Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1919, Page 1

HUNGARIAN REPUBLIC DECLARES WAR ON ENTENTE REDS, THREATENS aaprr D Crihune BOLSHEVIK Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. | The circulation of the Daily | Tribune Saturday was 3,352. | | CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1919 | NUMBER 132 Special Session Is Called to Discuss New Crisis; Hand of Germany Seen VE MEXICANS 4 CER TAS THETA KL CASED sn DEMS TO WOE HE DCE TE BYU. §. CAVALRY my mm.) The question of a barrier which the peace conference intends to inte: If a letter addressed to the editor of The Casper Daily Tribune by anonymous parties who sign themselves erect against the spread of Bol- “The Black Five,” can be accepted as forboding a reign of blackmail, Casper is soon to be the scene of an. shevism into the former central organized attempt to extort funds in the total sum of $20,000 with death as the alternative in case of refusal to| powers has come sharply to the meet the demands. Forty citizens of Casper will be called upon to deliver $500 each into the hands of the prosy; front as a result of the situation in s e blackmailers, according to the notice, which als» carries a threat to kill the editor “or some of his loved Hungary unless the notice is published. aS Bolshevik ele- nd de- pec! where the one: e ments hav JOINS RUSS PEACE PLANS BARRIER MENACED BY —=_ UPHEAVAL AND PARIS CONFEREES |; TALK OF MILITARY ACTION SOON 3 Communist Ministry Organized by Russ Premier Lenine Forms Alliance With the Bolsheviki, Calls on People to Resist the Allies and Refuse Peace. (By ed ff , PARIS, March 24.—The new Hungarian soviet republic has formed an alliance with the Russian Bolsheviki and declared war on the Allies, Budapest dispatches received via Berlin today announced. Gen- eral Georgys, commanding an army of 70,000 Bolsheviks, is reported from Vienna to have crossed the Dniester river and entered ! The Hungar soviet proclaimed general mobilization, announced its an Horses and Cattle _ Taken by Bandits Are Recovered by Border Patrol { (By Associated Press.) MARFA, Texas, March 24. | —Troops of the Eishth United States cavalry under Captain Kloepfer returned here early today from a pursuit across the border of Mexican bandits, bringing 35 head of cattle and two horses which had been driven from Nunes by the raiders yesterday. Cap- tain Kloepfer reported that he over- took the Mexicans 18 miles south of Ruidosa and five were killed, No Americans were aurt. GAS IGNITION DAMAGES CAR A Franklin automobile belonging to Bert Pearce of 1116 South David street was damaged as the result of a gasoline explosion yesterday while the vehicle was standing in front of the Pearce home. The fire is supposed to have originated from gasoline be- ing ignited by an electric spark from a shorted wire. Just prior to the explosion Mrs. Pearce had opened the gas tank to} see how much gasoline it contained. She had just entered the home when the explosion occurred. The fire de- partment was summoned and the flames quickly extinguished by chem- icals. excited female voice reported a fire | nt 520 East Divine street. The fire- men made a rapid response but on thousand troops of the American ex- {peditionary force, of wounds and sickne: Saturday evening the department! ships Ma‘ was called by telephone and a highly soldiers guardsmen of Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Blackmailers have been scarce in Casper since police detectives succeeded in identifying one who made de-! clared that a mands upon a Midwest Refining official. The notice which threatens a resumption of these activities reached the tween Hungary | Tribune in the following form, embellished with a reproduction of the “Black Star,” the insignia of the gang: There are five of us in a little ga @ proud to say that we have never We nead $20,000 and it will come out of the town of C Now get us streight, for we mean business. will pay $500 or die. TO YOU THAT IT MAY CONCERN. me (money or lives). We have plaid had to take only five er by black: THE BLACK mail, from 40 victims. FIVE, OR THE BLACK STAR. FOUR BURNED, ONE SERIOUSLY, IN EXPLOSION OF GAGIN REFIN | 10000 YANKEES - ARRIVE TODAY FROM OVERSEAS: National Guardsmen of Colo- rado, Nevada, Utah and Ari-' zona Are Ineluded in Ar-) rivals on Four Vessels | (By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, March 24.—Ten | more than 2,400! whom are convalescing from | nia and Antigone. The include former The arrivals included 53 officers arviving at the scene were notified |and 1,518 men of the 160th infantry | that no alarm had been sent in from |for twelves camps throughout that home. The matter wds not re-|country, ported again so it is believed that! if there was a fire any place it was|and 823 men. not serious in extent. —_—.—_— SHEEP DIPPING CASE GOING TO SUPREME COURT County Attorney W. H. . Patten, | who appeared as prosecutor in the| recent test of the conStitutionality of the law requiring the dipping of sheep, receiyed a communication from | W. L. Walls, state attorney general | authorizing a preparation of a brief | in the question for the purpose of immediately taking the case to the su- | preme court, where the state authori- | ties hope to get a reversal on Judge) Winter’s decision which was in favor | of the sheepmen. | It is hoped that the case will be) brought to a hearing as-soon as pos- | sible before the supreme court with) a view to settling the case once and for all. In all cases where the same question arises in other judicial dis-' tricts, any action has been continued | pending a settlement of the question by the supreme court. | iio Work of filling in the lot at the| city hall site in preparation for the! spring gardening plans was started! this morning by Street Inspector Joe Thomas and his gang of laborers. Aj force will also be kept busy on the} streets which are said to be in bet-) ter condition now than in years, ow- ing to the work that has been kept underway all winter. The new Fitch tractor which was purchased for the street department was put to work this moming. conference took advantage of the! and four detachments of the 159th infantry, totalling 12 officers; WILSONS VISIT FAMOUS POINTS | ‘ON SUNDAY TRIP. (By Annociated Preas.) PARIS, March 24.—President and Mrs. Wilson spent Sunday visiting Soissons, Chemin Des Dames, Coucy- Le-Chateau and neighboring regions. PARIS, March 24.—After a week| of strong and heavy demands on their! strength, the principals in the peace) the) Sunday lull for comparative rest. MARKET WIRES ARE REOPENED For the first time in several days! direct wire communication with Den-! ver and eastern points was establish- ed at noon today. The wires have been out ever since the heavy snow and sleet storm destreyed communi- cation by taking the wires out north of Cheyenne. | Market quotations from eastern centers were available today and local \brokers were able to furnish quota-| tion from New York stocks. It seem» that Wyoming oils have been having \a strong inning on the New York curb \during the time that the communica- ‘tion was interrupted. N. W. DePlanty May Not Recover, Is Advice from: the Local Hospital. One man is at the point of death and three others are critically burn- ed and injured as the result of an ex- plosion which occurred at the Mid- west Refinery about 1 o’clock today while the men were repairing a still on Battery No. 1. The men are all badly burned and are suffering from the force of the explosion. They were immediately gushed to the Cas-| per Private Hospital where they are being given medical attendance. The victims of the explosion arg: 'N. W. DePlanty, 36, of West Second} street; Art Doornbas, 31, 246 North) Lincoln street; F. J. Magor, 36, 474 , arrived from | West Second street, and Chas. Thomp-} France today on the cruisers North | son, 26, of 806 South Cedar street. Carolina and Montana and the steam- | Mr. De Planty is the most seriously injured of the four and according to national! statements from the hospital may be Utah the only one of the four that will not | recover from his injuries. Two of the men, De Planty” and Doornbas, were working on the in- side of the still when the gas ignited from some unknown cause exploded, hurling them against the inside of the still. The other men were on the outside and were injured by pieces of steel which flew when the still ex-, ploded. They were, however, close | enough to the still to be badly burned | by the flames. “A careful investigation is being made to determine the cause of the explosion,” said Wallace Leavitt, sup- erintendent of the refinery. “It is a most regrettable accident and every effort will be made to determine the cause.” ! The men, who are boilermakers, were repairing a still in battery No.| 1. How the gas got into the still| is unknown as the structure was vir- tually all taken down and recon- structed. It had not been used for} several days. | Upon hearing the explosion scores | of fellow workmen of the injured four rushed to their assistance, put-| ting out the fire on their‘clothing and | taking the men who were in the still CHEAPER FOOD IS PREDICTED ING OTILLAT MMDWEST PLANT TODAY IMMIGRATION ‘BOARD NAMED BY GOVERNOH Sheridan, Lyman, Burns and Ther- mopolis Men Picked and Will Elect Commissioner Last of the Week. (Special t CHEYENNE, Wyo.ch Mar. 24.— Governor Robert D. Carey today an- state immigration board of which he is president under the old law. The following were named: C. Watt Brandon of Sheridan, Thomas J. Brough of Lyman, S. G. Sibley of Burns and C. C. Bever of Thermopolis. The board is asked to meet in Chey- enne the latter part of the week to elect an immigration commissioner. Commissioner Greenbaum today appointed Roy C. Glovin of Sheridan as deputy state food, oil and dairy commissione ee COPENHAGEN, March 24.—Mas. aryk, president of Czecho-Slovakia, has resigned, says a Berlin report. ——— from their prison. First aid treatment to relieve the pain of the burns was immediately given and medical atten- tion summoned. Such rapid response to the plea was made that the injured men had been taken to the hospital before 1:30, where rapid attention was given by Drs. H. R. Lathrop, Roach and Foster. A similar accident occurred nearly two years ago at the Midwest Re- fining plant, resulting in the death of one of the victims and the in- jury of four others. —— NDUSTRIAL BOARD, NEAR FUTURE —_—__ WASHINGTON, March 24.— .was predicted today by Chairman merce industrial board as the res ministration officials in New York. Peek said there had been a'g cent statement by Hoover that w and added that the billion-dollar congress to enable the public to prices as well as to make good the wheat’s prices reasonable, said P | ducts could be expected because ' food trade. Cheaper food in the near future Peek of the department of com- ult of a conference with food ad- eneral misunderstanding of a re- heat might go to $3.50 a bushel grain appropriation was made by get wheat products at reasonable guarantee to the producer. With eek, reasonable prices of other pro- wheat was the barometer of the Each victim | nounced the appointment of the new | eized the power state of war and the xists be- entente | powers. Premiers of the Allied states were jealled to meet in special session in other places to great success. We) Paris today and reported that im- | portant military decisions might be !taken regarding Hungary and Poland. | Paris newspapers see the situation ‘as serious and as one calling for {military action and express the be- ‘lief that Germany may be behind the | movement for the purpose of defeat- ing the work of the peace conference Some commentators in London see the Hungarian situation partly as the result of delay in the conference toward bringing about preliminary peace. Rioting is reported from Budapest, but there is no reliable information |regarding the entente troops which jhaye been in Hungary for several }months. Two French divisions are !at Budapest and Serbian and Ruman- ian troops are available for use in Hungary should their servicgs be needed. The extremist element of Hungary s said to be in absolute control and in wireless communication with Pre- mier Lenine at Moscow. In addition it has called on all. workers of adjoin- ing countries to rise against their governments. It is understood in Paris that three Polish divisions in | France will be shipped at once to Danzig. The Allied proposal to use Danzig as a port of debarkation for these troops is one of the main causes for the breaking off by the Germans of negotiations with the Al- ‘lied commission in Poland. j German newspapers have strongly | denounced the proposal of the Paris | conference to give Poland the port of Danzig and a corridor to it. | Extremists are active in Vienna | but the government is still in control. | Reports from Czecho-Slovakia, where the Bolshevik movement is reported to be strong, are meager. Reports that the Russian Bolshe- iviki had, large forces of troops ir | Galicia ready to advance into Hun j gary still lack confirmation from re 1 le source The Bolsheviki are ; within 100 miles of the eastern fron tier of Galicia. Reports last weel were to the effect that the anti-Bol sheviki Ukrainians were driving the Bolsheviki back in the region of the Pripet marshes northeast: of | Lem berg, which the Poles were forced \to give up to the Ukrainians. | RUSSIAN MISSIONARY | WORK IS IN EVIDENCE. (By Asxocinted Press.) | BERLIN, March 23.—(Delayed.) |—That the seizure of power by the | Hungari: Communi is the result of Russia’s Bolshevik missionary | work and financing, seems apparent from the history of the movement. Bela Kunior Kuhn, new foreign| minister, who probably was the man} who formulated the Communistic| proclamation, spent a long time in! Rus as'a prisoner and there made the acquaintance of Nokolai Lenine| and Leon Trotzky. He originally was chosen to or- ganize the Spartacan Bolshevik movement in Germany but went in- stead to Hunga Hungarian So- cialists would have nothing to do with him and he thereupon founded the! Communist party. Of the leaders of ‘the Communist movement, Major Georgy, who is the grandson of the 1848 revolutionary Georgy, and Major Geizy, al member of an old Hungarian fami have likewise been in Russian cap- tivity and there became infected with Bolshevism. They were participants in the plan to’ form a Communist | army of 70,000 men in Hungary. i COPENHAGEN, March 24.—The| by the Hungarian situation. MUST OCCUPY BUDAPEST 10 DEFEAT ‘REDS’ (By The Annocinted Press.) LONDON, March 24.—The rev- olution in Hungary caused great excitement in Vienna but did not surprise those aware of the true conditions, says the Vienna corre- spondent of the Exchange Tele- graph, who says that the Com- munists of Hungary have long been the real masters of the coun- try and have only been waiting for an opportunity to get rid of Count Karolyi, who is considered capable of making a stand against the ex- tremists. There is grave danger of Bo- hemia following the example of Hungary. The situation is attri- buted to the failure of the peace conference to recognize the se- riousness of the situation and oc- cupy Budapest with troops. The only way to save the situation is to send American or British troops, it is said. na et cerned THREE ALTERNATIVES OPEN TO THE ALLIES. (By United Press) WASHINGTON, March 24.—Three alternatives appear solvents of the Bolshevik situatior gravated by the Hungarian coup. First. Recognize the soviets. ond. Place an Allied armed ring about the Bolshevik-ridden ts of Europe and try to stop its spread while trying to “talk sense” to the radicals. Third. The Allies must band to- wether to actually war on those threatening the world peace. Observers here sce a growing pos- sibility of Germany refusing to sign in influence the neace and under Sparta joining the Bolsheviki Allies, Offi not likely result of against i Ameri in troops ¢ be held abroad as Hungarian outbreak. is admittedly seriou: Food is sent in by the Inter- Allied relief commission but lack of one is not responsible. Lack y materi: nd failure to sume industrial activity probably are contributing factors. Observers believe that the Allies, seeing this further evidence of a gen- eral political explosion, will for their own conflicting interests get down to effecting an early peace with all enemy countries. to the The situation PARIS, March 24. — Hungary's alliance with the Bolsheviki and de- claration of war against the entente renders necessary Allied occupation of strategic centers in central Eu- rope unless peace is speedily signed. This belief prevailed today when lead- ers of the associated powers met to discuss the new crisis. The spread of Bolshevism into Austria means the severance of Al- lied communications with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, both of which are certain to join the Bolsheviki if the steady flow of food is interrupted. Despite the fact that the armistice was signed five months ago and the peace conference has been in three months, Europe fac an economic, financial and social col- lapse. There is no disposition here to hide the belief that the menace of Bolshevism has increased 100 fold There Czecho-Slovak army has been sent| have been intimation here and in Ber- {against Hungary, according to an of-|lin that Germany might try to take: jficial report from Vienna forwarded there. advantage of the situation by offer- ing to oppose a Bolshevik invasion of against the aristocracy Tt reque that the workmen of Austria ermany follow the lead of Hun sion, | intention of uniting with the world | Bolsheviki and wainst the en- jtente and imperialism and execute |all opponents. ‘The Czechs are mobi- yu ng against the Hun, ns. | Aliied monitors have started up | | uri the Danube from Belgrade in an at- tempt to reach Budapest. American diplomatic advices to- day stated that despite the fact that there had been some firing and dis- order in Budapest, Allied and Ameri- can representatives were safe. Count Karolyi, in announcing the | resignation of his ministry and turn- ing the country over to the Commun- ists, issued a proclamation and de- | clated that the Allied occupation was intended to make Hungary the jump- |ing off place for operations against |the Russian Bolsheviki with the aid of the Czechs. Allied troops are | scattered throughout Hungary. The Hungarian soviet sent Premier | Lenine a wireless message addressing his as the “Chief of the Universal Soviet,” asking military aid against the entente. Lenine replied that Russia was delighted at Hungary's action and would keep in touch with the situation. General Greo army is composed jlargely of Hungarian and Bulgarian troops captured by Russia during the war. The army probubly is follow- ing the Lemberg-Budapest railw Premier Lenine’s jrepresentatives assisted in forming the new Huny: n Communist ministry composed of lexander Garbai, president; Eu- gene Barga, minister of finance Josef Poganny, minister of war; William Boelm, minister of social ization, and Bela Kuhn, minister of foreign affairs. “Berlin sent Secr Kautzky into Hungary to obtain of mation from the new Hung shevik government — + thi situation there to bring about closer economic and political relations with the Russian Bolsheviki. March Hungarian PARIS, Proclamation rovernment Bohemia, Crotia stan to med id break off relations with the | Budapest wa: Sunday. nost part was suspended but the streets’ animated posters appealed to the peo ple to con their work Phe revolutionary has ap- pointed commissioners Buda- pest. re government for SITUATION SERIOUS LONDON, March 24.—Hungary’s adoption of Bolshevism is regarded most seriously by the Anglo-French press, chiefly as endangering the ef- forts of the entente to build up the Roumanian, Polish and Czecho-Slovak states as bulwarks against German domination of central Europe. Atl three states are menaced by the ad- vancing Bolshevik armies. LONDON, March 24.—The entente detachment near Budapest has been disarmed by Hungarian soldiers, says a Vienna report. Another said that it was officially announced in Buda- pest that the Czecho-Slovak army was marching against Austria and Hungary. COPENHAGEN, March 24.—Ger- many will not sign a peace which in- volves annexation of Danzig by Po- land, President Ebert declared in speech Sunday, says a Berlin dis- patch received here. western Europe in exchange for less severe peace terms. The other alter- native is for an Inter-Allied expedi- tionary force against Bolshevism. na ere ice | 2B ity st- ne oF VG fe