Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1919, Page 1

ch e Casper } FOE MUST HAVE MATERIALS 10 /PAY. INDEMNITY LANSING AVERS No Time to Be Lost in Saving World) From Anarchy,| Says U.S. Secretary Oe a a a ds a a a a a a a aD (By Associated Press.) PARIS, March 12.—‘We have reached a crisis in the affairs of the world,” Secretary Lansing told, the Inter-Allied Press club at a! banquet last night in honor of the American commissioners. He was emphatic in his statement that the! Allies must feed Germany, and give! them an opportunity to sell their’ products in foreign markets to avoid} the danger of Bolshevism. “In the infancy of our republic the! sympathy of France save the support) needed to make liberty the supreme ruler of destinies in the new-born nation. From that time liberty has been and still is the most sacred im- pulse of political life in America. “A mighty victory is won. The imperial armies of the central powers cease to threaten. Scattered and hun- they return to homes where hun- and privation await, the conse-! quences of their own blind faith in evil men who led them into war. “Germany suffered bitterly and is) entitled to suffer what she has done. We may demand reparation but un- less Germany is furnished materials for her industries she can never pay.! “Furthermore, if the ' present! chaotic state continues,-there wil be| no responsible German government to make"peace.” No tinie is to be lost, if we are to save the world from, anarchy.” | PRELIMINARY PEACE TERMS NEARLY READY. | PARIS, March 12.—If delegates} finish their schedule ,the preliminary peace with Germany may be com- pleted this week. The supreme coun-! cil gave final consideration to mili- , naval and air terms today. They| expect to finish Germany's eastern! boundary tomorrow, the western ie iday and the questions ration and financial assistance rmany on Saturday. President n joins the conference on Fri- hat peace will be concluded soon} with complete and cordial —under- standing between the United States and the entente was the keynote of! speeches at last night’s Franco-Améri- can meeting in the press club. SETBACK FIXED AT CENTURY BY GERMAN CHIEF WASHINGTON, March 12.— Germany will need a century or | longer to regain supremacy in | | 1 Europe, General Ludendorff de- clared in a Berlin interview, ac- cording to diplomatic advices. ‘LITTLE GRANDMOTHER’ QF RUSS — REVOLUTION UPHOLDS CHARACTER United Press Reports. Member Aasociated H.S. SOVIET ON STRIKE; TAKES HOLIDAY HERE A score or more students of the high school will be on the “carpet” this afternoon when the school board meets to in- vestigate activities of the “soviet council” whieh resulted in a reduced attendance upon classes Tuesday. According to reports which ean not be confirmed from the principal’s office, the score of boys took a vacation yesterday after they had beef refused a holiday to -participate in fes- tivities attendant upon the re- turn of the Soldiers, Altho pub- lic enjoyment of these func- tions was confined to the early morning demonstration and the evening banquet and dance, the students, it is said, went on strike and refused to attend school. Principal C. E. Wygant has informed the boys of their status and refuses to discuss the situation. Publie opinion views the occurrence as one of the periodical revolts which come under the head of “larks”’ in schoolboy parlance and no serious results are anticipated. 3 > ° ol ° ° ? ° ° ” SEEPS STDS S PIONEER RIDER ‘PONY EXPRESS’ DIES IN CASPER, James Scott Called to Last Rest After Eventful Life in Plains Region Dating Back to Andian Days.. James Scott, one of the Jast sur- vivors of the romantic episodes that make up the history of the west, was called to his last rest Tuesday night, his death occurring at a local hos- pital where he had been removed, suffering from Bright’s disease. He was 76 years of age. No known rela- tives survive him. According to the few who.were acquainted with the adventures of Scott, he was one of the earliest pio- neers of the plains region, having re- | sided at various points in Montana, Colorado and Wyoming when the out-' president. Wilson hopes to reach Brest! dispatch posts of civilization were few and far between. For years he followed the calling of a “pony express” rider and his life was colored with many epi- sodes that would ‘strike terror to modern day life. For nearly two years the aged man | had held the job of janitor and keeper of the pesthouse on the banks of the Platte. Funeral services will be conducted from the Bowman mortuary Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Burial will be made in the local cemetery. CARRANZA GETS AMMUNITION BY ORDER OF U.S. (By United Preas) EL PASQ, March 12.—Under government license the Carranza s' ported 150,- 000 rifle i—the first ammunition to Mexico permitted here in years. OF CZECHO-SLOVAKS IN LETTER Testimony of Raymond Robins Bitterly As- sailed in Commu nication Received Today by Chairman of Committee WASHINGTON, March 12.—In a letter today to Senator erman, chairman of the committee investigating lawless propaganda, Catherine Breskovskaya, aged Russian revolu- | tionist, assailed the testimony given before the committee by| Raymond Robins, former head of the American Red Cross in| Russia. Madame Breskovskaya mentioned particularly Robin’s garding the Czecho-Slovak army in Russia, denying that the Czecho- Slovaks were admired by all Rus- sians for their humanity and their complaint against the defendant, who'the Pittsburg Plate Glass company, | lis an inmate of the Sandbar district. sense of honor and bravery. statement re-| materialize when the POSSESS SSSSSOSSHS SSE OIOOSD naar Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. S ENTER PRU RHINE MUST BE OPENED TO ALL NATIONS, PEACE DELEGATES SAY ‘Commission Method! | of Control Suggest-| | ed; Kiel; Canal Is;| Also Open PARIS, March 12.—Recommenda- | tion that navigation of the Rhine be| ‘opened to all nations without dis- | crimination was made in the report to: the peace conference by the com- mission on an international regime | of waterways, railways and _ ports, | which suggested that the Rhine be} |controlled by a commission similar | ; to Danube commission. ' The status of the Kiel canal has | been settled by the commission on a! | basis of freedom of use for all na-| ;tions for merchant vessels or war- ships in time of peace. The canal | would continue under German owner- ship and operation. NEW LIMITS PLACED ON GERMAN FLEET. LONDON, March 12.—The Daily | Chronicle’s Paris correspondent says | the Allies have agreed fo limit the | German fleet to six battleships, five j | cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 26 ‘ | smaller destroyers. pe TORETURNIN MAY, 1S HOPE OF PRESIDENT 1s i ‘ i (By United Press.) | ABOARD THE U, S. S. GEORGE | WASHINGTON, March 12.—As Wil- ‘son is nearing France he is confident | of being able to return home by the last of May. Information reaching the liner states that peace work ig | being speeded up weeks ahead of | schedule, | ABOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE | WASHINGTON, March 12.—(By | Wireless to the Associated Press.) — in time to leave there Thursday eve- jning for Paris, after a brief recep- | | tion at the port. | NEARLY MILLION BRITISHERS AID HUN OCCUPATION y Amnociated Prens.) cB: | LONDON, Mar. 12.—The govern-| {ment announced to day that the total/engineer who has been employed by/she had reprimanded him for violat | ,oth these countries were neutral at istrength of effective and non-effect-| {ive British troops in the armies of} occupation was 902,000 men, includ. | jing officers. The strength of the) | British army in France, Belgium and | |Germany, including dominion troops} ‘on. February 15 was 1,324,106 men.| | The announcement stated that 197,-| ;900 German prisoners were being| \fed by the British commissary de-| partment. [RAILROAD SHOP | EMPLOYES AIR | ‘ CLAIMS TODAY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 12. —| Spokesmen for half a million rail-| |road shop employes today presented their arguments to the board on 'rail-| way wages and working conditions! in support of their demand for a gen-| eral wage: increase from the basic | rate of 68 cents to 85 cents per hour. | ee SURFACE CARS | | NORTHERN N. J. | BROT TO STOP (By Associnted Press.) | NEWARK, N. J., March 12.—Vir- tually all surface car lines of the Pub- lic Service Railway company, which} |is operated through 141 cities and) towns of northern New Jersey, were | A reported larceny case failed to|tied up by the strike today of 4,600 | cotplaining| employes. —_———_a__-— |witness refused to subscribe to the} MM, F. Grossman, representative of was a Casper visitor yesterday. Advance of Rebels From the East Is! Believed to Show Aid From Russia for Spartacans (By United Prensa) BASLE, March 12.—Martial | law has been proclaimed in dis-' Thorn and Guim, owing to the ad- vance of the Spartacans from the; east. This report would indicate that these Spartacans either are un- der the directio:n of the Russian Bol-| sheviki or the name Spartacans has selves. The districts referred to are | just inside the Russo-German boun-| Valera at a secret midnight inter- dary. BERLIN AGAIN MENACED BY SPARTACAN OUTBREAK. BERLIN, March 11.—(Noon.)— Spartacan outbreaks Berlin. After desperate fighting gov- arnment troops recaptured most of | Lichtenberg suburb but the Sparta- cans fled from there to the southeast- ern part of Berlin proper and en- trenched themselves. From these new positions the Spar- tacan artillery endangers a large por- tion of Berlin. Meanwhile the in- surgentg remaining in Lichtenberg re- tired to the railway station where they organized new defenses. The government’s position was rendered difficult by a public demand that the use of artillery and airplane bombs cease. The center of Berlin presents a scene of gay social affairs. Cafes and dance halls are crowded. 1 GENERAL STRIKE IN SILESIA IS REPORTED. BASLE, March 12.—The Frank- | fort General Anzeiger reports a gen- eral strike in the mining district of Beuthen, Silesia, while another re- port from Beuthen states that Spar- tacan.bands attacked the military post and seized a number of rifles and that another similar attack was repulsed with hand grenades. A telegram from Graudenz says martial law has been proclaimed in the Briesen, Kulm, Thorn and Strass- | burg districts of west Prussia, owing to the advance of Spartacan forces in that region. LONDON, March —Riots have occurred at various _German _towns outside of Berlin and a Spartacan revolt has broken out in Hamburg. according to an Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen. Riots are said to have resulted from a gen- eral strike supported by the Spar- tacans, THOS. W. TAYLOR DIES TUESDAY Thos. W. Taylor, 40, a well known the Wheeler & Worthington com- pany for the past two years, died last night at a local hospital after an illness lasting about six weeks. Fu- neral services will be held this evei- ing at 5 o'clock at the Shaffer-Gay Chapel at which Rev. Edward K. Philbrook will officiate. The remains will be shipped to Denver for inter- ment in the Riverside cemetery. Mr. Taylor has been prominently | identified with prominent engineer-! ing accomplishments in the west for a number of years. Most of his life has been spent in this line of endeav-; or in various parts of the United States and Alaska. He came to Cas per two years ago from Alaska, where | he had been an engineer on a new government road that was put in. | He is survived by three sisters and) two brothers, one of whom, J. B. Tay: | lor, resides in Casper. C. E. Taylor,| the other brother, arrived last night) from Eagle, Colo., just a few hours| too late to be at the bedside of his brother. The two brothers will ac | jcompany the remains to Denver to-| about a dollar a gallon, so while of night. PRICES OUGHT TO BE LOWER; STOCKS LARGE WASHINGTON, March 12.— If old-fashioned law of supply and demand is in good working order chick certainly ought to be cheaper. De- partment of agriculture figures show that storage stocks in these commodities now average 100 per cent greater than this time last year. IRISH READY TO REVOLT » meat, eggs and butter | Natrona C ‘The Casper aunty Tribune Established Many 1, 1800. ally Tribune Established October 9. NUMBER 122 1916. IF DEMAND UPON PEACE CONFEREES IS REJECTED Edward De Valéra, Escaped Sinn Fein Leader, Boasts of Plan for Overthrow cf Administration in Ireland in Secret In- terview While Fugitive From British Justice {By United on) NEW YORK, March 12.—Edward De Valera, fugitive Sinn Fein leader who escaped from an English prison, has been found and interviewed by a United Press correspondent, Ralph F. Couch. Couch re- |tricts of west Prussia, Briegsen, turned with the story to the United States today to escape the censorship. The Sinn Feiners blindfolded Couch and motored him to De Valera’s hiding place near Dublin. De Valera is constantly shifting his hiding place to evade the British detectives. (By United Presa) | DUBLIN, -March _12.—"Violence | will be the only alternative remain-| | ing to the Irish patriots if the p: | been applied to the Bolsehviki them-| conference fails to extend self-de' | mination to Ireland,” said Edward De “This means something like! HOLD SEIZED CABLES | rights are recognized.” | dertaken until the peace conference! shows conclusively that self-deter- | ‘ mination will not be granted, he said. “We are going to win. Meanwhile U. S. Claims Based on Illegal Seizure of German Lines Connecting Neutral Na- tions Referred to Legal Experts for Ad- vice; Monopoly by British to Be Opposed we have our Republican government | comp! ly organiz We can take | over the administration of Ireland at | a moment's notice.” | Two hundred thousand British sol | diers in Ireland, fully equipped, have | created a tense situation. De Valera‘s’ | full statement to the American peo- | ple will be carried tomorrow. = es U.S. LAYS PLAN | FOR A FLIGHT | PARIS, March 12.—Realizing the possibility, of virtual monoply ,tured German cables be sustained, with consequent submission of the | great foreign business interests of the United States to alien control in | (By Aanociated Prenn.) \img to make a strong presentation of their case before legal authori- SPOKANE, Wash., March 12.— | ties to whom the question was re- -- \@d here today that he had.been order- ibe SEREEt gal Correport vetiorely ipb Cane Maye ferred the matter to legal experts and of the dirigible balloon with which it | these experts are being pressed by the / ON LEAGUE iS the Atlantic ocean under government | Early in the war the British cut GIVEN SCORN NG OVER ATLANTI ‘of cable communications by Great Britain should her claim to cap- this respect, American delegates to the peace conference are endeavor- Albert Perry, naval aviator, announc- ferred. | = scene SENATE POLICY |New. Jersey, to act as chief engineer } is planned to attempt a trip across | Americans for a decision. direction j two German cables from Emden to He said the balloon would. start| America by way of the Azores and/ from Newfoundland some time next! #lso a cable between Monrovia, the H i i sens_| Liberian capital, and Brazil. They prone ni warn yandeseinationsat Queens) took one end of one of the German- [ees By Amn Prenr | hee a American cables to Halifax, thereby STAMFORD, Cae March 12,—- | securing another trans-Atlantic line |Homer Cummings, chairman of the | for themselves, The other cable they! national Democratic committee, in a |gave to the French government, ' formal statement today charged that | which so far has made no attempt to the senate by its failure to pass ntial to “many pending n American business’ bdicuted its functions and neglected its own duty to point out supposed derelic- tions of the president and defects in the peace treaty which has not been completed and which is not before the senate for its consideration.” JAMES PURCELL PN VISIT HERE ur « r utilize it, probably because of a } | city of submarines and of cable-l | ing ships. | The British now claim that these | | | cables are prizes of war. They do ;not intend to allow their return to Mary Johnson, lored harged | Germany or to regard them as a sub- ae Bea Ceaer eet ae: 13 i i y peace confer- with the killing of her husband, No | 2ect, fF disposition by pea jvember 11, in a little shack in the) “The American delegates contend | Burlington yards, is being tried is} that the cables were unlawfully cut the district court today. The case! and unlawfully reconnected, because was started this morning but it Was| the United States was not at w nearly noon before a jury had been) when this was done and had an inter- lmpannelled\toj hear) the}case, est in them as being one of the . Attorney Alex B. King is endeav termini. Nor, they claim, was there James Purce oring to prove that the defendant) proper warrant for the cutting of the yy ‘C Parcel jkilled the man in self defense after | cable between Liberia and Brazil, as 4 fey on of Attorneys Casper visitor for a few and hearty ,Oil company, the great independent {ing her home. a ‘the time it was done. County Attorney W. H. Patten, | 5 cor He 1 by the fra- ternity in this gion but the scope of Jimmie’s work } srown so that now he can only give the fellows up here a look in a cheerful ‘Howdy.’ During the late unpleasantness, Jim- ‘mie was not, instead there was a khaki clad figure that went by the title of Sergeant James Purcell with three stripes on i rm. who is prosecuting the case, is ask | _-—_____—.___—--- oil firm. Jimmie is u former Caa- = “i see . per boy who made good as an oil ing for a first degree verdict, and is; ! BS , 2 i endeavoring to establish a good char ARRESTS MA DE scout and has risen to a position of responsibility acter for the murdered man. It is a aulall batiieleon probable that the case will be summed up this afternoon and go to the jury this evening. OF SUSPECTS IN STEALING Two larceny cases, which were de NEW FUEL TOO EXPENSIVE FOR iscss‘ceempioyes inthe local Bur USE IN MOTORS, lington vards, resulted in the arrest of C. W. Prettyman and G. L. Masor aaa on a charge of petit larceny. No spe- Mrs. J. P. Hance (By Asnoctated Prens.) cific charges have been made against Gladys, who have be with WASHINGTON, March 12.—De- | the men but score alleged that they their son and brother, John Hancock, velr pment too late for use in the war|#re implicated in the recent whiskey wit) return to their home at Inman, of a motor fuel which adds 10 miles|stealing from Burlington cars. Nebritodas: en hour to the speed of airplanes and Henry Neilan, Chas. Graham and has possibilities for use in automobile |S. J. Ford each contributed the sum —— daughter, 1 visiting George Hamilton of & eridan ar- racing was announced today by the|of $7 toward enriching the city, the rived here yesterday on a business U. S. Bureau of Mines. The liquid, mount being assessed as a fine on and pleasure trip. an AA — (skal icombinationls fot} benzol Rand | Soares oy orenrennete: A.C. Fletcher of Lusk has returned several " ——— cyclohexane called qectar, and costs Frank Scherck is recovering from to his home after spending military value it is not regarded as his recent serious illness. days in Casper on business. | practical for commercial purposes at/ A EMBERS BRITISH-AMERICANST HREATEN TO APPOINTED TO ‘SINK TRANSPORT OFF HALIFAX IF CIVIL SERVICE REFUSED ORDER TO LAND FOR U. S. AeA Mort Ages parents of 300 froope. of the British army who enlisted in the United States, 81 o! em American Per erp acheter citizens, to sink the transport Toloa unless immediately al- commission by the president, succeed- lowed to land and proceed to their destinations in the United ing John Mcllhenny and Berne Eek by rail, were reported to the Canadian authorities to- Craven, who resigned. day by Captain Jackson, commander of the transport.