The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 1

Generally Fair. THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 152 § GOVERNM Pe PROHIBITION IN | S FOO) CONTROL > DELAVSACTION Thousands of Telegrams Are Sent Favoring and Opposing Bone Dry Feature NATION AROUSED AS TO SIGNIFICANCE OF BILL Act Up in Senate But Little Chance of Passage by July 1 5 } TO CONTROL WHEAT TRADE. Chicago, June: 28.—Government plans for food control, according to a-statement.given out today. by Presidént .Griffin of the board of trade, include. absolute contro! of the wheat trade in all of its com- mercial aspects. There can be no speculation in it. Buying and sell- ing of other grains, for present and future deliveries, will be un- restricted. The millers, likewise, will come under the control of the food ad- ministration, and their wheat pur- chased and flour distributed under the same control, said Mr. Griffin. The announcement brought the wheat market here almost to a standstill. ‘NO WORD RECEIVED. Minneapolis, Minn., June 28.— “We have ‘no official information as yet relative to government con- trol of flour distribution and the purchase of wheat,” said the offi- cer of a milling company here to- day. “However; we are expecting such. information any day.” ‘ $ Washington, June 28.—Not in years, $ according to several senators, has such interest in pending measures ‘been aroused as is:indicated by tele- grams_and letters on the prohibition clauses in the food contro} ‘bill. Thous- ands of telegrams poured in on sen- ators today, advocating. and opposing the “bone dry’’, plan witha majority in opposition. « Ms : Hearing, From Nation. « From,,,,farmers, merchants, labor unions, temperance ‘societies and mu- nicipal.,, gfficials, , the ..senators,; are hearing,;‘the; country’; -on, prohibition. Wisconsin and; New. England. are. es- pecially, the; sources: of -protest. ;, Wis: consin farmers and agricultural or- ganizations telegraphed: :today. that thousands of acres.of barley had been planted there in. expectation. of a continuance of brewing. Labor un- .jons are emphasizing loss of employ- ment from closing of breweries and municipal officers, the loss of license revenue. Many Protest. A few telegrams were from indi- viduals protesting against interfer- ence with their use of temperance malt beverages in habits of years’ standing. Many telegrams of protest are in identical language, indicating organ- ized opposition. Attorneys and other representatives of national - brewing * and distilling organizations are. busy in the Jobbies and offices, interview- ing thg..senators. The. “drys”. are also active with leaders of the na- tional anti-saloon league engaged in personal soclicitation of senators. The bill was up, for action: in).the senate fo rthe first: time.today.: It will be pressed for early. passage, ‘but its final action cannot be taken by July 1, on account of the prohibition provisions. cou Se Coal Operators Agree on Prices Washington, June 28.—The confer- ence of -400 operators, representing all coal producing states, took quick action today for the lowering of coal prices by adopting resolutions author- izing their committees to give assent to such maximums for coal, “free on board”,cars at mines, at the various districts, as may be named by the secretary of the interior, the federal trade commission and the council of/ National Coal Producers’, committee. Plans were agreed on, to be an- nounced later, today, for tentative “fair and reasonable prices,” based on suggestions of the operators, to be made effective July’ 1. Will Save Millions. An_ immediate general reduction of $1 to $1.50 per ton in the price of coal at the mines was agreed upon today. by representatives of the coal operators. This reduction is expected to be fol- lowed by further decreases in prices after investigation into the cost of mining coal and it is probable’ that the government will be given a stih lower price than the general public. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be saved to the American people through this decision. : : JAMESTOWN COUNCIL P| KNIGHTS COLUMBUS TO BE INSTITUTED SOON Jamestown, N. D., June 28.—A pre-| liminary organization of the Knights of Columbus has been perfected in Jamestown, and Tuesday, July 10, has eee e gal Va Jackies Bring Baseball to Old England, Natural Diamonds Laid Out Near American Naval Base Prove Popular ENGLISHMEN STILL LOYAL TO CRICKET AND SOCCER A British Port, Base of American Destroyer Floatillas, June 28.—The baseball season is in full swing here. Every American destroyer has one or two teams and the two days weekly when their ship is in port are de- voted to practice for the “pfg series” which is to begin next month. Three diamonds have been laid out on the cliff overlooking the sea. There are no grandstands, although every game attracts a crowd of spectators from the ship and the towns. The teams wear regulation uniforms brought from home, with the names of their ships written in large letters across their chest. The crowd makes itself comfortable on the green be- hind the catcher or near the first ‘base line, where the sea breeze is a little more brisk on a hot afternoon. The girls of the village, who probably NT ‘RIBUNE == BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1917. WHEAT BUSINES ———_ American This Is Kind of Town You Will Live In It You Are Selected for Service View of Cantonment City of U. 8. Marine Corps ai heard of baseball for the first time when the destroyer teams began lay- ing out the diamonds, are already de- veloping into proficient and critical fans. The same can hardly be said for the menfolk, who attend the game because they like “the American boys,” but who frankly cannot see where the game compares in interest with football or cricket. HEART IN WAR. SAYS. DANIELS AT ANNAPOLIS Graduation of Third Class Ad- vanced to Provide Naval 4, Officers CHIEF PROBLEM. NOW TO HOUSE \AND: UNIFORM MEN Annapolia,, Md., June 27—America is demonstrating. to the world. that a democracy :of 100,000,000 persons can wage war efficiently and with unity of spirit, Secretary of Navy Daniels declared today in a commencement address to nearly 200 members of the naval academy’s third year — class, whose graduation was advanced a year to provide officers for fighting ships. “Those who prophesied that Amer- ica would not go whole heartedly into the war have been discredited,” he said. “The only divided councils have | been as to the best methods to be employed. Our traditional policy has been against any but voluntary mili- (Continued on Page Four) WINTER WHEAT S BENG GUT Washington, June 23.—Harvesting of the winter wheat crop is well un- der way in all southern states and good progress is being made in the central district with oats and winter) wheat. The winter wheat harvest is ten days late in. Kansas, eight or more in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, and two weeks late in southern Illinois and Indiana. Co- operation between the departments of agriculture and labor has been ar- ranged as to laborers at the farms! where the crop is ready to be har- vested. TOWNLEY KEEPS | July 13 are asking. jer. CONTRACT WITH ~ LWW. SECRET Bargain Made Between Head of League and Union Never Has Been Made Public $11.45 FAIR DAY’S WAGE AGRICULTURAL WORKERS Just what isthe ‘agreement which President Townley of the league has entered into with the Agricultural Workers’ union, farmers of the Slope, who are expected t oratify this con- tract at a meeting to be held here ‘No ‘intimation of the bargain to which Townley has bound the 50,000 farmers whom he claims to control has ever been made public, except in a report of the Kansas City meeting carried by the “Industrial Worker,” official-organ of the Industrial Work- ers of the World. J. ... Hagan, commissioner of agri- culture and labor, who was the head of the committee sent by Townley to confer with the I. W. W. auxiliary, may know, and as a state officer, elected presumably for the purpose of serving all of the people, and not A. C. Townley and Arthur LeSueur ex- clusively, it is entirely possible that it might be regarded his duty to the state to give publicity to this agree- ment, but he has not done so. Inkling of Agreement. An inkling of what the agreement may be found to be, after the farmers have ratified it, is found in another article in the “Industrial Worker,” which serlously presents the argu- ment that with wheat selling at its present price, $11.45 the day is fair compensation for harvest hands. “When wheat was selling at 50 cents a bushel, a number of years ago, harvest hands were being paid $2.50 and $3 the day. ‘At $2.50 a day the harvest hand could buy 4 1-6 bush- els with his day’s wages. ; “Those were the days when the farmer did not ride in automobiles; a plow horse, hitched to a lumber wagon, was then good enough for him, but even in those days, the farmer could afford to provide his harvest hands with good beds, and he fed them at the family table,” says the official organ of the federa- tion to which Townley seeks to bind the independent North Dakota farm- (Continued on Page Three.) TO STOP EXPORTATION By HARRY B. HUNT. Washington, June 28.—An embargo forbidding all exportation of food- stuffs from the United States to neu- tral nations, to stop the drain of vital war supplies from this country, will be ordered by President Wilson be- fore the food bill passes congress. The president has decided that there must be no further delay in conserving to the United States and her allies, for war purposes, every resource of the nation. The embargo will he placed under authority granted by the espionage bill, recently passed and will cover not merely foodstuffs, but coal, iron, steel, lumber and every article need- ed, either directly or indirectly, in the making of war. There is very little that will not fall under. the embargo, which will peen selected as the date for the ‘in- stitution of the new council. be announced in a presidential proc-4 lamation, setting forth. the list of Wilson to Order an Embargo — —0— OF FOOD TO NEUTRALS articles which it shall be unlawful to export. Regulations will be established cov- ering all shipments to be taken from the United States, even for Great Britain and France. Only-in this way, it has been de- cided, can the government insure against the depletion of our supplies, Particularly of food, fuel and steel, to a point where our whole war pro- gram will be hampered. Neutrals have been heavy con; tractors for grain and other foou- stuffs in the past few weeks. Without an embargo to hold these supplies under government control, a very large percentage of our present harvest of wheat, for instance, even with the food bill enacted, might be rushed to completion. Citizen Soldiers ‘to Be Made as Comfortable as Possible in Cantonment Cities By GILSON GARDNER. Washington, Di C., June 28.-~The task of housing half a million soldiers while in training is now well started. Preliminary contracts have been let and the cantonments, as they are called, should be ready hy October. A premium is to be paid for speed of construction. The army must be trained and it cannot be trained until of these cities before the snow flies is more important than the saving of a few dollars. § Sixteen cities each of 40,000. popu- lation, are to be constructed in 90 days. ‘his is some job. Each city must have its wooden houses, its streets, sewers, water systems, elec- tric lights, railroad yars, water mains, garbage incinerators, « :iusement halls, storage structures ali stores: of other’ incidentals to the life of a military city. Cost Is High. As much money will be spent in 90 days.as the government spent onthe. Panama canal in a year. The cites: have been selected and most of them surveyed and laid off ‘into. their future streets, drill grounds, ball fields; freight yards and residence sections. In some instances the lum- ber and other materials are on the way. Each cantonment will require about 4,000 carloads: of material, and it is estimated 150,000 cars will be divert- ed from their usual business to take care of the cantonment work. fach of these wooden cities will require 26,000,000 feet. of lumber, or 1,825 carloads, one carload of roofing nails, 812 carloads of crushed stone for the roads, 28,000 squares of roof- ing, 20 carloads of miscellaneous hard- ware, 20 carloads of plumbing mate- tial, 192 carloads of tanks, heaters, stoves, ranges, pipes, electrical mate- tials, refrigerators and the like; 30 carloads of ties and other timber; 20 carloads of railroad spikes, rails, fish plates; 114 carloads of ballast; 10 car- loads of electric light poles, wires, in- sulators; 12,000 cubic yards of con- crete, and 175 carloads of sand. The typical cantonment house is a wooden affair set up on posts about four feet from the ground; the peaked roof is about 25 fect high, and the floor of each house is about 255 feet wide and 125 feet long. In most of the plans the men are to sicep in double-tiered bunks. Each house has its little book- case, wooden table and wooden dresser. 37,500 Bunks. The window is screened with metal- lic screening. Each city must have 37,500 separate bunks and mattresses, which will re- quire 125 cars to move them. Each city will require 150 carloads of hospital equipment, three carloads of screens and 20 carloads of construc- tion tools. Each cantonment will contain about 1,000 ‘buildings. The kitchen and the mess hall are separate from the living buildings; each company having its own kitchen and mess. The government already has had some experience in rushing up these mushroom cities for the army. On May 14 the quartermaster’s depart- ment received orders to have quarters ready on June 15 for 150,000 men. This meant the erection of $7,000,000 worth of new buildings at nine differ- ent posts. That work has been com- pleted. y, A typical city of this sort is located are to make their home. At one end of the cantonment site one sees the virgin forests, next he sees where the forest has been burned and felled; next to this are the scant- lings and posts stuck into the ground which are to be the foundations of houses, and then come the houses in all. stages of construction, with the completed product at the far end of drained to Norway, Sweden, Den- mark and The Netherlands, with dan- ger, not only of cutting our reserves tq the danger point, but that a con- siderable part of such shipments might find their way into Germany. the camp. Three weeks ago this land was as Capt. John Smith discovered it. Soon it will be a city with ‘paved streets, modern improvements and a.teeming population. it is housed. Therefore, the building| at Quantico; Va., where 8,000 marines / . Soldiers | Near Fire United States Troops Somewhere in France Thousands tof Ready for Trenches FORCES WILL PROVE NET GAIN TO ALLIES Washington, June 28.—Somewhere in France thousands of America’s fighting men are today encamped, ready to take their places in the trenches beside the seasoned cam- paigners of the Allies. Regulars and marines, fresh from active service on the Mexican border or in the West Indies, were landed yesterday after a voyage in which the German submarines were eluded and all records were broken for transport- ing over: a large military unit. News of the arrival of the troops t Quantico, Va. a-type of 16. othtrs now being HEALTHY GROWTH OF ClTY SHOWN TN VALUATION Assessed Worth of Bismarck In- creased More Than Third- Million During Year PAID ASSESSOR PROVES EXCELLENT INVESTMENT An increase in assessed valuation of $336,626 during the last year is shown by “the: first “annual” report’. of City. Assessor E..E. Morris, presented to the city board of equalization in ses- sion at the commission chambers to- day. Bismarck’s! total worth as as- sessed today is $2,555,629, as com- pared with $2,219,003 one vear ago. The actual valuation of the city is thus shown to be nearly $13,000,000, as compared with approximately $11,500,000 in 1916. Items as assessed, compared with 1916, follow: 1917— Personal property .. Real property . Railway, telegrap! property «$710,547 ++ 1,712,967 , telephone 132,115, TOTAL. $2,555,629 1916— Personal Real estate . «$485,750 + 1,593,300 TOTAL.... + $2,219,003 Moneys and Credits. In moneys and credits Bismarck is assessed this year at $38,101, which is at the rate of fire per cent of the acutal amount, indicating that in ready cash and quick assets in the form of credits the Capital City just now is worth about $800,000. Praise for Assessor. This is the first assessment made in Bismarck by a paid, full-time as- sessor. The work was done by E. K. Morris, who has heen employed in this capacity from the first of the year, and the board of equalization is well pleased with the result. It is believed the as: sment is more complete and more equitable than could have been obtained under the old plan, where the work must be crowded into a few weeks. To Hear Protests. The board will be in session from 9:30 to 11:30 tomorrow morning to hear protests, if any be forthcoming, from property owners who feel they have been assessed too high or too low. _| ment, sent a thrill through America, as it was generally unknown that any large detachment had departed from these shores, The forces will be a net gain to the Allies, as the men will be fed, clothed, armed and equipped by this govern- Already there are being stored at the encampment supplies sufficient for many months. ' The American forces will be an in- dependent unit, co-operating with the Allies. It has been suggested that the PERSHING IS UARTERED IN MILLS HOM New Yorker Puts Paris Residenca at Disposal of American General SUBURB OF LENS TAKEN BY CANADIAN FORCES Operations Along West Front Confined Largely to. Minor Infantry Attacks CAPTURE SUBURB. Canadian .Army Headdquarters in France, June 28,—Under a Protecting concentration of ar- tillery fire, Canadian troops. early today captured the German ~ front line before Avion, a sub- urb of Lens. By this morning’s advance, the British line has been carried forward to within one mile of the center of Lens. The attack was made along a Americans might be placed as a con- necting link between the French and the British armies, but the exigencies of the campaign will decide their dis- position. DUNN ADNITS HF CAVE WEN HUSH MOREY Declares $5,000 Paid to Keep Brown ‘and Ferdig From Talking to Police ST. PAUL MAN DENIES HE HIRED THEM TO KILL WIFE St. Paul, Minn., June 28.—Frank:J: ‘Dunn, on trial in Ramsey county’ dis- trict court on a charge of procuring the murder of his wife, admitted on the witness stand late yesterday that he gave Al Brown and S. C. Ferdig, both of Montana, $5,000 in the sum- mer of 1915 to keep them from going to the police with a story that he had attempted to hire them to slay Mrs. Dunn. He emphatically denied, how- ever, that he had ever approached Brown and Ferdig with such an offer. Frank J. Dunn adniitted on cross ex- amination in his triat for wife mur- der today that he had visited on oc- casions the drug store to which Joe Redenbaugh, confessed slayer of Mrs. (Continued on Page Three) ° BILLIONS WASTED IN FORM REFUSE Washington, June 28.—More than a billion dollars worth of farmyard re- fuse is wasted in the United States annually, which, at this time, is a na- scording to Carl Vroo- man, S cretary of agricul ture, who, in a statement. issued to- day, urges its conservation as a war measure by American farmers. “The experts of our department have figured that at least half of the animal refuse, all of which is avail- able for fertilizer, is lost to agricul- ture every year,” said Mr. Vrooman. | Aeroplanes Can Force Retreat AMERICA HOLDS KEY TO WHOLE SITUATION By BASIL M. MANLY. Washington, June 28.—“The Germ| ans will be forced to retire across the Rhine as soon as the Allies, with the} help of the United States, are able to establish supremacy in the air! and put on the western front a fleet | of 29,000 battle planes and bombing | machines of the type which America is capable of producing in enormous! numbers,” says Commander J. w.| Seddon of the British Royal Naval) Air Service. “Practically ammunition, foo all the German army’s d and other supplies must be brought across the Rhine.! The great German munitions plants at Essen, Dortmund, Barmen andj most of the other centers of the ‘iron} country’ lie beyond the Rhine, and; every gun, every shell they manufac-| ture must cross the railroad bridges; of the Rhine. With 20,000 battle planes and bomb- ing machines, organized in large squadrone, we would be able easily {man army to destroy every bridge across the Rhine, as well as. the railroad term- inals on this side, and cut the Ger- off from all their sources of supplies. And as fast as a bridge was ‘rebuilt it would be destroyed. Tunneling under the Rhine would be a long and costly process and still would not solve the problem, be- cause the bombing of a tunnel exit or. entrance would more effectively block transportation than the de- struction of a bridge. The moment that the German staff saw this was even threatened the retreat across the Rhine would have to begin in order to save the army from the cer- tain annihilation that would overtake it if left in the trenches without ammunition and food. “In the past.” explained Command- er Seddon, “the Rhine has been a great ‘military asset to Germany, but the iioment the Allies are able to two-mile front. On the extreme left, Nova Scotians pushed thelr | way to the Lens-Arras road, to the village of Leauvette. Here. they took a number of. prisoners. At the other end of the line east of the railway track, they bombed enemy dugouts there. The occu- pants belonged to the érack Prussian Guard corps, the Fifth’ Guard Grenadiers. At daybreak, ‘Canadian aero- planes flying low over ‘Avion, saw. few Germans there. Paris, June 28.—Major General Pershing left his hotel for a fine old residence in the Rue de. Varenne 80 as to be near his headquarters. Tho house, which has.» magnificent ‘gar- den, formerly belonged to Priice Gort: chakoff.. It was leased before the war: by Ogden Mills of ‘New York, who' Placed it at the disposal of General Pershing. ; The ‘American’ commander waa asked today to comment on Geteral Petain's article entitled, “Why We Are Fighting,” ‘published yesterday in the army bulletin. He said: Logical Answer, “General Petain's answer to the question is completé and logical. The facts set forth should convince the world of the justice of our great cause. I cannot think it possible anyone could hold a different view of why we are in war. It is quite beyond reason that anyone, knowing the truth, should fail to condemn the course pursued ‘by the German government. There must be no peace except a last- ing peace. The ideals for which the Allies are contending must be held sacred.” CAPTURE SUBURB. Canadian Army Headquarters in France, June 28.—fUnder 9 protecting concentration of artillery fire, Cana- dian troops early today captured thé German front line pefore Avion, a suburb of Lens. j WAR SUMMARY, (By Associated Press.) Again the. operations along the front in France are being carried out mainly by the artillery of the bellig- erents. The minor infantry activity. is by patrols in which only small bits of territory have been attacked. In one of these attacks, the Canadians have occupied an additional trench astride the Lens-Arras road, but after another attempt they were repulsed, acording to the German war office. Reciprocal bombardments of artil- lery continue along the Aisne front, and in Champagne and there has also been a renewal of the big gunfire in the Avoncourt sector, northwest’ of Verdun. In the Asiago plateau zone of the Austro-Italian theater the Austrian ar- tillery has shattered positions taken recently by the Italians and reoccu- pied them. The fighting was on Monte Ortigara and the Austrians as- sert that they captured more than 1,890 prisoners. Rome, in admitting the withdrawal of the Italians, says that the destroyed positions afforded no shelter to the Italians from the murderous fire of the Austrian artillery. Lively fighting continugs between the Russians and Austro-Germans on the eastern front, particularly in Ga- licia, south of the Tarnopol railroad and along the ‘Narayuvka river. The operations on the Macedonian front continue of miyor importance. There have, however, been several smart skirmishes and one attack by the en- emy, preceded by a violent bombard- ment, against the French positions. It was repulsed. ARREST CARDINAL. Amsterdam, June °8.—According to the Telegraaf, several priests of the entourage of Cardinal Mercier, pri- mate of Belgium, were arrestea re- cently in Germany and imprisoned. Twenty others, the newsnaper says, have been imprisoned. Among them is Cardinal Mercier's private secre- tary, who was sentenced to a year in establish air supremacy, the Rhine ( Continued on Page Three) prison for preaching a sermon on Sunday on Christian charity. ou