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—— WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder Thursday generally fair. Guread on VOL. X NO. 68 HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES DISARMAMENT FUND © UYZES ATLANTIC SHIPPING Evelyn Thaw Survives Poison Attempt, Glad She Will Only One More River to Cross HEAVY FOG Confession of Osage Murder Blast Is Made Leavenworth Convict Says Ranchman Promised Him $5,000 to Plant Nitro Under Home but Failed to Pay OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 6.—(#)—Confession by Bert Lawson that W. K. Hale hired him to blow up the home of E. W. Smith, resulting in the death of Smith, his Indian wife and a servant girl, marked the latest develop- ment in the mystery surrounding the deaths of 17 persons oe ee Lawson, a convict at the federal penitentiary # Leavenworth, Ka Hale and Ernest Burkhart, Hale are charged with the mur- A. Bloyed, ‘ormer deputy sheriff apd acting jailer of Osag county, is being sought. Lawson, who was brought to Okla homa terday, told Roy Lewis, United States district attorney, that Hale promised him 09 to plant nitro-glycerine under the Smith home but later refused to pay him the PLAN DEFEATED s that when he as in the Osage aoe At a joint meeting of the North to his cell the night of March} qocner ‘Christian and the Winter he was wanted) sromor Presbyterian congrega- peter AGM engl Pay memb of the Christian Jail in whieh | church voted against entering into id Hale} « two-year federation with the Pres- on, drove to The Presbyterians favored art where plans which would have byterians. the federation home of the crime were revealed and) ostaplished a Federated Community Lawson given a jug*of nittoglyeer:| church in North Casper for a trial her paraphernatia for the ve period of two The Rev. Q, Stout, pastor at large for the Christian denomina- tion, and Rev. G. L. Clark, synodical executive of Wyoming for the Pres- byt ns, spoke at the meeting. During the absence of the Smith Lawson said he p'anted the e in the basement of the da long fuse to a dark ot in alley. When the Smiths| They urged caution and pointed out returned Lawsoif touched off the|that other denominations would fuse and all the way to the Burk-| surely start up in North Casper if home when he and Hale lis-| these two churches should federate. for the explosion. Hale then}, Negotiations for the federation for the two churches which have been | carried op for several months are now ended, but the desire of closer co-operation will still continue and w will be found to put that de- sire into action. drove him hurriedly to the jail where he was returned to his cell by Bl ed, the confersion states. A dispatch from Guthrie published in the Tulsa Tribune yesterday said Hale would offer a “perfect al- The story said that Hale would so ulm that he was in Camel, Texas. the night of the explosion and thaS4 CASPER NIGHT SCHOOL he signed for a telegram. Both jai's at Guthrie are filled by TERM TN OPEN MONDAY the influx of prisoners from the Leavenworth prison and the Okla- homa and Kansas state penitentiar: jes who may have stories to tell in connection with the Osage deaths}, The Casper night school will en- and other crimes. Guards have been] ter on its second term Monday eve- strongly increased and all precau-| ning. Classes will be held from 7 tlons taken to prevent any disturb-|t- 9 o'clock Monday and Thursday ance. Hotels are also filled to ca-| nights. Several courses offered at pacity by witnesses and other at-| the previous term will be repeated tendants at the hearings. Invest!-|and others will carry advanced gators and leading witnesres are ac-| work companied by guards whenever they — appear on the streets. With the sudden advent of many the visitors, Guthrie has taken on wees] LEG TONY IN FALL ON [GY ORWEWAY AT HOME tate government. ee SERGEANT IS S) ENCED. A fracture of the leg just above thy ankle was incurred this morn- ing by C. E. Hoffhine, proprietor of CHEY EB, Wyo., Jan, 6,—Ser geant Casmire Gromza was sen t: . Hoffhine Printing and Stationery company. Mr. Hoffhine was walking tenced to serve 11 months in the Laramie county jail by Judge Wil- on the driveway at his home, 1335 South Beech street, when the ice Mam A. Riner Tuesday in district caused him to fall, 1 during the seat of court after the defendant plead guil- ty to the commisson of an un-nat- ural erme. The defendant was se- verely reprimanded by Judge Riner before sentence was passed. ‘CASPER AUTO SHOW SET FOR FEBRUARY 15 TO 18 MEETING AT DEALERS’ Committees ‘Appointed Tuesday Night to Have Charge of Plans; Luncheon Fete Will Be Feature lhe annual Casper Automobile show will be held Feb- ruary 15 to 18, inclusive, at the Arkeon Dancing Academy, according to plans made at a meeting of the Casper Auto- motive Dealers association Tuesday night at the Mountain States Power company hall. The show will be held shortly after the Denver show, which fs set “or February 2 to 6, !n-| Denver and also entertainment fea- clusive, and because of this, Casper | tures, -. Che Casp pr Daily MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1926 % aN > fey, e S 43) NW “s All Railroad and Street Traffic in East Harassed by Blanket Darkness NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—(?) —tThe central and north At- lantic seacoast has had a real taste of a London “pea soup” fog. Shipping in an area from Charleston, S. C., as far north as Boston has been partially paralyzed for the past 36 hours, while normal street and railroad traffic in cities like New York and Boston has been impeded seriously. Passenger steamers out of Norfolk yesterday were delayed from two to twelve hours and with few excep- tions freighters sought safe anchor- age until the heavy fog cleared, In New York a fine rain added to the fog’s low visibility and for five hours traffic was snarled and de- layed A collision of two freight trains in the Bronx tied up the New York Central trunk tracks for -several hours. Outgoing through trains were held up and crowding the tracks for twelve miles. Ferry service was dis- organized and ocean vessels crept slowly into quarantine, in. many cases late. No deaths were reported. In Boston the blanket of fog made the city as dark as night and street lights were lit most of the day. Meteorologists explained that an envelope of warm air over the earth's cold surface accounted for the fog. wots es ea a, FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL FOR BAD GHECK ARTIST RIVERTO: Wryo., Jan. 6. — ¥F. Bayard Hubbard has been sentenced to four months tn jail for writing bad checks. Hubbard passed checks in Worland, Thermopolis and Sho- shoni while having no funds tn the banks on which they were drawn. ——> GAS RAISED AT CHEYENNE. CHEYEN> Wyo., Jan. 6.— An increase of one cent per gallon was made effective Monday in the retail price of gasoline in Cheyenne. The increase brings’ the cost of gasoline to 22% cents in Cheyenne now, in- cluding the two and one-half cents state gasoline sales tax. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 6. —@)—Irving Berlin and his society bride, the former Ellin MacKay, are honeymooning in the ocean front suite where the jazz composer strug- gled with the muses in producing many of his famous songs. They were discovered at the coast resort yesterday notwithstanding efforts to semain in s°*ulsion after their sudden wedding Monday. Mean- while, they are waiting wistfully for dealers will be in a position to ob-| Joe E. Mansfield, president of the tain many excellent displays fromlassociation, appolnte® committees the blessing of Clarence H. MacKay, president of the Postal Telegraph company and the bride's father, who at Tuesday’s meeting to prepare for the show. The general committee 1 composed of C, West, chairma: Carney Peterson and R. N. Van Sant. The hall committee consists of “Red” Gilman and J, H. Leslie. This committee will have the work of obtaining the hall and of alllot- Ung position on the floor for din- plays. W. F, Wilkerson, president of the Wyoming Automotive company, urged that the association sponsor a luncheon during the course of the show, and that a prominent auto- mobile man be invited to deliver an | The association approved | plan, and Mr, Man‘tleld ap- pointed P, C. Loveland of the Casper Supply, company; Jack Nolan and (Continued on Page Hight) WHERE BERLIN WORKED had made it known that he will neliher “forgive nor forget.” Saturday they will board the Le viathan, taking the $5,000 presiden Ual suite, and will leave for an ex tended honeymoon abroad, ‘Their stewart will be Robert Sweetlove. He spelled his name out carefully yes terday in New York with the infor- mation that he thought it very ap- propriate. The suite consists of a bedroom, sitting room and parlor and was de signed for the kaiser. ‘ The bride has disclosed that at two hours’ notice she married the man who achieved fame and success from a humble beginning as a Bow ery singer-waiter. Berlin was about to leave for Bu- rope for a two’ months’ trip and the dreary prospect of being like the girl in his own song, “All Alone,” made Miss MacKay say “yes,” when he telephoned her to ask her to (Continued on Page Eight) ‘special levies which will h Crthune Delivereo bY Carrie: On Streets or at COUNTY BUDGET APPROVED SONG WRITER AND BRIDE BILL AND COO IN SUITE No Changes Made mitted Tuesday; M Show Scott-Morgan Claims Allowed The general budget and and poor and pauper funds meeting of the board of county commissioners Tuesday | were approved by the board the day’s session. er departments appropriations which are directly responsible to the commissioners, do not include to be made for the Natrona Memorial hos- pital, Natrona county public brary, and other institutns which make out thelr own budget subject only to approval of the commissioners, hey It was reveled at the reading of the minutes of a meeting of December 4, that an amendment to the minutes of November 5, had been passed to the effect that claims for $22,500 presented by J. ott and Dr. G. T. Morgan, members, had been audited approved and allowed. Commiraioner Earle G. Burwell ob. jected to the reference that he was present at the time the amendment was passed, and also objected to the special We learn to vote by voting. And we learn how to succeed and profit by using Classified Ads. We learn arithmetic by blunder in and blunder out but at last we get it. We learn to write by scrawling. We learn to swim by going into the water. The general budget is for $ the mother pension and poor and pauper for $48,000. GOOG NieT, We BEEN \ | WAITING FIVE} i YEARS NOW ] FOR IT TO ' GQ COWN in Proposals Sub- inutes Amended to the one for mother pensions which were submitted at the just before the conclusion of | ,500 and |} The | amendment as such, The claims are for expenses declared to have been incurred by and Morgan in defending themselves against charges of malfeananco in office. Their ef- fort to collect was temporarily frus- trated when an injunct as Is sued to restrain them tlon has not yet been made TWO POLIGEMEN RESIGN POSITIONS ON FORCE I, McDowell, formerly desk ant, and Patrolman William Russell resigned from the Casper police force Tuesday. They had been retained by the new adminis tration, Clarence Bénson is one of the old men who have been retained, poetical? wid GO GALLONS OF WHISKY SEIZED BY SHERIFF | Sixty gallons of moonshine was | Seized this week by the sheriff's ¢ 16 cents & montr Newarandn ® canter Live Life Is “Promising and Hopeful,” She Tells Doctor CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—(/P) —Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, un- successful in her attempt to kill herself by drinking poi- son after a prolonged New] Year’s party, is glad she will not die, “Life looked hopeless. Now it looks promising and colorful,” she told Dr. E, Thomas Brand, her phy- sician, who thinks she will recover. The alcohol in the liquors she had been drinking for several days was ® natural antidote for the poison she used. “I took the stuff,” she sald, after recovering consciousness, “because I was ‘blue.’ I thought life had given me more of its rough edges than I deserved. It wa§ only on an !m- pulse that I took poison.” Glad, too, that she will not dle ts Russell, her 5-year-old son, poured olive ofl and milk down her throat as antidotes after she drained the poison bottle. He left the hos- pital last night after physicians as- sured him his mother was out of danger, but cautioned him against seeing her for a day. Beyond her statement Brand, no motive was ass' the suicide attempt, which was her second. Russell and Gussie. Accoos, | her'mat!d, both denied that there had been a party in the apartment before she took the polson. The maid ad. mitted that the divorced wife of! Harry K, Thaw, had been drinking | heavily since New Year's and had returned home Monday with a bro- ken nose. Friends, recalling that she no longer appeared as a singer In a south side cabaret, thought of fman- celal troubles, But from Pittsburgh came dispatches to Chicago papers quoting Harry Thaw as saying he was sending her $10 a day and had sent $310 December 31. QUAKE FELT ALONG RHINE LONDON, Jan. 6.—(P)—An earth- quake shock caused many people living along the Rhine to awake from sleep early today and rush out of their houses to open spaces, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Cologne. The shock was felt generally throughout western Germany and even in Hamburg. No damage was repagted. EVOLUTION ISSUE UP IN | MISSISSIPPI (Py JACKSON, Miss., Jan, 6. The evolution issue was thrown into the Mississippi legislature today when Representative Robinson of Itawamba county introduced house bill number 19 to prohibit the teach- ing of the theory of evolution in the schools and colleges of Missis sipp! supported in whole or In part by state appropriation The bill is almost a replica of the Tennessee law and provides a fine who | § Pubiication IENhoe frinnne Ride *)f BM Secona st MEMBERS ARE UNANIMOUS FOR PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCE Committee of Senate Kills Proposal for Official Probe of For- eign Policy Lobby. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. —(#)—The house foreign affairs committee today unanimously reported a reso- lution to authorize expendi- ture of $50,000 for Amer can participation in the prepar disarmament conference at ( The committee rejected an ar ment to instruct the gates to prese: for consider of outlawing nations that of aggression As reported the resolution the appropriation is made in com- Pliance with the request of President Coolidge. The committee debated - guage of the resolution at length. Representative Burton, republican, Ohio, said he was informed soviet Russia would not attend a confer- ence at Geneva because of strained relations between Moscow and the government He suggested making no reference to the meeting place, so the American delegates would not be prevented from attend- ing the coference if held elsewhere. tory neva. American ution calling dvisability the Ia This proposal was dropped with out av after Representative Eaton, republican, New Jersey, said he could see no reason wh th United States should join with the soviet ernment in dictating where the conference shovld be. ‘The-proposal to outlaw war was made by Representative Fish, publican, New York. It read hat the president be requested to instruct the American representa- tives to endeavor to place upon the agenda of the conference a resolu- tion requesting consideration of ef- fective means of outlawing a nation waging a war of aggression,” The New York member said the resolution was in line with one adopted by the American Legion at its Omaha convention. Chairman Porter and Representative Temp of Pennsylvania, ranking republican both opposed it. “If we go into the question of what {s to be consid ered,” sald Mr. Porter, “we would have to prepare for the conference for monthr."* The committee adopted a proposal by Representative Moore, democrat Virginia, to make the resoultion pro: vide for “participation” in the pre Uminary conference, and not to “collaboration”. re *EED “PROPAGANDA” PROBE VOTED DOWN. WASHINGTON, Jan, 6—UP)—By a vote of 54 to 16 the senate today refused to order an investigation of propaganda in favor of the world court and the foreign debt settle ments. BROOKHART RAISES RECOUNT PROTEST. Jan. 6 (P)—Ob rities in the handling of of from $100 to $500 for violation of its provisions, of irre the ballots J. G. Mitchell, counsel for & tor Brookhart declared there were 47 @ontested ballots unacoounted for and that ballots from 67 precincts had been received in unsealed mail sa and opportunit had be given for tampering with then: He added, however, that there was no suge n regularities supervisor, BE. F-. SCOUTS’ The fist executive cx el, Bo; sess! Pres! plan meeting of the ney mmitte outs of America was in fice of definite partment. It was in two separate caches, the owner fn neither case being know Thirty gallons w: found Tuesday tn a ant house the renr of 827 West RB stre Thirty gallons was found the nigh before in a house on Industrial avenue, submitte line of the PLANS FOR NEW YEAR ARE OUTLINED Committees Appointed and Other Steps Taken at Meeting This Morning of Executive Committee » com 1ed on Page Seven)