Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 1

Home" Edition Take Advantage of th increased demand tor dnir- able apartments and ttousts. Call 2-1 5 1 5 for a T-H won tod. casper, Wyoming Oil Capital of the Rockies -Monday, January 3, Fourteen Pages Price 5 Cents 63rd Year No. 282 i rr as Traffic Dt) (q Dim r(o By rr AU(oj(C LIU A marijuana ring, operating in Lower West Casper, was exposed early Sunday morning when police raided the Van Rooms, a boarding house at 218 West and brought five women and a man to headquarters for questioning. Of the six persons, only two were held for investigation, JoAnn Stephens, 21, and Jean Miller, 36.

rresfed earch for In -jj A I I 1 IN His Slayers PANAMA VP) Unknown assassins mowed down President Jose Antonio Remon with machine-gun bullets Sunday night. Police launched an immediate search for the killers and said they had arrested more than 20 persons, including former President Arnulfo Arias. There was no immediate explanation for the slaying of Simpson Is Sworn In as Governor CHEYENNE UP) Gov. Milward Simpson pledged a determination "to make Wyoming's star shine brighter in the national firmament" in taking his oath of office as Wyoming's 19th governor Monday. The 57-year-old Cody attorney and businessman took the oath of office in a crowded House chamber, just 28 years after he began his political career in the same chamber as a member of the 1927 House of Representatives.

His mother, Mrs. William L. Simpson of Denver, occupied a front row seat for the swearing in ceremony. "We, the elective officials of all three branches of our government, together with our people, Simpson said, "have a great and lasting duty: to nurture and support that form of government and above all to keep it clean and fine and honest." He said the U. S.

and Wyoming would not have a free form of government "were it not for the fourth, and by far the 'most important, branch of our government i Toll Tops Forecast By The Associated Press At least 290 persons were killed in traffic during the nation's New Year weekend holiday. heavy toll was termed a "national disaster" by Ned Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council which had estimated the two-day holiday would see 240 persons killed in motpr vehicle accidents. TOTAL OVER 350 Deaths from all types of accidents during the 54-hour period from 6 p.m., Friday to midnight Sunday totaled 353, with fires accounting for 27 deaths and 36 fatalities resulting from- all other mishaps. The only other two-day New Year's observance since World War that of 1948-49 killed 207 in traffic, and 309 in all types of accidents. The United States traffic toll for the weekend 'compared with only 9 deaths reported in Canada.

Canada's population is approximately 15 million compared with an estimated 160 millions in the U. S. Driving conditions were generally less favorable for Canada's motorists than for those in most of this country. ESTIMATES TOO LOW The Safety Council, which has been close to accuracy with its pre-holiday traffic fatality estimates, came far under the actual death tolls for both the Christmas and New Year's weekend. The toll by states (traffic, fire, miscellaneous) included: Colorado 3 0 1: Idaho 1 0 Montana 3 0 Nebraska 1 New Mexico 10 South Dakota 3 0 Utah 3 0 0.

Registration for Night School Set Registration for evening school at Casper Junior College will be held tomorrow in the high school gymnasium at 7 p.m. This adult education program offered by- the college is open to all adults in this area. No educational requirements are necessary for most courses listed on the schedule. Adults may register for one class, or as many as they desire. The registration procedure may be completed in a brief time tomorrow instructors fx aU classes will be present at the gym to explain their courses, assist adults in filling out the registration card, and check enrollments in their classes.

Fees for the classes should also be paid tomorrow night. There are 75 classes listed on the winter quarter schedule. The complete list of classes was published in Sunday's paper, or can be obtained at the college office. Miss Rogers to Sneak It Before Midwest PTA MIDWEST (Special) Miss Flo Rogers, reading supervisor, will be the speaker at the meeting of the. Parent-Teachers association, Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Her talk will be of particular interest to parents of children in the first four grades and to parents of pre-school children. All parents are invited to attend. Bill Jones will sing a solo on the program. I i HARRIMANS TAKE OVER MANSION: Gov. Elect Averell Harriman, accompanied by his wife, waves a greeting before entering the executive mansion immediately upon his arrival at Albany, N.

Dec. 31. He was inaugurated Jan. 1 as New York's 48th governor, succeeding Thomas E. Dewey.

(AP Wirephoto) Diplomat AD cog Charges of possessing narcotics Were expected to be filed against the two women Monday afternoon by federal authorities. The other four were released after questioning revealed they were not implicated in the ring. HABEAS CORPUS FILED As an aftermath of the raid, a writ of habeus corpus was served against Chief of Police C. J. Carter by Attorneys Clarence Cypreansen and Robert Ogden on Sunday.

In the writ, it was charged that the raid was conducted without search warrants and that the two women were being held in jail unlawfully. A hearing was held at 9:30 a. m. Monday and the writ was denied by District Judge S. J.

Lewis until 5 p. m. this afternoon. Chief Carter said the house had been under surveillance by his men for the past month. He had given orders for them to frequent the establishment to check for anything suspicious and received reports that on one occasion detectives 6melled what they thought was marijuana and on another visit found the house to smell strongly of perfume as if to hide a strange odor.

Early Sunday morning, shortly after midnight, Chief Carter, Capt. Tommy Raybon and Detectives Con Dalgarno, Gene Clark and Walter Heberlein entered, the Van Rooms and began searching the premises. MARIJUANA CONFISCATED Confiscated in the raid were 48 grains of cut marijuana contained in a tobacco can. The can was wrapped in an old newspaper and a wash cloth and placed in a paper sack. Also found were a package of brown cigarette paper, used to roll the cigarettes, several marijuana lYlichie Reelected Chairman of Board Fremont Michie re-elected chairman of the Natrona County Board of Commissioners at an organizational meeting held in the City-County Building this morning.

The board will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday morning. Terms of office of all county officials expired at noon today, and they were sworn in for new terms. There was no turnover among county department heads as the result of the Nov. 2 election. Only new official Is Justice of the Peace Alice Burridge, who was elect ed in November to preside over Justic Court No.

1. Mrs. Burridge has been serving as justice of the peace since Dec. 1, when she was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Justice Ralph Gering, who retired. The Weather By U.

S. Weather Bureau Casper and Vicini-Ity Fair tonight and Tuesday. No important temperature change tonight, rising tempera tures Tuesday. Low tonight 15-25, except near zero in higher elevations. High Tuesday 35-45.

Wyoming Becoming fair tonight and Tuesday. Colder in southeast tonight. Rising temperatures in north by Tuesday morning. Warmer east of Continental Divide Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight 0-10 below in mountains, 10-20 in north, 15-25 in south.

High Tuesday 25-35 in southwest, 35-45 elsewhere. Sun sets today at 4:43 p. rises tomorrow at 7:36 a. m. Maximum wind velocity yesterday was 40 mph with gusts of 57, prevailing direction south southwest.

Mean temperature was 35, departure of plus 12. Extreme temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at 5:30 a. m. Monday: Max. Min.

Pep. 7. en could not have hoped to gain control of the government by slaying Remon. Secret Police Chief Jorge Luis Alfaro said those arrested, in addition to Arias, included two women! One, he said, had left Remon's box just before the shooting and the other woman was nearby when the firing began. News of the tragic death of Remon rated by many western leaders as the ablest president Panama has had in its 52 years as a republic brought expressions of grief from shocked lead ers in the United States and Panama's neighbors.

DULLES EXPRESSES GRIEF Secretary of State Dulles, in New-York for the New Year holiday, expressed profouna grief over the news. He said there apparently was "no Communist issue involved" in the assassination. Many noted that Remon. first Panamanian president to be as-, sassinated died on the 24th anniversary of Panama's first successful revolutionary coup Jan. 2.

1931. Remon died in Santo Tomas Hospital two hours after he had been hit in the groin aud liver by machine-gun bullets. Five blood transfusions failed to save him. The other dead were Identified as Jose Feralta of Panama's secret police, who was with the president. and Danilo Sousa, former swimming star.

Sousa was believed killed by police bullets but it was not immediately known whether he was among the assailants or got caught in the crossfire. The wounded were Alberto de Obarrion. manager of the race track; Joaquin Borrell and Antonio Anguizola. Remon, who had stayed on at the track after the races, was talking with his party in a special enclosure when the shots rang out. At first they were thought to be firecrackers.

Then a second volley shattered glasses on a table and Remon went down. One of Remon's bodyguard's, Tomas Wilson, said the fire seemed to be coming from beneath the darkened grandstand. He said Remon and his party, gathered under the bright fluorscent lights of the clubhouse, made perfect targets. Vork Starts on Glendo Dam Diversion Tunnel GLENDO The boring of an 1,800 foot tunnel, first step in the initial construction stage of the $40 million Glendo dam, begins this week. J.

E. Dunn, general superintendent for Lytle and Green Construction Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, said the tunnel will take most of the winter to complete. The contractors won the initial phase work on a $6 million bid. Parishioners Read New Testament in 17 Hours PORTSMOUTH, N.

H. Parishioners of Central Baptist Church read the entire New Testament in 17 hours and 4 minutes. The Rev. Charles G. Berry and members of his church began their project on the.

first minute of the new year. cigarette snipes or butts and 15 or 20 boxes of barbiturates. A federal narcotics agent arrived in Casper Monday morning' from Denver after being informed of the raid Sunday. Chief Carter said the narcotics bureau will handle the prosecution in the case. Ore of the women arrested, Miss Stephens, an attractive steel-gray-haired woman, admits to being a user of the narcotic, Chief Carter said, But Miss Miller, a red-head, denies "it.

Both women are white. Miss Stephens listed her occupation as that of a prostitute when she was arrested. The cigarette butts were found in her room. Chief Carter said there has been a number of prostitution convictions previously from the Van Rooms. Pair Nabbed For Robbing Auto Meters MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

L) Detective Earl Mackey said Monday thieves who have been systematically looting Miami Beach parking meters were trapped by spotters posted atop beachfront hotels with binoculars and walkie-talkie radios. After a five-day vigil a man and woman were caught in the trap Sunday. They were booked as John Joseph Barry, 31, of Schenectady, N. Y. and Billie Jo Adams, 27, of Hardin, Mont.

Mackey said the two told officers they had been breaking into the meter coin boxes for three weeks and had lost all the money at the races. They they had no definite idea of how much they had stolen. Lookouts on top of the five-story Seashore Hotel spotted Barry and Miss Adams tampering with a Ufieter on Ocean at 1:30 a.m. Sunday and alerted police with their walkie-talkie. Mackey.

made the arrests. The two were booked on disorderly conduct charges pending an investigation. Drunk Charge Against Ding's Son Dismissed LOS ANGELES A drunk charge against one of Bing Crosby's twin sons, Dennis, 20, was dismissed Monday by a municipal judge "because the boy has never been in trouble before." Judge Robert Clifton tossed out the charge after hearing Atty. Richard C. Bergin, representing young Crosby.

Dennis, himself did not appear. He was arrested early Sunday when police halted a car in which he was riding, driven by Norman Gilmore 21, Stanford University student from Atherton, Calif. Missing Billings Girls in Denver DENE VR Two 16-year-old girls who left their Billings, homes Oct. 20 were put in the matron's quarters in city jail Monday to await the arrival of their parents to return them to Montana. Detective Mike Rofrone of the missing bureau said the girls were Sue Welton and Joan Kenney.

He said they told him they first hitch-1 hiked to Cheyenne and then on to Denver. They said they worked here until three weeks ago as usheret-, ks and depart ment store clerks. 4 They said have been "on vacation" the last three weeks. sfirls said they had been living for about a month at the north Di-wer home of a girl friend they met here. 33 Canadians Killed In Holiday Accidents TORONTO UP) At least 33 Canadians met violent death during the New Year's holiday week-, end.

Nine persons were killed in Canada a year ago but tha holiday, falling on a weekday, was shorter. A Canadian press survey of the deaths between 6 p.m. Ffiday and midnight Sunday listed 8' traffic fatalities, 1 drownings, 6 deaths, by fire, 3 asphj'xiations, 3 suicides, 3 shootings, a knifing and a beating. A skiing mishap and a skating accident killed 4 others. Woman's Plunge to Death is Thwarted FLORENCE, Italy iff) Geno-veffa Franceschini, a 75-year-old widow, plunged from a third story window Sunday in an apparent suicide attempt, police said.

She landed unhurt in the arms two the popular 46-year-old president. who had been the republic's strong man for 10 turbulent years. He was shot as he chatted with a groun of friends at Juan race track, after the conclusion of the afternoon races, i Two other persons died in the gun battle between the president's bodyguard and his assassins. Three of Remon's companions were wounded. ARIAS AT PLANTATIONS Police said they nabbed Arias, who was thrown out of office in 1951 by Remon's police forces after a bloody palace battle, at Boquete, 300 miles west of the capital.

Arias has a large coffee plantation near there. Reoorts earlier in New York that Arias was traveling in Europe apparently were without foundation. In a 3 a.m. session, the National Assembly swore in Foreign minister Jose Ramon Guizado as president. Guizado was elected first vice president on the ticket with Remon in 1952.

Their terms had until October, 1956, to run. The assembly had planned to de clare a 30-day state of siege but was unable to do so because it lacked the necessary m. However, the cabinet -in a state ment announced to the shocked Panamanians that calm prevailed in the country and the is maintaining rigorous order throughout all the national territory." GIVE NO MOTIVE The cabinet statement, gave no clue, however, to the identity of the president's killers or the motivation for. the plot. Panamaian officials were at a loss to explain the motive behind the' unprecedented- assassination.

They pointed out that whether inspired by political reasons or a a personal grudge the killers Girl, 13, Says She Killed Dad TOPEKA, Kan. (J) A 13-year old girl admitted to police that she killed her father in their home Sunday night following an argument over a boy friend. Officers said Linda Lee Lantis, winner of a marksmanship medal, told them she shot her father in the back of the head with a .22 caliber rifle. It was the same rifle the junior high school girl had used in winning the marksmanship medal. Linda said her father, Lawrence R.

Lantis, 46, had objected earlier in the day to the boy friend calling her on the telephone. Assistant County Attorney Myron Lindstrom said a murder charge would be filed in Juvenile Court. Youth, 17 Is Quizzed In Slaying i BUCYRUS, Ohio (J) A 17-year-old boy was held for questioning here Monday in the strangling death of his sister younger by one year whose nude body was found in a thicket north of. Gallon Saturday. Crawford County Prosecutor John D.

Sears said he is holding Frederick Spears of Galion in county jail. The body of the youth's sister, Patricia, was found about 125 feet from a roalby two teen-age hunters. Dr. B. P.

Mansfield, county coroner, said an autopsy showed the blue-eyed young high school sophomore was strangled both manually and probably with a cord shortly after she was reported missing Friday. He said she had not bi sexually attacked. ye? i bmI. dian officials none of ministerial rank were on hand to see the party's takeoff for Canton. Just before departing shook hands with a number of diplomats Including TJ.

S. Charge Affaires Donald Kennedy, who told him: "Good luck and happy landings. The Communist Chinese charge, Shen Chien, partly echoed Kennedy with: "Happy landings." An Indian spokesman denied reports that Indian officials felt the United Nations had become partisan on the prisoner issue by condemning the Chinese Reds. Asked whether India viewed Hammarskjold as in effect a United States representative in this matter rather than a U. N.

official, the spokesman said: "He has come as a representative of the United Nations, of which India is a member." Observers here are finding it hard to explain the Indian attitude, especially in view of Nehru's earlier message to Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai suggesting he. agree to meet Hammarskjold. One reason for the New Delhi some sources here say, is Hammarskjold's decision to include in his official party Ahmed S. Bokhari, a Pakistani National whose appointment by Hammarskjold as N. undersecretary in charge of the department of public information stirred a strong Indian protest.

Clement Attlee is 72 LONDON UP) Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee was 72 Monday. After a quiet day at home, he and Mrs. Attlee planned to go out for a birthday dinner. Pope said, "its cohesion would become, as a result, quite weakened in comparison with that of the opposing group." He expressed sorrow at the present "cold peace" rupture in the human race. "Still," he said, "there appears to us to be a well-founded hope that, in His name too, a bridge of peace may yet be built between the opposing shores and the common bond, so sadly broken, be re-established.

"There is, in fact, some hope that today's coexistence may bring mankind closer to peace. In order, however, that this expectation be justified, such coexistence must in some way be a coexistence in truth." A bridge of peace cannot be built in truth between these two separate worlds, he said, "unless it is founded on the human beings living in one and the other of these worlds, and not on their governments or social systems. "This is so because, while one of the two parties still strives In large measure, whether consciously or to preserve the natural law, the system prevailing in the other has completely -abandoned this' basis." our people." Simpson pointed to the flag and declared that the fourth star from the left on the bottom row represents Wyoming and added: OTHERS TAKE OATH "With. God's help, let us here and now dedicate ourselves to that with enlightened and unselfish devotion, let us resolve to make Wyoming's star shine brighter in the national firmament." Also taking the oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice William A. -Riner-were Associate Justices Fred H.Blume and Harry Harnsberger, Secretary of State Everett T.

Copenhaver, State Auditor Minnie A. Mitchell, State Treasurer Charles B. Morgan and Superintendent of Public Instruction Vel-ma Llnford. Mrs. Mitchell became Wyoming's first woman state auditor when she pledged to uphold the constitution of the U.

S. and Wyoming. It is added to another "first" she collected when she became the first woman state treasurer. A delegation of more than 100 residents from Cody, Simpson's home town, drove to Cheyenne for the ceremony. Other caravans came from Laramie and other nearby Wyoming PRESENT A delegation of Colorado state officials and Denver press and radio representatives were flown to Cheyenne for the ceremony.

Heading the Colorado delegation were Atty. Gen. Duke Dunbar; Homer Bedford, treasurer-elect; Homer Bruce, retiring secretary ci state; man jirwing, state auai-tor-elect, and Denver Mayor Quigg Newton. Also introduced was Mary Lou DeFender, named Miss Indian Indian days at Sheridan last sum- mer. "I'm humbly grateful that the good Lord, in his marvelous way," Simpson said, "has spared my saintea motner to witness uus know her complete faith.

I know in a measure the pride it brings to her and my Immediate family. May I ever justify that pride and' faith." Simpson and other state officials will be greeted Monday night during a public reception in the governor's office. The new governor and other state officials were honored at a Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce luncheon at noon. Shah at Sun Valley SUN VALLEY. Idaho Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his queen have arrived here for eight days of skiing.

They're on a tour of the United States. The Wyoming Press Women will hold its meetings concurrently with the convention. Addressing the women will be Velma Linford, state superintendent of public instruction: Mrs. Mae Urbanek, Lusk poet and author; and possibly Thelma Hall Quast, Deer Lodge, historian for the National Federation of Press Women; and Catherine Dines Prosser, Denver Post. Participating in panels for the newsmen -will be Mark Schreiber, Denver advertising executive; Marion KrehbieL Norton, Kans, newspaper broker; C.

O. Bennett, public relations and educational expert for the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Chicago; and H. J. Ward, executive vice president of the Porte Publishing Co. 1,500 Uranium Claims Filed in Sweetwater GREEN RIVER Nearly 1,500 uranium claims were filed in Sweetwater county during 1954, County Clerk Luke Harrigan said Monday.

Bulk of" the filings were in the eastern part of the county. It was the biggest boom of mineral claim filings since the oil shale development 30 years ago. NEW DELHI Authoritative sources said Monday that Indian Prime Minister Nehru has refused a suggestion from XT. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that a senior Indian diplomat accompany him to Pelping. These sources said Nehru based his refusal on the contention that India had abstained from the General Assembly vote under which Hammarskjold is making his trip and therefore could not associate itself fully with the mission.

TJ. N. official and his party left by Indian government plane Monday afternoon on the next leg of the trip to Peiping seeking the release of 11 American airmen and other U. N. personnel held by the Reds.

It could not be learned whether Hammarskjold made his suggestion that an Indian join him prior to his arrival in New Delhi Sunday, or during his stay here. But the outcome of the" suggestion only made more apparent the standoff attitude the Indian government is taking to the secretary general's trip. Hammarskjold had his only meeting with Nehru Monday morning, 19 hours after his arrival from London. They talked alone for two hours, then were joined for 15 minutes by V. K.

Krishna Menon, chief Indian delegate to the last TJ. N. Assembly, and N. R. Pillai, secretary general of the Indian Foreign Ministry.

Neither Indian nor U. spokesmen revealed what was said. After the talk, Nehru entertained his visitor at lunch. Neither Nehru nor Krishna Menon' had been at the airport to greet Hammarskjold on arrival. And again only lower ranking In unified Communist command in Europe, including East German troops.

He said: "Recent accords which have opened the way to a cold peace no longer have for a basis the ideal of a more extensive European unification. Many, in fact, believe that the governing policy is for a return to a kind of nationalistic state, closed within itself, centralizing therein its forces, unsettled in its choice of alliances and. consequently, no less perilous than that which had its time of highest development during the last century." "Too soon," the Pope warned, "have been forgotten the enormous mass of lives sacrificed and goods exorted by this type of state, and the crushing economic and spiritual" burdens imposed by it." The Pope said the error in the accords, which he did not specifically identify, is in confusing national life with nationalistic politics. The first, he said, is "the right and prized possession of a people." The second, he said, is "a germ infinitely harmful" containing "the seed of rivalries and the fomentor of discord." "It is clear that, if the European community were to move for Pope Critical of Pacts as ot Ad va ncing Unification Governor, legisators Are Invited to Press Dinner VATICAN CITY () Pope Pius XH Monday criticized recent accords presumably the rival military pacts reached at Paris and Moscow as having no basis for "more extensive European unification." He called for construction of "a bridge of peace" between East and West. These words were contained in the Pontiff's delayed Christmas messa to the world, in which he urged the divided world camps to seek peaceful coexistence.

The message of the 78-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church was one of his longest and most important recently made. Written in 'Italian, it was distributed by the, Vatican press office and published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Still weakened by the recent grave illness which caused fears fOF his life, the Pope was unable to deliver his message on Christmas eve as- he had for the 15 previous years. However, he recorded an abbreviated message which was broadcast over the Vatican radio at that time. The Pope made apparent reference to the Paris accords for bringing a rearmed West Germany into NATO and the countering; Moscow, conference project for a-j Big Piney 32 13 .03 Billings 32 5 Bismarck 24 8 Tr.

CASPER (City) 50 20 Air Terminal 48 19 .01 Cheyenne 52 27 Chicago 38 35 Cleveland 50 30 Cody 47 10 Denver 51 29 Douglas 54 21 Ft. Bridger 32 21 .01 Fort Worth 65 62 Tr. Kansas City 56 47 Tr. Lander 42 20 Laramie 46, 22 Los Angeles 60 45 Miami 79 58 Moorcroft 48 15 New Orleans 71 59 .01 New York 52 36 .13 Oklahoma City 52 48 Tr. Rapid City 60 20 Rawlins 42 32 Tr.

Rock Springs 41 26 Bait Lake City 41 24 .32 San Francisco 62 36 Scottsbluff 63 23 Seattle '39 22 Sheridan 42 West Yellowstone 23 4 .13 Williston 15 2 .20 CHEYENNE CP) Gov. Milward Simpson, Wyoming's congressional delegation and members of the State Legislature have been invited to attend the legislative dinner of the Press Assn. Jan. 22 Two former Wyoming residents will be principal speakers for the two-day convention that opens Jan. 21.

Ernest H. Linford, editorial chief of the Salt Lake Tribune since 1948 and former editor of the Laramie Republican-Boomerang, will speak Friday night and John S. Dugas, Ford Co. vice president, will address the Saturday night, banquet. The Associated Press will holds its annual state meeting at a noon luncheon Jan.

21. Live Grenade Found ori Shore of Texas Lake DALLAS, Tex. A fisherman found a live hand grenade on a lakeshore Sunday. It lay a short, distance from children at play. H.

Crum, 37, found the rusty grenade half buried in-mud. How it got there isn't known. An ex-infantryman, he dug it out and called police, t- men talking ca the sidewalk ward on this (second) the; if.