Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 6, 1919, Page 1

: Pe Pf) a WILSON PENS MESSAGE ON Che Casper Daily HIGH C & OVER 4,000 COPIES of The Daily Tribune sold and delivered to subscribers every | day. 1 VOLUME 3 CASRE = “¥0., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919 NUMBER 245 OST OF WILL ASK NEW LAWS eo mmne | TQ MAKEWAR ONALL Member of the Associate: eS! PROFITEERS IN U. S LIVING A world-wide resume of the food ituation today collected by cable t, the United Press shows the fol- lowing: Great Britain is spending $250, 000,000 to keep bread prices down and fixes the price of meat and sugar France is employing every means to import sufficient sup- plies. The government fixes the maximum prices In Canada a commission has been created to handle this year’s _ demands that America become the | grain crop. Australia has a vast surplus of food. The government has diffi: culty in keeping prices high enough to reward production Italy’s bread supply alone costs the government $400,000,000 year- ly. The press and the public im Regulati t St € ies, Licens- LABOR TO ASK FIRING SQUAD ~itcc: interstate Corporations and Re FOR PROFITEERS OF NATION vival of Food ‘Administration Machine Fg ea ee Oe AD ee an a ete eee ee sm | May Be Asked; Prosecutors Start Work ENGINEERS SAYS 50 AT HEARING ‘Industrial Freedom’ to place maximum prices on ne- WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—President Wilson will! addvace congress Friday to make recommenda- tions for legislation designed to aid in reducing the cost of living. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—President Wilson began work today on a message to congress which he | will deliver within a few days outlining a program to reduce the living costs. It is understood that be will ask new plans to enable the government to make war on food profiteers, hoarders, and others con- tributing to high prices. One recommendation is expected to deal with regulating cold storage compe- i es. Federal licensing of interstate corporations is another expected recommendation. The (ood ad- Asked by Stone in ministration machinery may be partly reyived. ~ House Gommittee The department of justice is already striving to lower prices, and intends to make exz.o>l*s of WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— Organized labor may after a more thoro inquiry advocate a firing squad for some of those responsible for the wage of, i , 2 es ( profiteering sweeping the coun- r - ae L"soox| try. Warren §. Stone, grand itl chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, told the house interstate commerce com- mittee today. Stone declared that unless cont | gress found a solution of the high | cost of living problem within a few months America would see “its very prorst period.” “The people are starve,” said he. die fighting.” not going to “They are going to | Some senators advocate an excess, "4 profits tax to reach every profiteer room | |and new legislation to prevent pad- pr ROPTTEERS P} ding costs to cover profits. of the department of justice thruout SH OE BUSINESS the country today were working to carry out the order of the attorney general that profiteers and hoarders! of food and other it: FARMERS THREATEN | TO HOARD SUPPLIES =| (Corn, Oats and Pro- vistons Move Back \tien, representing more than 100,000 | } (By Assoctated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Labor ~: | grade at $10 a barrel which is a dollar below the market. ALL FACTORS IN WASHINGTON, Aug. Agents [ IN GRAIN MART der the Lever food control act. diana Federation of Farmers’ associa- Wintel of Fides the worst hoarders and profiteers. P . . * The government Grain corporation will attempt to reduce flour prices by selling the standard ! JUSTICE AGENTS TO nece s must be tracked down and prosecuted un- PROFITS CLAIM * ! INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 6.—In a e | telegram to President Wilson, the In-| Packers in Lead by : r 4 Indiana farmers, condemned “veiled become the land of political freedom, with Buyers Again Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the} . ° A Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers | | aes the Majority said on appearing today before. the; : house interstate commerce commit- | Sa tee in support of labor’s plans for public ownership and private opera-| tion of the railroads. | Declaring that American demo;} cracy was controlled by an autocracy | in industry, Stone argued that there could be no lowering of the cost of! living as long as consumers had to} pay extortionate profits in purchas-} on the expectation that the govern- ing the necessities of life. | Labor's belief in the Sims’ bill em-| RU NMA IA i hbodying the railroad employes’ plan | ment would decide to pocket a huge for a solution of the railroad prob-| loss and would at once cut wheat lem was declared by Stone to be! OF CON UEROR BU DAPEST ™:: to consumers as much as 50 profound. { 5 cents a bushel. ae When this idea was shown to be baseless, market conditions (By ed Pres.) CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Corn arose four and a half to nine and a half cents a bushel in response to an an- mouncement that the government Willingness to buy was as evident sell yesterday. Hoarders and specula- tors had done their selling yesterday | WILL UNIONIZE i} S squarely reversed and little attentio: STERHRGTON aur. o.—The wre. Demands May Overthrow Hungarian Gov- PRISON GUARDS 222. diction that labor would organize the| United States Steel corporation and| ernment, Belief at Paris; Victors Re- Se pa a ene re eel fuse to Take Orders from Foch son, secretary of the American Fed- | eration of Labor, at the railroad bill! | be sold at a reduction of $1 a bar- rel. Oats went up two to five and a | quarter cents, lard, 65 cents a hun- “KILL FUGITIVE, 228-25 TWO WOUNDED 12.000 smokes HAUNT MAN IN LOCAL BASTILE Ten thousand valued at $73, [By Associated Press} Beatlbg: todays | PARIS, Aug. 6.—The Rumanians have served an ultimatum on ‘| the Hungary government, according to messages reaching the peace) Gil: snaholiands eae LATE FLASHES \conference. The ultimatum, it is asserted, makes demands far in ex-| EVERETT, Wash., Aug. o—in | FROM THE WIRE “at armistice and gives the Hungarians till 8 a. m. today to) ee, ee. eociors i 4 F . ‘e - | caped from the Monroe reforma- |; It is greatly feared.in conference circles that the Rumanian action tecedes cnd/Gliatice was uilea, | camel cigarets,- would have been ROME, Aug. 6.--Settlement of ith | ; % | a running fight occurred. with | och, the Rumanian general refusing the property of R. E. Hill, accord- i 4 ; will result in the overthrow of the; =a. ineiztowthel caseut nade. ae the Adriatic question affecting Italy | ? oy a vet | one slightly wounded and two are | ing to the ge made against and Jugo-Slavia is imminent, accord- | "ew ee Severna Frege | still at large. The men were track- | Ren iseiee, an nea eer sntaenents ng to the Popolo Komano. In ac- | circles state that the Rumanian army ed by bloodhounds to Sultan, where | i hen. rem oe cordance with,the settlement Fiume}jg not under command of Marshal ———ee | company e has been bound over | would be an independent state to the district court charged with LINES TIED UP i i i 72 agua stealing that number of cigarets the port internationalized. / peoKs Aare i Rhee eeneh: a mK t “ oe imho Ramasians are not sctively| \COUNTER TERMS | 31 29 from this large wholesale WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Repre : stirs: participating in the peace conference seritatives of 14 different railroad) since Premier Bratiano some time unions joined in a communication to- ago .took exception to the d day to aE General Sie! ask: | of the conference upon the principle | ing an eg sa so eda eera bof guaranteeing the rights of minori- This ‘is Agha frat rinatence, on. Fee ties within national borders. BY BIG STRINE or s7er4 J. MCS CAMPBELL te DIES IN CHICAGO Rapid Transit | Miss Frar of Judge A. C. NEW _ hundred (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Aug. 6.—Aus: A coun- ter proposals to the peace were handed to the allied mission at St. Germain-en-Laye at 12:15 o'clock. The counter proposals were brot at once to Paris and d. r= ed to the supreme council of the Peace conf. ‘TRIAL OF THE Brooklyn company employes struck at 5 o’clock this morning following the refusal of Receiver Lindley Garrison to grant | their wage demands and union ognition. Elevated and subway lines | rec-| Campbell of this city, in whieh aie: an one represents In the ultimatum the Rumanians! employes;inave Baped £4, BSUS demand a reduction of the Hungarian 5 y army to 15,000 men and the sur- AMERICAN PLAN | render of 50 percent of the harvest, EAGUE NOT animals and farm machinery, and rally {way supplies. The ultimatum also Sige yi FOR L lacnarde x large proportion of the Sy gtr eyes ane but officials | TALKED, REPORT. (Danube shipping equipment and sup-Piaim thet surface lines are running | 2. plies for 300,000 men together with I. ractivad Uptoen tee | rations for the Rumanian forces pend- ing a peace settlement. caused by meningitis. Miss had —<— BRITISH ACT TO (By Associated Press.) Campbell been in the WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Sec- —— hospital for some time, having under- retary Lansing told the ante tees METAL TRADES CURB PROFITEER'| KAISER MUST gone an | operation for antrum that the American plan for a convalescing but a message received league of nations was “‘not pressed” at Versailles and never was pre- sented to the full peace conference. | He did not know whether a copy was still in e: ence. It is pre- | sumed that the draft was made by President Wilson. STRIKE CALLED | IN FOOD STUFFS, ‘AWAIT TREATY IN BUTTE, MONT. om Saar ac ig (By Assoctated Press.) | LON » Ae @.—The ny LONDON, Aug. 6.—Great Brit- have not altered their decision to | (By Associ Press.) 5 in purpos tablishing a central | hold the trial of the former Ger- | BUTTE, Aug. 6.—The executive | authority to deal with profiteer- | man emperor im London, Andres | board of the metal trades union | ing, Minister of Reconstruction | *Bonar Law, govermment leader, an- is hay-| has called a strike effective Fri- | Geddes announced in the house of nounced in the of commons. side, Miss Mary Campbell was with enroute to Chicago. |* Miss Campbell had many friends | in Casper and news of her death will |strike sadness to as many hearts. ee The English government ———— One of England’s most famous ar- ing plenty of food for thought just) day noon. It if predicted that all | commons, which is investigating the | He ssid mo action in the mutta: chers is Mrs. Randolph Bernes, 77 now in the Irish’ ‘stew-—Raltimoro| minds and amelters af the stats | ‘high cost of living, gud prafitess.’| could ie Ubsh Waal is Corman’ TGMEe cid) cho ms an A American: } will be foreel to suspend. tan: | Peace treaty is ratified. | forher skill with the bow and arrow. ‘ today as the overwhelming rush to! Campbell, daughter died at a Chicago hospital at 3 o'clock this morning, according to messages Death was Tuesday called her father to her bed- her at her death and her father was| Peace conference, | threats of a revolution” and declared” | that if the railroad strike continues it seriously considers advising all of its members to hold all their farm prod- ucts until the strike ends. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6.—Warrants were issued this afternoon for the arrest of three officers of the Pitts- burgh branch of the Central Sugar |company of Chicago, charged with | profiteering. The information charg- ed that the company during the last two weeks sold sugar at 14 cents a pound wholesale. PROSECUTION OF BIG PACKERS AUTHORIZED WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Anti- trust suits against the five big meat packers will be i tuted imme- diately by the department of jus- tice. Attorney General Palmer an- | nounced today that evidence be- fore the federal trade commission indicated ‘‘c violation of the anti-trust laws. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Dis- trict attorneys of the United States were ordered by Attorney Gen i Palmer today to proceed immedi- ately with the prosecution of all persons guilty of hoarding food- stuffs and to label foodstuffs for condemnation. = _ Some of the tallest steeples and smokestacks in Cincinnati have been painted by Myrtle Kennett, a young ‘matron who earns a good living as a steeplejack. ‘the price of and Others Share in Handling Trade (By Annee WASHINGTON, / — The high price of shoes is-declared to be due to excessive profits taken by every tor in the shoe production indus- report by the federal trade commission to congress. The packers were charged with having begun the pyramiding of shoe prices by an unwarranted increase in hides, the supply of which they are said to control. Tanners have taken “exceptionat profits’ while shoe manufacturers have demanded an “unusual margin’ and retailers have charged ces try i that are “not justifiable,” re- port says. Some retail shoemen made 50 per cent. As a remedy the commission recom mends “rigid enforcement of laws against monopolistic control,” for~ bid hide producers engaging in the tanning business and men with the z price acquaint the afacturers* A ee CITY PHONE IS CHANGED The city council saw fit to changé the telephone from the city pumping station to the city pump house at its last meeting. This placed th¢ phone on a party line and made it cheaper for the city ‘Economy”™ was the keynote of the cilmen move by the coun. LEAGUE PLAN OF AMERICANS WAS PUT IN DISCARD Never Presented to Peace Conference, Says Lansing; Shantung Provision Also Discussed in Committee (By Associated Pre: WASHINGTON, Aug. 6,—Secre- tary Lansing told the senate foreign It was thot that she was Telations committee today that the s American plan for a league of na- tions was ‘“‘not pressed” at Versailles and ne was presented to the full He did not know whether a copy was still in existence. It is presumed that the draft was made by President Wilson, ‘ Discussing the Shantung provis- “ion, Secretary Lansing said the Lans- ing-Ischii agreement made to obtain reaffirmation by Japan of open door policy in China was entered into by the American government without knowledge of the secret treaty be- tween Japan and the allies for the tr fer of German antung to Japan. Lansing said it was true that Pres- ident Wilson had cabled to the peacd commission requesting that the con- fidential minutes of the proceedings of the commission on the League of Nations be not furnished to the French senate. Lansing said he per- sonally opposed furnishing the senate a copy of the transcript of discus- sions before the League of Nations section of the peace conference “on the general principle” that it might prove “irritating” to other nations, concessions fh a L