The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1918, Page 1

“THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR EVENING EDITION THE BISMARCK TRIBU) BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1918 AS BEEN CONCLUDED ‘MEN; MORE GRAIN SHIPPED SINISTER GERMAN INFLUENCE - AGAIN FOUND AT WORK HERE; SYSTEMATIC SABOTAGE TRIED Thirty Teutons Under Arrest—Disloyal Scandinavians Said to Be Implicated—Inspiration Being Obtained from Fatherland. PRICE FIVE CENTS THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 9 FIRST SEPARATE PEACE | ALLIES MUST HAVE FOOD BEFORE Situation So Critical RUSSIA. AND BULGARIA ACREE 10 That Americans Must Go CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES. AND Without Wheaten Bread OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE Adminisration Will Ask That Wieatless Days Be En-l piu 11) NOMINATE A DELEGATE 10 INTERNATIONAL DANUBE GOM- forced by Strong Arm of United States Government Wsahington, D. C., Jan. 10.—The food situation in Europe is regarded here as so critical that the food administration is planning to release an additional 90,000,000 bushels of wheat, de- spite the fact that the normal export surplus had been shipped by the mi The American people will be asked to save to make up the dificiency. The demand from the allies is so insistent that the food administration has decided to take a chance on a shortage in ‘their needs. If consumption is not reduced, offi- cials see a possible shortage of flour in the United States in May before the new wheat crop comes in in June. May Enforce Rulings. Food administration officials are ser- iously considering asking congress for legislation to enforce wheatless days and are taking up with millers and bakers the subject of mixed flours and baking of war bread. Representative Lever, author of the food control bill, is drawing up legis- lation now ao make the wheatless days compulsory, and the food admin- istration, it is understood, has given its approval to the new measures. Prefer Food to Men. Although the inter-allied conference at Paris agreed to tuft over ships for the transportation of American troops, food conditions have: reached .such a state that many, officials are of the opinion that the allies may at present prefer foodstuffs. A determination of the balance be- tween food and troop shipments will be left by the American government largely to the allies themselves. VOTE ON SUFF AMENDMENT TO COME TONIGHT Expected Poll of House Will Begin by 6 O'Clock." LEADERS IN FAVOR Clark and Wilson's Eleventh Hour Aid Hailed Victory. Washington, D. C., Jan. 10.—With President Wilson’s unexpected sup- port and tue 11th hour endorsement of a Republican caucus, the woman's suf- frage amendment came up in the house today under agreement for a final vote before adjournment. The president stands in favor of the amendment which was announced last night after 10 or 12 members of the house called for advice on the posi- tion they should take. President For. It. In a brief statement tne president edvised the congressmen to vote for the amendment “as an act of right-and justice to the women of the count. and world.” As the house met, among those op- posed to the amendment there was a frank admission that the president’s declaration had probably changea enough votes to insure adoption al- though some of the opposition s:ill contended it would be hard to ‘break the alignment against it in the south. Clark in Favor. ’ Speaker Clark announced he would not vote from the chair unless there wa sa tie, in which case he would vote for the amendment. He said he ex- pected the vote to come between 5 and 6 o'clock. & ‘Scattered throughout the crowded galleries were suffragists of both fac- tions from all parts of the country and members of the anti-suffrage ranks. = Sunday Opens. ‘The session of the house was open- ed with prayer by Billy Sunday, the evangelist, who invoked the Divine mercy. on the president, the cabinet, the allies, and American soldiers. ‘BEACH MAN OPERATED. ‘Mrs. F. E. Near of Beach is here attending her husband, who is in a eritical condition in-a local hospital folowing an operation for appendi- dicted that should the special session citis. emai .| proegeded, however, to organize home| If Necessary. iddle of December. the spring to meet in part HOME GUARD T0 BE SWATTED BY Attempt to Legalize Will Be Strenuously - ‘Opposed. FRAZIER’S REVENGE Said to See Way to Rebuke the Traducers of League. ote Governor Frazier has made it clear} that he will oppose any legislation NONPARTISANS) TO PETROGRAD garia’s right to nominate gation to Odessa. garian representative. ing Ferdinand Italy. NEAR SLAYER GOES TO PEN FOR ASSAULT | which may be attempted at the special | session called for January 23 which contemplates legalizing or making an appropriation for Home Guard units 7 North Dakota. ; It is certain that legislation along these lines will be sought by the ‘scores of North Dakota cities which ‘have organized home guard compan-| ies. In every state. whose legislature | was still in session when war was de- clared, legal provision was made for; a state. militia or constabulary, with ‘a view of affording domestic protec- tion following the calling of the Na- tional.. guard into federal service. North “Dakota's legislature had ad- journed, and nothing of the kind could} ) be done here. Practically every town, of 500 population or more, and many; villages of even fewer people, have; guard units, looking to the federal government. for protection should there come up any question as to their legality. None of these units, until Governor Frazier declared him- {self at Minot a few days ago, antici- {pated any opposition to legislation clearly establishing the status of these organizations. Says They're Not Needed: _,Governor Frazier says he believes, | military training for men of draft age a fine thing, and all of that, but he doesn’t believe in the Home Guard; doesn’t think it is necessary, and will oppose: any effort to establish the Home Guard in North Dakota as a +state military body.. The governor is confident that we need no protection here at home. He expresses convic- tion that the I. W. W., with every community largely deprived of its able bodied young citizens and with a ‘greater necessity for importing labor than ever before, will change their spots during the coming harvest sea- son and give no occasion for trouble. Back of the governor's opposition, say friends of. the executive, is his dislike for the American Defense s0- ‘ciety, which is behind a movement for : the organization of a home guard unit in every city in the United States. It was C. B. Thompson, chairman of the press committee of the American De- fense society, who recently filled east- ern newsvavers with severe criticism of President A. C. Townley, Governor Frazier and other Nonpartisan chet- tains for their alleged lack of loyalty The reprinting of his charges in North Dakota newspapers elicited from the ‘North Dakota defense council its famous “whitewash” resolutions, con- demning these papers'and the inde- j pendent press of the state generally. | ‘The fact that the American Defense society advocates the home guard seems sufficient to the governor for his strenuous opposition, and it is pre- Mandan , Jan. 10.—Darald ‘Meyer, who on November 9 attempted to kill himself and wife at the home of his wife’s parents, 15 miles south oi Flasher, and who has since been held in the county jail at Mandan, awaiting trial, was taken before Judge Nuessle, in district court here late yesterday, and plead guilty to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The judge gace him an indeterminate sen- tence from one to ten years. NO ARMY EVER RAISED IN 30 LITTLE TIME Secretary Baker Replies to the Critics of His Department. 1,500,000 MEN READY Washington, D. C., Jan. 10.—Secre-| tary Baker today replied to criticisms of his department's conduct of the war. in a long and exhaustive, prepared | statement presented to the senate mil- itary committee. Conceding delays and errors of judgment in so vast an undertaking, Secretary Baker in his reply says: “No army of similar size in the his- tory of the world has ever been raised, equipped, or trained so quickly. No such provision has ever been made for the comfort, health and general well being of an army.” SUBSTANTIAL ARiWY. America now has in France an army of “substantial” size ready for active service, Secretary Baker said. Officers and men, he eplained in a statement of the mobilization accom- plishments, have been trained espe-, cially for modern warfare, independ- ent lines of communication, and sup- ply are in process of construction, and great programs have been formulated for the production of new instru- ments of war. Arms of the most modern and ef- fective kind, he declared, have been yrovided for every soldier in France, and are available for every fighting man who can be sent to France in 1918. . ‘Million and Half Men, = (Continued on Page Three) An army of nearly a million and a (Continued on Page Three) ;So far as is known, they were not MISSION RECOGNIZED BY BOLSHEVIK! — MINISTER APPOINTED AND A CONSUL GENERAL T0 ODESSA Bere, Switzerland, Jan. 10—A separate peace agreement has been signed by Russia and Bulgaria the Bund reports. READ IN PARLIAMENT. A Bulgarian correspondent of the Bund says Premier Racoslavoff read the following dispatch from Brest-Litovsk in parliament: “War between Russia and Bulgaria ceases. Diplomatic and economic relations between Russia and Bulgaria are resumed. Russia recognizes Bul- a delegate to aninternational Danube commission. The “Lhe first peace is thus concluded with the consent of Bulgaria's allies.” The Bund says Bulgaria has appointed ‘a minister to Petrograd avd 1 consul general to be stationed at Odessa, and has ordered the resumption of navi- foe bal ede LD ee bt _ BULGARIA DESERTS ALLIES. Bulgaria took part with Germany, Austria and Turkey in the first nego- tiations at Brest-Litovsk, and it has been assumed that no peace terms would be agreed to by the central powers, except in concert. However, advices yester- day, giving the names of those who took part in the first session of the peace conferences, when they were resumed this week, made no mention of a Bul- of Bulgaria is credited with proposing the formula of peace without annexations or indemnities. However, the territory Bulgaria de- sires consists of parts of Serbia and Rumania. SWEDEN AS GO-BETWEEN Petrograd, Jan. 10.—The German delegations in Petrograd are reported by the Evening Post to have got into touch with the Swedish legation here, and to have ex- pressed the desire that; Sweden act asa go-between with Great Britain, France and Trotzky Insistent. Unofficial reports of the first ses sion of the peace negotiations at Brest Litovsk when they were resumed on Tuesday say that Leon Trotzky, Bol sheviki foreign minister, insisted up on the removal of the conference to Stockholm. He is reported to have told the German and Austrian dele- gates that if they did not accede to his request, they would feel the weight of the arms of the Russian democracy, and the weight of the voice of tneir own democracies. The Evening Post says the Germans did not refuse to continue the nego tiations, but that it was not specified where they would take place. | SNOW HALTS AUSTRO-HUN OFFENSIVE (ASOCIATED PRESS.) Snow has come to the aid of the Italians and the Austro-German offensive apparently has reached a halt, if not an end. The whole mountain front where the enemy had been making slight but steady gains, is buried under from three to five feet of snow, making in- fantry operations impossible and hampering the Austro-German sup- ply lines sermiously. Heavy snowfalls in the Alps are reported to have blocked the -en- emy communication system in the Trentino and Carnia, leaving them only two long lines across the Venetian plains, to the Piave, which would be of no help to the snowbound troops between Lake Garda and the Piave. The bombardment on the north- ern front has slackened with the coming of the long expected snow and only patrol! engagements have occurred. On the western front, the oppos- ing guns have been active near the Scarpa, in the Arras area; northeast of Ypres and northeast of Verdun. The Germans have failed this far to take counter measures against the successful French sortie in the Woevre. TO SELECT NEUTRAL CITY. London, Jan. 10.—At the first sittings of the resumed negotia- tons at Brest-Litovsk on Tues- day, says a dispatch sent out by the official Russian news agency, the discussion between the Rus- sian delegates and those of the central powers centered on the selection of a city in some neu- tral country in which. to continue the deliberations. There is every probability, it is added, of a satis- factory arrangement being made. Release of Prisoners. The German delegations in Petro- grad were sent to take up with the Russians questions such as resump- tion of commercial relations, and re- lease of certain classes of prisoners. charged with political affairs, and in ordinary circumstances the German government would not employ such EDUCATORS MEET. agents in seeking Sweden’s services| The state board of education wiii as mediator. Negotiations would be meet in Fargo tomorrow. Supt. 'N. C. carried on directly through the Swed- Macdonald left . Wednesday for the ish’ minister, or through the German Gate City, and Mrs. ‘Macdonald, assist- minister at Stockholm. fant superintendent, went down today. GREAT LOSSOFLIFEFEARED IN WIPING OUT OF OKLAHOMA POWDER MANUFACTURING CITY Shatters Plate Gigs Windows at Dikance of 82 Miles aud Terrific Detonation Is, Heard Great Distance —Only Meager Advices. er, that the town had been wiped out. He fears the loss of life will be great. The explosion was heard for a great distance. It rocked the mining town of Bokoshe, eighteen miles west of Ft. Smith. At Crowd- er every plate glass window was Ft. Smith, .Ark., Jan. 10.—The powder and dynamite plant terson, Okla. eighteen mil cf McAlester, Oklahoma, was blown up at noon today, and ac- cording to meagre messages re- ceived over railroad wires, there heavy loss ‘of-life. h operator at Patter. broken.. Crowder is 82 miles west operator at Growd- of Ft. Smith. a score or more of arres aganda in this country. The movement wa: quarters. JURY INWALLA CASE SECURED IN SHORT TIME Only Sixteen Men Exam- ined to Procure Panel of Twelve. LYNGSTAD CALLED Washington, D. C., Jan. 10.—Through in- tercepted communications and evidence found on ted aliens, government agents have discovered a concerted movement to reorganize German sabotage and anti-war prop- s broken up, and enemy activities now are believed to be confined to spor- adic cases carried on largely by pro-German sym- pathizers without guidance from a central head- Thirty Germans Arrested. This was disclosed today by govern: ment officials who declined, however, to give all the details surrounding. a series of measures recently taken to prevent the rebuilding of a unified en- emy spy system. It is known that about 30 Germans and a few Scandi- navians have been arrested on suspi- cion of complicity in the new plot. The Germans have been interned, and the Scandinavians sent out of the country. Some Americans are under suspicion and are being closely watched. \ West and East United. The evidence gathered indicated that a few leaders whose identity has not been disclosed but who are be lieved to be neutral subjects, tried to communicate with a number of agita- tors located mainly in eastern sea- ports, in industrial centers, and in the extreme west to develop coopera- tion among them . Systematic Sabotage. Deputy Treasurer Is First Witness for the State. Mandan, N. D., Jan. 10.—No diffi- culty was encountered this morning in ‘mpaneling a jury for the trial of Eu- gene M. Walla, former chief clerk in the automobile registration depart- ment of the secretary of state's of- ‘ice, and who is charged with the em- bezzlement of $3,400 of the automovile registration funds of the state. Only sixteen veniremen were exam- ined to procure the following jury panel: O. M. McGrath, R. J. Danskey, Frank Olson, Herman Miller, Oscar G. Thorson, Nels Dahl, P. C. Seerup, Charles Toman, W. T. Deitring, Ju- lius Hanson, Henry Backman, and William Ziegler. All of the twelve ex- cept Charles Toman, a Mandan tailor, are Morton county farmers. Lyngstad on Stand. The state opened its case about mid- forenoon, Attorney General Langer, who is personally handling the prose- cution, making a brief opening state- ment. The first three witnesses call- ed for the state did not appear, and J. O. Lyngstad, deputy state treasurer, then was placed on the stand. He re-! peated almost word for word his tes- timony at the preliminary hearing and trial of Secretary of State Thomas Hall, telling how very little currency had been included in deposits from the automobile registration funds un- til the trouble broke last fall, and about $3,000 was deposited in one lump. Mr. Lyngstad was succeeded on the stand by Deputy State Examiner Ed- wards and by Margaret Wyncoop and Harold Wright and A. W. Carlson of the department. The court room is filled with state officials and employes, whom the at- torney general has summoned as wit- nesses. Former Associate Justice E. T. Burke is conducting the defense. EIGHTEEN LARGE SHIPS A PREY OF HUN LEVIATHANS London, Jan. 10.—The British ad- miralty reports the sinking in the past week of eighteen merchantmen of, 1,600 tons or over by mine or sub-: marine, as well as three merchant- men under that tonnage. Four fishing vessels also were sunk. The admiralty report of January 2 gave the sinkings of British merchant- men for the current week as twenty-; one, eighteen vessels of 1,600 tons, or over. This was a material increase over the previous week when the} sinkings numbered twelve, eleven of the vessels more than 1,600 tons. Thus the increase in the submarine sink-; ings has been more than maintained in the past week, as they comprised | 21 merchantmen and four fishing! vessels. Sabotage was to be conducted sys- tematically and propaganda for peace or dissemination of pessimistic war re- ports was to be stimulated under di- rection of a recognized head. There were indications also that the head- quarters was to gather bits of informa- tion from all parts of the country and forwarded to Germany through North European neutrals, by code commun- ication carried by members of ship's crews or other means. KALEDINES AND AIDEIN FLIGHT AFTER DEFEAT Cossacks Claimed to Have Deserted Their Leaders. PEOPLE’S EYES OPEN “Infamous Trafficking in Blood” Stands Re- vealed. Petrograd, Jan. 10.—Generals Kaledines and ‘Dutoff, the Cossack leaders, the official agency an- nounces, have been defeated. Gen- eral Dutoff is in flight, pursued by revolutionary soldiers, and the Red Guard. General Kaledines is retreating. The workmen's and soldiers’ council at Rostov has been liber- ated. The Cossacks, the announce- ment adds, are unanimously against General Kaledines, whose troops sent toward the Don river are flying. Revelations Opened Eyes. An official announcement says that “the revelation of criminal relations between the Ukrainian Rada and Gen- eral Kaledines has opened the eyes of the people concerning’ the infamous ‘trafficking in the blood of Ukrainiag workmen, soldiers and peasants.” The power of the workmen's ant soldiers’ council formed at Kharkov is reported to be increasing, while the Ukrainian council of the 11th army las been arrested. LIND ADVISOR TO WILSON ON LABORFORWAR Washington, Jan. 10.—Former JUDGE BRUCE HOME. Chief Justice Andrew A. Bruce has returned from Philadelphia, where he attended an annual meeting of the ex- ecutive committee of the national com- mission on uniform state laws, of which he is chairman, and a meeting of the executive committee of the American Bar association. Governor Lind will be one of the advisory committee to advise President Wilson in the selection of war labor. The committee will. alec include two. : AUT 1