The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1918, Page 3

| a 3) ” TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1918, ” BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE COMMISSION 1S IN THE THROES OF BCONOMIG BOUT Office of City Assessor Annulled and Duties Assigned to City Auditor. WHAT CITY COMMISSION DID All Stores Closed Sunday and Police Chief Ordered to Ar. rest Viclators. WHAT THEY DID. Appointed E. T. Burke, former justice of supreme court, city at- torney at salary of $80 a month. Dispensed with office of city as- sessor held by E. E. Morris and placed his duties in department of city auditor. Assessors will be employed for period of sixty days, Resolution to displace Fire Chief Currier by appointment of S. F. Lambert failed, Commission- er Kirk voting with President Lucas and Commissioner Bertsch. Recommended that janitor of Audtiorium be instructed to care for the new public library, elimi- nating necessity of employing an additional janitor. Mayor Lucas instructed Chief of Police Martinson to see that all stores are closed Sunday and to make arrests for every violation of the law. Decision on fifty per cent in- crease in heat rates by Hughes Electric Light Co., postponed for thirty days to give both sides op- portunity to present both sides of the controversy. It was economy night at the city commission last evening and when the smoke clearcd away the city has ac- cepted the resignation of H. F. O'Hare city attorney and had appoint- ed E. T. Burke former associate jus- tice of th reme court. The posi. tion of city a! yr Which paid $125 a month and w efficiently held by E. E. Morris was eliminated. Commissioner Thompson _ started the ball rolling by introducing a reso- lution appointing S. F. Lambert as fire chicf. He cited in his resolution, Mr. Lambert’s long service under a former regime and urged his appoint- mont. Commissioner Kirk Lucas and Pertsch refused to make any change in the department so the motion lost. Three Best Resolutions, After some debate Commissioner Best presented three resolutions all of which received favorable consider- ation. He stated that sil he had been selected as finance commissioner he intended to cut down expenses and proposd as his initiatory act to limi- nate the position of city assessor. Mr. Morris was called before the body and given a few minutes quiz as to the time needed to assess the city. He stated that the work could be done efficiently in connection with the city auditor's office. Mr. Thompson sug- gested that the chief of police be com- pelled ‘to collect all fines and licenses and to assist in watching for property that might be removed before taxes had been paid. Commissioners Kirk, Best and Thompson voted to dispose with a paid assessor while Pres. Lucas and Bertsch maintained that Mr. Morris y his efficient work had saved the city several times the salary of $1,500 a year paid iim. They refused to vote to abolish the office. Fireworks Start The fire-works started when Com- missioner Best proposed to accept O’Hare’s resignation which was filed last spring when he was appointed. Mr. O’Hare was there and asked to speak in his behalf. He refused at first to opose ‘the forced acceptance of the resignation. Commissioner Best stated that Mr. Burke would accept the position and that he thought his appointment would increase the effic- iency of ‘the legal. department of the city.. He criticised O'Hare’s opinion on the recent city election especially as it related to the swearing in of the women’s votes. He said that he had an opinion from Attorney General Lan- ger also which did not answer his question but said that he was willing ‘to fight for the women and see that all their rights wehe protected.” C. L. Young who was present ex- plained that O’Hare was not appointed in time ¢o participate in the recent paving cases, because his appointment came after the litigation was started. Burke’s appointment was proposed on th» grounds that he could look after all litigation and ‘that it. would not be necessary to employ other legal talent Not Fair. President Lucas stated that the dis- missal of Mr. O’Hare was not fair and that he should be allowed to serve out his term. O’Hare, when pressed for a statement, said that he thought the city commissioners Were establish- ing a precedent by practically dis- charging an employe against whom no charges had been filed. ‘Commissioner Best then followed up with a resolution suggesting that the auditorium committee’confer with the library commission so as to have one janitor care for both buildings. Presi- dent Lucas appointed Commissioner Kirk on the auditorium committee to the seat vacated by Commissioner Battey and the resolution was referred to that committee. President Lucas stated that he had received complaints that certain stores were keeping open in violation of the law and the police department was instructed to see that the Sunday closing laws wore rigidly enforced. Heat Rates Deferred. No action was taken in reference to the heat rates.. C. L. Young, attorney for the Hughes Electric Company made: a statement relative to the in- creased cost of coal, labor and sup- plies used by the ¢:)mpany. He stat- ed that the fifty per:ent increase had netted the company slightly more than twenty-one percent in ‘excess of rev- enue under the old rates. Rates from other cities were cited in comparison with the Bismarck rate and Mr. Young lower rate than other cities of from twice to 100 times its size, He said’ that the’ increase in rates was caused by increased costs of oper- ation, | E.'S. Allen, local attorney appearing. for several consumers, asking that the matter he put over for a time to allow a fair inquiry into the matter. He stated that he was there to sée that justice was done to all and no one, he asserted, was prepared at this infor- mal hearing to say whether the rates were too high or not. The City’s Power. An opinion was read from the city attorney stating that: the city com- 1 on only had the power to raise or lower heat rates and that no author- ity over h rates had been vested i the state railroad commission, It stated by Mr. Allen that a petition has been signed by Bismarck consumers of heat and light and power and filed with the attorney general for investi- gation. It was intimated by Commis- sicncr Rest that the whole ue of rates would be fought out before the state commissioa at some future time. Commissioner Best proposed as a solution that the Hughes Electri Light company be asked to reduce its heat rates twenty-five percent, thus authorizing a twenty-five per cent in- crease instead of the present fifty_per cent increase over the old rates. He withdrew this: on suggestion. of Mr. Allen that no action be taken until a thorough investigation had:been made. FOUR PLANS FOR HELPING QUT THE COAL SITUATION Director of the Coal Production Bureau Presents Plan to Senate Committee CAUSES OF COAL FAMINE Government Prices, He Says, Make Coal Shipped to Lake Ports Unattractive Washington, Jan. r plans tor improving the coal situation were outlined to the senate investigating committee yesterday by Francis Pea- body, director of the coal production bureau of the council of national de- fense. They were: Establishment of producing and dis- tributing zones, shipments to be con- fined to those zones except in excep- tional cases. A definite statement of the govern- ment’s policy as to price until the war ends. | The placing of the question of prior- ity into the hands of experienced men. A premium on clean coal. Discusing the reason for shortages, Mr. Peabody said that shipments to the northwest this winter on priority orders had exceeded those of the pre- vious winter by some. three million tons. Government prices, he said, had made much of the coal shipped to the lake docks unattractive, and while this coal remains on the piers consum- ers are buying the cheaper coal from Mlinois and Indiana, which now is go- ing into the northwest. COAL FOR OCEAN GOING F Millions of Tons of Shipping Tied up at New York. Washington, Jan. 15.—Ships trans- porting supplies to Europe were added by fuel. administrator ‘Garfie!d to the list of essentials that must be supplied with coal. They were put ahead of even war industries after re- ports came to the fuel administration that a million tons of shipping is held at New York for lack of bunkers. A general plan of coal distribution designed to meet the fuel famine in the east, as ooutlined by Dr. Garfield tonight, gives preference first to housenolders; second, to public utili- ties supplying light and heat; third, to ships transporting food and war materials to the American army and to the allies; fourth to yar industries and, fifth; to all other classes of in-| dustry. ¢* COAL GETS PRECEDENCE In New York and Vicini Force Strictly. 15.—Interference with tion by the blizz etor-General McAdoo Jast night to establish limited priority orders on coal and food for ‘New York and viciniiy, giving the firsi instruc- tions of the kind since ke recently cancelled all formal priority. For the midle west, where most freight and passenger traflic was still held up to- day by frigid weather and deep snow, Mr. McAdoo isued no priority orders, but railroad managements received instructions to move coal and food ahead of all other shipments and to do their utmost to clear the snow from main travel routes. Hanged in Jail Yard at 5 in the Morning Butte, Mont., Jan. 15.—Frank Fisher and John O’Neill, white, and Sherman Powell, colored convicted of murder, were hanged together in the jail yard here Monday morning shortly before 5 o'clock. Fisher and O'Neill were calm, the former smoking a cigarette from the death cell and upon the scaffold, until the cap was placed over his face. He made no statement, however. O'Neill bade the spectators good-bye. Powell told those about him farewell, but fginted just before the trap was sprung. Rule in Four Soldiers Victims Of Texas Rail Disastez Houseton, Texas, Jan. 15.—Bodies of fifteen of the sixteen victims of the wreck of a Houston and Texas Central raidroad pasenger train near Hammond station, were brought here late tonight. The body of the other victim was taken to his home in a nearby town. Seven of the more serious] yinjured ENGLAND 10 ADD HALF MILLION 10 FIGHTING FORCES Young Recruits Called to Hold the Lines Until United States is Ready SIR AUKLAND GEDDES TALKS British Army With 4,000,000 Mon Needs the Services of Youn Men Now. London, Jan. 1 arly half a mil- lion men trom Great Britain alone e to be recruited into the British army at the earliest date possible, and it is probably that many more will be added to that number in the coming months, . These will comprise the younger men, who up to the present | have been exempt because of thoir employment in industries essential to the war service. This announcement was made in the house of commons Monday by Auck- land Geddes, minister of national ser- vice, whose statement of the govern- ment’s man power proposals was re- plete with interesting details of Brit- ain’s strength in the struggle into which she means to throw her full re- sources. , The minister set forth the status and needs of the British fighting and munitioning forces and the measures the governinent is taking after agree- ment with most of the labor leaders for recruiting from the classes of skill- ed workers who were promised ex emption when conscription was adopt- ed. The empire has enrolled 7,500,000 fighting and labor battalion forces dur- ing the war, according to the state- ment of the minister, and now has more than 4,000,000 enrolled, but needs more. nen to hold its own against the enemy until the American strength is available. VICTORY IN SIX MONTHS Munition Supp: of Germany Ex- hausted in Two Months, Chicago, Il. Jan. 15.—Munitions with which Germany went into the war and which she believed would bring her victory in six months, were exhausted in two months resulting in her defeat at the Marne in 1914, ac- cording to S. S. McClure, the New York publisher, who addressed the IHi- nois Four Minute men ‘Monday. This mistake on the part of the German commanders, he said, saved civiliza-| tion and prevented Germany from) winning the war in September 1914. Mr. McClure also declared that the French had proved themselves super- ior in human courage and complete sters of the German in artillery fighting. QUIET ON THE FRONTS Heavy Snows Interrupt Fighting on| Italian Front. : | Washington, Jan. 15.—Only minor developments at the batle fronts are recorded in the weekly review of mil- itary operations made public. by the war department last night. It-an- nounces that wintry weather is inter- fering with operations in Italy, France}: and Flanders, and in Russia the ‘mili- tary situation is overshadowed by peace negotiations from which the re- view says no conclusions can safely be drawn. Of the American forces in France the department announces that their | preparation for the ordeal of battle is being adily pursued and that Gen- eral Pershing reports their health and fighting spirit extremely good. Improved Camp Conditions General improvement in health and equipment conditions in training camp at home is reported, and the depart- ment says in spite of abnormal cold the camps have been adequately heat- ed and soldiers have had‘ a sufficient supply of blankets for their comfort. ‘On the active fronts in the west and in Italy the equiliberum of battle has been maintained,” says the de- view. s “During the period under review, enehiy has’-concentrated: his’ attatks: against the British in the region north of the Cambrai‘area and in the Ypres}. TURN OVER! Your back and kidneys need a ‘est, It is just as important to “turn over” your kidneys as your liver. When the in- testines are dammed up‘or sluggish, tox- ins (or poisons) are generated. there and sent thru the blood. The more injur- jous the poisons passing thru the kid- neys, the quicker will those noble organs be degenerated and the sooner they de- cay, The wise policy is to lighten the work of the kidneys by drinking plenty of pure water, and taking Anuric before meals for awhile, If uric acid in the blood has caused lumbago, rheumatism, gout, sciatica, it is simpl wonderfur how quickly Anuric dispels the pains and stiffness, . This can be obtained at almost any drug store. For ‘the liver and. intestines, ' yout should: occasionally. take: Pleasant Pel: lets. Theseare reliable, having been on the market for forty or fifty years, orig inating with Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, N- and made up of May apple, (podophiy Jin),. aloes, Jalap, and area sure and ex~ cellent liver and stomach tonic. They, ar¢ yegetable and’ without any, calomel, NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIR te: Mot “For a lon; time E.suf- Bate Mores fered with indi- palpitation. of -the heart and. my blood. was. very, would come before my. eyes “3 would” have to sit b down to keep from falling. + Six+bot- tles of Dr. Pierce's alsé were brought here to a hospital. Four soldiers, all privates, were stated that Bismarck was enjoying a }among the killed, Iden “Medical - Discovery completely. cured :mic.”—Mxs.. J, TL, RICHARDS,‘ 514 _S, Warren St’: eh we, | of the [allan positions along the’ Asi {shipbuilding and the allies. gestion, dyspepsia, | , bad. - Dark spots! - salient, and hy continuous harassing fire and minor offensive thrusts en- deavoring to mask tactical readjust- ments and new depositions of units. Intense Coold Weather. * “Owing to the intensely cold twea- ther which has prevailed along the en- i tire westdin' front, operations have been impeded. ‘The identification of Austrian units along the western front is of interest. for some time past we have been re. | ceiving. information to the effect that j Austrian ‘howitzers which had been participating in the offensive in Italy were being detached from the Italian theatre and transported to the west. | ‘In spite of unfavorable - atmo. ; Spheric conditions French and British | aviators’ were y busy along the | Whole fron anum | ber of hos the interior of with s | Immobilized by Snow. j | ‘In_ Italy the enemy ‘has been in | mobilized by the deep snow in th’ (mauntain zone. Fresh snow has fal len throughout the Alpine region | blocking the passes and rendered ac | siveopérations impossible. Neverthe less, the Austro-Germans are endeav oring toscontinue their bombardment: ago plateau and the Monte Tomba. “While information reaches us thai the Austro-Germans propose to under ‘take simultaneous offensives in Italy and in the west, it is to be noted that within the central empires great ef. forts are now being made to spread broadcast the news that the Germans have fulfilled their widest objectives in the Italian theatre and that no fur. ther forward movement could be of any advantage to their interests. ‘In the Russia the military situa tion is for the time being overshad owed by the peace negotiations which have been instituted, “No conclusion can safely be drawn from the latest incidents.” ONE MAN CONTROL Willard and Baruch Favor Creation of New Bureau Washington. 15,—One man con: trol of all war supplies in the United States was advoc: the senate mili iel BE. Willard, chairman of the war industries board, and Bernard M. Baruch, head of the board’s raw ma- terial division. Both favored creating what virtu- ally would, be a munition administra- tion with full power, directly respon- sible to and securing his authority trom the president but not a member of the cabinet, to control procurement and distribution of war supplies, in- cluding those for the army, the navy ‘Neither Mr. Willard nor Mr. Bap: uch favored a separate department jot munitions with a cabinet officer at fs head, the plan pronosed by Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the com- mitte, and opposed by both President Wilson and Secretary Baker. Mr. Willard endorsed the war department and government supply purchasing re- organiaztion plan submitted last week by Secretary Baker, though he said it does not go far enough in centraliz- ing authority and is weak in reliance upon voluntary co-operation. Mr. Baruch favored even more high- ly centralized authority over muni- tions in an individual, advocating a plan broader than that employed. in England. tle frankly disagreed with organization proposed’ by the latter | desirable offices. ~busiess way. Where People Pass We have an excellent store for rent, also some These are centrally located, right where MANY ' PEOPLE. PASS every day. These offer exceptional advantages to concerns who want to put their best foot foremost in a Electric Lights, Electric Elevators, Steam Heat Bismarck Realty Co. . ismiarck, North Dakota and frisisted that individual control is essential. In details only did Mr. Willard and Mr. Baruch differ. Their arguments for one man direction apparently made a profound impression on the com- mittee. Tomorrow the committee will hear Director Gifford of the council of national defense on the same sub- ject and will proceed very soon to consider legislation. Today's testi- mony apparently strengthened deter-' mination of committee members to recommend legislation for a change, despite the unfavorable altitude of the president. PRESIDENT WIDELY EXTENDS LIMIT OF FOOD LICENSE PLAN Washington, aJn. 1 By proclama- ion of President Wilson, the Food idministration the licensing system vas extended ‘to include canners, man- vfacturefs of wheat or rye products, tea in feed and malt, and prof sional salt water fishermen. Person s and corporations affected are r 1 under a penalty to obtain lic- onses by February 15. The proclamation formally carries nto execution plans outlined recently by the food administration for govern- ment control many foodstuffs hereto-} fore free of licensing restrictions in order to insure an adequate supply and more equitable distribution. 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