Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1919, Page 1

ee I } _TAKING WON'T SIGN TREATY BEYOND PRESIDENT’S ORIGINAL 14 POINTS Further Demands Not to be Considered by Germany, Declares Ebert in Interview; Bolsheviki Is to Be Suppressed at All! Costs, Government Now Prepared | | [By United Presn} ,_,, BERLIN, Jan. 20.—Chancellor Ebert of the Majority So- cialists told the United Pfess correspondent today that he will sign only a peace treaty based on President Wilson’s fourteen | points and will not agree to the peace congress making any further demands. When asked what he thot of responsibility for the war Ebert said: “Personally I feel that the blame was not the Germans’ alone.” He declared the Bolsheviki had been suppressed in Germany but they may arise again if Germany does not get plenty of food. “The charge that the government enéouraged disorders 20 as to es- cape its debts is false,” he declared, “At the beginning of the revolution the army was disorganized. Now the; government forces have been re- | built. We intend to use every means | to suppress Bolshevism.” | RIOTING BREAKS OUT | AFTER SUNDAY ELECTION | COPENHAGEN, Jan. 20.—Street fighting broke out in Berlin Sunday | when the Bolsheviki attempted to destroy the ballot boxes and con- tinued thruout the night, say Ber- lin dispatches. The Bolsheviki at-| temnted to storm the Vorwaerts’| building. | Severe fighting occurred in Wil-| helmstrasse, Medimanstrasse and at Bullesche but the Bolsheviki every- where were repulsed. GENERAL STRIKE TO BE CALLED THRUOUT NATION | COPENHAGEN, Jan. 20.—Inde- pendent Socialists intend to call a general strike in Germany from to- morrow to Saturday as a protest to the Liebknecht and Luxembourg murders. The general strikes has al- ready been proclaimed at Leipzig. ‘They called a general strike in Ber- lin but were unsuccessful. | LONDON, Jan. 20.—Sunday’s vot- ing in Germany was attended by dis- turbances in several cities, particu- larly Leipzig and Dusseldorf. Women were in the majority as voters in most districts. _ Women candidates were everywhere. The Ebert Social- ists expected victory. BERNE, Jan. 20.—Germany has sent the Russian Bolsheviki a note protesting against the latter's sup- port of the German rebels. The note said the German government has ir-| refutable proofs that Russian money is behind the Cerman Bolsheviki and threatened vigorous measures inst | .HOUSES OVER WEEK END | assembly for the third electoral dis- | cialist. RESULT OF HUN ELECTIONS NOT CERTAIN AS YET Democratic Party Shows Gain in Berlin But Catholic and Ebert Crowds Lead in Baden, District (Ry United Prenay PARIS, Jan. 20.— Returns from the election for a German national trict in Baden, show that Majority Socialists won five seats, tho Cen- trist party five, the German National ist party one, and the German Demo- cratic party three. (By Associated Prean} BERLIN, Jan. 20.—Twenty-four out of 831 districts in greater Ber- lin give tho following totals: Ger- man democratic party, 7875; Major- ity Socialists, 1195; Independent So- cialists, 3005; German National party, 4706. The strength of the German Democratic party is surpris- ing in view of the fact that Berlin has always been overwhelmingly So-- Seocnetinieen codieemmenal | LONDON, Jan. 20.—A Blue-white | diamond weighing 38844 carats h been found at the Jagersmonteii mine, in the Orange river colony. This promises to become one of the diamond fields’ historic gems. ——_— WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—With | amendments authorizing the payment of thirty days’ pay and five cents a mile traveling expenses home to dis- charged officers and enlisted men, | the Senate today passed an amend-| ment to the conference house bill to! permit soldiers to retain their uni-} forms. The Senate also passed the| War Department bill authorizing the! resumption of enlistments in the reg- | ular army. THREE BUSINESS ROBBED FO Takes Precedence in| Congress as Presi-| dent Urges Early| Action on Claims | i} PARIS, Jan. 20.—(Associat- | ed Press.)—As the supreme | council of the peace congress | resumed its sittings toda: marked progress was being, made in the business of com-| paring various plans for the forma- | tion of a League of Nations and) harmonizing them into a unity of | ideas which can be taken up as a} concrete proposition. Much headway in this direction | was made last night at a conference | at the Murat residence, which was | attended by Mr. Wilson, Lord eS Cecil, British representative charged with working out a plan for the League of Nations; Leon Bourgetise, French proponent of a plan for such an organization, and General Jan Christian Smuts, who has formulated | a plan for a league. Preliminary conversations over the! structure of a League of Nations are, strictly speaking, still in the stage, of being discussed in the meetings: of the supreme council, and not) technically before the peace congress. as a whole, but it is believed that a definite program wil soon be evolved. President Wilson is personally pressing forward the League of Na-| tions feature to the virtual exclusion | of all others. | With only about 25 working days remaining of the time President Wil- son has alloted himself for work in'Council of the Peace Conference to-! The liquor forces France before returning to America the question is asked if the President in this comparatively short time can | THE DAILY TRIBUNE Reaches a dozen towns of Central Wyoming the same day it is published, with all th f the d. eens LEAGUE OF NATION PLAN NOW RM IN PARIS M/ET Che Casper 2 Cribune VOLUME 3. RUSS SITUATION IS TAKEN UP AT PEACE MEETING SAYS OFFICIAL Communique Issued, Today Reveals No Details of Plans Toward Bolshevik | PARIS, Jan. 20.—The situation in | Russia was taken up by the Supreme day. Joseph Noulens, French am bassador to Russia, was present. The next meeting of the council will be | CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1919 FROM THE WIRE WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Direc- tor General Hines today said there was me foundation for the reports that tho railroad administration was giving consideration “to any incre: im the present basis of ra’ SALONIKI, Jan. 17 — (Delayed ‘jag Par; 2 + 2 3 athy Only newspaper in Wyoming served by both the Associated Press and the United Press eee NUMBER 72 LEGISLATORS OFF FOR OENVER ON “SPEGIAL TRAIN TO ATTEND STOCK SHOW AS GUESTS OF GOLORADUANS Invitation Received After House Adjournment on Sat- urday Advances Date for Entertainment at Hands of Visiting State; Back Tuesday (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Jan. 20.—After the house had adjourned on Satur- SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.—The| day the senate received an invitation from Gov. Oliver Shoup of Colo- state government today filed = de- | rado, urging the Wyoming legislative visit to be arranged for Mon- murrer to throw out the “wets” re-/ day night instead of Wednesday as planned. With the house ad- —Nikola P. Pachitch, Serbian pre-| mier has resigned. Prince Regent | Alexander has asked Stoyan Protitch, | ance minister in the Pachitch cab-| inet, to form a new cabinet for Serb- Croat-Solvene kingdom. straining order which prevents Gov- rnor Stephens from certifying the islature’s prohibition ratification. contend that the federal amendment is unconstitutioal. PARIS, Jan. 20.—President Wil- bring the nations together in an) held tomorrow at 10.30 o'clock, The 80" is working on international la- agreement for a society of nations.’ text of the official communique ‘mak-| bor I Many of the President’s closest ad- visers are reasonably convinced that he can do so, BALKAN TANGLE HOLDS UP ELIGIBILITY CLAIMS PARIS, Jan. 20.—President Wilson met the representatives of Great Bri- tain, France; Italy and Japan. in closed confetence this morning to set- tle contests between the various déle- gations from the small nations. The Balkan tangle is largely responsible, the status of the Montenegrin dele- gate being held in abeyance until the formation of the new Jugo-Slav nation is accomplished. POLISH BORDER IS REACHED BY THE BOLSHEVIK FORCES, REPORT Halt Is Called in Ad- vance; Teutons Are Selling Arms to the Terrorists WARSAW, Jan. 18—(Delayed)— Bolshevist troops have slackened the'r advance at the Polish frontier. The Germans are delaying their evacua- tion of Grondo for several days, ‘altho! General Falkenhayn has retired to Suwalki and General Hoffman has! ing the announcement as follows: | “The President of the United States and the prime ministers and \foreign ministers of the allied gov- !ernments, assisted by Baron Makino, jand the Japanese ambassador in| |Paris, met at Quai D’Orsay this! lmorning between 10:30 and 12 | o’clock. i \ “M., Noulens, Fréneh ambassador to Russia, who returned a few days | ago from Archangel, addressed the | meeting and gave particulars of the | situation in Russia. | “The next meeting will take place | Tuesday at 10:30 o’clock in the morn-| ‘ing to hear the remarks of M. Scaven-! lius, Danish minister in Petrograd, | who left the Russian capital very re--| cently.”” i ——_——_ | INSANITY AMONG FOE ON ACCOUNT FOOD SHORTAGE |Report to Third Army Shows | Alarming Conditions; Su- | preme Council to Take up) | Provisioning Problem | | IBy Annocinted Prean} | | AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS | AT COBLENZ, Jan. 20.—The food |shortage is producing nity and |other mental disorders in Germany, Professor Max Rubner, German ex- pert, reported to | ‘commissioners today. Rubner said| Germany needs quantities of fats to | bring the ration up to a health and | ‘sustenance point. The death rate of) | infants is alarmingly high. Owing to the shortage of coal Gen- eral Pershing has ordered the people of Coblenz to cut the consumption of tion. A tentative program provi for the incorporation of several vital labor principles in the peace treaty including an interna-- fion child labor law, regulation of | working: conditions and possibly a| universally limited workday. —_ BODY OF MAN Ya FOUND TODAY IN THE BIG MUDDY Discovery is Left Untouched in Parkerton “Sump” While Coroner at Douglas is Notified Almost submerged by oil seepage from a nearby well, the body of « stranger was found today in a ‘sump' located within 100 years of the Par- kerton station in the Big Muday. Pending the arrival of the Converse county coroner from Douglas the body will not be touched. The dis- hovery was made by an engineer on the Northwestern. dead man has not been revealed. He |gives the appearance of a man of 40! the third army |Wears of age, light hair, weight about| 150 pounds and five feet ten inches in height. The condition of the body also indicates that it had lain ther: for three or four days. journed it was at first thought this | U.S. PROGRAM IS ‘MAPPED OUT BY SENATE SOLONS WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Pro- | eressive congressmen headed by \Senators Borah, Johnson, Kenyon and \Cummings have outlined a recon- \struction program compriding the following:: Immediate and adequate liquida ‘tion by the government of obliga- {tions to soldiers and sailors. Prompt meeting of the unemploy- ed problem followed by a scientific jhearing of the employment question as a permanent government pol Severance of Americz i relations with European earliest possible moment. Inauguration of domestic polici designed to increase democracy in the | United States. HOLMES ATTENDS HARDWARE ‘CONVENTION IN COLORADO ware Co., leaves this evening for Den | ver to attend the association meeting of the hardware men of the Rocky Mountain states, of which he is vice ‘president. Transition from a war to a peace basis has brot new problems ‘Altho many familiar with the men| to the hardware trade and these que: who work in the Big Muddy Oil field | tions will come up for attention in ad. {have viewed the body as it lies in dition to topics of general interest the sump, the identification of the!” conducting a successful business. | original date of the visit for Wednesday « birthd Earl D. Holmes of Holmes Hard- * could not be arranged, and that the would be kept. Later, how- conferences with house leaders arranged for an adjournment today at noon, the legi » trip to start immediately th Accordingly, ; memb their wiv {here on a special for Denver pproximately 150 nd friends, left of Pullmans night will be sue legislature and at a smoker. The visitors will jin their Pullmans Monday night in Denver, and the train will leave Den- ver at a Jate hour Tuesday night, ar- riving in Cheyenne early Wedn lay | morning, when solons will get | down to work. Wyoming's le, limited to fort the ative: sessions are lendar days. Sat- fifth day and as the last lendar out the Sund and pent in Denver, but twenty- 3oth intend to d Washingon’s be introduced ny of the hous n Lincoln's ¢ 3 i only to the th | uppropria- tion measure ying aries and expenses of the on, little progress was made on S the house ad- j he senate after A mat smokers of the settled in quence of I of C tor ng tour My rouse favor ntati t was sought mok- Laramie lin behalf of 1 masterpiece ns may puff ilt solo NAMES OF FIRST APPOINTEES ARE No examination has been made t«| ascertain whether or not there are | marks of violence upon his body,| this being left to the coroner. | SENT TO SOLONS Liberty Bonds Are Passed Up at Plant of Leidecker Company; Laundry and Dairy Offices Are Burglarized Fearing that possession of Liberty Bonds and war savings stamps which they found in the desk in the office of the Leidecker Tool company, would be a clew to their identity the robbers who broke into the building late Saturday night left several hundred dollars worth of the securities untouched after making a thoro search of the office. It is the opinion of the police that the work was an attempt by rank amateurs who were poorly cauipped with sesemenis cool: Far eeocken shop were not registered attempt to pry open the safe with 8 and are as A | hammer and cold chisel added to the police are HAS areca The strength of the belief of the police |various cases and are working out | , The Casper Laundry company of-| several clues, expecting to make ar- , fice was also broken into and the /rests later in the day. desks pried open and rifled. Some = small change which was in the cash| register was the sum total of the rob- bers’ loot despite the fact that an at--/ tempt to open the safe was also| made, | A loss of $30 in small checks and| silver was sustained by the Casper Dairy company when their service depot on Railroad avenue was broken into the cash register rifled. LONDON, Jan. 20.—The death In all of the robberies according to the police version there is evidence of amateur work, the police working on the theory that certain “kids” whom they have had under suspicion are onsible for the work. The of Prince John, youngest son of King George, came so quickly and unexpectedly Saturday night that there was no time for nurses who were with him to summon the king and Queen Mary to his bedside be- reap: Liberty Bonds which were left at the fore he expired. 4+ PRINCE JOHN OF ENGLAND DIES | }government’s free employment office BEFORE PARENTS CAN BE CALLED gone to Koneigsberg. , Polish leaders allege that the Ger-| mans are selling arms to the ‘Bolshe- | vists under the . pretense of aiding| “society for the provisioning of Uk- araine.” In Lithuania and Ukraine} the Bolshevists are issuing proclama-. tions that they have come to restore! order. | Men have been arrested at Vilna! and other places and have been re-| teased later, it is said, on ent w sums ranging from five to‘fifty | thousand rubles, the size of the -ran-! som being in proportion :to the ‘victim | and his power to pay. The’ Bolshe- vists are especially bitter against the Poles, it being reported that the declaration of a holy war against Po--} land -by the Moscow government makes it the “right and duty of every Bolshevist to kill the Poles as enemies of mankind.” The delicate health of the prince it mecessary that he always. an attendent, consequently be was never seen on public occasions with other members of the royal family but lived in comparative privacy at Frogmore House, sor or at Sandringham Pal; eration of the problem of provision- electricity in half. The Rhine shortly will be opened for the transportation of supplies to the third army thru Holland. PARIS, Jan. 20.—Further consid- EXECUTION OF ing Europe was taken up by the Su-- preme Council of supply and relief after its members had returned from the armistice conference at Treves, according to the council’s official statement today. A permanent com- 2 y ‘mittee was named by the council and|former premier and French authority this: committee was called together |on a league of nations, in a statement yesterday for its first meeting. |to the Matin, cites as a precedent for — OPEN TUESDAY laws of war, the case of Henry Wirz, the who was tried by court martial and executed after the Civil War for cruelties suffered by northern prison- ers in the camp commanded at Andersonville, Georgia. Starting tomorrow morning, in the Kimball building, will be ready to transact business and H. H. Tap.} pert, the agent in charge, requests that all employers who are in need of help of any kind list their wants at the }office as he already has listed; (By Associated Preas.) PRISON OFFICER (By Amsectated Press) PARIS, Jan. 20.—Leon Burgeois, | applications of several score of men who are looking for work. The plan of the office is to rux| a general employment agency taking in domestic wants, supplying oil field workers, refinery labors and evéry sort of labor that is needed. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20— | President Wilson today cabled Sec- retary Tumulty his approval of the proposal to hold Roosevelt memor- ial meetings thruout the country February 9, simultaneously with joint “memorial services of Con- | follows: Water division superintendents— |Frank S. Knittle of Douglas,, District No. 3; C. W. Stroud of Sheridan, |District No. 4; James B. Martin of ‘Evanston. AU are Republicans ex- PRESIDENT APPROVES PLANS FOR ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL FEB. 9TH gress. The cable follows: “I sincerely approve of the sug- gestion for simultaneous meet- ings to commemorate the life and services of Mr. Roosevelt. I think it would be the most suitable way to show the esteem in which the country held him.” FRENCH RECALL ‘Water Superintendents, Librarian and Members of Two Boards Nominated; “Welcome” Committee to N. Y. (Special to The Tribune.) | Governor Carey today sent the senate his first appointments as Agnest Wright of Cheyenne, state librarian. C. P. Arnold of Laramie, trustee of the University. | W. D. Brennan and Frank R. Dildine, both of Cheyenne, members | of the board of Child and Animal Protection. cept Arnold The house this morning passed un- der a suspension of rules the bill au- thorizing the appointment of three men to go to New York to welcome returning soldiers of the 91st Divis- ion. Th enate is expected to pass it Thursday. The house committee of the whole vorably recommended = ap-- ns of $5,000 each for fish hatching shed: \vanston and Cody. The legislative party left for Den- ver at $1 o’clock today. Important business prevented Governor Carey from going. A Attorney E. R. Shipp has returned from Cheyenne, where he spent sev rral days while attending the meeting of the State Bar association and ‘ transacting other business,