Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1926, Page 1

WEAIHER Fair tonigst and Thursday except }southeast portion tonight. yor. % NO, 78 RN raat juhsettled northwest portion; colder Che Casp Member of Audit Bureau of Circuiation. ARTIN DURKIN, CHICAGO SLAYER. CAPTURED MINE BIL". _ MILLED BB. Te l ONORED AGAIN AT CONVENTION OF OIL LEADERS Election. to Directorate of Petroleum Institute Is. Announced From Los Angeles. ; B. B. Brooks of Casper, former governor of Wyo- ming, was elected a director of the American Petroleum Institute late yesterday at ghe annual convention being eld at Los Angeles. Mr. Brooks rmerly held a similar position on e directorate, and is now in Los ngeles attending®the convention. he former governor Is president of jhe Consolidated Royalty Oil com- ny with large interests in Salt Pee: and other fields and was also The first president of the Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Producers asso- elation R. S. Ellison, vice president of the Midwest Refining company; A. W. P director in the same com- som. W. L. Connelly of the Mam- moth Of] company, and George Jac- ques of the Midwest equipment de- partment are among the Casper oll > men In-attendance at the canvention. Elections to the board of directors follow: Mark L. Requa, San Francisco: B. B. Brooks, Casper, Wyo.; J. D. Collett, Fort Worth, Texas: J. Ed- gar Pew, New York; W. C, Frank- Iin, Tulsa, Okla.; Frank’ Phillips, New York; J. C. Donnell, Findley, Ohio; E. W. Clark, Los Angeles; T. A. Dines, Denver; P. M Miskell, of Tulsa. Okla.; F. A. Plelsticker, Eldo- do: Charles L. Suhr, Oil City, Pa . T. Wilson, Denver; H. B. Ear- hart, Detroit: A. P. Coombs., Cleve land; H. B. Felton, New York: A. B. McBeth, Los Angeles; D. EB. Buch- ‘ anan, Tulsa, Okla.; 2. L, Doheney, s Angeles; H. L. Pratt, New York; . F. Lucey, Dallas; E. C. Lufkin, New York: T. A. O'Donnell, Los An- geles: William N. Davis, New. York; E. B. Reeseh, New York; A. Sin clair, New York; G. S. Davidson, Pittsburgh: J. W. Vandyke, Phila- elphia: Henry L. Doherty, New York; George H. Jones, New York; ‘W. E. Pratt, Houston, Texas. eee ANNUAL MEETING OF NATRONA RED CROSS SCHEDULED THURSDAY The annual meeting of the Natro- na Count. Chapter of the American Red Cross will be held at 8 o'clock Thursday evening in the rooms of Nie assovtated charities in the Dr. George Smith building 242 Bast Sec ond street. Officers for the ensuing BR Sear witl be elected at that time Any persons Interested In Red Cross work he n urged to attend a © SEVEN TURKS ’ ARE HANGED Ja { i q 20.— ()—Seven Turks were ed in the public square of Angora yester- day for having participated in the recent reactionary movement. Twen- ty-one Turks have been executed during the past fortnight Heads Aluminum Industry Probe William J. Donovan, above, assistant U, S. attorney general, has been entrusted with the gov- ernment’s probe of the alleged “aluminum trust.” He has al- ready been criticized by some government officials because of shis method of handling the case. CARDINAL NEAR DEATH URGES CHURCH UNION Old Spirit Retained by Mercier as Life Ebbs. BRUSSELS, Jan. 20.—With life slowly ebbing and calmly awaiting the end, Cardinal Mercier still re- tains the spirit to do which gave him world-wide fame, when Germans in- vaded Belgium and throughout the world war, The aged prelate is seeking to bring about a union of the Roman and Anglican churches, a task he has been engaged in and praying for since the end of the war. Yesterday, despite the contrary. desires of hic physician, the Cardinal discussed during a goodjy’ portion of the after- noon with Abbe Portal, a missionary priest of Paris, the prospects for the success for the Union Brother Hubert, the cardinal's faithful attendant, says the patient is heartened and happy in his euf- : considering that he is under- ing the ordéals which Christ suf. red. When awake the primate leep reflection or pray out Belgium masses are and prayers offered that restored to health Passengers To Be Carried By Air to Coast SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 20—(®) —The direct daily air’ service be- tween this city and Los Angeles as is announced to begin April 1, is to include “passenger traffic at a rate comparable to present rail rates” in addition to mail and express. he may The departures from each term! nal to be at a convenient morn- ing hour with arrivals scheduled for mid-afternoon. The service will bring the two cities 20 hours closer to each other, additional aafety is added by the ertablishment of an intermedi- ate station at. Las Vegas, Nevada. The announcements were made by ajor C. C. Moseley of the Western Air Express. Hous’ ee Votes Down Proposal for State Control to Bring End of Distress in Great Strike Region HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 20.—(#)—Administration measures for control of anthracite mining now before the Pennsylvania legislature were virtually killed by the house committee on mines and mining today. The committee voted to “postpone indefinitely” action on the bill to make anthracite a public utility and to re- port with a “negative recommenda- tion” that providing for state com- pacts. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 20.—() —While legislation for contro? of an- thraclte mining awaited action of committees today, additional reports of hunger and distress, . rivation and bankruptcy, as a result of the hard coal strike were recelved from the coal regions, A crowd of 100 persons demand- ing fodd stormed the Shamokin chamber of commerce relief station yesterday. The doors had to be lock- ed and the police called twice to quiet the hungry men, women and chil- dren. Four hundred families are be- Ing cared for by the relief station and hundreds by other charitab!e or- ganizations. Funds of the relief bod- fes are rapidly being depleted and public appeals probably will be made shortly unless the strike is settled. Relief work on a large scale is being conducted at Mount Carmel, Centralia, Ashland, Shenandoah, Gir. ardville and Mahanoy City. Hotels and merchants at Scranton and Wilkes Barre report a serious business depression. Two Wilkes Barre hotels have closed thelr main dining rooms and merchants say that traveling men have almost ceased to come to the coal belt. Not! only the miners are idle, but hundreds of street and railroad employes, store clerks, waiters and others have been thrown Into idleness by the mine sus- pension. Meanwhile, John L. Lewls, presi- dent of the United Mine Workers and Major W. W. Inglis, chairman of the anthracite operators’ negot!- ating committee continue to lay the blame for the continuance of the strike at the door of each other. esse Alo Citizens Urged To Vote as They Drink by Solon NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 20.— (P)—It the citizens of the United States would ,‘vote as they drink and drink as they vote” the present prohibition situation would be re- Neved siderably in the opinion of United States Attorney Emory R. Buckner, of New York, expressed in an interview with the Yale Daily News. STATE ENGINEERS WILL PROVIDE. TREAT FOR FRIDAY GATHERING The Wyoming Engineering society, be In charge of the following officers which will begin its sessions for a three-day meeting in Casper, Friday morning, January 22, has made a slight change in its program. Be- cause of the general Interest to the public in the state highway situation in Wyoming, the paper which was to have been delivered Saturday morn ing by J. F. Seiler, bridge engineer for the state highway department and editor of the department's publi- cation, “Wyoming Roads" will be given on Friday noon instead of at & luncheon to be héld in the main dining room af the Townsend hotel which will be at a joint meeting of all of the city service clubs, the Ro tary, Kiwanis, Lions, Cosmopolitan, and Professional Women’s the Casper Chamber of Com! Mr be “The Hi ming: Past Problems The program at this meeting will eller's Situation in Wyo: rogress and P; pnt sub Children Have Big Time On Coasting Hill For the first time this year the Fifth street hill was closed so that the children of the city might use it for coasting Tuesday night and scores of juveniles took advan of the treat. The hill was to be closed again this afternoon by the time that the school day was completed. Several children have been injured this winter by coasting on streets which were open to cations _ 2s WRECKED. AUTO BLAZES / DRIVER ESCAPES INJURY Dick Leferink, local aviator, tricated “imself from his overturned automobile on the Salt Creek high: Way Tuesday night just it burst into flame. Leferink was driv: 4 ing to the oil field and had reached @ curve this side of Nine Mile lake when the lights of the r went out. Unable to see his way. Leferink tmissed the road, and the machine ex before turned down a bank, landing bottom side up. The driver was able to get out of the machine without suffering in- fury but a short time later he saw a blue flame shoot out from the radiator, The fire spread and he was forced to withdraw. Several explosions followed, which he be Nieves were the bursting of tiree. Leferink, seeing that it was tm: posstble to save the machine, came into Casper on a truck driven by J, P, Batley, James Mulvaney, a driver for the Hlenn Davis Trucking company, saw the car still burning a little later, and Coroner Lew M. Gay «vas called y the Standard Filling station, it ing thought that someone was pinned beneath the machine. When the coroner orrived the flames had died out. It was not learned until today to whom the machine belonged. of the Wyoming Engineering society: President, Z. B. Sevison; vice presi dent, Elmer K. Nelson; secretary- treasurer, J. Q. Naret. At this meet:ng other distinguish- 1 visitors and speakers of the so clety will be called on for short talks, Dean Hay of the state univer- sity, Frank C. Emerson, state engi- neer, and other prominent members. A cordial invitation is extended to anyone else, not members of the service clubs or Chamber of Com- merce, who may be Interested Mr. Seiler is an entertaining speak- er and as nearly every resident of is interested in its high. ways, will be amply repaid who| attend, The engineers have made , this ige in their program feeling t er on this subject is of general > Interest and if given before the service clubs, etc., would reach more people than if given at the so- clety’s meeting. THREE KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE MIAMI, Fla., |. 20.—(P)—Three men are dead, one white and two ne- groes and at t 15 Injured, some fatally, after a dynamite explosion in Coral Gables, six miles southwest of” Miam!, early. today. Rock pit er Daily MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1926 Delivered by Carrier 15 Cents a Week On Streets or at Newstands & Cents MA FERGUSON PROUD OF HER RECORD AT END OF FIRST YEAR Prison Reform Pointed Out as One of Major Accomplishments as Texas Executive. AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 20.— (#)—Feminine leaderships in Texas government wound up an eventful year today, with Governor Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson pointing to her pardon record and her dissolu- tion of the prison system de James FE. Ferguson, declined today to comment on her political future. Reviewing her year in office, Mrs. Ferguson said she considered her clemency to numerous “friendless and penniless” convicts one of the most commendable phases of her Administration thus far, The other she regarded as her feat in putting the prison system on a cash basis She compared the 11,000 bales of Cotton produced by prison farms this season with 7,000 produced last season, despite a loss of 1,000 bales Davis Opposes lane Equality n U. S. Service Land and Sea Armaments Still Superior to Air Equipment, Secretary Main- tains in Hearing Testimony WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(#)—The war department today officially reiterated for the third time within a year its opposition to the proposal to give the airplane co-equal status with land and sea armaments. ' Secretary Dav appearing before the house military committee, summed up the position of the department on ui Public Tribune BI FUGITIVE AUN INTO OFFICER AT oT. LOUIS JOURNEY EAS Nation-Wide Search Is Brought to Close in Arrest of Man Who Tried Suicide Ruse. ST. LOUIS, Jan. Martin d " N ! 20.—(P) no Called to give his own and the de the question thu “Our answer is Women Killed | By Overdoses partment's views on a bill to create a department of national defense, the secretary said he agi with the findings of the president's air board and quoted the following paregraph Tare, Fecguson, who. wes inauc| SORES TPO Of Anaesthetic Mrs, Ferguson, who was inau-| ,,. surated Jan , 1925, after elec-| ._ “We ao not ah Soe tion of an platform .whigh fast ey Ba nonal. Getenae, ‘et also sought “vindication” of her im: | Comprising the ee hae LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 20,— peached husband, former Governor] °F 88 comprising thre @—The district attorney expect- departments of army, navy ‘and afr, ed to question a druggist at. the The disadvantages outweigh the ad-) jog Angeles general hospital. to- VanAaeS day regarding the death Monday The fecretary’s testimony dupll- of two women at that institution and the serious illness of a third as a result of the alleged adminis- tration of overdoses of a local anaesthetle Although ‘he women died Mon their deaths did not become cated to a large extent his views as set forth before the air board and also those expre: by his prede- Secretar: before the house alrcraft of the last congress cessor, in the current season“because of wet weather. Mr. Davis said his opposition to| wiblicly known until yesterday be- the proposed department resulted] cause of the admitted efforts of from a careful analysis of the re-| hospital officiala to keep the mat- ports of numerous investigating| ter secret becauye they feared the boards 1 committees and of “‘opin-} public would lose confidence in the place, They sald a druggist in administering the anaesthetics (Continued on Page Seven) as chancellor with Gustave portfolio of foreign minister. resigned early last month after the signing of the Locarno pacts tn Lon don, and efforts to form a new cab- inet had been under way since then, Von Hindenburg summoned a dozen reichstag leaders to the exec: utive mansion yesterday and told them that partisan chincanery and political barter must cease, He tn- timated plainly that the situation required either the seting up of a dictatorship or the formation of a parliamentary government. “These sorry exhibitions of per- ennial government crises must cease, as th dition of the father. land more than demands con str ve work told them Lenders of the dle parties are alleged to have been looking after party fences for the last six weeks instead of facilitating Von Hinden- burg’s attempts to construct a gov- workmen were riding to work tn a truck when a quantity of dynamite aboard the truck exploded. ties, he is declared parliamentarians presen ference in the German w one of th at the con- ite house, Natrona County? Casper? 1 19: ‘yoming in 1025? nswered in the KNOWLEDGES POWER. Who was the first homesteader in the United St: 7 Who was the first homesteader in Wyoming? CABINET Threat of Dictatorship Brings Reich- stag Parties to Time and Crisis in Government Is Averted BERLIN, Jan. 20.—(?)—In preference to a dictatorship threatened by President Von Hindenburg, the leaders of the parties in the reichstag have formed a cabinet. Dr. Hans Luther again will head the new government TAXREDUCTION jy; :ccr cx How many acres of irrigated land are under cultivation in How many Chinamen and how many Japs are residents of When was the first gold mined in W: yoming? How many tons of sugar beets were produced in Wyoming How many barrels of oil were produced and refined in These and thousands of other important questions will be 'ribune-Herald’'s which will be issued Sunday, January 81. | Arrange to send copies to the folks back home. ann industrial edition Lt et | used three times the amount used ordinarily. The dead are: Mrs Evangeline Laneve and Mra Anita Vasquez. ‘The name-ot the tomar who was dangerously poisoned, but did not dle waa not given out. She ts expected to re- cover. The coroner's jury has ordered an Investigatio — PLEAMADE FOR GIANT AiRGHIP WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(P)— Dirigibles of the type of the wrecked Shenandoah, have a definite place as Stresemann holding his old The former Luther ministry te scouts in a complete navy, Com- fo Haye: talked to us like a Dutch} ander Ralph’D. Weyerbacher, chiet be Aiginsesuneeteiiincnleaiceats The new ministry will confront a hostile reichstag, as {it commands only 171 of the 493 votes. It ts con- sidered therefore that it will alter. nately seek he induigence of the powerful German nationalists and tory at Philadelphia, today told the house naval committee, Testifying In favor of a bill to ex- pend $5,000,000 to replace the Shen- andoah, with a ship three times its socialist groups. It will pledge itselt | “#0, he wald that hugo alr liners to strict fulfillment of Germany's| Would serve mon Mearanr iether obligations as laid down, in the ' an’ Bt Dawes plan and adhesion to the for. » denied, in answering a antag ret ribed in the Lo-| tion, that five airplanes could 3 i: a dirigible all to pleces,’ explal. that dt In Colorado I BILL REPORTED AEA a A UE cael Halted Today méet with numerous internal and a Coa foreign problems with which Ger-| DENVER, Jan. 20,—U)— many ts Coufronted — All activity of the state highway de Three hours after the political WASHINGTO: Jan. 20.—() —] partment was stopped at 9 o'clock leaders had retired from the pres-| The tax reduction bill was formally | this morning by executive order of ence of the president, Dr, Luther | presented to the senate today by its| Major L. D. Blauvelt, state highway made public the personnel of a cabl-! finance committee engineer, acting upon advice of the net which will be put before the Chairman Smoot, however, had’|| state’ hichway advisory board now reichstng tomorrow. not completed the report on the com It Includes three former premiers, | promise measure worked out by the of activity of the high Biuther, Atresemann and Dr.’ Wil:licommittee and he sald he would not| way department is fending a de helm Marx, who holds the fustice| ask the senate to take up the bill} sion by the state supreme court portfollo, before Monday which will untangle the present con There are three newcomers, Wil If a definite agreement has been] “cts between t of the hi helm’ Kgels, Anterior: Peter Relt:| reached by then for a vote on the| department, avd Governor C Bold, lnanes( and Julius Curttesil world oourt, the chairman hag eaid|J, Morley over thelr respect! economics. he would hold up the bill until that} powers in connection with the de In President Von Hindenbure’s| time partment, and {ts expenditure first encounter with practical poll- Durkin, ( sought in hicago murderer, n a na- tion-wide arrest ed by department of justice agents here today upon his arrival from San Antonio. Durkin admitted his {de revolvers were drawing room. fed by a woman Durkin, who 1s wanted for murders of a favactment of justice operative, a pol an and a ctvil jan, Was overpowered before identity by ke use of his r was made virtual! omparison with photogr riptions. des The woman arrested with him, an attractive blond said she 8 Miss Irma 18, of Cor said she had (®)—Martin J. ae fu justice who recently shot out of a police trap in Chi Passed through Los Angeles than a week ago, and was arrested hutlgter.rolezse@in Pecos, Texas. ‘This Yhformation wa: letter written by Lucien C. chief agent of the justice in. southern Sheriff William I contained in a Wheeler, ot department Califcrnia, Traeger, snt Wheeler expressed the be Nef that Durkin would double bacl: to Los Angeles and warned sheriff to be on the lookout for hi The man belleved to be Durkin tr company with a woman, was stopped by the sheriff of Pecos. He gav his name as Fred ¢ and s he was a Los Angeles deputy sheriff and a Holiywood motion pleture actor. He was released, The < plates on the automobile driven bs the supposed fugitive corresponded with those on wood a week a car stolen in Holly SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 20.— (#)—Search for Martin Durkin, Chi- a lier, wag instituted here to- y by two deputy sheriffs on orders from the department of justice, despite stories from Denver that the gunman was belle be in Colorado ‘Conservation Of Gas Is Issue In Arkansas Court In th nit I Inst fining company. ‘The oring to pr against the blowing of natural ga The state 1s contending that there is a law in effe Arkansas against the blowin ofl wells by natural gas and that natural gas {1 the oll fields will t r The case is fining comp: firms—the Unity pany, the Woodley Petr pany, the M uP Natural for 1 erated by the COURT RULING PENDING JAIL PENALTY INVOLVED The right of the police court to Impose a jail sentence was still at issué today, Judge Bryant 8, Casper tence. Brown served notice of ap. peal but did not perfect the appeal. The case in which Brown vas tn volved Tuesday recalled the circum Cromer, of the district court, having| stance to the mind of the judge. given a continuance of the habaes| Because of the importance of the corpus proceedings brought to free|case to the city, Kenneth McDonald elty attorney, said”he would be glad Guy Brown who was sentenced to , 'to walt until later for a decision. 30 days in jail by Justice Edward B.jana Judge Cromer desired further Murane, police magistrate, Monday: |time also to consider {t Meanwhile Brown in the county! It first was decid: finish the Jall beginning a 90-day sentence im ing this aftern but posed by Judge Cromer | on a previous | Cromer this morning nted liquor © @ No r 1926.| tin of sever 8, thei On that 4. Judge romer eceaaity f mediat Brown $606 and imposed ¢ Brown must remain | county jail regardless of the outcome of the habeas corpus case Attorney McDonald, tn explaining his position to the court Tuesday said that the city had a right te draft any ordinance which s not In conflict with the constitt tion or the laws of the state, and for that reason the ordinance perm police judge to tmy { nce was legal Atte M wh r Brow tions of the ¢ payniten