Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1920, Page 6

at ms REO FRIENDS IN SIBERIA TEAR UP MILES OF TAK American Colonel Believes It Will Take Two Years to Replace Rail System Damaged by Bolshevik Sympathizers SHANGHAI, cording to Colonel J) i. ‘American Railway Mission who eame to Shanghai early in the win ter on his way home to Amer! particular section of the rallway, said, Japanese. - “What will happen in Siberia this winter,” said Colonel Lantry, “is ter- rible. to contemplate: thousands of people there are gol die of privation they have nothing more. “In spite of ail that Red Cross is doing there, and a tremendous work,” he added, it “un counted numbers will perish from cold There is no warm cloth- and hunger. ing, no footwear and very, very little Colonel Lantry, next to Colonel Em- as been in charge of the actual gz work attempted by the Amer- experts. He has ended his Formerly he was first erson, opearti jean ra ‘k in Russia. wi ssistant to the vice president of the Northern Pac’ Colonel m: said the Americans, improvement of the to the many diffi- vir le Tittle Siber! lines, due culties encountered, “Semenoff, the Cossack ieader under, Admiral Koichak, who guarded part of the railw in the Chita district,” Colonel Lantry said, “has been one of the many obstacles." (General Semen- ince been appointed Comman- Shief of the All-Russian armies.) “When I was on my way ta Shang hai,” Colonel Lantry added, “I passed thru Andrianovaka, 200 miles west of the Manchurian border and I learned that just a few days before General Semenoff had ordered the execution of 240 persons in that little town in a single day.” Colonel Lantry expressed the great- est admiration for the Russian railway © heen entirely loyal,” he a working for three or four months Without pay, riding on tops of trains in bitter weather with never a ‘caboose for shelter, poorly clad and taking trains daily thru regions marked by frequent wrecks and derailments caused by a hostile peasantry. Thru it aN the Russian raiiroader has done his work. “With the right kind of co- operation,” Colonel Lantry declared, “the American Railway corps, working with these men could have rehabilitated the railway and made it a marvel of efficiency. Colonel Lantry said he had found the shelves of the stores in the larger cen- ters he had visited recently loaded down witiv: Japanese goods. “I would not have been able to buy a single uriused article manufactured by any other nation,” he said. Np ee | Inthe Day’s News | ee NN Dr. Charles G. Abbott, who is of the opinion that it wireless messages are being. received on the earth from some other planet it is not Mars sending the signals, but more probably Venus, 25,- 900,000 miles a has been director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob- servatory 5 1907, when he succeed- ed its founder, Dr. Samuel P, Lang- ley. Dr. Abbot has been connected with the observatory tor twenty-five years, and is done much to advance our knowledge of the sun, especially ou the subject of the amount and vari- ability of the solar radiation on which all animal and plant life on the earth depends. For his researches along these lines he was presented with the Rumford medals by the American omy of Arts and Sciences in 1916, 1 native of New Hampshire and received his education at the Massa- chusotts Institute of Technology. PARIS (By Mail).—The Fr ernment is determined to serve of airplane pilots. schools have bh pre’ are to be sent € of student-fi Ue M UU UU OVC 33 + Yul oa ‘h gov. na re nt BATTERY CO. Phone 907 L. R: Earnshaw, Prop. 575 E. Yellowstone Avenue. ed and rented. for all cars. a trial. We guar. Water (By Matl,)—Bolshevist sympathizers in Siberia have po torn up rails and ties along the Amur line of the» Trans-Siberian “railway that it will take two years to repair it, ac- Lantry of the to Siberia That he had heen under the care of the Thousands and & to They have worn their anly suits of clothing all summer and the American is eral flying “l to which ar a large number Storage batter- ies charged, repait~ “Complete stock of Vesta Batteries Call and give us antee satisfaction. Free Testing and Distilled | ENGLISH EXPLORER WILL, AT- TEMPT FLIGHT TO NORTH POLE.— Dr. John L. Cope, well known. English explorer, who will head a polar expedi- tion, leaving. England in June. Dr, Cope, who was’a member of Sir Ernest an airplane along and an attempt will be made to fly from the ‘expedition’s base in the Arctic to the North Pole, MEXICO WILL NOT ISSUE | | lists und learning the names and tunes Shackleton’s last expedition, will take | \FORMER SALOON MEN OF CHICAGO TURN TO MUSIG | bimseit ‘and ‘shouts ont “to. “Everybody have 5 house." eS ‘MAY ANE AR ROE T “SMEG | CHICAGO, Il. United rey “Tom ‘and Jerry Fox Trot,” the “Sloe I 5 | Gin Shuffle’ and “Brandy Blues,” are (By Associated | tunes’ that you may soon be spinning} TONDON: (By Matt out on your talking ‘machine, ment agents have p Whisky bottles, long since emptied, | are being converted into xylophones. Celldrettes, now untenanted, will be shipped back to the factory, to reap: pear ds phonoyraph cabinets. Bartenders are forgetting their wine | Uy - | } | { of syncopated melddies. All these are porjsibilities because | since July 1, almost «‘ platoon of for- mer liquor men here hive entered the phonograph business, either as jobbers or manufacturers. With booze under the ban, these former contvibutors to | internal ravenue are to seek new for- nes in dispensing close harcony in canned music instead of © the | harmony that accompanied the bottled variety of goods. And instead of vev- jenue men, they hive only the luxury | tax collector to face, Many of the former liquor deniers | have followed the lead of two milion | aire Chicago distillers, now mannfac- | turing phonographs. More than a dozen phonograph concerns started recently | are reported to be owned by former liquor men. This Jump from booze to music is not confined to Chicago, ; among other cities reporting similar activity being Cleveland, where a brew- | PAPER MONEY IN SPITE | OESCARGITY OF SILVER: EL PASO, Tex. 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