April 5, 1920. Strife.

John D. Rockefeller photographed in Washington D.C. today where he spoke at the opening of the Interchurch movement campaign to raise a fund of $350000.

John D. Rockefeller was in Washington D.C. on this Easter Monday of 1920, speaking as part of an Interchurch effort to raise funds.

Group of Metlakahtlans (Native Alaskans), photographed on April 5, 1920. Note members of Salvation Army in this group.  They're native to the Southern Alaska and northern British Columbia region.

In southern Alaska, a group of Metakahtlan Pacific Coast natives was photographed, with some wearing the uniforms of the Salvation Army, which those individuals must have been members of.

Across the Pacific, the Japanese Army and the Russian Reds struggled for control of Vladivostok, with the Japanese prevailing.  And that was just one of the dramatic and violent events of the day.

Irish Republicans used the prior day to mark the anniversary of the Easter Rebellion in actions that saw a large number of British government establishments hit on the same day. 

Hit in the United States was rail service in Chicago, with railroad employees walking out on strike.

And France prepared to send her troops into the Ruhr as Germany, in an effort to suppress the Communist rebellion ongoing there, sparked by the Kapp Putsch, had sent its forces and the Freikorps into the region in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

Closer to home, the sad fate of Mrs. Roy Bergstrom, 18 years old, who was shot and killed at the entry of her lawyer's office as she went to see him about a divorce from her husband of just five months, was headline news in Cheyenne.  It had been headline news in Laramie the day prior.

Mrs. Bergstrom's name was Carrie.  Roy Bergstrom had served in World War One and was convicted of her murder in October. His defense argued that he was insane but the jury found the opposite, but also found that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment rather than receive the death penalty.  Something must have occurred thereafter as he was sent to the state mental hospital as a prisoner in any event.  In 1922 his mother asked that he be pardoned, which was opposed by the prosecutor of his case.  He was not, but he was transferred to an asylum in Wisconsin, where he was from, with a provision that he be returned to Wyoming to serve his sentence should he later recover his sanity.