Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1919, Page 1

SUGGESTIONS OF TAFT ON LEAGUE ARE CONSIDERED tic’ Most Vital Stumbling Blocks (By Associated Prens. WASHINGTON, March 27.| The text of the proposed amend-| ment to the League of Nations’| covenant suggested by former President Taft, which was con- sidered by President Wilson and Allied premiers in Paris yesterday, was sent from the White House less than a week ago, after Taft had been assured by Secretary Tumulty that any suggestion from him would be | (By Associated Prexx.) MANGIN ASSIGNED TO FIGHT REDS PARIS, March 27.—General Mangin, one of the leading officers of the French army, will be recalled from hjs com- ;maned at Mayence to undertake a mission, the charter and scope of which “ lwith a view to possible operat ions om the Hungarian frontier and in southwestern Russia. y ce c i is indicated plainly by events in Hungary.” According to the Gaulois he would receive a very important commapd in eastern Europe, undoubtedly the Balkans, ————j——_— ee The Casper DA The qT | | VOLUME 3. circulation of the Daily ribune Wednesday Was 3,387 | CASPER, WYOMING, THURSDAY, MARCH Dribun | te [ — me Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. NUMBER 135 DIRECT REPORT FROM BUDAPEST GITY COUNCIL DECLARES WAR ON welcomed by the president. Several suggestions were made by} Taft, the principal one dealing with! the Monroe doctrine. This was stated officially today but officials declined to give out the text. that the covenant of the League of | Nations would be mentionad in the} treaty was removed today by an au-} thoritative statement from a respon-| sible British source. This said that! some reference to the league must} be contained in the treaty if only be-| cause the treaty will require the Ger- mans to cede their colonies to the league’s mandatories, says a Reuter | dispatch from Paris. | has been/firmly established without disorder or bloodshed. All’ will invest the city attorney with authority to place all dance halls and rooming houses in Casper under supervision of (By Associated Presn.) .PARIS, March 26.—(Night.)— President Wilson’s study was the cen- ter of intense interest today as he,| with the premiers of Great Britain, | France and Italy resumed the effort | to settle questions standing in the way of peace. | Previous to the meeting, Premier | Orlando spent an hour with Colonel } House, talking over the question of the Adriatic, which with that of rep-| arations and the Rhine frontier, are | three of the most vital issues obstruct- | ing progress. The Italian premier}! then proceeded to the ‘White House’’, where Premiers Lloyd George andj} Clemenceau were {already in con- ference with President, Wilson, ( The question of indemnity js again the main stumbling block. Premier Lloyd George, Allied Secretary for India Monague Pari and Premier} Clemenceau had consulted Louis} Loucheur, French minister of recon-; struction and all these financial! i CLAIMS REIGN OF OLD REGIME VICE WITH ADOPTION OF NEW WITHOUT BLOODSHED OR STRIFE LONDON, March 37.-Any dount EVerything Socialized from Army Down to Drastic Penalties to Be Imposed for Harboring Scarlet impe the Public Baths, and Public Is Agreeable, Tues EDITOR'S NOTE.—Following ince the Bolshevik revolution there. BUDAPEST, March 25. jaliens and allied soldiers are at complete liberty. Everything | jhas been socialized from the army down to the baths. The y United Prenn, day Wire Claims is the first direct Budapest dispatch ORDUNANCE AT TUESDAY SEootON Women Altho Restricted Districts Will Be Tolerated for Present, Report. Initial steps: in a campaign to be waged by the city authorities| toward extirpating vice and immorality in Casper, was taken last night » | (Night.)—The soviet republic City Attorney W. H. Patten for the wealthy and aristocratic as well as the poor and humble ap-| parently approve. BASKETBALL TO MIND UP WITH DOUBLE HEADER Last Year's Stars and “Has Beens” in Game Friday Night; Eighth Grade to Measure Skill with Regulars. chiefs agreed in the main with views} Basketball fans of Casper will | formulated ‘by the American dele-/have their last inning at the Natrona| gates concerning Germany's re-| high gymnasium Friday evening when | sources and ability to pay, but it still ~ double-header will be staged for| remained for the premiers to take|the benefit of the athletic fund, now| final decision on the total of indemni-! g179 short by reason of expenses in-| ties. "4 ; ‘curred during the past season. It is| The Rhine question may come up|hoped that all outstanding debts will, Thursday. President Wilson has out-' be jiquidated at this time in order to| lined a plan as a basis of agreement. ! oiose the season with a clean slate. The Adriatic issue is the most stub-|~ 4 game between the quintet of, born remaining with no indication of | 1918 and those who have termed | The Red army is organizing on a} volunteer basis, with conscription | abolished. Soldiers receive $90 aj . | month and all needs besides extra pay | OT INSTEAD (\F ——— for their families. Officers are pick-; jed on their merits. Indications point | |to the formation of the largest and most content army in Hungarian his- | tory. | Law courts have been abolished and are supplanted by revolutionary tribunals. Justice is meted out rap- | ,,. . : ni Mistake in Report Leads to Correc- tion by Spokesman of Men Who Demanded Removal insure fair distribution of scanty raw at Tank Line Co. | materials. a ES | Titles and rank have been abol-| Editor Casper Daily Tribune: lished. The stock exchange also has, _ Your newspaper published an ar | been abolished. ticle last night relating that there Private baths have been ordered! was a strike at the Union Tank Line ed at the workmen’s and school, Co., relative to the men refusing to | work with the foreman on accoun: f his refusing to give use of his children’s disposal on Saturdays. auto to render first aid to injured) men who were unfortunate in meet ! ee MILITARY BILL ing with accident in explosion at the , Midwest plant Monda | true in regard to the superintendent| or foreman being present or the men| refusing to work with either one of them and we will appreciate a correc jidly with more consideration for real !justice than mere law. | Industries are ordered to continue | and committees have been formed to; plac This is un-' when a special meeting of the city council was called at request of, stated that the move! purpose of enacting ordinances that the police department. No. A, sntitled, “an suppressing vice and im- s deemed one of the most {drastic bills ever submitted for the jclmination of an undesirable ele- ment here and confining the ‘vice ring” to restricted districts, that, while net recognized by the city au- | thorities, are permitted. | Hereafte the proprietor jrooming house, hotel, or other lic place will shelter a person the scarlet cloth only at his own r and peril and will be subject to dras- tie action if caught by the police. The proprietor places himself liable to a mihimum fine of $50 with a maxi- }mum sentence of 90 days in jail for each offense. Yt shall be unlawful for any pros- titute to be upon the public streets of the city of Casper or in any door- way, window or place open to public view from the public streets or alle of Casper, between the hour o'clock p. m. and 7:00 o'clock a. m. Among the more drastic sections of the dance hall control ordinance, the following are the most important: It shall be unlawful for any per- son to operate a dance hall in Cas- per without first obtaining a license. The license decided upon for each dance is $10.00 a night. Children under the age of 18 years of a pub- f of 7:00 SOVIET REPUBLIC IN BESSARABIA TO FORM LINK WITH BUDAPEST Former Russian Province Declares Its In- dependence and War on Rumania at In- stance of Russian Reds; Occupation Army Forced to Retire, Says Dispatch By Unite em WARSAW, March 25.—-(Delayed.)—Bessarabia has pro- claimed her independence, established a soviet republic and begun an offensive against the a dispatch from Chotin states. Rumanian army of occupation, The Bessarabian army has captured the important town of Sdagora and is pus! 1 Largu. It is believed that the Bolsheviki are engineering | . a former Russian | province which Rumania claimed and oceupied. \ Bessarabia was, ungler the old | regime in Russi province lying on the northeas frontier of Ru mania, It has an a of 17,614 quare miles and a population of 400. Rumania claim rabia after the coll regime in Ru manian trops have been parts of the country to! id Rue occupying LONDON, March —The repub- lic proclaimed in Bessarabia has jordered military operations against the Rumanian army, part of which has been forced to fall back, accord- ing to a Warsaw dispatch, which nt evidently | Was engineered by the Bolsheviki and supported by Ukrainans who seek to} break thru Rumania to establish con- | tact between Moscow and Budapest. AUSTRIA IS READY TO JOIN REVOLUTIONISTS BERNE, March 27.-—-A_ Bolshevist uprising in Austria and Czecho-Slo- vakia is imminent. Any move there against the Hungarian soviet is ex- | pected to precipitate trouble. The Austrian population is most excited over Hungurian events, particularly in view of its own economic situa | tio nna restaurants are closed, there is no gas or coal and the m ration has been reduced in Prague, | the capital of Czecho-Slovakia, Re- jports that the Czechs are invading Hungary are unconfirmed. Latest ad- vices indicate that Hungarian Com- /munism in making Russian Bolshe- vism appear almost conservative. ADD BESSARABIA— GALICIA REVOLTS, , Were ing the Rumanians across the Pruth river ATTITUDE OF JUGO-SLAVIA IS ALARMING PARIS, se of the |. claredl war a ques- tionfisked by a member of the Italian lelegation to the peace conference on learning that the council of ministers at Belgrade had prohibited any com- merce with enemy countries, any im- portations from Italy to Jugo-S and the transportation of 1 goods to any country across . territory. LONDON, March 2 The have oeeupied ssburg, | southeast of Vienna on the Hun- gariun side of the border, says a Bud- apest dispateh received today. 48 AMERICANS MASSACRED BY THE MOSLEMS ATH nople Ttal? March 2 Constanti- on the massacre of Moslem ygendarmes at ported that 48 Americans r led and over 200 wounded. It is alleged t the gendarmes at- tacked the people assembled in. the market, WHEAT STOCKS Aleppo r k “| will not be allowed to attend public | a compromise. ' COVENANT COMPLETED, | JAP DESIRES IGNORED. | PARIS, March 27.—(By Associ- ated Press.) —The League of Nations commission of the peace conference, with President Wilson in the chair, last night completed consideration of the covenant of the league. The covenant was then referred to a draft-| ing committee consisting of Colonel} | | themselves the “Has Beens” will be} the main card of the evening and} should lend a novel interest to the! affair. Last year’s stars will be seen in action against those who won their | letters on collegiate floors, including, Principal C. E. Wygant and the Rev./} R. H. Moorman. A fast ‘contest it expected along with considerable| roughing by reason of lack of train-| ing. ‘The high school regulars will line BRITISH HOUSE [By Assoctatea Prene 1 LONDON, March 27.—The_mili- tary service bill has passed through the report stage without an amend- ment in the house of commons. A proposal to exclude liability to serv- ice in Russia from its scope voted down, 281 to 48. In declin- ing to accept this amendment Secre- |tary of War Churchill said the gov-| ernment had no intention of rais- tion of this matter in your columns. The party in question was an em ploye in the store room and the owner of an automobile. This same auto was in first class condition and could be handled at a moment's notice had the said party had any feeling for ‘humanity about him for men dying ‘by inches, and this was the man who lrefused the use of his auto. This id man was an employe and no }the foreman as your paper stated. | Whoever authorized you to publisn House, Lord Cecil, Premier Venizelos|up against the eighth grade quintet LOR Rg late cm conscr|De garMmya.to be) that statement was mistaken and and Larnaude for France. The} coyenant still contains 26 articles. No amendment has been incorporat- ed which specifically meets the de- sires of Japan for recognition of na-! tional equality. DEBS PETITIONS FOR REHEARING IN HIGH COURT WASHINGTON, March 27.—The supreme court today was asked to rehear the case of Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, whose conviction under the espionage act growing out of statements made by him in a) speech at Canton, Ohio, was affirmed | by the court on March 10. | In his petitions Debs declared that the affirming opinion “clearly amounts to the trial of a person for an un- disclosed state of mind,” and that the as a preliminary and because the lat ter will be candidates for the high} school team next season considerable! interest will attach to their showing.! Bri Eighth graders are touted as capablé of holding their own against the up- per classmen at this stage of their training and the score is likely to furnish some inkling of the fight the regulars will have to make to hold) their places next year. | A dance will wind up the evening's entertainment and will be open to the public, one ticket admitting to both the games and the dance. Arrange- ments are being made to handle a large crowd. ROOSEVELT NOT OFFICE SEEKER SAYS REQUEST SEATTLE, March 27.—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., wired today and re- quested that no organization be court failed to decide all questions raised in connection with the ' BALLOTS ARE MAILED TO DECIDE formed advocating his candidacy for vice president. sent to Russia. “The general question of a Rus- sian policy is no question for the) | ish government,” said he. “It is! {a matter to which a League of ‘Na-| tions, for the league of victorious | nations, must address itself. ee SPECIAL COURT TO TRY GERMAN | __ Fg uouR _ war criminALs 125 AMERICAN BY SUB’ WAR |sembly is establishing a special court |to try General Ludendorff, Former | WASHINGTON, March 27.—Only 125 American merchantmen were |Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg and other officials alleged to be responsible | submarined during the war, aggre- gating 385,907 tons, as compared with for the war. British losses of 3,147 vessels of | 7,747,935 tons. ;caused wrong reflections. We ent. ployes of the Union Tank Line Co., have a fecling for all men and I, as spokesman for the men, feel it my duty to inform you and the public of the truth of the matter and cor- 'rect such criticisms as have been made. made. Yours very truly, | F. J. HOURAHAN. 20 MILLION A DA Y IS RECORD Some neutrals were hit harder than OF U.S. EXPORTS \ the United States, Norway losing 701 | ships. OPEN GALL HERE | average over $20,000,000 worth daily. | Where necessary, measures already | have been taken to draw the teeth) of a German underselling campaign | scheduled to begin with lifting the blockade. | dances except by the expressed writ- }ians. No liquor of any kind may be brought into dance halls and it is incumbent upon the proprietor of the {dance to eliminate all persons are under the influe! “Moonlight” dane ; featured at public danc | by the terms of the new ordinance. | Dance halls at all times {open for visits and | members of the police department. It) is also incumbent upon the proprietor | of the dance hall to deny entrance to} | any person of known bad character or | any person who is an inmate of a house of ill fame. | The penalty provided by the ordi- nance is a large with an option of imprisonment in jail for 90 days. It is not the intention of the city ‘council to deprive the younger people of any source of pleasure or amuse- !ment but merely to protect them while attending public dances. The regulations, including the pay- | ment of the license fee, do not apply jto club dances or to affairs which are strictly confined to invitation lists, Action was taken on the pre’ nary measures of the proposed re- | forms, with a promise that many more stringent and far reaching regu- lations will be imposed for the control of vice in Casper, CHICAGO BOND EXPERTS WILL HANDLE ISSUE Attorneys Wood and Oakley | Chicago, one of the recognized lead- ling bond decision firms of the coun- | ty, will guide the various details leading up the issuance of $369,000 |ten consent of their parents or guard-| Fg whe | SAYS VIENNE REPORT. VIENNA, March 27.—A_ wireless from the soviet government at Mos-| cow declares Galicia is in a state of revolution. The movement begun in the oil districts of Drobhybyoz, where the workers established a soviet sov- idles ernment. HINGTON, Mareh TWENTY-FOUR JEWS IN AUTHORITY. 27.—The new Hun- consists of 24 ans, the Reich- on March 1 riment of utes on the basis of reports from 12,000 elevator, warehouse, mill and wholesale fir post of Vienr The newspaper| The total repor' | al reported expresses the belief that the M 8197) 10 Obushel will not submit to such a government. ser cont of the ’ grain amounted whieh is 1918 stocks. MARY PICKFORD COMING TO THE IRIS ON SUNDAY to 108, i\WILHELM MAY MAKE MOVE TO | SWITZERLAND | tENEVA arch 27.—The former} |emperor of Germany, alarmed by the | receipt of threatening letters, intends to leave Holland to seek refuge in Switzerland pe | SUFF. AGE UNIT | HAS NEW NAME S$, March 27.—The Na-| Woman Suffrage | hunged its name to! the League of Women Voters. | \DANZIG DEMAND | WILL BE MADE BY FOCH, CLAIM) LONDON, March 27.—It is reports ed that the “big four’ has decided | that Marshal Foch shall demand that | {the Germans facilitate the landing of | Polish troops at Danzig. It has been| reported previous that the Germans were refusing to permit Poles who} Danzig. | nicture, -|day, is deci And now comes the ever dainty, lelightful and insouciant Mary Pick ford, the nation’s beloved, in a tin vhotoplay, abounding in the most de licious humor, uniq in its setti 5 character and quality able protest uguinst the old z “there is nothing new under the sun.” For, decidedly, this new Arteraft “Johanna Enilists’’—-taken from the story by Rupert “The Mobilizing of Johan which will be shown at the Ir dedly the richest, » most delectable comedy dealir modern days that we have s month of Sundays BENNY LEONARD EASILY DEFEATS HARVEY THROPS JOPLIN, Mo March 27. Benny Leonard, lightweight cham- pion, easily outpointed Harvey Throps of Kansas City in a 10- round bout last night. So Mrs. F. C. Remmer, wife of the auditor of the Henning hotel, accon. panied by her daughter, Elizabeth, of fought in France to disembark at | left last night for their home mm. | Denver. MUTTON PRICE CUT BY SHIPMENT worth of bonds and render a final! opinion that will be accepted by any! bond ,broker in the country, accord- ing to the terms of a contract which, the city has entered into with the —_——_—$—— ON STRIKE CHICAGO, March 27 Balloting on a nationwide telegraph and telephone strike is underway. If the strike is decided on it will occur within a month, stated President S. J. Konenkamp 6f the Commercial Telegraphers’ union. , ae ee Opposition to Postmaster General Burleson’s administration is at “the bottom of the movement. The wire men demand the right to be- “long to the union, collective bargaining, reinstatement of ‘discharged ‘unionists and en-increase in wages. P Ballots were mailed unioh émployes today. eo | The resumption of an open call) JENSEN FUNERAL FRIDAY | exchange, in Casper for the first time! | since 1917 will have its inception in | Funeral services for the infant) # Space in the Lyric Billiard Parlor child of Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Jensen, | tonight. The new exchange will ‘be "6 who died yesterday at the family|Under the management of E. BE} Chicago, firm, i i home, 781 South Spruce street, wil]|Kairns, who wan identified with the The Chicago attorneys will guide be held tomorrow afternoon at 1|1917 oil boom in Casper. Tom all future details or steps taken by o'clock from the Bowman Chspel. /Meaney, @ broker anc wire-man in |the city council to insure that no er- 3 : | Dutton-Stalay office will have charge ‘ors creep into the bond issuance to! E. 8. Rutland of St. Joseph, Mo., of the calls, and brisk trading is ex-'make the issue not legal or value| ~ is a Casper visitor. ' pected. less, OF NEW ZEALAND LAMB ARRIVING Anancinted Prevs.) (By NEW YORK, March 27.74 carload of frozen lamb and mutton from New Zealand, via Vancouver, was placed on sale here today in wholesale lots at several cents under the price of American products. The shipment was an experiment to learn if Pacific island products could be sold in competition with American lamb and mutton.