The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1917, Page 1

Uneettied. P| Ce ene The Weather THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. mew] THE BISMARCK TRIBUN | Last Edition | 288 5) BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1917 PETAIN DEALS CRUSHING STATE QUOTA WITKIN REACH, TOTALS GROW Bureligh County Figures, Being Added to as Campaign Draws to an End FARGO BANKS TAKE $490,000 OF LOAN Books will be Kept Open for Pur- chasers Until Midnight To- morrow PASSES THREE BILLION, Washington, D. C., Oct. 26.— Liberty loan totals flashed past the $3,000,000,000 mark today and headed for the $5,0C0,000,000 maxi- mum with every indication that, by continuation of the relentless campaign, the latter figure would be realized when the books close Saturday. Although unofficial statements from the 12 federal reserve dis- tricts do not total the figure, offi- cials tonight expressed the con- viction that subscriptions were past the $3,500,000,C00 mark. North .Dakota’s quota of $7,000,000 will be over-subscribed, it was an- nounced today. The state is thorough- ly aroused to the necessity of making its dollars fight. Subscriptions are pouring in at the eleventh hour, and the prospects of the loan reaching at least five billion dollars seem good. There are still many, however, who have not purchased at least one bond. Two days more remain in which to assist the liberty loan, as the books do not close until midnight tomorrow. Fargo banks boosted Cass county's showing. yesterday by subscribing for $490,000 of the bonds in the follow- ing purchases: Northern Trust Co., $30,000; Mer- chants National bank, $75,000; First National bank, $200,000; N. W. Mutual Savings & Loan, $50,000; Northern Savings bank, $40,000; Equity Inter- national bank, $10,000; Dakota Savings bank, $5,000; Fargo National bank, $50,000; Scandinavian-Ameriean-bank,, $20,000. Slope counties are responding loyal- ly. Total returns have not been tabu- lated, but when the results are known the Americanism of this section will be reflected. Morton county’s purchases will ag- gregate about $230,000, and of this amount, Mandan will subscribe about $155,000. Burleigh county’s figures are still growing. Local banks have subscribed for this issue, having also taken lib- erally of the first loan. The local banks will finance many of the indi- vidual purchases. There have heen no slackers among the Bismarck bank- ers, all of whom have enlisted in the federal service to make the loan a success. H. P .Goddard has received reports from the city of Bismarck which total $221,300. There are still several teams to be heard from as well as banks. The grand total for Burleigh has now reached 266,700 with more to come assuring at tota) in excess of $300,000. Points outside of Bismarck report as follows: Menoken, $3, 30; MeKenzie. $7,000; Bald- $6,000; Wilton, $5,200; Regan, ; Wing. $: Arena, $2,505 Moffit, $3,150; Stewartsdale $25: Grand Forks county will go “over the top” with more than half a million} in subscriptions. i Wilton’s quota of $15,000 for the second liberty loan will probably re: Sterling, $3,600; Driscoll. $5,200; win, h $10,000 over that amount or $25,000. The final drive is being pushed with energy and the committee is hopeful that when the last returns are in this The district will have done its bit. employes of the Washburn Li Coal company have subscribed $15 or $750 over the quota for the distr practically every man on the payroll | buying a bond, the amounts reaching as high as $509. This splendid show- ing of North Dakota's premier mining institution is considered marvelous, as many of the men are of foreign birth, and their interest was not expected to be very keen. Wilton district was divided into sec- tions, $8,500 being apportioned for Mc- Lean and $6,500 for Burleigh. Thej McLean county quota will probably} exceed the apportionment by $19,000, and efforts are being made to bring up Burleigh county's list to the re- quired amount. Complete lists of all subs not yet available but the Tridune will print the names of those not publish- ed to date who bond. have purchased a READY RESPONSE. FIVE CENTS LOW Food Is First and Most | Vital of All Ammunition Declares Herbert Hoover —Qewe omeson Wheat, meat, fats and sugar are the fficient foods and the most No one in the world has them to give but Americ They can he supplied from no place but the in- dividual savings of our homes, “Aud they MUST come. This ca not be too strongly emphasized. I do not mean, of course, that we should waste foods other than these. Every housewife in America ha sonal reason for not doing that. By HERBERT HOOVER. United States Food Administrator. 1 wish [ could talk persona'!y tc _ev- ery home in America about food Pledge Week. IT IS SUCH A VITAL THING, ar L..a,adinple, thing. > Ht miéans so much to our success in the war, and it ‘asks so little’ of the indi- vidual it means, briefly, that if our 22,000,- 000 homes will follow the course laid TOWNLEY PULLS DOWN $300 FROM LEAGUE FUNDS Salary $200 the Month and Pay as Managing Editor Courier- News and Leader $100 PRESIDENT FORGETS HIS MINNEAPOLIS TESTIMONY Minnesota Public Safety Commis- sion Hearing Purely Political says Manahan income or jal gain here 1 the Non That his sole and onl. hope of income of finan or hereafter derived fre partisan league or any of its agencie is $200 per month and expens de- 1 from the league for which he acts in the capacity of director of or- ganization and field work, and $100 the month trom A. J. Foy and Ed Wood, a copartnership publishing the Nonparti an Courier-Ne ial poli for ‘di of these. publications" cling the editor was the important testimony given by A. (. Townley up to 8 o'clock this aft noon in his testimony before Referee in Lankruptey HL. F. O'Hare. Guarding Leagve Secrets. afternoon's most important de- “effort on | The velopment was a detern the part of former Congressman James Manahan of Minnesota, who stated he appeared to represent tthe membership of the league, and of Wil liam Lemke, appearing for Townley, | to prevent any disclosures as to the | organization of the | i agement, the funds coll gue, its man-| ted, how, col-| lected and how, wher pended and when ex: | “1 expected you to ery ‘politics’ | when J) touched upon a_ vital: Assistant Attor-| forme ‘is Murphy of Minot, appearing Townley’s — credito: when Y ke had repeat- edly endeavored to keep out of the! for han and Le: record any allusions vo the amount of | 2 ha passed lent Town- Inoney which might through the hands of Pr ley. Townley's Testimony. Klimination of waste in the house- hold and the us of ALL food products will aid the administration in its fight bring down retail pric THE down in the pledge cards and wil! make the few simple changes asked in our eating hapits, our allies will be fed and their hearts kept high for} to victory. It meanse that if our homes); ADMINISTRATION IS LAYING THE do not do this, our allies will go hun-|] FOUNDATIOS FOR CHEAPER! gry and be tempted to discourage-| FOODSTUFFS. ment. accomplished if we can reduce While this service is a major ser-| volume of food consumed and v from our women, we are not ask-!ed, as well as eliminate speculation ing them alone to bear the burden of|and exorbitant profits. conservation. We are asking that the) Please do not understand me as ac- men support it and that every hotel,|cusing America’s housewives of being restaurant and factory practice it. wasteful. The vast majority—about That ounce of meat, that slice of|/70 per cent of them-—could not live bread, that third of an ounce of fat,} more closely to the margin of true that ounce of sugar we ask each per-) economy than they do. That is splen- son to conserve each d will weigh, did. It is among the remaining 30 heavily in the scales against the’ per cent that the great waste is kaiser. Please think of that when you found. go into your kitchen to prepare your| My plea, therefore, is that each of meals. lus take this food conservation pro-| It looks small; it seems trifling. 1) gram seriously. It my profound know. But dogs the acorn. Yet in' hope that the women of America will) a basket of acorns is a mighty forest.| begin that serious consideration by So, also. IN OUR OUNCES OF SAV-) signing the Food Pledge, during Food ; <GS8 IS THE GERM OF AN ALLIED] Pledge Week, and that they will then VICTORY | patriotically and faithfully live up We do not ask you to eat less, mere-| to it. ly to eat differently. We do not a: k| For it is not a mere phrase, that of that you cut down quantities, merely | “Food will win the war. that you su)stitute different varie- Food is the first and most vital of ties. Vall our ammunition. Mendes? Heo Washington, D.C. But this can only be! the Oct ‘TIS TOUGH ON TH’ BYES” AT CAMP GREEN; BUSTED oy. a UGA PRICE that William Fraley McCafferty, formerly city editor of The State | Center, broke threc ribs in an | effort to take the double hurdles. | Private Alfred S. Swang of the | New Rockford company also is i Fargo, N. D., Oct. 26.-Dr. BL F laid up with two fractured wrists Ladd, North Dakota's food director, | and as many busted ribs, which today showed a signed statement in- a fall from a tree during maneuv- forming North Dakota people that ers netted him. A third New Rock- fordite in the hospital is Private Peter Sundell, who tumbled onto a machine gun and was badly in- jJured about the head and should- they should pay about § 3-10 cents per, pound for sugar under the government fixed price on that commodity. | shington, Oct. 26.—The first response to Secretary McAdoo's offering of an indefinite amount of, short time certificates of indebted: | ness was $164,797,000. This brings) the total of outstanding certificates to be retired by receipts from second ; liberty loan bonds up to $1,799,994.000) | or nearly 60 per cent of the loan mini- | mum. REACH MILLION. | Fargo, N. D., Oct. 26—The city of Fargo has over-subscribed its quota of the second liberty loan bonds by} $338,250, it was announced today by! the liberty loan committee. With a! net qouta of $650,000 the city sub- scribed $1,038,250 to date. “The present price of 19 cents and} 1i cents per pound, reported to pre-! vail in some localities, is unwarrant- | ed,” Director Ladd said. ers, TO CANVASS CITY —__________., Jimtown College out for Food| SIX CYLINDERS BEAT ' Conservation PRAIRIE WOLF IN AN | EXCITING SPEEDFEST = | Langdon, N. D., Oct. 26.—A huge prairie wolf, confused by the glar- ing lenses. was run down and killed on the highway near Maida by Pat Sheld. It was a straight- away race, in which Reynard proved less speedy than six gas- fed cylinders. Jamestown, D., Oct. 26.—James- | town college students will tomorrow canvass the city in the interests of food conservation. Housewives of | Jamestown will be requested to sign! | the Herbert Hoover food pledge and | aid in conserving the war staple foods. | Considerable interest in the work has ‘already been shown and it is expect- ed every housewife in Jamestown will be enlisted in this worthy cause. IMUNITION PLANT ; blew the flame: Briefly, Townley’s testimony fol- lows: “I reside at Fargo, part of the time in St. Paul. Business, di- recting work of organiaztion national Nonpartisan league. League is vol- untary a: ion.” At this point Manahan advised that he “appeared (Continued on Page | Four) ~ SUFERS LOSS 0 1 GON 000 Montreal, Quelbe dous explosions tod of the plant of the Canadian Explo- ; sives company at Valudreuil. A spe- cial train carrying fire fighting appara- | tus has been sent from Montreal. The detonations continued for an hour. The § was lit up as though by rainbows, with the flames of burn- ing acids. The explosions are believed to have started from fire discovered in a shell-filling building. A heavy wind ight across the s about employ plant. The company 1,500 men. The damage $1,600,000. A spark from the electrical machin- ve caused the fire. | Two men wi slightly injured. EXTENSION WORKER HERE Wiss Florence Poole of Saggie Col- | lege on the Job dowe is estimated at} 1 Foult, i himself a master of mour | fare. Miss Florence Poole, who will have charge of extension work for the agri- cultural college in the district) com- prising Burleigh, Ikemmons, Logan, Melntosh, Kidder and MelLean coun- ties, has established he in smarck and now is en ald work. One of her first’ demonstra: tion meeting at Linton, where she had a good audience and satisfac- tory result FOUR BERTHOLD SCHOOL BUS CASES SETTLED BY PAYMENT OF DAMAGES Berthold, N. D.. Oct. 26.—Four cf the “schoo! bus cases” out of which have grown suits against the Great Northern claiming an aggregate of $175,000 in damages have been settled out of court by the payment of $2,000 on each claim to Hudson Miller and O. A. Hagen, each of whom lost two sons when the Great Northern Oriental Limited struck the con- solidated school bus in this vil- lage December 19, 1914. Five little boys and the driver of the bus were killed, and a sixth boy was seriously injured. Two of the cases were settled some time CROWN PRINCE HARD PRESSED ON TWO SIDES From Heights | of the Aisne, Teu- tons Exposed to Entente’s Heavy Artillery ST. QUENTIN PRACTICALLY IN HANDS OF THE ALLIES Cadorna Checks Drive of Aus- trians on Italian Front but Losses are Heavy CABINET RESIGNS. Rome, Oct. 2 he resignation of the Italian cabinet ts announced by Premier Bozlli. Italy’s armies have met with a serious reverse in the Isonzo bat- tle, losing 30,000 in prisoners and 300 guns to the Austro-Germans in their concentrated attack, accord- ing to the German claim. Admittedly the Italians have been forced back to their border along one sector along the north- ern Isonzo front from Monte Mag- giore to the west of Auzze, com- pelling the evacuation of the Bain- sizza plateau. Thus, General Ca- dorna has, through a single stroke, lost much of the fruits of his long months of campaigning against the Austrians, (By Associated Press.) From the heights of the Aisne the German crown prince is being driven back relentlessly toward the fortr of Laon, and perhaps to a general re treat along a line from St. Quentin to the Champagne. His strongholds wrenched from him 12,200 of his troops prisoners, many thousands slain and wounded, and 120 big guns lost, the predicament of the crown prince is most se IS. Opens Way. 1 Petain’s great simash of opened the way for further and 'Thursday, under French Tuesda sure, the Germans were forced back to the Ois ne canal, evacuat- ing valuable pos s in their retire- ment. More than oners and many French hands. aon, the fortress at the southern end of the Hindevburg line, is now but ight miles from the French lines, and etain's big guns can smash it at will. East of C non, the center of the French advance, stretches the Aillette river on the southern bank, where the Germans have been fighting desperately to hold back the French for several months. From the newly captured positions the French can sweep the German defenses with tor- rents of artillery fire. Weakens the Line. Every foot gained by General Petain weakens the line northward to St. Quentin. The French already are on three sides of the village of La Fere. and St. Quentin has all but fallen into allied hands several times since the German retreat of last spring. A re- tirement from St. Quentin and LaFere to a line running north from Laon would endanger the entire German positions on the western front as far north as Ypres. Two Important Salients. robably the two most important nts’ on the western front from the sea to Verdun are those east of Ypres and southwest of Laon. Field Marshal Haig is hammering at the one, and General Petain is smashing through the other. A German retire: ment all along the line might result in surprising eventualities, and here are reports from Germany that such action is not without the realm of additional pris- guns fell into big armies are fighting the ed attack of the Austro-Germans Alene the [sonzo-Goriza frontier, Gen- eral Cadorni cherked the ‘Teutons at the southern end of the line. The fighting on this line is all on Austrian territory, and the terrain is very difti- neral Cadorna has proved COAL PROFITEERS TD BE PUSHED Washington, Oct. 26, —-€ been received hy the de justice from } tions that retail and wholesale coal dealers are v ing the law, charg: ing more for coal than figures set by the fuel administration An investigation has been ordered, and violators will he prosecuted where | the law was violated. TO PROBE SHORTAGE. Fargo, N. D., Oct. 26. with the announcement that G. O. Russell, federal trade representative, would come to North Dakota to in-/ vestigate the coal uation at the request of I. P. Baker, state fuel ad- ministrator, Robert M. Blakemore, dis- trict fuel administrator, announced hi would ask an investigation of the c distribut: problem. Hundreds of} empty b $s are on sidings in North have] t of ago in federal district court at St. Paul. Dakota, while families are without coal, he declared. War Bulletin Berlin, Oct. 26.—The Austro- Germans in their offensive on the Isonzo front have captured more than 39,000 Italians, the German war office announced today. More than 300 guns, also, were taken. Rome, Oct. 26.—Under the Aus- tro-German pressure on the Ison- zo front the Italians have with- drawn their lines to the border in one sector, and are preparing for the evacuation of the Bain’ za plateau, the war office an- nounced today. Petrograd, “Oct. 2f 26.—The Rus- sian troops on the northern end of the front, following the Ger- mans in their withdrawal in that sectcr, have advanced as far as the Riga-Crel railway without dis- covering the enemy, the war cf- fice reports. London, Oct. . 26.—The French and British troops are attacking today in the Ypres region, the war office announces. The French and British are making satisfactory progress in their new attack. “British Front in Belgium, Oct. 26.—Field Marshal Haig's forces this morning made two attacks on the German positions north and east of Ypres. The first was from a point near Saint Janchoek west- ard, through the southern fringe of the Houthlost ridge, to the re- gion of Nieuwemolen, The other assault was on both sides of the Ypres-Menin highway along the Gheulvelt ridge, in the direction of the town of that name. London, Oct. 26.—-Skortly before 7 o'clock this morning, British forces which began an offensive on the Ypres front were seen en- tering German pill-boxes upon Bellevue spur and shortly after- wards signals showed that the British had carried Poelderohek Chateau, which had been strongly fortified by the Germans, tele- graphs the correspondent of Reut- er’s Limited, at British headquar- ers in Belgium. AMERICAN LABOR FUSES TOTAKE PART IN CONFAB Washington, D.C, C., Oct. 26 ecutive council of the American Fed: eration of Labor has declined to par- ticipate in an annual conference of workmen and socialists of all coun tries suggested by the executive com mittee of the Ru ridie and workimen’s coun aring that to hold such a conference at this time | would be untimely, inappropriate and conducive of no good results. DESERTION CHARGE AT FT. SNELLING *t. Snelling, Minn., Oct. 26.—Court martial trial of several men held at Ft. Snelling on the charge of desertion will be held late today. men held under the charge we re turned to the fort more than a month ago. Charles Miles, private, died to- day at the post hospital from pneu- monia. [is body will he shipped to Evansville, Indiana, to his sister, the nearest re TO ANNOUNCE CLASSES. Washington, Oct. 26.—Provost Mar- shal eral Crowder ¥ xpected to | present soon, possibly today, to Presi- dant Wilson for approval, a tentative outline of the arrangement to be used in dividing the nation’s drafted men into fiye groups for liab tary service. The completed regula tions probaily will not be announc for several wet PIONEER BACHELOR DEAD John McKinnon Leaves Large Es- tate at Omemee Ginemes, ND, Oct non, who passed a hospital at the age ef 49, was neer of Gri Forks and counties, se! in the ISS3 and ing to ly three years later. Wt ase ar Omem ficest in this section of the John MecKin ayo at the Rughy a pio- neat ner in 60) Mohe deft large National bank, orga nd Phe deceased had PACIFIST WILLIAM TURNS WILHELM DER FRIGHTFUL ONCE IN os Van Hook, N. D., Oct. 26—When William Kuismi called upon Mrs. Kuismi, with whom he had had a misunderstanding, William ap- peared in the role of a pacifist. After he had procured entrance through pacific promises, he changed his tactics, threw Mrs. Kuismi to the floor, kicked her in the floating ribs and otherwise proved himself a true kaiserite. A young son gave the alarm; Marshal C. Husa chased the in- truder from the premises, but did not succeed in capturing him. Kuismi and his wife were divorced more than a year ago. Many of the! y for mili- | LAON IN SIGHT OF FRENCH ARMY: TEUTONS ROUTED Army of the Crown Prince is Broken and Split into Rem- nants THOUSANDS OF GERMAN PRISONERS ARE TAKEN In Haste to Retreat Enemy Leaves Large Supplies of Munitions Behind (By Associated Press.) With the French Armies in Fran Oct. 26.—-Thursday the French hat reached the canal and Laon, eight miles away, is in sight. Following up the victory of Tuesday, the I'rench to- day took Monkey Mountain, the vil- lage of Pinnon, the forest of the same name, as well as the village of Pargny, Filain. Certain demor Iman command i ‘ation in the Ger- shown by contra- | dictory orders found on prisoners. The question i: ed whether another re. reat is intended. Crossing the battlefield near Vau- rains and Saint Guillain farms, the correspondent obtained ample evi- dence of the extent of the splendid French victory. Hundreds of prison- ers were marching to the rear with- out @ Damaged German machine guns | while scattered around of ammunition, } cannon quantities of were and heaps immense military material. Many Captured Germans. Many Germans were captured in tho j enormous cavern of | proaches were battered large holes had been to demonstrating the power and accu- racy of the French artillery, Not an inch of ground here about had been left unchanged. ‘Th vern has gal- leries about one kilometer in length, with ma exits, Most of which had ‘been damaged greatly by the French Fraty. The ap- verely and n in the roof, gun When the French infantry dashed ‘forward in the darkness, they ap- proached the entrances warily and found them full of Germans waiting for the moment of attack. Hand gren- ades and smoke bombs soon brought them out with their hands raised. Tanks Are Used. ; Meanwhile, the tanks had advanced | with the infantrymen until the nd | German position was reached, destroy- jing on the way many n of ma- chine guns opposing the progress of ; the French troops. One tank was op- posed by a determined German officer with a large body of men, who poured bullets upon the armored sides of the machine. Finally the French officer in command descended from the tank and with his revolver forced the whole group to surrender. Another tank found a battery of field guns facing it. As soon as the tank opened fire half of the artillery- men threw up their hands, while the remainder bolted, only to fall beneath a hail of machine gun bullets. Proceeds Rapidly. Today the French advance procee ed rapidly, and the units reached t | various objectives with regularity. ' After taking the village of Pinnon the | patrols entered the forests of the same name. The found many German can- non abandoned, but with the breech- blocks gone. Dead horses, killed by the German gunners, lay beside the mans had found it the weapons away adjoining the Aisne the marsh ‘canal, over which most of the bridges had been destroyed, making a retreat of artillery impracticable: Left Munitions Behind. over Hundreds of machine guns were jeaptured by the French and many of them were turned on the fleeing Ger- linans. who had left plenty of ammu- Inition behind. It is reported that a hundred and fifty cannon have fallen into French hands, but the number is uncertain, owing to the condition of the battlefield and its width. 1inty applies to the | ‘The same uncer ‘umber of prisoners, hundreds of Ger- mans being encountered on all: parts vot the field, marching wearily back to Freneh lines. The sight of the towers of the Cathedral of Laon on the horizon, a few miles away, spurred the French soldiers to a wonderful i burst of endurance and — swiftness y went on doggedly in pursuit of the ‘ jelear out eeliee and ca |gorged hundreds of demoralized pris- oners, Who seemed astonished at the vastness of their defeat. Casuaities Low. With all this severe fighting on a 'yattlefield where the Germans held | strong positions, and where t cepted the challenge of the | army to a standup co | casualties were | The French troops are jubilant over the vi The l artillery, infantry and airmen praised. | each other's rk. One patrol de- | clared that the fighting had turned in- to a war of movements. Where the | Germans will make a stand cannot yet | be foreseen. What is known now as ‘the line of their retreat is over a dif- ficult and boggy terrain, where the movement of guns is possible only with great precaution. The correspondent spoke to several prisor soners, none of whom quite rea- — (Continued [on Page Three) at, the French