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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1920
Page
3
A girlish lavender georgette frock trimmed with velvet violets suits a young miss traveling south with family. The simple blouse features a round neck and short sleeves, while the overskirt is tucked to hint at the hip line. A floppy garden hat tops the outfit in lavender georgette accented by black leg ornament.
The community plans a full indoor program for General Pershing with a capitol reception at 8 PM, decorations, and special music. Schools, stores, banks, and the Carnegie library close for the afternoon while Cadets guard the station area and crowds line Capitol Avenue to greet the general.
A tent on the west side of Capitol avenue near the Masonic temple will exhibit about a dozen prize sheep during the Wool Growers association convention. Inquiries came as some thought a side show tied to General Perkins. A wool exhibit is being arranged with activity also at the Masonic temple.
A condensed chronology tracks General Pershing from birth in Laclede Missouri in 1860 through education at Kirksville normal school and West Point, key posts in the Tenth and Philippine campaigns, service as military attaché in Japan, command of the American expeditionary force in Mexico, leadership in France, and his 1947 appointment as general.
Delegations visit Senator Hitchcock as acting Democratic leader and Senator Smith of Georgia discuss efforts to speed ratifications. Senator Lodge notes broad desire to avoid delay from November elections and welcomes modifications to reservations to reach a workable compromise. Hitchcock says reservations are inevitable and a daily round of conferences aims to harmonize opinions and gain presidential acceptance.
Reports from Riga Libau and Copenhagen describe Bolshevik agitation being stamped out in Latvia and Estonia as Letzia vows no peace with the Bolsheviki until democratic government in Russia. A Bolshevik courier seized with diamonds valued at 3,000,000 rubles is captured. Ukrainian insurgents, with Galician support, have entered Odessa driving Demnekine’s anti Bolshevik army to the Dnieper’s right bank.
H R King of Seattle told the National Retail Clothiers Association in Chicago that clothing prices will climb 25 to 40 percent due to higher wages and costs. He cited labor costs up 275 percent since 1914, fewer working hours, and a jump in Australian wool from 4.25 to 4.40 per pound.
Senator Kendrick won a Department of the Interior reversal in several cases under the 640 acre act. Rejections that land was too poor to support a family will be overturned, with lands designated for homesteaders in the near future. The move follows Kendrick's argument that applicants should prove if land can support a family, not be blocked by officials.
The body of Mary A. Udell of Grover Colorado widow of Thomas Udell has died in Grover and will be sent to Kearney Nebraska for burial. One daughter accompanies the remains to Cheyenne today by the Clyde Bricker Brothers. Two daughters and a son will meet the remains in Kearney. Mrs Udell lived in Grover for over 30 years.
Washington Jan 13 The national executive committee selects Lincoln Nebraska as the 1920 convention site and July 24 as the date for the party gathering.
At the Kinney Oil & Refining company annual stockholders meeting in Cheyenne, directors were elected: Joe C. Kinney, John D. Clark, Leslie A. Miller, Charles E. Orchard, and Guy Craig. The board then chose Kinney as president, Orchard as vice president, Miller as treasurer, and H. F. Stevens as secretary.
Cheyenne State bank reelected all officers and directors at the annual meeting held Monday. Officers include H. S. Clarke Jr president J J MacDonald vice president J A Reed cashier. Directors listed are W C Kinkead Thomas G Powers H S Clarke J T MacDonald and J A Reed.
Testimony at court martial claims three of four charges and confessions obtained by the department of criminal investigations under Captain Detzer were defective and fell apart at trial. Former Lt. BE. Suddoth testifies from Le Mans where Detzer was stationed, addressing brutality to prisoners in France.
Otto H. Kahn, a New York banker, urged revision of the federal income tax law to bring the levy within the bounds of moderation and provide relief amid current economic disturbances in a New York address dated January 13.
Cane sugar selling at 47 cents a pound retail appeared in San Francisco markets today. The report notes the price as a 17 cent cane sugar rate in the western market scene.
Midwest Refining raises Wyoming crude oil prices by 25 cents per barrel in Grass Creek Rik Basin Greybull Lance Creek Salt Creek Big Muddy and Rock Creek effective immediately. Ohio Oil Co supports the move. Plant profits rise for Grass Creek Petroleum BH T Williams Co and Kinney Oil & Refining with substantial gains in several fields.
The passage envisions the birth of the League of Nations as a living force fostering peace prosperity and happiness worldwide. It stresses the project as a first step toward a concert of nations and aligns progress with a dual purpose cited by the president.
General Pershing toured downtown Denver for a hero’s welcome after halting a German advance on patrol. He spoke to 15 000 schoolchildren at the auditorium and inspected United States hospital No 24 at Aurora. He praised Red Cross nurses and said every veteran deserves to join the American Legion. He thanked accompanying cousins Howell Pershing Cyrus Pershing and James N Pershing.
Joseph Caillaux former premier appears before the new senate acting as a high court in Paris on January 13 charged with intrigues to secure a premature dishonorable peace with Germany. Prosecution and defense ready, but judges may seek postponement as the trial unlikely to proceed.
Fort Worth Texas January 43 Peter J Lee of Washington DC says he was swindled out of 35000 in a Washington hotel in a fake oil stock scheme He identified two men arrested in California and held here as the guilty ones They are Edward Ward and Charles Goober and are accused of swindling Sheriff Frank Norfleet of Hale Center Texas out of 45000
The American Red Cross reports 1919 relief expenses of 155000000 francs with 30000000 francs allocated to Belgium and the rest to civilian relief in France. The figure underscores vast humanitarian aid distributed across the two nations.
Cheyenne hosts the Wool Growers association convention drawing Pershing and delegates, overtaxing hotel space. The Industrial club asks citizens to open homes to visitors, needing about fifty private rooms. Contact Dr. J M Wilson at the Plains hotel 1400 to offer accommodations.
Paris dispatch reports the steamer Ceylon brought survivors of the Afrique to La Pallice while others reached Port Rochfort. Naples cables say fishing boats recovered bodies, including three decorated American soldiers.
San Francisco January 413. Leaders of exclusionist groups debated measures to bar Asiatic leasing or ownership of land and to curb Asiatic immigration, proposing a special legislative session or an initiative election to enact such laws.
Health officials report a mysterious intestinal malady affecting hundreds in Kansas City Atchison and Pittsburg with Topeka listing 41000 cases. Doctors suspect contaminated water or milk as the likely cause and note the illness as contagious like a cold.
Denver census supervisor Rowdy Kenehan reports fear among foreign born residents that the ongoing federal enumeration is part of a nationwide radical raid. Interpreters are aiding persuasion to stay, with many Austro German and Russian origin residents said to be leaving. two Polish men and an Italian teacher accompany enumerators in the foreign district.
Kiel Jan 14 The United States transport Buford lying off Kiel with several hundred undesirable aliens deported from the United States will leave tonight for a Baltic point while repairs are made to her boilers. Debarkation details are not announced.
Gol B N House arrived in Houston on January 15 denying any political motive and saying he came for a short rest, not to mingle in Texas politics.
American Legion conference to be held in Cheyenne today during General Pershing’s visit. State Chairman Charles S. Hill will meet with two county representatives. State Secretary Harry Fisher will also attend. In New York, January 43, volunteers from the ambulance corps Lafayette Escadrille may become associate members of the Federation of French Veterans of the Great War.
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