Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1920, Page 1

Unions Will Fight Proposed Cut in Haw is Report Dean made, effective December’ 20. accordance with custom, the amount 0 approximate the 221-2 per cent sug-) pais. by the manufacturers’ cohfer- enge last week. . (By Associated Press.) NEW XE Dec. 13.—Reports from mill centers give every indication that wage reductions announced for Décem- ber 20 by large cloth manufacturing plants will be resisted, John Golden, president of the. United Textite Work- ers ot America, hecion. pesiagen te ene ITALEAN-AERIAL LINER TOCARRY 300°ACROSS SEA Reet < Parmer “ |as much’ ocean-going tonnage as ; holt Dees tang Victor, Six. with the exception of Great Britain, Chairman Benson of the shipping ‘when hé’was told by Gianni Caproni, | board declared in his annual report made public today. | is pro gsceaid tp er tr giant At the end of the last fiscal Year, the — said, American across the Atlantic ocean in 36 hours. Plans for the machine are being comt- pleted and provisions.are being made jor dining nd peapak arcommods- thon’ aboard the aerial liner. ——_—__.--_—_ MANSLAUGHTER IS VERDICT. 1f \ Press) ~ i 7, Associated STEVENS! POINT, Wis., Dec. 13.— John was found guilty today of first ds | manslaughter by a jury in ‘éonnection with the death of his mother last January following a drunk- en debauch. The'verdict carries a pris- on sentence of from five to ten years. —————— “Mr, and Mrs. H. D. Moore of Salt Cheek visited in Casper last week. WAIL GOES UP AT PRICE CUT ‘Appeals for Reduction in Living Cost is| Reversed in Face of Decline; Many Measures Would Halt Slump (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—After eg. various groups demanding legislation resecsse — for more. money,. émbargoes walls-so-high that all foreign prod lation to prevent American importers imum price was “suggested to the sen- from taking advantage of the exchange | ate agricultural committee today by W. situation to buy cheaply in European|c. Lyon, made | kota legislature. on congress. ‘Bhe opinicn is that sinve|jmum of $2.26, a. bushel, for wheat, $1 markets are among the demands Prices did not drop as @ result of legis- lation, prices cannot be kept legislation, ‘ EMBARGO ON *s PRODUCTS 18 Asma, ; Wasuinnrone mee rl ee for one year tion of Wheat, wheat flour, batley, rye, oaty, flax, wool, hogs, ¢attie and sheep is Proposed in a bili introduced today by Representative Young, Republican; of North Dakota. PURCHASE OF SURPLUS PROPOSED BY SOLON. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec, 138.—Purchase by the government of.a surplus of cer- tain farm products on hand at the ond of the crop year at a guaranteed miti- U.S. MERCHANT MARINE WILL BE SOLDIER DIES IN | Joans to farmers so they could hold their products on wool and meat products and tariff MRS, MAQSWIN Irish Republic. GREATEST WITH -BUILDING HOSPITAL FIRE ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—One pa- tient, Sergeant Alvin Messenger, for- merly of the Seventh Coast artillery, is believed to have burned to death and’ several other patients were in- . jured Sunday in a fire that destroyed two psychopatic wards of the Walter Reed military hospital. - besieged for two years to is confronted with a tas would check the decline ucts would be kept out and legis- a member of the South Da- He would fix a min- [June 80 consisted ‘of 1,294 steel EY ARRI¥ES—A group of prominent people welcoming Mrs. MacSwiney, widow of the Irish martyr wee Dot: stated, put. it- ie understood (insert) in New York, The photo shows members of the reception committee presenting x ONE EXCEPTION 1S..COMPLETED |; WASHINGTON, Dec. "13 With naples of the goverument | shipbuilding’ program by 1922, the United States probably will have all the ‘other countries: combined, government ,and pri- vate owned, numbered 3,404, of 16,918,- 212 Geadwelgnt tons, not including more thay 2 2,000,000 tons of shipping on the at Lakes. The net program of goy- cpument owned ships,; Admiral Ben- son said, contemplates 2,315 vessels of 13,675,711 deadweight tons and; at ‘the end of the last fiscal year, 2,070 ships aggregating 11,622,361 deadweight tona, had .been completed. During the year 1,180 finished shins of 6,379,823 deadweight,.tons were de- livered; exceeding all records. They were built without ‘overtime or other aids to rapid prodiction,, Admiral Ben. son said: “The shipyard worker of the Unijed States has developed ‘an expertness which has raised thé efficiericy of tho various crafts to & high plane and pro- duction: has kept pace accordingly,” Ad- miral Benson said. The industry has expanded. 60,000 skilled mechanics to a force of 385,000 men-Aavailable to the private shipyards, he added. “The credit for the accomplishment jot the atms of the Emergency Flect | corporation, is therefore due to these men who have surpassed all prévious | performances in the shipbuilding of the world,” he said. American yessels are now sailing in 229 separate services. They carried 44.8 per cent of the nation’s foreign’ com- merce last. year as compared with 9.7 per cent before the war, the report said. The government fleet_in operation ves ‘sels plying to all quarters of the glole, including 508 to northern. Europe an 126-to southern Europe. In the trans- Pacific service there .were’ 16% vessels and in the South American, 138. Fortyone direct service lines have Leen established to South and Centra: America from nine ports on the Atlantic \coast, four om the Gulf and two on the Pacific coast, the report said. pesca lar ct te NEGRO HELD FOR THEFTS. spurs. for corn, 75 cents for oats and §3 for up by | flax, of larceny. officers as being a dope fiend. Fred Moran, a negro, has been ar- rested on a charge of having some part in several recent thefts of saddles and He is being held on a charge He is known to the police CARBON PLANTS LOSE _DECISION y Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. iP fnrenctions obtained by the Midland Carbon Company and the Occidental OU and Gas Company restraining Wyoming authorities from imposing heavy penalties under an act passed in 1919 re- lating to the conservation of natural gas, were dissolvefl taday by the su- preme court, The complainant companies alleged that the act was directed at them alone and was so drawn as to make it impossible for them to operate. TRIO ARRESTED “WW POLIGE. RAD ON LOCAL CLUB ‘Operators of Games Apprehended But Proprietors Escape Police Net Saturday Night What is known to the city police as the Oil Center club located in the Wyo |ming block, was raided Saturday about 10 o'clock by a cordon of police head: ed by Sam Gaston, sergeant on the police force. All three dealers or op- erators of games were @ ted and held on bond, of $200 for theif appear- ance in police court this afternoon itt 5 o’clock, Poker, craps and 21 games were being operated, according to the police report. Raids had been planned against sev- eral other places knowm to the: police to have been open and operating in full blasj Saturday night but they were ‘W. M. Porter, better known here as “Hamburger Bill,” R. H. Ramsey and J. T, Wilson were arrested Saturday as operators of the games. The propriv j tors: who, according to the police, have been operating gambling games in this place “off andon” for two yeats, were not apprehended. The. three arrestet are not actually behind the operation of these gambling gumes in the opin~ fon of police officials, the trio merely working the’ trader! “trade” for others. CHAMBER PROTESTS USE OF YELLOWSTONE WATERS FOR IRRIGATION PURPOSE The board of directors of the Cham- ber of Commerce has sent the follow- ing letter protesting against the use tion purposes to Frank W. Mondell: “The. board of directors of the Cham- ber of Commerce of Casper, Wyo., at © regular meeting held December 9, discussed the proposed irrigation reser- voir in the Falls River basin of the Yellowstone Park. “It was the sense of the meeting that if the pending legislation pertaining to this project were passed, that.the re-| sultant completion of the project would be detrimental to the State of Wyo- ming, depreciate the recreational and educational jvalue of the park, and thus affect the entire United States. “The Casper Chamber of Commerce fs in favor of utilitarian measures, as a general policy, but opposed to a measure that ma$ debauch this great national playground, which has been symbolically referred to as one of the) lungs of the nation. The secretary was) instructed to request that you use your| best efforts to defeat any legislation) which provides for the creation of an irrigation reservoir in the Yellowstone Park.” Joe O'Donnell, superintendent of the Midwest Refining company — boarding house system, has returned from an Old aia and the flag of the }flames. tipped off so quickly. after the Wyo | cruiser submarines, 4 airplane carriers, ming raid that when visited “peace| destroyer tenders and 3 submarine! reigned supreme,” kentlers. of Yellowstone Park waters for irriga-| day and in west and extreme north por- tions tonight; colder Sunday and in extreme west portions toniglits high winds will continue. WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled weather with snow Sum Mey Death. BUSINESS PART AND MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS LAID WASTE AFTER AMBUSH OF POLICE AUXILIARIES British Regulars Patrol Stricken City Following Night and Day of Terror; Several Lives Lost but Search of Ruins is im - possible; Conflagration Runs Its Own Course \ LONDON, after fires which Saturday night ani maddened by the killing and are made that police auxiliaries, bushed by Sinn Feiners Saturday, as $15,000,000. Hours of terror several lives were lost. Dispatches also declar their homes and shot, one fatally. Two districts were swept by the In the shopping center along Patrick's street, hardly a shop was The magnificent city St. left unscathed. WASHINGTON, Dec. if the United States does not enter world organization, is given by Secretary Daniels in his annual repott today to President Wilson. “Tf the United States is not to other powers of the earth, which are now bound together in the League of Nations,” says the naval secretary, “I feel compelled to approye the recom- mendation of the general board that congress authorize another three-year program to, be/begun as soon as the capital ships now under construction aie launched.” The three-year program recommend- ed by the general board to be under way by 1924 includes the construction ef 3 battleships, 1 battle cruiser, 30 light cruisers, 8 gunboats, 18 destroyer leaders, 12 mine-laying submarines, 6) with tion other countries in an organiza- to prevent war and promote pea Mr, Daniels says, “our present navy, with the addition of some spe- cial types, will be adequate for our de- fense and the prevention of aggres- sion.” No spocitic recommendations for appropriations for new construction during the next fiseal year are includ- ed in the secretary's report, but his} estimate of the cost of maintaining the naval establishment for the 2om- Ing year is $679,516,731 exclusive of any,sums congress may agd for new building, This is $240,000,000 more | than was appropriated for the present fiscal year, but Mr. Duniels says the sum “is not really an increase,” but is “necessary to carry on the construction of ships already authorized and the completion of shore establishments al: ready begun by direction of congress.” The most pressing problem confront- Ing the nation with regard to the na- tional defense, the naval secretary con- tinues, is’ the immediate necessity for increasing the naval shore establish: ment facilities on the Pacific coast. “The day will néver come,” Mr. Daniels says, “when a powerful fleet will not be based in the Pacific and it is essential that ample provision be made not only for the Pacific fleet, | but for the whole American fleet in its stated periods of tactical exerciscs on the west coast,’ CONTINUATION OF GREAT NAVAL BUILDING PLANS ADVOCATED IF U.S. REFUSES. TO. JOIN. LEAGUE ty Associated Press.) 13. — Approval of another three-year naval building program, ‘tavolving the construction of eighty-eight vessels, “If the United States takes its stand | (By Assoc‘ated Press.) were spent by the people of Cork hall and Carnegie library, and the Corn exchange was. damaged. The Albert quay is reported to be a mass of desolation. Dispatches today say Cork is quiet) {smoking ruins the League of Nations or a similar enter into any agreement with the HARDING URGED TO SAVE LEAGUE MARION, Ohio, Dec. 13.—Pressure on } President-elect Warren G. Harding to save thé framework of the Lengue of Nations by offering to enter on saty- guarding conditions: was increased to. day with thé arrival of Elihu Root. He is expected to outline just how far Bu |ropean powers could be expected to go |in making concessions to American pub- | lic opinion in striking out Article 10, | jurisdiction over immigration and other questions. Root is being urged for secretary of state by Harding advisers, it has been learned, but Harding 4s not inclined to] agree with, them, it 1s, reported, Immigration Would b Measure Expected feat is predicted by senate leaders. for more than a week, war-time laws. | Debate on the aed STREETCAR RUNS WILD; FIVE DEAD (Fty_Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, Dec. 13.—Five persons were killed and twenty-eight in- jured Sunday night when the motorman of a crowded street car lost con- trol of his brakes and the car raced [inspection trip in the Salt Creek field. a down one of the steepest grades in the city; overturning when it struck a switch at the foot of the hill. crown, troops | are flames. Dec, 13.—British regulars ‘ood guard today over the twisted, blackened ruins left d Sunday swept virtually unchecked through Cork, freland. Charges wounding of comrades who were ami loosed the fire demon on the city. Estimates of the loss run as high Saturday night. It is said that e that two brothers named Delaney were called from were *burned| and orders have been given the regular soldiers to shoot Troops and machine guns are stationed entirely around the burned area. search for bodies is possible until the looters on sight. No have cooled off. The fire was permitted to run its course. Two thousand people were without work today as a result of the conflagra~ tion and hundreds of others fled from the city. The conflagration followed. an am- bush of the military at Pillons Croix Saturday night in which four persons were killed and many wounded. Three clyilians were taken from their houses and.shot dead after the ambust of the military. Then fires were started, There were bomb explosion’ and firing also was heard. The populace was panic strick- en. TRELAND AT WAR WITH BRITISH, SAY SINN FEIN. \ (By Associated Press.) DUBLIN, Dec. 13—A_ proclamation declaring “the public must at once realize that Ireland is in a state of war with the forces of the British ,” has been issued over the sig- commanding the Republican army nature of the officer of the Irish in County Monaghan. OVER 300 HOUSES DESTROYED BY FIRE. (By Associated Press.) CORK, Dec. 13.—Over 300 buildings are said to have been destroyed in fires which yesterday laid waste # great part of this city. Most of the fires have been extinguished, but there. occasional sporadic outbursts ‘of GUERILLA WARFARE NOT YET ABATED. (By Associated Press:) *BALLINDLEB, County Longford, Ireland, Dec. 1 ‘The police barracks here were attacked today. The wall * (Continued on Page 2) JOHNSON BILL PASSES HOUSE e Prohibited Year by’. to Meet Defeat in Senate; Income Tax is Discussed (By Associnted Press. WASHINGTON, Dec.’ 13.—The Johnson immigration bill, as amended to prohibit all immigration for a period of one year, was passed today by the house._ It now goes to the senate, where its de- The bill provides that wives and blood relatives of naturalized-immigrants may be admitted. Following its disposition 8f the immigration bill the house voted ————$—__——_ | Mra. Alice James has returned frora|to bein immediate consideration of; posal is limited to two hours and its Denver, where she had been visiting| the Volatead resolution repealing many) early adoption is forecast. < ON BIG INCOMES PRACTICABLE,” SAID. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Continua- tion of present maximum tax rates on big incomes will “break the back" of the income tax system, Prof. Thomas Adams, tax expert of the treasury de- | partment, told the house ways and means committee today, He said the | present’ maximum tax of 73 per cént jon large incomes was impracticable tn | times,ot peace and cannot be success- | fully enforced. ae SELL the! A physician of Stockton, Calif., vis? [its his patients by aeroplane. ‘ordins ise of iby: @ ther + prop reas: forth, © part thet ‘to be ¥ the nent; sessed &! in tefits propor ack { sespec 3, or fithin wunt t ‘ate ithin and ay n acc tapter ling, m to fot, ti + pror eby o 1, or paid + the vy Rts ‘ pee gi in the v re ra it in a > 15tt and tstalls lue t reafte ed in ‘ovide fd si 2 it i-ann a Se} ith di ‘TO ASS NST! at tl ity 1