Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1924, Page 2

PAGE Two. asper undayp Cribune SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1924, BROOKHART TO) Cetsse.oveex_ PENSION LAW LAUNCH FIGHT ON OAUGHERTY Criminal Proceedings To Be Sought by Senate Order. By FREDERICK WARD (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHIN' ‘ON, D. C. May 3.— Former Attorney General Daugh- erty will be the defendant in erimi- nal proceedings within a week if aris made tonight by Chairman okhart of the senate investigat- ing committee are carried out by the senate. Work on a preliminary report to the senate and olution direct- ing Attorney Stone to in stitute criminal action agufnst Daugherty were started today at Brookhart's direction. He expects the report to be completed next week, Meanwhile the committee will continne to gather more evi dencp on the alleged laxity of Daugherty as the government's chief prosecuting office. Brookhart’s move is designed as ‘ecth counter stroke to rty’s efforts to end the in. igation of his administration of department of justice by in- anction Brookhart said tonight that the committee had mass of docu mentary evidence bearing on Daugh erty pss Smith) «and Howard Mannington which will be placed into the record and included inthe preliminary report to the senate. Still the report, according to Brook hart, -will~ deal -particularly with Daugherty's income t returns for 1920 and 1921 and 1 Brookhart said that evidence already gathered showed Daugherty entered the At torney general's office $27,000 in| debt and that he had since made cash deposits in his brothe hares of Wright corporation stock Brookhart said the committee bly will go to Los Angeles and a this summer to investigate >me important liquor cases, Attorney General Stone tonight pledged the full power of the de. partment of justice to defend the members of the committee in the litigation brought by both Harry and Mald Daugherty, president of the Midland National bank of Wa ington Courthouse, Ohio. In a letter’ to Brookhart, Stone said the department would use “every proper effort to defend the 8 of the senate and informed hat he had named Col. William h- attorney general, as special counsel to care for all the legal affairs of the committee. GREAT FLOOD IN MISSOURI IS MENACING HARMONY, Mo., May 3.—Hun r of workmen tonight battled to Missour! river channel here and ds of thousands of dol from Two br dges and thousands of fores of farm land are endan. | T. Chantland special assistant to the} re Miss Rosalyn Scott, chosen as beauty queen of Carnegie Institute, ‘ennsylvania, with Charles Dana Gibson, Coles Phillips and Tony Sarg acting as judges, Today’s Five Best Features On the Radio 1924 By United Press) New York (492m) 6.20 Musical program from the Capitol ‘Theater. DKA Pittsburgh (326m) 1 Monster band concert right F, P.M from evening artists con- cert program. KSD, St. Louts (646m) 9 P. M. CST Program from the Grand Central w Springfield (337m) 2 P. M Program from the. . General ference of Methodist - Episcopal Church Springfield Auditorium. Undertakers Go On Strike BUENOS AIRIES, (United Press) —Undertakers joined the general strike today and announced they will not conduct any funerals as long the strike continues, In case their services are requ the undertakers will furnish caske' but relat must conduct the re m of their Mead to cemeteries as they can e than a score of funerals heduled for today had to be post WN ARGENTINE TO BE GHANGED Cabinet Urges Action In Responding to Strikers Plea, BY BRYANT POWERS .... (United Press Staff Correspondent) BUENOS AIRIES, May 3,—The strike growing out of the pension law—no work but pensions after 25 years of employment—caused the Argentine cabinet at a meeting to- day to: 1. Outline a message to congress, probably to be delivered Monday, recommending changes in the pen- sion law; 2. Ask congress in making these changes to clarify the law, that there may be Bo doubt as to when and how the pensions are to be paid, The meeting and decision of the cabinet followed a day of turmoil, during which striking workmen made it plain that their opposition to the law was that it did not spec- ify when and under what conditions pensions would be paid and what the pensions would amount to, Workers were a unit in refusing yay the pensions tax provided by aw, sponsored by the govern- ment of President Alvear. !Wihat the nation needs," a work- ers’ manifesto said, “is not less work but more education and steady em- ployment for all who are able to carry out useful occupations.” Practically every important city in. the republic was tied up tonight and business involving millions of pesos a day were at a standstill. In Beunos Airies, with a popula- tion of more than 1,500,000 labor organizations with a membership of 100,000 or more, announced adher- ence to the strike. Anarchists, which always have caused Buenos Aires police a great feal of trouble, took advantage of the chaotic situation to foment trou- ble and were slated to be exported on a tramp steamer. Miliary garrisons were ordered held in readiness in thelr barracks tonight and regular police were re- inforced by port guards and other marine units. All attempts as dem- onstrations were rigorously sup- pressed. Automobiles, except those of the military and police, were ordered to keep off the streets. —_—— GARBAGE HAULER Io ARRESTED BY DEPUTY Philip’ G.” Scherz was caught {!n the act yesterday of, throwing gar- bage off to one side of the Alcova highway. _He-was arrested by a deputy from the sherif{'s office. For some time an effort has been made to capture persons guilty of casting refuse in “other than the proper places, Apprehension of Scherz will undoubtedly lead to less of this objectionable practice. Owner must sell two lots on corner in Kenwood addition. See us. Dobbin’ Realty Co., Zuttermeister Bldg., 226 E. 2nd St. I SOVIET AMBASSADORS QUIT BERLIN FOLLOWING RAID ON QUARTERS BY GERMAN POLICE BERLIN, May 3.—(United Press)|to enter the Russian building on a —Russian Ambassador Krestinspy departed hurriedly for Moscow to- night, following an invastion of the building of the Soviet trade delega- tion here by German police. There was every indication the Rusdan diplomat considered the af- fair a serious bréach of his country’s rights anc intends to make a diplo- matic ineldent of it. Before leaving Berlin Kyestinspy authorized the issuance of a state- ment declaring that the action of the German police constituted an unprecedented violation gf internat- jonal law and diplomatic procedure. The Soviet autHorities declared that their desks were forced open with bayonets and members of the dele- gation handcuffed. Krestinspy or- dered the celegation headquarters: closed. Several German police were in- Jured tn disturbances which follow- ed their entrance into the Soviet building in pursuit of a prisoner who had escaped. According to the police version pretext of wanting @ sup of coffee, ‘In the hatlway of the building, the man suddeniy broke away and dashed through the corriders, hid: ing himself, As pollce took up a search for him, Russian © officials intervened and protested ¢heir entrance. The police persisted, however, and fin- ally found the man whom they dragged to thé street where a crowd collected. Trouble started immediately, sev- eral men attacking the police who resisted’ and called for” reserves. More than one hundred persons were arrested. The Soviet embassy immediately sent a formal protest to the foreign office, but police maintained the af. fair was justified by international law, since it concerned a fugitive who had escaped suddenly, making immediate pursult necessary. The German government tonight denjed that the bullding occupied by the trade delegation was entitled to territorial rights, and held that tt they were taking a prisoner to jali was German ground, not Russian as when the man asked to be allowed contended by the delegates. MINE STAKE IN SOUTHVEST 10 END ON MONDAY 40,000 Workers Affect- ed by Agreement on Old Wage Scale. KANSAS CITY, Mo.,, May 3.— Forty thousand striking coal miners in the Southwest, wil-return- to work Monday morning, a joint com- mittee of mine union officials and operators announced here tonight. Old wage scale agreementa which expired April 1 are reported to have been renewed, The decivion ends three weeks of negotiations fraught with dissension. Both mine unton officials and oper- ators declined to discuss the deci- sion other than to state the strike was at an end. ‘The strike was called April 1 and affected mines in Oklahoma, Kan- sas, and Missourl. Repeated at- tempts to negotiate new wage scale agreements: failed. Both miners and operators refused to renew the: old agreements, the former demanding varied increases and the latter sweeping reductions. The agreement was reached un- der the direction of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers of America, who came here from Indianapolis headquarters to- aid in reaching a decision. Lewis left yesterday’ atter a basis for the new contract had been agri upon. The contract signed tonight pro- vides for renewal of the wage scale existing until the strike started, ber ing renewed for a period of 3 years, ‘This contract calls far a wage scale between $7 and $8 a day. Telegrams were sent out to union leaders in Missouri, Kansag and in all states in the Southwestern dis- trict tonight instructing them to have their men at the pitw for work Monday morning. "PROGRESS ~ PROSPERITY TO GE FORUM SUBJECT AT TUESDAY MEETING Dr. Albert F. 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