Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1921, Page 1

Ay BF ee p Or $ JAPANESE TO ACCEPT BID 10 WASHINGTON CONFERENCE BASIS FOR (RUSH PEACE MEETING STILL IN DOUBT, LEADERS CONFER Premier Lloyd George in Conference With De! Valera But No Plan Is Evolved, Report LONDON, July 21.—(By The Associated Fress.)—-The basis for a conference to at- tempt a settlement of the Irish question has not yet been found, it was announced in the official communique issued after a conference today between Eamonn De Valera,and Premier Lioyd George, who have been conferring with the object of finding-such a hasis, Mr. De Valera and his colleagues, adds the cornmunique, will return to Yablin tomorrow and Will communt- cate with Mr. Lloyd George after fur- ther discussions with his followers there. After the conference with the prime minister, Mr. De Valera and Robert C, Barton and Art O'Brief, who ac- companied, him to Downing street drove In a motor car to their hote'. Mr. Barten, however, accompanied by Secretary Childers of the Irish deie- gation, immediately returned to Down- ing street, where it required an hour's further discussion before ar: agree- ment’ was reached on the ‘text of the munique, The Irish delegation submitted the first draft of the communique, to which Mr, Lidyd (George withheld his assent. His substitute failed to meet with the approval of the Irish repre- sentatives and a lengthy exchange en- sued before a draft mutually satis- factory was drawn The text of the communique, which was issued first by the Irish delega- tion, being withheld at Downing street for more than half an hour, is as foi- lows; “Mr. Lioyd George and Mr. De Va- lera had a further conversation at 11:30 o'clock this morning lasting bout an hour, The basis for a fur- ther conference has’ not yet been found. Mr. De Valera -has to return to Iré:and tomorrow and to communteate with Mr. Lloyd George again after further discussion with his colleagues. ata el L. Lilly of the Cow Gulch Oil com- pany is here from Denver attending to business with the company offices located here. ROAD REPORT The following report on road con- ditions is made by the district office of the state highway department: Grant Highway—Nebraska line to Shawnee, generally good, then fair to Orin, Yellowstone Highway — Platte county line to Glenrock, good, then, fairly good to Casper. Casper to Shoshoni, good.‘ Cars in proper condition and not overloaded can make Birdseye Pass to Thermopolis without difficulty. Shoshoni-Lander Road—Shoshoni to Riverton, good, then fair to Hudson, then good to Lander. Casper-Sheridan Road — Rough from pavement to Seventeen Mile, then fair to good to Sheridan. STANDARD ORDERS SMALL CUT IN WAGE ON AUGUST 1 Sovereign Rights In Pacific Not to Be Discussed; Final Decision Reached TOKIO, July 20.—(By The Associated Press.)—The aah anese cabinet, the Nichi Nichi Shimbun says today, has de- eided to participate in the proposed Washington confér- jence with a general program of not “iscussing questions affecting sover- cm rights of participants, and also not to discuss the Shantung and Yap questions which {t is held were de- cided by the Paris. peace conference.” A delegation of peers representing all the parties visited Foreign Minis- ter Uchida today and questioned him concerning the conference, accorditig to the Yomi-Uri Shimbun. Viscount Uchida expounded his views with rela. tion ‘to the conference and the Angld- Japanese alliance, says the ni Paper, and adds that although the questions of Shantung and Siberia to be included, . these matters had in fact been decided at the Paris conferegee. In an interview in the Jiji Shimpo today, Viscount Kato, leader of the Kensat-Kai, the opposition party, de- clares against the formation of a-coal- ition government. “There is no need to propose a coall- tion cabinet,” he is quoted as saying “because Japan faces no crisis grave enough to justify such a step. “AN Japan has to do at the confer- nce is to present her case. openly and candidly. America is not a nation which refuses to withdraw from a po- sition once she is met with argument based on justice. Isolation must be avoided at all costs, but Japan is in no danger. JAPAN SURPRISED AT INVITATION. ¢ The comment on the Washington confefence, now appearing, indicates that Japan is recovering from the shock of surprise by the invitation, but everything points to the disarma- ment issue being dwarfed in the public mind in comparison with the import- ance of the proposition for a dis- cussion of Far Eastern problems and policies. “We should welcome the confer- ence as affording an opportunity for Japan to dispel American misunder- standing - and. to. initiate. the Amer- scans into. the actual cbpditions in the Fer: East,’ @'- editor -of ‘the Osaki Ashbi writes. f The presssalso prevents the views of péssimtsts who foresee danger trom the proposition. Thys America is ple- tured by.commentators as summoning the powers so as virtually to place Japan’ on. trial for her, foreign pol- iol t Paris, Japan was the plaintiff at Washington she will be defendant says the. militarist Kokumin Shim- bun in an article entitled: “Anglo- American Pressure Threatens the Far East in the Guise of Disarmament Conference.” The Kokumin,expresses the fear that such pressure on the part of the two nations indicated! wili deprive Japan of her Position In the Far East and her inter- ‘ests, particularly those Kwang- Tung. “China serves as a cat's paw for the Anglo-Saxons.to take China's side against Japan but keep the kernels for themselves, leaving the hulls for China,” this newspaper adds. Meanwhile arrangements are being made for special steamer to transport the Japanese delegation to the United States for the conference. _— HARRY MEDNICK IMPROVED. Harry Mednick has returned from Mayo Brothers hospitai-in Rochester, | Minn., where he recently underwent a successful operation. He is now able to be back on the’ job at the Med- nick Brothers store. He spent sev- eral weeks in St. Louis, Cedar Rapids and other eastern cities visiting while conyalescing from his ailments. Sliding Scale Readjustment to Become Effective Soon; Skilled Labor to Sustain Smallest Cut A sliding scale readjustment of wages averaging around seven per cent for all employes of the Standard plant. will become ¢ffective August 1-at the Casper, Greybull, Laramie and Florence, Colo., plants, according to official announce- ments made this morning. The program for the wage de- Che Casper Daily NIGHT MATL CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1921 ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS STRAINED OVER SILESIANS VOLUME V Hubby Leaves Wife, Parrot Being Trailed CROOKSTON, Minn., July 21.— The trail of a talking parrot and to- bacco is being followed by Mrs. Wi- Mam Hawes, in search of her run- away husband, who, she asserts is making for Canada with anothér. woman. The trail was a week old when the deserted wife took up the search, Without funds Mrs. Hawes de- clared, she had fo:lowed the run- aways from their home in Wést Vir ginia. Some times walking from town to town, some times riding on railroad cars and at other times getting a “lift” from passing auto- mobiles, Mrs. Hawes made it a point to ask at every town she vis- ited: “Have you seen a man who chewed tobacco with a woman anda talking parrot in an “uutomobtle pass?” The combination was always remembored, if seen, she sald. She believed her husband is head- ed for Winnipeg and hopes to over- take the party before it-gets to the border to reclaim her parrot, her automobile, and if possibie, her hus. band. —— > BRITISH NAVY | WILL BE KEPT LONDON, July 21.—(By Tho Asso- ciated ‘Press)—Lloyd George declared in thehouse of commons today that it was: essential for the government ;to proceed with its policy of replac- ing obsolete: capital ships of the navy. It would be 2 dereliction of duty to allow the efficiency of the royal navy to deteriorate, the pre- mier declared. \Crippled Vessel Makes Port With Hole in Her Bow | PORTLAND, Ore... tuty 2: —The steamer Effingham of the Umon Ma- cific Une which struck the rocky hank jof the Columbia river at Sic la, Wash, |88 miles trom here last night, cear- |ing a hole in her bow, arrived here to- aay under her own steatm with 16 feet jo€ water in her forwar} hold. [t had [teen reported previousty that the F{- tingham nail been sunk Crihune r (French to Send Rein | Troops Despite Unyielding Tone of British Reply to Proposal PARIS, July 21.—(By The Acsociated Press.) —France, it jway declared in official circles | forcements to Upper Silesia whether or not Great Britain jjoins in the movement. The French move will be made, it | was declared, to insure the safety of the of the 10,000 French \soldiers already on the ground | Premier Briand sent @ note yester- |day in reply to the British mote on |the Silesian issue, expressing lack of |conviction that the supreme council could serve any useful purpose by convening before measures are taken to assure order and provide for the security of the allied troops now in the district. News received here today from Op peln was far from reassuring. The attivide of the German press, as in- terpreted by the French dispatches, was increasingly provocative. France, it is declared, recognizes that danger threatens from the side of the Poles aswell ag from the Ger- man side, making it doubly necessary in the French view, to increase the allied troops. Precautions first, decisions afte wards, probably will remain the French view, it: is indicated, unless there are unforeseen. developments. BRITISH, REPLY SHOCK TO FRENCH, PARTS, » July.2t:——Freneh . offidjat circles received a distinct shock from the British government's reply to the French suggestion that allied rein- forcements be sent ‘to Upper Silesia land in“some quarters today, Anglo- French relations are described as critical ag a result. ‘The French government is said to ‘have been unprepared for “the se- verity and unyielding tone” that this morning’s newspapers indicate char- acterizes the British communication. Editorial comment suggested that the British prime minister, David Lioyd George,’ acted entirely too hast- ily in refusing to agree with the French view that additional allied troops were necessary in Upper Si- lesia. The commentors also declare that he failed to inform himself fully regarding the necessity of prompt al- lied action and add that had he waited a few hours longer, he would have had before him a unanimous report from the allied high commis- sioners at Oppeln, in which it is urged that immediate reinforcements be sent. While most newspapers agree that the incident brings Anglo-French re- tations to. another delicate point, Le Journal says the problem is not in- soluble and in its final analysis, not of a nature to seriously trouble the comity of allied relations. ——<—$—$—$——— Dr. W. A. Myers and son, Ever: ett Myers, have returned from Al- liance, Neb., where they spent a few cays. LL MY BUSINESS LIFE I HAVE SPENT MORE MONEY FOR, ADVER- TISING WHENEVER A crease was worked out at a council of the industrial relations bu- teau_ yesterday afternoon. The ‘object of the readjustment is ‘© properly differentiate between the many classifications of work at the plant and will be based entirely upon tesponsibility and merit. Some classification of work will ex- lence merely a four or five per tent readjustment while other classi- Neations will rur: as bigh as 12% per tent. For instance precess men, still- men, and other still emplcyes wil ex: perience less reduction in wages ‘*hin tommon labor and various mecha1 cal trafts. Common labor, now drawing 67% tents\an hour at the plant will be cut lo 60 cents en hour. Even at the new figure it is believed. that labor here rill be the highest paid with but few fare exceptions anywhere in ghe coun- Despite the reductions: in’ force at the plant that have been reported turing the month, there-is.no rea- won for exaggerated and erroneous meeting of the joint general | reports that have been circulated here regarding conditions at Casper’s in- dustrial centers, At’ the present time the Standaré company is neither lay-| ing off or employing .men and the pay roll is jnst twice as large as it was a year ago or up to November 1. 1920. During. that.period Casper. was con- sidered a pretty good town and should be doubly, as good with an industrial enterprise which employs twice as Many men as were employed during the boom days. In addition to permanent forces will be added to-as the process units a7e started., Eight pressure tower re-run- ning: stills and six coke stills, a por- tion. of the new construction are now Work of doubling the capacity of the Laramie refinery is rushed. ‘The excavation; work. and setting bases for still foundations Is practic- ally coraplete. Material for the in- BUSINESS SLUMP CAME ALONG THAN IN NORMAL TIMES; AND, IF 1 DIDN’T GET AHEAD IN THE RACE, I KEPT. FROM. SLIPPING BACK. AND .WAS IN A CONDITION TO SHOOT AHEAD OF MY COM- PETITORS \ THE _ MOMENT. CONDITIONS CHANGED. CYRUS H. K. CURTIS. crease in the nlant which will see the erection of 10 new stills is on the ground and the construction forces will start immediately. tae) GOV. SMALL MAY ‘RESIST OFFICERS forcements to Aid of this morning, will send rei there. SUGAR PRICES IN ALL WORLD MARKETS GAN Greater Activity and Strength Shown in Recent Trading Than for Months, Price Is. Up » NEW YORK, July ,20.—The sugar market has shown greater activity and strength during the past few days than at any previous tinie in months. Prices continued to advance during the week, raw sugars increas- ing from 4.25 to 4.60 cents a pound and refined rising from 6.50 to 6.75 cents, less the usual cash discount. A-heavy increase in the demand from consumers has been in evidence Since the first of July. Retallers and wholesalers ‘have been keeping, ‘their stocks close to the floor for months State Officials Of| I’ xois Charged) Misuse Of > of State 4 Fa SPRING 21.—Gov. nois, indicte ~_ mon county % 1 jury late yesterday wit * ‘eut. Gov. F. E. Sterling. and Vernon Cyrtis on charges of embezzlement and the misuse of millions of dollars | of state funds. was advised today by his attorneys to resist arrest and trial on the grounds that he ts the state's chief official and not subject to the rule of the courts of Sangamon coun ty In case Governor Emall declined to go to trial he could call out state troops to protect himself. Governor Small today flatly denied all charges of irregularities in affairs alleged to have taken place in a bank at Grant Park, I. Governor Small was indicted in connection with the investigation of the state treasurer's office during the term that Small served as treasurer. A number of other state officials were also indicted. The climax of the first act in one of the most startling political dramas of the state's history came late Wednesday following the grand jury’s Investigation of the $10,000,000 loan of state funds to Armour & Co. and Swift & Co. through a state bank owned by state officials. This loan, it was said, was made through the Grant Park bank, an in- stitution operated by the late Sena- D, UL, July Small of Illi- the Sanga- % > NUMBER 242 One Bottle Is Left for Vets’ Annual Fete STILLWATER, Minn., July 21.— It was a question this morning whether a two-quart bottle of wine, given 35 years ago, to be drunk by the last survivor would stand on the table at the annual banquet of the Last Man's club here this aft- |tor EB. C. Curtis, close friend and po- ernoon. litical colleague of Governor Small The club was formed July 21, |for many years. 1886, by 33 members of Company | Bonds of all three were fixed at First Minnesota volunteers in A, $50,000 on each count. the Civil war. Five members of On the first indictment the gover- the club survive, two residents of |nor, lHeutenant governor and Curtis other states. Annual dinners have |were charged with embezzicment of been held to pay tribute to those | $700,000. who have passed away. Two men» | The indictment for conspiracy and bers of the club have died since the |confidence games charges that the last banquet three obtained “divers drafts, war- The laws about rying the yeterans. stoi Uquor are wor- rants, vouchers and documents to the The wine is |amount of $2,000,000."" red in a safety deposit vault.) Attorney General Brundage and “between drinks” and under a rul- | his aides attempted to show that the ing of the past year, cannot be |Grant Park bank existed only on pa- transported. ABDUCTORS TO BE ARRESTED (Continued on Page 4.) and were compelled. by increasing sales to place orders with refiners for immediate delivery. The refiners themselves had allowed raw stocks to fall to.a fraction of their usual pro- portions. They were quickly over- sold and had to repenish their raw supplies on a basis in accordance with sellers’ views. The Cuban sugar commission, which hys been out of the market for weeks, maintained its position’ that Cuban raw sugar was worth 3 cents a pound, cost and freight (equal to 4.60 cents duty paid), and was able to make a number of sales on tfiat ba- sis, the market having advanced to meet its views. Reports from interior points state that existing stocks of beet sugar are being rapidly absorbed. Information from Chicago is to the effect that be- tween. 50,000 and 60,000 tons had been moved in the first five business days of the month and that stocks had been reduced 25 per cent since June 25. Continuation of the severe drouth in Europe, which is estimated to in- volve the loss of one-third of the crop in France, Holland and ‘Belgium, caused a stronger demand in the New York market for refined sugar for ex- port. It is estimated that Europe will require 400,000 to 500,600 tons of Cu- ban raws and United States refined before the end of the year. A London cable to Facts About Sugar an- nounced an advance of a shilling a hundredweight In the price of fine granulated at the close of the week. The opinion expressed by the trade is that the present advance marks a genuine recovery from the extreme low levels reached last month. The fact that both demand and prices have shown rapid improvement in Europe and the Far East as well as in the United States is held to indl- cate a fundamental change in the trend. Britsiher leads First Round In Golf Tournament WASHINGTON July _21.—George Duncan. of the. Hanger Hill :club of London, England, turned in the low card in the first-round of play for the open golf championship of the United States today over the course of the Columbia Country club here.! Dunean had a. score of 72, . leading Charles Evans, Jr. of Chicago, the | American amateur champion, by one stroke. } ERD ISTEP Lo JULY FROSTS DAMAGING. LYMAN, Wyo., July 21—Crops of this ‘valley. will’ be much reduced this seasorm as'a result of July frosts. Po- tatoes were severely nipped and gun- flowers,” planted for silage use, were killed. Corn in’ the same fields with the. sunflowers showed no effects of Stay Away Face Prosecution LOS ANGELES, July 21.—The rights of Japanese in California and all other aliens resident in the state must be observed, according to o statement issued today by Governor Stephens, referring to the deporta- tion of Japanese fruit pickers from Tarlock Tuesday night, TURLOCK, Cal., July 21.—Trouble in the courts was pre- dicted here early today by Sheriff R. L. Dallas, for the 25 or more white men, most of them itinerant fruit workers, who early yesterday abducted 58 Japanese from Turlock and told them to never return. “Those fellows who try to take the law into their hands will have a hard time when they are,out to the ranches. The machines arrested,” Sheriff Dallas said. He ex-|carried the Japanese to Keyes, five pecte™ to serve today some of the|miles from here. five John Doe warrants Issued yester- pu Sa day against the abductors. MODESTO, Cal., July 21.— James County officials said they believed the white men were led by radicals. The Japanese were taken away. be- cause they continued to work in the fruit orchards while the white men eclined to accept a 15 per cent cut in wages recently. Mnay of the Japa- rese returned to Turlock. today. A slump in shipments of | melon was noted yesterday, following ble, only 19 carloads being |" © atitped as against some times as| Virtually all of the Japanese are high as 50 a day. Police Commis-| Said to have returned to the places sioner R. C. Geckler said the slump|from which they were forcibly re- could be blamed to the fact that the|moved. Others, who left the district growers were afraid to have Japa-|through fear of mob actoin also are nese workers bring the melons from |Feturning, the authorities revorted. the fields for fear melon sleds would, 4 representative of the department be destroyed by fire. lof justice bureau of investigation is Most of the versions of the affair|in Tyrtock district investigating the check. The generally accepted report | deportation. . is that the abductors gathered on a) Biimereneet downtown street here, after decoying) WASHINGTON, July 21—The state the night watchman’ to another part department today was without offi- of town by a false telephone call. The|cial knowledge of the deportation of men proceeded to the Japanese lodg-| Japanese workers from harvest fields ing house, not three blocks from the|in California. Until such reports are police station, rousted the Japanese| received, it was sald, no official cog- out and into trucks and then went|nizance will be taken of the incident. Shea, president of Local No. 10, Fruit and Vegetable Workers’ union and former member of the San Francisco baseball club in the Pacific Coast league, was arrested at Turlock to- day on a charge of kidnaping and in- citing a riot in connection with the deportation of a group of Japanese the field workers from the Turlock dis- \triet yesterday. PLAGUE Famine and Cholera wes, vas jon tie i Rass Sweep Southwest) constituent assembly. The appeal says that within this Pact of-@ t |territory, which is greater than that ountr’ ef France and Germany combined, art O Y>) iilions of Russins are facing starva- ton, while their government is totally lunable to render assistance of any kama. 7a .| Reports trom the region. reaching PARIS, July 21.—An ap- |... committes say that epidemic dis- peal to all nations asking that} cases aro rapidly getting beyond ‘con- organize to provide im- tro! and that if relief is not tmmvdi- mediate aid for “millions of |2*@Y Provided other serious Kuro | Russians Dow. suff . ig from/°**" menoce imminent. famine in the region of the) RIGA, July The Moscow Iz- | Suffering Acute the frost. Volga river, and territory to the south-|vestia, a copy of which has been re- ; GREEKS OCCUPY STRATEGIC CITY IN ASIA MINOR IN HARD BATTLE \Temfic Fighting Wagec for 72 Hours Before Turks Evacuate; Los: on Both Sides Large WITH THE GREEK ARMY, TOUIOUM, Asia Minor, July 17.—By The As- sociated Press.) — Kutaia, Mustapha Kemal’s strategic point in Asia Minor, was oc- cupied Sunday afternoon Terrible fighting occurred before the town ow ing to the persistence of the Turkish resistance, Which lasted 72 hours. es on both sides were endDrmous but It was a decisive victory for the Greeks, who captured numerous pris. oners and an abundance of artillery. General Papoulas expressed the be. ef that the Turks have lost their Principal defensive line. \ The Greeks fought with Spartan energy in the flerce bayonet attacks They have advanced two. kilometers since the offensive began a week ago. SLAYER MUST HANG AUG. 14 SANTA FE, N. M., July 21.—An tonio Carpio must hang at Silver City on August 19, for the murder of Efren Rios at Central on August 14, 1919, according to the decree of the state supreme court which today affirmed Carpio's conviction and set the date or his exgcution. Carpio, the evi- dence showed, jealous of attentions paid by his rival toa girl at a “baile” shot to kill Casimiro Lucero, and the bullet ..struek Rios, a second shot wounding Lucero. The court held that shooting the wrong man did not exempt the shooter from crime. — BODY IS. IDENTIFIED. ROSEBURG, Oro., July 21.—The body found last Wednesday beneath the wrecked and burned automobile of Dr, R. M. Brumfield,'a dentist of Roseburgh, was that of Dennis Russell, and he came to his death from gunshot wounds inflicted by a person or persons unknown, said a verdict rendered last night by a coroner’s jury, following a two-day inquest. BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelplia— R. Hi. E. hicago ......000 100 000— 1 5 2 Philadelphia ..220 001 03*— uo: Batteries — Freeman, Jon Daly, Wirth; Ring and Peters. and At New York—Cincinnati-New York game postponed; rain. At Brooklyn— R. H. E. St. Louis -- 100 000 000 00—1 9 = Brooklyn -. 000 000 100 01-2 9 1 Batteries — Doak and Clemons, Dil- hoefer; Grimes and Miller, Kreuger. At Boston—Pittsburgh-Boston game postponed; wet grounds. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland— R. H. E. New York — O11 02° —e 7 © Cleveland -- -007 30° —- * © At Detroit— R. H. E. Washington -.._.000 011 00*—* © © Detroit -103 000 11%—* © © At Chicago— R. H. E. Philadelphia 000 001 000 0-—* * © Chicago ---- > 010 000 000 o—* At St, Louis— Boston St. Louis ALLIED HELP ASKED FOR STARVING RUSS MILLIONS; STRIKES COUNTRY ceived here, reports the registration up to July 13 of 27,779 cholera cases, as compared with 13,476, which had been registered up to July 6. Among passengers on railway trains 5,412 cases have been discovered. The health officials of Letvia, Lithu- ania and Poland have -been: invited by the Ltvian premier to a confer ence at Riga next week to discuss the abvisability of a frontier quarantine, ——_~.- Icebergs. sometimes carry strange freight. One of the flat-topped variety 100 feet high, was seen in mid-Atlan- tic bearing three vessels on its icy summit. Another, near the Banks of Newfoundiand had several Polar bears walking abgut on“it P a + a a