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ARMY. TO recruited by a voluntary system for a period of 12 years. The effect is to limit Germany’s military strength to less than the number of men Switzerland has in her army. Other provisions limit the arms and munitions Germany possesses to a quantity sufficient for 100,000 men and all the remainder must be de- livered over! or destroyed. German forests along the Rhine also, must be destroyed. The.imperial general staff is abolished. Discussion of the subject was re- sumed by the supreme council today. the basis for debate being Marshal Foch’s report on Premier Lloyd George’s proposal to reduce Ger- many’s armed force from 200,000 ar had been suggested to 140,000 men and to substitute voluntary for com- pulsory — service. Marshal Foch favored the change, as a conscription plan providing for 200,000 men serving one-year tefms would Havetpgiven. Ge y a trained army of 2,000000'mer in ten years: “ One of Premier Lloyd George’s purposes in substituting volun- e for the conscription sys- tem was to pave the way for a dis- ‘appearance of the conscription system thrnont Europe. If Germany refuses to accept she will find the allies presenting a firm front. The allies either will occupy Germany or let her starve until she is ready to sign. The latter course is considered the more lik KAISFR TO BE RRANDED AS THE ‘ARCH CRIMINAL.’ PARIS, March 11.—It will be the fate of former Emperor William to be branded for all time as an arch criminal by the solemn declaration of all the nations embled at the peace conference, to h even his own country may be called upon to sub- tcribe in the peace terms, according to present plans of a majority of the coramission on responsibility for the ~The report of this commission will | REPAIR HOP IS be ready in a few days and indica- | tions are that the members are har- | monious on the main points. There likely will be differences, | regarding subordinate Ge: _of cials, although at present a majori' of the commission is understood hold that they can be punished for} orders given or acts premitted by them. in violation of the national laws | of Germany or the rules of war. { Such a rule would apply to the of-| ficer who executed Captain Fryatt. but not to the executioner of Edith Cavell, who, it is pointed out, might | have been technically guilty of es-| pionage. — ZURICH, March 11,—Government | troops, by severely defeating the | Spartacans, captured Leipsiz, reports | from Berlin state. DEBS PRIMING HIMSELF FOR | HIS ‘FAREWELL’ By United Prens.) CLEVELAND, March 11.—Eu- gene Debs is:scheduled to deliver his “farewell address’ here tomorrow United Pres Reports. Member Ansociated Press. 00,000; SYSTEM OF RECRUITING ENDS Volunteer Methods of Enlistment Will Be, Required for 12 Years; Arms and Muni-' tions Supplies Limited; Notorious Gen- eral Staff Abolished by Decree PARIS, March 10—(Delayed.)—Military Germany will | go out of existence as a result of the adoption by the supreme council tonight of the military terms of German disarmament as they will go into the peace treaty. These terms provide for a sweeping reduction of the German military establishment,| down to 100,000 men with 4,000 officers and the army to be' | enroute from Washington to Hamp- itablished at a distance of 150 miles, ‘oy far the longest transmission o {radio telephone signals: with an air- | plane in flight ever achi = =p! — = =} om = NEW FORD CO. WILL: EMPLOY mem cacneD. nally per Daily Tribune CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1919 ——————————— per Daily Tri! GERMANY WIPED OUT BY ) 200,000 MEN CHEERS AND MUSIC RAISED DETROIT, March 11.—Henry Ford | expects to employ 200,000 persons in , plants for the manufacture of hi new car to sell around $300, he said \ today. It will not affect the pres- | ent Ford machine and will be made by | a separate company. Ford is now de- signing the new automobile. DANIELS TALKS TO PLANE OVER: -150 MILES. OFF WASHINGTON, March>'11.—Sec- vetary of the Navy Daniels today talked by radio telephone with Ensign Fogenwater in a navy flying boat Wyoming. Wind Con- quered by Great Demonstration at Station Today Sunsét division, Caspei’s own, ‘re- turned thié morrniing—a monument of pride and tribute to Casper’s en- deavor and offering in the great war that resulted in the triumph of de- mocracy and spelled the doom of monarchistic control of the’old world. Hundreds of voices rose in one long ¢ cheer of greeting, bands played and the crowd went wild as the boys streamed off the cars into the open- armed greeting led by the Mothers’ Lengue. As if in celebration of the event the Wyoming wind bled the hardez, but for once it was conquered RAINBOWS WILL ARRIVE IN U. S. en uanofleed in we amnpet aus wel EA RLY IN MA Y Hundreds failoraveuniue veleents to be at the depot to pay tribute to the Casper boys and other members of WASHINGTON, March 11.—The the organization, numbering 80 men, Rainbow division probably will land} who were enroute for points north in the United States early in May.'and west. Many affecting scenes were It is the last division scheduled for enacted for tears of joy were mingled leaving France in April. with the more vociferous welcome. Er Each boy was taken by an escort as he left the train to the interior of the waiting room, where coffe OPENED IN CITY doughnuts and coffee were served by the Mother’s League canteen com- Bert Tullis, Hundreds were unable to on Roads. Communication was es- ed. who has been em- mittee. rman offi- \ployed at the Shockley Service Garage jenter the depot. ity | for the past several months has open- } he ast to|ed up an auto repair shop in the eral get-acquainted procession was tertainment during the afternoon. | old Duhling garage and is now ¢ater- |started in whigh people vied with each Following the slight repast q gen- ing to auto owners whose cars are other in endeavoring to make the stay in need of repair. tin Casper most pleasant for the boys EARLY PEACE !S URGED BY POPE | IN LATE APPEAL ting Up of Bolshevik Republic, Pon- | tiff Tells Allied Powers | PARIS, March 11.—(By Associated Press.)—It became known here today that Pope Benedict has addressed an appeal to the allied powers emphasizing the urgency of a speedy, conclusion of peace with Germany. It is understood that the night before leaving for the Mounds- ville federal ‘prison. lot Bolshévikism with such rapidity i REDIC ED = it might result, in the establish- z iment of a: Bolshevik state. | pontiff states that the vatican possesses reliable information | that the situation in Germany, socially and economically, is very grave and he fears the spread, GO WET AGAIN BASIC COMMODITIES TO BE LOWER '¢7"7 Towns ASHINGTON, March 11.—-Prices on the most basic commodities thts lowered within two or three months, Chairman George Peek BOSTON: of the indutsrial board predicts, The board will, call .representatives | day on the, question of-jssuing liquor, industry to Washington and egree on price schedules that uetals e ipeliaye business stagnation. teks > Freight rates, particularly on building and road materi: will be fair a lowered. Meeaeee show eight changed from dry! +. [ta wet. imay be - | have been no licensed places for more | . +] than a quarter of a century. - ! Th 110th-andtienitiod trai of the” IN WELCOME TO L COMPANY HEROES, BACK FROM FRONT ‘Round of Entertain- THE HONOR ROLL The Casper boys in the unit ar- riving today w Major B. |W. Bennett, mande¥ of the unit. Lieutenant William Shortell of Buffalo. First Sergeant George Barnes. Regimental: “Supply . Sergeant Lawrence Swartfager- Sergeant Marvin Shellhammer, Sergeant Royce Wagner. Sergeant J. Y| Bagby. Sergeant Martin E. Larsen. Corporal Clarence Whinnery. Corpo: Fred Maltby. com- Corporal Tom Alexander. Corporal Phillip Scott. Corporal Bert Harris. Corporal Melvin Krupka. Corporal Francis N. McCune. who were going thru. When the train pulled. out carry- ing the boys to the northern part of the state amid the cheers of the vast! assemblage, a parade was rapidly! formed for the Casper, Lander and Riverton boys who were escorted to the Soldiers and Sailors club where a tempting breakfast had been arranged by the Mothers’ League. At noon a dinner for all soldiers x west to Fremont county was ‘ved by the Mothers’ League at the Soldiers and Sailors club. The Frogram for the afternoon includes, matinces at local theaters for all men in uniform, automobile rides and ex- cursions into the rural districts as well as a continuous program of en- Casper will be virtually an open town tonight with banquets, dances and entertainment features of all! kinds scheduled. The first official demonstration will be a banquet at, the Henning hotel, with the Mothers’ | League as hosts and all overseas sol | diers and sailors as guests. The ban-; | quet wil start promptly at 6 o'clock followed by. speaking by prominent Casperites. Following the conclusion of the banquet, dances at the hotel, Masonic Temple and Soldiers and Sailors club will be in full swing. A band con- Speedy Conclusion Needed to Defeat Set- cert wit ve neta at the Henning to-| night from 8 to 9 o'clock. All returned soldiers affected bv the entertainment arrangements will be permitted to leave their work re- gardless of the hour, according to the arranggments made with all em- ployers in Casper. The 116th Ammunition train, after, a stayin France of many months, in which France, including many excursions to the active front, was visited, sailed for home and landed in New York on February 23. The organization’ was immediately sent to Fort D. A.| Russell near Cheyenne for demobiliza- tion. The men were discharged yes- terday afternoon and _ started for their homes last night. The committees in charge of the} various entertainment features fol-| low 5 | March 11.—Returng Executive committee— George B.|ment and keep | from eleven towns: that. voted yester: Nelson, Michaél W. Purcell, E. Rich-! out. of the meilé and public prints. ard Shipp. ahd Sam Conwell. Managemént committeo—Mrs. Gam | « Littlefield, Préd Van Gorden, John| Bryne and Billie Johnson. ment Follows the Arrival in Casper of 116th Train {Enertainment ‘ecommittee—Mrs. Sam F. Service, Mrs. C. H. Long, Mrs. Sam H. Puntenney, Mrs. Alva Anderson. Publicity committee—William Bai-' ley, Lew Gay, Clarence West and Q. K. Deaver. Floor committee at Temple—E. Richard Shipp, Jack Leary and John Bryne, Reception committee—Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Joha G. Bauer, Mr. and Mrs . T. Boone, Mrs. Langhoop, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Long, Mrs. J. C. Pursel, Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. | M. S. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. John Me- Grath. This committee will have charge of the reception at the Hen- ning tonight. Ticket committee—Mrs. A. H.j Duthie, John G. Bauer and Mr. andj Mrs. Lew Barker at Masonic Tem- ple; Mrs. John Mussy and Mrs. David} Ray at the Henning; Mr. and Mrs.) F. R. Henry and Mr. and Mrs. Joe} Jenning at the Soldiers and Sailors, club. Reception committee at Soldiers! and Sailors club—Mrs. E. M. Miller,! chairman, ona County Tribun | League members — Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. 3 Bi ean i EA my a REFERENDUM ON TERRORISM OF LEAGIIE 1S PLAN SPARTACANS IS IN WYOMING ONREVOLTING Te APRIL 22, CLA ‘Special Bond Election to Offer Opportunity for Registering Votes for or Against League Plan. CHEYENN March Wyo., 11.—(Spl.)—Wyoming will be the first sovereign state to hold a referendum on the proposal for a league of fiations if pres- The state holds a special election April 22nd, ent plans mature. to vote on the issuance of $3,000,000 in highway bonds, and it is planned ,to have a separate ballot printed for electors at that time with which they: can express their sentiments regard- ing the formation of a league of na- tions. Governor Carey is expected home from the east about April 1st, and |unless he vetoes the idea, Wyoming will be the first state to vote on the| dormationiofia)league of nations, MONDELL NEW FLOOR LEADER OF THE HOUSE WASHINGTON, March 11.— _ Representative Frank W. Mondell | of Wyoming was elected today as | Republican floor leader in the | house. The vate in the committee | on committees was 160 to 23, the { latter merely voting “present.” | Former Leader Mann declined the ncmination. i Mondell has been a member of congress for 22 vears. His eleva- tion to floor leadership will cause him to retire from membership on } the house appropriations commit- tee. One hundred and ty mem- bers voted for Mondell, 23 vot present and ii Med Loan office, morrow to r of the ¢ e in Casper to cent a position as 3 jant to Mr, Medlick, Smokes committee—Mrs, M Miller, Mrs. Harry Brown, Mrs. Pearl Logue, Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Bogue. Dinner committee — M John Storrie, Mrs. H. F. Stanley and Lieu- tenant Walt Storrie. Canteen committee—Mrs. C. E. Littlefield, chairman, and all Mothers’ Breakfast com Sawver, chairman, assis Mothers’ League members. DRASTIC LAWS TO CURB I.W.W. Senate Committee U rges Early Enaction of Measures Destined to Kill Ef- forts at Svread of Doctrine (By Associated Presa} WASHINGTON, March 11.—Drastic laws to curb activities of Anarchists, I. W. W., tigation committee, members said Social-revolutionaries and Bolsheviki in the |United States will be recommended by the senate propaganda inves- today. This will be favored not- wittunlisieverve part of Withstanding that the committee failed to find evidence of any or- ganized propaganda paid for by foreign money er directly connected with the Russian Belsheviki. Nevertheless the committeemen be- lieve the I. W. W. is the most potent influence for the spread of Bolshevik} Sees doctrines and that the Russian Bol- | . scien thc ee MARRIAGE AND BIRTH DATES NOT their system to all the world. | Proposed legislation will seek to! keep agitators out, curb and punish’ those trying to undermine the govern- Bolshevist teachings The. principel evidence before the committee is the post ice depart- In three. ofthe towns thére | F. Service, Mes..M. J. Gothberg, € | ment’s memorandum charging I. W. W. with being active in seeking to! overthrow the American government | TE and replace it with a Bolshevist re- public. MTEUTON PEOPLE Situation in Berlin Slowly Returning to Normal; Rebel Defeat Is Final (iy « ted Pres.) LONDON, March 11.—Govern- ment troops in Berlin made fur- ther progress during Saturday and Sunday in demolishing Spartacan strongholds in the northern and eastern sections of the city, ac- cording to a German wireless dis- patch. The troops used artillery and |mine throwers, being able to force the insurgents back without exposing themselves, The Spartacans are attempting to transfer their field of resistance to the eastern suburbs. The dispatch says their terrorist methods caused a revulsion of feeling in favor of the government everywhere. Railway traffic and other communi- cation services have been resumed, except on the electric street. railway, the employes of which are striking | for an advance in wages. SILESIAN MINERS CAUSING TROUBLE. BERLIN, March 10.—Encounters with troops are reported from the Silesian coal region, where the miners’ strike is spreading. The movement vartly is a Polish Separatist one in character, the Poles in this region having been left by the Allies on the tion fixed b ; The miner: xen also we SCRMER e boat. Disorder - not unde: tinuing. suls have been w 1 + Constance territory poof the hos attitude of neighborin pe nts. DRASTIC ORDERS ARE AUTHORIZED, REPORT. ZURICH, March 11 is ended in cen jstate of siege w {in Dusseldorf? and Ww ster Noske announced that {seen carrying urms except ment troops would be shot, says a + Berlin’ report. As a result executions and re taliatory shoctings by the Sparia- fans occurred BERLIN \ ated Press troops were busy tod Sparta can bands from vy sections of Berlin and in pre for a de termined effort ag the - ean stronghold cf icht n past of the city. Governn to Lichte protect the postoffi tion were annikilated tacans. All soldiers and police officials who were not killed during the fighting for the postoffice and police station or who did not escape from buil were murdered by the Spartacans. Many were tortured and killed in the streets, The police archives were burned and 80,000 marks were stolen from the postoffice. No attempt was made to ascertain the number killed in the present uprising but the number is believed to e 1 — - W. C. Talbert, the Ri writer representative, ‘a few days on business. re Sunday lo id police sta- by the S ngton type in town for CONSIDERED IN. TAX EXEMPTIONS CHICAGO, March 11.—An important extension of the exemption proviatons of the income tax law is con C kt is thet exemption for wi |B even if the wife were wed, er a child born, on yr Rep: > je year the last day ef the year. Commissic a ruling today by or children cov- , RPS ee ee ee 1 :