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

N 4 The Weather ait THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. <THE BISMARC TRIBUNE @se" MSc BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. TROOPS TO LEAVE COMMITTEE OF 45 MEETS WITH FINE RESPONSE Hundreds of Dollars Already Con- tributed to Good Work in Bismarck CAPITAL CITY SECTION PREPARING FOR FRONT Delegation of Surgeons and Nurs- es Will Go to France— Wom- en Working MEETS SUCCESS. The committee of 45, which last Thursday began soliciting funds for the Bismarck chapter of the ‘Red Cross, has met with splendid response from the capi- tal city. Each committeeman’s subscriptions to date range from $50 to $100. In only one instance has any member of the big com- mittee meti with refusal. -Individ- ual subscriptions run all the way from $1 to $24, Dr. Quain, when war was declared, paid a personal visit to Washington and tendered the services of a Bis- marck section, Shortly after his re- turn, from the national capital, he re- ceived telegraphic advice that his ten- der had been accepted and instruc- tions to proceed at once with the or- ganization and equipment of the local section and to be prepared to move on brief notice. Section Personnel. The section as organized consists of Drs. E. P. Quain, J. O. Arnson and F. F. Griebenow of Lismarck, and ‘Nachtway of Dickinson, surgeons; .a head nurse and corps of six nurses; two orderlies and a stenographer. The section will carry surgical equip- ment and appliances walued at $5,000, as well as 14 boxes of hospital sup* plies from Bismarck and ten from Dickinson. The section, ready for the field, will represent an 9xnendi- ture of: $10,000, and Bismarck will en- joy thedistinction of being the first city in North Dakota to render this valuable service to the ‘National Red Cross association. Women at Work. Women of Bismarck, Dickinson and Wilton have been laboring heroically in the preparation of the vast quanti- ties of bandages, dressings, lint, gauze, etc., which is required in hos- pital work. Dickinson is filling ten boxos, while Wilton is co-operating with Bismarck in filling the 14 boxes which ine city has pledged. ‘Eismarck women have started on their long list of Red Cross hospita’ supplies which will go to fill the 14 boxes for the Bismarck hospital corps. Scores of women met Friday in the basement of the new nurses’ home and started sewing. The list which the Bismarck women are asked to furnish will include 42 doc- tors’ and nurses’ gowns, 66 dozen bed sheets, 48 dozen pillow cases, 72 doz- en linen huck towels, 24 dozen Turk- ish towels, 138 operating room sheets, 252 operating 8 "988" pajamas, 144 pairs of WAtd ‘Sfipbers\! 144 bath! robes, 144 hospitil*"bed''sheets, 600 socks. Good Start Made. ; Friday the women made two dozen sheets, one dozen pajamas and four dozen binders. The response of the ‘Bismarck women for this work has} been most gratifying and it is ex- pected that the boxes will he com- pleted before orders come for the| section to, go,,to.France. | Old muslins, are being solicited to wrap the articles for the boxes. Those in charge of the preparations are anxious for as many women as} possible to donate old muslins for this part of the work. Anyone not} able to assist with the work at head- quarters will be allowed to take sew- ing home. The City Federation of Women’s Clubs at a meeting Friday in the Com- mercial clud rooms voted to assist in the work of the hospital corps. WHEAT TRADES TO: BE SETTLED UPON CORPORATION PLAN Chicago, May 19.—Announcement was made today that the “corpora- tion plan” of settlement of trades will be recommended at the meeting of the directors of the Chicago Eoard of Trade next Tuesday, as the out-| growth of prohibition of trading in futures. The plan provides for the organiza- tion of a corporation to act as a lead- | ing house, which, while not under the board’s supervision, would be direct- ly connected with it. The corpora- tion would have a large capital and would.not be operated for profit, but as profits grew the clearing charges would be renewed. Each member trading on the board would be forced to place a fund com- mensurate with the amount of his P o Your ‘Bit’ NORTH DAKOTA MEN PLEDGE WPADOD AID Delegation of 150 Bankers and Others Greet Secretary of Treasury DOYLE PREDICTS BIG CROP FOR THIS STATE ‘St.Paul, ‘Minn., May 19.—J. “PY Lamb of Michigar’ City, U. S. Marshal J. Si Doyle of Fargo, H. E. Baird and J. M. Kelly of Devils Lake-headed a delegation of 150: North Dakota bank- ers and business men who attended the reception to Secretary McAdoo in St. Paul today, and they all brought good news from their states. Mr. Kelly’s bank has subscribed $50,000 worth of, the liberty loan bonds, and ‘they will be placed with the bank’s patrons. A coffstant stream of in- RUSSIA VOTES | AGAINST ANY SINGLE PEACE 25,000 MENTO TAKE OLD LORY TO WEST FRONT Provisional Government Spurns ' Regiment of Mavines Under Col. Idea of Truce With Imperial Government of Germany Doyan Composed of Veter- ans to Assist SEEKS TO RESTORE ORDER 'MILITARY REGISTRATION AMONG SLAV ARMIES SET FOR JUNE FIFTH Fighting on West Front Now Expected That 10,000,000 will Confined Mainly to Counter Attacks (By Associated Press) Evidences are mulitplying that the most energetic efforts are about to be made to hammer Russia’s great army into an aggressive fighting force. Min- ister of War Kerensky in assuming his new post announces his intention of maintaining an iron discipline among the troops. z The new cabinet is now, complete and apparently is preparing to cope energetically with the big- problems of reorganization before it. No Separate Peace The provisional government declar- ed today that it was united in the re- jection of a separate peace and that it adopts as its aim the re-establishment of a general peace, which will not tend to domination of other nations or to the seizure of the national pos- sessions—a peace without annexation or indemnities. Intensive Fighting Ceases The recent intensive fighting on the British front in France has subsided and the activities in the Aisne region are confined mainly to counter at- tacks by the Germans. The Italian offensive with Triest for its obje: is therefore being, watched with in est. General Cadorna’s armies have a heavy task before them, with tke cream of Austria’s fighting forces de- fending the naturally strong defens- ive positions in the Isonzo region. The Italians, however, admittedly sre making progress. German Reaction The latest German reaction in the Aisne region occurred © last night. ‘Along a wide front northwest of Braye}: en-Laonnois. The’ efforts to per - trate the French line were futile, Paris reports, except at the western end to the front, where a footing in some advance trenches was secured. In the the Macedonian operations, another counter, attagk);on the posr tions the British have, gained in their recent offensive ‘was’ ¥é nised. ry: REACH CREST OF HILL, Rome, May 19.—The Italians yes- terday reached the crests of Hill No. quiries is coming from farmers and others. Doubles Optimism. “North Dakota will not only sub- scribe her share of liberty bonds, but she will send the largest contingent of volunteers and will raise the larg- est crop in her history,” said Mr. Doyle. “I have been all over the state since seeding began and have ridden over 500 miles of territory within the past few days, and I have never seen the crop prospects as fine as they are today. What is more, the farmers have planted, or are planting, every available acre. They are doing their utmost with the help they have and are trusting to the mobilization of labor to aid them in getting harvest (Continued on Page Three) Wilson Turns Down Offer Of Roosevelt Washington, May 19.—Colonel Roosevelt will not be permitted to raise his volunteer expedition to car- ry the American flag against the Germans in France. On signing the war army Dfll to- i day, President Wilson issued a state ment saying that, acting under ex- pert advice from both sides of the water, he would be unable to avail himself at the present stage of the war of the authorization to organize volunteer divisions. There was talk in army circles of the possibility that a way would be found to use the former president’s services in another way, but official comment was lacking. The president's statement follows, in part: “J shall not avail myself, at any rate at the present stage of the war, of the authorization conferred by the act to organize volunteer divisions. To do so would seriously interfere with the carrying out of the chief and most immediate important purpose contemplated by this legislation, the prompt creation and early use of an effective army. and would contribute practically nothing to the effective strength of the armies now engagec against Germany “I understand that the section of this act which authorizes the crea- tion of volunteer divisions in addition to the draft was added with a view to providing an independent com- mand for Mr. Roosevelt and giving the military authority an opportunity to use his fine vigor and enthusiasm trade with’ the clearing house to in- sure his settlements.’ in recruiting the forces now at the western front.” 633 in the Odice, says today’s official statement. These positions are the key to the Austrian defenses north of Monte Santo. FOOD CRISIS AT ATHENS. London, May 19.—In addition to a bread famine in Athens there is a great scarcity of foodstuffs, Reuter's correspondent at Athens telegraphed under yesterday's date. Since Thurs- day scarcely any meat or vegetables have been on the market and small stock is selling at exhoybitant prices. The government is taking strong’ ac- tion in this connection, and’ already has discovered considerable quant!- ties of concealed foodstuffs. ENTENTE AGREES TO LIQUIDATE THEIR OPTIONS Chicago, May 19.—Heaviness in wheat prices resulted today from re- ports that representatives of the Eu- ropean Entente nations have agreed to liquidate their option on American grain futures, and to co-operate with the United States in a pooling sys- tem whereby exports from this coun- try would be apportioned with due regard to domestic requirements. Word that the rushing of wheat and barley shipments over land from the Pacific coast to be dispatched to Eu- rope was being directed by the fed- eral government, tended also to ease the market, especially as it was said Australian wheat would be brought in to make up the deficit. Business here in wheat was the smallest of the week, a little knot of half a dozen brokers on the edge of the pit ‘being all that was left of 300 or more who, until of late, formed the usual number. July opened at $223 and (September at $2.05, fol- lowed by changes that made the set- back general, but less extreme and then by something of a recovery. FIRST WOMAN TO BE ADMITTED TO SUPREME COURT PASSES AWAY Washington, May 19.—Mrs. Velva A. Lockwood, the first woman admit- ted to practice before the supreme; court, a pioneer in the woman suf- frage movement, and the only woman who was candidate for president of the United States, died here today after a long illness, at the age of 86. Register From Which to Select 500,000 ‘Washington, May 19.—A regiment of marines commanded by Colonel Charles K. Doyan, and composed of 2,500 veterans of active service in Haiti, Santo Domingo and Cuba, will accompany the regular army division to Hrance, under jor General Pershing. Secretary Daniels, in mak- ing the announcement today, said the regiment would be armed, equipped and organized the same as the regi- ment of the Pershing expeditionary force. Organization which will com- pose the regiment will ve brought home from the tropics immediately. 25,000 Troops. Under the orders: of ‘President Wil- son the division of approximately 25,- 600 troops will carry the Stars and Stripes to France as soon as possible, to co-operate with British and French forces, it was said today. Machinery for enrolling and enlisting 10,000,000 men and paving the way for the selec- tion of the first 500,000 men under the new war army law, based on the president's proclamation, was set in motion by the war department today. Register June 5. The president calls upon all men between 21 and 30 inclusive to regis- ter for military service on June 5. The drafted army will not be called to the colors before Sept. 1, but by that time the troops are expected to take the field against the Germans. Jeneral. Pershing and hi sstaff. will goto Kurope as soon as deemed ad- visable. * . MANY VOLUNTEER. St. Paul, Minn., May 19.—Adjutant General Fred 'B. Wood, in charge of ‘Minnegota” conscription registration. today announced that while 15 out of 89 city and county boards had report- ed completed organizations, others undoubtedly are prepared but had yet to make final reports. DIRECTED 10 RECRUIT UP -10 WAR STRENGTH North Dakota National Guard silt : Not: Now in Federal Service "to Be Filled in EIGHT COMPANIES IN STATE ARE AFFECTED Adjutant General Tharalson late yesterday afternoon received instruc. tions from the war department to proceed at once to recruit the units of the iNorth Dakota national guard not now in federal service up to full war strength. For each infantry com- pany war footing will mean 150 en- listed men. For the First regiment a@ strength of 2,002 men and 56 offi- cers is required, exclusive of the hos- pital corps. The adjutant general's orders affect all but the Second jattalion—Com- panies A, F, H and K, Bismarck, Man- dan, Jamestown and Dickinson, re- spectively—which has been in federal service for several weeks, and which has been busily recruiting. Companies concerned are stationed at Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, Williston, Hills- boro, Grafton and Wahpeton. A ma- jority of these units already have re- cruited up to something near war strength, and it is not anticipated that much time will »e consumed in carrying owt the orders of the war department. The action of the’ war department follows the passage of the selective conscription noted in yester- day’s Assoc dispatches. Spain Sends Curt Note To Germany London, May 19.—A Madrid dis- patch to the Exchange Telegraph Co., says that the note sent ‘by the Span- ish government to Berlin ‘in regard to the sinking of the Patricio de- mands immediate satisfaction and guarantees for the future. PRESIDENT FOR FRANCE SOON WILSON DIRECTS EXPEDITIONARY FORCE OF ONE DIVISION OF REGULAR ARMY Heads Division to France PERSHING IN COMMAND Will Proceed to rin) Meatone at an Early Date According to Washington Dispatch ' FOUGHT IN SPANISH WAR; INDIAN WARRIOR OF NOTE During Russian-Japanese War He Was Military Attache at : Tokio Washington, May 19. — President Wilson has directed that an expedt- tionary force, approximately one di- vision or regulars, under command of General J. J. Pershing, proceed to France at an early date. Major General John J. Perghing who is to lead the battle units against the Germans, has been a against the Indians, Fillpinos’ Mexicans. A year ago in March, then a brigadier general, he commanded the column which went into Mexico in search of Villa, and held his lines many months against menacing moves of Mexicans. He served in Cuba in 1898, and lat- er lead successful operations against the Moros in the Philippines. Earlier in his career, he had fought the Ap- pache and Sioux Indians in the west. General Pershing, who is nearly 57 years old, is a native of Missouri. At one time he intended to be a lawyer and graduated in a law course at the University of ‘Nebraska, but later entered West Point military academy, from which he graduated in 1886. He married a daughter of Senator War TOHN J DERSHING Here Are First Details Of Uncle Sam’s New Plan For Wooden Shipbuilding ‘Cleveland, Ohio, May" greatest rush of shipbuilding in Amer- ican history is now not merely in prospect, put actually under way. Yards on the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts are building ships for Un- cle Sam's war needs at a rate never before equaled. The long-forgotten art of building ships of wood has been brought back with an impetus made greater by necessity. One wooden ship is.now under con- struction for every two ships of steel. Ships will be built for trans-Atlantic service at the probable rate of two steel vessels to one of wood. These facts about the great ship- building campaign now under way comé from ‘Cole Estep, editor of the Marine Review, who has just made a survey of the shipbuilding situa- tion on the Atlantic and gulf. “On January 1,” said Estep, “there were 403 steel vessels and 161 wood- en vessels under construction in America. “No official figures have since been published. “But the proportion of wooden ves- sels is undowbtedly larger now. “Th necessity for wooden vessels arises from the limited capacity of American steel plate mills. There are in the United States and Canada only 44 concerns making steel plates, and of these only 20 to 25 can make ship plates. “There are only manufacturers of structural shapes for ships. “The fact is, the United States is paying the price now for not building up a merchant marine 10 to 15 years ago—and we may.. ..-pay for our past follies with.. lives. “The few plate mills of this coun- try, which are now inadequate to our needs, were operating in 1914, the year the European war started, at 30 per cert capacity, so little attention need of merchant ships. “Now we are at war, and have too litle tonnage to transport our men and supplies. We are paying the piper.” A complete revolution in shipbuild- ing methods on the east coast is necessary to supply the government's ships as fast as they are needed, says Estep. Down-east shipwrights have prided themselves on their slow, deliberate work, making vessels that wguid last for decades. The need now is for vessels built fast, that may fall apart in eight or ten years, but will serve their pur- pose at once. “The. country has been told that the wooden ship idea is chimerical,” said Estep, “and opponents of wooden ships claim to have Maj.-Gen. Goe- thal’s on their side. | “Shipping men are well aware | of the weaknesses of wooden car- go carriers. But the only U-boat remedy now insight is an im- mense fleet of cargo carriers. “The government, therefore, is g0- ing ahead with its wooden ship pro- gram. “But if 300 vessels of this type are placed in rvice in the next 15 | months, ead of the touted 1,000, a | tremendous task will have been ac-' complished. “The proposed vessels will be 281 |feet and 6 inches long over all, 46 feet beam and 26 feet deep. Their caro capacity will be 3,000 tons. “Each hull will require about a million and a half feet of lumber. Each boat will be operated by steam power. These facts, not yet publish- ed, will appear in the next issue of the Marine Review. “To insure rapid construction, a bonus of 9209 a day will be paid for every day gained over the contract time, and a penalty of $200 a day as- sessed for every day behind contract the constructing company runs.” FERRY BOAT MARIAN BEGINS REGULAR RUN BETWEEN TWIN TOWNS; The handsome new ited Trail ferry boat “Marion”, built during the last, winter by Mandan men at a cost of $6,000, began its regular s between Bismarck and Manda terday. The Marion is a high-powered gasoline boat, of carrying six or more trip, and thoroughly son tickets have been sold at the es- tablished ferry rates- sent, until permanent concrete proaches can be constructed, the Mar- ion is landing on this side of the river at thé old Bull Dog landing. y peed: ason’s run) For the ae Senate Passes Three Million War Budget | Washington, May 19.—The largest | appropriation bill in American _his- | tory—the war budget measure—carry- | ing $3,342,300,009, including $750,000,- | 000 for American merchant ships, was today pdssed by the senate by viva voce vote. Fargo Gets 1918 pable | «| Meeting of Agents | Des Moines Fargo was | the Northwestern Congress of Life jludenveriters at its annual conven- tion here today. chosen as the 1918 meeting place of } ren of Wyoming, but lost his wife and three children in a fire at the Presidio, San Francisco, two years ago. In Various Wars. The war department's bureau of in- sular affairs was organized by Gen- eral Pershing soon after the Spanish war, and,for a time he was-its chtef. During the (Russo-Japanesewar: be acted as military attache, at Tokio, "and was with Kuroki’s army.in Man- churia, From 19vé to 1913. he was in the Philippines, part Of the time as director of Moro Province. Then he became head of the eighth brigade 0- The; was this country then paying to its} with headquarters in San Francisco, and served in that capacity until the Mexican trouble last year. May Help Belgium. American troops, when they go to the ‘European ‘battle front, may but- tress the Belgian line on the extreme west—all of Belgium that escaped the German invaders. The war de- partment ,today added nothing con- cerning the troops, but President Wil- son’s statement for not accepting at this time Colonel Roosevelt's offer of a division contained a phrase which has attracted much attention. The president explained that the regular army officer, whom the colonel want- ed to take with his division, was needed for the “much more pressing and necessary duty .of training the regular troops to put them {nto th ty fields of Belgium and. rrance.” ‘So far as is known, that is the first mention of putting American troops in Belgium, and the sentiment of sending troops bearing the American flag to the violated soil of the little country has quickly been recognized. Those who favor it point out that since the United States entered the war to defend humanity against Ger- man aggression, its troops could be no better employed than in behalf of the most outraged of all humanity. RESERVE OFFICERS CALLED UPON FOR ACTIVE SERVICE Captains Baker and Jones As- signed to Duty and Instruct- ed to Report | at Once Captains Frayne 1¢ Baker and A. A. Jones, Bismarck’s only citizens who have received commissions in, the quartermaster officers’ reserve corps, were instructed this morning to re- port immediately for active service. Captain Jones is assigned to Fort Snelling, for which point he will leave Monday to take up duties assigned him, presumably in connection with the early mobilization of state and federal troops. Captain Baker is directed to report by wire to the commanding general of the southern department “for orders to proceed to the division cantonment camp to be constructed.” He, com+ plied with these instructions this morning, by telegraphing to ort Sam Houston, ie as. BOOKS FOR PATIENTS Garrison, N. 19.—The Tues- day Improvemen club is collecting. books for the patients in the -state):-. ‘hospital for the insane at Jamestown: