Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1921, Page 1

ve Casper FORMER TEUTON QURT OFFICERS PAY TRIBUTE T0 LATE EMPRESS Huge Procession Follows Body From Station to} Temple. of Potsdam; Services Held. POTSDAM, April” The Associated Pr Amid the tolling of neral services for press, were held today i the royal xresidehce suburb of Over the simple coffin in the soleum, or antique temple in the’ dam palace grounds, had been the familiar yellow standard of ex-empress, and at its foot stood \ four sons of the former royal cou, - yho were free to attend the Servite. Lacking was the presence of the hus- band, the former emperor, and of the eldest son of the family, former Crown Prince Frederick William, in Holland. Led by the clergy and officers of the ex-empress’ own regiments, the funeral cortege left Wilipark, the Potsdam railway station, near which the body had been guarded over night by faithful -mournors, after its ar- rival by special train from Doorn, Holland, and proceeded shortly before im. in the a half dis- tant. Four black steeds from the former royal stables drew the funeral car, Which was preceded by the ‘for-| former ministers of state Von Del- brueck* end Breitenbach, Knights of the Black Eagle, held the ‘corners of the purple robe which covered the funeral car. Then came the Hohenzollern princes and princesses and other members of the former German royal family in gquipages of state, these followed by members of the ex-emperor’s court and distinguished- army officers, among whom were Generals Von Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Von Mack- ensen and Von Kluck. At 10:30 o'clock the cortege reached the mausoleum where only members of the Hohenzollern family and pri- vate guests were admitted to the serv- ices. ‘They were conducted by Dr Dryander, the former court chaplain, assisted by the choir of the Dom ca- thedral, which sang “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” and “Christ Is My Life,” and other hymns familiar to Protestant Germans. At the conclusion of the services, throughout which the tolling of the church bells continued, the admission of the public to the mausoleum was begun. , POTSDAM IS MECCA ; FOR ALL BERLIN. , April 19.—(By’ The -Asso- ciated Press.)}——All roads out of Ber- lin led to Potsdam this morning. The throngs which made their way thither to witness the funeral ceremonies ‘for former Empress Augusta Victoria crowded all manner of conveyances to this home of erstwhile royalty. For the jast forty-cight hours Potsdam has been the mecea of a pilgrimage, the like of which has not been known since the historic suburb became the shrine of the Hohenzollern traditions. The first regular trains which left Berlin at 5:30 a. m. carried men and women on the running boards and even on the roofs. The special train provided by the court marshal for the invited guests also was filled’ to its capacity. It carried numerous plumed and helmeted former urmy and navy officers. Melther the national nor the Prus-| siag government was officially repre- sented at the ceremonies. pPainidie ed tat ar FIVE KILLED ON JAP SHIPS. TOKIO, April 19.—(By The Asso- ciuted Prexs}—A boiler tube exploded INFANT ABANDONED ON RAIL TRACK HEAD FOUND PILLOWED ON STEEL Fate aleve intervened to save tho life of a day-old baby boy, who had been xbundoned on the rail- road tracks in the Burlington yards Pee of the Natrona Transfer com- any yards sometimo after dark fee night. The baby was found by Glon Woelfert, who by mere chance happened to pass near euovgh to the baby's hiding place to hear the screares of the infant. Be olerure was the hiding place B | This photograph of the senate forcign, relations “committee was 5 taken ‘the ‘opening day of “the. “extraordinary session of congress. ise, Borah, Brandegee, Johnson, New, b teres: McCormick, BALL SCORES they are Senators Lod, -At Philadelphia— iy =i R. H. E.| prooklyn ____---0 000002002 Philadelphia __--10000011*—3 8 2 9 0 Batteries — Reuther, Cadore and. Miller; Ring and Buggy. At Cincinnati— St. Louis — Cincinnati Batteries—Ma; Coumbe and Har; “At Boston 0 “ey Batteries—Douglas New York 2.120 0.0 Boston -.....-..0001 310602-6 12 1 he li Ss me a a d Clemons; Marquard, , R. HE. 0 210-9 6 2 0000 0—1 4 0 and Sm Scott, Coney and O’Neill,: Gowdy. At: Chicago— R. H. E. Pittsburgh __-_.004010009—14 19 0 Chicago _ Batteries—Hai Martin and O’F arrel _.--.000001001—2 13 3 ton and Schmidt, Fuhr, AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit— R. H. E Cleveland -_--__000010920—12 14 0 000010020—3 Batteries—Coveleskie and O’Neill; Hollings, and Bassler. > At St. Louis— Chicago ____-._.0 0 0 St. Louis __—. 011 Batteries—F aber and Schalk; Sothoron and Severeid. At Washington— 9 3 \ 000—1 8 % 00 *4 9 2 01 00 R. H. E.| Philadelphia __.120200001—6 10 3) Washington ___42610001 Batteries—Rommel, Naylor, Keefe and Per-' ; Schacht and Gharrity. Bt At New York—Boston-New York game ins postponed; wet grounds. on the Japanese battleship Katori, on which Crown Prince Hirchito was traveling to Europe, while the war vessel was between Colombia and Suez, says an official statement is- sued by the navy department. Two sailors were killed and two wounded, but the crown prince arrived safely and so dark the surroundings that Mr, Woelfert had a hard time lo. cating the tiny bundle of humanity though he could hear its wails un- til he provided himself with a eee t to make a_ detailed ane finding the babe, which is said to havo been bundled up s0 that part of its body was across the steol tracks, Mr. Woolfort took the bbe to tho home of Mr, and Mrs, *_14 13 3) | | | \ in Suez on Friday last, the statement} A similar explosion occurred board the battleship Kashima which|Monday afternoon from the effects of a terrific beating ad-| ‘was escorting the Katori, killing three sailors. and -wounding one.._sRepair: to the warships were effected, how ever, and they proceeded for Suez. ©. ©, Ives, $42 North Kimball, When it was determined that the babe had suffered none except from exposure, the police were notified. Patrolmen P. N, McCain and C. 0. Earsley responded and after mak- ing a detailed search took the in- fant to police headquarters, A physician was summoned to make an of the infant, resulting ixtthe determination that it was not ‘over 10 dara old, a” 6 1) ith; McQuillan, | Daily C lcCumber and Kellogg. From left to right gold to the commission itself. In the event of the transfer of the | government would have gold to the branches named the sum | dispose Reichsbank Must Place Gold Reserves In Occupied Area Banks by Friday Or Surrender It to Allied Repivations Commission, Says Latest Ultimatum, PARIS, April 19. —. (By The Associated Press.) — The allied reparations commission announced today given Germany until April 22 to transfer the zold holdings of the Reichsbank, the German imperial bank, to the Coblenz | and Cologne branches of the bank. comply with the ultimatum the commission, require the immediate delivery of the|balance of the Reichsbank, the com- that it had If Germany refuses to| it states, will | mission explained, but the German no right to obtaining pre. of it without may continue to figure as part of the | vious authority from the commission | Baby Falls to Street From Third Floor DENVER, Colo,, April 19—Climb- ing out of bed about 7:35. o'clock | this morning, while its mother and | 2 woman friend were asleep, Robert Pearson, 20-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pearson of Las Vegas, N. M., crawled to the win- dow ledge of'a room in the third story of the Vincent hotel here, and | fell to the nayemont 50 fect below. ee | Mrs. Pearson, who knew nothing of the accident until informed by a who awoke her, Western Solons Plan Discussion | Anti-Alien Laws! WASHINGTON, April 19.—Sena-} tors Johnson and Shortridge, of Cali- fornia, issued invitations today for a meeting \tomorrow of senators and representatives of states which have enacted or \have pending legislation, restrictions similar to the California alien land law. One purpose of the |meeting, it was announced, was the appointment of a committee to lay| before Secretary Hughes the Japanese | |situation in the inthe western states, OGDEN YOUTH ; IS FOUND DEAD | OGDEN, Utah, April 19—Oscar J. C. Hemenway, 19 years of age, son of the late O. G. Hemenway, whole- Ieere tobacconist of ‘Salt Lake, was found crumpled up in the rear of a closed automobile on the road to Og- den canon here with a pistol bullet through his temple and the pistol lying near his right hand. Authorities are investigating. Iso Says President Harding in Address) ' Calling for Closer Friendship at Unveiling of Bolivar Statue jin peace on the western hemisphere, the president declared the old world might well find inspiration for the reconstruction of its industry ‘and its politics along the line of progress and amity. To that reconstruction, said, the American republics also contribute by giving of could Restating the Monroe doctrine, Mr. | Harding asserted that it never meant 4 policy of selfishness or narrowness, but was a charter of American inde- pendence to maintain which the United States was “willing to fight, if nec- essary.” He added that the policy of the American republics must not err on the side of too great aloofness and |that in the recent world chaos, pan- Americanism must mean “sympa- thetic and generous Americanism.” The address follows in part: “There is significance in dates, as though some days were destined for a high place in the history of human Former Official) Of N orthwestern, Dies In Ud caus de) CHICAGO, hall M. Kirkman, former vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, died jof apoplexy ina hospital here. He ‘was 10 years of age. Mr. ‘Kirkman spent railroad business and was recognized as an authority on railroad subjects. One of his books was “The Science of Railroading,” while another was “The Primitive Cerriers.” The widow, a son, William Bruce Kirkman, and\a daughter, Mrs. John Noyce, of Seattle, Wash., survive. he their strength and resources to aid their stricken’ sister :nations acros the sea. 2 years in the) | | NEW YORK, April 19.—Renewed bonds of friendship among the American republic, with a reconsecration to peace and liberty as an example for a war-weary world, were} |plighted by President Harding today at the unveiling here jof a statue to Simon Bolivar, the South American patriot. |In the example of a prosperous family of state living together} Progress, also an abiding place in hu- man affections. This day is the an- niversary of the Battle of Lexington, where the colonies of North America made their first sacrifice in blood for freedom. On'this same day, a genera- tion later, Venezuela's struggle for freedom had its immortal beginning. “I wish April 19 might ‘have an added significance from) this day on. “It is an interesting thing to com- pare the careers of the two great fathers of American liberty, Bolivar and Washington. Each wrought an empire of freedom and builded more. vastly than he dreamed. Their con- dividual unrest. Each was wealthy, each rated: among the personally for- tunate; but a people's freedom was impelling. ; “It is not too much to say that out of the liberations wrought by Wash- ington and Bolivar grew the republic constitutional system which is Amer- |ica's gift to mankind. It is fine to be jable to say that new world temples of liberty were not wrought in destruc- \tion of the old. We speak historically of revolution when in roality we mean severance and freedom for evolution. The world isn’t calling today for de- |struction, {it needs reconstruction, where the test of justice is applied to |the things which were as well as the things which are to be. “Perhaps the miracle was in the diyine plan, and the new world mar vel w an inevitable part in the su- preme scheme for developing civiliza tion. | “The doctrine proclaimed under Monroe, which ever since has been jealously guarded as a fundamental of our own republic, maintained that |these continents should not again be |regarded as ficlds for tho colonial | enterpris have been times when the of Monroeism was misunderstood by (Continued on Page 8.) AMERICAN REPUBLICS TO LEND. INSPIRATION |to do so PARIS, April 19.—(By The ~ Asso- ciated Press)—The new customs re. |gime established in the occupied ter- |ritory of Germany under tho inter. allied Rhineland commission's ordi nance of April 9, ‘constitutes a new ‘ant violation of the Versailles a note transmitted by the German government to the coun- cil of ambassadors. NEGOTIATIONS REOPENED WITH independence and new standards of | cept of liberty was not, inspired in fn- | of old world powers. There | meaning | | expected |ment LONDON, April coal mines throughout Kingdom met here 19.—Owners of the United today and it was that Prime Minister Lloyd George would submit to the confer- ence suggestions which might lead to a prompt renewal of negotiations |with striking miners for the settle: of the wage controvers A formal conference with the miners’ leaders was not expected until Friday. A distinctly favorable atmosphere regarding settlement of the con- flict, has developed as a result of an address made yesterday by Premier Lloyd George in the house of com- mons: bb ieasust “aN Appointment of Walton Stands (Special to The Tribune) WASHINGTON, April 19.—The nomination of Albert D. Walton of Cheyenne to be United States attorney for Wyoming was confirmed by the Senate in executive session late Mon- |day itteraoem) i CROWN FORCES KILL COMRADES LIMERICK, bers of the and one wounded {n a Connell, County ing when soldier in lorries mistook some of their com rades jn civilian clothes, air the hostelry for Sinn Feiners gan firing. Dennis O'Donovan, proprietor of the hotel, also was shot and killed. One report says he w@s taken into the hotel yard and executed on suspicion of harboring rebels. April 19.—Two met- crown forces were killed hotel at Castle Limerick, last ¢ Seott and daughter, réturned from Denver yesterday. AGED CHEYENNE MAN DIES OF BEATING IN FIST FIGHT Injuries Inflicted by Railroader Prove Fatal to Frank Sinon, Pioneer Ranchman and Peace Officer (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 19.—Frank F. Sinon, 62 years} on|Of age, pioneer ranchman and yeteran peace oflicer, died | he ministered by Ed F. Geesa, 22 years of age, an employe of | the Union Pacific, last Thursday night. arrested on a charge of assau Joe Bunch, wife of Sergeant Bunch of the police department, was im- pressed into service to provide a | home for the infant mntil some def- inite arrangements could be made for its care today. The authorities are undertaking an exhaustive hunt to find the par- lor 4 the railroad tracks. | action. Geesa, who was) lt and battery before Sinon’s death and released on bail of $1,000, ‘was rearrested this morning cn 4& charge‘of manslaughter. This charge may be changed to that of murder in the second degree if the investiga- tion of the hornicide now in progress justifies the more serious informa- tion. A coroner's inquest is in prog: ress today, Geesa, after his arrest Mon¢ serted that he and Sinon engag a fight at the Geesa home, 1410 Mor. rie street, because Sinon had Ethel Van Sickle, 20 years of and Geesa had protested a. In this statement supported by his wife and by a taxi cab driver who weré present, but the Van Sickle irl says she cannot re- member what took place and has no recollection of Sinon having struck her, She was informed. by the Geesas the following morning, she states that din pped age, ainst this jeesa is sult Geesa had fought Sinon. Sinon, who resided with his daugh-| and his Jr., at ter, Mrs. two sons, William Murray, James and Frank, 200 East Nineteenth street, returned home some time after 10 o'clock ‘Thursday night and went to his room | without being seen by other members jof his family. The following morn- ling hfs daughter and sons were amazed and distressed to discover that he had been brutally beaten about the ‘and body. His face had been beaten almost to a pulp-and his body was covered with bruises, the breast and abdomen being almost black from jsuch injuries. Dr. I. P. Desmond was called and attended the injured man, finding him in very serlous con- dition. Complications resulting from his injuries caused the old man’s death three days later. Before that time, however, he had told his chil- dren the identity of his Russ Monarchist "Meeting Called In Berlin, June 1 PARIS, April 19.--A world con gress of Russian monarchists has been called to meet in Berlin on June |1, aecording to advices from that city.% Jt is understood that American assailant. | laclegates will attend. |she had been struck and that as a re-|Prosecuting Attorney Roche Mentzer |was informed of the assault Monday caused Geesa’s arr charge of assault and battery. Almost at the moment Geesa was taken into custedy by Deputy Sheriff Schultz, Sinon succumbed to his in- juries but that this was so was not known to officials until after Geesa had been arraigned on the aysault and battery charge and had given bail of $1,000 for his appearance for trial. QUDGET FOR BOY QGDUTS (3 FIXED AT 310,000 FOR NEW YEAR HERE | Cannseigrnees Needs Covered In Addresses Made Today Befote Cham- ber of Commerce Casper will be asked ‘to raise $10,000 to defray the expense of its Boy Scout or- ganization for the next year, according to plans outlined for the coming year at the weekly forum luncheon of the cham- ber of commerce at the Henning to- day. The luncheon today was given over to the Boy Scout program and the principal speakers were M. 1. Wheeler, Scout Executive Harry Black and R, T. Kemp, president of the local Scout organization. The Casper organization consists now of 11 troops, all recruited to full strength, and representing a gain of 1,000 per cent over a year ago when the movement was given popular sup- port of this community. It is the intention of scout authorities to in- crease the number of troops to 2u within the next year, representhig 40 per cent of the boys in this city elig- ible to entrance into the organization, or 809 boys. The success of the Casper Boy Scout movement has come to the at- tention of cities and towns through- cut the entire country. It is said to have been the most remarkable growth of any city in the United States. Mr. Black told of What had been ac complished in the past year, and of the program in mind this year. The summer camp is to come in for ma- jor attention this summer and with it practical training in all branches of scout craft. The summer camp year served over 30) boys. Mr. Wheeler, made ¢n earnest an peal for support to the movement in order that it could be made perma- nent and iasting here. reciting a few instances of the strides being made since scouting was introduced into boys’ life here. Illustrating how it tended to elevate the minds of boys, Mr, Wheeler declared that statistics show that of all the crime in the United States, 72 per cent was attrib- utable to beys under the age of 21 years, and of this per cent less than one could be tracea to Boy Scouts, showing that crime could be lessened by encouraging boys in greater num- bers to affiliate themselves with this movement whose object is the uplift ment of youth. Mr, Wheeler's address had a strik- ing effect upon the audience. Rk. T. Kemp, president of the Cas- Scouts, presided as chairman of the meeting, and extended an ir tation to all parents and friends to nd a scout rally to be held in the high gymnasium Thursday evening. Civil Warfare In North Italy Grows Serious ROME, April 19.—Conditions of ex- treme disorder are reported from northern-central Italy, where parties of extreme Nationalists have been in armed conflict with Socialists and Communists almost daily for the past week. The disorders, which are the outgrowth of partisan feeling, aroused by the electoral campaign now in progress, appear to center about Flor- ence and other Huscan cities. Upwards of score of persons were killed in‘ melees on Sunday. General strikes have been called in a number of cities. WASHING April » 19,—John er Symes of Colorado, was nom inated by President Hurding today to There {s further alleged information (Continued on Page 8) be United ‘States attorney for the dis: trict, of Colorado. LONE MAN BEATS OFF 2 H Set upon by two highwaymen, at 11 o'clock last night, Charles Ander‘ son, 933 West Midwest avenue, fought off his assailants in a ru: ning battle and emerged from the meleo, with only minor bruises and Injuries an tokens of his bat- tle. The highwayman, it is believed, have more serious marks to remind them of the unsuccessful attempt. Mr. Anderson had just passed # vacant property in te 780 block on Midwest when he heard someone approaching. He turned just in time to ward off a blow from some blunt instrument. Fortunately he had turned in time to ward off the fail effect of the blow, ad when OLDUPS the instrument hit him on the side of the head, he was only slightly dazed. Mr. Anderson closed with his as- sailants and apparently was getting the better of the mix-up, when the highwaymen fled from the scene of the attempted crime. Still suffering from the attack, Mr, Anderson beat a hurried retreat to his home and notified the police: station, The hurricane squad re sponded and made « record three minute run to the Aaideraon bomes The officers arrived too late and efe forts to locate the assailants of Mr, Andefson were without result w to a late hour today,