Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1925, Page 1

™ WEATHER The Circulation of The Tribune Is Greater Than Any Other Wyoming Newspaper. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday, slightly warmer day. Wedn es- VOL. [X NO. 258 - The Caz CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, AUGUS1 1, per D MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS (do ive ) ue0;8y H "ec: On Streets or at datly Crihiare Fog Dalivered by Carrier 75 cents a month Newstands, 6 cents INAL HOME Publication Offices: Tribune Bide. 216 BL Second St st SIMMONS PLEADS INNOCENCE AT EXECUTION BLAZES BREAK OUT BY SCORES INNOWTHWEST Hundreds of Men Turn Out to Battle Con- flagrations. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 10.— (Associated Press.) —Scores of forest fires in the Pacific northwest, which have burned over more than 30,000 acres of timber and stump land, continued burning today despite the efforts of over 1,500 men fo bring them under control, A fire near Scappoose, Oregon, had burned over a total in exce 15,090 acres of logged-off land, it v estimated early today, but the fire's progréss was then at a standstill. This fire also destroyed much val- uable logging equipment, including a railroad trestle and an entire log ging camp. Seven hundred acres were burned over by a fire on Green Mountain in Oregon. The plant of @ paper com- pany in the district was saved from destruction only after-a strenuous fight. ‘A saw mill was burned at ‘Trails, Oregon, but the fire which destroyed fe was reported under contro! today. Wight other fires in the same Tegion were also reported under control. Two serious ffes resulted from lightning, one at Butte, Falls, Ore- gon, and one at Moon Prairie. Com- mercial Timber in the Crater Lake National forest was threatened by them. Twenty-one fires were reported in Crater Lake National forest, 16 of them being en government land and five on state land. Planes, trying to patrol the forest area, were forced to land because of inability to get above the smoke. piles St og R. C. CATHER IS PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER Idenf of the R, C. Cather, vice rp Wyoming Trust ¢ ed president of the of Comm: an Casper Chamber meeting of the board of directors held this afternoon at chamber headquarters. Mr. Cath er, who is also president of the ¢ per Kiwanis club, succeeds R. € Ellison, vice president of the Mid- west Refining company, who served the chamber in an executive capa- city during the last year. At the meeting today, W. F. Wil- kerson was made first vice president, W. 0. Wilson, second vice president, and P. C, was elected treasure The following with the new offi- cers comprise the hoard of directors: M. A, Becklinger, Warl William Cobb, Sam Conwell, R. S. Ellison, J. W. Johnson, W. S. Kim- bal}, Patrick J. O'Connor, Carl Shu- maker and T. C. Tonkin. The board decided to hold month- ly meetings during the coming year instead of weekly and to issue a monthly bulletin to keep all mem- bers posted on activities of the cham- ber. at a Calla —| committee, Fifty-two buildings were destroy ings burned included the railway age was estimated at $200,000. -boun o e than ‘cd when fire swept the new stations, both hotels and m When a Town Went Up in Siioke il town of Liberty, tio do: Lander Legion zation will seele to carry out, the former service men found satisfac- tion in reports of high standing"as a department in point of member- ship gain, and also in praise of their success in putting over their share of the legion endowment fund cam- paign. Wyoming, {t was announced, will march {n an honor position near the head of the parade that will fea. ture the convention in Omaha this year. The address of Commander Drain was received en thusiastically, the legion chieftain being accorded an ovation, ‘ Of interest to the hundreds of vet erans whose compensation claims have not recelyed attention was the adoption by the convention of a reso- lution urging the appointment of a full-time service man to be connec! ed with the United States Veteran: bureau at Casper to assist in hand. national ling compensation claims. Out ‘of 700 such applications filed in Wyo- ming, it was stated, only 610 have received compensation. The program of the convention, which opened yesterday morning. in- cluded an address of welcome b; May rlow of Lander, a re sponse by Harry B. Henderson, Jr., of Cheye department comman- 1 Adr today. by Attor ne of Lande of r F x the address Wy James Fene onal vice president of the an Legion Auxiliary, featured sions of this department and was warmly applauded. Today's session of the legion was tak up the com lutions drafted by a the election of state offi- cers and delegates to the national convention at Omaha and the sel tion of next year's convention city in Wyoming. Charles H. Relmerth of Casper was a candid for de partment commander, Casper delegate who had r 3 to the convention sistered last night in cluded R, M. Boeke, Miss Mary Me e, Dr. C. H. Carpenter. William Wehrli, Willlam 8B. Cobb, | Nick Dwor A. H, Beach, D. LaBreeh« . R. Fleming, A, Allen, Rt. H Allenbaught, EB. TH. Foster, Dr. C. y. Dencan, T. J. McKeon, C. Ro Me Shane, R. H. Nichols, D. W. Yate Merrill, Reimerth, Alex McCafferty and Albert HM. FIFTEEN HELD FOR KLAN RIOT White-Robed Host ‘Attacked in Meeting jin Massachusetts; Five Wounded. . FRAMINGHAM, Mass,, Aug, 11.— (By ‘The Associated Press)—Sixty of the 75 men taken into custody last night after a Ku Klux Klan meeting had broken up in a shooting affray in which five men were wounded, were released today. The other 15 were held in $200 bail for appearance August 19 on charges of assault with dangerous weapons. Twenty four of the men were ar- raigned after the others had been dismissed without hearing, Nine titers. wore of evidence. One of these Libby upon meeting was held, [twas in Libl house that the kian¢men took shel- ter, when declared, stones were thrown \t them by watchers dismissed for Jack held was Perley W. farm the klan Tex. zen business stri FOREST FIRESSTATE POPULATION ON INCREASE FIXED AT. 206,381 The build- ‘uctures, Dam- Convention of Nearing Close LANDER, Wyo., Aug. 11.—Delegates to the American vention will leave for their homes tonight and tomorrow warmed by progress made in the state during the last year and determined to e hung up by Wyoming posts and the department in general. their honored guest National Commander James A. Drain, who addressed a joint meet- ing of the Legion and Auxiliary delegations on the program which the national organi- | ee Natrona county representatives retained by them as and officials and tax of the Midwest Refining Company are leaving for Cheyenne today to appear before the Wyom ing State Board of Equalization to- morrow in the hearing on the Mid experts west Refining Company's protest against iner valuation of its holdin na county for tax purposes x operty was in. everal million dollars by the board on? findings of its tax | aid under A complete program, arranged by “Miss Emilie Skarre di- rector of athletics for girls in the Casper High school and an expert swimmer, will be carried out dur- ing the three days. Special groups will witness demonstrations and re- ceive instruction at stated hours and on two occasions public demonstra- tions will be given by ptain Kant. well with lectures. No charge will be made for any of the work out. Uned or for the demonstrations, as organized ips Will include the clty firemerpolicemen, boy and girl along the roa% State troopers round. ed up 45 mun in the Bibby house, y 22 more fn the barn and eight others | and beginn« in the bushes surrounding the bulld-| win beginneis ings. + scouts and ol Those reeetving Instructior 1. oppor: tunity to 4 emblems chance to buttons, ‘These will be awarded on the basis cf profi. 5 commissioners, now being | Those who will take up the work |- Legion’s report ell all agents, although erty wa in by the company Commissioners Morgan will present at the hear ne postponed to August 12 after being} the motion for revocat scheduled for August 7. The Mid Ma ceteaaribesait kaweina Mina then west and Standard probably will be = 4 cube aa oy represented by J, B. Barnes of the ceater-tather wher. the) sUCromAaty @ decision was announced. ‘Tho girl dagal department; Mark ©. Danford | {i owed little emotion nd Dan Beers of the tax depart: |” ment; R. M. Andrus, plant: manager Apparently abandoning her efforts | and bly H. C. E hnetder, | a convent, Mary returned | vice-president of the Midwe m torla when she | AED GROSS LIFE-SAIING-EXPEAT OBTAINED FOR DEMONSTRATIONS': Three-Day Program Outlined for Next Week To Include Free Public Demonstrations and Instruction for Organized Units department, con-| 5: s of marked ; past records In addition to having as} > omitted prop: found in schedules turned 1 ing Opportunity for the study of life-saving work and first the direction of an expert will be,afforded the |’ Casper public and organized groups here next week with Burwell and be among those which was | Census Count, CHEYENNE, W. yo., Aug. 1920, with assessors of the state in com PENNSYLVANIA CRUDE PRICES CUT 25 CENTS PITTSBURGH, Pa., Associated Press)—A reduction of 25 cents a barrel in the price of Seven grades of Pennsylvania crude oll ted by the principal pur- chasin: jes today. The new prices Per Aug. 11.—(By 8 pe lvania grade in New York } nes and Bradford District ! in National Transit Lines Pennsylvania grade in Nation- ‘ Suthwest Pennsyl a I Pennsylvania | va ; grade in Eureka and Natrona County Entitled to as Many Legislators as Next Two Highest in total population of 206,381, as compared with 194,402 in according to the compilation of the returns made | Secretary of State Frank E. Lucas by vision enacted by the Eighteenth Wyoming state legis- lature, providing for a state census, Totals Reveal. 11.—Wyoming now has a| the county | pliance with a statutory pro- | Natrona county showed the most decided gain in population of all the other counties in Wyoming, the tr. crease being from 14,635 in 1920, to| 25,101 in 1925, about 21,000 increase. | The population of Natrona couyty is now nearly twice that of the next | highest in the state—Laramie coun: | ty, in which Cheyenne is situated. Reapportionment of legislators on the basis of the new census by the next legislature will more than double the number representing Na trona county, due to an increase in population of more than 100 per cent since the st federal censu: was taken in 192 asper’s population, including the | city proper and its environs is ap- proximately 25,000, the census for in corporated sections of the city | amounting to more than 23,000. The success of the state census 1 doubted by many. as it is believed | that the present law that provides suckeye lings, » in National ; and Gaines Transit lines, $3. Other grades were unc! nged. ADOPTION OF HEIRESS VOID Tax Protest Hearing Near xy 2W YORK, Aug, 11 millionaire Surrogate Voble of Queens c The age issue was the or ‘Attorney Newcombe who entered waited in the crowded the square outside from an early this morning to witness the final act in the “Cinderella ro mance. Assoct today brief uted Press) continue capliaiiz dopted dau; rd W. Browning, millionaire 1 estate operator, by writing h for gyndicate publication, iwhile proceedings were s led in the surrogate's cour tica*for annulment of her adoption, }on the ground of fraud. Mr. Brown charges that she duped him into clieving that she was only 16, where: 8s written records show her to be 31 Mary yerlence as Loulse was assailed by Dis the arrival of Field Captain Kantwell of the American Red t Attorney Newcombe of Queen FH | = Cross, in charge of the life saving and first aid work of the | county Me aha Pin ders idl Lead un Count organization in this district, with headquarters at St. Louis. i ie MUGTADCEN: to dbiaith bene ane | is dep: ent of Red Cross ac-, ciency in trials following in jon | " At 4 Of 43 C ) | 7 uxury regardle everything else > Gicsbe Gs chctiad cattwpltnt ee viet and Senionsltalton. by. Kantwollhy. | px UCCreEscaies o€ everything alse) ounties | - to stimulating interest among all| Plans outlined t for the visit} money—of trying to get something organized groups in life-saving work, | of Kantwell include talks before the | for nothing.” | WASHINGTON, Au 1.—(B: { the unrestricted use of the Mills | !4ons club on August 19 and before] ‘The Bohemian girl also was term:|-rye Ageociated Press Cs By . he Kiwanians on August 20 a fr , r, ¢. |The Associated Press)—The senate plunge has been donated for the|¢ ns on ie ed a fraud by I Joseph F. C. Lu- | committee recounting the ba Mots of | demonstrations to be held here on| Red Cross lifesaving service was) han, friend of Browning, who WAS] jagt years senatorial contest in Iowa | August 18, 19 and 20. | (Continued on Fege Six) {Continued on Page Seven) CARS IN CRASH, DRIVER SOUGHT Police are scare today, for the driver of a heavy touring car whieh struck and overturned a at. the Walnut 10:30 nd 11:00 Ja cording to Thor Proached from the street kt a high rat« intersection ptreets, sor fi Yellow Cab, driven by Ben Thomas, of Second and retime between ap: ith on Wolcott of speed, struck evening. the car the cab falvly 1 the center, and top: pled it to the pavement, The driver of the touring car nev: er pped, but tinued North on street. Thomas was scratch y flying glass, but hi Ine ere mot ¢ serious © noce trip to the Police out © clew ide f driver who failed top or to report the acct dent, Annulment in Browning Case Author- | iced in Gotham Court; Spas Girl to Capitalize Brief Reign. -—(Associated Press.) —The adoption of Mary Louise Spas by Edward W. Browning, real estate operator was annulled today by girl had misrepresented her age. for county assessors to underake the census enumeration in the state adds too muctr to the duties of the asses- Continued on» Page Seven) county on the ground that the | nly one presented by District Girl Swimmer | Exhausted by || Channel Try || nee, iaed Press).—Mi. n of Argentina, who was taken from the water in a state of collaps¢ last night when eight miles Off Do ver, the while attempting to swim across nglish Channel, suffered a re- after reaching her home at s-Nez today. The doctors said idition was not serious, but that she would require absolute rest for some weeks, Miss Harrison this afternoon ap: peared to be far from well, and a doctor was summoned. Her father asserted he desires to have the ad vice of a physician as to whether it would be prudent for her to mak a further effort to wi e channel Brookheart in completed Kossuth ‘county — tods bringing the number of counties co: pleted in which paper ballots were cast to 43, The recount, including only uncontested votes showed Steck, democrat 164,131;” Brookhart, republican 164,344 Italian Flier In Queensland Queensland, Aug. 11, —(Associated Press). — Commander BRISBAN 1 ci Democrats Split Over; Mayoralty in New York City « A split is developing in Demo-| cratic forces in New York City’ as a result of Tammany Hall's action in naming James J. Walk- er (above), state senator, to op- pose John J. Hylan, encumbent, in the party mayoralty ‘primar- fes."@ Many strong leaders are backing Hylan for a third term. i BALL SCORES NATIONAL L) At Pittsburgh— AGUE R.H. New York.... 100— 4 11 Pittsburgh - 05*— 7 10 Batteries—Dean, Visner and Sny- Kremer, Mort At Chicago— Boston on and Gooch, -- 321 003— * 00 000— * nton an Gibson; Bush, Keen and Gonza uis—P hill post por At | Loyis: game St. I delphia—St. At Cincinnati— Brooklyn 100 100 000— pati 1U 130 00*— 7 Batteries—Brown and Marg Donohue and” bi v seasebiotaintieh = AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York— R. HL Chicago 023 020 710—15 19 2 New York 100 001 O90— 2 10 Batteries—Blankenshif & Schalk, Grabowski; Hoyt, Marquis, Fergu son, Johnson and Schang At Washington— RIE Cleveland 100 000-—* * * Washington ool on2—* * * Batteries — Buckay and Myatt; Coveleskie and Ruel, At Boston— RM. 000 000 H0— O FT I O10 000 00°. 1 4 0 jes — Collins, Wells and Woodall; Ruffing and Pieinich, At Philade!phia— R. HL E. St. Louis 000 001 KO1— 2% 7 1 Vhiladelphia 000 021 00"— 3 f 1 Batteries—Van Gilder and Hare grave; Rommel and Cochrane 2 aie ea SHINGTON Restoration of ee Mansion, seized by union Robert F Lee red war department at a MAN CONVICTED PAL CRIME SENT TO DEATH This MORNING Innocense Maintained to Last by Alleged Slayer Convicted of Brutal | Killing. | ‘Tal - , \ | LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 11. — (Associated Pr Walter Ray Simmons, for- mer Montana cowboy and deputy sheriff, was electro- cuted at the state prison here today for the slaying of Frank Pahl, Spencer, Nebraska, garage man current which ended sim- life was sent Into his body nt 7:05 a, m., and was turned off at 7:10 a, m | ‘The doctor | dead short! ess.) — The mons’ pronounced Simmons after. Simmons left a last letter with his sister, Mrs. Emily Bateman of | Pampey’s Pillar, Montana, addressed to his son, Walter Ray Simmons, Jr., saying hoe was leaving $500 in | to be used for his son's Simmor s up at the regular time and had a breakfast of pine- apple, oranges, coffee, bacon, toast, eggs and potatoes. At 6 a, m, the death warrant was read to the condemned man by Wa den Fenton of the Prison. A final stater@nt was made by Sinitions to his attorney for the pub- le. It follows: “There is but a few moments left that there is a hereafter, and that if I were leaving the world with a lie on my tongue I wouldn't have the chance I have if I tell the truth; and realizing that as I do, and bellevin that to be true, the thing I can is that I am inr am dying against an. one mo and I ask for it as much as po A few minutes before the execution the former cowboy called reporters to his ¥ell and thanked them for the shown, When asked it, Simmons replied. “All without cracking.” maintained his outward nt. ay prejudice is forgiven by ness in place of without all courtesy he wa how r Ig Simmons calm to the Inst and sat with the utmost composure as he was being strapped into the death chair. In marked contrast to the long fight of Simmor and his attorneys | for life, the execution was brief, Doe- tors pronounced the slayer dead at 12 a. m, Simmons requested last night that he be buried {n Omaha. The body will be taken there today, The ath in the tric chair of Walter 1 1 led an ad | Fra death in Boyd cour i ern Nebraska, ¥ 1 19; In his ears mmons Was cow- , baseball player, deputy “sheriff fina alles yotlegger. Most of his lif us mt in his native Montana, where a wife, now divorced and remarried 1 a four-year-old n live, Nea n Ballentine, live | his aged parents. His mother, an in- 1, ne rh Finding of low gray un¢ furror in northern Nebrask ull. was crushed and his new auto mobile and $480 missing. A coroner's y called robbery the mc ons W ed at norfolk hort! registered under n alla Taken to St r, the suspect was threatened with mob action and rushed to the penitentiary here un- til the jury trial which resulted in vidence shows (Continued on Page Four) his death sentence. I Million-Dollar Loss Up on Coast; On | De Pinedo, the Italian aviator, who attempting a filght from Italy to Japan by way of Australia, has ar- rived at Innesfail, {mn Northern Queensland from Townsville, This leg of his fight was about 159 miles, FREAK STORMS SPREAD HAVOC in Oil Fire Marked e Town Wrecked. BAKERSFIELD, Cal.; Aug. 11.— | reservolr grade oil at Coal (By The Associated Press)—Freakish |ing Kin causing damage and wholly local, rain, thunder and | estimate s of $1,000,000 }ightning set a new record for unus-|This constituted the most serious ual weather In this clty today. More | dar of the storm t «8 inch of rain fell within a] I an ill,wind the blows no spa of 40 minutes and the light-/t thun ning and thunder were seve No | der storm crop damage resulted from the dust | by is storm which raged jn the northern | measure ich he part of the country duly grateful The stitking by lighting of the} For nearly thre s Miers ha¢ Shell Oil company's 750,000 bédrr (Continued o Four)