The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1918, Page 2

BISMAROK EVENING TRIBUNE j WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1918 DEFENSE COUNSEL BXEOUTIVE BLAMES ~» QUARTERMASTER Declares Cloth was Delivered Faster Than Made Up by Ormy NEVER NEW NUMBER OF MEN Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.—With Charles Eisenman, vice chairman of the supply committee of the council of national defense on the stand, the sen- ate war inquiry today continued its investigation into the cancelled scrap uniform colth picking contracts. Mr. Eisenman, explaining operations of the supplies committee, stated that during the last eight months, it had dealt in 4,500 transactions with mer- chandise, valued at $800,000,000. He had the responsibility of finally pass- ing on all orders and contracts. Reason for Delay. “The delay was due to the buying of supplies too late,” he said, “indi-! cating that more troops were called} into service than could be equipped. “Is it right,” he asked the commit- | tee, “to call out men defenseless when | it is known not enough supplies are | on hand? We were ordered to provide | a certain amount of material. We never were told the number of men who were to be called out.” Cloth, he declared, was delivered to the quartermaster depots faster than it could be made into garments. Quar- termaster Sharpe had previously testi- fied that cloth deliveries’ were behind. Eisenman produced statistical rec- ords to show that at various quarter- master depots cloth delivei ample for manufacturing facilities in operation: ‘ BXPLOSIONS START FIRES AT NORFOLK: _ ALIRNS SUSPECTED Carts. Attacked and Contents Carried Away in Bags and Baby Cabs. POLICE MIX UP. IN LIVELY SCRIMMAGE Norfolk, Va., Jan. 1—Nearly two! blocks in the heart of Norfojk’s bus-| iness district, including the\ Monti- cello hotel, were destroyed, one man was killed and a score more injured by, falling walls in a series of explos- ions and fires which the authorities believe were incendiary. The loss is roughly estimated at more than $2,- 000,000. . Three distinct explosions is as many, buildings, one after the other, after the fire once virtually hal been brought under control, led to the gen- eral belief that enemy agents were at; work. Mayor Mayo practically placed the ‘city under martial law by the! turning of the situation over to the, naval officers. Marines and blue jackets from nearby naval stations as- sisted’the police and home guards in; maintaining orler. ‘Naval patrols rounded up suspicious persons while| five men were arrested as suspects. TWo of these, Hugo Schmilt and H. K. | Lessing, sail to be Germans, were turned over to department of justice) agents. There were reports that two Germans had been shot by sailors during the day, but neither the police nor the naval authorities would con- firm them. " The fire started before dawn in the ARBMY OF WORKERS NEEDED ON.THE FRENCH FRONT TO SUPPORT THE GALLANT:MEN BEHIND THE (Alan ‘R. Hawley, among other noted Americans, was asked by the Daily Tribune to answer this question: What is the most im- portant thing we can do in 1918 to help win'the war? His reply follows:) By ALAN R. HAWLEY, 2 FEAR OF GOD IN HUN HEART! HUGE AIR FLEETS WILL-PUT IT THERE, SAYS AERO CHIEF | allies has been to move their fast enough to meet unexpect- ed German attacks on weak points of the allied lines, and to overcome the advaniage which the Germans have of being,able to transport large bodies troops, amunition, and supplies from GUNS | THROWN OPEN T0 RELIEVE FAMINE Continued From Page One.) w puc duuicivual ships now controlled by the shipping board into service carrying coal frem Hampton Roads to New England. The number of vessels which can be spared will be deter- _ mined tomorrow and they will be or- dered immediately to the service. Stalled Freight. Hundreds of telegrams pouring into the railroad administration told of coal trains or individual cars appar- ently lost in yard confusion. These re- ports, most of which were submitted by insterstate commerce commission inspectors, were referrel to, railway , executives with instructions to clear fout. the stalled freight as fast as | physically possible, and to notify the ability to move certain quantities of | freight. Early action to divide the country ‘into operating district, with a gov- ‘ernment supervisor over each, and {possibly a federal\railroad agent for ‘each state, has been urged strongly upon Director-General McAdoo and he is said to be considering this policy ;Many of the telegrams which have ‘reached him in the last few d are /from persons or organizations referr- ling to the appointment of certain men {to positions which may be available jwhen the director-general decides on : the form and personnel of: his perman- | Gat organization. REVOLUTIONARY: FRAY AT KURSK ni administration the extent of their in- NEWYORK TUBRS | CAMP CODY BOYS REGALED WITH _ NEW YEAR BARBECUES; FIREWORKS SIGNALIZE END OF PERFECT DAY cd, 1 | Deming, N. M., Jan. 1—Ten thous- and soldiers at Camp Cody were guests at a New Year’s barbecue of the Deming war service board. The barbecue was held at a local amunse- ment park and the soldiers were seat- ed at tables stretched for a distance of one and one fourth miles, the form- er national guardsmen from Iowa, Ne- braska, South Dakota and Minnesota being grouped according to. states. The soldiers were given a fire- works entertainment tonight. Major-General A. P. Blocksom, tom- mander of the thirty-fourth division, held a reception today at division headquarters for one thousand _offic- ers stationed here. NO WHITE WAY FOR NEW YORK, New York, N. Y., Jan. 2.—The busi- “WHERE GOOD GROCERIES ties and towns throughout the state will be entirely dark on lightless nights, except for regular street lights, under an order promulgated by the | state fuel administration today, re- SAYS DICTATOR| quiring that electric advertising and display signs of all kinds be com- streets of New York city and ci-/i Pletely discontinued. ween eee AND MEATS COME FROM” GUSSNER’S: 310 MAIN STREET We are co-oporating with the U. S. Food Administration. We have determined to start the New Year by selling high class Grocries and Meats at PRICES NEVER BEFORE HEARD OF considering the high cost of production and dis- tribution. ereas, the greatest difficulty of! : 18 SANGUINARY head has been in’ progress since last Thursday, the Italians keeping en- ergetically after the foe in order to regain the position, which always has been considered a menace to Venice. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy before he was foxged to re- cross the stream. On the northern front the. infantry‘ again is idle for the moment, but the big guns of both siles are keeping up intensive duels on various sectors, particularly around Monte Homba and: ment of Moscow. ANTI-TRUST SUIT | on the Asiago plateau. The enemy is continuing his air raids over import. ant towns on the plain, his latest at- tack having been directed against Vicenza, Bassano, Castel Franco and , Treviso. Thirteen persons were kill- ; war. h sad port to another by interior lines; ' eq and forty:four others wounded, the + } majority of them civilians. Only sai? ‘Whereas, it is evident that power-! i fore, the most important thing which | ful warplanes afford the needed com-| Material damage resulted from the every American must do to win the, bination of power and mobility in a’ i war is to urge congress to appro-| higher degree than do any other ap-| jxewise the operations on the priate two billion dollars for aero-; Pliances; and ' fronts in France and Belgium are be- planes. ‘Whereas, it is generally accepted ing confined almost exclusively to As President Wilson has stated re-| by the recognized authorities on aero- hombardments, althouzh the German | peatedly, everything that makes life nautics that aeroplanes can easily be war office claims a further gain ‘ot | worth living to the civilized world 1s, built which can fly across the At- ground by the army of Crown Prince at stake, and the civilized world is *lantic and thereby solve the problem .Rypprecht of Bavaria over the Brit- looking to the United States for the! of delivering large units of aeronautic igh south of Marcoing in the Cambrai balance of power needed to win the power to England, France, Italy and gectoy, There are persistent reports | Russia, without dependence on ocean that heavy fighting is in progress be- The world’s _ strategists have! transportation, or interfering with it; tween Kaledines Cossacks and Bol- agreed that the war is to be decided and ' shevki troops in southwestern Russia, in the air, in favor of the side which} ‘Whereas, these aeroplanes can con- ang that the casua'ties have been | has supremacy of ‘the air; and it duct major aerial operations against heavy, No details of an authentic na- agreed that the United States’ most | the German fleet and U-boat bases, aS ture have yet come through, but the important contribution is to be the} well as against German lines of com- renorts say the Bolsheviki have’ been! conan ey of thousands of ea and military industries gefeated on the southwestern front aviators and aeroplanes. 2 ces; vi i To get these tens of thousands of| “Be it resolved, that these facts be bee setae nee tave oéeupied al aviators and aeroplanes and to carry | brought to the attention of the presi- important town of Poltava. out the aerial program now under! dent, the council of national defense, ~ g¢i}) further progress has been made way there is needed an apropriation | the secretary of war, the secretary of by the Eritish troops operating for aeronautics of not less than $2, navy, the aircraft production board, against the Turks in Palestine north | 000,000,000. ‘This “appropriation is need-| and to the American public, through of Jerusalem. The Turks in the fight: | ed immediately, and if given, will the press, and that the coming con- ing of the last several days have lost { make it possible to utilize many manu-' gress be urged to\expand the present more than 1,090 men kitied and 730 facturing resources now practically | aeronautical program by appropriat- jade prisoner. idle,'and produce from 50,000 to 100,-' ing not less than $1,000,000,000 for 000 aeroplanes a year hereafter. | building an ‘emergency air fleet’ of The sum of not less than $500,000,’ huge warplanes, and also appropriate 000 is needed to build 10,000 large war $1,000,000,000 to, carry out a compre- planes, and an equal amount to train hensive aeronautic program. of train- President, Aero Club of America. Huge air fleets will put the fear of God into the German heart. There-|- In France and Belgium. MEXICANSRAID old Granby theatre and spread rapidly as the firemen were handicaped by} frozen fire hydrants, low water pres-| sure and near zero temperature. ‘It! spread to the Monticello hotel and other buildings in the block. It was) brought under control late in the day, | but broke out anew and another half: black was consumed before being checked. i “SPEED UP” 1S MESSAGE FROM ALLY WAR MEET (Continued From Page One.) and compulsory control of foodstuffs itt their countries. The extent of the military effort to be aimed at by the United States was clearly’ determined sand an allied ad visory board was created to advise each nation on allotments of ships, so as to permit tho American ‘military effort to ‘be realized. _ Principal Recommendations. The principal recommendations of tne American delegation headed by Col. E. M. House as president Wilson‘s personal representative, are: ‘That the United, States exert all their influence to secure the entire unity: of effort, military, naval, and economic, between, themselves and the countries associated. with them in the war. Shipping Program. Inasmuch as the successful termin- ation of the war by the United States. and: the allies can be greatly hasten-] éd bythe extension of: the ~United States’ shipping program, that the gov- emment and the pedple of the United ‘States ‘bend every effort toward ac- complishing this result: by a system- fie ‘coordination 6f résdurces of men at ‘the fighting forces of the Unit- a> States ‘he - hi with the least ston, France *in November, shows that it reuehed' a’ definite'purpose in its ‘plans for? the’ prosecation”” ‘of the “govern: col eee ‘at the’ conference, as {shown in the mission will indicate the value of the | |, SF work done and ractical methods | Piave has been cleared o suc yivad-| of'the work considered at the confer- | &TS, except far to the north, where ence, and which are recommended in | the crews and put them into oper-' ing aviators and building the tens of ation and form the Emergency Air ‘thousands of fighting, photography, ar-, Fleet recommended by the Aero Club tillery and contact patrol aeroplane: 3 BORDER TOWNS Petrograd, Jan. 1.—The battle be- tween the Kaledines Cossacks and Bolsheviki troops has been resumed at Kursk, midway between Moscow and Rostov on Don. It is reported that there have been heavy casualties in the three days fighting. The Bolsheviki are reported to have occupied Poltava, the scene of his- toric batile between ePter the Great and Charles of Sweden. There is a famine in the govern- ARGUMENTS TO BE DEFERRED A TERM Washington, D. n. 2.—Attorney General Gregory today asked the sn- preme court to defer argument on the seven large anti-trust suits pending, in- cluding the International Harvester, United Shoe Machinery, and Steel Corporation cases, until the next term of court. ; Moss Is Valuable. “Moss” is the popular name for sev- eral kinds of small flowerless plants which flourish in damp places. In mountainous and wet districts tracts of moss are of great service in retain- ing the watcr and preventing sudden floods, Tribune want dds bring resulis. lll - GRANDMOTHER KNEW There Was Nothing So Good for Congestion and Colds as Mustard But. the old-fashioned mustard-plaster | burned and blistered while it acted. 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It is scientifically prepared, so that it works wonders, and yet does not blister the of America at its annual meeting, in’ dirigibles and balloons, which are accordance with the following reso-| needed to assure the allies’ supremacy —_ Nogales, Ariz., an. 1.—Three towns lution adopted at ‘the meeting: 1 in the air.” were raided and looted and a South- v n Pacific De Mexico train held uo yesterday by bandits operating be-| waste and uncertainties that arise| So = “* tween here and Cananea, Sonora, ac- from independent action. i | WAR SUMMARY | ‘cording to reports reaching here to- _ pe eh da Three hundred federal soldiers s of the conference re moi have been orlered from Hermosillo to Another reverse for the Teutonic take up pursuit of the: marauders. allied arms, following that effected vis ing to this g eaves oy tbe ¢ conferees wary | by the French troops in their initial Tie Poiats: Renal xia 40 <i he , drive on the northern front in Italy,) ‘phe potato was first introduced Into ptul, heen 5 has been brought about by the Ital- RR SAAN a i agreements which we $ r ¢ Spain Hieronymu: ardan, a monk, in full operation will ¢ ‘ians in the famous Zenson loop on the jy 4 ndi by’ John ay Sed Noreen ‘ . lower reaches of the Piave river. * Sie By 4 S a the effectiveness of the efforts now a i Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake in being put forth by the United States ,, [ere the enemy has Leen driven to i563 ‘and into Ireland by Sir Walt and ‘tbe allies in the conflict agains tern bank of the stream from 2063, and into ire Pguncanea iad pee 4 "| positions he had held since the Ital Raleigh in 1580. 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