Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1919, Page 1

z- ANCS WILL BE ASKED OF FOEMINISTER <7. HANGED IN er Hailyy sayonvey 250 BILLION FR DISSATISFACTION OF Che Casp OF BRI FINA ESULTS Election Results Inspire Alzrm in Big Four Circle; War Damages and Pension Costs to be Included; President Wilson to Is- sue Statement Very Soon (By Associated Press.) PARIS, April 14.—Alarmed by the result of the election at Hull | last week, Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain, according to the Echo de Paris, has persuaded the council of four to revamp complete’, the financial plan to be it ted in the treaty of peace. incorporat Instead of a payment of 25 billion francs on account and annua payments to be fixed by a commission, it has been decided to fix im mediately the amount which Ger- many will have to. pay within 50 years. This amount is secret but it is indicated by the newspaper that the figure of 250 billion francs has been agreed upon, which includes all war damages as well as the cost of pen- sions. LONDON, April 14.—Commenting on the regult of the Hull Bye elec-| tion last week in which the coalition, | or government candidate, was defeat- ed, the Daily Express remarks: “We have faith in David Lloyd George and Andrew Bonar Law as the} heads of the government, but no be-} lief whatever in the abilities of sev- eral of their colleagues or in the poli- cies these gentlemen are forcing on an unwilling people. The country is crying out. against the mén who want to carry the spirit and methods of the war administration into an era of peace.” mire, J OFFICIAL NEWS OF PEACE PROGRESS NOW EXPECTED. PARIS, April 14.—Peace confer- ence statesmen today are planning to inform the world regarding their progress. Following Saturday night’: summary of the revised league coven- ant members of the big four. will this week further lift the curtain of secrecy. President Wilson may issue a state- ment today. Premier Lloyd George addresses- parliament -in London to- psa \ Others pen: follow; @ purpose of these Ys 8 to get reucgon from “eck home" be fore it is foo Jate in the sense that it is desi; ‘as a fulfillment of a ‘open covenants ppenly promise arrived at.” ape) The big four met last night to agree on certain details for Liayd George's benefit. He wanted a tentative date set for inviting the Germans to Ver- sailles so he might inform parliament. It ia understood that he was told that| April 25 would be set for their ar- rival, LONDON NOT PLEASED WITH AMENDED COVENANT. LONDON, April 14.—The sum- mary of the amended covensnt of the League of Nations evoked no enthu- siasm in the London morning news- papers and it is declared by some com- tators to be less satisfactory than the Sret draft. The Chronicle, for instance, points out certain points which it thinks me'ce the new draft “distinctively and r~rhaps docisively inferior to the old.” BOHEMIAN BORDER ONLY PROBLEM: NOW .REMAINING. LONDON, April 14. — (British Wireless Service.)—-The main items of peace with Germany have been substantially agreed upon by the council of four, the Paris correspond- ent of the Sunday Observer under- stands, The only problem which they have not yet approached is that of the Bohemian border, he says. This problem, he points out, is in- tricate as it raises the question as to whether @ considerable number of Germans must be included in the Czecho-Slovak state. He continues: “The question of Dansig will like- ly be settled by setting up @ kind of autongmous state in that district while including it in the Polish cus- toms area.” The correspondent _ understands wat Eresiiear Wilson Ee pataitely ed to the proposal origina’ y Premier Toxd George which essen- tially consists in giving France owner- ship of the Saar.coal mines, while making it a district neutral state un- der the League of Nations. Questions of reparation and of disarma: i the Rhine region, he says, to be more or less led in their broad outlines, “Whether the treaty will be ready ny Easter, is, of course, another ques- 10n,” he says, APRIL 26 1S EARLIEST POSSIBLE PEACE DATE. p RIS, April 14.—The status of cumerican, Japanese, and French Lnchdments to the covenant of the isneue Of Nations is definitely estab- the American amendment concerning the Monroe doctrine the only one to be given a place in the covenant by the commission. As to the affairs of the peace con- ference as a whole, they are shaping themselves, so that the date when enemy delegates shall be summoned to Versailles “has been tentatively set, between April 26 and May 5. Indications are that the Germans will be given opportunity to discuss the peace terms but two weeks is sug- gested as the limit of the sessions at Versailles. The chief question re- garding peace remaining to be settled is that of the Rhine frontier, the de- bate centering on the French atti- tude for security from a_ military standpoint. LATE FLASHI FROM THE WIRE CAIRO, April 14.—Casualties re- sulting from riots of the last two days total 68 killed and 100 wound- ed. “Troops fired into s mob in Alex- andria, Killing” 20 ‘end wounding many. WASHINGTON, ‘April 14. — Churches co-operating in finding work for discharged ‘soldiers will observe May 4 ds “employment Sunday.” It will he dévoted to appesling for aid in replacihg men in industry. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Thous- ands of Greeks depoftted from Mace- donia “during the Bulgarian occupa- tion died of starvation, says a re- port to the Red Cross. LONDON, April 14.—Leon Trotz- ky, Bolshevik minister of war and marine in Russia, admits a defeat on the eastern front in a wireless from Moscow picked up here. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., April 14. —Eugene Debs began his sentence in the federal prison here today. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Trans- portation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes through a dry state is not prohibited under the Reed prohibition amendment, the supreme court held in a ruling today. ——_—— CHILD SHOOTS STEPFATHER IR ST. LOUIS HOME ST. LOUIS, April 14.—Ursula Broderick, age 18, Who murdered her own father two years ago when he attacked her mother and her, shot and killed Joseph Woodlock, her stepfather, today. The child’s sec- ond murder followed an alleged at- tack on her by Woodlock. —————<_ Women in the employ of the state CHANGES! | i i} ! Today Will Exceed 3,600. | The Circulation of The Tribune | Cribuny Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. SOLDIERS | Military Expedition VOLUME 3. CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1919 Against Munich Is NUMBER 149 liad Planned; Situation SUMMARY OF | | emption in Revised ‘By, PARIS, April 14. league will include: (A) The so named, and (C) any self-governing country whose ad- mission is approved by two thirds of the states already members of the league. “A state may withdraw from the league, providing it has kept its ob- ligations to date, on giving two years’ | notice. | “(2) The league will act thru an assembly comprising not more than three representatives of each of | th® member states, each state, hav- ing only one vote, and a council com- prising for the present one represen- tative of each of the five great pow- ers and each of four other powers as selected from time to time by the assembly. “The number of powers of each class represented on the council may be increased bythe unanimous--ton- sent of the council and a majority of the assembly. The other powers have; the right to sit as members of the} council during the decision of mat- ters in which they are especially in- terested. “In the council, as in the assembly, | each state will have only one vote.! Both these bodies are to meet -at! stated intervals, (the council st least | onte a year), and at other times if} required; both can deal with any mat-| ter that is of international interest or that threatens the peace of the} world; the decision of both must be! unanimous, except in certain specified | cases, matters of procedure, for in-| stance, being decided by a majority vote. y “The league will have a permanent secretariat, under a secretary-gen-| eral. The secretariat and all other bodies under the league may include women, equally with men. A per-| manent court of international justice | and various permanent commissions | and bureaus are also to be estab- lished. “(3) The member states agree: (A) To reduce their armaments, plans for such reduction being sug- gested by the council, but only adopt- |ed with the consent of the states themselves, and thereafter not to increase them without the concur- rence of the council; (B) To ex- change full information of their exist- ing armies and their naval and mili- tary programmes; (C) To respect each other’s territory and personal independence, and to guarantee them agains; |foreign aggression; (D) To submit all international disputes either to arbitration or to inquiry by the council, which latter, however, may not pronounce an opinion on any dispute whose subject matter falls solely within a state’s domestic jurisdiction; in no case to go to war till three months after an award, or an unanimous recommendation has been made, and even then not to go to war with a state which accepts the award or recommendation; (E) in the future, | i { REVISED COVENANT VICTORY-LIBERTY LOAN OF FOUR re ‘ANNOUNCED FROM PARIS IGNORES AND. HALF BILLIONS WILL BEAR QUESTION OF RACIAL EQUALITY HIGHER INTEREST THAN OTHERS Monroe Doctrine Comes in for Svecific Ex- Four and Three-Quarters Per Cent Will Be’ to Bind Nations to Keep Peace Associated Press.) | The following official summary of the | League of Nations was issued Saturday night: (1) The League of Nations is founded in order to pro- mote international co-operation and to secure peace. The! document annexed to the covenant (B) All the neutral states | exempt. Confusing (By Associated Press.) COPENHAGEN, April 14.—Mar- tial law has been prociaimed thru- | out Saxony, say reports from Bres- don. War Minister Neuring of Saxony was lynched by wounded |soldiers protesting against a re- duction in pay. They threw him into the Elbe river and shot him as he tried to swim out. Draft of Document BERNE, April 14.—It is reported that War Minister Noske has threat- |ened to send a military expedition | against Munich. A soviet republic was proclaimed in Asnocinted Press.) ¥s | Brunswick without bloodshed. Strikes 4.—The terms of the Victory loan an-|are continuing throughout Germany. Paid on Four-Year Notes; Quotas to be Three-Fourths of Last Loan (By WASHINGTON, April 1 |mounced today are: SS Amount, $4,500,000,000. | BERLIN, April 12 (Di Interest, four and three-quarters per cent for partially tax exempt, belligerent states named in a notes, convertible into three and three-quarters per cent, wholly tax) April 12 —(Delayed.)— Rapid changes in Munich have ren- dered the situation there unintelligi- ble. In rapid succession reports were received that the soviet republic was ————|_ Maturity in four years with treas-| overthrown and restored, and that ury reserving privilege of redeeming| both the Bolsheviki ard _ Socialis | them in three years. | were conducting their governmenis | The quotas of most communities| side by side. |in the Victory-Liberty loan will be| The latest dispatch reports street VETERANS (if GREAT WORLD WAR three-fourths of their quotas in the fighting in Munich without reference Fourth loan, the treasury announced,|to who were victors. since the four and a half billion total| The Wurtemburg government has is three-fourths the quota of the|successfully suppressed Spartacan fourth issue. Interest at the rate of|agitation and has offered troops to i four and three-quarters per cent is!help crush the Bavarian Communists. Pursuant to instructions of Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, tem- | the highest borne by any of the war| The national soviet congress in porary National Chairman, the Wyoming state convention of veterans of the Great World War will meet at Casper, Wyoming, April 26th, 1919, ten o’clock, a. m., for the purpose of electing delegates from Wyoming to the National Convention of such veterans to be held at | St. Louis, May 8, 9 and 10, 1919. The state convention will con- | | loan issues, but is lower by one-fourth| Berlin is debating the establishment ‘of one per cent than the rate urged| Reichstag. Majority Socialists are by financial interests. of a working group to replace the sist of delegates apportioned among the counties of Wyoming upon a | <Altho the allotments for Wyoming basis which will be communicated to county conventions before latter (eeuntics: pallibepmadedbyatheystats are held. Eath.county temporary chairman is requested to call con- committee) afters thepamountestorathe advocating the creation of a soviet body with powers equal to the Reich- Tigre = different stat f the tenth federal vention in -his county, for_April-22nd, 1919, for-parpose vf electing reserve ast aac agencies at delegates to state convention. | | Kansas City, Natrona county, on MAJOR ALFRED H. BEACH, |such a percentage would be called Temporary Chairman for Wyoming. |upon to raise approximately $575,- LT. R. H. NICHOLS, ON GOOD NEWS | BY NEGRO DIES j during the Fourth loan, subscribed for $1,060,000 worth of bonds, or al- most twice the amount that will like- ly be asked during the coming loan. Lance Creek Stocks Lead General | Death Late Saturday Brings Mur- | Advance Scored on Strength der Charge Against Negro of Great Strike of Ohio | Who Is Still at Large; Company. | Authorities on Hunt. H — OISTVA “ARRIVES TODAY AT NEW YORK NEW YORK, April 14.— The} nd infantry and the 346th ma- John Cosci, the Hungarian, who chine-gun battalion Vanguards of the was struck in the head with a rock 91st division, which included Colo- Friday night by a young negro rado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and} named Scott, when the former en-| Wyoming men, arrived here today. | tered a Sandbar resort, died late _ Saturday afternoon from the effects Not since the boom days of 1917] has the oil market witnessed such a| flurry as resulted from the bringing in of the Ohio company’s new pro- ducer in the Lance Creek field. Not only have the Lusk issues taken GUARD stag. Scheidemann denounced both plans. LEMBERG ATTACKED BY THE UKRAINIANS. COPENHAGEN, April 14. Ukrainian forces heavily bombarded Lemberg Thursday and Friday morn- ing. Many persons were killed and wounded. MILITARY DICTATORS IN CHARGE AT MUNICH. April 14.—A_ re- r- NUREMBURG, port from the third army headqu ters at Munich says the garrison established a military dictatorship in support of the Hoffman ministry, ich the soviet regime seeks to cast from office. Action to recover the eapital from soviet forces is progress- ing favorably, it is said. OUTPOST FLEE FROM GOVERNMENT FORCES. BERLIN, April 14,—Government troops sent against the Brunswick soviet are reported from Magdeburg: to have come into contact with out- posts of the Brunswick Communist forces. The outposts fled before the advance of the government con- tingent. FIGHTING BREAKS OUT COPENHAGEN, April 14.—Bitter flight, but other stocks are favorably affected with the result that the en- tire list scored a big advance Satur- day and the end is not yet in sight. Western States led to advance to- day by climbing to. $55 bid, $60 asked. Buck Creek, which was sold Friday around the $4 mark, is $6 bid and Lusk Petroleum and Royalty are -80 and .90, respectively. Glenrock soared to a new high of $5.75 bid this morning. of the blow and his remains are now being held at the Shaffer-Gay chapel, pending the coroner’s inquest. | Scott and the colored woman who were in the house have not yet been apprehended by the local authorities, although they have been reported as still in town. Reports to the police last night stated that both the negroes were! seen on the streets last night about) 9:00 o’clock. A joint search of the! OCEAN FLIGHTS ARE POSTPONED (By Associated Press.) FOR WEATHER ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 14.— | Sandbar by the police and sheriff's! Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Com-) Other’ issues which have jumped wD) forces is under way today and it is, mander Grieve, the Sopwith biplane | new levels are Boston-Wyoming at 38, Western Exploration at $1.45 | expected that the negroes will be ap- team, intimated that in view of ad-| | IN DRESDEN, IS REPORT. | |fighting has broken out at Dresden | following Neuring’s murder. Govern- | ment troops from Berlin are rushing | there to suppress the radicals fight- |ing under Communist leadership. KOREANS TAKEN FROM HOSPITAL BY JAP FORCES and E. T. Williams at $4.25. Wire service was _ intermittently interrupted between Casper 2nd Den- ver today by reason of a severe storm raging between here and Cheyenne. The telephone company was able to furnish no service whatever, but Western Union wires were in opera- prehended. verse of the injustice worked on many hours at least was doubtful. young men who are returning from, Major Margan, war to find that they were listed as Meanwhile Captain Ray: slackers thru confusion in the offices the London Daily Mail’s conditions the start of their | trans-atlantic flight for the next few ntenders for orherco ‘ham and Kio dispatch to the state department $50,000| today reported that Gendarmes took | of draft boards and their own negli-| prize for an over-ocean flight, an- gence in informing the boards of their, nounced that they might make a enlistment. |trial flight tomorrow. By Annsociated Prenn.) (By WASHINGTON, April 14.—A To- from the Severance hospital at Seoul, jan institution maintained by Ameri- cans, three Korean patients suffer- To regard a state which has broken tion and stock brokers were able to, |ing from gunshot wounds inflicted by of Texas are assured by law of re- ceiving equal pay with men for equal service performed. M. Broda, 8 secretly conducting extensive mili ing thousands daily. lished s0 far as the League of Ni tions’ commission is concerned, with FOE MOBILIZING BIG ARMY, SAYS CZECH LEADER PARIS, April 14.—The Matin today published an interview with Czecho-Slovak delegate, who declared that Germany was Germans with remobilizing over 60 batteries of art: Everything is being done outside the towns Many war factories, supposedly closed, are working, They are hiding new trucks in Kottime forest and are moving guns, shells, airplanes and machine guns: into Silesia and Saxony. Broda the covenant as having committed an (Continued on Page 8.) itary preparations. He charged the illery and recruit- to avoid publicity. said Broda. charged Hindenburg with backing the move. \ EI LON OGINS EUR LG ETAT TOTO OS keep in touch with the market. | the police. paca aggressor | Young Man Listed SENATE NOT YET 22:0, 2035 pece seme |strations throughout Korea are de. as Slacker Holds | SAT | Ss Fil E D WITH |veloping violent riots. It was offi- see omtaea PARIS COVENANT {cially announced today that six ad- By United Press.) | ditional battalions of Japanese troops had been sent to Korea. ¢ WASHINGTON, April 14.—De claring that the re-drafted league covenant still contains provisions giving the league jurisdiction over i es |BUSINESS IN TRUCKS GOOD every international dispute, incluging domestic questions, immigra- tion and everything eise. Senator Poindexter declared today that it R. N. Van Sant, Wyoming distribu- | tor of the Clydesdale truck, who re- is “utterly destructive of American independence.” | cently moved to Lusk, reports an ex- He also said that its guarantee of the personal and territorial (cellent business in the new oil town. independence of every league member placed a “cruel burden upon | He has also secured the state agency the American people.” |for a nationally advertised tractor, The senate league opponents are still asking whether Germany /and has just completed delivery of a and Bolshevik Russia will be in the league, if the league council’s de- cisions must be unanimous and what will occur when one nation holds | carload of the machines to the Ohio Oil company. Lusk is probably the out and “hangs the jury.’ Wou!d this disrupt the league or lead to war? they ask. | best truck town in the state and Mr. Van Sant is reaping rewards. The listing of Gilgert B. Stodghill, | an employe of the Midwest Refining! company, as a “slacker” tn an official list issued by the provost marshal of | Colorado and published in the Denver Post has given his friends in Casper) cause for indignation and steps have been taken to secure its correction. Stodghill was registered in 1917 in Boulder, Colo., but before the draft became operative enlisted as a volun- teer. He was but recently mustered out of service at the U. S. school of military aeronautics at Champagne, Ill, and accepted a position here. The above is but a single instance