Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1920, Page 1

Colors of epublic Again Flying Over? Berlin; Collapse of Kapp Complete BY CARL D. GROAT (United Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, March 18.—The Von Kapp dictatorship ended last night. Following the resig- oe of re pre Luettwitz, ugene. 1- lor under feat Ebert, toolc| ’ over the. government at 6 o'clock, Si- multaneously the red, white and black flag was, hoisted over. the government buildings, as a-symbol.of the defeat of the monarchist movement. The central committee gf railway workers also called oft the strike. The Nbert government, on being re- stored to power, ordered the arrest of Kapp and other rebel leaders. Kapp’s parting announcement ‘was that he retired in order to avoid the establishment of a soviet, republic.. He claimed the Ebert government had promised to fulfill the rebels’ essential demands. Officials. are anxious over the soviet movement... It -is reported that: Bolshe- vist groups control Wilhelmshaven. _ Military reinforcements have arrived in’ Berlin to fnaintain order. Troops forced the striking electrical plant work- ers to resume their jobs and insure Rer- lin electricity, PROSECUTION OF KAPP DEMANDED BY EBERT WEATHER FORECAST . Fair tonight, colder in east and | central portions; Friday fair-with rising temperature. NO WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST Reports: are. current that Claude &, , corte T.. Gavin, former manager of the store room of the Continental Supply Com- pany here and who left Casper some ‘time ago, is tesponsible for a large discrepancy iW his accounts, but con- | firmation is lacking. Lewis C. Klein, | new store manager, states that only | Lee Brown, auditor, for the company, knows whether there will be a dis: , erepancy and*his report on Mr. Ga- vin's aceounts will not be issued for several days, if at all. Mr, Klein intimated ;that there coffect the, furniture sold Sie Gavines here on payment. The furniture was | taken back to Denver because pay- ments had ceased, Mr. Lewis, who is from Oklahoma, will take Mr. Gavin's Healthc tral doenie COLLISION AT BOULDER, COLO. -BOULDER,. “March 18—Chief of Police Bass and Joe Saier, son of City Manager Saier, were killed when their automobile collided with a fire truck in a cloudburst. RESTRICTED REDLIGHT would be a difference of only a few dollars, if any discrepancy was found because Mr, Gavin had access to only’ a small amount of money for local expenses. No warrant for Mr..Gavin’s arrest has been issued from either the city or county attorney’s office and un- til it is ind whether or not there ‘wrong with the accounts ‘Mr. Gavin; it is doubt- ful if amy warrant will be issued. The company probably would suffer the loss if there is any, the company being responsible to the Continental Supply Company, it was stated at the supply company’s of- fice. Mr. “Gayin left Casper several, ‘weeks ago and'since that time there “have been many ugly rumors “about town” concerning him. Agents for a Denver furnishing CHEYENNE, Wyo., establishment of the ‘segregated dis- trict \.which .was suppressed “several years. ago, was advocated , before the Rotary club here Wednesday by Dr. F. I. Furry, workers of the city. INDON, March 18—President Ebert arrived in Berlin last ‘night, acco: F to @ telephone message received today by the. Amsterdam correspondent of the Exchange fire ii vate EIR sown Pa i 6p 18. ale! advices from Berlin today said that public places in the city were filled with crowds in an ne. sly bee night. The military be Of a panicky disposition. Ma Baltic troops had joined forces with “the Inde; lent Socialists, who were reported to have 12,000 armed men at thelr command, Foreign office reports today declared that the Von Luettwitz party, under cover of the Spartacan moyement, was endeayoring to form a coalition minis- try, ineluding “the “Independent Social- ists. According to this plan, Lieut.- Gen, Berthold von Déimling, who was one of. the active commanders on the Verdon front, was ated & be chan- cellor. . The Boetaren movement te reported -the ‘suburbs of Ber- official confirmation of the report that General Von Luettwitz lett Berlin at the: same time that ex-Chan- cellor Kapp quit the city. The direction of affairs»the delegation’s advices stat- ed, was not in the hands of Dr. Schif- fer, vice-premiér under the Bauer gov- ernment, this showing that the regular sovernment ee tae to func: Uon in Berlin, » RECOR BEFO! ERMAN X ‘s . yo) Pisttrve hun- ete of the Ger-|® tiohal assembly met in Art afternoon. Military joa great spe D Dinos while the Sees: were ocunnie LONDON RUMOR nee » KAPP IS SUICIDE © (By “Associated Press.) LONDON, March 18.—Rumors are current in Berlin that Dr. Kapp has committed suicide, according to a dis- Patch to the Bxthange Telegraph com- pany today trom Amsterdam, company at the city: attor- ney's office it a week ago to , Order by Federal INSTANT ACTION \yymple, dry commissioner for six ce (By Unitoa Press.) PARIS, March 18.—American troops along the Rhine are in fine condi- tion, ready for any emergency, their commander, Major General Allen, de- clared in a Coblenz interview today. Raumcenat Yodo J as FINNS FORCED TO RETIRE BY RUSSIAN REDS HELSNGFORS, reh 18.—Fin- nish troops were forced to evacuate their positions at Soutiaervi, north of | Lake Ladoga and retire to the north- west in the direction of Porajaervi, Kramer, | for Washington. or seizures without the approval of the district attorney, that they should ob- tain warrants from a United States com. missioner before making raids, that they should be’ accgmpanied by a Unt- ted States marshal on all raids and that confiscated liquor should be placed in the custody of the marshal and not held in Daltymple's office or ware- house. The order is said to be the resuli of Dalrymple’s clash with the authorities of Iron River, Michigan, recently. LATE FLASHES CASPER, wyo., ‘THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920 ADVOGATED IN CHEYENNE, March 18.—Re-| one of the leading church-| T ACTIVITIES TO NG CONTRABAND Dalrymple Fiasco Believed Cause of New, |terment in the city was oné which’ calls -Power in Hands of Prosecutors (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, March 18—Prohibition agents, under C. J. GAVIN' BELIEVED) DEFAULTER DEMAND FOR Ex- KAISER’S EXILE IS EXPECTED FROM THE ALLIE % (By United Press) LONDON, March 18.—Despite the ex-kaiser’s reported assurance to Hol- land that he will refrain from political activities, it is believed the allies will demand that Holland exile him to the Indies islands as a result of the Kapp revolution, The Ebert government may now acquiesce in his exile. PROSECUTOR IS (By Associated Press.) DENVER, March 18.—Fifteen in- dictments for underworld activities were returned by the grand Jury to- day and William E. Foley, district attorney, was absolved of all con: nection with vice conditions in this city. The jury spent four weeks probing Foley and alleged rampant vice sonditions, Supervisor: Placing Msisr: Dal- ntral states, are relieved of all pow- _EXONORATED BY | DENVER PROBE| | Senate Clears Way Offers Amendm It rejected, by a vote of 27 questions affect its national honor Following this defeat Reed offered an- other providing that the assumés no obligation for the use its military or naval forces under an article of the treaty for any ‘to 62. MORE HOSPITAL FACILITIES IN CASPER URGED Among the suggestions coming in at the Chamber of Commerce headquarters in regard to conditions which need bet- ‘attention Yo a lack of hospital facilites here. i The work on the addition being made to the State hospital has been held up | thru difficulty in getting plumbing sup- plies. One doctor has seven patients who. need hospital treatment which can- not-be given because the hospital as it is now is overcrowded ahd another doc- tor has five patients who are waiting to er except to locate contraband liquor, by an order issued by John F.|zet into the hospital, it is reportea, national prohibition supervisor, shortly hefore his departure} two southern league stars, Lou |Christenbury and Dixie Carroll, are go- fing at a fast clip with the. Boston) ‘Braves. 4 Kramer directed that prohibition sleuths should make :no searches * according to the official statement of the Fininsh general Pine Feasy which reports severe fig! Ss Ww the Bolsheviki yesterday. — MAJORITY OF DELEGATES ARE UNINSTRUCTED (By Associated Press ) ST. PAUL, March 18—Complete s from Republicun conventions ini 86 counties yesterday show that 52 decided not to formally indorse a candidate for president, that 27 in- structed for General Wood, five for Governor Lowden and two for,Sen- (By United Press.) PARIS, Mar, 18.—Minister of De- fense Noske has sufficient loyal troops with which to restore order in Ger- many within six or. eight days, he said in a Stuttgart interview today. (By United Press.) STUTTGARY/ March 18.—President Ebert issued a proclamation today thanking the workmen for their sup- |port in defeating the reyolution. He | urged the workers to resume thelr jobs. 3 ‘Ebert said the government would not permit the army to mix in the péople'’s affairs and that the rebel leaders were to be punished. LONDON, March 18.—Over 100 hun- dred persons were killed in disorders at Dorthmund, Germany. "DUCHESS OLGA LIVES IN BOXCAR SISTER OF CZAR ‘CLAD IS RAGS’ (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 18—Grand D: czar of Russia, was found by Am Cross workers, living in a box-car at Norvorossisk, south Russia, the Cross announced today. She is one of three strviving members of the House of Romanoff. She was found “toiling among fellow refugees from territory recent- iy coiquered by the Bolsheviki, giving such assistance as she could, al- Olga, sister of the late 200 AMERICANS AT LEIPSIC IN DANGER | General Allen Sends Special Train for Relief of Commercial AgentsCaught | ‘in Center of German Revolution fair at manding (By Associated Press.) COBLENZ,; March /18,—Firing is al-/ most continuous in, ‘various parts of} Leipsic and all light and water serv- ices has been cut off according to Americans whoare. principally buyers from -yarious parts of “the United States. (By Associated ys THE HAGUB, March 18—Sharp Ph LOA le AR “Applications for poisoned grain to be used in destroying (prairie dogs and ground squirrels are not coming into my office as rapidly as I would like,”’ says County Agent G. M. Penley. “It is ur- gent that these applications be sent in at once as I must know what lands and what ‘acreage is to be covered in this jcounty this spring. The matter is im- portant ay these pests. destroy. great tho she herself was clad in rags and ogratefal fqy any food or clothing she could find.” AgNO AE aPC AM BREN sae pCaSET WLAN ec ORM: qhantities of grass and’ valuable feed annually.” fighting bgtween government itroops| oe ° ¢ EPT B a. ay ¢ ND Associated Press.) | (By Associated Press.) COBLENZ, March 18.—Two hundred Americans, attending a sic today te telegraphed and telephoned Major Allen, con of occupation, urgently asking help to leave Leipsic Mane a describe conditions as dangerous to their lives. Allen is po a special train to bring them away. Jana Communists. eccurred in Biberfeld, | Rhenish Prussia, according to a Dute press bureau. The defeated and thousands of them fled into the occupied region, where they were disarmed by entente troops. GIRL CRUSHED B (By DENVER, March 18.—Katheri death beneath the brick wall of an a the street by a high win A wind of 40 miles and has been bigher Bs The wind wax caused by a It moved over Colorado from Wires Ut NUMBER 134 United States | ot INJ purpose, | | This Was-aiso~rejected h¥ a yote* ott Communists were | “deep storm center” Turning Governm MONARCHIST PERIL 1S PUSHED ASIDE BY MENACE OF RADICALS 'Proletarian Dictatorships Set Up Thruout ountry; Rebel Leaders Flee City in ent Back to Ebert $ Regime, Now Directing Affairs Again (By Associated Press.) Germany has cast off the gov ernment regime suddenly set up by reactionary elements last Saturday but advices indicate that she is facing another extreme peril in the form of a wave of radicalism. Re- |ports today say that Dr. von Kapp, reactionary chancellor, and his! adherents have either fled from the city or contemplate going at once. Armed forces of the reactionary element are leaving Berlin to- TWO KILLED IN REED RESERVATIONS TO TREATY DEFEATED for Final Vote This} Week by Taking Up Proposals; Reed ent Second Time WASHINGTON, March 18 = Diaplayiag & disposition to get a final vote on the treaty without much more delay, the senate today began | voting on the remaining reservations. to 48, Senator Reed’s reservation, providing that the United States keep to itself the right to decide what and interest. URIES FROM FALLING STEEL FATAL TO MAN CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 18.— Frank E. Barnett of this city, who was injured by a falling steel girder at Laramie several days ago, suc- | cumbed.to his injuries, and the shock | of amputation of his left leg, at » Laramie hospital. The remains were brot to Cheyenne and the funeral will be held here under the auspices | of the Masonic Consistory. — | } | i LABOR POLITICS GIVEN APPROVAL | cE March i8,—The | Gheyenne Trades. Union assembly has | | endorsed the information of a political | committee by the American Federmtion | lof Labor, and has appointed a. loc committee to cooperate with the na tional committee. COLBY~PLACED | ON GRILL IN | | SENATE PROBE| | (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, March 18.—Bain- bridge Colby today testified In his own behalf before the senate foreign relations committee, which is con- sidering objections to his confirma- tion as secretary of state. Senator Hitchcock afterward said that Colby - “scored a knockout” against his opponents. —»— Hilon Hasel, a worker in. the Salt | Creek field, has returned from this field and was in Casper yesterday. Y FALLING WALL ing Christensen, 13, was crushed to partment house whieh was blown into Her father saw her killed. led up to 6 o'clock this morning north, west and south are ort over western Kansas. ah last night. hei | from day and the presence of Gustav Noske, minister of defense in the prt cab- inet, would seem to indicate that the constitutional government intends to asfume control immediately. General |von Seecht, ert's chief of staff, been named commander of all govern merit forces. Thruout Germany the radical ele- ments have in many places taken ov the direction of affairs at least tem y. Proletarian dictatorships haye up in Dortmund, Unna and Galser cording to reports, while in Leipsic the workers have driven the government troops from the suburbs ‘of the where they were engaged Iate yester- day In street fighting. In thé Rhenish and Westphalia industrial districts, -it is said the workers are ready-to fol- low radical leaders. PROLETARIAT DEMANDS POWER FOR ITSELF (By United Press.) LONDON, March 18.—A Berlin dis- patch today quotes Deputies Daumgi and Cohn, heads of the combination of radical parties, ay declaring that the German proletariat will not re organize the workingmen's forces for Bbert’s profit. The proletariat de- mands power for itself, they asserted. Another dispatch said that Indepen- dent Socialists, Cormunists and other radical elements held a conference and elected a cabinet, naming Daumig as chancellor, with other radicals in the remaining portfolios. The complete collapse of the Kapp- | Luettwitz regime is confirmed. Gener- al von Quelsen has taken over the com- mand of Berlin troops in Ebert's name. A soviet republic was proclaimed at Risleben, says a report. Dispatches contMue to report extensive radical uprisings in the Bavaria, Saxony, Ruhr, Chemnitz, Frankfort and Kiel districts. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 18.—An ar- tillery battery at Wetter, Westphalia, was wiped out: by Spartacans who kill- ed all the officers of the battery “and nearly all the men, (By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, March 18.—A Holland news bureau gave out a dispatch from Berlin today stating that the gene.al committee of the labor unions had de- manded the following of the Ebert gov- ernment: Resignation of Gustar Noske, minister of Defense; no amnesty for of- fenders in the recent conspiracy and the punishment of all persons guilty of high treason; withdrawal of all troops Berlin; right of labor to take part in forming the government. BOYCOTT 10 BE USED AGAINST SOARING PRICE Cheyenne Labor Organization Back of Movement to Cut Costs by Refusal to Pur- chase Articles CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 13.—Rep- resentatives of organized labor here haye completed an organization to fight the high cost of living thru boycotting commodities which it is believed are be- ing utilized for profiteering, ‘The move- ment, it is said, will be supported by several thousand residents. ‘The open- ing gun will be a boycott of potatoes, beginning March 23, unless the price of spuds is reduced before that date. Po- tatoes now are quoted here at’ $6.75 per hundredweight or $136 a ton, In No- vember they were selling at $3.76 per | hundredweight. It is asserted that the new organiza- tion has arranged for an authorized fair price commissioner to visit Chey- erine and that a number of affidavits regarding alleged profiteering will be laid before him. if the evidence is considered sufficient, it is stated, prose- cutions under the Lever food control act will be insisted upon. eee cast EE (By Associated Press.) LOS ANGELES, March 18,—Surviv- ors of the submarine H-1, which went ashore off the coast of Lower Cali- fornia, in Magdelena bay on March 13, arrived here today aboard the motor ship Mazatlan. It was reported that the bodies of Lieutenant Commander Webb and Seaman Kauffman and two others who lost their lives had not been recovered. t 2 > 2 2 te BP VERSE 1 eST)9PS PAO RIREA I SOR IRON Ree 1sreno 1 icon ‘= fl 1° SVeeL Pr egret WrTatesa