The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1917, Page 1

The Weather Generally fair. THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 277 7 ITAL ANS ITALIANS NOW STRIVE TO SAVE ART TREASURES Germans in Midst of Movement to; Flank Defenders at Crucial ' Point TEUTON PRESSURE IS STRONG ON THE PIAVE Bloody Street Fighting in Moscow: war. The question of forcing all en- Has Claimed More Than Two Thousand Lives BY ASSCCIATED PRESS. For the protection of Venice and Lombardy, the Italians have opened the flood gates of the Piave and the Sile rivers northeast. of. Venice, to keep in check the AustroGerman force Which -has* crossed the Piave near Grisolcra. In attempting to in- undate the triangle, whose apex is near San Dona di Piave the Italians hope to prevent any enemy movement to flank the right wing of the Italian army along the Piave. Near the Adriatic, the Piave and! Sile rivers are contained in canals run- | ning through land at or below sea level, and which stretches for many miles along tne Adriatic. “With ihe rivers allowed’ to flow) unchecked, 1: would appear to make. Austro-German efforts in this region barrea of re- sults. In the mountains between Asiago and thé Piave the great pressure of tue invaders has not brought great re- sults. On the Asiago plateau the Italfans are straightening out their line gradually, and..it-is here that, the Austro-Germans ‘have progressed slightly. ‘These, gains, however, ap- parently have not Leen‘of great stra- tegic value. ‘he Teuton pressure between the Sugana valley and the Piave is very strong. but the, lialians haye been able to check their attacks. The greater, portion, of the populace of Venice has, left, that city, ,from res also have been removed, diy which is but a scant seventeen miles from the battle line may noi be defended in the event of an attack in order to spare monument and art treasures that remain there. Communication Restored. Communication with Petrograd again uas been restored, but no direct news kas been received from the Rus- sian capital. The solsneviki are still in control, in Petrograd, while Premier Keren- sky's troops are reported to be in flight, and again to be marching on the Polsheviki stronghold. Efforts of the Socialists to arrange a sectlement with the Bolsheviki and bring about. a new coalition govern- ment ave tailed. Other reports say that other Maximalist leaders, Len- ine and Trotsky, are losing their pop-! ularity. | ‘'ne Uolsheviki in “Moscow are re-| ported 10 have been defeated com- pletely in street fighting, waich cl 2,000 live: Heavy fighting has occu: red at Kiev, where the Cossacks we said to have arrived several days ab. There has been little fighting of mo- ment on the eastern and western fronts. The American troops .in Fiance continue to harrass the Ger- mons in patrol actions and with ar- tillery fire. There has been morc clasnes in “No Man’s Land,” from whic the Americans returned unhurt. American patrols have reached ‘he wire entanglements before the Ger- man trenches, and American gun- ners have put German! machine guns out of action. Lord Northcliffe, newspaper propri-/ etor, and head of the British war mis- sion to ine United States, has de- clined to become head of the new air ministry in the British cavinet. His{ refusal, he explains in a leiter to Pre- mier Lloyd-George, is due to dissatis- faction with some of the methods of the premier's administration. Lord Northcliffe is dissatisfied, it is said, with regard io relations with the United States, which country he in- timates may have to take control of allied war interests. NAVAL EXPERTS AGREE PROGRESS MADE AGAINST SUB Washington, Nov.'16—American na- val experts. it was made plain today, do not agree with the view that the lull in the submarine activity indi cates a collopse of the U-boat cam- paign or that antisubmarine meas- ures have proved wholly effective. They agree that progress is being | made against tue menace, but prefer to postpone judgment on whether the 'navy Y. M. C. A. will again find the Alien Rules Alien Rales iA IN PEASIN More Rigidly COMMANDS ARMY Expected to Deal ity AT CINAIA PORT Menace of Bombs Fires Report of the Execution of Martin Lopez Proves to Be Pure Washington, Noy. 16.—New regula- tions governing enemy aliens, much more drastic and planned to be more effective than those now operating were up for final consideration at to- day’s cabinet meeting. They are ex- TRILLO DENIES THE pected ‘o deal efficiently with ‘the MURDER OF PRISONERS menace of fires, hom) plots, convey- ing information to Germany, and oth- pee ae Saha er activities intended to hamper the si ate government in the conduct of the Juarez Is Villa’s Next Objective, After Which He Will Attack bidding them entry to certain barred Post at Chihuahua City. anes ls one of the principal coasid-| _Hresidio, Tex., Nov. 16.—Juarez is | Francisco Villa’s next border objec- | tive, after which a general attack on Chihuahua City, the state capital, is planned, according to plans revealed today by Villa leaders in the Ojinaga garrison. The capital of the new Fabrication. emy aliens away from ‘he vantage points of the sea oard as well as for- BISMARCK WILL CO FAR BEYOND Y.M.C.4. QUOTA Close of Campaign Tomorrow Night will Find Capital City Again in the Lead established, there, according to this plan. The Villa movement is a new one, having no connection with the Felix Diaz or other revolutionary move- j ments, according to General Porfirio Onelas, permanent commander of the Ojinaga garrison. The new movement is called the conventionist party, and is in fact a revival of the former move- revolutionary, chieftains at | Calientes. Lopez Story, Untrue. peace Francisco Villa is in personal com- The close of a whirlwind week’s mand of the Villa troops now occupy- campaign for. Bismarck’s quota of the ing the Ojinaga post, according to $35,100,000 fund being raised in Amer-; Se a ils 6 hereon af x i secretary, ed with' the Asso- ica for the work ofthe army. and~crre¢ press correspondent today. He said Villa was on a trip of inspection of the country in the, vicinity of Ojin- aga and would return tonight. The private secretary to Villa pro- nounced the report that Martin Lopez was executed for failing to capture that town yesterday morning as a! pure fabrication, and said Lopez was with Villa in the hills’ to the south- west of town. He said Nicholas Fern- EVERYBODY HAS BEEN capital city well over the top. quota is practically 100 per cent sub- scribed today, and it is predicted that Bismarck will oversubscribe this fund to at least as great an extent as it did the Red Cross aad the two Lib- erty loans. “It has been one of the pleasantest tasks I have ever undertaken,” said ITALIANS FLOOD Pi REPORTED KERENSKY DRIVE Their re ik Worse Than Their Bark movement headed by Villa is to be™ ment by Villa called the convenionist | movement, following the convention of; Angus | Evening Edition =o Sgt OF FIVE CENTS —0O—~ —Q— * —o— N FROM PETROGR GERMANS AD —0— i But these 1 The Teutons’ capture of over 1,000 large guns from the Ite : t tf i C ’ s e Italians in ‘the pres siv: $ 2 of artillery defenseton General Cado rna’s smaller artillery. » pinikanter eats are laions Lig most effective of the smaller field pieces and can quickly be moved from place to. place. 02 millimeter guns are among, tha TOWNLEY ASKS. LOR UNIHS T0-J00 HIM Urges Elimination of Middlemen and Direct Marketing of . Wanufacturedygoode: “DOWN THE PROFITEER” SAYS LEAGUE HEAD Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 16.—A_ pledge from the farmers to join hands with Union Labor to help win the war was given today at the session of the District Chairman John A. Graham in commeating on reports trom coun- ty chairmen in the Sixth judicial dis- trict. “iveryone ha3 been so wiil- ing and_so anxious to contriduce that the work has been a genuine pleas- ure.” “If the quota had been ten times as great we could easily have made it,” said O. W. Roberts, chairman for Lurleigh county. “There never was any question about what Bismarck would do, and it has done ii,” chairman for the capital city. andez was in command of the Plaza. Twenty-four federal dnd Villa’ wounded are now in Ojinaga and per- mission has been asked to bring them to Presidio for treatment. Col. Trillo denied the execution of prisoners. He said one federal colonel | who was wounded last night had be given the liberty of the town pending the removal of wounded prisoners to the American side. Villa’s losses were comparatively | said G. B, Allen, light, according to Captain Jose Maria :Jaurette of Villa’s general staff, who Donations large and small, from accompanied Villa's secretary. big business men and bankers, lavor i VILLA NEDDS FOOD. ers, farmers, professional men, ; school children and newsboys have Paso, Tex., Nov. 16.-—At the Mew fairly rolled in upon tue committee. {an consulate general here today it, The unanimity of the response has Was Said that Villa’s purpose intake yeen one of the most gratifying fea: ins Ofinaga was to replenish Hits foou| tures of the campaign. supply and to dispose of one million “Anything we can do for our boys pesos in silver bullion which his men who are in the thick of this great had gathered in loot during the past light will be done cheerfully,” said few months. one contrivutor, “and of all the things A repres I we can do for them, I believe the © mining companies cperating in i ii t aby is authority for investing of a dollar or two in insur-; Western Chihuahua is au fo ing these boys a chance to come back; the atement that the Villa attack clean in body and in mind is the on Ojinaga is the first open move in very best.” a general plan for the overthrow of Complete reports for the district Carranza, This man declares he has, the county and the city probably wil information that Villa has but recent: Zz ntative of one of the larg: }e available tomorrow. ‘The commit-| ly returned from southern Mexicc tees are still working. There isn’t’ where he conferred with Zapata, Felix the slightest diminishment in their, Diaz and other leaders of anti-govern- ment factions, and that an understand- ing has been reached whereby all will {co operate in the new revolution. It is further asserted that while Diaz is the ostensible head of the new movement, the real leader is remain- ing in the background, and is known | only to a few persons. Revolution Long Delayed. A Preparations for the revolution, it CAPT. BARKER CAN'T GO OVERSEAS; RETAINS is asserted, jure been under way for many months, bu ostilities vi RANE IN WEE SERVICE heen delayed because of fear of inter- 16.—Word’ ference by the United States. This fear, it id, is no longer felt be- cause of the belief that the United States is 80 fully occupied in the war with Germany as to have no time to $ enthusiasm. They are bound to carry the fight not only over the top but to the enemy's last trenches. Paraphrasing Billy Sunday, they might say: “We're ou’ to fight the Devil until Hades freezes over, and then we're prepared to buckle on skates and tackle him on ice.” i Dickinson, D., Nov. has been received here that Capt C. N. Barker ‘of Co., K, First North Da- kota, now stationed at Camp Greens, has been found unfit physically for { n overseas service. He will however, bother with Mexican affairs unle retain his rank and be assigned to ser- American interests are vit ly affe vice in America when his command, ed. This it is planned to avoid by giv- crosses the Atlantic. ing every protection to foreigners and AM NAMMED their property. : DICKINSON COMMERCIAL ‘According to the plans revealed, CLUB BOOSTS RED TRAIL here Villa is to be commander of the i army of northern Mexico and in return for this position has promised loyal and unquestioned obedience to the Dickinson, N. D., Nov. 16.—A con- structive campaign for the advance- ment of the Red Trail—the National real head of the revolution. Parks Highway—was planned by the — Dickinson Commercial club at its last AUTO RUNS BOY DOWN meeting, A great amount of work al- es : ready has been done on the trail youngster Struck while Riding through Stark county, and much more A jur improvement is planned for the com- Bicycle Badly Injured Napoleon, N. Nov. 16.—Ben | ing year. Schwan, 15-year-old son of Mrs. An- / NEW RURAL ROUTES ton Zahn, was injured internally when ‘he was. run down by a speeding car, Van Hook Farming Country driven by’ Peter Rice, on the main street here. The youngster was rid- Development Shown ing a bicycle and it is reported he Van Hook, N. D., Nov. 16—Two new had no time to ‘urn out for the racing rural routes radiating from Van Hook} car. U-boat has been eliminated as a fac- tor until the theory has Deen more thoroughly tested. He has been removed to his will be placed in service by the post-} motier’s home, where he is receiv- office department January 2. ing surgical care. ; American Federation of Labor by A.'==—= C. Townley, president of the Farm- ers nonpartisan league, and L. B. Strayer, second vice president of the! national farmers’ congress. “The farmers realize,” Mr. Strayer} said, “the great responsibility that resis upon them in this great: world- wide crisis. When the liberties for which our forefathers fought are in danger it is important for we work- ers in the city @nd‘in the fields to understand one another. The fallacy that we are opposed should be cor- rected.” President Townley urged the federa-| tion to cooperate by putting the field and factory war products on the mar- ket at lower prices and in greater quantities. “Let the two great classes of pro- ducers join hands behind the govern ment in this war,” he said. “Let us put down the profiteer. We would find in a surprisingly short time that our people at home would be better and more economically fed, our forces at the front better and more econ- omically equipped.” President Townley made a hitter at- tack on the milling intere: declar- ing the farmers only received 80 cents per bushel for wheat under low grad-| ing, While the No. 1 Northern wheat was selling for $1.80. “But,” he de-| clared, “all of our $9 cent wheat finds! its way into the flour mills and into! your barrels.” A resolution calling on the govern- ment to take over the flour milling in- dustry was read and approved by President Townley. GUARDS FOR INSANE CHARGED WITH CRIME: BEAT WARDS T0 DEATH, Cincinnati, Nov. 16.—A."L. Barlow and James Brown, two attendants at Longview State Hospital for the in- sane, were indicted on charges of first | degree murder in a_ partial report made here today by the special grand jury investigating the conditions exist- | ing at the hospital. The indictments were made in con-} nection with the death of Sabin Hol-; lister, a patient at Longview last; week. The police allage that both: Barlow and Brown have admitted | beating and kicking Hollister, but that | each place the major blame upon the, other. TO START NEW SCHOOL Bismarck College Head Plans Dickinson Institution Dickinson, N. D., Nov. 16.—G. M. Langum, president of the Bismarck business college, has announced plans for opening a branch school here. ling the farmers of Burleigh in solv-| | however, | ered by this prog#@ssive movement. | THREE ARE VICTIMS. OF ANE MURDER IN VIRGINIA Virginia, Minn, Nov. 1%.--Three persons, Mr, and Mrs. Alar, and a boarder, Peter Trepich, were killed last night by an axe murderer. Their bodies were found today in their home here, with a note of warning to all other Austrian faniMies in Vir- ginia, who bought liberty bonds or subscribed to Red Cross. The -bedies were horribly mutilated. They had been slashed with a knife in addition to being beaten with an axe. | All were in their beds. Alar’s skull had been crushed by a single blow from a double bittied » and th were knife wounds on his body. Mrs Alar’s face was. smashed, and in, an- other room Trepich had died from a crushed skull similar to (uat suffered by Alar. The police have two theories to ac- count for the murder, One is that it resulted from a feud over the aid giv- a by the Alars to the American use, and another is that robbery the motive. Tne latter theory is partly substantiated by the rumors prevalent that Mrs. Alars had $2,000 inc incluling several hundred dol- lars of liberty bonds in her home. ‘But thie note jett by the ‘murdered, on tne other hand, tends to show he intend- ed to punish them for their stance in the war. Wholesale arrests hava beon made. : The police say that the murderer after completing his work od under the shadow of a large crucifix and hands. Then he sat down at chen table and te the note of warning. BURLEICH CUUNIY = APPLIES FOR U.S BOUNTY AGENT AD Signs Contracts with State Board | of Regents Which will Make | $1400 Available MOVEMENT INAUGURATED BY COMMERCIAL CLUB; Burleigh count gent, a better will devote all of his time to is to have a county ; farming expert who | ing their every day problems and to! abetting their efforts to make farming | more profitable. The movement for a county « Burleigh was originated more than a year ago by the Commercial cl Pe- titio were placed in the hands of progressive farmers in various parts of the county, and a fair number of signatures was produced. When the question was presented at the county} convention of the Farmers’ Union, that organization was dis | to believe the time was not yet and the movement for the time being was dropped. At the last meeting of the Burleigh county commission petitions signed by a sufficient number of Burleigh county farmers were submitted asking that the county enter into a contract with the state board of regents for a coun- ty agent, and the board immediately adopted resolutions directing County Auditor Flaherty to draw up contracts ; and present them to the board of) regents. These contracts will go in) a day or two. Under the Smith-Lever act, the United States department of agricul-} ture is authorized to appropriate $1,-; 400 per annum to apply on the si y ofa county agent in any count makes application for assistance. This sum will be available in Burleigh, and it is probable that the county's share | of the additional expense will be about | $1,000 per annum. Walsh and Sargent have joined with Burleigh in the most recent applica- tions for county agents reported to Thomas Cooper, director of the North; Dakota experiment station. This will | make 26 counties engaged in this work, with 32 accredited county agents in the field, meaning that more than half of North Dakota now is cov- Mr. and Mrs. George V. Cunning- ham who have been spending several months in Driscoll expect to return; to the city next month and will open | to [is their house in Sixth street, for the winter. SUMMIT TOHNGHP. GOUPLE ARRESTED; IGNORED. SCHOOLS Kostal, resid- Mr. and Mrs. Jam ing in Summit township, near leigh’s north county line, will be ar- rested tomorrow morning and brought marck to stand trial in Justice Ileckreid' ing to send their three minor chil dren to school. It is alleged in the complaint made before Judge Bleckreid this morning Co yyoke an immediate session of the that the couple have persisted in keep- ng their children out of school, al- though they have been warned that they are violating a state law. The entire family will be brought in to-, morrow afternoon for Deputy Sheriff Rollin Welch serve the warrants. This is one of the first ¢ of the kind which uas come up in Bur- leigh county for some time. As a rule, the rural distri in the coun- ty are ob ving the school laws, and a majority of the schools report a full attendance. will TWENTY LARIMORE FAMILIES SUBSIST 'Splendid Record of Presbyterian Church Folk Reported to Food Administration food conservation in These reports, whi the pastor to the Ur administration at V show that during the the parish. SKI CLUB ELECTS Organization Builds New Chute and Prepares for Winter Pekin, N. D., Nov. 16—The Trysil Knut Ski club has prepared for an active winter's sport by electing Kas- per G. Gleason president and Carsten Alm secretary and treasurer. A new ski chute, 30 feet high, will be erected at the Ole Hanson hill near Hamar. Bur- | ac! a hearing. | FLOOD CT OF PVE AR THROWN OPEN Pope Orders Nuncios to Appeal Personally to Emperor Wil- liam for Protection CHIEF MENACE NOW IS ATTACK ON VENICE Invaders May Enter City by Through Lagoon or Bombard City from Vantage Point Berlin, Nov. 16.—The town of Cismon, on the northern Italian front, has been captured, the war office announced. ‘Near the Adri- atic, on the western bank of the Piave, Hungarian troops advanc- ed and captured 1,000 Italians. POPE ASKS PROTECTION. Rome, Nov. 16.—Pope Benedict has asked the governments of the central empires to instruct their military authorities operating west of the Isonzo to follow the rules of international law in re- specting the lives and property of civilians and in protection of women and children, the. clergy, hospitals, churches, bishop’s pal- aces and presbytery. The pontiff also has ordered the | Papai Nunc’os at Munich and Vi- ! enna, if necessary, to appeal per- sonally to Emperor William and ! Emperor Charles to obtain ful- | fitlment of his purposes. | in Northern The flood Italian Hee Italy, Thurs Nov. 1 gates of the Piave, and Sile,. or Old Piave rive have been opened” by Italian military engineers and the enemy is now faced by another Ypser of inundation. . } Under Water. The flood was loose at the point where the enem) ing the Piave miles from thé repion where he gained’ lodgment'now is under water. The inundated’ ter- titory forms a huge triangle about 12 miles on each side, with the apex at Dona di Piave. The enemy had been driven back, but still held on within this triangle until the dykes from both rivers released the waters over the low-lying plains. Chief Menace. ‘The chief menace at that point was that te enemy might be able to ap- proach Venice through the lagoon or bombard the city from his position between the rivers. The inundation interposes a barrier of waier, 12 biles and several feet deep. Reports which have reached head quarters, the otuer points on the front also are favorable. WANT PEACE CONFERENCE. London, Nov. 16.--The independent Socialist group in the German reich- stag has requested the president to ‘reichstag to discuss the peace offer of Nikolai Lenine, leader of the Rus- sian Bolshieviki, the Ams respondent of the Central cables. ‘The Indeepndent Socialist also asks that the reichstag take up the con- sideration of the new state of affairs as regards Courland, Lithanania, and Poland. No word has come to this country ‘of a peace offer by the Bolsheviki to » German government. The pro- am of the Bolsheviki is to propose armistice. BELIEVE STEAMER LOST. Washington, Nov. 16.--The British jsteamer Kan is believed to have been lo: Nothing has been heard fr nce she separ: from her convoy in a storm th person aboard of whom vy has record is J. H. A. Muir, parents live in Poland Park, and, SITUATION UNCHANGED, Nov. 16.—Dispatches Fra’ at Petro- er 12th, arrived to- 1 nothing not al- cables, and tuation as It ed in the news atches when fighting was in pro he Rolshev- Premier Petrograd, and i not deen ousted by asky’s forces, as later licated. BONE DRYNESS HELPS McHenry County Spent only $1.56 on Prisoners Last Month Towner, N. D., Nov. 16.—North Da- )kota’s bone dryness is reducing the high ccst of government. During the month of October McHenry county j Paid but $1.50 for the board of pi joners in the county jail. and Sheriff J A. Wik attributes this grea‘ de- ease in crime to the fact that very little intoxicating liquor is coming in- to Towner county. eee