The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1917, Page 1

4 The Weather Generally fair. THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO.261 UNITED STATES PICKET BOAT FOUN 200 0- TAKEN IKRANE. NEW 6 Hay Louder Meso! PARSER, SAYS | OBIECTIVE Of NO NORTHWEST BOYS IN CREW ANDERS SUNK British Navy Active Against Ger- man Sea Rovers in Scandin- avian Waters FIVE ARMED TRAWLERS SUNK BY DESTROYERS Another Clean-up Effected of Craft Which Menaced Commerce of Allies Washington, Nov. 3—The navy de- partment has been advised that a picket boat of an American battleship in home waters has floundered and its crew of 12 men are missing. It is be- lieved the men are lost. The navy department issued the following state- ment: No Northwest Boys Lost. “The navy department announces that on Oct. 20 the picket boat of the United States steamship Michigan floundered. Apparently the entire crew was lost. The finding of the bodies of three of the crew and the failure to find any other trace of the boat or it soccupants leads the de- partment to believe that all were lost.” The navy.department issued the cas- uly list but no boys from the north- wast) were among’ those lost. t iefwelve men—all the crew of the picket "boat of: the ‘battleship ‘Michi- gan—were lost when their little craft forndered in home waters. The brief. announcement of the dis: aster today by the navy department have no details. Presumably the boat was on patrol duty and found- ered in a heavy sea or met with some accident... TDhree.- bodiaa:-have been found, and inasmuch’as all the oth- ers are missing, the navy department Ashumes they were ‘Yost: SINK TRAWLERS. Copenhagen, ;Nov. 3—A German commerce raiderand five armed trawl- ers have been sunk by British de- stroyers in Scandinavian waters. The commerce raider,,which was disguised, and the trawlers, were sunk yesterday in the Skagerrak, an arm of the North sea ‘between.,.Norway. and» Denmark. The British destroyers thus effected another cleanup of German naval forces in Scandinavian waters. A report from Elsmore, Denmark, today-said wounded men from a Ger- man auxiliary ‘cruiser sunk in the North sea were landed there. BOAT DESTROYED. London, Nov, 3—An attack was made today on British vessels patrol- ing the Belgian coast by an electrical- ly’ controlled, high speed boat. The hoat was destroyed. An admiralty statement says 10 armed patrol craft, in addition to the German auxiliary cruiser, which was equipped with six inch guns, were de- stroyed. Washington, D. C., Nov. 3.—Use by the Germans of “an electrically con- trolled boat” off the Belgian coast was taken here to mean that a device similar to the radio-cortrolled torpedo with which the United States has heen experimenting for some time has been developed -by- German engineers to supplement their land batteries along the coast. The theory of distant control of boats, torpedoes or airplanes, througi the use of radio apparatus, is an old ‘one. In this country, basic patents for a device of that character were ob: tained bv Rear Admiral Fiske approxi- mately 20 years ago. No practical application of the theory to boats or torpedoes was of record until John Hays Hammond. Jr., “You Americans Have Fate Of World in Your Hands” ‘ © BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1917 K TRIBUNE =m] “AEBLM REPORT War Office Claims Big Capture of Men in German-Austria Drive on Italian Fron’ TEUTONIC ATTEMPTS TO REACH RIVER DEFEATED graphically Described in Asso- ciated Press Correspondent Eerlin, Nov. 3—More «than 200,000 prisoners have bees taken in the Aus- tro-Lerman campaign on the Italian front, the war office reports. There was no important fighting on this fiont yesterday. . The’ statement says that on the Rhine-Marne canal as the result of a reconnoitering thrust,, North Ameri- can soldiers were brought in. ‘1ne ‘Khine-Marne ‘canal .runs in a north: eastern section ‘of France, in which there has been little fighting during the course of the war. ‘It crosses the French front at a point near the Ger- man border, 20 miles northeast of Lunville. PRESSURE ON WEST WING. ome, Nov. 3.—Austto-German pres- sure was more noticeable yes.erday in the. western’ wing of, the Taglia- urento i:ne says ‘the statement issued today by thg italian. war oifice. At- tempts make by the Teutons to reach the right bank of the river, the state ment adds, have baed detained by the Liahan troops. 3, , ‘tne immeasity, ‘of the convulsion thyough: wiucn the Italian army is ON AISNE FRONT DERED; 12 MISSING. 65 Names Cut To Five InU South Dakota Among Mcst Rumorcd Teutons Plan Operations Favored Prespects on a Grand Scale Along the SALARY NOT SUFFICIENT Riga Front KERENSKY’S INTERVIEW “From an original field of 65 possi- Lie candidates for the presidency of £7} ie FEATURED BY BRITISH | the University of North Dakota, the board of regents, whe@ it meets at Retreat to New Position Geo-| Press intimates ¢:.at-Premier’s Ap-| Gand Korks on Dec. 4, will have five names from which to make a choice. At the meeting of the board here this week a committee of the university faculty, headed by Dean French, re- ported that the possibilities had been sifted down to 10, of whom not more than five might be considered really available, inasmuch as the others, even as deans, were receiving a better salary than the University of North Dakota pays its president. President R. L. Slagle of the University of South Dakota, one of the northwest’s most Popular educators, was among those most highly favored, but it was noted that he is now receiving the same salary which North Dakota can offer him, and that there might be no in- ducement for him to desert a state which has treated him very well by making him successively head of its agricultural college, college of mines and its state university. Others included in the 10 names submitted are: Dean K. C. Babcock, liberal arts, University of Mlinois; Thomas N. Carver, dean of agricultur- al economics, Harvard; L. D. Coffman, dean of education, University of Min- nesota; Frank A. Fetter, formerly of Cornell and Princeton; H. R. Hatfield, London, Nov. 3.—Most of the morn-| vice president of the University of ing newspapers print Premier Keren-' California; B. C. Howe, New York sky’s interview with the Associated author, lawyer and sociologist; J. S. Press conspicuously. The Petrograd| Young, professor of economics, Uni- peal has been taken too Seriously TO INVADE UKRAINE. Petrograd, | Nov. 3.—General Tscheremissoff, commander in chief on the northern front, who has just made a trip to Petrograd, said the Germans were planning operations on a large gcale, includ- ing landing of troops on the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia under the protection of their fleet. He also said he expected a vigorous ac- tion on the Riga front. The news- papers say a German offensive is expected in Moldavia, with the ob- ject of invading Ukraine. | ‘Russian troops in the Vishneff sector yesterday fraternized with the German troops, ‘it was an- + nounced today by the Russian war office. Vishneff is a town on the Rus. sian front southeast of Vilna, and north of the Nieman river. passing makey individual impressiong| correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,’ versity of Minnesota; U. S. Grant, for- renter olny for ite, Yet as an cye witness} Who is now'in London writes?" "~~ at the extreme-front up to the day ot merly, dean’ at North western univer- “Premier Kerensky’s statement seems sity, and W. T. Foster, president of Prexy Quest ( RM AN ARMS President Slagle of University of TO ATTRACT BIGGE3T MEN (Harry Lauder, famous Scotch {ness of making the world a place singer, has recently reached | where brute force and the reign of America fresh from the front line | might can never enter again, the less trenches in Frange, where he gave the best of his art to the sol- diers., His only son, Jack Lauder, was killed in action in France.— Editor’s Note.) the long run. noygited “Every family,can:save.a soldier's lifer perhaps, : by» saving: an insigaili- cant amount of food daily. Every j; ounce of energy that can be concen- In an interview with Frederick M. trated in Europe at this time short- Kerb; ens the struggle. If you want to briny your lads -home again soon, HELP THEM TO WIN THE VICTORY! | “We, over there, have learned whgt We have" been close! y HARRY LAUDER SAYS: New York, Nov. 3.—"There is no man, no woman, no child in America gacrifice means. today who can be spared in the great to the terrible danger. We have seen and terrible work of helping win the [elgium and France suffer, and we war. If I could bring home to every- have known what it would mean if the one in this land the duty of doing his enemy broke through. You, over here, part, while the lads: now in France can scarcely realize the terribleness and the hundreds of thousands soon of that danger. To you, it must seem to join them are doing THEIR part, it the struggle is far away. And yet Am-j ' in would be the best service I could ren- erica is like a city in a valley, at the der the world. [head of which, far away, is a dam “They asked me last night for “The ' holding back a, flood of dangerous wa- Wee Hoose Amang the Heather.’ I'ters. The flood is far away, but if sang it for them—but I told them the the dam breaks—the fate of the city song is a hymn now—ever since i jg sealed. sang it for 15,000 Scottish soldiers | “This is YOUR strugele—-the world formed about me in a horseshoe at struggle to make peace possisle The will you he called upon:to sacrifice in retirement and then: as a participant] to have been taken a little too serious- in the retreat to the new posiion west-|ly in some quarters. It even has been ward, the correspondent’s experience| construed as a hint Russia is toying; Reed’s college, Portland, Ore. is typical of thdse hundreds of per-| with the idea of a separate peace.} sons that the army removed from the] This theory should not be allowed to danger zone. establish itself. Russia Worn Out.) , WAR PRISON RS western bank of the Tagliamento, mo- , mentarily at least, to face the oncom- —- ! Horizon Ablaze. The correspondent. succeeded in hoarding an) automobile of the last] indicate facts. british Red Cross.unit to leave. A|is worn out. ‘The: essential ‘fact: is final look at midnight from the top| that what Russia hag she'has given.” of'the Red Cross ouilding found the} The writer then tells of the sacri- -eastern horizon was ablaze with con-| fices in men that Russia has made, tinual explosions as the Italians blew| and recalls the revelation in the trial up munition depots and bridges to im-| of General Soukhomlinoff, former min- pede the advance of the*enemy and|ister of war, of how Russian heroes screen their own retirement. stood up with only sticks, stones, and fhe correspondent, describing the] fists against the organized German exodus of.the fugitives, says they com-| troops. prised people of all classes—in auto Needs Indulgence. mobiles, in vehicles of all epochs and} The writer also emphasizes the pri- oxen-riven carts. Some persons] vations of the civilian population, and transported their belongings in hand] the shortage of food since the middle cars, while others carried them. There] of 1915 and adds: ‘were women with half-naked children] “Already people are dying of hunger “Probably all Kerensky wished was to It is true’ that-Russia beating their breasts because they had| not pleasant to think what the situa- lost their children in the confusion. | tion may become svie time in the Foot passengers made quicker prog-| future. What Kerensky ants is in- ress than those in motor cars, as the|dulgence for Russia's weakness, ai. latter, about every ten yards were| Russia certainly has deserved indul- forced to stop for half ari hour, owing] gence for her efforts and sufferings.” to the crush. After six long weary United St: nounced Announcement of Capture of ates Soldiers An- by Berlin Today their arms, and others crying or|in some northern provinces, and it is' HEAVY RAIN HAMPERS ARTILLERY ACTIONS AMERICANS CAPTURED. Berlin, Nov. 3—The capture of American soldiers by a German reconnoitering party is announced by the war office. Arras.’ That 15,000 has just been through the hell on earth that the Hun has made in fair France—they were 15,000 lads longing for the wee home among the hills of Auld Scot-, land. I “Many a lad from America must go through that hell—that the Hun may be banished from the world forever— and mahy a lad will long for his wee home over here before this devilish war is done. Then can anyone who all to see that these boys shall come safely home again? “1 would give every doliar I have and ever expect to possess in this world to have my own boy back again! began his experiments and worked out the plan with which the government has been experimenting. RAIDER CAUGHT. Copenhagen, Nov. 3.—The sinking of the German raider Crocodile and five armed German trawlers is re- ported by men on Danish steamships. The Crocodile was a new ship of nearly 1,000 tons and carried a crew of 100 men. FIVE MILLION JON FOOD PLEDGE DRIVE Washington, Nov. 3.—With prodably little more than half the country heard from, returns from the food pledge week campaign today passed the five million mark. A statemeat issued today said it probably would be at least ten days before anything like complete results could be an- nounced since New York has defin- itely decided to carry its drive over another week. Indications are that ed, if everyone who must stay at home will help. You have given dollars to your government in two LiJerty loans. You may be asked for more—must be asked for more if victory is to come. But the sooner the whole resources of the nation are put into the one bus-j will not have died in vain ‘TO CURTAIL MANUFACTURE OF ALL ON-ESSENTIALS ‘Washington, Nov. 3.—A government project now under advisement would curtail to a great extent the manufac- ture of non-essential commodities dur- ing war time, and would utilize the plants for the production of materials needed for the conduct of the war. At ‘@ conference of automobile acces- , Sories manufacturers with government ‘ officials yesterday plans were dis- cussed for the partial utilization of each factory for the making of muni- tions and other fighting necessities. i ZAP GARAGE BURNS. Zap, N. D., Nov. 3.—Zap’s second fire within a short period early Thurs- day morning completely destroyed the frame building occupied by the Zap Motor Co. Eight autos and some equipment’ was saved. The building stays at home do less than give.of his so much the chances of the allied de- ; his INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIEILITY , And many is the life that can be sav-| feature of civilization itself is ut stake. If the free peoples of the world can- not crush-out the brutal savagery {| that plunged the world into war, thea the world is not worth living in. Have the hundreds of thousands of brave lads who have sacrificed their lives that YOU might be safe, died in vain? “You Americans have the fate of the world in your hands. The holding back of even one individual lessens by, mocracies to crush the power of fav- agery and brutality. If I could only make it plain—as it has become plain at home—that every individual bears for the success or failure ! this var, then there would be ‘no douni of the answer. “America has done wonders -but it is.not yet half aroused. When it {s FULLY aroused there can be no doubt | as to the result. The lads over there | ROMANCE RESCUED; | MIGHTY MODSE MAY hours the band of refugees with whom the correspondent was proceeding, had made only six miles in rain and a strong cold wind which chilled every- one to the marrow. Pets Not Forgotten. Even in their haste many persons carried pets with them. Dogs and even cats frequently were seen, and a sol- dier was observed who with great dif ficulty was keeping his cloak about him, sheltering ‘a tiny puppy. Some women in ox carts had geese and other fowl with them. MOVE MANY TROOPS. Geneya. Switzerland, Nov. 3.—Swiss soldiers stationed on the Alpine heights on the frontier in the cantoa of Grisonse report that since the Ger- mans captured Udine the number of troops going toward Trent have ‘doubled. Heavy artillery trains are hidden by smoke curtains made by the Germans: The Swiss soldiers declare there is evidence that the Germans were sur- prised by their success against the Italians, but intend to take every ad- vantage of the situation. i BE:OANO! { 1 Minot, N. ‘., Nov. 3.—Romantic | Magic City men and maids are not to be deprived on the pi re of canoing on the ‘Mouse River. Judge C. W. Buttz upholds this + ancient privilege in an order which he has just handed down denying an injunction against boating on the Mighty Mouse, and holding that it is a navigable | stream. ‘ McINTOSH COUNTY'S FIRST SLACKER WILL BE HEARD NEXT WEEK AT WILL TRRUEEA ' Ashley, N. D., Ndv. 3.—MclIntosh’s first slacker to be placed under ar-| rest is Jacob Maier, arraigned before U. S. Commissioner E. ‘M. Harrison on a charge of failure to register, al- though be is 21 years old. The ac- cused will be arraigned before Judge about 20 other states will follow suit. and contents were valued at $6,000. , Allca November 9, CAN EXIRAGT KICK FROM BEER WITHOUT PAYING: WAR REVENUE Washington, Nov. 3.—Regulation to pave the way for removal of alcohol from beer for industrial purposes, and conversion of the residue into soft drinks. were issued today by Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal rev Beer may be piped from a brewery to a distillery without pay-, ment of the usual removal tax, but a wall with openings must be construct: ' ed between the two establishments if they are under the same:roof. After the alcohol has been removed and de-| natured, according to law, the residue may te piped back into the brewery without tax payments, to be made into & soft drink. ‘ The announcement follows: “There have been no further im- portant military operations. Up to the present, more than 200,000 pris- oners and more than 1,800 guns havo been enumerated. The booty in ma- chine guns, mine throwers, and other war materials. cannot be estimated even approximately.” ; NOT UNEXPECTED HERE. Washington, D. C., Nov. 3.—None of Pershing’s dispatches received by the war department up to this afternoon % says anything about any American Copenhagen, Nov. 3.—Chancellor| troops having been captured by the von Hertling evidently will have be-| Germans, but officials have no reason hind him at the start at least, the} to doubt the Berlin announcement. united support of all parties in the; Capture, killing and wounding of reichstag, except the conservatives | American troops on the battle front, and radical socialists. He will be start-| they say, will be one of the inevitable ed on his way with a formal vote of/ fortunes of war. Moreover, the Ger- confidence after his speech outlining, man high command has appeared very his policy. Z eager to capture some Americans, and According to the chancellor's or-| recently the commander on the front gan, the Germania, the reichstag will) offered special money rewards and ‘be convoked in mid-November, espe-' other inducements to the first German cially to listen to the declarations of troops who should take an American the new head of the government. An man in uniform. interpellation will be the occasion for the speech because the rules of the! warrare. tnere having been night raid- reichstag permit the members to reg-; ing parties on both sides, in which ister their opinions of the government) american soldiers participated, and if after an interpellation debate. , cr--- tad hoon taken mrisoners it Berlin political writers agree in pre- POpany, wad On one of those nocturn- dicting that Herr Scheidemann and : wad on ae iataers from the his socialist followers, who it WaS| french trenches met up with a Ger- feared, would be withdrawn from for-| man patrol prowling about in “no mal membership in the majority) man’s land.” block, and also the national liberals, Care for. Prisoners. The government has taken steps to ATLING MAY HAVE. SUPPORT who never definitely entered it, will form part of the new coalition major-| he assured that American prisoners in ity. German hands will fare as well 2 i AMAN PORRF is possible to arrange it, and, indeed, AGED WOMAN ROBBED inate lot may be better than the aver- BY THUGS CHANGING age. Through the Red Cross at Gen- CARS IN WILD WEST | eva, Switzerland, the government has —— arranged to provide food and clothing Mohall, N. D., Nov. 3.—Mrs. J. | for American prisoners so they may Pixley, aged 74, is at the home of | not be forced to depend upon the in- her son, A. L. Pixley, near Mo- | sufficient and constantly shrinking hall, pending the outcome of ef- bounty of the Germans. forts which are being made to re- cover $100 of which she was rob- bed by thugs who held her up while she was changing cars at Shelby, Mont., en route from Al- berta to hér home at Dallas, Tex. + Two Privates Die. General Pershing reported to the war department today the death of toa anivatas ane fram natural causes freer Vu habe Siay The units are being hardened to- FIVE CENTS PETAIN DRIVE FORGES ENEMY ; Crown Prince Assembles Forces on Heights of Aillette to Defend Laon CENTRAL POWERS HALT IN ITALIAN CONQUEST Plans of Continuing Offensive not Disclosed—Hold Tagliamento Bank By Associated Press. ‘Blowing up bridges as they retreat- ed, the Germans on the Aisne front in northern France, have given up their precarious hold on the Chemin des Dames plateau and retired to ‘the north bank of the Aillette river, along a front of approximately 13 miles, closely followed by the French. This ; Tetirement Ly the German crown prince has been in prospect since the recent successful drive by General Pe- tain southwest of Laon, which carried the French to the bank of the Oise- ' Aisne canal at the westerly end of the Chemin des Dames and gave them domination of a large section ,of: the German lines to the east. | As appears from today's Parts offi- cial statement, the Germans, are now on the north bank of the Aillette, a maximum distance of a mile back of their previous position, while ‘the French have moved up to the south bank of the river. To Defend Laon, There is no hint_in the official re- port from either side as. to. whether. any further retirement by the German crown prince is in prospect. He was compelled by the superiority of the new French positions to fall back at least as far as he has. Probabilities seem he will take up positions'on the heights just north of the’ ‘Ailette, which command the approaches"'to Laon, keynote of the German’s’ wést- ern front at its southwesterly bank: British destroyers have put att end to the career of a German commerce raider in an arm of the North sea. East Bank. Cleared. teneral Cadorna has halted-on the ing Austro-Germans. The eastern bank of the river, Perlin reports, has been cleared of Italians from where the Tagliamento turns from Talmino to the Adriatic. Italian guns are bombarding the in- vaders along the new line, but appar- ently no attempt has been made by the Austro-Germans to force the cross- ing of the river. There are no indi- cations as to the whereabouts of the Austro-Germans reported to be driving through the Carnic Alps early in the week, in an attempt to turn the flank of the troops and guns into the Tren- tino. This might mean either to strengthen the Austrians there, or to start a drive south from Trent, in an attempt to cut off the Italians now on the Venetian plains. Count von Hertling, it is announced officially from Berlin, has been ap- pointed imperial chancellor in succes- sion to Dr. George Michaelis, who re- tires to another, but unnamed, offi- cial position. The new chancellor ap- parently has the support of the reich- ! stag element, except the socialists and the conservatives. The socialists, however, will give no active opposi- tion untfl the count’s policies are known more clearly. ' ENGAGE LARGE NUMBERS. | Washington, Nov. 3.—The British, and French forces in Flanders have kept engaged about half the total Ger- man forces on the western front, with- out any success being reported for the Germans, according to a review of the situation made public today by the French high command. There is clear proof, the statement says, that the Germans were forced to employ successively 70 divisions to hold the allies in check in the battle of Flanders, or about one-half their total forces on the western front, and that they suffered enormous losses. ENGAGED IN CATTEGAT. The admiralty announces that cer- tain British forces have been engaged in the Cattegat, an arm of the North sea, between Sweden and Denmark, and that prisoners are being brought jin. No further information is at hand. —— | HARD HORN’S RED SKIN PONY SHIES | AT PALEFACE CAR Ryder, N. D., Nov. 3.—Hard Horn, 70-year-old Indian brave, astride a redskin pony met a pale- face automobile on the reserva- tion near Shell Village. The pony took exceptions to such ultra-modernity, and in the buck- ing match which ensued Hard Horn was unseated, sustaining a fractured rib and numerous oth- er injuries which have put him in the agency hospital. TOWITHOAAW