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1922: Se § CIVIL WAR LOOMS T SNIPERS RESUME a a he \ BLOODY WORK IN BELFAST. REPORT Release of Kidnaped Men Only Can Avert War, London Believes BELFAST, Feb. 14.—(By The Associated Press.) — Snipers continued their grim work in the disturbed sections of Belfast this morning and by mid-day the death toll since Saturday had been increased ‘0 eighteen by the deaths of two men who were victims of flying bullets in the streets during the noon hour. The number of wounded at the same hour had reached the total of ap- proximately fifty. In the main thoroughfares of the city business proceeded apparently as usual, but in the. storm centers the sniping was frequent and da: The cabinet of northern iand, presided over by Sir James Craig this morning tock up the situation in con- neciton with the kidnapings from ‘Tyrone and Fermanagah. Jt was said a statement ‘would be issued during the ufternoon. The two men killed were a truck- man who was shot in the back while driving a lorry and George Harper, aged 16, who was hit by a bullet while standing at a street corner. Heavy bursts of fire occurred in the Falls Road district this afternoon, the shets coming from the unionist rection In Northumberland: street in the Sina Fe'n quarter” Gun men in the }tter quarter immediately re- taliated and a fierce revolver duel ‘was waged. Shots were fired into Royal avenue, the main thoroughfare while crowd ed with shoppers. One man was wounded and the @river of the am- bulance which was rushed up to car- ry him off, ‘reported the ambulance had been fired upon, Previously a man had been found dead in Little York street—the nine- teenth victin of the \ghting. Martha O'Hanlon, aged 13, who was wounded in the neck and army by the tomb which exploded last night: said at the hespital this morning that she and a number. of com: ns. were skipping rope om.the sidewalk’ when the bomb was thrown among them. She and most of hef companions were wounded by eplinters. One of the wounded was the O'Hanlon sisters who died shortly afterwards. On Beach Field street in East Bel- fast, a girl was struck in ‘the Deeast by a Bullet but was still alive this afternoon. The efforts announced in the house of commons yesterday by Winston Churchill, to arrange a meeting be tween Sir James Craig and Michael Collins, ‘as suggested by the provi- nal government, are not likely to succeed, it is ynderstood. ‘The Ulster premier is said to havo ignored the proposals and to have re- iterated his demand for the imnre- diate release of the kidnaped un- ionists. BELFAST, Feb. 14—(By The As- sociated Press)}—Forty-two of tho kid- naped Ulster unionists,.it was stated | cept today, have requested Premier Craig of Ulster to liberate immediately the Monaghan football players held prisoners in Ulster, the. unionists de- claring they themselves would be held captive until the football prisoners were released. SENSATION SPRUNG IN ALLEGED PLOT. LONDON, Feb. 14—(By The Asso ciated Press}—Michael Collins’ dra- matic disclosure of an alleged repub- ican plot to overthrow the provis- ional government, the sudden and un- explained suspension of the British military eVacuation, and the danger- ous tension between the north and south have combined to produce a serious situation in Ireland. ‘The outcome no one here ventures to forecast more definitely than by speculating on the dréaded possibil- ities, but dispatches show the post- tion on the frontier is not far re- moved from a state of war. Indeed, the prospect of civil war is being se- riously discussed in Belfast and else- where in the north. ‘The dispatches sent by Belfast cor respondents of. the London newspa- pers represent the temper of the Ul- stermen as being such that, unless the kidnaped unionists are speedily released, there certainly will follow an explosion which may lead to war. Concerning the supposed plot against the provisional government, nothing is known here beyonf what Mr. Collins revealed in his cable cor- (Continued on Page Eight) committee recommended a general sus- pension of mining if no agreement is reached by April 1. such action to be subject to a referendum vote of the union before March 31. Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Wednes day; not much change in temperature. Crihune Gl IN ERIN, 18 DEAD GANTIC SWINDLING WORKS GROW UNDER FEDERAL PROBE The Casper Daily CTY EDITION VOLUME VI CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1922. MINE WORKERS TO FIGHT WACE Maintenance of Present Basic Schedule Recommended in Special Convention Called to Discuss New Contracts INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 14.—The wage scale commit- tee, reporting to the special convention of the United Mine Workers of America here today, declared “in ‘the most em- phatic manner our opposition to any reduction in mining prices and insist that the present basic wage schedules be maintained. Under the discussion of policy, the "The committee making the demand for retention of the present basic wages, said a reduction would lower the standard of living among ali min- ers ~nd cause poverty. and suffering throughout the coal fields. It was. recommended that athens scale agreement must he submit a veferendum vote of the district af- fected, Anothcr recommendation was that the committee ratify the demands of the anthracite miners for a.20 per cent increase in tonnage rates and a dollar figids. Other recommendations were that sil new-agreements be based upon an eight hour day under ground, with time and One-half for overtime, and douvle time for Sundays and holidays; that weekly pay days be instituted; that the practice of fining miners for certain breaches of contracts be elimi- nated and that the soft coal wage egreement be maintained for two years extending from April 1 next. _Soaieie is + ied MURDER DEATH TOLL BOOSTED WACO, Texas, Feb. 14—The death early today of Homer Turk, 13-year 6ld boy who was struck down by the assassins of W. H. Barker and his wife in their store at Concord Satur- day night, eliminates possibie evidence as to the identity of the slayers ex- thru the 4-year-ol1 Barker girl the only living member of the family. Detectives cannot fini a motive. It was not robbery, apparently, and it revenge, the detectives ask why the boy, a visitor, was slain and the little girl left unhurt. Five of nine negroes arrested are still being held. me ses BN eS 7 EMERY IS CANDIDATE. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 13.— Major John G. Emery, former nation- al commander of the American Legion, announced his candidacy for the Re publican nomination for the United States senate today. Major Emery in a statement criticized the snnate for the seating of Senator Newberry. Angels Talk By Telepathy, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.—Angels communicate with each other by telepathy and converse with men by the same means, Dr, Horace C. Stan- ton, secretary of the Presbyterian Ministerial association and a student of psychic phenomena, declared last night in an address before the asso- ciation. “Telepathy is the court language of heaven,” he said. “It is used by -—the father, the Holy Ghost and Christ. The father and the Holy Ghost never had any physical organs of speech. Therefore, thought trans-| naval operations, testified today mission must be the language used.| mittee. Mex Labor Rumor Denied By Refinery Management NUMBER 108. Aggregate Loss to Chicago } Placed at $6,500,000 on Stren vestigation Into Two More « Linked With Youthful “Wizard’ Ye Now sof In- > - CHICAGO, Feb. 14,—Investigation of the dealing " the Western Land Operators association, declared to hay. tas nD | dled foreign-born citizens of more than $1,500,000, wes un- | der way here today by government agents. Within three days alleged swindles totalling a xi- mately $6,500,000, according to conservative eutinntee hy | 200 DESTROYERS - WITH DEPLETED CUT IN NATION||_ “ister Sevsi CREWS--ADMIRAL Only 65 Ships of This Class in Operating] Commission, Coontz Declares in Hearing Before Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—More than 200 destroyers of three omniscent, omnipresent beings}the United States navy are lying in various ports with de- pleted crews, barely sufficient in number to keep up their intricate mechanism, Admiral Robert E. Coontz, chief of For the past several weeks there have been rumors floating about, traceable to no au- thentic source, that the Standard and Midwest Refining companies were just about to put on their payrolls Mexican labor. Stories that advertisements have been posted in Califor- nia, where usually seen by Mrs. Smith’s greataunt’s grandmother or some other estimable lady with failing eyesight, that ‘“‘a thousand men were wanted at once by Casper oil refiner- These advertisements and reports couli not be verified for the one simple reason they SPECIAL TAXES BONUS OPPOSED BY PRESIDENT HARDING ies.”” had no foundation in fact. Other romantic tales concerning the captury of our intustrial plants by our neighbors south of the fo Grande. came thick ard fast and the worst feature of it all was that sensible peo- ple believed them and added to their general circulation. “he advisability of making a form- al denial of such obvious” canards, id not secur to officials of the refin- ing companies, until employes began to visit the offices of the companies and call at the homes of those in authority to bewall the fate that was to over- take them. The gossip long ago reached The Tribune but was discounted us un- founded rumor, This morning, how- ver, @ casual conversation with Mr. L A. Reed revealed the fact that he had long been annoyed and had hecome wearied entering denials, It was sug- gested to him that he made a brief statement that would forever set at rest ¢he wild and loose talk of turning the oil refinefies over to the Mexicans to run and disposing of all ¢fficient American skilled and unskilled labor. Mr. Reed said: “The plan as pro- posed in idle rumor of supplanting American labor with Mexican labor at a cheaper rate is wholly against the policy of Stan and Midwest Refin- ing companies. These concerns are strictly business institutions and con- ducted for the purpose of producing high grade products to sell the world over. To do this requires high grade and efficient labor. This is not to be fourid in the class referred to in the rumors which are floating about so freely. r “No change in the established com- House. doubt if it would be possible to raise the required sum to finance the cash feature of the bonus under an issue of bonds without appreciably advanc- ing interest rates and destroying the financial tranquility which is sought. ‘The president, st was said, was dis- posed to be favorable to the bonus Dut his attitude had to be that of find- ing sane and sénsible conditions for the fulfillment of promises mado on one hand without disturbing the de- sired return to financial stability. pany policy is contemplated and in my opinion it will never occur. Our employes have nothing tin the worid to fear on that score. As business condi- (Continued on Page Four) PICTURE STARS ARE GIVEN RAP LYNN, Mags, Feb. 14.—Local motion picture thea- ters have discontinued showing pictures showing Mary Miles Minter and Mabel Normand, whose names have been mentioned in connection with the slaying of Will- iam Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, at Los Angeles. city’s board of censors. The action was taken at the request of the CRANE REFUSED TO DUEL LLENCED, REPORT WAS CHA CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—The story of how Benjamin Piza, Costa Rican planter, and father of Miss Elida E. Piza, former wife of Herbert: P. Crane, St. Charles, Ml., millionaire, challenged Crane to a duel when the latter went to Costa Rica last De- cember to call on his yormer father- in-law, was made kuown here today by Miss Piza. Crane refused to ac- eept the challenge, ahe said ‘When Crane arrived at Piz's of- fice, sho said, her father was in an adjoining town. Crane, after a long wait, boarded a train to return to the port of Limon but Piza, who had been informed ef Crane's pres- ence, hurried back to his home town. He. obtained two pistols, she said, and hurried to the station where Here the challenge was given and refused, Miss Piza said, and then Piza slapped Crane in the face. The Jatter rose and passed into another car where some friends of his were seatod. Piza followed him, Miss Piza said, and agafh challenged him to come out and fight but Crany re- fused and the situation was relieved for him when the train started ard Piza departed It. was stated that Mr. ‘Harding's attitude on the bonus question would be mado clear to congress in a com- munication expected to be sent to the senate and house sub-committees deal- ing with the bonus subject. Whether this letter would go forward today was not disclosed. Statements that George Washington and, General. Lafayette received bon- uses from congress were made in the senate today by Senator Watson, Democrat, Georgia, in support of the bonus legislation. Senator Watson said he deplored the efforts to “tack odium to the word ‘bonus’ ” and added: “Washingtdn took his bonus from CANDIDATES NAMED FOR CHAMBER DIRECTORS IN PRIMARY JUST HELD oa A heavy vote resulted in the pri- mary election to name the candidates for places on the board of directors of the chamber of commerce. The pri- mary closed last night and the fol- lowing members received the highest vote: Sam Conwell, E. P. Bacon, A. E. Stirrett, Joe E, Denham, Earl G. Bur- well, J. W. Johnson, O. L. Walker, W. 0. Wilson, R. T. Kemp, J. 8. Mechling, A. A. Slade, Charles Anda, W. A. Blackmore and H. B. Durham, O% these 14 candidates seven mem- bers will be elected to the board at the election in the near future, Doubt Also Expressed on Advisability of Floating Bonds to Meet Cash Pay- ments of Compensation WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—President Harding is unalter- ably opposed to the enactment of the special taxes suggested to finance the soldier bonus or to the return to taxes which have been repealed, it was stated officially today at the Whitr It was also indicated that the executive was very much in of hig soldiers, in grants of land. A prouder man never lived. Surely he couldn't have degraded himself in his own eyes by taking a bonus he didn’t feel himse}f entitled to.” The Georgia senator asserted he would not vote for a bonus if it had to come through a sales tax, a tax on gasoline or a three cent postage rate and supported the proposal of Senator Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina, to pay it out of the foreign debt. Better than that, he said, would be “to put back into circulation the two billion dollars withdrawn in the last year and a half.” Only 65 ships of this class are “in operating com. | the | | before the house naval ccm- mission” the admiral said, and crews of these are being maintained at 80 per cent. of normal strength. Supporting Secretary Denby’s re- comm@Edation that the enlisted strength of the navy be not reduced below 90,000, the witness said the 100 destroyers which would be placed wholly out of commission to make possible the reduction of 10,000 men in the navy suggested by Secretary Denby “will deteriorate to a greater or less extent" while laid up. Sunt anlar bay FREMONT MEDICS ELECT. RIVERTON, Wyo., Feb. 14.—At the annual meeting of the Fremont Medical association held in Riverten, Dr. Emery L. Jewell was elected president, and Dr. Lane of Riverton, secretary and treasurer. Physicians and their wives enjoyed a dinner as a social feature of the gathering. FOR . officers, Were disclosed with the arrest Saturday of Raymond J. Bischoff and the arrest yesterday of three employes of the Western Land Operators asso- elation and three employes of the American Novaculite company. Lestie Harrington, said by police to be the moving spirit in the affairs of the American Novaculite company and Charles Urnich and Charles Phillips, general manager and president of the Western Land Operators company are being sought by the police. The raid on the offices of the West ern Land Operators company was made last night at the request of 300 creditors. Just as police believe they have established a connection between the working of Bischoff and Harring ton so they have come to the belief that the Western Land Operators company was connected with the oth- er two and the three operating huge swindies jointly. Harrington, police said, fled thecity yesterday, @ short time before his establishment was raided. The em- ployes of his concern are also missing. The raids and arrests followed the! hearing of Dischoff before Juége Lan- dis yesterday and in which Bischoff admitted knowing Harrington and said he had loaned Harrington mon- ¢y_on several occasions, Harrington's rise in high finances ‘Was even more rapid than that of Bis- choff the government Investigators said. Startiug when he was practi- cally baat pee according to the in- gators, upon the suggestion of Peter Zilvitia and John Tigaudus, former agents of Bischoff who wanted in the office of an attorney but his business grew to such proportions that in @ month he had established his own office and hired many of Bischoff's own men. He rented a suite of.reoms at a large hotel recently and attracted much attention at Thanksgiving time when he gave a dinner te 200 over- seas men. He repeated this perform- ance at Christmas. Last July he gave a Lithuanian pienic which was attend- New Ball Player Is Recruited Here Casper future possibiliaies in the baseball world received an incentive whch in all probability will carry it @ long way in the baseball world dur- ing future years. A rising new star arrived here this morning and will make this city his permanent home. Tho new star is none other than a bouncing baby boy whose arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Ar bogast, caused considerable stir in the otherwise quiet and peaceful home. Since the arrival of the younger Arby, father of the prodigy and manager of victorious Casper baseball nines, has been delivering lectures on “inside” stuff, while many local admirers are waiting to partake of Arby's treat. Incidentally it is noised about that Arby made a clean sweep of all bets. Ask himehe knows. Miss Dorothy Sheck, 21 years old, is postmistress of Longport, N. J., and is believed to be the youngest postmis- tress in the United States. AYLOR CRIME STILL MYSTERY LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 1 n od wi the French and Indian wars so did alllthe William Desmond Taylor murder mystery investigation would declare today that any progress had been made toward a solution. —No official connected with The officers were at work and still expressing determina- tion to do their best to find the sla) but. found themselves informed with “too many wild tips” they said, and too few genuine clues. ‘The detective of the police depart ment still declared their belief the case never would be cleared up until Edward F. Sands, the missing butler- secretary to Taylor has been discov- ered, while the sheriff's deputies still were firm in their contention Sands had nothing to’do with the case. The air was filled with rumors of mystery ren” and “mystery women” and “mystery witnesses,” “drug ped- diers,” ‘jealousy motives” and “re- venged thories” but back of them all were the facts that Sands had not been found; that the murderer had not been arrested, and that the case was unsolved. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. statement that he met two armed (Continued on Page Four) 14—A| yer of the film director, ed by 19,000 persons, the investizators sila A meeting of Harrington's agents, 40 in mumber, was held last Sunday they said. A Lituani:= policeman who is said to have invested $7,000 in Her- rington notes, heard ef the meeting, walked into the room, fired several shots into the ceiling and departed with $7,009 in cash. Luke Byrne, $50 a week president of the $5,000,000 concern, and Thomas Moran, secretary, met Harrington at a dinner, they said. and later were given positions. “We never knew much about the FEDERAL BOARD AND CODE URGED FOR REGULATION COAL INDUSTRY Kenyon Introduces Bill in Senate Based Upon Study of Disturbance in West Virginia WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— Establishment of a federal tri- buna! and code cf laws for regulation of the coal indus- try was proposed in a bill in- troduced by Senator Kenyon, Republican, Iow1, chairman of the Santer labor committee which inves. the recent West V1: 1 fields disorders. aE Tho bill follows the line of Mr. Ken- yon’s recent report on the West Vir- Sinia situation and probably will be his last before be retires to go on the federal bench. It would create a “national coal mining beard” and would provide statutory rights for both labor and capital in the coal in- dustry. Decrees of the board would be enforced by public opinion and their violation not made punishable, The board wouki be composed of nine members, three each represent ing the employes, employers and the public. All would be appointed by the president. ‘The labor board would bp selected from six names presented by the United Mine Workers of Am erica. Employers nominations would be made by the National Coal associa tion and the Anthracite association. Under the bill, employers and em- Ployes would be required to make every possible effort to settle disputes between themselves, but in event of failure would be required to submit the controversies to the board. Quest assent of a majority. The boara Decisions ef the board would re. Members would receive annual sal- aries at $10,000. ‘The coal mining “code” detailed in the bill: follows the recommendations of Senator Kenyon in his report on the West Virginia controversy. It includes eleven “principies.” "The first would declare coal to be “a pub- lic necessity and in {ts production and distribution the public interest is predominant.”” ‘ Others would dedlare for collective bargaining, human standards in fix- ing wages and working conditions, adequate return for invested capital, a six day standard working week on an eight hour basis, and would prohibit employment of women or children un der 16 years of age. Other provisions Prohibit interference with non-union business,” Byrne said. “All we did was to keep the books and write let- ters at Harrington's direction. All the money was taken in by him and deposited by him.” P. West, arrested in Aurora, Colo., in connection with the ‘Western Land Operators company investigation is said to have started his venture here last August. To the investor he held forth an attractive proposition which would yield 100 per cent in six months, they said. His regular in- terest was 49 per cent monthly on $100. Prospects were told the company owned thousands of acres of land in Montana and Colorado. No particular piece. of property was specified as se- curity. Investers in September, they said, made 100 per cent the first month. Buyers of $1,000 gold bonds in the fall were given $2,000 in bonds in Decem- ber. Checks for dividends ere paid by a bank in Aurora, Colo. Then- in January the checks begen to come back marked “insufficient funds.” Reports from towns near Chicago having large foreign populations indi- cate that both Bischoff and Harrington reaped large harvests there. More than 300 residents of Aurora, Il., and the Fix river valley were swindled by Bischoff, according to the investigators, and more than twice that number, they say, turned over sums ranging from $100 to $2,000 to Harring- ton. Just what the connection believed by investigators to exist between the Western Land Operators’ company and Bischoff may be, has not been indicated. > -- SNOW IN SOUTHERN WYOMING. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 14.—Al though eight inches of snow fell on men or with union men seeking peac: ably to organize. ere The bill was referred to the senate labor committee. ———_——__ STILL FOUND IN HOME, WOMAN 15 FINED $100 Mrs, Charles Turcott, wife of for. mer Casper policeman, was arrested last night charged with operation of a still and possession of contraband liquor, was fined $100 this morning when arraigned before Judge Perry A. Morris of the municipal court. A still and Uquor in small quantity was lo- cated in the Turcott home at 125 North Washington, ascording to evi- dence introduced by members of the raiding squad at the police depart- ment, Mooseheart Legion Will Hold Dance The dance which will be held to- morrow night at the Arkeon dancing academy will be under the auspices of the Mooseheart legion. A door admission of $1 will be asked for the evening of dancing and everyone is invited to attend the af- fair. Rinkler’s orchestra will play for tho dancing from 9 o’clock until midnight, and special dance numbers will be an Sherman hill, between Cheyenne and Laramie, late Saturday and Sunday, no precipitation was recorded here. added attraction’ of the affair. This is one of the series of infor mal dances which will be held at tho popular hall under the auspices of tho Mooscheart organization. SAILOR ADRIFT IN BOAT MANY SHIPS JOIN SEARCH NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—A score of ships of all kinds were leaving their ocean routes today continuing the search for John Birkner, 24, the sailor who was cast adrift from the steamship Gaffney last Wednes- day, 700 miles out in an unfre- quented part of the Atlantic. If Birkner’s frail craft is still afloat, today’s dawn marks the be: ginning of his seventh day adrift on the waters. The master of the Gaffney, Capt. Walter Beckwith, advised every craft by wireless to seek the drifting sailor. Birkner was warmly clothed at the time the accident sent him on his lonely adventure and his boat ‘was wel! stocked with food. He was one of four sailors or- dered ‘to lash a lifeb in @ ter: rific storm when a giant wave kce! ed the Gaffney over. ‘The lifeboat was swept into the sea, and Birk- ner with it. For 16 hours Captain Beckwith cruised about trying te get close enough to put a line aboard. But high seas frustrated each attempt. Twice swirling snow- stors hid him front view, only to pass and leave him in sight. But a third storm hid him, and when it passed he had disappeared, For hours after this the Gaffney cir- cled about the spot, but the boat gain geen, and Captain compelled to put into veonw ! r

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