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

‘ Council of. Called 4g? Defend. Nation; Strife Projected (By led Press) COPENHAGEN, March 20.—Ger- many is bending every effort to re- sist the threatened Bolshevik in-| vasion. Following weeks of military) preparation a council of war has| been called at Kolberg to draw in} plans for a. defensive campaign, a | The circulation of the Dai | Tribune Wednesday was 3,37: Berlin dispatch says. War Minister Noske and General Von Anterfeld| have gone to Kolberg to conifer with General Von Hindenburg, who per- sonally .is directing defense prepara-| tions on. the eastern frontier. | The German government fears the | attempted Bolsheviki invasion will be! ignal for a eral radical up-| rising in Germany. Chancellor Ebert ; considers the Russian menace mor>| im: ent and dangerous than int. nal dangers. In support of their nouncement that a general offensive | would begin on all fronts as soon as the weath: permitted, Bolsheviki forces are ‘ing everywhere sa in the Archangel and Murmansk re- gions. The atest Bolshevik success has been on the Black Sea front where they forced the anti-Bolsheviki evacuate Odessa. The Bolsheviki have | begun tentative thrusts against the Poles on the eastern frontier. This | may precede a major offensive. East; Prussian garrisons have been | strengthened in anticipation of a Bo!- | sheviki strike there. ‘VICTORY CERTAIN’ IS NEW SPARTACAN CRY. | BERNE, March 20.—Spartacans) are beginning agitation for a new) general strike on March 26, declar-| ing that “this time victorv is cer-| tain,” says a Berlin dispatch. CAPTURE OF VIENNA IS | PROJECTED BY ‘REDS.’ STOCKHOLM, March 20.—A cabi- | net crisis is pending in Berlin. Chan- | cellor Scheidemann’s position is re- ported insecure. A Bolsheviki yasion of Germany is planned and is timed to. coincide with fresh uprik- ings in Austria, the Berlin National Zeitung declares. Attempts will be made to capture Vienna. GENEVA, March 20.—The French ruhe on the west bank of the Rhine} on account of Spartacan outbreaks there, the Vessiche Zeitung of Ber-: ‘lin says. The French also occupied Rheinau, five miles south of Mann-| he'm and Whinhafen. |commi GERMANS REQUIRE. PERMITS -FROM ALLIED TRAVELERS. (By Associated Pre: BERLIN, Merch 20.—. the great number of military and civil entente missions which have ed Germany since Novemver, the cabinet has decided that no person of an Allied country henceforth will! be permitted to travel in Germany without special permission from the armistice commission. 200 MILLIONS FOR RAILROADS IN BOND ISSUE (By Associated Preas.) WASHINGTON, March 20,—The war finance corporation is consider- ing the floating of a large bond issue, probably for $200,000,000 within a few weeks to provide funds for the railroads and to mreet any other de-} mands on the corporation. The in-} t-rest rate contemplated is four and! tl.ree-quarters per cent. | { MORMON BISHOP. | REPORTED SAFE, (By Annocinted Press.) JUAREZ, March 20.—A telegram today from Bishop Call of the Mor-| men settlement of Colonia Dublan) stated that Bishop’ Bentley, j Missionary Whetten and Albert Tiet- jen, another Mormon, released by Villa’s troops. had arrived at a camp! 60 miles south of Colonia Dublan. | tee ee PARIS PAPERS GET KAHN’AND BAKER MIXED “(By Associated Press.) PARIS, March 20.—Represen- tative Kahn of California landed at Brest yesterday from the United States and reached Paris today. The morning Paris newspaper er- | roneously announced the arrival at Brest of Secretary of War | Baker, who js still in the United to|” jpected today. Monroe Doctrine PRES, WILSON TO|FONA BE CHAIRMAN OF ly 5. Cribune CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919 'e ° CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 20.— | (Special) —Wyoming’s first gun in ' the 1920 political campaign likely will be fired within the next few \days. When it is, it will be in the form of the organization of a Leon- | ard-Wood-for-President club. It became known at the state house today that several state offi- cials, together with a number of Re- |publicans who are not officeholders, Will Be Made ‘Ac- had: been approached on the subject ceptable, Claim _ PARIS, March 20.—(Asso- ciated Press.)—President Wil- son will act as chairman at the meeting of the League of Na- tions committee which will be held Saturday when all pro- posed amendments and changes will be considered and the plan put in definite form. Lord Robert and Thomas W. Greg- ory are now here and are among those who have sought to draft the proviso relative to the Monroe Doc- trine in such a form that will meet the approval of legal experts. The commission plans to hold con- tinuous sessions until the work of revision is completed. LEAGUE IS CERTAIN TO BE INCLUDED IN TREATY (By United Prean) PARIS, March 20.—The Tempo says the allies have agreed to “in- clude the League of Nations in the preliminary treaty with Germany. The covenant will be practically com- pleted Saturday at a meeting of the league committee presided over by President Wilson. Suggestions from neutrals regard- ing changes and amendments are ex- At informal confer- enees the- delegates have been going over the covenant with a view to meeting the suggestions The conferees are finding it difficult to formulate such amendments and not Aa have occupied Mannheim and Kerls-|tread on the toes of other powers. | men of this city. ‘AIR ROUTES SUBJECT TO NATIONAL CONTROL (By Associated Breas.) PARIS, March 20.—The inter-al- lied aerial commission has a sub- nm at work elaborating the proposed international air code. It is hoped that its labors will be com- conditions are among the most im-| pleted within a week and the results presented to the peace conference. From progress made by the sub- commission, it appears that the pro- go important discussion last evening | posal is to subject traffic by air routes when a scale was established to which | to virtually the same regulations as that by ground routes and it is plan- ned to protect the customs regula- tions of the various countries by es- tablishing landing grounds at the frontiers and making it obligatory for pilots to land before passing from one country to another, in order that customs formalities may be com- plied with at such landing points. YANK CAPTAIN land that as a result of several con- ferences held in Cheyenne recently; |a meeting of those interested will be jealled at an early date. It is ex- pected that the club will be orga- nized at the coming meeting, and that its work will be a part of the nation- al movement to put General Wood in jthe president’s chair. While it has been generally under- stood. that, in the event he wishes to make the race, General John J. Pershing will have the endorsement of Wyoming Republicans, it is also understood that the men behind Wood do not anticipate that Pershing will be a candidate. They say that, with the death of Colonel Roosevelt, who, a lot of people have predicted, would have had the Republican nomination a NOR SPE conrerence To" OMING 10 LAUNGH FIRGT AMEND LEAGUE Proviso Regarding ENT ° > ‘for the asking had he lived, the na- ‘tion will demand a candidate of the | Roosevelt brand, and that the man who more nearly typifies the Roose- velt ideas than any other is Leonard Wood. These men say that Wood has al- ways been, and is now, one of Amer- ica’s foremost apostles of prepared- ness, and in this connection they ‘point to the following utterance he made the other day in an address at Chicago: | “Be ready to play the game when the time comes. Make such prepara- tions that war will not come to us, for if this is done those that may come will say, ‘Here’s a brave, strong, prepared people’—and will pass on.” In connection with the foregoing, the following figures may be of in- terest to Wyoming people. A straw ‘vote conducted among returning sol- diers in New York for 11 days end- ing last Sunday showed Wilson in the lead, with Wood running second. The figures for the ten highest men were: Wilson, 2,015; Wood, 1,262; McAdoo, 843; Pershing, 548; Johnson, 262; Taft, 169; Hughes, 105; Daniels, 90; Lodge, 70; Baker, 66; Borah, 49; Lansing, 35. NATRONACOUNTY WOOLGROWERS | ORGANIZED AT CASPER MEETING ‘Representative Sheepmen zation Last Evening; for Herders and Shearers for Season. Form Nucleus of Organi- Wage Scale Is Set The Natrona County Woolgrowers association, organized id criti-| A «. F z clems of United States satiators. |to deal with all problems affecting the interests of those en gaged in the industry in this district, was organized at a meet- ing held last evening and attended by 25 representative sheep- ‘ Ultimately it is hoped to enroll every wocl- grower of the county that the organization may function to the fullest extent. Officers elected for the first year inclu le M. }. Bishop, president; John | Beaton, vice president, and M J. Burke, secretary and_ treasurer. Predatory animal riddance and con- trol, wage questions and marketing ,portant questions that will come ur BAKER ACCUSED» OF BAD FAITH. for consideration xt regular meet- | BY ORE. SOLOR ings and the wage problem came in Natrona coumty woolgrowers are jasked to adhere during the coming season. Shearers will be paid 15 cents a pound and board this year, it was de- cided, while herders will receive $75 a month and board. It was agreed, it is understood, that employes now working with local outfits will expe- rience no cut in wages so long as they continue with their present emp'oye the scale applying only to those «ho WASHINGTON March 20.—Sena |‘or Chamberlin of Oregon, chairman |of the Senate Military committee, to- jay made public a letter to Secretary Baker in which he charged the w. |secretary with being under the in- |fluence of reactionaries opros« to changes in the army court martil sys- ‘tem, with acting in bad faith toward congress and with ordering an inves- tigation, which the senntor said. in his judgment, was designed to des- trop Lieutenant Colonel Samuel T. Ansell, the “man who exposed the i i i he fi . The scale DECORA TED B Y {also eee RaSai ecELeS ET ealAgncions | injustice of the present system.” BRITISH KING (By Asnoctated Prenn? LONDON, March 20.—Captain Cassel Tucket, of the American expeditionary force, was invested | with the military cross by King George at Buckingham palace to- day. MINE WORKERS TO CALL BIG CONFERENCE INDIANAPOLIS, March 20.—The Head! United Mine Workers’ general poli-| cies sub-committee has decided that the questions of higher wages, short- er days and a five-day week are too big for the committee to handle. It was decided to recommend a general convention thereon. The question of nationalization of mines also will be discussed the convention. men, has been selected for return division early in May, according States. An investigation disclosed that he probably had been con- eae by the correspondents with n. Casper men. Other Central Wy and men of northern Colorado poi attendant upon the hiring of men ‘who have horses, cr are otherwise equipped to render more efficiert ser- vice, altho it is likely that this will come under a bonus system which ‘will be optional with the employer. Dur'ng the past two years there ‘has been no established scale for either herding or shearing, with the result that workers were continually shifting to better positions. Shear- ing prices of the past seasun ranged | from 13 to 20 cents, and conditions were morc or less demoralized as:a i With the letter Senator Chambern: |gave out a copy of a telegram re- iceived from Secretary Baker, now on lan inspection trip on the Pactfic | coast, declining to make public im- }mediately the reply by Colonel Ans- {well to statements made by Baker ie Judge Advocate General Crow- der. | | JAP ALIENIST | IS SENTENCED Che Casper A | curtail their competition in the for- |is expected to arrive from Okanogan, atlas Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. NUMBER 129 FRENCH LOWER yp EMBARGO UPON GOODS AS HELP TO INDUSTRIES RUSSIAN ‘REDS’ ARE DEFEATED ON THREE Mitau Falls to Lettish Troops, Pinsk Evacu- ated Before Attack of Pole and Assault on Allied Positions South of Archangel Crumbles; Rumors Rife (By A ed Ba} COPENHAGEN, March 20.—The railroad junction town of Mitau, southwest of Riga, has been captured by Lettish troops, an official statement issued Wednesday says. The Bolsheviki, the statement adds, are retiring along the whole front. | COPENHAGEN, March 20.—Bolskevik troops under pressure of Polish forces were compelled to retire and evacuate Pinsk, 100 miles U. S. Advantage [| east of Brest-Litovsk, says a Warsaw] s | lies Reav Home): Trade (By Axsocinted Press. WASHINGTON, March’ 20.—| Imposition by the French govern-! ment of an imports’ embargo! similar to the British is regarded by government officials here as evidence that the Allies have com-' pleted plans for industrial recon- struction and are proceeding to put them into effect. Great Britain and France have es- tablished a pool in this country to control whatever purch: they need to make, and Ital: operat- | ing with them to a limited extent. As result, trade experts do not think there will be much sale for American finished products in Eu-| ropean countries for some time to come, it being the announced policy of the Allies to do without those ar- ticles which they cannot manufac- ture at home. A distinct advantage for the United States is seen in the poli of the Allies, who necessarily mus eigh field in order to take care their home population. of March on WASHINGTON, i dependence 20,—The country hinery to] start their commercial life anew may | develop u new role for Amer thi | advices. | dispatch received here today. Seen in Foreign| Field While the Al- LONDON, sheviki attac mi south said vy WILHELM FLED TO SAVELIVES OF HIS PEOPLE, MARSHAL AVERS Von Hindenburg Submits First Brief in Defense of the Kaiser’s Flicht (iy Asnocinted Presx.) Berlin, March 20.—Aroused by recent criticisms of former Emperor William regarding his flight from Germany to Hol- land last fall, Field Marshal Von Hindenburg has prepared and published here a defense of the ex-ruler’s action. After depicting the situation in November caused by the weakening ne Bolsheviki were repu dead, many wounded achine guns in the Allies’ hands. ANTI-BOLSHEVIK PARTY IS GROWING IN RUSSIA. COPENHAGEN, March 20,—The, Lithuanian information bureau an- nounced today that a new strong anti-Bolshevik movement had begun in soviet Russia and was being led by the Independent Communist party. It is well represented at the front and many cities have joined, including Vilna. It demands cease warfare. that the Bolshevists ALLIES WARN AGAINST FIGHTING AT LEMBERG (Dy Associated Press.) PARIS, March 20.—Marshal Foch and other generals were called in during the session of the war council today to give advice as to action that hould be taken in Galicia where the injans are beseiging Lemberg now threatened from three s. It was decided to nda sharp warning, asking for a suspension of hostilities. The warning will take, the form of an injunction to the two armies. ALL OF UKRAINE IN army and the revolution at home, HANDS OF. BOLSHEVIKS. Hindenburg writes: Virtually all Ukraine is now in the “The emperor could have betaken | hands of the Bolsheviki, according to himself to the fighting troops in or- der to meet death the last at th ck upon the y head in » but In heavy fighting at Nisol- v, northeast of Odessa, the Bolshe viki lost between five and cight thou. the armistice so by sand men but forced the French gar the people would thereby h tison after fierce fighting to with. Postponed and the lives of ma ssly sacr capital in finafeing European ind tries, reversing the condition w has more a ny other country, o and can relieve the European scar- city by taking industrial bonds at a profitable rate of interest or govern- ment bonds at a lower rate. ae H Herman «Seidel and Jack Sheehan, | deputies of the sheriff's office. were visitors at Arminto yesterday while, serving warrants on sheepmen to 1p- pear ner on the charge of not dipping. erica € Sam Hedges, an operative of the prosecuting attorney’s office, return- ed yesterday evening from Glenrock and other points where he was call- ed on official busin: RIVAL OF WIFE PUTS POISON IN. FRUIT COCKTAIL SEATTLE, Mar. 20.—Dudley M. Storrs, whose wife died Tuesday af- | {ter cating a fruit coctail in which! Miss Ruth Garrison, according to the! police, confessed she had put poison, Washington, where he worked as an} automobile mechanic. Miss Gerrisot. | said she was dray to Odessa. The emperor finally i en aed with his advis aver POLES MOBILIZING the country solely in the hope that | TO RESIST THE ENEMY. am, he would ‘thereby best serve — the COPENHAGEN, March 20.—The Patherland, save Germany from fur- Polish parliament has de to ther losses, distress and) misery anil mobilize immediately all cli fromirestore: peace andtorder tonher?? 1896 to 1901 to oppose the Bolshe viki, Warsaw report: FATHER WOULD GIVE $50 TO PRISONERS TORTURED SAYS MADAME PADEREWSKI. ! CHICAGO, March 20.—Madame Helena eepidcrewiki le wicomar ete FIND HIS SON Polish premier, in a letter from W : : saw to President S ski of the Na- tional Polish union here St Robert Timms, of Windsor, Onta- “There is misery and famine here. tie, Canada, offers a $50 rew for The Polish army is hungry, shoeless information leading to the loest'on and coatless in zero weather, and of | on who left home in 1909, our enemies commit the most hor- weord'ne to 9 communication ree: iv rible atrocitie Some women taken ed by Tribun name is prisoners were impaled on picket: Chester 1 s, 27 light and were then removed 2nd hurled compl ind of w little educa into a heap to die slowly.” tion, according to the father. — It aE aR had traveled for years in the employ z iy Bit of racehorse owners. per to inspect the John Beal D — ontfit which he considering pur- During the war the British lifeboat chasing. service saved more than 5,000 live ULOTHES STOLEN AT WELCOMING SOLDIERS FORGED TO HIRE CABS 148TH F. A. TO SAIL HOME IN MAY MEN ASSIGHED TO 32ND DIVISION The 148th field artillery, comprising many Wyoming and Colorado Tribune today from Senator John B. Kendrick. In the 148th are many {consequence. During recent weeks | woolprowers’ organizations every- | TO LIFE TERM where have been adjusting the scale | : and that decided upon here, it is} TOWSON, Md., Mar. 20.—Dr. Nor- understood, is higher than in many/bu Ishida. Japanese alienist, was counties found guilty today of first defree i i der for killing Dr. George N. At future meetings new members | MUM ‘ i will be added and matters of paga- | Wolff. his associate. He was sen- \vaount importance to the industry will | tenced for life. A ES . + |RECOVERY OF | H. F. Farrar has returne ‘rom WYRN TO SAVE ~| HIS ASSAILANT) | Chicago where he went to attend the funeral of his father. James Wyrn, the soldier who was stabbed in a fight with James Burk! and Alex “Happy” Cooper, as th? re | sult of an altercation Monday ni;ht during the Cooks and Waiters bali ut} the Moose hall, is said to be recover-| | ing from his severe injuries and that; }unless complications unlooked: for arise that he would be able to be‘out | jin a couple of weeks. | On receipt of this information| | County Attorney W. H. Patten is pre- paring charge@:.of: assault with at- jtempt to kill, naming Cooper and Burk in the information, to the United States with the 32nd to telegraphic advice reaching the oming towns’ are well represented ints are included. ; rival for the affectio.. of Storrs. Eighteen were arrested at | ple went to the recent reception at, the home of her uncle, J. D. hy president of the Island Transporta- {soldiers home, and then turned around tion company. “What matters most is not what 1/'A have done—it's too late for that—| t: but whether he still cares for me. I|If it had been a swimming party in: | love Dudley with all my heart and|stead of a reception they might have} soul,”” been forced to go home in a barrel. | ——_— ° ° * 2 ° & “ ° * o > RE-ELECTION WOULD TEST VOTE By Axssocinted Press.) ST. LOUIS, March’ 20.—United States Senator Reed, comment- ing on the action of 50 Démocratic members of the Missouri house of representatives, who yesterday adopted a resolution calling on him to resign and run for re-clection, as a means of determining public sentiment on his views, said he had no objection to the passage of the resolution but did object to their saying he spoke disrespectfully of President Wilson and the text of his speech would show it. “I believe it (the League of Nations) is coming to a general referendum, for the senate will not ratify it,” he said. CHEYE Wyo., Mar. 20.—} As it is, the men who lost portions Here’s the latest paradox: Some peo- of their uniforms are now entitled to say: “I was a stranger, and they the capitol to welcome the Wyoming took me in News of the thefts did not becone and stole their hats and overcoats.|known until today. When Janitor a result the soldiers had to be} Swenson reported to the members of en back. to Ft. Russell in taxicabs./the state capitol commission — this morning that the valuable brass lamps which once decorated the speaker's Gesk in the house of representative chamber ‘and the president's des’ in the senate chamber had been pulled up earried away during the re ception, investigation was started with the result that it was found that the lamps were not the only articles taken. A number of civilians went home poorer by various amounts of cash, and a number of soldiers went back to the post minus their over- seas caps and overcoats. A result of the actions of the vandals, there probably will be more such receptions at the house. While the capitol commission has not yet formally considered the matter, it is reported that members of the commission believe that in view of the last experience, thieves should not be given an opportunity to re- no | Peat. || FRONTS, IS REPORT}.