The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1917, Page 1

¢; fe « P > . . General W. K. Magn, chief of militia bureau, in a personal letter to Gover- TRIBU THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 187 THURSDAY, AGUST 9, 1917. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOT. CENERAL MANN |Bedding to TELLS FRAZIER | "Orde Is Offered f i ABOUT MIX-UP Appeal in Tribune Gets Hearty : Response From People of Bismarck ‘Jack De Saulles, Fre Had Too Many Pa None; One Ded Other Behind Writes Governor Personally Ex- pressing Regret for Mistake {TWO SOLDIERS QUARTERED Regarding Second AT 8T. GEORGE'S PARISH Bismarck did not know that mem- MANY OFFICERS MAY BE ‘bers of Company I were without suffi- DISQUALIFIED BY LAW| cient bedding to keep them warm and _— comfortable. But The Tribune told the city the facts last evening and— ’ Well, Secretary Keniston was a nervous wreck today answering tele- Phone calls far into the night. There was enough bedding, cots and supplies offered to quarter a regiment, and squads of the company started nor Frazier this morning, explains the| °Ut today to collect the donatipns of mix-up with reference to the Second blankets, cots, mattresses and other kinds of bedding. Two soldiers are quartered at. St. Number of Company Command. ers as Well as Field and Staff Do Not Comply regiment. The general: says: “The fixed rule of the bureau in regard to the strength of companies to be ac-| George's parish house. Rev. Buzzelle cepted has been to require a sini-| tendered the use of the double cot mum strength of 1,000. Through| there. } some inadvertence due to the press of] It is now certain that the boys will ; fbusiness, a telegram was prepared be comfortable until the war. depart- and sent to the adjutant general of | ment decides upon a point of mobili- North Dakota in June, saying that the| zation or hastens enough supplies here strength required would be 65. This| to properly quarters the boys. information did’ not’ originate with{ There is still a great need for read- that part of the office concerned with| ing material, especially magazines. the raising of infantry regiments and| Both Company I and the boys at Fort companies, and, although my: name} Lincoln are out of reading material. was signed to the’ message, it was}Send your donations to the Commer- not, brought to my attention until yes-| cial club, The Y. M. C. A. is doing terday. As soon as I learned of it,|.a good work at the Fort and the peo- Here are father, mother and son in the tragedy of mi her love which ‘ranks next to the T the dramas of American life. Close scrutiny will reveal face, which is the composite of both. e features of each parent in the chubby child's chled Lad of Five, ents, Now He Has Bars ‘haw case in steps were taken to rectify the mat-| ple of Bismarck can help by sending ter, and in order to keep faith with] books and magazines which are col- your officials, who were acting on] lecting dust in the garret or cellar. what they believed was the authorized — minimum strength of new companies, recognition was immediately accord- | y SOLDIERS Us ed the three companies which were Deepest Impression Gained to under a strength of 100 men, but over a strength of 65. ‘I am sorry there Camp in France Is Earnest- neas of Men Sand Pile and 8 ing. Paradises Are Deserted—@ircdale rier Lonely for Ter- CORN AND OATS CROP LESS THAN Government Estimates for August) then. ‘Today all those parental. hands do not grasp, but. are bound—by death. or the law. The child’s eyes are troubled. Their trouble was that both father and moth- er reached eagerly for him. Their trouble is that now neither reaches. WHEAT LOOKS ALMOST .: Two—both famed, both rich, both 100 PER CENT BETTER | cultured—fought ‘for: the c! to shower all the tokens of devo New York, Aug-y9 ous faced boy, not. hair, but eyes da Jackie De Saulles, the most dramatic ti love the country’s cord. was any misunderstanding, and hope the ‘organization of the regiment now]. may be completed at an early date.” The: companies to which General (Mann refers as ‘being under 100 men ‘but were over 65 were, B, F and K. His’ letter still left the fate of the) regiment as a whole at doubt, but fast night Major Settle, chief mustering of- ficer for North Dakota, received in- structions to muster in ‘the fourth company, which theretofore had been denied federal recognition—Co. L of Hankinson, which ‘succeeded in re- cruiting but 33 men—and the major announces that; the. acceptance of the 12 infantry ‘companies. means recog- nition for the Second as a whole and Senators Gronna Shows Decrease in Two Im- portant Grains ‘FOOD CONTROL BILL PASSED-TO BE LAW Among Four Republicans Opposing Measure HOOVER WILL CARRY OUT FEATURES OF LEGISLATION the mustering in of the headquarters company and ‘band in ‘Bismarck,’ the} | supply: company at Hillsboro apd, the, The. first ‘official act of John .M. Beer as congressman of the First dis- trict, whose glection was certified to Washington :yesterfay. -by . the ‘state ‘board of: canvassers, was a wire to Governor. Frazier, > supplementing) those of ‘Senator McCumber and Rep: resentative Norton, advising that the Second had been saved. Officers in Doubt. While the acceptance of the Second ‘as a unit now seems.assured, the fate of the field and staff officers and a number of‘the company commanders remains in doubt. Practically every field and staff officer exceeds the. age limit for his grade. This.is a regu- latory matter, which may be warved. The provisions of Sec. 74, requiring officers to be selected from the na- tional guard or reserve officers’ list, however, is a legal enactment, and what authority the war. department may have to ignore it and accept ‘North Dakota officers who fail to com- ply with these provisions is a ques- tion. Adjutant General Fraser this morn- ing expressed the sincere hope that the war department may see its way clear to accept the field and staff of- ficers named, as, he declares, they are men of exceptional ability and standing, whose rejection would be a a serious loss to the regiment. He has recommended to the war depart- ment that it use its utmost authority ‘to make exceptions in favor of these officers. ‘Company Officers Out. All of the commissioned officers of Co. A, Minot, are held disqualified un- der Sec. 74 of the defense act. vap- tain Wheeler of Co.'B, New Rockford, is ruled out. The first and second Heutenants of Co. C, Crosby; all of the officers of Co. F, Carrington; the captain and first lieutenant of Co. G, Rolla; the captain of Co. H, Harvey; the captain and first lieutenant of Co. ‘is no, disposition SIX MONTHS .TO YEAR 18 9.=“The ‘deepest inipression one ‘gains lute earnestness of the men. There to under-estimate the seriousness of the task and the hard work which must be done before America can take her place on the actual firing line. Feel Responsibility. The troops here feel their respon- sibility keenly. The men are earnest in their desire to absorb war knowl- edge as quickly as possible, and as thoroughly as possible, for when called upon to act as instructors to succeeding units they will be quali- fied. A great deal of this earnestness is largely the result of enthusiasm of young officers, who but recently joined the colors and have taken up the business of war with courage and de- termination. Under the best circumstances, train- ing of soldiers in methods of modern warfare requires months of painstak- ing efforts. A thousand of the most valuable men in the British army for instance, did not put a foot in France until after they had had a whole year of training at home. Boys of Seventeen. On the other hand, Germany called boys of 17 years last September, and sent many of them, into the trenches after only six weeks of infantry train- ing. This was possible because these ‘boys were merely distributed among old, seasoned troops—stop gaps in the ranks of decimated divisions. ix months is nearer the ideal train- ing period, ibut this rule applies to armies which have been fighting three years, and have all the machinery necessary through which the men are passed, on to the front. The building of this machinery is “tiie atateoeNOFtN Dakota ait Tor the after three weeks with American sol- .diers training in France is: the abso- parent thus dowered can give. Today one js dead and the:other in prison. Once Jackie De’ 9"y/¢:', chief, shad- ow.,was that he had'a father and a mother. ‘Now the shadow is that he has neither—and may never have. Solved No Problem. The accuraté bullets with which -Bi- anca Erruzariz De Saulles, Chilean beauty and heiress, killed John L. De Saulles, Yale gridiron hero, sports- man, political leader, successful busi- ness man and society favorite, whom Washington, D. ‘C., Aug. 9.—A.sum- mary of August crop report for United Statés, as compiled by the bu- reau of crop estimates (and trans: mitted through the weather bureau), United: States department of agricul- ture, is as, follows: Corn, Aug. 1 forecast, 12,490,000 Jecem- ‘State: bushels; production last year( der estimate), 13,515,000 bushel United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 3,190,000,000 ibushels; production last year (December estimate), 2,583,241,- 000 bushels, All Wheat. State: Aug. 1 forecast, 61,000,000 bushels; production last year (Decem- ber estimate), 39,325,000 bushels. United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 673,000,000 bushels; production last year( December estimate), 639,886,- 000 bushels. their son, | solved no provlem for | Jackie. | The boy, who w: ed the tragedy at his father’s home, “The Box,” in the Long Island millionaire colony, has been spirited away ‘by the father’s relatives, who fear he may be taken from them, even though the young mother is in the Mineola jail. In the few years of his life Jackie De Saulles has never had a wish de- nied—and yet he has never been quite happy. Had Two Homes. Since the decree of divorce granted Mrs. De Saulles last December, Jackie has had two hon two playrooms, two sets of governesses, two beauti- ful, widespreading lawns, two outdoor miniature child’s paradises. He has had a pony, dogs, birds and other pets. He has had a private shooting gallery for his ‘boy’s bows and arrows. He has had a specially ‘built. chute-the chutes; a wonderful seashore sandpile; a big swing and a splendid see-saw. But—Jackie has not been happy. For Jackie knew—although he did not understand—that something was wrong. ‘His father lived at the beautiful ‘bungalow near the Meadowbrook Hunt club, while his mother had rent- d “The Crossways,” near Roslyn, R. Oats. State: Aug. 1 forecast, 48,200,000 ‘bushels; production last year (Decem- ber estimate), 53,750,000 bushels. United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 1,460,000,000 ‘bushels; production last year (December estimate), 1,251,992,- 000 bushels. Barley. State: Aug. 1 forecast, 27,400,000 bushels; production last year (Decem- ber estimate), 26,738,000 bushels. United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 203,000,000 bushels; production last year (December estimate), 180,927,000 bushels. Rye. Fe State:. Aug. 1 forecast, 9,310,000 bushels; production last year (Decem- ber estimate), 4,655,000 bushels. United States: Aug. 1 forecast, 56,000,000 ‘bushels; production last year (December estimate), 47,383,000 bushels. 1 Flax Seed. Torn From Play. State: Aug. 1 forecast, 6,040,000] He had to leave his mother’s house bushels: production last year (Decem-|in the big automobile every time he ber estimate), 8,137,000 bushels. wanted to visit his father. And when United States: Aug. 1 forecast,|he was comfortably enjoying the see- she had divorted nine months ag0,| s Washington, Aug. 9.—The food bill passed through the last stage of leg- islative. enactment ~at. 4 Jo’clock. yes; terday afternoon, when it was finally) adopted by: the senate in the form previously approved ‘by the President Wilson’s makes it law. All is in readiness administration food control and food survey bill into effect as soon as they become law with President Wilson's The president will sign the bills tomorrow, after the presid- ing officer of the senate and house ignature. affix their signatures. be done today, because neither house was in session. The vote was 66 to Those voting against the confer- ence report were: Democrats—Hardwick,, Hollis Reed. Republicans—France, Follette and Penrose. Food Survey Passes. Immediately after the final vote on the control ‘ill the senate by a viva voce vote also approved the confer- ence report on the first administra- tion food bill, providing for a food survey and an appropriation to stimu- late production. ‘Both bills are to become laws Fri- day with President Wilson’s approval. FRIDAY and Penrose house. signature now for putting the This could not 7. and Gronna, La The delay is caused by adjournment of both houses. tion is expec tion to its The food control of the house until Friday and neces- sity for the signing of the bills in open session by the presiding officers Will Appoint Hoover. Prompt appointment of Herbert C. Hoover as food administrator and im- mediate operation under the legisla- to follow. comprehensive provisions for control of food, fuel, fertilizer and farm equipment, the control bill car- ries drastic prohibition features. bill during the war, broad government control over foods, feeds oils, natural gas, fertilizer gredients, tools, utensils and equip- K, Ellendale; the captain of Co. L,| the staggering task now ‘being dealt Hankinson; all of the officers of Co.| with. It is a task in a way greater ment required for the 12,800,000 ‘bushels; production last| Saw, the swing and the chutethe- In addi- establishes, , fuel, fuel and its in actual produc: \M, Beach, and all of the officers of|than anything France or Great Bri- the Dickinson machine gun company} tain has been called upon to do for will be ruled out if the section iS} America’s problems are those of strictly enforced. This will mean the] France and Great Britain multiplied officering of these companies by men} by three thousand miles of Atlantic from ‘the First regiment. Co. I of] ocean. Bismarck, Co. D of Devils Lake and Co. E of Langdon are the only units} ‘The daily thrills and tasks neces- of the Second -whose officers €! sarily are much the same thing over qualified in every respect and have) anq over-again, all of which mean a been accepted subject to the provi-|dearth of real news. But the soldiers sions of Sec. 74. are anxious that the folks at ‘home (Continued on page four.) (Continued on page *wo.) To the Boys Who Were Drafted BY HAPSBURG LIEBE of the Vigilantes Daily Thrills. (Continued on Page Three) To St. Paul. view and “commencement exercises’ st the officers’ training eamp at Fort Snelling, where approximately - 200 North Dakotans will finish their three-| "tr 4, not known how lon , ig the months chars. er var of ee it! Prench instructional division will re- is hoped, commissonet main with the Americans. The latter Octagenarian Dies should know that the absence of news Governor Frazier and General Fra-| does not mean absence of work. Nor ser leave this evening to attend re: can the value of each day's training actually be told until the American ished product. tained to assist in the training. soldiers at last stand out as the fin- are proving so apt that undoubtedly} tell you what 1 would do if I were it will be only a short time when a] going into the army again. few picked French officers will be re-| would go into it with the rock-firm in- matter whether it suited me or not. J would obey orders very strictly and to the letter. That is the magic phrase —it is the religion of the army: obey orders. During my time in the army, no man who lived up to that as his motto could go throuch with a term of enlistment without having a chance of being made a corporal, or a sergeant, or even a sergeant-major. There are few commissioned officers who will overlook the enlisted man who never “The writer of this little message to you, ‘boys, has himself been an Amer- ican soldier, and he is very proud of that fact. He knows army life, and he has seen red-hot fighting, and he knows the ways of officers. I will put it like this: J will simply First, I tention of whipping Germany. I would while. ican soldier, of cou too. your chevrons. A real, dyed-in-the-wool Amer- : : However, bound to be a chance for you to win I've never yet seen is a gentleman, there is the men who tried hard for promotion, if he tried honorably, In spite of their bluff of it a private. military manners, you under the skin; they are quick to recognize, and they are most heartily glad to recognize, the golden qguali- ties of a soldier and a gentleman in While Endeavoring Morale ts Good. look at the matter-just like that. Save To Stop Runaways Students of the war are convinced} that I would certainly not discount 42900 % 6% ¢ that the morale of the troops and thé/the importance of anybody else, I Huron, S. D., Aug. 9.—Omar | morale of the nations of the entente| would believe, so far as it were possi- Wilcox of Greeley, Ia., aged 81, will prove to be the final factor. The] bi¢, that it was up to me—to_ me, my- was crushed.to death, when he morale of the American soldiers in} self—to give Germany, the earth’s tried to stop a team of runa- ©) France can easily be estimated; dy] pariah nation, the licking that is going way horses at the home of his | the avidity with which they take up| to make all nations safe in a world- brother, Lewis Wilcox. The | training in offensive tactics as against | democracy. ‘ bocce Gat in South | the defensive work. They are sineére:|'--and the moment I was sworn into SEEETHOOSE LEED (Continued on Page Twoy” [the service, I would resolve that, no disobeys an order, when promotion be- comes necessary. And in this war. men from the ranks are going to win commissions, boys; remember that! But every man of the compa the troop, or the battery, or wh it happens to be, cannot be advance:i, you say; and you are right. But ev- ery man can be a soldier. How much there is bound up in those three little words! You'll know yourself, after a an enlisted man. Ren Also, remember t the service to fight fo and not to make sold or the purpose of whippin; for no other reason. and good luck to you e - oa 2 + ° - rd ‘back to us! + er| you are going across the Atlantic for good God of our fathers bring you who came out ‘sare just like mber that, too! You are in r your country, iering a trade; ig Germany, and So long, boys, ; and may the Baby Takes Poison Left Formaldehyde After Race Against Death PARENTS RUSH CHILD TO lost. poison which he had found on a win. of the house. near St. Vincent, ‘Morton county, yes: terday morning. empty near the victim. Everything was done to save the child, ‘but he died a few hours after reach. ing the town. Amel, & prosperous farmer. NEGRO TELLS. OF HOW CREW WERE SLAI German Submarine Destroyed Lifeboats and Boats of Belg-: ian Prince SURVIVOR HID PRESERVER UNDER A RAINCOAT ~yWilliam’ Senell, Liverpool, Aug. 9- a negro, of Jacksonville, Fla., | the. only American suryivor of. the British stéaniship Belgian’Prince, ‘which ‘was with the loss of 38, liyes, today gave details of his experiences to the As- sociated Press. He said: “A torpedo hit the engine room. The submarine then quickly came to the surface and fired at our wireless appartus. We left the Belgian Prince in three boats, and had got 50 yards from the ship when the submarine came alongside and asked for our cap- tain, who was taken aboard. “We were then ordered io the deck of the submarine, where we were told by the commander to remove our life- belts and lie on the deck. This we did. Then the commander went into the boats, threw the oars into the sea, and had his men remove the pro- visions. After that the plugs were taken out of the holds in the boats, which were then cast adrift. Destroys Lifebelts. The submarine went to the norths east for 12 miles, the commander tak< ing the lifebelts to the top of the conning tower and throwing them overboard. I hid mine under a rain- coat, and when the submarine began to submerge, I tied it around my,;neck and jumped into the sea. The rest of the crew stayed on deck until they! were swept off by the sea. One by one they threw up their hands and went down, splashing water as they. disappeared.” MANY SLAVS LEAVE FLAG 0 CENTRAL POWERS sions—40,000 men—which entered: the war under the Austrian flag lighting today have turned squarely around and are fighting under the Entente colors against the Central powers. This fighting under two flags is one of the queer romances of the big war, related by Professor Yamitch, private chaplain of King Peter of Ser- bia, as illustrating how the conglom- erate Slav population of southern Aus tria-Hungary is ready to break away from the Hapsburg master. These two divisions, originally Aus trian, were forced into the ranks early in the war from Bosnia, Croatia, and) Herzegovina, the Slav states forcibly’ annexed by Austria. It is the great hotbed of Slav agitation. The Austrian staff held the Slav forces in reserve for a time, well knowing the bitterness in the ranks But when General Brussiloff's great drive began, a year ago, in Galicia, the Austrians had need of every man. This brought the Slav division into line and for the first time Slav was facing Slav, the southern Slav element being thrust forward to mect the rush of their brothers from the north. were; Stronger than flags. In Window ‘ i f Dies in Ten Hours From Dose, of} NOON IN COUNTY rh | DOCTOR IN AUTOMOBILE After a race against death in an automobile with a child suffering from a dose of formaldehyde, the parents The boy died 10 hours after taking dow sill while his parents were out Frank Amel, one-and-a-half years of age, was laughing and playing on the floor when his parents left their home], Shortly afterwards they réturned to find the ‘boy suffering death agontes. A bottle in which only a small portion of formaldehyde had been left, was ji The parents rushed the child to their automobile, and as fast as the machine could carry them, brought the boy to a physician at St. Vincent. Frank Amel was the son of John Corfu, Island of Corfu, Aug. 9.—} There are two whole Serbian divi-/ the support of the dependent wife, against the Entente allies and which} It was literally a fight of brother. against-brother. But the ties of rare | 16 REGISTRANTS FAAMINED UP TO. if Rejections for Physical Disquali; fications Ran Heavier Yest-. : 1 erday Afternoon |MANY CANDIDATES CLAIM — AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION | District, Board Will Have to Pass/ on Large Number of Cases. —Officers Working j CHANGE RULES. : ‘ Washington, D. C., Aug. 9.—Re- rly vised regulations to govern phy- ical examination of men regis. tered under the selective draft were issued today by Surgeon General Goigas and communicated to the governors of the states for information of local boards. The changes may recall some of the men who have been rejected. Seventy-six registrants had been examined and about a dozen eligibles fer selective service who claim no exemptions of any kind had been ac- cepted; when the Burleigh county : ae adjourned for Innch at noon to- ay. Physical disqualifications ran much higher yesterday: afternoon than dur- * ing the forenoon. The board worked until midnight last night without add- ing greutly to the number of men post- tively accepted for service: The num- ber of notices of claims for agricul- tural exemption is growing. These ~ clajms are not filed with the local ' board, but with the state board. A : number of registrants, however, have | notified the local board that claims fon aereultural exemptions will be Lee Letting Bars Down. 4 An important letting down of the ° bars as to physical qualifications: was announced from the adjutant general's office this morning, following receipt of telegraphic instructions. from~Pro- vost Marshal Crowder. The 53 local boards were advised that 4 reduction * of from five to six pounds is allowed in the minimum weight of registrants measuring 64 to 67 inches; seven to eight, pounds in registrants measuring 67)to, 69 inches; nine to ten pounds in + registrants measuring 70 to 74 inches, and 12 pounds in registrants 75 inches ov. more. in height. A: reduction “in chest measurement of one-half ‘inch in sunk July 31 by. a German submarine} registrants above 68 inches is allowed; * ;providing .there. is no lung trouble, * Well fitting artificial teeth, dentures ¢ or plates are accepted in lieu of migs- ing molars; men may be accepted | with either eye not quite up, to the more rigid tests heretofore laid down, and any discharge of the ear, perfora- tion of tho tympanum or dry ear is / not held a disqualification. Registration Data. Registration data compiled this morning by Charles Leissman of the adjutant general's office shows that ‘ 51 legislative, judicial or executive of: ficers registered in North Dakota on - June 5, 737 registrants were totally disabled; 22,732 indicated dependent relatives; 3,974 cited occupational ex- ' |emptions; these classes ‘being’ includ- jed among the white citizens and de- , clarants from friendly countries, of whom there were a total of 57,688, 27,876 of this number claiming no ex- emptions. Dependency. A new ruling from Provost Marshal ‘Crowder on the subject of dependency wired local boards today notes that. the general basis for arriving at de pendency is the spirit of the select service act, which authorizes the pres- ident to discharge registrants when- ever it appears advisable because the loss of his civil income will inftict hardship upon his family. The act, General Crowder advises, aims to avoid leaving any dependents with lack of support. But where support from other sources is available, a dis- charge is not held advisable, as in cases where the parents or other rela- tives are capable and ready and will- ing to provide for a wife and children during the absence of the husband; where a wife owns land which has produced an income with the labor ef her husband, but which could be rent-’ e@ easily and certainly; or where the salary or wage of the husband is con- tinued in part or in whole by a third person or where it alone or with the soldier’s wage added is adequate to i | | children, widowed mother, infirm fath- ' eror orphaned child under 16. Burleigh County Registrants. Burleigh county examinations in the last 24 hours have resulted as fol- lows: Charles Kappler, rejected, deaf and dumb; Thomas Costello, claim for dependents; Earl James Nixon, reject- ed, bad hearing; Harry Bernstein, re- jected, under weight; Walter James ‘C. Haney, accepted; Hugh E. Loomis, claims agricultural exemption; Joseph Kreitzer, accepted; Alex McLellan, physically disqualified; George Wah- ler, passed; Tiderman P. Brunnick, dependent mother and agricultural claims; Simon Peter Olson, dependent wife and child; William M. Murnane, rejected, under weight; ‘William Aug- ust Larson, dependent wife and child; (Ray C. Dorland, physically disquali- fied: Carl Verne Erickson, claims ag: ricultural exemption; Ed Deitz, Mofit, physically disqualified; Hans Garness, physically disqualified; Charles H. (Davenport, ° physicaly disqualified; Jesse F. Miller, claims exemption for dependent wife and child snd employ- ment in postal service; Jacob Wagner, dependent wife and child; Orlando Welch, physically disqualified; Roy Kroll, accepted; Leo A. Meyers, phy- { Soo'nued ww kuge Three). . P