The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1917, Page 1

‘The Weather CLOUDY THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 165 . ’ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1917. FIVE COENTa -o— —o— -“HIS “ABDICATIO —o- —o—- —o- EPORTED BUT UNCONF IRMED -o- -o— TREAT LW. W AS TRAITORS It ~ THEY HURT CROP. United States a> Dlaacsee Attorney Declares Such Action Same As Aiding Enemy UNITED STATEST ARMY TAKES IN CONTROVERSY Member of Organization to Be Interned at Columbus, N. M., Stockade San Francisco, July 14.—“Any com- bined ‘effort by the I. W. W. ‘to de- stroy crops williamount to conspiracy to commit treason,” C. A. Ornbaum, assistant United States district attor- ney, said after appeals for federal aid to halt an alleged I. W. W. conspiracy @o destroy’ crops had been received from five California counties. According to the district attorney, burning or destruction of crops will constitute “giving aid to the enemy.” INTERN I. W. W. MEMBERS. Hermanas, IN. M., July 13.—Col. James Holbrook, U. S. A., with a com- mand of 192 officers and men arrived here today on a special train from Douglas, Ariz., to take the 1,200 Bis- bee exiles. to Columbus, N. M. Work of loading the men on the train was begun immediately. ° The soldiers were assisted in their work ‘hy. Sheriff Simpson of Luna county, Nj M., and the five deputies he took with him here last night to preserve order. The embarkation. of the exiles''to”Columbus’.wap: orderly. The mén will bé Nbitsed "In the stoc ade built: during the border troubles to care for’Mexican refugees and will be fed byothe: government. FEARS RACE WAR. Frankfort, Ky. July 14.—Governor E. O. Stanley announced today that he had ordered Adjutant General El- lis to go at once to Providence, Ky., with a company of signal troops of Lexington, where, he has been in- formed, 1,000 striking white miners and an equal number of negro miners were on the verge of war. 3,000 ARMED ED MEN PATROL. Flat River, Mo. July 14—Three thousand men, many armed, paraded {hroveh the iead mining district of @ Francois county today, driving ae foreign born miners out of the @emmunity, while every shaft in the district lay idle. Leaders of the mob, according to the officials of the West- ern Federation of Miners, were sent here by the I. W. W. The foreign. miners,. with their, wives andieaflatdni lied loti! every ‘po: sible conveyiee! "THe mod last ‘titEht stormed *¥hehtl(hortes * antt' wourtde”d’ more thar 800}6.! 94/) * @u! gies ad? OANNED RATIONS. Columbus, O., July 14.—Rations of the canned salmon, bread and water were issued upon the arrival of the train heye. The deported persons will remain in the freight cars until Jate today, when they will be trans- ferred to the. camp being prepared for them by U. S. cavalrymen. 0 REVAMP FOOD BILL Washington, D. C., July 14.--Plans for speeding up final action on food control legislation in the senate in accordance with the suggestion of President Wilson covered in a com- munication to Senator Martin, demo- cratic floor leader in the senate, were being mapped out today by adminis- tration leaders. © One of the first moves to that end was to arrange for a meeting ‘early in the coming week of the senate democratic steering committee, when efiorts will be made to perfect ihe original house bill along the lines pre- “posed by the president to prov government control of the foodstuff, seeds and fuel only. The president and H. C. Hoover are opposed to the substitute offered 5 Senator Gore, on the ground that it emasculates the administration bill. Prospects seemed bright today that senate leaders would be able to so eee the bill as to make certain its ssage. Debate on the food bill cun- 7 tinues today. M. B. A. to Meet. The regular meeting of the M. B. A.. Bismarck lodge No. 1018, will be held Monday evening, July 16, in the K. P. hall. All members are requested to be present, as there will be an election and important businesso¢Ehe meeting ‘Marsh, secretary. J] best draftsmen, will be called at $330: shatp.,and; will] cle Sam Dut to do the job his own te followed by a social-session: Grant| way—design a satisfactory engine engine French Are Optimistic On F. Fete Day ee Fourteenth of July Joy Unknown for Sev- eral Years BELIEVE UNITED STATES WILL BRING VICTORY ' Paris, July 14.—France today cele- ‘brated its national fete with a fervor and joy unknown in many years. The Russian revolution has made French- men realize more vividly the meaning of the great epoch, which, dawning in America in 1776, culminated in 1789 in a great revolution whose spirit, af- ter over a century was about to have its full fruition in the destruction of the last bastile of asolutism by the forces of allied democracy. “It is a pity,” said Paul Deschanel, president of the chamber of Deputies, in a message to the Journal, “that the Germans cannot see our national spirit, they who believe us to be starving and at the end of our re- sources. “America’s intervention, which is a decisive verdict on the justice of our cause, if a sure guarantee of vic- tory. It makes it more than ever our duty to hold on.’ AIR TNEYS TO WIN WAR IS FORECAST Believed... American... Engineers |.’ Have Worked Out Improve- ments on Mechanism BOARD HAS marlin ole CER FOR’ SOME lat By ats M. malty Washington, July 14.—In little more than a month American inventive ge- nius has surmounted the greatest ob- stacle to winning the war in the air by constructing an airplane engine equal, if not the superior, to any used by English, French or German fliers. This all-American airplane engine —officially known as the U. S. avia- tion motor—which two months ago did not exist even ‘on paper—has lit- erally been sweated out of the thought and toil of the nation’s best engineers. Two, J. G. Vincent of the Packard company, and E. J. Hall of the #Hall- Scott company, with a corps of the have been driving 'through the designs at the bureau of Hstandards days, nights and. Sundays in‘ distegard of the eight-hour day. To sécure the utmost speed the parts were built in more than a score of fa¢tories, each making the part it could best and most quickly manufac- ture. These parts have been assembled from all over the country to make a perfect and complete engine, and are now under guard at the bureau of standards to prevent German spying. Unless tests. develop unexpected troubles, aviation authorities say Am-| erica now has an engine, adaptable in different sizes to every airplane from big battle plane to tiny scout, which can be manufactured in such enormous quantities as to overtop anything Germany can do, even it she} stops building Zeppelins and motor trucks. The story of this great feat—equal in military consequences to winning half a dozen battles—is an example of the wonderful resources of brains, specialized training and productive) capacity America is mobilizing to de- throne the kaiser. Ever since we entered the war our military authorities have been con- vinced the surest way to win quickly was to gain air supremacy. Ger- many had shown repeatedly she can match the utmost French and Eng- lish airplane construction. It was up to Uncle Sam, and even he could not turn the trick on time unless air- planes could be produced in quanti- ties never qgreamed of. They knew we had the materials, men and factories—)ut how to mo- bilize them? So the Aircraft Produc- tion engines, they also knew, are not and navy officials and civilians ex- perienced in engineering production, was organized. This board saw the sticking point in the win-the-war-in-thear program was the engne. No engine built to- day in America was light and power- ful enough. Superb English and French avia- tion engines, they als oknew, are not adapted to American manufacturing methods and cannot be produced rap- idly in large quantities. Each French and British crack motor is a work of art, not a factory product. So there was nothing to it for Un- (Continued on Page Six) ASKS DRAFT OF 76,000 MEN I PROCLAMATION President Wilson Speeds Up Ma- chinery for Mobilizing Army Under Conscription GREAT LOTTERY WILL CALL REGISTRANTS TO COLORS 1 Final Touches Are Placed Upon System of Drawing Man Power to Service Washington, July: 14.—An_ import- ant preliminary step for the organ-| ization of Americas new national ar- my was taken with the publication today of President Wilson’s order drafting 678,000 men into military service under the selective conscrip- tion law. The order was issued by the war department, together with an official allotment of the number of men to be required from each state and territory. Distribution of the state’s quota among the local exemption districts and the great lottery to establisn the order in which registrants are to be called into the service are tse only steps remaining to be carried out. PATTERSON GETS AG CONVENTION FOR CAPITALOOM mk: th g jetforty of Edward G. Pattergon,; E1pmbichis in (2918, vill have the hopo: ff er AE ED com: western! ii fee: glatiop, com- posed of hotel ‘proprietors and man: | agers from six northwestern siates,| and which will bring here scores of | prominent bonifaces. Mr. Patterson, proprietor of the’ McKenzie, wired the good new’ to; the Tribune this afternoon from Min- neapolis, and his message was imme- diately followed by an Associated Press dispatch advising that the se- lection of Bismarck was made unan- imous. The association is one of much im-| portance, and it probably will be the} first time in history that it has .met in a town of Bismarck'p size. The coming of the organization is anoth~, er recognition that as’ ‘hotel town} Bismarck “is ‘strictly in the metto- politan class. St. Paul Man Head. Walter Pocock of St. Paul was elected president of the association} at its closing meeting in Minneapo- lis today, and W. E. Boyd of Fargo was re-elected vice' president. Reso- lutions were adopted declaring that the hotel men would do all in their) power to limit the consumption of expensive meats and _ breadstuffs. The resolution also commended sen- ators and representatives from the northwestern states for their stana, and asked President Wilson to take ‘immediate steps to relieve the coal | situation. GREAT SEND OFF GIVEN SOLDIER BOY AT FORT Entire Town Turns Out to Speed on Way Bachelor Farmer Who Joins Colors (Special to Tribune.) Burt, N. D. July 14.—The entire town and countryside gathered at E. E. Harvey's hotel this week to bid farewell to Theodore Kruse, who left the following day for Fort Lincoln to join the Second battalion of the First North Dakota infantry, as a member of Co, F, Mandan. Burt’s soldier representative is 31 years old and a successful bachelor farmer. Although over the conscrip- tion age limit, he felt it his duty to respond to the colors’ call, so he leased his farm and enlisted. The farewell reception was attend- ed by 60 guests and it proved an in- spiring event. At the close of the festivities, as a token of his feHow citizens’ esteem, Private Kruse was presented with a handsome ring. To Hold Last Meeting. Capt. James Murphy of the Salva- tion Army will hold his last meeting +MAY PAY 6 PER CENT ‘out in traveling expenses and to pay -| was the election of I. |. \eries which went out of business here | CAN'T ADVERTISE GUARANTEE UNTIL —TTTS ASSURED ‘Commission Advises State Banks - They Must Not Misrepresent Protection FOR TIME DEPOSITS Permission Granted to Retain Old Rate to Help Funds in the State State banks will net be allowed to} advertgse that their deposits are guar- anteed until these banks have been approved by the depositors’ ggaranty commission and the guaranty made an actual fact. The commission adopted this ruling yesterday, when there was called to its attention the’ fact that some banks, probably through a misinter-; pretation of the law, are now adver- tising that their deposits are guar- anteed by the state. Such guaranty probably will not be made effective until some time after January 1, 1918, when the legislature contemplated that the act would’ become actually operative. May Pay 6 Per Cent. Although 5 per cent was establish- ed by the last assemiily as the legal rate of interest, because of fears that a reduction in the interest rate would result in state banks losing large de-/ posits of outside money at a time when every cent North Dakota can command is needed in harvesting and moving its 1917 crops, the commis- sion adopted a resolution permitting bh ‘peF’ cent. Authority to do this was vested in the commission by the bank guaranty act. To Finance Themselves. Because no appropriation was made for the expenses of the board, the/ commissioners will finance them- selves “out of their own pockets and will look- to the next assembly to re- imburse them for money actually paid them the $5«per diem which the act provides for the three appointive memvers. An opinion of the attorney general, read to the commission ye !terday, held tiat no legal appropri tion for expenses was made by the act. State Examiner Waters, who is retary of the commission, will pré vide for printing out of the funds of his office, and ask the next assem- bly to reimburse his department. Mr. Wateis has made formal application to’ the emergency commission for $15,000 to provide for expenses of the commission, but it is not anticipated that the commission, which meets (Monday, ean act favorably on this} fietition, as it hasn’t the money. | Work to Consume Months. The examination of state banks made necessary under the guaranty law will %e made by deputy examin-| ers of Mr. Waters’ force in the course of their regular cuties. ‘There are 687. ba and ‘our trust companies to he inspected, and it is anticipated that this werk cannot be c npleted Ly January *, tre date eontemplat- el by the act for placing its pro- visions in effect. Examinations will be made as opportunit permits, but all of the banks will be admitted at} one time. | The only other business transact- ed at the initial meeting of the board, which lasted all yesterday afternoon, Hansen, cash- ier of the Equity International bank | of Fargo, to be treasurer. Governor | Frazier is chairman and State Exam-| iner Waters secretary of the commis- sion by vrtue of their offices. 31 THIRST QUENGHERIES VANISH IN SIOUX FALLS Eighteen Store-Rooms oe Occupied by Other Business Establishment | Sioux Falls, S. D., July 14.—So gradually that the change has passed unnoticed, beer and saloon signs have ; disappeared from the :}1 thirst quench- | July 1. Tuesday was the last date} under South Dakota's new prohibition Jaw upon which any dispenser of in-| toxicants might have such wares ia| his possession. Eighteen of the 31 storerooms, which \ among the} best in the city, already have been! filled with other business enterprises, | without increasing the number of va-, cant buildings in oth ections of the city. ——_—_= 2 U. ©. T. Mect Tonight. The U. C. T. will nold a meeting here in the Salvation Army hall Tues- day evening. Wednesday the captain and Mrs. Murphy will leave for their i new home in Sioux Falls, S. D. | —_ tonight in the K. P. hall, consisting of} a business meeting and initiation. . It banks for the pp,sent to, pay '« | K.'d by President Wilson and by Her- {London to volunteer his great abili- | war—that he was the best fitted man | WITHIN A WEEK; |amended to the point where it is jed. o— PEACE CLAMOR IN GERMANY FORCES CRAVE CRISIS UPON RULING POWERS DEMAND MADE FOR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM PRZEMYSLe the spirit of true’ democracy: behind and behind that is Przemysl, center Russian front. Larger map shows th and the point where the Russians are trians. Insert map shows the old ba along the Gnila-Lipa, 15 ee pack n To Lemberg! Then Again Przemys!! LEMBERGE #AALICZ / ®"STANISLAU! The startling! victories'\6f the Russians, this time, have been won’ with the dash. Lemberg is the first goal of the most disastrous battles on the e battle line from Riga to Stanislau driving back the Germans and Aus- ttle line along the Zlota-Lipa river and the new line of defense back of Hali sz, which the Russians have captured, WASHINGTON WRITER FOOD SPECULAT By H. N. RICKEY. Washington, D. C., July 14.—For many weeks now—to be exact, since May 22—the congress of the United States, both the senate and the house, has been presenting to the people of this country and the world a spectacle which, if it were not so tragic, might be described as the most utterly ridi- culous in the history of national and legislative bodies. On the date named, the Never bill, popularly, known as the food Dill, was introduced in the house, The purpose of this bill was to re- lieve the hundred and ten million peo- ple 0f the United States from the all but unbearable burden of the high | cost of living. It provided for giving the president authority to name a food administra- tor charged with the vitally import- ant task of stimulating the produc- tion, regulating the distribution of and stopping the speculation in food. This bill was prepared with great; care as the result of the best thought of the greatest experts in the govern- ment service. Before it was introduced it was Q. bert C. Hoover, who had hurried from ties as food administrator. ‘President Wilson had accepted Mr. Hoover's services by cable in the be- lief—-which was shared by every man who had followed Hoover's career since the beginning of the European in the whole world for the job. There was absolutely no good reason why the food bill should not have been passed by congress and become a law by the presi- dent’s signature within a week from the day it was introduced. There is not the shadow of a doubt that if this had been done, every’ fam- ily in the United States would have! felt the effects almost immediately, in the reduced cost of food necessities. THAT IS PRECISELY WHY THE FOOD BILL WAS NOT PASSED why it has been scarcely recognizable; why it is still being buffeted about in congress; why, for the past month, the debate has degenerated into a cat and dog fight on the liquor question. At the time the liquor issue was in- terjected into the discussion, it seemed as if the food bill was about to be passed. That was why the liquor fight start- The food speculators and hoard- ers, knowing that the moment the bill H was passed, they would be forced to} stop picking the pockets of the Amer- ican people, saved themselves by subt- ly starting the fight over whiskey and beer. Everyone who has sat in the gallery is expected many travelers will at- tend. of either the senate or the house and listened to the drool about whiskey | food DEGLARES. ORS ARE HIDING. 3) BEHIND WRISKEY AND BEER SUE and beer which is misealled debate, cannot but have been impressed by the utter lack of sincerity of 90 per cent of it. I am willing to admit that there may be A FEW senators and repre- sentatives who have shouted and waved their arms about the demon rum who are so unintelligent that they can't appreciate what monkeys the food sharks are making of them. BUT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THOSE IN BOTH HOUSES WHO HAVE DELAYED AIND ARE DELAY- ING THE PASSAGE OF THE FOOD BILL BY PROLONGING THE DE- BATE ABOUT LIQUOR ARE DELIB- ERATELY AND WILLFULLY betray- ing the people of the United States in the interest of the rapacious food speculators and hoarders? Every day’s delay has added mill- ions to the profits of the great con- cerns which handle the food from the time it leaves the producer until it reaches the retailer and the consumer. And, what is more, every day's de- lay has fastened the grip of these great concerns on the nation’s food reser and made it increasingly dif. ficult, if not impossible, to release it without resorting to the most desper- late measures. ff * & About the middle of June, Hoover, after a most careful survey of the whole food situation, told the leaders in congress and issued a statement to the public that July 1 was the outside limit when he must have authority to take necessary steps to control the prices of this year’s harvest if the consumer was to get the protection he was entitled to. Congress paid no more attention to] Hoover's statement, which was really | an eloquent plea for action, than though he had talked in a strange language which they did not under- | stand. July 1 came and went and the whiskey and beer debate con- tinued without interruption. in the meantime the greater part of this year’s harvest has fallen into the foul jaws of the food sharks and the rest of it will be there before the bill becomes, a law, if it ever does. IT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT TBN TIMES AS HARD TO CATCH THE SHAPKS AND GET THE FOOD OUT OF THEIR BELLIES AS IT WOULD ‘HAVE BEEN TO KEEP IT FROM GETTING THERE. That is why congress is still debat- ing about whiskey and beer; why it will continue to do so until the sharks’ bellies are full. There is no such lack of food in this country as to justify the high prices, in many cases prohibitive to families of small incomes. This WAR BILL HELO UP Crown Prince Waging Fight for Control of Prussian Military Autocracy RUSSIA IS SWEEPING PATH THRU GALICIAN TERRITORY General Haig -Pursues ‘Waiting Policy on the Franco!Belgian Front (By Associated Preas,) ‘Germany's serious internal crisis overshadowed the pending military operations in the news of the day. The reports from Berlin. show that the reichstag has gone on strike against the crown and the military party, apparently in the interests ot a parliamentary system of govern: ment. There is even ,2 rumor, al- though entirely unconfirmed, and lit- tle credited, that Emperor William has abdicated in favor of his sixth and favorite son, Prince Joachim. Peace Clamor. The peace clamor is growing, both in Germany and Austtia‘Hungary. Part of the trouble between ‘the reich stag and the governing class is over the government's persistent. declina- tion to state Germany's peace terms on the ‘basis of non-annexation de- manded by what ‘now’ ¢omprises a majority block in the reichstag. The war credit bill is being held up-by this majority until, the, politioal-criais is settled. But more séridus yet is the decision of the members not even to meet meanwhile for the discussion in session or committee. Waging Fight. Apparently the crown prince is wag- ing a fight for control on behalf of the militarists’ interests. Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg {is ugder fire from the crown prince and his sup- porters. The chancellor seemingly has ‘been too liberally incljned to suit the heir to the throne. On the military side the situation continues to bear a most encouraging aspect for the formidable group of the nations allied against the central powers, this generally being taken in- to consideration in dealing with the situation in Berlin and Vienna. ; Sweeping Forward. The Russian revolutionary army in Galicia is still sweeping forward. To- day they occupied the village of No- vica, southeast of Kalusz. Apparently there is little to stop them pquring through the breech in the line, ipeast- ern Galicia opened by General, Korn; loff) They ,are pushing an. north,,of the Dniester and west of the Lomnica,, and generally proving victors in the fighting going on alone ac 60-mile front? On the Franco- Belgian front a wait- ing policy is being pursued by Gen- eral Haig on the British end of the line and General Petain in the French action. There has been only iocal fighting by either group of armies. WAR MINISTER RESIGNS. Berne, Switzerland, July 14.—An of- ficial telegram from Berlin says that General von Stein, the Prussian min- ister of war, has resigned. NOT CONFIRMED. London, July 14.—A dispatch to the Morning Post from Amsterdam says that rumors current that Emperor William had abdicated in favor of his son, Prince Joachim, are unconfirmed and must be taken with all reserve. ACCEPT RESIGNATION. Copenhagen, July 14.—The Wolff's news bureau of Germany, without ac- cepting any responsibility for it, is- sues a statement by the Taglisches that the resignation of Dr. von. Beth- mann Hollweg, the imperial chancel- lor, has been accepted. According to Berlin newspapers. the crown prince, in interviews Thurs- day with reichstag party leaders, in- cluding Herr David and other social- ists, interested himself chiefly in ob- taining from the deputies their views on the person and policy of Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, the imperial chan- cellor. The crown prince is reported to have said he was doing this in ac- cordance with the wish of Emperor William. The morning papers appear to have had no intimation of the impending strike of reichstag deputies anu the emperor’s summons to von Hinden- burg, chief of the general staff. ARRIVE IN CAMP. Paris, July 14.—The vanguard of the American troops who left on Thursday for the seaport where they have ‘been in camp. arrived a. the permanent camp today and went into training immediately. Major General + Sibert, who will command the camp, has departed for the front. General Pershing will fol- is proved by a statement on cold (Continued on Page Six.) low him after a time.