The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 2

f | | { { i i ae OF EL PASO. BEATS THE DRYS| BI Paso Texas, Jan. 3.—The local | tio resulted in defeat of prohi- bition by a majority of In an elec: RIFE held simultaneously in the county | of ie Mp prohibition lost by 341 ma- Approximately 5,200 votes wore Kia |eeatt i nenel election. | ‘RATE FIXING LEFT INTHEPOWERSOF RAIL COMMISSION Refuses to. Alexander and sda“ cimipats to Al Labor Department in Com- posing Industrial Wars SCHEME BASED ON ZONES! John Lind’s Labor Advisory Council to Co-operate in Chief | Senate Committe2 With Sec. Wilson. | Transfer Autborily From Washington, Jan. 31.—The National | Industrial Conference board, through | Magnus Alexander, executive secre-| COMMITTEE BY CLOSE tary, and the American Federation of, VOTE MAKES REPORT Labor, through Sabuel Gompers, presi- i ETRE HE dent, have been asked by the depart-| Washington, D .C., Jan. 31.—Elimina- ment of labor to name the conference | tion from ‘the administration railroad | members representing capital and la-j bill of the provision giving the presi- | bor who will endeavor to outline poli-| dent power to tix rates was approved vies which shall govern their relations ‘oy the Senate Interstate Commerce | during the war. | commission Wednesday by a vote of 7| Prevention, rather than arbitration! to G. No amendment y drafted, but | of disputes, will be the aim of tue de-|on motion of Senator Underwood the partment of labor in reorganizing its| committee went on record as favoring | administrative machinery and obtain-| leaving rate fixing in the hands of the} ing the definite formulation of policies | Interstate Commerce Commission and to meet the problems raised by tho|the state commissions. war. Senator Pomerene, Gore and Under- Labor Departments. wood, democrats, and Cummins, Me- A formal announcement today of the; Lean, Kellog and Townsend, republi- | proposed changes in the department | cans, voted for the motion. Against it | was in accord with the outline al-|were Senators Smith, of South Caro-| ready made public. The administra- lina; My Robinson, Thompson, and tive system to be scl up for-averting} James, democrats, and Poindexter, re- industrial disturbances will be based} publican. on zones, with modiators in charge of} . Secretary McAdoo testified before each, who will keep in close touch | the committee’ recently, insisted that | with conditions and bring both sides) it was nec y to give the president together before a grievance has time | rate-fixing powers to develope serious proportions. cage Industrial service sections of other, BRAZILIAN N FLERT departments will continue their work separately, but with control centr ized in the labor department. A “pol-| se ALLIES - icies board” made up of the labor ad- Two Dreadnaughts and Numer- Beard to President visory council, headed by John Lind the heads of several industria - tions and the heads of subsidary s vices to De set up within the depa ment of labor, will counsel Secre Wilson as chief labor administrato: Existing machinery for the mobi ing and supplying of workers by the United States Employment service will not be affected by the reorganiz-| ation. The First Step. First steps in tho.department’s plan FIRST SOUTH AMERICAN of supervising all questions affecting | COUNTRY IN THE MIXUP | ous Smaller Craft in the Submarine Waters labor were taken up today at a confer-| ence on housing attended by Secretary | Baker, Daniels and Wilson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Chairman Hurley and Vice Chairman Piez of the shipping board, Senator Fletcher, Representative Alexander and Major Stanley King. Endorsement) yoy a long time it had been known was given to a bill pending in con-| that the Brazilian fleet would assume gress to provide $50,000,000 to aid in} the respon ; of patrolling the en housing shipyard workers. Other ap-| tire coast line from the Guiana border propriations will be asked as neces: to the southern boundary of Brazil, | sary. : but this is the first indication that tue! Housing operations of the emerg:| pray; fleet would co-operate inj ency fleet corporation will not ‘be in-| ropean waters with warships of the | terfered with until the labor senate allies. menthas odtained funds for its work. Brazil in her navy has been con ‘ered equal in strength to the combin ed power of © ili and Argentenia. The | pride of the Brazilian navy is her two modern dreadnaughts of 19.281 tons, the Minas Geraes and Sao Poulo, both of which were built in the United | | States. | These ve siels carry 12 twelve inch] | Suns and s' batteries. In ad-} DOMINANT ae Annual Report of John Skelton. | oats, torpedo boat | destfoyers! tor-| | pedo boats, submarines, mine layers, Williams, Comptroller, Given | river monitors and miscellaneous ves: | to Congress Rio Janeiro, Ja Admiral Ped-| ro Pronti has been appointed the com-| mander of the L n fleet which | will co-operate with the allies in Eur- | opean water UNITED STATES THE {sels belonging to the navy. BANDITS LOOT OMAHA JEWELRY STORE WITH. GUNPLAY FOLLOWING Omaha) Nedr oy , da FOURTEEN BILLION OF INCREASE SINCE WILSON ‘Washington, Jan. 31.—How the Un-! ited States has become the dominant | ‘banking power of the world was | shown in the annual report of the | comptroller of the currency, John} Skelton. Williams presented Wednes-| cits and a delescive were weunded in day to congress. ja pistol battle between a ad of | Comptroller Williams. estimated the | police and five robbers who had taken| whole banking power of the nation at | refuge in a house after having held '$37,529,000,000, an increase of more| up two clerks and two customers, one | than $14,000,000,000 since the begin-| of whom was a federal department of: ning of President Wilson's administra-| justice agent, and looted a j weiry fi tion. Taking the latest estimate of! the banking power of the world plac-) watches Wedaesday. | ed at 1890 at $15,558,000,000, he said) All five bandits w captured and | America’s increase was alone nearly; most of the loot recovered. equal to the world's combined bark-) UU ing. power twenty-seven years ago. | Saas 4 ‘The Notional banks of the United, HE'S THE PRETTIEST | States, Comptroller Williams, dectared | BABY IN AUSTRALIA ° to ‘be stronger, safer, more observant of laws and more efficiently managed tha never before. Their resources-- $18,553,197,000—are greater by more than two billion dollars than ever be- fore, and exceed by about the same amount the combined resources of all * state banks, private banss and trust | companies. Under three years of ihe} ; federal reserve system national bank | urces. have increased more than $7,000,000. b Comptroller Williams, however, cou- pled his report of- this enormous! growth with a warning that. duti and responsibilities have increased no | less than the resources. | “It.is of supreme importance,’ he | said, “that the allurments of — profit) from commerce or industry in tuis | country, or-in neutral-countries, not essential to our success in the war, should) not induce us to. divert cr dis- + sipate the capital or finantial resour- ces. of our people.” The. danger from decline of earn: ing. capacity of public utility cor- . porations and-consequent shrinking of * -yalues in their, securities, the com- ptroller warned, is real. First relict, + he thought might come from state commissions ‘and niunicipal author ¢ ities, and he expressed the hope that we” g , congress would provide for advancing | money to corporations where necés- ‘ sary to insure proper service to the government. The proposal is unusual, | the comptroller admitted, bu: he point: ed out that the times are unusual. Government guaranteers of hank de- posits. in’sums under $5,000, the com- ptroller believed, would bring into nse much’ hoarded money and he renewed his recommendation of such 2 law. jt i t h t i | | | i ‘ “ | This baby is, officially at least, the prettiest ‘baby in Australia. He was awarded this prize at a recent con- test. He is Master Wilson of Narra- wa, New South Wales, and is 15 months old. Bagard Veiller’s Niys stic Melodfanin = a 13th Chins Is'a Thriller from the Beginning to. the End of the Play Wonderful Play Furnishes Chance for Sleuths to Exercise Wits. Will Keep Audience Guessing. . The Tribune ‘is in receipt of a copy of the second annual report of the Provident Insurance Co. of Bismarck for the year ending December 31, |1917, which has been prepared by oe IL. Conklin, secretazy of the company. | ‘The company has written four mil- Hfion dollars of insurance during the lyear and has a good chance of being jthe tir in the state in point of bus- b written. The report shows $11,- 500 in death losses: during the year, fall of which were promptly paid. The company has some 250 active aggnts jengaged in its ficld force throughout | the report of the pibebatnks in tne | Munich Post. . ‘PROVIDENT-OF BISMARCK WROTE. ia : FOUR MILLIONS IN NEW BUSINESS cg © -—-—-—-CDURING TWELVE MONTHS OF 1947 Vics to apmear st the auattoslans “Bie | © on the prov 1 know-it-alis (the are of pa mount interest and the | saarelk ie F rebruary 1, is the Perso? who knows ho' ing is) characters of importance only as they aba , aD d t the slight of h bute to a most cngr 5 and | the on, \a aul ‘those who an! ‘Three ban-| § ore of $15,009 worth of jewelry and] ti serv: calis spoke a: formed into a deadly seen conic and go. on motion of Hillsboro: is i Scene in Bayard Veiller’s Thrilling Drane “The 13th Chair’ at the Auditorium, Friday, Feb. 1st.| SRR and keep wherein thi it y and arouse thrill Av. m inating mysterious to keep the , hushed ex. ninindful of everythin play of sion. It lay of a murder . too much explanation cf the ling evidence, and then in tue ing o¢e: Je explorer tié’ jus of the theatre) he solution of the m, st act.” i be a ch lar “the v 2ge [locate the murder without once per- one} milling suspicion to rest on the real e the i culprit. It will make your teeth chatter with| dl is one of the b Bt J tten by Bayard Veiller, who, te and presented ion ‘Within the; id but the drama on une | nce for the en- of the audience introduces} stage. t udience to. pl euth for one cond imurder, obviously | It isn't exactly a drama, it’s a melo-| and daugh-| with the prece: sone and goes on {eo} y Ww e time ago w yonderful prod: an eye, or, just to pro , every one that don't bat an} who he 13th Chair’ is considered | excitement. It is intermingled with latic critics everywhere bet eI in all, “The 13th Chair’ is writ-| mother love, big, beautiful mother] thin the La’ It igned and produced to appeal; love, human understanding afd fine na that is bound. to to one’s healthy liking for a thrilling | philosophy. CLOSING HG HOUR RSOF P SONATE tinged the cigs ian e Tuesday after ie | excite | In one week the deaths from tuber- cwosis i nthe city of Prague exceed- ed the total number of births in all Austria for the same period. Charles! , This. statement was made in -the! | Austrian parliament and appeared in pee Fairmount; bon Charles Ellin: of sadnes f the seni ‘or half of that dedy, hold- a, Hannah; Ae & & oe oe eo ew ol y mean the las: Very: A. BU, Se eae ate ee ed cf long f servi A, Por & THE LAND OF PLAYLESS # aha CHILDREN. Ge We will not return. rom, Bottineau; | Ww. A Swiss who had just returned lection olere ny T. KE. Putnam, Car om Germany noticed a strange ¢ ner the mod inilton,¢ckmar thing. It was the total absence the leseueor Ventitia: Os of playing children in any of the +) places he had visited. ° ni ac T. Gronvold, Rug- . I, Sikes, Stanley; C. W. Me- Unde: erwoods and Jenn Young "It wai % said he, 0 ness of were not p they did to play, ude not because of grief,” cv, of course, they are ng to realize the awiful- t is going on, Tuey ng simply because not have the str: Underfeer and a yearni self. The only games ren play were thos noha All ¢ : the meme ion, and he. hly complimented the men who are) jority going out on the loyal service which | they have rende the state in tha, by he lea ions and in the — ; _ Feed for Pigs Human Diet § in Victorious Germany, ng out. Senators Lowe, Kirkeide, | 1 - - Sol Hamilton, Gibbens and other veieraus But the Fare Is Improving) whose terms told of their ex- See is ~ perieaces as legislators. Senator (Conti ed’ prom, Eaze One.) Special- telling regu the co; senate Allen of Braddoe h ators who is Rowe, comment m the fact that he. ‘The ¢ ve the same quaint | came to Bismarck thirty years ago as | Custom go over the line in-) a member of North Dakota's first state | lo Sv legislature, and that he had the p Ther eth ands of German lege of introducing there North Dako- | @Psel, e and Zurich. Of co ta’s first prohibition laws. Now, after|most of them have dutie y he came baek to the | enouga, no dow st, of one sort or an > ago to enjoy an op- other, to Lat to see them portunity of voting for national pro- ut the eating and d ug places, Senator Rowe did not know One might readily believe they were po chether he there solely to regain their waist lines | ad to fill out their collars. Of course there is not now, nor has rould come back. His con- that he shall. The of the few Civil war). veterans in the legislature, and for all/ there ever been, an actual starvation hi he is one of the most ac- it Germany or Austria. ive members of the senate. What happens is that tre indivia-| x ual is Weakened by long lack of nu- £ to/ tritive food and becomes prey to dis-| fo- | ease. Senator Kirkeide, whose f [health has been a source of gr his many old‘ friends, spoke of h out at the close of ve in the s legi: 5 years of ture. When ‘The commonest of all discas came back for his last term, there Central empires now is a new malady, but one member of the senate Which the newspapers call famine th whom he first was elected still | @ro. It is not unlike dropsy, w: fg. ong gam had i origin in famine, as we sce the Senator Gibbens spoke of the radi- disease in America. 1 of new .-reform movemen ‘he chief victims of this disease! old how he had passed through that are persons between the ages of 40 age, as had all members of the sen- @ad.0. The only cure for it is plen- L.predicted that the longer the | ty of nourishing igue members of the senate remain die of it. [ saw medical reports tor n the harness, the more conservative | Oe Section o£ uria cone ming the | hey will become ses. of | Senator Ployhar of Valley City) Startling. urgent whom , 12 ‘the vi and Rumber of famine-dro, 19 persons was ill with the flisease. | Germany has a disease which the} le call hunger-typhoid. It, too, | thousands of victims. , Haida | of Asgh, Gra: there were had he told of movements that he As a mark of respect for the sena-| Pet ors who are going out, the hold-overs, Senater Hyland, stood. Arbeiter-Zeitung, a So- Members of the senate whose terms Cialist newspaper, calls both famine- nave Ge are: J. A. Englund, Ki L and hunger-typhoid “proletariat . J. Murphy, Gra: fton; Nick N./§ * and “poor folk sickness.” ado; ‘John Faulion, Tuperculosis, too, ravages the under- | J. Rowe, Casselton; Hd-| fed everywhere, particularly in Aus “ Catarrh i is a Real Enemy and Requires Vigorous Treatment | Throw these makeshift remedies to Do Not Neglect It. tho winds, and get on the right treat- When you use medicated sprays,|ment. Go to your drug store to-day, atomizers and douches for your Ca-| get. a bottle of S..8, S., and commence tarth, you may succeed in. Lunstopping |a treatment that has been praised by | the choked-up air passages for the sufferers for neurly half a century. || time being, but this annoying condi-|_ S. S.S. gets right at the source of | tion returns, and you have to do the|Catarrh, and egies from the bleod | same thing over and over again. the germs which cause the disease. | Catarth has never yet been cured} You ee obtain special medical advice. | by these local applications. Have regard ing your. own case without ie yu ever experienced any real benéfit | cha: ‘Sag -by, writing to Medical Direc- | tom stich treatment? tor, je Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. | straw bread. | money | auditorium on Thursday evening, Values up to It is not recorded that ( largely of cow be Nor anyone clse with | in his pocket. Intimate ac-) aera with the beet and | straw bread is the excli ye privilege | of the. very poor, An Austrian told me he had never | seon long without anything he really wanted, though sometimes ue had to pay $19 a pound for coffee. FOR FATHER HALLORAN A public reception for Fr. JJohn | Halloran was held in the high sehool | , the | pariook “ALGOHOL~3 PER GENT. [ AYe feces ‘ similating theFood bylegula | tingthe Stomachs and Bowels ; Thereby ny Promoting Digestion | Gheerfutness and Rest. Contaias | neither Opium, Mo jorphine not, Mineral. Nor. Narcotic, A helpful Remedy for | Constipation and Diart! id. Feverishness es fe S OF SLE p 'resiting therefrom inlst 1 FacSimile at i gecsstsees Shi Tye, CENTAUR GoMPANY 5 EW YORK- 5 old At6 Cents et, Coats and Dresses Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd e Cloth Coats Silk Dresses Serge Dresses This season’s Garments Special -. - y the next morning for Camp Codv to | as will live long in the memory of the County Record. ni =GASTORIA |Mothers Know That Bears the CASTORIA me $10 CET the state. Extracts from the reports of the state examiners of both North and South Dakota show favorable comments upon the company’s man- agement and financial standing, Of the fourteen members of the hoard of directors, nine are prominent | North Dakota bankers living in differ- { i) { q ent parts of the state, whose names connected with the company are a guarantee of strict conservative bus- « iness administration. Bismarck is proud of the success of a home life insurance, company in this state whose headquarters are at Bis- marck. being planned. as a farewell of honor who left event party for U.e gui ra take up his duties as army chaplain. The reception was very largely at- tended and the evening was one such departing chaplain who received many congratulations on his opportunity to do war service and many kind ex- pressions of the high regard in which he is held in the community.—Adams | \ Liquid Colors. Alcohol, when pure, is color, while water is in shade. ereenish in netly * plue For Infants and Children. Genuine Castoria Always Signature | Use For Over Thirty Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY.