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e. — PAGE TWO \3 KILLED IN b FRAIN CRASH Train Crew Members Are Victims Sun-| day of Head-On Crash of Mail Trains; Nine Negroes Meet Death FRANKLIN, La., March 23.—A heavy fog which en- veloped a stop signal was responsible for the head-on col- lision of two fast mail trains on the Southern Pacific rail- road yesterday, causing the death of persons and serious injury to five. The accident occurred at Ricohoc switeh, | seven mi of here. rae ies p< a A oe east bound eld resp > by al for the accident. He PIIRLIC LANDS aes | led Frank Stafford D. Conery, engi- fireman o 12 and nine negro| rains were | to E The injured were taken | — to Patterson B 5 ca The official report said Engineer Senate Committee’? Will beth otitis enstnouna’ Ban tse 4 Start West Soon Ricoph, where he eae honeauiad £6 For Tour. | ‘About'900 feet paft the ewitch the Ee “The bi the front 12 tele. ft ‘cupied the baggage elescoped on the ond oldest vice, had : lepte ¢ preparati es Teal ‘| Devorak Home On | ; “1|Ratlroad Saddened the} uine what | ss b ° ine wnat) By Child’s Death i 4 power and| ——- f flood irrigation Chas. V Devorak, 3 year-old son Spica Special attention | of Mr Edwin A. Devorak, the proposed Boul died at the family home 1 project t 531 West Railroad avenue. The CONTESTOEBNTETOBE “ches FEATURED TONIGHT AT. sees * caSPER ign soHOMk NPGUIRE FUNERAL HELD. coe HERE THIS AFTERNOON wht sl of the state| subject ight by high nts in the aud hool bu tomorrow afternoon at 8 Re 2. Carter will con- ne si and burial will be| cemete, | wh shoo ng at Torrington last-Friday dum < {| were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon | 8 o'clock tor t J ©) from the Shaffer-Gay funeral home. Kiwant » Is sponsor e de! Burial was Casper ceme- it nd will award $1¢ to] tery. a | Rev. 1 of the Meth- te | odist chure ed the funeral Among the rejatives pres- des of the question wiN|ent were Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Col- be debated by two girls on one side|lins and the three children of the 1 two boys on the pther, It will] deceased man, John 9, Helen 10, and be decided by lot a few minutes be-| Dickie 5. Mrs. Collins is a sister re the platforin argument, which| of McGuire. m willl repre t the aff: ative or pa aT 1 which the negative. Madolin € and Margaret St com: 1 am and Harold Heiser r re the speakers K COAST REGION The | rm rep: . n of the Kiwant lub, W. QO. Wilson of the Rotary club and Dr. C. MH. Platz of I club. The public {s cor- ly Ited to attend Dealers, Growers and Traffic Men Testify Before Commission. \Keep Watch | On Chickens, | Chief Advises | PORTLAND, Ore, March 33.— Wool growers and dealers and trat ¢ stifying | a hearing on rates on of the west began ir - _' | wool to 1oved this year from Pacifi ast to eastern markets. | e Text aken by J. B. Campbe : f the Interstate Com Mar and Exar r But ng to | ¥a be considered with evi f A Patrick the | e already gathered at a hear-| f p must |ing in Boston and another to be held to rur se |in Chicago April 3. @ been ve Joint through rates and bill of| lading arrangements on wool from ts within 1,100 miles of the} 2 ec via rail lines and the nal to the Atlantic sea- rd are sought those petition: | wer rutes sou; nt the existing water rates re based plus the erage port cl and marine fn: | are | surance with th fa added | based on t ame rate per ton mile us the state Commerce commis ordered for all rail applications | WIFE AND HU Che Casper Daily Cribunt SBAND UNITE TO, DEMAND JAIL TERM FOR ‘OTHER MAN’ IN TRIANGLE) MRS WARE SELLS HER JEWELS TO FINANCE KUNEYS DEALS UP NORTH. By NEA Service. CHICAGO, March ien t typical “triangle does a sommer sault you get such circumstances as | Involve of Mrs. Cecile War« is sordid but {t is in cause it r ses. the u: involving the outraged hus band, his madly gay and surfeited wife and the other man, The “other man” is ¢ sary to.a tri table he was to Mrs, with jal position and the v of her husband's cot- ton broker busin could afford her among N elite. now that It it was a very silly thing for her to do, w husband's palatia) ner home k happines with Clark C Kuney tv Handsome and 35, and love ears 0, Kun {s 35. He ts handrome. Mrs. Ware {s a slight and piquant person of 30. She has had Kuney in- dicted in Chicago charging him with larceny She says she gave everything to him: » honor, money, jewels and even her home which was %old for half {ts $80,000 value when Kuney MRS. CECILE requested it W. Ware, the lady's hus- 1 50, and a pillar of New " smart set, once was on the point of killing Kuney insists request Now, arated, her so Mrs. Ware but stayed his hand at her though the couple have sep: Ware {s helping his wife in secution of Kuney “to see WA that she gets justice.” That what makes the case un- true of type. It touches up the dark spots with a splash of chivalry, or what would you call it? Charges Wait. Kuney now {is in Three Lakes, Wis,. and said to be involved in some difficulties with the law there. So soon as he has his freedom, Mrs. POLIGE MAKE MANY ARRESTS Jack Johnson, who gave his res! dence as $14 North Ash street was arrested at 5:00 o'clock — Sunds morning by Officer Thomas and booked. at police headquarters on a charge of belng drunk Violet Mock and ¥. H. Scott were arrested at 259 West BC street at 2:48 o'clock yesterday afternoon and harged with illegal cohabitation. Officer Benson made the arrests J. Emery was taken into custody by Officer Hancock at 6:40 o'clock yesterday evening and chargé with being drunk and disturbing ‘the peace. Walter Shamrock was ar- rested at the same time and booked on a similar ch ‘The arrests occurred on West A street Jack Neff, 23 years old, was ar- reported to police J. C. Hitchcock late last night that an overcoat and insurance papers wallet containing had been stolen from his auto while it was parked in front of the Glad- stone hote) last ht. Hitchcock described the overcoat as being black on the outside and lined with brown Hudson seal. The coat ha a Hudson seal oc r. No mo was contained in the wallet, accord Ing to the police, but the {nsurance papers were great value to th owner. ———- Ex-Premier Of Egypt Named to Head Deputies 23,1By mer Pre- nile: 2 elected presider nuties Jin t tt ating lack of confidence in t indi ministry, taking the view that per- sonal rather than political consider tion Jed to his » tior New Stamps In Great Demand By Collectors | WASHINGTON, M = we ; of the new Harding be | | stamp and the new yrned | m ¢ sir 1 | | velope on Mar ts the escape moke | their sale at . If residents not have arent philate gen ied tegrated toon cre TAKEN TO SOUTH BEND! pee ate np Chief Patr has {esued | who b in ot - fs before te | nd even 1 Ma asked ng that The ¢ John C, Huebelin, sald Wawhing mped er action will be taken against |to be a years old, who was] velopes, bearing { ition Lise Violators in the ‘uture | 1 Saturday morning in hie| Harding stamp: t RO 21s aS | reom Texas hotel in Bvane-}ods of manuf ire 1 bought 3 Heket for) ville ws the result of carbon monoz-| press and flat 1 the annual meeting of Chamber of) igg poleoning, was removed from | mailed to them #0 a Commerce? Do : the Shaffer-Guy undertaking par-| cancellation date of the }lors laet night and sent to South] sale | Bend, Indiana. ae —-—--—- , | A brother, Harry Huebleln wired -Pr S O S | Lew Gay directing that the body: be| uses fur coughs | shinped to South Bend where fun: | Got rid of them this safe, sure eral services will be held ee enty-five years ago over 50 dif. (huick Relie{} A pleasant effective eyrup, & Amd gerernaiin tee 1190" | ferent telegraph companies were tn | Joperation in various parte of th | United States. . Stops the pal iba vend. nat Kore Bes pads am: SLAYER KILLS THO, TAKES HIS OWN LIFE MILES CITY, Mont., March 23.—| John. W. Kemp, 65, and his, son| James Kemp, 30, are dead ag’ the| result of a shooting affair that took place about twelve miles south of Mizpah on the Powder River near here, and J, W. Stacy, 45, a one- armed man is a suicide, having shot nself after killing the two Kemps. The affair took place during Satur- day forenoon as r as could be learned, the bodies being found on the Stacey place Sunday noon, Sta- cey {s a bachelor and is believed to have gotten into an argument with the Kemps who apparently had gone to his place to get a load of ‘GUARD FUNDS ARE HELD UP AY PRESIDENT Wisdom of Expending Drill Appropriation Is Questioned. | WASE il ted to and : the 1 r mate the presi-| j dent ordere tigation | Dwight 1 ting secretary { war nference to-| with a report on he ne fund would be ubmitt this} ark | pres committee | sapr ition In uilment of the army ed depends upon the t state of the allotment} wade current war de e averag the en] 1 be ition of , ills current is compured to the aver: | exte etate| 1 bet reduce ite I 4s upon the centage of total of national guard | sont ich turns out for these anaes Le ot, | Omaha claims to be the leading city in the world in the number:of telephone per capita with 284 tele phones for each 1,000 ef population. California expects to produce a cotton crop this year that will bring between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. Mave you bought your ticket for the annual meeting of Chamber of mmerce Deut now | acreage UNITED STATES FLEET OFF FOR PRACTICE UNS Two-Day Tests to Pre- cede Gunnery Work Next Wednesday. NAVAL BASE, SAN PEDRO, Calif. March $3.—Dawn today saw the combined United States fleet preparing to put to sea for two days of practice runs, preliminary to the climax of the year's gunnery pro- gram—force practice, scheduled to be held next Wednesday about 70 mies from this port. Force practice involves a test of the effectiveness of the full gunnery powers of the main battle Hne of the navy and comes closer to the actual reality of a great naval battle than any peace time practice under- taken by the fleet. The signal “commence firing” sent out by the flagship after the “en- emy” string of sea and alr targets has been located by scouting planes and the dreadnaughts have defend- ed themselves against a torpedo at- tack by destroyer squadrons, will unleash a hail of steel projectiles fired simultaneously from some twenty-four 16-dnch guns, 72 twelve- inch guns, twenty 10-inch guns and other smaller sea weapons. Tons of metal will be hurled more than ten miles at the targets within the space of a few minutes. The fleet's swift steel knockout punch will be demonstrated & canvas adversary. Conflict In — Land Claims Is Uncovered WASHINGTON, March 23.—Inves- tigation by a congressional commis- sion of land grants to the Northern Pacific railway company today turned to n dj jon of conflicting claims of t company with the Portage, Winnebago and Superior Railroad company to 370,378 acres of Innd. The interior department contends this acreage should be de- ducted from the allotment of land je the Northern Pacific on the und of prior grant. James B. Kerr of Portland, Oregon, special attorney for the Northern Pacific, however, took the position that an equal to-the amount In volved wan due to the Northern Pacific under | Brants of 1864 and 1870. A discueston of the 1 matter took up mu day's meeting Are You Fat? | Just Try This Thousands of overfat people have become slender by following the ad yf doctors who recommend Mar. | Prescription Tablets. These | ttle fat reducers are made from the same formula as the famous Mar mola Prescription, If too fat, don't) walt—gu to your druggist now and} for one dollar (the same price the| world over) procure a box of these It tablets. you prefer you mey secure them direct by sending price to the Marmola Co,, General Motors ig.. Detroit, Mich. They reduce steady and ily, No need for| tresoriie ‘exercise or starvation diet | and no unpleasant effects.—Ady. | 7 HELPING HIS WIFE “TO SEE THAT Aap SHE GETS vustice” Ware, through her attorney, Charles 8. Wharton of Chicago, plans hav- ing him brought here, where Kuney, it has been made known, will deny all her charges. Mrs. Ware says she met him when he came to New Orleans to sell some crops and seo the races. He stayed three months, according to her stor and after leaving telegraphed her from Chicago ing her to come, which she did. Meanwhile, she says, she had pro- vided him with many thousands of dollars by selling her jewels and even her home, because Kuney told her, she says, that he needéd money to finance a deal up north. Kuney is married, too, Contrite. “I now realize it was all wrong from the start,” says Mrs. Ware. “We were both to get a divorce and then marry, He told me that he had gotten into business difficulties and needed money. “He fooled me from the start. I am devoting the few funds I have left to sea him punished. My hus- band is helping me. He {fs a won derful man. I lost him, my home and prestige.” Of such stuff are triangles made. Senator Jones To Make Study Of Shipping WASHINGTON, March 23.—~Sena- tor Jones, Republican, Washington, will sall Saturday for South America to spend a month in Brazil, Argen- tina, Paraguay, Uruguay and pos- sibly Chile, studying shipping con- ditions. On his return here late in May Senator Jones, who ts. chairman of the senate commerce commission; will begin drafting a ehipping bill designed to separate the functions of the shipping board and the fleet corporation. nr GEN. PERSHING IS REFEREE IN PLEBISCITE WASHINGTON, March 23.—Gen- eral Pershing was asked today by President Coolldge to become head of the Tacna-Arica plebiscite com- mission. The general, who recently return- ed from a trip to South America conferred at length with the presi dent and they went over In detail the problems involved in the plebiscite, to be held aa a result of the Chilean: Peruvian arbitration. MONDAY, MARCH 23, On February 15 Brentano's an- nounced “God's Step Children” by Sarah Gertrude Millin (Bon! & Liv- eright) as the prévious week's best seller, Clarencs Darrow as an_ attorney needs no introduction. He js not, perhaps, #o well known as an au- thor. Nevertheless his idyll of boy- hood, “Farmington” ortginally pub- lished in 1904 and for some time out of print, is being reissued in March by Boni & Liveright in res- ponse to a definite demand. Harper & Brothers announce that they have now become E. M. Dela- field's publishers. They will bring out Miss Delafield’s new novel, “Mrs, Harter” early in April. The novel which will be ‘published this | spring in England, also is written with Miss Delafield’s usual brilliant- ly direct style and logic. Little, Brown & Company have just published a group of seven Yooks, unusual in its diversity, for almost every volume is in a separate field of Hterature. rovels sundings.” by ( heralded in many quar- ters as the most important book of the spring—the love story of a young English girl, brought up by an artist father; bravely out-spoken on the probléms of youth, yet in the finest sense reticent—and “The Lor ing Mystery,” by Jeffrey Farno “cloak-and-sword” romance of Eng land In the early nineteenth centu with a murder mystery added. In the field of drama, there is Dana Bur: net's play, “It is a Strange House,’ which publishers say is “for the in tellectual reat*r only” and which is a daring satirical allegory—the scenes take place in, and just out: side, the “house” that civilization has bullt. On travel, there Is “A Pligrim in Spain,” an unusual book by Aubrey F. G. Boll, who has him- self traversed Spain on foot as ¢ pediar. As to history, there is: “The Day of Concord and Lexington Allen Franch, a complete narrative, impartial and authentic, of the events of April 19th, 1775; and “The Indestructible Union,” by Willjam MeDougall, a psychological interpre- tation of the American group life as it affects American nationalism, the second {n a group of volumes along (COLLAPSE IH STOCK PRICES HITS MARKET NEW YORK, March 23.—Stock prices collapsed to the lowest ‘levels of the year today under. the. sveight of an enormous volume of selling orders, many popular issues showing net losses of 3 to 10 points around noon with no effective buying power in sight. In the absence of any adverse news developments, commission house comment generally described the decline as another correction of the speculative excesses that took Place in the securities and com- modith markéts the first two months this year, Professional bear traders hammered incessantly at stock whose technical position had been weakened by the recent eus- tained advance and they succeeded in touching off a number of stop loss orders and bringing about Iquida- tion by frightened investors. U. 8. Cast Iron Pipe recorded an extreme drop of 10% points, Asso- elated Dry Goods broke 8%, Ameri- can Car and Foundry 8, Baldwin 6, Mack Truck 5% and more than a score others 3 to 5 points. U. Ss, Steel common touched a new low at 118%, off 2%; Union Pacific at 140%, off 8%, and New York Central 116, off 1%. The volume of trading was not unusually large, total sales in the first two hours aggregating about 707,000 shares There arc two} Hamil: | Books and Bookmen A Column of Gossip and Opinion 1928 similar lines, by eminent educators and authors. In the dafly toll and excitement of the stage it is not a placid “happy life that the actor and actresses can fleld. Instead is the occasional heartbreaking “moment of beauty,” all of which is pictured in Samuel Merwin's new novel, "The Moment of Beauty” (Houghton-Miflin), Ethel Eden, gifted and fascinat- ing, joins a stock compahy in a mid-western city, Here sh¢ meets Henry Bainbridge, 1 volatile genius, suggestive of one of thé most {a- mous of American actors. Thé two strong, passionate young pecple are swept together, and thelf emotional problems are shown with polgnant actuality. “The Moment of Beauty” {s a real- istic and beautiful novel that ehows life behind the footlights as it really is. It is the picture of the great strength and weakness of genius and the intoxication of success which goes hand in hand with fafl- ure and deprivation. To all lovers of the stage this book will make a strong appeal Burgess Johnson, writing in the “Lion's Mouth” of the April “Har- per's” under the title of “We Col- lege-Bred Men,” says: “Am I com- ing to be a traitor to our creed if I wonder whether a college educa. tion really adds anything at all’to a man? If it Is effective it helps him to find and to organize what he has got. Aside from that, I sus- peet there comes out the mill exact ly what went into it. If I am right, then a college owes the quality of its graduates very largely to the characte” of its sub-freshmen. As- sembled alumni should not so gen- erally t that Major-General Howitzer graduated from dear old Stwash—but rather that the Gen- eral’s shrewd old father had chosen it as the place for his boy. Jeffery Farnol's new novel, .“The Loring Mystery” {s a romance of his favorite perlod—the early nine- teenth century In” London and the English country—with a murder mystery added, It has just been published by Little, Brown & com: pany, The story deals with a stolen inheritance, a missing heir, and a murder which defies solution until the final pages of the book are reached. The reader enjoys again Farnol's inimitable portrayal of this period, with Its glamor, {ts flaring cloaks and flashing swords, while there Is a private detective, Jasper Shrig, who ts as fascinating a char- acter as the Ancient in “The Broad Highway.” Nineteen hundred and twenty: five {s the centennial year of the firm of D. Appleton and company. The date, 1825, marked the begin- ning of the history of the house, when Daniel Appleton opened his store in New York {n which the book department soon Became the domf- nant feature. For one hundred yearn the Appleton books tradition has continued, and it js Interesting to note that the most prosperous year for the firm of all the hundred {a that Jurt closed, 1924. The occasion of the centennial {s marked by the ublication of a book reviewing the history of the house and containing a biographical sketch of Mr. William Worthen Appleton written by Grart Overton, This book is entitled “Por, trait of a Publisher.” Yt ja {ITus- trated. ‘i OLDS of heador chest aremore eoaily treated externally with— rar Miles PORUB Oce: Jars Uved Let’s go for a ride in the Moon You SOAK. HIM- 1 CANS BRING MYSELF