Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 2

Py} oT Mi PAGE TWO EXHIBITS SENT FROM HERE TO) WYOMING FAR Natrona County Fruit and Vegetables to Be Among Best. Natrona county will fhake an ex: cellent in the-fruit and vegetable display which will crowd Agricultural hall on the Wyoming state fair grounds at Douglas this week. Products which will go into this county's exhibit were shipped to the state fair town yesterday by ight and M. rr y will go there this morning to arr e the booth in readiness to ts to best in the cc Indiv ber of twenty contr products this year and will not only a Natrona county in its efforts to carr off ribbons as a unit, but Will compete for individual prizes. The prod are largely from irrl- cording to the yen the eyes of to the agricultural this district. should Alcoya reclamation proj 10-MILE DIRT TRACK RECORD SET IN RACE ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 12.—(Unit- ed. Pre: =) ughdahl, veteran automo’ driver. broke all world’s records for ten miles on an Ie there today despite 1 handicap. His time oval dirt tri The ¢ in which six other cars were entered was won in the fast- est time ever recorded either against time or in competition on the type at the state fair grounds who lowered his own afternoon for three, four and five miles; all world’s rec , said the ten mile wind-up would be the last race of his career LIQUOR SEIZED SIX ARRESTED Ten cases of beer and a halt gal- lon of moonshine were selzed and six arrests were made at 257 West A street Saturday night when the police raided the place, Clarence Richardson was released on $200 bond after being charged with vio- lation of the liquor ordinance as pro- prietor of the establishment. John dams, Mike Mason, Jennie Mason, Minnie Collins, Lola Hill and C, C. Collins are charged with being in- mates. All were released on bond. Raiders found a quantity of beer West A street at 11 o'clock aturday night and arrested Jennie Smith as proprietress, She was .re- ed on $200 bond. Paul Schmud- ank Kelly and. Norman Simp- were arrested as inmate. and Kelly were each re- bond VOUTH CHUGH INDE CAVING RINK CRUSHED Hundreds Watch Futile , Rescue Efforts a . : P) in Chicago. M eee ch MCAGO). § 12 init cI \ eps 2.—(United RY pee art of Chicago's. west Mu strict. was, broken n as the lifeless form € i Th Zygiel was Pr nd t of clammy gray Oh a hat } c 1 ¥ im when a te |} k on wh h playing caved nd the pulse v from the t irrounded th ement Ais: dur up fron yunded n F 1 fat and sis ters | | OLVERE OTOAM! BROADSIDE |S FIRED AGAIN BY MITCHELL SAN AD Col wi ‘ONIO, Teéx., Sept. 12.— lonel m Mitchell, critic of the American-air service took an- other*fling at *the army and navy departments’ conduct of the service in a statement’ fssued' here today complimenting the heroic actions of thé crew of the PN-9-1 in escaping death onthe récent attempted flight to Hawaii. ea a Coupled with praise for the res- cued air meh; Mitchell charged “ad- ministration ineffieiency” was caus- ing the death list among air men to- mount to forty .per- cent» of sthe commissioned personnel of the army annually Distinguished. service medals should be awarded Commander John Rodgers and other crew members of the PN-9-1, Mitchell said, adding that “the sity, good judgment and al endurance of the thy of the highest | type manhood.” Mite ed td enlarge on his recent a ment of the war and navy departments, “Ihave had my | say. It's now up to the war depart- ment to do something about it, want action,” he declared. -———~.» ILLINOIS TOWN. LAID WASTE BY. We Million Dollar Damage Piled Up by Wind, RainandHail. LINCOLN, IIl., sapt..12.—(Unitea Press).-High winds accompanied by raf, “hail and lightning, . ripped through Lincoln early tonight, Property damage was estimated at $1,009,000. Several persons were injured by: wind-driven debris. ‘Two and seven:tenths. inches. of rain fel in one* hour. Deer creek and. Salt creek: weht out .of their banks; washing; away crops and flooding hasements «in the business district Railroad, elect and telephone Seryite.were, paralyzed temporarily, Hail stripped trees of their follage and beat) crops into-the ground on several farms ‘near Lincoln, Charles Shafer) reportdd -laijstones piled up a foot deem in the corn cribs on jis farm. , ~ * 3 —_ INFERENCE WITH GOVERNOR Negotiations — Looking Toward Strike End Are Expected. MILFORD, Pa., Sept. 12.—(United Press}— What promises to be the opening, step in the negotiations of the anthragite controversy was taken today when Major W. W. Inglis, chairman of the operators’ commit- tee held a two hour conference with Goyernor Gifford Pinchot at Gray Towers, the governor's summer man- sion, 9 Inglis and Pinchot nefused to di. vulge the nature of their conversa- on. The only clew given newspaper- men was remark by Major Inglis s was taken to mean that after Le n ed with.the gover. fternoon, Inglis will be inother confer at which both leaders will be present. CHEERS GREET NIRMEN HEROES is of the 3 Zontinued From Page One) dise ng this filght four months ago, I sald T would drop somewhere in the ocean and you would come along and pick me up and you did.’ forcing the law HONOLULU, 2—The sleep that a mariner of ancient poesy relief today still hn Rodgers and Da of-the Hawalian flight plane PN-9-1 in seclusion from rid that sought to pay them nround thelr rooms in the Pearl Harbor naval,bospital kept the curious away, for physiclans had de- creed that the men need “rest, quiet and no excitement” after their har rowing experiences for many idrift in their craft off these Is il thy cue and unable —hearing plans for thi to talk back and aid hei Plana to the rescuers for a municipal weleome men who came so near of fyir ‘oss the did _ complete | stuall by rigging sails to and drifting some 400 ithin 15 miles of Jand while sleep wrapped ful embrage. noring Rodgers and mis | ‘Surrenders Throne ~ Miss Ramona, Marcella Trees, = dela Winfield, Kansas, will surrender the crown of ‘‘Queen Petrolia’’ to another beauty after presiding over the International Petroleum Congress, | 1924, n Tulsa, Okla, A new queen is elected yearly, She has reigned since Kansas Boasts About Her Kansas now boasts of something For beauty it's hard to beat Miss Acklin Nésdyke, 18, 0 chosen as the most beautiful girl besides the finest <yheat'in the world. Wichita recently n the’ state. .She will ‘be “Princess Kansas" at the International Petroleum Exposition at Tulsa next. inonh. REMOVAL OF SHERIFF SCOTT HAZEN OF THERMOPOLIS WILL BE SOUGHT BY COUNTY BOARD THERMOPOLIS, 8 Acting on the suggestion of ¢ He Taylog Ross, that they take what steps they deemed advisable, the county commissioners met Thursday morning and adopted a resolution condemning the actions of Sheriff Hazen in not enforcing the Iaw, and haye instituted proceedings asking for his removal, The governor suggested the com: missioners take appropriate action after evidence had been submitted to her and a petition presented, ac: cusing the sheriff of failure ‘in en- ° Wyo., The removal proceedings have been instituted, and no doubt the case will be heard before Governor Ross, who has the power to remove an officer where evidence justifies. The resolution fets forth that “there {s and has been for scme time past violations of ‘the laws of, the Latest Modes In Dress Call For Painting CHICAGO, A 12.—(United Press)—That brush well as the need become a neces sary tool In the kit of the mod ern dresamuker. Leaders of the Vashion Art League of America tonight an- nounced painted costumes will be invogue this fall and winter Parallelograms, circles, rhom bolds, done in blue, pur and too are to be painted on frocks of wool, Voile and silk state of Wyoming and the United States, particularly the prohibition laws and the sheriff of Hot Springs county,, Scott Hazén, has not consist- ‘ently endeavored to apprehend thé Jaw violators, has incapacitated him- helf for the enforcement of sald Jaws and has violated his oath of office, ‘thereby subjecting himself. to. prose- cution.”* NAIL ROBBERS “UNDER ARREST BUFFALO, *N/$Y., Sept. 12.—1n one, grand sweep,’ postbffice inspec. tora alded by Buffalo dty and rail. road police tonight arrested a gang of men who are alleged during the last three years to have’ ldoted par- cel post mail at the postal transfer terminal here with losses that are reliably reported to aggregate $100,- 000, Eight men, all employed as laboverd in’ thie terminal, avere-taken, in the roundup. All are reported to have made confessions, Postal “auithoFittés (have Sheen try- ing. to trace’ the logsoe ever since the fall’ oP 16: Seana bikes Hers began to assume wholesale propor. ns. Simultargousiey withthe arrest of the elght “nien\ federal agents searched thelr homes in various parts of the city, They recovered much of the stolen, loot, they sald, JAIL the, prisoners. dre. young men | beewebn 4 30 Sars, of age. | OS ENAT Sa iain Tell the AMivertiser—"T saw it in The Tribune.” | PRESIDENT Che Casper Sunday Cribune LOEB AND LEOPOLD THRIVE ON PRISON LIFE. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1925 DESPITE CLAIMS VOICED BY PSYCHIATRISTS position. ment of the youths Would prove as severe an example as imposition of the death penalty would have done. But. it begins to appear that these two murderers can thrive on a pris- on. Ife as prison Ife goes in these days of modern methods. Leopold, on his first prison anni- versary, has. graduated from the work bench in the shoe factory. to which he was assigned when incar- cerated and now he is doing clert- cal work in the department.. As one 6f the favored prisoners, he has been moved from the old prison to the new model structure at State- ville—said to be the most pleasant penitentiary building In this country. Loeb, who had many convinced that he had gone crazy after he had gone into tantrums a while back, is (Continued From Page One) dent on the grounds that only two of the nine members were conver- sant with the techniegl aspects of the controversy. Besides Coffin, an expert in aeronautics and Durand, an engineer there were no experts included, it was pointed out, Appointment of such men as Mor- row, a banker, and Judge Denison with Senator Bingham and Repre- sentatives Swanson and Parker, was interpreted to mean that tl ings of the board wil! be in character and not conclusive on the technical questions involved. Since the president's letter to Da- vis and Wilbur said the nev board was ‘to supplement the spudies al- ready made by the war and navy departments” there is a general be- lef ‘that the new body will not up- set any of the technical findings of those official reports. WILBUR AND DAVIS REQUEST ACTION WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—(United Press)—Appolntment. of a committee’ of nine to study the development of aircraft in national defense was an- nounced by the White: House to- night. . The committee, appointed by President Coolidge at joint request of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and Acting Secretary of War Davis, has been asked to meet with the president at the White House Thursday morning, September 17, The committee expected to begin its study immediately and its report will be used for the information not only ot" the president, ‘but also by the incoming Congress. The personnel of the committee follows: retired, president of Radio Corpora, tion of America, New York city; Dwight W. Morrow, partner of J, P. Morgan & Co., New York; Howard, E, Coffin, aircraft engineer, Detroit, Mich; Senator Hiram Bingham, Cannecticut; Rear Admiral Frank-¥,) Fletcher, retired, Washington, D, C.; Representative James 8S, Parker, republican, New York, chairman house committee on -interstate and forelgn commerce, and Represent: ative Carl Vinson, democrat, Geo- rela, member house naval affairs committee; Judge Arthur C, Denison, Grand Rapids, Mich., judge of the Sixth circult court of appeals, and Dr, William F. Durand, Los An- xeles, president of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and a mem- ber of the national advisory com- mittee on aeronautics, The naming of the committee was made known tonight when the White House made public a letter which President Coolidge sent to Wilbur and Davis. The letter fol- lows: he White House, Sept. 12, 1925. “Gentlemen: Your joint letter stating that ‘for the purpose of making a study of the best means of developing and applying aircraft in’ national defense and to supple ment the studies already made by the war and navy dep.rtments on that subject, we respectfully suggest that you as commander-in-chief ‘of both army and navy appoint a board to further study and advise on this subject,’ has just been received. “Your suggestion {s one which al- ready had my approval so far that Jast spring I had conferred with parties as to the desirability of tak- ing such action so that a report might be Jald before me for my Infor, State Legion Of Colorado Elects Chief No Sign of Mental. Displayed by Pair Extended Clem- ency for Brutal Murder Major General James G. Harbord,’| BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 12.—(Unit- ed Press)—John B. Barnard, Pueblo attorney is tonight commander of the Colorado State American legion. Barnard was elected today at the closing session of the seventh annual state legoln convention. A. Sheridan Abel, Boulder attorney, only other nominee, withdrew from the race {n fayor of Barnard, declaring the Pueblo map well qualified for the position, Grand Junetion was chosen as the 1926 meeting place, Pan's Collapse or I nese By OWEN L. SCOTT (Copyright 1925 The Casper Tribune) CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—One year of prison and Loeb and Leopold, thrill killers, already find themselves in a favored When these precocious and pampered slayers of young Bobby Franks were spared from hanging and sent instead to prison for life, there were those who thought confine- now well. He has graduated into the straw boss class and with all his twenty years is bossing other prisoners engaged in cleaning the prison yard. He still is at the old penitentiary at Joliet. Neither of the young Killers, who once ranked as among the most bril- Mant of University of Chicago’ stu- dents, shows any strain of punish ment after the first year. Whether the coming years . will tell on them {s a different matter. Leopold is considered a model pris- oner and may expect favored treat- ment. Loeb does not fit in so well, but is receiving good care. Both of their minds are said to be function- ing in good shape, in spite of dire prediction of. psychiatrists a year ago, AIRCRAFT BOARD APPOINTED BY TOWORK OUT PLANS mation and also for the use of “the incoming congress. 3 “I am therefore asking the follow- vestigate next week but refused to reveal the nature of the clues ur the identity of the new witnesses. INVESTIGATION OF CRIME CONTINUES VINTON, Iowa, Sept. 12.—While the coroner's inquest was adjourned until Monday, County Coroner Mod. lin, Sheriff -Ruhl and State Agent Atkins did not relent in their in- vestigation of the murder of Mrs. C. B. Cook, Benton county president of the W. C. T. U. . Working on-the theory that the murderer might have been a; dope fiend, officials were closeted with three ‘boys all day. following cir- culation of a report that two of three local youths .were under the influence of narcotics the night of the murder. Coroner Modlin re- fused. to reveal the identity of the youths or -whether the inquiry might lead to the arrest of the mur- derer, Following the questioning a gen- eral order was. {ssued to arrest all drug addicts. Governor John Hammill to dered State Agent H. M. here to assist. Agent Atkins in checking. up on the story told by Clifford B. Cook, husband of the murdered woman, while. on the-wit- ness stand Friday. Modlin admitted he was not satisfied with the story told. by Cook and declared he would recall Cook to the stand again Man- day and.continue the questioning of him. Meanwhile Agents Atkins and Stoner .are checking Cook's mye- ments prior to and on the nish. of the murder. Cook told newspaper , men here this afternoon that while he was in Grundy Center the night his wife wag. murdered, two strange men drove up to the gasoline filling sta- tion and inquired the way to Vin- ton, He said he sensed “something odd" about their .appearance and behavior at the ‘timetand “became nervous,” . While no charges have,been placed against Cook, he is being, kept under constant surveillance over the week end. Subpoenas were issued tonight ing nameil gentlemen to meet me at the White House on Thursday next at 11 o’clock jn the forenoon when I shall suggest to them that they organize by selecting their own chairman and procee¢ immediately to a consideration of the problem involved so that they can report by the latter part of November. ‘(Signed CALVIN COOLIDGE.” The president then listed the names given above. To each member of the committee the president sent the following let. ter: ‘ “Enclosed {s a copy of a com- munication which you may have seen in the press. I request that you serve tn the capacity indicated and I would like you to meet me at the White House on, Thursday, Sep- tember 17 at 11 o'clock in the fore- noon and lunch with me at.1 o'clock, “I feel sure that your efforts, will regult {n bringing out. the~ good qualities of, the alr service, and -in suggesting what action can be taken for their improyement. ‘SCOFF-LANS’ OF COUNTRY. BUSY (Continued From Page One) sassinated by some “‘scoff-law” be; cause of her militantism against pro; hibition law violators, however, lacks material support, authorities now be- leve,. . ‘The long and secret coroyer’s in: Auest has gone over until Monday when» Mra. Cook's husband will bé questioned: further. Thus far he has merely, told-of his movements before: and at the:time of the murder, ex- plainifg that when his wife was Killed. he-was at Grundy Center, 40 miles from her, Coroner C. L. Modlin sald he had new clues'and new witnesses to in- FOR THE MAN WHO CARES THE FLORSHEIM SHOE ‘A good: time to decide what you think of Florsheims is six ‘months after you have_put them on. You'll ‘appreciate Florsheim quality-as long as you-have the-shoes. _Campbell-Johnson Co. ‘Head-to-Foot Clothiers for two other men said to have been intoxicated the night of the murder, pa eh Ea REP. CONNALLY SCORES CUT IN DEFENSE FUND : SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 12.— Promising his support in bringing about an investigation in congress of charges made by Colonel William Mitchell against officials of the war and navy departments concerning the administration of aviation affairs and at the same time scoring Presi- dent Coolidge for cutting down the army and navy appropriations, Con- Sressman Tom Connally of Marlin today addressed a joint meeting of reserve officers and members of thé erican Legion. CASPER GIVEN PROMINENCE I OIL MAGAZINE Stanolind Record of the Current Month Is _ Work of Art... The Casper edition of the Stano- lind Record is just off the press, copies of the issue having been re- ceived here. While stressing the Casper plant and the city of Casper the edition also gives a glimpse of other sections of the state including the wonders of Yellowstone Nation- al park, the Jackson Hole country and other séenic regions. Among the articles in the magazine this month are “The State of Opportu: nity’ by Cengressman Charles BD. Winter; “Wyoming, A Treasure Chest of America,” by Lloyd» G. .| Smith; “The Story of Wyoming Re finerles.” R. M, Andrus, plant mane ager, tnd " iding Oil in Wyoming” by Edward, L. Ds*aprook, until re- cently petroleum engineer . of!. the Midwest Refining compeny. The issue is repilate with. beaut! cuts depicing scenes throughout the state, y W. C. Vandergrift of, the Casper office nainted the cover design. The picture shows the xilling of buffalo by the Indians, the grossing of the plains by covered wakons; the gow: boy guarding “is herd and the sheep herder watching over his flock, while in the distance ore an. oll refinery and ” series of oil wells. Oo. C. Brewster, chairman of the special commitice formed to handle the Cusrer edition, had much to do with assembling and editing mater- jal for the book, Kills Catarrh Germ In Three Minutes. Chron{o catarrh, no matter how bad. and cases of bronchial asthma now yield instantly to the mi ge eed of a French scientist. ‘This drugiess method called Lavex kills the germ 1: three minutes, yet {s positively harm-i less tothe most delicate tissues. Your) head and lungs jeared like magic) Sufferers are relieved in a single night) To prove it and to introduce Lavez! to a million: sufferers in one month, I} offer to’ send a treatment ‘ani to any one who will write for v4 postpaid, lt No obligation. No vost. 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