The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1917, Page 1

a eo ‘ » * iu ‘ a ve rans 1g > % 4 7 if fig ' a The Weather Generally falr. THIRTYSEVENTH YEAR, NO. . 299. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917. REJECTION OF PE HOOVERIZING HAS ITS DAY INHALL GASE Morning Consumed in Telling How to Live on $50 the Month. DEFENSE WOULD IMPEACH Seeking to Break Down Effect of Walla’s Testimony on Jury. STATE RESTS. The cross-examination of Walla was. completed at 3 p. m. today and the defense began its open- ing statement.. Jamestown resi dents will he first ones called by the defense. Lessons in Hooverizing took up the time of the district court in the (rial of Secretary of State Thomas Hall, this forenoon, when Eugene M. Walla, chief clerk in the automobile registra-| tion department of tie se tary of state's office, explained under a rigid cross examination how he has man- aged to live on $50 the month since coming to Bismarck in the spring of 1913. ar. Walla’s meat ills, stated the witness, run from nothing to noe more than $3 the month; grocery bills run- around $12 the month. He lives ina modern five-rocm, hot-air heated house, and has electric ligats anda telephone.’ He owns an auiomonile, for which he has ought tires and r pairs and built a garage. He vuys flowers for his wife wnen she is in the hospital, which has occurred twice during their residence in bismarc and good toilet waters and cigars and candy and ice cream. Tue suit whicn he wore on the witness stand cost $15, and other items of merchandise men- tioned in a large collection of unpaid bills which the witness produced in evidence were of good qualiiy. The witness has also pati some doctors’ bills for his two little children. Some months the family «spends! nothing for meat, the witness’ expltin' ing that he*pits in from 100 to: 150 pounds of gaiite each year. »He far- ther advised''the court that his wife is a good Hdtsekeeper, and that ‘his only laundry sills are incurred twice yearly whea he sends some collars out to be boiled. He wu: about 17 tons of lignite coal each winter. The witness testified that since com- ing to Bismarck ue has earned in sal- ary and extras $11,000, all of which, barring the $59 per month used to run his home, has gone into bills at Jamestown. The largest single item of outside earning noted was about $700 from the Standard Oil Co., which pald a cent per name for owners whose automobiles were registered with the department. Clerks in the department who did the typing for Walla received half a cent per name. Walla on redirect examination this morning by brennan told of other al leged instances in which the secretary of state came to him for currency from the automobile registration f The state presented considerable dence tending to build up the charac: ter which the defense is seeking to tear down for purposes of impeaching tue star witness for the prosecution. The state showed that Walla had been prominently connected socially and in a business and political way at James town before the smash-up there. The defense again raked over the dead| coals of that disaster, and went very thoroughly into Walla’s penses, with an evident inteniion to prove that Walla, had errel wien he testified that during all the time hej ! has lived in Bismarck his living ex- penses never have exceeded $59 the month, which fact has permitted him to clear up practically all of the large indebtedness he left behind in James- town. Plans for the “trapping” at the home of Eugene Walla most of North Dakota officialdom, including no less- er lights than Governor Lynn J. ¥razier and Attorney General William S. Langer, not to mention Secretary of State Thomas Hall, brought up by the defense as alleged to have been| revealed by the witness to W. H. Stutsman, chief of counsel for Thomas Hall, occupied much of a long afte! noon devoted to the greulling cro examination of the chief clerk in the automobile registration departm called by the state as a witn against his chief. Walla admitted on cross examina- tion that counsel had revealed to him a plan to inveigle to the Walla home Thomas Hall with a view to commit- ting him there to some damaging ad-| mission in the presence of concealed witnesses. Walla couldn't remember having made a statement to this ef- fect to C. A. Holiday, Walla’s partner in a Baldwin enterpri But he admit- ted that counsel had such intentions, to his knowledge. “Counsel wanted to get the facts,” said Walla at the end of a heavy volley of questions from Attorney George W. Thorpe of James- town. “Counsel didn’t want either Hall or myself to know that witnesses were there.” Denied Knowledge of Burns Men. Walla denied knowledge that Burns .| rade pupils, in sewing classes made living ex-) 9 SCHOOL KIDDIES LEND OUR New York school girls slipping bi the weary warrior’s head rest more ea New York, De ca to ‘the fight f emocracy! Young America ‘means the school children who will aid in Red Cross .work. They will make hospital shirts and they will te acceptable, made-to-Red- Cross-directions shirts, which is not always true of the shirts made by grown-ups. In Buffalo, oung Ameri- the eighth and ninth 1,500 hospital shirts and | pajamas. There was not one alteration required when these shirts were inspected at Red Cross headquarters. In Troy school children earned a thousand dollars by giving entertain- ments. With this money they bought enough material for a thousand gar- ments. Children of a Catholic Orphan Asyl- um in Troy picked 2,090 quarts of red currants. This fruit was given to the Red Cross. The:currants were shipped to the Saunders Trade School in Yonkers‘ where a group of school girls and their mothers made jelly of ‘it and the boys got busy with hammers, and saws and made the packing cases to ship it in. Junior Red Cross Activities include some helpful service for children abroad. Children in American schools will make clothes for children in France—black sateen aprons, petti- coats, little chimie, and capes will be included to meet the special wants of the little foreigners. Old garments WILLING HANDS TO RED GROSS WORKFOR =| SOLDIER AND SAILOR BOYS | ts of cloth for pillow-stuffing to make sily. for adults will be “made over” and stockings rejuvenated. gach child working on a garment will sew his name and address: in it so that the grateful’ little French child ‘who receives it will have a chance to write a note of thanks to the American child who sent it. Scrap books for children and for wounded and convalescent soldiers will be made in the schools. The boys will make in their manual train-; ing classes splints, crutches and soap moulds, and the chemistry classes. will undertake to make soap from sur- plus ‘fat brought from their own homes. Another very useful thing the children will make is the trench can- dle—a tightly rolled coil of old news- papers which is carefuly' tied together and soaked in paraffin. It burns well and gives d’goud “light and many a “letier from home” will be read by means of these cand}p§ 4.) qf, Children will Be ‘enrolled i the: Junfor departih@uf iof ithe Fed 'Crésgj by schools and not as individuals. Any school that raises a supply fund equiv- alent to 25 cents for each child be- comes a junior auxiliary and all the children in the school have the right to wear the dollar membership but- ton of the Red Cross. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, pres- ident of Vassas College, is junior di- rector of the Red Cross. His office is in the big new headquarters building in Washington: | | i | | ‘ANDERSON GETS LIFE FOR GRIME red Ander: n, found guilty by y county district cour here recently, of having killed George | Sheffield; telegraph operator at the! t: Great Northern station several months | ! ced to life imprison-| ent in Stillwater pris jJohn Roeser of St. Clou ner who turned State’ pleaded guilty to robbery | NATIONAL BANKS 1, by Judge inn. War- evidence RED CROSS CHRISTMAS DRIVE TOTALS WITHIN 937 OF 3,000 MEMBERS Pledges Reported at Noon To- day Aggregate 2,763 for BIG RALLY FOR THIS EVENING Workers and Subscribers Will Unite in Auditorium SAYS YOUNG. “I am delighted with the show- ing Bismarck and Burleigh county are making in this campaign,” said Judge N. C. Young of Fargo, | chairman of the North Dakota | Hl | state chapter of the Red Cross, this morning, just before leaving for South Soo points. Judge Young says the membership drive is going big everywhere in North Dakota, and nowhere with more “pep” and persistency than in Bis- marck. It will be a Red Cross Christmas in smarck. least 99 out of every 190 T marck homes and stores and offic on | Christmas evé will sport a Red Cross service flag, with its message of | Peace on Earth, to Men, Good Will” At noon today the total for the stupendous drive of the Lismarck | Home Guard w: Reserves in Excess of Previous ship: de-ectives were to be employed to oc- | High Record. Washington, Dec. 2 of | national banks in the 54 reserve cities jand three central reserve cities on ‘November 20, the date “of the last joo bank call, were $19,505,000,- 000, or $1.408,000,000 greater than the previous high record of last May and $1,885,009,000 more than November 17 st year. | ELKS’ MEETING. The regular meeting of the Elks’ odge will take place at their club pling fraternity to a large to be heard from. ; Many of the bi are still out on the road, and will be signed up tonight and tomorrow. Every Knight of the Grip who has been found in town this week is down for at least one mem- bership. Some have taken as high as a dozen. One commercial traveler member of the Bismarck home guard dead easy. Salesman- ary to sell these boys bers. It w ship isn’t nec Red Cross Suttons. SWIFTS REFUSE 10 OBRY ORDER OF COMMISSION Won’t Deliver Company’s Books to Federal Trade Board. F. J. HENEY IS ON TRIAL Administration Probing Cost of Meat Proudets Strike Snag —Resort to Court. Washington,, Dec. 21—-Swift & Co. of Chicago, have refused to deliver to ‘ the Federal Trade Commission records desired by the commission in its in- vestigation of the packing industry and drastic action will be taken in court to force their production, Fran- cis J. Heney annouaced today at the resumption of the inquiry. It was said that when the commis-' sion’s investigators went to Chicago they received only evasive replies from the officers of Swift & Co. and direct. information had been refused. ‘Yo odtein the papers which relate to the owners of the Chicago stockyards and owners of the meat industry the commission will go into federal court and ask an order compelling the com: pany to produce them. Mr. Henty also announced receipt of a telegram saying that ©. (. Chase, of ‘Chicago, auditor. of the Union Stock- yards and Transit. Co. was ill, and could ‘not answer the commission's subpoena. The telegram said Mr. Chase had been ordered “south for an, indefinite period.” “I desire to inform the commission,” ‘Mr. Henty said, “that we have enough evidence without iMr. Chase's testi- many to make a prima facie case and then the packers can do what explain- ing they think necessary.” Flat admission that J. Ogden Ar- mour and Frank H. Prince, own the Chicago Stockyarcs company, con- trolling the Chicago stockyards and terminal railroads, was made by W. M. Wadden. Although the stock ap- pears in the name of Frank R. Pe gram, secretary of the company, Wad- den ‘said he knew who the real own- Se CY RUSSIAN FIASCO! RESPONSIBLE FOR ' HOPES DEFERRED. Ukranians on March to Meet and Battle With Forces of New Regime. London, Dec. 21.—-The Rumanians on the southwestern Russian front | have joined the Ukrainians and Lieut. ‘General B. G. Stcherhatcheff com- mander of the Russian forces in Ru- mania, has been appointed command- er in chief of the whole Ukrainian | front, according to a report received | in Petrograd and transmitted by the Exchange Telegraph company. The Bolsheviki and Ukrainian troops are | Feported to be advancing on each oth- ler, being three versts apart.” Bismarck. | PEACE RESOLUTIONS. i Czechs and South Slavs Ask for Sus pension of War. ; Amsterdam, Dec. 2!.—A disposition received here from Vienna says the Unterhaus has adopted by a small ma- jority a resolution introduced by the Czechs and south Slavs in favor of a { general peace on the basis of no an- | nexations or indemnities, and for us- {ing Russia’s good offices to convey ' such a proposal to the entente govern- ; ments. JAP ENCROACHMENT. Foreign Minister Statement. ePtrograd, Dec. 21.—The Bolsheviki foreign minister, Leon Trotzky, denied today that Japanese have occupied Vladivostok. He added that the Bol- sheviki government would request the | withdrawal of foreign ‘troops from Harbin, Manchuria. HEAVY LOSSES. Germans Repulsed on the Italian Front. 2. 21.—Complete Bolsheviki Issues | Rome, of yesterday’ German _forc: on the Tasson. tween the Brenta and the Piave, was announced by the war office today. The enemy suffered heavy losses. New atempts by the enemy to cross the Piave Vecchia were frustrated. KERENSKY IN FIELD Grand Duke Nicholas Raises Royalist 2A Army. Wednesday, Dec. in two of Bismarck’s leading hotels dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph London, Thursday put on more than 100 mem- company from Haparanda reports that is now while Tuey are quick; Grand Duke Nicholas has gathered a to seize a good thing when they see it.| great army of royalists in the Cau- Kerensky, with an army, marching against Moscow, repulse s attack by the Austro- which was delivered ‘ol-Del-Orso front, be- ATTEND RED CROSS RALLY AT AUDITORIUM TONIGHT THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE == PRICE FIVE CENTS CE OFFER REPORTED COLLAPSE OF - RUSSIA HALTS -—-ENTENTE AINS Lloyd George Gives Parliament a Frank Statement on War Conditions. ,TEUTONS LOSE 100,000 MEN Had Stav Army Continued to Co- Opcrate Allics Wou'd Have Adm:nistered Defeat. London, Dec. 21-—Although Allied hopes have not been realized, because of the Russian collapse, Premier Lloyd George told the house of com- mons today that the Germans have not been able to quite hold their own in the west. He declared that it was “idle to pretend” that the hopes form- fed at the beginning of the year in regard to the military situation had been reatizea. At the beginning of the year, the Russian army was better equipped than at any period of the war and its collapse wes not due to unskillful leadership or lack of valor on the part of the troops. continued to collaborate with the Anglo-French and Italian armies in pressing the Germans “we should have been able to bring such, pressure On the Prussian army to. infliot,a de- cisive defeat. upon.them.” On, the western front, the Germans have been beaten in many’ battles. The Premier declared they hdd lost 100,000 prisoners, valuable.., ground, ‘and hundreds of guns, , While the campaign in France had not realized the expectations formed there, there had been military successes which he ventured to say would have a per- manent effect’ on the future of the world, The premier said he referred to the capture of Bagdad and Jeru- salem, adding: “These two events added more to the prestige of Great Britain through- out the world than any event in the whole course of the whole war. A good deal has been said about side- shows, that Great Britain owes a good deal to: these.” |NORTH DAKOTA SOLDIER 1), MICTIM OF PNEUMONIA | Dies at Camp Dodge After Short Illness. Camp Dodge, lowa, Dec. 21.—- Deaths of two privates ofthe national army were reported at the base hos- ;Pital here, both due to pneu- monia, The victims are: Charles An- derson of Grassy Butte, N. D., mem- ber of Battery E, 338th Field Artillery, and A. E. Wales of Minneapolis. ARGUMENTS ENDED IN SUIT 10 TEST | TRADE STAMP ACT Arguments in the suit which is to test the constitutionality of North Dakota's new trading stamp act were completed today after occupying the attention of the supreme court for [two days. sel has been in attendance, including Judge Frank T. Wolkott of New York, general counsel for the Sperry and Hutcheson Co., which brought the ac- tion on habeas corpus proceedings for the liberation of their Fargo agent from the custody oof the Cass county sheriff: Dunn Bros. of New York, counsel for the Manufacturers’ asso- ciation, which is interested in estab-| of the, lishing the constitutionality act; James Manahan of St. Paul, Min- j nesota general counsel for the trading | stamp company; Andrew J. Miller of Bismarck, their North Dakota coun- sel; Aubrey Lawrence of Fargo and Judge S. L. Nuchols of Mandan, the} latter appearing as chief of counsel {for the state of North Dakota. The; ‘Sperry and Hutcheson Co. attacks the act as discriminatory and uncon- stitutional and further contends that | inasmuch as this company redeems its trading stamps in cash and not in pre- ‘ miums it is not covered by the act. A notable arrdy of coun-; !' ARGENTINA TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY Washington, Dec. 21.—Declaration of war against Germany by Argen- tina was regarded as almost certain ,in Latin-American diplomatic circles ltoday as the result of new evidences of German trickery disclosed simul- taneously in Washington and Buenos Aires last night by publication of another series of telegrams between ithe notorious Count Luxburg of “sink ‘without trace” fame, and the Berlin foreign office. WHIRLWIND RED OPPOSITION TO DE FACTO GROUP I$ INCREASING German and Austrian Officers at Head of Bolsheviki Troons. KERENSKY IS NEAR MOSCOW Released Teuton Prisoners in Russia Form Two Big CROSS DRIVE IN CLOSING JUBILEE Three Thousand Added to Rolls of Patriotic Organization in Capital City. MINNEAPOLIS PASTOR SPEAKS Mass Meeting of Citizens at Aud- itorium Tonight With In- teresting Program. Ladies of the leigh County Red Cross chapter will have an exhibit of their manufactures in the lobby of the Auditorium this evening, when it may be inspected before and after the Red Cross rally, which begins about 8 o'clock. A fitting climax to a whirlwind Red Cross membership drive : Which has added more than 3,000 ; New members to the rolls in Bis- marck alone and which is expect- ed to give the county of Burleigh ' not less than 4,500, will be a Red ; Cross jubilee meeting at the audi- | torium this evening, when Rev. J. T. Bergen, pastor of the Fifth Street Presbyterian church in _ Minneapolis, will bring to the Bur- ' leigh County Chapter a vivid des- cription .of the things Burleigh county’s dollars are doing in the | battle with bullets “over there.” H The Auditorium will be packed. | Everyone in Bismarck and in the county is a Red Cross fan as a ! result of the splendid work which | is being done by the Burleigh ; county chapter and the Bismarck Home Guard. The Rt. Rev. Vin- cent Wehrle, bishop of Bismarck diocese, will render the invoca- tion, and the principal speaker of the evening will be preceded by Bradley ©. Marks, chairman of the Burleigh county chapter, who will tell what has been ac- complished by the enthusiastic and‘.harmonious co-operation of his aides throughout the county. A brief report will cover the great drive now in progress and the work of the year. Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite of the First Pres- byterian church will pronounce the benediction. Three musical numbers will be interspersed, Chairman Marks has ‘phoned every town if the county and has received assurance of a large del- egation from outside the city. The | Bismarck Home Guards will fur- nish ushers and police for the big Auditorium, marching in a body from its armory. Everyone is invited, and everyone is expected to accept. PRIVATE OWNERS MAY BUILD WOODEN SHIPS Had the Russian army | Washington, Dec. 21.—In a definite statement of policy, the shipping board announced today that it would not discourage construction of wood- en ships for private account, where their building would not interfere with | the government program. Permission will continue to be refused for con- ' struction of steel cargo and passen- ger ships. In granting permission for private construction of wooden ships the board will give preference to Americ- rs. Private building of barges will be encouraged in every way possible. TREATY FOR ARMED Petrograd, Thursday, Dee. 20.— Under the heading “Sacred treaty between Japan and Russia for joint, armed demonstrations against Amer- ica and Great Britain in the Far West,” the Izvestia, publishes what is says is the text of the secret treaty drawn up last year providing for joint action by Russia and Japan to prevent any third country form achieving political dominance in China. The treaty dated July 3, 1916, AGAINST. UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN IS PUBLISHED agreement shall remain a deep secret the contracting the state- ment that it is designed to supple- ment and strengthen the secret trea- or five years, automatically ex- ACTION tending itself until a year after one party expresses the desire to annul it. It is signed by Sergius Sazon- off, then Russian foreign minister, and Viscount Mctono, Japanese for- eign minister. The treaty stipulates that “the for all except for parties.” It opens with Army Corps. TERMS DENIED. London, December 21.—It fs reported unofficially that the Ger. mans have rejected the Russian peace terms, the Petrograd cor. respondent of the Exchange Tele- graph Co. wire under date of Thursday. —_— web a) By Assocaccd Press. ’ Opposition to the Bolsheviki ap- parently is increasing as reports of German support of the Maximalist government become more pronounced and the situation in Russia grows more chaotic, while the Bolsheviki endeavor to arrange separate peace with the Central Powers. The Ukraine in its hostility to the Bolsheviki Government has been join- ed by the Russian staff on the South: western front, and General Stcher: batcheff, the commander in Rumania, , has been appointed head of the Uk- rainian forces reported to be march’ ing against the Bolsheviki ‘Another report reaching London says the Rumanians have joined the Ukrain; ians while other dispatches declares that former Premier Kerensky » de marching against Moscow and that Grand Duke Nicholas is raising a: royalist army in the Cacasus. Lead By Germans | 3 German and Austrian officers re-: leased from Russian prisons are said to have led the Bolsheviki in their attempted overpowering of Taskchen, the. capital of Russian Turkeatan, while, others released enemy prison- ers said to be two army corps, are near Petrograd. Officers of the cen- tral powers are said to be active in Petrograd, although this is denied by the Bolsheviki, who claim that the constitiutional democrats are trying to put Russia under German con- trol. Meanwhile, diplomats of the central powers are hurrying to begin peace negotiations with the Bolsheviki. On leaving Berlin, the German emissar- ies were urged by the populace to make a “strong peace.” Premier Lloyd George of Great Brit- ain simultaneously with the pudlica- tion of German peace feelers, declared that the Allies must defeat militarism and that a league of nations includ- ing the Prussian autocracy would be a farce. Tho Teutons must restore territory and repay losses. Great Britain entered the war to vindicate her honor and not to make annexations. The premier sees try- ing months ahead, but the anti-sub- marine campaign is becoming more ef- fective and Amerisca’s help will bring great results. Apparently undaunted by heavy loss- es, the enemy has been using in at- tempting to break the Brenta-Piave line, the Italians are making counter attacks in attempts to regain ‘Monte Asolone. On other sectors on this front, the Italians have repulsed with loss strong AustroGerman counter at- tacks. Raiding engagements occupy the opposing forces on the northern end of the western front, while the artil- lery continues active in the Ypres and Cambrai sectors. In Lorraine, the French has repulsed a heavy German attack north of Reillon, about eight miles south of the Rhine Marne canal, where the Germans raided an Ameri- can trench last month. Amsterdam, Dec. 21—-A German government bureau for “studying questions relating to ‘peace’ ” has been opened in Berlin. Dr. Karl Helf- ferich, former vice chancellor, is at the head of the Bureau. With the American Army in France, Thursday, Dec. 20.—There is no scar- city of volunteers for the dangerous work of airplane observers among the younger officers of the army. When a call was issued at the heavy artil- lery training grounds, three times the number asked for responded. Some of these were sent to train with Amer- ican pilots and others with French. Tho latter are doing the observation work for the heavy artillery, which the Americans who have been work- ing with guns from approximately 150 to 400 milimeters caliber, are now ready to fire. The American artillery today watch- ed the French handle the 400 millime- ter gun which hurls a projectile weigh- ing more than a ton at such a great range that it was necessary to haul the weapon several miles outside the training grounds which are probably the largest in the worl, so that the shells would fall on open ground at the target. The firing continued all day, the terrific explosions shaking ties of 1907, 1910, and 1912. 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