Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1917, Page 1

fT | The Ca VOLUME ONE pi CASPER, WwyYo., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1917. er Daily Tribune NUMBER 203 WITHERS UNDER TERRIFIC DRIVE Battle of Arras Resumed After Two Days’ Rest, With Attack by Field Marshal Haig on a Twelve-Mile Front INSECURING TU Uncontrovertible facts, including data that deals with the traffic over the Salt Creek road, will be used by the county commissioners in forcing recognition of Natrona county’s {claims upon the state highway board to secure a liberal apportionment of Federal funds for the improvement of local roads this year. Such in- | formation as has already been glean- ed relieves the possibility of Natro- na’s claim being ignored and when the petition is formally presented to the state board it will contain an exhaus- tive review of local conditions and the needs of the county. County Commissioner Charles Anda states that from figures obtained from the field representative of the Midwest company, a traffic tonnage of not less than 3,500 tons will be trans- ported to Salt Creek this summer. This is exclusive of automobile travel /over the road and the major portion od thas been contraeted. The road at PARIS, May The French made | present is in a deplorable condition gains on the Champagne |by reason of the recent and rain. The State of Wyoming will have approximately $60,000 to apportion among the various counties of the state this year and of this amount MARKS FOURTH ADVANCE French Reduce Strong Position East of Mont Haut as Spirited Fighting Wins Many Im- portant Positions LONDON, May 3.—Field Marshal Haig has resumed the British drive after two days’ inaction, in a new di- rection. “There is heavy fighting all along the front from the Hindenburg line to the Acheyille Vimy roads,” he re- ports. “We are progressing, and cap- tured a number of strong enemy po- sitions.” important front last night, reducing the posi- tions which are still being held by the Germans in the new lines east of Mont Haut, and capturing a German garrison of more than two hundred, it is officially announced. snow PARIS, 1 3.—The resumption of spirited fighting along a widely scattered front, along the whole French line, is reported in official statement by the French War De- partment. Fierce fighting is in progress south of St. Quentin and around Rheims and Verdun and St. Michael. } SOLDIER BERLIN, May ‘The British j n troops have begun a new attack “oi a wide front early this morning, Wy says an official statement. “There is continuous artillerry ac- tions during the past few days on, the banks of the Scarpe, followed by a heavy drum fire. Afterward the new English attacks began,” says the PRerlin War Office statement. “Slackers” Not Wanted in Casper Guard, Asserts Lieutenant, in Commenting on Unde- sirable Element ON THE BRITISH FRONT, May 3.—The British have dealt a he: blow at the Germans before dawn this morning along both sides of the Scarpe river. The battle is going favorably to the Pritish and many are being taken. ee eae Cheers and Orntich Greet Attendance of Commission in House + | This is WAR, and the lives of the WASHINGTON, May 3.—Gen.| balance of the company may depend Joffre, former Italian Premier Viv-|Upon the conduct of a few men at a iani and Vice Admiral Chocheprat | ¢ritical moment. If they are slack- completed their list’ of official visits | ers I do not want to put the lives of by calling at the House of Repre-| | the members of Casper’s best families sentatives today. in their hands. A great ovation greeted the dis-/ The young men of Casper today tinguished visitors, the members and | have a chance to go into a company the galleries joining in the cheers. | consisting of Casper men, but if they Viviani made a short address. wait a few weeks longer, until the Government puts the conscription ——_—_—— plan into effect, each company will have their “slackers’’ as well as the flower of the manhood of our city. ' Last night’s paper brings a report that Dillon, a little town of 1235 peo- Casper, Wyo. | Editor Daily Tribune: My Dear Sir—In your issue of y you had an article, “Pat $ Leave Home and Jobs to Enlist, While ‘Slackers’ Are a Drag on the Market.” prisoners and guns [I have been trying to enlist 2 com- pany of volunteers to represent Cas- per in the Wyoming Infantry in the present war. Do you want your city represented by the so-called slackers? {If a man is too lazy to work for a | living, he will not make a good sol- |dier, regardless of how much military |training you give him. » May’8, 1917. ple, over in the western part of the ate, has 24 men for service in the oming Infantry. But Casper, a , city, of almost 6,000, seems to think |that “George should do it.” i If it is necessary to enlist the! 4 “slackers” and ‘bums” of our city in! ; order that Casper may boast of a com- pany, as far as I am concerned there » | will be no Casper company. deliver me from the responsibility of Organized Gang of ‘High Graders Broken Up: by Authorities— _ VEslackers.” Stole in Colorado and janes ‘Sold i tin Frisco J. E. FRISBY, First Lieut., Wyo-, Infantry. | Water Commissioners of Second District Named DENVER, May 3 3.—With the arrest | of George J. Heben, Federal agents ' have added another link to the chain | of evidence revealing the gigantic “high-grade” hold ore thefts. The.authorities found -that the gang | pointed water commissioners in di-- owas well organized, and. was stealing | vision 2 by Governor Hoax: i from-Colarado mines, and, sending. the | Thomas Carey, Cambria, district 1;, loot .to San Francis¢o,,, where, it was | Walter Patch, Buffalo district 2; Fred sold.to the mine. Five arrests awere made last night | Big Horn, distriet..4; W. H. Luke, 'B at Cheyenne, one.at Cripple Creek, | Dayton, district 5; ‘Amdrew Hoagland, one at San Francisco. It is believed | Parkland, district 7; H. F.. Dyem, that approximately $200,000 has been | Ucress, district 6; Horace Brown, stolen, Kaycee, district 8. GERMAN DEFENSE|TONNAGE DATA COMPILEDASAID FOOD SITUATION Freight Traffic oSalt Creek, Exclusive of Auténabile| FRANCE IS AGUTE Travel, Will Amount to 3,500 Tons During the Summer Months of 1917 — May God} /going into battle with a company of | “ists, and Jean Mignolet, who accom- othe following men haye been ap-: QTATE ROAD FUND) IN BELGIUM ANG So Says Herbert Hoover, Head of Belgian Relief, Who Declares Mortality Rate is In- creasing Rapidly the Natrona cémmissioners hope to secure an allotment that will rovide | for an expenditure of $10, 000 in this, HOLLWEG TAKEN TO TASK | county. The county will put up dol-| lar for dollar with the state in this | work, It was intended originally that the | state appropriate a like amount with. the government, but in drafting a |German Chancellor Scored for| Weakness and Vacillation in | Resolutions Adopted -by bill to this end the last legislature Conservatives | neglected to make provision for ex- penses incidental to the distribution | | of the funds. As a consequence a! NEW YORK, May 3.—The Ger- | share of the fund was exhausted and! man U-boat menace has made the the remainder was combined with the | food situtaion in Belgium and North- | federal fund. Under the terms of, ern France one of extreme gravity, | final adjustment the counties are call-| and the mortality among the adults ; ed upon to appropriate an equal in the industrial districts has been | amount to that received from the, multiplied by three during March | state, and in many quarters this is and April, according to Herbert considered manifestly more equitable, | Hoover, who arrived from Europe on Few realize the significance of the an American ship. Bankhead-Shackleford Good Roads Hoover proceeded at once to Wash- bill as enacted by the government. | ington to take charge of the govern- It means that $85, 000,000 has been | ment’s food control program. dedicated to the improvement of the — «The food situation in Belgium and American highways during the next! Northern France requires every ef- s, and of this amount Wyo- | fort we can make,” said Hoover. ming will secure approximately one “Wheat and corn are needed bad- million dollars. r ! The appropriation is jy, also pork and beef,” he said. increased in the ratio of almost 100 per cent each year., _ COP ENHAGEN, May 3.—Such are permit- e the cam- Bethman- erman newspapers a: a te reach here ind paign’ agamst Chancellor <soth hey is in full swing. e Conservatives adopted resolu- Eee attacking the ancellor and censuring the government for weak- ness and vacillation on the peace question and in dealing with strike agitators. BELGIAN CONSUL HERE TO EFFEGT BIG OIL MERGER Union of Lucky Strike and Wyom- ing Pure Ratified at Meeting of Directors Held This Afternoon Resolutions express concern at the growing influence of Socialists, whose peace efforts are declared to be leading Germany to the brink of | ruin > Germany and Austria Reach Agreement on All Peace Questions AMSTERDAM, May agreement on questions of peace ex- ists between Germany and *Austria, according to a semi-official statement from Vienna. The Austrian Cabinet insists that both must “hold together to the end, otherwise no ood can ac- crue to either in Ba future Policy Holders May Be Protected, Life Insurance Scandal Officers of the United Petroleum Co. are meeting this afternoon to rat- iffy the union of the Lucky Strike | Oil Co. and the Wyoming Pure Oil Co. All the details of the organiza- tion were completed some time ago, but this fformal meeting will see the discussion of many important points of policy. Frank M. Woods, president of the United Petroleum, arrived in ety the first of the week, and was joined this morning by other officers, Chas. | M. Herbertson, vite president; E. R. Stadler, assistant secretary and treas- urer, both of Denver. When interviewed this morning Mr. Herbertson declined to make any 3.—A perfect definite statement’ as to the policy PITTSBURG, Pa., May %3.—Com- of the company before presenting’ missioner O’Neil voices the hope matters to the stockholders. ,; that the Pittsburg life insurance scandal may not prove so costly to policy, helders as at first sup- The two oil companies, which are combining to form this strong organ-, the ization, hold leases on alternate posed. It is believed that part of the quarter sections’ in 10,000 acres in million nine hundred thousand dol- Salt Cr No stock in the new com-. lars may be recovered from bad in- pany is being put on the market, al- vestment. tho the company is capitalized with 5,000,000 shares, having no par value. lialian Alabassador Gets Hundred Million as Share of War Loan WASHINGTON, May 3.--Becre- tary of the Treasury Wm. G. Mc- Adoo has handed the Italian Ambas- sador, Count Di Cellers, a treasury warrant for $100,000,000, this being Italy’s share in the American war loan to the Allies. Development of this valuable prop- erty in this widely known anad defi- nitely proven field will be made by the Ohio Oil Co., which is now drill- ing on the Northwest quarter of Sec- tion 5-39-79. The officers of the company are all men of wide repute, and have desig- nated Denver and Boston as the head- quarters of the company, with R. H. Nichols in charge of the local office. Mr. Woods is the man who developed Cripple Creek, and is owned of the Gold Coin mine at Victor, one of the, largest gold mines in the West. Messrs. Herbertson and Stadler , are alsoiprominent Colorado eapital- Burlington Employe Dies of Pneumonia panied the party to Casper, and is onélof the Targe stockholders, is Bel- gian Consul at Denver. He is a, After Short Illness. _ chevalier of the Order of Leopold, and his treatises on military tactics Osear Johnson died died ‘at the Stat” , have caused his election to the French Hospital this,morning after “a brief Academy of Science. illvess with pneumonia. He was 36: loc (SHG ‘years of age and had no relatives in Casper, tho a bréther. resides in Min- DENVER, Colo., May 3.—Golden{ City Lodge No. 1, of Golden, the old-) est Masonic lodge in Colorado, will nesota. Silo ‘conduct the’funeral ceremonies at the, The man had been employed’ by, ill), on Lookout Mountain, on Sun--the steam shoyel. Arrangements for day, June 3f The Knights Templar the funeral will, be. deferred until) ‘commandery) members from Denver and other state jple. Shaffer Gay are making’ ‘ar- Saag will = as escorts. ‘rangements for the funeral. | Foremost English Authority Brands as of North Platte and something can be heard from his peo- is U-BOATS CANNOT WIN WAR, IS CLAIMED rw MOST SERIOUS MENACE, SAYSLORD NORTHCLIFFE, WHO ASSERTS FACTS AND FIGURES HAVE BEEN HELD UP “Preposter- ous” the Idea That War Can Be Won by Under- sea Methods, and the British Are Frank 4 in Admitting Severe Losses ayes (Note—Sensing a nation-wide doubt as to whether Brit- ain has been telling the full truth regarding the German sub- marine successes and the Western front campaign, the United Press put the question squarely up to Lord Northcliffe, the best- posted man in England, asking the question whether or not America is getting all the facts. This interview was cabled over the British Government line, indicating how important the For- eign Office considers it.) pea (Cop;right by the United Press) LONDON, May 3.—America is getting the full and com- plete facts of every news feature of the British end of the war developments, except the actual figures of submarine fosses, and may expect to receive them very soon. The submarine menace is the strongest card Germany has played, but it will never win the war.” The foregoing is on authority of the man whose prophe- sies and statements on the war have come to carry more weight than those of any other figure in the Allied countries—Lord Northcliffe. Lord Northcliffe is probably the squarest facer of facts in England. He never dodges. Today the United Press put square- ly up to him the proposition of the gathering doubt and dis- trust in America resulting from the belief that British officialdom have not been frank with America in its statements of sub- marine losses—and possibly has not told the full truth regard- ing the Allies’ successes on the Western front. “In regard to the loss of tonnage by submarines,’ said Lord Northcliffe, ‘there is no doubt that the figures are serious. The government does not prevent our newspapers from saying so, nor prevent American correspondents from saying so. The gov- ernment will, I believe, very soon publish the full facts and figures, as soon as they can arrange the matter with the French and Italian Allies.” “T do not hesitate to say m my newspapers that the subma- rine menace is the greatest difficulty we have had so far, but to pretend that the war can be won by the submarine is prepos- terous. “Certainly there can be no complaint of lack of franknesss or over-censorship in the reports of the United Press and the As- sociated Press correspondents at the British front. In the early part of the war I was one of the censorship’s severest critics, but I am convinced that the present daily reports of the British ad- vance published here and in the United States are the frankest statements made by any of the belligerents.”” METHODISTS 10. PRESBYTERIAN LIFT MORTGAGE MAKE PURCHASE AND CELEBRATE KYTE PROPERTY Sunday | |Location Commanding View of Park and City at Wolcott and Clark Secured for New $20,000 Edifice Dedicatory Exercises Morning Will Feature Address by Chancellor Buchtel of Denver University | Methodist} Areeable to predictions made im Church will hold a dedicatory service | these columns, the Board of Trus- on Sunday to celebrate the clearing | tees of the First Presbyterian Church of the new part of the building from | last evening closed a deal for the pur- debt. A sum of $2,200 has been a| chase of the A. E. Kyte property at burden to the congregation for the| the corner of Woleott and Clark; on past two years, but this sum has now | which the new $20,000 edifice will be been arranged for, and the festival} erected. The consideration has (not on Sunday will celebrate this splane been named. did event. “We think we have the finest esd Chancellor H. A. Buchtel of Den-| tion in the city,” said Dr. Walter H. ver University will make the ad-! Bradley this morning. “The eleva- dresses at the morning services at 11 / tion commands an unrivaled view of o'clock, and also in the. evening, the city and the City Park lends-ad- ‘when he will deliver a lecture on the | ditional attraction to the site.” subject, “American Leadership in the > ‘According to the terms of the sale World Crisis.” This lecture has been | the present: owner Will not zive pos- igiyen a number of times and has at- sesssion cntil June 10, Im the mean- tracted favorable comment of the time an architect will be authorized Denyer. press. All members of the to proceed with the plans, and while congregation and their friends are the cost is conservatively estimated urged to come out to both services | at $20,000, there-is every indication and hear this brilliant.speaker. Chan-, that the’ now edifice will cost more éellor Buchtel is one of thel eading| than this*imoimt: | figures in- the Methodist Church, and The newhy aectuired ‘pronerty em- a brilliant man intellectually, ani a‘l bracés two lots andian 8-room house, The Gantz Memorial 'Frienakan, district 3; G. C. Morrow, ‘burial of Col. W. F..Cody. (Buffalo.the Burlingten,road and worked on} power in the educational world. He! which will be ¢onverted into a \par- is one of the former governors of sonage. “The latter willbe moved to Colorado. The Rev: J. J. Giblin anngunces . that the debt has all been arranged for anleno funds will he soliciteu one side to make room for the church on the corner. -Activ> work probably Will not be started until the middle of June, when plans for the church will