Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1919, Page 1

OVER 4,000 copies of The Daily Tribune sold and delivered to subscribers every day. VOLUME 3 , CHICA CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—A decision to rceall troops from the stockyards and the riot district here, | whose presence was one.of the causes alleged for te general stockyards strike, was announced this aft- | ernoon. CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—There was practically no trading in livestock today. Even before the gen- eral strike of white employes in various stockyards establishments, buyers for the packing houses held off, awaiting developments as to the labor situation. Business was further hampered by the uncertainty of | shippers as to whether any railroad outlet for purchases here would be available. CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—A general strike of 33,000 employes at the packing plants in the stockyards! began today. This action followed a decision of the stockyards’ labor council last night to call a gen-| tion was broadened so the committee! o¢ the peace treaty to turn the coun- a) a é | could take testimony at any place any try from a war basis, the president! been n n | time. said: should be dealt with at once by legis- eral strike unless state troops and| police guards were immediately with-| drawn from the plants. The strike was precipitated by the! return of 5,000 negroes to work in terday. At 11 o'clock the general mn caused a shut down of nearly every | plant and non-union negroes left in large numbers as there was no work | NOT TO ARBITRATE NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—In the strike of 10,000 carmen, paralyzing Brooklyn’s surface, elevated and sub- for them... | BROOKLYN RECEIVER | | way lines, Receiver Lindley Garrison | said he would resign before he would | side to arbi- | submit the company’s tration. nd FIRST DEATH IN BROOKLYN TODAY (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The first) death as a result of the street car trian was struck by a motor truc laden with workers. women in the truck fainted. Traffic congestion today thruout Brooklyn was worse than on the two preceeding days and automobile mis- haps were many. SHIPPERS ADVISED TO HOLD UP STOCK (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Aug. 8—So many whites are quiting the packing houses that shippers of livestock are advis notice. .The whites refuse to work with the negroes, claiming the latter are not unionis' WIRE FLASHES [By Associated Press} WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Presi- dent Wilson today completed his re- ply to the senate request asking for documents used by the American delegates at the peace conference and it was said at the White House that it would be sent to the senate either late today or tomorrow. It is un- derstood that the president will send all documents now in Washington. United Press.) CLEV ELAND. Aug. 8 Dhe grand} jury today indicted seven members of the Ohio Cooperative Milk asso- ciation on charges of violating the state anti-trust law. i | A number ee d | to withhold their stock until further | (By Agsociated Press.) tion of further violation of American} long as our whole financial and eco- Demands for increases in wages, jrights in, Mexico wag added at the|nomte system iv ont a war basis?” -. accompanying the-risinse conte of liv- POLES occuPY | Suggestion of Senator Ashurét, Dem-| Surplus-stecks. of food and, cloth-|in# the president said, were justi- | Repeal of Guaranteed Wheat Price Would, Kite Market Belief; Living Problem Is | we Up to President, Says Poindexter Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Repeal of the government price guat- PART GERMAN, IN| xatmat operation of the laws of 'sinted antee for wheat to enable the farmers to secure higher prices was | urged at a special meeting today of the senate agriculture committee. | strike in Brooklyn occurred today on, Action by the committee was deferred. Williamsburg bridge when a pedes | Senator Norris, Republican of Nebraska, proposed the repeal of |the price guarantee and T. C. Atkeson of Washington, representative | TREATY 1S HEL | BY COLOMBIAN OIL RESERVES Axsociated Pre: WwW ASHING TON, Aug. 8.—A presi- dential decree issued by the Colom- bian government last June 20, de- claring the petroleum lands of Colom- bia to be the “property of the na- | tion” was laid before the senate for- eign relations committee today and resulted in definite postponement of the committee’s approval of the Colombian treaty. Under the decree, a copy of which was sent to the com- mittee by the state department, vast American oil holdings in Colombia would be threatened with confisca- tion, members of the committee said. eee | NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The bears raided the stock market again to- | day. In violent sessions United States steel was hammered down to within a fourth a point of par while other stocks were even weaker. An- | ticipation of the president’s message indicated drastic legislation. CORN AND WHEAT CROPS TAKE BIG SLUMP IN JULY (By Axsoct: ated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The country’s corn crop showed a de- crease of 27,052,000 bushels as a result of weather and other condi- tions in July. The department of agriculture in its August fore- east announced that the crop promised 2, ions existing August 1, as compared with a forecast of 2 ,788,378,000 bushels Based 815,480,000 bushels early in July. Wheat production has fallen off 221,000,000 bushels compared with the July forecast, the present total being placed at 1,161,000,- 000 bushels. There was a decrease of 124, 000,000 bushels of winter wheat and 97,000,000 bushels of spring wheat. Siu CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919 STOCKYA BUSINESS PARALYZED Packing Houses Shut Down by Walkout of 33,000 Men, Trading Senate Committee Is, Brot to Standstill; Shopmen’s Strike Spreading Thruout Nation as Labor Conditions Reach Crisis on Demands | | turbed by fears of an elopement. | Prices Not Justified, Declares President in RUMANTANS ARE Message Asking Extension of Control, Penalty for Violations, Limitation of Storage and Price Marketings THE DAILY TRIBUNE DEMANDS OR 60 |RATIFICATION OF TREATY URGED HUNGRY, REPORT Member of) the Associated Press, and served by the Unit-; ed Press. | Bolshevik Murders in Hungary’ Just Be- coming Known to Allied Officials ____| Peace Prices Impossible Until Country Is Returned From War Basis, Congress Is Told in Message on Living Costs NUMBER 247 WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Addressing congress today and pro- 0 GES UPON . posing remedies to check the high cost of living, President Wilson de- «my United Press.) clared that existing laws were inadequate and that high prices were not justified by any shortage of supplies, present or prospective, but LONDON, Aug. 8.--Ameri- were created in many cases artifically and deliberately by vicious prac- can officials today sent the Ru- tices. jmanians an ultimatum asking | The president recommended that \modification of their demands the control act be extended to peace- proposed, the president called on con- |"pon Hungary or they would time operation and that congress @X-| yress and the public to deal with the! withhold food from them. clude from intrastate as well as inter- “= deliberately. He apy gd to state shipment goods which did not hants and others to deal with the (By United Press "The with its provisions and to the housewives to exer BUDAP: (Delayed The president recommended ter vigilance and a While alli ps are maintaininge ieee the food law be provided with thotful economy.” order here, the Bosheviki are report- substantial penalty for profiteering! “ readers of organized labor, the|ed to Have seized control in soutle: jand that a cold storage law be en-| president said, he was sure, “will| western Hungary, where they are scree modeled after the law in New! osently yield to a second sober thot| slaughtering the bourgeois popula- by which n: time limit) would) oq like the great mass of thelr as-|tion.. Secret murders of hundreds-of Me pees 1 Ga sold storage: Ek pat sociates, think and act like Ameri- neople during the Bolshevik regime | Tecommended that all goods released cans.”” are just becoming known, also more Also ‘in Favor of Investigating the °. °. ° from cold storage be marked with the | “"'y. 4 ‘ Strikes, undertaken at - Entire Situation | price prevailing when they went into| y,< so ea peaeneeenty 4 (anit | jStorage. He further recommended | jitters, witistand he exp his PARIS, Aug. § rdinand Preas.) | that goods in interstate commerce be confidence that labor men would rea-|0f Rumania has entered Budapest, ; od WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—With- out opposition the senate adopted |a resolution today authorizing the| foreign relations committee to ‘ make a sweeping investigation of splurables | thority. |outrages against Americans in| Further the president recommend- | Mexico and report on means that|ed a federal licensing system for cor- should be taken to prevent outrages. | porations engaged in interstate com- merce which «would embody regula- Press.) tions to insure competitive selling od WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The sen-| “and prevent unsconcionable profits ate foreign relations committee to-! in methods of marketing.” day unanimously voted to report out He also urged prompt passage of the resolution of Senator King of the law pending to control security Utah, proposing an investigation of issues. the Mexican situation. The resolu-| Making an appeal for ratification marked with prices at which they left the producer. It would serve as a | useful example, the president said, if Pr " entrance on discovery ! r are in temper,” said the president, Poned his entrance upon discovery. of congress ctod legislation to con- an assassination plot “and there can be no settlement whic! “ Rov 31 the situacion in the District of 2d there can be no settlement which —— where it has unlimited au- 204s not Rave an its motive and stand-| our Picked up - “A process has set in, ~ In New York on Anarchy Charge says a Budapest dispatch, An earlier report said he had post= lize it. “No remedy is possible while men the pres- ident™told congress, “which is likely unless sométhing is done, to push pri and rents and the whole cost of living higher and yet higher in a vicious cycle to which there is | no logical or natural end. Some of the methods by which these prices are | NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Charged ‘produced are already illegal, some of With criminal anarchy under the them criminal, and those who employ 4 section of the penal code, four them will be energetically proce men, wore arrested: here by: the: din. ed against, byt others have not y ¥ prt eres ofher: © ai Rpoomry, Mine ¢ ei a AWS SUlt] | < vchastle’fiteeatere atcallah leaaied Seiten cin | Seca ag agigar oo MHD revolver were found in the flat. (By Associated Preas.) A provision regarding the preven-| jocrat of Arizona. In unanimously! ing in the hands of the government, Sed, “if there be novother means of ‘reporting the resolution, the foreign the president said, would be sold and enabling men to live.” CITY OF MIN hoards of food in private hands would} While there is any possibility that relations committee added amend- ments broadening its scope with a) be forced out under existing pro-the peace terms may be changed,” view of comprehensive inquiry into yisions of the food control law. Deal- Said the president, referring to his xe = - : acapella sions begahes & i ; ee : (Hy Ansocinted Prem) oe an conditions during recent! ers, eager to reap the harvest of ris- ples for bei ratification of the PARIS, Aug. &--(Havas.)-— Dic ses ecummulated hoards, | Bo; rat ing prices by the country may be the president said, would d back from a war basis,” or | their disadvantage as well as danger|™ay be held long in abeyance or may of holding off from the new process "ot be enforced because of divisions ” of opinion among the powers asso- | egainst Germany, it is idle to look for permanent relief. ROBBERS LOOT JEWELRY STORE, patches from Warsaw today carry the announcement by newspapers there that Polish troops have occupied the city of Minsk. N. Y. THEATERS ARE CLOSE! BY ACTORS’: IKE now “see turr 249 WAR ‘BRIDES, supply and demand, the president said, had been set at naught in the eases of many necessary commodities. He cited figures of the federal trade commission showing rising prices in ARRIVALS TODAY (By Associated Press.) adi ui iielgsclehh aida wr AN ae Spr peeeea nes, Sikh | ea meare ceeerentan ciceue, of fod first German war brides to come | the face of greater stocks a of the National Grange, endorsed it.| to the United Sta nce 1917, | than were on hand in the country a SAN FRA NCISCO (By United Tress.) Senator Poindexter, Republican of; arrived today aboard the Great | Yea? ago. NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The first Washington, referring to President) Northern from Brest. They in- ; _ The pending bill to regulate securi- Wilson’s plan to ask congress for ad-| cluded 249 young women of vari- | ‘i¢S issues, the president teferred to ditional legislation to lower the cost ous nationalities who married | #8 # measure which “would do much of living, said the difficulties of the| Id broad. to stop speculation and to prevent situation were “due largely to govern-| ee fraudulent methods of promotion by a ment, aGlibraewak ateadies.” “This is the land of which our people are annually fleeced © “The president,” he said, “was vest- | win ed with almost absolute powers to| #citl handle the food situation. I am of} 20° opinion that it will not be possible; 3 ————————_—— i “_ -eeasrnver 3 ? for congress to devise any additional | ° legislation to give the president any} 3 greater powers to deal with the sit-| ° uation nov | 3 Chairman Gronna said that govern-! 3 > > > * strike of legitimate actors in tory resulted today in the clos of 12 big theaters here. managers refused union recognition and other demands. _ — said to have (My & md SAN FRANCISC O, Aug. 8.—Two men robbed the Morgan jewelry store Market street of $100,000 worth jewels today They forced the American corn and is one hymn which has been) of expurgated from the .—Savannah News. Lobsters are many millions of hard-earned clerks to lie on the floor and escaped 3 dread of thunde song- | mone with display cases just removed from Beside asking for the remedies he the safe. a great and when peals are ivery loud will swim to deeper water, ment agencies were “refusing to do} anything to lower the cost of living” and that congress was not at fault. | ees | JOINT SESSION IS i APPROVED BY HOUSE (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8&.— The } ouse ad ed joint | Session of congress at 4 this ater, Hines Waits for Meni to Get Back on Job': noon to hear President Wilson's rec- i oo | would not consider higher wages for railway men until the striking anor e sult of the decision by President Wil- son that settlement of the wage ques- r. tion would be held in abeyance pend-| men had resumed their jobs, strik- ommendations as to means looking to) Before Settlement; Denver Walks Out scig: thar tatientinseralioad! WOrkers tollesa Wale sechtted to havo <eGinae reduction of the high cost of living. their tasks. to all shops on the Lackawanna an The point that no quorum was pres-| ent had been made by Representative | Blanton of Texas, when the chair re- fused to recognize him for introduc- | tion of the measure, but a roll call| developed a quorum in eshte Haddon 3,000 Strong; Na Change in C: sper the Norfolk and Western railroads. AS CITY UNIONS — TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 8.—Sever thousand miners are KANS DECIDE TO RETURN KANSAS CITY, Aug. 8.—Respond- to appeals from the heads of national organizations, striking shopmen of six federated (By Ansociated Pr WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Reports “to the raiload: administra- | tion late today said that in response to President Wilson’s action of last |). | night, the shopmen were rapidly returning to work. idle hereabout as a result ofthe railroad shopmen'ig, strike out the ‘ JLUTH, Aug. 8.—Freight iow BE $12 BARREL | WASHINGTON, je 8.—Director General Hines today awaited) cal labor leaders said the men would) "ult of the shopmen’s strike ae northwest, resume work at once, word from the unions that all striking shopmen had returned to work TO THE PUBLIC before undertaking to carry out President Wilson’s instructions to set- FREIGHT EMBARGO 1S tle the wage controversy on its merits. The telegraph system of the LOWERED IN EAST railroad administration was put at the disposal of union officers and) “®&W YORK, Aug. 8.—An embar- all freight on the New York, peremptory orders that the men should go back to the jobs went out New Haven & ilartford aml the Con, to 500 local chairmen. No change was noted in the aan situation in Casper today altho peel dictions were held out that the chinists and boilermakers would £ turn to their work at the Chicago yy (BY United Press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Wheat Director Barnes announced today go on Hat hed eee sand shopmen employed by the Den-| tral New England railroad was an-| Northwestern as a result of in: n would sell flour wi __ As the shopmen’s reasons for want-| ver & Rio Grande, Colorado & South-| nounced today because of the strike Teauests from the internatio ippi to wholesalers at |ing @ 25 per cent wage increase has} ern, Denver & Salt Lake and Union’ of shopmen. Selene: $10 a barrel, limiting the profits | been considered thoroly by the board} Pacific railroads are idle today in ne, so the public could obtain it for |°! railroad wages and working con-} accordance with the strike vote an- FORTY PASSENGER SPAIN FAV $12 to $12.25 a b ditions, which was divided three to] nounced Wednesday, effective at 10 TRAINS CANCELLED cet ars ucabibs three, it was believed possible that] o'clock this morning. CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—Forty addi- Girls in New Guinea have little c evidence in that case would be put immediately before the director gen- eral for decision. tional passenger trains were cancell- ed today by Chicago railroads as a result of the shopmen’s strike. chance to run away. Their parents | force them to sleep in a little house| on the topmost branches of a tall tree; then the ladder is removed, an the slumber of the parents is not dis- SPRINGFIELD MEN ARE ORDERED BACK TO WORK SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 8 — | Striking members of the fede ion WASHINGTO of carmen’s unions were ordered back, sponse to to work today. The order was the re- nouncement PEACE LEAGUE Aug. 8.—In re- MADRID, Aug. 8.—The racine President Wilson’s an-| here approved a proposal today th that the government! Spain join the League of Nations. STRIKE VOTE CARRIED OUT IN DENVER TODAY DENVER, Aug. 8.—Three thou-