The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 6

ESS ican sesiednotecarenr asic PAGE 6 FRECKLES ‘AND HIS FRIENDS HE OBEYS HIS TEACHER TO THE WORD By Blosser GEE WHIZ + I'LL BE GLAD WHEN VACATION COMES AGAIN ~~ NEXT \S'POSE TEACHER WILL MAKE ME Go An’ HUAT SoME BUGS. WHAT ARE You SITTING UP THERE TEACHER ToLD ME T’ WRITE A COMPOSITION ON A SIGNPOST~. So |'M Doin’ mds SQUIRREL FOOD: SO THAT’S WHERE HIS COAT IS By Ahern Su! HERES m’ piace! EASY NOW GeoRcE ! DONT Move — shu! —sir SAN ~ WHATS \T ALL ABOUT: ARE You FLOoaE 2 £ suu! you DONT KNOW: LISEN ~ £ THiS 15 WH’ PLACE JES’ 12 MONTHS AGO TDAY 1 PAWNED MY COAT AN ae —t' PAWN MAN TOLD ME Tra’ COAT WOULD RUN OUT IN 12 MONTHS AN’ VM STANDIN’ HERE READY FOR I(T WHEN IT COMES RUNNIN’ OUT WHAT PRICE 1S YOUR CANDY HERE 2" "WO DOLLARS A POUND SIR, Topay |" “um! ~~ ARENT YOU JusT A LITTLE DEAR 2 ~ “WeLL"-(COMLY) THATS WHAT THE Bors savi"2, y, eeNnER® Gosu_ | NSARD TAY, LOKE~1 HEAR WELL, DONT Yoo “SURES HE WAS. os A 600d one THEY ARRESTED @ WNW WHY THEY CARRVING ARMS ay A CERTAIN ARRESTED HM 7 UP WS SLEEVES." : CHESTNUT CHARLIE ; ‘ Le ee By Blosser z= ne ij obtained by agreements between the | mation of.rail and water transporta- | to ports other than New York will TOWNLEY CONFAB CONVERTED INTO PATRIOTICRALLY Grand Forks Editor Throws Har- | poon Into League Leader | Up to the Guard | THE ORATORS DON'T APPEAR | Rousing Loyalty Meeting on the| Foundation Laid by League Organizers {Deerwood, Minn., Jan. 31.—The Nat- fonal Nonpartisan league meeting here | yesterday, at which two organizers, B. | L. Wilson and John L. Berg, were to} have talked, was turned into a rous-! ing loyalty meeting, addressed by Jer- ry D. Bacon of Grand Forks, R. N. Wise, chairman of the Crow Wing county PulTc Safety commission, Rev. A. G. Stacey, Brainerd Episcopal min- aster, County Attorney S. F. Alderman and Sheriff Theorin. Sheriff Theorin with several depu-} ties arrived here early with the in- tention of preventing the meeting, but | none of the Nonpartisan league speak- ers arrived when the meeting was call- ed to order and immediately Mr.) Bacon mounted the platform and ad- dressed tie meeting, flaying the Non- partisan league and A. C. ~Townley,| fresident of ‘the organization. Mayor (. W. Potts has ‘telegraphed Seattle to-learn if the police can iden- tify Ben.'L. Wilson, as a man who led! the I. W. W. at Seattle. | The Nonpartisan meeting at Bar- rows had two organizers present, but according to reports reaching here| were met solidly by a loyal audience. | MANAHAN’S RABBLE ROUSER Townley’s Attorney Attempts to Prove | An’ Alibi St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 31—ight wit- nesses for the state and twelve for the defense will tell what they know of the remarks of James Manahan, St. Paul attorney, charged with rioting, | * .made at Rice Park, December 2, pre-| ceding the rioting in connection with| street car strike here. ‘The number! was limited today by Judge F. N. Dick-| son. Conrad Friske Wednesday told .of| seeing a trainman standing on a stall-| ed car downtown St. Paul who was| pointing a gun at the crowd. | All witnesses said they saw crowds) of varying sizes at the park and on| the streets. They also said they street cars damaged. The testimony} showed that the Rice Park meeting| ‘broke up between 4:30 and 5 p. m. on} December 2, and that Manahan was, the last speaker. | The state’s effort today will be to show that Manahan's remarks at Rice park incited the throng of men to damage the street cars on Seventh and Wabasha streets, thereby tieing up traffic and creating general dis- turbances. SHERIFF SAYS NO Rosemont Meeting of Nonpartisans | Proves Fiasco. al Farmington, Minn., Jan. 31.—Sheriff| Jas. McAndrews, with Deputy Sher- iffs Tim Collins and Steve Brophy, pre vented a meeting of the National Non- |this morning show that the d | Old members in Minn | Rosemont or in the si NORTHERN DIVISION IN GREAT. CHRISTMAS DRIVE EXCEEDED ITS Complete figures on the Chris membership drive announced the Northern Division headqua: exceeded its quota by more than 206 000 members. State by state the results of the drive show that Minnesota enlisted 314,651 new members as aga quota of 236,000 fixed b; ta numbered During the drive the state, 115,000. outside the cities of Minneapoli: Paul and Duluth, mustered 167,772 new members. The three citie: rolled 146,879, Minneapolis _ ra’ 71,879, St. Paul 45,000 and Duluth 3),- 000. In the percentage of new mem- bers obtained as compared with the total population Olmsted county led ate with all other counties in the 7,200 new members, or 32 7+ of the county population. county wa cond in the percentage list with a flat per cent of the pop- wation in the new membership list. Mower, Wright and Washington coun- ties also won honors, In Montana 70,900 were obtained during the drive. new members The , quota for the state was fixed at 49,000 ; members and there were 20,000 mem- i nst a) and had 34,000 old members. Washington.! Valley county, in the western part of .| county in the { | | in. the state when the drive be: No reports have yet been re- from Montana as to which state. North Dakota, with a quota of 62,600 members, raised 83,043 new members Golden the state, achieved the highest’ per- centage of new members of any state, its final figures showing that per cent of the coun- population had enrolled with the ad Cross during the Christmas drive. South Dakota just doubled its quota of 50,900 members. In addition the state had 43,000 old members. In Todd county the most remarkable record of any county in the division was achieved during the drive. With a population of 9,403 persons the county enrolled a Christmas membership of Another circumstance that es the Todd county record even more remanrable is the fact chat more than 50 per cent of the persons in the county are full blood Sioux In- dians. RRR ees meeting be not held. ‘Martin and his colleagues were told that the mee ing could not he held in any hall in ets. This afterncon Sh cGee, of Da- kota county and Sheriff McAndrews guarded the entrance to the local hall at which a meeting of the Nonpar- tisans was proposed and prevented a meeting which was to have been held there. Because of the extremely cold weather few persons came from a dis- tance to the mecting: KAISER EXPRESSES HIS SYMPATHY FOR TBUTON SAGRIFICE Amsterdam, Jan. 31.—The German emperor, replying to birthday con- gratulations from the King of Saxony, sent the following message, according to the Local Anzeiger: “You know how I sympathize in the sacrifiees and distress which these hard times have laid upon our people, but I begin the new year full of con- cern. Despite many difficulties, every- thing goes to show that our superior military commandership and our splen- | | did peoples’ great rower of stance 1 break our opponents‘ war will and create the foundation of a good, happy and safe futu God grant it.” RAPWOMEN FOR URGING USE OF OLEO 31—Regolu- ction of the ing the use a su stitute Fargo, N. D., Jan. tions condemning the women’s clubs in ur; of oleomargarine a: for butter, wh. s hel: an in justice to the agricultural inter- ests of the state, and for uniform grading of cream and butter, as in Alberta, Canada, were adopted at the close of the twentyfourth an- nual convention of the North Da- kota Dairymen’s ociation here Wednesday. H. C. Schulte of Mandan was elected president, Ii. J. Boyfts, Minnewaukan, e president, J. J. Osterhaus, Bismarck, secretary and L. J. Gasper, of Hannaford, treasurer. The board of managers named consists of Sam Crabb, Fargo; Peter Miller, Minot, and G. B. Garaway, of Fargo. DIRIGIBLE BALLOON 2 HUNDRED FEET LONG HOVERS OVER CITY OF MANHATTAN AND GIVES SKY GAZERS IMPORTED FROM LONDON THRILL New York, Jan. 31—New Yorkers who happened to be gazing skyward and then thought of horrifying stories they had read of Zeppelin raids on London. Floating majestically over their heads was a huge cigar shaped dirigible paloon, at least 200 feet long. Flights of airplanes over the city partisan league today that was adver-| have become so common they fail to tised to be held at Rosemont. Louis) cause thrills; but this monster of the Martin, Nonpartisan speaker, who was | air was something entirely new. Close to have addressed the meeting, object-| inspection disclosed that it flew an ed to the orders of the sheriff that the American flag but there were pessi- | mists who maintained this might merely be German camouflage to ally | Wednesday stopped, rubbed their eyes| suspicion. Investigation brought the informa- tion that it started at 2:30 o'clock on a trial flight from the new fort at hockaway Point and it returned safely at 6 o'clock. It carried a crew of eight men. The flight today was to test the ef- ficiency of dropping men in parachutes and two of the crew dropped to the| the control committee. Bround safely from a height ‘of 400 feet at different pointe. 1 SUPERVISION OF SHAGOING TRADE IN CENTRAL BODY Committee Named to Have Full Direction of Trans-Atlantic Transportation ALLIES IN FULL AGREEMENT Pool to Form for Carrige Abroad | and all Bottoms Under Same Orders Washington, D. Jan. 31.—Central- ized control of trans-Atlantic shipping was established yesterday with crea- ition of a ship control committe2 to have supreme charge of the operation of all sh American, and allied neutral—entering and leaving Ameri. can. ports. The committee was named b resentatives of the shipping board, the war and navy departments, the “od jand fuel admini: tions, the director general of railroads, the Bri gov: | }ernment, and ship owners, who met to devise some plan for speeding up th rep: rnational Mercantile marine, " H. HX Raymond, head the Clyde and Mallory lines, and re ently made shipping controller at " York, and Cunop Guthrie, dire ter of British shipping in this coun- try. Pool in Effect i explained by in eff ler ss moving Plies io Europe. ds destined | as wil be loaded in available ships whether onerated ‘by the United States or the allics. With the aid of the railroad administration the com- mission will divert to southern ports much of the supplies that heretofore have clogged the port of New York and incoming vessels will be directed by wireless to proceed to the ports in which materials of the most import ance await shipment. Ships The arrange ippit boar Approved by Britain | The plan yet has to be approved by the British government, and by the other allies, Is today re- ceived the assurance of Sir Cunop| Guthrie and Sir Richard Crawford, of the British embassy, that this would be forthcoming. proval of the neu-) trals is not necessary, inasmuch as neutral ships op ed by the United} States and the allies under charter. The British long have urged an arrangement, of the kind-.and months} ago sought (o have the United States} enter the interallied chartering con- ‘ference. The centralized control au-| thorized today virtualJy creates s' coaference on this vide of the are operated Inter-Allied Conference | ; Jn connection with the’ action of-| |ficals attached particular significance to the decision to dispatch abroad) | Raymond B, Stevens, vice chairman of) the suipping board. and George Rubles of the board's legal staff to sit in Lon- | don and Paris as permanent represen- | tatives of the United States in ship- |ping matters, The.representatives on | the other side will seek to accomplish; | the same aims sought by creation. of In addition | they will represent the United States /in the allocation of neutral tonnoge| NAROAOGRSU SRO NEGS. SUUGUEUEEUNUELELENUEANACAgNUnUagena tases atsze ean saae cz saceeenga ee gegEEaERUSESUMOLISS2E2 202200 EETULSEBSESEEEG allied and neutral countries. A A dec mittee authority to di ious por ed for over ials said, w Committee Contro! 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