The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1917, Page 1

\ GERMANS STIL 8 { , . . / \ y ee P 4 an, a a The Weather Generally fair. ° ———$—$——— —— THIRTY.SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 257 THE BISh rd 6 4 TARCK TRIBUNE | Last Edition | FIVE CENTS STATE SCHOOLS TURN OUT WELL FOR CONVENTION Practically Every Section of North Dakota Represented by Del- egates in City TEN SEPARATE SESSIONS HELD DURING MORNING Group Meetings at Various Points in City—Frazier Welcomes Ed- | | | | ucators to Capital With hundreds of educators, repre- senting practically every hool dis- trict in the state, attending, the an- nual convention of the North Dakota Educvation association got under way at 9% o'clock this morning with ten group sessions held at various audit-| oriums scattered about the city. The first general session of the associa- tion was held at the municipal audi- torium at 2 o'clock this afternoon,’ when Governor Lynn J. Frazier wel-, comed the educators on behalf of the state and Secretary George N. Ken-! iston of the Bismarck Commercial” club on behalf of the city, while Pres- ident E. R. Edwards of djamestown responded in his annual address, whose subject was “Educational Pa-| triotism.” A review of President Ed- ward's address appears elsewhere in today’s Tribune. cond general convention sion will be held at 8 o'clock this ev: ning, when a half-hour musical pro- gram will be offered by the Thursday Music cluy of Bismarck, and Walter ‘Tripp of the Emerson school of ora-| |] tory, Boston, ‘Mas: “David Copperfield. Group sessions will ~— continu throughout tomorrow, and tomorrow evening Dr. G. D. Strayer of Colum- bia university will address the asso- ciation in general convention at the ‘Municipal auditorium. ‘The aniua! business session. of the convention will be held Friday morning at the municipal auditorium. A _ president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and two members of the executive committee for the wing yar will! be named, ehd’the placéeot the next meeting will be selected. Minot and Grand Forks are contend- ors for thig honor, and a lively rivalry has develoved, with early indications in favor of the Magic City, which has not entertained tue state educators tor several years. H will read from! } ‘| BISMARCK’S WELCOME | BISe G. N. KENISTON, SECRETARY BIS- MARCK COMMERCIAL CLUB. You are welcome! Of course you are welcome because you are here to whet your minds on the stone of ripe experience. You shall determine if a school room shall be a treadmill, or a moun- tain top of vision. Indeed, you may determine whether the facul- ties of our children shall ever be aroused. It is yours to flavor the cold morsels of fact with person- ality. “Your thirty-first annual meet- ing, however, shall not look for a keynote. Let it not be war, let it not be this war. Let it be loy- alty to a world principle of de- mocracy, and loyalty without re- serve to old glory! Again | bid you welcome. We only regret that every teacher in the state is not with us. McMullen for President. Lynn B. McMullen, vice president of the Valley City normal, and whose eight years’ connection with that in- stitution has given him a wide ac- quaintanceship with the teachers, ap- peared today as an active candidate for the presidency, to succeed EK. R. Edwards of Jamestown, state high school inspector. There is also a warm “Black and White” contest between R. M. bilack,' president of Ellendale normal. an‘ '.. A. White, superintendent of the Wil- liston public schools, each of whom is! an active candidate for the presidency | of the organization. Committee Continued. i Prof. A. ‘M. Minard of the agricul-) tural college, chairman of a special committee named at Fargo last year to ascertain the condition of grammar “——~ (Continued on Page Four) PRICES BREAK RESULT OF WAR DEVELOPMENTS New York, Oct. 31.—Prices broke violently this morning on the stock exchange. The entire list yielded to the growing pessimism caused by the foreign conditions, mainly the Italian situation. Yesterday's quarterly of the United States Steel corporation was also in adverse influence. { Standard industrials fell two to five points, the war group as a whole dropped two to four points, and rails were lowered by one to three points. | WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31, 1917. CHECKED IN ITALY TEACHERS ees ecered Le! a PROF. LYNN B. McMULLEN, Vice President, State Normal school, Valley City, who is prominently men- tioned in connection with the presi- dency of the N. D. E. A. ACK, President Ellendale Normal, active candidate. for president N. D. E. A. —Friends predict Black will run strong in the balloting Friday morn- ing. $1,200 TO BE RAISED | TO ARM THE MEMBERS Bismarck’s home guard was organ- ized last evening at the Commercial club and a drive will be made this week to raise $1,200 for the purchase of arms and ammunition. After sev- eral preliminary meetings, the mem bers last evening emerged with offi- cers and a complete roster. j Drills will start at 7 p. m. next” Tuesday evening in the armory. Strict military discipline will be enforced from the start, and when who are late will be fined, and stiff fines will be imposed for non-attendance. The men are to purchase their own uniforms, but the guns and ammuni- tion, which will be purchased by popu- ~~ (Continued on Page Two.) | CROWN PRINCE SUFFERS BLOW BEFORE. YPRES British Across a Sea of Mud in Flanders Deal a Stinging Blow BOTH SIDES HAVE Bavarians on Flemish Line Fail to Check Onslaught of Cana- dians British Front in Belgium, Oct. 31.—, ‘The forces of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Liavaria today suffered another stinging defeat when the British j reached out across the sea of mud and wrenched away still more of the re- maining few defenses of the enemy's Passchendaele system. It has been another proud day for nada. Her troops this afternoon were sitting al- most at the gates of Passchendaele and from their positions astride the Broodseinde-Passchendaele highway along the ridge they could see, only four hundred yards away, the great church which stands in the ceater of the village. : Battling Their Way. While the Canadians are battling their way forward here in the face of severe resistance from the Lavar- ians, comrades on their left are ham- mering their way along the Mettchelle, or Bellevue spur, to points which scemed ‘to have carried them well be- yond the hamlet of Mettchelle and ‘the ‘numerous machine gun defenses with which the elevation was covered. There was sanquinary fighting in both sections. German losses were heavy and the men from over the seas did not get their triumph without casual- » tes. READY NOW TO START TO DRILL Captain Wanner Announces the Ro:ter of the New Local De- , fense Company Try to Cross River. _ Mean whije:aisitieh -heme-trowpsr olf! the" left of the Canadians ‘had under- taken the task of crossing the Fadde- beck river and the morasses in order to bring their line forward and pro- tect the Canadian flank. The men from the British Isles knew that this must be done, and they did it. How they accomplished this drive through the clinging mud, prooably, they them- selves could not’ tell. Une heavy cotinter attack delivered by the Bavariahs as early as eight o'clock trom Masselmarkt against the Canadians was caught by artillery and machine gun fire and smashed. The gain on the Canadian front averaged between 800 and 1,000 yards along most of it. GERMANS MUTINY, Amsterdam, Oct. 31.—According to es Nouvelelles, a serious mutiny has occurred among German soldiers at the Beverloo camp in Felgium. The men, it is said, refused to go to the front and damaged their own rifles in some cases, while others fired on their officers, several of whom were wounded. . The mutineers were finally master- ed and removed on cattle trucks. The | frontier guard at Brouchot, according to the same authority, deserted on ‘October 1 | MERCHANT REPRESENTATIVE Washington, D. C., Oct. 31.—The food administration today announced the appointment of Bennett Buchman, St. Paul, as state merchant represen- tative for Minnesota. BALTIMORE PIERS LOSS MORE THAN $3,000,000 BELIEVED f taltimore. Md. Oct. 31.—-A trous fire which wrecked two of the! fnest of the Laltimore & Ohio Rail- road terminal piers at Locust point and spread to a British steamship that had just docked at one of the iers for loading, broke out last night. causing the probable loss of seven lives and a financial loss estimated at between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 be- fore it was subdued. Five of the missing men were mem- bers of the crew of the steamship. Among them were two ship’s officers and the chief gunner of the British naval crew aboard. Already the po- lice in their investigation have ar- rested one man. J. M. Davis, vice president of the Paltimore & Ohio railroad, said it was velieved by the railroad officials that the blaze was of incendiary origin. s credible witnesses stated that they saw blazes leap from piers 8 and 9, owned by the railroads, at five points simultaneously. { The steamer, which docked yester- | day afternoon had on board eighty | anti-submarine shells from a British vort. These exploded when the ship took fire. ‘rhe watchman on Pier 9 said that disas- BURNED: — IRE INCENDIARY he saw five or six men jump from the pier just as the flames broke out. Several months ago a quantity of' dynamite was found in a grain car at| one of the elevators of the railroad at Locust point. The grain was in-! tended for one of the allies. The car was traced to its loading point in the central west, and found to have| been loaded by Austrian stevedors. Agents of the department of justice arrived several hours after the fire} was discovered. The steamer will be towed into shal- low water and scuttled in order to ex- tinguish the fire, which was still burn ing in her hold at 11 a. m. INCREASE PRECAUTIONS. New York, Oct. —Drastic regula- tions were put in effect today for the control of movements of enemy aliens on the water fronts in Brooklyn and Staten Island. They require immed- iate discharge of every German sub- ject employed in any capacity within one-half mile of these water fronts. It is estimated that at least 1,000 Ger- mans will be affected. The number of mysterious fires in grain elevators on the water front in Brooklyn recently is said to be the reason for the new order. i REPORTED HEAVY LOSS | ARREST HAL AND WALL MBE Shortage of Several Dollars Alleged by Attorney Attorney General japmeelOn MADE THAT IRREGULARITIES EXIST Claimed that Charged is Based on Technical Grounds—Funds Are Made Good Charged with the embezzlement of $3,000 from the automobile reg- istration funds of, the state, Thom- as Hall, secreary of state, and Eugene Walla, clerk in the auto- mobile registration department of the secretary of state's office, were arraigned before Police Magistrate Bleckreid at midnight last night and held under bonds for preltin- inary examination November 3 and 7, respectively. Hall furnish. ed bonds in the sum of $2,500 and Walla gave bail for $5000, Warrants were issued on infor- mation from the attorney gen- eral’s office about 9 o'clock last ight and were served by Sheriff French. It was ueav midnight by the time the defendants were ar raigned in police court, where their pleas of not guilty were taken andebonds were fixed. Per: sonal bofidsmer were procured iminediately; @hd the secretary of state and his “assistant went home to resume their interrupted slum- ber The charges grow out of an al- leged shortage in the automobile registration funds of the state, said to have been «iseqvered by State Beaminei ds. ho Waters? Wil la has been in charge of this de- partment for several years, and for the last three years the amounts received by him in pay- ment of automobile fees have ranged from $100,000 to $180,000. Revealed by Examination. , The alleged shortage was discovered a week ago today while W. R. Ed wards, accountant for the state ex- aminer’s office, was checking up the registration department. Mr. Edwards had been engaged in the secretary of state's office for four days, and Walla, head of the registration department, undoubtedly knew that his books would come under scrutiny in a short time. The books, the examiner's office re- ports, were found absolutely correct. No attempt had been made to cover up a shortage, and the irregularity consisted of the failure of the office to reveal in cash on hand an amount sufficient to make up the balance be tween the total shown by deposits in the state treasurer's office and the to- (Continued on page two.) 4 Thursday, Nov. 1, 1917, 9:00 a.m.—At Methodist church, J. Rural problems: Geog- ‘raphy, mathematics, sci- ence in chemistry and biology 2. Rural problems in ing, history and civics. Todays Program At high school MENT Hundred Rural agriculture. Manual training. science — rural At Baptist church. Community singing, and Parent-Teacher league. At Commercial club rooms. Round table: Norwegian aids, erman gender, gram in teaching Latin, and problems in teaching French. fan church. professional At Pr Higher 2:00 p. m.— and education At high school Secondary education. i At ‘Methodist church. | County Superintendence. At Presbyterian church. | Elementary education. At high school. H Public speaking, night schools, visual education and surveys. At Auditorium. Rural education. At Commercial club. School administration. 8:00 p.m.—At Auditorium. General association. |State Not Short A Penny Thomas Hall Declares in Statement to Tribune Mr. Thomas Hall, secretary of state, in a statement to The Tribune, gave this version of the affair. “There is no money shortage in my office. There have been no falsifica- tions of reports or records. There may have been slight technical viola- tions of the law, but the state has not lost a penny either in money or prop- erty. “When an examination was made this month, Mr. Walla was absent on a hunting trip and | did not know very much about the details of that de- partment, so that a complete explan: iner. the court.” audit of his office. “| have nothing to conceal. ords and book | ly vindicate me of any charges. tion could not be made to the exam- “I trust that the people of the state will suspend judgment for a time un- til this matter can be explained to Mr. Hall today wired his bondsmen, asking for a complete and immediate Ree- are open for inspec- tion and a careful audit will thorough- VENETIA PLAINS ARE OCCUPIED BY TEUTONIC FORCES General Cadrona Apparently Has Succeeded in Saving Bulk of His Army a MORE THAN 800 SQUARE YOU WILL START PAYING FOR WAR NOVEMBER FIRST Special Stamp Taxes Include Every Line of Industry and Amusements ONE CENT A DIME ON THEATRE TICKETS Washington, Oct. —This is the last day of grace from many new war taxes. With the exception of increased let- ter rates and tobacco taxes which go into effect Friday, the taxes on documents, legal instruments and parcel post packages which fo into operation December 1, all spe: taes begin to apply af midnight to- night. They include: One cent on each dime paid for amusement admissions. e Three per cent on payments for freight transportation. Eight per cent on passenger fares. Ten per cent on payments for Pullman and similar accommoda- tio je Five percent on cil-pipe line transportation. One cent for each 20 cents or fraction paid for express pack- ages. Five cents on each telegraph, telephone of radio message cost- ing fifteen cents or more. Various taxes on cigars, cigar- ettes, tobacco and products, Ten per cent on club dues. Eight.cents on each $109 of new life ‘insurance’ and one cent on each dollar of premiums paid on fire, marine, casualty and other insurance policies. Advance Retail Prices. Although the tobacco taxes do not become operative until Friday many dealers have already advanced retail prices in anticipation of the tax levies. Other taxes of the new law, including those on hard and soft drinks, in- comes and war-excess profits, have been in effect since the law was ap- proved October 3, but in indirect form. 1 On December 1, the new stamp tax- es, including those on parcel post packages, will be payable, putting tho entire law into complete operation, except for increased rates on second class mail, postponed until July |, next. Increases in Mail Rates. Increases in first class mail rates probably will be most generally felt by the people. The law provides that the postage on letters, except “drop” or local letters, shall be 3 cents; and that on post-cards, including private mailing cards, shall be one cent more than heretofore. This increase in- cludes so-called picture postcards. The advances were made effective thirty days after the passage of the law, .Jand are construed by the post office department to begin with letters and post-cards postmarked Nov. 2. The increases also have been ex: tended by departmental order to first class mail to many foreign countri which, under postal conventions, have enjoyed the domestic rates. The new 3-cent letter rate, therefore, will ap- ply to letters to Canada, Cuba, ‘Mex: ico, Panama, England, Ireland, + Bahamas, Barsa-| Rritish Guiana, Brsish Hondur- as, Santo Domingo, Dutch West In-} dies, Leeward Islands, Newfoundland | and New Zealand. The post-card in- crease will extent to Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Panarfia, the only coun: Y which have enjoyel the domes- tic post-card rate. Consumers’ Convenience. For consumers’ coavenienc hooks of postage stamps containing %-cent stamps are,in readiness for sale and the department has had printed tho ands of 2-cent postcards. First class mail postmarked tomorrow or any time prior to 12.01 a. m. Nov. 2, re gardless of time taken for deliv will be transmitted at the old rates Wal th land, doe: j but that postmarked thereafter must < become HEAVY BELFIELD LOSS pay the increased toll Amusement admission tax effective tomorrow at places charging ; more than 5 cents. They are 1 cent for each ten cents or fraction paid, for such admission, payable by the! person admitted but collected by the ‘government from the amusement pro-) i prietor, required to make sworn re- | turns to the treasury. charged also is provided. Passes also| are taxed, except those to bona fide employees, municipal officers and_chil- Continued on Page Two. MINORITY IN FORD COMPANY in Management of Big Auto Plant 'DODGE BROTHERS PRIME stockholders of the Ford Motor ecial stamp important voice in the transaction of the company's busin: Circuit Judge George Ss. company and Henry Ford, to compel Ford to disburse abouts $60,000,000 of WANT VOICE Win First Round to Secure Word MOVERS IN LITIGATION re Detroit, Mich., Oct. 31. Minority ; Co.) and guns. today won the first round of their fight | mil for increased dividends aud a more Hal Hosmer of Detroit handed down a decision for MILES ARE OCCUPIED United States to Give Italians all Possible Aid Especially Food and Fuel (fy Associated Press.) German and Austro-Hungarian troops are driving through the plains of Venetia, toward the Tagliamento river, while another army is endeavor- jing to break through the Italian de- fenses in the Carnic Alps in an at- tempt to outilank the Tagliamento line. Udine, abandoned some days ago by General Cadorna, has been oc+ cupied by the invaders, whose — ad- vance guards are being harrassed by j Halian cavalry between Udine and the Tagliamento . Saving Forces. | General Cadorna apparently has suc- jceeded in saving the bulk of the for- » Which occupied positions south of Tolmino, during the last two days, Berlin has made no claim of additional captures of large numvders of prisoners Udine less than fifteen strom the 'T nento and if the n commander is to make a stand there, heavy fighting along that line pShould take place within a day or jtwo at he latest. Threatening Movement. The Germans threatening movement the plointiifs in a suit brought by in the Carnia region, has not develop- , John F. Dodge and Hor Ir. Dodge, ed gr and seemingly Is not yet of Detroit against the Ford Motor @ serious menace to the Tagliamento line. Vienna reports the capture from the Italians of at Pontasel, accumulative dividends to the stock- near the Ploec i and on St. holders. The Dodge brothe: who Pal. Those positions are on the Aus- are also automobile manufacturers, | tro-ltalian border, and it is probably are also mincrity stockholders of the not unlikely that General Cadorna is Ford company ., Pe ‘ Wanted to Use Money. Ford announced some months ago that he hoped to use this money to One expan- the construction of blast fur-; uw Detroit. When the Dodge (, brothers started their suit they at- B00 tempted to obtain an injunction. per- t increase his company's business. of the features of his plan o! sion wa naces ni manently restraining Ford trom ing construction work on thes naces, The state supreme court, however, allowed Ford to build the building,! \nat aia it can in the The if and the work provided he furnished a bond. bond was furnished, was started. Appeals the Case. Ford, in a formal statement, made public some time ago, declared he would appeal the case to the United States supreme court if the court's decisions were against him. It was charged by the Dodge brothers at the trial of their case that Ford was supreme in directing the business of the Ford Motor ( minority stockholders had no voice in the company This was denied by Ford. One of the officers of the com- pany testified that it was not uncom- mon for the company to spend from one to five million dollars for mate- rials without asking for the stock- holders’ approval. He gave as a rea- son that the company’s bus become so large that such transac- tions were considered to be ordinary routine. CAPITAL CO DRY TONICHT Washington, Oct. $1.—At midnight the national capital goes dry. Among the ablishments going out of bu ness today under the Sheppard prohi- ot-| bition law are several which served , during historic existence of more than half a century as familiar meeting places for prominent political figures Washington is planning a fare celebration. CAPTAIN BAKER NAMES ADVISORY COMMITTEE Isaac P. Bak fuel mrinistrator for North Dakota. announced today the appointment of an advisory com- mittee of five to aid in handling the state's fuel problem. They a Dean FE. J. Babcock, Grand Fork Frank Talcott, warden of the state peni- tentiary; W. J. Waters, state bank ex- w Ll. Cashel, Grafton. The ye former state senators. aminer, ton, and latter two HELD DUE TO ENMITY OF ‘PROTECTED "' I. W. W. Belfield. N. D.. Oct. 31. dred bushels of wheat, 0a and everything ¢ his tained, except a registere and bark big barn con- Percheron ‘ stallion, were lost when fire destroyed; road officials’ A flat rate of 1 cent for each child the stables on the Ferdinand Boltz, ident of the ?ir under 12 admitted when children are! farm. The loss is estimated at $4,000,| of traffic, said the roads “must have partly covered by insurance. Beltz had incurred the enmity of I. W. W members during the harvest season, and the fire is ascribed to this fact. fur- lower .. and that the, iness had; | Partment, | ‘Ubsisience of if for fre B. Overson, Willis-! Fifteen hun-} v, i trepuring to draw in his ‘ines: there | to better protect the line of the Tag- liamento in the Ampezz region. Ber- lin reports an advance toward the up- per course of the Tagliamento, but does not say how near the German forces are. . Since last Wednesday, the Austro- ermans have rcupied more square miles, of ‘territory formerly. theld by the Italians. The greatest depth of the advance has been’ from Tolmino southeastward to Udine. To Give Aid. ‘The United States will give Italy form of money tonnage to transport needed munitions, food and fuel. | French and British troops and guns pro2ably are on their way in northern Italy. Internal conditions in Italy are improving. The Austro-German blow appears to have brought together the opposing politicians and the new cab- inet of Premier Orlando has been an- nounced. Italy's foreign policy will undergo no change, as Baron Sonnino ‘will retain the portfolio of foreiga af- fairs. i British Successful. | In Flanders, the British have been successful in minor operations north- | of Ypres. Canadian troops car- i the bulk of fighting in actions |near Jasschendacle and Poelcappelle | with the object of straightening out the British line. Emperor William has placed at the head of his government Count von jHertling, premier of Bavaria, and {former leader of the Catholic Center, a strong opponent of parliamentary and franchise reform. Whether he will be acceptable to al Ithe reichstag parties is nat indicated. The reich- stag does not mect again until early in December. Copenhagen dispatches indicate, however, that he will hardly he welcomed by the socialists and | pan-Germans HILL ENGAGEMENTS. 31. There were vari- engagements be- n the Italians and the invading stro-German troops ytserday, says war office announcement today. Italians covering units and cav- permitted the other troops to fnue to move towards their new and immediate The alry i SUBS'STENCE ASSURED. ! Berlin, Ort. 21.—Speaking today to a congress of workmen, Herr Braun. unler-secretary of the German food de- the delegates that the ermany had been as “rth winter of the war. ‘The Geryian potato crop, he said, was ey 4,090,000 and 4,500,000 tons ne e@siimiate, and the corn sup- ply fot the winter already had been fully ¢ecure¢ RALROAOS WANT RATE. INCREASED Paul, tinenta! Paul are fates, ithwas —Transcon- centering in St. 8k for an increase in ad@ here today by rail- WLR. Kenny, vice pres- ¢ Northern in charge i | rdief. They, face the same situation that prevails in al business these dayi,” he added, “rapidly increasing costiof labor\ and raaterials.” phanie