Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1922, Page 1

Weather Forecast tonight and mue. Wedne: change in temperature. VOLUME VI Decision “Regarding Striking Shopmen to Be Reached at Meeting Scheduled to Convene Tomor- row in New York; Predictions Lacking NEW YORK, Aug. 22.Shop crafts strike entered another Thunder showers probably iy; not CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922. RAIL LEADERS TALK ANSWER Latest Proposal of ‘ k | | phase today when rail presidents from western states began to arrive for tomorrow'sytonference of the Association of Railway Executives, when they will vote their answer to measures proposed by the big four brotherhoods as a prac- tical means of settling the executives, insignificant in numbers question and ending the strike. ‘This will mark the third - nation- wide agsenibling of rail chiefs within the last month, at which the problem of strikers’ seniority rights has risen to block the path of settlement. The response of tne carriers‘ led of- ficials to predict that every member road, including 201 class one lines would be represented when the con- ference Early arrivals would net comment on the situation. GREENSBORO, N. C., Aug: With road officials substituting ‘fer striking engineers and firemen who refused to “work in and out of Spen- cer whijetstate troops are on guard dutswctheBouthern Rallwey codex Pe] Bloves in & statement to The Associ. sah cheng the viru et het actoder=deslared thet wt passenger transportation sérvice he-}“had always felt optimistic” regarding tween. Washington Freight trains, however, are not be- ing mayed. Aug. 22,—Pres'- t Harding, although hopeful of ae for the New York rail strike settlement, was snl4 at the White House today to be unready to take any other steps than those stated in his recent address to congress. ‘The declaration to congress that the ws would be enforced and the rights, of workers to. enter railroad service} guaranteed, {t was added, will remain! the final government statement un- til there’is a change in the situation. BROTHERHOOD CHIEF. 18 OPTIMISTIC, ! CLEVELAND, Aug. The | Associated Press)—Warren 8. Stone, | president of the brotherhood of loco-} motive engineers, and D. B, Robert-| son, president of the brotherhood of | locomotive firemen and enginemen, are .optimistlc regarding tomorrow's conference of railroad executives and | transportation brotherhood chiefs in| New York in an effort to reach a set-/ tlement of the shopmen’s strike. j ‘t am optimistic regarding tomor-} row's -conference with the railroad} managers,” sald Mr. Stone late today. “Some way will have to be reached to end the strike. Iam hopeful of reach- ing an agreement.” Mr. Robertson expressed the same optimistic feeling. Mr. Stone and Mr. Robertson will | -|the outcome of the conference of rail- but backed by the vast power of the Morgan-Gary open shop interests, is Semnpt to scuttle the strike settlement, id a telegram, dispatched by John J. Dowd, chairman of the Metropolitan district strike committee. Rint sides in the negotiations were pledged, as you know, by their respec. tive mediation cothmittees to refrain from comment that might embarrass the conferees.” CINCINNATI, Aug. 22—(By The Assoclated Press)—E. H. Fitzgerald president of. the brotherhood of rail: way and steamship clerks, freight handlers station and “express -em- read executives at New York tomor-| tion iow, and that sinee he had returned| be ij from New York where he was in con- ference with the ratl union chiefs his “eptimism has increased due to the se- riousness of the situation. At the offices of the corporation, tt as said that about 156,000 would be a OD TOF the rest THE SHRIEVALTY RACE—Continued TWENTY PER CENT INCREASE IN WAGES GRANTED LABOR BY UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—( today announced that the increased 20 per cent Septe affected by the new. scale and that|men on its payroll but 64,000 are in they would receive 86 cents an hour! the mining and transwortation 4 atlay SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 angle for Mr. and Mrs. | of San Francisc<: Mrs. Wakefiel Spree S of “* EF NMR NUMBER 268. $100 a month for the rest o | | an 2 \3 SOMEONE | | GOING TO CATCH JOE? Sua Tememeows Parte j | Keenne By The Associated: Press.) The United States Steel corpora- wage rate of day labor at all its manufacturing plants would mber 1, and that other rates would be equitably adjrrted. under the advanced wages. partments, it was said The corporation ha: about 220,000 ruary 1920, when e men were ntinued on kage Fou: Wife Offered $100 Month To\\M PIED FOR Give Up Husband to Another 2. f her life” to Mrs. Kendrick newspaper artist, so that Mrs. field could marry him.. That soon as» Mrs. Wakefield herself cured @ divorce. The offer yesterday, it was under stood. would probably be accepted, but early today the artist's wife intimated she might take some legal action ether than divorce and that at any rate she would consult an attorney before doing anything. According to the versions of the 1 usual case which all of the pers. involved give, Mr. and Mrs. Kend: had separated: Mrs. Kendrick 1s {Il and has spent much of her time in sanitariums. Mrs. Wakefield a Kendrick fell in love with each other and finally agreed they would marry Wake ts, as if they could get their freedom and j that Mrs. Ken k and her baby could live with m if she wished o be-“taken care of.” Mrs. Kendrick, the versions agree in saying, vas brought from a sant tarlum to Mrs. Wakefield's home in Sausalito, across the bay from San Francisco, where she remained for several weeks as a guest, receiving care and medical attention. It was while in Mrs. Wakefield's home, the three persons aver Mrs. Kendrick revealed she no | loved her husband and the reve’ that Mrs. Wakefield did, together with her offer, followed. It also was acmitted that Mrs. Kendrick gave her wedding ring to Mrs. Wakefield, say. ing that under the circumstances she did not want !t. and that she was ‘sick, weary and disillusioned.” Her husbari! acquiesced in the plan Mrs. Rodney Kendrick Sr., mother of he artist, sided with her son, say ing: ; “It is easy to imagine how a mother feels when she has a big. healthy son and finds he is married to a woman who knew before her marriage she was {I!.” Mrs, Rodman Pell, the artist's sis ter, expressed a similar view. Mrs. Wakefield is 39, Kendrick ts |32 and his wifp is 24, Mrs. Wakefield has three chfdren, the oldest of whom is 19. Spreckels (was. their father. Mrs. Waketioit jWA bequeathed $80,000 in “Jack” Spreckles’ will. The San Francisco Chronicle thia Morning published a story in which it was said on what the paper de- clared to be reliable authority that The increase is the first since Feb-/the elder Spreckles is coming to San'| Schalk; Mogrid; ‘Francisco to “take a hand in the REHEARING IN SUIT OVER LARAMIE | RIVER WATER ASKED OF TR Tribune to Furnish Conut on Election Complete arrangement: have been made by the Tribune, as usual, to furnish the public with election returus as early as it is possible to obtain :nem following the closing of the polls at 9 o’clock tonight. Correspondents have been recruit- ed in every county in the state and they will be in almost con- stant communication with the Tribune’s editorial offices. Elaborate arrangements heave also/ally the service arranged "by the Trib- been made to receive results from) une. All inquiries will be answered this city and county-ad rapidly as pos-|as promptly as possible. Use phone leave tonight for New Yor. aos j sible. Owing to the fact that the polls re- main open until 9 p. m. and that oné jof the heaviest votes ever cast at a | primary election in this state {s antic | tipated final returns will in. all prob- ability not be available until Wednesday morning, but it is expect ed that many of the counties state will be in a. position to file a greater part of their returns’ before 12 o'clock tonight. ¢ PEACE TALK ALL : \K”—EXECUTIVE. NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Assertion cf L. F. Loree, chairman of the eastern president's conference; that talk of peace in the rail strike was all bunk were attacked by the eastern strike ommittee of shopmen today in a tele- ram to Bert M. Jewell, president of} thelr union, at Washington. "The Loreg group of eastern railroad Ny late} i The public is invited to use Hber- | 15 and 16. a UNITED STATES SEAPLANE ARRIVES AT BAHAMA NASSAU, Bahama Aug. 22.—(By |The Associated Press).—The American in the seaplane Sampaio Correia. pilcted hy Lieutenant..Walter Hinton, left here }for Hafthat 10:40 this morning. It ar- lrived here yesterday afternoon on the | way from New York to Rio. Priority Law Favoring Wyoming Violates “Principles of Equality” Between | States, Colorado Contends WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-(By The Associated Press.) — Asserting that the priority law laid down by the supreme court in its recent decision in the Laramie river-case ‘‘vio- lates principles of equality” between the states, the state of Colorado, the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district, and the} Laramie Reservoirs Irrigation company have filed a petition, for re-hearing of the case. )Priation dootrine as good law to con The Laramie decision attracted) trol the distribution of water within a wide attention throughout it insists it showld not be ap- the west! state, as establishing a precedent to control Pied between states, declaring that} in the distribution of water of inter-|the soundness of ‘this contention {s/ state streams for irrigation, power|Fecognized by nations which refuse to and other purposes. ° |make it the tre Colorado in furnishing one-half of the water in the Laramie river, the brief declared, is entitled to more than approximately one-elghth of the wa ter supply, as {t is contended woul be the ‘effect of the decision for irri gation purposes. The brief also contends that the water should be distributed by “‘equit- able apportionment,” and not upon the basis of priority of appropriation. ‘Whilé the brief supports prior appro- DEFECTIVE ENCINE Verdict of Coroner's Jury Charging Plot- ting With Gary Crash Scouted by Union Leader in Statement CHICAGD, Aug. 22.—Declaring the “real cause” of the Michigan Central wreck at Gary, Ind., early Sunday, was clearly an unfit locomotive,” and characterizing the railroad 's charges that the wreck was due to plotters as a “hastily patched up explanation to place the blame for loss of life upon the striking shopmen instead of on the railroad, where} , differ a particle from wrecks report beiod cae srath, vice pr elonga,” ‘J. . McGrath ‘3 [= ‘each day from various parts of the ‘ent of the Railway Employes’ De- Dartment of the American Federation ef Labor, today said the wreck did not country.” . “Reperty are based “upon ad inves tigation by company officials and armed guards,” he said. “What can the public expect to get in the way of unblased reports from men who are hired to fight the employes on strike? They are not railroad men, and therefore cannot be trusted to in- vestigate an accident which involved the death of the engine crew. An investigatin of this kind’ should have been given over to an impartial body of mechanical experts. “If all the derailments which have been reported to us since the strike \had occurmed at #0 miles an hour the |newspapers would have had no room |for other news. Such wrecks result directly from the deterioration’ of equipment which goes on at an ever | | increasing rate every day the strike McGrath's statement came on the heels of the verdict of the coroner's jury which found that the engineer and fireman of the wrecked express came to their death “‘as a result of a plot to wreck the train.” It also followed an ‘announcement by State’s Attorney Crowe's office ad- mitting failure to discover sabotage plots in correspondence seized in raids on the ‘offices of William Z. Foster, radical leader and nead of the Trades Union Educational lea i" Federa! investigaturs Fosver had been under close = lance for a long time McGrath cited numerous derail (Continued on Page Eight) lan IN WRECK, CLAIM y basis of rights to |the use of international waters. | | “Surely one state of our own un ion,” the brief declares, “should be treated by other states, under a judi- cial rule to be formulated, as favor-| ably as one nation would be treated! by another.” Unless the rity principle latd down by the ¢ is changed the “government reclamation project.” the brief asserts, “in any one state becomes a deadly menace to the later development of every other state upon inteAstate stream, and the other states must stand like a wal against consent by congress to the con truction of any such project.”” i "Equitable division” is declared to} be “entirely feasible,” and “in choos ing a rule to govern distribution be tween states,” it adds, “it would seem| that one should ba chosen which will permit the development of every state! and not allow one state to be enriched at the expense of another.” The decree of the court, the brief declares, fails to specifically recog:| nize the diversion of water from the| head waters of Deadman creek by! Colorado and should be modified, it is} contended, to prevent future uncer | tainty which might lead to the erro-| neous conclusion that right of the state and its citizens to the continued use of the water was not protected by the court. Priority of appropriation of water for the Laramie-Poudre tunnel proj ect, the brief asserts, was judicially} determined by the Colorado #tate courts to date from August, 1902, in stead of 1809, as stated by the su preme court, whieh is declared to he “the vory crux of the case,” it being explained that “in view of the fun-| Continued on Page Four.) 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Toward the Church "The Outbreak of the War"; “The End of the War"; “The Pope and Peace”; “Friendly and Neutral Pow: ers’; ‘The Destruction and Ger. many's Futur Billings Bank Closes Doors BILLINGS, Mont., Aug. 22.—Notloe was posted on the front door of the | American National bank here stating operators that the bank had been closed pend ing instructions from the comptroller of the currency. —What seemed yesterday to be a solution of the eternal tri- Rodney Kendrick and Mrs. Edith Huntington Spreckels Wakefield and Sausalito, today did not seem quite so likely to work out. d, who was the first wife of the late “Jack” Spreckels, son of John D. r., Pacific coast capitalist, according to her published admission, made an offer , if she would divorce Kendrick, a AESUMPTION OF OPERATIONS BY STRIKE TREATY Wyoming Operators Sign Agreement Under Pro- test But Plan Early Operations, Is Report ! || BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE i] | At Pittsburgh— R. HE. | Philadelphia O12 00060-—3 9 1 CHEYENNE, Wyo Aug. Pittsburgh 20100100r—4 10 0199 (Shecial aegis | Ratteres—Meadows and Henline;| ~~ Special to The Trib- Morrison and Mattox une.)—Approximately 8,000 ate jcoal miners on strike in Wyo At Chicago— R.H. E.| ming gi aes shea wie ssl ng since the call for a na- | Chicago 900 2002—x x x/tion-wide walkout was issued | Battertes—Vance and Deberry; Ald-{ last apring are expec - bag , Osborne, Stueland, and O'Far- rk n the next 24 hours as a [rel ‘esult of ratification of the Cleveland = - sreement by operators and rw iner At Cincinnati— R. H. E.| in conference here in a dan t t |New York 30300I—x x x poses eel Ss 011001I—x x x{% Proefam outlined last Saturday. Batterh McQuillan and Snyder; District officers for the t nited Mine Couch, Keck, Gillespie, and Hargrave.| Workers of America have dispatched —_ orders to locals throughout the state AMERICAN LEAGUE to return fo their jobs at the sum- mons of the operators and the latt reat ire expected to act at once. Before At New York— R. i. E. many days mining ts expec’ Olevela: ---101 030 010—6 13 0) " full blast 2 3] Operaters today were on their way and O'Neil; Bush, me from the conference wi Murray, and Schang. 2 unanimous vote approved tho fol- waa i ‘ollowing agreement that the check At Bosten— ROH. E. aff system be continued and miners St. Louis _ -100 032 030—9 16 1) °° Dald the scale in effect prior to Boston — --003 100 000—4 7 4| March, 192 Batteries—Shocker and Severeid;| “It !s hereby agroed by and between Pennock and Walters. United Mine Workers of America, ay District No. 22y and Wyoming Coal At Philadelphia (lst game}—R. H. .|OPerators amociation that the terms, Detroit 202 000 11 6 t1 0 provisions and conditions of the wage Philadelphia 200 000 110—4 g 1} %¢8le contracts which were in effect Rat ios — Daten and Bassler; | '" the said subdistrict in March, 1 | Hasty and Perkins, be and to or same are hereby extended April 1923, and that the mine mines of signers of this supple. mental agreement shall be opened im At Philadelphia (2nd game)}—R. H. E Detroit 102 301 B0—x ox x {ai 7 r ¥ upon the execution of this Philadelphia — -.-00000020—x x x] \Unolemental agrecment | Batteries—Pyette and Woodall; “The signer of this supplemental Naylor, Ketcham, Ogden, and Bruggy. T President itted agreement approves and accepts the 4 policy adopted by the J At Washington— ot miners and operators hel Chicago ----900 000 101 land, Ohio, August 15, 1922, Washington ~ --01110001x—4 10 0] Tho signers of the peace pact in Batteries—Robertson, Hodge, and}ciudo P. J. Quealy, president, and ise and Gharrity. jeorge A. Davis, secretary, for the -—- southern operators: Peter Kool, pre At Washington (2nd game)}—R. H. E.} dent, and Frank Anderson, secretar Chicago a 0000—x x x|for the northern operators. Martin Washington ---0000—x x x ull, president; George Young, vice Batteries—Mack and Schalk; Fran-| president; Jas. T. Morgan, sect cis and Gharrity. treasurer; P. S. Juranovich, — > card member for Dis REMOVAL OF Following the conference a state mt in behalf of the operators was issued by P. J. Quealy of Kemmerer as follows: Cleveland agree: under protest. eptance WASHINGTON, Aug. Repre scale and ce sentative Hill, Republican, Maryland| ‘he 1 greement, but addressed a letter to Secretary|!t arbitration on future w Mellon .requesting the immediate re-| Which Cleveland agreemen al of Federal Prohibition Commis-} but does not o! Haynes, who Mr. Hill charged | Operators and r ngaged defrauding the Un thority is to make the offic t means’ wa ed r all consumers. 9 treasurer depart ment for the sending out of persona ie necessity, railroad and utilit political propaganda the inte; lrements that force the Wyoming of himself and his associates, of t erators to temporarily yield with anti-saloon (Continued on Page Four.) NEUTRAL BOARD HARDING'S AIM IN COAL PROBE league. Fact-Finding Commission Must Be Com- posed of Disinterested Parties; Coal Prices Will Be Curbed WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—While the senate labor com- mittee was taking the first formal action toward creation of the coal fact finding commission recommended by President Harding the president let it be known today that he was disposed to insist that the investigating body be made up ex- clusively of impartial representatives of the public without representation for efther mine} coal prices will be drafted within a specia or employee. day or two, of Commerce - - Hoover said WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— Legis-| of justice, he lation to enable federal control of! upon a bill v STEAL REGISTER TO GET $23 CASH Carrying off a $175 cash register in order to steal $23 in cash was a feat performed by unidentified rob bers carly yest morning when they broke the front window of Mat son brothers store. 504 So reet. took their trop! to congress Two er th advancing cot sideration ns for controlling prices are under con- Hoover said. It was of an States xed grain was one of the r consider: Instances 1. Specia ficer Jack Weddell dis covered robbery while making r his rou 1 informed Mr. Mat son. The x s | the cash 5 nothing was" broken window damage was