Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1921, Page 1

ERGDOLL PROPERTY IS SEIZED 3050000 LEFT IN GARE OF HIS MOTHER SEIZED aY U.§. AGENTS Convicted W ar Slacker, Is Stripped of All Holdings as “Enemy” Under Late War Act PHILADELPHIA, May 27. —All of the property in this city of Grover C. Bergdoll, convicted. draft evader and army deserter now in Ger- many, valued at about $850,- 000 was seized today by Col. Thomas ‘W. Miller, alien property custodian of the United States. It consists of real estate and money on deposit in four local banking institutions, ‘The property was held by Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, Grover's mother, under a power of attorney. Cribure [NIGHT MAIL VOLUME V . ; CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921 NUMBER 196 HONEST PRINCIPLES NEEDED )? RE-ESTABLISH BUSINESS : IRISH OF STATE WILL ORGANIZE ¥ & $< Busin ssmen and Workmen Must Give and Take Before Conditions Are Improved, Steel Chief Says- In an interview, with a Tribune NEW YORK, May 27.,—Full return to satisfactory busi-| _ Michael Harkin, a Dublin news: Sugarter this merting, far, Harkin The selzure, Colonel Miller an- pounced, was by direction of the pres- ident and under the authority of the ness conditions will be slow until the minority of business) —— inan, oe sat Pangan: men ‘and workmen who have ignored the principles of com-| (pein’’ 4" mass mectite ini mon honesty gre aroused to the necessity of sound and decent? * i afte observed that six state legislatures had already given recognition to the republ Ireland and had called on Pres‘dent Harding and the United Mrs. will probably die of injuries she suf- MASS MEETING IS CALLED HERE: FARMS WRECKED, ONE KILLED BY TORNADO Bridge Laborer Meets Tragic Death When Auto Is Picked Up and Hurled 50 Feet by Wind in Iowa; Two Twisters Visit State in Day; Kansas Hit by Hard Storm MASON CITY, Ia., May 27.—Buildings on a half dozen farms were blown away and at least one mar lost his life in a tornado which late yester almost a quarter of a mile wide between Plymouth and Manly. day afterncon swept a path Wires are down and it has been impossible to learn the full extent of the damage wrought. Frank McCall of Topeka, Kan., bridge laborer, was killed instantly when the car driven by County Engineer F. R. Lyford of Worth county was picked up by the twister and hurled fift} feet. His body was crushed. Ly-, ford and a Mexican passenger in the car escaped with minor injuries. Art Dobel, bride of two weeks, fered when the farm home on their place was lifted up and set down in a near-by grove. The bridegroom, also injured, regained consciousness and carried the woman to a granary, the other building on the place left stand. ing, where a physician was summoned With reports from nearly all the stricken area received this forenoon it was believed the casualty list would not be increased. All the buildings on at least a half dozen farms were razed, however. SECOND TWISTER At Boston— REPORTED TODAY 7 MANCHESTER, lowa, May 27—a| New York --7-- 070 tornado “hich struck southwest of Boston ea poes 0 4 1 town late yesterday demolished build ings ‘on the O. A. Burns farm, but there was no loss of stock, although the barn which housed most of it was 10 00 Batteries—Barnes, Barton, Ryan, Toney and oo trading with the enemy act. It is the first seizure since June, 1919. Accompanied by Maj. Vincent A. Carroll, his personal attorney, Colonel Miller seized the " ‘Bdoll castle’ on the outekirte of this city, where Mra. Bergdoll lives, This property was left to Grover by his father. Mrs. Bergdoll owns a residence in the city In a sec- tion Jocally known as “Brewerytown. “Well, when do I have to mov said “Mrs, Bergdoll, when served with the seizure nntice, President Schmid- ser, of the Bergdoll Brewing com- STILLMAN NOT TO END EIGHT OUT OF COURT standards of conduct, according to Elbert H. Gary, of the United States Steel corporation. | |Iron & Steel Institute, of which he is | president, Mr. Gary said the Amer- ~ -o'clock when Casper will hear firet- chairman “hand the story of conditions in Ire- land today. At a mecting a ecpuncil of the American association for the recog- | nition of the Irish republic will be formed. Already councils are work- ing in Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Nock Springs, Green River and Kemmerer, The association has the support of the leading men, mine- oWners, off es and business and professional men of the state. Speaking today before the American ican people are not buying up to sup- ply themselves fully with the ord! | nary comforts of life, although tuey have the disposition and the means }te do 80. ‘This, he explained. was due to the opinion of the purchasing pow- of that there has not been complete pany, was served with a similar order tieing up Grover’s holding in that company. | = “t : It is ‘expteted: the seizure’ will cut off all funds Grover may be receiving from the United States and throw him upon his wn resources in Germany. BERGDOLL NOW CONSIDERED “ENEMY.” WASHINGTON, May 27. — Grover Cleveland Bergdoll by reason of his escape'ta Germany, is now held by the American government to be an “en- emy" within the meaning of the trad- ing with the enemy act. This.is ex- |. plained in a statement.by’Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, which. here. i i is ams “This move has-been in contempla- tion for several weeks. and has been the subject of conferences between the president, the attorney general and the allen property custodian.” the statement said. ¢ > ARIFF BILL States government to follow suit These states are Montana, Minne- sota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New derscy ahd yViscons'n, Casper 5 been selected as the conter at which the Wyoming state convertion of the American associa- tion to werk for recognition, will | meet, and it is expected thot beforp that event takes place with in’the next few weeks Casper wil have enrolled the biggest.and most active and proper readjustments of prices. | The national president is the Los | counc'l of the new body in the state. ba ig : Angeles millionaire oil man, Edward | Prom‘nent local speakers will at- MRE | “There is an abundance of new! Noheny, a warm personal friend « | tend next Sunday night's mass | business," he said, “with both ability! president De Valefa. | meeting. carried thirty feet and totally wrecked The wind missed Manchester, pass. ing to the north. NO LOSS OF LIFE IN KANSAS STORMS. ANSAS CITY, May 27,—Storms of eyclonic intensity. prevailed over parts of Kansas and Oklahoma late yester day and last night, impairing wire communication and causing property damege at many points, according to word received here. As far as could be learned there weré no casualties. Hai) fellat many places, ‘Snyder; Leo Townsend, Scott, Oeschger and Gowdy, Gibson. At Philadelphia— R. H. E. Brooklyn - -020210000—5 13 Philadelphia _._.00102111*—6 9 Batteries—Grimes and O. Miller; Smith, Baumgartner and Bruggy. NEW YORK, May 27.—Counsel for and inclination to place it, waiting James A. Stillman, New York banker, |for further adjustments which will late today issued a statement denying | put costs of living, selling prices, that jhey had taken part in any nego- wage rates and other general hicomes tations for settlement of the divorce on a relative parity. action he has brought against the, “Patience, courage and a-fair dis- former Fifi Pttter.» positiog will bring satisfactory condi- Cornelius J. Sullivan. ot pouneel for|tions in due time.” Mr. Stillman, explainedXthat it was| pProsent steel solling prices. Mr. the banker's intention to go ahead | cary deciared. will not permit anv with his fight for divorce, The next | requction until wages are further de- hearing, he said, would be held in |creased. It would be unjust, he said, Poughkeepsie June 1 and 2, before ret-|f further reduce. wage ratep before eree Daniel J. Gleason. as schedujed.| rng costs of living ure lowered: fe- AES BALI ore S21) Gul. prices for many commodities are Jip Schooner Fs |! Saison enw “Caught Sealing; Crew Arrested workmen's wages have been advanced through Feclassification so as to dea‘g: PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 27.— nate them as skilled men. “L think,” he continued, “there has been and still is charged and collected for certain commodities unreasonable (By The Associated Press.)—A Japanese schooner was caught sealing in Canu- dian waters recently by the steamship Malaspina, which arrested tho crew, UNITED RUSSIA IMPOSSIBLE IF Long Period of ~Anarchy~Is—Predicted If Lenine Regime Falls; Hopes for. ... Big Union Called “Dream” ~~ RIGA, May 27+(By The Associated Press.) Even were the Russian Bolshevik: regime to collapse immediately, dream of a new, united Russia is impossible of realization for decades to come, in the opinion of political students, gov- ernment officials and business men in the three Baltic states, and unfair, if not extortionate prices. They apply to particular lines and per: “The vast majority of business men and workmen are sincere and fair, but there is and perhaps always. will bo a majority that ignore the prin- REDS COLLAPSE stolen Amaigam the j wits the theft of $40,000 in amaigam At Chicago— St. Louis Chicago In Kansas a storm struck the state southeast of Wellington and swept northeast.. It was accompanied by rain, A wind of sixty miles an hour lasted Wichita for 20 minutes caus- ing minor property damage. ‘The storm was preceded by a dust cloud which envetoped the city like a fox. Dilhoefer; O’Farrell. At Pittsburgh— Alexander, Is Purchased By The Denver Mint DENVER, May 27:—Officials at the Denver mint admitted today that amal- yam had been received there for refin- ing from Colon J. Sinclaffe, arrested ast night at Deadwood, 8. D., charged Schmidt. {rom the Homestake Mining company, hey could not say just what amount had been received. : Sinclaire is said to have told mint At Detroit— R. H. E. +203004106—10 16 2 101050000—7 15 0 Batteries—Doak, Sherdell and Clemons; Freeman, Jones and R..H. E. Cincinnati... 1 00000030—4 10 2 Pittsburgh ___.300610001—5 Batteries—Rixey and Hargrave; Cooper and 9 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE eaptured 150 skins and destroyed the ciples of common honesty.” _ SIGNED TODAY WASHINGTON, May 27. — The emergency tariff bill was signed iate today by President Harding. § RICKENBACKER ARRIVES OMAHA CONTINUES TRIP AS PASSENGER craft, according to a report reaching here y. The report could not be confirmed officially. The Malaspina left this port’ southbound last week. = ‘The city of Manchester ts England's greatest industrial center. t : He urged that the observance and enforcement of, law be insisted upon throughout the world as a necessity to the improvement of the general sit- uation. The speaker asserted that one of the most hopeful signs of the times was the apparent disposition of the present admmistration at Washington to aid rather than obstruct the natu- ral and legitimate progress of busi- ness. Competition on OMAHA, Neb., May 27.—Inability to secure permission from the post- office department to usé an air mail service may force Eddie Rickenbacker, nee, to abandon his ‘attempted flight from Redwood City, Cal., to Washington, where he hopes to attend a ban- quet by the Metropolitan club Sat- urday night. After the plane in which he left dwood City early yesterday was :¥recked in landing at Cheyenne, Wyo., last night, Rickenbacker to- day proceeded to Omaha as a pai senger in a regular air mail “ship’ HERIFF BATTLES | LIQUOR RUNNERS ia ican upon arcivat shat x. u,.| WOterways.to Be Met by Railroads Shaughnessy, second assistant post- master general at Washington, had ruled there was no authority to permit him (o continue the flight aJone in a plane belonging to the mail service. An attempt to borrow | SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.—Trans- continental and connecting railroads have combined: ih a Chicago confer- ence to effect lower rates on® export and import freight ih order to meet water competition through the Pana- an army airplane here also failed. Fouowi greetings by American Legion members, Rickenbacker de- parted this afternoon as a passen- cago, where he hopes to secure per- | ma canal, G. W, Lure, freight traffic mission from Gencral Mitchell of | manager of the Southern Pacific com- the army ulr service, to use an army |[pany, advised his office here ein a machine to complete his trip. telegram from Chicago today. ger in an air mail plane for Chi- Mooney Plea Dismissed in Frisco Court SAN FRANCISCO, May 27—A petition for a writ under a common law pleading to release Thomas J. Mooney, convicted of a 1916 “pre- paredness dy” bomb, from San Quentin prison witere he is serving a life term, was dismissed today in the superior court. Se ARS TENEE YL WAR HEROINE NATURALIZED. OAKLAND, Cal., Mas® 27.—Miss Asina M. Sharp, an Englishwoman, who France during the war as a nurse, was served with the American forces in admitted to citizenship here today. She is said to be one of eight women tached to the American forces to have received the Croix De Guerre for bray- y in action. She ho!d: eral other corations. °; | full power to attempt to catch the Fights Pair to Standstill- on- B eing\a before it entered Casper in an en- |deavor to escape the clutches of the jchine, Frank Hill and W. R: Hyland. |abused him, Sheriff Martin saw the | necessity of getting medical attention for the. injured man, : ac. i M 7 | ” er orderin, Att ked After Securing edical as the sheriff's car approached the | George Fearne? to go ek oo 47 : | other speeding machine ‘Sheriff Mar-'road and pick up the stuff that had Aid for Wounded Bootlegger | tin raised in the tonneau ‘and sent ajbeen thrown from the. car Sheriff | whizzing past the bootleg car. The| Martin ordered the other men tinto {ariver of the machine paid no heed|the “bootleg” car and told them to and Martin then attempted to punc-|meke all speed to the Casper Private ture the rear tire. | hospital. Attacked by two burly ruffians, pals of a man whom he The car driven by Masse then}. While Casserley was receiving. at- gained and passed the other machine. tention at. the institution Sheriff Mar- had shot through the hand after he had humanely made all speed possil injured man medical attention, Sheriff en eeita taser his two assailants to a standstill| When far enough ahead Masse cut tin ordered the other mien to come : rae | down the power and blocked the road./With him. It.is here that Hyland ‘is at the Private hospital yesterday afternoon and alone ty, booties car came up, the oceu-|Said to have become boisterous and and unarmed took the two men to the county jail. pants cursing madly. Sheriff Martin /Offensive, using language which Sher- ‘This was the climax of a chase of jing he end Masse started in pursuit.| then learned that Vick Casseriey, one |iff Martin attempted to prevent be whiskey runners who were encoun-|The sheriff's car began to cut down |of the occupants of the machine, had | fore the nurses and other attendants tered by Sheriff Martin and Deputy |the gap between the two vehicles and | been hit by a bullet and that he was ,4t the institution. George Masse, as they attempted to|it then that Sheriff Martin noticed | bleeding profufsely from the wound in| ae enter Casper from the south yester-|the occupants of the car were throw-|his hand. The bullet which had ap-|FIGH STARTS day afternoon. In quest of a criminal | ing jugs on both sides of the right-of | parently ricochetting from. the rear | EN HOSPITAL. + ‘who was reported to be coming ‘to| way. wheel plowed an upward course, Sheriff Martin took Hyland by the Casper, the car in which the officers | }through the hack seat going in the/arm and was struck jn the solar were riding passed a car that was | SHERIFF AND back of Casserley’s hand and coming plexus with a blow that nearly para: Yunning at a terrific rate of speed. |DEPUTY GIVE CHASE. jout through the palm. jlyzed him. Dazed from the punch he! Sheriff: Martin questioned the mis-| Braving the dangers of the treach-| Despite the fact that Casserley and at Moscow, All agree that the fall of the regime headed by Nikola! Le- nine would be followed by a long period of anarchy A. M, Martus of New York, a Lith uanian-American at the head of the United Baltic organizations, which was promoting a, Baltic a!liance, recently returned from a month's investigation in Moscow. He summed up the sit- uation by saying: “Russians in America, Paris and elsewhere who are still contending a united Russia would be possible im- mediately after the fall of Bolshevism are therishing « vain dream. I was t in Moscow. It would take 150 rs to restore anything like normal conditions in Russia, The Baltic states are progressing while inner Russia is deteri: Soldier Relief Investigation Is Considered ON, "May 27.—Advisa bility of congressional investigation of the collection and expenditure of funds by soldier relief organizations was msideréd today by the house rules committee, Representative Johnson, Republican, of South Dakota, a former service man, urging his resolution to t end. It states that: ‘Charges are made and there is no reason to believe that much of the money. collected. to. influence legis}a- tion is collected surreptitiously,” and that “large sums of money purported to be collected for disabled service men are being diverted from their orig- inal and lawful purpose.” U. S. BUDGET BILL READY WASHINGTON, May 27.—Pass- azo of the bill establishing a fed- eral budget system was completed today, the house adopting the con- . ference report on the measure, which now goes to the president. PLAN FOR NAVY BASE GIVEN UP WASHINGTON, May to make provision in the naval appro- ion bill for a new base at Ala- da, Cal., was-abandoned today by Republican, laaders in charge of the Wion-of the speed car and after turn-'crous road Masse opened his car to|the other two occupants of the ma-{ (Continued on Page 4) a eh anne et Ee ee appropriation measure. Esthonia, Letvia and Lithuania, having diplomatic missions} officials that he had obtained the R. H. E. whom he had prubstaked and who naa OKicago ----- 00000001023 8 0 SEIS lair teft Denver yester| Detroit -------0100000000-1 8 3 ordicilt la aac hagy deenaorpaa galery : Batteries—Faber and Yaryan; Leonard and pa assier. iFORGER HELD, At Washington— R. H..E. LAKE DRAGGED New York _____ 05050010011 18 2 Batteries—Hoyt FOR HIS WIFE SEATTLE, lamés A. Ma honey, held here on harge of first degree forgery, while a search is be ing conducted for his second wife, Mrs. Kate Mahoney, who disappeared last April, was married. to his -first wife in Tacoma, Wash., eight years 14g0 and subsequently divorced, Mrs. Nora Mahoney, mother of the prisoner, is quoted as admitting in an interview printed in the Times today At St. Louis— Cleveland St. Louis Batteries — Bagby, O’Neill; Davis, Burwell Washington __. 201100000—4 10 2 and Schang; Schacht, Shaw and Gharrity. Zachary, R. H. E. 02200050110 14 1 300002300—8 8 2 Odenwald, Uhle and and Severeid. Search of Lake Union for a trunk + which it is believed may contain the * i | body of Mrs. Kate Mahoney was con- Regulation O | tinued today. _ NORWAY ON STRIKE, Dress Is Urged} NEW YORK, May 27,—A general strike has been started in rway said an official dispatch received here] COLORADO S, Colo., “May teday. Although no serious disturb-| 27.—Resolutions sking for proper ance has b reported, the govern-| regulation of dress, for control of the ment hax called troops to assist the} social activities of boys an¢ girls at! police in Christiana and other cities. ‘high schools, for courses in home making for the young, for co-operat- ing in selecting better films, for uni form, marriage laws, for the enforce- ment of the prohibition law, for the purchase of state-mide goods and the support of the good’ roads movement were passed at the closing session to- day of the Colorac Congress, of Mothers and. Parent Teachers’ asso- ciations,. Following the session, dele. gates were invited to points of in. terest UPHELD BY DE Vote of Confidence Given Briand. by Chamber; Germans Asked for Trains, To Move British Into Silesia PARIS, May 27.—Policies followed by Premier Briand in dealing with German reparations, the problem of Upper | Silesia and other matters of vital importance have been giveh| the stamp of approval by the chamber of deputies. The chamber, which had been debating these questions for sev-| the day declared its confidence in th premier, by a vote of 419 to 171 industrial sections of police duty Oppe'n states t here’ have been re the district for} dispatch from 27.—British forees way to Silesia, at ¢ BERLIN which are on t ed to su eral days, up held the government last night on every point |r inyolved, and on the general.orderof) it is believed, proceed to points in the} 3 horities |’ rolling stock ‘for 1,6 ‘ FRENCH PREMIER iS PUTIES Reports of serious clashes between Germgin “volunteer organizations and Poles continuc The town of Myslowitz, in southeast- ern Silesia, fs said to be in the hands of ‘the Poles, having been evacuated byiFreneh troops. * rs 4 FREICURG, Baden, May 27.—Chan- * celior Joseph Wirth dec'ared here yes- terday’ that the Poles, through their recent insurrection, had forfeited their moral right” to the plebiscite area of Upper Silesia, He disputed a recent assertion by Premier Briand of France that SileSiz had been “violently ‘an- "by the Germans six centuries ¢ Poles have no historic. claim chancellot de- man plebiscite 090 be disre~ BALL SCORES: ey g