Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1920, Page 1

~~ MNS. W. BAILEY DES TOON AT HOSPITAL ee This Mor Moming Hastens Illness; Hus- Band and yo, Cees Fe The sudden death at noon today of Mrs. Lilly Bailey, wife of Warren L. Bailey, of 675 Park avenue, shocked | and saddened the many friends of: the | family thruout the city.. Death came ata local hospital following an opera- tion perfofmed this. morning upon the nivice of a Denver specialist. Mrs, Bailey was born in Genoa, Neb., and was 32 years of age. She was mar- ried to Mr. Bailey on O¢tober 4,, 1916, | and had lived jn Casper for about two sears-before that time, keeping house **fov.one of her brothers. Restde ‘her husband she is. survived by two-sons, John, aged 2, and Louis William, who is five, weeks old, her mother, Mrs, Matilda Johnson, two brothers J. W. Johnson and EB. W. John- son, all of Casper and a married sister who lives in Lincom, Neb, An uncle whose home is in Bugene, Ore., js here having stepped in Casper yesterday on his way homie from a trip in. the -east. Mrs. Bailey was brought home from | the hospital two weeks ago, follawi the birth of the second son. Compii tions which developed made an opera- tion seem advisable and she was taken hack to the hospital last night. The opetation was performed this morning. \Three Divisions Annihilated by Counter | Drive and Three Days Continuation of Present Successes Will Wipe Out All Resistance; Thousands Are Prisonered (By. United Press) PARIS, Aug. 19.—The Russian army will be “completely defeat- ed” if the Poles maintain their counter-offensive three days longer, Warsaw official advices stated today. The situation continues fay- arable to the Poles fied the tight wing of the Bolshevik army ie i danger of being utterly crushed. The difference between France and England over the Russian- Polish situation has been fully settled, it was ‘announced. A formal note to this effect will be issued soon. (By Associated Press.) WARSAW, Aug. 19.—Polish — sue- Sesses On all fronts, with the’ exeeption of the southern battle sector, where Russian Soviet forces ave advancing in} the direction of Lemberk, were red ported today. AIT. ® (By Associated Press.) WARSAW, Aug. 18 (1p. m,)—Rus- slan Soviet forces are evacuating Brest- Litovsk, a strongly fortified” town on the Bug River, 120 miles east of War- saw, according to advices ~ received} fiere tonight. (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug, 49.—Fierce fighting is continuing in the region of Warsaw and Novo Georglevsk, a strong fortress nineteen miles northwest of Warsaw at the confluence of the Vistula and Bug Rivers, according to the Wednesday Sovict statement. REDS ROUTED EETWEEN VISTULA AND BUG. No arrangements for the funeral have aswyet hrc. ates i made. YANK ATHLI ATHLETES RAIL aey oes TO DISCUSS NEW WAGE DEMANDS pene oN (By United Press.) DENVER, Aug. .19.—W),. O. Beaver, chairman for the southwestern terri- | tory of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway Shop Laborers, today calledsa meeting of general chair- | men for August 28 at Kansas City to discuss proposed new wage demands. —_———— RYAN CAPTURES ANTWERP. Aug. 19; of the Loughlin Lyce won the Olympic hammer throw to- day. BOND HOLDERS TAKE CHARGE LINCOLN. MINE Wy: Coal company’s mine-at Con- roy, ® small but thoroughly equipped colliery ,has been taken; over “by the holders of the company’s bonds in or- der to protect their investment. The property was sold at a public auction which was in reality merely a formal- ity to satisfy the law. Three bids for,| the > ‘were received, the first of $500, the ‘second of $10,000 and the third of $110,000, at which price the mine was knocked down 9 the bond- holders. ‘Thesproperty is believed to be worth at least $1,000,000. OUTLAW STRIKES FOLLOW FAILURE OF MINERS TO OBTAIN WAGE INCREASE Miners V ote to Ignore Central Distrigt in Favor of Negotiations With Mine Operators of Separate States. (By United Press.) TERRE HAUTE, oe Ane. tie ,—Fifteen their work at azil mines, acco tthe’ wee © dissatisfied with the offer made by opera- have left It is said that the men were tors at the wage scale committee meeting (By Unit ALTOONA, Pa., Aug. 19. granted, Aug. -| tanks, ae CUT TO PIECES. ° | Zeitung. —Because their wage demand was not 3,000 miners of the Portage field quit work this morning. (By United Press.) CLEVELAND, 19.—Outlaw |. (By. Associated Press.) WARSAW, Aug. 18 (11 p. m.)—Rus- sian Soviet forces are fleeting in a disor- derly panic ainng the front between the Vistula and Rug Rivers, where the Poles are adyancing with success, says the official statement tonight. In the counter attack to relieve pres- Bure upon Warsaw, the Poles are using airplanes, armored trains and @rtiliery in great numbers. At. Novo Minsk, east of here, and Serock, tu the northeast, 3,000 prisoners, 7 cannon, - hundreds of wagons and. vast quanti- the ties of supplies were statement declares. captured, THREE DIVISIONS — - oer cB Assoeintede- Press) WARSAW, Auge 19.-~Pho 67th, SS and 80%) Bolshevite divisions on the) Warsaw front have been annihilated and thousands of Soviet, soldiers‘ made prisoners, says. theofficial statement today LUKOW RECAPTURED BY POLISH ARMIES. (By, Associated Press.) PARIS, Aug. 19.—Lukow, {miles southeast of Warsaw, has been captured by Polish troops in their counter attack against the left wing of the Bolsheviki army, says the W% saw correspgpdent of the Excelsior. forty-one POLES TAXED TO, CARE FOR PRISONERS, - ~ WARSAW, Aug, 19—Soyiet prisoners: are pouring into Warsaw dn such num-; bers that it is becoming a problem how to. cugp for them, PEACE. NEGOTIATIONS NOT KESUMED, (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Aug. 19.—Russo-Polish peace negotiations*at Minsk were not) continued Wednesday ag jagreed upon, | owing to the fault of the Polish del gation, according to. a message di patched from Moscow Wednesday. CANTU OFFERS TO SURRENDER TO FEDERALS (By. Associated Press.) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 19.—President de la Huerta and Gov. Cantu of ATTACK ON LEFT }WING EN FULL FORCE, (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, Aug. 19.—The Poles are advancing on Graudenz, West Prussia, in full force, according to the Vossiche On the left wing strong Polish cayal- ry forces are. moving against Thorn| Lower California, conferred by wire- from the south, where the. Russians !ess today, says El Universal, Cantu are expected to cross the Vistula.| declared he was willing fo surrender, | Heavy fighting between the Poles and| 5a¥8 the newspaper. Russians is reported before Gosler- ———— | | hausen, j (By United Press.) peas <i IEE Cas aly MEXICO CITY, Aug. 19,—Fifteen | (By United Press.) hundred additional Mexican troops JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 19.—Be-| have been landed at La Colorado, Lower California, it was announced today. This ‘addition raises the total to 3,500 men, dn the expedition piesinet Gov. Cantu, tween 250 and 300 coal miners of the Portage field¢ quit today for higher wages. They want $1.25 an hour and are getting 75 cents at present. failure of the joint scale committee a miners and Operators to agree on a supplemental wage increase at its clos- ing session last night. The miners’ officials said the trouble would be set- jtled amicably, but operators are pessi- mistic and predict outlaw strikes ff jnot a general strike. (By Associated Press.) it attending the conference of the Joint ; fea ag 8g scale committee of the central compe io jorts sd following the failure last night of the | Joint conference: to agree on the miners’ demands for increased wages and ad- journed sine die, after voting unani- mously that miners in each of the four in Cleveland. nited Press) supplomental |with operators. in the field. tically disrupts the centfal field as the and separate agreqment CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 19.—Miners} titive fleld, held a polley meeting today} states concerned will seek to make a} This prac-| WEA ‘THER FORECAST Fair. tonight and Friday, some- cooler in east portion tonight and warmer Friday. | VOLUME IV ‘ TTWO. TRAINMEN DIE IN WRECK ON U. P. _ WEST OF CHEYENNE} - |\Conductoer and Brakeman Killed When Giant Locomotive Crashes. nto : Caboose of Eastbound Freight CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 19.—Two men were killed in a collision , between a Union Pacific locomotive, rdnning light, amd the rear end! of an eastbound freight train at Corlett Junction, “five miles west of here, at 4:30 o'clock this morning. The dead: “RayM. Cannon, 25, | Cheyenne, cqnductor; Edward Burke, 33, Cheyenne, brakeman. Trafic on the eastbound track was blocked, but not delayed, * cleamiaiacc st. SiemaaLlbasss vec ar ee inging to the pestbound track, Cannén and Burke were in the ca» boose of the freight train which had stopped at Corlett under protection of RICH SLACKER BRIBES REPORTED IN LOBBY =" AGAINST SUFFRAGE; JURY IS REQUESTED TO INVESTIGATE Tennessee Opponents Plan Grend Mass! Meeting to.Reverse Favorable Vote; North Carolina Refuses to Ratify (By United Press.) NASHVILLE, Aug. 19.—Judge T. B. Debow of the criminal court} today asked the grand jury to investigate alleged lobbying in connec- tion with consideration of the suffrage amendment by the legislature. He told the jury it had been reported that “forces of corruption” were operating. No names were mentioned. The request followed close- ly a statement of certain men that bribes had been offered legislators; to vote against the amendment. | would especially welcome to Re {publicans in the coming campaign be- be — jcause a “great mioral and social reform, . (By Associated Press.) | recently achieved, is menaced. by the NASHVILLE, Aug. 19,—Echoes- of | covert purpose of our opponents to ate the bitter suffrage fight in the Tennes-| (ack it." see legislature flew thick and fast to- influenee Was brought to bear on Rep- resentative Burn, Republican, to chany his Yote: it favor of the amendment. Burn denied the charges. One of the | [iar wort seamen, “| READJUSTMENT IS TIED UP IN |in social betterment while the Demo- Joratie party “had: notoriously !to enforce reform policies. BaeiSnktielonen a; (By Associated Press.) RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 19—The fed-| eral suffrage amendment was defeated today by the North Carolina house of {representaatives, 71 to 41. | ANTIS ORGANIZE FOR LAST STAND TONIGHT. (By Associated Press.) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 19.—An-} nouncement that opponents of woman| suffrage would hold a ‘mass meeting| tonight to discuss steps “to save the) South from the iigan 3B, Anthony amendment and federal suffrage force} | bills" was taken as an Indication that Speaker Walker would not attempt to-! |day to foree reconsideration’ of the ac-}| tion of the Tennessee house yesterday in ratifying the nineteenth amendment.|tion in living costs. Senator Underwood of Alabama and! Cox will start on his Western former Goy. Pleasant of Louisiana haye| about September 3. |been invited to speak. ; the northern tier (By Associated Press.) SOUTH\ BEND, Ind., Aug. {tional and™ international financial economical readjustment, as well 19.—Na- and as in the success of the League of Na- tions, ae James M. Cox declared in a speed! today. “Our safety,| economie ri all are invol charging archy” economic the Republican HARDING WELCOMES braska and Towa. strikes of coal miners are imminent in many coal districts because of thé}basing point. He predicted that women voters day. ~Two Nashville newspapers. pub-| would stand with the Republican party lished. affidavits charging ‘that undue! through realization that it had been! refused" | LEAGUE, CLAIM | the high cost of living are bound up jstment and. prosperity,” “in America’s making the league a world force, he assered, in “senate olig- with responsibility for delay in progress and belated reduc- trip He will go through of states, down the st and back through Utah, Colorado, VOTE OF FAIR SEX, enator Warren G. Harding and Gov. | MARION, Ohio, Aug. 19.—Senator| Cox are both to spenk from the same Warren G, Harding today dect a| Platform at the Ohio state fair ‘on (that the granting of suffrage to women August 31, : block system. A’ Mallet locomo- GOES TO PEN \tive, driven by Walter Brown, following -d [the freight at not more than six miles an hour, ran into the caboos se, the im- FOR 4 YEARS |[mnense weight of the 700.000-p0un to: . comotive driving the caboose through bone freight car and telescoping both, Canon and Burke were instantly killed, Neither was married? : fhe reakon for the collision Is as yet unexplained. MAIL SACK LOST BY ROBBERS IS FOUND INTACT: (By Associated Press.) ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19.—One of the pouches ef mail taken from a Mis- souri. Pacific train robbed on the out- eraser! of St. Louis last night by two was found today in a clump of wonde along the railroad track. The contents were intact, the bandits ap- parently having lost the pouch in the darkness. GIRL BELIEVED LOST IS FOUND ON MOUNTAIN. year-old daughter Associated NEW. Pen ae Raz, 19-trwin G. G. Bérgdow of: Philadelphia, guilty of desertion from the ay by evading the draft, was sentenced to four years at hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, it was anrounced at Govertiors Island today, } {FIREMAN NEAR | | DEATH, RESCUE Blender of J. I w found on the Cas- | ‘ per mountain yesterday evening short-” ] is EFFECTED \ly before dusk by her father. Mr. Peete. had set out with a searching pa to region of look for her, in the per? mountain where he thot he wo! be j | {By Associated Press.) most likely to find his daughter. DENVER, Aug. 19,—Battalion Recent-tvoodings of his daughter ond Cutef Troy of the elty fire depart- | his knowledge of her love affair ‘ad ment was paralyzed and then res- |led the father to fear for the. girl's cued from drowning by firemen in a | safety. basement fire on Larimer street to- | day. He stepped into an elevator pit that held three feet of water. The blow from the fall knocked him un- conscious. Firemen pulled him ont and he was taken to the hospital. JOHNSON TAKES © STUMP IN OCT. The fire, damaes Maeno SAN FRANCISCO SCO, Aug, 19.—Sena- Se | tor Hiram Johnson will start on a A man may be feared by his enemies | stumping tour of the Eagt and Middte but it’s all bunk about his befrig re-| West, the first week in October, it was. | spected by them. ° announced here today. IRELIEF WORKERS — UNDER SIEGE BY | TURKS STARVING Eighteen Americans With French Army in | AsiaMinor Under Fire Since June 20; Nationalist Forces Surround Town (By. Associated Press) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 19.—Showered nightly with Turkish bullets and facing famine, 18 American workers of the American Commission for Relief in the Near East have been besieged in Adana, Asia Minor, since June 20. Twice French troops holding Adana, have fought their way, to Mersina, the nearcat port, and have returned with heavy' losses. A flour cargo of the Ameriean Relief Commission is waiting at Mersina. The railway has been demolished and supplies cam reach Adana only by motor trucks, heavily conveyed, with great loss of life through thei 69- stretch controlled by followers of Mustapha Turkish | Natlonalist leader, who is determined to starve out the French in Adana. mile Kemal Pasha,