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The Washington times., 1921-03-09
REBEL PLANE BOMBS
FORT AT PETROCRAD

LONDON. March Q. The fort at
Bysterback. one OF the works de-
Tending Petrograd. has been bombed
by an airplane from the fortress Of
kronstadt, which was still in possess
sion OF the rebels at last reports, ac-
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen today.
The dispatch added that street
fighting has been occurring at Pet
rograd and that the insurgents cap
tured large areas.
According to British foreign Office
advices, some of the Red regiments
refused to fire upon the rebels when
ordered to do so.
The Soviet was reported to be
bringing up Chinese and Lettish
troops to combat the insurgents.
Minister OF War Leon Trotzky and
Zinoviefr, head OF the Petrograd So
viet. have established headquarters
in the fortress OF st. Peter and st.
Paul at Petrograd.
PARIS. March 9.-Grand Duke Mi
chael, OF Russia, has Joined General
Semenoff's offensive against the Boil
sheviki in Siberia, according to a
Zurich dispatch to the Echo de Paris
today.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09

hS SnO~S tndI ldTkS pTO-
portion OF the appropriations we're
used by the executive departments.
but the following expenditures ere
shown by the report: Purchase Of
property from the North German
Llyod Dock Company and the Ham
burg g-American Line Terminal and
Navigation Company, $6.262. 81 20:
supplies for the military commission
in Russia in February. 1917. 81. 600. 900 I:
purchase OF Russian supplies in 1917,
50. 600 900: International Young Mems
Christian Association, &3.000, 900: in
telligence work by the State Depart
ment. s2s3. .229: entertainment of for.
eign missions. S1s0. 900.
EXACT FIGURES LACKING.
The former Secretary Of the Treas
unable to give detailed figures of
actual expenses for at least three
months. Explaining his reasons,
Houston declared 'in view of the fact
that the disbursements represent for
the most part advances OF funds to
disbursing officers upon accountable
warrants, IL cannot be said that the
ngures are nnal or that they neces-
sarily represent actual expenditures.
In order to determine actual expen-
ditures out OF funds advanced on
accountable warrants II fs, of course,
necessary to examine and settle the
accounts OF the disbursing officers
concerned. You will note that IL is
stated that the office of the auditor OF
the State and other departments which
examines the accounts of most the
disbursing officers concerned, esti-
mates that 1t will take about three
months to complete an examination
Of the accounts in order to determine the
actual expenditure"
TWO INsTALLMENrs. r
The appropriations were made to
the President in two inst AILMENTS, one
of $l00,000,00 and another OF $50. 0.000.-
600. The total disbursements from
the larger appropriation reached s76,-
751 ,01Sb6. while $37, ,991. 81 Z "a was dis
bursed from the s5O. ZOO, 900 fund.
The report shows the financial
statement of the account as OF Feb
ruary is. and shows that all OF the
balance has been returned to the
remained available for expenditure on
that date.
The allotments to executive activi-
ties from the S1O0,000,0OO appropria-
tion reached SS,260,500
or this amount 500, 900 was allott ed
to the alien property custodian, $2,-
600. 900 to the committee OF public in
formation; $4,000 to council Of ma
tional defense; $4,000 to the office
OF Director General of Railroads; /;
1885, 900 to the food and fuel admin
istration; $2,105,50O for the war trade
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
GERMAN PRESS CLAIMS
ALLIES VIOLATE TREATY

BERLIN, March 9.-From the conn
munist Rote Fahne cred FIac') to
the monarchist newspaper Deutscbe
Zeitung, the German press today
viewed the advance OF the allied
armies on the Rhine as Cancellation
of Germany's obligations under the
treaty OF Versailles"
THE entente has formally begun
a new war, having torn up the peace
treaty with the mailed fist as though
waerts, official organ OF the German
Socialists.
The tearing up OF the peace treaty
Is historical fact" said Rots
Fahne.
vorwaerts compared the military
operations of Marshal Foch with the
violation OF Belgium by the ex-
Kaiser i'm 1914
"The Versailles treaty is torn up
and from this moment all German OBJ
legations under the treaty cease" said
the Deutsche Zeitung.
A great diplomatic couhcil Is to be
held here in a few days. The German
ambassadors at London, Brussels and
Paris have all been ordered to return
to Berlin to take part
Chancellor Fehrenbach, in an ad-
dress to the Reichstag, said the ad-
vance OF the allies brought a solemn
hour to Germany. but that "it was i'm
possible to estimate tho situation
fully until DIR. Walter Simons, tho
foreign minister. arrived from Lon
don"
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
BY NEWTON c. PARKE.

essi news service.
PARIS, March 9.-The allied mill
tary lines were aoday advanced to a
point only five miles from Essen.
This important German industrial
and coal mining city which is the
seat Of the gigantic Krupp works,
is now within easy range Of the al
lied artillery.
The night passed calmly and with
out incident in all the three Ruhr
district cities taken over by the al
lies Decentralization, Duisburg
and Ruhrort.
TROOPS PENETRATE DEEPER.
Allied troops that advanced on tho
khine sent patrols deeper into the
hohr district. establishing a line en-
circIins completely the German cities
or Dusseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhort,
which had been occupied Tuesday.
General 'Gaucher. who led the
French advance into Dusseldorf, is
sued proclamation calling upon all
Germans. except the police, to sur
render all their arms and ammunition
within forty-eight hours.
The inter-allied high commission
has established censorship upon the
telegraph and telephone lines in all
and the old-including the small area
held by United States troops at Cob
lenx. Dispatches received from the
International News Service CORES
pondent with the allied armies were
marked censored" and were DELAYED
about eight or ten hours, arriving
here from Dusseldorf and Neuss.
This censorship will last for eight
days, when 1t will either be extended
or abolished.
MAY MAKE FURTHER ADVANCE.
President Tirard. of the inter-allied
high commission, has arrived here to
confer with M. Doumer, French minis
ter OF finance. for the establishment
OF customs line along the French
front on the Rhine.
There are rumors at Mayence that
the allies plan further occupation of
German territory" said a Mayence
dispatch to the Petit Parisien. Nav
ence Is headquarters of the old Ere pch
army of occupation.
IF the present movement proves In
sufficient, the allies will occupy All
OF the coal mines in the Ruhr dis
trict,' said Gustav Hcrve, writing
in La Victoire.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
TODAY

and night shifts. The United
States Steel Company is also plan
ming to establish three shifts of
eight hours in place Of the two
shifts which have always been a
part of the. industry.
II this is done, and the industry
can be kept going, with American
labor and capital profitably en-
ployed, by kee. ing out foreign
competition, built up on war, the
foreign competition should be
KEPT out
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
z KILLED, 5 DYING in
C0ALDALE Mine BLAST

CoALDALE, Pa, March 9.-Two
miners were killed, Ave are dying
and eight badly burned as result
of an explosion at No. IL colIiery OF
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany this mornine.
Physicians and. rescue parties have
been rushed from Panther Creek val
ley to aid In rescue work
The Washington times., 1921-03-09

board, and $4,000, 900 for the Inter-
national Young Mems Christian As
sociapon.
LACKS DETAIL SUMMARY.
The report shows the amount al
lotted to each activity. but does not
give a detailed summary of the
amount spent for each activity.
Purchases of property from the
North German Lloyd Dock Company
and the Ham mburg-American Line Ter
minal and Navigation Company cost
Ss,2s2,s3Lss.
intelligence work of the Depart
ment of State was allotted 37s3,22s
from the 100000. QUO appropriation.
Entertainment of foreign missions,
appropriated for on August 3. 1917.
cost $4,000. ....
Supplies for the military commits
sion In Russia were provided for in a
81, ,000.0 900 appropriation made by the
President February IL, 1917. On June
10 of the same year $5,000,0o was
appropriated for the purchase of Rus
sian supplies.
Money advanced to the Shipping
Board from the 500, 900, 900 appro-
priation for the repair Of German and
Austrian vessels totaled $27. ole, ,6s2. "a.
The largest allotment made from
the original appropriation was to the
War Department, a total of $92 2,301.-
369.37. The Navy Department re-
ceived &I.515.154 from the same ap~
preparation. From the $50 100000 ap-
preparation. IS, ,00O, 900 was allotted for
the purchase of supplies for the civil
ian population of the Archangel dis
trict of Russia
MONEY FOR RUSSIA.
On September 10, 1918. $4,000. 900
was appropriated for the improve
ment of the economic conditions in
Russia, S25,0OO for the investigation
Of the problem OF the Russian peas
ant was expended on october II, 1918;
S25. 900 was appropriated on January
%. 1919, for the Lieutenant Colonel
Riggs mission to Russia; $4,000 for
maintenance and salaries of American
railway corps in Russia on March 1.
1919, for the month of March; $4,000
900 for the operation of the Trans
Siberian and Chinese Eastern rail-
ways allotted May 20, 1919, and $780,
900 for the operation of these railways
on January s, 1920.
An item of $1,000, 900 paid December
16, 1918. was allotted for the purchase
Of food for relief in Europe.
From the $4,000. 900 appropriation
the War. Department received an ad-
ditional allotment Of $3,37S.446.
The report included the detailed ex-
penses of the American delegates to
the peace conference previously re-
ported by the President to the Senate.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
Berlin Favors Taking Over Allied
Debts to u. S.

LONDON, March 9.-Herr Rathenau, head of the
German general electric company and others of the
perts advising the German indemnity commission have
made the suggestion that the reparations tange be
aightened out upon the basis that Germany
all Of the allied debts to the United States
according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Berlin today.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
$1l4, 742,9l5 Spent
By President Wilson
Out of Secret Funds

Former President Wilson spent but $114 742 91550 of
the $15OOOOOOO allotted him by Congress for war pur
poses according to the accounting which he rendered to
Congress and which made public today.
The accounting prepared by former Secretary of
the Treasury Houston.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
ALL CUSTOMS
TO Be seized
Supreme Council Orders Money
C0nfiscated and Credited to
Indemnity Fund.
RUHR PATROLS. STRIKE DEEP
Invaders Form Line EncircIinq
Dusseldorf, Duisburg,
and Ruhrort.

LONDON, March 9-The allied
supreme council ut a meeting at
Premier Lloyd.George's official
residence, at 10 Downing street,
this afternoon approved seizure Of
German customs houses along the
Rhine. 1t was decided that all
funds and equivalents In the seiz.
ed customs depOts should be credit.
ed to the German reparations
fund.
After the discussion of economic
penalties for Germany the allied
premlers took up the Turco. Greek
dispute in the Near East.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
ALLIED GUNS TRAINED ON ESSEN ARSENAL

MRS. HELEN ELWOOD STOKES, wife Of million
III aire New York hotel man. who is the defendant in
sensational divorce proceedings The two children in
the picture are sought by both parents.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
CREAGER T0BE
MEx|COENvOY
President Harding Said to Have
Decided on Texas Friend
as Ambassador.

The nominations Of John w.
Fenton and Cuno Rudolph, which
were to have been sent to the Sen.
ate today, had not been transmit.
ted at q late hour this afternoon.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09

Tive 90 stop European resroms srd Rep
colts viii Ne~ Administration As&f
-AdvG
The Washington times., 1921-03-09
WEATHER

Rain this afternoa and
tonight Much colder to-
Night. Thursaay partly
cloudy and colder. Fresh
south shifting to north
west winds. Temperature
at 8 .. m, "a degrees.
The Washington times., 1921-03-09

Every Wednesday owners
and agents are offering their
best bargains. Select from
this list.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-08-14
(I1 Greg
Titan
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Here we see Louise Glaum returning home
after q serious accident to her dearest friend
and roommate. The chauffeur is seen car
rying Patricia Palmer. who plays the part Of
Miss Glaum's friend.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-08-14
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A conspiracy. Frank Norwood telling
i sRs can 's :.p.rsss Helen &.ins a f from
her husband in the Parker Read, Jr;, pro:
duction, Greater Than Love-" distributed
by Associated Producers, Inc.
, 1921-05-24
MUSICAL COMEDY TO Be
STAGED BY LEGION FOR
THREE NIGHTS IN JUNE

Round the Clock With the pebu.
tantes.' a whirlwind Of music. pep.
beautiful costumes. live lines, clever
comedy and artistic stage settings
Will be presented by the. local talent,
including prominent society matrons.
debutantes, int sub-debs, on June "a,
10, and i6 at the Iris theater.
The "extravaganza beautiful" viii
be presented under the auspices Of the
American Legion by Mrs. frankie
Terrell Voting Of New York City, play.
wright and producer who has left a
tran OF favorable press comments
wherever the presentation has been
ATTEMPTED.
The play has a cast OF 200 persons
and will be presented in three acts,
with SO or moro novelty features and
surprises. The cast will include male,
PARTS, which Will be selected with
care, as well rs the leading women
phrts. and the choruscs all played by
local talent.
Committees will be appointed at a
meeting to be held in the American
Legion rooms this evening and aftcr
the the parts have been cast ths re.
hearsals will start at once.
, 1921-05-24
TRIBUNE GOLD
MEDALS HERE
Awards for Runners-up in Elks'
Tournament to Be Placed
on Display

Tribune gold medals to be awarded
the runners-up in the boxing and
wrestling events of the Eiks' tourna-
ment to be staged here May 81 were
received today from the manufacturer
and will be engraved before being
placed on display in a window of the
business section. The medals show
boxers n wrestlers in relief and the
engraving will be lone on the back.
Announcement was received today
from Denver hat the Denver Post
would again donate a cup for the
grand championship of the tournn-
ment and cups will be given by the
Casper Herald TO. the champion wres-
tier and boxer.
These awards are in addition TO
h gold watches which will be given
the winners in each class an event
by the Elks' club. The watches were
recently received.
Tickets for the tournament. at
which all preliEninaries and finals will
be contested in a program covering
many hours were placed on sale to-
day. 1t is understood. and Indications
point to their being in great demand.
, 1921-05-24
ALLIED COMMISSION
INTERVIEWS AGAIN.

PARIS, May e3.-QBy The Asso
ciated Press)-The allied high com.
mission in Upper silesia has sent dele
cations to intervene with both the
Germans and the Poles and endeavor
to obtain the cessation OF all military
operations in hat territory. according
to French Official dispatches today.
Each OF the delee atoms is comosed
OF representatives OF France. Great
and Italy.
In Frenc circles the situation is re-
garded as most grave following the
German attack on the front eros.
steiner Striebenaun -Krempa, against
the Polish lines. The Poles. according
to French information. retired from
this line.
The German attack. although re.
garded as very serious. is not consid-
cred in French Official circles as a
casus bell. as it was carried out by
irregular forces,
The allied representatives in Berlin
will call on DIR, Wirth today and ask
him TO close the Silesian frontier and
take all possible steps to in.
Prevention by other volunteer forces.
, 1921-05-24
TELEPHONE DISCUSSED
BEFORE R0TAR|ANs BY
LOCAL MANAGER TODAY

The position OF the Mountain States
Telephone company as aApubiic utility
was explained in detail at the Casper
Rotary club luncheon at the Hen.
ming this noon by II. d. Mccormack.
local manager. Mr.. McCormack's
talk was for the purpose of correct
ing impressions that may
have formed regarding the system and
service of the organization
Miss Valentine. director of music
in the Robin Hood opera which played
in Casper several weeks ago. has re-
turned here to establish. a conserva.
tory OF music and this noon was the
gue OF the rotary club. Her aims
Tor casper were first explained by
the Rev. Phillip X. Edwards. Miss
Valentine then told of her plans for
embracing every kind of musical
~endeavor, besides taking all kinds OF
musical classes sire plans civic organf.
zauons, choral work. and also de-
sires TO make arrangements to bring
some of h worlds best musicians TO
Casper. The business committee of
the organization was authorized to
confer with Miss Valentine on the
business details involved.
Earl e. Hanway. business manager
of the Casper Daily Tribune. was
made a Rotarian at the noon meet
ing as a representative Of the publish
ers of Casper. 3
, 1921-05-24
RECOGNITION OF
MEXICO AIM OF
PRES. OREGON

WASHINGTON, May IS. George
T. Summerlin. counsellor of the
American embassy at Mexico City,
was on his way to Mexico today bear
ing Instructions for conferences with
President Oregon, which officials hero
hope will be followed by the recog MI
ton of the Mexican government by
the United States.
Administration officers refused to-
day TO comment on the summary of
conditions upon which tho Harding
administration would agree to
formal diplomatic relations with
Mexico.
The central feature OF the memo
randum. II Is declared. is the insistence
that tho Mexican president sign some
document which will serve to assure
the United States of the g-enuineness
OF the Mexican governments promises
to guarantee the safety OF Americans
and American interests in Mexico.
, 1921-05-24
FOUR ACCUSED
MURDERERS ON
TRIAL FOR LIFE


Ell PASo. Texas. May &C. p.
Sherman, his sons. Neil, John and
Allen Sherman. and a ranchhand.
Thomas Mendosa. today are on trial
charged with murder growing out Of
the fatal shooting of Prohibition Off
Ger c. A. Wood on the Sherman
ranch March 80.
OFFICER Wood and Officer S. E. Beck.
cit were killed shortly after they had
gone to the ranch TO serve a search
warrant Officers j. F. Parker and
H. c. Quinn escaped after many shots
were fired at them, il is alleged.
After h double tragedy, the Sher.
nan ranch was searched. None Of
he Shermans or the ranchhand
rtre there. Only one bottle of liquor
vas found. according to prohibition
Ulcers The defendants were ar.
-'ested the day after the shooting.
, 1921-05-24
A0LDUPS TAKE
TO HEELS AS
VICTIM YELLs

An attempted hoidup OF the owner
Of h North Burlington poolhail
about IL o'clock-Sunday night WAS
frustrated. when the proprietor of tho
Institution obeyed the command to
stick his hands in the air but cvi-
denced his distaste OF the proceedings
by calling for help.
Believing they were trapped the
two novice nighwaymen fed precipi-
lately from the building and left be-
hind them the days receipts. The
owner Of the establishment could not
give n clear description of the men
who attempted to do the job but ar
rests OF suspects have already been
made.
, 1921-05-24
MANS LEG is
BLOWN OFF BY
NITRO BLAST

woRLAND. wyo.. May s3.-Henry
kregcr is in a hospital here with
small hope OF recovery following a
dynamite explosion which resulted
Saturday when ne tried to- chop a
hole in a tin can that had been used
for nitro-glycerine. Two men working
near by were knocked down by the
ccncussion.
kreger's right lee was blown on ans
he was otherwise mutilated. He came
here last week from Lincoln. Neb.. to
work on n ranch. He has a wife and
children.
, 1921-05-24

OF cOInnS. Inen ne said:
one hundred thousand sorrows are
touching my heart. II must not be
again. God grant that It will not bcr'
Il do not pretend that the millen-
NAL days have come and hat there
will be no more war. I would wish n
nation so powerful that none will dare
to provoke its wrath"
Then in the great army shed on the
shores of the Hudson. with its stark.
white washed walls. there fell n 81.
lence profound and deep. Mrs. Hard
ing could be seer weeping softly as
h looked upon the flag draped collins
OF those who had given their all for
their country.
Then the president continued:
The republic will never forget the
sacrifices these men have made
whether they lie in tho soil OF the
homeland or the crimsoned soil OF the
battlefield"
When the president had finished his
brief address, he stepped forward.
stopped in front OF the coffin that
had been selected to symbolic the
army Of dead surrounding him, and
laid upon it his wreath OF roses and
orchids.
There was another moment OF ST.
lence. 1t was as Is the great piers.
busting with life as men went forth
10 death. had heen turned into a
tomb after the return OF those who
had survived.
On the coffin decorated by the presi-
dent was a plate chronicling the fact
Joseph Guyton. OF Evnrt. Mich.
a private in Company / OF the 126th
United States infantry, had given his
life for his country on May "a, 1918,
in the Gildwkilder sector of Alsace,
The president had motored to Ho-
boken accompanied by Col. II. w. Gal
braith. Jr.. national commander Of
the American Legion, who was among
the great throng TO greet the chief
when he landed from the
presidential yacht. Mayflower. Harbor
craft saluted and then a salute of 81
guns roared out from tho great de-
stroyers which arrived las week from
the south. {.
At the army sheds at Hoboken the
president barred his head in the pres.
of the bodies that were brought
home last week on the transport
Weaton.
Arrangements for this event were
by wireless by the American
Legion soon after the guns on the
destroyer fleet anchored in the Hud-
son river doomed a welcome to the
president.
Upon his return from Hoboken he
will go to the Hotel Aston where he
will address the Academy of Political
Science at A O'Clock. From there
will go to Brooklyn TO review the
23rd infantry regiment at its armory.
He will deliver a brief address and
return to the Hotel Commodore to be
by a boys band Of 500
a reception will be held at the no.
tel between Z and s O'Clock n then
New York's distinguished guest will
his main address OF the day
at a banquet celebrating the 125th an
OF the New York CONNER
cial.
The presidential party will return to
the yacht Mayflower Immediately
the banquet. and the little craft
will put put to sea again. bound for
Washington.
Included in the party are Mrs. Hard
ing. Secretary and Mrs. Weeks. Sec
rotary Fall. Senator and Mrs. Knox.
and Mrs. New. Senator Calder.
Edge and Brig. Gen. Charles
f. Sawyer. physician to the president.
President Menocal of Cuba.
who arrived here yesterday. will stand
President Harding at the re-
view of the troops in Brooklyn.
, 1921-05-24
TO SEND
TROOPS TO

LONDON. May ss.-By The Asso-
eiated Press-tThe British govern
ment has decided to send troops to
siiesia at an early date. II was an
nounccd today. f7' ~
The decision TO send the troops re-
suited from in~terchanges between
Great Britain n France. and the
British force win be sent TO reinforce
the allied contins cnts in Upper siiesia
In the near future. The size OF the
force was not Indicated in the an
nouncement, but is understood that
not less than four battaiions. probably
from the Rhine forces, will go.
, 1921-05-24
Reorganization
Is Discussed By
Presbyterians

wINONA LAKE, Ind. May ga
Problems of reorganization OF church
government were uppermost in the
minds of commissioners to the 133d
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of Ameri-
ca when business sessions were re-
sumed today. Much interest also was
attached to the first appearance in the
assembly OF William ]. Bryan. com.
missioner from the presbytery OF
Florida Mr.. Bryan arrived last even
ing and addressed a popular meeting.
He was greeted enthusiastically.