The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1917, Page 1

The Weather Generally fair. CMIRTY.SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 297 BISMARCK, NORTH THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1917. Evening Edition FIVE OENTS GERMANY TO PROPOSE NEW PEACE NO PROMISE OF IMMUNITY , SAYS WALLA) Chief of Automobile Registration Department Denies a Trade. SAYS HALL CASHED CHECKS Tells of Method Used by the | GEORGE HOPEFUL | ON WAR OUTLOOK |. London, Dec. house of commons today, David Lloyd-! was narrowing. The sinking by sub-! marines, he declared was decreasing, while shipbuilding was increasing. | Although the merchant tonnage was | down by 20 per cent, he added, the! losses have been only 6 per cent of im- | ports, over that of l@bt year. | Regarding the military situation, | Mr. Lloyd-George said it was idle to! pretend that the hopes formed had! been realized. This disappointment he | attributed to the Russian collapse. | SUB LOSSES LESS’ [RFT ATNQON ‘Speaking in the | George, the British prime minister, | FOR STEVENS said that the margin of losses at sea | es TWENTY MEN STATEORSIEGR 1S PROCLAIMED IN PRTROGRAD Looting of Wine Cellars in the Capital Made Such Action Necessary. GEN. KALEDINES TAKES CITY Italians Resisting | Desperately Third Contingent of Burleigh County Draftees Now On Way. GUARDSMEN SEE THEM OFF Large Congregation at Station —Boys Cheerful and 3,000 MEMBERS NEW FOR SET IN WHIRLWIND DRIVE COAL RED CROSS MEMBERS ; Home Guard Finds 2,000 Is Too Easy Task for Their Powers. EVERYONE HAS A STICKER Latést Mode in Christmas Dec- orations Has Wide CENTRAL POWERS TQ MAKE ALLIES GENERAL OFFER Russian Press Reports Declare That Negotiations Are Now Broadening in Scope. TEUTONS AGREE TO TERMS Bolsheviki Say That No Indemni- Secre A The Germans, he saic, nave had! i ji ‘Wi tary of State in cay one ae enn bere had Ha Attempt of Germans to Break Appeal. ties or Annexations Will Financin surprise and this was now engaging | py. g. inquiry. He stated the Germans had; = ARTHUR 5, MORRIS Through Their Lines. HOW THEY. STAND TODAY: Be Asked. : Eugene M. Walla on cross examina-| 0St Ome hundred thousand prisoners.) (4 py, VERNE ERICKSON 5 = Frev. < \, tion this afternoon denied that he had valuable positions and hundreds of | JOE SORE Ht f ERICKSON (By Associated Press) Squad Rept. Today. Total. Petrograd, Wednesday, Dec, 19.— : e” been promised immunity from prose. | &""*: oa | sei ‘PIES |__A state of seige has been proclaim- Mae 188 1 dog [According to press reports, Russia eution by the state I exchange ter | Bey FERD HL, 0, ERIESE fed in Petrograd and the Ukrainian arbor 33-206 | has been informed by the central pow- his testimony against. Thomas’ Hall, | l EDMUND RUPP Rada has refused to obey an. ulti- dere 72 212 ers that they intend to muke peac secretary of state. Mr. Walla made JOE KRITZER matum presented by the Bolsheviki Tabp se secy 110 60170 | proposals to the allies, Pn attidavit to the effect that there had CHARLES ALLENSWORTH [tat due it is selds fete eee Tarsom 0 dah ak Gat [gCTRIS Feport Is published in the een no bargain of any kind between epee ls - , » it is said, to the looting of es Evening Post, which says the " hin and the srosstttia eee W ( AUSE TO D. E. MATTIS wine cellars and shops, made neces- | Whitney 389 a7 436 |resentatives of the central ae Be Bot rs ve auestions from attorneys ie ; EVEL eee cigs the proclamation of a state of Aad ‘ oH a first preliminary peace Sntersies r the defense he stuck closely to Nd. CLEVELAND . é : with the Russians, held yesterday, an- the principal facts to which he testi- : OTTO CHRIS UHDE cas Bolsee Mi eeeea coc e Taine: and Wanner 48 fq [Totneed that, their governments in- fied on direct examination this morn- OTTO HOGUE Been Sona She Tncine nee ne ee y Ef). | ended ‘on: prinelple: to_put: the vara E i e- : a ek ae ries , | WALTER CLOOTEN fused to pertait Maximalist troops to Total to date .........0.. 2488 (een iter had ‘asbed ‘eat allies : data’ tor eoarelars oye can cand. | FLOYD LEO PARRIS cross its territory: to cross General Bismarck’s Red Cross membership|to do likewise. is .f spring of 1916, financed his campairg| Elevator Men Attacked by Chief GUS HILL is shevikt “troops. suseuad the eda. mo [ihe sldenbire Une Rid ASRER Le Hist meee te aes ee ena ake . . 8 e he Hindenburg line 5 | i steps. 8 \. from the automobile registration funds ALFRED A. QUALLE it was sitting in Odessa and were de- at noon today.” eu Toushed 2.435 ara enaenvOrlae feo an ees * of North Dakota, and as secretary of state during the session of 1917 he Deputy Inspector Come teated by Ukrainian troops. The Bolsheviki troops have ac- Before this drive was begun, all of Burleigh county had but 1,700 mem-| sound the Allies, ‘The Evening Post says the’ Ger- financed from the same source a lob- Back. ° WALTERS cused the la of being fri h . A ERS y ie friendly to $ 3 ose Wi ans ha tic! ! by which he conducted in behalf of an | a ROI HOPTOS— | the constitutional democrats and the toes ‘ ja le aed Ta Galea be Dolehevikl esdatanore tke co ss insurance bill which was to the in-| \LLEGED HE IS NOT FAIR: JOE KEIFER Cossacks, the main factors behind the cember 1. Therefore, the one Guard | tral Powers are ready to consider the terest of an insurance company for which the secretary of state is state agent, testified Eugene M. Walla,! chief clerk in the automobile registra-| tion department of the secretary of state's office, jointly charged with his chief with the embezzlement of $8,400, | Zailway Commission Urged to Call in Employe Im- mediately. counter revolution. ct ral Kaledinés, Takes City. Rostov-on-the-Don, recently report- _ The twenty men above named, forming Burleigh county's third sel- vet service contingent, departed on/|ed captured by the Bolsheviki, is now No. 3 about 1 o'clock this afternoon | said to have been occupied Monday g: Camp Stevens, Ore., where they} by the Cossacks of General Kaledines, vill enlist for service with the coast} Who, according to another recent guard artillery, rumor, had been arrested by his own » Which iBsmarck has achieved during started with practically a clean slate. Nothing in all the glorious record this war has surpassed this drive which Bismarck has achieved during «i Cross executives predict, as the y having the largest per ‘capita arrangement of peace on the basis of no annexations and no indemni- ties, but pointed out that self-defini- tion of nations was impracticable. The representatives of the Central Powers informed the Russians they were ready to discuss peace prelimin- and who took the st: H ‘ ‘1 it 8 4 ae wit ne St nanaiae J. A. McGovern, chief deputy in-| The Hughes Electric Co. whistle | officers. The Cossack’ leader, accord- membership in the entire United |of ednigerattarts to aalace eee spector of weights, grades and meas-| blew a long blast half an hour prior | ing to dispatch reaching London, States, lics to join in ‘the negotiations ‘before superior and co-defendant. Much Currency. , | Walla’s testimony, in etfect, was as | follows: ‘Currency in amounts running as high as $200 came into the automobile registration department daily. Both ures, under North Dakota’s new grain | grading act, is cited by three of the! to the arrival of the belated train, and|from Petrograd, has proposed to the when it pulled in the station plat- | Bolsheviki that civil strife come to an end by declaring the independence of i elevator men whom he recently at-/frm was thronged with people as- tacked, to appear before the North, S¢mbled to bid the boys good speed Dakota railway commission to prove|, "heir departure was made notable | his wholesale charges of fraud against |Y # meeting with a bunch of west- the elevator buyers of North Dakota | °™2C"® in khaki, who piled off No. 4, the Don territory, and providing inst Maximalist intervention there. Between Monte Grappa and the Brenta, on the Italian northern front, = Ll MILLIONS OF WINDOWS, ON CHRIST. | Traded Chickens. Many little stories which show the | patriotic pulse which is beating in’ Bismarck’s veins are coming to light | through the drive. John A. Graham, | cashier of the City National bank, found in his district, a widow whose proceeding with them. They said this point of view might be changed, however, and that they might be wil- ling to discuss peace with Russia alone. The Germans were of the opinion that the Russian armistice might in- Hall and Walla took this currency |or io show cause why. hi which arrived several hours late, | the Italiz e resisting de p life indicated a severe s ‘ ¥ Y cause 8 license | al 5s f: {the Italians are resisting desperately! MAS EVE, wit home life indicated a severe struggle; flucnce the other fronts. * out of the till for their own use. Walla | should not be revo! i [just before No. 3 pulled in, to greet |renewed Austro-Gernjan efforts to SNTICOL OF LOVALTY To THe Rep. {or extulance. Tho. first conference was. devoted Gave Hall currency at various times,| Formal notice to this effect’ was ‘tei companions in arms to be. The} break through the: hills'to“the plains. SS IDEA. EVERY MEMBER IS _ “ft haven't a penny in the house,”|merely to a discussion of who. would boys from the west were having such} The Italigns after withstanding strong a good time that any vestige ofjattacks dnd inflicting heavy losses on gloom venice may pave Hovored over |the enemy, were forced to retire to {the Burleigh county select service|now positions when the invaders See cena independent ‘men was immediately dispelled, and|brought up reserves. On the southern and RA” Ras anager and buyer, they joined in giving the Sammies|/end of the Piave line, the Austro- - A. Rasmussen, manager and/a rousing serid+ofl when No, 4’sped|Germans have been checked in sev- sald ‘this brave little woman “and. I participate in the negotiations. | don’t know when I will have a dollar; Ta but I have some fine chickens. Won't}, WITHOUT ADVICES. you let me trade you two of them for ashington, Dec. 20.—The Russian ‘a Red Cross membership?” embassy. auey was enticaly, without Mr. Graham left tl caret advices of the progress of peace ne- jfaham Jett the ‘house: with a, gotiations between the Bolsheviki and cashing the first check for Hall in January, 1915. “He simply came in and asked me to give him a certain amount and told me to hold his check for it. He/ did this other times in 1916. He| came in several times and asked me tc ASKED TO SHOW IT, WITH A > EO CANOLE SHINING THROUGH. VETERAN RED served on the railway commission this morning by N. G. Nelson, manager of an independent elevator at Stanley; Wf | Red Cross flag in its window, and he cash a check for him, and ] ‘did 89. He took’ tip’some of the checks. At} the endofl 1915, as I recollect ‘therc was frobié'$6J0 to $700 in’ slips and checks in the cash drawer. Sometimes he would come and get some money and tell me to make a slip for it and he would give me a check later. At the end of 1915 some of the checks had been held six, seven, eight and nine months. In 1916 he gave me more checks and got more} currency and told me to hold the checks. He made out some of the slips and I made out some. In 1916 the slips and checks were kept in my vault, the checks and slips in a locked drawer. By the close of 1916 Hall had slips and checks in the cash drawer to at Palermo. ‘ voked. grower. tiated, and declined to revoke the! buyers’ licenses. | The elevator buyers in coming back | satutory authority for the creation of | his office, and that he is seeking to) buyer for a privately-owned elevator | eastward, , These are three of the six buyers re- | cently cited by McGovern to appear ‘armory in Tes! before the state railway commission signal and’ ‘o show ‘cause why their licenses as; where ‘each -guardsman deputy inspectors should not be re-|said good bye to the men who were McGovern filed against them | going. | charges of intentional misgrading, al-|swecthearts and sisters and young/swer to the ultimatum of the coun- ways to the advantage of the elevator ladies just there out of the goodness and to the disadvantage of the grain-|of their heart to show the soldier A full hearing was given) boys that their before the railway commission, which | back of them and appreciates the sac- found McGovern’s charges unsubstan- |Tifices they are making. at McGovern assert that there is no} tional army, are envied by their less only minutes before | eral attempts to cross the river. ,.Qrendurg Cossacks opposing the é,Bolsheviki have occupied ‘Tchelia- t rb gs, a ‘junction on the Trans-Siber- ie “station, jian railroad, according to a report re- personally} ceived by the Den. The Rada, the governing body of the Ukraine has sent a negative an- y 3 campyin, TAILE wine The Hom’ uakdé adel pled dpa ppc 10 the; oder Inafched’ to And there were wives and) cil of people’s commissaries, the Bol- sheviki government. The Ukrainian Rada and the Bol- sheviki government in Petrograd have Boys Are Envied. been at odds since the successful rev- The boys of this, the third Bur. | lution of wes maximatics ey a a Cf . | November. ie ultimatum referre: leigh county contingent for the na. to probably 1s the demand made by the Bolshgviki that the Rada permit- ted troops to go through the Ukraine to aid in putting down the Kaledines community — stands fortunate fellows. The coast artillery is a most attractive branch of the ser- CROSS WORKER HERE FRIDAY Rev. J. T. Bergen Began His’ Work in Spanish-Amer- ican War. WILL TELL PEOPLE FACTS Comes to Auditorium to Report carried away with him two squawking chickens, conscripted to do their bit for world democracy. ait Called at Headquarters. The ladies at Red Cross headquar- ters in the federal building tell a similar tale, of a country woman who came in yesterday, asking if they knew of a market for some chickens. “Ready cash is sort of scarce,” sa’ the visitor “and I simply have to have @ few dollars to buy some Red Cross memversuips tor ine folks.” Did she find a market for her chicks? ‘Well, if she had had a hundred of | the toughest old hens that ever cackled a cackle she could have dis- posed of every one of them without) the Central powers, and whatever ad- vices the government was receiving through American Ambassador Fran- eis or other sources was not made public. PRO-GERMAN MADE 10 SUBSCRIBE 70 RED GROSS AND Y. : Mankato, Minn., Dec. 20.—A state- ment that the United States might as well be under the kaiser’s government as under its own was among those } the emncunt oF aD CUE R100. aie aheil | advise and discipline and reprimand | vices It does not entail the hurriod operations leaving tae room ied charged to Frank J. Bush, a wholesale s a | the elevator buyers of the state with-| breaking of camp; the fore Foes os - S ; H en there is a story of a German-' grocer of this city, arrested on com- Peet examination at the close’of 1916. | out any legal authority so to do. marches; the trench digging and ania ort aE TN saa What Organization Is born citizen whose sympathies before plaint that he had made a number of I had a conference with Hall on this examination. He wanted to know how near to date they were going to make their examination. Hall said he sup- posed he would have to take up his slips and cHecks, and [| told him 1 thought there would be enough new business to cover. Marwick, Mitchell, Peet never counted the cash; just ver- ified the books. I never saw the re- | port, and was not called upon to make | up any deficit. At the end of the year 1 charged the department with the 1916 business and deposited enough | checks of 1917 to make the books bal- ance—probably $1,200 or $1,400 worth. Gave New Checks. i “At the end of 1916 I had carried none of Hall’s checks over a year. He would give new checks for old ones from time to time. This practice of , Hall’s continued in 1917, and there were checks and slips of his in the till in June, 1917, to the amount of $3,- | They set forth the “said J. A. Mc- Govern, pretending to act as afore-| said, has willfully and maliciously, discriminated between licensed grain- buyers operating and conducting pri-, vate warehouses in the s:ate, and has, in furtherance of such willful and malicious discrimination. caused to be filed with your honove"t2 hoard against your petitioners and others where in he pretended and purported to charge your petitioners and others with willful false grading of grain so purchased by them, and in pursuance of such willful and malicious discri- mination, said J. A. McGovera caused to be published in the newspapers throughout the state the statement that your petitioners and others were in fact guilty of fraudulant practices .in the buying of grain and were guilty | of willful and deliberate false grading land false weighing in an} abou, the purchase of said grain, an’ attempted other laborious duties attached to the infantry arm and to some degree to the cavalry and field artillery. Coast artillerymen are more likely to be permanent in their station; to have; comfortable barracks, and an oppor-| tunity to adjust themselves to their) environment before that environment ; is changed. If the boys who leave to-! day are utilized entirely for coast de-} fense, they may never leave American! soil nor fire a gun. The probability is, | however, that they will be the men to man Uncle Sam’s huge guns which! Y will hurtle long-range destruction on; the enemy “over there.” Their sta-' tions will be well behind the. battle-' Se front; their guns will be screened and; Washington, Dec. 20.—At the fed- themselves protected from all but era] trade commission's investigation chance shots. Their branch of the | of the Chicafo stock yards here to-! service is generally one which is cov- day, F. R. Hart, one of the principal eted. It may not be quite so exciting ggures in the stockyards company, tes- as the field artillery, but it’s far more, titied that ft had been agreed to pay comfortable from practically every j Ogden Armour all the company’s | since that time the Bolsheviki gov- ernment has claimed that the Ukraine was aiding the Cossacks and the con- stitutional democrats. ARMOUR GOT BONUS T0 HELP Doing. Loyalty to the country and the ur- gent necessity of sustaining the work of the American Red Cross, will be the topic of the address to be made by Rev. J. T. Bergen at the Auditor- ium on Friday evening. Rev. Mr. Bergen is thoroughly fa- miliar with the subject at hand and well qualified to put the matter before his audience in the proper light. For the past several years he has been pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian church of Minneapolis. His duties in this connection have given him a broad viewpoint of relief work of all kinds. At the beginning of the present war, Mr. Bergen began active work in be- half of the Red Cross organization, , home with his flags and a full comple- ; for financial reasons. the war were clearly and vocally with the fatherland. Since war was declar- ed he has been “right,” but it was with some trepidation, nevertheless, that he was approached by a Home Guardsman for a Red Cross member- ship. “Will I take one? Certainly!” was his ready response. “I wouldn't feel I had done my duty if I did not take one for myself and for every member of my family. There’s no room for a slacker in my house,” and he went ment of stickers. To Report Slackers. If there are any slackers, their names will be turned in at tlte Bis- marck Home Guard meeting tomorrow night. The guardsmen will not con- sider in this class anyone who has fail-| ed to buy a Red Cross membership They will so list everyone who could afford to buy a membership and who has not. These | seditious remarks. He told Judge Comstock he was sorry, and to prove it, at the Judge’s suggestion, bought $1,000 worth of Liberty bonds, sub- scribed $100 to the Red Cross, and gave $50 each to the Y. M. C. A. and the Knights of Columbus fund. Then today, Judge Comstock fined him $500. Matilda Runke, Bertha Mullen, and Clara Hintze, indicted by the Blue Earth county grand jury on charges of making seditious remarks, pleaded not guilty and were released on $500 bonds. ROMANOFF WOMAN LANDS ON COAST San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 20.—A woman bearing the name of Romanoff, and who said she resembled Tatina 00. The amount had steadily grown anc it i ¥ | ; i a fro the Alte: Hevgave:mechis’ erat’ | ermerance at auch wiltal “dlior! SUClee e ea eee | earnings over 9 per cent to keep Ar-/ and his lectures at Redwood Falls,) ties will be read before the com-| Romanoff, second daughter of the check in 1916 until the total Was ee ee ee ae ceaat by gente |mour from moving the yards away) Granville and several other places pany tomorrow evening and will be former Czar, so closely that she was 3 petiti s fe be criceant by your | from Chicago and further west. have materially assisted the Red Cross'| Pany ton e | ree weeks in Yokohi about $3,000. he ble taerd, altho oi k: filed away for future reference. detained turee weeks in Yokohama Kayden rat el i chapters at these points. Show Your Stickers. | until she established her identity, ar- Financed Campaign. “During 1916 Hall was a candidate for secretary of state and was under) id petitione were nee! dulant prac that your guilty of HELD FOR MURDER MAY LIFT EMBARGO Is Veteran in Service. Mr. Bergen’s connection with Red! “It is important that the busi houses which have sticker: 8S rived here today from Russia. She is Mme. Helene Romanoff. She not deliberately and wilitully made ‘ros! fief wi ates bac! A neha heavy expense. He sent out little | faise pee maton tales weights af grain Hl Se ee cceom ates pack to hey them on their service flag: id | was accompanied by her husband Hip- pamphlets in large numbers and made | purchase? ty them; aad vitae te well er ere | ON CORN AND OATS Spanish-American War Mt Ona ume | Chairman Goddard today. “The moral polyte Romanoff, an inventor. They a number of short speaking trips. He|,new that other watelinuses ant Montroce, Calif, Dec. 20.—Mrs. J. je was 8 voluntcer 1 American! ottect of this display is tremendous, | are enroute east. H. Bush, 72 year of age, today con-) ranks, but was unable to get in the got money from the till quite fre-| quently during this campaign giving checks and slips in exchange. | Began to Worry. “Hall told me once during 1917 he would have ‘to get busy and take up| his checks.’ ” licensed buyers .perating in the same region of the state were buying the same qualtity of grain produced in the same section upon the same basis as used by your petitioners. The petitioners ask first that the license of Mr. McGovern, if any he Walla told about a deal with Frank | has, to act as deputy inspector of Garnier of near Baldwin for the pur- chase of some calves in which he tes- tified Hall obtained first $150 and la- ter $28 from the automobile registra- tion currency. Walla offered to as- sume responsibility for $57 of the automobile funds, providing Hall ac- cepted his offer to go fifty-fifty on the deal. Lobbying Expense. “During the legislative session of 1917, Mr. Hall got some money every day. He came to me at the beginning of the session and asked me how much currency I had. I told him it was pretty early in the season and there wasn’t much currency coming in. Hg asked me if I had $450. I didn’t."so he gave me his check for tinued on Page ‘bree, | §rades, weights and measures be can- | celled; Second, that he be required | to appear before the railway commis- j sion at Minot, or Stanley, or some other convenient point and show ,; cause why his license shuld not be ‘cancelled and to “further show cause why he pretends and purports to act ‘as chief deputy inspector of grades, weights and measures,” and if the board finds there is authority for his so acting. and that such office exists, that its duties and powers be defined | to the end that all persons interested may be fully instructed thereon. | Third, that the petitioners be permit- | ted to appear at such hearing and sul | mit to the board such proofs and ev: her grandson earlier in the day Sun-' eastbound embargo on corn and oats made at the inquest into the death of; led to a sharp upturn in the corn and $1.6214. Oats rose 3c. IN NEW MERCHANTMAN peared that the rumors or removal of duction of standarized 5,000 ton steel | reqeral food administration recently at vessels was driven. today at a. large the maximum was removed it would The keels of two similar vessels are) poration building the ships calls for| _ Notice that the embargo, which was yards are so arranged that twenty-| trade ticket, printed a denial from | dence as they may have in support of the matters and things set forth. fessed to officers that she killed her ‘ son, John O. Busb, after he had killed) Chicago, Dec. 20.—Rumors that the, day and disposed of the body by boil-; was to be lifted, and that the maxi ing it in lye. The confession was; mum price of corn was to be removed, the .boy, Ira, 11 years old. oats markets on the board of trade to- ET EN (day. May corn advanced 6%c to FIRST RIVET DRIVEN President Griffith of the board, is- sued a statement from which it ap- An Atlantic Port, December 20.— <i i S : + y ee ae | the maximum price, $1.28, grew out Marking the actual beginning of pro- oF a conference of grain men with the cargo ships for the U. S. Government, . te a 5 nive | which the suggestion was considered. the, fret crivet inthe. firet of these The statement said, however, that ff shipyard near hére, which has been! Baad % a leti i 7 yg,| ROt affect existing contracts. rushed to completion in 76 days.| "Grain shippers said they had not to ‘be laid this month. | been formally notified of the termin- The program of the private cor-| ation of the railroad embargo. the completion of 150 of the cargo) imposed December 5. was lifted, was boats in the least possible time. The| received at two o'clock. The board of eight of the vessels will soon be un-| Washington that the maximum price der construction at the same time. | was to be removed. medicinal corps. However, there was a demand for orderlies and helpers in the Presbyterian hospital in New York and Mr. Bergen found a place there ers. This hospital was used for the dressings of the American soldiers as they returned from Cuba. The work in this division presented an opportun- ity to Mr. Bergen to e what it is the Red Cros: plish, and gave 8 gigantic undertaking of this organiza- tion and the necessity of every person doing th It is to impress upon the people of this country the facts as he already knows them, that Rev. Bergen is de- voting his services to the Red Cross. Rev. Bergen’s address will deal with the patriotic devotion and duty of ev- ery citizen of the United States, the ever-increasing necessity of Red Cross relief work with the continuous en- listing of men, and the enormous amonni that’ will have to be done with the oncceming offensive which is plan- ned for tae spring. with the forces of the Red Cross work- | —— and it is not fair to the business hous-| es themselves that t should be considered derelict which I am glad| to say is not the case in a single in-| stance.” Ae (Continued on Page Two.) | CAMP GRANT MEN GET BRIEF LEAVE Chicago, Dec. 20. ith the rescind- | ing of the order allowing only a few) men at Camp Grant leave of absence} over Christmas, Chicago today pre- pared to welcome the boys who, for months, have been in training in the national army. Four days’ leave is to be given to 80 per cent of the men at the cantonment. Similar leave of ab- sence has been ordered for the sail- ors at the Great Lakes. naval training station. The order permitting the Christmas holiday came from Wash- ington late last night. STRANDED; TOES FROZEN Bismarck Traveling Man Has Painful Experience. J. L. Bankston, 821 Foourth street, an International Harvester man, prob- ably will lose part of one toe as a re- | sult of being marooned in a blizzard north of Mandan when the gasolene froze in the tank of the car in which he and companions were trying to make their way from Dunn Center to Mandan. When the gas solidified, it left the car stranded in a wide stretch of open prairie, three miles from the nearest habitati After devoting some time to ng themselves that the car was done for, Mr. Banks- ton and hts ciates set out to walk to some place of refuge. When they finally reached Mandan, it was discov- ered that the International man had two badly frosted feet. He has been confined to his home here for several days, and it is now probable that part of one of his toes must be amputated.