Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 1

ALLIED-CZECH-COSSACK FORCES PENETRATE TO CORNERS RUSSIA AS INITIAL STEP IN CAMPAIGN CENTER OF OIL FIELD REACHED BY BRITISHERS 1imerican Regulars Play Big Part in Movement By ROBERT BENDER (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— Battling against the Germans, Austrians and Bolsheviki, small Allied forces are penetrating all corners of Russia. The Brit- ish have crossed the Caspian range and reached Baku, the center of the oil fields. The allies are now hundreds of miles south of Archangel and still going. American regulars have re- inforced the Allies in Vladivo- stok in preparation for activity in eastern Russia. Czecho- Slovaks are battling along the Volga. The British in Baku valiantly fought their way 700 miles over the mountatns from Bag-| dad. Turks and Germans are preparing to attack them. From Baku the Allies can | join with the Don Cossacks, who have been fighting the Bolsheviki in southern Russia. The Japanese expect to WEATHER FOR WEEK Fair, with moderate tem- perature in northern Rocky | |} Mountain and plateau region | | | | ‘ASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1917 SECOND INCREMENT REGISTERS IN COUNTY AUGUST 24 RRB LEIA R THE DAILY TRIBUNE Is the only newspaper in Wy- oming carrying both Associ- ated and United Press dis- patches. NUMBER 258 PSS : NEWSBOYS—THIS COUPON IS YOUR TICKET TOTHE TRIBUNE PICNIC I am a newsboy or carrier of a newspaper route in Casper, and wish to go on THE TRIBUNE picnic to Garden Creek Falls, Sunday, August 18th. Address Guarantor ....... TEUTON LOSSES SINCE START OF move toward Lake Baikal, | seize the railroad there and | open up communication to the Czechs before the latter be-| WAR SIX MILLION PRIOR TO THE come stranded on the steppes | by an early Siberian winter. American regulars. also may go te the rescue of the Czechs, who, poorly armed and short of food, are hard pressed by the Bolsheviki. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 16.— | The Doni Cossacks have cleared the left bank of the Don and are marching. victoriously on Zaragin, says the Cossack of- ficial statement, received here from Kiev today. LONDON, Aug. 16.—The Bolsheviki official statement ¢laims the capture of positions in the Archangel district, where Allied troops are sta- tioned. The Bolsheviki say their adversaries have aban- doned fighting near Onega. They claim a series of suc- cesses, apparently of minor im- portance, against the Czecho- Slovaks. ¥ [By Associated Prean.] VLADIVOSTOK, Aig. 16.—The situation in western Siberia leaves no section of the Czecho-Slovak national of the vice-president of the R: jan room for optimism, in the opinion council He the mobilization of Austro- German war -prisoners _had added 160,000 men to enemy forces. The Czecho-Slovaks’ position may become Precarious if is not forth- coming speedily, he b AMSTERDAM, Aug. German press comments bitterly upon Great Britain’s manifesto recognizing the Czecho-Slovak nation. “Tt is the acme of hypocrisy when England gives these notorious trai- tors testimonial that they are wag- ing legitimate warfare,” the Cologne Gazette says. WATER- 16.—The| ~ GREAT CAMPAIGN OF THIS YEAR Germans Admit Deterioration of Power | and Blame Desire for Continuation of | Strifeon War-Crazed Yankees | [By Associated Press] | PARIS, Aug. 16.—-Newspapers understand that the total German losses from the beginning of the war to the end of |July were 6,000,000, including 1,400,000 killed prior to the beginning of the German offensive last March. From March '27th to June 17th the Germans lost 120,000 in killed alone. | WAN 1S FATALLY “BURNED IN FIRE combing out, that the German army | : << recover from auxiliary units all men | W. P. Lingle Victim of Conflagra- capable of entering the trenches. | tion on Elkhorn Lease and W. A. Cameron Has a Narrow Escape H [By Associated Press.] | WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN |FRANCE, Aug. 16.—Germany has | acknowledged that her man-power is dwindling in proportions great enough to cause anxiety. The toll taken by \the Allied armies and the prospect of being confronted by ever-growing |American forces, has caused General | AMSTERDAM, Aug. 16.—0:n-| menting on a recent interview of Ad- miral von Hintze, German foreign " 3 secretary, in which he laid the re-| W. P: Li aizanent at the sponsibility for continuing the war| Casper Private hospital with prob- |upon the Entente, the Frankfort Ga-| ably fatal burns while A. W. Cam- |zette says: eron, who was only slightly burned “We must continue a hard, bitter! has returned to Big Muddy as a struggle for the defense of the Fath- resuit ot a fire at the Elk Horn No. erland. Any sign of desire for an| § vig, which burned down yeater. understanding by the European /!- day afternoon. lies counter balanced by the Unit-| Lingle received severe burns ed Sta war craze. about the face, arms and chest and “There is nothing to do but to re- Jittle hopes for his recovery are en- press all premature hopes and arm) tertained. Cameron was able to ourselves with courage for t' next! return after his wounds were developments.” ~ dressed. DOGS IN CITY MAINS, BOIL DRINKS! Preliminary to an analysis of the city water, which the council will be asked to have made immedi- ately, the Natrona County Council of Defense today issued a warning to the people of Casper that all water used for drinking purposes should be boiled. The wa is sus- Pected to contain typhus bacilli in dangerous numbers as the result of recent disclosures, and until tests are made by accredited bacteriolo- gists, the only safe cours: in the city supply comes from the reser- ir, which is described as a, veri- ble frog pond by those who have spected it. The discovery of | lizzards half a foot long indicates that the intake pipe has had no pro- tection. Typhus bacilli breed in decom- posed animal matter, and unless present indications are to be dis- | counted, the danger is evident, The Natrona County Council of De- fense says to boil the water. boiling of water before drinking. From a service pipe in North | Durbin a decomposed lizard was re- | | moved yesterday. A little later | | i | six lizards in various states of de- composition were removed from a service pipe on South Durbin, The t that six were found at one | place is accepted lence of the | fact that the mains and pipes are more or less alive with dead “water | dogs.” At the present time the entire i [By , |_. PARIS, Forty Youths Majority Since Ju 1918 CLAS | | . Who Have Attained Their ne 5th Should Be Added to Military Rolls Detailed instructions covering the registration of men who have attained the age of 21 years since the ] tration on June 5 last reached the local board for County yesterday, and are being placed in e arrangements are concerned. T Saturday, August 24th, between and is not to be confused with the registration of those between. the ages of 18 and 45 early in Septem- ber thru provisions to be set forth in the bill now pending before Congress for the extension of the draft ages. In Natrona County there will be but two registration places on |August 24, one in the Court House, | in charge of Leslie E. Parker, clerk of the local board for Natrona County, and the other at Salt Creek, where Leslie E. Snow has consented | |to serve as registrar. | It is estimated that the coming registration will affect approximately 40: men, the nuntber being based on |that which registered on June 5 of \this year. During the twelve months preceding that date 165 residents of Natrona County attained their major- ity, and inasmuch as a three-months’ ‘interim has expired since June 5, it is estimated that a fourth of the earlier ;number have since become of age. | Instructions call for immediate classification of those men in order! that they will be available to fill early calls to the colors. Natrona |county now has approximately 100 registrants in Class 1, representing those who registered this year, and} it is believed that the great majority of those added to the military rolls; |the last of this month will be placed in the first class. The registration |has been deemed necessary all over the country to preclude the necessity for calling selectives given deferred | classification for dependent and in- | dustrial reasons prior to the registra- | tion of older men in September. { Se FUEL DIRECTOR | APPOINTS HEAD | OF PRODUCTION By Untted Press} | wAsHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Direc- tor of fuel production, James Neale, | | today appointed twenty-eight produc- |tion managers in the principal coal | \fields, including: For Montana and | northern Wyoming, A. K. Craig; for Utah and southern Wyoming, Thomas | | Sheldon; for New Mexico, George T. | Brown; for Colorado, J. F. Welborn. |SERVICES HELD | | OVER GRAVE OF | | YANKEE FLYER Associated Prens.] Aug. 16.—Religious ser- | vices besides the grave of Lieutenant | Quentin Roosevelt, near the spot |where he fell in an uir combat last | |month, were held by Bishop Brent of the Protestant Episcopal Church and |Rey. Charles S. Macfarland, Federal (Council of Churches of Christ in! America. |\MORE LAB | NOW. AVAILABLE FOR WAR WORK WASHINGTON, Auge 16.—The Department of Labor today announc- | ed that the shortage of skilled labor in war industries is considerably re- | lieved by restrictions on non-war pro- | duction. The curtailment of automo- | | bile production has released many | | mechanics, There is still.aiserious shortage ia ‘many war industrial centers. t young ast regis- Natrona xecution insofar as his registration will be held on the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m., STOCKMEN CAN APPLY TOU. S. FOR WAR LOANS [By Associated Presx.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Live- k raisers needins louns unobtain- ¢ directly from th> panks asxed by the War Finance Cerporation to appiy to federal at Kensas City, and Dallas, desiraate1 us the agency for dispensing govern- tment loans. Southwestern stock raisers are to apply at Dallas and others at Kansas City. YANKEE FLYERS SCORE HITS ON TEUTON BASES (By United WITH THE AME FRANCE, Aug.: 16. men bombed German railr yards at Domary, Baroncourt and Longuy don, and German establishments at Thiacourt. Scores of hits were ob- served. Amrican patrols, crossing the Vesle river at a new point, found the Ger reserve banks mans strongly entrenched. The American fronts are quiet except for intermittent German bombing of the | Vesle rear areas, PARIS BOMBED BY HUN FLYERS [By United Press.] PARIS, Aug. 16.—The Germans dropped many bombs in an air raid on Paris last night, inflicting some casualties, BRAZILIAN SHIP IS TORPEDOED IN U.S. WATERS [By United Press.1 NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—It is re. ported that the Brazilian motor ship Madrugada was destroyed by a sub- marine in American waters. The crew is safe. < FRENCH ENVOY TO AUSTRALIA DIES ON COAST SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.—Al- bert Metin, head of the French diplo: matic mission to Australia, died here today of appople Girls are furnishing a large propor- tion of the labor on Connecticut to- bacco farms this year. As an executive secretary to the mayor of New York City, Miss Fran- ves W. Rokus receives a salary of $4,- £00 a year. ¥ curriculum. .'of the mathematics department, one LOGAL oGh0als LAY PLANS FOR ANNUAL OPENING SEPTEMBER oH East Casper Building Is Ready, Others Renovat- ed and Complete Quota of Teachers Assigned The fall session of the Cz per schools will open Tues- day, September 3d, with the High School, Central and the new st Casper school all in running order. The old schools have been cleane. renovated, painted and varnishe d, til they sh like new, wh 1 East Casper school, the late add tion to the sy m, will be ready for acceptance this Saturc The Burl ington school in the North Side will not be ready at the beginning of the term, but has been promised by Oc- tober 15, and in the meantinte the ‘students will enroll at the Central and other schools. REGISTRATION MONDAY High School students will register Mc , the eleventh and twelfth grades between the hours of 10 and 12 o’clock and the ninth and tenth grades between 1 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The High School teachers will be called for a meeting at 9 o’clock Monday morning at the High School building. Grade teach- ers will assemble for their first teach- ers' meeting Monday afternoon ut 2 o'clock at the new East ( school. FACULTY IS INCREASED Two new offices have been added to the High School treachiaz nff, asper that of ant™ in the” commicreial and mathematics department and an assistant in the English and Latin department. The former office will be filled by Miss Ruth Ev of Sheridan, Wyo., while Miss Winifred Littell of Mz Mich., will be teacher. Miss ng in the Mar- kett, Mich, High School. FRENCH STUDY ADDED Other changes in the High School i force include the appointment of Miss Ina L. Hill of Berkeley, Calif., who will fill Miss Edith Culver’s place as teacher of modern languages. For the first time in the history of the Natrona County High School, the French language will be taught. Fol- lowing the policies adopted last year, German will not, of course, be on the i Miss Ruth K. Barr, head of the new teachers, is a graduate of the State University of Minnesota, and taught at Lake Geneve, W Miss Eugenia Neer of Laramie, Wy is the new penmanship teacher. CHANGE IN PRINCIPAL Miss Clar: lor is the new prin cipal of the Park school. Miss lk taught here last year, and is king the place of Mrs, Pierce, nee Miss Lora Hungerford, who was marri here this summer. Miss Beula Hanks, a grade teacher at the Central school last year, has been appointed princi- pal of the East Casper school, with a force under her of eight teachers. The grades will include the kinder garten and the first eight grade. ‘CORNHUSKER’ IS CHOSEN The new physical training in structor is Captain George Racely of Pender, Neb. He is a graduate of the ‘(Continued on Page Six.) Ne rte tas tr at PIES: ALLIED LINE I DRAWN TIGHT NEAR Che Casper Dailsy Cribune WOVE APEX ‘ : t t » F e ‘a ‘ a le & I va x ALBERT IS OBJECTIVE OF HAIG’S: BATTLERS “Fy Seo ore Encircling Drive ine Picardy Menaces Foe; Vital Points Are Near Collapse rey Anne ad Pre Allied pressure ha ively ren mon ‘ine in the Roye region of the Picardy front. The enemy is cling- ing determinedly to Rove as the Bulwark of positions taken up after they were driven back from the Amiens region. Both the French and the British are mak- ing his prolonged tenancy there doubtful. London reported today that the British lines were advanced north- west of Rove. Paris reports a for- ward movement west and south- west of Rove on a two and a half mile front. Roye is fast becoming the apex of the salient, which, if won, would invite a crushing Allied stroke. if British and French prés- sure is effectively maintained. Unofficia! London estimates place the Allied captures since August 8 at 34,000 men and 8704 guns. It is declared that the pro- | portion of German to Allied losses is greater in recent fighting than 'at any time since 1974. The enemy apparently has com- pleted his withdrawal in the sector north of Albert. It is not clear how far he bas retired. The en- emy still holds Albert, but the British are in the western out- skirts. The French gained additional high ground west of the Oise and northwest of Ribecourt. Fifteen reserve divisions have ed a7 ‘already been thrown in by the Germans between the Ancre and the Oise. They are said to have y, only 18 fresh divisions on the en- tire front. German artillery fire and aerial activity decreased along the Vesle, where the French and Americans are maintaining pressure. The situation is normal on the Italian front. The Allies made good progress from Archangel southward toward Vologda, and apparently are op- erating in three columns.. Bol- (Continued on page 8) BIG INCREASE IN WAR TAXES [By United Prens | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. —With the excess war profits still unsettled, the House Ways and Means Committee today announced other completed features of the $8,000,000,000 revenue bill. Income taxes are mostly doubled and intermediate income © taxes trebled. Present exemptions are retained. Inheritance taxes are increased 50 per cent. Luxury taxes hit practically everything except necessary food and clothing minimums. Gasoline is taxed 2 cents a gallon, and there is a 10 per cent automobile manufacturers’ tax. Automobile owners will pay $10 to $50, according to the horsepower. Tobacco rates are double those in effect. Movies, ice cream and fire arms are heavily increased. Liquor taxes will be more than doubled.