Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1920, Page 1

PARIS, March 22-—Eight thousand persons have been kill- since the revolt broke out ; sive recced bre OF this sank £50 oe ar nse FORECAST in north and west it snow in northwest por- except extreme west por- CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1920 PARIS, March 22.—The American mission in Berlin has no- tified the Ebert government that the United States cannot furnish any more food to the Germans if a soviet government is estab- | lished, it was said in a Berlin disp: 8 PAGES TODAY| atch today. asper Daily | with the food supply short and sanguinary fighting occurring at in- | Crihune BENSON WASMANWHO WOULD “AS SOON” GO TO WAR WITH BRITISH Rear Admiral Sims Charges U. S. Naval Chief with Having Told Him Not to “Let British Pull Wool Over Eyes” | (By Associated Press.) p wa GTON, March 22.—Rear-Admiral then chief of naval operations, was the official who told Rear-Ad- miral Sims “not to let the British pull the wool over your eyes we would as soon fight them as the Germans,” Admiral Si téstified today before the senate committee investigating the) navy’s, conduct of the war. Sims said the remark was made just after he had received his final in- structions from Secretary Daniels pre-! paratory to his departure for England on the eve of the entry of the United States into the war. ‘The witness told the committee that Benson repeated his admonition during a conversation the following day and GUTTED BY $30,000 BLAZE NUMBER 137 TRIPENY DRUGSTORE =" IND RUINED Early Morning Fire on Sunday Destroys Store and Building Before Menace to Many Structures Is Under Control : 9 Fire which menaced the entire row of old frame business, | buildings on the east side of South Center street gutted and | | | j j ruined the,Tripeny Drug company’s store at 4 o’clock Sunday | morning; the building, stock and total loss. fixtures representing almost a | Estimates of the loss place it at about $30,000, which | avill be increased by the interruption of a paying business at | | =, the start of what is expected to be the} PEOPLE WHO FAIL 10 LEARN NEW best summer seasdn in the history of| the city. A little better than half of, the loss ig said to be covered by insur-| ance. The fire was first noticed by taxi drivers and employes of a cafe directly} across the street from the drug store.) RN BY CI (By United Press.) { ers omega jg en Pema or aye A= RUN Sea coe ot Communist and Government Forces Line| Up for Battle in Industrial District with Sanguinary Fighting Going On in Ber-| lin and Other Cities of Country (By Associated Press.) oui eee gf) Soe the return of the Ebert goyernm ent toi| presents pretty much the aspect of an armed camp| tervals in the suburbs. There is little change in the strike situation. Serious trouble occurred in the Moabit industrial quarter Sun- day night and in one conflict reported Sunday, 20 Spartacans were! killed. ‘Twenty-four others were exe-|tachments have been defeated in sume! cuted. preliminary skirmishes, Leipsic Has quieted down after the| overnment victory there, Among the agricultural populy In the Ruhr industrial region, imme diately adjoining the allied zone of oc- cupation, there is vertitable civil war fon m| fare, with opposing armies of Commu-jsome sections of northern | nist and government troops drawing up/there is increasing unrest. Southern their line for battle, Government ae-|and eastern Germany are reported fair = = |ly quiet. There is threat, nowever, of 1 of the general ause of dissatisfactl some terms of the settlement. IN RUHR AL MENACE ssociated Press.) ARIS, arch -- Sparata number at least 20,000 and some esti |mate them at"40,000. According to t |latest advices received at the offi jhere téday they are well organized, be-| ing composed of old shock troops and| }veterans, supplies with artillery, ma |chine-guns, mine throwers and having jbatteries of 77 centimetre field guns} and plenty of ammunition. “CAN'T PAINT SITUATION (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 22.—The sen- ate passed a bill authorizing the fed- FLOUR RELIEF |f00 BLACK”—OFFICIAL (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, March 22.—Conditions in |Germany were described by the minis-| |ter of defense this morning as oxtreme- ly serious, out Germany too black,” an official at |the ministry) declared to a correspon-| PS dent after a survey of reports that had | jcome in during the night. } ‘The situation in Berlin itself is char-| lacterized as “bad.’ cial grin compere tien outa eaes }_ A company of voluntecra was over-| - te Mul aw —o the’ /Powered by Spartacan forces, {ts offi-| panies a teethis od Iai |bers killed and their bodies mutilated. | | THREE MORE CITIES MEXICANS TURN [OP TUN(BY Assectated Press) OUT TO GREET | BERLIN, March 22.—The ministry of | defense today informed Berlin corres-| pondents: that conditions in the Ruhr district were becoming worse. The VIL WARFARE TEACHING STAFF REELECTIONS IN CASPER SCHOOLS ARE ANNOUNCED Practically All Stand in Favor of Board; Salary Raise to Secure Return of Great Majority Here The following tes s in the Casper public schools have been notified of their election for the coming year and a large number of them have ac cepted ppointment following the ad- justment of the matter of salaries as announced last wee Superintendent jeorge Wilder. High § »0l Prin W. A. Lacey. English—Ruth Dudley English—Robert Davidson. English and Latin—Harriet Schulte. History—Charlotte Bushnell. Mathemat Yeomans, Science Eva MeDaniel. Commerc John McIntyre. Commercial—Ruth Evan Mathematics—George Miller. SUPERVISORS Domestic Science—Harriet Gardner, Manual Training—James Shallenber+ ical Training—Dean Morgan. Physical Training—Josephine MelIn- tyre Art—Sara Cr Art—Katha: Penmanship—Huld. Primary Supervi —Evelyn Lord. Music—Harriet Little. Music—Doris Van Meter. CENTRAL SCHOOL Principal—Minnie Eddieman. Seventh—Effie Kuhns. Seventh—Lydia D: Sixth—Adeline Mc} Booth. Ross. t | By the time the alarm had been turned that he made the same remark six ° Rt months later in London. Admiral Sims in the flames were licking their way NEW CANDIDA TE towns of Oelde, Ahlen and Drenstein- abel Montgomery. \to the front of the store from the rear | furt, in Westphalia, southeast of Muen-| Santer Bests. page kee { Fo arjorie Pierce. } \ster, have been taken by the Commu-} - (By Associated Press.) vist : Y K h—Ei 8, it is stated, and the movement ‘ourth—-Ethel/Dunn. MEXICO. CITY,» Mar, - 22,—-Thou- , | @hira—Cora Cruse. and. the: Jatter- wet blazing furiously; ix spreading north and east. : a oe {| ‘Third—Madge Cran Firemen could take no thot of future ‘salvage in fighting the flames and stock Bhat etenbar ae testes ecatanf he believed Benson was intensely anti- British and added that this belief was entertained generally thruout the serv- | ice, AMERICAN NAVY TO EQUAL BRITAIN’S IN FEW YEARS. |... (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 22.—America's | » Britain in fighting power in 1924, Chair- man Butler of the naval committee told the house today in defending the pro- vision in the naval appropriation bill for continuing work on eighteen capital ships now under construction, “In the next four years the United States will put out the most formidable armada the world has ever seen pro- duced in a similar period,” he declared. FOOD SHIPS TO SERVE AS ARKS FOR DEPORTEES (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Mar. 22.—Relief ships to be sent by the United States with- in the next month, with flour for needy countries of Europe, also are navy will about equal that of Chale: | } going to be “Soviet arks,” according | to immigration officials. Four hundred Russians, Finns and Poles, from all parts of the country, will be shipped in groups. The deportees include many who were arrested in raids on mem- bers of the Communist party in Jan- will ‘As has beeh ABLE TO FIND THE WAY HOME] ‘New House Numbers Ready April | When Changes in Local System Authorized by City Ordinance |} are Placed in Effect; New Maps Out Beginning April 1, it is announced, the city engineer’s office | will be able to issue new house numbers to the residents of the} north and south streets in Casper in conformance with the new street naming and numbering ordinance passed by the city council, and it behooves the people of Casper to "become fa-| au miliar with the new street names find themselves liying in a new and strange city, for the new street names come into general use at that time. Maps showing both the new and old names of the city_streets and the new city limits as well as all suburbs of Casper have been prepared by Wheeler and Worthington and are now on sale. stated under the new system, Third street street and «the baseline from which streets number north and south. Cen- ter street remains the base line for east and west numbering. ‘All cross streets running east and | west south of First street will be knuwn \by numbers and under this plan East Second street remains tho same, while | West Second street extends from Cen- ter to David and also for a block on the Sand Bar. The present West Sec- ond street from David will be known becomes First! uary. a Mrs. J. L. Dessert is entortaining as her guests her mother, Mrs. Cather ine Jones and her, \ster, Miss, Rita) street Jones, of Jackson, Nebr. Mrs. Jones and| street whi¢ ther daughter are enroute home from)street will be southern California, wh«pe they spent/stone avenue. the winter. ‘ its name. SUFFRAGISTS OF DELAWARE FEAR DEFEAT, REPORT Washington Will Ratify Amendment and Special Sessions Will Be Called in Ver- mont and Connecticut, Claim * (By United Press.) : WASHINGTON, March 22.—Chances for ratification of federal woman. suffrage in Delaware ate described as “very bad” at suffrage headquarters here. ‘ In-Washington state, htwever, ratification probably. wild be accom- plished today. Delaware and Washington would make the 36 states needed and would mean fina’ ratification. iy z H If Delaware does not ratify the amendment, special legislative sessions will be asked in Vermont and Connecticut. ‘The date for taking up'the ratification question in Delaware will be fixed at a joint legislative caucus In Dover tonight. ‘Both the Washington and Delaware Ic yislatures met today, '. as West Yellowstone avenue. “The present First Street will be known as Midwest avenue from Durbin | west. That section of the h lies northeast of Second known as East Yellow: Railroad avenue retains before that time, or they may | Bucknum will be. known as, Third, | Cunningham as, Fourth, Linden as! Fifth, Delaware as Sixth, Sussex as Sev- enth, Park as Eighth) Milton as Ninth, | Hugo as Tenth, Dundon as Hleventh, } | Dover as Twelfth, Carey as Thirteenth, | | Matheny as Fourteenth. | North of the new First street, the) treets will be known by. the letters, , B, C, ete,, omitting I, Allowance is made for D and 1 streets which would lie in the Burlington property. M street | is the last street this side of the river.) On the north and south streets, Wol-| cott and Durbin streets are extended | north of the tracks. Maple street will | be. known as Kimball street, and the | present Kimball street becomes Kimball | avenue, In the same way, Pine street which runs into Park’ avenue will be-| come Park street, and Natrona avenue | which is the continuation of Grant | avenue. These are practically the only | ehanges in diagonal or north and south street names. All streets which run at an agle are to be known as avenues | and all east and west and north and/ south streets as streets—this doing away, with several boulevards, places | and streets with unusual, ness, such } as the Causeway and Fenway, which) appeared on the old maps. | ‘The new system, it is believed, will) growth of the city and which will avoid | confusion, It will greatly simplify mat- ters for the postoffice and the letter) carriers, it is stated, especially if resi- dents within the carrier districts will be {prompt in notifying all their correspon- dents of their new addresses, and will) insist thereafter that stréet addresses | be used on their letters. - ——_——>—- SEN. CUMMINS IS MARKED BY LABOR CHIEFS, (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mar, 22.—Senator Cummins, Republican of Iowa, is one of the members of congress organized labor will attempt to defeat in No- vember, to L. B. Sheppard, acting president of the Order of Rail- way Conductors, who is in Warhing- ‘ton attending the railroad wage con- ference. Fal A ERE James Claire and Charles West have returned from a successful business trip in old Mexico; after a short visit |be found one which will allow for the, not burned outright or ruined by smoke was drenched and resdered worthiess in placing the fire under control. A short cireuit resulting from defec- | tive wiring is held, possible by some as the cause of the-fire but it may have); caught from sparks thrown out of the restaurant chimney on the north. The| fire started apparently ‘hear the foot of the one-story building about midway | back in the storeroom and burned both | ways. ! The prescription department, stocked with valuable drugs, suffered the heav- jest along with the stockroom in the rear, which was piled high with goods ot) kinds. Toward the front of the; store heat, smoke and water combined | to ruin practically all of the stock. The} blazing roof gave way over part, of the | store and the fire followed this wooden | tinder to the front of the building, | where it burned thru to the street. | A brick wall saved the restaurant building adjoining the Tripeny store on | the north? On the south the confection-| ery was threatened but no damage re- sulted, Both the store and the building de- stroyed by the fire are owned by the Will Tripeny are the principal owners. The’ business was only established | bout eight months ago and was on the! eve of enjoying an excellent year by reason of a steady increase in trade. This interruption alone will represent @ loss running into thousands of dollars. ‘The company, it is understood, will take immediate steps toward the erection of a new building and will re-establish it-) self in the present location. Until a survey of conditions can be made no| details of these plans can be worked| out. Insurance udjusters arrived in| Casper today to go into the damage re- sulting from the fire. | LONDON GOSSIP | GETS -DIVORCE | FOR DUCHESS (By United Press.) LONDON, Mar. 22.—The Duchess of Marthorough, formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt of New York, was liminary action for a com vorce,. —— RAIL HEARIN OPENED TODAY IN WASHINGTON (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 22.—Hear- ings to’determine a basis for the ad- justment of railroad rates so as to yield the roads ‘a return of 51-2 per “cent on their-aggregate value, as pro- vided ‘inthe new transportation law began before the interstate commerce INJURIES FATAL | 'Sheriff W. W. Stretcher died here today |from wounds suffered in an auto col- fision rence Bass and young Roy Salter last} 'Triperfy company, in which John and ‘aon Bradley, age 24, was killed Sunday in the brother, George, was seriously injured when a heavy HOOVER ‘a decree today restoring her ¢ypjugal | rights. The duke did not cont. the action. This is believed to me sands thronged the s terday to greet-Ignacio Bonillas, Mex- ican ambassador to the United States, ' who has amnounced his willingness to become the presidental candidate of the civilian party in the general elec- tion next July. The demonstration was considered as the first real presi- dential campaign gathering and as marking the climax of a preliminary canvass. BERLIN FORTIFIED: AGAINST SPARTICANS. (By United Press.) BERLIN, Mar. 22.—The Ebert cabi- net is meeting today to consider the sit- uation caused by Spartacan outbreaks throughout Germany Berlin is filled with double barbed-wire entanglements whereby government troops could re- pulse a Communist invasion, Machine guns are placed at regular intervals throughout Berlin. Holes have been knocked in government buildings for the erection of machine-gun emplace- ments, The agreement between the labor unions and the government for calling off the general strike, calls for a new cabinet with more labor members, pun- ishment of the Kapp insurrectionists, | socialization of industry, including the} nationalization of mines and the potash } industry, conservation of foodstuffs and the removal of reactionaries from the} government. Radicals, however, con- tinue on strike, but it is believed that TO OFFICER IN BOULDER CLASH (By United Press.) ULDER, Colo., March 22,—Under- Second—Lillian Har |, Second—Mrs. Warkle; | First—Elizabeth. Ladd. ] First—Mary Welsh. First—Namie Haumont. Sub-Primar, tachel Carlson. Utility—Jessie phan. PARK SCHOOL Principal—Clara Schutz. Seventh—Laurel Busch. Sixth—Catherine Fox. Sixth—I ‘orbes. Fifth—Ann pmpson, Fifth—Beulah Fourth—Maude Fourth—Charlotte Third—Musa Ross Third—Besse B % Third—Mabel Feiring. ‘ Second—Grayce Kemp. Second—May Robinson. First—Loretta Flahert First—Josephine .Parry. First—Katharine Banning. Sub-F Lar és Martin. Munro. most workers will be back at their jobs| by the end of this week. | The North Berlin section is still a} Spartacan stronghold. | Martial law was proclaimed in Leip-| | sic, where troops occupied the city after | violent fighting with radicals, in which | hundreds were killed. Radicals still control seven small cities, TREATY -ABROGATION PLOT IS CHARGED. (By Assvciated Press.) PARIS, Mar, 22 (Havas Agency).— The Paris Temps declares today that various parties in conflict in Germany | 9 are inciting each other to take the of-! FRIENDS? CLAIM [tensive against the conditions of tho treaty of Versailles and expressed the | Fe ie a fear that if the allies are not on guard (By United Press.) |German anarchy will ultimately bring DENVER, March 22.—Ralph Ar- | about a renewal of German aggression. | nold of Los Angeles and Horace | ‘The allies, acording to the Temps, Hindry, a New Yorker, leading Hoover | should deliberate immediately on the boosters, held a meeting vf Hooverites | pest way of effectively disarming Ger- from the Rocky Mountain states here | many. This newspaper ingists that the today, Arnold stated emphatically | United States should participate in the that Hoover is a candidate for the | gel{perations, if they take place. presidential nomination on the Repub- ge! Biba. tae ls lican ticket only and never consented that his name be used in connection with the Democratic nomination. which killed Police Chief Law- kK. (By United Press.) BOULDER, Colo., March 22.—Charles mine here. His Forest near 2 Ge OnP: CANDIDATE, IS Henry A. Johnson of South Casper Creek, will leave tonight for Cheyenne on business. BY MURDER OF ‘Secret Murder Societies Pledged to Kill’ | Those Who Oppose Aims, London Papers | Claim in Comments on Tragedy (By Associated Press.) LONDON, March 22.—Dispatches from Ireland show the murder of Thomas MacCurtain; lord mayor of Cork, to have commission today. The Masters Donald and. Robert Stic lrett, who have beerr ill, are improving shere they intend to return for several a4 months, 2 rapidly‘at the presen. time. produced an intense, if subdued sensation thruout Ireland. | Thie tragedy, says the London Times, closed one of the blackest | weeks since the rebellion of 1916: ? It gives a long list of outrages ‘in various parts of the island, | Bayh S Miata Utilit E Principal—Emma_ Oké Seventh—Madelyn Seabright. *Sixth—Flossie . Hane Fifth—Lulu Bailey. Fourth—Theresa Fashbender. Third—Edith Quigley. -Blanche Evans, Third Second—Lois Coons.| Second—Nora Reuss. Birst ibel Shawhan, ' Sub-Prim: abel Talbot. Utility—Carolyn Barker. NORTH CASPER SCHOOL Principal—Vivian Dwyer. Fifth—Erna Linxwil Fourth—Myrtle Larson. Third—Mary Yard. ond—Uards 3mith. y Howard. First—Irma Smith. fimeds 3 ate shitter Se (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, March 22,—Helen Hamilton Gardener, Washington widow of Colonel S. A. Gardener, au- thor and lecturer, was nominated by the president today to be a member of the civil service commission to suc- coed M. Galloway. She is the first women to be appointed on the commission. [IRELAND STIRRED UP MAYOR including five murders of policemen and others and an attempt to kill Professor Stockley of Cork. The motive for the murder of the lord mayor continues as mysterious a4 ever. Among the theories advanced is one that MacCurtain was murdered as & warning to others because he recent- ly had the courage to publicly deprecate an attempt to murder a policeman in Cork. London newspapers declare that Ire- land for the moment is largely under the domination of secret murder societies, members of which are sworn to kill those whom they believe to stand in their way.