The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1917, Page 1

2 THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOT. 227 AD: 70 HUR LIBERAL PART POSES PEABE. PLANS OF RULER Adops Resolution Expressing Disapproval. of Proposals of | Reichstag Majority GERMAN EDITOR PLEADS FOR FORCED ARMISTICE . 1 Believes Notes of Kaiser and Emperor Charles Leaves Opening for Negotiations | London, Sept. 25.—A dispatch from Copenhagen says the main committee of the National Liberal party of Ger- many has adopted a resolution oppos- might secure an enormous cash in- Panied by an observer, made the first ing the Reichstag peace resolutions, disarmament, establishment of a par- liamentary government in Germany, gictod by the e%irman officer, declared Captain Lauriat covered 709 English and the restoration of Belgium, and Senator Lewis, who was ‘discussing Miles in 722 minutes. advocating annexations of conquered territory. The Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts of Berlin characterizes the resolution as a challenge to the Reich- stag majority. Editor Gives Views. Eerlin, Sept 25.—In response to a request for his opinion of the German | reply to the Pope's. peace note, Max- | imilian Harden, editor of Die Zukunit, ' in a statement. to the Associated Press today said: $ “So far as. lies in our power, we want to stop the war and prevent the possibility of new wars by the cultiva- tion of a new spirit, which will so German Told Dewey Plans. Of Conquest graam by which They Would | Conquer World PRUSSIAN PEACE NOTE ‘DECLARED HYPOCRICY Washington, Sept. 25.—Prediction that Germany .would wage a war for world conquest in about 15 years, was made to the late Admiral Dewey at Manila in 1898 wy Captain Von Goetz of the German imperial navy, Senator Lowis today told the senate. Quoting. a report from Admiral Dewey to the navy department the Ilinois senator said that Von Goetz told the American naval officer that Germany would capture Paris as the first step to subjugate England. The taking of New York and Washington was to follow in order that Germany demnity. The wiping out of the ‘Mon- roe doctrine and the control of South America by Germany -also was pre- peace negotiations. ' For some reason the government had not given the report wide circu- lation, Senator Lewis continued, ut in the face of it now “any senator wh®, speaks here or elsewhere against any measure of his country, lends himself to the enemy.” Characterizing the German reply to Pope Benedict’s. note as “Prussian peace hypocrisy,” and an affront both to the pope and President Wilson, Senator Lewis scored what he term-. ed “laggards in patriotism” and those who argue against the war. EXPLOSION ON | completely . impregnate international | intercourse with ethical feeling, that . never again shall humanity behold the, day when force will‘strangle right.”” Denying that: the: German’ people ever seriously intended to apply open or covert forces ta the people.or gov- ernment of Belgium,.be said: NEW. EPOCH HOPED: FOR: “The words that: were so construed were intended only to serve the ,pur- pose of war tactics, or said, mecessity. Most eagerly do.we desire to cooper- ate with the work of converting. the misery and disgrace of this war into the turning point for a new epoch in; which the sun will. arise for the soul of. mankind. That is the spirit and import of the German answer. “The German empire will now be told that its answer'is not ‘sincerely meant and that it is, in addition, a plain indication. of the begiiiting’ of exhaustion. If in this’. most tragic | hour of*all human experience we are unable to rise above the unclean’ vap- ors of such machinations, then we are | indeed dwarfs in the presence of mighty fate. . “I am not‘given to adoration of my government, yet my conscience com- mands me to say that the German gov- ernment, in the full flush of military; successes and in the exuberance of na- ~ AD MAANY Oné Man’ Diés“and “Hight Otters ’" Injured in Blast at Massa.” | chusetts Munition Works ! STANDARD OIL TANKER BLOWN UP UNDER GUARD Lowell, Mass., Sept. 25—One man was killed, and eight others injured today by an explosion at the plant of , the Newton Manufacturing oC., which is engaged in making shells for the government. Officers of the company said the explosion was probably ; caused by a flare-up while workmen were filling shells. Tanker Blown Up Richmond, Calif. Sept 25—Two, men were killed here early today in an explosion, which tore out the for-! ward works and super-structure of the Standard Oil Tanker G. A. Moffit, as she lay at her pier here. The explos- K TRIBUNE [= TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1917. - ry FIVE CENTS N DOUBLE AIR RAID FLIE ITALY TO ITALIAN FROM Record Flight Made by Capt. Lauria, 700 English Miles in | 722 Minutes ATTAINS HEIGTH OF 10,000 FEET IN ALPS High Winds, Rainstorms, Clouds and Fog Fail to Deter Intre- pid Birdman ¢ London, Sept. 25.—Captain Lauriat, one of the most daring Italian aviat- ors, who has twice been decorated with military medals for valor, accom: | Italy-to-England flight today, repeat- ing the feat of 1910 of the late George Cave Chasez in crossing the Alps. | youths arrested by thc sheriff's office | The boys. were’ arreste, 'I.W.W. Card Crook Brand. Says | Green Prosecutor ‘Insists that Carrying ‘ : of Pasteboard Should be Proof Sufficient ' BOYS CLAIM .THEY WERE FORCED INTO WOBBLIES Fargo, N. D., Sept. 25.—Carrying an I, W. W. card shows criminal tend- encies and is at indication of guilt, said Assistant. State’: torney -W. C. Green yesterday in asking that sent- ence be passed on two/young men who had pleaded guilty of grand larc- eny in district court. The .prisoners were given a year and a half in the penitentiary. C. H. Boone and William Austin two about three weeks ago charged with grand larceny pleaded guilty before Judge Cole yesterday and threw them- selves upon the mercy of the court. at Hillsboro after a robery on a freight train in His machine, which fs a new type, started from Turin, this morning. He! flew at a height of ten thousand five hundred feet. He encountered high winds, fog banks, rainstorms and clouds, on the route which lay over ‘Modane and Culoz in southeastern! France, thence over the French battle lines in northern France to Cape Gris Nez and then crossed the English channel.’ He brougkt mail to the Ital- jan ambassador. On May 30° last, a British bi-plane, with five pérsons on board, arrived in Rome, directly from London, having stopped only at Paris, Turin, and Pisa on the way. . LW. W. REFUS TOOON UNFORR “COURT. MARTIAL Otto Wanagerin, Professed Mem- ber ofWbblics, in Guard House at Camp Dclige . Moines, Ia., Sept. Camp Dodge, D: j,—Because he refused to obey or- ders or don any part of a uniform of the United States soldier, Otto Wan- gerin, professed |. W. W., drafted from St. Paul, has ‘been confined in the guard house of the 25th infantry reg: iment. It was said today charges will be filed against him and court martial provably held. NEW RECORD FOR STEERS Fort Yates, N. D., Sept. 25.—A new record for range fed ste: was established when Jose Ch row of Watauga marketed in Chi- cago six animals averaging 1470 pounds and bringing $15.60 per hundred, or $223.50 apicce. Cass county, several harvest hands being held up in’ a box ¢ar by four men, it is alleged. Two of them dis- appeared. The men arrested carried NOTHING GIVEN OUT REGARDING Secrecy Surrounds Analysis of Vital Organs of ‘Widow of Late Henry Flagler NO EVIDENCE TO BE A SUBMITTED BY MEANS Defense in King Case Will Argue For Dismissal, it is Annouced Today New York, Sept. 25 maintained today chemical analysis in progress here of the vital organs from the body of Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, private: : ly exhumed at Wilmington, N. C., last week, by direction of members of her family, as the result of rumors re- garding her death. The examination, it is said, will take several days, and it is being done for the Kennan family of Wilmington, relatives of Mrs. Bingham, formerly Mrs. Henry M. Flagler, widow of the I. W. W. cards, revolvers and search- lights. Attorney W. H. Barnett appeared for the prisoners and made a fervent plea to the court that the boys be giv- en another chance. “T see not reason why the law should not have its course in this case, especially “as the men plead guilty,” interposed the assistant state’s ‘attorney. “I believe the court should take into consideration that the prisoners carried |. W. W. mem- bership cards, showing they belonged to-an orginization of criminal tenden- cies.” + | “Tam no friend of the I. W. W. but these hoys told me that they had been forced to take these cards in order to ride on the freight trains,” said Judge Barnett. TAMESTOMA MAR CRUSHED UNDER “TRAN WHEELS John Vernon Nyman, Paper- Hanger, Falls onto N. P. Tracks at Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minn.,. Sept. 25.—A man thought to be John Vernon Ny- man, a paper hanger of Jamestown, N. D., was instantly killed today when struck by a train in the Northern Pa- cific railway yards in . Minneapolis. Four cars passed over his body. The Mineapolis police believe he was sleeping on a wall directly over the tracks and rolled off under the wheels of the train. Standard Oil financier, who left her an estate that has been valued at{ $70,000,000. No, Defense in King Case Concord, N. C., Sept. 25.—At the opening of the second days’ prelimin- ary hearing of Gaston Means, in con- nection with the killing of Mrs. Maude A. King, the defense announced it would offer no evidence but would argue for a dismiss: The state closed its case yesterday. DIE AT GHENT UNDER CHARGE DE ESPIONAGE Thirty Citizens Reported to have Been Put.to Death During Last Three Weeks, Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—Advices have been received from the frontier by the Telegraph to the effect that about thirty residents of Ghent, Belgium, have been put to death in the last three weeks on charges of espionage. 4000 MLN IN STEEL | SHIPYARDS TO QUUT Portland, Ore., Sept. 25.—Pursuant ; to action taken at a mass meeting last night, 4,000 men employed in the steel shipyards here were expected to strike today. About 2,500 men employed in wooden shipyards already are on a strike. tional strength, in this hour has at-' ion awoke residents of San Francisco tempted the possible, and the unbend- seven miles away. Officials said the ing and determined will of the major-; pier had been closely guarded before ity of the German people stands sure-' and since Moffit's arrival and discount- ty for that which the government and ed any possibility of explosives hav- the Reichstag majority have promised I belong to that by no means small | number, who, despite misuderstanding and baiting on both sides, still believe in the lofty ethical seriousness of President Wilson. Tomorrow that ser- jousness of purpose can and must af- firm itself. “If 1 were President Wilson and in bounden knowledge realized that the gap between the hostile camps was no longer wide enough to justify ay continuation of the carnage, on any pretext I would tomorrow attempt to force a short armistice before the Am- erican and German soldiers meet on the battlefield. | “The purpose of this brief respite; must be to establish whether, at last , the conscience of mankind everywhere has beea aroused and whether an un- derstanding is possible which will lead to the birth of a new spirit bringing us deliverence from the misery that now runs red with blood. 1 “All nations are abiding the ad- vent of this spirit. So Germany, too, is abiding it without fear. Woe unto him who in this hour of fate fails in his duty toward this epitome of the union of mankind and the Godhead.” JAMMCA SUFFER SEVERE HURRICANE Storm Which Sweeps Island Des- | troying Fruit Crop Worst Since 1903 Washington, D. C., Sept. 25.—Jam- aica suffered property damage in a_ hurricane, which swept the Island last! Sunday and is now sweeping across the Gulf of Mexico. Reports from the American ambassador at Port Antonio | received today said the hurricane was! the most terrific since that of 1903 and that the fruit crop of Port An- tonio district was destroyed... No men- tion was made of any loss of life. ing been put aboard. DELAY IN DRAFT ARNY NOT 10. BE OF ANY LENGTH Predicted] at Camp Dodge Today That Select Service Men Will Move Very Soon Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 25.—Predictions were made here to- day that only the slightest delay would result in the mobilization of the third increment of men assigned to this cantonment ordered indefinite- ly postponed yesterday by the war department. Officers in charge of construction said eighty per cent of the barracks were completed, and that within ten days the entire building would be finished. EXPERTS WIL!, REPORT ON CROP CONDITIONS THROUGH NOKTHWEST Minncapolis, Sept. 25—Re- Ports on a crop survey of the en- tire northwest are to be made by government agricultural agents at a conference to be held here this week. S. A. Jones, chief of field agents of the bureau of crop estimates in the United States department of agriculture, will arrive here to- morrow to arrange for the meet- ing. Field agents from Montana, No-th and S-"th Dakota, lowa.~ Minnesota, Nebraska, and Michi- ‘ a come here for the con- ference. The agents furnish monthly crop reports to the bureau of crop estimates, which are published by the United States weather bureau. “Damn Amerika!’ ‘ ee '|Soldiers Not | Girls’ Lapse NCHA CIS | young girls now at the Florence Crit- |VANDERLIP QUITS 15 NULED IND 70 INVURED I NICHT AR BAD Two Planes Reported to Have Penetrated Defense of Lon. . don Wits Bombs To Blame for Head of Crittenden Home at Far- go Defertls Guardsmen from Base Slander BORROWING MONEY. TO CARE FOR UNFORTUNATER, Fargo, N. D., Sept. 25.—Stories that Fargo soldier boys are responsible for the condition of a large number of COAST TOWNS WORST SUFFERERS FROM HUN tendon home in this city aré untryg| Yorkshire and Kent Tell of Con- says Miss Lillian Grace Topping, sup; * .. a $ erintendent of the home. tinued Bambing With Little j Loss Street rumors to this effect have (By Associated Press.) been in circulation for sometime and caused Miss Topping last night to The double air raid on England by German Zeppelins and aero- issue a vigorous denial. planes, ulted in the death of “I have heard these stories from various sources and I cannot tell] 15 persons, and injury to more than 70. where they originated,” said Miss Topping. “One report that reached us was that we had in the home a Nearly all the casualties were large number of girls for whose con- caused by the air-pl Givisi diiton members of the Jamestown| especially two of the machines company that was quartered here| which reached London. The were responsible. Other reports were| bombs of the aeroplane fleet ac- that Company B boys were to blame counted for all the killed, and all but three of the injured, accord- ing to official reports today. for a number of cases, “ “These reports are all false. We have no girls in our home for whose Three women were injured by condition any of the soldiers who have pombe 4 from tetera pes witch ; been quartered in Fargo are respon- q bs Pe Yorkshire coast, but did not pene- trate inland. sible. Furthermore, we have had no Official Report. complaints involving either the Fargo London, Sept. 25.—The {Slowing of- boyS or the Jamestown boys who ficial report was given out by Lord were stationed here. “It is true that we have on our French, commander of the home de- fenses: hands an unusual number of unfort- “Air plane raid: The latest re unate girls. I do not know why this. is so. It is true, also, that we are in a desperate condition from lack] ports concerning the air plane raid of funds. We are borrowing money|last night showed that the group. of raiders which approached London were driven off by the tire of anti- now to buy bread for our girls. aircraft guns. Only one, or atthe fenses. The casualties «in all the raided districts reported ‘by the: po- lice up to present are: killed 15, in- jured 70. ‘The material damage wag not great. af " . VOTE TONIGHT “Airship raid: Enemy... airships crossed the Yorshire and Lincoln- shire coast about midnight and°3 a. m... There is .no..evidence-. of-tholr having penterated to any distance in- land. They were driven off by: gun- fine ‘by various. defended lovalities which they attemptell to approach. Tombs were dropped on one. coast town, three women (being slightly in- jured. ‘Tittle damage was caused.”. On French Front. : On the French front, in northern’ France, the Germans are keeping up their activity north of Verdun. Theit guns are still bombarding General Pe. tain’s Chaume wood positions, where the German infantry attacked. yes- terday, but failed to drive the French from any portion of their line. A new attack was delivered last night in the Beaumont region, south- east of Chaume wood, and in this Ht quid fire was employed by the crown prince’s troops. Here again they failed to gain ground, and suffered heavy losses. London, Sept. 25.—Fifteen persons were killed and twenty injured in last night’s air raid over Londan. Only two airplanes at the most penetrated the defenses of London last night, it is reported officially. Reports from Yorkshire indicate that the Zeppelins which appeared early this morning off the Lincoln: shire and Georgeshire coast, dropped bombs and aerial The amount of damage has not been as- certained. Reports from a Kentish town say that about eight bombs were drop- ped in last night's air raid. Accord: dng to a telegram from an Essex coast town the first intimation of a raid came when anti-aircraft guns opened fire and dronning of the aeroplanes’ engines could be heard. The bomb- ing over this town continued for about two hours at intervals, but so far as could be learned only three bombs were dropped and apparently there was no great property damage. DANELS CLOSES MOUTHS OF NAY Washington, D. C., Sept. 26.—At the suggestion of Admiral Sims, command- ing the American destroyer forces in. European waters, Secretary Dan- els today requested the press of the country to refrain hereafter from pub- lishing articles attributed to the of- ficers’ opinions, or recommendations unless such publications have been authorized either by Admiral Sims, or the navy department. = Numerous stories indicating that Admiral Sims had urged certain cours- es of action or asserted that he be- lieved certain things should be done have caused the officers some embar- rassment. HAVE THE SIOUX LOST KNACK OF FIGHTING? BLUE LIPS SAY NO! Fort Yates, N. D., Sept. 25.— Have the Sioux lost the gift of scrapping? Well, James Blue Lips, a full blooded Teton, knock: ed out Al Richards, professional pugilist, at McLaughlin in one, two, three order, and the follow. ing day he left with Sioux coun ty’s draft contingent for Camp Dodge to learn how to do the trick to Kaiser Bill. ON WAR ISSUE Rupture With Germany Will Be Considered in Chamber of Deputies This Evening AWAITS TRANSLATION OF 415 TELEGRAMS Buenos Aires, Sept. 25.—The con- servatives who control the chamber of deputies have agreed to vote tonight on a rupture with Germany. In all indications, they will have a majority of thirty voles, virtually forcing the government to cease relations with Germany. The government's desire to post- pone formation of its policy until it receives from Ambassador Naon at Washington translations of the 415 telegrams received or sent by the Swedish Legation here. The government is considering im- position of a rigid censorship of all messages in the republic to prevent misuse of the cables such as that practiced by Count Von Luxburg, the dismissed German Minister. Strikers have cut telegraph lines to Valparaiso, Chile, paralyzing direct cable service to the United States. FEDERAL RESEBIE BANK BOARD ASKS SHORTER CREDITS Washington, D. C., Sept. 25.— The federal reserve board has taken preliminary steps to abol- ish long-time credits in this coun- trv during the war, to keep the financial resources of the country in a more liquid condition. Governor Harding of lowa has asked each of the twelve federal reserve banks to encourage in every way possible the substitu- tion of ninety days for six months’ notes. - Hereafter the federal reserve banks will not rediscount com- mercial paper that has more than ninety days to run except in the case of agricultural paper. torpedoes. BIGGEST BANK JOB TO HANDLE LOAN Washington, D. C., Sept. 25.— Frank A. Vanderlip, who, as pres- ident of the National City bank of New York, heads the largest national kank in the United States, has severed his connection with that institution and all oth- er oraanizations with which he is identified ,to assist Secretary Mc- Adoo in liberty loan finance. Mr Vanderlip has started in on a ten hours a day schedule with his duties as chairman of the War Savings Committee, which will virtually handle the details of floating the $2,000,000,000 war sav- ings certifcate issue recently authorized by congress.