Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1919, Page 1

- MURDER OF LIEBKNECHT AD Ss " FUEL TO BOLSHEVIK FLAI/AES THOUSANDS ARE IDLE, SENATOR SAYS IN URGING | 'Rosa Luxembourg Is Also Killed After | | Hotel Is Mobbed | by Berlin Crowd | - THE DAILY TRIBUNE BERLIN, Jen. 16.—(Delaye Che Casper Dail TE KAS BAPTISTS REFUSE BILLION FOR GRAVEYARI Only newspaper in Wyoming § Rich Fortune Lies in Cemetery eo poccccccccccocooccccoocoecccccce: ° ~ i} ac OM a aA Xe Reaches a dozen towns of Central Wyoming the same day it is published, with all served by both the Associated H Surrounded by Oil Wells But Fress and the United Press} Church Now Makes $200,000 | —Associated Press.)—Dr. Karl LABOR POLICIES Liebkt:es}.: znd Rosa Luxem- bough, !e-ders of the Bolshe: Conference of State Governors Is Pro- _ posed to Discuss U. S. Public Works (By United Preas) WASHINGTON, Jan. ator Kenyon today proposed a con- ference of governors here to plan with the Department of Labor for putting the growing army of unem- ployed to work immediately. Sen- etor Kenyon and other congressmen are alarmed at the rapid increase in unemployment and the lack of an effective government plan for pro-; Moabit prison, viding work immediately. There are 200,000 jobless men in the country today, stated Kenyon. | He favors state legislatures providing | for emergency public works. Sen-/| ator Weeks proposed that the federal government also start emergency, work on waterways, roads and land | reclamation. 1 CASPER SOLONG GET IMPORTANT | APPOINTMENTS Representative Johnson Heads | Public Utilities Committee of | House and Gantz Directs Mines and Mining Natrona county's copemsttatines! in’ the ‘Fifteenth “State Legislature | were honored by selection to mem- bership on several important com- | tempted an escape and was shot by! | viki, have been killed. the news of the day |, When it became known yes-| terday that Liebknecht and Luxem-} | bourg were at the Hotel Eden, in the western part of the city. A crowd | rapidly congregated and stormed the | lobby. Both were spirited to a side} entrance to the hotel but the mob | forestalled an attempt of the troops i to save Luxembourg. She was beaten VOLUME 3. presence of Luxembourg was known} a man jumped on the running board | and shot her in the head. | Meanwhile, Liebknecht was hur-| ied int thi ti bile b: | oe troops and police and headed toward. Publicity Feature Not Yet Worked Out, Premier Declares; Socialist Deputy Hurls Insinuation at Speaker A tire was punc-| tured. Liebknecht got out and at- | the soldiers. | Liebknecht’s capture was due to a! telephone conversation overheard by detectives in which he and Rosa Lux- | emburg agreed to meet at the home | °: suburbs of Wilmersdorf, Liebk- necht’s attempt to escape was a last! desperate dash for freedom on the! only last October. | “We have not yet found a Whgn the automobile which was, tions from the peace congress will be carrying him broke down he was) made but in a general way the prin- warned against any attempt at flight.| ciple of publicity has met with When near a group of trees Liebk- | favor.” necht pushed aside the soldier nearest | Here he was interrupted by Deputy him and dashed for the underbrush} Mistral who said: in the Tiergarten. Soldiers orderea “Except by you, M. Clemenceau.” him to halt. He paid no attention.| “I emphatically deny that state- A bullet struck him at the base of| ment,” the premier rejoined. ‘“We the neck and death was instantaneous.| all should like to keep the proceed- | ings secret so that it may not be | said that such and such a country made such and such a_ proposition (By United Prens.) s which has been fought by such and LONDON, Jan. 17.—Karl Kieb-\ such other governments. We are knecht and Rosa Luxemburg have unanimous in thinking that this might been killed, it was officially announc-! create ba feeling. We think that in ed in Berlin, Their murderers, will the preRminary — conversations we be severely punished. Several have must, at all costs, arrive at an agree- been arrested. The Zeitung confirms their deaths. LONDON HAS ANOTHER VERSION OF KILLING front at the general discussion. mittees of the house, J. W. Johnson| having been chosen to head the pub-/| lic .utilities committee and serve on| those pertaining to judiciary and rail-| roads, while Leslie L. Gantz was} made chairman of mines and mining} and act on the corporations and stock | raising and laws committees. Representative Johnson is on a fly- ing trip to Casper today after partici- | pating in the opening sessions of the, legislature, the most’ important fea-| ture of which concerned the ratifi- cation of the dry amendment to the state constitution. Not a dissenting voto was registered and it passed both houses with enthusiastic dis-| patch. Altho disappointed at the fail-| ure to place Wyoming among the first 36 states to ratify it, this glory! is still possible thru prompt certifi-| cation of the action to the department, at Washington in that temporary in-| junctions secured by the liquor inter- | ests may prevent similar punctuality on the part of some of the first) states to certify it. | Natrona county’s representatives, | in common with the great majority of | legislative members, were more than) pleased with the style and text of, Governor Carey’s message, deliver-| ed before a joint session of the house and senate on Wednesday.! Solons who had heard the delivery of executive messages extending over a} period of five and six terms pro--| nounced it the best placed on record during their time and commended its | clean statements of issues that de-| mand the attention of the legisla--| | | tors. ee Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McDonald) are in from the Willow Creek ranct- | ARE STILL UNDER ARMS Liebknecht was shot while trying to escape as he was being taken from! TWENTY-FIVE NATIONS his home to military headquarters. | 1j7 QPENING CONGRESS Rosa Luxembourg was beaten insen- (By United Prens.) sible by a mob and then drowned in PARIS, Jan. 17.— Twenty-five the Landwehr Canal. {countries will be represented at the An Amsterdam dispatch said that formal opening of the peace congress Liebknecht stabbed a guard and made tomorrow, Besides the 21 which par- a break for liberty while being taken ticipated in the war will be Peru, to pail. Soldiers fired at him, | Ecuador, Uruguay and Bolivia, which ———a | severed relations with Germany. EBERT MARSHALS MEN | The question of representation for TO CRUSH REVOLUTION the common people thru newspaper (By United Press.) | correspondents is still overshadow- ZURICH, Jan. 17.—The Bolshevik | ing all other peace problems. An revolution was revived on a large amicable solution of the publicity scale in Berlin and in the provinces) feature of discussions still is unset- following the deaths of Liebknecht tled. It is understood President Wil- and Rosa Luxembourg. The govern- son is leading the fight for one of his ment will take violent measures to principal points, “open covenants of suppress it. Five new divisions of peace openly arrived at.” government troops have arrived in President Wilson is feeling more Berlin. The city gives the impression optimistic regarding the general situ- of being occupied almost entirely by ation than at any time since arri soldiers. jin Europe. The Russian problem is | putting the self-determination princi- |ple to the severest test as it involvos |the question of any nation’s right to} LONDON, Jan. 16.—(British Wire- launch an entirely new form of gov- less.) —There may be half a million ernment, in Russia’s instance, an in- German soldiers-still under arms, ac- dustrial democracy. cording to estimates of military ex-| perts here. The situation in Germany |FRENCH TAKES CONTRARY is very unceftain, however, and it POSITION ON PUBLICITY may be that men still with the Ger- {By Associated Prens] man colors may ‘number far above, PARIS, Jan. 17.—The supreme} the estimate. council of the peace conference met} —————__ again today, according to program) 2 HALF MILLION GERMANS land a recess till 3 o’clock was taken| PETR RA | jat noon. There was a full attend-| jance. Joseph Nouliens, French ambassa-: dor to Russia, was invited by the council to meet with it and express his views on the Russian situation. The council was presented with a) REVOLT AGAIN HELSINGFORS, Jan. ‘ees eric: CLEMENCEAU NOT THE ONLY ONE vse ttetete wee = ADVOCATING SECRECY OF PEACE, 2¥¥oxverrves UP IN AMERICA ‘nfachine was halted and. when the} CONGRESS, HE SAYS IN CHAMBER x72 cc (By Associated Press] | ) PARIS, Jan. 17.—Premier Clemenceau spoke this afternoon | . | aman named Marcusson in the jn the chamber of deputies on the decision to keep the proceed- | MOrn/n& for Denver, where ho will) |ings of the peace congress secret. He had been interpellated by several Socialist deputies and had asked that a discussion ||yncheon will be the opening function part of a man who had left prison! Of their questions be postponed when he said: { | | Frankfurter ment so that there shall be a solid | G@rihune CASPER, WYOMING, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1919 |DRY COLORS ARE | HOISTED TODAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The | completed the prohibition amend- | ment ratification today, making forty states in all. The manufacture of j liquor for legitimate, scientific, phar- is permissible under federal prohibi- | tion. ee | GOVERNOR IN DENVER Governor Carey left Cheyenne this! |be a guest of the Civic and Commer- |cial association at a luncheon. The s A i {in connection with stock show fes- final form ip which communica- tivities. FORTY SIX INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD FOUND GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY INSACRAMENTO, CAL Sentences of From One to Ten Years in Federal Pen Imposed on Forty-Three Today and Others Are Pending i SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17.—Sentences ranging from one to ten jyears’ imprisonment were imposed by U. S. District Judge Rudkiv ‘on forty-three of the forty-six defendants convicted in the Industria! |Workers of the World anti-war conspiracy case. The sentence of |Miss Theodore Pollok, the only woman defendant, Basile Saffores and 1A. L. Faye, the only ‘defendants represented by an attorney, was helc ‘up by their counsel, who said a motion for a new trial would be of- ifered. There followed a morning of oratory in which a large num ter of the defendants who maintained silence thruout the trial made ‘mpassioned addresses to the court. | maceutical and sacramental purposes | "Borah Scores Plan today and will leave for Denver er evening to attend the stock show. counter-reyolution has broken out eee Enc. lin Petrograd, according to Reval re- Mrs. Russell Thrope of Lusk is | ports, and the Bolsheviki have start- | business visitor in Casper for a few |ed a general hurried retreat eastward | days. from Esthonia. i 500 LIVES LOST__. AS FRENCH SHIP _ . EXPLODES MINE Steamer Chaproi Strikes Mine in Straits of Messina and Sinks in Few Minutes; Only 150 Passengers Are Rescued [By Associated Press} ; ROME, Jan. 17.—The French steamer Chaproi struck a ine in the Straits of Messina, sinking in a few minutes. ! | | sians, were 17.—A istatement of actions taken by the Press representative of various coun- tries in restricting news of the peace, conference proceedings., The state-| ment sets forth that American, Brit- ish, Italian, Serbian and Belgian cor-} respondents have asked the admis-! sion of the press. The French took the contrary position. PARIS, Jan. 17.—At the opening of the peace preside; Lloyd George will sit at the left of Clemenceau. Representatives of the press probably will be ad- mitted at the opening session tomor- | \row. oo LENINE LANDS AT BARCELONA, MADRID, Jan. 17.—-Nikolai Len- landed at Barcelona recently, accord- floa' Five hundred passengers, mostly Greeks, Serbians and Rus- ine, Bolshevist premier of Russia, drowned | . Another steamer saved 150 of those aboard. v ing to the newspapers here., SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 17.—All forty-six defpndants in the Industrial Workers of the World conspiracy case were found guilty hy a jury in the United States District Court here last night. | The verdict, “guilty as charged,” was returned at 6 o'clock, after the jury had been out since 4:35 o'clock. Sentences will be imposed today by United States Judge Frank H. Rudkin of Spokane. HOLOUPS CONFESS FOUR ROBBERIES BUT REFUSE TO ADMIT CRIME HERE CHEYENNE,Wyo., Jan. 17.—W. C. Howard and Carl Critchers, ar- .rested for r@sponsibility in con- nection with four holdups in Chey- enne Wednesday night, last night confessed to the crime before C. F. Emery, chief of police, and Gow. Carroll, deputy sheriff of Laramie county. The con! jon was ob- tained late last evening after be- ing taken to the county jail. ‘They claim to have come to Chey- emne from Casper on Monday night but deny ail conntction with the Casper holdups. Officials here b> lieve them guilty of the crime her. and they will be questioned further congress - tomorrow, | Orzes . President Wilson will sit at the right ATTEND SH Ww AS: abolitionist family, 1 of Premier Clemenceau, who will | America for at least five generations. tSpectal to The Tribunel The Wyoming legi re is ex- \pecting tonight an ion to the Denver Stock Show the livestock association, furnish a special train and a ban- quet for Wednesday evening. Both houses are marking time while the action of committe®s oa bills and little business is expect- ed before next Adjourn- ment will be taken: until Friday evening. vv TOO CCW The jury retired after Robert Dun- lean, chief government prosecutor, | made his concluding statement: “It is a fine example of courage when some Industrial Worker of the |World throws a phosphorus bomb into a haystack, and then has ar-| | ranged to be hundreds of miles away before the bomb_ ignites," Duncan “They said that conscription was a challenge to the working class. | Since their organization in 1905 they! |have been in unlawful conspiracy.” | The writing and circulating of “poems” and songs threatening capi- | talistic “parasites” with the menace of the ‘“‘sab-cat” and “wobbly” are among the overt acta charged in the indictment under which the 46 al-! leged Industrial Workers of the| World were tried here for conspir-' acy. Several defendants were charged | with having in their possession in | Sacramento at various times, copies of “L W. W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent,” among which | was one written by Joe Hill or Joseph | , Hillstrom, executed in November, 1915, for killing a grocer and his son at Salt Lake City, Utah. Miss Theodora Pollok, the only woman defendant, gave an outline of | her career. She was born in Balti-| more, Md., in 1879 of a southern| established in | According to her account she took up social] settlement. work in New| York and Chicago, prior to going to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1908 where she lived in the Women’s University Set-| tlement and taught in the Rev. Dana Bartlett’s Bethlehem Institute. In| 1915-16 she was assistant to Pro-| fessor Arthur Upham Pope of the University of California in the Amer- ican Neutral Conference, Sho was| employed by the city museum of Newark, N. J., for a time and in 1917) was assistant executive secretary of; the California Conference of Social: Agencies. { (Continued on Page 8.) | {who prior to entering the army was jhad fully recovered from shell shock 0 RRR EHH HEHEHE EH: a Month 0 ovccccccccccsecccccessecceccccsooocoes —— FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 17 The Merriam Baptist Church of Ranger, which already has acquir- an income of $2 00 a year thru oil wells sunk ts churchyard, has refused one million dollars for the right to develop wells in the graveyard which adjoins the church, it became known today. The graveyard is surrounded by oil wells and num€rous offers have been made the congregation, which has only tewnty-nine members, for the burying ground. The congre- gation voted that none of its mem- bers shall profit personally by the good fortun: but that the entire in- come hall be devoted to the glory of God. One hundred thousand dollars al- ready has been distributed among Baptist institutions from the oil revenue fund. NUMBER 76 PROTEST GOING TO SECRECY IN PEACE MEETING in Senate Speech: WOMAN SLAYER Cables Protect AGAIN BUSY IN NEW YORK CITY enn) Four wom- sabouts (By The Aw WASHINGTON, Borah of Idaho today addressed the senate in a protest against secrecy at tho peace conference. He said the question was whether President Wil- son’s point for open diplomacy was Jan. 7. 1 murdered he n unknown man : x vithin ten days by tole fdiecarded entirely: believed to be of a “Jack the Ripper” - The latest victim was 17- NEWYORK, Jen) 11> _ihe League ld Elizabeth Riddle, Her head of Free Nations Association today Anh eevaReeobpede sent the followiug to President Wil- son: | “The Leayue of Free Nations As- i sociation vigorously protests against the announced restriction of publicity | regarding the peace conference. al REBEL trust aroused in America greatly out- weighs any possible advantage.” | SERBIAN ARMS WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Repub: By ted T lican and Democratic senators in un- any attempt to bottle up the peace | Press) news. Senator Borah declared that Bloody fighting secret diplomacy now would defeat! y on both sides re- he end for which the war was x npt to rin sov- fought—a lasting peace. — Mon- CLAUDE L. MPDERMOTT [9 Ss"ssnce °° WOUNDED, DOUGLAS BOYS ARMISTICE §S KILLED BY SHELL FIRE RENEWED, HUN SIGHS PAPERS PARIS Two Douglas boys, Victor H. Horne and Samuel Mares, were killed and 2 Casper boy, Claude L. McDermott, Following a con- secretary-terasurer of the Young Oil ference between Marshal company, received slight injuries and Foch and n delegates, the was knocked unconscious for hours arr »xtended a month. by the explosion of a shell while ser- (¢ cultural ma- ving with the army, just before thc . rs, naval conclusion of the war, according to + d the recovery of ma- letter which was rec: from the invaded dis- in Casper yesterday. Little detail of the explos given, McDermott reporti e added _ ERIA OPEN WEDNESDAY f afeteria in the and had been released from the hos. agement 4 occupying Germany. REGULATIONS ON COAL PRICES ARE LIFTED FEB. iST Fuel Administration Authorities Suspen- sion of Rulings Affecting Agents’ Commissions and Retail Price [By Associated Press] WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Zone and price regulations on coke and all coal, except Pennsylvania Anthracite, were today suspended by the fuel administration to become effective Feb- ruary first. The suspension of price regulations includes pro- visions touching purchasing agents’ commissions and whole- sale and retail margins. Notice is given that the suspension is subject to reinstate- ment if the price of wage, labor, production or other conditions arise that require it. a eS SSS undue concentration of its purchas- ing power of coal and to accomplish this purpose by permitting each road to purchase its own coal. It is the further policy of the railroad ad- ministration to require that all bids made and accepted shall be based on (By Associated Press] RAILROADS NOT TO BE USED TO DEPRESS PRICE WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Re- ports that the railroad administra- tion plans to force down coal prices and consequently the miners’ pay drew a forme! statement of denial to-| the existing scale of wages. It is day from Director General Hinzs: | already fully understood that the rail- “It is the policy of the railroad ad-| roads are not to use car supply as a ministration to avoid at this time any moans of affecting prices.” HRHKY- og or VP OVO OS