The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1918, Page 1

co) a ‘ county one man ; THE WEATHER - Fair and colder, peers a ' THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1018 THE BISMARCK TRIBU EVENING EDITION SAMOCRATS. MISSOURIAN BRINGS DOWN A HUN AIRPLANE AT oo ¢ © © © ¢ @ eo. ¢ e METTLE IN ce o ® o o o ¢ ‘ 12,000 FEET YOUNG MISSOURIAN WHO SHOT DOWN FIRST GERMAN PLANE HAD NEVER OPERATED BEFORE - Andnitial Trip Over Enemy Lines With France Escadrille, American Lieutenant at Altitude of 12,000 Feet HANDS ALMOST FROZEN WHEN HE TOOK OFF GLOVES TO AID AIM Intense Cold Fails to Interfere With Sharpshooting of Samocrat—Victim Crashes to Ground in View of Teutonic City With the American Army in France, Feb. 7.—The young American lieutenant who had ‘the honor of shooting down the first German aeroplane, while accompanying a French escadrille on a bombing expedition. Tuesday chine before in his life while in f over the enemy lines. He got his man over the German city of Saarburg. ‘The bombing squadron was over Saarburg and in the act of dropping bombs when enemy aeroplanes were seen approaching rapidly. By the time the bomb the enemy was close at hand and this American and another American aviator had accompanied as sunners, was at an altitude of 12,000 feet. The lieutenant, who is a Missourian, took off his gloves so that he might operate his machine gun more effec- tively when he saw an enemy. plane driving in from the side and firing its guns. The ‘bullets whizzed close to the French machine before the Amer- ican acting as gunner could get his piece into action.’ Then he turned a stream of bullets into the enemy, and then before the first drum was ex- hausted, the enemy machine turned over and started to spiral. Then it flopped and fluttered down with a flare of smoke and flame in its wake. It crashed to the ground a short dis- tance from the German city. ‘The other American aviator, also a Heutenant, was not so lucky as the Missourian forthe machine he‘ptcked out to engage dodged away quickly and he was’ unable to get in any ef- fective, shots, : 4 ; When the’ squadron. returned. the Missourian’s hands were swollen to twice the normal size from the cold, he having lost his gloves during the encounter.. Otherwise he is today just about the happiest officer in the Amer- ican expeditionary forces. He has been in, France only a. short time. The incident shows how quickly things may happen to a flier. NEW LEIPZIG MEN HAD BROTHER ON TRANSPORT SUNK Ed and Henry Lewis of Lewis Bros., Worrying Over Fate of Kinsman Edward and Henry Lewis of the well known New Leipzig firm of Lew- is Bros, are anxiously awaiting a cas- ualty list from the transport Tuscanoa disaster, for their brother, Reuben Lewis, was one of the hundreds of Wisconsin soldiers who was on board | ‘Reuben Lewis enlisted in the 20th engineers from Wapaca, Wis., and his brothers at New Leipzig have reason to feel. confident that he was on the, wrecked boat. They had received no' word of him up to a late hour last night. MANY MEN BEING VOLUNTARILY LET ~ANTO.U. 8. FORGES Induction Method Appeals to Those Who Can No Longer. Enlist in Army Various counties continue to volun- tarily induct men into the national army. Cass county this week sent three men to Fort Leavenworth for service in the land division of the signal corps and five to Ft. Riley, Kans., for service in the medical of- ficers’ training school. Nelson sent one man to Ft. Leavenworth; Ransom county 12 men to Vancouver barracks, for the engineer corps, and Towner to Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., for enlistment as a bricklayer. The period allotted for the first draft expires Feb. 10, after which date any registrant not held for service may be voluntarily inducted into any branch of the service for which he is best fitted. The Burleigh county, board has passed on physical examin- ation more than enough men to supply the 28 registrants due on its: first draft. Advices received Thursday are to:the effect that counties which sent men to Camp Stevens, Ore., on, the five per. cent call: made early this year will receivé:‘credit ‘for such men on the first ‘draft,:« Burleigh ‘county is |COSSACKS AGAIN: ACTIVE, Bags Hun Machine * night, had never operated a ma- light and never before had been dropping had been completed, the French formation, of which PETROGRAD IN - WILD ORGY OF BRUTELICENSE| Rioting and Looting, Drunken ness and Debauchery Order of the Day Engagements: Between Loyal Le.| gions and the Bolshoviki Reported London, Feb. 8.—I'resh outbreaks of rioting and looting in Petrograd are) chronicled: in special dispatches from the Russian capital. ‘Wine cellars, jew- erly shops, and clothing, food and drug stores, are being plundered. Troops employed to suppress the disturbances did much shooting, in which it is estimated 120 persons were killed, By firing on the mobs, the sol- diers have ‘been able to quell the riot- ers at intervals during the last three days and nights, but the orgies pegin elsewhere again. Fighting in the South. Fighting between the Bolsheviki and the Cossacks is said to be increas-' ing in the south and southeast oc Kus- sia where the Cossacks are joining the Bolsheviki in increasing numers. Generals Kaledines and Alexieff are réported to have quarreled and Gen- eral Kaledines has disappeared from Cossack headquarters at Novo Tcher- kask. General Alexeiff is acting inde- pendently and is said to be in com: mand of 30,000 men, who are march- ing northward. Silence concerning the negotiations at Brest-Litovsk continues, except for unconfirmed reports in the German newspapers. It is reported without explanation that a deputation of Rus- sian troops from the Lukowina frout is on its way to Brest-Litovsk. The Ukrainian information bureau et Stockholm has_ received reports from the Ukrainian delegation at Brest-Litovsk that the Ukrainians have won a great victory over the Bolshev- iki, taking 200 machine guns and 200,- 00) rifles, It adds that a Lolsheviki attemtp to capture Kiev failed, the Bolsheviki losing 3,000 men. BUY THRIFT STAMPS ON THE PLY ON NP. President J. M. Hannaford Ar. | WORYSCH IS SLATED TO LEAD HUN DRIVE GENERAL VON WORYSCH | First photograph to reach this coun- try ‘of Field Marshal von Worysch, whe, it is authoritatively stated, will lead the German spring offensive in the west. The Hun leader was the principal figure of the German invas- fon of Poland in 1915. NEW SELECTIVE SBRVIGE BILL REPORTED OUT Requires Registration of Men Reaching 21; No Exemption for Excess Age QUOTAS BASED ON CLASS 1 Population no Longer to Be Used as Basis—New Amend. ment Rejected ‘Washington, D, C., Feb, 8.—Favor- able report on the war department’s bill amending the selective draft law to. require registration of men as they reach 21 years and basing quotas on the number of men in class one in- stead of on state populations, was unanimously ordered today by the sen- ate military committee. The proposal to exempt men as they reach 31 years if they have not been drafted, which was opposed by Pro- ‘vost Marshal General Crowder, was not included in the bill. An amendment proposed by Senat!r New of Indiana to require registra- tion of youths at 19 years and over also. was rejected. Emergency Provision. Another ‘bill favorably reported, which affects the draft, would author- ize the president in any emergency to call into immediate military service, skilled experts in industry or agri- culture, regardless of classification, residence, or quota. VON SEYDLER . AND CABINET WISH TO QUIT Amsterdam, Feb. 8.—Dr. von Seydler, the Austrian premier, has tendered the resignation of his entire cabinet to Emperor Charles according to a dispatch from Vi- enna. REASON FOR ACTION. Amsterdam, Feb, 8—The _resigna- tion of the Von Seydler, it is under- stood in partilamentary circles in Vi- enna, is due to the opposition of the Polish deputies against special debate and the provisional budget. The op- Position of the deputies makes a ma- jority for the budget doubtful. President Gross, of tho,lower house, announcing the resignation, said that according to the constitution, it was ranges for Sale of Stickers | on Trains i President, J. M, Hannaford has in-| augurated é campaign of aiding the | sale of War Thrift stamps along the entire Northern Pacific sys‘em. Here-| after, travelers may purchase tiess) stamps from agents between St vaul and the Pacific coast, including) branch lines. Circulars were issued ‘ais week t” agents giv.ng them detaiis of the plan and it is expected that salesmen and other classes not conveniently reached from other sources will be appealed to strongly in the matter. ‘Nearly 800 additional Thrift stamp sale agencies are soon to be opened under the plan Mr. Hannaford has out- lined. The campaign has. received warm commendation from those in charge at Washington. TO ESTABLISH AGENCY. O, K. Harris of Fargo, district man- ager for the Regal oil-gas burner, is here preparing to establish an agency in the capital city to cover the Bis- marck.territory,, Many local sales al: ready have ‘heen made, and the, fuel |: rsiver‘seéms to enjoy a wide) popular- ity.\ necessary to postpone temporarily the sittings of the house. ny | THE WEATHER | for 24 hours ending at noon Feb. 8: Temperature at 7 a. m.. Temperature at noon. Highest yesterday ‘Lowest yesterday . Lowest last night ‘Precipitation Highest wind velocity. Forecast for North Dakota: Generally fair to- night and Saturday; colder east and south portions tonight; rising temper- ature Saturday, .30-NW HEROISM SHOWN BY AMERICANS ONTUSCANIA Fact That So Largely ] a (By Associated Press) American soldiers, as their: trans- Port, the Tuscaniay wounded mortally by a German forpédo,f-ank beneath the waves, faced degth | zroically. To “heir calm behavior!and skillful work of British destroyers and trawlers is due the fact that all but 101 of the passengers and crew were saved. Of those lost the latest reports indicate that many were members of the crew. The bodies’ of 44 of the missing American soldiers already have been washed upon the coast of northern Ireland. Positive: identification, how- ever, is believed remote, reports say, because the tags the soldiers wore had not been provided with numbers or other information, All will be buried in one ‘grave. Went Calmly to Post. When the Tuscania was struck by the German torpedo the American sol- diers went calmly to their posts: As they lined up on one side of the deck with the crew, all Britishers on the other, the national anthem of the} American-Alliés were sung. In France. On the American sector in France the artillery is endcavoring to evon tie score with the enemy by bom- barding heavily German batteries and trenches and other military targets. German guns were,silenced when they attempted to repli}. American gun- ners succeeded in dispersing a large body of German batteries, and inflict- ‘| ed large’ losses on the detachments. German efforts against the French lines at Verdun and in Alsace are growing stronger. Infantry attacks have taken the place of raids, but the latest German attempts were repulsed with loss by the French northeast of Verdun. Small raids and the usual artillery actions have occurred on the British front. In Italy the artillery activity has been slight. DRAFT FOARD HAS BUSY WEEK; ONLY 48 MEN 10 DODGE Farleigh county has only 28 more men to send to Camp Dodge to com- plete its first quota. Doubts as to whether the county would receive credit for 18 men recently sent to Camp Stevens have been dispelled. The local ‘board headquarters, post- office building, is a busy place these days. The board is engaged in hold- ing physical examinations. These commenced Tuesday morning and that day and Wednesday 58 men were giv- en this test. Thursday’s number has not been announced, but it will run in the neighborhood of 40. The report will Be made tomorrow, and the dif- ferent candidates for the army will be told of their success. It is stated that the number found deficient for various physical troubles will run in the neigh- borhood of 25 per cent. No official notice has yet been re ceived concerning the entrainment of the balance of the Burleigh quota for Camp Dodge, and for this reason it is possible Burleigh county may not ‘ve asked for her deferred quota on the 23rd, as stated in the press dispatch- es a few days ago. There are but 28 men to be sent from this county, the county having just received credit for} 18 men sent to Camp Stevens in De- cember. Examinations will be further held) on the 9th, 13th and 14th. The daily grind for Dr, Stackhouse, examining Physician in chief, and his associates, | Sheriff French, Auditor Flaherty, and} G, B. Allen, is from 9 a. m. to mid- night. In addition to the local examina- tions, 98 of Burleigh county regis- trants will take their physical examin- ation before advisory boards scattered from the.Atlantic to the Pacific, SUNNY JIM MANAHAN GUEST OF HONOR AT 8ST, PAUL CELEBRASH Bismarck friends of James Manahan are receiving neatly printed announce- ments of a celebration dinner given at the Ryan hotel in St. Paul on Febru- ary 6, under the joint auspices of the grievance committee of the St. Paul, ‘Minneapolis and Duluth trades and labor assemblies, the railroad ‘broth- erhoods and the national Nonpartisan league, in honor of Jim ‘Manahan, O. E, Keller and T. J. McGrath against whom charges of inciting riots during the recent Twin City street car strikes were recently quashed for lack of evi- dence, .The, speakers included, Joseph Lowest Temperatures Fargo .... 14 Williston . 16 Grand Forks BS Pierre’ ... + St. Paul 20 ‘Winnipeg a Helena . 30 Chicago 26 San Francisco tee “"*ORRIS.W. ROBERTS, es Meteorologi partisan, league. BRITONS APPOINT PATEY ‘ADMIRAL ADMIRAL GEO, PATEY Admiral George E. Patey is the lat- est Briton to receive the highest rank in the British navy. He was formerly a vice admiral. He is shown on his way to the admiralty in London. HEATLESS BAN 10 BE RAISED IN DIXIELAND States South of Virginia Probably Will Be Relieved From Restriction i HOLIDAYS HELP. SITUATION | Three and a Half Days’ Shutdown May Bring Early Suspen- | sion of Order Washington, D. C., Feb. 8—With the total abandonment of heatless Mondays throughout the states south of Virginia today, fuel administration officials were hopeful the continued warm weather and improvement in railroad traffic would permit relaxa- tion of the order all over the United States after next Monday. As Saturday will be observed gen-} erally as a half holiday, and as next Tuesday is Lincoln’s anniversary there will be a three and one-half day shut- down, Officials believe this will go far toward relieving the situation. The original program called for the last heatless day on March 25. The states affected are North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It was announced also that in all other states in which the order is) operative fuel may be purchased on future Mondays to heat and light lofts and workshops occupied by members of the International Allied Garment} Workers union. a ROOSEVELT’S CONDITION IS YET THE SAME! New York, Feb, tion of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who was operated on Wednesday for fistula and abscesses in both ears, was pronounced as “un- changed” by Dr. Harold Keyes of Roosevelt hospital early today. ‘Dr. Keyes added that Colonel Roosevelt had slept all night and had rested comfortably, WILSON SYMPATHETIC. Washington, D. C., Fe). 8.—Presi- dent Wilson today sent to Mrs. Roose- velt, the following message of sym- pathy: “May I not express my warmest! sympathy and the sincere hope that | ‘Mr, Roosevelt's condition is improv: ing.” ALLIED MISSIONS DRIVEN OUT FROM RUSSIAN CAPITAL Ministers and Embassies Said to Be on Way to Swedish Frontier Washington, D. C., Feb. 8—An un- confirmed report that all the allied missions at Petrograd had been driv- en out by the Bolsheviki government and are on their way to the Swedish border was received today at the state department from United States Min- ister Morris at Stockholm. The de- partment has not heard from Ambas- saddr Francis at Petrograd since Feb- Gilbert, manager of the National ‘Non- ruary' 2. | with inter "ADVICES ACCOUNTING FOR ALL BUT 113 OF AMERIGAN TROOPS ON TUSCANIA ARE UNCHANGED Officials Anxiously Awaiting Detail Expected to Clear Up Conflict CANNOT UNDERSTAND ABSENCE OF - > TAGS ON BODIES WASHED ASHORE No List of Missing Available, Only Few of Survivors Having Been Reported—Press Stories of Cool Behavior of Boys Reach Capital LOSS MAY BE NEARER 200 THAN 100 London, Feb, 8.—Revised figures indicate that the loss of life on the Tuscania probably was considerably in excess of yesterday’s estimate of 101. It is now believed complete returns will show the dead to be nearer 200 than 100. Reports received at the American embassy yesterday indicated the loss of 101 lives, while the British admiralty’s estimate was 210. This discrepancy now appears to have been due to the fact that the figures supplied to the embassy evidently did not include the missing, of which there are still many. It was announced today that arrangements were being made by British and American officials jointly for great mili- tary funerals for the Tuscania’s dead. Washington, D. C., Feb. 8.—Advices to the war’ department aecounting for all except 113 of the 2,156 American soldiers: who were aboard the Tuscania when she v ubmarinéd Tuesday: night, re- mained unchanged today and officials anxiously’ awaited additional detail expected to clear up the conflict with foreign’ figures on‘the losses. ‘ Cable press dispatches from an Irish port last night saying the 44 bodies of American soldiers, battered beyond recognition, had’ been washed ashore 15 miles from the scene of the torpeoding gave ‘hope that the troop losses’ would. prove'small. According to. figures. given in earlier press dispatches, only 101 of those aboard, including sol- diers, members of the crew, and passengers, were missing. ios , NO LIST OF MISSING ; 2 No attempt was being made thus far to prepare-a list of the lust or missing. Only the names of a few survivors have been received, and indications today were that names of survivors would continue to come in slowly. - The report from the Irish port that a eation tags found on the bodies of the soldiers washed ashore, bore no names or numbers, making identification impossible, caused con- siderable speculation. Army regulations require identification tags bearing the name, rank, company and regiment of the wearer. . NO OFFICIAL STORY No official story of the sinking has reached the department and press stories of the cool behavior of the troops, some of them partially trained boys, who lined the r singing national airs have been read by army officers. Reports that the British destroyer which was convoying the liner Tuscania, pursued.the submarine and sank her also lacked confirmation. Early today no additional list of survivors of the Tuscania had become available at the war department. The only list obtained was that containing the thirty names named yesterday. Owing to physical difficulties in preparing the list of survivors, it was said today that the war department may delay an accurate list of the survivors. Until officers manager to get in touch with them and check them off against the muster rolls, or until a complete list of the names of survivors can be assembled, at some central point and checked against the ship's papers, there is no way to determine who are missing although the number may be known. ‘ There is also a possibility that additional survivors may have been picked up by patrol boats and may be brought in later. LIST O FAMERICANS LOST. An Irish Port, Feb. 8.—As the list of Americans on board the,’l'us- cania was-lost when the vessel went down, it will be impossible,to as- certain the names of those lost until the names of the survivors ‘have been cabled to the United States. so said that army, identifi- MOUNTRAIL COUNTY TARDY IN MAKING ITS DRAFT REPORT MERCHANT VESSELS SHOW BIG GAINS IN COAST TONNAGE Mountrail is slow in the classifica-| Washington, D. C., Feb. 8.—Ameri- tion of Class 1 men, reports the dis- trict board. Mountrail’s reports on Class 1 men were received the middle of the week, but there is still some ad- justing to be done, All other coun- ties have completed this part of their draft work, THE LAHR SALES PARTY. Word comes from the Lahr Motor Sales force in the Twin Cities that they are having the big time of their life at the Northwest's biggest auto show. INDIAN FIGHTER, from active service a year ago. the Philippines. For four years, of cadets at est Pint Point in 1874, and as a young lieutenant saw desperate fighting when his regiment went to the relief of Major Reno and the viving remnant of Custer’s band in the Little Big Horn He had much to do with the suppression et i can owned merchant vessels: of 500 tons net register, operating in ialand waters, coastwise and in foreign trade during 1916, numbered 37,984, and had @ gross tonnage of 12,500,000, accord- ing to a report issued today by the census bureau. i It showed the increase in the num- ber of vessels as compared with 1906 was equal to only one and one-half per cent and the gross tonnage show- ed a decrease amounting to five per cent. RRR RRR» FREDERICK W. SIBLEY, GALLANT NEAR DEATH IN BASE HOSPITAL AT CAMP GRANT “lan Who Went to Relief of Reno After Custer Massacre{ ‘in 1876, and for Whom Many Points in This Locality Are Named, Seriously IIl Rockford, Ill., Feb. 8—Brigadier General Frederick W. Sib- y, gallant Indian fighter, is at the base hospital at Camp Grant, seriously ill of pernicious anaemia. General Sibley was retired He was graduated from West PRICE FIVE CENTS Little Further Official Information Obtainable Today—