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Wednesday, December 27, 1933. CASPKF. WYO. THE CASPER TRIBUNE-FI ERA LD WYOMING FIRST MARYLAND OASIS FOR DRY CAPITAL DWELLERS L70HC OF LOWERING STREET SIT FAGTO GRADES IS 0I3BEQ VfflY it ERE TEIEHATIOHAl IIIRLIGIG News Behind the Scenes Natrona County's Fall Various CWA Projects i' i- r- 1 i i Natrona county's full cuota of 1,037 men are at wori tcday cn a score and more of Civil Works construction projects. Eleventh street, between Oakcrest and Mitchell streets, had the appearance of a bee hive this morn ing.

One hundred wortmen went on the Job lowering the steep grade at that point. Similar lowering tne grace, per mitting ready access by traffic, on Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, al so between Oakcrest and Mitchell. IY T1E Problem Is Taken Up by State Board CHXYENNE, Wyo Dec. The perplexing: problem of what wDl eventually be done about the shirt factory at the state penitentiary was to come up again at a special meeting of the state board of charities and reform late today. There la a possibility.

Gregory Powell, the board executive secre-tarr Doinied out today, that the I I'. shirt factory will continue under contract to th Gordon East Coast as at wesent. Because of the textile codes which prevented the use of prison labor in the manufacture of It ap-Twtired several times during the past few month that the factory would cease operation. "Reprieves- were granted from time to time. I XrAw -nt to the plant has been rescinded.

PoweU said today, and the entire question unsettled until It can be deter- mined how the new prison Indus- tries code, Just approved by General Hugh S. JohnsorT md the Hawes- Cooper bGl, which imposes restric- 4vl LIt.l.7nmt is the manic guugs to stoit X4 six miles sway. Becanse the wet flood that swept over the country en ratification of the repeal amendment left the District of Columbia a. bone-dry island in a sea of cheer, residents of the District most cross the line into Maryland to secure their liquor stocks. Here is a scene at Silver Springs, ML, as a thirsty crowd from the capital besieges a store for relief.

Diagram shows the arid expanse surrounding the capital and -nearest oasis. Surplus from Unexpended Balances to. HE DAS 1MB COLUMBIA. S. Dec.

27 The gray stone waCs of South Carolina's state penitentiary, today held as prisoner, the confessed killer of 15-year-old Herbert H. Harris, and the man he says hired him to kidnap the tacdy-haired schoolboy and football captain, Robert H. Wiles, 49 -year-old jobless mechanic and overseas veteran, whom officers said signed a confession that he battered the boy to death with an Iron pipe, steadfastly Help Finance Program ZSLSSSTSSL toe "Political parties in Wyoming, and 14 (Central rrettJ of Legislature ner's decision to postpone action on the proposed Wyoming-Idaho water compact. Involving waters of the Snake River. Senator Gardner lives in Star valley, Lincoln county, the section that probably is more concerned with the compact than any other region in the state.

He wants a compact, and so declared In his statement explaining that action on it would not be pushed. He pointed out that he believed the next legislature should act on it and added that all parties Inter ested in it could not ret together with the senate committee at the special session. By the time the governor ad vid the legislature that he want el action on the pact, leslslative channels were crowded with other measures. There was opposition to the compact as -drawn, but so far as could be learned, none of the legislators would have opposed It if some of the objectionable features had been eliminated. SALES TAX COMING SFNATOR RTJMSEY SAYS Wyoming some day will have a general ssles tax in effect, tn the opinion of Senator B.

C. Rumsey of Park 'county. He believes that when the people are advised of the principles of a sales tax, opposition to this plan of taxation will be materially reduced. Daughter of Sen. McAdoo Is 111 NEW YORK, Dec.

27. Edward 8. Cowles. daughter of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of California, was so critically 111 cf pneumonia today that her father was coming here from Los An-ireles rtlane to be at hr bedside. Passengers Make Long Hike from Stranded Train Will Be Covered by- 1930-31 Taxes he was advised that when the sen ate committee of the whole had concluded its work, a motion would be made to adopt all of the committee report with the excep tion of that part relating to the cnild labor proposal, Senator Sanders waited a short time but left before the matter came to a vote.

The motion event. ually was made and it was defeat ed by a vote of 13 against and 12 for it. Had Senator Sanders re mained In the chamber, the vote would have been 13 to 13 and Sen ator H. H. Horton of Albany county, who was presiding, said he would have cast his vote In favor of the motion.

Had the motion prevailed, the res olution would have gone back to the senate committee of the whole for further action, probably would have been approved. Friday; the senate approved a resolution, which would have placed a referendum on proposed ratification of the- child labor amendment before the voters in 1934. but the house took no action on It. JACK'S POLITICAL PLANS ARE SIFTED Political observers sensed In Speaker Jack's announcement that he would not seek re-election to the house a revival, of the rumor that he would be a candidate next year on the Democratic ticket for state auditor or possibly secretary of state. NO POLITICS IN WATER PACT DECISION There was no political issue involved in Senator Clarence Gard- Quota of Men Active on will follow, under the supeniiioa of City Engineer Frank S.

Knitf.e. Also part of the program thus instituted this week will be the extension of Mitchell street south ta provide an additional to Washington Memorial part Earth excavated from Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth streets wri be used to fill the draw that heretofore had mm rented completion of Mitchell street. Thirteenth street, between Mitchell and McKinky. also will be cut through and cpeced to traffic- TO MAP BOY maintained that he was employed to abduct the youh by John Martin Rushton. former employe of Home Stores, Ir.c, cf which the slain bov's father Is vice president.

Confronting each ether In the superintendent's office cf the prison last night. Wiles stuck" to his story th3t he was hired to do the Job, while Rushton denied all knowledge of the case. No charges have yet been filed against either, both being held "for Questioning" pendicg a coroner's inquest. wore all manner bf shoes furnished by men passengers. 'A severe rock slide in back of the train preventing its backing into Resla, occurred Jutt a few minutes after the train had passed that point only to be stopped farther on by a washout, the girl was Informed.

Telegraphic Labor Agreement Modified WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Telegraphic communication companies were given permission by NRA to Work their employes ta of 192 hours a month for a four-week period only, startinj today. A provision was made, however, that all work above the 192-hour limit In the modified re-employment agreement for the industry shall be paid for at a rate of time and i mvic imi 'TV l.M.i.n i. I III 1 -Tf Vim ,4 A Roosevelt ASTTrV I FOR NEW POST HARRY MILLS ASTIN Harry Mills Astin left today for Wasrantrton.

D. -where he will om the office staff of Senator Joseph C. Mahoney. Astxn, who traveling by auto, will atop Chicago to visit with an aunt on way to the national capital Astui, who has a wide acquaint- "ce. enjoys the friendship of many prominent members of both his selection by O'Mahoney has met with general favor.

Front Vmgm 0) opposite this machine was an auto occupied by Howard Noland and Harry Sodeman who were coming to Casper, but who stopped to assist the persons in the other car. The lights on the Noland car were on and blinded the three boys in the machine in which Ennis was riding, Delbert Moore, one of Ennis' companion, testified. H. S. Streeter, who was driving the auto into which the Ennis car crashed, and who was accompanied by Gerhardt Crosscopp, said he may have checked his speed of approxi mately 35 miles per hour, when he went between the two parked cars.

Just as the streeter car passed be tween the other two machines, the crash occurred, both the Streeter and Ennis cars going into the bar P. wuis craper, state mgnway pa troiman, who conducted an Investl ganon 01 ine accident, saia trie roaa at the point the accident occurred was wide enough for three cars to pass easily, Melver Meyer, 810 South Chestnut street, who was driving the car which was owned by Ennis. estl mated the speed of the car to be between 40 and 50 miles per hour. He saw the Noland car but could not see the Streeter machine. The three boys, Ennis, Meyer and Moore, had been at a local dance hau durin the evening, w.

v. tn When he finally saw the streeter car, Meyer tried to apply the brakes as he could not avoid a crash by going around the machine in front of his car. While he was not certain. Strwter Moore, who suffered a head injury in the crash, said 'there seemed to be a reflector or tail light on the Streeter ear which he saw about 30 feet away before the crash. He yelled to Meyer to 'look out." The Ennis car was traveling tt a fast rate of speed and had it not been going so fast the accident might "have been avoided, in the opinion ct Moore.

The lights from the Noland car blinded them, he said Ennis suffered a fractured skull, lacerations and sprains. Dr. Allan McLellan, attending physician, testified. Ennis was taken to the hos pital with his two companions in the Noland car. He died in the hospital late Sunday afternoon.

Meyer received cuts on one hand i and Streeter and Grosscopp, who also testified at the inquest, were uninjured, folic Officer Jack Bor deaux, Gilbert Gallegos, Howard Noland, Harry Sodeman and Roger Brummond also testified at the in- Quest. Clifford Swalm and Clarence Swaixn also were In the car with bui j8 McDowell, Albert Micek and Floyd Humes. CHEYENNE, Wyo Dec. 37. (J1) Worn with the duties of the execu the office.

Governor Leslie A. Mil ler announced today he will take a brief vacation. "I'm tired, the governor said "my nerves are Jump and rve got 10 gee out or tne -office for a while, I'm going out to California torn or row or the next day and Just lay arouna xor a wee or so." Ever since Senator Kendrick died Governor Miller said, he has not been feeling quite up to standard and the added cares of the special session of the legislature were a further strain. His vacation plans are somewhat indefinite. He will leave just ae soon as certain matters that receive immediate attention are taken care of, leaving either tomorror or the next day, and he has not determlc ed just how Jong he will remain sway.

Miller will cot accompany him ca the trip. NO BLAME FOR CRASH PLACED GOVERNOR TO JAKEHION a NEW YORK By JAMES McMULLIN R. F. Ct Watch the scrap about renewing the RFC charter when congress meets. It has a vital bear ing on the, relations between the new deal and private capital.

It is an essential part of Republi can strategy to try to kill the RFC even though it was created by their own administration. The real point unlikely to appear in surface de bateis that the RFC is the key to farther government intervention in the management of private business. It's the use of RFC money by pri vate corporations which gives the government a foot Inside the door. Local Republicans who are in -on the play have no hope nor evtfn the desire to abolish the agency al though they will move in that direc tlon. But they do hope to carve oat compromise which would sharply limit the RFCs functions and es pecially prevent It from entering the field of industrial lending.

Strenu nons private efforts are being made to enroll conservative Democrats for the cause. Aa New York sees it, it boils down to the fundamental question wheth er the capital market shall be a government monopoly. TUG WELL: Local conservatives see Professor Tugwell as the arch-villain in the Washington drama. It isn't his advertising bill they object to so much although you can dig up plenty of complaints about that as his economic phlloeopy. They claim he Is an outright socialist with the fixed objective of eliminating the profit motive from business.

There Is no tendency to assume that the president is committed to the alleged Tugwellian theories. But the continued prominence of Tog- veil and his friends in the Washington picture is the cause of much viewing with alarm. For instance, he Is named as the man behind Belief Administrator Hopkins' approval of Mayor-elect LaGuardia's municipal milk-distrib uting plan. New Yorkers interested In milk are mad. They maintain it Is not a charity proposition but the beginning of effective competition In their field between the government and established distributing systems.

Conservatives also look askance at Hopkins' Surplus Relief corporation. They Insist Its avowed object of distributing agricultural surpluses to the needy Is just a bund for sweep ing socialistic powers. And again Tugwell gets the blame. The Republicans see an issue arising here into which they can sink their teeth. It may be the focal point of their 'Zi attack.

The utility question ties In. CONFLICT? Informed quarters understand that an inner conflict exists among 'the administration's advisers on questions of broad pol icy. It is stated on good authority that Professor Warren Isn't keen for NRA and AAA activities and believes his gold program would have worked better without them. Mem bers of the committee for the nation are inclined to agree. Conversely Professor Tugwell and bis associ ates see no good in trying to raise prices by monetary manipulation.

The dope Is that the president will continue to play a middle ground against the extremists of both camps. WARBURG: Jimmy Warburg is still privately regarded as the best hope for better liaison between New York and Washington. His recent speech In favor of a unified banking system and an increase in minimum bank capital requirements from $50,000 to $500,000 is known to meet the administration's long-range views and also has the support of New York bankers. He stressed the one point on which there is common meeting ground. His remarks about a modernized gold standard also represented a distinct and locally approved-concession to Washington's monetary aims.

LEBLANC: The following Inci dent sheds light on Warburg's comment that Senator Thomas gets his monetary ideas from ex-international banker, George LeBlanc and Blanc's disclaimer. On the night of Father ConghUn's New York speech, as Coaghlin and Thomas ap peared at the front of the stage, LeBlanc -remarked to a friend: "There are my two prise pupils." LeBlanc has also served as adviser to the committee for the nation although he Is not a member. HOARDING: Inside financial circles report that there Is more hoarding going on among the moderately wealthy than is generally known. The commonest methods today is the purchase of 80-pound bars of sliver worth about $500 each. Straight currency hoarding seems to have gone out of style.

Bankers say that an Increasing number of bills in denominations of $50 and up are returning from circulation and expect this trend to become even more conspicuous after the holidays. STRAW: A significant straw In the wind is the accelerating return of driblets of money from Europe. A great many people ef small means were sending remittances abroad by the money order method a couple ef months ago In sort ef minor flight of capitaL the remittances are running the other way and the saving banks already notice it in terms of deposits. A great many Utile fellows have spontaneously decided that dollars are as safe as any money there is. Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

A gavel made from a branch of the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National park, California, has been placed in the museum of, the Warm Springs Foundation at Warm Springs, O. 4 I SUBSCRIBERS OF THE 4 -A fc v. 1 jr v-' tlon. The hiah ooint of the prison in due tries code, Powell said today, is that the sale alee of the article must include a charge for labor comparable to the charge for free labor and also that some of the la ter of the prisoners win be or man clal benefit to them, either for their use when their terms have expired or a contribution to the support of their dependents while they are In carcerated. 1 FACES PROTEST BSnsaSBSHSN Sterilization to Be Started Jan.

1 BERLIN, Dec. 27. storm of opposition sees Nasi law reform ers as their pet project, sterilization. roes into effect January I. Troieal of ths Nazi effort to ex tend complete dictatorship over the eltlsenry.

it is but one of the many striking measures of legal reiorm I aftheduied for the new year pro-1 foundly changing German criminal, civil and military law. I The law creates 1.700 eugenic courts to administer its provisions. I It is the first of Its kind to be ap-1 plied on a national scale in modern history and is the nearest xnmz so- otologists say, since ancient times to the practice or leaving ine km survive. Elimination of the misfit by sterilization is the keystone of the Nazi racial iZnXtJHl least 400.000 Germans, the Deutche For tne present uie rare i at Zeltung says, ere involved. Tnese eomnrisinir wrietically the same number of both sexes.

The law is applicable to hered! tary. rreeble-mindedness, tentatively estimates ww tis, AM I 2. Schizomania, 80,000. S. Insanity, 20.000.

4, Epilepsy, 60.000. 5. Saint Vitus dance, 600. C. Blindness, 4.000.

7. Deaf and dumbness, 1,000, g. Serious physical deformity, 000. 9. Chronic alcoholism, 10,000.

The total cost to the state for sterilixina- the 400.000 is es timated at 4,000,000 marks (cur rently about $11,491,000) for the men on a basis of 20 marks an op eration, and 1 0.000 J000 marks (about $3,728,500) for the women, operating in the latter ease being more aixu cult. The Deutsche Zeltung's eugenics ewoert said the task could he com- pleted in a period of two years. TRAIH VJIH FATAL TO SIK Three trainmen and at least three transients were killed at Black Bridge Switch, three and a half miles west of here at midnight last night when a Missouri Pacific freight train struck a herd of cat tie and was derailed. P. H.

Kendall, undertaker, said ha. could see the bodies of three men and that it was possible several others were still buried under the twisted freight cars. The trainmen's bodies were recovered. "There were supposed to be about 13 or 20 transients riding ths freight, which was a through train from Mart to Houston," Kendall said. BANDIT TO PAY DEATHjEHALTY SAX FRANCISCO, Dec.

27. A Jury of seven men and five women early today convicted Edward Anderson, 25, confessed slayer of Hewlett Tarr during a theater holdup, of first degree murder. As no recommendation for leniency was made, the death penalty Is mandatory. Anderson was arrested eight davs ago in a gun fight with police as he fled from a bank holdup. He con- lessea to shooting the theater cashier several weeks previously, adding that he had engaged in a sertea of holdups to give- his girl NAZI ME I Some Appropriations Money Raised by By CHAS.

A. COONET CHEYENNE. Dec. 27. An analysis of appropriations, direct or implied, authorized by the special session of the twenty-second Wyoming legislature, shows a total of $983,589.50 listed for expenditure In one form and another.

However, the legislators found themselves in an unusual position by appropriating money from funds that had been appropriated by a previous legislature and subsequently were reverted into the general fund. In support of most of the measures calling for direct appropriations, legislators were told that the proposed expenditures would not necessitate additional taxes because about $100,000 was available in the state's general fund. If that Is true, and time alone will tell whether it is, some of the direct appropriations made by the special session will not be charged to the present state admlnistra tions as the moneys thus appro-! priated were raised by taxation in 1930 and 1931. However, it ap pears that this money will riot be gin to cover all authorized expen ditures of axJirect nature. This $100,000 general fund-surt plus, which the special session more than wiped out.

represented the remaining balance of $155217 which was reverted Sept. 30. 1933 It represented in its entirety the unexpended balances in contin gents for 1930-31. Amcne the funds reverted were $12,408 from the fund set aside for capitol building improvements, $14,849 from an appropriation designated to purchase and pre serve old Fort Laramie, and $3,819 of. unused -monev appropriated for the expense of the twenty-first legislature.

Specific special session appropri ations totaled $223,589.50, Of this, S48.989.50 was for the expense of the special session. The special session authorized the state board of charities and reform and the university each to expend $300,000. If the expenditures to authorized are construed as appropriations, the total appropriations, direct or otherwise, amount to $983,580,50. for there also is a provision in S. F.

43 that in order to reduce the bonded debt of irrigation and drainage districts, a tax not to exceed $100,000 can be levied to reimburse the state permanent funds resulting therefrom. 15 STATES HAVE CUT LICENSE FEES Wyoming became one of 15 states that have cut their automobile license fees when H. B. 21 became a Taw. In four of the 15 states, one of them Nebraska, auto registrations are said to have increased as a result of the re duction.

The Wyoming reduction Ad i ior ana wiu eave car owners i approximately $300,000. I HOUSE REFUSES TO ACT ON PRIMARY BILL Democratic housa leaders refused to bring H. B. 52. providing for four-year moratorium on primary elections, up before the committee of the whole, although the measure was introduced by Democrat Representative Tom Carroll of Laramie county.

Carroll said enactment, of the bill would cave the taxpayers the cost of the special session. The hill was reported back from the stand ing committee with a recommendation that it do not pass. It was on general file in the house for 10 days or more, but was kept at the bottom ef the file. Foes of the present primary law saw in the measure hope for possible repeal of the law if H. B.

52 had passed. It was considered the one thing needed as an entering wedge to change sentiment en this question. ABSENCE OF SENATOR KILLS CHILD LABOR BILL Had Senator R. H. Sanders of Sweetwater county remained In the senate chamber a while longer last Thursday before leaving for his home in Rock Springs, ratification of the child labor amendment to the federal constitution probably would have resulted.

This situation developed la the following manner: When the resolution jwopcsir.gr Wyoming's ratification was voted on in the senate committee cf the whole, it was defeated bv a vote of 13 to 11. Senator Sanders voted for its passage. However, he previously had received a call to return home and while hs was pxtparicg to leave HELENA, Dec. 27. Still nursing bruised feet and stiffness from an enforced 10-mile walk over mountains or through gulches.

Miss Bernice Hreila at the home of her parents in East Helena, today recounted her experiences on the marooned Milwaukee" Olympian stranded by washouts end slides near Drexel, With others cf the 125 passengers the girl, clad only In light shoes and flimsy clothing, made the trek from the train to Regis where she boarded an automcbile to be home with her family for Christmas, arriving Monday morning. She is a freshman at the University of Washington In Seattle. About 65 of the passengers, she said, started out Friday from the train, including ap 87-year old man who after walking four or five miles was carried the rest of the distance on a stretcher. During their stay on the train. Miss Hreila related, the passengers were given every consideration by the train crew and were kept comparatively comfortable.

One woman with a six months old baby was provided with milk when the lim ited dining car supply was consumed by a quantity carried by several of the men who tramped St. Reds and back. On the arduous walk from the train. Fhe said, pome of the women 4 Franklin D. 1 i i a Casper Tribune-Herald Be Given a Beautiful Ilxl4-Inch Portrait of PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D.

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