The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1917, Page 1

\ THE WEATHER Snow. THIRTY.SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 300 SANTA CLAUS VISITS SAMMY IN AEROPLANE Modern Method of Transporta-_ tion Adopted by Old | Nick. | AMERICANS CELEBRATE DAY, Real Christmas Spirit in Spite of | a Howling Snow | Storm. With the American Army in France, / Tuesday( Dec. 25.—(By the A. P.)—; The American expeditionary force in| France celebrated Christmas in a} howling snowstorm, which rolled in| from the mountains in the early hours, | continued all day and showed no signs , of avating tonight. Despite the diffi culties due to the storm, few features | of any program were cancelled. | The celebration of the American air | squadron was carried out, although | a blinding snow swirled into the hang: | ar, where a tree had been erected for) 100 children of a nearby village | When the youngsters had gathered at! the hangar, Santa Claus who was an ‘American corporal, climbed into a big | machine at a nearby hangar. Fifteen} minutes later, the aeroplane droppec to the snow covered fields. The children had been told inat San ta had abandoned his old sleigh for! an airplane, but they did not believe it until they saw him come down from, the skies. In all the units entertain-| ing children, each small guest receiv-| ed the present he most desired. There) were at least a score of large commun: | “Who goes there?” “A Select from the dairy lunch.” ‘That don’t tell me nuthin’, Wot’s t “Two eggs on one! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMAROK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26, 1917. na te AE ee OPS RSI BOLSHEVIKI CONSCIOU he countersign?” he zone,.where the presents were tributed: OMAN BEHIND ~ WORK OF SPY, | Capt. Welch, aide to the com- | Mysterious Femme, Designated manding general of the 41st d vision, indicates the safe arrival “H,” i in France of the entire division, be H Supplied the which includes the Fighting First Brains. | and the disorganized units of the Smashing Second, assigned to various other regiments. This means that the boys of both Co. A, and Co. |, the two Bismarck units, now are in France. HIRED FRANZ SCHULENBERG Charged That Pretty Brunette! First detinite news of the arrival in ‘rance of the First North Dakota, Induced Him to Come to vow the 164th U. S. infantry, of which | ue pioneer Bismarck Co. A is a unit Country. rea | San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 26—Aj; ‘ame in a cablegram received this woman, designated only as “H.” and| morning from somewhere in France said to be prominent in the German) »y Mr. and ‘Mrs. E. E. Morris, annount secret service, directed the activities; sing the safe arrival there of their of Franz Schulenberg, alleged master © sons, Edward Everett Jr., of the spy, held here on a residential war-|163rd, a Montana regiment, and Eu raat, according to information di-| gene R., of Co. A, 164th. vulged today by federal ofiicials | “We arrived safe—Merry Christmas Schulenberg is said to have been ac | ‘o all,” read the brief holiday greet: tive in plans to destroy bridges anc | ing. public buildings in Canada, and ship:| The two boys, who sailed on the ping and warehouses in Pacific ports., same transport for France, had not The clue to her part in Schulen.| seen one another for three years prior berg’s operations was revealed in a! ‘o their recent meeting in France. E. letter found among his effects. It! %. Morris, Jr. had made his home ao j thesay N FRANCE: ~ CABLEGRAMS COMB ANNOUNG i ~ SAFE ARRIVAL OF DAKOTAXS for some time in Montana, from which “| state he enlisted. Cablegrams also were received by Bismarck friends today from Majoi Frank S. Henry and Capt. J. W. Mur phy, both of whom are with the Fght ing First. It is clearly evident from messages that,,the First, North in, France vefore the . they, may Dakota bas. safely, landed , Weeks pagsibly will, elapse hoys see.,the trenche: be imme@diqtely d,with all othe availanle .troops, ,,to .withstand (th massed attack which Von Hindeaburs is preparing to make on the west front. Varney Home Made Happy. The J. O. Varney home on Secon¢ street was made supremely happy Christmas day, when Fred Varney fresh from the jaws of death, walked in on his family. The Bismarck boy it will be remembered, was one of a crew of forty saved from the Ameri can steamer Schuylkill, when the lat ter was torpedoed in the Mediterran ean by a German sub. The crew was landed at Algeirs, where it remained for several weeks before arrange- ments could be made for the home ward journey, which ended, just in time to enable the Americans to spend Christmas at home with loved ones. WARNED MEATLESS. DAY 18 NO JOKE former secretary to Franz von Tapen, military attache of the German em- bassy at Washington and alleged head of the German espionage system in this country. She was described as a woman of good education and a bru- nette, and was said to be 35 years old. According to federal officials, the 5 5 ary eae i woman sent Schulenberg to the United Parshall, N. D., Dec. 26—-A I -arshall States in 1914 for the alleged purpose restaurant keeper reported by a mem- of assisting in the maintenance of con traband wireless stations supported by the German wireless station, for he purpose of obtaining information ‘And transmitting it to Berlin. Conservation league for serving meat} on a meatless day, has received from) the federal food administration a rep-| rimand, with formal notice that the} food administration expects to strict- ly enforce every regulation laid down, | and that another violation of the meat-; ‘ess edict wil render the restaurant) | keeper liable to a fine of $500. \ ATTACKS BREAK DOWN. MILE RECORD OF 3.48 Rerlin, via London, Dec. 26.—Vio- ‘ “t-%y lent counter attacks against Austro aie eae & - z German positions on Col Del Rosse Eakersfield, Calif. Dec. 26 What ing neighboring heights on both sides was said to be a new world’s automo- | , oke down yesterday with heav : bile record for five miles on a one |. re eS RA pea ens mile circular dirt track was hung up tedeeete ne SE air | in a race here by Louis Chevrolet. Ney reene. ee who defeated Barney Oldfield and Ed- ber of the Commercial Travelers’ Food | STEFFANSON IS ON WAY HOME IS NAVY'S ADVICE Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 26.—Vilhjal- mar Steffansen, the Arctic explor- er, last heard from in a letter re- ceived in March, 1916, has arrived with his party at Ft. Yukon, ac- cording to word received by the navy department. Retires at Night _ in Good Health; Is Dead I Next Morning Dickinson, N. D., Dec. 26.-—Retiring at night apparently in her usual ro bust health, Mrs. J. found dead the following morning The remains were taken to the form er home at Lansing, Ia., for inter- ment, being accompanied by /Mrs. C. E. Ward, a daughter, and by the be- reaved husband. born in Quincy, Ill, in 1847. die Hearne, his time being three min-| utes, 48 seconds. In a trial lap officially timed, Old- field clipped a second off the world’s | record by negatiating the mile in, THE RED CROSS 45:2 seconds. GREECE WANTS SONS TO JOIN U. S. ARMIES Washington, D: C., Dec. 26.— Greece wants her citizens in the United States to enlist in the American army. Not only will she suspend punishments, which ordinarily would follow enlistment of Greeks with a foreign power, but she will reward them for sup- porting American arms. This is Connecticut, 350,000; the substance of a Greek note ar- | 580,000. tiving her today and presented to the state department Ly the Greek | embassy. Washington, Dec. 26.—Further 1 turns today from the Red Cross Christ-| mas membership drive indicated, of | _ficials at headquarters here said that the total enrollment would be even in excess of the 13,000,000 forecast last night. The object was to enroll 10,- 000,600 new members. The fgures follow: New York city and state, 1,650,000; NEARLY COMPLETE RETURNS FROM DRIVE INDICATE MEMBERSHIP EXCEEDS 13 MILLION ; campaign would be continued the re | mainder of the week. The Rocky mountain division, Wy-} !oming, Colorado, Utah and New Mex- ico, with a quota of 181,000, reported 240,000 members turns incomplete. Almost complete reports from North Dakota. and South Dakota indicate that the northern division, including those states and Minnesota and Mon- New Jersey,| tana, will pass its quota. North Da- kota, with its quota og 20,000, has en- A report from the New England di-| rolled 80,207 members and South Da- vision manager said that 240,000 mem-; kota has exceeded its 50,000 by 12, ders had been enrolled and that the! 000. A. Kemble was; Mrs. Kemble was | enrolled with re- HUNS VIOLATE ARMISTICE AND MOVE ARMIES Ignore Provisions of Agreement with Russia and Take. Troops. AWAITING REINFORCEMENTS Von Hindenburg Resting Before Making Much Heralded Attack. | ——— | BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, While their guns, bombard the western front, the Germans are taking troops from the eastern front for use elsewhere, despite che provisions of the Russian- German armistice; prohibiting such action, The artillery activi- ty in France has been moderate yver most of the: front, and more violent on the right bank of the Meuse, northeast of Verdun, the seene of the German attack near- ly two years ago. Awaits Reinforcemenis. German infantry has noi been ac- ive, and it is probable that Field dprshal Von Hindenburg is waiting or more reinforcemeats before mak- ng his heralded attack. Russian ad- dices telling of the German withdraw- als in the east, and that some of the roops are being taken to the Rouman- an front. Roumania is not taking dart in the peace negotiations, and the Ukraine waich lies beyond Moldavi. and Pessarabia is opposed to the Bol- sheviki.’ ‘ ‘French; Take Prisoners. South of Juvincourt, in the Rheims sector of Champagne, the French have carried out a raid into the German ines, and brought back prisoners. On the Pritish portion of the front, there lave been raids in addition to the ar- tillery duels. Italians Regain Losses. On the northern Italian front, the Austro-German tactic» appear to be -o strike alternately ‘ut vital points m either side of the Brenta, Check 2d at Monte Asolone last week, the anemy has struck toward the Franz- ala valley, west of the river. After wo days of bitter fighting, the Ital- ans have regained possession of lost rositions in the Col Del Kosso, west of ihe river and have attacked the Aus- roGerman positions on ‘Monte Per- ica, east of: the..river.. Berlin claims he. capture .of 9,000 prisoners in the caining ofthe Col Del Rosso, which ‘ater was lost to the Italians. “IATL STAGE DRIVER HANGRD AND THROAT KNIFED BY BANDITS Mexican Cattle Raiders in Red Handed Foray on the Soil of Texas. INTERCEPT DRIVER OF THE CHRISTMAS MAIL { Marfa, Tex., Dec. 26.—American troops early today were guarding all known outlets to Van Horne Canyon, where 100 Mexican ban- dits, who on Christmas morning crossed the American border, raid- ed the postortice, and general store on the Brite Ranch, twenty- seven miles southeast of here, | killed Michael Welch, a veteran | stage driver, and his two Mexican | passengers, wounded Sam Neill, | H i toreman of the Brite Ranch, and carried away loot estimated to be worth $7,00.00, besides horses | stolen from the ranch, are hiding. I After the bandits disappeared | the soldiers who were in close | pursuit fired many rounds at them | and are reportea to have killed | and wounded many of the Mexi- |. Gans. The shogting compelled the | bandits to abandon the horses on | Which they carried away the loot. | El Paso, Tex: Dec. 26.—“Michey” | Welch, an American mail stage driver, {was hanged and his throat cut early (Christmas day by Mexican bandits | who crossed the linc, raided tue lit- | tle town of Candelaria and held up {the coach, killing the driver and loot- jing the mail sacks, according to a | telegram just eceived here. Two | Mesican passengers in the coach were {reported to have been shot. The bandits, believed to be a part of Cnico Cano’s band of cattle tuieves, jcrossed the Rio Grande at sunrise | tear Candelaria, 18 miles southeast of Valentine, Texas. They raided the | store of L. C. Brite, in the Big Bend | district, and mounted on horses made a sweeping raid in a semi-circle north- | west from Candelaria, overtaking the | automobile mail stage which was leav- ing Candelaria for Valentine to bring | back the Christmas mail. Welch was | ordered from the car and hanged. La- ter a Mexican approached and sev- ered Welch’s jugular vein with his irk. United States cavalry, Texas rang- ers and United States postoffice in- spectors are on the trail of the bandits (Continued on page eight) ‘| rectors of the Publishers’ Mutual Fire OVER TOP WITH 2,159 MEMBERS Red Cross Drive Made by Home Guard Is Great Success. 3,541 FOR BURLEIGH COUNTY Shire Stands Well Ahead of Cass and Other Com- netitors. Bismarck went over the top in great shape in its Christmas Red Cross membership drive. ‘1:ne Home Guard made it a Red Cioss Uhristmas for 2,799 new Red Cross memvers in the capital city. bor ihe @.itire county, the drive udded 3,04. new members, reported to date, making, witu old memberships, a total of 4,805 Red Cross members in Burleigh. Outside of pismarck, ‘McKenzie easily led in actual number of ney members gained, while Baldwin was a very close second in point of per capita increase. ‘Towns reporting to County Chairman Marks to date have advised the following results: Regan, 25; Still, 75; McKenzie, 250; Bald- win, 165; Driscoll, 125; Sterling, 65; + i ; Arena, 15; Wing, 39; total 782. ! In the Bismarck Home Guard drive, Whitney's team ran away from all competitors, finishing more than 200 points ahead of its nearest rival. The 2,759 new members gained in this drive represent an investment of $3,- v1 in the Red Cross, as almost a thou- sand members paid the $2 fee which entitles them ‘o a year’s sudscription .o the Red Cross magazine. ‘ The teams reported finally. as fol- lows: ‘Team. Members. Dolla Totals .... 1 Wel While Burleigh ‘did not win'the silk- en’ banner awarded by Judge ‘Young: and which’ weit’ {b Golden Valley’ county, with a 58,5 per cent gain ‘in’ membership, it led by wide margins the counties of Cass, whose drive net-; ted but 3,040 members; Stutrman, with 898;. McLean, with 1,706; (McHenry, with 2,868, and a number of other counties, whose population exceeds Burleigh’s. All Slope counties did well. Bow- man put on 747 new members; Dunn, 600; Emmons, 1,259; Golden Valley, 2,845; Grant, 1,126; vogan, 2,033; IMe- Lean, 1,706; Mercer, 532; Morton, 548; Sheridan, 623; Stark, 3,210. The biggest membership in the state is claimed by Grand Forks county, which, by adding 8,500 in this drive, boosted its total to 1: Fi AMERICAN BOAT WITH CREW OF 30 IS MISSING New York, Dec. 26—The Amer. ican steamship Tuscarora, former- ly a lake. vessel, and requisitioned for the United States shipping board for Atlantic service, togeth- er with her entire cref of 35 men, is believed to have been lost some- where north of Cape Breton island, according to advices received in the shipping circles today from Nova Scotia. Publishers’ Mutual Insurance Company Devils Lake, N. D., Dec. 26—The di- Insurance Co., at their monthly meet- ing here, reported that since the first fourth estate insurance policy was written October 15, the business on the company’s books has grown to)! $150,000. The company received its BISMARCK GOES | “GERMAN HIRELINGS” TERM Lomas .....-........ 268 $320 + IMarkS ...-..eeeeeee. 214 | Lahr .. 226, Clinton 24 Copelin ...... 266 Dullam ... 288 Whitney 491 616 McGray . 207 266 Quanrud . 150 191° | Marsh . » 12 Ma Wanner .. » 276 346 | Booths . 36 79 Mailed .. 2 2 | Donations . 4 | | Shows Fine Growth | EVENING EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS OF HOPELESS FAILURE MOST FREQUENTLY APPLIED TO SOCTALISTIC ELEMENT Troops Lay Down Their Arms and Refuse to Give Battle to the Ukrainians—Pian to Meet Present Reign of Terror with Counter Attacks and Bomb Throwing. REPORTS OF CIVIL WAR ACTIVITIES CONTINUE TO COME FROM PETROGRAD Government Declares Definitely Its Soldiers Have Captured Khar- tov, Nicolaive and Are Threatening Stronghold of Odessa—Cossacks Strenghtening Hold. 1 London, Dee. 26—There have been occasional assertions in Petrograd dispatches that the influence and power of the Bolsheviki was waning, but never with such unanimity as in special dispatches dated from the Russian capital Sunday and printed today. Nearly all make the point in one form or another that defection from the Workmen's and Soldiers’ organization is growing constantly. Among the causes alleged are general lack of authority, the inerease in drunkedness, the reluctance of the population to work and the searcity of foodstuffs. The main desire of the soldiers is said to be for peace. MUCH WOUNDED VETERAN WINS AQUATIC RACE Paris, Dec. 26.—Gerard ‘Meister, who was five times wounded dur- ing the battle of the Marne, on Christmas won the annual swim- ming contest across the river Bolshevikis Lie Down. The correspondents’ cite instances of Bolsheviki troops refusing to |march, declining to attack the Ukrani- ans and permitting the Cossacks to | disarm them without resistance. Fighting, it is said, is the last thing they are willing or intend to do. A , hostile spirit is reported to survive j among the Ba! sailors, and the Red j Guard, but the former are not numer- ous enough to conquer the Ukranians and the Red Guard is largely untrain- ed. It is reported, therefore, that war Seine, a distance of 350 yards. | against the Ukraine probably will not The temperature stood at about , materialize on any serious scale. freezing point and the bridges | Conscious of Failure. and banks of the Seine were | Bolsheviki leaders, the Petrograd crowded with spectators who (correspondent of the Morning Post cheered the swimmers as they | says, appear to becoming conscious of plunged through the icy water. hopeless failure, while the corres: Meister won this event in 1913. pondent of the Daily News writes: ing opposition to the Bolsheviki ; among all classes. Men, who formerly supported them, are turning against | them, and ‘German heirlings’ is a com- ;mon term of denunciation. There is {much talk of meeting the present. reign, jof terror with counter méasures and 'bomb throwing is freely suggested as the only method of exerting pressure on the Bolshevi This is not merely idle talk as those who say it are those | who already have thrown bombs.” Civil War Activites. Reports of civil war activites, how- ever. continue to be received. The | y Bolsheviki: government declared Safi ‘iniiély that troops have captured ‘ cqliaye and are thrbhitepy, anian hold on Odessa. The | Cossacks report the strengihening of jtheir hold on the Donets basin, { | “There is a tremendous and grow- BIG PROFITS. NECESSARY T0 COAL MINING Director Garfield Says to Get Fuel We Must Pay for It. ADMITS LARGE ‘DIVIDENDS Asserts Administration Is i BACHELOR TAKES clined eA es Long OWN LIFE; LE AVES BROTHER ESTATE Washington, D. C., Dec. 26.—War demands for bituminous coal have been greater than mines could meet, although the increase of production | benedict, res “eel Bust this year has been normal, Fuel Ad-| mitted suicide at a homestead which ministrator Garfield testified today at he occupied with his brother, Hans the senate coal investigation. In an sierenron, whe Mateeane away ‘i paying a visit toa brother, Hel- effort to alleviate conditions, he sald, | mar, who lived on aa adjoining Be: the fuel administration was laying €M-|tign, Stevenson placed the muzzle of phasis on stimulating production rath-/a shotgun at his chest and pulled the trigger with his toe. When Hans re- er than regulating price. 2 A . turned he found Severin lying dead, Give Fair Prices. in a pool of blood. He had left a “When the operators complain that} note stating that he wiiled all of his prices fixed by the president are too) property to his brother Fans. low, we are inclined to give them the ONLY ONE DAILY NOW. benefit of the doubt,” Dr. Garfield co Competition Canned by James- said. Senator Kenyon asked the fuel ad- eves town Consolidation. The Jamestown Alert today pur- ministrator if he had information of dividends of some of the large opera- tors, and he answered that he knew chased the Jamestown Capital's daily subscription list, and the daily Capi- tal suspended publication, leaving the big profits were being made, but be- lieved them necessary to stimulate Jamestown field to one evening paper. production. Government First. s understood that the Weekly Capital is to be taken over by the re- Private consumers have felt the shortage because the government has cently organized Stutsman County Farmers’ Press, organized by Senator come first in its demands, but that rule has been changed in the last few Thomas Pendrey and other prominent Nonpartisans of the county,.and that days, Dr. Garfield said. it will be operated as one of the string “We are giving it to the people first now,” he said. “With a dis- of Nonpartisan weekly newspapers or- ganized in North Dakota by George contented people we could not make much progress in the war. ah e “1 can guarantee that we have the] Totten. This plan was announced site vel and,” tarfield| earlier in the week by one of the di- situation well in hand,” Dr. Garfield tectora of thé Nonpartisan’ press’ ér- ion. charter only last September. y in France, against jally re- With the American Ar Dec. 26.—German atroc American soldiers are off found witn his throat cut, and it is officially declared, “he must have beer: so killed after capture.” Information concerning German sav- agery has reached the troops in one of a series of bulletins read to them by unit commanders and posted on the bulletin boards. Here is what they heard: “After a raid by the Germans or trenches held by American troops & HUN ATROCITY MANIFEST IN CASE. OF AMERICAN SENTRY: BODY FOUND WITH THROAT CUT FROM BAR TO BAR ported. An American sentry has been| said. WOULD SPEED UP CARS. Secretary Helstrom Advised of Action of Garfield. Secretary F. O. Helstrom of the North Dakota defense council is ad- sage has been sent all sking their co- operation in requesting shippers to re- doubled their efforts to promptly un- load coal cars during the holiday per- iod. With a view of improving the coal situation, Fuel Administrator Gar- field is urging operators and miners to unite in continuing maximum op- lone sentry of ——— infantry was found with his throat cut from ear to ear. | He had been surprised by an over- whelming force of Germans and must | have been so killed after capture. | “Such brutality is familiar to old | soldiers who served against savages the Philippine campaign.” erations, regardiess of the holiday Another bulletin tells the men how| season. Mines cannot be supplied with cars unless consumers release the Germans in occupied sections of t France and Eelgium are turning wom-| quickly. A specie appeal should be en and children out of their homes] made to all receivers to unload coal into the snows, the buildings being| promptly during the holiday period horses] and qoid delays in unloading that usually occur during the holidays. then given over to soldiers, and material.