The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1917, Page 1

THE WEATHER THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [= Generally fair. THIRTY.SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 299, ” BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 1917. KRUPP MUNITION PLANT IN FLAMES WONT KNEEL TO KAISER OR MILITARISM SAYS TROTZKY WALLA DID LAY | OHIOAN SHOWS THAT FARMERS ARE BACK OF WAR 10 LIMIT—WHAT’S NEEDED IS A PROPER METHOD OF ORGANIZING THEM TRAPS ASSERTS W. H. STUTSMAN Counsel for Defense Takes Wit- ness Stand to Tell of Conferences. HALL DID NOT TAP THE TILL Attorney Testifies Clerk. Stated That Chief Was Not Guilty. Thomas Hall, secretary of state, this afternoon took the stand in his »wn|]- defense, sketching briefly, in response to questions from counsel, his boy-} hood days, his early experiences in railroading and newspaper work, and his entry into state politics when he | came to Bismarck to accept the post, of secretary to the North Dakota state railway commission. Coungel's” direct examination was designed to bring out a difference between the mode of living of the Halls and Wal- las, and to prove that the former, on $250 the month, have lived mucn! more simply than the latter on $10) to $150. Kugene M. Walla did state that he intended to lay a trap for Governor’ Frazier and for Attorney General Langer, by enticing them to his home and there “getting the goods on them” in the presence of concealed witness- es; Eugene Walla did say that the governor had some mysterious inter-, est in the prosecution of Thomas Hall,’ and he did say that Attorney General William Langer hinted at: immunity? for Walla, saying “Tom Hall is the man we're after,” today testified Atty, W.-H. Stutsman of Mandan, vice presi- dent of the Merchants’ National bank, former chairman. of thé North Dakota railway commission, and chief‘ of * counsel for the secretary of state. Stutsman testified as‘to a confer- ence he had: had ‘with Walla a few days after the double ‘arrest, when Walla had called ‘up Mrs. Hall and; asked to see the secretary .of state, whom Stutsman petsuaded against his will to accompany hin (Stutsman) to the Walla home. ‘There Stutsman conferred with Walla in private, nue the secretary/at/state talked with Mrs. Wall ia be room.. “Walla told mg that..Mr. Hall: had taken no iMoney out of the cash drawer and that, at ne had. access to the cash drawer buf’ Walla. Walla sald he had cashed. some, chécks for ,Mr. | Hall and had also taken slips for amounts with which the secretary of state had been accommodated and that these had gone through. “Mr. Walla said people had been coming to him continually from the attorney general’s office, telling him he had better get the goods on Tom, or Tom would get the goods on him, and that Tom was preparing to double cross him. He said the attorney gen- etal had had him in the sweat box for two days and that he was on the verge of nervous collapse and didn't; know how much longer he could stand it. It had come to him, he said, that: if he would get the goods on Hall he (Walla) would be let off with a misde- meanor charge. That Secret Drawer. “Then Walla told m2 about a secret drawer in his offic2 ont wondered whether he couldn't get $3,190, slip it, in there, have Bank Ixaminer Wa-| ters find it, and iet on that it had becn' there all the time. Gone also was g0-| ing to trap Langer. ‘I've got a scheme,’ | he said. ‘When thes2 people from the | attorney general's office come io tie! for an answer, I wi!l refuse to have: anything to do wita them and ‘will in-| sist that the governor, who's interest- ed in this prosecution, and the attor- ney general come themselves. Then we'll have some concealed witnesses | and we'll trap ther iut> makivg soine’ admissions and get the goods on them.’ “1 told Gene I didn’t know much adout the governor, but rather doubt- ed that he would walk into such a trap, and that I did know Bill Langer very well and I was quit2 sure he wouldn’t be caught that way.” Questioned as to Hall's standing in the community Stutsman declared it always had been good. As tu his cred- it with Stutsman’s bank, tue witness said it was limited only by the statu- tory restrictions as to the amount which may be loaned'‘an individual” borrower. Stutsman stated tha‘ h2 owed Mrs. Hall $2,000 and was in po-; sition to pay her whenever she asked, for the money, and he said that the Halls owned three quarters of land) west of the river, at least on quarter of which he knew to be clear. Immunity Bath. Stutsman told of a conversation with Judge E. T. Burke, counsel for Walla, a day or two before the close of the preliminary hearing, in which Burke] informed him that Gene was going on the stand and testify against Hall and H. SS. VALENTINE Columbus, O., Dec. 22.—Franklin county farmers are back of Uncie Sam heart and soul and pocketbook. - H. Sage Valentine proved it and he’s ready to prove it'again. “And they’re just as patriotic in every other coun- ty in the United States when they find out what is needed,” says Valen- tine. Valentine’s proof consisted of sell- ing over a million dollars’ worth of the second issue of Liberty Loan bonds to farmers who invested only $37,'00 in the first issue. “Explain what Uncle Sam wants from the farmer and then leave it to the farmer,” is Valentine’s theory. On this theory he perfected his machin- ery. ‘ When the Central Liderty Loan com- mittee drafted Valentine to take charge of the campaign outside of the’ city of Columbus, they ordered him to sell -$75,000 worth of bonds—and. pre- dicted he'd fail Valentine drafted a bunch of speak- ers who knew what was wanted and could tell it.- He arranged meetings and sent out the speakers. They ex: plained the-Joan, all about it, and what was needed. There the speakers’ work ended. The farmers organized by electing five committeemen in each of the 18 “APTALT N-E. QUARTER, EDUCATIONAL, SATAN, DL secu. unre N.W. QUARTER, RELIGIOUS, CAPTAIN. “SELLING UNIT Merci EACH QUARTER. SELEOG Ort ORGANIZED AS ABOVE - MAKING Farmers, 24 SELLING UNITS 10 EecH. TOWNSHIP e FRATERNAL SELLING bie ~ SELLING UNIT eee MISCELLANEOUS, SPELLING UNIT —— ship chairman and each of the others took charge of organizing a quarter of the township. Each sub-division captain created six selling units of five persons each. The units were designated religious, fraternal, farmer, merchants’, educa- tional, miscellaneous. The “religious selling unit” was instructed to center its efforts on the churches, the “fra- ternal selling unit” on lodges and so on. Thus Valentine had 2,250 persons or- ganized so that he was in touch with every detail. Valentine's staff prepared notices of meetings, secured speakers and other features when needed and supplied them to the officers in the townships. Moving pictures helped. Personal work did too. Valentine kept his organization full of “pep”, by mailing out daily bulletins with .an “honor roll” for salesmen making. big records. A spirit of friendly rivalry was cre- ated. “Over the million mark,” is how |’ it worked. Right *in the-heat of the campaign, Valentine sent out a bulletin making, the organiaztion permaneat and the organiaztion is available for all kinds of government work. The organization will be used-for the sale of thrift stamps and to pro- mote food conservation. “The net amount of bond subscrip- tions wasn’t the biggest result of the campaign,” Valentine says. 3 “The farmers were placed in close touch with governmental activittes— made to feel that they are an fmport- ant ‘part of'the* government, their''pa. townships, One was chosen town- triotism was aroused.” x RED CROSS DRIVE PASSES 3,000 MARK AND MAY TOUCH CRANBERRIES BALK AT SUB; ONLY TURKEY DONE IN ART With the American Army in France, Thursday, Dec. 20.—The great bulk of the American expe- ditionary force will not get its ex- pected Christmas dinner. A sub- marine attack forced the ship which was carrying cranberries to turn back, and through some un- known circumstances two ships which were carrying the supplies of turkey left the United States so late that it was impossible for them to arrive in France in time. The turkeys which already have arrived in the army zone were left over from Thanksgiving, as was the mincemeat which has been-received. This supply, how- ever, will go an extremely short way. Over one cook shack there has been pinned a picture of a gob- bler underneath which is written: “Take a good look, this is the take an immunity bath and that then! the state could not use his own evi- dence against him. Burke said Walla would testify that Hall nad taken some of the money, and Stutsman pr nounced it a “dam lie,” and informed Burke that he had the “goods on Walla” and would be glad of a chance to get Walla on the stand. Charles A. Holiday, who is in busi- ness with Walla at Baldwin, testified that Walla had told him of plans to get Hall to the Walla home, in the econtinued op Page Two.) only turk in France and I got it.” 4000 BY CHRISTMAS EYE Fifty Per Cent Membership Probable for Capital City. McKENZIE BOOSTS THE TOTAL Home Guard of Patriotic Village Scores 252 in One Day. HOW THEY STAND. Rept. Squad Prev. Today. Total. Lomas . » a7 36 285 Marks . 217 15 232 Lahr . «197 56 253 Clinton ..... 244 5 249 Copelin » 341 10 351 Larson ..... 221 54 5 Whitney .... 506 45 5 McGray . 218 20 238 Quanrud .... 155 13 268 Marsh . ~ 9 0 119 Wanner .... 304 19 324 Total to date ............ 3,143 Received from booths.. 62 3,205 With 62 memberships turned in by the ladies’ booths maintained at Webb’s and Lucas’s and with another day’s good work on the part of the Bismarck Home Guard, the Capital ‘City's great Christmas membership drive for the Red Cross was well past the 3,000 mark at noon today and on the final lap for the new goal of 4,- 000, which will give Bismarck a 50 per cent Red Cross membership and will place Burleigh county in line for the silken banner offered by Judge N. C. Young of Fargo, chairman of the state chapter, to the county showing the largest proportional membership gains. Bismarck still has a full day in which to top the 4,000 mark. All re- pprts must be in at noon Monday, as they are to be wired into Red Cross GASOLINE WASTE IS TO BE REPREHENDED New York, Dec. 21.—In an appeal for the conservation of gasoline, the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce declares an average saving of 1% pints a day for each automobile and truck in use in the United States will insure enough gasoline for gov- ernment needs during the co: year. z {national and state headquarters, which on Christmas eve will display returns {from all parts of America, proving the Red Cross to be the largest and most universal benevolent organiza- uon in the world. State headquarters report that more than 110,000 service flags already have been posted in North Dakota. Nelson county is claiming the state championship with a 30 per cent mem- i (Continued on Page Five.) DEFY HURLED AT PRUSSIANISM BY EVENING EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS SWEDISH SHIPS AID SPY SYSTEM | FARMERS’ BOYS THE BOLSHEVIKT) BY SECRET CODE “We Did Not Overthrow Czar- ism to Kneel Before the Kaiser,” ls Answer. COSSACKS ARE AGAIN ACTIVE Union Reported Between’ Gen. Kaledines and the Peo- ple of Ukrania. Petrograd, Dec. 22.—Leon Trotz- ky, the Bolsheviki foreign minis- ister, in a of Soldiers and Workmen declar- ed that if the German Emperor of- fered “offensive” peace, terms, the Russians. would fight against it. ‘We did not overthrow Czar- ism to kneel’ before the kaiser,” he cried. Continuing, he said: “But if through our exhaustion, we had: to.aecept the kaiser's terms, we would do so to rise with the German people against militarism.” BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Opposition by: the Ukranians and the followers of General Kaledines to the Eolsheviki movements, together with an unconfirmed report that the Germans have rejected the peace pro- posala of the Bolanoviki delegates con: tinue to overshadow military opera: \tions in the’Kuropean war. - The report that a definite alliance has been formed between the Ukran- Jans and:the Don Cossacks gives cred- ence to another rumor that the Ukran- ian Rada has definitely notified the Bolsheviki commissioners that, it will not recuftsiter tts‘adelin fm aiding’ the Kaledine forces. Attacks Repulsed. German attacks in Alsace have been repulsed, according to the French war office. - The chief of these attacks, at Hartmans-weiler-Kopf, took the Ger- mang into the first line French trench-| .@8, but injithe engagement ‘that fol- fowed, they) were driven out! with heavy losses. At other points, artil- lery activity has been intermittent. Rheims has again been shelled by the Germans. In the region of Doiran in the east- ern war theatre artillery activity con- tinues.. In the same war theatre Brit- ish troops have carried out a sticcess- ful raid near Butkova, capturing one officer and 54 Bulgarian soldiers. The publication of telegrams sent by Count. von Luxburg, former Ger- man minister to the Berlin foreign of- fice has resulted in riots in Buenos Aires, where crowds of people as- sembled and demanded a rupture of relations with Germany. ‘MAKE PROGRESS. Rome, Dec. 22.—Italian forces in the region of Monte Asolone on the north- ern Italian front, yesterday made fur- ther progress after lively fighting in spite of adverse atmospheric condi- tions, it was officially announced to- day by the Italian war office. DELEGATION RECALLED. London, Dec. 22.—The heports reit- erated today that the Russian delega tion to the peace conference at Brest- Litovsk has been recalled because tue Germans would not accept the Russian terms. It is the Daily Mail's corres- pondent in Petrogra:1 who now makes this declaration in a dispatch filed Thursday and just received. CROP INSURANCE CONCERN IS PUT OUT OF RUNNING Helena, Mont., Dec. 22 —The li- cense of the Bankers’ Insurance company was revoked Friday by the state insurance department. Licenses of all its local agents likewise were cancelled. * The step was taken as the re- sult of a joint investigation of the affairs of the company by the in- surance commissioners of Mon- tana ahd the Dakotas. BERF BARONS RUSH TOCOVER UP HOLDINGS Washington, vec. 22.—Redistribu- tion of share holdings of the Chicago Stockyards Co.,,was begun as soon as the managers got wind of the Federal Trade Commission's coming investiga- tion. It was brought out in testimony be- fore the commission today tha: the same day a federal investigator ap- peared 34,480 shares were divided in- to seventeen portions. Norwegian Crews Made Big Money Carrying Messages to the Enemy. GOVERNMENT SPRINGS COUP ' Seizes Letters Written in Invisi- ble Ink—Many Are Dangerous. { Washington, Dec. 22—An extensive traffic in written communications to Germany, Austria and the northern European neutrals, involving use of invisible ink and code systems, has been discovered and stopped by cus- toms officials within the last few weeks, treasury officials disclosed to day. Trafile Disclosed, The traffic, it was disclosed, was carried on largely by Swedish ship and marine men. Scores ‘of persons now are under surveillance and a number of arrests probably will be made soon. Evi- dence that the channel of communica- tions have been open ever since the United States entered the war has been uncovered and officials suspect that much of the information which the German government is known to have received concerning war prepar- ations in America has been transmit- ted. under a well-organized) scheme, {directed by subjects of neutral‘ coun- tries agsisted by some Americans. Twenty per cent of the letters writ- ten in the United States or on ship- ;board and heretofore sent to Europe by messenger or by a member of the ship's crew, has been found to bear messages in invisible ink or to con- tain code or cryptic phrases, suspect- ed of holding hidden meaning. Disclosures were mate by officials after pronralgation several weeks: ago of regulations under the Trading with the Enemy Act, forbidding transmis- sion of communications to or from the United States through the regular courses of the mails or under licenses of the customs authorities and the War Trade, Board. ric;,,betters Discovered. When the rules were established, a strict system of inspection of. ships, their crew, and cargoes was begun, and the dangerous nature of many communications found on shipboard was immediately discovered. This action, taken suddenly without notice to the crews, caused the Ms- covery of many letters which here- tofore have been successfully con- cealed. These were subjected to ex- amination by chemists and code ex- perts, and one in five was found sus- ‘picious. Most messages in invisible ink ap- parently were only personal com- munications from persons in the Unit- ed States to friends or relatives in Germany, and although superficially jthey bore no evidence of carrying val- uable information to the enemy, they were held up on the ground that they might be dangerous. Government agents have gathered evidence that certain persons in this country, many of whom are Swedes or Norwegians, have conducted a money making scheme of transmitting letters to the northern European neutral countries of to Getmany at high prices. By this means, the Britith censorship in many cases was evaded. FRESH RAID ON 1. W. W. OFFICES Chicago, Dec. 22.—Federal officials today said that the raid on local I. W. W. heailquarters Monday was made with the hope of discovering evidence connecting I. W. W. with an alleged poison plot aimed at whole- sale destruction of cattle and hogs throughout the United States and par- ticularly in the Southwest. It was generally supposed that the raid was made to secure more evidence against the 166 members indicted here. Of- ficials today said. however, that they had plenty of evidence against these persons. Operatives have been stationed in I. W. W. headquarters since Monday’s raid, and it is said they have col- lected damaging evidence of a poison plot. TOWNER MAN WOUNDED. Ottawa, Dec. 22.—The Canadian cas- ualty list issued today includes the name of E. Morrown, D., as wounded. | of Towner, N.| the Noyes Erothers, TO HELP PUT IN NEXT CROP Baker Has Plan for Short Time Furlough to Aid in Production. Washington, Dec. 22.— Secretary Baker has a plan to permit farmer boys in the army to return to their homes at periodical intervals to as- sist in crop production. He outlined it today to a delegation of New York farmers who protested against the conaitions by the scarcity of farm jabor, STEEN THROWS GAUNTLET DOWN TO KOSITZKY Says That He Is Not a Real Watch-Dog of the State Treasury. REFUSES TO TRANSFER $300 FOR CLERK HIRE John Steen, state treasurer, has re- fused to honor a $300 warrant drawn on tne state treasury by Karl R. Kositzky. Mr. Steen states that this warrant is issued for the purpose of transferring this amount from the con- tingent fund to a special clerk-hire fund for the state auditor's office. He declines to make the transfer because in his opinion no emergency exists which justified the action’ of the Emergency Commission in author- izing the transfer. He believes the transfer would be contrary to the bud- get law. In, commenting on his ac- tion, Mr. Steen issued the following statement to the press: “The impression seems to be gen- eral that: Mr. Kositzky, the present state auditor, is a regular watch-dog of the treasury of the state, when it comes to scrutinizing expenditures of the people’s money. He has among other great economic principles dis- covered that money does not grow on trees and that the money which comes into the state treasury comes from the toil of the masses, etc. “Now as to his own expenditures, as state auditor he does not appear to have shown the same economy as he would lead the people to believe that he uses when it comes to scrut- inizing bills contracted by other de- partments. “For instance, during the year 1916 Carl O. Jorgenson paid out for clerk- hire for the state auditor's office the sum of $6,644.29. During the year of 1917, Mr. Karl R. Kositzky, the pres- ent state auditor has expended for clerk-hire in connection with the state auditor's office the sum of $10,478.99 “True economy should ‘begin at home, but then it was always easier to prescribe Economy for the Other Fel low than for one’s self.” Kositzky Came Back. ‘State Auditor Kositzky no sooner had received and digested his letter from the state treasurer this after- noon until he came back with a de- mand on Mr. Steen to account for interest collected, if any, on deposits which mutual insurance companies, under the law, are required to make with the state treasurer. (Mr. Kositz ky believes about $1,200 in interest is due the state from this source, and he asks Mr. Steen to explain what has been done in connection with it. FORMER MAYOR MITCHELL SUED FOR LARGE SUM Washington, Dec. 22.—Damages ageregating $400,000 were de- manded of Mayor John P. Mitch- ell in a suit for libel filed against him today by Wm. Bullock, direc- tor of the bureau of city ingury, an organization whose avowed purpose is to watch over the ex- penditure of public money and the conduct of municipal affairs. The alleged libelous statements, which the complaint says were forty in number and on each of which $10,- 000 is asked, were printed in New York newspapers during the re- cent mayoralty campaign as ans- wers by Mayor Mitchell to state- ments made by Bullock in criti- cism of the policies of the muni- cipal administration. Mr. McCagherty, a representative of has gone to St. Paul to spend the holidays. Washington, Dec. in the art of food conservation has country by the National Emergency Garden commission as a worthy com- panion of pumpkin-less pumpkin pie and gingerless ginger bread. | The new mincemeat, officially de- scribed as a “camaflouge,” was tried 22.—Meatless; nounced it perfect mincemeat, another culinary triumph | more. been brought to the housewives of the! half a pound fon five bundred troops who pro-!day’s meatless day. MEATLESS MINCEMEA T IS PROPOSED FOR A PATRIOTIC CHRISTMAS and called for Half a package of seeded raisins of prunes, stewed with lemon juice, and peel; one-quarter cup sweet cider, four tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, chop the raisins and prunes together, and the result is said to be a meatless mince pie which ac- cords with the administration’s Tues NEWS LEAKS FROM ESSEN OF ACCIDENT Reported That 70,000 Men and Women Are Employed at Works, HAD STRIKE LAST SUMMER Unconfirmed Reports Say Plant Has Been Ablaze for Hours. Maestricht, Holland, Friday, Dec. 21. (British — Admiriity per Wireless Press).—Workmen from Essen, Ger- many, say that ve Krupp plant, the great Gorman iunition establish- ment has been ablaze for twenty-four hours. The plant at Essen, the main estad- lishment of the Krupps, the largest manufacturers in Germany of arms and munitions, employed about 30,000 men before the war. It has been ex- panded greatly during the war. Facts relating to its present size and the number of workmen are kept secret by the German government. It was reported, however. unofficially in October of last year, that about 70,000 persons including several thousand women weer at work and that 20,000 were to be added to the force, Early this year there was a strike at the Krnpp works, said to have been due to luc of food. It was reported that 40.000 workers were inolved and that the authorities combatted it by. sending many. of the men to the front, but little authentic. information was permitted to come out of; Germany. POOR STARVE WHILE RICH HAVE PLENTY Berlin Vorwaerts in Newspaper Article Discusses Acute"! ' Food Situation. , ....” RICH HAVE ABUNDANT. London, Dec. 22.—According to a Reuter’s dispatch from Amsterdam, Vorwaerts of Berlin, in a plain spoken attack on the system of Herr Von Waldow, the German food controller, declares that great masses of German people, not only are hungry, but are literally starving. The paper adds chat agriculture producers and rich residents in towns are living in plenty as boarding is no longer prohibited. “Every war protiteer and billion- aire,” the paper says, “has his kit- chen full of ham and bacon, the mid- dle class seek a precarious existence, spending all it possesses on foods, but forty millions of the masses are starv- ing and are unlikely to sit silent. “We might have within a month an absolute catastrophe in Germany, and 1 collapse even worse than Russia, vesulting in a German defeat and loss of the wa: —__——+ ONLY ONE IN 4,000 FARMERS HAS SEED ENOUGH FOR NEEDS (Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 22.—Only one of the 1,000 farmers replying to inquiries of the Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis has as much as 150 bushels of seed corn, enough to plant 900 acres, according to John H. Rich, chairman. As a result he has asked David F. Houston, secretary of agri- culture, if his department will favor federal aid for the financing of next year's crop in the northwest. ‘Much corn that would have made yood seed was left standing moist in he shock, absorbed additional motst- ure during the foggy weather of No- vember and froze during the recent cold weather. Hence its seed value has been destroyed, Mr. Rich says. He added that unless there is an exhaustive effort to locate good seed corn there may not be enough to plant 2 normal acreage in the north- west corn states next year. “An ar- rangement has been made to consoll- jate end classify reports received by the reserve bank so that districts which have no seed may have inform- s to banks and individuals that ist them in making purchases,” he says. A GOVERNOR HUNT IS SEATED BY COURT Phoenix, Ariz. Dec. 22.—The Ariz ona supreme court today seated G. Ww. P. Hunt, as governor of Arizona. Hunt contested the election of Governor Campbell, who now holds the oftice. Hunt is a democrat,