Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1921, Page 5

“S MIEWS UPON MANDATES. SENT DIRECT TO THE to. British Last No- to Washington (By Associated Press WASHINGTON. ¥, Feb. 22. “The American government communicated directly to the League of Nations coun- cil its-view with regard to Mandates as set forth in the Rote sent by Secretary Colby to. the bese government last November, it contentions that equal Speortunitiog ™must be provided for she league, but rather as a manifestation of the eee enien oe thane of the United States Indians Disc Discuss Proposed Bill Chickasaw, Creek. ole will brifg suit the government for approx!-| $25,000,000, present value of| lands awarfied slaves of the five! civilized tribes when a treaty was| : an Rf Casper Jewelry Mfg. Co., O-S. Bldg. 7 — 11 INDICTED FOR EFFORT TG DEFRAUD CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—Indictmenta charging eleyen officials of the Con- sumers’ Service company with using, the mails to defraud farmers of more} than $250,000 in the last. five years through the sale of “service contracts” ‘were made public today by postal in-| spectors. A. P. Clarahan, inspector in charge of the Chicago end of the investiga- tion, said that farmers in twenty states had been swindled. In return for contracts for $20 to $200, the company, Clarahan said, Promised to sell dry goods, farm im- plements,.groceries, and other lines of merchandise at reduced prices. The nt charges that letters said aap .could buy more direct a the consumer, thereby eliminating, middiemen’s profits. The indictment alleged the farmers were not rendered the Parvin crniseds 5 —— Bartfield an Bogash to ad eet In Ring Battle ‘LOUISVILLE, Feb. ton H. Smith, president of the Louis: vie & Nashville Railway company fom: ued yd ae here today after a beart attac Mr. ‘ait had been {li for several months end his death was not unex- cted. He was 85 years of age ani tinuously had ben president of the ile & Nashville since 1491. ———>—__—_ FOR THE TRIBUNE. \ LEAGUE. COUNCIL Duplicate of Note Sent] 2? i: ae Se = POLICE GOURT TENANTS IN CHICAGO ORGANIZE Captain Paxton Hibben Tells Emactated little girls with Pinched and unreal faces, their clothing a mere piece of torn sack- ina parciea listaasly slong the ins, paraded ong: maa of the train with uplifted, ate uncombed haps bt seeing nett ows what th ine Rees ese what 6 ser ee, ae ‘place, uns wa om place Un Protected, unloved, tuncared! ‘tor! who tion, General the war. People Lack Everything “These desperate, destitute people who have no land to cultivate, no food to eat and no clothes to wear, and have been in that condition for ave years, now,” he calls the more than half. million Armenian refugees wandering from place to place seeking food and shelter that does not exist. “Under the old ‘Tear! ‘the peasants plowed with a charred stick plow, drawn by three to six oe en -to-goadnens pew Roding | ts re int ete Clares, ot a eee of a ran ange even a jase— S but the fi tanm ‘and fie Pike ula oy) a destruct ction.” Captain Hibben describes the ar- val ear Fast Ri let a at. ivan, the capl- ste MR eENRRE. Ate ay Btation “crowded “with hundreds of homeless Trelugees Hundreds of Homeless “All about, on the ground, close to the walls for shelter from wind: under freight cars, jn the me: covering of dusty hedges, in the open—everywhere—-little groups lay on the dry th, hundreds and hundreds, almost all women, with a few children, Near them pitiful idles of rage that constituted the hole of their worldly possessions: stoner. and a bit of rusted tin tove upon which what own. for no Teason, me tteets id. ae the handful petlgaes ns vores from wo station a a poailine ies fillea al ew, is of sie "theta: Tier tae are NETO CITY $281 FINES IN DAY Traffic Violators, Drunks, Va- grants and Other Violators In- cluded in Hearings Held Yesterday Police court yesterday afternoon netted the city a neat sum of $251 in fines assessed for law violations. The total number of days in sen- tences average 60. Of the fifteen persons arrested, four were for traffic violations, those ait were: Schulte Hardware company, C. B. Peters, Marten.and.a Mr, McGih- nis. The fines were $5 each. Two drunks deposited fines of $15 each in the city coffers. Frank Breen and Arthur Osgood were the guilty Parties. ‘Van Porter, Rosende, Art West and Charles Holmes, arrested on vagrancy charges were held in jail. The first three were given sentences of ten days each while Holmes drew a 30- day sentence. |. Curley Wilson deposited $25 on an assault charge, Evelyn Martin paid $50 on a charge of street walking and Jim Lentz forfeited $100 for gambling. Rae al NIGHT SHIFT AT DAM. POWELL, Wyo., Feb. 22.—A night shift will be working on improvements on the Shoshone dam before the end of the week. Orders to this ¢ffect were made public here in connection with an announcement that war vet- erans would be given preference. ‘Work of driving the tunnel is to be started at once. World ‘Poultry’ Meeting Called (By Press) LONDON, Feb. 22.—The first “World Poultry Conference” is to be held at The Hague from September 6 to September 13, next. Besides the central committee, _na- tional committees have been appoint: ed for Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain and Ireland, Norway, Switzerland and the United States. ————_—. Mrs. Victor A. Mokler and son Al- fred, of Thermopolis, arrived in Cas- per last evening and, will visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mokler, 655 Park avenue, for about a week. es Subscribe for The Tribune, “MADHOUSE OF CRUELTY AND DESPATR” AMERICAN OFFICER CALLS. ARMENIA Top—"They lived where they lay at night, without shelter or privacy.” | Bottom—“110,000 children are being fed by the Americans.” Insert—Captain Paxton Hibben old, they had sunk into hollows, I potnted them out to my companion. “This Is where they bury that cannot stick it out, t who @re. ploked up, ery morning, stilt ground where sox died auyin soca ener- nited ndent upon the Mholly, deve the people of the Aten Near East Relief Work “There are thirty-three Near East Relief Orphanage: and small, in Erivan—and about 7,000 kiddies that the Americans a: after. Through the over fifty millions of dollars have gone to help the Armenians in the past three years. Over five hundred American women and men are working in the Near Hast, un- obtrusively but effectively, to @ strange and alien peagple starvation destructio hundred ten | thousand bein: th canb: running, full, And "rhea. eppeal to the grea f the: American Facpient to Mesos whe work going— he money is always there, idealism that was ro in eae every land whose Uae inte Faller efor mn to, fight for what they be A and als is er- te deait not in fi brings them uld not walt. Bo bad as it wast “You have to remember always,” Captain Hibben says, “that Armenia was an organized nation and the Armenians a conscious people a thousand years before there was a single organized nation in Europe, save Greece and Rome. For twelve hundred of their twenty-five hundred years of existence as a le, they were, independent and erning, ‘They, were a Chris- tian people in the year 83 A.D. The Armenian kingdom was ftate in the world to adopt Chriss Hanity ag, the national church—in 201%. ey invented their wn aiphabet—such as it Iscat tis same the. ‘They have & Uterature older than the English Erench or the G Dp from One and zones of ex: irl vs jut an American Rd an architecture and a music of | the mud sidewal their own. chee were bankers and | dead traders and artisans when the in- habitants of the British Isles were blue, and the people of ‘ance and Germany went about ci eed in skins.” t pment Place, and its ‘People are all now all {s changed, ~t iCaptale, Hibben ror of for the tinuation of th of mere apticnn one eats Si Av! | Selng done by the Near fe Re ef, menians, victims of an 1 ch bscr|; BE hy Clev. trot treasurer of that oreaul- on Avenue, New history ‘of pe jon Turks and beti by the oth Chrstlan nations Of the world, a: 1 3 a zation, | Yor! ke TO FIGHT FOR RENT REDUCTION launched today and campaign meet- ings planned for all sections of the city to enlist the assistance of 100,- 000 tenants in refusal to pay in- creased rents. Secretary A. E. Jesserum of tho association said striking tenants wonld be encouraged to refuse eith- er to move or pay exorbitant rent- als, and the ass!=n"ce of municipal judges would be sought, to have eviction cases placed in their regu- lar turn at the bottom of the court calendar. This would bring them to trial not earlier than next year. (By Associated Press.) rf CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—A - tenant's strike, organized by the Chicago Tenants’ Protection association, was Three Minneapolis Players Released To Missouri Clab MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 22.— Ed Hovlik and Charles Humphreys, Signs were distributed reading: itchers, and Charles Jackson, out-| , i : flelaer, have been released by the "Unfair. Landlord ‘apie re Minneapolis American Association| vance. This apartment vacated May 1. Do you want to buy a law suit?” baseball club to St. Western league. Joseph of the ONGRESG PAYS AT WORK TODAY Senate and House Too Busy to Adjourn but Proceedings Are Suspended to Honor George Washington (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, — At-| though all government executive de- partments were closeil in observance of Washington's birthday today, gress facing crammed legisla e ca endars with adjournment only ten| days off, remained in session. In both senate and house, however, business Was suspended long enough to per-| mit the customary reading on the floor of Washington's farewell ad-| dress, Ceremonies at Mount Vernon today included the laying of a wreath on Washington's tomb by R. L. Craigie, British charge d?A es, in behalf of the British branch of the English Speaking union. Address members of | the American branch who participat- @d in the ceremonies. Mr. igte declared no man more t n Wi ing ton would approve the work of the union “in striving to promote good| id understanding among | speaking democracies of hington'a death, M | Craigie said, was typical of Britisi sentiment of deep admiration ahd re spect for the A n patriot, which he said, “had growing yet stronger with the pass of time. In connection with the celebration of the hundredth annive' of its founding, George Washington Univer- sity today conferred honorary degrees upon more than a score of public officials and distinguished men and women. Julia Marlowe, famo1s Shakespearean actress and wife of D. H. Sothern, received the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Letters. Among others who received honor- ary degrees were J. J. Jusserand, am-| bassador from France; Senor Don ‘Beltran’ Mathieu, ambassador from | Chile; Senor Rolando Ricci, newly-ap- pointed ambassador from Italy; Sena- ator Geo. H. Moses of -.ew Hamp- hire; Senator Key Pittman’ of Ni ada; George Sutherland, former sen- |ator from Utah, Doctor of Lews; Mrs. Frances Parkinson Keyes, wife cf Senator Keyes of New prenpanite, Doctor of Letters. OF DEBS IS DENOUNCED (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Feb. 22.—A statement denouncing the gene V. Debs, in the Atlanta federal prison, had been denied his writing and visiting privileges, was issued by Socialist. party headquarters today. The statement presumes that the or- der, which “extends even to his weekly letter to his wife,” was issued at the instance of the president. “The Socialist party takes this op- portunity proudly to proclaim that it stands with Debs and for him,” the statement said. ios WAGON GOES OFF BANK. LONETREE, Wyo., Feb. 22 George Stall of Burnt Fork suffered severe cuts and bruises about the face and Torin Hallett, mail carrier, was bruised when their wagon slipped off an incline and plunged into a ditch while coming down Henry's Fork hill. Team, wagon and passengers’ piled up at the foot of the embankment. wa iecn aa eld aes FIRE DAMAGES HOUS The roof of a house at 229 South Jackson street was partially destroy- ed by fire Sunday night. The depart- ment was at the sceno of the blaze in a short time and very little dam- age resulted. Removal | | Plaid Skirts All Wool and the very new- est styles— $7.95 spring 140 Coats and Dresses—Your Choice $10 Blouses Georgette, in all the newest Hundreds of Other Bargains The Leader RIBUTE, STAYS, jdent of releasing a ma TREA TMENT i department of jus-} tice and President Wilson because Eu-| DENVER SLAYER ‘ALLOWED BON (By Associated Press.) VER, Colo., Feb. here yesterday still was in jail although his release was or- |dered formally yesterday following a recommendation to Judge Warren A. |Haggott by Philip Van Cise district torney. The papers for Thomason’s e were not served today because of the holiday. As a result of the delay in releasing |Thomaon, Van Cise announced this afternoon he had decided to change his recommendation of yesterday that |Thomason be released on his own |tecognizance and said he would re- quest Judge Haggott tomorrow to free Thomason on bond. The prece- accused of murder without bond was a bad one, Van ‘Cise said he believed. Thomason shot Reece because he alleged Reece had betrayed Thomason’s 15-year old daughter. iChange Made in Amateur Trap Shooting Rules Feb. 22.—. NEW YORK, change in conditions governing competitions for jindi state championships wh rgets in title events are reduced from 300 to 200, was an nounced here today by the Amateur Trap Shooting association. i —$_—>—___. Sabor Convention Is Urged on Viceroy DELHI, India, Feb. 22.—Resolutions urging the viceroy of India to ratify the Jabor convention adopted at the labor conference held in Washington last October, were adopted by tha legislative assembly here today. The assembly decided to undertake the Passage of legislation giving effect to the convention, including the sixty hour week. ESCROW FUNDS ARE RELEASED! WASHINGTON, Feb. partment of the interior has author- ized distribution of escrow arising from the production of oil from southwest quarter of section 2- Salt Creek field, Wyoming. The impounded during fund $100,000, mainder, or $700,000. Ant a ARUSO IMPROVING. NEW YORK Feb, 22.—Enrico Caru: so, convalescing aft restfin) no his The night, d today physicians tenor 22.—George on, who shot and killed Albert —The de- | funds | 1920 totals $800,000, of which the New York Oil Company is entitled to one-eighth, or and the Midwest to the re- an attack of pleurisy and heart trouble, passed a Great Area of Mineral Lands To Be Surveyed oR, BC. of 2,000,000 acres of mineral lands owned by the Canadian Pacific Rail-| way Company on Vancouver Island is| to be started soon, Wi minister of mines, announced tod: The work will be carried on smelter at Trail, a railway company! holding. The company, Mr. Sloane said, plans to open a smelter on the island and will develop immediately every coal, aiscovery CANDIDATES SELECTED TO REPRESENT CASPER IN HIGH SCHOOL WEEK At a declamatory tryout, held yes- terday, Henriette Gutshall was select- ed to represent the local high scltool in the interscholastic contest to be held in Laramie aboyt the middle of March. Alice Mechling received sec- ond honors and will be the alternate. Tryouts have already been held in some of the other departments. ‘The foliowing pupils were successful candi- dates: Mary Flinn, violin; Ruth Kim- piano, and Thora Slade, extem- poraneous speaking. The basketball team Will also battle for honors in the tournament. Indi. cations are that Casper will carry off @ great many honors at this annual contest. | VERBAL DUEL SEQUEL. TO TEXANS’ ROW WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Verbal fireworks in the house over the Blan- ton-Sumners controversy in the Texas delegation gave place today to a letter: writing duel between the principals, Representative Sumners challenged Representative Blanton to submit the facts to a select committee and post- ed $1,000 to bind the deal. His letter Suggested that the speaker, or the Texas Press Association, or the Texas | name the committee. Representative Blanton countered |by proposing a committee of Dallas, Tex., citizens and said he had bor- rowed. $1,000 and sent it to a Dallas | bank to cover Sumner’s money. The question to be weighed, accord- ing to the challenge, was the truth of asertions by Representative Blanton as to his attempts to prevent con- gressional salary grabs. poae 08 $A ty RAIL PAYMENTS APPROVED. WASHINGTO Without a. record vote the senate today passed the Winslow bill authorizing partial yments in advance of final account- '» Feb. 22.—Sur-| American Legion or Blanton’ himself, 7 WILGON vnGES ACCEPTANCE OF TEUTON BONDS Would Take Securities as Pay» ment in Full of Belgium's Debt ; to United States; $171,- 780,000 Involved WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Enact- ment of legislation authorizing the treasury department to accept Ger man bonds in full payment of Bel- gium’s debt to the United States con- tracted before the signing of the ar- mistice, was recommended to con- &ress today by President Wilson. The total of this debt was placed at $171,- 780.000 with interest from April 15, 1919. Including sums advanced since the armistice however, Belgium owes the United States approximately $34,- $445,000, In submitting his recommendation, the president transmitted a copy of an agreement entered into June 16, 1919, with Belgium by the British and French premiers and himself to recom: mend to their respective governments that special German bonds to be de- livered to the reparations commission be accepted in an amount correspond- ing to the sums which Belgium had borrowed from the United States, Great Britain and France prior to the armistice. The reparations commission, con- sress was informed, has not as yet Tinally determined the details of the issuance of the necessary bonds by the German government, but the pres- ident said that “in view of the ap- proaching termination of my adminis- tration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that suitable action may be taken at the approxi- mate time.” ——— How Many Cubes? 5, 6 or 7? Don’t Guess Come in and We will tell you. Also bring along that timepiece that keeps you guessing and let us straighten it out. JOS. I. SCHWARTZ Iris Theater Bldg. ing to railroads under government nty of earnings. Sale shades— $5.00 131 East Fifth It attractsthose who are thoughtful about the quality of the things they use, but who also keep a ' careful eye on their spending and saving. The gasoline consumption ts unusually low The tire mileage is unusually high COLISEUM MOTOR CO. CASPER, WYO. Phone 6 BROTHERS BUSINESS CAR 724