Gillette histories

FROM THE DEC. 12, 1935 THE NEWS RECORD
H.A. Cross, formerly vice president of the defunct Citizen Bank, is on his way from Oregon to Gillette and is expected to arrive today to face a charge of misappropriation of the bank’s funds. Sheriff Roy Hardy and County Attorney Elwood Anderson were in Cheyenne last week and secured extradition papers from Acting Governor W.E. Chaplin, to bring Mr. Cross from Oregon to Gillette, and Hardy left from there for the West. A wire from the sheriff Tuesday stated that he was leaving at that time for the homeward trip. The case against the former bank official has come about through an investigation of the affairs of the Citizens Bank, now in the hands of a receiver, and while the exact charges to be preferred against Mr. Cross are not known, it is alleged he will be charged with misappropriation of funds to the extent of some $4,000.The case will have various complications, and it is expected to attract much interest in the community when it comes up for hearing.
FROM THE DEC. 12, 1935 THE NEWS RECORD
Los Angeles — A crazed relief worker, returning to a from which he supposedly was discharged last week, tonight made a shambles of a huge WPA relief project ditch, killing four workmen and seriously wounding four others. Standing on a dirt heap above the ditch, he sprayed bullets into a group of laborers, then fled with a pack of workmen after him. A police shotgun squad rescued him from a mob attempting to lynch him after they had chased him into a blind alley. The killer, Charles N. Layman, 45, was jailed babbling incoherent words of hatred against a foreman whom he accused of “throwing sand in my shoes.” I missed two guys I wanted to get,”,he muttered. “I’d have killed more if police hadn’t arrived so soon.” He said he fired on the workmen because “they wouldn’t let me work but I guess I fixed them.” Police said the man, an obvious victim of hallucinations, had left the job last Friday after an altercation in which he charged Edward Ryman with putting sand in his shoes while he was at work.
FROM THE DEC. 30, 1943 THE NEWS RECORD
Paper plays a vital part in protecting shipments of army ordnance supplies from rough handling and danger of corrosion. Paper makes the cartons and moisture proof wrappings for delicate signal corps apparatus; its packages essential for medical supplies. The army corps of engineers and the quartermaster corps, also, find paper valuable in protecting supplies shipped to battle fronts. In appealing to the public to save paper by accepting unwrapped packages at retails stores and to salvage all paper that comes into the home, the war production board experts hope to net an addition 100 million tons of paper for the war needs during the coming year. The family wastepaper basket is already a war recruit. Its contribution of discarded paper bags, old newspaper, magazines — even a crumpled napkin — helps the army quartermaster corps to get paper for wrapping and packaging the millions of tons of shipping which must reach the battlefronts. On the average, each fighting man overseas requires 81 tons of supplies a month. In this global war, 700,000 different kinds of items ranging from tanks and cannons to shoe laces and spoons, must be shipped from points of production to areas of use.