Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1921, Page 1

IRISH TO ACCEPT BRITISH GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS : ‘ORMER POLICE CHIEF IN MINE WAR DISPUTE 15) SHOT 10 QEATH Policeman Also Victim of Gen Fight Today in Virginia Town; Five Placed Under Arrest WELCH, W. Va., Aug. 1.— Sid Hatfield, former chief of bolice of Matewan, and Ed Chalmers, a policeman of that place, were killed in a gun fightin the courthouse yard here shortly before noon today. C. E. Lively, a private detective and four other persons were arrested in ~vn- nection with the shooting, Lively was the principal as witness in the trial of Hatfield. and 22 others, all of whom were ac- quitted of charges of murder in con- nection with the street battle in Mate- wan, W. Va., in May, 1920, when seven private detectives, Mayor C. C. Tester- man and two civilians were slain. The detectives. had been evicting union miners from the Stone Mountain Coal company’s cottages. Lively admitted that he was employed by a detective agency and that he had opened a * store in Matewan and gaiped the con- fidence of the local people. Hatfield married Mayor Testerman’s widow two weeks after the trial. BLUEFIELD, “W. Va., Aug. 1.—Sid Hatfield, former chief of police at Matewan, W. Va.,.and an outstand- ing figure In ti: industrial strife in {ingo county was shot and killed tn a ftreet fight at Welch, McDowell coun: ty this morning, according to a re- port which reached here at noon. Hat- field was arrested at Williamson last week and taken to Welch charged with participation in the shooting up of Mohawk, a mining village, last year. BALL > Ietidwest League. acevo creybal game > j NATIONAL [AL LEAGUE Sallee, and Smith; Markle and Wingo. At feel acral E. + 100 110 000—- 3 9 2 Pittsburzh .---311 000 02"— 7 1 1 Batteries—McQuillan, Fillingim and O'Neill; Adams and Schmidt. At Chicago— Philadelphia Chicago Battertes—Shocker Bush and Ruel. At New York— Cleveland 000.100 010— t i. x New York O12 O11 OOF— 5 10 F : Batteries—Bagby, Uhle and O'Neill; Hoyt and Schang. At Philadelphia — R. H. E. Chicago ......110 100 011-5 13 1 Philadelphia 020 000— 4 8 1 200 Batteries—Wikinson and Schalk; Naylor and Perkins. ROAD REPORT - Grant Highway—Nebraska line to Shawnee good, then fair to Orin. Roads however may be slightly muddy today from recent rains. Yellowstone Highway — Heavy. rains fell Sunday afternoon between Platte county line and Casper. Roads should be good today if no further rains. Casper ‘west, light rains Sunday afternoon around Wol- ton, but reported dry this morning. Shoshori-Lander Road— Shoshoni to Riverton good, fair through Hud> son to Lander. Casper-Sheridan Road — Heavy rains fell yesterday throughout this territory, slightly muddy today, but should be good tomorrow. “RSS Ty, e Casper Baily Crihame |: DITION z $ We .er Forecast Pn (ag oma sout! ane. VOLUME V OVER SI CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1921. ALLIED COUNCIL TO SETTLE ROW LESIANS Meeting Scheduled for August 8 in Paris to Adjust Differences Between the | French and B ritish, Report | srims. PARIS, Aug. 1.—It has been definitely decided that the} next session of the allied supreme council, at which the ques-| tion of Upper Silesia will be taken up, shall be beginning August 8. eld in Paris | August 8 was selected on request of Lord Curzon, British | foreign secretary, so that Premier Bonomi of uer Bonomi of Italy could could ar- rive in time for the sessions. LONDON, Aug. 1.—British foreign office today received a reply from Premier Briand of France accepting the proposal that the next meeting of the allied supreme council be held in Paris a week from today, August 8. Premier Lioyd George and Lord Curzon, the foreign secretary will kt- tend. The latest telegrams from Upper Si- lesia report the situation there as quiet. Lord D'Abernon, the “ritish ambassador at Bertin has been “in- structed to co-operate with his French and Italian colleagues in notifying Germany to hold herse:f in readiness to provide for the dispatch of allied warning all Gesmans in Silesia and on its borders to maintain absolute order. REINFORCEMENT 15 ISSUE FIRST ON LONDON, Aug. ime The Assdei- ated +—Mr; Licyd George, 4 ter, In annoy! in the te “commons today the meeting supreme in Paris on ugar 8 to rene ‘of the Silesian . pl ite and the ré- Be ~ of: the pl macite commission, stated that the _jtem on. the agenda would be gs a Wheher re- inforcernents were needed in the p‘eb- ings. issue. ‘The premier's announcement of the forthcoming meeting was greeted with cheers. ‘He Said that throughout the recent discussions with France, Great » Brit: ain had been guided solely by the de- sire to secure a just solution of the Upper Silesian issue if accordance with the result of the plebiscite. A few minutes later, in answer to @ question, the premier said: “It is the business of the British government to see that the Poles and Germans alike get a perfectly straight deal.” Cotton Crop Estimate Cut| . WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Decline of the cotton crop during July resulted in a reduction of 230,000 bales in the forecast of production issued today by the department ofagriculture, a to- tal of 8,203,000 bales. being estimated as compared with, 8,433,000 bales a month ago. The condition of the crop! Geclined 4.5 points. promising,” the president agserted that the seed of ¢ommon tolerance nd understanding planted by the fathers here was beginning t between nations. President, ‘Wwe are slowly but yery| surely reeoyering from the wastes and sorrows and utter disarrange- ments of a cataclysmical war. Peace! Js bringing its new assurances; and penitent realization and insistent conscience will preserve that peace. Our faith is firmer that war's causes may be minimized and overburdening armament may. be largely diminished. ‘And these, too, without surrender of the: nationality which has inspired, or the good conscience which has de- fended. “The international prospect is more thah promising and the distress and depression at home are symptomatic of early recovery. Solvent financially, sound economy, unrivalled in genius, unexcelled in industry, resolute in de- termination and unwavering in faith, these United States will carry on.” In the course of his speech Mr. Harding praised particularly the part religious freedom and other New Eng- land traditions had played in develop- ment of the nation. He also took ‘occasion to deplore the common tend- ency to conéentrate governmental authority in Washington, and to reaf- firm his faith in religion as an es- sential element of good government. | mi The president said in part: IN BIG SEVEN KILLED * STORMS Electrical and Wind Storms Saturday and Sunday Take Heavy Toll in East; Much Hail Reported » NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—At least seven persons were killed and many seriously. injured in severe electrical and wind storms that swept various sections of the country yesterday and Saturday night.. Four of lightning. the deaths were attributed to Loss to buildings struck by lightning and damage to crops, ROMOTERS ARE HELD FOR FRAUD LANDER, Wyo., Aug. 1.—H. W. Ackland and son Reginald, known for years in Lander ana vicinity as mining promoters, are said to have Pleaded guilty to charges lodged against them by Texas investors of having ‘loaded a mythical “lost which was said to be a new po sk sacirl o » particularly in New England, was said to amount to thousands of dol- lars. > At Trayers Island, N. ¥., 30 mem- ers of the New York Athletic club jhad narrow escapes from serious in- jury, all of them being knocked to the"ground by a bolt of lightning. Hail accompanied the rain in sev- eral eastern states. One hail stone [picked up after a storm in Passaic ‘county, N. J., was reported to have _| weighed 11 ounces: —_ ‘Miss Hattie M: Berry. secretary and one of the moving spirits of the North Carolina Good assocut tion, geologists of Aiaerica, & “A new hope looms today,” said the | NUMBER 250 PRES. HARDING JOINS IN BIG FETE CELEBRATING THE PILGRIMS’ LANDING PLYMOUTH, Mass. Aug. Another Mayflower came to Rl mouth telay, this one the presiden- tial yacht bringing President Hard- ing and an official party to join in formal observance of the tercen- tenary of the landing’ of the Pil- = The Mayflower’s passengers of 300 years ago landea on a.wild coast marked only by Indian trails. Those of today made landing to offi. celal welcome in scenes that offered striking contrast with those that faced the fathers. Through the streets of the town streamed thou- sands of persons—100,000 was. one jestimate—governors, lesser officials rich men and laborers, Many of.thi paraders were direct descendants of both the first settlers and of the friendly Indians with whom they lived in peace. President Harding was to deliver his only speech of the day at tho Public exercises beginning at 4 p. this he had as setting a great trescent bank of stands seating 10. 900, facing the.open sea a>d with its northerly tip resting almost on Plymouth rock. In the seascape thus exposed stood the battles (Continued on Page 5.) RUSSIAN RELIE AUTHORIZED 8 HOOVER, RIGA T f ! U BE WADE BASE —'Message to Director of| Relief Wo: Carries! Instructions. to Open Negotiations at Once 1.— ca- WAHINGTON, Aug. Secretary Hoover today oled Walter Lyman Brown, European director of the American relief administra- tion, London, to proceed to Riga and negotiate with Russian so viet authcrities preparatory to food nr f work in Ru a Mr. Hoover's ructions as of the administration were sent on re ceipt of a caSlegram from Maxim Gorky at London t smitting the so- viet government's acceptance of his offer to fight famine among the chil {Continued on Page 5) head Optimism for Success of World Conférence on Disarmament Pilgrims... haracteriziig” the international situation a4 Moré than] “It is not too much to gay that the jthree centuries which Haye passed since men. of our race came here to bear | found a new state have been the most frult 4 thousand-fold in the relations| momentous and the most pregnant in \all the Progress of humankind. “TO this and the Virg:nta shores [were transplanted the seeds of repre- senthtive democracy, the new ideals of ‘nationality through association and jrepresentation. and there has devel oped seemingly the most dependable form of popular government ever wit- nessed in the world. “Whether we reflect upon the re- straints upon freedom which the fathers imposed, or measure ‘the broader liberty under the law of today here began the reign of dependable public. opinion, which unfailingly is the law of highest civilization. “No one will ever dispute the large part New England played in tho reur- ing of new standards of freedom. The early stru; «here were contempo- raneous ‘with the making of modern British constitutionalism and the new World beacon was an incentive and an fspiration across the séa, and today old world and new join in rejoicing at the ends achieved. of American revolution may fairly be traced back the larger part of a cen- tury from the date we commonly fixed for it, to the great town meeting in Old South church, to which was sub- mitted the question whether the colony would assent to the charter reorganization that the king ~ de “If the idea of religious freedom had little to hope for from the effort of the stern old fathers to set up a theocracy in New England, the ideal of political freedom found here a par is one of the foremost women | ticularly, fertile soil in which to ger. minate. “The clash between a theocratic ty- ranny on this side and a political ty- tanny on the other resulted im the @estruction of both, to the vast better- ment of every human _ interest involved. “Hand of men alone did not build what. was founded here; it was but the visible sign, the human symbol, of a purpose, which we may not un- @erstand, but for whose beneficence ail men must give tribute of praise and voice undying gratitude. “The English speaking race had hardly established itself in true char acter as“the foremost exponent of Uberal institutions when it began to distribute itself among the wilder- nesses’of the earth. It-has carried its ideals wherever it has set its stand. ard. It has won recognition of these ideais as the basis of social conduct, of community relations, thtoushout the world. Its work.1s not finished, - {Continued)on Page 5.) INTERNATIONAL SITUATION PROMISING, SAYS Tercentenary Throng Hear Speech Full of HARDING | Charged With Forging Roosevelt Name PLYMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 1.—A hope that the disarma-!| ment-ccnference calles by the United States may bring to the world a new era of peace and freedom, was expressed by | id we Harding dodiny i 3 in an address here. at. the tercen- +the landing Mrs. Emma R. Burkett, left after she Tho beginning | Detective Gunnoff to answer to a charge of having forged the name of the —— was brought to New York by late Colonel Roosevelt to a note for $39,000. To Be Republic in} | Dublin Advices; Reply Is Pending DUBLIN, Aug. 1.—Settle- ment of the Irish question awaits only formal announce- ment, according to authorita- \live information obtained here today. President Eamonn De Valera and his cabinet are reported to have accepted an enlarged offer from Great Britain which will make reland a republic in everything but name Arrangements are being made for the release from prison of all bers of the Irish parliament It is understood that Ireland wil have greater powers than Canada by the agreement mem PENDING DEV BLOPMENTS ARE KEPT SECRET. LONDON, Aug. 1,—Deyalopments in the peace negotiations between Prime Minister Lioyd George and leaders of the Irish Republicans are. imminent it was reported here today, but gov ernment leaders refused to lift the veil of secrecy. There were certal deductions made from the arrival in Dublin yesterday morning of Art O'Brien, president of the Gaell¢ league in London, but they could not be verified. One rumor was to the effect that Mr. O'Brien was the courier who would take the Sinn Fein reply to Lioy* George while another story de. artd that Eamonn De Valera would, himself, return to London during the coming week PRAGL Aug. 1.—Demands that Ireland be accorded recognition as a Separate country instead of a division of Great Britain, wads made by an Irish delegate to the thirteénth Es. peranto congress which opened here yesterday Twenty-five hundred dele. gates, representing 41 nations, arc here. Aug. 1.—(By The Associ ated Press.)—Eamonn De V Irish Republican leader, told papermen here today DUBLIN, news: visiting London this week and that nc arrangements had been made for it future Visit there. The statement fol lowed a speech which he delivered at the annua! Congress of the Labor party. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Legisla Uon authorizing payments to-Liberia that arranged for, was President Harding today in An} under the $5,000 000 country previously asked by a létter transmitted to the senate accompanying loan to letter from Sécretary All but Name, Say) in response to! questions, that he had no intention of Irish Liberian Loan Payment Asked By Pres. Harding TRAILS ARMY TO CAPTURED CITY IN ASIA MINOK Hellenes and Turkes May Join in- Request for Mediation of Trouble By Supreme Council PARIS, Aug. 1.—King Con- stantine of Greece has entered Eski-Shehr, the important rail- road junction in western Asia Minor recently captured by the Hellenic forces from the Turkish Nationalists, says a dispatch from Athen The Journal today erted that it had received information that Turkey and ¢ ce intended to ask the su preme allied council to mediate in an effort to end hostilities ween them. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 1.—The Turkish NatioBalists, according to ad- viggn from Anatolia, are holding posi- tlong east of Sivrihissari, 50 miles east ot Eski-Shehr, while awaiting 30,000 reinforcements said to be expected from. Cilicia, Mesopotamia and Cau- casus, whose arrival is desired before a dosisive action with the Greeks is Tisked. MAN FORCED TO SIGN CARD ISSHOT DEAD OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 1—K. Wells, whose address is unknown, was shot and killed at Jansen, Neb., by ono or two transients who had forced him and other men to sign T. W. W._ membership cards yestertay ‘on a Chicako, Rock Istand and Pacific freight train, according to the story told hy about twenty transients, who were arrested at Plymouth, Neb., says a special dispatch received here from Fairbury. Wells was held up when the train | reached Jansen, says the dispateh, and was shot when he attempted to leave the train. .His body was found lying on the railroad tracks neor Jansen by David Iretand of Fair- bury, a rafiroad engineer. ‘The dead man apparently was about 25 years of age. A slip of paper bearing the name of David D. Conner, of Eufala, Qk: was Hughes to the president said a “mor-| found among his posser-ton: obligation” rested on the United! States to make this Joan Japan, has daily newspapers Randolph Peterson, son of a spected family here, was shot to death, presumably by Beputy ‘Sher- iff Crocker, white on an escapade in which the lad fired a gun promiscu- ously on the streets of Thermopo- PROSECUTION OF SOX RIDICULED BY DEFENSE oie Asacsbelaaiee Alleged Scandal Pictured as Burlesque By Attornéys in Closing Argument; NoCrime in Throwing Games DEPUTY KILLS THERMOP YOUTH DRINK LEADS TO TRAGIC FATE ‘on SAR Wyo., Aug. 1— | He and caused considerable commo- re tion in the business district. The deputy, who was in a pool hall when he heard the shooting, started for the door of the institu- tion when he was. suddenly con- fronted by the young man, who is aid to have been drink-erazed, and was ordered not to come out if he | valued his life. | “Yeung Peterson, who. was not | recognized by the deputy sherifi, then ran for it and the officer fol- lowed firing several times. Crocker was suddenly confronted by Peter- son, the latter holding him hands in the a'd and claiming that he had becn shot. On investigation it was found ‘that boy's body trated just below the heai between for- and alleged 1919 world there was no conspiracy mer White Sow players gamblers throw the to | series to Cincinnati. |_ Henry Cart the Berger, representing Zork. of St. Louis, opened for defense, which will probably complete | its case late today or tomorrow morn-| ing after which the state will close’ CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—Opening its final argument in the}in anout two hours, the case going to! baseball trial, the defense today pictured the baseball meanest Pompe: tomesrow, of party, Wet dal investigation and trial as a theatrical burlesque in which Ban J villain and Charles A. the goat. ‘The entire case was merely another outbreak of the ComiskeyJohnson feud, said Henry Berger, firet of the nine defense attorneys to talk during | the day. He defied the jury to find anything, in Mlinois Jaws ma throwing of a basebal! game a c: “Over in his law office sits Charles | CASPER MAN IS HELD UP IN PARK copy, Wo. Aug. 1—J. 3. Baluss of Casper, Wyo., was robbed of $69 and’ other valuables by two high- waymen' who, stopped his automobile on a lonely and little used road in Yellowstone park Friday night. Rangers and park officials have surrounded the locality where the robbery took place and arrest of the men responsible is expected. The attack was made’ at night so Mr. Baluss could give but a v incom- plete description of the road agents. | As a result of the affair, park of- | ficials have issued orders that there shall be no traveling in the park at night except on the mafu highways. king the } » president of the American league, was the ‘Ys owner of the Chicago club, | Barrett, Htemeus attorney who vamped Bill Burns,” said Mr. Berger, “Next to him sits the villain, the of the American teroft Johnson, ars finally haye been succ “Posing as a. hero: who wo! uys baseball, ee strings, walking bank league, Byron Ban ful. Ban Johnson has pulled | the puppets have thrown) @ mut and an old score against Comiskey has been paid.” “For the sake .of argument,” con, tinued Mr, Berger, “I will admit that |these men threw tHe 1919 world series. If that is the case, then these men whose machinations of | nesday. | Judge Hugo Friend has announced, that he will. not sustain a verdict of guilty against Zork, and Mr, Berger's the prima dorna American jargument dealt for the most part with|a Tangier d: technicalities of the conspiracy’ laws. | Of the 11 defendants originally on trial, Ben and Louis Levi alleged |gamblers, have been discharged and |Judge Friend has announced that he would direct acquittal of Felsch and uid clean| Weaver unless more evidence was! Hadj found. rushed to Hopewell hospital where ho died a short while later, SPANIARDS WIN LONDON, fighting Aug. 1. their way Spanish troops southward from Mecilla, Morocco, through the ranks ef tribesmen who have hemmed. in General Navarro, near Montarruitt, have won an important victory, says patch to the Dally’ Mail. ho are under command of General Cavalcanti, successor of the late General Silvestre, who com- mitted suicide following: the defeat of the’ Spanish last week, haVe retaken Gourouguo, Atalayot Sidi Hamid, El and Nador, it is stated in the patch. The Snarish, ‘SOCIETY | DIES O {have violated thefr contracts. That |is no.crime. That is no conspiracy to} ;defraud. The state has failed utterly jto prove any. intent by defraud anyone.” | these CASE MAY REACH du RY LATE TUESDAY. CHICAGO. Aug. 1,—Attorneys for} the defense in the baseball trial to- \Gay opened ten hours of argument in jan. effort to convince the jury that men to} | of Sarah Cowen, former Baltimore | society beauty. and dauzhter of the late John K. Cowen, one time presi- dent of the Baltimore & Ohio rail, | road, which was found in a hotel room here yesterday remained un- | claimed in the morgue today. Miss Cawen died, the’ medical examin NEW YORK, July 1.—The body | BELLE F DRUCS ers’s office reported, of alcoholism and drug poisoning. Miss Cowen, in 1909, eloped with Charles Monson Jr., of New Haven,” Conn. She later divorced him im The police were searching today for a man with whom Miss Cowen i | | | the state of Washington. | registered at the hotel, BIG VICTORY. fs KING OF GREECE | she oe E | ome oom f | rw ix