS GIRL HE SAVED Girl Arrested in Connection With Mur- der Becomes Bride of Deputy CHICAGO, Feb, 20.—In true copy book style, Deputy Sheriff Lous Fientje saved Exhel Beck from the terward saying she would have con feased to anything to get the police to stop questioning her. RESORT IS FINALLY RAIDED Whiskey, wine and beer valued at more than $1,000 were seized by the sheriff's office and the state law enforcement department when they raided “Mother's Place” on North Durbin street near the river last cvening. It hasbeen a popular resort for drink- ing bouts for the last couple of years without interruption from the authorities. Included in the liquor taken was 20 gallons of moonshine, 200 gallons of wine and 20 cases of beer, all of which had been concealed in blind cupboards behind partitions. stored to single blessedness and re turn for the easte winter cam- n and get into trouble all over again Iso asserted on behalf of Horton's campaign to get people out of marital trouble that he has in mind a division of the local judicial district with an additional judge With court located on his dude ranch ready to grant dissolution of mar: s made in heaven or elsewhere, with the least possible delay. It ts evidently service that ho contem- plates rendering. The house has rot uttered a single peep, with reference to its views up- on the great American social prob- (Continued on Page Twetve) Censorship of Plays Is Seen Gotham Prosecutor Would Form Jury of Play-Goers to Pass on Complaints Made Against Broadway Shows NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—In view of widespread criticism of a dozen Broadway sex plays besides “A C od Bad Woman,” which William A. Brady will voluntarily with- draw after tomorrow's performance, District Attorney Banton has come out in favor of censorship by a jury of playgoers. want to get away from 1 ical | _ —| censorship 1 think that the most | ag | fem Winn e' ones asc [OTUISh Army | “I have in mind selecting a pane ~ | the comm oner of could # lect twelve to act upon complaint I think the recommendation of such a jury would be followed; if not we could then prosecuto, Mr. Banton added that he also favor applying the jury to complaints against objec books. Discussing his agreement to discontinue, ‘A Good Bad Woman Br, Brady sald today he was tally satisfied, but financially gruntled." LONDON, Feb, 20. — The annual for the J . gives At 215,843): NIGHT SESSION OF HOUSE SEES HOT OEBATE ON TAK QUESTION Current School Funds Now to Share in Royalty Despite Vote in Last Election CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 20.—The house of the Wyo- ming legislature at 1 o’clock this morning killed a bill im- posing a mineral severance license tax of two and one- half per cent on petroleum and graduated severance Hcense taxes on other mineral natural resources, A constitutional amendment thorizing mineral severance taxes was submitted at the election last November and failed to pass, aus Opposition to the house bill was predicated on the contentions that the license tax ithorized by the measure would be unconstitutional, that the oll industry of the state al- ready ig bearing more than a propor- tionate burden of taxation and paye ing 52 per cent of the taxes collect» ed by the state and that a severance Heenve-tax-worlt exert a strong ten- dency to discourage investment of foreign capital in development of Wyoming's mineral resources. Sup- porters of the bill argued that the mineral industries were not properly under the existing system, that the ol! fields of the state were belng depleted wit t adequate re- turn to the state and that Wyoming residents were unjustly discriml- nated against by the ofl industry, es- pecially in the fixing of gasoline prices here at rates higher than those at which Wyoming gasoline is sold in other states. B. C. Wilson, supporting the bill, spoke for more than an hour. Archibald Campbell opposed the measure in terse terms, asserting that he had brought a million and a half dollars of English money into the state for ofl development but would not spend another dollar if this “damned tax” was imposed, “Knock this tax in the creek sf you want to encourage capital to come into the state,” he shouted, Indefinite postponement of the house bill was made without a rec- ord, although # severance license tax was a political issue in the last campaign. An important development of the night session was indefinite post- ponment by the house of senate 16, appropriating one-third of school land oil royalty income during the next two years to the current ex. i 3 of the schools. The vote was ci c nents of the bill t might involve the t al € ra to te $60,000. ed that adop- nendment No, t election constituted a n the people to pass the mandate bill : ‘The house in committee of the yproved for passage house ding the state primary law nominations by conven- house passed house 189, re- factory tax exemption, y 1 nex > pas: otlve d senate 13, re- “There {s a load off my « he] BUSAN BEMIBK our. | uelng the reguirems nt for residence asserted, feel cor | elated Prete) Dre Wiehe” sian’ | 10 the state to abx monthe before ap: able about | ler of Pi Fis ut, | plying for divirce, The voto was 47 The $26, BE Dae! Gti hie saenea A ibae | ae i y ( s who bad boug > d 4 “ine he > a oY bs a special next week. § ‘ s Is > elect Unt 2 sent. for last nig unce : Aig BAe ae at 1 from death jee sw ela dacabti i 3 1 no Contin Page Nine.) Equal Rights Bill Defeated In Commons LIVING LONDO. b. 20.—(By The Assc ciated Pre The bill to put women on. a political equality with men by granting them vote at the e of ment offered by Sir William Joynson ment made today to inform patrons so that necessury business might be transacted tomorrow, ' the run to the fire and help to put it out, gallows or prison and then marrisd The prisoners were indicted for her, 1t was disclosed today. murder nd then Bientje arrested Ethel and a man were arrested Malm and his wife and they in connection with the kiiling of | confessed to the murder of Leliman Edward Lehman, a watchman. Kthel obliged the police by confessing, af- The Maims are serving long prison wentences, Hicks, the home secretu pone franchise reform act later in the life of the present partia-| ment, was carried, COSTS SHOW INCREASE | Department of Labor Survey for Month Reveals Two Per Cent Gain 2 an ine with Breatest showing rel- e San Fran- Angeles and 21, instead of the present « 20, ——_—. was killed in the howe of commons] WASHINGTON, Feb. £0 this afternoon when the house re petwo pereart in 0 fused it secon) reading by a 1 price of food in th vote of ¢ galnet 193. The am