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

wn ~, Generally fair tonight and Satu Much colder tonight. | Gay, preceded hy unsettled tonight. ~ VUL tk NO. 138 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation CASPER, WYOMING, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925 (duno. On Streets or at Newstands, & cents Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a month Publication Tribune Bldg. Offices: 216 B. Second 8t. 22, Ber STORM STRICKEN AREA SLOW TO RECOVER FROM GREAT DISASTER NAVY RECORDS TO ENTER LEASE CASE MAN, FAMILY AND AUTOMICE! RIDE TORNADO WITHOUT INJURY Members Take Different Directions as Garage Is Wrecked; Tax Receipts Carried Fifty Miles by Big Windstorm DE SOTO, IIl., March 20.—Jesse Pankey of Harco, who was returning to his home from St. Louis with his wife and two small children in an automobile when Wednesday’s 2 WILBUR ASKED FOR EVIDENCE BY DEFENSE IN TEAPOT TRIAL National Preparedness} Needs Linked With} Policy for Leasing! of Oil Land Here CHEYENNE, March 20.— (By The Associated Press.) —Rear Admira! Julian L.| imer, judge advocate gen- f the navy, will arrive oday bearing a |Casper Elks | Wire Storm | Relief Fund Casper Lodge No. 1353, Benev- lent Order of Elks, wired $100 last night to the Grand Lodge to open | a relief fund for the stricken vic- the tornado which has entire towns in the torm area, Announcement of the sending of was made last night at ks auditorium during the «s of the final championship 3 in the Elks annual boxing 1 wrestling tourney. The money vag taken out of last night's re- ceipts and wired immediately. PAIR REGEIVE PAISON TERM Riley and Joseph S. who pleaded guilty to re ceiving stolen property before Judge | Bryant S. Cromer this morning in | district court, will epend from 12 to 13 monthsg-in the state penitentiary Joseph Buckle aatedtron' t at Rawlins, - s ‘ rhe two men were arrested Febru- Secrets of tie national defense sit: ) |. 99, and in thelr possession at the uation dadtawas $b 42 © involved | tiie was a considerable quantity of the move, aceording to Mardin W.| Cong wearing apparel which had ittleton, of defense counsel. TNE | been stolen from a local apartment fense, hw ask rs * ments bearing on the international | 5U! into situation at that ume be read the record of the Teapot Dome as & justification for the leasing of Teapot Dome to Harry FP. Whether Admiral Latimer will pro: duce the record asked is not known. In the recent trial in Log Angeles in } which the government sought annul ment of the Elk Hills naval oil re serve lease to the E. L. Doheny In terests, rear Admiral J, K. Robison navy engineering chief, presented a letter from Secretary Wilbur to the court which rul that the defense records were of such a nature that they could not be read into the rec- ord there Cross examination in tion of Dr. H. Foster Bain, director of the United States bureau of mines was taken up when court convened for the day. Owen J. Roberts of government counsel, questioned Dr. Bain at length on his conversations with Al bert B. Fall, former secretary of the interlor, on their conversations garding the leasing of the naval oll reserves. Questioned as to whether he knew the deposi the clair Crude Of! Purchasing company was interested with the Standard Ol] Company of Indiana in the Salt Creek field, adjacent to Dr. Bain said he knew Teapot Dome hat this did of the combination but not make Harry F, Sincls ner in It Creek mone (Continued on Page T poem teh EE a DRIVE FOR | PROHIBITION IN BRITAIN LONDON, March = new movement to ma Great Britain dry is reported by the Dally Ex press, A secret conference of 117 nting 87 prohibition delegates repre Sinclalr. | ACCIDENTAL DEATH 19 VERDICT OF JURY IN WILLIAM MAHONEY Choe Accidental death caused by jump- ing off a freight train was the jury's verdict at the coroner's inquest held yesterday afternoon into the death of William Mahoney, 23 years old. According to the evidence Maho ney caught a freight train which left the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy yards here at 12:20 Wednesday morning. When the train reached a point three and a half miles east of the elty, Mahoney who was on his way to ansville, jumped off. Mahoney evidently mirjudged the spot as he fell through a bridge, struck his head against a timber and was instantly killed. The body was found about 7 o’clofk the same morning. Services for the deceased. who was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs, Mich- ael Maho old time Casper res- ,idents, were held at St. Anthony's 1¢ chureh at 9:30 this morning. Japanese Will | Take Over Russ Oil Concession MOSCOW, March 20.—Arrange- ments are to be made for exploita- n by Japanese interests of the coal and o sources of Sakhalin Island when the Japanese evacua- tion of the northern portion is com- pleted, the vice commissary of for- eign trade announced. panese treaty signed The Russo-J and temperance organizations was held at Hoddeson, the paper says, resulting in decision to bury al differences and present a solid front to the enemy Straight prohibition {s not the first alm of ty® movem: » but loca option and committees have begun drafting a parliamentary bill to ward this end. in January provides for restoration northern Sakhalin to Russia, The Dv supreme economic council arted suit In February in the Mos strict court for annulment of 1 concession in Sakhalin granted to r r interests of America lor to the agreement with the Jap- ese, alleging non-fulfillment of ontract terms Lord Curzon Passes Away I March 20 Boe Dei the Marquis Curzon of Kedleste lord president of the counsel and for mer foreign secretary. The end came at 5:35 o'clock this morning after a fight against pneumonia which de veloped following his operation of two weeks Lord Curzon for some time had not been fn robust health and from time to time had to cease work and take long periods of rest. He suffer. ed some year ago from phlebitis and an attack of this two years ago alarmed his friends, tornado approached, today re ter and described a fantasy o garage to escape, Pankey said, and as he stepped from the automobile, the roof of the garage was whirled away. Next, he asserted, his car was tossed into the air and carried off with his wife and children in tt. He also was lifted and blown five blocks, alighting uninjured on the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. His wife and children later were found in a ploughed field and they were only slightly injured. He added that the last time he saw his auto- mobile it was still sailing through the clouds. WEST FRANKFORT, UL, Mareh 20..By The Associated Press) — Many wind freaks were reported in Wednesday's tornado which © stfuck Franklin and adjoining counties in southern Illinois. Murphysboro tax receipts of Wed- nerday date were picked up at Fair- field, 50 miles northeast. A barber chair found in afield near here was a mystery as no bar- ber shop was known to have been in the stricken West Frankfort area. Presumably the chair had been transported through the alr from some other town A frame bullding of the West Frankfort water plant was left standing untouched while large trees on all sides were snapped off or torn up by the regty Hundreds of automobiles here had their tops blown off, were hurled up- side down or virtually demolished. Casualty Lists by Towns Is Revised Again by Later Dispatches CHICAG ), March 20.—(By The As sociated Pre —The death list in the five states whick on Wednesday were struck by a tornado and storm remained virtually unchanged at noon teday although later reports had a tendency to slightly redu former estimates, At this time the dead, estimated and known, humber ed The casualties were in the neighborhood of 3,000. Iinois Dead Injured Murphysboro - 210 West Frankfort - 110 De Soto - 110 Gorham - 90 McCleansboro =~ or Parrish — ee) Logan - - 13 50 Akin -.. sane es 10 Benton - 13 80 Enfield _ In White county Hurst i Thompsonville Bush Akin Carmi lated his attempt to seek shel- f the winds, He swung into a Most of a tin can dump picked up from one side of the West Frank- fort-Benton highway and transferred to the other side. A grove of trees near here remind- ed cbservers of the family wash day because of the articles of clothing stretched on the limbs. 10 1,955 Indiana. Griffin (Continued on 41 Page Two) SUBSCRIPTIONS OPENED HERE BY RED CROSS FOR RELIEF OF SUFFERING IN TORNADO AREA Subscriptions for the relief cf suf- fering in the storm swept area of the Middle West were opened in Cas- per today by the Natrona County Red Cross chapter with the receipt of a message by J. 8. Mechling, chairman, that the Red Cross is dl- recting operations and will need a large fund to carry on. No organ- ized campaign will be made but those 200 to the relief work: “St. Louis, Mo., March 19, 1925. . S. Mechling, Chairman Natrona County Chapter, Amer: ican Red Cross, “Casper, Wyoming. “Relief operations in tornado stric- ken areas of Illinds, Indiana and Missourl under direction of Red Cross. Needed personnel and sup- plies being furnished promptly. Tre- able and anxtous to contribute are|™mendous damage and loss of life asked to leave thelr subscriptions| Will require large sum for relief with Leo A. Dunn, treasurer of the| Purposes. Accept —_ contributions, Natrona County Red Cross chapter at the Wyoming Trust company. The following message was re celved by Mr. Mechling in reference Forwarding promptly to Saint Louls office, 7; Wm. M. Baxter, Jr ‘Aswistant to Vice Chairman,” KNOWNDERD FATALITIES CASUALTIES | STAND AT ! 815 TODAY Following names identified dead from storm area are in dd tion to names carried in Thursday Tribune: | Re. EC At Logan, Illinois. | . jaits: James Curley and aaven-| Survivors of Devastated Areas Turn to At Aki in 4 m) 2 ac WAeemuenatoe Burial of Hundreds of Victims as Mrs, Silas Sullivan. John Gammons. Mrs. Monroe Ing. Mrs. Ollie Flannigan. John Lampley. At West Frankfort, linois. Elmer Lewis. An unidentified child. raldine Rumley. ter Ogden.* Malcolm Ogden Brown Zukoria Daughter of L Number in Morgues Increases (By The Associated Press) Reports at noon today showed 815 dead. Injuries to about 3,000. i gusccnted Press casualty list totaled 577 identified ead, Kentucky and Tennessee cleaned up. stricken areas ¢ 2 virtually Burials being made in both states. ther Patt Bar! Banes. Daughter of J. A. Sullivan. _ A few hamlets in Missouri yet unreported. Casualty Irvin Gregont lists at 15 dead. Dead at Murphysboro, IIl., clirabing to Harriet Nell | previous estimates. One hundred and seventy-five known Luther Smith | : ae Harvey Bayes | West Frankfort, Ill., deaths increased to 110. Deathsin A Burton b | other Illinois cities unchanged in numbers. Mr. and Mra. Ben Summers. All bodies recovered at Princeton,|Mussolint of Italy and Acting Pres!- Walter Gilbert Indiana, and most of them at Owen-| dent Simons of Germany cabled con- Frank Pritchett sville. Passable roads making res-|dolences to the United States. Gladys Remeley cue and relief work more expeditious. | A greenish black funnel, slanting Stella Scott Property loss Indiana towns esti-|at an angle of 45 degrees Bessie Neibel mated three to four million dollars. | followed a deluge of hail was Mrs. Stanley Lilovich Devastated regions turning to|the description of one thankful sur: Mary plans means of burying ‘their| vivor., “Black as midnig mo John dead. Shortage of coffins and fa-| ing faster than a train,” was anoth- s Brown | cilities may cause group burials eth Boler workers report better pro At W e-day old Shopinski ring for infured and desti t squa 2 perambulator Floyd Dixon Contributions flowing into illed fro pile of s. CL. Hick he ts pr money and that had been a home. The Fratik Donat. ‘on As they becam arby lay crushed. Ida Ogden. | organized, attention was given also number of frightful mutila- Charles ‘Campbell. | to cural communities and crushed lin and the Wayné DiiBrowh | All business in Murphysboro sus-| fact that in fiany” cases wounds féeaeeD! hrown pende Banks urged to keap| ground full of dirt could not be at- Pliy ean parown: doors closed | tended for hours brought the spec- John Novotney Herrin, Illin scene of several] ter of tetanus stalking on the field. Nahaley Starns. Williamson county shootings and|Airplanes bearing all available te- Randall Karnes uprisings, just south of blasted|tanus antl-toxin rushed out of In- Mrs. Tim Karnes, storm strip, opened its one hospital) dianapolis. ‘At Benton, Mlinois, iidiired Women at De Soto took up a cols Mrs. Deboria Rainey, 45. Estimated that more than one|/ection along the line of automobiles Charies Gunter, 2 third of the nearly 120 dead at De| attracted to the scene and in a short Roy Braden, 3 Soto, Illinois, were children, under | time Kad raised several thousand Wilna Braden, 6 three years | dollars, 2 4 A ylolent snow storm fringed the| Contributions in money and sup- Berth; K 'y 4. tornrado n the north when it} plies made directly at the response ———— Gunther, 7. oI nesday, Weather bureau] of appeals made over the radio ap- Hattle Smith, | ing or above in the de-| parently will set a new high total Ivan Smothers, 1 ong tonight; much cold eet Two blind girl stenographers are employed in the offices of the Brit ish Minis: of Pensions. through this means of reaching the row. world. Radio n employed in | King Victor Emanuel and Premier near all relief measures. CASPER MAN IS SHOT DEAD POLICE CAR STRIPPED | | | IN BABY CYCLONE AT | | | Goshen County Sheriff Fires When J. L. McGuire Fails to Stop Automobile; ‘Relief Work Rushed In (Middle West Storm Area | CHICAGO, March 20.—(By he|lessly over Colorado, dipped to Ar- | Associated Press)—Still prostrated| kansas, and then took a path of | but with the hurried efforts at tem: | least ance along the Ohio Val- porary relief supplemented by the | ley its major force was spent arrival of trained workers, supplies | and it rushed off on a high wind in and medicines, the storm stricken | the direction of Iceland . " rea of the Ohio Valley to¢ con-| Ho sald that storm y not Liquor Is Found in Car {nued to count the terriftc loss in| one but several tornadoes, ex CASPER ON THURSDAY) iar omy wie ag om im | ae — nad trophe | length wused the 1 | J.L. McGuire, who had been living in Casper for sey- sed casualt ated | not the ¢ cyclone ir Chief of Police A. T. Patrick, eral months and is said to have been a contractor by occu- haniwe! Xr01 § ad eports of t s Lieut. Roy Phimmer and K. W = pation, was shot and killed at 1 o’clock this morning at | mate a8 Wednesday afternoon s after its five » to Mc Davala assistant city prosecu Frontier War Torrington by Sheriff Oliver J. Colyer of Goshen county t grits id : cae . tor, had an exciting experience at sagre reports receive ie # 5 | pers clon Caethae wee noah Meagre reports received here indicate that McGuire Wag | ern states. Fair tema h 1 nig « A which made them believe for a few Is Settled By ordered to stop the roadster which he was driving and re-|'"* '"* five cities and t P e eaciride: that a. tarnatas tad: | , fused. In the car, after the kill ae =| the storm's path indicated h| ana i ar Gasper, Local residenta often'torce b ‘s ing, the sheriff found 20 gallons of |list of between $00 and 900, with ap-| ute Nain seruae daaria Thanet oars P. l h A liquor. proximately 3,000 injured and many | then against the opposition of high Ouls: ction| MeGuire had a postoffice box and other thousapds homeless. It was|the st evirida butioan resl/hapbyithat.t hes a banking account at a local bank believed, however, that many bodies | 1a ‘ are olitside the-rexion’in the Unit- te —: |for some months but officials here | were still to be recovered as entire} Th ed States affected by tornadoes. GENEVA, March 20. (By the As-|have been able to obtain Httle in- | towns were demolishd lated ‘At 4:30 o'clock yesterday after. |S0clated Press).—The froritier dis-| formation concerning the man and | A check of the devastated areas nted 1 noon, Chief Patrick and Lieut, | PUte between Poland and Lithuania] have failed to locate a brother and had not progressed far enough | are me Plummer, entered the touring car | has been settled: sister sald to be Casper residents, mit even igh estimate of |; mor used “aa a ptllce emergency plyer Lithuania’s foreign minister noti-| US So. eee | proper Ithough sums of] filled t in the downtown district and start- | fled the league of nations that the| BANK ROBBERS SHOT | ned from mar me W ed up Center «treet toward the po- | Poles had released the prisoners ta DOWN IN LATE HOLDUP pa A f the Red Cr lice station. Lieut, Plummer was | Ken in the recent clash on the bor - PHIDADEGEHTA enn. as cterized th rm In some Instances at the wheel. der and that the incident had been| STEELVILLE March 20.—| 99 Th Sw ry me . ba t rs pe 1 era t “happily closed.” Two of fiv ttempted to] ~ ta pittance apart steal Mita, "1 wh f 5 Mr. McDonald, who w: ‘a, Catbarie a, for New aa Sa ethe ieee nate ee The settlement ts attributed to the| holdup the mers bank at Steel: be EN Fs ati we for New ¥ was 1| without Mon at 5 o'clock was pleked ap | £0% offices of Austen Chamberlain, | ville today were killed, two wound:| Wiiwion “with ite yeatenday’ jn in f « and given a lift to the police sta. |% President of the league counch,|ed and a fifth captured when a citl-| {?..) ie) I eaiarone American. tank itlonal light on the character- | ties In so Hod fy the'oar . and the Pacific counsels given by| zens’ posse previously informed that} morn, ay are York for] 14, aa tad ophetie ¢ tor. | comforts and When the machine arrived oppo. /Premler Herriot to Foreign Minis-/a holdup was contemplated, engaged| parnware trent ast of the 1 night ¢ rr " site the, poitce statin on Center ‘e" Skryanskt of Poland during the’ the robbers in a pistol duel. One| was landed he epee 1 ar and 1 , eats a ee gust of wind came | itter’s recent visit to Paris. citizen was wounded. Wislas ntedires rae ps Mio rel fr , eet, ge gust o d came gi eame neco, from Man f i out of the west and in the space zante ie 4 he of a few seconds ripped the top of the moving car from end to end. The police car drew up at head- quarters with the top flapping in the breeze and streaming cut like a ragged banner at the rear This morning Chief Patrick or- dered the placing of a new top on the emergency car ai 2.28 Me CES LATE SPORTS DENVER, Colo., March 20.—Fol- lowing is tonight's schedule of play in the Rocky Mountain Basketball tournament: Glenrcck Semdacs versus Casper Pearl Whites. Goodman-Neill versus Parco. Carper Methodists versus Conoco. Denver Dry Goods yersus Rocky Mountain Envelopes, Five Taken by Police Raiders Two women and three men were arrested {n a raid at 2:25 o'clock this morning on an alleged booze joint he'd as evidence against Sadie Gou- lette. She was locked up in the Jail and will be tried this afternoon at 831 North Center street. Sadie|in police court before Judge Mur: Goulette, who admitted that the | ray house was her residence, was booked| Mrs, I, W. Bardaly, who was at police headquarters on a charge of {Ilegal possession of Mquor. found in the house’ at the time of the rald was booked on a charge of Lieut. Plummer and Officers | being an inmate. Mrs ardaly Mack, Zook and Muck who composed | was realeased on $25 bond. Joe Ke} the raiding party, seized a case .of|ly who has been arrested before in alleged home brewed beer which is (Continued on we Three) (Continued on Page Ten) Destroyed By Earthquake SHANGHAT, Associated P: land mission, Ma h 20. (By the The uters China ency says, Chinese Town | has received a 1 dated March TON J., March 20.—, count of conspiracy amd « wo of 19, stating that an earthquake has will Tur unsportat £ On the destroyed ‘Talifu, a town in western Te neplr vides Yunnan province, A d'sastrous fire| sporting ev four | a maximum pe ars’ followed and help is urgently needed ers last n | impr peniten the message say | terstate transportati ft ur 1 f or both The foreigners in the neighborhood! the Demprey-Carpenticr r anspor defendant are safe. ‘ Kickaid was found gulity un one! may be fined $1,Q00 on each count, eo = ~<- . _- oo *