Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1921, Page 1

BRITISH MINERS 10 Large Migcites Piled Up in Favor of Plan At District Meetings Of Workers, Report y DGN, April 20. — De- for the establishment of a national wage board and a national. wage pool have been feaffirmed by large ma- jorities by district committees of miners throughout the country, it is claimed by the Daily Herald, the organ of labor. The newspaper claims that these meetings, which were held preparatory to the conference of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain here on Friday, stood 14 to 1, in favor of the demands of the union. The miners propose that there shall: be levied a certain amount on each ton of coal, this money being used: for the purpose of establishing the wage ‘pool. ae British: mine owners, who met yes- terday announced that they had com- pleted proposals which met many of the demands of the miners'and would care for men who were inadequately paid. saab frontier, it is reported here. The Costa Rican government, it is as- serted, is ready to enter into negotia- tions With Panama for the purpose of reaching a satisfactory solution of the boundary dispute between thet: countries. Postal Welfare Department Is Planned Now ‘WASHINGTON, April 20.—Definite steps toward formation of a welfare department in the postoffice establish- ment will be taken by Postmaster General Hays tomorrow at a confer- ence here with the president and sec- retaries of the various postal em- ployes’ unions. The purpose of the meeting, it was announced, will be to draw out views of the employes as to means for 42 velopment of the new ‘department END ISPUTE By Railroads to CHICAGO, April Saas entation of masses of dealingwwith the cost of living and wages paid in other western railroads today in the industries was continued by western railroads today in the rail- road Inbor board hegring into the re- quests of nearly 100 roads that wages of unskilled labor be reduced. Representatives of several roads, which were applying for reductions for unskilled labor only, in statements. said that they would follow the lead of some of the larger roads by asking for lower pay for skilled workers as soon as the present cases were settled _ H, T, Dick, counsel for the Chicago & Basiern Minois railroad, now-in the hans of a receiver, was the first wit- ness wor “make this announcement. J. H. Dickinson, counsel for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, said the exhibits regarding unskilled labor ‘presented yesterday by the North- western, the Santa Ie, the Illinois Central and the Union Pacific were applicable to this road. W. H, Comstock, general manager of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail- road, which operates 1,116 miles of track, said the unemployment situa- tion had never been, so ‘acute in, Los Angeles since 1907. Other roads presenting wage statis- tics similar to those previously of- fered were the Denver & Salt Lake, the Kansas’ City Southern and the Fort: & ver railroad, said ‘that! road had no lus funds “to dissipate in paying higher wages than were necessary “The road was built by D. H. Mof- fat, who never received a cent from it and didn’t leave enough of an es- tate to erect a modern tombstone,” he said. “It has never paid a dividend nor any interest on its bond! R, F. Fay, representing the Denver & Rio Grande, said that his road paid 55 cents an hour to truckers at Sal- ida, Alamosa and Montrose, where the road changes from standard to narrow gauge, “We have been offered contracts by outside firms to furnish labor for this work at 41 and 37 cents an hour,” he said, “That shows that the roads are being forced to pay more than is necessary,” Gas Mask for Battleships Is Projected along the “humanizing’ lines Mr. Hays has outlined. FOUR ARTICLES GAIN IN PRICE WASHINGTON, April 20.—Prices of meats, butter, cheese and sugar in- creaged during the period from Feb- ruary 15 to March 15, while retail costs of many other commodities mak: ing up. the average family food budget decreased, according to the monthly index issued by the depart- ment of labor. An average decline of 1 per cent in the retail cost af food was estimaicd. Decreases were recorded as follows. Eggs, 13 per cent; rice and prunes, 7 per cent; bacon, 6 peg cent; lard, 6 per cent; oleomargarine, potatoes and oranges, 4 per cent; penned tomatoes, “3 per cent; Your, Sdsh § beans: ana canned corn, 2 per cent} canned sal- mon, fresh milk, evaporated milk, bread, baked beans, canned peay, ted> coffee and raisins, 1 per cent, WEST POINT, N, Y., April 20.- A plan for the protection of battie- ships at sea against an ene:ny's poisonous fumes by the instatiation a “gas mask” for a whole skip was outlined in an address to officers and students of the military acad- emy here today by Prof, W, Leo Lewis, head of tue chemistry department of Norttswestern uni: versity and inventor of the deadly gas “Lewisite,” perfected just as the \Yorld war ciosed. “We face tye possibility in the naval warfary of the future of ar- mor piercing toxic and tear shells, smoke scretns, toxic smoke clouds and invis{ble toxic fumes,” said Pro- fessor Lewis. “We also may con- sidér in this connection parallel defensive measures such as a gas mask fora whole battleship. “An entire ship, however, might ‘oe protected from gases and smokes by a gigantic.cas mask cannister or | series of canuisters over the ship's ventilating system. “%uture battles will not be to the strong, but to the superior intelli- gence." NIZES FOR FXC LABOR BOARD BURIEI BY MASS OF FIGURES Statistics Offered|| warrant Issued for M an With CASPER, ih Sta APRIL 21, 1921 The curious bey existing between Herpere Thornton Andrews (1), a Nie See living at 12, drove Andrews pad Mes. Esther Farnall Andcows rane aanety married Semgese eee Pcagree ln rae a stated that she wowld, start a suit for divorce in Trenton. FOUR SHOT TO DEATH © past. Three moriting | delegation. Senators and Reppeconmenve. of Eleven States Perfect Organization Today At Meeting in Washington; United Action Expected vhich was called by the California V, 8. McClatchy of Sacramento, Cal., told the conference that unless the Japanese immigration problem was |solved by thé absolute exclusion of the Japanese they would “inevitably swamp the white race.” He declared they haf established. a birth rate per thousand three times as great as that 5 General Dons Overalls to Help Legion SAN FRANCISCO, April white-haired elderly man dressed in blue overalls entered a building here which is being converted into a club- 20.—A. house for the American. Legion, looked around curiously yesterday and then accosted the man in charge of the volunteer workers. “I heard you were trying to fix up things for your opening party April 27," ho said. “Can I help?” “Sure, pitch in,” was the answer. The elderly man “pitched” with hammer, saw and broom. For sev- oral hours he worked in silence among the volunteers, until he was interrupted by the hail: “Why, general, how you been: here Vormer soldiers, sailors and ma- rines looked wonderingly at ‘the man in overalls. ‘Then they” recognized Maj. Gen. Hunter. Liggett, former field commanderyof the first Amer- long have She also icam—army-overseas.and until his fetirement several weeks ago com- mander of the Ninth Army Corps area. BY IRISH FACTIONS 26,000 NEAR STARVATION BIRMINGHAM, ; Ala., April Twenty-six thousand persons are at the poisst of starvation in. the coal fields of northern Alabama, Governor Thomas ©. Kilby was told today in an app¢al by the Salvation Army, south- eastern division, with headquarters jhere. The organization said it was yhelping to thé limit of {ts resources, but that additional aid must ‘come from other sources. Mail Service to | Russia Resumed | On Small Scale 20— WASHINGTON, April 20.—Limited |mail service ‘with Russia has been re- sumed after four years’ suspension, the postoffice department announced |today, mail for European ‘Russia, in- cluding the Ukraine, republic of Geor- gia and republic of Ajerbaijan, to go |via London to Moscow for distribu- | tion. | “Only fully prepared, unregistered |letters and postcards will be accepted |for Buropean’ Russia,” tho announce: |ment said, “at the. regular interns |tfonal postal rates. ‘The Russian rost: office also agrees to necept mail of lke character for Russia in Asia." Mail for eastern Siberia and Viadi- vostok will be accepted as usual. NO HITCH IN PLANS FOR CITY MANAGER ELECTION To Furnish Authority for Calling ‘Special Election for June Action authorizing the cal city council is all that remains to be done to give the people! \detaila leading: 1 of a special election by the ‘|tions of the 446 signers to the petl- Petition Certified by City Clerk Stoan tion, presented for council action. The law requires that only 10 per vent of the voters who cast yotes at the last general municipal election need subscribe to the petition. As there were less than $,000 votes cast at the last municipal election the pe- tition held the names of over 50 per cent more voters than was required. A meeting of the council: will be held this week to\take action on the up to the special of Casper an opportunity to express a desire for a city man-| election. ager form of government following certification by City Clerk) Fred Sloan that a required number of qualified electors had) subscribed to the petition which was presented Monday night | ployed. in the regular shops of a local by the Casper Chamber of Com: merce. Pursuant to the requirements of th> bity ei a bill that action be taken chance to certify as to the qualifica-jof work, 3 by the city! council tn: regular ses- sion, the Monday night meeting was adjourned until the city clerk had a TRAM STRIKE CAL MEXICO CITY, April 20. lon em- tramway company have called a strike {to begin ‘at noon today because of the company’s degision to reduce the hours Officers Taken From Train Are Slain While Civilians Meet Death in Wood At Hands of Military DUBLIN, April 20.—Policemen Kelly and Hetherington were taken from a train last evening near Ballysodare, County. Sligo, and shot dead the train for two hours. BELFAST, April 20.—Two armed! civilians were shot dead and another | was seriously wounded tate “yesterday when a ‘party of on Paar ts eniemnile Loughglunn wood, Scheele “the| | BELFAST, April 20.—Michael Col- | lins, commander-in-chief of the Trisin| Republican army, {s among the Sinn | Fein candidates selected to represent | South Armagh in the northern parlia- ment. DUBLIN CASTLE REVIEW ATTACKED. DUBLIN, April 20.—The ann today issued a lengthy denying and condemning the weekly review of the general situation in Ire: land issued by Dublin Castle, April] 15, which outlined the number of cas- ualties, ambuscades, attacks on police arracks, assassinations and) murders! te civilians attributed to Sinn Feine: sy “The inaccuracy of the officia munique,”" says the statement vious even to those least acquainted} with Irish conditions, It does not} war in Ireland, waged barbarity by the crown heading ““Estimate of| Total Distress," the . Dail Eireann} gives % tabulation of the cases of un-{ employment, distress and poverty in Ireland with'a grand total of 761,339. Body Exhumed To Investigate Death Mystery Under the CHICAGO, April 20.—Mystery sur-| rounding ‘the death of Miss Marie Vance, daughter of Dr. William W. Vance of Glencoe, today led Coroner Hoffman to exhume her body., Miss | Vance died in Los Angeles on April 5, | a week before ‘he was supposed to have marricd there to a wenlthy Cal-| ifornian. The death certificate issued by Dr B. EF. Ryder, attending” physician, gave diptheria as the cause of death.! In a statemént the physician said he had performed a “necessary opera tion” upon Miss Vance two woeks be-) fore her death, ¥ \the Aland Islands with ti armed men, who held up PLEBISCITE {5 DENIED PEOPLE OF ARCHIPELAGO League of Nations Delegates Opposed to Any Step Which Might Lead to Union With Sweden STOCKHOLM, April 20.-League of vations delegates who have been studying questions relative to the fu .|ture status of the Aland Islands have decided a plebiscite phould not be ar ranged for the inhibitants of the | Archipelago, says, the Geneva corre- spondent of the Dagens Nyheter of this city. The league's -delszates are said by the corresponderr to have been op. posed to any movement of union of Sweden and even now there is said to be only a minority among the Swedes which is outspoken in a desire for a union with Sweden. On the other hand the delegates are said to consider it necessary that cer- talh guarantees be given the popu- lation of the islands on the language and trade questions and it is forecast that they will draw the attention of thé league's council to what they con: sider the danger’ of a future coloniza- tion of Finnish immigrants on the islands, MEXICO LAND CLASS 20.—Manuel f the alifornia CALEXICO, Cal., April Balarezo, formerly governor northern district of Lower | with a force of civil engineers, topo raphers and hydro phers, will ar rive at Mexicali, across the interna \tional ine from Calexico, in a few days from Moxico City, prepared to begin extensive work looking to the surveying and classification of lands in the district, it ‘was announced here today, WASHINGTON, April 20.—Senators and representatives |from 11 far western states perfected an organization today | with a view to finding a common ground upon which they can work to solve the question of Japanese immigration. United efforts by the states in dealing with the Japanese | immigration problem was urged by Senator Johnson of Cali- }fornia in addressing the conference USION OF JAP IMMIGRANTS to Bring Results of the whites and that if further im migration were prohibited for 100 years there would be more Japanese than whites in California. “The Japanese today control eighth of all the rich irrigat= of California,” Mr. McClatchy “They will not and cannot American citizens.” Under the so-called gentlemen's agreement, Mr. McClatchy added, there has been no suspension or restriction of immigration. “We have done the extraordinary thing,” he continued, “sf passing to Japan one of our sovereign rights of determining who and how many may come in. The agreement showld, be abrogated. ; Why, should: we longer surrender a supreme abrogat! of this character wh:h is to our miani:j fest detriment and ultimately will be our undoing?” Senator Jobnson, Republican, Cali- fornia, was made chairman of the or- ganization and directed to appoint an executive committee composed of one senator and one representative from one: lands said. make each of the 11 states, California, Ore- gon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nev ada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado. Senator Johnson announced that he would appoint the executive commit: tee at an early date and begin of forts to unite other states with the work. He added that the problem was one of mutual interest demanding im. mediate attention. V. S.. McClatchy, of Sacramento. representing the Japanese Exclusion league of California, declared within the last three months, several states had shown a desire to co-operate with California in enacting anti-alien land bills similar to that recently passed in Cahfornia. In ‘ie house today Representative Raker; * Democrat, California, “prd- posed an amendment to the constitu- tion providing. that no child herein- after born in the United States of for- eign parentage shall be etigible to citizenship in the United States un less both parcnts are eligible to be come citizens of the United States. CONSUL GENERAI, ASSUMES DUTIES. SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, — Yada, new consul general of Japan to San Francisco, assumed his official duties today. He has been attached to the Japanese embassy at Londan for the past two years. He stated that Japan desires peace, and that his coun- try was not preparing for war with | the United States. Communists.in | Flun Plot Draw | Prison Terms BERLIN, April 20.—Bleven munists convicted of haying made the recent attempt to blow up the vic- tory monument in the Koenigsplat were today sentenced to long term of imprisonment in the penitentiary. The evidence implicated Max Holt ose of the alleged leaders of the con mynist uprising in middle Germany, who was arrested in Berlin April 15. Herr Talheimer, editor of the Rote Faheno (Red Flag), the organ of the Communists, has been placed under arrest. | [105 Included | In Will Left } On the Coast}! Com OAKLAND, Cal., April 20.--One | hundred and fivo beneficiaries, in- | cluding waiters, bootblacks, saloon keepers, an actress, clerks, doctors and others, acquaint of Josaph | Bizagno, dezeased, will receive their | respective shares under will, | according to a verdict returned in | the superior court here today, Bizagno died in San Fancisco in 1919 and his est&te is said to amount to over $325,000. Relatives | contested his will, but attorneys | for the contestants left the court- room yesterday when a further con- tinuance of the case was refused. REDS WILL BAR U. S. DEPORTEES | Boston NUMBER 164 BALL SCORES R. H. E. 3—9 ll 2 0—5 12 1 myder; Scott, oo 0 0 Batteries—Nehf, Barnes and Fillingim, Townsend and O’Neill. R. H. EB, 00 0-6 12 1 At Chicago— Pittsburgh____.__ 0 Chicago 301001512 2 Batteries—Carlson, Glazner and Schmidt; Freeman, Bailey, Cheevis, and O’Farrell. At Philadelphia— Brooklyn 0 10001 i Philadelphia_____ 2 0000 0 0-2 Batteries—Smith and Miller; Bruggy. At Cincinnati— 4 1 om 00 00 12 0 12 0 G. Smith and Batteries—Haines Wingo. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Washingiton— Philadelphia._____ 3000100004 8 2 Washington -90001122*-610 1 Batteries—Hasty, Harris, Rommel and Per- kins; Erickson, Zachary and Gharrity. At Detroit— Cleveland 000010104610 4 Detroit. 01530000 *—918 2 Batteries—Mails, Clark, Petty and O’Neill, | Nunamaker; Oldham, Sterard and Ainsmith. At New York— R. H. E. ~ H. E . R. H. E. om New York Batteries — Russel and Ruel; Schang. At St. Louis— poned; rain. At Beineatihs (College Ball)—Princeton, 2; ‘| Wesleyan, 1. Quinn and Chicago-St. Louis game post- American Charge Lost Gloves ‘Are |Home to Report. Found in Morgue; ‘On Mex Affairs, Owner Is Dubious a SHERIDAN, Wy April 26.—Te WASHINGTON, «April 2 lose a glove has been considered by |. Summerlin, American ¢ .|maxim bakers as bad luck, something |faires at Moxico City, who sum-|like having a black cat cross one’s ‘moned home recently to give Se path. But to lose two of them and tary Hughes first hand information then eventually find them in an um jabout conditions in Mexico, arrived’ dertaking parlor—well, Commissioner here today and made preliminary re-; Judson Bibb of this city, wonders port to the state department | what that mea: Official reports at the department] ‘Two months ago the commissioner indicate increasing disorder econom: | teft his automobile in front of a store feally in Mexico, but they do not show] while he nt into mi some purr that the many small uprisings which! chases. Returning in a few minutes have been reported have assumed a|the car’ was gone and with {t ap dangerous aspect. overcoat, In the pocket of the over- ——— |coat was a pair of gloves | POWELL, Wyo., April 20.—Be-|“ The overcoat and glove: Ligeia tween 25 and 30 cases of smallpox) recently in an undertaker’s parlor. are reported in Powell. The quaran. Some man had left them and said he tine is being strictly enforced and all! Would call for them, the undertaker exposed persons vaccinated, so it {S| tol the commissioner. The commis- expected that it will be under con-/ sioner now wonders where he'll find trol short! | his car. French Envoy Sails for Home NEW YORK, April 20.—Rene Vivi- ani, who has been in this countr¥ J : nearly a month as special envoy from RIGA, April 20.—(By The Asso- | any transit visas granted by Let- line wrench govcrament, boarded: the ciated Press.)—The United States | representatives Sigh ad ie | steamship France shortly before noon no longer will be able to deport its | J ppearres eg oF |today to return to his native land. ‘ “i | peasa hip Aside from expressing general sat undesirables or send ‘ isfaction over his trip, officially and Russian residents to sovict Many Americanized Russians and ocially, the former French premier without previous negotiations | deportees have caused much diffi made no statement the consent of the soviet ov | culty in Russian and in many in pare ment in éach caso, under a soviet | stances are said to have been lead Enough liquor prescriptions have decision made in’ a note to the | ing factors in revolts. In addition, | been issued in San Francisco in 1% Letvian government many of them have been anarchists, | months to give every man, womae Tigynote nays that effective today, | whom the soviet authorities also are jand otid in the city half the soviet authorities will not honor | unwilling to admit, | whisky,