The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1917, Page 1

he ad ‘THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 10 105 Fie Span __BISMAROK, NORTH ‘DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1917. Nye Foy baa | art SO CK TRIBUNE See BRITISH PIERCE OPPY LINE NEW ANGLE IN DUNN MURDER CASE VISIBLE Police of Pacific Coast Cities Ask- ed to Locate Joe Reden- baugh, a Criminal BELIEVED HE MISLED MISSING OFFICER CONNERY Hunted Man Said to Have Had $10,000 Thought Paid Him for Killing Mrs. Dunn ‘St. Paul, May vA lice of the Pa citle coast, oitiés Were: dakted : today to help in-finding Joe R.-Eddie, Red- cnbaugh, a criminal, wanted here in connection with the marcer ‘of Mrs. Alice M, Dunn, and the disappearance of George Connery, a Minneapolis policeman, Left With $10,000. According to Chief O’Connor, Red- enbaugh. and a friend.:named Brent Glascock, left Kansas City a, few days ago for the west Hmowine they were being watched. Redenbaugh had * $10,000 which O'Connor said was paid ‘nim for his part in the killing of Mrs. Dunn. May Have Killed Connery. Arrested for speeding, Redenbaugh is believed to have kidnapped Con- rery who was taking him to the po- lice station, killed the policeman, and hid the body rather than run chances of being recognized as he has a po- lice record. Chief of Police J. J. O'Connor de- clared that the two men connected with the mysterious disappearance of Traffic Patrolman George Connery of Minneapolis Tuesday, »April 24, are connected .with the killing of Mrs. Frank J. Dunn, at the home of her parents in this city early Thursday morning. The police gained this information from two men placed under arrest and ‘held as material witnesses in connection with the case: Stole Car at La. Crosse. According to ‘the’ police records, the| men who kidnapped Connery, all trace of whom haa been lost, came here from: some place in the east. The trail of ‘the men was found near La Crosse, where they aro alleged to have stolen 4 car in Which they were rding when arrested in Minneapolis for speeding, “Connery was entering the car which started in the direc- tion of a. police station. A week's search by..the police of both St. Paul and Minneapolis hag failed to uncov- er a tangible trace of what became of the three men until tonight. Following the disclosures made to- night by the latest informants, the police say the disappearance of ‘Connery and the killing of Mrs. Dunn will be solved by the arrest of the two men, known to ‘have been in the speeding automobile, which Con- nery stopped as it whirled past him in Minneapolis. Has.a Long Record. EF The’ polite say, that the man driv- ing the ce Whe, ar arrested 1 in St. Paul ear! cs fy, i speeding and sare. ae day, has. a long recor ed in Nebras- ka for a a ie ‘ibbery ee ited in February.. He is known. to, the ‘po- lice as Joe Redenbaugh, and is said to live at Kansas City. The identity ‘of the: man riding with him :in’ the car is being ‘care- fully guarded. The police: admit that Redenbaugh is believe to be the gunmaf who: entered the McQuil- lan home“ata"‘shét Mrs; Dunn, The trip td’ M‘tinéapolis, which caused the arrest of te men by Con- nery was made, according to the po- lice, to communicate with someone, who would advise if the life of Mrs. Cunn should be taken, Finger Print Evidence. Late tonight the police said that the finger prints on a window that was used by the gunman to enter the McQuillan home the night Mrs. Dunn was killed. tally exactly with those of Redenbaugh. Mrs. F. E. Brown, hitherto known as Madame D., in a statement given out by the police, corroborated the story told by her former husband, Al Brown, and S. C. Ferdig of Montana, of a plot for the murder of Mrs. Alice McQuillan Dunn, which pre- ceeded the actual killing of Mrs. Dunn by nearly two years. Ferdig, sne said, told her of the plot first and later Brown, then her husband, admitted it. Mrs. Brown said she was too ter- Tified to reveal the ‘alleged plot, though now she regretted not having done so. She was divorced from Brown in Roundup, Mont., in October 1915, she said. ‘Feank J. Dunn, his attorney said, would make no attempt to be. re- leased from jail, where he has been held since tie killing, Brown and Ferdig, the police explained, while held under close surveillance, techni- cally are not under arrest. INDIAN UPRISING IN SOUTH AMERICA Lima, Peru, May 4.—An Indian up- rising is ‘iq progress in the Sanledis. region, the gold mining district near the Bolimiag, berdeto, Many . owners of estates and empteyys. have been killed. : CHINA, NEAR WAR WITH GERMANY, HAS ARMY OF HALF MILLION, WEAK NAVY AKD LIFT. MONEY TOW LIFE BOATS — SEDITION CASES NOT PRESENTED TO CRAND JURY Sixty Charges Investigated and About 50 Indictments Re- turned BISMARCK TERM TO OPEN ON MAY 17TH No complaints of sedition were Placed before, the. federal: grahd jury. at Fargo for investigation and which recently ,completed’ its work, accord: ing to F, Ff, Young, foreman, Who re- turned” to Bismarck today. The jury was in session seven days, Of approximately 60 casés investi- gated most of them’ were for viola- fions of the prohibition laws in, the way of shipments of liquor to the res- ervations, selling of liquor. to Indians and the shipping of booze into the state not properly labelled.. Evidence was submitted in several .postoffice cases, About 50 indictments were re- turned, among the indicted being Sam Clark and C, H. Crockard, publish: ers of Jim Jam Jems, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. The United States district term of court will convene in this city on May 17, according to an order issued by Judge Charles F, Amidon, This will’ be a petit jury term and fifty eases are scheduled for trial, with a few’ hang-overs. EXAMINE SEED BY SAMPLE [f BOLLEY'S ADVGE Agencies Springing Up to Provide One With Seed A warning to the farmers to sow clean seed is made in a circular let- ter received this afternoon from iH. L. Bolley, state seed commissioner. “At this time when the government and all are asking you to sow as much as you can and some of you are short of seed, all sorts of agencies are springing up to provide you with that seed,” relates the commissioner. As a matter of protection to the farmer’s purse and the ground, Pro- fessor Bolley urges the farmers to carefully examine the seed by sample before it is bought, and particularly before it is sown. “Some years ago,” says the com- missioner, “certain counties of the state were short of seed. An emerg- ency existed. County commissioners made contracts and furnished seed to farmers, under the seed lien emerg- ency act, which filled whole counties of new land ful of wild oats and bad weeds.” Professor Bolley states that he is confident that the conditions warrant the belief that the demand for good seed in the spring of 1918 will far exceed that which is now on, and that now is the time in which to prepare to meet that demand. GERMAN STATEMENT. Berlin, May 4.—British troops yes- terday only succeeded in taking Fres- noy and “small portions of our former treriches in Bullecourt,” says the of- ficial statement issued here today by the German army headquarters staff. Commissioner Says All Sorts of| Entrance of China into the war on the side of the allies, made probable by her breaking relations with Ger- many would mean the addition of 4,- 000,000 square miles of territory with a population of about. 450,000,000, against the Teuton powers. China has a standing army of about China uses a conscription plau and by January, 1919, will have reserves to aid the standing army. The largest v in the Chinese navy is the Hai Chi of 4800 tons di: placement speed of 24 miles an hou and wz two S-inch guns, ten -7- inch guns, and five above-water tor- pedo tubes --a’ weak thst rument against modern battleships; of a first-class. power. 5 China also has three 3:-000-ton cruis- ers, of 19.5 miles speed and small guns. These are almost too old for modern use. There are also several antiquated cruisers, torpedo, boats and sorue mod- ern gunboats built in Japan. ‘Two cruisers are being bujlt in England and several destroyers. in Germany, which would be of no use to China now. China is almost ‘bankrupt tinancially, being more. than $500,000,000 in debt, importing more than, she exports, F; Pench War Mission Is In Chicago General Joffre “ Cheered as He Steps From. .Train—Mayor ‘ Thompson Present Chicago, May 4—The French war envoys afrived in Chicago today. Mar- shal Joffre and former Premier Vivi- ahi were greeted: with cheers as they stepped from the train. Major Gen- era Barry, commander of the cen tral department, and staff and Mayor Thompson welcomed the visitors to Chicago. Foust: Mare € ya Recriiits for Company A Nine Underwood Boys to Return to That Village Saturday for Big Farewell With the enlistment of four young men in the ranks of Company ‘A” this morning, Captain Murpily reports the ‘total membership to nave jumped to 60. Forty more recruits are 'fiteded''to bring Company “A” up to full peace strength. When this number is ob- tained, the names of other applicants will be taken’ and will be given first cbance should a vacancy occur. The names of the recruits secured today are Neil Reid, a high ‘school student of Bismarck; John R. Strong of Bismarck; Edward F. .Vanderlin- den of Appleton, Wis., and David O’Brien, anotiier Wilton boy. Citizens of Underwood have planned a big farewell banquet for the nine men of that village who have enlisted in the Bismarck com- pany. The event takes place tomor- row night. The nine boys—Merrifield,' Nesland, Eisenman, Collins, Fischer, Dillman, Foxter, Zeller and Grochow—under Sergeant Wing, will leave for Under- wood Saturday morning and return Mondayanight, The three-day furlough was grant- ed by Captain Murphy this morning upon receipt of news of tie farewell party. Grain Market More Sottied Winnipeg, May 4.—The grain mar- ket became more settled today than at any time within the last few days following action of the Council of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange in “with- drawing facilities for trading in uJly and May wheat.”- ANNEXATION OF BELGIUM THOUGHT TO BE INEVITABLE May 4.—A Berlin dis- Amsterdam, patch s that during debate in the Reichstag main committee the Pro- ive party spokesman declared that annexation of Belgium after the war must be regarded as an accom- plished fect and that debate concern- ing it was undesirable: He declared that the existence of Belgium as a smi-sovereign state would mean a last- ing danger of war. CHAMAK HELD TO BLAME FOR TAYLOR MURDER “Killed From Gunshot Wounds,”’ Says Verdict Returned at Dickinson Last Night WILL OF WEALTH: .:. RANCHER IS OPENED Dickinson, N. D., May 4.—‘Kiiled from gunshot wounds at the haul of Shamak,” is the verdics of the jury-in the death of James HL Caldwell and.his wife, who were kilied on. their fa: 20 miles south- east of here Tuesday afternoon. Chamak, 27 years old, aon Russia, had“ heen employed a hand by the’ Caldwells for two years, He is at a Dickinson hospital recover- ing from a self-inflicted gunshol wound. Caldwell’s will was opened today. He left his homestead and $15,v00 to his wife, the balance, of approximately one hundred thousand estate, to be held in trust 25 years for missing yon, The celebrated “J. C. R.” claims to be his son. GERMANY MAY RETIRE SMALL COINS 10 STOP HOARDING Copenhagen, May 4.—The German treasury has been forced to drastic measures to cope with the hoarding of small coins by which a large pro- portion of petty change has disap- peared from circulation. A represen- tative of tiie treasury has announced in te Reichstag that the govern- ment is contemplating retiring from currency the present copper and nickel eoins, leaving the money al- most worthless metal. TO SEND STAGE HOSPITALS 10 FRANCE AT ONCE Washington, May 4.—Plans been completed for sending United ! States army stage hospitals to the front in France. The number of units, time of departure, and precise destina- tion cannot for obyious reasons be dis- closed, have! WLLA REPORTED NEAR BORDER: Villa, 1 te El Paso, May 4.- Francisco with his main command is believe be within fifty miles of the bo southeast of Juarez, 2 report receiv! here today BANK CALL ISSUED, » Washington, May 4.—The comptrol- ler of the currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks at the close of business, May 1, SUBD REFUSE TO SAY SURVIVOR Captain Edwards of American Steamer Kockingham Bare- foot When He Arrives { GUNNERS COULD NOT SIGHT SUBMERSIBLE German Commander Told Crew to Reach Shore the Best Way They Could Liverpool, May 4.—Captain Charles Edwards of the American steamer Rockingham was barefoot when he ar- rived here late Thursday night, and the 2 members of his crew were scantily clad. They were taken care of by the American consulate. Captain Ed- wards said: he sighted two submarines ‘Thursday afternoon. He took a zig zag’ course, -but:'despite his efforts a torpedo' strick his’ steamer on the star- board side and killed two men. One of the vessel’s four lifeboats was smashed, but the other got clear just before the steamer sank. One sub- marine®ame close to the lifeboat, and asked the destination, cargo, and ton-: nage of the Rockingham. Captain Edwards asked the questioner to tow the lifeboats toward land, but the com- mander pretended not to understand although he spoke English. He finally refused to render assistance and told the refugees they could get ashore as best they could and submerged. “Five minutes before being torpedoed I noticed two sticks on the horizon, one| on the port bow, and the other on the starboard bow,” said Captain Edwards. I immediately called them the at- tention of the gunners, whe were at their post, both fore and ‘aft,’ ‘and trained guns in the directioitindteated. The visibility was so bad, it: waw: im- possible for any of us to say whether they were submarines or small patrol hoats. VISIBILITY “While all eyes throngh their glas to penetrate haze. both the stocks disappeared. Then we knew they were submarines, which were floating along practically awash. We were steering a zig zag course, and the gunners were ready to fire at any there came a ter- explosion, after which it was im- ‘ible to handle the gun soNran he sank “ihe torpedo. hit wg y BAD were — straining room on the starboard Tei inued on ree sare (Conti FULL AUTHORITY TD FIX PRICES GIVEN PRESIDENT Lever Bill Confers is Pane Pow- ers Upon Chief xecutive Over Food Supply Washington, May 4.—Absolute au- thority to regulate, in its discretion, the production, distribution and prices of food and other necessities during | the war, was asked of congress today by the administration. In a sweeping bill, introduced with administration approval by Chairman Lever of the house agriculture com- mittee, it is proposed to empower the | president, under the war clause of the) constitution, to take these measures ; whenever in his opinion, the national | emergency shall require: President Fix Prices. To fix maximum and minimum; prices for food, clothing, fuel and oth- er necessities, and the articles re quired for their production. To prescribe regulations to govern production of these commodities and if necessary to requisition the produc- ing factories, mines or other estab- lishments. To compel holders of necessities to} release them in amounts insuring equitable distribution. Eliminate Market Manipulation. To regulate exchanges in such a way as to eliminate market manipula- tion. To compel railroads to give prefer- ence to the movement of necessities. To levy such importation of duties as he finds necessary to prevent ex- cessive “dumping” of foreign prod: | ucts, and, A Prehibition Clause. To impose limitations or prohibi- tions upon the use of grain in the manufacture of liquor. In addition, the secretary of agri- culture would be empowered to estab- lish standard food grains, to license and control the manufacture, storage Guns Boom All Night Near Arras Apparently Little Change in Tide of Battle Since Yester- day BRITISH GAINS HAVE BEEN CONSOLIDATED London, May 4.—Throughout the night the guns continued to boom without intermission on the Arras ‘battlefield. Frequent bursts of ma- chine gun and rifle fire told of at- tacks and counter attacks along the various parts of the front of the Bri tish offensive. Reuter’s correspond- ent at British headquarters telegraph- ed today that apparently there has been little change since the official communication was issued last eve ning. The British have established them- selves in a sunken road, near Pelves Mill, which has a dip of nine feet, and offers possibilities for offense and defense. At iRoeux, which is directly opposite this new position, the Ger- mans still remain in the flercely con- tested chemical works. The Eritish gains in and around Fresnoy have been consolidated. The struggle for Oppy continues, and has produced a striking situation to the north of the village, a considerable length of the line being at present untenable for either side, owing to the unusual concentration of machine guns, WOMEN'S CLUBS PREPARE 10 00 THEIR WAR BIT Three Organizations in North Da- kota Join in United Effort for Nation’s Good FORMATION’ OF BISMARCK BRANCH TO BE TAKEN UP In order that there may be unity and united effort in the preparations for national defense which have been undertaken by the club women of North Daxota, the presidents of the three most important statewide or- tions—Mrs. H. G. Vick, of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs, chairman of the patriotic emergency committee; Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, president of the state Wo- men’s Christian Temperance union, and vice chairman of the patriotic emergency committee; and Mrs. Grace Clendenning, president of tie State Votes For Women league, and secretary of the patriotic emergency committee—have joined in an appeal to all of the clubs in North Dakota STERN BATTLE RACES BEFORE WOTAN DEFENSE Bloodiest Struggle of This Offen- sive Now in Progress Along Hindenburg Line HUGE NIPPER IN HANDS OF GENERAL HAIG’S ARMY Significant Events Shaping Them- selves Behind the Battle Line But News Is Guarded ATTACKS CONTINUE, Furious attacks are being made by Germans to stop the British in their latest offensive. Fresnoy and the captured line south of it are firmly held after the repulse of numerous counter attacks. A deep salient has been mage in the Oppy line near Bullecourt. In the Croiselles district southeast of Arras the sector of the Hin- denburg line takén’ yesterday was subject to heavy counter fire. The Germans in Bullecourt are mostly surrounded and are threatened of being’ captured. On the front northwest of Quen- tin a deeper wedge was dri into the German lines of Harde- court. 4 (By Associated Press.) The British have burst through the Oppy line and are fighting the blood- iest and sternest battle of the present offensive in an effort to smash the Wotan line before its organization is completed. The Hindenburg line: al- ready pierced in several places, has failed to stop the forward surge of the British army, and the , Wotan position is the one great barrier bar- ring the road to Douai-Cambrai and ‘Germany's richest prize in France, the great coal and iron flelds north of Lens. Human Nipper. ‘Around. Queniit, the ganthern‘ex- , tremity of this line, General Haig has formed a, great human ntpper ‘and is striving with all the power at his command to close the jaws of this nipper. Realizing the menace. of the situation there, the Germans are-fight- ing with a grim determination, which reckons no cost in blood to hide: The fury into which the great bat- tle of ‘Arras has flamed, has diverted attention from the possibility of more significant events, which are shaping behind the battle front. The.German censorship has. lifted so far as to al- low mail and newspapers from Ger- many once more to reach the outside world, but there is little information available, except that coming from unofficial sources, Peace Address. The German chancellor once more is reported to be about to make an- other peace address in the reichstag. for close co-operation and complete harmony in the work that is to be done, “As presidents of three organiza- tions in our state,” write Mesdames Vick, Anderson and Clendenning, in a letter to Mrs. Minnie C. Budlong, secretary of the state library com- iission, “we wish to eliminate dupli- cations by uniting our forces along these lines: Wirst, for a certified registration of women for service to the govern: ment. “Second, to increase the food pro- ducts of North Dakota and to.elimin- ate waste. “Third, to work along lines desig- j nated by the American Red cross.” The Plan of Work The plan of work is this: The! state commission shall consist of the presidents of the organizations desig- nated and shall be called the North Dakota Woman's Patriotic Emergen- cy committee, Eada local organiza- tion shall appoint a member to form a similar committee for their town. Esch town must take up certified reg- istration and one or both of the two other lines. It shall be the duty of this local committee to organize all the women of its community for def- inite work along the lines suggested. State chairmen will be named for each of the departments of work. To Organize At Once. The organization of Bismarck club women will be undertaken at once, as a report on the committees named is to be made to Mrs. Grace Clen-; denning, the state secretary, not lat- er than May 10. TELLS. AUSTRIANS TO HONOR LAND and distribution of foods, to prescribe the percentage of flour to be milled | “from wheat and to regulate the mix-! ing of wheat flour with other flour in! the making of bread and other food. | In a statement tonight Mr. Lever declared there was nothing in the measure to distur) legitimate activi ties because “it is hoped that the mere conferring of the more extreme new powers will be sufficient without its becoming necessary to exercise them.” for his homeland, OF ADOPTION New York, May 4.—Count Adam Tarnowski von Tarnow, the unre- ceived Austrian ambassador to the mited States, before sailing today issued farewell greetings to his countrymen here and | advice to “honor the land whose hos-, pitality they enjoy and in which they earn their livelihood.” !capturing Malakoff Fran. The junkers are still clamoring for the annexation of Belgium, an all re- ports indicate that the government must shortly take a Pet mie gland, both on the siuestion. ol internal reforms. ‘The ‘rej bd hey 4 enraged and alarmed by thd’ epparent dominance of the sdcialfst ‘party 4 its program of perce Withou auapxation or indemnities, has presented gp ult!- matum ‘to the chancelior, domunding that he clarify his p:sition Want Milukoff Removed, Disquieting reports come from Rus- sia of the attitude of elemetitg among soldiers and workmen toward the provisional government. Demonstra: tions are occurring in the atmets of. ‘Petrograd against Milukoff, minister of foreign affairs, an? his resignation is being demanded. The radical ele- ment opposed to him appear to be ex- cited to action by the provistonal government’s communication tp the allies, made public here today, which committed the government to the con- tinuation of the war without slacken- ing of ‘efforts, They declare they should have been consulted in this matter. DESPERATE COUNTER ATTACK. British Headquarters in France, via London, May 4.—The Germany made desperate counter attacks throughout the entire night against the positions won by the British yesterday, but were everywhere repulsed, ° All through the brilliant moonlight night and again today, British soldiers were fighting along a wide front, ten- aciously holding positions won yester- day in the face of the heaglong coun- ter attacks of their foes. In some places fighting ebbed ang flowed as in the old days of the Somme ¢am- paign, when the casualties inflicted on the enemy were tegarded as more important than the ground won. Reports from the battle show that the Hindenburg line was pierced both north and south of Bullecoutt for long distances. | MAKE PROGRESS. London, May 4.—The British last night made progress northwest of St: Quentin, and northeast of Hatcourt, the war of- fice announces. On the Arras front, the British have maintaine? their hold on Fresnoy and all the popi- tions captured in that ne‘g'ihorhood in yesterday's drive. The British were compelled to fall back from the positions captured yea \terday in the neighborhgod ot Chert: (Continued on Page