Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 17, 1919, Page 1

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OPERATION MAY |of The Daily ‘Tibune sold and} wats iersnathed dey, . TORESTORE PRESIDENT WILSON | TO HEALTH, CONSULTATION HELD | BE NECESSARY | Prostatic Condition Retards Recovery, Physicians Say, but Good Night is Reported; Wilson Feeling Well WASHINGTON, Oct. ‘1 We "President Wiloon was feeling! well today, his said the has been suff ment. of. the past. two-weeks. Doctor Gra Young of Johns Hopkins cialists of’ the country on prostatic , troubles, ‘and he expected him to ars} riye at the White House some time} today, During the morning the pres- ident was treated by Doctor Fowler of Washington, a specialist, who was | called in when the president first suf-; fered this complication severat days) ugo. Doctor Young will make a thoro examination of the swelling in, the aon, to i be npcosar. an “ep! <Mthe following Hetin. mgs inet ‘President Wilson: passed a_¢om:- fortable night and is ing well the sai morning. “Tem: pulte and respiration rates are normal, His prostatic condition is not as satisfac- tory as yesterday and is checking the general improvement of the past tee weeks.’’ The funeral of Conductor F. W.: Fritz was held at 5 o’clock this af-/ térnoon from the Bowman chapel, | Rev. Walter Li French officiating. ' The arrangements were in charge of | gtie Order of Raitway Conductors of | which Mr. Fritz was a member. Mrs. | Fritz arrived yesterday from Cul-; bertson, Nebr., and will accompany the body ‘to that place where inter- ment will be made. prostatic condition from which he obese of for several days was. checking the general improve- announced that he had called in Doctor Hugh | hospital, Baltimore, one of the foremost spe- 1,500 AMERICAN ‘SOLDIERS LEAVE SIBERIA OCT. & turning’ to the PRISONERS IN MOUNT JOY"TO BE LIBERATED | (Ry Ansocinted Press.) DUBLIN, Oct, 17.—The lord may- or today informed all Irish ‘political prisoners at Mount..Joy. prison that i they would be liberated immediately. This is the outcome of the hunger | strike. TWO PLANES CRASH AT CHEYENNE Winter Campaign all That.Can Save Col- lapse of Bolshevism with Half Million in Armies Closing in from All Sides; Allies Skeptical Over New Government THE DAILY TRIBUNE: Member of thé Associated Press, and served by the United Press. (Ry United LONDON, Oct. 17.—Petrograd hae fallen to the forces of Gen- eral Ykdenitch, commander of the Russian northwestern army, it was reported from Helsingfors today. There is no official confirmation. It is reported that Kronstadt, the great Bolshevik nayal base, capitulated to the British fleet after an intense bombardment all day yesterday. NomneR 5 Sgn sae. a- ww | | 1 fe % ONE GETS LOST, ‘LANDS IN CASPER Spend Night in Cas. per and Jump Off Again at 11:25 Lieutenant J. E. Machle and Ob-; server J. D. McClure, west-bound fliers im the transcontinental air) derby, got under. way from Cas-; ae at 11: BLE Teed morning here on les-, a io Pyseo bearings sale Cheyenne : and the first control station to the west at 4:31 last evening. to Rawlins, the next control station, wis made today via. the Pathfinder dam. A defective’ compass is’ held! regponsible' for the defection, from | thet western jcourse, Casper being some 126 miles off the air line which the aviators.follow west of Cheyenne. The plane first made its~ appear: over Casper shortly after 6 *'Thurs@ay evening when it ‘over the city. and headed north; ) Salt ing at a rate! : miles an Fifteen min- utes later it returned and after skim- the summit of Casper mountain’ fora distance of several miles, skirt- The ttip| JANITOR WHO KILLED GIRL -HANGS TODAY. (By. United Prenn.) CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Thomas Fitzgerald, janitor who seized six- year-old Janet Wilkinson, cho! her ittsensible and then buried” her alive under a coal pile on July 22, was hanged at the county jail here this morning. ‘Those Not Reaching row Night to Be Ruled Out; Maynard Passee¢ Chicago i ed the foothills south of the city and! fioglly came to rest onvan open tract the CY Yanch west of the city. Hel unfamiliar witb the grquud the, viators were somata to fly low i king @ landing spot. Bes 17 left New York Getabet day was ob its way ‘to ba it went off its coutse. the etop | in er is the 15th end only pont, sheduled stop to be made on: the trip. The highest, altitude the plane (Continued on Page” ox Associated Preas,) MINEOLA, N ¥, 0 Oct. 17 All aan lwrecks that once were airplanes lying near the southwestern AVIATCRS MUST FININSH: LAP SATURDAY "| Aviators Pin Faith to. Smoke Streamers | in Gauging Wind and Have Narrow Es- i f & | cape in Crashing to the Ground | (Special to the Tribune) \; | CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 17—Two aviators in the trans- |continental race Thursday afternoon chose to put faith in the ' streamers of smoke from tall stacks in Cheyenne rather than in ,the wind-marker on O’Neil field and“mute but eloquent evi- ‘dence of: their poor judgment. is provided by two shattered corner of the field, One wreck, is ‘that of No. 22, which was_ piloted | by Captain Felix Steinle, witha Ser: geant H. M. Meyhres as ol and the other that of No. 30, which was piloted by Lieutenant Charles L, Osbourne, with Private C. A. Maur-, er as observer. ‘No. 22, the: first machine to reach O'Neil fiéld on Thursday, crashed at 12:35 p. m., jand No. 30 three hours later, at 3:80 within 100 yards of the wreck of No, ;22. That any of the four men jal board the two machines escaped death appeared Miraculous to on- lookers, yet none of the four. sustain- |ed+more than superficiht injuries. FIRST Either Coast. Tomor- in Flight Today \to proceed westward today in Plane! No. 19, relinquished to Steinle by.! machines must reach San Fran-|ajor J. Wy Simpions, Jr., whp:n \ciseo or Mineola th trip of the air derby before sunset tee! cette ain on bis drtivel here, found \morrow or they will he out rege the race, the air service announced to- th a opart rt rates asbae Oe |day. ‘ bowrne ig and ll i 4 [By Untted Preae} ed. m ie: flew. from! \ CHICAGO, Oct. Vole |morning, arriving at ‘M4 a. m, at t i wat be EN png 6) New York to Maynard resumed the race: this{ vaged by the sir service squad, Thet! from Wahoo, where he was, °"Y wrecksife Teniained’ to be ey (Continued on on ager 2) Lh NO TIME TO PARLEY | Steinle and his mechanician expect; The collapse and downfall of Bolshevism unless saved by winter AMERICAN INDUSTRY “All right,-If it has to come, let’ 8 have it it ‘out rahe now!” SENATE.CALLS ON PALMER: TO .STATE POLICY (Ry United Pre WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The senate adopted the Poindexter res- olution today calling on the at- torney general for a statement of his volicy toward radical agitatars and why he was not deporting them, SP ha The Burlington reports a heavy stock business. for the balance of the week, 300 stock cers being slat- ed to leave here between Thursday and Saturday. sive tacti¢s owing to the { weather is considered imminent here with reports from every Russian bat- tlefront telling of anti-Bolshevik vic- tories. Along vast fronts armies of half a million men are battling des- perately to overthrow the Bolshe forces. A stupendous circle of {mies is enclosing all western Russia ; and gradaully closing in on Moscow. General Denikin is pushing a wedge into southwestern Ru toward Moscow. One thousand miles away Admiral Kolchak’s ered from recent Bolshevik blows a renewed their advance. In the Murman and Arehangel re- gions the anti-Bolshevik fore are advancing along the Vologda railway southward. ther south the linnish army is astride Lake Ladoga, 40 miles north of Petrograd. The Cossacks are in the Ural moun- tains. Asa result of Siberian armies have recoy- ad this formidable alignment the Bolshevist menace ap- parently is nearer collapse than at any time since its ascendan What will be the new puw- er? That.is the: question allied idiplo: mats are “wrestling with now. Stockholm reports said the Bolshe- viki were concentrating the bulk of their troops for a decisive struggle with General Denil cossack forces in the south. Denikine’s pene- tration west -of Voronezh and the fall of Kursk are regarded as threat- ening seriously the central soviet govy- ernment at Moscow. An official’ dispatch from Omsk’ dated, October 14. said the whole north Siberian army. rested on the Tobo) river and two other.armies were aye five miles a day along the es ver, STATE DEPARTMENT INFORMED OF CAPTURE WASHINGTON, Oct 17. — Re- ports of the capture of Petrograd and: Kronstadt by northwestern Ri sian forcés under General’ Ykdenite Were reveived at the state depart- méit today from an American con- sular officer in Sweden ‘on the Fin- nish border,. ‘Confirmation of the reports had not ‘been received when the: dispatch was sent out but it Said: they were generally credited in Sweden, a. DENIKINE TO EFFECT JUNCTION WITH POLES LONDON, Oct, 17.—-The latest au- thoritative news’ regarding the mili- | tary situation in ‘southern Russia is , that’ the: army of General Den me on the extreme left of the line has taken Chetnigoff and is advancing north along the east bank Dnieper, river toward Gome right of the Polish army, it stated last: week, rests on the Dn per at Gomel, 70 miles from Cherni- soft, #0 that a junction of the two} armies would be effective should De- nikine reach’ Gomel.) On. the right: flank, or co) the forees of | Denikine crossed the Don on a 200- mile front, Everywhere the army is driving back the Bolsheviki In east Russia, Bolshe are compeied to adopt pure! mand ypon the Belsheviki effe elsewhere. CAPITAL CROUP PRESENTS VIEW ON: BARGAINING Conciliation Seen by Railroader When Resolution is Submitted; Right Con- ceded When Men are Represented Associn' WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 With the in introduction of a resohition, by the capital group giving its views as to the ri gaining, 4 spirit of conciliation was dustrial conference. _L. E. be was “Just getting dowii to bus-! the text of the resolution e are Shigeo sal low “Resolved, That, without, in anyway | unions, in s] | other lawful forms of association, "| limiting’ tHe fight of the wage earn- er to refrain ftom joining any agso-! ‘ciation or deal directly with his em-, fol-| gdibed of collective bar- manifest today in the national in-, Sheppard, \ brotherhood, said he saw in the macktion 4 of the ‘allay conductors’ roperation of capital and labor in the n.d sincere effort at closer co- g aud declared the gather. ployer ag he, chodses, the right of wage bp we. in private, ag distin. trom government employ- ment, to FEe in trade, atid laboy industrial céuncils or (Continued on Page Six.) SENDING OF U.S. TROOPS ABROAD NEW SUBJECT OF TREATY DEBATE Silesian Program Is Flayed, Defended; Lihtuania Will Re- ceive Aid’ Next (By Amsociated Prexs.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The despatch of additiopal American troops to Europe for the’tltimate purpose of policing Silesia during the vlebiscite as proposed in the peace treaty formed the text of an- other chapter in the senate debate on the treaty today. Authority of wh) war department to take such ges, Republican of Connacti¢ the scarcity of information ava to the senate on such subjects was deplored by (Se or - Wadsworth, chairman of the military committee. The “department’s action was de- fended by Senator Nelson, Republi can of Minnesota, and others. ted Press.) * WASH Oct. 17.—The sending of a brigade of American troops to Lithuania has been deter- mined ‘upon; Senator M: rmick told the senate today. He said ‘he had the information “on reliable guthori- ty” but gave no details, CHANDLER IN THREE MILES OF OIL CAMP The body of George Chandler, As- sociated Oil company field superinten- dent. who verished in a Red Desert blizzard October 3, was found this afternoon three miles from the As- sociated oil camp, his objective aft- er abanddning his car, according to information received by telephone this afternoon from W. L. McLaine at Rawlins. Chandler evidently perish- ed from the cold after having made 12 miles on foot thru the storm. Mrs. Chandler. who is too ill to stand the shock, had not been told of the find late this afternoon. The body will be taken to Wam- ; sutter, the nearest station in that region, and will be held there pend- fing an inquest. -Later it will be ta- ken to Rawlins and thence to Chi- cago. gees ARMY AT GARY IS REDUCED TO 800 REGULARS (My Unite Prem.) GARY, -Regul: mmhy forces bere been reduced to 800 men, i the rested and ques re later released. AUSTRIANS VOTE ACCEPTANCE OF PEACE TREATY 15 Several night, tioned. eed Pr oms.t 17.—The Austrian national assembly, today ratified the peace. treaty of St. Germain. The ratification was voted without de bate. The German party alone op- posed favorable action, that party be- ing a unit in its | opposition. MORGANTHAU IS PASSENGER ON ADRIATIC HERE By Axsuciated Press.) NEW. YORK, Oct. 17.—Among the passengers arriving today on the Adriutic was Heury Morganthau, for- mer ambassador to Turkey, who was chairman of the committee appoint ed by President Wilson which ha been investigating reports of pog roms in Poland. SS ___~_____—— aan rise = SSS aS Bi EE SSE STE ES

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