Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 1

0 INSURE PEACE Pres. Wilson AR WON T ARMISTICE EXTENDED JAN. 17 Stress Is Laid Upon Future Program in| First Utterance of en COPENHAGEN, Dec. 14.—The German armistice has been prolonged to January 17th, and is subject to further extension, says a Treves dispatch today. The Inter-Allied Armistice Com. mission Is now in session at Treves, The commission probably will remain there until peace preliminaries are concluded, when it will be transformed into an administration body for the oc- the enemy at Marshal Foch’s headquarters on. November 11th, and this would have terminated on December 21. If reports of | President to A llied | the extension are true the time of expiration has been delayed | : 27 days. «mag, Audience Today COPENHAGEN, Dec. 14.—The Allies have notified Ger- | many that they reserve the right to occupy the néutral zone east | of the Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead to the Dutch border, | in consideration of the armistice extension. " ‘ he Casper eo eevcecese eecccccsccees 3 THE DAILY TRIBUNE : Reaches a dozen towns of 3 Central Wyoming the same cupied territories. Forty days was the original length of the armistice granted per Bags @rthune ay, ee Only newspaper in Wyomin day it is published, with all e news of the day : : CASPER, WYOMING, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918 ~TNUMBER 49 | AMERICANS CROSS THE RHINE CEPARATE JUDGE LOGAL BAPTISTS 72% Possession of Great Fortress and rn FREMONT 1S VOTE PLANS ry 1 Huge Stores of Munitions in Crossing mile front, ina drialing atm, The fst division heated by Brign der For New Year| tt fortecsee isthe world, Corsa Guards vextOsGpied ings: att Supported by the Legal of Catholic Church ‘and yy4 pA%, American division also went to Ma 3 ra served by both the Associated } Press and the United Press H H on 37-Mile Front Friday } { | (By United Press.) | 5 |day morning on four bridges and two ferries along a thirty |General Parker crossed at Coblenz over a German pontoon bridge. | | A company of the Eighteenth Infantry first reachedithe east bank. Proposition to Split the Program ; ' ; 9 ae of munitions. Two French divisi in oceup’ re | Sixth Judicial District) Also Includes Completion| a ee ‘ior Fraternity of Casper | Presbyterian Project | UGHTS OF TYEDRGE IN CITY Siesta = CHANIEL BARRAGE DSCOORA Division of the Sixth Judicial Dis- trict, comprising Natrona, Converse Building activ’ the new yenr wei | that the peice conference must PARIS, Dec. 14.--President | Wilson, in his first address, at an official lusscheon, declared take such action as to “rebuke” Germany’s acts of “terror and spoilation.” He further stated that the world must be made | aware that such acts “cannot be ventured upon without the certainty of just punishments.” The President laid stress on! the claim that victory was the American people’s aim in order to establish the eternal prin- ciples of right and justice and insure future world peace. UBy Associated Prena} PARIS, Dec. 14.—President Wilson, replying to President Poincare’s address of welcome, said in part: “From the first the thought of the people of the United States turned toward some- thing more than the mere win- ning of this war. It turned to the establishment of the eter- nal principles of right and jus- tice; it realized that merely to win the war was not enough; that it must be won in such a way as to insure the future peace of the world, and lay the foundations for the freedom and happiness of its many peo- ples and nations. Is Lionized by | Tears Mingle With Outbursts of Cheers as | Paris Echoes to Greeting Given Ameri- can Leader in Recognition of Service of Nation in War; City Yells Itself Hoarse on Arrival This Morning (By United Press} , PARIS, Dec. 14.—President Wilson arrived in Paris at 10 o’clock this morning. His entrance was heralded by booming guns thruout the city. Vast throngs in the Champs Elysees cheered him tremendously. Enormous crowds lined the entire way from the station to Prince Murat’s palace. President and Madame Poincare greeted President Wilson and his wife at the AE SECRETARY. people of Paris think of you,” was Premier Clemenceau’s radiant greet- ing. Already from packed windows on 3 of the station cheers were 1 by the cheers “Vive Wil- “I am sure I shall look upon the ruin wrought by the armies of the Central Empires with the same repulsion and deep indignation that they stir in the hearts of the men of France and Belgium. I appreciate, as you do, sir, the necessity of such action in the final settle- ment of the issues of the war as will not only rebuke such acts .of terror and spoilation, but make men everywhere aware that they cannot be ven- id wpon-.without the cer~ ? OF ‘jist punishment.”” ~ son!” “Vive L’Amerique!”’ | | Demonstrations were redoubled | When President Poincare clasped | President Wilson's hands in both. of ‘ his and said in English, “Mr. Presi- dent I am very glad to meet you.” 5% But when the presidential party Retiring County Treasurer Tend- appeared on the streets in view of ered Position by Governor- the thousands, previous cheering Elect and Will Accept seemed as a whisper. No such ova- . Pt, tion was ever heard in Paris.” The Says Report carriaZes started up the streets pre- ——— jceded by mounted guards. A great M. C. Price, retiring treasurer of|cry of ‘Vive Wilson!” was raised. Natrona county, who withdrew from| Doughboys and poilus shouted and the county ticket at the Noveinber| rere tee ncn rae election in the face of certain suc-| smiled their acknowledgment, cess to accept an appointment in the| The procession down the Champs Red Cross service overseas, prior to| Elysees with a guard of honor drawn the signing of the armistice, has been! up on either side of the Arch of Tri- tendered the position of secretary to! umph, formed the background of a Governor Robert D. Carey and has|new dramatic picture in American signified his acceptance. The formal! history. The demonstration increased appointment will be forthcoming in| as the cortege proceeded, with Pres- duetime announcement of his selec-| ident Wilson and President Poincare tiog having been made known’ bx! continually. acknowledging the wild Governor-elect Carey on a visit. to! outbursts, while their wives in the Casper today. second carriage smiled and smiled. Paris Crowds) and Fremont counties, to make a sep- ume this week AMERICA’S IDEALS arate district of the latter, will meet | with no opposition aside from that attached to general trials which at- tend such projects emanating in the Legislature from outside sources, ac- cording to the concensus of opinion expressed by members of the Natrona | the main auditorium and church prop- = tee HONS, PATROL COMMANDER SAYS this city had voted the erection of & $30,000 edifice to replace the ante- dated building now located at Linden and Beech streets. The construction will be undertaken in two units, wit isin thoro sympathy with the move-| annex, to be built when conditions ment, and any measure introduced in | justify further expansion. the forthcoming session of the Leg-| -The congregation voted in the af- Abandoned Channel Passage Judge Chase E. Winter is among | mitted by the pastor Rev. R. H. Moor- 3 2 those primarily interested in seeing |man, and the appointment of a com-| _ DOVER, VIA MONTREAL, Dec. 13.—-(Delayed.)—Vice Ad- the division authorized, the necessity | mittee was authorized to prepare miral Keyes, commanding the Dover patrol, was today presented the legal business taken into the courts will be launched. A three-year pay- “5 op during the past two years. Court| ment plan is proposed in assuring the teen were identified. proceedings in Fremont County in| success of the venture, which allows IN REVIEWING U-BOAT WARFARE County bar. ‘The legal fyaternity of | er to be completed during the coming’) Thirty Submarines of Flanders U-Boat Flo- this city, as well as that of Lander, | year and the other, the Sunday schoo! | F tilla Accounted for Before the Huns islature will meet with united sup-| firmative on three consecutive occn port from this section. ions when the proposition was sub- of another judge having been empha-/ plans and other data and report by freedom of the citv. In his speech he said the patrol had accounted sized by the growth in the volume of | March 1, when the building campaign for thirty submarines of the Flanders U-boat flotilla, of which seven- D particular have lagged during the | subscriptions being distributed over past year, due to the inability ofja period of three years. Judge Winter to hear all the cases | Dr. Devine of the edifice department | docketed for trial. In some instances|of the home mission board of the this has resulted in cases being put) church, visited Casper recently and over to the next term for settlement. | enthusiastically endorsed the project. At the present time the disposition | The church will lend material assist of trial cases in the Fremont County | ance, he said, in carrying plans into Court has not been completed. The swamped condition admits of only, one alternative, it is claimed. Division of the distdict to give Fremont County, the largest of the three involved, a separate judge, and leaving Natrona and Converse coun- ties within the jurisdiction of the Sixth Judicial District, offers a sat- isfactory solution of the problem, in the belief of the legal fraternity, and steps to bring this about will be in-! itiated in the Legislature by Fremont County representatives. Sentiment of Douglas interests has not sounded, been) {execution in that Casper offers a | great field of endeavor at the pres jent time, and the home mission de- | partment stands ready to do more for Gasper than any other place in the West.- The building program for the new year also contemplates the completion of the new Catholic church on Soutn Center street, the construction of which was halted with the completion of the foundation work to compl> with war economy requests. Indica- tions are that the Presbyterians will also take up plans dropped early in lthe war for the erection of a $66,00L edifice. At least one new business block will be added to building propects for the new year, as well as countless res:- dences. This will provide an excel- }lent demand for labor and promote | prosperous conditions in all lines of business. * ALLIES STATE CASE IN NOTES ON EX-KAISER [By Associated Prenn} AMSTERDAM, Dec. 14.—Hague reports that the Allies separately {sent Holland notes regarding the ex- Kaiser’s presence in that country. CZERNIN TOLD RULER He explained that the channel barrage consisted of two lines of ; Specially built ships, able to ride at} | anchor thruout the stiffest gales and | | provided with the most powerful searchligths. The lines were seven miles apart. Scores of small craft patrolled during intervening inter-| |vals of darkness and were so placed | |that it was impossible for anything )to pass them on the surface. | |- Underneath were masses of sub- | marine devices. The duty of patrol | craft was to prevent submarines from | | passing on the surface, to drive them; {down to the perils hidden below and) |then to drop depth charges. | The measures were so succeful, | | Keyes, said, that by September this year German submarines had aban- |doned the channel passage. wate AS tl EARLY PEACE | MEET IS PLEA -_OF BOCHE FOE | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Ger-| The appointment comes as ‘a ‘tis-' Premier Clemenceau and General f tinct mark of recognition, both to! Pershing were also lionized. Many a pokib ype che aa ardor| Mr. Price arid to Nutrona county,/wept openly. Besides the street ‘ i which rolled up a handsome majority crowds great masses filled every win- and enthusiasm the soldiers) (or Mr. Carey in the recent election dom and available vantege point and’sailors have given the best |aid the county treasurer has alrealy including the roofs. Doughboys that was in them in this wa: of rezeived the congratulations of many) clung to the trtes and captured Ger- redemption. They have ex-/ friends who feel that such a position man guns like clusters of human | pressed the true spirit of Amer-| under Governor Carey will provide a grapes. |ica. They believe their ideals| road field for his ability and an ex- ooesse | ci en ° ortunt or Ww er ad. BR: Aw ated Press |to be acceptable to free peo-| ir enent in public life, m career) PARIS. Dee li. President Wil- | ples everywhere and are re- which Mr. Price merits by reason of| son made his entry into Paris at |Joiced to have played the part) exceptional administration in county| 10:15 this morning. Huge crowds |they have played in giving | reality to those ideals in co-op- eration with the armies of the Allies. We are proud of the | part they have played, and we jare happy that they should ave been associated with such} |comrades in a common cause. |RELATIONS CLOSE, | MUST BE FOSTERED “It is with a peculiar feeling, Mr. President, that I find my- self in France, joining with you in rejoicing over the victory that has been won. The ties that bind France and the Unit- ed States are peculiarly close. I do not know in what other comradeship we could have fought with more zest or en- thusiasm. It will daily be a matter of pleasure with me to be brought into consultation with the ‘statesmen of France and her Allies in concerting measures by which we may se- cure permanence for these happy relations of friendship and co-operation and secure for the world at large such safety and freedom in its life as can be secured only by the constant association and co- operation of friends. I greet you not only with deep per- sonal respect, but as a repre-| sentative of the great people of | France, and beg to bring you greetings of another great peo-| affairs. | Although accepted for Red Cross) service in a responsible capacity, the | signing of the armistice dispensed) with the services of many workers of this organization and Mr. Price was released for other activities. Gov-| ernor Carey is to be congratulated upon having secured his services. were massed around the Bois de Bou- logne station awaiting the Presi- dent’s coming. As he alighted from the train a roar of welcome went up that left no doubt of the cordiality of welcome given by Paris, President Wilson was greeted by President and Madame Poincare, Pri er Clemenceau, Andre Tardieu, IR FRA French high commissioner to the United States, and other high offi- cials. When the formalities of greeting were over, the President entered a ENEMY CARRIED carriage with President Poineare Mrs. Wilson and Margaret Wilson, followed in another carriage. The R HES Barty drove immediately to the resi- dence of Prince Murat, where the : President Wilson reside. pai last! WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Ger- = man Lutheran pastors were in- THREE TEU1 ONS structed to preach pro-German ser- mons before the United States en- tered the war, Capt. Lester of the Army Intelligence Service told the Senate Propaganda Investigation Committee today, and some pastors who joined the army later, and con- BERLIN, Dee, 14.—It is reported tinued preaching favorably to Ger- that Foreign Secretary Solf, Hugo |many, are now in the Atlanta peni-| Haase and Richard Barth have re- tentiary. signed from the government. 15,000 SOLDIERS QUIT CABINET, BERLIN RUMOR LEAVE CAMPS FOR ‘ | many, thru Switzerland, has asked | | the State Department that peace ne-| | gotiations be started as quickly as| 4 possible because of famine in Ger- ————- No Attempt to Mitigate Conditions in a|La@FOLLETTE IS Letter to Emperor Charles in 1917 and Given Out by Austrian Count VIENNA, Dec. 11.—(By. Former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Associated Press—Delayed)— Czernin wrote frankly of conditions in correspondence with former Emperor Charles, as was shown by a correspondent today. One, Emperor warning that “I am convinced,” it read, “that the smashing point has been reached, Germany, as well-as ourselves, has Responsible political’ authorities do not deny it, but military circles of reached the end of her. resources. Berlin are indulging in self deceit. tt hich Count Czernin showed * iearittee in April, 1917, gave the the Central Powers were near defeat. Reena I am convinced that should Germany attempt another winter campaign an upheaval will occur in the empires. That would ve far worse than a dis- ‘advantageous peace.” | AGAIN ON GRILL IN THE SENATE [By Associated Presn] Xd WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Fur- ther proceedings in the case of Svn- ator*Robert M: LaFollette of Wiseon- sin are recommended in the minority report of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee, presented to the Senate today by Senator Pomer- erie of Olio,” The report charges LaFollette with violation of the es- pionage act by alleged misstatements in an address at St, Paul in 1917, {many. They asked information re- \ garding the place and date of the ne-| | gotiations. REFORMATION IN HOUSE OF LORDS ple to whom the fortunes of | France are of profound id lasting interest. I raise my glass to the President of the French Republic and to Mad- am Poincare and the prosper- ity of France.” MAY BE RESULT LONDON, Dee: 14.—~(Via Montre- al)+~Reform of thé House of Lords will be one of the tasks undertaken United Kingdom teday, | clared in a speech at Glasgow. '1S CONVOKED BY SPECIAL ORDE | | AMSTERDAM, Dec. | ing to a report from Berlin, 14. — Kon-|erance from service as their turn is | by:the coalition ministry, if it is re-|stantin Fehrenbach, president of the! reached. turned to power/in the election in the|Reichatag, has convoked a meeting | A. Bonar/of that assembly and, reserving indi- | J Law, chancellor of the exchequer, de-| cation of the time and place, accord-| nation of 172 additional officers and {SRAM TE Re AO es Me bee 5) age HOME EVERY DAY |824,000 Designated for Immediate Release, | But Progress Is Very Slow, Says Chief of Staff March in Statement [By Ansoctated Brews] WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Demobilization of the United | States Army is proceeding at the rate of 15,000 men every day, Chief of Staff March announced today. The War Department |has designated a total of 824,000 men in the United States for discharge, and nearly 200,000 men during the last week, March said. This doesn’t mean their immediate discharge, but sev- early return home was announced by the War Department today. The largest unit included is the Fifty- |4,800 men by General Pershing for first Regiment of Coast Artillery, WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Desig-