Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1921, Page 1

BRITISH STRIKE BY OFFIGERS. OF “LABOR ALLIANCE: ¢ Four Million ca Vice Men To Be Idle When Big Walkout Takes Place; Nation to Take Action BULLETIN. LONDON, April 13.—(By The As- sociated Press}—The .<'rers, ae- cording to the Evening Standard to- day, have decided there can be no renewal of the negotiations for a strike settlement even if the invi- tation emanates from government or. the labor leaders. .< LONDON, April 13.—(By The. Associated. Press.) — Great Britain’s “triple alliance of labor” will call its members from their posts at 10 o'clock Friday night, it was an- nounced here this morning at 11 o'clock. ‘This decision :follows the in- ability of the miners’ federation to reach an agreement. with the mine owners and the government for tig settlement of the miners’ strike, which began April 1. The “triple alliance” is made up ae the Niti¢nal Miners” federation, hav- ing a membership of 800.000; the X95 tional Union of Railwaymen with 3 000 memibers, the member unions of nearly. 300,000, ..3t mated that if the “alliance” call a strike there would be bout ale 000,000 persons idle in England as ® result. The detision to strike” was , reached! unanimously by the transport work- ers and railwaymen, J. H: Thomas, general secretary of the railwaymen’s union, said after this morning’s meet- ing. , “The walkout,” he declared, “will take place at 10 o'clock Friday night. Many other unjons have sent appli- cations to join the strike, and these are being considered.” Other labor ‘organizations may be- come involved in the controversy be- tween the government and the “triple alliance.” The Daily Mail declared to- day that the executive committee of the electrical trades unions resolved last night to support the ‘‘triple allj- ance.” An electricians’ strike would paralyze street car traffic and public lighting companies. The Daily Herald, organ of labor, said the government. had “banged and bolted the door upon all hope of an honogable settlement.” STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT. The government today issued the following statement bearing upon the labor situation: In the event of the threatened ex- tension of the. stoppage of work, the government wishes to make it clear that they will use the fullest powers of the state to protect the workers in any services essential to the life of the community. “In any settlement which may be reached the government) will give their support in assuring that the po- sition of such workers shall not be prejudiced as compared with their po- sition before the stoppage.” Amerian R Rights in nM easure Taken p byt the Senate The Associated Press.) | ‘The fesolution, which also would end the state of war with the Aus- trian government was referred to the foreign relations committeo without discussion. It would provide *that American rights under the treaty of ‘Versailles should be reserved. The resolution fol!s: “Resolved: That the joint resol- tion of congress passed April 6, 1917, declaring a state of war to exist be- tween the imperial German govern: ment. and the’ government and peoplo of the United States and making pro- visions to prosecute the same, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and said state of war is hereby declared at an end; “Provided, however, that all, prop- erty of the imperial German govern- ment or its successor or successors, and of all German. natio. » which was on April 6, 1917, in or has since that date come into the possession or under ‘control of the government of the United States or any of its offi- cers, agents or employes from any source or by any agency whatsoever, shall be retained by the United States and no disposition thereof made, ex- cept as shall have been heretofore or Specifically hereafter be provided by congress until such time as the Ger- man. gov by treaty with. the tinted Bian by ratification whereof is to be made by and with the, advices, S per without. ‘disturbing. the 1914, loss, damage or injury to their persons or property, directly or indi- rectly, whether through the owner- ship of shares of stock in German, American or other corporations, or in consequence of hostilities or of any Operations. of war or otherwise, and also pi s ‘granting to persons owing permanent allegiance ‘to the United. States, most favored nation treatment, whether the same be na- tional or otherwise, in all matters af- fécting residence, business, pro‘es- sion, trade, navigation, commerce and industrial property rights and con- firming to the United States all fines, forfeitures, penalties and seizures im- posed or made by the Unitéd States during-the war, whether in-respect.‘o the property of the German govern- ment or German nationals, and waiv- ing any and all pecuniary ~claims based on events which occurred at any time before the coming into force of such treaty, any existing treaty be- tween the United States and, Ger- many to the contrary notwithstand- ing. “Section 2. That until by treaty or act or joint resolution’ of congress, it shall be determined otherwise, the United - States, although it has not ratified the. treaty of Versailles, re- serves all of the rights, powers, claims, “privileges, indemnities, repa- rations or advantages to which it and its nationals have become entitled in- cluding the right to enforce the same under the terms of the armistice signed November 11, 1918, or any ex- ‘tension or modifications thereof or which under the treaty of Versailles |Beve been étipuluted for {ts benefit or {Continued on; Page 4.) WARNING ISSUED AGAINST WATER Residents along the Platte cautions against high water tomorrow, sity of turning loose a considerable quantity river are warned to take pre- because ‘of the neces- of water. which has filled the Pathfinder dam to the capacity mark. Some time tomorrow morning the authorities at the dam will open the vales to permit the passage of 3,000 second feet of walter until the water is lowered to the extent that there will be no danger from the spring and summer thaws in the mountain. Just how this volume of water will affect the river is not known definitely. here. It will permit the water to rise considerably higher than it has been at any time: this however and 88 8 precaution all le living along the river are warned to be on the lookout. Although it is necessary at this time to release a heavy volume of water at the dam, it is not thought that there will be any later damage to the structure, because most of the cams which are feeders to’ the tershed have already carried their Later it fs expected that the there will be plenty of water without flood danger. The only thing that can change the phase of the present.water- supply: is heavy spring storms which are un- Tap Y FOR PRISONERS MUST AWAIT PEACE Few ‘Changes Made i in Resolution to End War, Introduced by Benatar reaty Reserved ASHINGTON, April 13.) "CASPER, WYO. - IRDAY, APRIL 1, 1921 HARDING MESSAGE IS \President’s Address to Special Session Of Congress Creates Favorable Impression Among Officials Comet Sighted To Come Near Earth in June PARIS, April 18.—(By The Associated Press. )—Presi-} dent Harding’ '8 Message to congress created a most favorable | impression in Paris official and other circles. Particularly} favorable was the reception of the president’s phrases inter- preted here as recommending ratification of the Versailles} treaty detached from the league of nations covenant and| with reservations. FUNERAL PLAN ISKEPT SECRET { DOORN, Holland, April 13.—wlab-) $red StF Rahs ; ‘ 2 March 13, and is increasin, orate precautions were taken here to! prightness, will make its nearest A day to keep secret the hour when the} proach to the.sun May 10, accord- body of the late former empress of| ing to word received at Harvard Germany was to be taken from the| from Dr. Leuschner of the Univer- house of Doorn to the railway station| sity of California. at Maarn. Every effort was also| The orbit of Reid's comet has made to prevent the route over which| been computed by Messrs. Einarsson the train would go to Potsdam from! and Meyer of the students’ observa- becoming known, tory at the University of Califor- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13.— Winnecke’s comet, which ap- proaches the earth every five years and eight months and which will come “very near’ the earth in June, according to the prediction of Dr. Cromelin, the English astronomer, has been sighted by Prof. EB, EB. Barnard, of the Yerkes observatory, at Williams Bay, Wis. Word to this effect has just been received at the Harvard college. observatory. How near it will approach this time astronomers probably soon | will be able to compute. Reid’s comet, which was) discov- ered at Cape Town, South Africa, ( LONDON, “April 13.— President Harding's message to congress was received too late for editorial com- ment in this morning's ‘newspapers. The editorial writers of the afternoon journals devote considerable attention to those four passages dealing with the League of Nations and Amer- ica’s foreign relations in general. The Westminster Gazette pays esps- cial attention to the declaration in the message of America’s intention to have no part in the existing League of Nations. “We have no reproacnes to for that abstention,” it says, America cannot have matters ways. She cannot abstain and offer “but both then complain that the victors have made| ,, om | nla, says Dr. Leuschner. On April of the league something other than PARIS, April 13.—Funeral services | 16 it will be 4% times brighter than America would liave had it.” in memory of the later former Em-| when it was discovered, and on press Augusta Victoria of Germany at Doorn have been delayed, accord-| ing to a dispatch received here. It is| said they will|.be, held at Doorn. on /Sunday. and atsPotsdam next Puesday;~\be April 28 about 7% times brighter. If Reid's comet keeps én increas- ing in: brightness. the Harvard, a: tronomers, prédict’ that it will soon? s sVisible to the-naked eye. The Pall Mall Gazette says Presi- dent Harding's conception of the fu- ture seems to be expressed in his reference to “nations associated for world helpfulness without world gov; ernment,” and it adds: “We trust he will” persevere ‘inthe effort to beri ‘useful work up: on which the League of Nations ds}. already engaged.” SINCERITY STRIKES RESPONSIVE CHORD. BUENOS AIRES, April 13,—Praise for the frankness, sincerity and. re- spect’ with, which President’ Harding in- his message to the United States congress yesterday rejected the League ot Nations is voiced. by Lu Razon, of this city. Mr. Harding's program is described as the practice of “shirt sleeve policies” but the news- paper sees only self-interest in the future international policy of the United States. “The egotistic independent nation- alism which is proclaimed as the law of international activity by the United States is dominant in Mr, Harding's words,”” the newspaper declares. “Atpericanism and Monroevism, notions clear and concrete, which have had their rise and fall since 1824, reap- pear with more vigor than ever in the directing throughout of the United States.” IN GLENROCK Cardinal Given Great Ovation NEW YORK, April 13.—Saluted with the blowing of whistles by steam-| ers in the bay, Dennis Cardinal Dough-| erty Philadelphia returned today} from Rome, where the red hat was| conferred upon him by the Pope. - ‘The prelate found thousands of ad- mirers assembled to greet him. They packed Battery Park and overflow- ered several blocks in the chasms be- tween Broadway ESky BIRO DETS: GLE! OCK, Wyo., April JAP STEAMER IS Thes. Jefferson SEIZED | BY U.S. | Honored Today) | CHARLOTTSVILLE, Va., JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 13.—/_ The i7sth anniversary of the birth. Bpeeeryi ton. seneuess | Stekror Erie | Gay of Thomas Jefferson was observed Maru was seized here today by the|togay at the University of Virginia, United States marshal under the pro-!.¢ which he was the founder. hibition enforcement act. The action|” prict exercises were hel followed seizure aboard the ship of/mountainside grsv>. at 12 cases of liquor not‘recorded on tue: while a wreain was placed there manifest, Frank M, Rondolph, @ descendant of | Seven members of the steamers Jap-|the writer of the Declaratica of In- anese crew were arrested Sunday! dependence. PEACE. RESOLUTION NOT SUFFICIENT. LIVERPOOL, April 13.—Comment- ing on the message of President Hard- ing to the United States congress, the Post of this city declares its, belief that the program of the American president “looks simpler than it real- ly “A mere declaratory resolution of peace,” the newspaper continues, “will scarcely suffice to adjust matters be- tween the United States and | Ger- many. The resolution will have +o be followed by a full blown treaty and at the fe Sra bed lean dl Nps ek hel pegs charged with liquor smuggling after| Messages wero read trom muny no- ppp tobemne rene ete) ¢ wu, |@ battle in which one seaman was|tables, including former President ing from the prior existence of Burl. ged, Taft and Vice President Coolidge. ropean treaties will force themselves upon America: We consider it most inconvenient for America to perpetu- gate longer the technical fiction that she is still at war with Germany. She has her eye.on German trade and has no intention to let such banka bar her way." DRIVER CIVEN UP Pinedale Party '‘Abandons Search: For Ralph Faler, Who. Encountered Storm on Leaving Pinedale George Oberman, chief clerk of the industrial department of -the Stand- ard, is laid up for a few days suffer- ing from a severe cold. Weather Forecast | Mostly cloudy tonight and Thurs-) day, probably showers in’ nerthyesi portion; warmer in east portion to-| pices al ste ie LANDER, Wt, April 13.— Ralph Faler, stage driver and mail carrier between Lander and. Pinedale, has been given up for dead following the return. of searchers who REGISTE found Faler’s car four miles south of South Pass. Faler was HOLDUP AT ST DUBUQUE, Ia., April 13.—A regis- tered mail robbery occurred early today at Independence, Ia., when two” hold-up’ men armed with” re- yolvers held up ©. E. Dodge, ht agent for the Illinois Central rail- road, and relieved him of a pouch of mail. No information is obtainable as to the value of the contents. ‘Tho eastbound mafl train, No. 12, - Omaha to Chicago, bad just depart- pti 8 oi Sa ey when he left Pinedale on-the return trip in a snowstorm. Fifty Pinedale men turned out to search ‘for the missing man and one report states that, his coat and hat last seen on April 4 ‘SPRING CLEAN-UP AT BURLINGTON LAUNCHED The spring clean-up campaign is in fulleforce at the Burlington \yards. Men with teams, scrapers and shovels are busy dusting off and cleaning up the mechanical yards north of the sta- ATION IN IOWA, ed when Dodge picked up the pouch. As he was entering the station, two men with drawn pistols ordered him to throw up his hands. He did not comply with the order quick enough to satisfy the hold-up men and one of them shot at him, the bullet graz- Tho men then forced Dodge to enter a waiting automobile, taking abandoned his car. The latter was in running order with plenty of water and gas, It is thought possibly that tife man in his efforts to find a refuge from the storm fell into one of the prospect holes with which that coun try is studded. A brother, Ernest Faler, came here the 4 g - rs Springs to ald in the mail pouch with them. They |tion here. They are spending consid: | from “Rock Spri } drove ‘about three miles and -then |erable time and money and hope to search, and a halt brother. oe Wine | forced Dodge to Jeave the car, he |have everything in fine shapo in a resides at’ 1349 McKinley street, said, few days. , Casper. Daily Crime “PRAISED BY FRENCH April 13.| y | balance *of HOPE FOR STACE were found 17 miles from where he | BASEBALL EXTRA NUMBER =~ lease: Urging Release of Debs, Is Turned Down | WASHINGTON, April 13. —(By The Associated Press.) —President Harding told a delegation which called on f. him today to urge the release of Eugene V. Debs and all jother prisoners convicted under the war-time espionage act that he con- jeral amnesty: for such prisoners until a state of peace had been declared. asking to bring out certain points and intimated that the cages of these pris- oners from whom the committee spoke had already begun to receive attention from the department of | Justice.” The visit of the delegation to the White House was a part of a general amnesty program carried out today| |by delegates representing labor, po-| litical and civic organizations in lead- ing industrial centers us far west as| |St. Louis. ‘The delegates, numbering |abont 200, marched to the capital be- hind a motor truck bearing a monster petition to congress signed by citizens of 41 states. At the capitol the peti |tion was separated into lots repre- sent signers in the various congres- congress separately. House included Norman _ Thomas, editor of “Tomorrow,” New York City; Morris Hillquitt of New York; Jack- son Ralston, Washing attorney for the American Federation of Labor; Helen Todd, of the Farmer-Labor party. and | Abraham Baroff, secrétaty and treas- Iurer, ofthe: Ladies Garment Workers ‘D, 3 INJURED WRECK Jack O’Rourke, Poolhall Proprietor, | Is Victim of Accident in Which Others Are Severely Hurt (Special to The Tribune.) 13.—Jack O'Rourke, 42 years} of age, proprietor of a poolhall here, is dead; Mrs. Floyd) Jones, wife of a prominent Glenrock druggist, is suffering |from a severe hip injury ; R. A. Covington has three broken | ribs and a Mrs. Devine is badly burned, as the result of an | automobile accident occurring a short distance east of here late last night. The accident took place | O'Rourke, driving a Dodge touring car owned by Irby Lam, plunged into an abandoned coal hole on an old iaine ‘oad near Deer creck. The party had been attending a dance in town and shortly before mid- night it was decided to motor up to the Jones homestead and have lunch Mr. Jones and Mrs. Rourke proceeded | jahead of the party in the former's ree and O'Rourke and party followed. | Arri O'Rourke™ waited sometime the party «nd turned over the sam lof them. They passed within e few feet of where the car was overturned but did not discover it. Shortly after returning to his home in town, Mrs. Jones limped in and gave the first news of the tragedy O'Rourke was pinned between the seat and the steerling wheel when found and it’ is believ killed instantly. The other occupants of the car were thrown from the car and received their injuries in striking the ground, Mrs. Devine was holding @ bowl of hot chili and was burned | when the contents were spilled. Mrs Jones said that she pleaded with O'Rourke not to drive so fast but that he insisted on catching the other car. |) It fs not probable that an inquest will be held. for then the re | a | Peter Denicks, a Denver restaurant |man, has died, leaving $20,000 as a fund with which to furnish poor girls ‘iW his native province of Greece with dowries, ! WASHINGTON, April 13.—In two arrests made here early today post- office inspectors: believe they have apprehended the perpetrators of a colossal mail defrauding scheme by which people of this city, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago were said to have been mulcted of thousands of dollars. ‘The persons | arrested were Albert E. and Frank sional districts and these were pre-| sented to the respective members of | The delegation calling at the White/ |New York _.00010240003—10 19 2 when | ying at the ranch, Jones and Mrs.| road in search | ed that he was! FIGHT AGAINST - By Pres. Harding |templated no action looking to gen-| Cincinnati The delegation issued 2 formal |statement after leaving the White House in which it said the president | |had received it “most courteously, iSt. Louis Knot BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh— Pittsburgh . R. H. E. 01 qa 3 3ZeF 00 5. Gk ein Luque and Adams, Hamilton an Wingo. | At Chicugo— 0 0 id 2 6 0 5 10 0 lemons; Alex- Louis ______- 20 0— Chicago 00 *— Haines, Pertica, Kircher and 0 0 Cc ander, 'reeman and OFarrel. i | | |At Boston— Brooklyn 0000000 Boston ____ _--0000103 Cadore, Mamaux, Smith and Oeschger and O’Neill. At New York— 2, Ye 3 2— 00—4 Krueger; Mills, R. H. E. Phila. 00041020001—8 18 3 | Douglas, Barnes, Toney and Smith; Ring, \Betts and Buggy. Elevén innings. AMERICAN LEAGUE At St. Louis— Cleveland ______ 0000000022 10 83 St. Louis _____- 00103000*—4 5 0 Coveleskie, Odemanwald and O’Neil; | Thomas, Shocker and Severeid. At Washington— Boston 110200110—6 Washington. _.120000000—3 Jones and Ruel, Johnson, Erickson; jery and Picinich, Gharrit At Philadelphia— R. Philadelphia 0000001001. 3 1 New York 02000036 *—11 17 0 Perry, Hasty and Perkins; Mays a:.d Schang. ~ H. E. 15 1 9 0 Zach- H. E. At Detroit—Chicago- Detroit game post- poned; rain. TO ASK RELEASE OF U. S. CITIZEN WASHINGTON, Apri! 13.—President Harding promised {a delegation from Alabama which called on him today to take up personally with Secretary Hughes the case of Ca Emmett Kilpatrick of Uniontown, Ala., who is held erie aoe , by the Russian Bolshev iki. CONSTANTINOF April 13.—(By The Associated Press.)—Russian Bol- shuviki are bitter toward Americans TREATY OPENS and are not permitting them to leave Russia, said Anna Keiser of Philadel: | phia upon arriving here yesterday. WASHINGTON, April 13—Launch-|She came to this city on board the ing the “f (000,000 | Steamer Rechid Pasha, which landed Se sitet Kellogg, | @t Odessa a number of officers and sol- Republi . told the sen-|diers who had formely served in south ‘ate today that ratification of the pact | Russia» under General. Wrangel, anti- stain upon the name | Bolshevik leader. She declared French, of Theodord Roosevelt, and | Italian and British citizens were al- would acknowledge that the United lowed to depart from Odessa. States “wronged Colombia, violated | ——s COLOSSAL MAIL FRAUD IS BARED BY ARRESTS MADE IN CAPITAL her rights and are now Make raparations therefore.” riling a i\Fruit Growers Instructed to Report Damage | WASHINGTON, April 13, — Fruit ; | growers in the regions affected by H. Hitchcock, brothers, residing | the recent freeze are advised by the here, and their detention was said | agricultural department in a state- to have followed notification from Los Angeles of the arrest there of a third brother, Horace, and his wife. The four are alleged to have used the mails in soliciting subscriptions | to a half dozen purported period- icals, which, it was said, have never been published. ment today to ascertain immediately |the damage to their orchards in order to determine what spraying will be | needed. Peaches were reported to the de: partment as having. suffered most jover a considerable portion of frost |stricken area. except in middle Penn: Gat and New Jersey. |