Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1921, Page 1

GERMANY GIVEN UNTIL MONDAY TO ACCEPT ALLIED INDEMNITY TERMS Che Casper Daily Weather Forecast Fair tonight and probably Friday, somewhat warmer tonight in. nort! east portion, colder Friday in/jixtre: north portion. i VOLUME V ——__—_—— he Crthiune | : CITY DITION CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921 NUMBER 121 COSTA RICAN FORCES RUSHED TO COTO DISTRICT, FIGHTING WITH PANAMA TROOPS BEGINS (By Associated Press.) | PANAMA, March 3.— Costa Rican forces are being | rushed to the Coto district between this country and Costa | Rica, where Panaman and Costa Rican troops have been| engaged in hostilities, dispatches to the government here| say. A steamer, it is declared, has been at Punta Arenas! taking on troops and munitions, and it is believed the Costa | Ricans planned to land these forees| CAPIT ° ° NAVAL BILL TO. GO OVER UNTIL NEXT SESSION Hope of Passage Abandoned by Senator Poindexter, Leader: in Senate WASHINGTON, March 3.—Hope ceeded to other business. Senator Poltidlexter said‘that from the. experience of the past four days during which the bill has been de- bated, he was satisfied that it could not be enacted before adjournment my = that he was, ‘Phe Washington senator attacked the measure as passed by the house, leclaring that had. it ‘bec:> einnacted it would have led ‘io-the ‘‘demnoraliza-. tion and- paralysis of the American’ navy.” hn “A new. beret PUL yo "bye. £0 be drafted at 6. special session o! congress, which President Harding is expected to call for April 4. Senator Poindexter told. the sen- ate a number of circumstances had brought about the failure of the bill. Withdrawal of the naval bill threw the whole pre-adjournment program confusion. Le said frankly they did not know what would be done, but agreed that there was no chance for any other important legislation being put thru.. A few minor bills, it was said, might be considered. Senator Poindexter said the re- moval of the navy bill wonld give senators. opportunity to discuss “muscles in Muscle Shoals” and the “raid on the treasury” for the Ala- bama project in the sundry civil bill, which, he sald, was being defeated in order to hold the Suscle Shoals item, altho it carried millions for former service men and their fam- ilies. Reiterating that the United States was “facing a serious situation,” Senator Poindexter said “we are of the United States if the 1916 program was completed,” he said. “Any impression that goes abroad that she has not made any naval ap- propriations is misleading. a — Typhus Case Is Investigated YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March 3.— State health authorities are to arrive here today to investigate a case diag- nosed by a local physician as typhus. The patient is Tuke Blasac, 22, who arrived in New York February 6. from Czecho-Slovakia. WILSON AND COLBY \G RECEIVES OVA Crowds Brave Rain to Jam Concourse Near Station WASHINGTON, March 3. reached. Washington at 1 o'clock this afternoon, and went into conference with in- au, officials on details of tomorrow's ceremonies. : Although the presidential specis! reached the capitol a half hour aheac of schedule, a !arge crowd greetd the president-elect as he walked out through the president's entrance of the station. Smiling and bowing ne entered an automobile and was driven to a down-town hotel, where he ani Mrs, Harding will remain over nigi In his conferences with inaugu: tion officers, it is understood the que: tion of a call of courtesy on President was discussed. Before the conference began Mr. Harding indicated that he would be qulded=iithia- ana. 16° tails by sug oe it. tee, + ats Vice President-elect and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge ag well as the commissioners of the District of Columbia “govern- ment were at the station 10 the. president-olect ‘and, Mrs. Harding in the presidents’ room. Immediately after the arrival of the party there, Mr, Harding began a series of conferences with his ad- visers, The Republican. National com- mittee had been in session at the hotel and the meeting adjourned in time for the members to welcome Mr. Hard- ing. Three of the newly appointed cabinet officers, Harry M. Daugherty, John W. Weeks and Will H. Hays, were at the hotel. Senator A. B. Fall of New Mexico, who is to be the.new secretary of the interior, called on Secretary Payne at the department today to discuss poli- cies and pending matters. Senator Fall expects to resign from the sen- ate tomorrow. PRESIDENT-ELECT CALLS ON WILSCN. WASHINGTON, March re dentelect Harding will go to the White House late today to call on President Wilson. ‘The decision of Mr. Harding to make such a call be- came known after he had conferred with Senator Knox of Pennsylvania and other members of the congres- sional inaugural committee. Mrs. Harding will accompany the CLARK FUNERAL ‘SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY A. M. Services to Be Held in House at 10:30 in Tzibute to Leader | (By Associated Press} WASHINGTON, March 3.— The House of Representatives had. com- pleted arrangements today for fun- eral services in the house chamber Saturday morning for {ts late min- ority leader and former speaker, Champ Clark, who died here yes- terday after a brief iliness.. The services, which will be held- at 10:30 o'clock will be a tribute of respect. such as has been piiid only a few times in the history of tho Sher body of the former. ar Will lie in state in the FO. tunda before the serices. Both houses of congress voted to: appoint committees 6" ai ie funeral vay ‘representatives.-of thelr: respective bodies.” Tonight the house will devote an hour to dn eulogy to the former speaker. The house committee appointed. to attend the funeral of Mr. Clark is headed by Speaker Gillett and includes in addition to the Missouri delegation, Kepresentatives | Can- non, Tlinois; Mondell, Wyoming, republican house Jeader; Good, Towa; Longworth, Ohio; Kitchin, STAGE SET FOR INAUGURAL FETE TION ON ARRIVAL pas Avenue Swathed In Colors Despite Harding Plea (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3. —Despite the expressed de- simple inaugural ceremonies, Washington to- day had assumed very much of a preinauguration day air. The usual, hotel rooms were somewhat scarcer and flags and bunting in pro- fusion made their appearance along Pennsylvanian avenue and in the downtown section. where Mr. Harding will take the oath of-office and deliver, his inaugural ad dress, déntial party and several companies of marines from Quantico; who. will be on guard along. the ‘avenue, “held final @filis’ in’ preparation for the part they-are £2 play--in thes event: AMght rain that began last night, still was falling early today, but for: inauguration day the weather bureau has predicted clear and colder. — HAMBURG TRAFFIC GROWS. HAMBURG, March 2.— Five hun- dred and forty-three vessels, having a tonnage totaling 672,278, arrived here during the month of February. Of these, thirty-three flew the American flag. North Carolina, and Hardy, Texas. sire of President-elect Har-; | ding for on the eastern shore of Surica Point, | a projection of land which marks the Pacific end of the boundary between Panama and Costa Rica. | Should this maneuver be carried | out. the Panaman forces which ro-| cently captured Costa Rican units oc cupying Coto, to the northeast, would | be in danger of being cut off from their base of supplies. Such a move |by Costa Rica would involve the United § 8, since the shore east of Burica Point was given to Panama under the arbitration ruling of Chief Justice White, which was handed down in 1914. Travelers arriving here from Costa Rica reported anti-American demon-| strations in San Jose, Puerto Limo Cartago and Heredia on February and 28. The captur- of another Costa Rican vessel with 100 men on board vw officially announced here yesterday. | RAIL STRIKE ON SOUTHERNROAD IS SANCTIONED } WASHINGTON, March 3.—Reports that Costa Rican forces might be landed at Burica Point, south of the Panama frontier, caused surprise in | government circles here, in view of of- ficial intimations from.Costa Rica pre- viously that no extension of opera- Atlanta, Birmingham & At- lantic Employes to Walk Out, Is Belief | CHICAGO, March 3.— Sanction on California and Wyoming naval fuel OCCUPATION OF RUHR DISTRICT IS THREATENED Allies to Seize Three Cities, Place Tax on Merchandise and Establish Customs Bexundary Along the Rhine (By Associated Press.) LONDON, March 3.— Germany was today given until Monday noon to accept the fundamental conditions laid down by the Supreme Allied council at Paris. The German dele- gates were informed by the allied representatives today that if Germany does not accept those terms the allies will take PTE TAS Se es | immediate steps. | , The first will be the occupation vy | Allied troops of the cities of Duisburg and Dusseldorf and Ruhrort (at the mouth of the Ruhr, twelve miles west HINGTON, March 3.—Gas and| is held under pMcer locations of Eseen). Second, each allied country ~ wilt Place such a tax on German merchan- dise as it may deem proper. Third, customs boundary along the Rhine, under allied control, will be es- tablished. The German delegation was inform- ed that the only modification of ths Paris reparation decisions permitted would be as regarded conditions uf payment, such as a reduction of the period of annuities from 42 years to 30 years, Germany's countes proposals, which were submitted to the allies on Tues- oil reserve lands revert to the navy un- less “diligent prosecution’ of repairs | or production is shown, the secretary of the interior decided today. The leasing law enacted last year provides that leases be granted to streets were a little more crowded than| Finishing touches were given to the! |staind on the east porticoof thecapitol | S2roops ofyevairy at Fort Myer will| um the single escort for the presi-} from sixteen railroad brotherhoods and unions for a strike of employes | of the Atlanta, Birmingham & At- | Iantic railway, was dispatched to | local representatives of ‘the unions following a midnight conference of heads of the organizations here, it was announced today. A strike vote on the road was completed: January 28: The local union offiecrs will fix the date of | the strike. = |, pies inchegeB. M. Jowett, of: the.» Railway Employes Department of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. It was said that the projected strke will haye the parking! of the nattonal 'Thé: wage question was recently tuken ‘before the’ Raflrasd Labor board but was directed to take it to conference with employes’ repre- sentaties. Later the road went into a federal receivership’ and the re- celver ordered wages reduced, | I = ——— Lauren D. Waldorf has recently | opened his offices at 148 South Ce: | street, oyer the Campbell-Johnson | elothing store. Mr. Waldorf is an in come tax specialist. tions southward was contemplated, It was indicated, however, that should such a movement develop, the United States could be expected to take prompt measures toward compelling the contending Costa Rican and |Panamanian forces to confine their Foperations to the disputed territory of | Coto.- | | | | | | POCKET’ VETO OF TARIFF ACT WASHINGTON, March 3. Presi. tariff and immigration bills under advisement, White House of ’ that he would “pocket veto | is | C. A. White, Burlington official |from Chicago, is in the city this week. restriction but Tapestry Given Mrs. Wilson Is Moved to Home president-elect to the: White House and after a short stay there, they will call on Mrs. Champ Clark to express personally their sympathy at the death of her husband, APPOINTMENT OF DAVIS CONFIRMED ON BOARD PRESIDENT‘HLECT HARDING'S SPECIAL TRAIN; March 3.—President-elect Harding to- day definitely announced the selec- tion of James J. Davis of Pittsburgh | to be secretary of labor and of, George B. Christian, Jr., to be: secretary to the president. | WASHINGTON, March 3.—Crowds of inaugural visitors and home folks gathered in and around the Union sta- tion today to greet President-elect Harding on his arrival from Marior., (Continued on Page 4) WASHINGTON, March 3.—The $75,- 000 tapestry presented to Mrs. Wilson, wife of the president, during the peace} conference, will find a place in the} new home of the Wilsons. Mrs. Wil- son, it was learned today, has removed the tapestry from the east room of the White House, where it has been hang- ing since it was brought to the United States. Se INDICTED MEN SURRENDER. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 3.— Indiaria coal operators under indict- ment on charges of violating the Sher- man anti-trust law through a con- spiracy with miners and retailers to increase soft coal prices, surrendered today to Mark Storen, United States marshal, and gave bond of $10,000 each for their release. WILL PRACTICE LAW Retiring President and Secretary of State to Be. Partners in in New York and Washington WASHINGTON, March 3. — President Wilson forcally announced today that he would “resume the practice of law” in a partnership with Bainbridge Colby, the retiring secre- tary of state. The firm will and Washington. The announcement was made at the White House in the following statement: “President Wilson made the an- nouncement today that at the conctu- sion of his term of office, but wou'd resume ihe practice of law, forming Firm With Offices maintain offices in New York @ partnership with the secretary of state, Bainbridge Colby. “The firm will have offices in New York and Washington.” public mind one of his least known attainments—that of being a lawyor. He was graduated in law from the University of Virginia in 1881 and practiced in Atlanta in 1882 and 1833 In the latter year he went to Balc- more to take up post-graduate work at Johns ‘Hopkins university and practiced some in the local courts in that city. Mr. Wilson did not remain long at the practice of law, for in 1885 he began his career as a college pro- fession, taking up the chair of his- tory and political sconomy at Bryn Mawr. : No announcement was made of the character of practice the new finn will. take up, but the presumption ts that it will engage principally in international law and collateral worit. The president's announcement, wholly unexpected, will recall to the How actively Mr. Wilson may tale (Continued on Page Four) 5 Shot Rancher in Self-Defense, Is Belief; Ackerman Case Trial in Court on March 14 | A single murder case, that of Mrs. ‘Jessie Ackerman, will) to Be Called For be tried at the March term of the district court as a result) of official action'which wipes out the charge against John P.| Dewald, who shot and killed William Rosenberry near Buck- num last October. The case against Dewald was dismissed} and the defendant released on the grounds that evidence}; REVERSE LEADS TO SUICIDE OF RICH GRAIN HAN OMAHA, March 3.—Emi] ‘Roths- child, former millionaire grain dealer and president of the firm of the Rothschild Grain company, was | found dead on the kitchen floor of his| home here early today. Gas was pouring from the burners of a stove.| Members of his family said that Mr.. Rothschild had been, suffering from a nervous breakdown following severe. financial reverses in grain speculation. He left several notes, one of them to his attorney in which he said his assets would be ample to take care of everyone. Mine Is Used | As Gas Vault WASHINGTON, March 3. — The] battered experimental coal mine at} Bruceton, Pa., which has,been used to| try out every sort of new explosive, | new digging machinery and new min ing theory, is to become a storage} vault for helium, the non-inflammable| The bureau of mines is making quantities of this new gas at Fort Worth, Texas, and engineers have de cided to line a part of the experi- mental mine with copper and store the gas away until a need for it de- jago when a quantity of stolen mer- tended to show that he shot in self- defense. Mrs. Ackerman. who will be tried| for the murder of Adelbert Hoffa: on the night of October 7, last, will! be called on March 14. | Trial of criminal cases will next Thursday morning when Rodeguez, charged with stealing two i1k dresses from the Webel Commer. begin, Joe cial company store, will be placed on trial. In the meantimo several civil} cases will be disposed of by Judge C. 0. Brown. Other trials have been set for the following dates State vs. K. P. O'Brien, charged with the theft of $168 from a deposit box at police headquarters, March 10, 9:15 a. m. State vs. F. J. Mitchell, on a charge! of forgery, March 10, 10 a, m. The cases against Ira Iwerks and J. B. North, arrested a few weeks chandise was recovered in a raid on Iwerks’ home, will be heard the morn- ing of March 11 at 9 o'clock State of Wyoming vs. Phillipe Al- mino, charged with assault with in tent to kill Lester Meyers and Jack Allen on November 30, last, will be. tried March 15, 10 a. m. Drs. J. H, Hahn and B. G. Hahn, chiropractors, will be tried the morn- ing of March 21, on a charge of prac- ticing medicine without a license. Many cases have been dismissed. tert ghia it HARVARD BOOSTS TUITION DEWALD IS RELEASED FROM TRIAL ON MURDER CHARGE Faith in Young Men Not Broken By Bond Theft CHICAGO, Myrch 3.—The theft of 2,000 in bonds by William Dalton, ar-old clerk in the Northern ompuny as not shaken our oung men," H. O, Edmonds, dent of the company, sald and his unfaithfulness has not any appreciable change in our Statements of other Chicago bank: ers today also declared ‘honesty is not a matter of ag oo - GLASS PLANT BURNS. BAR: , Ohio, March 3,— When a tank filled with molten glass burst early today, fire started which totally destroyed the Kearus-Gorsuch glass plant here with a loss estimated at $700,000. ISSUANCE OF LEASES MAY BE SUSPENDED New Wireless To Guide Ships LIVERPOOL, March 3.—Discoyery of a new wireless invention by which ships may be guided during dense fogs was announced here tonight by Will- iam Marconi at the annual British shipmiasters’ dinner. he said, which electric waves may be directed velops. hardship on needy students, same time so as to impose no extra/nounced today his resignation as comp- troller of the currency. IS PREDICTED dent Wilson still has the emergency some Is said it was their This invention, | is based on a principle by| present occupants whose wells on} naval reserve lands were producing on that date. It therefore devolved upon| the secretary of the interior to decide what was a producing well, as a num- sber of wells had been suspended or abandoned. He declined to make a general definition, but in the first de-|taken by the German empire regarding cision reached, which was in the case|reparations was in addition, a grave of weils controlled by the Associated | violation ot the obligations of Ger- Oil company, he granted leases where | many toward the Allies| He reminded there was an indication of “diligent the German representatives that their prosecution” of work and denied legags}government had not fulfilled <1é ‘on the rest, reaty of Versailles relative to ccal an Clark 86,000 000,000 marks in golaeateie Champ. Clark Is Eulogized by Arizona House punishment of German officers and y were susceptible of examination, Premier Lloyd George told Dr. fWaltec mons, head of the German delega- tion, in substance, after today’s ses- sion of the conference had assembled at St, James Palace at noon. Mr. Lioyd George said the attitude soldiers. accused of crimes during the war, Germany, added the British prime minister, in refusing to aecept the concessions proposed by the Allies with regard to reparations, had by the same act renounced the advantages | granted her at the previous conferenca PHOENIX, Ariz, March 3,—The| With the Allies. house of the state legislature today| Mr. Lloyd George then, on behalf unanimously adopted a resolution |Of the Allies, announced the ultima- praising the late Champ Clark. Copies| tum. i of the resolution, which characterized, After Mr. Lloyd George had finish- Mr. Clark as a “staunch, loyal states-/¢d, Dr. Simons, for the Germans, satd man,” were ordered sent to the speaker, the intentions of the German govern- of the national house of representa-|ment had been quite misunderstood. tives in Washington and to Mrs. Clark.) The German delegation, he said, would ‘The resolution was offered by Repre-|Teply at noon on Munday. sentative P. C, Keefe bf Yavapai coun-| “In our opinion,” added the German minister, “no oceasion will ty, speaker of the hous: | fc arise for the sanctions set forth by QN SUPER-STRUCTURE mine the British prime minister speech and the allied documents most refully It was noticed during the British prime minister’s presentation of the allied decisions that he had left an opening for the Germans to make new i propos: nd Dr. Simons, in making the reply did, was prompt to take advantag f this, turned over to the con-| Mr. Lloyd George, in the course of tractors and construction work on! his long speech, said that if the Ger the new structure will commence as|mans had come with a sincere desire soon~as-the materials arrive on the|to discharge Germany’s obligations, ground, which is expected to be not| the allies would have given their pre- later than the first of April, The] posals fair and patient consideration, work on the new building will not| If the Germans, he continued, had interfere with the entertainments at| said that they had better ways which the new Moose home the Winter Garden, it is announced. | would be equally effective in meeting LAER eras the case, then added the premier, “we would ha sat down with the German delegation to examine in per- fect good faith their counter proposals with a view to arriving at a reason- jable accor reply is taken to mean SENT WILSON rmans have further pro& posals to make in conformity with the WASHINGTO? March 3.—The| Paris conclusions of the allies. army appropriation bill was — co --— pleted: today and sent to the presi-| BERLIN, March 3.—Banking ctr- dent. The house’ accepted the’ com-|cles today gave no indication of ap- promise, agreed to by the senate, for|prehension regarding the further pro- an army of 156,000 eae: men during the] next fiscal year. (Continued on Page 4) | New Administration Must Become Fami liar With Situation, Says Private Report From Washington | | | | Unconfirmed reports received today through private sources from Washington stated that no more leases or PI pecting permits on government-owned lands will be iss | by the interior department until the new administration CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Marth 3.—An|in any definite direction Ike flashes! in full control of the situation, which may be, it is sta |{nerease in| tuition fees at Harvard|from a lighthouse. He declared these| from four to six months from now . . ; University, made necessary by an ad-| waves would prevent collisions of ves-| etal a Ae. Rtteeres . Th c | vance fn expenses and an estimated | sels during fogs heii poiienih bo mb Wa ey Orde®, ln. iseued ao, tae aie | defleit for this year of more than’$300,-| Beadle de sd ning oll commanies for wereval heng| ne’: Administration can become fully 000, was announced by the corporation WILLIAMS BEATS AXE were depending upon the securing of /eauainted with the situation out here fend thie Bours ot overscers today. A ABHINOTON, March 8—John|Jeaseholds in the near future to es-|and can then outline its method of icholarship will be increased at the) Skelton ame or juchmond an-/tablish a funding plan to bring in| proceedure without being encuinbered |funds for drilling and operating the by the pending grants of t - tracts. aa going administration,