Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1920, Page 1

BY CONSUM Wilson Insists Upon Early Settlement by Principals (By, Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 23.— President Wilson withdrew govern- ment control of the price of bitu- minous coal so‘that the 27 percent rs a wage increase for the miners rec- ommended by the majority report of the coal strike settlement commis- sion may be absorbed in the price the consumer will pay after April 1. The commission @Stimated this wage ad- vance at $200,000,000 a year. At the same time, the president made public. the ‘majority “and minority re- ports of the commission and wrote op- erators and miners asking that they reach an agreement ona basis of the majority. report alone ‘as speedily as possible so that uncertainty regarding the fuel situation might be remoyed. Operators’ were warned against vio- lating “the laws against combinations in reatPaint of trade and profiteering and also not to exact “unreasonable prices for coal,” - ERS " Ea WEATHER FORECAST ».Rain, probably turning to snow to- night and Wednesday; colder in north portion tonight and in scutheast por- winds. “I am aware,” said the president, “that at present, as a result of the shortage created by the coal strike and of consequent interference with trans- portation and as a result also of an except ly unfavorable winter, the demand for coal continues active. “T desire to impress upon coal op- erators the extreme’ importance not only of their complying to the full- est extent with Jaws against combina- tions in restraint of trade and against profiteering, but also of their exerting themselves affirmatively to prevent the exaeting of unreasonable “prices for coal. I-am sure the public fully ap- preciates the desirability, where prac- ticable, of leaving commercial transac- tions untrammeted but at se same time will find.ways such a liberal policy In refusing the demand of the miners for a 30-hour week, the majority. com- mission said that if the: work day were te | | Martin S..M shortened one hour it would be equival- ent to an additional cost of over $10 000,000. 2 ‘The minority report of White, the miners’ représentative, held out for & higher increase for all day labor and monthly men than granted by, the ma- jority but he concurred in the recom- mendation for a 24-percent increase on pick and machine mining. : | RECOMMENDATIONS CALL VOR 24-CENT RAISE (By United Press.) Both reports provide for an increase to tonnage workers of 24 cents over their wages of March, 1919, with a provision that the recent 14 percent in-| crease be eliminated. The majority jre~ port recommends a dollar-a-day advance for day labor and monthly men except trappers and other boys whe get 63 cents increase, Both reports agreed to a 20-percent increase on yardage and dead work. White's: minority report recommends that the increase be absorbed by the operators without advancing coal prices Lat the majority. report does not men- tion prices. PROBE OF GAS PRICES ASKED IN THE HOUSE Wife Follows Her Husband Here and Has Him Arrested Leslie EB. Wells has been arrested here on complaint of his wife charging him with disorderly conduct. Mr, Wells was followed from Denver by his, wife who clairas that he left his home in Denver without any warning to ber, leaving her stranded in that city with her child. Mr; ‘Wells’ trial probably afternoon. BORDER STATES READY FOR WAR church property at RAILROADERS OF SPAIN QUIT FOR GENERALSTRIKE “ MADRID, March 23—A strike on all railrord lines in Spain took effect at noon today, following. the failure ‘of the managers of the railway) com- panies to accede to the demands of the men for increased wages and bet- ter working conditions, —< and visiting with old friends, ———— J. W> Conner of St. Louis, Mo., is ia the city attending to business matters while registered at the Henning hotel. : (By Assnciated Press.) COPENHAGEN, March 23.—Esthonia and Livonia, two former Russian Baltic provinces which ate now independent nations, are preparing for war, says a dispatch to the Berlingske Tidende from Kovne. Concentrations of troops in large numbers on the frontier are reported. Gveat Britain has tried unsuceessfully to mediate the. dispute over the boundary. tion Wednesday, with fresh, shifting it PORT; FRIEND ‘OF LEADER OF RUM REBELLION c f attorney of Iron county, Mich., prominent figure In'the recent “rund rebellion” there. _ SITE PURCHASED BY SYNDICATE Request for Ten-Day Option Leads to Immediate Sale to T. F. Algeo, Acting for Associates Wanting Building Site At a meeting of the vestry of St? Mark's Episcopal church called last night.t ider the giving of a aiigatinaps te eed of Second and Wolcott streets, 000; to W..W. Sproul, acting for business interests, member of the vestry, sprung a complete surprise when he announc that he was ready to pay that price, Glen Crandal accompanied by his wite) is here from Lusk attending to business | "lw. 7. Evans and W, pmo: oem PE POD ATT CAS ELE SEI OS REDS EXTEND | HUN CONTROL STORAGE PLANT AT MIDWEST Is Threaten A defective pip quite spectacular ‘fi this morning which completely. plant and threatened an adjoini disastrous spread of the flames. When interviewed this morning, Gen- eral Superintendent L, A. Reed stated that the company would not be ‘in a position to determine the extent of the loss until a close survey had been taken of the ruins. He also stated that he was not in a position to even give ap- proximate figures on the loss. It is estimated that $50,000 would cover the loss, which Is covered by insurance in the Midwest Company. He declared, hoWeyer, that steps had been taken somé timy ago to build a .néw acid piant onthe north side of the river and that the loss of thig old build- a would. not interfere “in any way ‘with. the...preseit shipments of oil, ough, he admitted, “it did make it ratier inconvenient,” A break in ah 8-inch pipe line serv- ing as a bi-pass from one. sill to another in # battery closely adjeining the acid plant, sent a spray of hot, gassy. oil into close proximity to the acid plant land this spray soon enveloped into GOING UPON EPISCOPAL CHURGH | flames, and after licking their way through the plant, spread to some ad- Joining small buildings.; The fire was discovered about 4:30 o’clock this morn- | Ing and at 9:30,0’clock, members of the Midwest department ‘were ‘still playing five streams of water into a huge con- crete vat some distance to the west of where the fire originated. 4p unknown pipe-fitter proved a hero while the flames were at their height | ten-day option on the Episcopa at $75,- T. F. Algeo, a in cash, at once for the property ithout asking for any option. Mr. Algeo let it be understood that he was acting for himself and other as- sociates, and that the Sinclair Oil com- pany, of which he is the local repre- sentative, was not interested. He was not ready to announce the names of his associates, he said. A seven-story office building will be erected on the property and work will begun as soon as the church ‘vacates, Mr.. Algeo stated today, but plans for the structure have not yet been com- pleted. “T have considered. the purchase of the site for some time, hut the mat+ ter.came to a head suddenly with the offer from the other concern,” Mr.) Al- geo sald. “The Sinclair Oil company is not behind the proposition, and neither are banking intérésts of the city, as has been intimated to me today.” St. Mark’s church, which is one of the oldest in Casper, has occupied the corner since 1889, when the little frame church which now forms’a part of the Parish house on the rear of the lot was erected. ‘ A, A.J. Cunningham, P. C,' Nicolaysen, 8. Kim: ball, . Sr,, all ‘members ofthe — ves: try of the church, were among the orig- inal members of congregation, T present brick church was built in 1905. A year ago St. Mark's parish pur-) chased two large lots on the corner of} Sussex and Wolcott streets opposite the city park and as. soon as plans can be prepared work will be begun on the) erection of a new church plant, consist- ing of church buliding,’ parish house and rectory, to cost between $100,000 and $126,000 on this property. W. 8. Kimball, Sr., and P. wi | Cc. Nic-| | south, ed| he did not feel worried. and his action in climbing to the top of @ still and shutting off a valve is given crouse by Ouscuus of the company here as a deed which had much to do in preventing the blaze from spreading Five streams of water were thrown on all sides of the man while he climbed upward, That he was not. | burned is considered nothing short of miraculous. No attempt will be made to rebuild on the present site, but extra efforts will be put forth to complete the new acid treating plant on the north side of the river. ‘Until then much of this work will be done in the open, A peculiar coincidence connected with the fire is told by Mr. Reed, who says that he did not sleep a wink last night, having a sort of a premonition that somehing was going to happen, though “I heard the clock strike every half hour during the night and was wide-awake when the alarm was sounded this morning,” said Mr. Reed. Mr. Reed was on the ground a few minutes after the fire was discovered, and spent most of tne morning, until 9:30, directing the efforts of the fire fighters. - a ood TWO KILLED IN DUBLIN CLASH WITH SOLDIERS (By United Press.) DUBLIN, Mar. 22.—Two were killed and seyeral injured clash between soldiers and ci here Iast night. — ARCTIC TRIBE “STARVING FOR LACK OF GAME (By Associated Press.) DAWSON, Yukon Territory, .Mar. 22.—Natives of the Artic Red region are facing starvation because of a shortage of big game this win- ter, acording to members of the Royal Canadisn Mounted Police ex- pedition to Herschel Island and Fort * (Conunued on Page 6) McPherson, on the Artic coast, which arrived here today. [Firemen Battle Flames for Four Hours Be- fore Entirely Extinguished; Big Plant ed for Time e fitting is given as the cause for a large and re on the Midwest refinery grounds early destroyed the old acid storage ng battery and buildings. The fact that there was but a light wind blowing prevented a more POSTOFFIGE JOE NEED AROUSE NO INCUMBENT HERE Cheap» Wage Paid by Uncle Sam Offsets Et- forts, Handicaps Num- erous—Sproul i At the Chamber of Commerce lunch- eon at noon today the first topic dis- cussed was the “Extension of the Postal Service in Casper,” presented by Post- master W. W. Sproul. Mr. Sproul said in part: “I believe the postmaster’s job is more difficult to fill satisfactorily than any other in this city, One factor which makes the job difficult, both here and in other cities is the question of wages. The wage of the postal clerk is based on a law passed by congress more than a quarter of a century ago, with one or two small bonuses added since, “The last congress had under advise- ™ent the revision of the wage scale of postal employes \d was advised by the postmaster general, by a committee from the National League of Postmast- ers and by a committee from the Asso- ciation of Civil Service Employes of the urgent need of such revision. “But instead of following the recom- mendations and making the raise in salaries apply to all postal employes, the congressional committee began at the bottorn. The wages of substitute clerks and carriers were raised 60 per cent, the salaries of regular clerks and carriers were raised about 10 per cent, but the salaries of first-class postmast- ers were not changed in the least. “The result is that a very large por- tion of the work is being done by sub- stitutes’ and the regular clerks. and carriers have accepted other and more lucrative pusitions. ‘ “Tt takes about two years for a postal clerk or city-letter carrier to reach maxinum efficiency. Yet I have not a Casper post office a year, and only one male clerk, one carrier and three female CRACKSMEN GET single male clerk who has been in the! clerks who have: been regularly~in. the |» ome, na rua eu Hundreds More Add- ed to Death Toll in| Fighting Thruout, Industrial Region (By Associated Press.) BERNE, March 23.— Three hundred persons were killed in jfighting at Elberfeld, in the Rhur| region near the occupied zone, and in the neighborhood of the city, accarding to advices from western Germany. Communjsts took 500 of the Reich. Swehr prisoners at Elberfeld and 200) st another point. Famine is declared to be threatening | | | | Gochum, -Dértmund, Dusselford and Elberfeld, because peasants are refus- ing to vet food to the Communists. Hospitals at Elberfeld are fuil of wound. ed. (By Associated Press.) LA CHAPELLE, Rheinish Prussia, March 2%.—Another battle is reported | between Sparatacans and troops of the regular army at Wesel, 22 miles north- west of Essen. The regulars appear to have been outflanked by the Spar- tavans, RADICALS CONTROL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT (By Associated Press.) COPENHAGEN, Mareh, ..33.+-- The whole western industrial district of (er- many is held solidly by tho radicals and disaster is inevitable if government. troops try to interfere there, according to information from Berlin received today by the Berlingske Tidende. The Social Demokratem learns that a purely workers’ government is on the point of formation, without cooperation with the bourgeois parties. RESIGNATION OF EBERT REGIME ASKED BY LABOR (By United Press.) VETOKNOX PROPOSAL IF PASSED Resolution Declaring Peace Will Be Killed; Leaders Go Ahead with Plans (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, March 23.— President Wilson will veto the Knox resolution declaring a state | of peace with Germany or any oth- er measure congress may pass in an effort to make peace without ratifying the Versailles treaty. ‘The president's. only concession will be modus vivendi agreements with the al- lies and Germany to preserve Ameri- can rights under the treaty until the voters express their wishes in the com- Ing election. Senator Lodge and Representative Porter, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, conferred today con- cerning the framing of a peace resolu- tion acceptable to both houses. G.0.P. CHOICE IS AWAITED IN SOUTH DAKOTA (By Associated Press.) SIOUX FALLS. March 23.—En- dorsement of a candidate for the Re- publican presidential nomination is the overshadowing issue in the South Dakota primary election today, on account of spectacular campaigns con- ducted by four candidates, Wood, Johnson, Lowden and Poindexter, Clear weather prevailed. BERLIN, March 23.—Karl Legien, head of the Berlin labor unions, to- day demanded the resignation of the entire Ebert cabinet. Radicals have de- cided to continue the general strike | unless the government complies with} their demands. | Allied representatives have warned Independent Socialist leaders that the allies will not give them any support if. théy™ persist’ in a’ strike tending “to Germany's ruin. Food is ecoming scarcer daily, \ 100 KILLED AND WOUNDED IN HENNIGSDORF BATTLE (By United Press.) LONDON, March 23,—Forty persons/ were killed and 65 wounded in fighting} between Spartacans and Ebert troops| at Hennigsdorf, Germany. LUDENDORFF'S ARREST ORDERED BY EBERT (By United Press.) PARIS, March 23,—Berlin dispatches today report that the Ebert government has ordered General Ludendorff's arrest Ie Roan in the von Kapp insur- | mh. $100,000 FROM NEBRASKA BANK (By United Press.) LINCOLN, Nebr., March 23.—Rob- bers last night blew the vault of the Greenwood (Neb.) First National bank and ¢éscaped with $104,000 worth of registered bonds and $300 in cash. ‘Telephone wires entering Greenwood ‘were cut. \ a a J eC CHURCH SERVICE CANCELLED The services announced for tomorrow at St. Mark's church have been cancell ed as the interior of the church is be- ing cleaned and red ‘ated, alae acide ie William Stansberry an attorney of Douglas, Wyo., is hgre for several DELAWARE HAS HEART FAILURE: WILL VOTE SUFF (By United Press.) DOVER, Mar. 23.—Ratification of federal Suffrage is virtually assured since Washington ratified the amend- ment yesterday, as local leaders do not want to assume the responsibility for defeating the national measure. MORGENTHAU IS NAMED FOR POST IN MEXICO CITY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 23.—Henry Morgenthau of New York, former am- bassador to Turkey, was nominated today by President Wilson to be am- bassador to Mexico. He will succeed because he the administra- Fletcher, who resigned did not agree with MINERS OF HARD COAL TO REMAIN ON JOB APRIL 1 (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, March 23.—The gen- eral scale committee, representing the” anthracite coal miners by a virtually unanimous vote today, decided to re- main at work after April 1, pending negotiations for a new wage agree- ment “providing the mine owners agree to make any wage award retro- active to that date. - —>— O. C. Brunsvold is les ying tonjeht for Denver on business connected with his days. attending, to busin matte you ean see some of the difficulties’ I ‘My friends in the. city handed me (Continued on Page ‘Six.) WASHINGTON, Mar, 22.—Cross- examination of Read Admiral Sims continued today before the senate committee investigating the navy’s conduct of the war, with Pittman and Trammell undertaking to show that the United States was not whol- ly responsible for heavy submarine POLAR Yo postal service ‘for more‘than a year. So |" | have to meet. | oll interests. BAINBRIDGE COLBY 1S SWORN IN TAKES OFFICE IN U. S. CABINET ; i . (By United Press) ° WASHINGTON, March 23.—Bainbridge Colby took the oath of cffice as secretary of state today following the séenate’s confirmation. He may ask that ‘lished to quiet rumors. testimony against him be pub- losses during the two months imme- diately following the entry of the United States into he war. Sims sald the adoption of the convoy system marked the turning point of the war | and that the allies had to wait for American co-operation before the | plan could be made effective. | “Our destroyers and other ships | | CONVOY PLAN MARKED WAR’S TURNING POINT should have sailed ‘the night we de- clared. war and there was no good reason why they should not have done 50,” he said.. “If they had, two and one-half million tons of shipping would have been saved and the United States would have bad an army of million men in France by May 1, 1918.” WILSON TO. ’