Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1925, Page 1

The Circulation of The Tribune Is Greater Than Any Other Wyoming Newspaper WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Tuesday, and fiorth Not much change in tem- Poswibly showers east portions. perature, | ‘VOL. IX NO. 193 FATE OF POLAR EXP ‘Che Cax MORE EARTHQUAKES TERRORIZE JAPS per Dail MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925 EDIT 10>) Thieves Make $5,787 Haul PANIC OTRICKEN PEOPLE GIVEN AD; DEATH LST [5 NEARING S00 Fire Fighters Unable to Quench Flames in| Ill-Fated City; 1,000 are Believed Injured | TOKIO, May .—Two additional violent earth- quake shocks added to the terror of thousands of refu- gees at Toyo-Oka last night; after-shocks of the tremor of Saturday morning In the Tajima district in which nearly 300 persons were reported killed and 1,000 in jured. Official. relief agencies to minister to the panie-stricken populace in the devastated rural area which had not heen vi an earthquake for 400 yez than two thirds of Toyo-Ok of 7,000 was in ruins today sult of the fire that wake of the temblor word received at ment from the Ic ernor The flammable Japanese has burned like tinder. Fire fighters were unable to. cheok, the flames: The ‘worst suffering and casunity Osaga reports said were caused by fires which broke out after the earthquake, DENVER May Press).—Thic broke into the apartment, of Miss Anna Schrieber and made their getaway with $3, according to her report to po- Colo., »bbery was Scott, who 8, clothing reported id he had Jewelry and bonds. COURT ORDER FOR WITNESS DENVER Press).—A Colo., May court. order for pea of Miss Mary Kossler, clerk of Dr, John Galen Locke, Col- orado Ku Klux Klan’grand dragon, before internral revenue officers will be sought Monday, it was un- derstood here today (United the ap- nee s summoned by ir, internal revenue col to appear before him today, failed to make her apy nee. The probe into Dr. Locke's in come with a view of determining whether he has paid income taxes in recent years was scheduled to be ac ay resumed Monday, at which time officials of the United States National bank of Denve: schedul ed to appeur with Locke's bank a as town a re the to home depart Toyo-Oka came in according I a roy house NATIONAL LEAGUE, At Pittsburgh— R. H. E. y 600 000 300— 3 7 0 30 001 Ox— 5 8 O ush, Jacobs, Brett and Hartnett; Morrison and Smith. OSAKA, May 25.—(By The Asso elated Press}—An official perfecture report today from three towns— Toyo-Oka, Kinosakj and Minato vil Jage—show hat 278 were 2 Mel pet Infreed aan result of the earthquake and fire on Saturday. The same report shows 444 houses collapsed as a result of the earth- persons All others postponed. No — American scheduled, league games (United | An unprecedented May cold record-breaking heat. shivers . Continued cool weather was fore cast for today with slowly rising temperatures for the north central coats in Pave. y straw hats and ov mbination were numerous. ments that were blistering hot Sat- urday were coyered ‘with snow yes terday {n some sections. The mer- nk 47 degrees in 14 hours In It dropped 66 degrees in 24 hou! Dubuque; 57 in 24 hours in Chi 49 In Cleveland, 48 In Philadelphia and degrees in 48 hours in St. Loul: Four deaths and numerous injur- jes were indirectly attributed to the heat and the subsequent rain, hail nd snow. Property damage Vv estimated in the hundreds of tiv sands of dollars. In Buffalo puddles formed of melting snow were seen covered with ice less than a day af- ter the city sweltered In a temper ature of 90 degrees. Hailstones an inch in diameter shattered heavy plate glass store fronts in New York suburbs. Temperatures at or below the freezing. pol were reported from scores of cities. At Portland, Maine, a snow fall was reported and it v the latest Mcy date it has fallen there in 50 years, Heat continued on the sabbath tn xas, San Antonio with a temper- ature of 101 had the hottest’ May day in 13 years, Mother nature: In addition to work- ing the disastrous earthquake In Japan, cut capers in other parts of the world Deep snow fell in Leningrad, while the southern part of issia exper fenced torrential rains. When the liner Casmania was en- route from Liverpool for New York a fair sky became so overcast that deck lights had to be turned on Scientists are Inclined to beli that the tidal wave on the southern shores of Lake Ontario was An os- quake and 324 houses were des stroyed by fire. TOKIO, May 25—Reports from Hyogo perfecturates reports offt- clally that the number of deaths in Saturday's earthquake and fire at the Tajima district at 278. The number of injured is fixed at between F00 and 1,000 and the number of houses destroyed will ex- ceed 3,000, WASHINGTON, Japanese Red Cross today the American *Red Cross outside assistance would be as a result of the earthquake. oan Sater he any Fake Revenue Stamps Found On Violator NEW ORLEAN (United Press)}—Ch of & boarded May —The notified that ne needed Gigantic Muster t Decision Made Objects to A May arles B. Doran, next July 4 wilh teed ne . be The date was selected de vas} Coolidge had disapproved t Francisco, was arr ir plans f muster called at once, Act Secretary Davis’ communique the subject to the governors of states will be framed in accord with his request expressed de of the president that they Extends Rum Fleet Fight found $100,000 stamps, Police of the leading lights in an tional gang that as forged revenue stamps in connection with lquor and other illicit traffic in this coun: try. conferen ° € ! fi is | the Interna: | ing Jon th anc sire rs to begin one y Prohibition Chief Plans Equipment of Dry Navy to Dog All Rum Ships in American Waters BL PASO, Tex., May 25.—Sea operations against-rum- running and other forms of violations of the prohibition law will be extended, Lincoln C. Andrews, chief of pro- hibition enforcement, announced here today Mr. Andrews announced that he was planning to equip | ; a coast guard vessel to dog the movements of every rum- running ship that appears off{in San raneisco, he said. American coasts. He will ave | Mr. Andrews, who has been here here Inte today for w York, | attending the Mexican-American bor where, he said, he. will charge | der conference, declared himaelf ent 2 activities of the prohibition navy. | Isfied with the results of the m Westéra operations will be centered } ing WASHINGTON, May 25.—(By The Associated Press.) —A nation-wide defense muster of American manpower: | will be held under the ‘direction of the war department MAN POWER OF NATION TO BE MOBILIZED FOR DEFENSE ON JULY 4TH o Be Nation-Wide; After Coolidge rmistice Day finitely toc ne dep ction of ction | artmen t's selec taken volunte WASHINGTON, M Associated Press).—President Cool: idge today informed the war depart ment that he was opposed to the proposal to hold a defense test on next Armistice gay but suggested July 4 as an appropriate day’ for this demonstration, The president also advised that in case the war department decides to forward with plang for a July 4 demonstration, it should make clear to the governors of the states that any state co-operation would be (Continued on Page Sis) — > FOREST FIRES SWEEP W. MEX. CITY, New Mexico, May Another disastrous forest fire today is aweeping through the tm: bered district along Big Dry Creek sixty miles northwest of here, More than 5,000 acres have been burned over, according to reports re ed here. Hundreds of men are being into service to fight the blaze. The Black Na National forest he | under control att pressed fire in the Gila been brought burning 4,000 | | | EAST AND MIDWEST IN GRIP OF SEVERE COLD WAVE; BELOW FREEZING IN SEVERAL CITIES NEW YORK, May 25.—(By The Associated Press.)— and eastern sections of the United States on the heels of High wind, rain, hail and snow caused many Sunday wave has swept the midwest 25 GENEVA, May she was read} . ence agreement for the comp EAD) yr Sa Ba \—Penney?, |chemical and poison gas war Peaaii oe adifroinci ha G68 Germany's announcement est May weather in many | hardt at a meeting of the mil Snow and sleet were reported .from different parts of the state, Belle. | fonte, at the foothills of the Alle. | ''°! ghenies, reported two Inches of | Sider (Continued on Page Six) ‘Hation of the water's su caused by atmospheric pressure years the international conference for con proposal for t in aems, whict n Amer! insertion in the proposed convention Noblewoman’s Body Found in Thames River LONDON, May 25.—The body of a young woman found in the river Thames near Wapping today was identified by relatives as that of the Hon. Gwyneth Erica Morgan, daughter of Lord Tredegar? She disappeared about the middle of last December. Miss Morgan, who was slipped fromothe “house during 2 dense fog on the morning of Decem ber 11, She wore only pajamas and a woolen dressing gown. Detectives from Scotland Yard conducted most extensive search throughout England and the continent. Her father is one of the wealthies Bri tish peers and offered large sums for any news regarding her. Miss More: medical ipervi VOLSTEAD SAYS FLOW OF BEER under her had Hter was known to friends as a johemian” and many friends ih the artistic, | tlations that. will pl y after President | | acres { her ot indi mber, reports ‘received ‘y and theaterical world lo TEMPORARY Ontario Will Be Dry Eventually, Father Of Drys Says. GRANI "ALLS, (United Press.)\—The in Ontario is “only tistory, of Canada’s Hquor problem,” and the dominion ultimately will be “dry like the United States,” An. drew Volstead, father of the Ameri- can prohibition ‘act, declared in an interview with the United Press, “Canada will become convinced that limited sale of liquor is imprac. tical and St will pass a prohibition of the Canario Copper | jaw similar to ours,” the former con Minn flow M of Copper Firm Is Financed TUCSON, Ariz, May The | closing of gigantic financial nego ® $2,000,000 In the treasury Company, whose proper Nacozara, Sonora, last night. by ¢ ident of Camer man sald. was Shurtle hiel hag exists in local Ther fore bitior that prot the situation I now nada instanc pany Tuesor Within Batamoti mine o be blocking ore | and that when th a mill will be quickly a Volstead ¢ fore cities nt Amer! and counties repealed the consider aguin ban back on saloons | “It Is my belief that somethir | this kind wil] happen tn Cans five | after they have been tried and founc wanting, as the hert.” prohib ny can | voted village d then only to re The annus fonal Electric ass San Francisco 15 be the first that the as on the Pneific « nventt nt June n of the Nat xclation in to 19, will ation has in actmentr | jand putt WEEDELL RUSHES PREPARATION TO REMOVE SCOTT AND MORGAN County Attorney George A. Weedel) stated late this afternoon that his office was rushing the work on briefs detailing the charges to be filed in district court asking that County Commissioners Jack Scott and Guy Mor- gan be ousted for iliegal conduct in public office Mr. Weedell explained that the work of briefing the charges which are voluminous would require considerable time but that he hoped to have the charges ready for filing when Judge Bryant § mer, judge of the eighth judicial dis trict, returns Thurfdny or 1 from Lander ¥ he has holding court, a grand jury per and has all ter bef until he the f returns to Cas ts in the mat Cro ro him, Upon th | he will ce return of Judge Crow ith Pro: 4 riday nifer Joell and be of the audit Natrona Coun ton fred t tt over | late de wi Commissioners tt and Mo reiterated today their declaration of Sautrday that they would fight er proceedings. Judge Cromer the telephone deciined to m minents ¢ 8 san Taxpayers said that ghly familia associa he de Judge Cromer clopments befo mak the « ng any ane | staterients cor in mneerning calling of [a grand jur Uerojyer, 18S Ey sion, | a phase in the alling of | y Crilnnw INAL HOME DITIO Delitered by Car: Un Streets or rier 75 cents a month Newstands, 6 cents Publication Tribune Bidg., 214 Utfice: B. Second St STILL DOUBTFUL NO NEWS FROM GERMANY WOULD ABOLISH POIGON GAO AND CHEMICALS IN WARFARE “Is Solemnly Desirous of Eliminating the Use of Deadly Compounds, Delegate Says at Conference ’ —Germany announced today that to participate in any international confer- suppression of the use of ete fare. was mac itary and of au a ¢ | The con American difffeulties the subjec lavi pecial the | for wished to tion” to t eliminatin, are a 1 con Member; pplauded edt y the alc a |s | spec ence. | NEW 1} (United FT was near at huddk ting her fate, The jur m. Sat It was jurors. sto acquittal murdered father of gas the agenda and Italy have suggested that ghemical warfare problems. Herr Von Eckardt, ermany is solemnly desirous of |Girl Mother | Waits Verdict| Je by Herr Von Eck- 1 naval committee of se proh'biting the use cf mmittee in discussing the proposal is meeting with s in view of the fact that ct of poison gas is not on a of the conference. Jugo- conference purpose of be convened solving the stating that he make a “solemn declara- he meeting, sald: = the use of chemicals in nd would join an interna- ference for that purpose.” s of the committee loudly this utterance and it was} hat the committee will advisability of calling a hemical warfare corfer TAVEN, Conn _ ’ress}—Olympla. Marci, 18, u collapse tonight as she 1 over in the court room, for the jury, deliberating to report a verd{ct, 'y has been out since 10:22 urda reported at 9 a. m. the od 10 to 2 for Olympla’s of the charge that she John Bagnano, alleged her child. May PARTY IN FAR One oe NORTH; SITTER » WEATHER SEEN NEWBURYPOI —Harry A tion with Aida Heywar Mrs. Emma burning of their thrope, Maine today, nec t a M Opinions of Explorers and Aviators Differ; May Have Discovered Continent, is Theory Win When taken into cu at a boarding hou he was the man sought authorities but denied tion with the killing ward. He sald th: the woman's body be: anacook, near Winthr and moved it to the cot Jane Gr of Wat which he was oc no explanation of Kir! sald th Newburyport on a pullman Saturday r kept by Fr recognized y adm by Maine ny cofnec Iss He had found Lake Mar Maine of M 25. OSLO, Norway, May —A dispatch from Spitzber- gen to the Tipping Gazette says no news had been re- ceived regarding the Amund- sen polar flight expedition up to 2 o’clock this morning, The dispatch reads: at H ar, he rived Maine Satur He took a room @ a lodging Pond. Later n from pi published in Sunday newspapers and alled the police. When offi cers asked him if he was Kirby, the man replied immediat “That's me.”" Pond saig that Kirby had seemed polite and friendly and had panied the arrested Jection. Statement in} t nk I r tures Am e of the expedition’s steam- 1 to Wallman north and east wa Hobt no ¢ has haying Dan dit ret patr Island. yns diffiec The dispa Amundsen's bay added friend amount of depre Amundsen’s n their fly! members o there hat “amor was accom When y made no ob. he would mako a er explaining his m ments since last Tuesday night when Miss Heyward was carried away from her home after her aunt, Mrs, Emma M. Towns had been shot and the cottage set on fire Kirby said he was wi turn to Malne, for hear It was expected that deputy marshals would arrive today to take Kirby to Augus y to church any the expedition will have a long return ney. “The weather and dangerous jour- w cloudy with a raw h has drop- ing to re ae » captain of A Is- the Farm saw to the northward whe: sterdam nd- FATAL T0 TWO are voiced by explorers and rs here regarding the fate of nundsen-Ellsworth polar ex- The Norwegian explorer, VERSAILLES, Ky., © May an backer a (United Press}—A gas explosion here have not d tonight killed two persons and in- left ergen for jured twenty-five, several of whom airplanes last Thurs- are expected to dic. A building was wrecked by the blast and houses nearby rocked on thelr foundations A first ald call was sent to Lex. ington for doctor&fand ambulances. s might have descer tho pedition his Amerie companions from since they the pole in t day afternoon. Persons most familiar tain Amundsen and tion see nothing failure to ret hours as ort, hear with Cap- explore in his to his base planned Casper. at IDAnO- ON GRAINS APPROVED; CAL WASHI | Assoeiatec | rates of moving thern ided received state ¢ The o the effect found the they app! rth of Pre Ida per become 2 der the lustrative schedules n Idole At the j refused te Ing north Ing raters ducts n iahiab ne n ont Work on New increase. was BIG PIPE LINE JOB STARTED R.N.Van SantIs Awarded Contract for Hauling Materials; Project to Aid Emp The remair ter | to Casper. | Waltmar A route truction of this line as; PAGIFIG RATES. | ED | IFORNIA EXCL NGTON, May 25.—(F 1 Press).—Increases in grain and grain products northern Idaho t ports, sus cific last I November al of he appre he Inte mere | mmission has | of the iner the traffi including inquired Into * and has innot to r Portland | D'Alene from Cou Pértland nts oinds on wheat wilt | $ cents per 100 pounds un-| ‘The change i Il | { and result which the of the have generally >» points. same tine > allow the ern Idaho to advance exis grain and gral to Callforn r wv ilvoads on ing schedu as the The be now York Oil company’s 80-mile gas pipe line from the Sand Draw field, which will afford a season’s em- ployment for a considerable number of Wyoming residents, is proceeding rapidly. The line will be constructed to con- nect at Poison Spider with the company’s main gas line to Twenty-two carloads of pipe have been unloaded Moneta and twelve carloads have t Rivert Rossman, a pho Wain- Alaska, thought that Amund. thoroughness was’ responsible the delay ‘If he hag found a new continent he will bag {t so thoroughly that ne body will be able to question it, Rossman said Others feared a forced landing to either th, or landing rn sen’s for in. the planes or men, or accident in eith taking off for the re- It was pointed out, howeve that the expedition carried sufficient food for a month and that at the ex- piration of that time party should be in territory where it could kill north game. Rifles and ammunt- tion for this contingency were car- ried in the planes. Vernon 8. Prentice of Li 1 Ellsworth, believed tha Planes would land in Alaska. Mr, Prentice said he felt no con of the dela and that no word until t find ne some the loyment brother-in-law n be cause peta Amundser de ald pr ul ) 1} ex sures the resident nd industries ; is « ple of > Tribe e} yuld be given to | 4 R inity, the with the pipe line residents of Casper vther towns in the vi representatives of oth at Riverton and ¢ Zontinued un P: erton and and that company per, Six) been mad peditior Millan is were 1 Page Six) « Aid Pl edged | o For Teacher American Association of Science Will Enter Legal Battle in Tennessee Anti-Evolution Case DAYTON, Tenn., Ma; y The sociated Press.) The American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence has joined actively in the Tennessee evolution case, it was reported today, as a Rhea county grand jury assem- bled to determine whether John T should be indicted for violation of the state of e tlon In th science teacher, law which pro * facu had dofense Scopes, | the expert ad n ed I Page Seven.) nued on