Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1919, Page 1

1 a h\\ iat) J Lie . ) os OE Lab CDG “Eie Rrewis Dail¥ Ecibune RAL (LEADERSHIP. COULD NOT REFUSE: Duty Lies j in 1 Quieting Fears and Realizing Hopes ot Nations, Says Presidents Che Casper Daily OVER 4,000 COPIES of The Daily Tribune sold and delivered to subscribers every day. we oe VOLUME 3 BLOCKADE OF TEUION NATION TO BE LISTED Treaty Ratification by Assembly Paves, Way for Allies to’: Allow Free Re- sumption of Trade (By United Press.) PARIS, July 10. — German Peace Delegate Lersuer notified the Allies today that Germany ratified the treaty yesterday. The superior | economic council at a meeting this afternoon is expected to act on lift- ing the blockade. " The German reparations commis- sion arrives ut Versailles tonight. DEFIANCE STILL RINGS IN ASSEMBLY HALLS. BERLIN, July nesday night and immediately sent it to Versailles by courier. The Weimar national assembly ratified the treaty by a vote of 208 to 115. “We are about to enter a 40-yea march’ across the desert,” said For- eign Minister Mueller addressing the assembly. ‘We have hastened rati- fication in the hope of raising the blockade. nless the word peace loses all if$ meaning the return of) prisoners must follow soon. Unani- mous protest against the oppression embodied in the treaty is maintained today and always.” Other speakers said amid applause that the “wound of this peace would never heal. We will never recognize | its validity.” NO RESCINDING | OF PROHIBITION BY PRES. WILSON (By United Press.) WwW ASHINGTON, July 10.—Presi- dent Wilson has no immediate inten- tion of declaring demobilization com- plete and rescinding wartime prohibi- tion, it was learned authoritatively to- day. LABOR PARTY OF BRITAIN WOULD OUST CABINET (By Associated Prexs.) LONDON, July 10.—The national executive committee of the Labor party called upon the government to- day to make a definite pledge to re- duce the cost of living or en. It charged merciless exploitation of the public by profi STABLE RULE IS KEY TO LEAGUE, AUSTRIA TOLD (By Associated Press.) PARIS, July 10.—Austria will be admitted to membership in the League of Nations as soon as the Allied and associated powers consider she pos- sesses a responsible government with both will and power to fulfill its in- ternational obligations. CAS” 10, — President | ~ Bbert signed ‘the peace treaty Wed- “if é rithume ess= WYOMING, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919 Member of Press, and served by the Unit- ed Press. THE DAILY TRIBUNE the Associated | HOW D’DO AND GOOD BYE! HELLO, UNCLE,- | HAVE To GO RIGHT OuT ‘ON ANOTHER LITTLE JUNKET BuT You CAN ALWAYS REACH. ME BY JUST ADDRESSING ME — a Bes PLEASE FORWARD” HARMONY AEESTABLISHED BETWEEN COUNT AND CITY : INSINUATIONS AGAINST BOARD ACTIONS WIPED OUT Commissioners Go Before Council with Proof and Retraction Is Forthcoming from Alderman; Disposition of Fines Unchallenged. A spirit of good feeling v tween the executive branches as once more established be- of the city and county govern- meny when two members of the board of county commission- ers appeared at the meeting of demanded an explanation of certain derogatory remarks which! i been voiced by at least o t its meeting last Monday During the heat of debate at the meeting Monday night, in which the right of the county commissioners to grant and revoke licenses re- tain a portion of the fees was under cussion, the ** made when to the its appearance Dezn gave vent following statement: “Yes, I wonder what the coun- ty commissioners did with all that money they got from the Sandbar raid. I guess J. E. Han- way knows, t use he got part of it, and he knows i When called up: ) Veitch, Commissioner Gr Editor Hanway, Doctor mitted meking a statement similar to quoted, but id that he ed his knowledge upon “hearsay” 1 gave as his authority a prostitute who formerly plied her trade upon Sandbar, and who is reported to said that during the raid she had “handed money to the commis- Dr. Dean could not re- member the name of the prostitute and said he could not produce her to verify the statement. C airman ith and Dean ad- one Se At the meeting of the council last, ‘night at which Chairman Veitch, Commissioner Griffith and a represen- tative of Mr. Hanway were present, Doctor Dean voluntarily took the floor and made a manly statement concerning his charg He said he hed given voice to the andbar raid” ghost s the city council las night and ne member of the city council night. ng the heat of debate, and and other members of the were in a more or less ex- te of mind, and retracted his cement, offering an apology to both the commissioners and Editor Han- way. Acting as spokesman for the board, Commissioner Griffith accepted the apology of Dr. Dean, and produced a receipt from the county treasurer |showing that the sum of $3,300.00 jhad been collected in fines as a re- sult of the Sandbar rajd, all of which had been turned over intact to the general school fund and was now being used by the school board for educational purposes. He duced a copy of the court docket end origi vouchers shownig in detail the fines collected and fees paid to Judge W. E. Tubbs, together with the names of all those arrested during the raid, inviting members of |the council to check them up and jsee that every penny of the money had been properly accounted for. “We e the city officials ample opportunity to clean up the dens of vice on the Sandbar,” said the spokesman for the board, “and they failed to do so. In the interest of a clean city and good government it became our imperative duty to act, and we believe the good citizens of Casper approve of what we did. “We are sorry that Doctor Dean charge du while he cil cou ' should give credence to the word of a prostitute and repeat it as authen- tic before a public meeting, but we are likewise glad that he has the manhood to retract his statement and make amends. In the interest of harmony and the good of the com- ‘munity, we accept the apology of Doctor D and, are willing to let the incident be closed.” sah BODIES OF TWO MEN ARE FOUND IN FIRE RUINS (By Associated Press.) Cc HEYENNE, July 10.—What ap- pears to have been a double mur was brought to light today when the bodies of Henry and Reuben Winslow, ranchmen, were found in the charred ruins of their cgbin in the interior of the Jackson Hole country. The cabin was fired evidently to hide the crime. The county authorities are investi- gating, but r no motive has been found —-— WRESTLERS IN FINISH MATCH AT CARNIVAL Jack Burns will tangle with George Kotsonaros in a finish match at the athletic stadium at the carnival to- night. The match was arranged fol- lowing a display of talent by Burns earlier in the week when he stayed 15 mini with the Greek champion and pull&"down several dollars at the dollar-a-minute rate. At that time he worsted his opponent to all appear- sances and local fans are anxious to see him in a finish contest. ea essity with Consideration of Problems at Peace Table and Cannot Be Rejected Without Violating Confidence of World (By Associated WASHINGTON, July 10.— Press.) President Wilson in presenting the peace treaty with Germany to the senate today declared that “a league of free nations had become a practical neces- sity’’ to which the framers of the treaty felt obliged to turn as an indispensable instrumentality for the maintenance of the NUMBER 222 new order it has been their purpose to set up in the world.” The “most skeptical” of the peace conferees at Paris, the president Avas only as the difficult worl of ar. said, had turned more and more to/ ranging an all but universal adjust the lesgue as discussion progressed |ment of the world’s affairs advanced in seeking solution of problems from dey to day, from one stage of that ar in framing the terms of *he conference to another, that the treaty itself. The fact that the| became evident to them that what covenant of the league was the first they were seeking would be little substantive part of the treaty to be (more than something written upon worked out and agreed upon, the paper, to be interpreted and applied president said, “while all else was in by such methods as the chances of solution, helped to make the formula-| tion of the rest easier. President Wilson said ; ment on the cov the agree- nant had given the politics might make available if they did not provide the means of com mon counsel which all were obliged to accept, ithority whose common conferees a feeling that their work ecisions would be recognized as de to be permanent: and t the cisions which all must respect. And] most practical among them “were at 0 the most practical, the most skep- he last the most ready to refer to tical among them, turned more and |the League of Nations superinten- More to the league as the authority dence of all interests which did not|through which international action admit of immediate determination of to be secured, authority without all administrative problems which Which, as the ad come to see it, were to require a continuing over-/it would be difficult to the as: ght.” (sured etfect either to th ty ee Wats hadi aeemedi al counuall’ of} any. cores international under | perfection,” said the president, “had | 2 ding upon which they were to a pend for the maintenance of peace.” ——<——— PAGE THRE. iv the forest reserve agcord’: FIIDID SD IN TM 4 League of Nations Became Practical Nec- TRADE With HUN MUST BEGIN ATS ONCE, DECLARES: THE PRESIDENT: Ability to Reparations Redeem)\ Wy ‘ VY illy Depend on arly® Trade Resumption WASHINGTON, July 10. —) President Wilson, conte with newspaper correspondents at the White House today, indicated that he was extremely gratified that the % treaty of peace had I been rati come to seem a plain counsel of ! - é 1 necessity. The Leagne of Nations|""AMERS O! eens ACA lout was the practicalistatesman’s hope of| ND REFERENCE N ns a hea on success in many of the most diffi- ol Shoe aoe ee pte nd cult things he was attemptin cal necessity. Examine the) unition When the president entered the osipesca and /youiva) ang that) crate, senate, escorted by a committee of Here: ticuouls segimanitolesvEo> AGUE PART OF EVERY senators, the crowded galleries (Continued on Page Six.) | TREATY, SAYS WILSON and cheered for a minute in disr | pea legotiat n gard to senate rules. The eae . at fe be mounting to the vice president's seat, | | that the League of Nations would be spoke briefly with Vice President | in every treaty negotiated at Marshal as the cheering continue: |aailles, Ho said Fiume would go to punctuated with ‘‘rebel’’ yells. Croatia and that Italy did , 1 SHADOWS OF YEARS AGO : ty when the tre \ DISPELLED BY AMERICA President Wilson said in part: f the a “The hopes of the nations allied | pends peed with wt ' against the central powers were at \ mili “ n f the a very low ebb when our soldiers be- t y ure executer Ge gan to pour across the sea. There | ident W nderste o was everywhere amongst them ex take tho posit wo ds ‘@pt"in™thely stoutest spirits, a som-| najority will be required d ny bre foreboding of disaster. The ba enate reservatior n ratify the ‘ended in November, eight montl rence treaty. , ago, but you have only to recall a t| K The Germans have f ° was feared in midsummer last, four Council NoteeuRabates bol tone ene iare ies i | short months before the armistice, material except t ‘or the to realize what it was that our timely Former Saloon Men ON reduced German ar provided: f aid accomplished alike for their 5 ‘ n the peace treaty and the preside morale and their physical safety. Application for Return believes that American troops should That first never-to-be-forgotten ac- stay on the Rhine unt he material tion at Chateau-Thierry had already | taken place. Our redoutable sold and marines had already closed the of Money from City. gap the enemy had succeeded in open-| Saloons in ¢ re to re heir advance upon Paris, had |tefunds on unuse ronmnonutials eee ‘turned the tide of battle back | licenses for ennting. to. be toward the frontiers of France and | ‘Ween $5,000 NE fab he a begun the rout that was to save ‘ aul, re uh aiee Rona andinthel world meine fina crs couric Jauanenial: AORaLOn RY Lie city hall, The county commissioner physical force of those spirited men (spoke of something more than bodily Vigour. They carried the great ideals of a free people at their hearts and with that vision were unconquerable. 'They were recognized as crusaders and as their numbers swelled to mil- lions their strength was seen to| mean salvation. They were for the visible embodiment of Americ What they did made America and all fhe stood for a living reality in the! Yhots, not only of the people of France, but also of the tens of mil- lions of men and women, thruout all| toiling nations, and the compulsion of what they stood for was upon| us who represented America at the} peace table.” OLD ORDER GIVES WAY TO THE NEW WITH PEACE “It was our duty to see to it that every d ion we took part in con- tributed, so ar as we _ were table io influence it, to quiet the fears an\ realize the hopes of peo- ples who had been living in that shadow, nations that had come by our assistance to their freedom. Old en- tanglements of every kind stood in the way—promises which govern- ments had made to one another in days when might and right we confused and the power of the v tor was without restraint. It was not easy to draft a new order of ideas on old, and some of the fruits of grafting, 1 fear, for a time will be bitter. But with very few exceptions, \the men who sat with us at the peace fttable desired as sincerely as we did to get away from the bad influences, international counsels and expedients out of which the sinister designs of Germany had sprung 2s a natural growth.” LEAGUE NEEDED TO SUSTAIN AGREEMENTS “Statesmen of all belligerent coun- tries were agreed that such a Jeague must be created to sustain the set- ‘tlements that were to be effected. But at first, I think there was a feel- ing among some of them that, while it must be attempted, the formation of such a league was perhaps a counsel of perfection which practical men, long experienced in the world bf affairs, must agree to very cau- \kiously and with many misgivings. It s delivered “FORMER PASTOR DIES WN COLD. had approved the proceeding, pro vided the city was willing to give up the money, for while the licen Notice of the th of Re power is ted in the county board J. W tor 1 the municipal derives the revenue. — Gant odist irch The passage of Wyoming into the Casper, i he ranks of dry states July 1 caused’ secretary of the O Fell the situation and m y saloons havea, from Holyoke, t end about six months on which to run’ Dickey, it is underste 1 on their license. Many of ti pastor of the Color loons had licenses secured in Janu-, some time ry and this left six months of the The enacarunlintt j rail iicense to be refunded. by many Casper peop a v Dean moved that the re! a large number of f He be Pasi after a complete or of the local i- had been made b sity clert precedin Re : city treasurer to the money and held the 1 ed for was th r umount: | eral years The motion passed. wes which, He Meok ga is had been revoked by the county com children, a son ar s missioners will not be allowed any body +: os refund, according to the action of the | pu council. — Most members of the council were W, Ts. Bi r of the opinion that the saloon keep arage, h | ers should only pay for what they Cheyenne used of the license, although thei22. He Il repre the statute: ay that the city council ' 1 1 “may" und the unused portio irive in P of the license A majority of the Shockley, th epr 1 eight applying for refund d for here last ye n $750, which about half of the li- copp cense price. pe ‘R-34 COVERS 630 MILE Th RECORD TIME [By Un NEW YORK, July 10.—-The R-34 wirelessed that she covered 630 miles in the first 12 hours. Halifax received the wireless at 1:30 p. m. The dirigible was then 215 miles south, going at the rate of 60 miles an hour. (By t @ Preas.) MINEOLA, July 10.—The dirig ible R-34 started on her return voyage at midnight. She reported her position at 7:00 o'clock as 300 miles out and averaging 55 miles a City for an hour before heading fo The dirigible was 525 miles ou miles per hour. n hour. She flew over New York r England. t at 10:00 o'clock and making 58