Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1925, Page 1

The Circulation of The Tribune Is Greater Than Any Other Wyoming Newspaper ——————————— WEATHER | day. | VOL. {X NO. 251 Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight followed by mostly fair Tues- } Slightly cooler in east portion. | =~ Che Casper D MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED F°RSS CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, AUGOG2., SCOTT OUSTER EVIDENCE TO Ory 7 Weis Oar atly Crime ye ts or by Carrier 75 cents « month at Newstands, & cents FINAL HOME EDITI Publication Offices: Tribune Bide. BE CURTAILED 216 B. Second Bt Charges Based on Last Year’s Acts Barred by Court CASPER CIRL KILLEE SHOS!'ONI AUTO CRASH EAGITEMENT AT PARGO RUNNING HIGH ON EVE OF “OPEN HOUSE Finish of Airplane Race From Denver to Be Feature of Celebration Arranged as Formal Debut of Refining Town. BROWER GIRL I VICTIM, WOMAN ALSO INJURED Sunday Accidents Take Toll of 100 Lives in the Mid-West. Sunday auto accidents which claimed nearly 100 lives in 11 mid-western states exacted a toll in Wyoming with the instant death in a crash 17 miles east of Sho- shont of Deloma Brower, 15-year-old Casper High School girl whose home was at Tecumseh, Nebr. Mrs. Hs den Hill, also of Casper, and who was driving the car, was seriously injured and is confined to a hospital at Shoshoni, while Margaret, her 15-year-old daughter, escaped with milnor bruises. The ‘tragedy occurred when the automobile in which the three were enroute to Mrs. Hill's ranch near Riverton plunged from a bridge at the foot of a steep incline. The car landed upside down in the dry creek bed, the Brower girl belng crushed to death and Mrs. Hill being pinned under the machine. The injured were taken to Shoshont by Dr. B. L. Jewell after passing motorists had removed the body of the dead girl and released the others. Miss Brower was the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Peter Brower of Tecumseh but since almost a year ago had made her home with a brother, Richard Brower of 436 Figueroa street, Casper. Last year she attended high school here and expected to resume her studies this fall. A sister, Mrs. Carl Albin, lives in Casper, and ancther sister, Mrs. Crissey, formerly of Casper, lives at Rawlins. Mrs. Carl Albin is absent from the city ona visit in Illinois. The body will be taken to Tecum- seh, Nebr., for burial, !t was stated here today by relatives. In another Sunday accident Fred Cormack and a party of five nar- rowly escaped injuries when their atitomobile was side-swiped by a passing car and was forced from a bridge about a mile west of the city on the Alcova read. When it came to a stop the nose was pointed down at an grees In a highway injured. Another automobile last night when it telephone pole on West but no reports of injuries obtained. The telephone pole bowled over by the impact 8 of the car No one ame to grief d into a ellowstone ‘ould be was TOLL IN WEST NEAR 100 MARK. CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—{Assoclated Press.)—Ninety-eight deaths from automobile accidents were reported in 11 mid-western states last week, ‘Virtually the same number of fatal- itles as recorded for the previous week. The deaths were distributed by states as follows: Ohio, 27} Tlinols, 16; na, Michigan, 10; Missouri, Minne ta, 8; Kansas and ‘I'exas, 5 each India 9; wa and Kentucky, 2 cach. DENVER, Colo., Aug (Asso lated Press.)—Drownin: 1d auto: (Continued on Page Four) 4; j | Swift Punishment Will Be Lot of Daring Drake Hotel Robbers a SL hl | Swift punishment: awaits: surviving members-of :the bandit gang who staged the sensational DrakeHotel holdup in- Chicago. Jack Wilson, alias Jack Woods (left) and Joseph Holmes, already have been indicted on the charge of murder, and, police say, havc tonfessed, so that the way is clear for a quick trial. Gorgeous ¢ Princess rate the buttonholes of the Titans, each blossom perfect in but hundreds of times larger than natural flowers. PARCO, Wyo., Aug. 8.—Parco, marvel of the west as an oil refining center and the youngest of industrial cities of southern Wyoming, will be the mecca for thousands on August 6, 7 and 8 when open house is held by the Pro- ducers & Refiners corporation. The new hotel, one of the finest in the west and without a peer in appointments and attrac- tiveness, will be ready for occupancy ding a new addition rushed to pletion to assist in accommodat- ing a huge throng. Residents of Parco are preparing to throw open their homes to, the horde which will invade the city during the three-day celebration. Tents are being provided by Frank B. Kistler, chairman of the board of the Producers & Refiners corper- ation, so no one who comes to Parco will be without shelter. ‘Thousands of cots will he provided for the occasion, and every foot of available space will be occupled, the people of Parco being determined that not.one.single visitor shall leave with the feeling that he has not been amply entertained, or that his com- fort was not adequately insured be- fore his arrival. ‘The Union Pacific raflroad {s rush- ing work on its new $60,000 station there, the most unusual structure on the whole system’ of the big railroad which will harmonize with the Span- ish architecture of the rest of the} For do not entertain the idea that Parco {x an ordinary oll field “rag tov -it is anything else. ‘The whole city, built by the Producers & Refiners corporation, was laid out and built along a previously formed plan of development. Every struc- tare harmonizes with the general scheme, and Spanish architecture Parco is going to provide plenty of entertainment for her visitors. Mu- sic, dancing on one of the best floors in the Rocky Mountain area, vaudeville, athletic contests, tours of inspection of the properties of the Prodycers & Refiners. corporation— in fact, everythhig fir the amusement lne that the visitor may desire, The big event, ef course, will be the finish of The Denver-Parco sealed order airplane flight, to the winner of which Frank HB. Kistler will pre- sent a handsome silver loving cup, which even now is in the process of (Continued on Page Four) Blossoms To Set of f Wyoming at Tulsa Imagine a gigantic flower show of gorgeous blossoms, fit in size and beauty to deco- color, proportion and detail, That will be the effect achieved by the first Pageant of the Princesses at the International Petroleum Exposition and Con- \gress in Tulsa, October 1 to 10. It will be one of the most spectacular parades ever staged | at any festival, gorgeous from beginning to end, and it will be in this brilliant fashion | HOAX IS SEEN INCONFESSION CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—(By The As- sociated Press)—Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman, was notified today that the purported confession of John Gor- don, a prisoner at Wichita, Kansas, that he killed Joseph Maurer for. whose death Russell Scott was sen- tenced to hang in Chicago, was a hoax. Sheriff C. BE. Groves at Wich- ita, telegraphed that Gordon had re- tracted the statement, eet beh Gee ME BALL SCORES | lt ss Wyoming will bow to the thousands the oil capital: of the ne make initial hered 2 world But this is only part of the .back- ground of the Tribune's campaign for selection of Wyoming's princess. She will be honored at colorful func- tions with Tulsa’s finest homes as She will be paid honor nor, and at the same time settings. after } will be accorded every protection that she would enjoy at home. She 1 y chaperoned at all ne Tulsa beauty contest is not to confused with the “bathing beau- shows, where pulchritude alone nly girls of high char- a ible at Tulsa. Last representatives of various oll included mifllionaire's daugh fal has jurisdiction over the prohibition That is why the Tribune will re-|unit, signed the decree which strip. [peat it call for photographs of|ped the present enforcement head- (Ci quarters of its major powers. The inued on Page Four) Highway Robber Kills Three Denver Victims Gun Turned on Automobile Party When Holdup Is Disappointed at His Efforts to Get Valuables DENVER, Colo., Aug. 3.— (By Th City and county authorities today ar ounty for a triple murdere Ves late last night when he v Pb two couples of their valu tskirts of Denver, The dead: Mrs. Julia Stearns, 27, of Denver. Miss Marie MéCormick, 17, Mrs. Stearns’ sister, Fred Funkner, 19, of Denver. Miss McCormick died instantly when shot through the head. Mrs. Stearns and Funkner, also shot through thé head, died enroute to a hospital. \ fourth member of the party, Corl Perry, 25, of Denver, was shot through the left arm, e Associated Press.) ¢ combing Arapahoe Fs . hose: revolvensttion hess Perry said the holdup man leaped s foiled in an attempt to, sie running board of the machine ables on a boulevard on the | j) which they were riding and di- : (Continued on Page Four) row AUTHORITY OF U. S. DRY CHIEF TO BE REDUCED WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—(By The Associated Press.) —Dry enforcement today was ordered to be taken definite- ly out of the hands of Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes, who after September 1 will act only in an advisory capacity to Assistant Secretary Andrews of the treasury. Commissioner Blair of the internal revenue bureau, who order which has been fofecast, will carry out the treasury’s plans for a new lneup when the prohibition reorganization plan goes into effect the first of next month. Nearly ali of the duties of Mr, Haynes’ office will devolve upon the 22 prohibition administrators to be appointed and who will have head- quarters in various sections of the country. BOMB BLAST IN VESTIBULE OF BUILDING NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—(By The As- sociated Press)—Explosion of a bomb early today in the vestibule of a four-story building in Madison street, Brooklyn, partly wrecked the building and drove twenty-three ten- ants from their homes. Police believe the explosion may have resulted from labor troubles, AMERICAN LEAGUE. of Philadelphia 000 200 000 00—* Batteries; Faber, Connally and Schalk; Rommet, Harris and Coch- rane, At New York— RULE. Cleveland ~ 000 000 011-2 7 0 New York 201 000 OOx—3 11 1 Batteries: Buckeye and Myatt; Jones and Bengough, At Washington— big Detroit -.010 110—" * * Washington 100 000—* * * Batter y and Bassler; Coveleskie, J Ruel. At Boston— R. H. EB. St. Louis —..-- 007 000 005—12 17 1 Boston 010 030 000-4 5 5 Batterie Girard, VanGilder and Dixon; Ehmke and Stokes. ——— NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Chicago— RHE. Brooklyn ~ 000 200 020-4 6 0 Enters Race He wants to succeed “Iightin Bob!’ His name is James H. Me Gillan, he's an atto: of Green Bay Wiscosin, and he’s a candidate r the seat of the late Senator La- Follette, oo JURY LIST IN OUSTER CASE IS DIVULGED Jurors drawn for service in ouster proceedings against county commis- sioners Jack Scott and Guy T. Mor- gan were made public today in con- nection with the opening of hearing In district court. The list of 150 ven iremen follows {n full: Williams, Judd, 1244 South Box Elder, Hansen, G., Box 228. Wenner, George W., 812 South Walnut. Wade, Wortis, 102 North Kenwood. Jallo, Albert, 315 South Kimball, Latwon, J. P., Powder River. Gaston, Otto L., 1047 South Kinley, (Continued on Page Four) Me- TRIAL OPENS IN DISTRICT COURT TODAY Defense Contention That. Defendant Is Not Liable for Acts Committed Under Former Term Upheld by Judge Illsley in Ruling This Afternoon Charges of misconduct and malfeas ance in office based on alleged illegal acts committed in 1924 were struck from the petition seeking the removal of Jack Scott as county commissioner at the opening in district court here today of ouster proceedings instituted by "s the county a ttorne) office. Upholding the contention of defense counsel that charges relating to conduct of the fendant moves the Court that all of commissioners, office in 1924 came|the allegations in the State's peti- under another term of office insofar| tion which were alleged to have been as the defendant was concerned,| committed during the year of 1924, Judge Harry P. Ulsley of Sundance, |and during the defendant's previous judge of the seventh judicial dis-|term of office stricken from the trict, handed down a decision at 1:30| State's petition.” this afternoon that eliminates from] Deputy County Attorney Lincoln the hearing all alleged infractions] 17, Sennett re athe. detatee. ne: except those under which the de-| tion in a forcible argument and with fendant 1s accused since he took the|a prepared brief, contending that the oath of office again on January 1. | office continuous’ and that the Attorney W. H. Patten, counsel] mere formality of taking oath again for the defendant, entered his mo-| did not excuse tho defendant from tion into the record shortly after | alleged of malfeasance com court convened by setting forth that| mitted during a former term “J. E. Scott makes this motion to| ‘The ruling of Judge Illsley means srike all of the allegations in the|that the prosecution will be limited State's petition ,which are alleged] to evidence of alleged transgressions to have*been committed during the Year 1924, for the reason that this defendant's term of office ax County Commissioner expired in the fore part of January 1935 and this de- fendant is now serving a separater distinct and different term of office than the one in which the purported acts as alleged in the State's petition were purported to have been com- mitted, the same being during the year 1924, and that the term of his office as County Commissioner e pired in the forepart of uary, 1925, and all of the acts alleged and purported to have been committed, in the State's petition, were com- mitted during a previous term of office and not in this term; and for the further reason, that all of the allegations contained in the State's peltion are purported to have been committed during the year of 1924, and during this defendant's previous term of office, which office has ex- pired; and for the further reason, Chicago ~ 200 301 10x—7 14 0 Battertc ubbell and Taylor; Blake and Churry, Gonzales. At St. Louis— New York St. Louis Batteries: Greenfleld and Gowdy; Haines and O'Farrell. At Cincinnati— R.H.E. Boston -....--.000 003 000—3 7 1 Cincinnati 000 100 000—1 5 2 Batteries: Cooney and Helmer; May and Hargrave. At Pittsburgh (2nd game)—K. H. E, Philadelphia 000 002 000 v6—2 9 0 Pittsburgh ..000 001 100 01—3 11 0 tteries: Couch and Wilson; Aldridge and Smith, At Pittsburgh (Ist gamei—R, Vhiladelphia <..008 900 200— Pittsburgh 020 010 00x—3 6 1 Batteries: Carlson and Henline; Yde and Gooch, of the law since January 1 of this year in presentation of its’ case against Commissioner Scott. The same rule will not apply to Commissioner Guy M Patfendant with Scott in tho ou organ, joint iter proceedings, whose trial will follow that of the chairman of the rd Morgan was a holdover member of the board at the time of the Inst induction of new members and evi- dence based on acts of jast year will be admissible. One hundred and fifty veniremen, with the exception of a few who could not be reached, reported for jury service promptly at 9 o'clock this morning to Judge Illsley, who is presiding at the trial in place of Judge Bryant 8. Cromer of the eighth district, against whom claims of prejudice were defendan hung out courtroom, The 8. arly dvan R. ¢ ced by the = ». sign was at the door of the which held a capacity crowd of interested spectators, that, if all the acts alleged to have| The morning on was taken up been committed during the year 1924| largely with uments on the mo- they do not state facts sufficient to | tion of the defense, vigorous protests constitute a cause of action against| being entered by the prosecution the defendant. Wherefore this de-| With the conclusion of arguments a re clared until 11 o'clock while Illsley retired to his contest At 11 o k another re INJECTED INTO | Judge I SCOTT HEARING: 2%: ree elected in 1924 for the office which he took in 192 Sanity Hearing for Condemned Slayer | so 'rrt'or sicrnee som i A “That ng true,” the judge con Finds New Term for Legal and tinued,” te motion will be granted ‘or the reason that, view this Scientific Arguments removal of in horriesea and in the first section provides that every co: officer ull be re CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—(By The Associated Press.) —A |™0v°" * 7 She Duteme new term, “cell shock,” will be put into American legal and Sheree: Bae 1 he hatte scientific vocabularies if the sanity hearing beginning to-| thereunder aubhatt: day before Judge Joseph B. David saves Russell Scott from | ‘*@ th? .©° : d that the gallows. pense cee Pre pean OUR ERe TAY yeeiii i : é yall ike i misconduct or malfea e of offic gsceCalisshocl’ dsstheter m, Scotts attorneys have used to (Continued on Page Eight) i suffered since his conviction ten MOH » for t 3 m Mier of Toeagh S Maure a drug clerk | twenty witnesses, including 15 lay-| men and 5 allenists, | The defense presented a st “] O e e nine allenists and a dozen lay wit: | nesses |} ‘ Jacob Maurer, father of the 19 n l l e l d year old boy for whose murder Scott was convicted, was in court. ‘Thomas Scott, father of the. pris- oner, entered with the defense law- yers and took a seat in the press section Judge Davies excluded a large crowd from the court room during | the selection of the jury. Scott was brought in as the first panel was drawn, The court advised the ven-| fremen that the only question at {sue in the heargng was Scott's sanity, pie calecediretiieewe ST. LOUIS MAN DEAD FALL CITY, Neb., N CRASH ug. 3.—(By Mrs. Ernest Louis was in- husband was The Associated Press’ 3 of St. und her Beeh, pect this afternoon, the robbers hav: « probably injured when thetr| automobile overturned on the King of Trails Highway, four miles north of here, early today. ing covered up thetr tracks com pletely, Discovery of the robbery was m bat $208 Sunday and the sher ! Payment on the chee $200 in Cash and Checks Worthless to Thieves Secured by Drilling Safe of Continental Oil Company . Sheriff's officers today were searching for clues to the identity of safe robbers who Saturday night entered the Continental Oil company warehouse at Old Lavoye, drilled the combination from a safe and escaped with approximate- ly $200 in cash and $250 in checks. was stopped. No arrests, it was understood, were in pros- was notified shortly after 10 after word of the steal had t to ¢ She depu hast ; on the TD)