The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1917, Page 1

1 The Weather Generally falr. KERENSKY IN CONTROL OF PETROGRAD > YOUNINS MADE HALL LOWN AND “COT CASH BACK Minot Banker Tells of Quick Ac- commodation Given in Re sponse to Phone Message "| vania University. and new WATERS TESTIFIES AS TO LANGER INTERVIEWS Attorney General Thought Too Many People Knew of Affair to Permit Fixing It That after Tom Hall had written that recent events had made him “much more clear on several matters” and that he was in urgent need of $500 a cashier's draft for that sum’ was mailed the secretary of state feature of testimony given this morn- ing by Grant 8, Youmans the Minot banker, who recently appeared as plaintiff in a suit for damages aggre- gating $225,000 against the state bank- ing board, of which the secretary of state ig a member, Youmans said he received a letter from Hall on Sunday, October 28, ask- ing that he call Hall on the long dis- tance ‘phone on receipt. Hall later got Youmans on the telephone, and the latter agreed to make the loan to which Hall had referred in his letter, providing Hall signed a note with two good responsible parties. October 29 was the only important|@¢lvered here last night. 1 Scott Nearing Arrested For i) Socialist and Pacifist Held Under Sedition Charge at Duluth By State Duluth, Nov. 18.—Prof. Scott Near- ing who recently resigned as profes- sor of political science at Pennsyl- termed “president and chairman of the execu- tive committee of the People’s Coun- cil of America,” arrested here last on a charge of making utterances tending to hinder the progress of the war, pending further action by tha authorities. The arrest was made un- der a state law. There was no viola- tion of federal law, according to de- partment of justice officials today. He will be arraigned today. , E Prot. ‘Nearing was arested during the course of an impassioned speech He had reached a point, where police say he demanded “Immediate peace” when a policeman, laid his hands on his shoulder. Some excitement followed, the crowd hooting the police. The audience was admitted to the meet! ing by cards sent out by Nearing’s companions, police say. Search of, the. prisoners revealed socialistic lit- erature, cards showing they had paid dues in an organization for the sup- pression of, the war, and Nearing had’ a card showing assessments paid to “special, anti-militarism assessment.” The following morning Hall called again, said Youmans, and asked if he could not send a draft for $su0 by the next mail. Youmans agreed to do this and within thirty minutes had the draft in the mail. The note which he enclosed was not executed by. Hall,| who-two days later “returned the amount of the loan in the form of/ten $5 money orders. Copies of Hall’s two ietters to Youmans and Youmans’ one letter to Hall, together-with the cashier's check blank note and envelopes which had contained these ‘exhibits were identi: fied ‘and introduced in evidence, No Record. of. H. J. Johnson of the ‘th Dakota Independent Telephone .Co., put on the stand to {identify fong distance telephone conversatis which ‘Hall had had during the #period. of the “crisis,” stated tl all records of pills from Octobe? 20 on, were at Fargo being audfted, and he admit ted that the ee kept no record oj the actual cogversations and what was said. L, S. Royer of the Mer chants’ National) bank of Mandan testified as to some loans which Hall had negotiated during the month oi October. Edwards of the state examiner’s of- fice was again on the stand to testify as to the alleged inclusion of 1917 business in 1916 receipts in order to balance the books. Walla This Afternoon It is expected that state will cal! Eugene 'M. Walla this afternoon, altho the clerk in the registration de partment, who is algo under arrest for embezzlement, was not in the court room this morning. Waters Tells of Arrest Thomas Hall, secretary of state, or trial. for embezzlement, was invitec by Attorney General Langer to a con ference at the Grand Pacific hotel and remained closeted with the attorney general, pleading that he be given ¢ chance to square things withou‘ publicity, for the sake of his fam’ and ‘his aged parents at Jamestown when a warrant for his arrest had al- ready been sworn out by the attorney general was indicated by the testi- mony of State, Bank Examiner J. R. Waters, who took the stand late Mon- day afternoon. Warrants for the arrest of Hall and E. M. Walla, clerk in the registration department, were issued about 9 o'clock the night of Oct. 30, and a newspaper man_ representing the league syndicate of newspapers wa: requested to “Stick around.” Hail, ac cording to the state examiner's test’ many, then was called up by Lange met the attorney general, his assis’ | ant and Mr. Waters at the Grand Pa cific, and for two hours remained clos eted with these officials in a room on the second floor of the hotel, where the conversation, Waters said, consist- ed largely of expréssions of mutual regard between Hall and Langer. Hall Asked tanger In. “Tom Hall came to my office Octo ber 29 and asked me what was beinr done,” said Waters. “I asked him to go with me to Langer's office, and tol: Bill I had brought Tom in to see wha could be done. Langer said he didn’t see there was anything for hin to handle—that Tom and I had beer looking after things so far and ap parently getting along all right. Tor said he would like to fix things w without publicity. Langer said he didn’t see how it could be fixed with out pudlicity when so many knew 0 it. Tom said he didn’t believe ver} many people knew about it. Lange said ‘John Steen knows about it’ “ can fix Steen,’ said Tom. ‘Weil, you can't fix me,’ said Bill. “Tom admitted he had taken ou’ money from time to time and hac covered it by putting slips or check’ in the drawer. He said he didn” think it. ever hurt anybody, and tha’ the state wasn’t out a penny. He asked me to go down and open the safe and said if there was any short- age he could get money from his (Continued on Page seven) | DEMONSTRATED VANKEE PLUCK WN TRENCH RAID Material for Big Thanksgiving Dinner Has Arrived in France For Distribution... With the American Army, in France, Monday, Nov. 12—American soldiers rapidly are becoming experts at patroi work, and their officers say iuey car- ry on in No Man’s Land as if they haa deen at it for years. This is ex- plained partly by the fact that activ- ity in No Man’s Land along the sec- ior held by the Americans virtually is open warefare, which is distinctly an American game. Already stories of the heroism of individual soldiers during trench raids are coming to light. A recen: incident involved five privates, wu0 rushed from their dugouts as the Ger- mans entered the trenches. Standing sneeling and lying in front of the en- crance, they fired on the enemy so successfully that they prevented the jermans, who made several attempts, ‘rom entering. A large shipment of turkeys, mince- sneat, cranberries, oranges, and sweet doiatoes, for the Thanksgiving dinner vf the American soldiers has arrived n France. It will be distributed among he various instruction centers and sities where the troops are billeted. Started to Crawl. The lieutenant who was knockec down three times by shell fire toda, descrived his experieace. His fac 1s scratched with flying gravel. “When tue firing began, I started pack to the trenches. The first thing chere was a crash. I seemed to see sparks from all over my body. 1! started to crawl and it seemed age: before my face hit the mud at the vottom of the trench. ‘The same thing aappened again a, minute later. Tuer picked myself up and started in an nher direction. aen joined me. A eet from us on the parapet. vasciousness. “When 1 came to, all was black and srenades were flying in all directions had lost my shrapnel helmet, bu ‘eeling around I found one by the head of a man lying near me. 1! put it o. and started away, stumbling over the sody of the man who was corporal. Ne spread ourselves out expecting a leavy attack. As a matter of fact, I -ound out later the raid was over, and -hat the grenades were being thrown oy retreating Germans.” Bearing up Excellently. It is the opinion of all ofucers that he troops are bearing up excellently ander their first experience in the renches. All are learning how to con luct themselves under fire, and tha: shell fire even when intense is not a: vangerous as it sounds. So much shrapnel has fallen since he battalions of the first contingent a the trenches have taken their posi hat the men have ceased to worry bout it hardly paying any more atten ion to-it than to rain. The command- or of the battalion said that since the nen have entered the trenches mumps us caused more of them to go to the ospital than has the enemy fire. The iring in this battalion’s sector has een rather more ‘intense than is us sal for several nights. A heavy suel” ell in a machine gun ammunition de ot, and exploded thirty boxes, bullets Wing in all directions. The me- -here threw themselves on the ground and no one was burt. A shell burst a few T los: nces | | A corporal and twe}: THE BISMAR’ a dyanies ate oF CPTI REN K TRI BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917 SMGLE FRONT - SMCLE ARMY Requisies Given by Premier Pain- jleve as Necessary for Future \ » Mictory ONE AIM HEREAFTER i TO GOVERN CAMPAIGNS | ’ { night with four others, is held today Allies hail German Drive Through Italy as Means of Drawing’ Them Together Paris, Nov. 13—A single front, a single army, a single nation—that is the program requisite. for future victory, said premier Painleve at a luncheon yesterday in honor of David Lloyd George, the British Prime Min- ister, who has just returned from the Italian war zone and Signor Barenine, Italian Minister of Eyjucation.. “If after forty months of war; if after all the lessons the war has taught us, the allies were not capable of that sacred international union, then in spite of their sacrifices, they woula not b¢ worthy of victory.” Unfortunately we did not have time to consult the United States or Russia before creating this council. The Ital- ian disaster necessitated action with- out delay to repair it. This made it indispensable to commence right now with the powers whose forces may be employed on the Italian front. | “But, in order to assure the com- plete success of this great experiment, which I believe is essential to the vic- tory of our cause, it will be necessary that all our great’ allies be repre- sented in the deliberations. I am per- suaded that we shall obtain the con- sent of these two great countries,| and their cooperation in the work of| the Inter Allied Counsel. Afted reviewing the Italian cam- paign the premier said: “As far as I am convinced, I had arrived at the conclusion that if noth- ing.was changed I could no longer ac- cept the responsibility for the direc: tion of a war condemned to disaster from ‘lack “of. unity... Italy’s mtsfor- tune may’ still save the alliance be- cause without it I do jnot think that even today, we would have created a veritable superior council. “National and professional tradi- tions, questions or prestige and susceptibilities all conspired to render our best decisions vain. No one in particular bore the blame. The guilt was in the natural difficulty of con- vineing so many nations, so mgny in- dependent organizations, that they should amalgamate all their individual particularities to act together as if, they were but one people. “] have spoken today with a frankness that is perhaps brutal, at the risk of being illy understood here and elsewhere and not perhaps with- out risk of giving a temporary en- couragement to the enemy, because now that we have established this council it is for us to see that the unity it represents be a fact and not an appearance. “The war has been prolonged by particularism. It will be shortened by solidarity. If the effort to organize our united action becomes a reality T have no doubt as to the issue of the war. The weight of men and ma- terial and of moral factors in every sense of the word is on our side. “I say it, no matter what may hap- pen to Russia or in Russia, A revolu- tionary Russia can never be anything but a menace to Hohenzollerism. But even if we are obliged to despair of Russia, my faith in the final triumph of the cause of the allies remains un- shakable.” i PHILIPPINES. OFFER T) BUD TWO. WAR GRAFTS Manila, Nov. 13.—The joint resolu- tion which was adopted by the House last week, authorizing the Governor, General to offer to build a destroyer and a submarine for the United States | at the expense of the Philippine gov- ernment was adopted today by the Senate and now goes to Governor Harrison. Both houses adopted a food conser- vation and production bill, providing for the establishment of a food admin- istration bureau. A measure authoriz- ing the fixing of food prices is being considered. Ate, Sab ee ae FORGERS ARRESTED. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 12.—Min- neapolis detectives left last nigh: for Valley City, North Dakota with warrants for Wm. and Jeanette Gor- man who are. under arrest there. Ac- cording checks valued at $500. aca A AE SS WANTED TEN MEN OR WOMEN AT ONCE To Canvass in City Apply Circulation Dept. Bismarck Tribune Good Wages SSS SINGLE AATION to ‘Minneapolis police the Gormans are held for the forging of SAM “If one of our soldier boys, tired and mud-caked, and perhaps-bleeding, could knock at YOUR door tonight how wonderfully’ you would minister to him! “You would take him in to heart and hearth. You would do this in your homes—now you Have a chance to help the Y. M. C. A. DO IT FOR Vavenen De we | anne ee tea eet scaled ‘YOU in the camps and right on the firing line.” This is the way Charles S. Ward, campaign director, .presents the can- vass for the $5,000,000 Y.\W.C. fund for.war work. The big drive to raise this fund began Nov. 11 and closes ‘Nov. 19. It will heach every Ameri- can hamlet. “This is not a Y. M. C. A. fund,” said Ward. “The Y; M. C. A. is act- ing as YOUR agent in taking your help to our soldier boys. And as America’s forces go more and more onto the firing line it becomes truer and truer of every American home that some worn and weary soldier boy is knocking at its door as truly as if his arm reached across the sea and his fist actually pounded there.” BAKERS. MUST TAKE LICENSES BY DECEMBER 10 beer eae All Using Ten Barrels or More of Flour or Meal Come Under Proclamation Washington, Nov. 13.—General rules and regulations governing all licenses {of manufacturing bakery products under Presidentt Wilson’s proclama- {tion requires every baker except those using less than ten barrels of flour and meal monthly to take out government license by December 10, were announced by the food adminis- tration today. ‘Both proclamations and regulations seek to standardize bread making, eliminate waste and confusing sizes, force prices down and otherwise help consumers generally. Even hotels, clubs and other public eating places that serve bakery prod- ucts of their own must take out licenses if they exceed the ten-barrel limit, the penalty for doing business without license is a $5,000 fine, two years’ imprisonment, or both. | Bakery licenses must keep prices moving to consumers in as directly as possible, and without unreasonable de- lay. Resales in the same trade with- out reasonable justification especially if tending to result in a higher market price to the retailer or consumer “will ‘be dealt with as an unfair practice.” TIRPITZ WANTS FACE ON BASIS OF ANNEXATION Amsterdam, Nov. 13.—At a meet- jing of the new Fatherland party in Munich yesterday, Admiral von Tir- | pitz, former German minister of ma- rine, made a, violent annexationist speech. He said the question wheth- er Germany or England became the protector of Belgium would be the decisive issue of the war. “A mistaken solution of the Bel- gian question would stump our ex- ports an: the reserve capital of our industries and degrade us to being bond-slaves of Anglo-Americanism,” said the admiral “Our military se- | curity lies in Belgium. It is the only jway of obtaining compensation for our enormous economic losgs.” The admiral added that it was a mistake to believe the submarine would prove sufficient, protection |against Great Britain as some effec- ‘tive counter weapon was bound to be discovered. He declared that Ger- many must have Antwerp, that Aus- {tria must become the principal pro- tecting power of the mouth of the Danube and that Germany was inter- ested in the settlement of the Adriatic question. | "“Germany’s struggle.” he added, is a terrific battle against the all-devour- ing terrorism of Anglo-Americanism.” OHIO WET Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 12.—With every county in Ohio having re- i ASK MARTIAL trouble of the oil field workers’ strike was reported today. in the Goose Creek field having been attacked and beaten. the field have asked that martial law te declared. BISMARCK BOY IN Youngster Who Enlisted Herc KNOCKING AT YOUR COOR af ee KERNILOFE IN ‘ TRIUNVIRATE 10 SSF Ry, ee eo ra mieeynunnueeestT HOVER CALS FOR LOHALT 6FNORKERS Chief of International Miners’ Union Urges Workmen to Maximum Production. LAW IN TEXAS OIL FIELDS Houston, Tex., Nov. 12—The first Seven: strikers Producers in COMMENDS ARIZONA SETTLEMENT PLAN Denver, Colo., Nove 12.—In an open Jettér to “all men working in and arqund the copper mines, mills and smeliers of the’ United States and Canada,” made public last night, Chas. H. Moyer, president of the Interna- tional Union of Mine, IMill and Smelter workers, appeals to the loyalty oc working men to assure a maximum production and thorough cooperation with the government in fulfilling the country’s needs. In reference to the recent settle- ment of copper strikes in Arizona, the | letter says the government’s action in settling the strikes ‘indicates tnat it ; is willing to do justice to the work- | ingmen in our industry and at the same time asks nothing from the own- ers of these industries that they can-! not do on a basis of honesty and fairness.” Importance of Copper. Continuing, it reads: “I believe that the importance of our industry is such , and that the necessity for the highest possible pro- FRANCE TO SETTLE WAR WITH KAISER Likes it ‘‘Over There.’’—Let- ‘ter from Georgia The Tribune is always glad to hear from Bismarck and Missouri ‘slope boys who are with the colors. Here is a letter from a member of Co. C, ith Field Batallion signal corps, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., containing news of a former capital city man whose friends | will be happy to hear of him: “November $, 1917. “Bismrack, N. D. ‘phe Bismarck Tribune, g Gentlemen: i “T recently received @ communica- tion from a Mr. Buekley written “Somewhere in France,” and dated Sent. 14. He is with the 18th U. S. Infantry, Co. which must have been just recently crossed the pond. He says very little gust stating that he had enjoyed the very best of health and furthermore in his own words said ‘The U. S. Government decided duction of copper during this war- time means so much to our nation,! which is in a struggle for its life, that our patriotism, loyalty and feal- ty to our country and to our govern- ment should be of such high charac- ter that we should be willing to sub- mit to whatever injustice pursuing that course would mean, rather than to by any act of course weaken, in the most infinitesimal degree, the strength of our nation at this time. The “Unfair”? Employer. that this had gone too far so de-| «1 aqvise that only in cases where cided to sed us over here to settle a7, employer may be so unfair, unjust | the argument.’ ‘and unpatriotic as to deny the appeais “I don’t know that you have not of our government in this hour of its adready heard the above but realizing great need, that the question of a that ‘Folks back home’ are always strike be considered at all, and I glad to hear about the boys at the earnestly appeal to our members to front, I decided to write in case you comply with the requirements of this had not. Buckley and I were sworn’ proclamation so as to avoid doing in the same day at Jefferson Barracks,’ anything at this time, which may in-j Mo., ‘and owing to the fact that we jure the great cause of humanity for) were both from the dear old state which our country is now waging bai- of N. D., palled considerable the few tje for the common people of all na days I wag there. As I remember he tions on earth. | said he either lived near Bismarck or dustice Sufficient. | had at least spent the past few years} “\hile we must not surrender our thereabouts, so there are undoubtedly right to ask for justice or to strike some people there who will remember jf necessary, yet, if any act of ours) him although he may not have lived shall result, in the stoppage of pro-| there long. He was a tall gent sport- duction, let it be undertaken after} ing a sandy mustache. If you publish the issues have been placed before this you must not forget to emphasize the proper government reprsentatives the fact that the boys at the front ap- and after thy have advised us tha: preciate a letter now and then even they are ‘unable to bring about an from strangers. | adjustment. | “T'trust that the above may interest “Let us be ready and willing at all you ‘ahd that it may bring news to times to meet our employers half someone thereabouts that is acquaint- way, and should they fail to cooper- ed with Buckley. ate with us to the end that the coun- “Sincerely yours, try may have the maximum uninter- L. A. BELFORD. |rupted output of copper during the ported officially to the. secretary of state and to county seat offi- ci prohibition has been defeat- ed by a majority of 1,723. “Formerly of Devils Lake, N. D. | period of war let the responsibility «“p §—Buckley was sworn in April rest with. them and not with the ” 80, 1917.° : work \ FIGHT GERMANY Maximalists Have Taken Refuge in the Smolny Institute Await- ing Development LENINE REPORTED TO Most of Army Deserts to New Trio Who Will Form Provi- sional Government » London, Nov. 13.—A dispatch from the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company says that travelers arriving in Haparanda, Sweden, from Russia, confirm the re- port that Premier Kerensky has gain- ed a complete victory over the Bol- shieviki. Jt is said the premier, Gen- eral Kaledines and General Korniloff, have formed a trimnavirate in Petro- grad where all the troops now side with Kerensky. It is reported Nicholai Lenine has been captured. Maximalists’ rule in Petrograd is weakening as Premier Kerensky , at the head of loyal troops advances from Gatchina, thirty miles southeas: of tie capital. Reports received in Finland say that the premier has en- tered Petrograd and that Bolshievikt has been overthrown. There is no con- firmation of these reports, which are at variance with latest advices from Petrograd itself. Digging Trenches. The Lolshieviki are digging trench- es and erecting barracks in prepara- tion for a battle with Kerensky’s for- ces. Fighting has occurred near Gatch- ina between the revolutionists and the Kerensky troops, but the result js not known. Premier Kerensky’s advance toward Petrogard caused the military cadet there to rise against the Folshleviki. Although outnumbered, the cadets fought desperately for possession of the telephone exchange until “they either were killed, or captured. -The sailors are reported to be showing signs of dissatisfaction with the Bol- shieviki rule, and the leaders, Lehine and Trotzky have sought places of safety on a cruiser in the river Neva. Conservatives Gaining, The committees of public safety | formed in Petrograd trom elements opposed to the extremists is-gaining ground and a num%er of its members have gone to Gatchina to attempt to arrange a compromise between Pre- mier Kerensky and the Bolshieviki. In (Moscow the conservative element have formed a government, which is reported to include some Eolshfev- iki. members. Premier Kerensky retains the chief command of the Russian army, and has established headquarters at Gatch- ina. General Alexieff, the former commander in chief is with him. Armies in Position. The Italian armies are in position along the Piave from Feltre to the Adriatic, and from the Piavé west to the Sette Communi. The invaders have failed in strong attacks norta- east of Asiago and along the Plave there have heen only artillery duels. North of Feltre, the AustroGer- mans have captured 14,000 Italians, who, apparently were cut off in ther attempt to reach the new defense po- sitions. The Italians aiJed by the ‘Frencn and British are prepared to give battle to the invaders. The Italian reverses have causel Premier Lloyd-George of Great Brit- ain ,and Premier Painleve, be*a form- er ministers of war to declare for so- lidity of allied command and effort. The reverses of the last three years, Premier Lloyd-George said; has made it necessary that the leadership be unified and that the allies be united. Victory will come from unity of a tion, no matter what uappened to Rus- sia or happens in Russia. The authenticity of these advices is open to question in view of the fact that no such7developments are re- ported in dispatches filed in Petro- grad as late as seven o’clock yes- terday evening. TAKE REFUGE, Copenhagen, Nov. 13.—Premier Ker- ensky'’s troops are in control of part of Petrograd, especially the Nevsky Prospetkp according to a telegram re- ceived by the Stockholm News agency and forwarded to Copenhagen. The Bolshieviki are said to have taken refuge in the Smolny institute. ENTERS PETROGRAD. Stockholm, Nov. 13.—General Korn- iloff ghas entered Petrograd where the ehtire garrison except the sailors, went over to his side, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the Petroken under Monday's date. v RAILROAD EARNINGS. Aggregate Net Proceeds Slightly Less Than Last September’s. Washington, Nov. 13.—Aggregate net earnings of railroads of the Unit- ed States during Sentember this year were slightly less than for the sama month Jast year when railroad earn- ings were at their peak. Reports from 173 roads compiled today by the interstate commerce commission showed that the southern lines $* : recorded. i