Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 1

LONDON TO LIONIZE DARING FLIERS RESCUED AT SEA, HAWKER AND GRIEVE ARE PICKED UP BY DANISH TRAMP SHIP Royal Welcome Awaits Hero Fliers Upon, VOLUME 3 Arrivalin Capital; “We Shall Hear Good. News Tomorrow,” Says Wife, and Con- fidence in Safety Is Borne Out IBy United Press) LONDON, May 26.—Harry G. Hawker and Mackenzie Grieve land- ed today at Thurso, Scotland, from the Danish tramp steamer Mary | which picked them, up in mid-ocean early last Monday after they had been forced to descend by a clogged feed pipe. They will leave for London this afternoon. A royal welcome will be staged here tomorrow. The pair are the! WARREN HEADS APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE OF THE U.S. SENATE greatest national heroes for the mo- ment. They were given up for lost. ment. The aviators had covered 1,100 miles, and only had 850 miles more to go when they were forced down. | They floated for 90 minutes before jthe Mary sighted them. (By Associated Pres.) LONDON, May 26.—Harry G. | Grieve, who were believed lost in try- {ing to fly across the Atlantic, were ‘picked up at sea and landed in Scot- The Mary had no wireless equip- Hawker and Lieutenant Commander | Member The Associated Press; United Press Dispatches The Casper Aaily Criburnn Official paper of the City of Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. KOLCHAK AND DENIKINE RULE T0 RECEIVE OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF PEACE HEADS ON CONDITION ‘Genuine Constituent Assembly Must Be Convoked to Establish Future Gov- ernment; Bolsheviks Seek Truce PARIS, May 26.—The council of four of the peace conference has | decided conditionally to recognize the anti-Bolshevik governments of Admiral Kolchak and General Denikine, according fo the Reuters News |agency. The conditions of the recognition are that, regarding the future of Russia, these governments agree to convoke and accept the verdict of a genuine constituent assembly; likewise that the League poesia! 22h of Nations’ covenant and its conse-, quences as affecting the boundaries; of the former empire are accepted. | CASPER, WYOMING, MONDAY, MAY 26, t39t7)// G/ VEZ, NUMBER 185 VETERANS OF LATE WAR MINGLE WITH OLD IN TRIBUTE PAID 10 FALLEN COMRADES AT SERVICES Methodist Church Packed for Memorial Last Evening: Veterans Perfect Organization for Elaborate Exercises Decoration Day. Veterans of old wars and the new mingled in the crowd which packed the Methodist church Sunday evening to pay tribute to the memory of fallen comrades. Corresponding to services carried out in other churches in the morning, the Methodist service had the additional significance of having been officially designated for the attendance of, veterans and Ithe full m found expr and pra aning of Memo on in sermo chaplains of the day song ish land. The Daily Mail will give them a consolation prize of $25,000. Agreement Reached' at Conference of| Republicans; Pen- rose on Finance LONDON, May .—There was a} |merry party today at the home of Harry G. Hawker, near Subiton, |many callers congratulating Mrs. ! Hawker on the rescue of her husband. | His wife never lost confidence that her husband would be rescued. She declared that Sunday was a lucky day {and said’ Saturday night: “We shal] have good news tomor- row.”” The home is inundated with tele-! grams of congratulation. The official statement the news dispatches said: “Harry G. Hawker and Lieutenant| Gommander Grieve. were rescued in| Natitude 50 degrees; 20 minutes north, | longitude 29 degrees, 30 minutes west. They alighted close to the! steamer owing to a defect in the water circulation of their motor. Both ! were in perfect health. The airplane | was not saved.” ef ‘VICTORY LOAN TOTAL GREATLY | | Annocl Presa.) | (By Associated Prean} WASHINGTON, May 26.—Senate Regublicams at a’ conference from which several progressives absented themselves, approved the committee selections of the committee on com- mittees, including the choice of Sen- ators Penrose and Wa chairmen of the fina: priations committees; * COLES (By Associated Prean} WASHINGTON, May 26. — Re-{ publican senators of the progressive group lost their fight against the selec- tion of Senators Penrose and Warren; as chairmen of the finance and appro- r tions committees, respectively, | the party conference today approving | both assignments, The progressives, led by Senator | Johnson of California, made an issue | on Penrose and were-defeated, 35 to! ABOVE QUOTA | 5. No effort was made to contest the selection of Warren and the confe?- — ence approved all committee assign-| WASHINGTON, May 26.—Total) ments as made by the committee on; subscriptions to the Fifth Victory- committees. | Liberty loan as officially announced | Senator Johnson indicated that he | today were $5,249,908,300, an over- would not carry the fight to the sen- |subseription of three-fourths of a ate Noor ale aimee a | billion. SUFFRAGE [RAGE AND ‘BAPTISTS MEET AT BUFFALO IN DRY QUESTIONS | 1920 convenTion IN TEXAS DENVER, May 26.—Buffalo, New York, was unanimously selected as the 1920 meeting place of the Northern | ; Bavtists. D. C. Shull of Sioux City and F. Freeman of Denver were nom y | ed for president. The election will ‘or prohibition, 52,994. | be held late today. Against prohibition, 43,900. —>_— For woman suffrage, ores. |GEN. HARBOARD NEW CHIEF OF PAYMENTS NOT T 0 BE DELAYED _ FIELD FORCES DALLAS, May 26.—Returns from| Saturday’s elections from 283 towns, w (By Ass PARIS, May 2 | The constituent assembly is to deter-| mine the future form of government | for Russia. \ LONDON, May 26.+—While there is no confirmation that Nikolai Lenine,! Bolshevik premier, has proposed an armistice to Admiral Kolchak, head of the all-Russian government at Omsk, there are indications that the Bolsheviki are anxious over the fate of Petrograd and Mosccw. A wireless dispatch today states that the defense committee of Mos- cow is appealing for women volun- | teers for military service, and admits , that non-Bolshevik troops are fighting on the outskirts of tskirts of Riga. FRENCH FLIEI WRECKS PLANE, GIVES UP TRIP, (By Assoc! ; CASA BLANCO, oie May 26. | ‘Lieutenant Roget, French avia- | |tor, who left Paris Saturday on the| | first leg of a projected trans-Atlantig ! flight by way of Dakar to Brazil . jlanded Saturday night at Kemtra, 80 kilometers from Bebat. His ma- {ehine was damaged the trip was Camila ab U.S. TO RETAIN GERMAN SHIPS SEIZED IN U. S. 7 Associated 3 WASHINGTON, May 2 36-—Presi- dent Wilson has reached an ae ment with Allied statesmen where | the United States will retain Canes ships seized in American ports. Previous reports indicated that Great Britain felt her shipping losses ; Were so great that she was entitled | to a share. ‘CREDENTIALS OF AUSTRIANS ARE |'GIVEN APPROVAL d Press.) ‘n landing and | ‘DOES WILSON SEEK THIRD TERM? DEMO CANDIDATES ARE WORRIED Ansocinted Prens.) WASHINGTON, May on“ within the next three months Presi dent Wilson will be asked by Democratic leaders to make public his attitude toward a third term candidacy. Tomorrow, national commit- tee Chairman Cummings starts on a tour of the country to organize preliminary to the 1920 campaign. Other Democratic aspirants say they will run ‘won’t.”” It is unofficially stated that Wilson does not want a third term. The president indicated his intention to retire and resume his hi: torical writing on March 4, 192 He also told friends of the party that they “‘must find a new leader. Hence, it likely that when the president speaks it will be to an- nounee that | not a candidate anlgss within the next, few months a strong dériaka® for him arises. A : LGK BUSINESS MAN DESERTS WIFE AND FAMILY IN WYOMING 70 LURE GIRL INTO SHAME IN CALIFORNIA Earl Blinn and Bessie Sayer 1 Sayer Taken Into Custody at Venice and Former Probably Will Stand Tnal for Violation of White Slave Act. . VENICE, Cal., May 26.—(Special.)—At the request of the authorities in Lusk, Wyo., Chief of Police F. W. Ferguson of Santa Monica arrested Earl Blinn, 33 years of age, who is want- ed in Wyoming, it is alleged, for deserting his wife and six ehildren. With Blinn at the time of his arrest was Bessie Sayer, just 18 years of age, whose home is also in Lusk, where she was a lege girl. {OCEAN FLIERS | Blinn and the girl had established |a home at 239 Pacific court, Santa Monica, and were operating a root beer concession on the Ocean Park WASHINGTON, May 26.—Ad- miral Jackson at Ponta Delgada cabled the navy department today pier. The Lusk authorities telegraphed that the NC-4 was held to her moorings by unfavorable flight |that an officer was on his way to Santa Monica to take Blinn back. conditions and cannot resume the flight before Tuesday at the “only if Wilson Chief Ferguson is detaining the girl in the woman’s quzrters in the |Santa Monica police headquarters, believing that a more serious charge than that of desertion will be pre- ‘ferred against Blinn. The girl is to Ferguson believes the Mann act will {shortly become a mother, and Chief | and World vjar veteran’, M reorge W. Ferguson and Fisher, as- |sisting with the latter. The sermon of the Rev. Welter L. French paid sloquent tribute to American heroes, living and dead, and appropriate music carried out the memorial feature. The service constituted a fore- runner of the more elaborate prepar- ations being made for Decoration if at a joint meeting of pat- riotic orders held Saturday night in which veterans of all wars took the leading part, a preliminary organi- zation was effected to carry the pro- yram out. The following committee has been appointed to have charge of all ar- rangements for the day’s services: | Comrade Goulding, of the,G. A. R. Comrede George W. Ferguson of the Spanish American Veterans. Comrade Fisher of the World War Veterans. Mrs. Long, of Mothers’ League. Comrade J. W. Miller, chairman of Moose committee. Joe Flannery, a veteran of the Spanish-American and World wars will be marshal of the day. The ex- ercises will start promptly at 10 o’clock Friday morning, the parade starting from. the city hall on South Center street. The line of march follows: North on Center street to the! ALLIES T0 BOMB ~ ENEMY CITIES IF PEACE TREATY IS REFUSED, CLAIM British and Yankee Leaders Confer on Program; Counter Proposal Rejected (By United Press.) PARIS, May 26.—The question of bombing German cities, inc!ad- ing Berlin. as a part of the military program to be followed if the Ger- mans refuse to sign the treaty was discussed by General Robertson of the British and General Liggett of he American arm suggestions and counter propo: Germany for disposition of the Is by basin have been rejected by Allies. ated Press} BERN .—Germany should refuse to the military and 2conomic terms of the peace treaty, which are not acceptable, according to a statement by General Count Max Montegelas, one of the German dele- gates, quoted in a Munich dis- patch, He said the military terms do not allow Germany a sufficient number of roops to maintain order, recent ents in Berlin and Munich being cited as proof of this statement. He adds that acceptance of the economic clauses would “condemn yerman workingmen to slavery.” paaee e aggnete aeae FRENCH EXPECT OCCUPATION OF BUDAPEST SOON ROME, May 26.—French troops have crossed the Tisza river and ex- vect to enter Budapest within three weeks. POSTAL CLERKS ON STRIKE ARE GIVEN WARNING courthouse, east to Wolcott; south to Second street and thence east to| the cemetery, where the graves of) veterans will be decorated. The afternoon program will be held at the Iris theater and will start promptly at 2 o’clock. The manage- ment of the theater has donated the use of the building for the after- noon. The program that will be fol- lowed at the theater has not been definitely arranged and the speakers of the day have not yet been ap- pointed. Material assistance will be given to the vrrangements for fitting tribute to the veterans of the three great wars, by the Casper and Mid- west Refi mpany bands. WINNIPEG, May 26. — Shortly after a statement from Gideon Robertson, federal minister of labor, was made public, de ng that fed- eral employes on strike would have an opportunity to determine whether “the government is bluffing,” word was received from Calgary, oon and Edmonton that sympathy strikes would be called in those cities today cause of the government's attitude. It is understood that the Ottawa min- isters received formal notification of the threatened action of the western cities. Minister Robertson announced the government’s attitude as final, that Winnipeg postal clerks who do not return by noon today are discharged and the government would not be in- fluenced by demonstrations in other ALTERATI ONS IN TREATY INCLUDE BY FORMALITY (iy Ansoctated Prenn WASHINGTON, May 26. —Pay-| ments past due and current. allot- ments sailors, and to dependents of Civil war veterans will be made by war risk insurance bureau without wait- ing for the formal signing of the urgent deficiency bill by President Wilson. to families of soldiers and| Harbeard, head of the service sup- ply in the American expeditionary | forces, has been: relieved and de- tailed as chief of staff of the expe- | ditionary forces. Brigadier General McAndrew, present chief of staff, goes to Washington to become chief of the war college. | a }. M. F. Harrington, prominent at-! {torney of O’Neill, Nebr., left Sunday |for Thermopolis after a visit with lthis son, George Harrington, of the Casper National bank. VOLCANO WIPES OUT 30 15,000 KILLED TOWNS; (Dy Axsseciat PARIS, May 26.—Credentials of the Austrian peace delegation at St. | Germain-en-Laye have been approved! by the credentials committee of the peace congress and the Austrian dele- gates have sent their first note to the Allied powers dealing with the SENATE VOTES ON SUFFRAGE sete | be invoked against Blinn. Bessie Sayer, in tezrs, admitted that she now realized she had loved ‘unwisely. Her story is to the effect \that she listened to Blinn, whose family she was well acquainted with {in Lusk, and he had made arrange- | treaty’s terms. The note has to do | with CHE ROE affairs. | ments for her to run away with him | BILL TUESDA and come to California. He left Lusk | a some weeks aheed of her in, his auto- WASHINGTON, May 26.—Efforts mobile, she followed on the train. THE SAAR BASIN Residents Will Be Permitted to Vote on An- nexation to Germany; Teuton Army of 200,000 Is Held Probable (By United Press.) PARIS, May 26.—Alterations in the treaty at the Germans’ re- quest are likely though there will be nothing vital affected. ‘PLANE ARRIVES TO ENTERTAIN CODY RESIDENTS| | to expedite the vote in the senate on woman suffrage was defeated today. | Parliamentary opponents of the meas- | ure succeeded after two hours in post- poning action until tomorrow. After numerous roll calls and other She met him at Salt Lake City and the rest of the journey was made in his automobile. ‘ From San Francisco the couple »went to Oakland and then to Los | Angeles, later going to Ocean Park. The first alteration was made when the Allies conceded that the League of Nations determine the method whereby Germany may re- cover the Saar mines if the people of that region vote for German an- nexation. CODY, Wyo., May 26.—Cody is jalive with excitement due to the ar- rival of the airplane ordered by R. M. Davis of this city, who proposes to adapt it to exhibition and commer- cial, purposes, the first to be brot into the state for this purpose. A landing field will be laid out and an AMSTERDAM, May 26.—The volcano of Kalut, in Java, has burst airdome erected in this immediate vi- into eruption, wiping out 20 villages i in the district of Brengat, ll in cinity following which preparations will be made toward the first flights the vicinity of Blitar and causing deaths estmated at 15,000, according |. scheduled for early in July. A Cody] toa Central News dispatch received here today. young man will pilot the machine, The girl says her parents are well- to-do in Wyoming and that she was ‘attending school there. Blinn, she says, sold out his business there be- coming to the coast. She ex- j obstruction, a motion to discharge | the suffrage committee from consider- ing the resolution which was passed by the house last week, was set aside, under the rules at 2:00 o’clock for ent a renewal of the debate on the resolu- willingness to return to tion of Senator Johnson, Republican, , and her parents have com- of California, requesting a copy of municated with Chief of Police Fer: the peace treaty with Germany. (tian oe - “The thoughtful girls are An attraction in the public park who make life worth while.” at Ouray, Colo., as a pond contain “Yes, but it is giggly ones who 'ing 75,000 gold fish of set married first.” ties and sizes. ——— those all varie- The Allies may permit a German army of 200,000 instead of 100,000. The Germans are scheduled to fin- ish assembling their final counter pro- posals today. The special. German printing outfit on which the counter proposals will be printed in book form arrived at Versailles Sunday. The Echo de Paris says the Allied reply to the proposals will be ready by June 7, the Germans then having three days to sign. (By Associated Press.) PARIS, May 26.—There are indi-! cations in peace conference ‘circles that negotiations for the settlement of the Italian problem are being resumed, It is understood that a strong effort is being made by the French, British and Italians to have the Treaty of London form the basis of a settle- ment. ees J. Fs O'Donnell, cashier of the Nebraska State Bank of O'Neill, Nebr., left yesterday afternoon for his home, following a visit with his sister, Mrs. Q. K. Deever. -— all - wrrorinm