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Mtlh TKE NATIONAL WHIBLIGIG News Behind the Scenes Price Five Cents The Casper Dally Trtowie IH carpet He.aia Thursday Evening, August 23, 1934. Tribune Cwldutg Casper, Wyoming 43rd Year No. 160 WASHINGTON By GEORGE DURNO 9 IX IT Way last waiter the Krt people descended on with tears in tbeir eyes. Beer Result Stand in Late Returns FOR REOPENING MAKERS CODE CRA CALLS OF SV30TOR Ill ALL I I 10 READ FOR THE DOROTHY I had tome back and repeal was in Hit immediate oiling. They bad vi of a big industry dying right out under them.

Convincing spokesmen appeared teUrc the House Ways and Means committee. It was pointed out that 0- human stomach can stand only (nut li in the way of a liquid diet. rc, tiicy aiked, was all the soft fiutf going to be poured after hard licju came back? i re v.as only one chance for the industry to survive. That was ii. abolition of the existing soft nk tax.

Evtn iuch a federal gestae might not offset the impending petition. 1 lie Ways and Means boys were itv haruboiied. They didn't emote ait bit. to the senate hopped the liLi nattd lobby. There they found a "i it: sympathetic ear.

iiic ui pcr house singled out the ti ink levy Irani all the so-called nuance taxes and repealed it. The Uuk concurred. June was the last month this tax collected. The final figure s) ivied a jump of 5500,000 over May! Depute the retain of whiskey, gin and beer, company reports show the drink industdy is speeding along bifili gear. Ginger ale has slump-(d a but charged water is 'way up.

I'i3 time ssda fountain and tand drinks that slaked our tuirits during the dry era are to sell as cf old, though lo-(a! products tend to droop. Maybe the drought made the unary over-thirsty. Perhaps the n-alcoholic vendors sadly under-r imated the capacity of the Amer-i stomach. Whatever the answer ilt drink industry has a sneak-icig Mispicion that congress will slap tax "back cu the first thing next IJl.T.ML I'olitical writers for the li metropolitan papers and the prr associations are back from inur first swing around the country i i vmnd out sentiment in advance of the fall elections. Mcst of them agree that the man in the street still goes for the Roose-ii administration but that the men and financial leaders expressing open doubt as to the Deal's chances for success.

This I riling curie pends roughly with ihi Literary Digest's national poll. President Koosevelt took cogniz-iit the situation in his Green r.ay speech when he appealed to the average man" that gent who used tn know as the "forgotten man." mm a Washington vantage point I continued hold on the masses i ii be attributed, among other to his adroit reversal of one in." fundamentals of the Hoover iliiMiiistration. lirilert Hcovcr was such a glutton for detail that he attempted to I ill the entire government upon his ui vhouUlcrs. He trusted his ability so little that he to wrestle personally with rif.v major problem and thfy many. Tir.idorc Joilin, who served as I'aRe Sl 1 ST.owers tonight, much and central portions; cloudy, showers south- mcwhat warmei north por ir.p temperatures reporien by F.

C. Bush, local U. S. cr otfcrvcr. were as follows: Wednesday.

70. Wednesday night. 52 10 a. m. Thursday.

i wind 24 hours midivight Wccnesday, 6.029 per hour, ar.d highest hourly 11 miles per hour, be ween 3 r. as recoreed by the York Oil ccmpany. 5 i1 no 13 Sgj 3 i Am i Who will make her parachute jump from a Wyoming Airlcotton textile industrial rslatlons Service plane Sunday afternoon at the air exhibition in connection I board, has compared a statement with the dedication of Casper's new at Wardwell field, which is believed to offer an alter-Shorty Wagner of Denver will also make a parachute jump. Numer- native to the textile strike. He Is ous other thrilling and exciting events and demonstrations have been seeking the approval of other gov-arranged for the program.

Continued on Pe tHto County It was just a lark," pretty Col ic tt a Mulvihill. daughter of Tliomas J. Mulvihill, oil company executive, said as she left her truck-driver husband, Thomas Green, after two days of married life following an elopement. She jilted a Spanish sweetheart in marrying Green. "I'm through with butterflies," Green responded, adding that he really didn't love her and was suffering from no heart pangs.

miens PAIR PTO SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 23. MP)-Captured in a field near here a few hours after they assertedly held up the Manter, Kansas. State bank, and had exchanged volleys of shots with pursuing officers, Jonn Fowler, 40. and H.

E. Brown. 37, were taken back to Johnson City, to face charges in connection with the bank robbery. Deputy Sheriff Jared Hansen, one of the posse that chased and caught the pair, said $659, a'legedly taken from th? bank, was found on the two men. OFFICIAL CANVASS TO BE MADE TUESDAY Official tabulation of primary votes polled in Natrona county will be made Tuesday, August 28.

by the state canvassing board, as provided by the Wyoming election statutes. U.S. take exception to the announced goal is accepted. It slso is certain he is aware cf the political poten tialities. The league's purposes are two-fold under the heading: -To defend and protect the constitution of the United States." Data will be disseminated to teach: 1.

"The necessity of respect for the rights of persons snd property as fundamental to every successful form cf government;" and 2. "The duty of government to encourage and protect individual Hnntlnnrd on Pas l-'onrl BUTTERFLY? 1 fit i EMU! AREGA Evangelist in Kidnaping Hoax to Face Charge R. If. ASKEW. GOLDSBORO.

N. C. Aug. 23. VD Hollow-eyed and dejected.

R. H. Askew, 28-year-old self ordained disciple of Almee Semple McPher-son, faced today a charge of sending ransom notes through the mails. after confessing, officers said, that; his "kidnaping" was a hoax. Sheriff Paul Garrison said Askew had admitted his abduction story-was mere fiction and that he had sent to his 50-year-old wife and to Aimee Semple McPherson demanding $23,000 from each.

"I needed a rest and had to get away," Sheriff Garrison quoted Askew as saying. The charge was preferred by department of justice agents who investigated Askew's story after he had walked Into Nashville police headquarterss and' said he had been abducted by three men. Unable to furnish $5,000 bond. Askew was taken to the county jail to await a hearing Aug. 31.

Federal agents served the warrant on Askew, and took him before U. S. Commissioner L. E. Pear.vi, who set the bond.

The "Four Square Gospel" evangelist, clad in white cotton trousers and a white shirt, open at the throat, answered "not guilty" in a steady voice. FLOWER SHOW WELL BE HELD HERE FRIDAY The children's Flower Show, sponsored by the Casper Woman's Departmental club, will begin at 2 30 o'clock Friday afternoon, instead of 3 o'clock as previously announced. The bardstand in City park will be gi'y decorated by flags and huntir.2. The Odd Fellows toys' hand, directed by David Foote, will play. The flowers exhibited in the show were grown from seed purchased by the children tnrougn their schools.

They must be delivered at 226 East Second street by 10 o'clock Friday morning. This location is the bulld-irg in which the Tribune-Herald furnished election returns this week. Judges of the best children's bouquets will be Mrs. William Emmel. Mrs.

C. A. Wilson and Mrs. Frank Cone. 1,000 SLAIN INGHACOWAR ASUNCION.

Paraguay. Aug. 23. UP) The ministry of defense issued a communique tocay declaring tnai the Paraguan army. In a rapid offensive, had annihilated a force of 1000 Bolivians refendlng a fort situated in the region of the Chaco Boreal, 40 miles east of Carandayty.

The Bolivian detaenment was a part of the 16th regiment. veil If NntS Election PRECINCTS 01 IKE IIP NEW TOTALS une contest uniy in Doubt and Another Said Close Returns from all but one small rural precinct had been unofficially tabulated by this morning, with the outcome of only one contest still in doubt. Results of the poll in Miller precinct, at the Ben Roberts ranch in the Poisoned Spider district, could not be secured and probably will not be known until the official canvass on Aug. 28. Only a margin of two votes over Earle G.

Burwell includes John Salmon in the Democratic nominations for representatives to the state legislator, on the basis of the 48 precincts reported. Miller precinct is reported to have only eight votes, but these could alter the Salmond- Burwell contest. Another especially close race was that between W. H. Tolhurst.

incumbent, and R. C. MacDonald for county surveyor, with Tolhurst poll-lne a 77-vote lead. Natrona county voters gave Tom D. more than a thousand ma jority over Leslie A.

Miller, for gov- ernor, and gave Baldwin a lead more than 1.600 over A. E. Wilde in the race for state treasurer. C. H.

Reimerth, another Casper candidate, was given a large majority over Roscoe Alcorn, state auditor seeking re-election, and Charles A. Cullen, Casper city treasurer and candidate for state treasurer on the Republican ticket, also polled a three-to-one majority over his opponents, Hansen and Huffman. The voters of Natrona county were closely divided in their choice of the Republican nominee for governor, giving A. M. Clark a margin of 192 votes (48 precincts) over Nels Smith.

Other choices, on both the Republican and Democratic tickets were by decisive majorities. Returns from the 47 precincts reporting on the Non-partisan ticker (Continued on Pnee Six I DEATH OF GASPER GIRL ACCIDENTAL, INVESTIGATOR SAYS SCOTTSBLUFF, Aug. 23. No inquest will be held for Willa Hodges, 20-year-old girl who died Sunday night from a self-inflicted bullet wound, on a ranch southwest of Geringr, County Attorney Rush Clarge announced following a detailed investigation. County authorities believed the shooting was accidental, and members of the family concurred.

No apparent reason for suicide was known bv members of the fam ily, who said last night that Willa had not worried over her prospective teaching position at Glenrock, but on the contrary had been elated at the prospects of gaining employment. Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Seventh Day Adventist church near Minatare. Burial was in Eastlawn cemetery and Rev. F. J.

McCaffree was in charge of the services. Willa was a graduate of the high school at Casper. but had been living with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Phil Hodges, in the Nine-Mils community near Minatare. all summer. Besides her parents three broth ers. Howard and Alfred, of Minatare: Charles, of Gering, and three sisters. Mrs.

Irene Johnson, of Douglas, Abbie Hodges, of Casper, and Mrs. James Ward, of Minatare. survive. The gun with which Willa inflicted the wound in her head that caused her death was a small .32 caliber revolver, and dangerous to handle unless the bearer was familiar with the "gun, members of the family said. which there is no complete fossil in existence.

With this discovery, reported to the museum by Dr. Barnum Brown, leader of an expedition which is penetrating the sensational dinosaur graveyard in the Big Horn mountain region of Wyoming, science establishes the corpus delect! of barosaurus. It is the first barosaurus skull ever found. Airport Dedication to Feature List of Events PLAGES GASPERITES IN FRONT AGAIN Victory for All Means Five on Tickets in November CHEYENNE, Aug. 23.

There were only a few scattered precincts yet to be tabulated in the Wyoming primary election today and the leaders still clung to to their advantages. The contests for the major offices were over and on the state tickets the previous leaders kept to their majorities. It appeared unlikely that the few remaining precincts to be counted could change the final outcome of the primary. J. Kirk Baldwin of Casper, seem ed to be assured of the Democratia nomination for state treasurer and the winner of a close race with A.

E. Wilde, state examiner. In the five-cornered race for the Democratic nomination for Hate superintendent of public instruction. Jack Gage of Sheridan, continued to increase his lead and held a 450-vote majority which it appeared unlikely could be wiped out in the few remaining precincts. The afternoon tabulation: Senator, (long term).

Republican, 616 precincts: Bra 6.765. Carter 19.346. Ilsley 6,563. Underwood 1.227. Democratic.

577 precincts: O'Mahoney 22.517. Governor, Republican. 616 pre-rJncts: Clark 12.605. Lucas 4.395. Smith 10.208.

Whiting 6.450. Democratic. 615 rreclncts: Miller 18.572. OeU 11.997. State treasurer.

Republican. 619 precincts: Cullen 10.726. -Hansen 9,444. Huffman 10.290. Democratic.

616 precincts: Baldwin 13,367. Wilde 13.024. Secretary of state. Republican, 618 precincts: Deloney 2.628. Gardner 9,347.

Holdredge 8.958. Miller 10.228. Democratic. 616 precincts: Hunt 16.400. Flannery 10,012.

Superintendent of public lnstruc tion. Republican. 611 precincts: Ausherman 7.801. Emmett 8.703. Morton 15,908.

Democratic. 616 precincts: Anderson 4,523. Gage 5.474. Halseth 3,819. Johnson 4.695.

Bholty 5.061. Thrasher 3.685. State auditor. Republican, 593 precincts: Alcorn 20,784. Reimerth 9514.

Democratic, 585 precincts: Jack 23.299. Congressman, 561 precincts: Winter. Republican, unopposed, 26.430 on 561 precincts. Greever. Democrat, unopposed, 24.431 in 561 precincts.

((ntlaaed on I'as Tn IISINKING. Manchukuo. No more monkeyshines In Austria. The Austrian chancellor has been vUit-in; Mussolini and learbinf a lot. This fellow Benito is running a free whool for dictator.

They all come to him to leirn bow to pnt It over. Yon don't hate to worry about dktators In America until Rex Tog-well passes his entrance exams at Marsolini's academy. Yours, af eKauaaTSradteata. ta "Private enterprise is getting bade upon its own feet, and more and more is exerting its Initiative and is able to relieve the federal government of responsibilities, which under normal conditions, belong to business. The Roosevelt administration is squarely behind this principle.

It believes in Just profits for management and capital and an equltablt return to labor for its rightful reward in the economic rrocessea." UN 'M ROGERS Thrills and General Entertainment on Program for Sunday Celebration 1006TH TIME HARDEN There will be parachute Jumps, formations Town by the Colorado national guard aviators, stunting, fancy flying, free lights, sight -seeing trips, plane inspections and many other events and attractions which will provide a continuous program throughout the afternoon. Coming here with a record cf having made a total of 1005 parachute jumps. Miss Doro'hy Barden of Scottsbluff. nationally known sir performer, will be one cf the pr hute jumpers. Barden.

who is a licensed pi. nd who flies her own plane, wit tc taken to the heights for her jump by a Wyoming Air Service pilot. Another parachute jumper will be "Shorty" Wagner cf Denver, who also has a national reputation for being an expert jumper. While arrangements have not yet been definitely settled, it may be that Miss Earden snd Wagner will compete in a contest, each of them leaving a 14 ontinard on I'aitr A grotip of Casper merchants and the Tribune-Hera id are giving coupons with each 50 cent purchase or half dollar paid on account. Each of these coupons is a potential winner of a free all-expense paid trip to the world's fair in Chicaro or the winner msy elect to tak 6100 in cash.

The balance cf the is lime I to take advantage of the ity to win this wonderful award. Every ticket held is a possible winner of the free trip the more tickets held the greater the possibility of winning the award. I Pay up and current bills and ask for vcur coupons ccbtcrs will not only start the fall with a clean slate but qualify fo a possible fine prize. The award will be presented in front cf the Tribune-Herald building cn the afternoon of August 31 at 5:45 p. m.

in order that everyone may have opportunity to be on hand. The winner must te present at the time of the presentation cf award. Pay your bills now: Buy now! tip 'hf' Ski 3 raw SEEN Demand Urged on Board by A.F.L. By The Associated Press Uncle Sam generously spread his recovery salves over the nation's strike-pocked labor situation today and prepared further applications. Reactions varied.

Soon after the administration ordered hours reduced in the cotton garment industry yesterday, the NRA labor board 8greed to Insist on reopening the automobile manufacturers' code. The American Federation of Labor seeks wage and hour revisions in the motorcar factories. George A. Sloan, president of the cotton-textile institute, said at New York that "impartial government economists" have determined the impending nation-wide strike of cotton textile workers to be unjustified. He asserted, no field had Increased its workers' benefits under, the NRA as much as had the cotton textile industry.

Uncle Sam's bureau of labor statistics is making a detailed study of the effect of NRA codes on em-loyment, wages and hours In various Industries, including the textile, for future guidance. TJnhprt Rnipr rhnvrmftn of the BALL SCORES NEW YORK, Aug. 23. The New York Yankees' chances of overtaking the Detroit Tigers in the American league pennant race re ceived a setback today when It was announced that Catcher Bill Dickey would be out of the lineuD for a week. Dicksy suffered a compound dis location of the second finger of hts throwing hand yesterday while stopping a foul tip off Mel Harder's bat.

Arndt Jorgens will do the back-stopping in Dickey's absence. (Bv The Associated Press.) AMERICAN LEAGUE. R.H.E. Chicago 201 000 400 7 12 0 Boston 001 000 0012 6 1 Lycns and Madieskl; Welch, Mulligan, Pcnrock, II. Johnson and R.

Ferrel'- R. E. Cleveland 100 001 0002 6 2 Xrw York 004 202 Olx 9 13 1 Hudlin. Wriland and Pytlak; Ruffing and Jorgens. Detroit 000 000 Washington 3M Bridges and ITayworth; Burke and Bclton.

R. H. E. St. Louis 001 010 1003 10 1 AAA AAA AAA A 0 A Newsom and Grnbe; Cascaretla.

Flcbr and Berry. NATIONAL LEAGUE. R.H.E. Philadelphia 040 100 0005 12 0 Pittsburgh 000 COS 0016 12 1 Jchnson. Daris and Todd; Grimes.

Chagnon, Meine and Grace. New York 000 St. Lom 010 rfubbell ard Panning; and Daris. P. Dean Brooklyn 230 000 1 Chicago 003 001 Leonard and Lop-; Lee, Tinning and Hartnett.

Root, rain. Boston Cincinnati. postponed. Jobs Daughters Close Convention PORTLAND. Ore, Aug.

23. OV-Alter selecting Indianapolis as the site of their 1935 convention and electing Mrs. Edna E. Pauley. Indianapolis, supreme guard of tfte supreme guardian council, some 400 members cf the Order of Job's Daughters, ended their convention here today.

I An air exhibition and show rivaling those accompanying national and international air races throughout the country has been prepared in connection with the dedication of the new airport at Wardwell field Sunday afternoon. A large number of events will be presented during the exhibition which will foUcw the bnef dedication program. Hundreds are expected from all sections oi the state and many persons from surrounding states have indicated intention of attending. Opening the program at 2:15 will be the concert by the Casper municipal band, followed by the simultaneous arrival of the pony express and the southbound mail plane. After the departure of the plane, the exercises will be held with the air exhibition following.

In addition to congressional delegates and state officials being present. Gov. Ed C. Johnson of Colorado also has expressed his desire to attend. Organization Would Recruit Property Owners to Judge "New Deal" PUBLIC INTEREST TURNS TO WORLD'S FAIR FREE TRIP AS ELECTION IS CONCLU ADMINISTRATION TO SUPPORT 'JUST PROFITS' FOR CAPITAL 1 J.

DITFY I NX Aug. 23. (P) Liberty league began -lattens today for a cam- ihc continent to to 4.000.000 prop- vs to Judge the New Deal, i'v non-parisan and "not it set out to com-pcvfible influence in the cttato over whether the is "robbing Peter to star.d leaders in both popularly identified as ves:" E. Smith Davis. Democrats, who w.cirrrv to Hcovcr and :r.cs W.

Wadr-worth and Rcpubliran Ntw York. r.re rinnblirgis of vcr.mcr.t of the move announced last crm'cat "radicaasm." dc-crited the league br.t ratr.er as fcrrm v.v.d a ror.srcs for thofr wbo rci their personal and ajo he told President about it. in words like league will beccme a ir. nssistins toward restoration of pros-: tci for all our peo- hardly would i IMPORTANCE OF FOSSIL FIND IN WYOMING IS EMPHASIZED With the primary election over, local interest in the free trip to the Century ol Progress exposition takes on added enthusiasm with the demand for the purchase coupons increasing. Earocaurui was a semi-acquatic reptile, museum officials said.

Its chief peculiarity was the extreme elongation of the neck vertebrae. They lock like sections of a stovepipe. The skull Dr. Brown's operatives excavated was comparatively small, it had an insignificant brain case. Like all dinosaurs, barosaurus was not very bright.

Catiaae Page Twelve) WASHINGTON. Aug. 23. VP) Secretary Roper, declaring that business definitely is cn the upgrade, has informed the nation that the Roosevelt administration stands for "Just His statement that the government believes in the private profit motive was regarded as an answer to critics and reassurance to business men. Speaking in the Washington Star radio forum last night, the com- racrce department head said: F.v HOSIER McCOV.

NEW YORK. Aug. 23. W-Frcm the dinosaur "valley of death" in Wyoming has been taken the skull of a rare reptile that waddled through the swamps 140.000.000 years ago. Announcement of the find came tcdav from T.

Trubee Davison, president of the American Museum of Natural History. The skull is that of barosaurus, a hug- and little-known dinosaur of.

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