The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1917, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1917 THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N._D., as Second Class Matter. ~~ ISSUED EVERY DAY | GEORGE D. MANN, - - - Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. | NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Blig.; CHI- CAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresge! Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Fvehange | MIMBEK OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. | he Associated Press is exclusively | eutitled to the use for republication of | all news credited to it or not other-| wise credited in this paper and also} the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIR-/ CULATION. 2S PAYABLE IN| OLB IUN KAI ADVANCE Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ....... $ .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and day, by Carrier, per month.... .90, Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, { per month ........ sa eee secs 100] Daily, Evening and Sunday, per | month paneeeotes 70) Morning or E ig by Mail in | North Dakota, one year ...... 4.00; Morning or Evening by mail out- | side of North Dakota, one year, 6.00; Sunday, in Combination with Evening or Morning by mail, | one year . -+e+ 5.00 THE STATE'S OLD: NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ie WEATHER REPOrT. | for 24 hours ending at noon Dec. 3: Temperature at 7 a. m. " Temperature at noon 2L Highest yesterday bh Lowest yesterday ..... 23 Lowest last night . Precipitation .. Highest wind veloc Forecai for North Dakota: Generally fair to- night and Tuesday; colder in the west portion tonight. Lowest Temperatures Fargo ..... 8, Williston .. fag] Pierre 18 St. Paul 20 ‘Winnipeg 0 Helena ....... 30 Chicago .... 40 Swift Current . oe Kansas City’,. nae BS San Francisco ayer A. "| ROBERTS, © | Meteorotogist.(¥») if wit ‘ U RUSSIAN SITUATIONS 4 6 Our freshest cablegrams ate to the effect that the allied diplomats have gone to thinking about Russia. They think that, since German staff oflicers are helping to run the Lenine pro-German government at Petrograd, Russia may become the tacit if not the active. ally. of.Germany... They,thinkthat.auuillion or so of German and, Austrian , war, ners held in Russie WAN! soon sed and § rors heey Al in arms. ve eo They ine" ndifeld stores of Toga, ei and cotton in Russia will be ac- cessible to Germany. For three years past, Germany has kept Russia crammed with spics and pro-German propagandists, and when | that it means “one who wants to be the revolution came, there was Ger- many prepared to solidly back any promising faction that favored Ger- many. The counter-move was there for the allies. There was no substan: tal backing, with funds, food and advisers, of the civil and military ele- ments in Russia that were reliably anti-German. It was merely hoped that Kerensky represented such ele- ments. He was even given somewhat of recognition but he was left to his fate and is now in the woods, if not, | indeed, in his grave. No so with Germany. She prompt- ly gets behind pro-German L.cnine, and, if the allies fail to act on the conviction that Germany has bought up Lenine and will soon be actually running and using what there is of Russian government for all that's in it for Germany, they misjudge the enemy. There scems to be but one hope of Russia in sight. General Kaledines, the great cossack, is reliably reported to have control of much of the food, fuel and transportation facilities. He wants to fight the pro-German ele- ment in Russia. If he is loyal to such purpose, he might be backed as the kaiser is backing Lenine. The Russian people, as a whole, un- doubtedly favor sticking to their obli gations to the allies, 1f they are honor- able and if they are democratic and really capable of self-government. They must be sick of having a Petro- grad government on Monday, a Mos- cow government on Tuesday, no gov- ernment on Wednesday, several gov- ernments on Thursday and prospects of a German government on Friday. They, very likely, are ready to rise to any government that has substan- tial backing and visible power enough to govern for 30 days in succession. To back up Kaledines, the allies would have to abandon some of the! iceties, niceties that do not bother | Germany; for, backing Kaledines | would be promoting civil war. But, so sure as there is any prophecy in any human events, the alternative is to see huge new enemy forces pound- ing Serraill out of the Balkans, Ru- mania, Serbia, Greece and maybe Italy hand utterly beaten down, and the. superi- ority in man-power lost to the allies. i 2 re There never was a date since April 6, 1917, when the vital necessity of America’s getting over into that fight with all she’s got was more apparent. Heaven grant that that Paris confer- ence may be able to cope with the WHILE THE WORLD NEEDS FOOD. Silk and jeweled anklets, to be worn above low shoes, as a winter style fad of women! There is one sort of slavery that’s as low-down as anything of the poli- tical sort. It is the sort that drives some women to freeze, waste, look the fool and kiss the hand of any fashion that becomes the vogue. And woman alone can put down that form of slavery! IT ISA POINTER. A New York jury has indicted Swee- ney, head of the program of that army navy bazaar which took in $71,000 turned out $750 for the soldiers sailors. sr yet, the aldermen have passed an ordinance under which all entertainments given in the name of charity must obtain permits from the department of licenses and be under its control. ‘There's a pointer in this for every community in the country not similarly safeguarded. and and set TIMES AND MAIDENS CHANGE, Remember that time when Bill Taft, with his mighty bosom swelling with tariff reciprocity, sparked Miss Can- ada, and got the miiten so's that all the world saw it? | Well, the haughty maid bas relent- ed. There's a soft glad hand at her front door and room on the parlor sofa for Uncle Sam, with the lights turned low. Since April last, Miss Canada has sent into the United States over 14 million bushels of wheat duty free. On April 16 she removed her import duty on wheat and this act automatic- ally broke down the tariff walls. A common distress makes neigh- bors akin. After Uncle Sam dofts his khaki, gets a bath and a shave and dons his old reliable boiled shirt, watch him perk up to Miss Canada once more! “Thus far and no farther!" is evi-| dently written of the’ Hun in Italy. And the Hun‘dead are a host. Bill Stono of Missouri declares war on Bulgaria, hey? Somebody's been canvassing the Missouri Bulgarian vote, perhaps. The U-boats, says the kaiser, must have divine help, to succeed. Sounds like blaming the bankruptcy on the silent partner, as usual. Russian armies in the Riga region are starving;and are expected to go on a@’raid' for food. We suggest that the ‘Germili bread basket is pretty full. Philologists figure out that “Bolshe- viki means “one who wants to go the whole hog.” We'd been thinking all hog.” “Comparative quiet” along the Flan- ders front, and ‘the German's don't like it dne bit. ‘Haig’s “quiet” is the quict of a bull lowering his horns before plunging. “Latest edition! All “about’ Byng banging Hindenburg!” cries a Berlin newsboy. Then the kaiser has him hanged, which is a wise, if not kul- tured, thing to do. This is a fairy story for the American newsy. Vorwaerts, Berlin socialist organ, says that the German people won't| Parts of its local life. What is vital to s remember is that the fight five minutes in order that Po-! land may become Austrian and Lithu-| ania Prussian. It's simply awful to suggest such a remedy, but the kaiser | may yet hang some of his editors. HEBRON NEWS. Dr. H. A. Brandes of Hazen visi Hebron on Thanksgiving day. aa _Miss Gertrude Riess spent Thanks-! giving in New Salem. | Mrs. O. Krippner and Miss Obern of| Lidgerwood arrived in the city last! Saturday to make an extended visit with Mrs. Krippner's parents. Miss Irene Robertson, who is at- tending Jamestown college, spent the Thanksgiving holidays with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Robertson. Miss Elsie Kranth, who is a student at Jamestown college, came home for Thanksgiving. Rev. N. Hass and daughter, Miriam, Mrs. A. C. Urban, Miss Elva Urban, Miss Irene Robertson, Mr. and Mrs.| C. L. Robertson and Mrs. Ed Chase! and son, Herbert, enjoyed a bountiful | Thanksgiving dinner at the William Engelhardt home. Dr. and Mrs. Gabe of New Salem! visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W..H. Itrick on Thanksgiving day. GORE CONDEMNED Teachers of Oklahoma Pass Res- olutions ° Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 1— Resolutions condemning U. S. Sena- tor Gore for “detaining legislation necessary for the successful prosecu- tion of the war” were adopted by the! teachers of the Oklamoha educational | association here today. All kinds of tailoring solicited Bryants. Phone 788. Dont fail to eat your lunch at Pat- On The Trail of the War Profiteer TRACKS ARE- RASKIN. BUT TRE SCENT He Skunk of Mr. Townley in the East From the New York Times Editor's Note.—An eastern view Mr. Townley’s invasion of New York to organize the farmers of that state asi he did the farmer: of North Dakota, ‘ Do ihe farmers of this state, do those in particular who have just formed the irmers — Nonpartisan league of the state of New York, un- der the patriotic auspices of Mr. A. C. Townley, the head and front of the Nort! ‘h Dakota Nonpartisan league, un- derstand what Mr. Townley is driving at? Do the representatives of some trades unions, who confabulated with the farmers at the request of the la- bor Mr. food council, whose chairman i John €. Hilsdorf, and whose sec- retary is Mr. Carl Beck, know ‘the past history of''the North Dakota mother‘'society ?''* Ostensibly the, New York league is a un ion of farthers and workmen for ‘the co-operation and good of producer and consumer. Is that what the Non- partisan league has sought or is seek- ing to do? It began with a little coun- ty society organized to elect to the legislature men pledged to vote for an appropriation to establish a state grain elevator. Of the “big five” who bossed the concern as it spread and widened, one is an English agitator who Ww. Townley is himself a soc: had been conspicuous as an I. W. One is a socialist lawyer. Mr. list. How it grew and prospered as a politioal party; in 1916 elected the governor and mem other state officers, 81 of 113 bers of the state house of repre- sentatives, 18. of 25 state senators, three members of the state supreme court; j terminal elevator storage warehouses empt taxation; its attempt to raise the debt. by 1 its program of. state-owned » packing and cold flour mills, of ex- ion of farm improvements from ate limit and revise the constitution legislative bill—these things are Nonpartisan league of North Dakota is a secret society,.open only to farmers. It is a class party. It is pledged to the abolition of political parties. That is, it intends and hopes to Ty the northwest, tho country, as the iain political party. grow sota root state: It took vigorous. early th in South Dakota, lowa, Minne- and Montana. It has now taken in New York. In the western $s it followed originally the North Dakota program, but a class party of farmers would not be strong enough. So the ingenious Mr. Townley, the apparent chief, with we know what not veiled figure or figures, contem- plating the presidency, behind him, reaches out for the workmen, an effort begun at St. Paul. The Nonpartisan league is a two-class party of farmers and of well-to-do farmers and workmen, shall we say a party laborers, bourgeois Bolsheviki? In tions its national aspects and ambi- the Nonpartisan league deserves a scrutiny more severe than we were at first inclined to give to an attempt “to bring New Zealand to North Da- kota. Mr, Townley is not fond of the press, “men who engineer the kept press and lie-like-hell men, who lie by wholesale.” these latitude: heart men for the profits of the damned pirates and from newspapers of his own state that belie him? said and the Ped Cross? ber Mr. Townley’s Nonpartisan league (a ylight He fs a patriot, in Last summer we d of his saying that “our young were going to France to bleed that “the cry for the war came the trusts.” Is it the iniquitous Did they belie him when they that he opposed the liberty loan Well, in Septem- got up the St. Paul convention, which was to be a conference on the high pomerene’s ‘ills; to enforce govern- cost of living, and was a convention | ment of producers and consumers or what j ucts, and for reclamation of physically not. There was much patriotic reality or camouflage of patriotism in its res- olutions, and: there was anti-war eco- «<> .)nomic staff about paying for the war 2 - Creation tee to supe which Pre: | during the i expenditures, lent Wilson prevente st session, 1 be urged by Senator Weeks of ! chusetts | and other liepublican The proposai jot Chairman Fitzgerald of the house as it is fought, a sure means of stop-; appropriations committee for_a single ping it; but what shall we think of, com ittee. to control war. appropria-| a conventionjthat heard Senator Gron-! tons also is pending. tutiny Close and departr the prese! dicted, with. e' agance while at the s viding adequate funds for war needs. of appropriations ; estimates, during} nis generally pre-| ts to prevent extrav-| e time pro-| na cry that; ‘they have conscripted | our boys, the fewer of the race, and sent them to the trenches, from wh you know well 99 in 100 of them will never return?” And it was ‘o this convention that Senator La Follette | made that Lusitania japeech, which| Spectacular features during the ses- patriots all over the country cried out’ sion are regarded as p ble develop- omainst. Curious. loyalis' some of menas from the agitation against Sen- Mr. Townley’s friends, curious admir-| ator .a Follette and, others. because ations his Nonpartisang league has.'o ftheir ovposition to. some war legis- Mr. La Follette has an attentive eye lation. He and Senator Hardwick of on i ' | Georgia have announced their inten- Pacifism, socialism, confiscatory leg- tion td seek repeal of the draft law, | islation, a doubtful loyalty may be sus- while Senators La Follette and Sher- pected in this secret order which Mr. man of Illinois have peace resolutions ‘Townley has kindly brought eastward. pending before the senate foreign re- ‘The president of the ,Federation of lations committee. , Labor. is not the man. to, be tender to i any collaterals of the: Peoples coun- gil. The innocence of some, of ihe New York farmers and. trades unions is abused. b WAR MEASURE PRESS range, s1es0@ 1685; | bulk AS IT CONVENES | 16.75. id ie i (Continued trom Page (re) CATTLE—Receipts, 10,200; killers, house memberships are to be chosen. | Steady; steers, $5.00@15.50; cows-heit- (Many members believe political cam-! ers. $6.00@8.00; calves, steady; $5.00 paign necessities may shorten the ses- @ ees stockers-feeders, slow, $5.00 sion. ¥ 60. THE MARKETS. Cy ST. PAUL steady. | $16.70@ {| The democrats start the session in} SHEEP—Receipts, 8,000 steady; control of both senate and house lambs, $.00@16.00; wethers, $7.00@ with 52 democratic senators against | 14.00; ewes, $5.06@10.50. | 43 republicans, with one seat—Sena- Sas i tor Husting’s—vacant. In the house CHICAGO the democrats have 216 members, the 17,000; strong, | republicans 213, with five indepen- light, $16.20@ 0@17. rough, @15.00. ripts, 29.000; weak; $7.00@ 14 west- 49," stockers-feed- :_cows-heifers, . $5.00 « $7.00@ 13.25, EP—Receipts, 22,000; weak; » Wethers, $8.70@ 12.80; lambs, $12.40 heavy, 500 16.70; dents and one seat vacant. New Members ' Several new memers house today, republican, of t $16.50@17.25: joined the} Pls ate ive Lufkin,! % chusetts 8's district. succeedin P: Gard-| Orn steers, ner, republican, who re itep:; Ses. #0.00@ resentative Deshlin, democrat, of the) twentyeightn Pennsylvania dis 10@1 succeeding former Representative @I16.0. Bleakley, republican, who resigned, ve 3 5 an Revresentative Merritt, ey lican, of the fourth Connecticut, suc- ceding Representative Ebenezer. Hill, republican, deceased Chief among domestic concerns prohivition and woman suffrage ator Sheppard’s proposed Constitu-! tional amendment, whose subm. was approved August 1 by the » to 20, will be pressed in the house,’ while both bodies will be urged to ap- nrove sumbission of the socalled Susan B. Anthony amendment for equal suffrage, which has been favor: ably reported to the senate calendar. Speaker Clark soon will appoint a chairman for the new, special: house committee on woman suffrage. Important Legislation Important general legislation pend- ng because of its exclusion from the! last seuctal war session are the Wed): will permitting exporters to combi: in foreign trade, which has twice pi ed the house and is the senate’ finished business; the Shields wate power development bill; the Walsh ; Pittman oil and coal Jand leasing measure, and the Columbian treaty, proposing payment of $25,000,000 to. Columbia. The administration soldiers and sailors civil rights pil, which passed the House last session but failed to} set through the Senate, soon will be taken up by the senate judiciary com-! mittee. It operates in the nature of oratorium, suspending court process- ‘ainst members of the American military forces. Other unfinished war legislation includes Senator Chamber- jJain’s resolution to subject aliens to the draft; Senator Calder’s bills for | aving and expeditions {Naturalization of aliens, and Senator | sep | un- en ere ntrol of iron and steel prod- BIG INGREASE IN RYE ACREAGE WILL NOT CUT DOWN AVERAGE FOR WHEAT IN WLEAN NEXT SPRING Washburn, N. D., Dec. 1—McLean county farmers are putting in between 200 and 300 per cent more rye this. year than last, in the opinion of Karl Klein, director of the First National bank of Washburn. Rye was the best crop obtained in the county the past season, when excessively dry condi- tions generally held down the big grain yields otherwise secured in this section of the country. “1 do not look for a decrease in the planting of wheat, because of the in- crease in rye,” said Mr. Klein. “The wheat acreage will be as great as ev- er and what is sown in rye will be in addilion to it. There was a great deal cf new land broken up this year, which was put into flax, and tuat, of course, will be put into wheat the coming season.” Bad For Live Stock. Except for oats and feed, the farm- ers in this vicinity, afflicted the most by poor crops, were able to get back their seed. The result, however, has been that about 65, per cent of tho livestock Las been sent to market, while the supply of hogs has ‘een al- most depleted. About 85 per cent of the farmers have had their notes renewed this fall. Fifteen per cent were able to pay them up in full. Bankers have been ready to grant extensions, real- izing that with some moisture next year, tne farmers will be able to | wipe out their debts easily. These loans are short time loans and are not mortgages for new land purchases. There has been consid- eravle acquirement of land by farm- ers within the past few years but in most cases they have bee nable to pay cash for the additional quarters. Not long ago a farmer planked down $11,000 for a piece of land he needed adjoining his farm and he still had considerable cash left in the bank. There are townships in this county where the highest number of mort- gagers is only 5 per cent and the av- erage throughout the county will not run much more than 25 per cent. DISCUSSION Ct D PLEDGE HELP POLITICS Justice Robinson Objects to Re- surrection of Year-Old Vcague Promises NONPARTISAN EDITORIAL ON EXPENSE FUND GOES State Auditor Kositzky Succeeds in Introducing Literature in His Return + Justice James E. Robinson, who received almost as many votes: las fall as a League candidate for the su- preme court as Frazier did for gov- rnor, charged politics Saturday after- ‘noon when Theodore Koffel, attorney for State Auditor Karl Kositzky, also elected on the Townley ticket, at- tempted to discuss an article from ths June 15, 1916, issue of the Nonparti- san Leader, of which Townley is man- aging editor ,and which was includea in the ‘state auditor's return in the mandamus proceedings ‘brought iby the supreme court to compel Kositzky to pay the $500 annual expense allow- ance provided ‘by an act of 1907. Justice Robinson decried the ar- tempt to make political capital out of the justices’ desire to claim that which they consider legally theirs, and Kositzky’s attorney refrained from further discussion. The article referred to, however, goes into the record, and it is reproduced verbatim, as follows: “Judges’ Expense Money.” “Dawson N. D., June 6.—Among tae various appropriations made by the last legislature, I notice an allow- ance of $500 per year for each su- preme court judge. This strikes me rather strange, as the supreme court judges do not travel any more on of- ficial business, since the chambers were established at Bismarck and each judge lives at Bismarck. How- ever, we know that during the enim: mer months some of the judges go on fishing trips to the lakes or visiting with friends. Will you please explain to the satisfaction of the state if the judges can draw this expense money allowed them, and who pays the freight?—A_ SU'BSCRIBEK.” “Not Entitled to Expenses.” “The judges of the supreme court, of course, are not entitled to any ex- pense money, as you point out. Their homes are at Lismarck, or supposed to be during their term of office, and all sessions of the supreme court are held there. Nevertheless the general Oudget bill of the last legislature (chapter 48, laws of 1915) carried an appropriation of $500 a year for each supreme court judge for the biennium as expense money, in addition to the salaries of the judges, which are $5,000 a year each. The total appro- priation for this ‘expense’ of the judg- es for the two years was $5,000, as there are five judges. The taxpayers, of course, foot the bill. “This ‘expense’ is appropriated, for. the supreme court judges at every session of the legislature. It is pro: vided for in section 720 of the com: piled laws of North Dakota, (edition of 1913) and is a law adopted by the legislature in 1907. The important feature of it is that this law provides that judges do not have to ‘account for the expending of this money. The law says that the $500 a year to each judge shall be paid in quarterly in- stallments ‘WITHOUT THE FILING OF ANY ITEMIZED STATEMENTS. In other words, the judges spend this expense money without in any way ac- countying for it to the state auditor or anybody else. Other state employes, of course, have to account for all they spend when on trips at state expense. They must file itemized statements, but the judges do not have to. ie “Just a Bit of Graft.” _ “The $500 a year to each judge, therefore, is frankly a bit of personal graft for the judges. None of them seems to have any compunctions a2out accepting it. It is a nice little tip from the legislature to the supreme judges in addition to their salaries. Like their salaries, they do not have to account for the spending of it, and it douwbt- less somes in handy. s to how this ‘expense graft’ for judges originated in 1907, the facts are probably that the legislature de- sired to increase the judges’ salaries, but it prohibits raising them during their term of office (sec. 99, state con- unfit men for military service. MISCHA ELMAN, Revision of second class postage| Renowned Russian Violinist, Who Will rates for publications also promises] Appear in Concert at the Auditor to be agitated during the session. © iim Saturday Evening, ‘Dec. 8 a aT LaLa) YP asks) od arin stitution). . It is probable, therefore, that the legislature of 1907 wanted to give the judges more salary hit on the plan of voting them expense mon- ey for which they would not have tq account, so as to defeat the intent of ‘the constitution. Since then all the judges have continued to benefit from ‘the original act of the legislature in ' 1907, devised to dodge the constitu- tion. “In regard to your question as to atke legality or constitutionality of the expense money appropiration, it is practically certain that it could have been knocked out after it was first ; passed, while the judges to whom it !was originally voted were still hold- ing office. At that time it was clear- jly increasing the compensation of the : judges during tue term for which they were elected, which is forbidden by the constitution. But now, of course, it would not be increasing their com- ; pensation during the term for which they were elected, for all the judges getting this graft have been elected or re-elected since the expense law | was passed, and hence they nave not had their compensation increased dur- ing their term of office. Whether it could ‘be knocked out on other grounds is a legal question —Nonpartisan Leader, June 15, 1916.” Anonymous Circular. State Auditor Kositzky also intro- -duced’'in his return a copy of! dan ’an- onymous Circular of ‘which large qualt' tities Were distrivuted by hiti inthis county during the 1916 campaign, ands waich he''stated he believed came: from Townley headquarters at Far+! go. The circular is headed: “IM+ PORTANT.—I—n the interest’ of the best welfare of the people’ of this state; for justice and equality ‘before the law, you should vote on November 7 for the’ following men for supreme court judges; Luther B. Birdzell, J. E. | Robinson, R. H. Grace. Special privi- lege is misrepresenting the people’s candidates for judges of the supreme court—Rovinson, Birdzell and Grace-~ ‘but they will not succeed, Robinson, ; | Firdzell and Grace wil-not draw $500 | @ year as expenst’inoney regardless of actual expénses. * They will ‘not. pad’! their “expénsé! account in this way It was to’ the discussion ‘of this itt erature that’ Justice’ Robison on Sate: ‘ urday ‘ifternoon' objected ‘as politteal. The argument on the order for a writ of amndamus compelling the state auditor to produce some $1,800 which ‘the five justices now hold is due them, closed Saturday afternoon at 4 with- out other interesting developments. Dan V. Brennan, handling the judges’ case for Attorney General Langer, summed up briefly for the state. AMERICAN ENGINEES (Continued trum Page One) “of the invaluable services rendered by the engineers.” : To. Instruct Guarsmen A number of officers attached to the first “attalions who entered tne trenches have been transferred to the newly arived units of the national guardsmen, where they will direct the work of getting the troops ready for the first line. Later, men of the first unit to establish contract with the enemy also may ‘be transferred tem- Porarily to assist the officer. This conforms with the announced plan of General Pershing. The course of instruction has een shaped so as to achieve the greates: results in the shortest time without abandoning any necessary details. Snow fell today over the entire Amer- ican zone, adding to the mud in the lowlands. Engineers working on the supply line today reported they had passed through several fairly lively bombardments without casualties. Vance McCormick, memver of the American mission to the inter-allied conference came out from Paris today .to visit headquarters and see the troops. Later, he left to inspect the French front. Col. E. M. House and the other members ‘of the mission are expected to visit the American zone during the week. -. AERIAL OPERATIONS London, Dec. 1—The official report of aerial operations, issued tonight says: “Yesterday our scout patrols fired more than 15,000 rounds from their machine guns on enemy troops and transports on the<roads behind the fighting line. “Fifteen hostile air planes were brought down and three others were driven down out of control. Seven of our machines are missing.” CHARLEY WHITE DEAD Boxing Referee Known to Frater. President Approves of the Addi- nity Everywhere ‘New York, Dec. 1—Charley White, widely known boxing referee, who had been ill a long time of a complication of diseases, died at his home here tonight. 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