Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1918, Page 1

— TRAINS CRASH HEADON Che Casper Daily 75 KILLED AND INJURED, TOLL AT NASHVILLE Combination Coach) Ripped Open by Force of Crash TBy United Press} NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 9.— It is estimated that between 75 and 100 were killed two tpeeding Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis passenger trains cr: id together headon this morning. hundred were injured. 5 A misunderstanding of orders is held responsible for the wreck. Hospitals are overflowing with in- jured, eral coaches having been splintered. z {By Assoctated Press.) NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 9.) —Two passenger trains on the Nashville, Chatanooga & St. Louis railway collided today near Bellemeade Park, in the western suburbs of Nashville. Telephone reports say that 25). were killed and 60 injured. | One train was eastbound from| Memphis and St. Louis, and the} other from Nashville to Memphis. | Both engines and baggage cars were completely wrecked. i A combination coach on the local, filled with whites and negroes, was ripped from end to end, Six passen- ger coaches were demolished and two are burning, Most of the dead are believed to be negroes. EVENING MAIL PUBLISHER IS UP FOR TRIAL [By United Press} z NEW YORK, July 9:—Dr, Ed- ward A. Rumely, publisher -of the New York Evening Mail, was arraign- ed today on perjury charges. Goy- ernment officials allege that Rumely | swore in his report to the alien prop- erty custodian that Americays owned the Mail, when in fact the German rovernment, thru Bernstorff and oth- er spies, furnished Rumely with $1,- 000,000 to purchase the Mail in June 1915, They further allege that they turnished Rumely with money ior other pu1 poses. A preliminary hearing will be held on July 23. Rumely expects to fur- nish bail in the sum of $35,000. SUGAR FAMINE TO BE OFFSET BY NEW RULING [By Anssociated Press.J _.WASHHINGTON, July 9.—Deff- nite assurances that there is danger of a sugar famine were given by the food administration today. The ren- eral food situation, ion the other hand, is declared to be better than at any time since America under- took the feeding of the allied werld. The public will be expected to ob_ serve new regulations, limiting the household per capita consumEEen of sugar to three pounds monthly and continue all other conservation meth- ods outlined by the department. BILLY SUNDAY IN ROCHESTER FOR OPERATION [By Assootated Press.} ROCHESTER, Minn., July 9.— Billy Sunday, the evangelist, arrived here today to undergo an operation gt hernia, Mrs. Sunday accompan- ied him, pee POL Your Success Depends on Tribune Advertising. AMERIC [By Asnociated Press.) PARIS, July 9.—Hopes found- ed on American aid to the allies will soon be realized, said Captain Herteaux, French aviator, who re- turned today from a visit to the United States, in statement to the Associated Press. Both American pilots and Amér- ;councilmen will THE DAILY TRIBUNE Only newspaper in Wyoming car- rying both Associated Press and VOLUME 2. Cribune CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918 NEW DRIVE FOR GAINS WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday; showers i nnorth; no change in temperature. NUMBER 226 ‘MOST VIOLENT OF WAR | IS VERDICT OF ALLIED MILITARY ING QUNCIL JOINS UNION. TO DRAW ferences Endorsed at Meeting Will Compensate for Ex- penses and Loss of Time | Acting upon the suggestion of Dr. | T. A. Dean, the city fathers last night | decided to join the union and the| hereafter present | bills for “over time” when commit-| tees are out on city business. Altho | Dr. Dean has well-known aversions | to union prices for time and a half} and over time, it was his suggestion that started the councilmen on the new project. i It was stated that a committee will often spend several hours or halfsa day out on investigating tours, in- specting work done or contracts to be | done, and this all comes out of their | own pockets. Very frequently it is| necessary to make automobile trips, the machine and gasoline being fur- | nished by the councilmen. As the} councilmen are professional] and ‘bus- iness men, this takes time out of their regular business hours and amounts to a considerable sum of money lost to them if it happens fre-| quently. Then, too, it was agreed that com- mittees would be easier gotten out to meetings of they were to receive a stipulation. A chairman of a com- mitee is very ffquently told, “go ahead and do whatever you think best and it will be all right with me,” then he gets to do all the work, and gets all of the blame if affairs are not ar-| ranged to suit everybody. The chairman of a committee will be responsible for the time slip which is to, be handed to the city clerk for payment and only members of the committee that attend the meetings are to be paid. The remuneration will be equal'the salary paid the coun- cilmen for a regular meeting of the council, i. e., three dollars, SUBS READY T0 RENEW ATTACK ONEAST COAST [By Associated Preas.] WASHINGTON, July 9.—German submarinés are about to strike again along the Atlantic coast, the navy department believes, and today warn- has skill of a veteran. His program lieved. to be operating 1,600 miles east of New York. Indications are that the Norwe- gian steamship Augvald vas _torpe- doed in American waters. Eleven) survivors of her crew were landed at} an Atlantic port and 14 are listed as missing. [By United Prens} WASHINGTON, July 9.—General Pershing for several days has reporte: avy movements of German troops, supplies and ammunition to the front opposite the sector in which Americans are stationed. fensive is only a matter of day: Correspondent William P| in point of violence. | il OWERTIME PA | says that everyone believes the new drive will eclipse all others It is believed that this means that the new of- ip Simms on the British front According to Zurich dispatchs, Herr Stroebel, independent Socialist member of the Pru doubtful. He said the German over 100,000 in dead alone. Losse: | ably will be higher, Stroebel said. n Landstag, said the resumption | Extra Salary for Committee Con- of the German offensive was necessary, but the result very losses in the spring drives were) s in the next offensive prob-| vv sny WASHOUT TIES UP TRAVEL ON THE RAILROAD Denver-Billings Train Delayed by, Floods on Badwater and Al- kali; Storm Passes Up This City MURDER OF HUN NO MORE HIGH sc sceeser.c Sears AMBASSADOR IS CONFIRMED, US. Message to State Department from Ambassador Francis Bears Out Moscow .Re- ports of Recent Days WASHINGTON, July 9.—Amer- ican Ambassador to Russia, David R. Francis, at Vologda, a mes- sage dated July 7, bringing first word from him to the State De- partment since June 27, confirms the report of the assassination of Count Von Mirbach, German am- bassador to Russia. The assassination took place at 3 p. m., July 6, and later reports reaching the Ambassador said that fighting was progressing in the streets of Moscow. A wireless message to the Soviet government told of the capture of prominent Bolsheviki officials by the Social Revolutionaries, and of arrests of revolutionary leaders by the Bolsheviki police. [By United Press} LONDON, July 9.—Foreign Minis- ter Lenine has ordered the arrest of leading members of \the former Ker- ensky cabinet. Moscow reports that he probably expected them to be con- nected with th~ revolution, which has been suppressed. Martial law was proclaimed i: Moscow following Count Von Mir- bach’s assassination. Suspscts ar- rested for the murder a have confessed that their purpose was ta premote an annulment of the Br-at-Litovsk treaty. The German press charges tho al- lies with trying to sow distrust be- tween Germany and the soviets say they will fai WOOL FIRM IS CHARGED WITH TAX EVASION TBy Associated Prens.] BOSTON, July 9.— William A, English and John H, O’Brien. mem- bers of the firm of English & O’Brien wool merchants, were today arrested on a Federal indictment’ charging conspiracy to defraud the govern- ment of income taxes. The indictment alleges a shortage thru improver accounting amonnting te $250.000. Both pleaded guilty to the charee and were held on bonds of $25,000 each. (CANS REABY TO TAKE AIR SUPREMACY ican machines are coming oversees in large numbers. “We now have several t i to mount all these tain that America alone within a months will be able to more thi supply all its aviators with machines, pilots but it’ “The Liberty motor now is ready and machines fitted with it are be- ing turned out rapidly. Ameri- can bombarding machines are of the finest quality and are reaching the front regularly, “The day of errors in which we had our share is over,” concluded the captain. r>ported to/ - SHOES, COLORS Spring of 1919 to Witness, Marked Changes: in Style’ of Women’s twear, Says Leather Expert | [By Ansociated Press.} BOSTON, M. July 9.—High | shoes of various shades will con- | tinue in vogue: for. women ‘and | misses during the coming winter but the spring willuseo marked | changes in shapes imnd colors as a result of the war. This was pointed out by today’s apéakers at the annual show and | leather style shoe now in session | hete. Under the rules issued by the war industries board, spring styles in 1919 will be limited to | two shades of brown and white. No thos may be more than eight inches in height. Heels will he low and curves which prace the heels of presont styles will be miss- ing. | | | | | ELECTRICAI. FIXTURES | BOT BY POWER COMPANY The Natrona Power comvanv has| nurchased the entire stock of the Electric Fixture & Supply comnany, which hes been located in the Cham-| |berlin Furniture & Undertaking! |companv store. According to an-| |nouncement. of the electric licht com-}| | panv the fixtures will be sold at the | customers’ own price R. R. Casper, an electrical design- er with tha Sechrist Manufacturing | headauarters with the Natrona Pow- jer company for ‘a few devs and is| makine snecial designs of fixtures for| | home builders. \|GLENROCKER IS SMEARED WITH YELLOW OCHRE CLENROCK, Wyo., July §— Richerd Tunn, an emplove of the TU-| inois Pine Line company in the Ohio! camp at Parkerton. didn’t hold tha) | | | } | jesteem, and when a war-ravings| stamp committea esked him to buy |stamys Tunn said he had no Libertv| bonds, no war-savines stamps and) didn’t wart env. He alro said he} was sorrv he had. allowed himeelf to he talked into giving $2 to the Red/| Cross in Alaska Inst year, That nicht » delegation of young men. armed with brushes, and » buck-| et of yellow naint, arain called on| Tunn. When he saw the implements he weakened somewhat and said he would buv stamps if he had to, but because of his unwillingness the dele- sation decided that he should be branded as a disloyalist. His shirt was lifted and his trousers depressed. | exnosing a broad expanse of disloyal | hide, which was generously daubed| with vellow paint, after which he was | told'that he should move out of camp. He returned about 2 o’clock in the morning, gathered his belongings and-has not since been seen, (ala rca SN facie nah VEADTVOSTOK,« July 9, — The Crecho Slovaks today cantured Niko- i laievak, the seaport at the mouth of the Amur river. 1 _ TO BEBANNED: | proportions of a clonudburst. romvany of Denver, ie makine his|* , which so demoralized transporta- in three weeks ago, delayed the de- arture of all west-bound trains on e Burlington several hours today and indications are that the line will not be in repair for travel until late this evening. One end of a bridge near Lysite ‘was carried away by the flood waters and the track was undermined some distance, it is understood. A bridge crew rushed from Casner is hard at work and service should be re-estab- lished this evening. mgers on the Denver-Billings train to the number of 200 took -ad~ per. many of them for the first time, and were extended accommodations during their stay by the railroad comnany. The storm which visited the Lysite eountry last night avproached the was in the edge of the nath, the pre- ‘cipitation measured by Weather Ob- server McKenzie totaled less than .05 ,of an inch. No trouble has been exnerienced on, the Northwestern west of Casper, which appropriated the major share of grief arising from recent. floods. Train service recently established is a operating as usual. am FILM PLAY OF GERARD’S BOOK DRAWING CARD | An almost continuous thunder of | applause emanated from the Iria the- ster last night while the remarkable fi ex: «of German duolicity, | Ambaceador James W. Gerard’s “My Four Years in Germany.” wos being shown to a nacked houce. The dre- mitized version of Mr. Gerard’s book in a most wonderful and exacting rev- elation of German intrigue and is wn inst as the former ambessador saw it during the four years he was at the court of Berlin. The picture was riven a rousing reception upon its first anpearance Iest nicht and the applause and cheers that greeted the many sitna- ‘tions were almort deafenine. Mr. Gerard took a central role and had the ease and confidence of an exne- rienced actor. tho he hae never made claims of being other than a diplo- mat and statesman. | This authorized picture depicts ev-| erv event of history vrior to Amer-| iea’s entrance into the war and the! events responsible for U. S. partici-| pation. | Tt lays bear the grinning skelton| of the murderer of Potsdam—all with eneh grim reelity that it cannot but help to convince an American aud- jence of the gravitv and seriousness of the present struggle. high officials of the covernment. i well worth seeing evan a second time. One of the particularly gripping scenes in.the victure is when Gerard) is told thet if America enters the| war. 500.000 Germans wil! rise un in revolt in this country: and then Ger-| ard’s much-cuoted revlv that “there ere 500.900 Iamn nosts in the United} States that would each suspend 9 ranging Prussian the next morning,” if such a revolt did occur. | Popular vrices—25 and 50 cents —| the same that prevailed during the appearance of this nicture at the Brosdway theater in Denver, sre be-| ine charved for admittance to this ex- cellent show here. | ———»— TRy Walted Press WASHINGTON, July and marine casualties reported to the Army and Navv departments today in ac. total 109. including 31 killed tion, 20 dead of wounds, severely and 23 missing. Casper} jsre It is a vital document and the fact| that thev probably eanval all records.’ jthat it is authorized hv t 7 | WASHINGTON, Ju 9.—Army'| tat 450 TAKEN IN DRIVE ON THE ROAD TO PARIS ‘Enemy Positions Penetrated Over a Mile on a Wide Front; Tanks Lend Effective Aid in Attack; British Raid German Lines and Bombard Coblenz Fortress [By Associated Press.] French troops hit the German lines a smashing blow early this morning north of Paris, where the Germans were stopped after about five days of fighting, in a thrust toward the capital in the last of the 1918 offensive about a month ago. . The at- tack was along a two and a half mile front. At some points General Petain’s troops pushed into the enemy positions for a mile. Two farms and 450 prisoners were exp- tured. The area chosen for the blow was south of the Matz river region, northwest of the Compiegne forest, on a front between Montididier and the Oise, and a point where the Ger- man wedge projected in the neigh- borhood of Antheul. It wes to the west of this town that the French, astride the Compiegne road, drove forward in taking high ground on both sides of the highway. The attacking troops were assisted by tanks. The advance will protect the imvortant railway junction at Es- trees-St. Denis, which is seven miles sout! st of Antheul. HUN COUNTER R PARIS, July 9.—French troops Nhis morning attacked the German lines on a front of two and a half -EPULSED miles west of Antheuil, and on a ® the , front between Montdidier and Oise, penetrating enemy positions and advancing a mile at certain points, says the official communique of the War Office. A German counter-attack near the Loges farm was repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy. The French took 450 prisoners. BRITISH TAKE CAPTIVES _ LONDON, July 9.—Raiding opera- }tions carried out by the British last } |vantage of the delay to insvect Cas-' night in the region east of Arras netted a few prisoners, says Field afte Haig’s report to the War ice. South of the Somme German ar- tillery is displaying activity in bom- barding positions recently captured by the British. a [By United Proas.} PARIS. July 9.—The _ British owned eleven airplanes in Sunday’s fighting and three Britishers were lost. A British air raid on Coblenz Friday was one of the most damag- ing of the war. Bombs dropped by the Allies blew p the railroad station and damaged the Rhine and Moselle bridges and the royal palace. The fortress of Ehrenbret ‘was also struck, killing 12 persons and injuring 23, according ‘to dispatches reaching here today. {By United Prenan} _ LONDON, July 9.—British naval airplanes in the neriod between July 4 and 7 dropped 16 tons of explos- ives on German works at Ostend, Zeebrurge, and Bruges. direct hits being observed on buildings and ves- sels. Five German airplanes were destroved and three others were driv- en out of control. pS re Bt CROP PROSPECT SLUMPS DURING MONTH OF JUNE [By United Press.] WASHINGTOD —An 891.- 000.000 bushel w is esti_ mated bv the agricultural depart- ment. The condition of spring wheat, as shown by the monthly re- port today, is slightly below that re- ported on June 1, but increased screage promises a greater vield than the average for the past five years. WASHINGTON, July 9.—Deterio- ration during June reduced the pros- securities of the United Sttes in high |°f ‘niserism. the nlots and intrigve| nective winter wheat crop by 30.000.- 900 bushels and spring wheat by 10.000.000 bushels, less than the Jnne forecast. Record crops of bar- lev, rve, sweet potatoes and rice indicated. Tobacco crops show ITALIANS DRIVE AUSTRIANS FROM ALBANIAN LINES [By United Press] ROME, July 9.—The Italian ¢ fensive in Alt forcing & Austrians back where. Itali cavalry s s and i_great British x from the Albanian troops pper Devoli its reverses but sistance is bitter. STEINBERG BUYS OUT PARTNER IN BROKERAGE Alec Steinberg, one of the best- known brokers in the city, has bot Jerry Mahoney’s interest in the firm of Mahoney & Steinberg, brokers, the transactior. having taken place today. Mr. Steinberg will continue to do busin at the es location which pri e wires 1 excellent service have made a popular trading market for stocks of all kinds. The firm has been doing a considerable amount of business since it took over the brokerage business of Dines & Co. about three months avo, and Mr. Steinberg plans to contin» he bus- iness along the same lines. 1 ae aint WESTERN UNION HEAD CONFERS WITH SENATORS [By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 9.— nators demanding instruction before action is taken on the house resolution au- thorizing the president to take over the telephone, telegraph. cable and radio lines, won a part victory when the senate interstate commerce com- mittee heard testimony behind closed doors on the telegraph situation from President son of the Western Union. De on regarding further hearings has been deferred. LEASING BILL IN CONFERENCE ‘AT WASHINGTON The conference committee of the Senate and House today took up con- sideration of the oil leasing bill, with a view to determining what form it shall take in final passa according to a message to The. Tribune todav from Frnak G. Curtis, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Wy- oming chapter of the Americ: Min- Congress, now in the nation’s cavital to look ‘after the protection of local interests in connection with the measure. GUAM SWEPT BY TYPHOON By ly Aw ated Prens.} 6.—The Island of Guam was devas- ed by a typhoon July 6, Captain Roy Smith, governor of the island and commandant of the Naval Station there, reported to the Navy Department today. , 31 wounded! +. - He said half the inhabitants of the island were destjtute and thatthe crops had been largely destroyed.