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

neem wALLIES TO CALL HALT IN WAR nens REPO ne Casper Daily TRIKE 15 SEEN Government Pulls Down Subsidy Proposal as Workers Lay Plans to Call General Walkout LONDON, June 20.—Lead- ers of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain took no steps yesterday to prevent the with drawal of the government's offer of a ten million pounds sterling ‘subsidy to the coal industry Th are proceeding with the call ic all trade organizations affected’ by the wage dispute to meet at an early. for the purpose of taking na n action to secure mutual de ne annual conference of the labor y will be he!d at Brighton tomor. Most of the unions are now in 4 in wage disputes, and are read cording to spokesmen of thé miners ake a stand with the coal diggerr nst what they regard to be a nspiracy” on the part of employ- ers to reduce wages below the pre-war evel and break the unions. The fight is now taking on an en urely different character,” eaid A. J. Cook, & prominent South Wales lead- and a member of the miners’ fed- eration yesterday. “The whole body of the British miners is going into the strugglé for socialization or national- vation, of the-mines. It is ‘going to be a fight’ directly against the gov- ernment.” Ulster Senate Holds Meeting, Speaker Named BELFAST, June 20.—(By The Asso- ciated Press?—The senate of the Ul- ster or northern Trish parliament, com- prising 22 Unionists who were elected without opposition on June 11, held its annual meeting today, I mer Canadian Wie as iS When ‘the “elections we held the’ Nationalists, and Sinn red them, although the tists | had teft seats open for those organizations. Accordingly, the “Unionists —nomi- hated men for all the seats. oe ROAD REPORT Reports indicate the following road ere today, June 20: f. Grant hway—Heavy . rains, | should be fair by Wednesday. Yellowstone shway — Heavy om Cheyenne | { | | dition again by Wednesday unless more rain falls. Shoshoni-Lander—Detour at Sho- | shoni to Riverton is slow going, | highwater between Riverton “and Hudson, makes trayelling slow and difficult, Casper-Sheridan—Heavy rains on Salt Creek road. es at Salt Creek and Castle Creek impassable, Formalities Are Disposed Of As | Premiers Meet, ] LONDON, June 20.{By The Asso- ated Press).—The conference of im-| berial premiers met this afternoon in the official residence of the prime | minister in Downing street. A. brief address of welcome and an outline of ‘ne work.to be undertaken by the con- ferenco were made ‘by Mr. Lloyd George, which was virtually the only | of the session. se uttending today’s sitting were loyd George, Austen Chamber- sovernment leader in the house | commons; Winston’ Spencer Church: " secretary for the colonies; A. J.| Balfour, lord president of the council; of Australia, and the representatives of India, Ed-| Iona amuel- Montagu, * secretary for | ndia; Srinvasa Sastri Avargal and the | haraja of Kutch, Cara Ts eer INSANITY INCREASING. WASHINGTON, June. 20.—Insarility | the increase due to the world ®ar and its'aftermath, Dr. J. M. Lee of Rochester, N, ¥., declared today be- wre the annual convention. here of the merican Institute of Homeopathy. and not named in the reduction order of June 1, railroad day. case and on the hearing of June 6. when more than 150 roads presented petitions, today, will be drawn as an addendum to the wage reduction order of June identical with the average 12 per cent cut granted by that order. completed by the end of the week,” a member of the board anid toda: |"It is the board’s intention to’ pub- Msh it as far in advance of July 1. &s possible. be effective on that date, original reduction dec‘sion also goes into effect.” . first -aetion ® to elect th . 7 ar a de panaten waa ca “ust tore. Railroad. Gives. _hicle competition is given as the cause for the abandonment by Ocean Shore itas Glen and from Santa Cruz to | Swanton. the road was granted today by the "a Accept Plane As terstate commerce commisson. |ber and agricultural to |served by the carrier. ‘Man and Wife ' Under Arrest | believed by at Butte, uv Os VOLUR AGE CUT ON RAILROADS TO BE ANNOUNCED CHICAGO, June 20. — announce ment’ of a wage reduction order af- fecting nearly all railroads in the 600,000,000 wage award of July, 193 Hughes to Protect ing in Mexico to take steps to p taxation regarded by them as eral counsel of the Association of Producers of Petroleum in Mexico, and Guy Stevens, director of associa tion. placed before the secretary a memorandum reviewing the history of Mexico's taxation of oil since its-dis covery in that country up to the re ent decree of President Obregon in- creasing the tax 25 per cent. ‘The situation was presented to the state department a few days after the promulgation of the decree. Some administration officers have let an impression go out that full credence was given to the contentions of the oll operators but -it is under stood that the state department has been reluctant to-make any speciai jsepresentations to the Mexican gov- ernment at this time because of the Mforts being-made to negotiate a ty of amity and commerce with je Obregon administration as a ba- for the restoration of diplomatic relations. ‘The delegation calling on Secretary Tughes today was. mobilized by the 3 association, which requested every momiiiny, to send fepresentalives) egmon for the oil men argued t, aside from the unconstitutional mfiscntory aspects of the new tax, thé policy of the) Mexican govern ment in ‘continually adding to the x burden was unfair, unjust and is expected this week, it learned at the United States labor board today. A brief hearing covering about 30 roads asking wage cuts was held to- The board's (Gncision on this’ was will be rendered simultan- The decision, it was learned t, and the reductions will be virtually The addendum probably will be ‘The addendum order wil! when the a Abner PS SSeS, the oil fields of that country and to reduce the production. 5 WASHINGTON, June 20. Vines?) in California F. 2 R Farmer Wo Authority. for abandoning A lum: territory was CHICAGO, June 20. | avaiator, today retains possession of [his airpiane but he was forced ta sum-} . | mon_the potice to do it. He made a . li | forced landing yesterday on the land For Swindling 27s. eerie tener wno ia claim to the plane as a “gift from the heavens.” on Kelly, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 20.—A} 5 man and woman registered at a local INTERNATIONAL MEETING SOON. hote! as Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenyon, but) PLYMOUTH, England, June 2 the “police to be E. J./American delegates to the conference Morriseey and Clara Morrissey, his|of the International Chamber of Com-| wife, alleged to have swindled banks|merce,-to be held in London the week Helena and Great Falls,!beginning June 27, arrived here to- Mont., were arrested here late yester-|day. Restoration of world trade will| day by locel detectives on request of be the chief consideration of the dele: | Butte authorities gates. palculated to drive Ameriéans’ from; | ing Representatives Appeal to Secretary Concerns Against Alleged Confiscatory Mexican Tax WASHINGTON, June 20.—Secretary Hughes was urged today by representatives of American oil companies operat- rotect those companies against confiscatory. More than a dozen’ men, including E. L. Doheny, presi- dent of the Mexican Petroleum company; F. R. Kellogg, gen-| Atha | NIGHT MATL | CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921 O. » TAX PROTESTED _ BtESS ORDINANCE Is VLATED BY U. S. COMPANIES OMAN GOES To JAIL 1m 210 NUMBER 216 DRESS ORDINANCE |S VIOLATED ARREST ZION, HL, June 20.—Mrs. Sarah | Jcinson, 21 years of age, of Win- | throp Harbor, is in jail here today | charged with fracturing Wibur | Glenn Votiva’s modest dress ordi. | nance in three places. Mrs. Johnson was arrested as she | stepped from a train. She was | booked on the following charges. | “Wearing short sleeves which ex- posed the arm the middle of the forearm. above ON TURKS France and Italy Ask Con- stantine to Postpone the Campaign Against Nationalists and Accept Medi- ation of Dispute, Paris Report |Great Britain, I. PARIS, June 20.—Offensive operations against the Turk- jish Nationalists in Asia Minor are opposed by Great Britain, France and Italy, which have dispatched a note to the Greek government asking that King Constantine postpone his cam- paign against the Turks and accept mediation which may settle the Near East situation. Should Constantine's reply be favorable, overtures to the Tu: Nationalists will quickly follow Allied high commissioners in da have been asked for a unanimous’ re Port relative to f » be « tablished between Polan rmar in the plebiscite area there 1d commissioners be unable to agree, ex will be sent to adjust the situa and both the Pc and Germans : z 4 2 , i [Will be forced to a a * \cision, which will be based or MADE ON ports ‘submitted he expert THREE Coun tS BOMBARDMENT OF TURKS PROTESTED,. ONDON, June 20... Bombardment Wearing a blouse of transpar- (01) °voll. on the Turkish 1 ent material which exposed the bare | has protested to the allied high com precy joners in Constantinople, followed “Wearing = blouse with neck cut |‘he refused of the Turks to surrender below the junction of the base of (4°, Aunches conveying war mat ich, however, were destro the neck and colar bone. ing the Turkish eyacuation, says “Whenever you pay for my Athens dispatch to the Exchang clothes, you can tell me what graph company wear,” the young woman was said In addition, the Greeks ed a to have told Chief of Police Becker. | Turkish battery 1 fire, suffer no casualties from bardment Her trial was set for tomorrow. Turkish bom THREE PERISH WHEN ieee Speeder Bearing Section Men in North Tribute Is Paid Dakota Struck by Wall of Water 20 Feet High, Two Escape DICKINSON, N. D., June section men were killed while on duty in the heavy rains and |(endea cloudbursts which raged over western North Dakota and Wittiam ©. Mason today at the Third eastern Montana Friday night learned here today. |. The five were returning to 10,000 COAL "MINERS QUI | WILKESBARRE, Pa.. June Nearly 10,000 anthracite.mine workers ‘employed by :the Pennsylvania Coal company went on strike today, claim jing the company, is not paying wages lin accordance with the agreement jsigned last year. Company officials | ‘Heavenly Gift °°" "+" 'M. W. A. Meeting Opens Tonight ST. LOUIS, June 20.—With the Na- tional Head Clerks association hold sessions today, general sessions of the 19th quadrennial head camp of the Modern Woodmen of Americx were to begin here tonight. Delegates will hald state caucuses at the open ing sessions. A large tent city ha 1 tor the encampmnt at Fc preparations have been made the greater numer of th 10,000 visiting Woodmen there. expec TANK FIRE BURNS OUT, LOSS IS CHECKED UP Official Estimates Involving Loss of 350,000 Barrels of Crude and Fuel Oil and Seven Tanks Withheld; Smudge Wreckage Only Reminder of Disastrous Blaze Twisted and gnarled piles of steel flame and smoke black of the most disastrous blaze that Casper has ever seen. all that remaii { Officials of the Midwest declined to; give any authentic figures. on the! losses at this time. Accountants are RUSS Wii D OVER ==: on the results’ of ‘the blaze. / ‘ and it is probable that official esti- | mates can be made in a few days. It is impossible to say at this time how | much oil was salvaged from the flames Ler 3 : 5 lover the 60,000 barrels which pumped | RIGA, June 20,—Honors such are. ustally aecorded to royalty or to oficisls of high rank were given the Detch steamer Alexander Pol- den when she arrived at Petrograd rercntiy, says the newspaper Izves- ‘a of Moscow. The steamer brought years, and as she passed nstadt she was saluted by the | lesbip Marat, white Kussian ore ned the Geeks and cheers! | |from the tanks before the suction line broke. With years of starvation behind by day and | the firefighters in keeping the blaze confined to the seven tanks which were originally struck by lightning is shown by the blackened tanks in the path of the flames which remained intact Despite'the fact that a storage ca- pacity of over 400,000 barrels was de- | stroyed in the flames, the Midwest Re- | fining company announced this morn- | that the policy of taking 60 per cent | Jot the. production, of the Sait Creek | swiftly that the next day 20 car: loads of hening were dispatched to Moscow while the rest was left for distribution in Petrograd. Since the Alexander Polden made port, two more steamers have ar- rived at Petrograd carrying 17,000 barrels of herring, which qnickly unloaded. were The last of the blaze which was ignited by lightning Friday and resulted in the destruction of seven huge tanks at the Midwest tank farm and the loss of approximately 350,000 barrels of crude oil, has burned itself out, the blackened embers and the evidences of the destruction being ened tanks is all that remains field would be continued indefinitely It is said that plans are already un derway to restore the lost storage ca pacity. This work in all probability wil be undertaken as rapidly as esti mates of the less are finished and ar rangements can be made for cleaning the ground of the wrecked structures,. ,ing from ‘had hoor Huking répgire cand- werd, kegan, “Tr workers who have been on sume work under the old ¢ 20.—Three of a crew of five and Saturday morning, it was) Medora early Saturday morn- Sentinel Bufte, where they caught if a’ cloudburst, A ¢rest of water which survivors sgid was 20 foet high, struck the Speeder.on which they were riding as it was rounding a curve. Arnold Stilison, 35 years of age Tom, Everets, 46 years of age, and Peter McNair, 41 years of age, all of Medora, were the men killed. Fred Zeigler, section foreman, and an em ploye named Robinson. escaped wit! severe bruises from the debris car ried by the torrent. The bodies of Stillson and McNair have been recovered. “ ‘The cloudburst was the most dis astrous to railroad property ever known in this section of the state Long stretches of track between Me- dora and Sentinel Butte, steel and concrete bridges and two miles of tele graph wires were destroyed. Except in hit by: hail and in the lowlands, little damage has been done to growing crops. 27,7 95 Drunks In Dry Country WASHIL June Permi, first photograph of President Harding seated at his desk executive offices was granted to Benjamin Grey of New York in photog ational edu The appointment was irman Kahn of the mili ry committee the trains cational system made by a ‘SENATE MAY YIELD ON ARMY WASHINGTON, June Unitarian .church. A wreath from|¢onferees on the arm, President Harding wak on the casket. | hill decided tod Cablegrams of: condolence from the senate yield to the insistence of eral foreign countries. were: recei the hotline (hat the army be reduced Burial wee tovtake place at Wat-|to160,000. enlisted men.y-next Coto: ber. To Congressman CHICAGO, June -20.—Hundreds of personal and political friends, includ- ing a delegation of congressmen, at the funeral. of Congressman 20,—Senate appropriation y to recommend that BURGLARS ARE UNDER ARREST Robbers Who Got Away With Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Merchandise Are Caught in Fort Collins, Colo. With every important robbery and other serious infrac- tion of state laws which has occurred in Casper during the past two weeks worked out by the sheriff's office and every one of the men who participated in the burglarizing of busi- ness houses here under arrest, the county jail is nearing its capacity for the first time in several wee Thousands of merchandise Lenarczak and Frank Carboni CHRISTIANIA, Norwa ‘orway is supposed to country, but no fewer than 3 were arrested last } drunk, and 34,550 other a were maée for sundry misdemeanors traceable to the offects of intoxicants, | is is shown in official statistics. While these figures indicate a slight falling off in arrests cor ‘ed with the pre vious year, they « far in excess of these for 1918. Nor broken coastline affords unlimited opportuni tles for smuggling. become a regular trade, especi. rmer German nava! s motor b nd all steamers ply between isolated coastal points and German port and most of the smug glers are heavily armed kerr eee Marine Workers Return to Jobs VERA CRUZ, June have reached an agreement with Navigation Mexican The three months agreem ludes a stipulation that all breakers employed during the will be replaced by ion. men conflict arose over the annulment of wage contracts between the cmploy. ing companies and the union, the companies these cortracte be replaced b: tem of individual understanding. How successful were the efforts of | F oOoU Fe DEA D, T WO HURT IN CRASH FREMONT, Ohio, 20.— | Four persons were killed and two injured shortly after 11 o'clock last night when an eastbound car on the Lake Shore electric tine struck | June an automobile about three miles east of here. The dead are: L. R. Silcox, old Sileex, 21, his son: Mrs. Black and Miss Olive Miller. All lived in Norwalk, Ohio. Har- Eva ALAND ISLAND ARE DEBATED 8 NATIONS BEFORE LEAGUE COUNCIL Polish-Lithuanian Dis- pute Will Also Come Before Geneva Council During Week, Report Tee GENEVA, June 20.—Swed- en and Finland debated ques- tions relative to the future of the Aland islands before the council of the league of na- tions here today. A commis- is was the f publie it was would expecte council also ¢ estion of repatriating F BALL SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston— R. H. EB. New York 100 001 O10O— 1 10 @ Boston 300 000 030— 0 11 2 Batteries—Mays and Schang; Myers and Ruel. At Philadelphia— R.H. Washington __011 000 900— Philadelphia 201 001 30%— 7 11 Batteries—Acosta, Shaw and Ghar rity; Moore and Perkins, At Philadelphia— Washington 101 Philadelphia 009 900 Batteries—Courtney Hasty and Perkins. - — NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh. Philadelphia ..000 000. 200-2 7 1 Pittsburgh 000 000 03"— 3 8 0 Batteries — Meadows and Bruggy: Yellowhorse and Schmidt. and = Picinict RK. HE. At St. Louis—Chicago-St. game postponed; rain. RUTH SLAMS OUT NO. 24, WINS GAME Louis 24th home run of the in the 10th inning of Ameri- cans. There was no one on base. The hit won the game for New York, 7 to 6, ‘SCOUTS LEAVE season today the game with the Boston * said the sen town you an incentive to leave Judge Tubbs in tences and fines Tt imposing rned hardware store is other member of the Mexi CHICAGO, June —Chief Jus- He will be arraigned tice Charles A, McDonald today as- eliminary: heart igned the trial of 18 former base- seit Base ormeteed wer’ re ball players, charged with con. for the crime art of spiracy to “throw” the 1919 world’s rial taken’ in. the —lootir Holmes store has series to Judge Mugo Friend, who othe Mexican wan A annour d he would se the se for le Sfderee?t 4: next Monday. Benjamin Franklin, } Sheriff Martin n z M St. Louis, who, with Carl Zork, a den’ r cs r manufacturer, is acetaed from:< Do wit \lexander by the state of concocting the dollars’ worth of stolen ON PARK TRIP was recov re wanted here for looting the the inet per Loan and Clothing compar local Tatts aati of the; Week and the Pavilion theater ee men who stole. thousands of. dollars’; ™men had a greater rart of the stolen worth. of. merchandise from. the; Stuff in thelr possession when ar CLINTON, Iowa, June 20.—En route Blakey & Co. store on North Center| rested in Converse county. They will to Yellowstone park 1921 Clinton Boy street, ‘The men arrested on this|be given a preliminary hearing today 8 this morning began to enjoy charge had the stolen material con-|_ Roy Hammon, who was arrested |their reward for many weary hours sisting of dre: and other valuable | Saturd: charged with } beef Of scrubbing floors d running er bits of milady’s equipment in their/ belonging to the Tisda anch com-.Fands, earning their $25 deposit. They possession. They were arrested in| pany, will be given a preliminary left on their 3,000-mile round-trip jour Fort Collins, Colo., Saturday night on| bearing tomorrow ney in a procession of 56 automobiles Information forwarded there by Sher-| in the arrests, thou dot. 2nd trucks. iff Lee Martin lars’ worth of stolen ma re — > Believing ¢ the robbery was the covered which had been taken from work of repre tives of a Mexican | C The ests include WATER BILL colony who been under sus n every robbery ca picion he or months, the sheriff here last -week in office learned that certain members of ¥ reported missing These men were tra John W. Miller and their arrest in Fo are company each lost consid — recovery of the stolen furnishings and merchandise 2 Mr. Blakey and a representative solved’ by the wh ‘an.| WASHINGTON (he sheriff's office will tonight | have been mi passed for Fort Collin ‘Tk arrested to the larceny and bur bil gave their names as Pilois| ciary cases ‘ere ih thee Rices and Jose. Johnson. Two of the| iiurderers being held at the county men, it is said reed to waive | jail witt bond pending trial in dis. sxtradition while the third will fight| trict court Famoval, to: this.state Ida Durham was confined in the Four other Mexicans, alleged to be hn eas ea members of the gang, but not impli-||_ dared eee Tea ood cated in the robberies, we a Ok tactried eon ie fn justice co killthe ohn W. Delur: At the née crrektied relim: nearing Satur her the law was invoked and w pohte eae Td sevettiies op PER bah ate inh ciybea pearbeneed then to® Yolini. (M. <Henc as The ntil ratified by the legis each. . These ve their names nm Pp t f all states and by congress as Miguel C ugustine Aifaro, G. A. Brevr Sanch = bunch of, birds, so I ‘guess , ON TRIAL SOON scheme, may be given a separate trial as he is reported confined to his bed by illness. Hal Chase also may escape trial for the present as he never has been arraigned here. Chase was arrested in California, but released on a writ of habeas corpus. The state is not certain that Abe Attel, former prizefighter, who has heen fighting extradition from New York, will be héje for the trial.