The Weather
WYOMING: Fair tonight and
Thursday except somewhat un
settled southeast 1 portion. Not much
change In temperature.
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Volume vin.
$100,000,000 TO BE SPENT ON
OIL WORK HERE IN FIVE YEARS
53 DEAD IN STORMS DEALING
DISASTER IN THREE STATES
MANY BUILDING
PERMITS BEING
ISSBEDJY CITY
$30,000 Office Block
Os Power Company
Is Included.
Building work in Casper continues
at a rapid pace. The Natrona Pow
er company yesterday took out its
permit to erect a >30.000 brick of
fice bulldin* on Center street near
the Northwestern right-of-way, ex
cavation work for- this structure
has been going on for some time
and actus! work Is under way. The
building will be triangular in shape.
SO by 84 by 394 feet In else. It will
consist of two stories and will con
tain 17 rooms. The new office
building is to take the place of the
pne now in use.
Permits recently taken out for res
idences include Woodman and Hart,
>4.000 frame, 1568 Ash street; H. B.
Doll, >3,000 frame. 1728 East First;
L. O. McLean. >2,800 frame, 1670
East C, and Peter Clausen, >3,000
frame, 1743 South Fopiar.
JOHNSON AUTO STOLEN
AND STRIPPED SECOND
TIME WITHIN IB DAYS
Stripped of radiator, generator,
carburetor, tires and light lenses,
the Dodge coupe of W. P. Johnson’s
was found by the police department
at BUIO o'clock this mprnlng a few
hours after It had been stolen. The
car was taken from Its parking place
at Second and Wolcott streets last
night- It was found standing aban
doned in the Carey pasture near the
Alcova road.
This is the second time in ten
days that the machine has been
stolen. It was covered by burglary
insurance on this occasion, but strip
ping of parts at the time of the first
theft represented a* total loss.
The owner lias offered a reward
for apprehension of the thieves.
Farm Expert
Dies Suddenly
FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 30—
James Madison Rodgers, 50 years of
age. former president of the Colorado
,Btate farm bureau and a former
national director of the American
farm bureau federation, died at his
home north of Waverly in Larimer
county Monday of apoplevy ac
cording to information received hero
today*.
Jail-Breaker
Kills Himself
DENVER, Colo., April 30.—Following a revolver fight
with officers of Littleton, Colo., a suburb, today Joe Russo,
who escaped from the Denver county jail last Thursday,
shot and killed himself. In the fight one officer and a
farmer who was aiding him were dangerously wounded.
Sam Ditmiere, a farmer of Castle Rock, Colo., who was
• '■'ling the officers was shot In the
Igck by Russo. Tho bandit also
Grounded Virgil Stevens, marehal
of Littleton. They are in dangerous
condition.
Carmal Erigo, companion of
Russo, who also broke Jail in the
delivery last Thursday night was
' ipturad. J- M Haynes, under
sheriff of Littleton, received word
from fitruby, Colo., near Littleton,
today that two men believed to be
those who escaped from tho Denver
Jail had erected a shack near Struby.
Ihiynea called Virgil Stevens, day
marshal of Littleton. While Haynes
•toppag to organize a posse, Stevens
• 'urted out alone to look for the
• uspsets,
(Continued on Page Four)
The circulation of The Tribune is greater than any other Wyoming newspaper.
die Casper Batly ©rtbmtr
Georgia Is Center
of District Torn
by Tornadoes In
Great Disaster
ATLANTA, Ga., April 30.
—A total of fifty-three
deaths are reported today,
more than 130 persons were
injured and seven are miss
ing in a score of tornadoes
and windstorms that swept over the
southeastern states. Severe storms
of tornado proportions are being re
ported in various parts of Louisiana,
Alabama. Georgia and South Carllna
this afternoon.
Property damage was estimated at
upwards of a million dollars.
Nine of thv deaths occurred at
Riverside Mill village near Anderson,
S. C., while word from Macon.
Georgia, stated that a twister there
had killed three persons.
At Opelika. Alabama, four negroes
were reported killed and five others
missing, where a twister struck a
negro settlement, demolishing twelve
houses.
At Greenville, Alabama, four per
sons are said to hav« been injured
and two negroes are missing.
Property damage was estimated at
>150.000.
From Albany, Ga.. word was re
ceived that considerable property
damage resulted from a twister, but
that no on® was Injured.
At Lawrenceville. Ga.. six persons
were reported Injured and property
damage of >200,000 was done. The
Baptist church was blown down and
a mill village nearby was partially
demolished.
Twenty houses and barns were
levelled by a tornado at Autaugaville.
Alabama, and several head of live
stock killed. The Methodist church
was badly torn by the wind.
All available doctors and nurses
left Anderson, S. C. early today for
the Riverside Mill Village when re
ports Indicated that damage prob
ably was much greater than at first
reported.
OPELIKA. Ala., April 30.—Three
persons were kilted and a number
Injured today In a storm that struck
Gentry Hill, this county, according
to reports received here.
All wires were prostrated by the
storm and communication with the
affected area was very difficult.
It was reported that twelve resi
dences were wrecked.
MACON, Ga.. April 30—Three
persons are dead and more than a
dozen injured, several seriously, in
a tornado that swept over a section
a few miles south of Macon shortly
before 10 o’clock today. The dead
are Mrs. Leonard E. Holt and baby,
and an unidentified negro.
COLUMBUS, Ga., April 10.—
Seven negroes were killed at Smith
ville. Ala., by a tornado which
struck the town today, officials of
the Southern Bell Telephone com
pany here declared.
CAMDEN, B. <J.. April W.—Re
ports received here today are that
ten or eleven persons were killed
and thirty-five Injured by a tornado
(Continued from Pago Four.)
‘HEALER’ DRAGGED INTO MURDER CASE DRAWS
THRONGS TO MEETINGS IN OLD WAREHOUSE
Dy MILLARD FERGUSON
(Copyright, 1024 Casper Tribune)
HAZELHURBT, Ga.. April 30
Only a month after his name had
been dragged Into a weird BUTdei
cns« nt Seffner, Fla., where an 18
year-old girl stamped her father to
death at the command of her mad
mother. Raymond T- Richey, "heal
er," Is drawing hundreds to his meet
ings Id an old tobacco warehouse
COMMUNITY BUILDING HELD
POSSIBLE HERE;CONFERENCE
HELD TODAY BY COMMITTEE
Prospects for a community build
ing in Casper with an auditorium
and other facilities adequate to meet
the needs of the citizens od Casper,
loomed brighter today as the result
of a luncheon .of representatives of
various civic organizations addressed
by A. \T. Parkin, representative of
community service, Chicago. Mr.
Parkin Is In the city for the purpose
of making a survey of the best plan
to take care of the leisure time of
its citizens and especially of the
younger people. In hla address to
day he spoke optimistically of co
operation almost bound to come If
the people of Casper really want
such a community center.
A mass meeting will be called In
the near future to give Jdr. Parkin
an opportunity to address the In
terested people of the city on the
subject. The place of this meeting
has not yet been decided on. A
committee was appointed to work out
COOLIDGE AND COX WIN
DELEGATES FROM OHIO
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30.—(8y 1
The Associated Press.)—Both Presl- 1
dent Coolidge and former Governor J
James M. Cox of Ohio, the Demo
cratic candidate for president in 1
1920. won sweeping victories in i
Ohio’s primary elections yesterday. 1
The vote, however, was probably i
M’CRAY SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS
SCHOOL PUPILS URGED
TO BOOST ARBOR DAY
OBSERVANCE IN CITY
The Lions club campaign for
city-wide observance of Arbor Day
was carried to the school children
of Casper this week in Individual
letters addressed to every pupil by
Dr. Marshall C. Keith, president of
the club. Co-operation of these
young people Is sought in beautify-.
Ing the homes.
Promise that Arbor Day will be
celebrated on a larger scale than
ever Is shown by the fact that at
least three carloads of nursery stock
will be unloaded here this week In
addition to the arrival of scores of
Individual shipments. Rome are
planting trees 30 feet In height.
The letter of Dr. Keith, addressed
“to the boys and girls of the Casper
schools’* follows In full:
“The object of Arbor Day is to
promote the planting of trees. The
best way to keep the day is to plant
trees and shrubs.
"In tho planting and care of
trees. In learning their usee, their
utility can hardly be separated from
their truth and beauty and the good
ness they teach. Trees are more
than things* for material use. Like
ail growing green things they
minister to the human heart. Litera
ture shows how trees have enriched
the life of man. In all ages a fruit
ful tree has been the symbol of a
good man's life. What is more in
teresting than to plant trees, care
for them and watch them grow-
“You keep your Arbor Day in
'Maytime, the blossom time of the
here. One of his patients is Mrs.
William Jennings Bryan, who was
■ brought to this little Georgia town
I In an Invalid's chair to receive treat-
• ment from tho boyish evangelist.
- who looks scarce twenty-one and
i weighs only slightly more than a
I hundred pounds.
“If I am able to believe with suf-
• fl< lent strength, I shall be cured,"
i Mrs. Bryan said today. “If lam not
CASPER, WYQ., WEDNESDAY, APRIL ..2* H<>, ' !H
plans for the meeting. The com
mittee consists of Mrs. Guy Gay,
J. W. Johnson, Mrs. P. C. Nicolay
sen, L. F. McMahon and C. H.
Storrs.
Mr. Parkin told of what the Stand
ard had done at Whiting. Ind., by
erecting a building adequate for the
needs of that community and then
donating it to the peoplo of Whit
ing. “I have had no promises from
the Standard,” said Mr. Parkin. "I
can say one thing, however- That
the men who are connected with
that organization are of such char
acter that they would be willing to
meet you half way In anything of
the kind that you might undertake.
“Community service is a move
ment of, for and by the people,
which thinks In terms of what they
can all do together for the good of
their own city. It Is an organized
effort for dealing with the impor
<3oni.ii.ued on Page Four)
the lightest ever cast In an Ohio
primary election. It was officially
estimated at about 18 per cent of
the potential vote.
President Coolidge not only won
the state's 51 delegates to the na
tional convention but also was given
better than a six to one endorse
ment over United States Senator ,
year.* It becomes a springtime
festival, a celebration of Mother
Nature's birthday. In place of the
withered leaves of autumn are the
tresh green leaves of a new spring.
The trees have awakened. Plant
and shrub bud and blossom. Grasses
and flowers spring up everywhere.
“Everything is upward striving;
*Tls us easy now for the heart
to be true
As for the grass to be green or
skies to be blue,
’Tls the natural way of living.”
"This year Arbor Day comes on
May 5. Casper is fast becoming a
(Continued on Page Four)
Tribune Tour
Bureau Opens
(BY SPARK PLUG)
Tomorrow morning you will be at liberty to call upon
the Tribune for information regarding highway condi
tions in Central Wyoming with positive assurance of an
accurate answer. Promptly at 8 a. m. the Tribune
Bureau of Tourist Information will be launched upon a
summer of service to the people who travel by automobile
■ ■ ' —— The new department will not be a
. cured it will be because my faith is
» not strong enough.” She added that
i Mr. Bryan would arrive shortly and
• that they would attend the healer’s
. services together. Already, she said,
1 she had felt improvement from
i Richey's faith treatment.
Early in March Richey’s name fig-
• ured In the Winchester murder case
’ at Heffner. Mrs. Laura Winchester,
t (Continued on Page Tenj
BANKANDOFFICESINTOWNSEND
BUILDING OPEN;STORES CLOSED
Business Resumed as Usual This Morning in
Block Visited by Fire With Exception of
Stores That Suffered Deluge.
With the exception of an acrid odor of smoke and the
water stained walls, there is little to remind patrons of
the Stockmen’s National bank and the other office tenants
of the Townsend building that the structure was visited
yesterday by a severe fire.
The bank and the various companies with offices were
on the job doing business aa usual
thia morning. A re-survey of the
interior showed less damage than
originally supposed many of the of
fices having suffered little or no
loss.
The Metropolitan store and Bar
nett's Outfitting company were the
worst sufferers and thio morning
i Hiram Johnson of California, in the
president ini preference contest.
Mr. Cox probably will go before
the Democratic national convention
with his homo state's 48 votes
pledged to suport him and backed
by a two and a half to one endorse
ment of his party over William G.
(Continued on Pago Ten.)
Ten Thousand Dollar Fine Also Imposed
On Retiring Indiana Governor
For Fraud Operations
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 30. (By The Associated
Press). —Warren T. McCray, who retired today as gover
nor of Indiana, was sentenced in federal court to serve
ten years in the Atlanta federal prison upon charge of
using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud.
In addition, he was fined SIO,OOO. He was found
guilty Monday and presented his
resignation ns governor yesterday
effective at 10 a. m. today.
McCray, according to present
plans, will be taken to Atlsnta, Ga.,
at 8:20 o'clock this afternoon along
with several other prisoners who
have been sentenced from the
federal court-
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 30.
purely temporary “flash In tho pan*’
but will be a permanent summer de
partment of Wyoming’s leading
newspaper.
Tho offices of the bureau will be
located at tho immediate head of the
main stairway in the Tribune build
ing. All questions must be esked
at the section of th« main counter
provided for that purpose. The de
pertinent will be in charge of a
competent attendant, whose duty it
will be to provldo courteous,service
to all tourists throughout th© sum
mer months.
The entire stock of maps and
folders now in the possession of the
tour bureau are at your disposal.
They will bo given out free upon
(Continued on Pogo Four)
both were closed waiting tor insur
ance adjustors to check up on their
losses.. Stocks Ln both stores were
drenched from water which poured
through the ceilings and sopped
around on counters, shelves and
show cases.
The actual Are was confined to a
shaft in tie rear of the building,
the flames not getting Into the of
fices proper, or into the store build
ings.
The Are department officers who
inspected the building after the con
flagration was put out were not pre
pared to state the exact cause of
the Are although the majority of
TnWe ’who- inspected the premizes
bleleve that It was caused by a short
circuit or defective wiring.
Promptnees of tho Casper fire de
partment under the direction of Its
chief. Oscar Hleatand. saved the
building from complete destruction.
By going nt once to the origin of the
fire and daring death In so doing,
the firemen prevented the flames
(Continued on Page Four)
(By The Associated Press.) —Emmett
F. Branch of Martinsville, Ind., who
has held the post of lieutenant gov
ernor, today was sworn in as gov
ernor of Indiana to succeed Warren
T. McCray. He took the oath of
office at 10:07 a. m.
FRENCH FLYER
REACHES INDIA
PARIS, April 30.—Lieutenant Pel
letier D’Olsy, French aviator, who
Is attempting a Paris to Toklo flight,
telegraphed the under secretary of
aviation today announcing his ar
rival at Karachi, India, from Ben
der Abbas, on the Persian gulf. He
intends to rest today, hopping off
tomorrow morning for Agra, a dis
tance of 1.300 kilometers.
Part of his landing apparatus was
smashed when he was leaving Ben
der Abbas, owing so the bad state
of the ground.
POLITICS IGNORED IN WOMEN
VOTERS CONVENTION, DUFFALO
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
(Copyright. 1»24, Casper Tribune)
BUFFALO, N. T., April 30.—Tho
strangest national convention of tho
year 1924 bl being held here. Along
■lde of It the Republican national
convention at Cleveland and the
Democratic notional convention In
Now York would afford a remark
able contract.
For here are gathered delegatee
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I BALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York-Philadelphia game post
poned; rain.
Boston-Washington game post
poned; rain.
Cleveland-St. Louis game post
poned; rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
St. Louis-Cincinnati game post
poned; rain.
At Boston— IL H. E.
Brooklyn —2OO 000 200 02—6 13 1
Boston ..010 030 000 00—1 8 2
Batteries Vance and Deberry;
Strykeo and O'Neil.
Philadelphia-New York game post
poned; wet grounds.
At Chicago— R.H.E.
Pittsburgh 10 000 000 00—x x x
Chicago -...000 001 000 00—x x x
Batteries—Morrison and Schmidt;
Jacobs and O'Farrell.
STOKES MUST
STANDTRIAL
CHICAGO, April 80.—W. E. D.
Stokes, New York millionaire hotel
man and three co-defendants, must
stand trial on five counts ors nn In
diriment e)iarglnrt conspiracy t<>
defame his estranged wife, Mrs.
Helen Elwood Stokes. Judge Wells
M. Cooke ruled today In criminal
court. Th® final three of tho
nine counts were dismissed on the
grounds that they did not state a
crime as defined by Illinois statutes.
With thia action taken on motlcm
of corpsei for Stokes, Daniel F.
Sugv.;% attorney, Hattie
obnsdh and Robert Lae. the lat
ter two negroes, to quash the in
. dictment, the defense planned to
i ask a separata trial for all defend
i anta except Josepr Bruner. Bru
, ner Is demanding Immediate trial
i and he has been accused by Stokes
, and Nugent’s counsel of demanding
i >5,000 from Stokes to abandon his
demand for quick trial.
On ttc Sport
Page
Friend Al—Every day now Al
and you can see the Vou Know
Me Al cartoon in the Tribune
■port page with your old pal in
the hero’s roll. So keep your
eyes jxaled Al so as to not miss
none of It as It Is goln* to be In
'.every day. How is that Al for
your Pal to get his picture in Hie
paper every day when Dempsey
and Ruth and some of them other
birds is tickled to death with a
couple times a week. It ain't no
more than fair when you think
ulio I am but still and all I can't
help from feeling sorry for them.
Your Pal,
JACK KEEFE.
(Per Ring lartiner)
Japs Will Help
Finance Berlin
TOKIO, April 30.—(8y The Associated Press).—The
government has decided Japan will subscribe 500,000
pounds in gold toward the capital of the new German
issue bank recommended by the experts’ committee. The
Bank of Japan will act as the government’s agent.
Although the yen exchange was strengthened yester
■ ■ " 1 11 . day finance authorities are anxious
who are interested In prlnciplea and
i not parties. Tn tho two major con
i ventlone will l>e assembled delegates
i interested in men and political
I parties.
I There Is no partisanship in tho*
J National League of Women Vaters,
i Nor is there any attempt to pass
• Judgment on existing controversies
in congress. Hut tho background
> (Continued on Page Ton.)
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EDITION
NUMBER 161.
ASSURANCE DE
PROSPERITY IN
GASPER FOUND
IN ESTIMATES
I
Conservative Program
Calls for Immense
Outlay; 2,500 Wells
For Salt Creek.
More than $100,000,000
will be spent within the next
fivo years in the operation
and development of oil
fields in Natrona county, ac
cording to E. Lu Estabrook,
petroleum production engineer of
the Midwest Refining company,
recognized authority and expert.
Constantly gathering Impetus, tho
gigantlo campaign will Include the
expenditure of >37,500,000 In tha dril
ling of new wells In Balt Creek and
Teapot Dome fields alone, declares
Mr. Estabrook whose estimates aa
an engineer are tho basis for annual
appropriations of millions to carry
on drilling and production programs,
and who la ultra-conservative In hla
predictions.
Telling today In an exclusive In
terview with a Tribune representa
tive of what tho future holds for Na
trona county oil fields, w.th especial
mention of Salt Creek and Teapot.
\lr. Estabrook said: ,
“The Balt Creak and Teapot fields
include a little more than 25,000
acres of oil bearing land, under
which production in obtained from
the second Wall Creek sand. OU
has been found In the third Wall
Creek at several places and one well
has produced oil from the Lakota.
“Still deeper there are possibilities
for gas or oil In tne Sundance, and
block oil In tho Embar and Tensleep.
It Is too early to attempt to esti
mate the number of wells that will
be required to develop tho producing
h-ands below the second Wall Creek,
although ceitalnly thrir number will
bo counted in thousands and the last
<>ne will not be drilled in this genera
tion.
“The drilling of the first and son
ond Wall Creek sands will proceed
rapidly during the next " ’ ’ *er>
and we may roughly esF
It will mean in money v
ed in Casper and the vic
"Adding th® first and}
acreage together, gives a■ —
about 30,000 acres of oil bearing
land. On a part of this acreage only
one well will be drilled to every 10
acres, on other parts there will bs a
well to every eight acres, while the
shallower and richer parts wilt be
more clearly drilled. The average
will be a well to every eight acres, or
a total of 3,750 wells.
“Up to <lnt a less than 1.000 of
these wells have been drilled. Let
us exclude all the Mhallow shale wells
and nil of the third Wall Creek sand
and deeper wells that will be drilled
during the next five years, snd as
sume that only 500 wells per year,
or 2.500 In all will be drilled during
the neat five years. What will that
(Continued on Pa K c Four)
to call a general meeting of t>ankero
tn seek means of preventing further
declines. The concern over the ex
change is shared by Prince Regent
Hirohito, who has asked Minister of
Finance Rhoda to prepare a special
report ’for him.
NEW TRADE
TREATY PROPONED
TOK*D, April 80.—(By tho Asso«
elated Press).—Viscount Ishii, Jap
anese ambassador to Paris, has ap
proached tho French government
with a proposal to negotiate a now
treaty of commerce and navigation,
the Associated Press learned today
from an authoritative source. Thia
treaty would euprroede that of I'jli
(Continued on Pago Ten.)