Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 1

SHERIFF'S: MEN KEEP WATCH Aa, Se WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednes day. Warmer tonight. The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper VOL. 1X. NO. 140 OIL Memb of Audit Bureau of Circulation EASE LEGALITY DEFEN JAILBREAK INCITY AUDITOR TO BE NAMED CASPER FAILS BAR Io oAWED Hope of Apprehending Outside Helpers | Is Blasted An attempted jail break which would have liberated six criminals awaiting to be taken to the state peniten- tiary and 16 others who are behind the bars for minor offenses, was frustrated Mist night by Sheriff Alex McPherson aud his deputies. For five hours yesterday evening and last night the officers waited hidden in the corridors of the jail Ustening to the rasping of an im-| provised saw cutting through a| steel bar and the een window in the northwest corner of tho fail. The officers believed that help in a wholesale jail delivery would come from the outside and for that reasqn they waited. When tis help from the outside falled to terialize in the later hours of the night and efter the) sawing had ceased for some unknown reason, the sheriff and his officers broke in upon the prisoners, Although they were closely ques: tioned not a man would admit t he had used the saw or that | pad intended to break jail. Lach ope maintained that he had had nothing to do with the attempted jail brea Although all prisoners were close- ly searched as well as the cells and the bull pen no trace could be found of the saw that had been used. The sheriff said he balieves the saw Is either carefully hidden in crevices of the jail or else it was broken while in use and then hurled to some dis- tance away on the outside, A carving knife which dis«ppeared several days ago from the prisoners’ mess is belleved to have been con- verted into a saw by filing teeth into it. The file, it is believed, was slipped to a prisoner by a visitor. For this reason the sheriff yester- day announced a strict ruling re- garding visitors for the future. Su days will be the only visiting d from now on, Also when visitor: come theyjwill be permitted to talk to prisoners only in the présence of a deputy who will closely observe all that takes place. Ralph Le ex-convict of the state penitent nd frequent inmate of the count {l for thefts and who is now awaiting the arrival of a warden to for another trip to the penitentiary where } Che Cazp Mail Robber | Put on Trial In Hartford JWDGMENT 15.6 M3, DENNTTOUN WINS 923,000 VEN IN VERDICT’ —(By The Associated Press.) —A pr Dail MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925 0 (duyos) xy Crifunte Uyi10, New Office Created by Council as Part, Of Economy Plan; Cut of $25,000 in City Budget Is Assured. Ordinance number 476-A, formulated by R. M. Boeke, assistant city attorney, providing for the creation of the} EDITION n Offices: B. Secona st. On Streets or at Newsta Delivered by Carrier 75 cents a month tt Tribune” "Bldg. COMMUNITY | MEETING TO DRAW CROWD mas Cai tomorrow PROTECTION ia OIL SUPPLY 15 tion with A. Parkin sper will be i interested en a public represe tative of Community service, }-on plans for the structure, will } By CONKLING FITCH preside, Hour for the meeting "ins ‘Defense Arguments in | been set at 8 o'clock. | Sentiment for a Community | Teapot Case Begin HARTFORD, Conn., March 24— (By The Associated Press)—Ger- ald Chapman, picturesque mail LONDON, March 2 robber and jail breaker, went to |. 0. ay trial for his life in Hartford coun. |Verdict for 5, ty superior court tod: Chapman, manacled, was brought 000 pounds or nearly $25,000 in favor of Mrs. Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun was rendered this afternoon by the jury in her suit against her former husband, Lieutenant office of city auditor at a salary of $3,000 a year, was passed on first reading at the special meeting of the city council last night and will come up for final reading and will serve from two to three years for the MeCord-Brady robbery, was the master mind behind the attempt- | ed jail-break last night, according | to the sheriff. | Other prisoner the | atten re, Je Joe Buck! both ur entence of 12 to 15 ceny; Ed Williams mt for grand larceny; a Mex E cito Codero, sentenced to 7 years the penitentiary for ernment's argument, as they pro-|for the Mammoth side, and in all der. and Harvey Sressed, came echoes of old sena-| probability with Mr. Roberts clos- serving 0 100-day full sentence torlal investigation assumptions,|{ng ‘for the government. The Lit- ‘The other prisoners who would] none of which have been or could be/tieton argument is expected to be have escaped but for the work of the | proven, if ruled competent. the most complete summing up of officers were in jall mostly tor boot-| On the part of the government,|a case ever heard in a Wyoming legging and petit larceny it has been all along, and will con-| court. The warden from the state {.| tinue to the close of the case, a tax| Wednesday evening will see the tentlary has notified the sheriff that | upon legal ingenuity to make some-| end of the case. he will arrive this afternoon to take|thing out of nothing. To build a — oe LeMasters, Filey, Buckles, Williams. | case, when no cause for action exists.| Codero and I. C. Bemis to the state | Government counsel are entitled to| PERU FLOOD DAMAGE GREAT 1 institution. Bemis Is under sen- | credit for such showing as they have BUENOS AIRES, March 24.—1 tence of from 18 to 24 months fc made, but they knew as everyone| Nacion’s Lima correspondent embezzlement, | cerned knew, from the be-| severe demage was caused in Peru Investigation thi the government had hand-|by the recent rains and consequent ed ‘that the prisone legal representatives a lemon. | overflowing ‘of rivers. A report indi-| through a one-half It had done this at the insistence | cates that railway traffic to the in- (Continued on Page a manufacturéd and misguided |inter will be interrupted for a to court from the state's prison at Wethersfield, four miles from A here, in a fast motor car guarded {had loaned him. F by five deputies. Another car filled’ | ‘The jury found that Col, Dennis. with armed ds trafled and two |toun did make a verbal agreement to assist in his former wif's sup- port from time to time but did not heavily armed motorcycle officers were in the van. Chapman, charged with the | make the agreement set forth in murder of Patrolman James J. | Mrs. Dennistoun’s claim. Skelley, in New Britain last Oc- | The jury also found that the eup- tober 12, entered court in the mid- | port was to vary {n accordance with dle of q half dozen guards. As he | Mrs, Dennistoun’s means, ane Sol. ted himself in the prisoner's | Dennistoun was only bound to as he was still surrounded by | sit her when the necessity arouse; is. nor was he boun¢ to support her Selection of a jury was begun. | if she became the wife or mistress pet AA oh A he ie - o* the Spaniard Bolin, or the wife of a rich man. The consideration for the agree- ment the jury said, was Mrs. Den- nistoun’s abstention from claiming maintenace or alimony before the French court at the time of the di- vorce. C. of .C. in Line For New Title as Laundry Agency A man who is on his way to.| The jury found that Col. Den. Casper has shown evident deter- nistoun, before the issuance of thi mination to have clean shirts and | writ in the case was financially socks when he arrives. He telegraphed the Casper Chamber of Commerce this morn- ing with the information that he had shipped his soiled clothing head in care of the chamber and he requests the business organi- ution sto see that it is given to iy local laundr: The man iy Paul Schomberg. He forwarded his solled garments from Gothamburg, Neb. able to support his former wife. The veridct found that all the sums Col. Dennistoun had received from Mrs. Dennistoun were in the form of loans which the defendant had not repaid. The case has aroused, intense in- terest because of Mrs, Denn{stroun's allesations that the deefndanf, now the husband of the dowager Coun- tess Carnarvon, encouraged her in an improper relationship with the Colonel Ian Onslow Dennistoun, for money she claimed she late Sir John Cowans to further the colonel’s military ambitions, The general audit of nances by the Steffen and Gu; account of a city fi accounting firm of has been canceiled dissolution of the on “FATTY” HAS TROUBLE FINDING SOME ONE TO TIE MARRIAGE KNOT LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 24.—Wedding bells will ring tn gelebration of Roscoe Arbuckte's thirty-eighth birthday tonight un- less something happens to alter the former film comedian’s plan td marry Doris Deane, motion pic- ture actress soon after sunset at her mother’s home in San Mar- rino, a suburb. Arbucle announced last night he did not believe there, would be slipup in the arrangements, Siiieh he had already experienc- ed some difficulty in settling the question who should officiate at the wedding Arbuckle and Miss Deane obtant- ed their marriage license: yester+ without finding thelr path blocked by anyone save the report- ers and photographers who were clustered about the court house. The announcement that the Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher would of- ficinte, however, had _ scarcely found its way {nto print when the clergyman revealed a lecture en gagement, which, unfortunately would prevent him from going to San Marino. enactment at the next Monday session. buitding such as the Standard Oil | company has generously offered | With Resumption of | to help finance in Casper is prac- | | tieally unanimous. Assurances | Hearing Today that no bond issue or personal sub partnership of that accounting firm.| scription would be linked with the A public audit by other experienced | project were suff! it to bring y accountants will be arranged for at| it Into instant favor, along with NE, Wyo., March a later date after the present yolume| the prom { the Standard to Assoc iated ot spe Improvement ssessment | crate dollar for dollar up to |Press.)—The leasing of Tea- notices and water collections are J * |pot Dome naval oil reserve taken care of in tht city offices. Agreement on a site represents lto Han F. Si Tt {s undérstood that the finance} the greatest stumbling block at | ¢ soy ecindlaln was de- fended today | tack committee of the city coun ing C. Hoffhine, chairm: Lowndes and H. H. Brown ommend the appointment Steffen as dinance has been passed. linelud-| Present to reallzation of the pro- M.| Jeet, and while the committee has gone on record in favor of the Center street park site as the most attractive from every standpoint, | the members remain in a receptive n; J. ‘The creation of the office of peed for any and all suggestions, | used t auditor is done to fill long felt urchase of a site is held to be and English feed’ {n thes Hist structuce of} U™Possible from a practical stand- al barrage to the city of Casper,” said Mr. Hott.| P0int but It is possible that sug- | terests « the hine. “The city auditor will make a| S¢stlons made at Wednesday even- | company by. Former Secret nha nr Tie catun habeas ing’s meeting will solve the ques- | ie Interior Athert expenditures as between the various | 0" to the satisfaction of all con- | maintained that unde functions of the city and make re-| ct?Med. A packed auditorium prob. | Congress Juno 4 ; ports to the council,’ The employ.| Ably will greet the speakers and | tlon. development she tion” ment of a city auditor will result in of the oll res an interesting session is assur a Defense Trims Lease Attack Government Arguments Are Picked to Pieces by Sinclair Counsel in Legal Battle at Cheyenne. By J. E. HANWAY CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 24.—At the close of the second day of the “battle of the giants,” the structure so carefully and painstakingly constructed by Owen J. Rob- ertd on behalf of the government in the Teapot Dome argument, yesterday, lies in ruins. The foundation stones were forced out and the superstructure hesitated for a moment and then toppled in ruins. | public opinion, based wholly upon The force of logic applied today by | political campaign purposes. |yJudge J. W. Lacey in defense of] L0ns before the case reached the . trial stage in federal court all the the Mammoth Oil company's posl-|qynamite in it had been’ exploded in the suit to cancel its lease}and that consisted only of a very th ernment is responsible| small fraction of an explosion, if eae of Mr. Robert's beau-| suapicion r be regarded as com: ‘ posed of the necessa mical built castle © could have) agents to make a Idrge noise and n other r The castle} wreck things. built upon sand. Argument in the case will proceed As in the tomorrow with Martin W, Littleton evidence so in the gov- RUSS AN N U L CONCESSION SI NCLAIR PLANS FIGHT CHEY Wyo., March 24,— (By The sociated Press}— Harry F. Sinclair will fight to save the ol! concession on the isiand of Sakha- en, granted him by the soviet gov ernment and annulled today by a de cifion of the Moscow courts, G. 1 Stanford, general counse! for the Sinclair interests, announced heré Stanford sho. could not be reached immedi ately. They here in connection with the Teapot Dome lease annyl- Sinclair spoke for ment case, on trial in the United States district court of Wyoming, value of the Sakhallen eoncesston and sald he did not know what the Arrangements for an appeal from | next step in the fight to retain the today’s action In Moscow rests with | grant would be. Mr. Sinclair went to egal representatives of the company | Russia in May 1923, and was grant- in the Russian capital, Stanford} ed the concession as a result. said According to Stanford, Sinclair's MOSCOW, March —(By The As men were disporsessed from the] sociated Prers}—The concession on northern part of the island by the/the island of Sakhalien granted the Japanese and were thus prevented | Sinclair Oil interests by the sov from going ahead with development | authorities was annulled today by of the ofl resources there. Mr. Stan |the soviet court, which has been ford would make no estimate of the (Continued on Page Six) PAINT-UP AND CLEAN-UP TO GET URGING Mayor S. K. Loy was empowered by the city council last night to is- sue a proclamation calling upon the citizens of Casper to observe a paint- up and clean-up week. Mayor Loy made the proposal and stated that it was customary to set aside such a week every spring. The mayor proposed that next week he designated as the official week but some of the members of the council thought that the weather might still be too cold and left the setting of the date up'to the mayor. Mayor Ley said that he would an nounce paint-up and clean-up week at an early day. Citizens should not expect the ety ing up of backyards, lawns and oth- er {mprovement work. “POP” WARNER PASSES AWAY DETROIT, Mich., March 24—Wil- | liam A, (Pop) Warne known as | Detroit's grand old man of the row- | ing game,” died today. During his| 56 years of rowing “Pop” Warner ts credited with having sculled more than 75.000 miles, For several years he was known the oldest active | amateur oarsman in the United] States. > OHIO CRUDE IS REDUCED FINDLAY, Ohio, March 24.— The Ohio Oil company today an nounced @ reduction of 10 cents a barrel on six grades of central west ude. olls, ‘The new prices Lima, #2 Indiana, ; Minols, .02; Princeton, $2.02; Plymouth $1.05; Waterloo, $1.10. ee | the Hotel Henning. the University of W will be one of the prin rrived this mornin; oming, who pal speakers, Word from to furnish trucks to carry junk to} Thermopolis says 42 people will be the city dump heap, according to! present from that place. Mayor Loy who said that he had| Other towns have made reserva received many calls on the telephone | tions Doug! 10; Kay- from people asking why a city truck | cee, . 6; Buffalo, 3; Sus had not been sent around to gather | sex ne e will also be repre up garb and debris. Mr. Loy sald | sent m1 Laramie, Carey that the city trucks were employe r, Riverton, Guerns on more important work and that ]andg Wheatland jeitizens should take care their All visitors will be met by a special junk at their own expense. The tity | reception committee the personnel of does not have the trucks 7 wen | which was announced this morning available to cart away the accumu-|at chamber of commerce headquar- lation of winter junk. Maycr Loy | ters as follows: sald. Otto Bolln, Charles Niethammer, The paint-up and clean-up week ]0,-G, Johnson, Jones, Monte is intended to get things In shape for | Robinson, hlenk, Emmett summer and to result in the c Fuller, W hultz, J. E. Den- ham, W. F ‘laude Po J. Ga Members Wilkerson, rker, O. E. Goss Moore, and Guy committee AUTOMOBILE TS STOLEN HERE A. D, Hammond r last evening that his Maxwell car, {lcense rumber 3864, had been stolen at 11 o'clock yesterday morning Police and sheriff's officers are on the lookout for the Hammond ma chine. H. D, Rockwell driving a Dodge car with a Texas license reported to police today that a collision had vecurred at Center ang Railroad avenue between his car and an auto driven by H. F. Shaffer of 646 Park street. Slight damage was sustained by the Rockwell car, acording to the police report. of this will Officer Benson turned in a report this morning that 4 lamp post in the 200 block on Went First street been rammed into and demol- hed by the unidentified driver of n auto. No witnesses have been found but police are conducting an investigation, had sted to police | Chamber of Commerce Gathering Will Number 77, Report. ew information from out of town points indicates that at least 77 men and women from other communities will attend the big annual meeting of the chamber of commerce which will begin sharply at 6:30 o’clock this evening in A. E. Bowman, director of the extension department of attaining greater uniformity and ef. apace ehh att ds He suggested to Arbuckle that | ficiency in the various clerical and | ° : Fae eo 143aD {inasmuch as “very few clergymen | accounting work of the city depart |Bandits Make | ATRL eee mone hi wish to marry divorced people,” | ments. | neat ee bi a {t would be a good idea to have The city auditor will alo assist $9 000 H [|me mee ° 6 superior court judge tle the knot, |each department in giving them | ? au | ie ftw ault to, annul) the i v Arbuckle acted on the suggestion, | monthly reports as to what expen. 3 % Te EO eee eyeing of ot but {t had hardly been announced. |ditures have been made in the re-| IRVINGTON, N. J be ceaseserves In order that it might that Judge J. W. Summerfield | spective departments and will thus|Three robbers. tod eee oe Tor DAVE tin would officigty, when the judge | prevent expenditures over and above hn Schaefer, 56, messenger of the Tn thikesmetyl cme ttt Mr La Tedrned that his wife had made «MOE actually authorized by the] Irvinbton ‘Trust company and. ongress said that storage the dinner engagement for tonight, | council: iri’ budgets and special ap-}caped with the bank's money bag | 8*UNd must cease and that t “which would keep him occupfed | propriations from the general fund.| which, police reports indicate con. | Must,be taken out of the ground and for the evening.” (Continued on Page Six) tained $9,000, conserved aga all possible Pan. ger of | If there is to L criticism of the sec tarles of the interior and the navy of Adm al J. K. Robison, chief ay eng Great Turnout Seen (20° about doing it Mr. Lacey started with his argu: e e ment by asking that am ev: re latin to the bank count f ™ ee in oni Fall be stricken from tho record There was not even @ remote hint of evidence of fraud in obtaining the | Presidential order, he said, and added ; that the government's all gations of Attendance From Outside of Casper for DAMAGE cUITS Tree ay, ithe hestiallon ion the lense were nr nt all sustained y the evideace in the ease a “There ts Idence,” ® government than a fully in the of evide ment CHOW QUT OF REGENT CRASH | | | tite luncheon. not even a hint tn id Mr. La receive the that the anything 1c consideration not a shred to the govern adeq lease ce of damage argument was court cessed for | Wincheads He prot 3 will require R. E. Wallace Sued In| timist Sti ubsuinenn'® “fermeen * CHEYENNE, Wyo., M wear badges especially made for the Justice Court by Seeasion. | Bésides the —Thut the leasing of the visitors they will als | Th Vi | Donk hie vAlA bil ees ee forination bureau for } gra ree ictims frompted by eon nee After the pro a | re uits against | interests of the t nit 4 ste € heard {t is planned th: Watase*tor dariugea. and that Albert B. Fall was actuat tives of other tow es incurred in an a considerat f int : their local and agri March 17 at Sixth an en etary of the interlar, he lems and these probler were f sterd 1 t ital to short discussions rt of J f the Peace |the trend of ars ‘ determining the means Madde A lL G : Owen D. Robe organization to d n | ernme it for A number of t »| The plain and Mrs, J.|nulment of ease Addr fc guests ewill be inte y Mullenix x B. Mullenix, | Judge . I ennedy of the United {in agricultural problems, it is expect jare suelng amage each,| States court for Wyoming without ed and the address of Bowman, “The}J 3, Mull that his car]once turning to the defense Agricultural Development of Wyom-| was dama umount and able or to Hart ing” and that of Former } hts wife and B. Mullenix are|who sat nearby, Ro Robert D. Carey, “The sueing for injuries suffered ' both the validity of the Agricultural Commission,’ Jin the accident | the official good faith of I strong appeals for them, Wallace w ed $100 in pottee | he sald, had found “a ley court where nd guilty of | person’? in Admiral J. K Marketing of agricultural products unla jchief of engineering of locally will be brought up for dis who had testified that } cussion, it Is thought certain, sin | had t espone bh for b the de this is one | cision to itiee d ft! Interest to sev | munities. The | ed ‘gument oming Products” is expe | r uns heard frequently I Lit " Ch er of C mer head ters reported 300 tickets Sater the the ticket selling comm | tend . ¢ the yet reported. aa a) n JUSTICE ‘SALARIES — CUT E. Cc. MADDEN MAY RESIGN ¥ letter from lowing receipt of a paying justices of the peace salarie be pald from now on to Stanley A. Brown, state examiner in| 0f $260 a month and at the last 8€8-| the peac which he ruled for strict adherence ie of phar tah ignite | “If the state examiner insists on to the state law of 1895 specifying! senate by u vote of 12 to 13 after | #dherenco to the old law, I will re- that the salaries for justices of the|!t had unanimously the] taliate until f resign t holding peace shall be $62.50 a month, Jus | hous , Madden suid the} court only frgem 11:30 a. m, until tlee of the Peace E. C. Madden un-| $62.60 salary of the 1895 law, $20 a| Madden said © is no nounced yesterday that he will prob: | mo rental d. | provision in the stut as to the y resign on Ma 1, provided the The s that ¢ count hours a justice rt sha be held ruling becomes effective | ec will be held pe A similar letter ¥ y received Heretofore for several years the|ally vonsible for salaries | by Justice of the P« T. Bren county commissioners have been! above the legal amount which may/ naa,