Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1919, Page 1

wean. | © <rereuns VP PW IME ee eres ALLIES CALL EBERT'S “BLUFF ON ARMISTIC COMMISSION ON LEAGUE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS IN FIRST DRAFT Additional Sections| Agreed Upon Last) Conference Called to Force Compliance With the Armistice Corditions in Re- ply to the Hun As- sembly Threat By Associated Press} i BAS Feb. 7.—Chancellor Ebert in his address to the! National Assembly at Weimar sai “The conditions of the armis- tice are of unheard of severity Evening in First! Night Session | \ | (By The Ansociated Prensa.) | PARIS, Feb. 7.—The Society of! Nations commi: ference held a tended by all tinuing three hours.. The commis- ion of the peace con- ion | | to push us too far.’’ and carried out without shame. We warn our adversaries not PARIS, Feb. 7.—(By Asso- ciated Press.)—The allied pre-| miers, who will fix the new terms to be imposed upon Ger- many, whose tactics of obstruc- sion will continue to meet nightly until a complete plan is agreed upon. CONSTITUTIONAL DRAFT | IS ONE-HALF COMPLETED j (By Associated Press. | PARIS, tion and recrimination are said | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | Reaches a dozen towns of ||| Central Wyoming the same VOLUME 3. to'have reached a climax in a threat made at Weimar by Ch&ncellor! Ebert that Germany would break off | negotiations with the Allies. | The feeling in peace conference! | day it is published, with all | | the news of the day : : : | Directed by Employes, Officers and E Che Casper 3 =| Cribunye CASPER, WYOMING, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919 RAILROAD LABOR INTERESTS OF NORTHERN WYOMING WOULD MOVE NATION WOULD DIVIDE PROFITS AGRICULTURAL FARM TO CENTER UNDER GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Operation by Private Corporation to be PAGE FIVE Pee oeccccccrcccccccceccccconccsecccsccecosceeoccececceceesoeccocceeeeeeeee, Seattle Takes Steps to Insure Protection atlas rere SOLDIERS SENT TO SEATTLE T0 KEEP ORDER IN STRIKE TROUBLE Lighting Service Is Maintained, Other Activities Para- lyzed, Report Only newspaper in Wyoming served by both the Associated Press and the United Press “NUMBER 94 SEATTLE, Feb. 7.—Mayor Hanson issued a proclamation to- day guaranteeing the people ‘‘ab- (If FARMING AGTIVITY IN STATE si: and complete protection.” “We have 1,500 policemen, 1,500 \tegular soldiers and can and will 5 a +}) secure if nec y every soldier in Flow of Oratory Predicted if Underwood-Mercer Bill Hagia Providing for Removal from Laramie Reaches the N life, busi- The an- -) Feb. 7.—Substantially one; | rs half of the draft of the constitution | circles is that the Germans are more| for a Society of Nations has been 8nd more forgetting their position| covered by the chief conference com-| 87d it is expected the supreme war! Government Urged on Congress Floor; War on Wild Animals WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The railroad labor interests pro- CHEYENNE, Feb. 7.—(Special.) The Underwood-Mercer | ; ‘bill providing for the submission to the voters the question | Nightstic mission dealing with the question, it council will take measures to bring) pose government ownership and private operation by one was officially announced. In approv-|them to a sense of realities. ADO Ens AwerS ing a number of additional articles the draft commission reached an accord, it is stated, on certain ques- tions of the greatest importance con- cerning positive functions of the league. ges { PRICE FIXING | tain allied ports have yet been handed | { IS PLANNED IN | U.S. PURCH WASHINGTON, Fel. 7.—Presi-| dent Wilson has been asked to name! a committee of industrial leaders and| government representatives which will have power to investigate and suggest a scale of prices for basic: commodities at which the govern- ment will buy during the post-war period. Secretary of Commerce Red-} field announced today. This step was taken after a conference of produc- ers, labor representatives and gov-! ernment officials. ———— ALL MOSCOW STORES TAKEN | OVER BY CITY WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Unof- | ficial dispatches to the state depart- ment says that practically all stores of Moscow have been ‘“municipa- lized,” as a rule without compensa- tion to owners. The mortality rate in Moscow is said to be high with Typhus, grippe and erysipelas especially prevalent. pa ee The Shaffer-Gay Furniture com- pany is displaying a new Dodge Ser vice Truck which they recently pur- chased thru the Coliseum Garage | company. The new truck is of the latest model and added to the rest of the Shaffer-Gay trucks will per- mit ideal service to customers, GERMAN-AUSTRIA | TO BE WELCOMED | BY HUN REPUBLIC Chancellor Ebert Opens First Assembly by Declaration That People Will Build An “Empire (By United Press} WEIMAR, Feb. 7.—The official welcomi " Austria into the new German republic is expected to be the first act of the National Assembly. It plans to adjourn until Monday when Chancellor Ebert ernment to the new cabinet, interim. A majority of party caucuses fav-| ored Ebert for assembly president| and Phillip Scheidemann as vice pres- ident. Weimar is well guarded against Spartacan interruption. WEIMAR, Feb.’ der in; German; | February 17, to fix conditions for which would involve examination of | (Associated é Marshal Foch will go to Treves,| the third renewal of the armistice. It is understood that the council! will fix a brief time within which the} Germans must carry out conditions| they have only fulfilled in part. None of the German merchant ships} which were to have been sent to cer- over. | French opinion considers that oc-| cupation of Essen is of first necessity | if the Allies are to control Ger-; many’s principal war factories. Public opinion in France also is! asking if the supreme war council} is going to allow Field Marshal Von Hindenburg to prepare for a cam- paign against Poland. The supreme war council also will} fix the size of the contingents of | France, Great, Britain, United States | and the other allied nations in the armies of occupation, both in Europe and Asia. Resistance Threats! Against Decisions: Rumored in Halls of Peace Congress | (By Associated Preas.) PARIS, Feb. 7.—A number | of territorial conflicts now| making their appearance in peace conference circles, are | said in some quarters attribut-| able to prospects of early reali: | zation of the Society of Nations plan) i} such claims by a legal tribunal so- ciety for adjudication with due re-| gard for the wishes and welfare of! the inhabitants of the districts in dis- pute. It is that some of the pow- ers, whose titles to territories rest on| ancient historical ties, would pre-| fer to commit the peace conference | to their support in advance of an adoption of the Society of Nations! plan. If they could do this, it would) avoid a conflict between claims and | principles which may be laid down in! of Justice” ing of German- will formall transfer the gov- which will e formed in the themselves, declared Friedrich Ebert, chancellor, in calling the National ‘Assembly to order this afternoon. “We ‘will call on the old German) spirit of Weimar,” ‘said he, ‘we will) be an empire of. justice atid truth.” © large corporation, co-operatively organized and sharing the profits with the employes, as their solution of the railroad question. Testifying before the Senate Interstate Commerce committee today on behalf of the four leading trainmen’s brotherhood and other em- ployes’ organizations, Glenn Plumb, of Chicago, recommended that the government acquire all railroad prop- erty at a price fairly representing its physical valuation and entrust the operation. to a corporatipn ‘to be directed jointly by the employes, officers and government. Earnings would be divided equally among the employes’ and the government and” rates would automatically be re- duced when profits were increased. WM. MONCUR IS AGAIN SLATED FOR WORLAND William Moncur will be reappoint- ed superintendent of the Wyoming Industrial institute at Worland. Some time ago Mr. Moncur tendered his resignation, but after a meeting with the board he was persuaded to re- consider his determination and serve another term. The _ testimony of those in touch with the situation at the institution is that Mr. Moncur has made an efficient superintendent. Dr. W. O. Gray of Worland will succeed W. V. Gage as physician at the institute after March Ist, it was announced at the capital today. At the same time it was given out that Dr. Raymond Barber had been reappointed physician at the Raw- lins penitentiary. —— + — WILSON PACKS UP AS IF FOR GOOD, REPORT [By As a Press} PARIS, Feb. 7.—While President Wilson is not scheduled to sail for home before next Wednesday, the household is packing up at Murat palace. Gifts and souvenirs are be- ing boxed.. The house is being cleaned as though the President had no intention of returning. the Society of Nations, Community interests of some na-, tions on certain questions has led! to hints of co-operation among those nations to make up a majority in the conference. Gossip in the corridors even mentions threats of resistance, to any™~decisions ‘adverse to those interests. “The special’ commission working on the Society of Nations plan is not moved by these rumors, however, and'is going about its work quietly but rapidly. At the same time supreme council in short daily. sessions continues its policy of hearing patiently all claims! and generally referring them to special or standing committees for| thorough examination. ROYALISTS STILL (By situation LISBON, Feb. 6.—The . in the Portuguese royalist revolt is He addressed: the: sesemblage as column hich appease between tah dinits ling J. -practically | unchanged,’ it’ was officially Santarem REPORTER TRIED TO OEE RECORDS AND WAS DENIED “It Has Never Been Done,” Was Reply to News Man Who ; Sought Inspection of the Lambe Papers CHEYENNE, Feb. 7.—The pub-| lication in a local paper here of the letter addressed to the Casper Tribune by the wife of former Gov- ernor further attention to practi Houx has served to attract s in vogue during the Houx regime, as well as to revive gossip regarding the secrecy taken to prevent the public from learning of the pardoning of George Lambe until he was safely out of the state. One member of the pardon board seen today reiterated his former state- ment that he knew nothing of the Lambe pardon until after Houx ya- cated the governor's office. One} other member of the board is out of town and the other has been in France for some time. As to the Lambe case being “a matter of record and anyone who de- sired could records,” as have access stated to the in the letter, | | “when a reported called at the office of Mrs. Cornelia Mills, secretary of the board of pardons and custodian, of the papers, that official flatly re- fused to allow him to see the Lambe papers, declaring “it never has been done.” MEMBER FIRST SENATE IS PAID HONOR BY 15TH CHEYENN Feb. 7.—(Special) | —A dramatic incident in yesterday’s session of the senate occurred, spon- taneously, long .to be remembered by those who witnessed it. J. D. Woodruff of Shoshoni, ac- companied by W. T. Judkins, thot he would go in and look them over. Judkins called Senator O’Connor to have the gentleman from Natrona ask the president to put a motion accord- D. the privilege of the floor. Apprising President Powers, that of- ficial stopped that the Fifteenth senate had the honor of the presence of a member of the First senate—J. D. Woodruff. THREATEN IN PORTUGAL, SAYS OFFICIAL WORD d Press} announced today. A Royalist and Lisbon in dominating that BOURGEOISE OF DUSSELDORF ON proceedings and an-| nounced in one of his apt speeches of locating permanently the state agricultural farm is likely | uted today to 3,000 volunteer police- to cause no end of,oratory should the measure get to the} ° men. floor for consideration. Its sponsors merely eet OLADU DICE) eek ee el) tion—that the people of the state, in view hifting centers| SPOKANE, Feb. 7.—Soldiers are of development and settlement, ought | ——————— Pacing the business streets here i i ir 8 ess possible demonstrations by |to have the right to determine the Suppress possible demon | location. of the farm; that by far the DA UGHTER OF eadtcals: | greater area now devoted to agricul- TACOMA, Feb. 7.—Over five tural development is situated in the ASQUITHS TO | liagethers (gare lef the jetates/and’’at| hundred regu ‘diers heavily H *, e Fi 1 are here ready for action in | altitudes much lower than Laramie. ARRY PRINCE |" s A | iua:tarthe mearere hiss paaisasuns M GE eee tonetbedey) lasitans | teoaithe {partly successful general strike here. LONDON, Feb. 7-—The™ | ‘Feb. 7.~ N, Feb. 7.—The. engage-| .SEATTLE, Feb. 7.—The morning Tet Le mite aga Purpose®/ment of Miss Elizabeth Asquith, | of the second day of the general strike Of direct interest to agricultural daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. ‘saw the city almost completely par- and livestock interests and thus in-| (With, to Prince Antoine Bibesco,| alyzed. The only normal function aieeckiy: dolithellentiratstatelis the | councillor of the Rumanian lega-| performed during the night was the Nablce bill thy $100,000 | tion, at London, was announced to-' street and home lighting by vol: for co-operative work in the destruc-| 4@Y, according to the Daily Mirror. teer workers. The strikers opera 4 3 4 a ;.; Prince Bibesco formerly was first 18 soup kitchens. . Thi i Wonfotspredarorv@wioganimal iS | secretary of the Rumanian legation There are no disorders thus far is not a county bill; that feature is 4 3 provided in another measure asking | 2t Washington. but the situation is dangerous. Reg- ———— ular troops under Brigadier Gencral for $75,000 with which to pay boun- z i r Hayden of Camp Lewis are here with ties for the next two years. The | ¢ Noblitt bill contemplates a fifty-fifty JACOBSON RETURNS AS iKvchinemeunsteitavonecmandbnant working plan with the federal gov- grenades. ernment in the extermination of ene- The police have mounted machine mies of stock, range and corps. The guns on trucks. The regular police work of the biological survey alonz | noticed here, and whether it is really intended to press it later, or merely} 1 these lines has in recent years at- Wireless equipment is eine tracted widespread attention, and its stalled at the Capitol in Olympia in good results are realized, particularly ‘ ,¢ase communication with Seattle is that feature devoted to the destruc-; interrupted. s of a break interests. The t noon. Union There were no sig on the part of opposin labor council will me tion of prairie dogs, gophers and sim- | ilar rodents. Senna rates ! William Jacobson, at one time an In this connection it is interest j employe of The Tribune and who en- ing to recall that only a few years ABO | Jisted last ‘summer for’ service. over- leaders look to Director General Piez when Congressman proposed to con-|seas, arrived in Casper Thursday) °F the meres pevauicet Paha Sag zress that it appropriate money .for/from tha demobilization camp after {0 make some move to arbitrate the poisoning prairie dogs and gophers |some exciting months spent in| demands of the striking 25,000 ship- the members of his committee made |France as a member of a vas and Yard workers in whose interests. the present strike was all manner of fun of the idea. They | flame unit. Six weeks after the date tried to laugh the idea out of court, of his enlistment, Jacobson si but the Wyoming member finally was|}was in France, and after command, able to get the initial appropria-|weeks of intensive training which Warters in th tion for this work. With the report in! permitted of naps of only four or Some troops ¢ on the first year’s work under that) five hours’ duration, received his appropriation, showing in cold figures baptism of fire at the front. During the first day and what the saving of range and crop He carries an honorable discharge night the police did not receive o meant in the death of a single dog, ;showing service in the battle of Ar- trouble call as a result of the strike there was no difficulty in getting | gonne forest, and was enroute to an-, FOOD SITUATION IS secrecy which covered the activities ers’ commissaries as the food OF NEW YORK jhours at one point, when they were bread and coffee cost the public 35 are camping out in their rooms, eati + Who is h postoflice, e quartered Fort Layton and others in the downtow: at armory. ST NDA RD OIL armistice s signed. Due to the Hungry hordes swamped the str {were stationed no longer than 12. Stew served on paper plates wi oS played a union card. Hotel sue. more money. other sector of the front when the GROWING MORE ACUTE ‘of the gas and flame regiments, they tion hourly became more si PAYS $4 SHARE jmoved to new locations. cents, or 25 cents if the patron dis a (By Annociated Prean.) PARIS, Feb. 7.—Secretary Lan- tinned food or searching t the NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—The Stand-i sing in a statement issued today, streets for even sandwich. Milk ard Oil Company of New York to-|says the government of the United for babies and invalids is being sold day declared a quarterly dividend States welcomes the union of the! under doctor’s certificates at st ns of $4 a share, an increase of ‘one dol- Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian peo-| the strikers designated. No butch lar over previous dividends. ples. ers or bakers are open. | The troops are keeping off the streets. They are held in the armory and hastily improvised barracks. Only one newspaper is printing and may be forced to shut down momen- tarily. Major General Morrison, ecommand- | ing the western department, is hurry- of the troops here. 4 *. TRENTON, Feb. —A strike is Officials, Clerks and Professional Interests | threatening to tie up every Delay river shipyard was called today Carry Out Threat Against Spar- the Merchants’ Shipbuilding: Corpora- tacans by Stopping Work tion Harrima Penn., of the any’s 10,000 employes. BERLIN, Feb. 7.—(By Associated P: )—The whole cit: DEMPSEY WILL ‘eb. 7.—(By Associated Press.) —The whole city of Dusseldorf has hyd rghit setae clarke and: other SIG N U P TODA Y employes in the service of the railways, posts, telegraph, tele- phone and service lines; bankers, lawyers, physicians, school F OR BI G F. T GH T teachers and others engaged in professions all have quit work. vw YoRK, Feb. 7.-—Jack Dein: The strike is in keeping with a threat made to the executive | ..y, who will oppose Jess Willard for council of the communistie govern. H i 4 eae ment fo call a general, strike she. 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