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

The Weather Shark’s Begin Summer Attacks Upon Bathers: Savannah, Ga., June 4. Fear of a! 3 ELAS’ BAND TO PAY CONCERTS FOR PATRIOTS Bismarck Organization to Present 1 Two Fine Programs To- morrow 36 YOUNG WOMEN WILL DECORATE CANDIDATES Khaki Arm Badge to Be Provided Everyone Who Registers in Capital City Concerts by the Bismarck Elks’ band, community singing and pafri- | otic addresses will be features of Bis- marck’s observance of Registration day tomorrow. The band will play in the \Northern Pacific park at 10 a. m., and again at 2 p. m., under the leadership of G. W. Cochrane, The Elks’ band has donated its services for this occasion, and the music will ‘be its contribution to the concerted effort which will be exerted through- j out North Dakota tomorrow to make Registration day a real festival of patriotism. During the afternoon at the North- | made ‘by Gen. A. Williams and an | officer of the army and others, and there will be community singing led by R. F. Marquis. Members of Com- panies A and K from Camp Frazier | and Fort Lincoln will drill under the direction of Major Wright. The man- ual of arms will .be executed, and there will be-other military maneuv- | ers. ‘ Badges. : { A “select service order” badge of brown khaki will be pinned upon the arm of every man who. registers in ismarek tomorrow. Thirty-six young women of St. Mary's sodality have volunteered for this service, and from 7 a. m. until 9 p.m. they will be in attendance at the various registration booths, prepared to reward those who respond to President Wilson's call. The members of the sodality will assemble at the Commercial club rooms at 7 in the morning and march ; to the polling places. The first de- + tail will -be relieved during the day by a second, and a third detail will {stand the “dog watch,” remaining on j duty until 9 o'clock, when the regis- | tration closes. | Everybody Decorate. | Every business house, public insti- tution and private home in Bismare' tomorrow is expected to display the national colors and to otherwise make visible demonstration of its patriot- ism. The important day in the na- tion's history will be ushered in at 7 a. m. with the ringing of bells and sounding of whistles. A similar sa- lute will mark the close of the day at 9. There will be no general sus- pension of ‘business, but every em- ployer who has men of the prescribed ages in his service will be expected to do his bit by making it easy for them to register. Bandsmen Complimented. Secretary G. IN. Keniston of the Bismarck Commercial club has warm praise for the Elks’ band which has i been ready to respond to every call this spring, and has at no time re- ceived a penny’s compensation for its services. It has done more than any other one factor to make the various patriotic demonstrations held in this city a success, and has, Secretary Keniston feels, more than ever won the high regard of the community. Mine Explosion Fatal to Five Kanimo, N. (., June 4.—Five men were instantly killed and much dam- | age done to No. 6 mine at Cumberland | as the result of a terrific explosion of | unknown cause yesterday. The five victims were members of a surveying party and were mapping out new work for the week. mine is under the heart of Cumber- | the explosion. repetition of last summer's prevalence | of man-eating sharks along the Atlan- tie ce was felt here today as the result of an attack by a shark on Wallace J. Pierpont. Pierpont’s arm was badly injured. VALIDITY OF SALE UPHELD BY COURT Washington, June Montana de- crees upholding the legality of the ‘Boys in Gray | { Washington, June 4.—On the eve of the formal opening of the annual reunion, Confederate veterans to the | number of several thousands had ar- rived today and special trains from the south swelled their ranks. The ern Pacific park addresses will be; The| land, and the town was shocked by}; Hold Reunion, | Registration Facts Seven Points to Bear in Mind Regarding Manpower Mo- bilization June 5. There are seven important points to remember about draft registration, which the war department asked all American newspapers to print today. Here they are: ‘There is only one day for regis- m and that is Tuesday, June 5, Every male resident of the Unit- ed States who has pa: his 21st and not reached his 31st birthday must register, with the exception of mem- bers of the army, navy and marines, members of the national guard or na- val militia while in federal service, and men of the reserve corps while in active serv 3.—Registration is distinct from draft and all must register, regardless of claims to exemption. 4.—The penalty for failure to regis- not a fine, but imprisonment. Sick persons should send at once for registration blanks and should fill these out and send them to the registr: of their voting pre- cincts with selfaddressed stamped en- velopes for the return of certificates. The blanks are supplied by county clerks and, in cities of more than 30,- 000, by city clerks. 6.—Persons who expect to be absent from their voting precincts registra- tion day should apply at once to county or city clerks, wherever they may be in stopping, for registration blanks, fill them out and submit them to the county or city clerks. The clerks will record: the answers and return the cards, Which should be mailed promptly to the registrars of the absentees’ home precincts. Self- addressed, stamped envelops should be enclosed to insure return of regis- tration certificates. : 7.—Registration booths will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. June 5. The war department urged that every man within the conscription age limits study theses seven points carefully. LANTRY BOOSTED: WAY HANDLE. WAR TRAFFIC ON WP Big Advancement Comes to Pop- ular Superintendent of Yel- lowstone Division Mandan, June 4.—Supt. T. H. Lan- try, who for the past eight years had been superintendent of the Yellow- stone division of the Northern Pacific with headquarters at Glendive, and who has become one of the most pop- wlar men, in the middle west, was Sunday promoted to an assistant gen- eral manager of the Northern Pacilic, with headquarters at St. Paul. An- other rumor has it that he will he assigned to an important post han- dling the war situation for the North- ern Pacific. The nature of his pro- motion is expected to be made pwb- lic today or tomorrow. H. Jacobs, third assistant to the general superintendent, has been pro- moted to the position of division su- perintendent of the Yellowstone divi- sion of the Northern Paciue to suc- ceed Mr. Lantry. H a young man of great railroad ability and comes to this division as one of the most promising young railroad superintend- ents in the country. Hundreds of friends are pleased to hear that Mr. Lantry was promoted to a responsible berth. He is a most able railroad man, and his many friends, in Mandan as well as other points on the Yellowstone division, dislike very much to see him leave. Superintendent Lantry passed thru Mandan yesterday morning en route to St. Paul to assume his new duties. Opposition to Registration In Burleigh oo esos ° Se Soe ee * J *| + 2 a Sheriff French was advised today of a number of young men in various sections of the county who, encouraged by professional agitators, have announced their intention of not registering tomorrow. “| am very sorry to lear of this," said Sheriff French, this morning, “for it will leave no recourse but to arrest every one of these men and to subject them to the heavy penalties provided by law.” The men_ in question and those suspected of responsi- during the war, and that the dis SLACKERS WILL BE PROSECUTED SAYS. GREGORY Fina) Warnings Against Evasion of Draft Registration Issued by Attorney Gerieral SOCIALIST ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS Charged With Distributing Liter- ature Hostile to Conscription Measure Washington, June Final warn- ing against evasion of the draft regis- tration tomorrow, or attempts to in- duce others to evade it were issued today by Attorney General Gregory. He said he expected a few men in each community to refuse to register, but did not anticipate it would be necessary to resort to force “It is the duty of this department to prosecute evaders, and it is pro- posed to do so,” said the attorney general. It was announced today that the re- quirements of the new law, that the registration cards of men absent from home precincts, reach the precinct registrar before 5:0 tomorrow would not be enforced against Americans now abroad. To Draft 900,000. Plans of the war department to dratt from 900,000 to 1,500,000 men from the ten million men, who, it is estimated, will register tomorrow for the army draft, were eyplained today before the senaté militaty ‘committee ‘oy Provost Marshal General Crowder, in charge of the draft Exemption, he said. probably will result in reducing the numer to 625,- 000 for immediate service. \While the war department had originally plan- ned to select 59.0.0 men, General Crowder told the committee the plans had been revised and it is now proposed to require 150,000 more to fill vacancies: in the army gt 500,000 and to keep training camps in con- tinuous operation. Necessity Has Come. When the original plans for serv- ice were made for half a million men, (Continued on Page Three) PRICE FIXING ASSURED SAYS TY HEAD J. M. Anderson Intimates Govern- ment Will Supervise Grain Exchanges Carefully FOOD HOARDERS WILL BE DEALT WITH St. Paul, Minn., June 4—J. M. An- derson of the Equity Co-operative ex- change, who returned from Washing- ton yesterday, where he conferred with President \Vilson, Secretary Hoover and Secretary Houston of the agriculture departinent, said these men agreed the farmers should be guaranteed a certain price for their products. Mr. Anderson was one of a committee of seven appointed un- der the direction of the Equity ex- change at a recent meeting of the farmers of the Northwest at Fargo, N. }., to meet with President Wilson, 'Mr. Hoover and Secretary Houston, the house food committee, to discuss and the committee of agriculture of the food situation, particularly as it affects the Northwest To Encourage Production. “The government feels the necessi ty of encouraging the production of agricultural products and believes {this can best be done by guarantee- ing prices to farmers.” said Mr. An- derson. “All offici express them- selves as being opposed to specula- tion and especially to the hoarding of food products by middlemen. We were given to-understand that wher any indication of hoarding occurred, the government would step in and take possessi: “We have reason to believe that anges will be watched rim. ination which they have practiced against the farmers’ will not be tolerated’ While in Washington, Mr. Anderson jon of the food material.; organizations ; U. S. Missio To Russia Has Landed Makes Rapid Trip to Slav Empire and Now Is Enroute to Petrograd EXPECTED TO REACH CAPITAL BY JUNE 1i A iRussian Port, June 4.--The Am- erican, commission to ‘Russia, headed by Elihu Root, which arrived here safely this morning, left this after- noon for Petrograd, after calling on various officials. The Root party will probably reach Petrograd June {1. SENDS COMMUNICATION. Washington, June 4. — President Wilson’s communication to the new Russian government on the war aims of the United States has been de- livered at Petrograd by American Am- bassador Francis, but will not be pv- lished for a few days, while the s department is clearing up matters detail. TEUTONS LEAVE DESOLATION IN OCCUPIED LAND Only Building Used to House Prince Frederick Left: Stand- ing in Chaunay Region FRENCH ASSISTED HIS HIGHNESS TO REDUCE Noyon, France, ‘May ‘ 18 (Corre spondence of the Associated | Press). —The only building remaining intact in the region of Chaunay efter the re- treat of the Germans, was a wooder. structure, a rustic fence around the building bearing this legion: “Kitel, Fredrich Schanz” (Kitel Friedrich re- doubt). The place was not fortified and the supposition is that it served as ing place for the prince between his pells of work as a gardener, pre- ibed by his doctors to reduce his weight. The veranda commands # scene of ruin and desolation. The second d pn of the Prus- under Prince Kitel’s_or- ted in the region, The f the inhabitants the occupants left no har tried on them. In no other place was the country more devastated. Find Papers. Papers of the prince were found where he occupied the chateau he- longing to Count Palny at the end 0: October, 19 French aviators locat- ed him there and he left suddenly in 1916, taking with him all the furni- ture, pictures and plate of the Count Palny. Russian prisoners of war were brought there to dig a deep under- ground shelter from aeroplane bombs. Prince Kitel was seen every morn- ing during his spading ir the gardens of his chateau, an exer- cise to reduce his corpulence. French aviators surprised him at this exer- cise one morning in July last year. Their bombs induced Prince Kitel and his staff to move to other quarters not yet identified. The second divi- sion went on guard on the Somme in September, 1915, and Prince Eitel es- tablished quarters in the Chateau of Templeux la Fosse, about five miles from Peronne. After a fortnight’s so- journ here, the prince was saluted one day by about 100 shells, so well aimed that the evacuation of the j Place became advisable. i Where to Register In City Tomorrow POSES SESE O ESD WHERE TO REGISTER. Ward 1--North Ward school. . E. Jones, Bruce build- on E. 2—Fogerstrom ing, next to Faunce's, Fourth. Registrars—A. Preston, Harry Sims. Ward 3—New high school. Melvin Hagen, (. 4—Grand Park Hotel. 1 Fifth streets. Reg- hris P. Yegen, T. E. Ward eee Soo Hotel. Tegis FILE PROTEST AGAINST BALL FOR LEHMANN Fellow Citizens Do Not Want Al- leged Murderer Liberated— Say He’s Dangerous PRELIMINARY HEARING BEFORE FOLSOM TODAY Defendant Bound Over to Next Term of Court—State to Re- sist Bond Proposal Dickinson, N. D., June 4.—A fea- ture of the preliminary hearing of Adolph Lehmann, alleged murderer of Mathias Wetzstein, held before Jus- tice of the Pe A. 'P. Folsom today, was the reading of a petition signed ‘by 73 fellow citizens of Lehmann, from Richardton, protesting against the release of the prisoner on bail, and alleging that he is a dangerous character. Consider Him Menace. “We consider him a menace to the community,” reads the petition, “and he has on many occasions uttered threats against certain of us, stating that he would do us bodily injury; that he has threatened certain of us, gun in hand, even’ when we have ap- proached his home on peaceful er- rands; that we know of a number of Be Sure and Register Tomorrow CERMANS MASS LARGE FORCES TO STOP DRIVE Every Evidence That Teutons Are Ready to Make. Vast Sac- rifices SLIGHT ADVANCE MADE occasions when he has. threatened others, and has given orders to his employes never to allow anyone ta come on his property, and: to enforce his order by the use of firearms. In ‘; View of these facts, and to prevent trouble which is certain to arise if he again returns to Richardton, we ask that he be not admitted to bail, and that he be punished tor his crime te the full extent of the law.” State to Fight. States Attorney H. A. Burgeson has given assurance that the state will tight any proposition seeking to admit Lehmann to bail. The hearing today was purely formal, only one or two witnesses appearing, and Leh- mann was ‘ound over to the next term of district court. PLAGE ON BOARD OF EDUCATION | Electors of Bismarck Will Name | Two Members of Body in Tuesday Election Seven candidates will be ballotted. upon at the regular school election to be held at the Will school trom 9 a.m. to 4 p. m. tomorrow to fill the places on the board of education vacated by the expiration of the terms who decline to seek re-election, The candidates are: Cecil L. Bur- ton, A. P. Lenhart, k. WH. Howell, Mrs. G Arnold, Mrs. D. B. Shaw, Joseph Schneider and Marcus A. Edberg. ‘The chiet issue involved in tomor- row’s election is that of a business administration of Bismarck’s school | affairs. Messrs. Lenhart and Burtum are running on a straight business administration platform. A good sized vote is anticipated tor morrow, and it is believed that regist tration will help rather than hind the polling of a good representation. of GC. Wachter and H. W. Richholt, }! government BY BRITISH TO SOUTH Situation in Russia Still Acute Ea- pecially in Kronstadt -Where Revolution Is in Progress (By Associated Press.) There seems ample evidence that the Germans are ready to sacrifice any number of men to hold the situ- ation on the western front in hand. Along the French line they are-mak- ing almost ceaseless counter attacks. Despite sanguinary repulses Sunday on the Vaucelerc and Californie pla+ teau, they inade a new thrust last night along the Chemin des Dames plateau. Paris reports that the Crown prince's troops took some advance French trenches. The British have not been so active recently in counter attacks, but when- ever they essayed an advance they found dense masses of posing them. The British offi ment does not mention any further fighting in the vicinity of Lens, and g@pparently General Haig has not sed further his. advance made ‘day. In an independent operation to the south, the British last night recap: tured posts taken by Germans in at tacks. Saturday. Situation Uncertain. The situation in Russia continues uncertain. While better reports have come from the army at the front, Min- ister of War Kerensky declares the government constantly increasing in power. Conditions in Petrograd are becoming still more unsettled. Kronstadt wil! be declared morally ! boycotted, outlawed and cut off from the rest of the empire unl it im- withdraws its defiance to mal government. statement was made to the ‘ s today by Ministeg of Jus izeff. ‘Kronstadt’s defiance was discussed yesterday by the council of minis- ters,” he said. “All agree that the must now tolerate dec: larations of independence by separate distric In this we are absolutely supported by the Petrograd council W deputies. “The cabinet will probably tomor- row, if in the meantime Kronstadt Seaplanes to Fight Submarine Paris, June 4.—Santos Dumont, tire pioneer Brazilian aviator, has invent} ed a powerful type of seaplane for fighting submarines, according to a dispatch to the ePtit Journal. The | spatch says the machine will be; imanufactured in the United States and supplied to all the Allies. Mexicans Loot Fishing Craft \ | | 4.—The |} Arthas, | | Galveston, Texas, June American fishing schooner, was boarded by the crew of a Mexi- can gunboat off the coast tepec, Mexico, on the hig’ \Qgakes attack impossible. | no barm can come to Russia from any- has no. surrendered, issue a declara- tion that the fortress town has turned traitov to the revolution and become an enemy of Russia's new freedom. We are convinced that the universal reprobation of Russia will bring the extremists to reason. “We do not take this revolt too seriously Formerly when we had trouble in ‘Kronstadt, we temporized because we feared the result of stern tmeasures if the Germans attacked. ‘Lately we have taken measures which Therefore thing’ Kronstadt can do. Kronstadt’s boast of independence is doomed to a ! speedy ead. Hero of Revolution. The hero .»f the new Kronstadt rev- alution which terday deposed the Petrograd provisional government, is a youthful chen “st’y student of the Pletrograd Techno, ogical college. Ana- tole Lamanot’, who py bis eloquence, his flaming enthusia. ¥? and his umex- ampled energy recent.'¥ made himself PLE EEE EEE EEE SS sale of the Parrott Silver and Copper | company to the Anaconda Copper} Mining comp: Henry Rogers | and his associates, were sustained in) th® supreme,-court toddy. The suit; was brought by stockhdlders to pre-| vent the sale on the ground of fraud. May 31 and looted of clothing, gear and medicine chest. °T was brought here today by Captain S. A. McDonald of the Arthas, who arrived in port directly from the scene | of the robbery. trars—H. P. Knappen, E. H. Dummer. Ward 6—Fire hall. Regis: W. S. Ferry, Frank Me- & SIPISIHOO SS filed complaint with the federal trade commission against the Minneapolis ‘hamber of Commerce. asking relief jfrom the campaign it is alleged the jchamber of commerce is conducting against the Equity exchange. bility for their attitude are watched, and any effort on their part to leave the county house of representatives is in recess ; until Wednesday. in honor of the vet- | erans and for registration day, and} the senate probably will recess today } tonight or tomorrow will re- until Wednesday to permit members | sult in immediate arrest. to extend a welcome. SHSSSOSOSSOSO SHO OS president of the lecal ¢ wrcil of work- men's and sold es and vir- tually Kronstadt's dictator. When the Associated Press corre: (Continued on page ; bree.) Soeey ° * a 2 > o 2 ° & o o o o SOOSS