Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 2, 1921, Page 1

HARDING TIKES | UP QUESTION Cal HATE REDUCTION WITH THE 1.6. 6. VOLUME V Voluntary Cut on Fruit Rates ie Expected by) Commission; Details! Of Program Withheld ay Canpr atly WASHINGTON, June 1 Downward revision of rail-! road rates, particularly of; those on necessities, was dis-’ cussed by President Harding today with members of the interstate commerce commigsion at an informal conference at the commis- sion's headquarters. The president was understood to have been assured Two-Thirds of Last Year’s Increase Is Wiped Out by Ruling Handed Down by United States Labor Board CHICAGO, June 1.— Approximately two-thirds of the that the whole subject now was un-|Wage increase granted railroad employes last July by the der review. by the commission. ‘The fuff is said to have been first |. inVented by # Spanish noblewoman to railroad labor board was ordered deducted beginning July 1 im the board’s decision announced today. From the wage incrcase last year of $600,000,000 a year for railroad labor, hide a wen which grew on her neck. |mearly $400,000,000 will be’ cut, it is estimated. BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York—(First Game)— Philadelphia -__ 000020900 0— 4 8 1 New York _.-.- 30302010 * 8 ft Batteries—Ring, Bruggy and BoE Ryan, Smith and Snyder. At New York—(Second Game)— RB. H. E. Philadelphia _. 0200000013 3 3 New York ..00115100*—8 12 3 Batteries—G. Smith, Baumgartner and Pet- ers; Benton and E. Smith, Snyder. At Pittsburgh— R. H. E, Chicago 000000002—2 8 1 Pittsburgh 00201100*—4 12 1 Batteries—Martin, York and Daly, O'Farrell; Glazner and Schmidt. At Cincinnati—. R. H. E. H. E. St. Louis ____-_- 10200500210 16 1 Cincinnati -_-__ 001000003—4 12 1 Batteries—Haines and Dilhoefer; Rixey, Na- pier and Hargrave. AMERICAN LEAGUE At icitaty one a Game)— R. H. E. Boston 00500010—6 10 0 Pleiichis 0 1L0L0R00~ § 7 1 Batteries—Jones and Walters; Perry, Nay- lor and Rerkins. At Philadelphia —(Secund Game)—R. H. E. Boston _____- 000000200—2 li 1 Philadelphia ___03000000*—3 8 2 Batteries—Bush * and Ruel; Rommel and Perkins. P i At Washington— New York 00001 Washington Batteries—Mays and Schang; ee Gharrity. R. H. E, In the case of the general class of maintenance of way laborers, the en- lire increase of 8% cents an hour was witharawn The decrease, it is estimated, even-| ~ tually will affect two million men. The {genera | averiige drcrease is placed © cent. as compared with an 1 avarebee of 21 j@ranted*iast July. are tn rouuet with: the’ increases ordéréd for some of the clisses of railroad employe: Increase. Docrease, perscent princtpa: inerease May i, ~ July 1, Classi fication— 1920, 1921. Clerks (hour) __ lie fe Maintenance of way laborers (hour) — Sic 8ibe ‘Track foremen (ho! lc 10¢ Signal Dept. (hour) 13¢ e Shop crafts (hour).- 13¢ Se ‘Telegraphers (hour). 10> fe Passenger engincers and firemen (day)... 80c 6chr. Frejght engineers and firemen (day)-- $1.04 8chr. Yard engineers and firemen’ (hour) - 18e 8c hr. Passenger cond tors and brakemen (month) - 7c br.) Preight } and brakemen (day) $1.00 8chr. Yard conductors and brakement (hour) .. 18¢ 8c hr. Stationary engineers, firemen and oilers 18 Schr. $A4 Sehr. $1440 Sehr. | mother, Mrs. Lillian Chester. Crile [NIGHT MATL CASPER, WYO., THURSDAY, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1921. 2, 1921 RAIL WAGES CUT 12 PER CENT Central Figures in Kansas City ct worlds, one the world of wealth and social distinction and the other the so-called underworld, play weighty parts in the trial of Denzel Chester, alleged slayer of Miss Florence Barton. Chester, in Kansas City this week, is making mute plea for hjs fife, for since his sensational escape and recapture at Broken Bow, Neb., he bas not spoken a word voluntarily. Photo shows Denzel Chester with his Insert, Miss Barton, the slain girl. "NUMBER 200 200 Tragedy No ow seb Aired in Court NEGRO SECTION IN RUINS, 74 ARE DEAD |Martial Law Declared and Hundreds of Blacks Placed Under Arrest as Culmination of Bloody Battle Started at Jail When Negro Mob Tries to Deliver Black Accused of Out- rage Against White Gil; Ten Blocks Swept by Flames | TULSA, Okla., June 1—Nine white men are known to have been killed in the race clash that broke out here last night and raged until noon today, and Chief of Police Gus- tafson estimated the negro dead at 65. .In addition, scores of whites and negrocs have been wounded and practically the entire negro quarter is a mass of ruins, the result of firc. Six thousand negroes are being held under guard in improvised prison camps through- out the city. | Fire department officials expressed the belief early this afternoon that the white resi- | dence districts would be saved from the flames that were still raging in the negro section. | With martial law in effect in the city and county, 300 or more National Guardsmen placed j at strategic points in the negro quarter, ordsrs issued to disarm all citizens and approxi- mately 6,000 negroes under guard in detention camps, officials veges the belief that he situation is under control | “25 reported to have been spirited out hefe today from the chief of police at of the city this morning. Tulsa Daley, of the police Maj. Charles W. First attempts <o fire the negro| Martial law in Tulsa was ordered by foes Sua Steere. Se erate cusen | Gaateae Coourrea at a.m enor Robertson at 11:15 a. m. to. Bimmer of: dead: frogs ee fu |men, who attempted to lay hose and Adjutant General. Barrett hereat 175., He gave It aa his epinion | wo Burning houses used as a garrison | The that numbers of negroes had burned | py about 50 negroes, were turned back distance to death when their homes were swept |1y tne whites by fire: | i : |o About 6:40 a. m. fires in negro}. —— A Fevined list of the white dead in| 2°00 long Archer etree: were |GUN FIGHT MARKS cindes: sturted. Ax the flames spread, negroes |COMING OF DAW Homer Cline, 13, Tulse previously svith upraised ‘hands and trying Dep't) TULSA Feported a4 — Olson of Sapulpa: shot!” fled from thesblazing hour fire broke ieo Shumate, 24, Tulsa, They were rourded up and placed in| near rhe ‘ar! D, Lotpesch, Randall, Emmett Bukley, 35, Leroy State troops: under the command of Beant the prison camps f aa ADJUTANT GENERAL ASSUMES CHARGE of whieh all night hundreds of white men,and negroes took part and which armed Ail). Get, Cy Barrett: derived: at 9 resulled in the Ueath and. injury of o'clock to take charge of the situation, Adjutant Genera! Barrett took up an unknown number of persons and augmenting local units of guardsmen |his headquarters at ity Hall and|tie calling out of Oklahoma natio who were called out last’ night.|xnnounced that Col. B. H. Markham| gat unita to put down, the disor¢ | At this time there were report@/of Oklahoma City weuld be in com:|” Pye fring ¢ from. a' spot whe of sporadic shooting and the situation | mand of field operdtions of the guards: throughout the rly morning hours seemed to be easing. mena The negroes assembled ak refu-45o9 white. men_am tip af574 ‘The trouble 14 feported’ to ( have] Seee*ancopriaoners were: being cared | egcn other’ across pe dtartad asthe result of the arrest of |fF by civic organizations and private!" qhe police also had a Feport that Dick Rowland, alleged to have assauit- | ‘itizens who volunteered for the work three St. Louls & san Francisco rail Tee water and sandwiches were being served and the wounded or sick were receiving medical attention | Throughout the morning ‘The negro switchmen 4 jot ed an orphaned white girl. NITRO INJURY io 8 reported, b to permit members of long lines of negroes streamed westward alon the opposinus ride upon’ the streets leading to Convention Hall. | switch engine 1 between. U Many wore thir night clothes and r The engineer was reported | P to safety in thoir, bare feet. Th aped. jsunken eyes told of a sleepless nig 6a and their ashen faces be F neering ivi lithe tear HATRED, WORLAND, Wyo., June 1.—Henry| Men, women and children carried te. Wag Moped thats witha tap lixreger, who was seriously injured | bundles of clothing on their heads and |CO™Ns of dawn the trouble, which | ren * 1 began over the arrest of a ne p late week ago, when a can of nitroglycer-|backs. One old woman clung to a " ine exploded while he was working| Bible; a girl with disheveled al: yesterday for an alleged atta’ upon it on @ ranch here, died yester-| ried a woolly. white dog unc a white girl, ¥ ai |. As the Jears fille a" a « awn brok with of and he motor arm and behind trotted a If Bir! with a big wax doi! But all those wh Was biown » mutilated. One le pr asia armed whi men ound the cle completely TEUTON ACCUSED OF SINKING HOSPITAL SHIP IS DISMISSED AUBURN, N. ¥., June 1.—Speak- ing to his) grandchildren, who ac- companied\him to his boyhood home, now the Van Arsdale place, four miles north of Moravia, John D. Rockefeller yesterday —_ afternoon said: doliar,” and’ he described to the chil- arep of John D., Sr... how he had raised a flock of turkeys back in 1848 and sold ‘them as his own en- terprise. Mr. Rockefeller came to Storavia with J. B. Van Duyne, a cousin; Owasoo, where the oil spent the happiest years of his child- hood. ‘After going through the old Anglo-Japanese Is British Aim TOKIO, June 1.—(By The Associ ated Press.)}—Great Britain, the hi Nichi declares today, has suggested that Japan permit the Anglo-Japanese alliance to continue another year “Here is. where learned my first | Rockefeller Makes His Little Cousins Present of Buffalo. || Nickels on. Visiting-Old. Home i i } | | | | } and. they motored up the hill over | magnate | | messengers of the Stockyards bank | Alliance Renewal lished to Satisf LEIPSIC, Germany, The trial of former. Lieut. sinking the hospital ship Dov |a German submarine during examination of th rooms. and recalling familiar scenes, the party returned to Moravia, after which Mr. Rockefeller and his kin motored back to Watkins Glen. On departing from Moravie he re. warded the. Van Duyne youngsters | with new shiny. buffalo nickels. | preliminary BANDITS CIVEN LIFE SENTENCES DENVER, June 1—t1fe ~~ sen- tences were impos2d today on Regin- | ald Locke, Thomas J, Coleman and Charles Chere, bandits who heid up “It is’ the sentence of this court that all pf you be confined for the remainder of your natural lives in the Ganon City penitentiary.” -de- tlared the court. | “At the words, the girl collapsed. Coleman, stunned, repeated the word “iife.” Chere turned to his attorney; ‘ake care_of my wife,” simply, Chere’s wife lives Erie, Pa. * here two months ago and took $23,000. | The men appeared in district court today and changed their. pleas fron: not guilty to guilty. ‘Their attorney asked leniency from the court. he said in Silence prevailed 2s Judge War- | ‘Locke betrayed no emotion. The | ren Haggott arose to pronounce sen- | cirl soon was revived. tence. Micky Carroll, a girl ar- | Locke was. arrested in Los An | rested with the trio, and said to be about to marry Coleman, was in court. eles and confessed implicating the others. Chere was Captured after a | revolver fight at Erie, Pa. Innocence of German Lieutenant Estab-) Court at Hearing Conclusion June 1.—(By The Associated Press.) 7 being established. ection. Half a dozen irplanes tion Hall we Repeated!s armed, whirled rectly from the serene of t With them. sely guarde |negro prisoners captured with during the fray Fires continund to raz in the negro section, t it was believed that dence districts | would eseape | It would | turn a stream of © buildings,” Fir agserted earlier. All persons tial officer ‘a procl m-faced mi sp to the heavil ai FIRST CHECKS ISSUED TODAY ‘ON REPARATION big hall tigh' guns all morning ut at 11:30 a, m, the white rest which were imperilled 2 fireman's life to water on one of those an e Chief Alder had | 1 shortly bD, B ns will bi orders. befc action of Leipsic | noon sons carryis }der the ma } déposit in thé bank todz unk of England and SEV “FIV REPORTED TO GOVERNOR OKLAHOMA ( ar ¥, Seventy-fiv Karl Neumann, charged with! a er Castle while in command of | srees, have t din the race out: } break in Tuleu. according a tele the war, has been stayed, as a} phone me 0 Governor Robertsor e case resulted in his innocence REYNOLDS MADE U. S. COLLECTOR BULGARIA. REFU TO DISBAND GUARDS. 3 dune 1,—Refusal of Pre- Von Kahr of Bavaria, 1% Einwobn disband eve of WASHINGTON, June 1.— The | for, in all respects the Kemmerer am speech before noutination of Marshall 8. Reynolds, | man conforms to the high ideal od great dissatisfac: of Kemmerer, to be collector of in: | sought for this mosb important t circles rere. It is viewet ternal revenue of the district place, the new shu Wyoming was sent to the senate to- The collector of customs, it was ndéd to inform day by President Harding. agreed from the first by those on man parliament ‘that his Magia a - — whom the appointing power oe: bending every effort to fulfill the cén-|" The nomination today of Marshall _ tically rested, must be’ not on 8. Reynolds, the widely known Kem merer attorney whose brilliant rec ord in the world war shows partici- | ditions ‘of the latest allied ultimatum. | There isan impression here, } ever, that Premier Von Kahr and man of ‘good judgment and business ability, but because of the very heayy responsibilities involved in nia | | coalition cabinet were ready to yicld| pation in the St. Mihiel offensive | connection with the adjudication of to demands from Berlin, but that io-| and the Argonne, Meuse and Verdun | large property interests, it was also cal pressure was too powerful for| sectors, disposes of the most nu- | desirable that the Wyoming collect. | them to take such a step merously souzht Wyoming plum |or posses legal training and expe- picts ak | within the gift of the admittistration. | rience. That the must be a zood The nr 1 That the selection of Reynolds will find practically unanimous approval throughout the state seems certain, | Cor | age OF cae through | | amounts to the astonishing | [distance of 61,320 miles in a year mixer, free from bias and of pleas: the bod