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

BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1917 THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 286 Evening Edition GERMANY’S COUNTER 1S CHECKED WAR MEASIRES PRESS CONGRESS AS IT CONVENES President Wilson to Address Joint Body Tomorrow on’ Import- ant Issues BILLIONS IN NEW APPROPRIATIONS URGED Woman’s Suffrage and National Prohibition will ‘come Before Session Washington, Dec. 23.—Faced by the mighty problem of America’s part in the world fight for democracy, con- gress convened today for its second war session. Appropriations of billions of dollars and measures to put the full force of the United States beside its allies will be the principal business of the session. The first day’s business was largely perfunctory, with official notice to the president that congress is in session and waiting to hear his opening ad- dress. The president will speak to- morrow at 12:30 p. m. in the hall of the house before a joint session. To Confine Work to War. President Wilson, in his address, it is understood, will ask congress to confine its work strictly to measures for speedy and successful prosecution of the war. There is a disposition on the part of leaders on ‘both sides to have him take the lead in the war measures, and to give him all the non- partisan support possible. While the question of declaring war upon Austria, Turkey: and. Bulgaria is being agitated in congress, there {s a general disposition to follow the wishes of the executive branch of ‘the government, which it is undérstood opposes any change ‘in policy’ at this time. ‘ President Wilson’s address was in the hands of the printer today. While it is practically complete, it is being held open for any changes until a short time. before delivery. ie The Sixty-fifth Congre: reconveried today for. its second and “long” ses sion, with the leaders prepared to stay here uatil next autumn. ‘As in the special war session which ended: October''6,: prosecution of the war igckhe- principal task, facing the legislators. ,, Today's opening meeting was as usual brief and prefunctoty, accompanied By! the’ “ordinary scenes of a new’ sedéioh¢shandshaking” and other felicitations. with well filled gal. leries and much hustle and contusion After appointment of committees by both bodies to notify President Wil son and each other of their presence for duty and fixing their daily meet- ing hour at 12 o'clock, the senate and house adjourned until to-morrow out of respect to members who died dur- ing the recess—Senator Husting of Wisconsin and Representative -Martin of Illinois. To Hear President “The keynote of the legislative pro- gram will be sounded Tuesday by President Wilson in his opening ad- dress to be delivered in the house chamber at 12:30 p. m. at a joint session. It will be his first appear- ance before congress since the night meeting called April 2 to permit him to ask for a declaration of war against Germany.” ‘Organization of both senate and house under democratic control hav- ing been effected at the special ses- sion, both bodies were ready to plunge into the mass of wating usiness Legislation, however, is not expected to get into full swing until next month, after the Christmas recess, al- though there is some agitation to forego the holiday. Tomorrow will come the initial flood of bills, resolutions and petitions. Among the latter are many petitions accumulated during the recess, de- manding the expulsion of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin for alleged dis loyalty. His speech last September at St. Paul, Minn., was considere: today by the senate privileges and elections committee in connection with a sub-committee’s investigation General, miscellaneous legislation is to come immediately before Con- gress, passibly including some mea- sures affecting this country’s course in the war in view of widespread sentiment among returning memers for declarations of war against Ger- many’s allies, Austria-Hungary, Tur- key and Bulgaria. Congress is ex- pected, however, to follow the views of the President in this respect. Appropriation measures will re quire much time. Fourteen general and probably several special supply bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1917, as well as estimates of additional money for present war needs are to be considered, probaly immediately after new Years. Two bills, the legislative. evecutive and ju- diciial and District of Columbia meas- ures, already are under preparation: 50 Billion Mark New war revenue legislation, is not fe eqneidaration fo~ A edeficit of $2 nave ocnenditures gchedntod for activ a month ar more. 9n6.000,000 in this v a ooiees to be nrovided for oe Political affairs will sae i ao much considerstion during the ee sion. with considerable sneee! in view of general tions next fall al senators, nineteen thirteen Republicans, (Continued on page four) rem t which thirty-two democrats and the enti 1 congressional elec- and re | 600 citizens, of whom over 400 were IN STEMING With the British Army Dec. 3—American ‘army engineers working in the region of Gouzeaucourt ish allies yesterday and helped them stem the onslaught which resulted in Gouzeaucourt being enveloped for a ‘| time. Many of the Americans were caught in the German turning movement, and only escaped death or capture by ly- ing concealed four hours in shell holes until the British had succeeded in’ pushing the invaders back. Hun- dreds of other men from overseas were subjected to, tremendous, shell fire from enemy artillery, and great quantities of gas shells were thrown into the territory where they were working. The German attack was made with greatly superior numbers, Joine the fighting ranks of their Brit-| AMERICAN ENCINEERS ON FIRING LINE ASSIST ALLIES TEUTON ATTACKS in France,,and every available man was needed Two Billion on the British side to arrest its on- ward sweep. The Americans gave every ounce of their strength to this task, ‘both in fighting and working, and the important part which they played has drawn the highest praise from the Eritish authorities. | Many of the engineers seized rifles and fought side by side with the Tommies throughout the bitter day and many scores of Americans last night, were armed and sent forward as volunteers to do patrol duty in tae hospital zone, before which a large army, of Germans were in camp. One British general in conversation with the correspondent said: “One cannot bestow any praise that is higher,” he ‘remarked ‘emphatically, (Continued on page four) CAMP. CRANT SOLDIERS I TRAIN REC Rockford, Ill, Nec. 2.--The thirty- seven soldiers of the 86th division of the national army and five civilians who suffered. minor injuries when a special troop train on the I. C. R. R., was derailed last night near Granger, were reported in no danger today. About 800 soldiers were returning to Camp Grant, after a two day holiday in Chicago when the accident occur- re], one car, being overturned. A Qroken coupling or a split switch are believed to have caused the ac- cident. All of the injured were placed in the base hospital. The enginee- with both ‘legs broken was most sert- ously. hurt. tion the officials announced that the of the engine, struck the point of a coaches from the main track. CNSER TO CAPTAIN (08 FOOTBALL TEAM FOR JAMESTOWN HIGH Guard cof All State Aggregation Expected to Mold Winning Bunch for Next Season Jamestown, N. D., Dec. 3.—Harri- son Kaiser, named as guard on the all-state high school football team, star tackle on the Jamestown high school eleven for the past two ‘sea- sons, has been named captain of the 1918 aggregation by his teammates. Kaiser is a tower of strength on the line, a heady football player, should aid in developing a fast team next season. Kaiser is also captain of the 1917-18 basketball team. CONSERVING EATABLES Reports Show that 956 Families of Total of 2550 have Signed Pledge Cards | Dickinson, N. D., Dec. 3.—Stark county families to the number of 956 of an estimated total of 2550 have signed the food conservation pledge ,cards circulated by Federal Food Ad- ministrator E. F. Ladd. Dickinson leads with 518 pledges, while Belfield, with 182, and Richardton, with 115, have done very well considering their population. COUNTY OF STARK EXPECTS 10 BUY MUCH SEED GRAIN Commissioners Decline to Engage Farming Agent, Reserving cl $100,000 for Emergency Dickinson, N. D., Dec. 3.—Stark county commissioners anticipate the necessity of investing at least $100,009 in seed grain bonds and warrants to assure farmers of this county a good After careful. investiga~| switch, opened it and deflected the} andi. MORE THAN THIRD OF | STARK COUNIY FOLKS. | supply of seed next year. As a re- sult the commission has declined to make an appropriation for a county farming agency, although more than farmers, petitioned for an agent. FLAS. AND FRIENDS UNITE W TRIBUTE TO HONORED DEAD Impressive Memorial Services Held at Bismarck Temple Sunday Afternoon Bismarck Elks and their friends united yesterday in impressive me- moriel services at the Bismarck tem- ple on,,Main \street in honor of de- parted members of the lodge. The Jast year has cost Bismarck lodge six prominent members, four of whom met their death in the Easter morn- ing tragedy. A mixed quartet. consisting of Misses Keenan and Steele and Messrs. Halvorson and* Humphreys and Mrs. wreck was caused by'a broken brakes: Via: LaRose -conirtbuted vocal num- -rod, which dragging ‘beneath ‘the tank’! hers; the, opening .and ,closing cere: monies’ were carried out according to the ritual-of the order, and’the memor: jal address was delivered. by Rev. George Buzzelle, who in part said: “Brethren and friends: It is a cus- tom of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, hallowed and sacred, to once each year.call a halt in the} affairs of life, its business and its pleasure, its joy and its sorrow, and for an-hour to‘bring to mind those’ who have been called from our midst by death. This is the day and this is the hour, and now we read the names and con the virtues of our departed brethren. I am glad that this is so, for this act forever lines the members of this order in solid phalanx against a philosophy of materialism that ever attempts to undermine and destroy the fair fabric of hape and trust we have builded. We who have gathered in answer to the summons of our order are conscious that we are more than dust,.and have come together to commemorate something more than ashes and clay. These brethren still live, and live in a sphere of liberty unknown to-us. “Liberty has been much on our lips the past few months, and I trust that it will be much more so and with a deeper meaning in the months to come. But how many of us realize what liberty means. Of itself it means nothing. It is a negative term. It implies previous bondage; it is remi- niscent of chains and shackles. When these are stricken from us we are free: i. e., we have the opportunity of using the faculties that we possess and of developing new powers. But unless we take advantage of-the op- portunity, and develop the faculties, freedom will mean nothing, and ma; indeed be positively harmful, in that it will allow the pent up forces to run riot and end in destruction. “Death brings us freedom—freedom from the bonds of time and space, of flesh and blood, but it will be a bless- ing to us only as we use the faculties of the soul in apprehending the trea- sures of truth and righteousness at our command. So we may catch a new meaning to the obligations of the order, for every act of charity, every deed of kindness performed by us here is fitting us for larger possi- bilities in the great world to come. We are following in the footsteps of the lowly Gallilean who best served His Father by daily and hourly serv- ing His children who suffered and had need.” ARCO ANAMOOSE WOWAK DEAD AT JAMESTOWN Last Rites for Mrs. Matilina Heyd to be Held Sunday—Many Surviving Relatives Jamestown, N. D. Dec. 1.—Mrs. Matilina Hoyd, 74, formerly of Ana- moose but of late a resident of James- town, died at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. Gottlieb Feickert, here Funeral services will be held tomor- row. A husband, three daughters, one son, 23 grand children and 12 great grand children survive. Among the daugiuters surviving is Mrs. Matilina Wissell, of Grand Forks. $13,000.00 Ot | THRIFT STAMPS *FORNO.DAKOT Issue Placed on Sale In Every Postoffice of the . Nation APPORTIONED TO STATES AT $20 PER CAPITA Local Office Making Arrange- ments ‘to Handle this Busi- ness for Government Washington, Dec. 3.—War savings stamps went on sale at the postoffices and banks throughout the country for ; the first time today. Before the week is finished thousands of agencies for their distribution will be established in the hope of promoting the most thorough campaign of systematic thrift and of gathering war funds in the world’s history. The $2,000,000,000 which the govern- ment expects to get within the next year, wa sapportioned today among the states at the rate of $20 for each inhabitant. Sale of thrift stamps and war saving stamps, the latest method adopted by the government to raise funds for the war, will start in Bismarck as soon as the stamps are received. All of the supplies have heen re- ceived except’ the stamps and the local office will mail out the supplies to the other postoffices of the state as soon as the stamps arrive. ‘When the campaign starts the thrift stamps may be purchase from any of the 16 mail.carriers in the city for 25 cents each....These stamps are to be pasted,.on.,a, thrift card, ‘ohe on each of the,16 spaces provided there- on, making, a. total of $4 worth of stamps. The card is then presented at the postoffice and a payment of 12 to 28 cents made, dependent on the dime of presentation. The full card is then exchanged for a war savings certificate stamp for which the gov- ernment will pay. $5 on Jan. 1, 1923, which amounts to. a cent interest compounded quarterly, BRACE FOUND UN- DER MATTRESS “SPOILS. ESCAPE Anderson Planned Freedom from Moorhead Jail Where He is Held for Murder ACCOMPLICE TURNS STATE'S EVIDENCE Moorhead, Minn., Dec. 3.—An at- tempt to escape from the Clay county jail by Fred Anderson, charged with the murder of George Sheffield, tele- graph operator, who was shot and in- stantly killed by two bandits, who held up the station here last Septem- ber, was frustrated here today when a heavy iron ‘punk brace was found Concealed ‘under the mattress in his cell by the police. The brace; which was nearly two feet long and weighed several pounds, had been worked loose from the wall by continual wrenching and police au- thorities declared that it would have been an easy matter for Anderson to have pried loose the fastenings on the window of his cell and made his escape tonight if the brace had not been found. Anderson has been kept in solitary confinement, it was said, and accord- ing to the police does not know that Fred Warner, who confessed last Sat- urday to having participated in the crime, declared that Anderson was the man who shot and killed Sheffield. TRYGG TOWNSHIP FARMER SUICIDE; FIND BODY TODAY The body of C.-W. Anderson, a homesteader who “batched” it north- east of Baldwin, was found lying on the prairie with a bullet hole through his head by two young Trygg boys, sons of a prominent Trygg township farmer, at an early hour this morn- ing. Sheriff French and Coroner Shipp i MANY'S ARMISTICE AGENTS ARRIVE AT RUSSIAN FRONT; OLD REGIME ISSUES MANIFESTO! — TO TURN LINE ARMISTICE AGENTS ARRIVE. Berlin, Dec. 3—A Russian depu- tation, the official statement says, has arrived at the command of Prince Leopold of Bavaria, with the object of arranging a general armistice. London, Dec. 8—The Russian pro- visional government thrown out of power last month by the Bolsheviki, reappeared on the scene Friday, ac- cording to special dispatches from Petrograd, and issued a manifesto claiming to be the only legal author- ity in Russia, and urging the people not to obey the decrees of the Bol- sheviki. All the measures taken by the pro- visional government, the manifesto says, were with the view of assem- bling the constituent assembly, and to tide over the crisis until the consti- tuent assembly would be avle to de- clare the will of the people, but this hope was swept away by the revolt of the extremists, which dislocated the electoral machinery. Neverthe- less, it advises ‘that the assembly as elected during the last few days be ; convened, although it is necessarily \incomplete. The belief is professed that the assembly will sufficiently ex- press Russia's will. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail points out that since the extremists’ upheaval, the provisional government has received the resigna- tion of Premier Kerensky and Gen- eral Verkhovski and Admiral Verder- eski, ministers of war and marine, re- spectively. 13 CONVICTS SAW THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM Joliet, Tl, Dec. Heavily armed posses are searching Will county for traces of 13 convicts who sawed through two sets of steel bars, over- powered two keepers, and escaped from the penitentiary here early to- day. The men, who were confined in the “solitary’® sawed their way through the heavy steel “bars, and then overpowered the keepers. over the east wall of the prison. The 13 are “bad men” and had’ been con- fined in the “solitary” for refusal to obey orders. HETTINGER OOUNTY HAS ORGANIZATION _ BACK OF RIGHIWAYS Progressive Farmers and Business, Men United in Cause of Bet- ter Roads Mott, N. D., Dec. 3.—Fred W. Knaus of 'Baer is president and Abraham Johnson of Merrill secretary of the Hettinger County Highway associa- tion organized to support the board of county commissioners in its cam- paign for better roads and more of; them. The association will work in conjunction with the county commis-| sion and the state highway commis- sion, and will seek to create sufficient interest in this county to match heavy state and federal appropriations for trunkline highways. COUNTY CLERK CRAM WILL ISSUE MAKIN'S FOR INFERNAL BOMBS Anyone Desiring to Blow up Any- thing Must Procure License from Him First Jamestown, D., Dec. 3.—County Clerk Jesse M. Cran has been ap- pointed to issue licenses to dealers of explosives in Stutsman county, ac- cording to word received by him from the bureau of mines at Washington. His appointment to this post is a re- sult of the law passed by congress Oct. 6, 1917, ordering that all dealers and users of explosives must be li- censed, such certificates being sold for 25 cents. License blanks and in- structions have already been received by County Clerk Cran and he is ready After ; inding.the two guards the men went{ to issue permits to Stutsman dealers. ' GRAN GRADING HEARING HERE CEMBER 10 Fight Against Federal Standards will be Carried to Congress if Necessary RAIL BOARD TO JOIN iN QUIZ IN DAKOTA Secretary J. H. Calderhead of the North Dakota railway commission an- ved Saturday evening that formal hag been received from the division of markets of the United States department of agriculture of hearings to be held in Fargo on De- cember 8, and in Bismrack on Decem- ber 10 of the new United States standards for grain grading, against which a universal protest has arisen from the northwest. It will be impossible, Mr. Calder- head states, for the commission to personally notify all of the grain- growers and elevator men who are interested, and he urges that the dates be noted and those who desire to at- tend make it a point to be present at the meeting most conveniently Io- cated for them. It is anticipated that | scores of grain men will attend the) e hearing in Bismarck, as a majority of | the complaints against grading under , the new system have come from ter-j ritory northwest and southwest of the capital. May Go to Congress. So general is dissatisfaction, over, the new federal grades that, unless relief is obtained some other way, it is probale that the fight will be carried to the fioor of congress at, the next term and a determined effort be made to repeal the act in its en-| tirety. While no movement of this kind is known to have originated in North Dakota, Minnesota is said to| have already taken steps looking to- ward a contest in congress, if ob- jections filed at the hearings sched- uled do not prevail. Two representatives of the division of markets will attend the hearings at Fargo and Bismarck, which will, be particpated in by the inspection department of North Dakota and the state rail board, which has general supervision over the grain grading di- vision of elevators througout the state. RUNAWAY BALLOON DRIFTING SOUTHWEST Wichita, Kan. Dec. 3—The runa- way army balloon from Ft. Omaha, Neb., was still aloft early today and drifting southwest. It had reached: the Oklahoma state line about 2:40 a. m., and was reported traveling at; 45 miles an hour. All telephone and telegraph lines between Medicine Lodge, Kan., and Herper, Kan., had been torn down as well as all wire communication between Kingman and Harper, by the 6,000 foot cable which is dragging. Two Germans With 100 Sticks of Dynamite at Large in the Badlands Medora, N. D., Dec. 3—‘Somewhere in the Ead Lands” two rabid Ger-| mans are running wild with 100 sticks of dynamite, 100 feet of fuse and sev- eral boxes of caps in their posses- sion. Officers everywhere have been were called to the scene this morning warned to watch for them, and the to conduct an investigation. Evidence} federal anthorities have been notified. points to suicide. derson recently deceased, and a brother of John Anderson, well known Burleigh county farmer. Two sisters reside at Pettibone. Anderson was last seen alive Saturday evening. He is presumed to have shot himself some time during Saturday night. The deceased was a son of Ed | The explosive was stolen from the Consolidated Coal Co’s Medora mine. Manager Brodie discovered the boxes from which the dynamite was taken one and three miles west of Medora, partly imbedded in the soft earth in such a; manner as to indicate that they had been thrown from a west- bound Northern Pacific train. ON EARNER AR IS {yards and then transfered the ex-, | plosive from the Two Germans applied for work at the mine several times during the jlast week but never reported for, jduty. They disappeared the night the’ ; explosive was taken, carrying suit- icases with them when last seen . It lis believed that they loaded the boxes] |of dynamite on a west-bound train while it was switching in the local boxes to their suit, cases, dumping the empty board. Following closely on the heels of the. Lemmon outrages, the affair has created considerable consternation in the Bad Lands. boxes over-| Were put on the trail. RITISH STOP B TEUTONS DRIVE At Heavy Cost the Allies have Reoccupied Masanieres, South of Cambrai TEN HEAVY ATTACKS REPULSED BY ENTENTE , Enemy Uses Several Divisions in Frantic Attempt to Dislodge General Byng TOWN SHELLED. British Army in France, Dee. 3. —British troops last night reoccu- pied a section of a trench on the high ground southwest of Bourton village on the Cambrai front, which was. lost on Friday. The town of Masnieres, waich was evacuated by the British, was shelled last night by British artil- lery. Germans attacked the British positions at La Vacquerie, south- west of Cambrai, at 8:45 o'clock today and half an hour later it was reported that they had been successfully beaten off. Today’ attack followed three futile at- tempts made by the enemy to take this village yesterday afternoon. (By Associated Press) Violent German efforts to wipe out the salient before Cambrai, have ibrought little tactical success as Gen- eral Byng has withstood successfully for three days. all attempts to “be through. About Gonnelieu, ‘the ‘Ger- mans have gained’ slight’ terrain “at heavy ‘costs. ‘The British have re- occupied ‘Masnieres, south of Cam- ‘brai. The Germans’ “have suffered heavy losses in deal and wounded, and the British also are said to have suffered according to |Berlin; but have taken hundred of men prisoners: In the important sector, west. ‘of Cambrai, emracing Boulron wood, the dominating position in this region, the Germans have, made no’ finpres#ion on the Eritish defense nor -have Gen’ eral Byng’s men given ground” be: tween Bourlon wood and ‘Mouver the northern side’of the saiiant:) Attacks Driven Off. sion Ten heavy attacks against re- gion of Masseneries were driven off by the British with costly losses for the attackers. ‘South west of Masnieres toward Gonnelieu the Germans still hold La Vacquerie, where its is said, the dead in twelve hours have numbered more than in any similar period since the beginning of the war. Fighting was in proghess Sunday, in and around the village of Gonnelieu. In this re- gion, the Germans used four or five divisions Friday and attacked in massed formation Saturday and Sun- day. At least six or seven divisions were used by the attackers in their fruitless effort to break the northern leg of the salient. TAKE 100 GUNS. Berlin, Dec. 3.—Since Friday the Germans have captured 6,000 British prisoners in the Cambrai region the German general staff announces to- day. The guns taken numbered 100. STIGK-UP WAN ROBS REGANITE YET AT LARGE Sheriff French «nd Police Officers Seeking Bandit who Burgled Ed. Baker PULLS GUN AND ASKS FOR CASH—GETS $65 Burleigh county police officers have been seeking for the last three days an amateur stick-up man who late Friday night held up Ed Baker, pro- prietor of a pool hall at Regan, in his own dooryard and relieved him of $65. Baker had locked up shop for the night and was walking homeward when he saw a man appear from the direction of the school house, which lies beyond his home. The stranger casually sauntered toward Baker, meeting him as the latter was about to turn in at his gate. “I want your money,” said the stranger, shoving a baby gat into Bak- er’s ribs. And he got it, as fast as Baker could shel it out. He then watched Baker into his house and disappeared. The police were immediately notified, and Sheriff French and his deputies The freshest scent obtainable led southward from Regan, it being apparent that the hold-up man ha dstruck out on foot, taking a road leading toward Bis- marck.