The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1916, Page 1

A . away. | The Weather ‘Fair and Warmer. THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 284 ASSOCIATED PRESS LUNNON TOWN” TOPSY TURVY; NO WHITE Wat Everybody Mat Go Home In Dark and Timid Hug the Firesides WAR GREAT LEVELLER OF THE SEXES “Colonel's Lady’’ and Judy 0’- Grady’? Rub Elbows Most Democratically By MARGARET MASON. (Written for the United Press). Oh! London’s tépsy turvy town They dim the lights when night comes down, i The‘theaters but two nights play And give a daily matinee, And most the women that you meet Have all turned workmen in the street. The rich’ walk while the poor ride out. "ant truly things are turned about. London, Nov. . 24. —If you are afraid to go home in the dark these days, you’d better not venture out after tea time in London these days or rather nights. You feel as if you had been transported back into the medieval or more fittingly the dark ages when you step blinking like an owl into the murky dimly lighted thorough- fares. LY 1 for one-am glad that most of the theaters give daily matinees and but two night performances a week, It is far from a cozy thing after the play to be all alone in London in the dark and on the outside of a taxi looking in with absolutely no hope of being on the inside looking out. Petro). High. .. The price of petro) is so high and the chauffeurs are’ so ‘scarce’ that taxis at nightfall. -become as fleeting and elusive as -bats jawing. ‘They whizz by-you deaf .to your shouts and Dlind to your tears.: Taxi drivers are now. known. as “haughties” so fastidious and_parti- cular have they become<about ‘their fares, If they size. you: up ‘and like your looks even then you mustn’t be too optimistic. They may. not like your destination and refuse to, take you after all. Indeed so near perfec- tion do you have to be in appearance and address that it is really simpler and safer to begin walking right There are not many women driving taxis yet but they are running ele- vators, acting as conductors on buss- es, cleaning streets, working in rail- way yards, running delivery wagons and working in munition factories. It is a curious thing that in all the manual, strenuous and more virile work heretofore done by the men the women now excel, but those trying to replace the men in the finer seem- ingly more feminine arts are of cook- ing, tailoring and .hairdressing . are but sorry substitutes for the sterner sex. War, A Leveller. As a leveller of sexes and classes the war is doing wonders that vie with its horrors ,for a balancing’ ré- sult. Women are coming into ‘their. own as independent wage earners and the “Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady” are rubbing teltipws.’ in the hospitals and ‘munftton‘fa¢tories. The rich and titled are working side by side with the poor and lowly. The pampered pets have given up their motors so the poor wounded Tommies may ride and after the theater they too are forced often to hotfot it home to the ancestral manse since the haughties are no respectors of either birth or breeding. Yes times are dark and streets are dark in London, but there are bright spots. For though its Zepps that make London dark, London makes light of Zepps. Sometimes they make them alight and sometimes they make a light of them. When word arrives that Zepps are on the way there is some zest and thrill in staying up all night and upon a roof to glimpse a huge flaming mass, pointed out by the silver fingers of the searchlights, that falls from the sky like a -Gargantuan skyrocket set off by an intrepid young British airman. Airships Blazing. But bringing airships blazing out of the clouds and women filling bombs instead of nursing bottles and pedestrians blundering around like moles in the Stygian streets are but - commonplace. When it comes to turning all the clocks up an hour for summer and now back again an hour for the win- ter season then it does seem going ‘a bit too far. It’s so readly unsettir’s for one’s social engagements don’t you know, and for the life of her, Lady Diana can’t remember whether her date with Lord Percy is at five o'clock winter time or summer time. Verily tempting Fate is as nothing to juggling Time. The two men whom it took to per-| sonally adjust Big Ben’s hands across his startled face undoubtedly felt the truth of this original aphorism, the like of which I always have on tap on time. “TAm Innocent! fi “Cries Woman Named In M’Daniel Case! 7 “HATTIE AND I WERE CHUMS AND CONFIDANTS,”’ MAR KRUCKER TELLS TRIBUNE READERS; ARE TEARING MY CHARACTER TO PIECES; MY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.” St. Joseph, Mo,’Nov. 24.—“The DAG. “GOSSIPS LIFE woman in the case”’—the woman thrust into the Mepaniel case-by the charges of McDaniel’s prosecutors— “We were together almost every asserts she is entirely innocent; just as McDaniel himself. the prosecuting attorney on trial for the murder of BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916 UNITED PRESS FLOPERS TOOK | VACATION’ TA IMESTOWK Returned Yesterday Only to Slip \ Into Warrant Charging Mar- quette With: Vith' Kidnapping his wife, maintains his guiltlessness! ATMOSPHERE OF DRAMATIC and ‘denies that Mrs. McDaniel ever threatened divorce proceedings. The woman is Mrs. Dagmar Kruck- er, divorced wife of a small-salaried clerk, herself a statuesque, handsome woman, well dressed, and the mother of a 13-year-old girl in school. At her father’s home Mrs. Krucker dictated this statement to me, that The Tribune readers might know her side of the tangled tale of tragedy: “L have lived all my life here in St. Joseph; Everyone knows me. Every- otie knows my life as it was lived in childhood, in girlhood, in womanhood. My life speaks for itself. ‘There are no hidden chapters in my life. Gossips are tearing my char- acter to pieces; they say cruel things about me. One innocent woman has been murdered; another woman's lite is being ruined by suspicion and ‘slander, “No one feels more deeply than 1’ about this terrible tragedy! “I knew ‘Hattie Moss—Mrs. iel—since our high school days. were chums then and confidants, were chums and confidants at time of her death last July. “After we both married we were neighbors; our children played _ te- gether, My little Margaret and her daughter Helen sire the same seat in school today. Our husbands are friends, and brother. Elks and brother Shriners. day. We belonged MoDan- We we the to the same clubs; we shared the same pleasure. “Hattie Moss was the most stra ever knew. She would not pretend friend. “Now they say she was jealous of me—that J ghtforward,’ courageous woman J friendship for me if she was not my her had wrecked home; they link my name everyday with this tragedy. “Tam, innocent! “In the name of my baby girl, friend!” I am _ innocent of wronging my FROM WARFARE OF SUBMARINE One Hundred and Fifty Steamers Have Been Sent to the Bot- tom FOOD EMBARGO CAUSES | BITTERNESS IN GERMANY @ pokes. ats Christiania, Norway, Nov. 24.—Nor- way, with the third largest mercantile marine in the world, has suffered se- vere losses. Up to date they have totaled: One hundred and fifty steamers of 235,900 tons, insured by the: “War Insurance association” for $25,000,000; sailing ships aggregating 50,000 tons, and insu vi for $1,888,090, loaded with and many sailing 1 lumber and pit props for England, which were not insured. One hun- dred and fifty’ sailors have lost their fives, 50 of them by Gerthan torpe- does from submarines and the others when ships have been destroyed by mines. besides these, many oats have been taken by belligerents and confiscated after prize court proceed- ings. Submarine Warfare. Germany, after a few months’ rest(} suddenly started a submarine warfare against Norwegian ships last Septe-m ber much sharper and more merciless than ever before—exposing the lives of many sailors to the dangers of the Arctic stors. At the same time, it is declared, a host#le campaign against Norway was launched in the German press, all of which the Nor- wegian people have been unable to understand. , The more Norway has tried to preserve its neutrality, the ! though they (Continued on Page Three.) ARSON TE FIRST: COUNTY SEAT-F GRANT Carson will be the county seat of Grant, for the next two years, at least. At 3 o'clock this afternoon, Gover- nor L. E. Hanna announced the ap- pointment of the following commis- sioners for Grant: John D. Thomp- son, Almont; Thomas E. McDowell, arson; William D. Wade, of Wade. McDowell and Thomson are mem- bers of the Carson slate presented at the hearing Wednesday. Wade is a candidate who will ‘be acceptable to all parts of the county. The naming of a majority of Carson men means that Carson will be selected as the county seat, it is thought. It was reported this afternoon there was no probability of injunction pro- ceedings ADANSON LAW IS FOOTBALL 24.—The Am- Baltimore, Md.,. Nov. jerican Federation of Labor used the Adamson Eight-Hour bill as the foot- ball to arouse a storm of discussion on the floor of the convention today. Socialist members of the body led the arguments demanding an eight-hour day and better working conditions, al- uniformly insisted that it come through labor organization {channels ratehr than legislation. The contended that to delegate these issues to congress and state leg- islatures will destroy the efficiency of the unions and permit the entrance of the seeds of dissolution of the Am- erican Federation of Labor. Babies Wasted On Altar Of Foolish Conventions Declares College Professor Chicago, Noy. 24.—-Ameriea wastes babies and can't afford it. Professor James L. Tufts of the University of Chicago made the charge ih a speech to the reform department of the Chi- cago Women’s club. “I am talking about the babies of unmarried mothers,” he said. “Grave economic waste results from denying justice and a legal status to such ‘ba- ‘ties. ‘When we refuse them a fair chance the loss is ours as much~as theirs. We handicap them so that they do not grow up to become the useful ¢itizens that we need. What- ever may be thought of the ethical aspect of. the problem we ought to take ‘better care of such babies for the sake of the country.” Dr."\Lucy Waite spoke of the need of legislation and id the bill to ‘be presented to the legislature does not contain the word “illegitimate.” “The dill,” she said, “provides that a child- birth constitutes a marriage unless one of the parties is already married. Really, there is no such thing ag an illegitimate child. There may be ille- gitimate parents, but every ‘child that comes into the world has legal rights. Here in Illinois we have the worst law in the world. It provides that a man can settle with the mother of his infant by paying her $550 within ten ears after its birth.” IMPULSES PERVADES OFFICE Girl Tells Story to State's Attor- ney—Mother and Daughter Embrace Each Other An atmosphere of of digintatie im- pulses gripped the office, of States At- torney Berndt — this morning, when Miss Annie Balzer, 15-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and -Mrs,-‘Mi¢hael balzer of this city, who elo avith Albert ‘E, Marquette, married, Jgst Saturday evening, ran to the armsO6f her moth- er as Sheriff French led Mer into the office, and unfolded a ,story heavily precipitated with tea?s of her “va- cation” spent in Jamestomp. Returned to City Yesterday. Albert FE. Marquette, son of A. Marquette, proprietor of the Bismarck Steam. Jaundry, who made eyes at etty little mangling girl in ‘s place of business which gave impetus to the elopement, returned to Bismarck yesterday afternoon with the girl on advice from~the boy's mother. The mother and son had communicated with each other last Wednesday from Jamestown, but this information was not conveyed to the sheriff's department. Slips Into the Wareant. With his return, Marquregte slipped into a warrant charging hit with kid- napping. He was arrested at his home with the girl late yesterday afternoon. Both were taken to the county jail. Marquette will be ae before Judge Dolan some ‘ti et to an swer the charge. The ‘gffl was taken before States Attorney Berndt shortly ‘before 10 o'clock this morning. In the office were the mother, ‘the father and another, relative. Mother and daughter hugged each other for fully five-minutes; when-the sonagation was ordered, that the girl’ could tell her story to the attorney. Asked Her to Take Vacation. “He just asked me to take’a vaca- tion to Jamestown and not to tell mo- ther,” w the pretacing statement to the gi story “Yes, we had planned it for a week and another boy and girl were to go: with us. he was married ‘and had a wife and two children, but he always told me VILLA BATTLES TO RECAIN HOLD IN ThE NORTH) Bandit Chief Attacks Chihuahpa Four Times, But is Reyplsed - GEN. TREVINO FACES . AMMUNITION SHORTAGE Battle Is Still in Progress for Pos- session of Important City El Paso. Nov. 24—Villa is making a supreme effort to rehabilitate him- self in Northern Mexied and from there direct*a fresh drive against: the unstable government of Carranza. The battle for the possession of Chihuahua, which began at 11 a, m yesterday morning, did not sift by the military censors until late.in the afternoon. It is still in progress and undecided. Four Villa attacks were repulsed, but General Trevino, Car- ranza’s leader, is faced with ammuni- tion shortage and epects a renewal of Villa's attacks later. Villistas, fighting fiercely, reattack- ed Chihuahua City from the southern and western sides this morning. At 10 o'clock a. m. the fighting was pro- gressing. ‘Four thousand ‘bandits simultaneously attacked the city. It is believed that Villa has penetrated the outskirts of the city. STRANGE INSCRIPTION. Denton, Tex., Nov. 24.—A sparrow hawk, bearing a band on its leg with the inscription -P. Tripp, South Lake, S. D.-was killed by Ruel Brek here this afternoon. BILLION AND HALE YEARLY. TO RUN ROADS Washington, Nov. 24.—A billion and I knew ja half dollars annually was necessary for the operation of the railways in this country for ten” years, Alfred he didn't live with her and that he was going to get! a divorce.” * She Gets Rooms in Hotel. The young girl, who told the states attorney that she would be 16 years old on February 4, 1917, said she left here with Marquette on No. 2 of Sat- urday evening, that they arrived in Jamestown about 10:45 o'clock that evening, went to a dairy lunch and then to a hotel “on the left side~ot the street going north.” She regis- tered as Annie Balzer and he as Al- bert Marquette, according to her sto- ry, she being given room No. 4. She said she paid cents for the room each day and that they purchased their tickets on the train in going to Jamestown. Questioned About Ring. States Attorney Berndt questioned the young girl concerning a wrist watch and ring. She declared that she “found the ring,” but when told to tell the, truth, admitted that he had given it to her about two or three weeks ago, and the bracelet watch, last Saturday before leaving for Jamestown. Questioned sternly and closely on her actions in Jamestown since last Saturday night, the girl emphatic that there was no intimacy between the two. She said he was going to take work on the sewer there and that she had been promised a_ job to begin wadtk today, but both decided to return ‘to Bismarck after Mar- quete had talked with his mother over the telephone last Wednesday. Didn’t Know Warrant Was Out. “Did you know that a warrant was out for the arrest of Marquette?” ask- ed the states attorney, to which the girl answered in the negative, stating that they had inquired for a Eismarck paper, but could not get one. “T didn't want to go home, I wanted to stay and go to work,” said the girl “and I didn’t know we were wanted until told so at Marquetie’s home.” She told the attorney that she “was afraid” to go to her home after ar- riving in Bismarck and that Mar- quette had telephoned to some place (the name of which she did not re- member). in the hope of getting her board and room. A Little Personal Advice. “Suppose,” said the attorney, (Continued on Page Three) “ho SHOPPING 24” Days CHRISTMAS Thom told the advisory committee on ‘ailways investigation here this af- ternoon. HG DEAL BY FOUITY FIRM Fargo, XN. D., Nov. 24.—The Lidger- wood Milling company property, in- eluding the flour mill and the light plant, was sold today to the Equity society corporation for $75,000, The daily capacjty of the mill is 250 bar- rels, The Equity men are now form- ing a company to operate it. SOME RAIL HEADS WILLING TO LEAVE ISSUE TO WILSON Washington, Nov. 24.—Several rail- way officials have assured President Wilson that they will give him full rein in adjusting the Adamson law controversy. Some of the carriers believe that they can depend upon Wilson to arrive at an equitable set- tlement. MUST RETURN ALL REFRIGERATOR CARS Washington, Nov. 24.—To prevent a threatened car shortage, all rail- roads have been ordered by the Inter- state Commerce commission to re- turn home all fruit and refrigerator cars. Teutons Deal sacn OR Crashing FIVE cENTS Blows Survivor Of Custer’s Last Raid Bodriguez, at 66, has returned to quiet farm life near Atlanta, Ga. He is a survivor of Custer’s band, was in Paris when that city was besieged in 1871, has seen every country in Europe, been six. months in Greenland during the search for Franklin, the explorer, and has been in China and Japan. FRANCIS JOSEPHS BODY LIES IN STATE AT ROYAL PALACE Clasped Rosary Which He Always Used When &t@lis Devo- tions BERLIN PAPERS APPEAR’- WITH BLACK BORDERS LAST FAREWELL. Lontion, Nov. 24.—Francis Jos- eph’s last farewell message con- tained in his will was received from Vienna today. It said: “\ bid farewell my beloved peo- ple who loyally loved me in hap- ‘py days and in times of distre May my people continue the same attitude towards my successor. Remember, the army and navy with loyalty and love.” Vienna, Nov. 24.—In the working room of the Schoebrunn Palace from which, for 68 years, he ruled Austria- Hungary’s destinies, lies the body of Emperor Francis Joseph. He lay in state and in his hands was the silver and pearl rosary which the dead mon- arch always used through his life, Great candles stood at the corner of the casket. His favorite flowers, lillies of the valley, were massed on every side wort the bier. DIAMONDS TO. VALUE $15,000 TAKEN TN HAUL Arkansas City, Kan., Nov. 24,.—Clar- ence Mogle, a clerk in the McDowell jewelry store was alone in the shop today, when bandits entered, forced him into the safe, and escaped with $15,000 worth of diamonds. STOLE $10,000 OF PLATINUM; ARRESTED Milwaukee, Nov 24—Henry Arbutle, 19, wanted on a charge of larceny of $10,000 worth of platinum from the International Dye Works, where he was employed as a chemist at $10,000 a year, was captured in New York City. Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Dies Today At London; Famous Gun Inventor London, Nov. vens Maxim, inventor of guns, died here this morning. He was scientist and inventor fo many elec- trical appliances, as well as munitions of war. He was born in Sangerville, Me. in 1846, but for many years sided in London. He of Hudson Maxim, the famous Amer- ican inventor, who made smokeless powder and invented the famous si- lencer. The inventions of Hudson's broth- 24.—-Sir Hiram Ste: er, Hiram, ran along the same lines and for years there had been a bitter estrangement between the two men, 2 temeus legal means often being resorted to. Most of the controversy was over the Briority of inventions. Hiram invented the self-regulati current machines; “Cordite,” a smoke- less powder, Maxim gun; automatic tem of firearms and many other munitions of war. He was knighted by Queen Victo- tia_in 1901. Of late years he devot- ed much of his time to perfecting aerial navigation, AINACE nH ALL LINES IN BALKAN FRONT ‘Germans Capture ~ Important Cities in Rumania, Leading , to Bucharest - 4 FALKENHAYN NEARING pe THE ALT VALLEY Tremendous Attacks | on West Front Broken by the Ger. * —_— : Berlin, Nov. 24.—Tremendous gains ‘|have been made by the Teutons in the Balkan campaign within the last 24 hours. Falkenhayn’s forces are approaching the Alt valley and the Germans have captured Orsova, Tur nu and Severin. An attempt now is being made to cross. the Danube through Zimicea, but the outcome of the endeavor is not known yet. Important advances have been made in the Dobrudja. Tassul has been reached and at points the troops. are crossing Karlal. Paris dispatches state that the Al- lies are progressing west of Monastir and that a fierce battle is in prog- tess, The Italians under General Sar- rial have reached Nexoipoli. On the west front in Francé the +; Teutons checked three fierce attacks of the Allies. French surprise attacks upon the German lines in Alsace were partially successtul, «Several Germans . were captured and four counter attacks were repulsed by the French. Official Serbian statements - declare that the Allies have recovered 200 siuare mifes from the Teutons-in Ser- ia, Petrograd dispatches. state that General Trepof! has been appointed premier and the present premier has, become grand chamberlain. ANOTHRER HOSPITAL SHIP. . 18,8UNK IN AEGEAN SBA London, Nov. 24—(OMiclaly—The British hospital ship, Braimer Castle, homeward bound, from Salontki ta’ Malta, was sunk by a mine or torpedo in the Mixoni channel of the Aegean sea today. All abord were saved, OFFICIALS ADMIT STRAIN IN GERMAN SUB SITUATION Washington, Nov. 24.—Officials ad- mit that German-American relations are strained. The recent submarine incident, they declare, is fraught with possibilities of. trouble, ‘but a. crisis has not been reached. HEAVY WIND OVER LAKE Detroit, Nov. iba, ‘tanging in velocity from more than 30.miles an hour at Saginaw to 68 miles an hour at Buffalo, have delayed ship- ping. 35,000 CARS. ARE ORDERED Chicago, Nov. 24.—Railroads of the United States,. to meet the terrific pressure of business, have recently placed orders with equipment build- ers for 35,000 freight cars. This is to prevent a recurrence of car short- age which some sections of the coun- try is experiencing. These big orders in the face of adverse circumstances cannot be de- livered for a year and the freight cars will cost 40 per cent above the nor- mal. The orders were ‘taken. only with the understanding that delivery would be slow. CONFER ON EIGHT g HOUR LITIGATION Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 24—The hearing before Judge Pollock im the United Btates district court on in- junction suit by the Santa Fe agaimst the Adamson eight-hour :bill was postponed, awaiting the outcome of 2 conference at Kansas City between railway officials and government rep- resentatives. Although the attorneys refused statements, it is believed certain that they will agree that the . Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf appeal should go to the supreme court. MINERS TO RETURN TO WORK, Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 24.—Fitteen thousand miners in southern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia; it was unexpectedly announced today, will start work tomorrow, when the time limit in the wage dispute ends, COLE IN THE CITY. E. T. Cole, owner of the Metropole we hotel of Fargo, and prominent state Democrat elected to the house, arriv- ed in the city last evening and is spending the day with friends, yee