The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1917, Page 1

i} } ' ‘ The: Weather FAIR AND COLDER THIRTY SEVENTH bh ab? i UNITED PRESS | / BISMARCK, NOETH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 19: JANUARY 19, 1917. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ASSOCIATED PRESS MORE PREY . RUTH LAW OFF TO. STUDY WAR PLANES ————~- te re s; Made “Hie illion Goes South With His Family To Spend Remainder of the Winter DECLARES BOYCOTT HELPED HIS CAUSE People Thought it ‘‘ Aristocrat ic’’ To Eat Hen Fruit, Hence Demand Increased (United Press) Chicago, Jan.:19.—James i. Wetz, egg king, has quit, He announced to- day that he will withdraw from the butter and egg board and with his fam- ily go south for the remainder of the winter. In quitting, he told this oe how he did tt: “I thank the housewives league for the success with which { manipulated prices, They sough: by proclamation to declare a boycott on exgs. By so doing, they made folk; think it was aristocratic to eat @ Everyone wanted to be an aristograt. 1 made a million by. boosting ‘pr They ought, to get a commission KOSITZAY WANTS AUDITOR'S OFFICE INVESTIGATED ABOLISHED B BOARD. Late this afternoon, Represent- ative A. H. Hagan introduced a bill abolishing. the board of re- * gents, the commissioner of educa- tion and providing, for a new board, to. be..compescd sof the governor, the superintendent of public instruction and one elector from each congressional district. State Auditor Kositzky today re- quested an investigation of the state auditor's office by the legislature, de- claring. that it is in a deplorable con- dition. He said no record had been kept of various important matters, that the filing system was inadequate and that there were many irregularities too nu- merous to mention. On motion of ‘Representative Wal- ton, the chair was authorized to ap- point a committee to make the inves- tigation. COMMISSISON HOLDS ACAINST | ° STORACE RATES If Rail Proposals Granted Inter- state Body Sees Heavy Pen- alties on Traffic COMMITEE 10 ADVISE CHANCE IN GILL NO. 44 Number of Amendments Adopted by State Affairs Will Be Re- ss ported Tomorrow CHARGES ON EXPORT IN CARS ALSO DISAPPROVED Suggestions Made by Trunk Lines Designed as Measure To Re- lieve Congestion (Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 19—The inter- state commerce commission today dis- approved proposals by railroads to double and quadruple storage charges on export grain at elevators in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Newport News and other Atlantic ports, where such grain is held longer than 60 days. New charges for the storage of ex- port grain in cars awaiting unloading at Baltimore and Philadelphia were also disapproved. Designed to Relieve Congestion. The proposals made by the trunk Miss Law, holder of the American |line railroads were designed as a distance record through her aeroplane | measure to relieve congestion at At- flight from Chicago to New York, is|lantic ports, and to insure through en on her way to Europe where she will] forcement of penalties a freer flow of study aeroplanes used by the Allies.|gtain through the elevators. She expects to return with new ideas} They were opposed by the Baltimore for adoption in this country. chamber of commerce, the Commer- cial exchange of Philadelphia and oth- er similar organizations, APPOINTMENTS A considerable proportion of the a f 1 a fi of grain shipped to Attorney General Langer Sheds for export to the warring nations of Europe would have Further Light on Status of Two Boards been affected. Aimed at Premature Shipments. Another intention of the railroads EMERGENCY CLAUSE ON BILLS WAS DEFECTIVE wag to’ prevent premature shipment of grain to the seaboard. without ex- port contracts or prior to making ar- Ttangeménts for ocean ‘trinsportation. The scarcity of ships-is said. to have resulted in choking elevators with grain, which could not be moved with- In a ipplemontary ¢ opinion hand down t afternoon, Attorney Gene: William Langer calls attention to an: other alleged discrepancy in connec- — tion with the appointment of the board of regents, and which he tends also holds, true with respec out long delay» iA large number of cars has also been withdrawn from traffic because of congestion at the the board of control. These conter- HOB DEMANDS tions are regarded generally as more to the point than ‘he previous, longer PRISONER CHARGED elevators, augmenting general ca) opinions, rendered. y and Toward shortage and tending indirectly to in- crease the cost of living. Jn its decision, the commission holds that the objects sought by the railroads should be obtained by other Under the new opinion, it is neld that the board of regents act did not become effective until July 1, 1915, be. cause no legal emergency clause w attached. Further, it is contended that confined — ther charged with murdering Preston Tan- and burning his home, The turn- could not be found and the mob} he had been accustomed to receiving jail, but no one was}|and he thought that tue league mem- EXPECT MORE FIREWORKS ON TEMPERANCE MEASURE Question of Final Passage of No. 39 Before House This : Afternoon Several important changes in house Dill No. 44, the proposed new consti- tution, will be recommended by the committee on state affairs when it re- ports this measure out. Amendments adopted by the state affairs committee this morning broad- en the barrier against duplicate office holding, to melude all’ federal, state and county officials receiving more than $300 per annum. * Provision is made that when the membership in the supreme court is increased to seven, five of that number must concur in any decision holding a law unconstitutional. More specific provision is made for state hail insurance, the legislature being empowered to levy a direct acreage tax to support. the scheme, as is proposed in‘ the constitutional amendment recently passed by the senate. The properties of charitable institu- tion are exempted from taxation, as in the preesnt constitution. This pro- vision was overlooked in the original draft of the new constitution. The legislature is given authority to place in operation the recall as it may deem advisable. » The referendum clatise. is amended to provide that petitiéusa must he filed within 90 days after the sessions ad- journs; the filing of such petition sus- pends the law referred pending elec: tion; an emergency clause is provid- ed to protect appropriations, and no Jaw passed by the’ people can be ve- toed by the goVernor’ nor repealed ‘or amended except by vote of the people. It is providéd’ that constitutional amendments fi submitted by the legislature or‘'{nitiated by the people the same as statutory law. Temperance Bill Up, The big show for this afternoon was the third reading of house bill No. 39, providing for a receipt and affidavit from the consignee to whom any com- mon carrier delivers liquor shipments. The consignee is required to certify that the liquor is for personal con- sumption, and his ‘certificate to be kept on file and open to public inspec- tion for two years in the office of the carrier, jem Tee Wants More Money. He says that the office must be re- organized and that more money will budget board. Representative Petersen offered as an amendment that every state of- fice be investigated. He made the rtion that all of these offices are hort” and that they have spent in 18 months money which should have es for 24 months. withdrawn. Wrangle on Mileage. Ten minutes later Representative Peterson made an emphatic protest because his mileage bi]] had been slic- ed in committee. He said that he put in his mileage at the same rate as Invited to Carnival. ° All of the house members today re- ceived handgoniely lithographed ‘invi- tations to the mid-winter carnival at St. Paul, froth January '27 to February 3. The invitations bear the personal signature of. Louis W. Hill and are very attractively gotten up. Many re- presentatives are’ in favor of taking their ten-days recess at a time which will enable as many as desire to at- tend the St. Paul festival. and demanded “Andr Sampson, who wet House members today are signing up for their mileage and per diem. Checks for 20 days’ services, aggre gating $11,300, will be distributed to morrow. 1,000 AMERICANS WANT TO GET OUT OF SYRIA (Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 19.—More than 1,000 Americans have petitioned Am- bassador Elkus at Constantinople to get them out of Syria and Palestine. The ambassador cabled the state de- partment today that the original esti- mate of 300 has more than trebled since the Turkish military authorities acceded to strong. representations by the state department that the Ameri- can citizens be allowed to leave Syria. 200 PINTS OF BOOZE SEIZED BY SHERIFF UNDER FEDERAL LAW During the two days Sheriff French has seized 200 pints of whisky consigned by the Dietrich-Kennedy Co., of St. Paul to eight Bismarck people. The shipments, in lots of 25.pints. were commandeered by the sheriff under the provision of the Webb-Kenyon act, being taken from the freight offtce of the Northern Pacific. They will be held subject to proof in court of owner- ship aiid that the 25-pint Tots were designed for personal-use by the par- ties to whom they were consigned, methods than the one proposed, which would place heavy penalties on traf- fic. even if the emergency is legal, ihe act did not‘receive the approval of the two-thirds majority required in ri -| bers were entitled to the same treat- ment as the old time legislators. Waxes Sarcastic. the house. Representative Rice declared that Th he attorney general alleges. both Governor Hanna’s nomination of if he took the mileage handed in by the men who were sent to the legis- the present board, two days before the governor approved the act creat- ing that board, and the senate’s con- firmation of that act, a day following the approval, were illegal and inef- fective acts. No appointments, Attorney General Langer holds, could legally be made lature to represent the farmers and took it back and showed it to the farmers there would be a lot of new faces in the house next session. “Another who came Gown to repre- sent the farmers,” he said. “padded: his mileage 460 miles. I recommend this man for manager of our state- until July 1, 1915, when they must of necessity have been interim appoirt- owned packing plant when we get one.” urt would be called and the prisoners y trial, the mob dispersed. SMITH TRIAL 1S TRANSFERRED 10 ments, subject to confirmation and ap- proval by the following general as- sembly. In connection with the board of con- trol, it is claimed the same condition exists. The nominations were made while the legislature was in session, after it had passed the bill, but the act extending the terms of the board to six years, and under which Gover- nor Hanna made his appointments, did not become effective until July 1. RED TAPE HALTS RESCUE PARTY (United Press). San Diego, Jan. 19—The question of responsibility for the week’s delay in starting aviators to search Lower California for the missing aviators, Lieut. Bishop and Lieut. Robertson, who disappeared on.January 10, caus- ed an investigation to be started here today. Col. Glassford, in charge of ttie avia- tion school, in keeping with what he said was his orders against allowing any aviators to cross the border, for several days refused to send men to search for the missing Americans. On January 14, four days after the men disappeared, Major Lahm, secretary to Glassford, issued this statement: “We have no authority to grant per- mission to cross into Mexico. Our or- ders against this border crossing, is- sued sometime ago, have not been res- cinded, amd to send men across the border for any reason would be a at rect violation of our orders.” SYRIA GRIPPED BY STARVATION AND SUICIDES (Associated Press.) Rome (via Paris) Jan. 19.—Five hundred and ten thousand prisoners have died from starvation in Syria, ac- cording to information received by the Corrirer d'Italia. Lebanon is said to have suffered Particularly, while at Beirut inhabit- ants are said to have been picked up on the streets, dying of hunger. The number of suicides is increas- ing to appaling proportions. Similar horrors are reported as oc- curring in Palestine and other parts of the interior inhabited by Chris- tians. KENSAL EDITOR HERE. W. T. Wasson, editor of the Kensal Progress, which in August took over the Kensal Journal, arid is now one of the string of farm weeklies, has a clerkship in several of the different committees at this session of the leg- islature. : i the trial of charged with blowing » Ball to atoms, by placing a charge of dynamite under his shack, was today transferred to Man- dan on an application for a change of venue. for the defendant claimed sentiment was strong against their client in this section. The date of the trial at Mandan has not been set. WILSON WILL CONTINUE "TO SOUND BELLIGERENTS (United Press) Washington, Jan. 19.—There is no immediate prospect of President Wil- son making another peace move im- mediately. While awaiting developments, he is unwilling to take any move that would appear to belligerents as entering their quarrel. ‘The official view in Washington to- day was that the president, after read- ing the Balfour message to America, ‘would continue sounding the belliger- ents on peace. hee be necessary than is allowed by the} NINE AMERICANS ON SHIP TAKEN BY SEA ROVER All Reported Safe by Consul at South American Port in Dis- patches Received Today SEVERAL CRAFTS TAKEN BEFORE DECEMBES 12 Prize Crew and 440 Persons Plac- ed on Yarrowdale Have Not Been Heard From (Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 19.—Nine Ameri- cans were among the ¢rew of the British ship, St. Theodore, taken by the German raider, and landed with other survivors at Pernambuco by the Japanese ship Hudson Maru. Consul Stewart today reported that they were safo and that so far as reported no other Americans were on the other ships. The state department today made public the following cable from the consul, dated January 18 and received this morning: ‘None Killed. “Hudson Maru brought 237 St. The- odore’s crew. The list shows Amert- cans: ‘Ben Stevens, Ryol Gregory, ‘Frank Magee, David Johnson, E. Judy, all colored, and Fred Smith, Harry Picot and Guy Vondoren. The Mineah shows Charles Jones. There were no Americans on other vessels named. All are safe here. “The survivors state that the Yar- GERMAN SOCIALIST GETS JAIL TERM KAR A y - L UGBNECHT After court-martial, Liebknecht, Ger- man socialist leader, has tenced to four and a half years hard labor and expulsion from the bar for speeches and articles authorities call- ed “unpatriotic.” been sen- LEAK PROBE HALTS ALL LEGISLATION WILSON USES LAS President Is Anxious To Avoid’ an Extra Session of Congress at This Time rowdale, Georgic, Mt. Temple, Vol-| SECOND WOMAN NAMED IN STOCK INQUIRY) taire, Snowden Range, King Céorge, one English schooner, and one Nor- wegian boat were captured up.to De- cember 12, when a prize crew. and 440 Washington, Jan. 19.—P! resident were placed on the Yarrowdale and] Wilson wants congress to hurry, That have not been heard of since.” Another dispatch from Mr. dated J January 17, says: tewart, he is applying the lash to prevent an nuary 16, and received here|€xtra session was the opinion of con- gressmen today. Congressmen gener- “Crews. of. St. Theodore, Dramatist,|ally are glad he has put tho Jash ‘anto Hadnorshire, Minieh, Nentherboyhall, and Asnieros arrived today. al Americans on board reported no lives lost.” Consul Stewart's als of the play. That the leak investigation is de- tracting too much from the pursuit of "st dispatch, dat-|other more important legislation was ; received at the|the statement of administration men. tment January 17, at 8:40]1t seemed practically certain that an epartment have}extra session would be held, if the stated both on that day and the day} president's program ‘is going through. following they had absolutely no infor- It didn’t seem possible today that the mation from their representatives in| president's program can be carried out South America on the raider. The state department said that the message telling of the Americans be- ing injured by the raider came from Consul Stewart at Pernambuco, The department said that it did not know if any further inquiries had been made, but these inquiries would doubt- less be made. | TODAY’S WAR SUMMARY | | tic (Associated Press.) Heavy fighting is still in progress on the Rumanian front, with the Rus- sians and Rumanians apparently more than holding their own. Elsewhere in the field, litary operations have seen few activities of importance. Indications are not lacking that the present comparatively pacific condi- tions on the Franco-Belgian front are not likely to endure long, and in this connection the extreme southern sec- tion of the line is being closely watch- ed. The French have occupied a consid- erable. section of Alsace, the fighting line touching the Swiss border, be- tween ‘Belfort and Basel. Concentra- tion of masses of German _ troops across the line from Basel has re- cently been reported in Swiss newspa- pers and a belief is said to exist in Switzerland that the Germans contem- plate an offensive with the object of treeing Alsace of the invaders. The town of Cona on the railroad line which virtually parallels a con- siderable section of the ‘Moldavian frontier, has been under bombardment by the Teutonic heavy artillery, the war office announced today. 1 The capture of two German field posts in the Baranovici region on the Russian front, and attacks by the Ger- mans near Beorow, east of Lemberg. in Galicia, are reported in the Russian war office statement. RUSSIANS CLAIM 4901000 PRISONERS (United Press) Petrograd, Jan. 19—Four hundred twenty thousand soldiers and 8,770 officers were captured from Teutons by the Russians during 1916, figures printed by the Service Journal, in re- viewing the war for the last 12 months, showed today. In addition, the Rus- sian forces took 525 cannon, 1,161 ma- chine guns and 421 mortars. Of this booty, and men, 80 per cent was cap- tured from General Brusiloff in three months’ operations on a front of 400, miles, the journal said. BOOST PRICES OF CIGARETTES. (Associated Press) New York, Jan. 19.—Increased pric- es on cigarettes were announced here ion without the extra session. Untermeyer Protests, A telegram from Samuel Untermey- e. as her counsel. Miller, Second Woman. The name of the second woman of er, protesting against the use of his name as though he had been seeking a “job”, read to the house by Repre- sentative Fitzgerald, precipitated a new discussion of the leak inquiry to- day. The telegram declared Unter- meyer did not want the place, and could accept it only at a great sacri- Representative sota, objected to the tone of the mes- sage, which he said reflected on the house.” Minne- mystery in the note leak inquiry was slated for revelation on Monday, when Mrs. Viscounti, first woman of mystery, will appear before the committee with Sherman Whipple, a Boston attorney, Her story that a news- paperman worked as agent between Secretary Tumulty and Wall Street gamblers will be probed. Much sen- sation is expected, shapes up with the rumors. WORST SAYS if the testimony SURVEY REPORT WONT WORK of the nation: the convention, bit which he plans to introduce in the s ature making it “the duty ting board of the North Itural college to provide put the full educational pntemplated in the Federal closing day's 1 and outlined a ig the land grant by the state of condition grant and subsequent relative acts also were cited as binding. Dr, Ladd declared that the survey it without violating the act's provis- for engineering and courses, now sought to be barred. Condemnation by resolution of the government’s survey of North Dako- ‘ta’s educational institutions and re- commendation by resolution that a ‘bill should be passed at the present session of the state legislature, pre- scribing the subjects which should be taught at the North Dakota Agricul- tural college, at Fargo, were features of the closing day of the Tri-State {Grain Growers convention in this city today. cultural The election of officers takes place late this afternoon, and C. B. Waldron, HELE ROVER: IS THE MOEWE; TAKE MOVIES German Officials Preserve Sink- ing of Merchantmen Upon Films for Record CRAFTS WERE GIVEN PLENTY OF WARNING Greatest Sea Hunt in History Now on in the South At. lantic CHASED BY SUBMARINE. (United Press.) ‘Portland, Me., Jan. 19.—Bearing shell marks and with two seamen aboard injured, the steamer, Palm Branch, a freighter, arrived here. today and her crew told the ste- ty of their 40-minute chase by a German submarine. Captain Malling, coming here from Car-, diff, id that a submarine sud- denly approached within few hundred yards, Malling steamed up, and the submarine followed. . Fifteen of the 50 shots fired by” the submersible took effect, but one below the water line. Two. seamen were injured in the bom. Four ieoeats betty shot away. Suddenly, tl le submerged, probably ‘b be. cause of the presence of armed vessels, and the freighter pro- ceeded here. By CHARLES P. STEWART (United Press Correspondent) (Copyright 1917 by the United Press.) Buenos Aires, Jan. 19.—The German commerce raider was still at large to- day and proved to have increased its toll by two more Entente Allied ves- sels, Indications are that the vessel may not be alone. It is supposed that ‘she hag. transferred two or more of her victlins ‘to, raiders and that they are ‘out on similar missions. Great Sea Hunt. In the meantime, one of the great- est sea hunts in history is being made for the raider, or raiders. British, French and Japanese cruisers seek to drive the raiders into a corner and there destroy them. From the loss of the Radnorshire, one of the victims of the raider, it was learned today that the Germans took movies of the destruction of sev- eral of the ships that they destroyed. May be the Moewe. That the raider is the Moewe of previous raiding fame, seemed almost certain today. Survivors questionéd at Pernambuco today almost complet- ed confirmation of the report from Rio de Janiero that the Yarrowdale had arrived at St. Vincent and had stated that the raider was the Moewe. How- ever, the original raider has by this time doubtless armed several of her victims, and transformed them into raiders, . One of the most graphic descriptions of the activity of the raider was tol any in the loss of the Radnorshire, w! follows: Sightea a Stranger, “On the night of January 7,¢a@u o'clock, after we had left Pi we sighted a stranger in: We were running without | because we had been wal presence of the raider. our course, and attemipted stranger. But appatently: seen. Soon afterward peared in our bear down upon 3 boilers and they, ed impossible soon overhauled oat of ten knots coaipar Plenty. of > six German off- They seised our took our food. of the ship, 2:45 a. m., on January 8, our ship sank. Qthers Were Sunk. “On January 9, I saw two ships sunk, and on January 10 I saw oRe ship sunk. In each case, the proceed- ing was identical. When the sinking occurred in the daylight, a Germen camera man on the deck of the raider would calmly click away a record of the sinking. When we met the steam- er Hudson Maru, all the survivors were transferred to her,. except the coolies. Then we were dispatched to Pernambuco with barely enough wat- er and sea biscuits to Jast us through. the voyage.” REPORTS CLAIM RAIDER : 18 OPERATING UNASSISTED New York, Jan. 19.—Notwithstand- ing the known British warship, of which are hurrying into south lantic waters in search of the Germen commerce raider, which sank the Vel- taire, the Georgic and other Eateats vessels, increased apprehension was felt in marine circles today, owing te undenied credits which the shipping world in general has placed om over. night reports that the black raider, lieved to be the famous. -Mogt unessisted. the United C: Stores Co.,|of the State Agricultural college, will|not operating today by the ited Cigar. 8 | be re-|t0 and the Tobacco Products Corpora-) be tion. | fuses to serve another