The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 1

JAPAN'S DESIGNS. ON "RUSSIA PROVE. TO BE. TOUCHY SUBJECT 10 Sounding JOINT MILITARY DRIVE ON NORTH 18 PROPOSED Intervention Would Be Interna- tional in Character If Sug- gestion Is Adopted Washington, 0:°C., Feb. Japan's move to devel Y ing of the Alli al for Joint military op: Siberia, to keep the vast stores at Viadivostok and also the Trane- Siberian Railway from falling into the hands of the German invaders in Russia was widely discussed today among diplomats .and. of- fic but all were reluctant to give opinions for publication. Opinion in London that the declar- ation by the Japanese foreign minister could only be interpreted as a declar- ation that Japan was about to inter- vene was regarded as further evidence of the negotiations now pending be- tween the co-belligerents to make the act,of international character, probab- ly including the participation of Am- erican forces. : While all officials here are silent and‘ disposed to minimize discussion: of the subject, it is known) that exchanges of opinion are going on with the object of a perfect under: | standing ‘between Japan, ‘the United | States, and the other co-belligerents which would make the plan of joint; action ‘wholly acceptable to all ang! thoroughly define its extent and dur-} ation. ‘ ‘Russiah representatives here oppose | action by the Japanese in Siberia, but | the = co-helligerents are ~ thoroughly. alarmed ‘lest’ the:.vast , quantities of supplies ‘piled — up at, Viadisvo: ee Vought, and for svetth Ante causal trast: "the hands of the SMITH AND LARIN: TO FURNISH FREE CHAIN STORE ZOO Animals Will Perform for Benefit of Natives From Sanish to Capital Plaza, N. D., Feb. 28.—George, Plaza resident of the. Northwestern sociation and publisher of the Plaza Pioneer and other newspapers in this section, and Dave Larin, pub- lisher of the Parshall Leader, engaged in two public debates as to the merits of the Townley chain store scheme, Larin taking the affirmative and Smith the negative. There was a very gen- eral attendance of farmers at the de- date, one. of which was held at Par. shall and-one at Plaza. The debate was intensely interesting and decid- edly vitrolic, as a meeting between smith and Larin {s bound to be. Fol- lowing the clash, in which Smith seemed to have much the better of the argument, he invited. Larin to meet him in every town-between San- ish and Biemarck to debate the chain store proposition. Larin has, not ac- cepted to date. ..Larin {s:said to admit that Townley is going to make a pot of money out of this scheme, but he contends -it is nobody's bus{ness. but. the farmers if. the latter wish ‘to et Townley. up in business. If. Larin takes up Smith's . proposition, - some very interesting meetings may be ex- pected. There is a-chain store at, Gar.’ rigon, and‘central ‘North Dakota gen- erally {8 much interested in Townley’s latest. ‘cream separator” project, as it is quite commonly termed. 3 HALIFAX FOLK - MUST PAY TAX ON LOST:HOMES :N, Fy Feb, 28-Owners 0’ property . destroyed: ‘by fire whict swept over an .aréa of two and-F half square miles after the. explosior of ‘munition ‘ship ‘{n:the -harbor. “here on, December.»6, must pay taxes or homes which no longer, exist, under 3 -ruling ‘by the court of. tax appeals 78,000 QUESTIONNAIRES Federal Labor Agent Brown Has Had Busy Week of It John Brown, federal:labor agent for North Dakota, has mailed from the of- fice of the commissioner of agriculture ind labor. 78,000. questionaires. which ‘will be distributed -by:county: superin- tendents. of schools to rural teachers, ! who, through their: pupils,..will March ° 8, when schools ‘all over the state ai to: be dismissed by. Leer farmn,iab- NO ONE AT WASHINGTON TODAY PREPARED TO DISCUSS TACTICS — BE ADOPTED BY YELLOW MEN) LAW PROTEST Out Sentiment Toward Move That Would Keep Vast Stores at’ Vladivostok from Falling Into Hands of German Invaders—Little Accomplished | papers continue to report seizures of; | » Miles City, Mont., “Fob.28—At noon SINN - FEINERS RESUME IRISH Seizures of Land and Other Acts of Lawlessness Reported in London Dispatches DUKE HAS NOT RESIGNED ‘London, Eng., ig, Feb. 25 28.—The news- ‘land and other acts of lawlessness by | Sinn-Feiners in Ireland. The police are said to be unable to prevent these acts, Henry Duke, secretary for Ireland, has not resigned, and it is under- stood that he intends to stand by {the Irish convention until the end. He is credited with the opinion that much of the present lawlessness is/ due to an organized conspiracy {against the convention. It is report- | ed that many wealthy families resid- | \ing in the west of Ireland have gone {40 Dublin to escape the disorders. TM AMERICAN? | ASSERTS RIS JURIST ‘Denies te ipeOEE -oles of ‘epee ‘Ate’ it t {today Sergeant at Arms D. L.. Good: man served upon Judge C. L.. Crum! of the Fifteenth judicial district the articles of impeachment presented by the house which will be heard by the state senate sitting as a trial court on March 20. © The bill of impeach- ment attached to the summons con- tains’ six counts. “I was very couteously received by Judge. Crum,” Sergeant Goodman stated. “He accepted service and then in explanation of his failure to make a statement relative to the case pré- vious to this time recited the ser. ious illness of his son-who has been hovering between life and death for several weeks as a result of an oper: ation for cancér, and who required his. constant attendance at his bed- side. Says He Is Loyal. “The judge requested me,” continu- ed Mr, Goodmen, “to state that he did. not feel in a frame of mind to make any public’ statement relative to the charges which’ cast a reflection upon his loyalty and integrity. At this time, however, he desired to say to the public that he is an American of the old stock and that when his rase comes: to trial he will prove beyond. doubt. that the charges filed against him are untrue. Further than that he did not care to enter into details.” NEW ROCKFORD STATE CENTER HAS NEW HONOR; Ranked by Brinton in List of In. “dependent: Papers Not Domi- nated by Townley « New Rockford, N. D., Feb. 28.—The| passage of, customary resolutions sondemning the “kept press’? of the state, and for the first time including the New Rockford State Center in he group of newspapers given that| ‘tle by the Nonpartisan league. : was| one of the features of the meeting of; 3tockholders of one of , Townley’s chain sore to bé established in this uty held-in the county court house rere yesterday. '*<Organizer ‘Brinton, Townley’s right wand colleague, was speaker of the jay. He explained the chain store alan “explicitly,” to his own. satisfac- ‘on. «Binton’ flayed prominent busi- ess men: backing the New Rockford | State Center and hurled allegations of graft at several local men. Brinton, -1s usual, devoted most of his’ talk to aouse and ridicule of the “kept press” Land “big biz,” using customary cam- ouflage methods to get farmers to sign store.contracts. Over $25,000 has been collected from farmers of eddy county by the scheme, :ESOAPING CONVICTS +. DEPREDATIONS ; on the eight petitions filed with the MEN WHO HAVE FELT HAND OF Names on Recall Petitions Offer Little Encouragement of Clean Politics PIGGERS AND LAWBREAKERS @ : Fair Percentage of Signers Are Characters Who Have Been Convicted in Local Courts A very casual survey. of the names city. commission last night, praying the recall of Police Comissioner Chris rertsch reveals some facts which should interest decent citizens of Bis- marck. The petitions contain 256 signa- tures. Sec. 2835, R. C. 1913, provides that “30 percent of the entire vote for all candidates for the office of preési- dent of the city commission cast at the last preceding general municipal election" shall be required. Of these 356 signatures, a very large. portion are names of men not known in Bismarck; a very considerable per-| centage are names of men who have resided in the city only long enough to become voters here, from 15 months to two years; a very decided proportion of these signatures repre- ‘sent men who are not property-holders and who may be cansidered more or! less as: transients, There are some very good citizens represented, but-they are muck‘in the! minority. It'is not easy to under: stand | how some of these names:are found in| { | such’ companionship. Taken at Random | A random survey of the petitions reveals at the head of one the name of Isham Hall, who within the last year pleaded guilty to’ maintaining aj public nuigance..paid a fine and is now | under suspended. jail sentence, pend- | ing: good -behavior.. On; the, same. pe-| informed, has’ served a’ jail term oh a ‘sithilar charge. At the head of another petition appears the. name of Dave Swett, who served a very brief term’as deputy sheriff of Bur-| leigh county: On the same petition are Clinton Swett, who was one of the three circnlators of the famous grand jury petitions last fall, Zack.Slattery and Art Casper. ‘ 'W. R. Carley and W. W. Carley ap- pear on another petition. On still an-| other may be found Roy und. under suspended sentence on a liquor viola-|* tion conviction; Charles. Gandy, “who is said to know more or less of police}; affairs in Bismarck, and Frank Kuntz now. facing a federal charge for im- porting a large_ quantity of whiskey “(Continued “on Page Two.) ~ WORKMEN AGAIN ASK COUNTRY 10 REPEL THE HUN Councils Being Seized, Red Guards Summarily Shot, Prison- ers Being Armed NEW ARMY PROGRESSING London, Eng., Feb. 28.—The council of people’s commissaries according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd has issued another call to arms in the .course of which it is declared the Ger- man invaders are arresting the work- men’s and soldiers’ councils, shooting captured Red Guards and arming Ger- man and Austrian prisoners in the Ukraine. The proclamation asserts the troops at the front have now pull- ed themselves together and aré now resisting the invasion. It continues: “May the blood spilled in this un- equalled struggle fall on the heads of the German socialists: who are allow- ing the German workmen to be ranked among the cains and Judases.” Enrollment of the new army is pro- ceeding successfully, an Exchange Tel- egraph dispatch says. Nothing has been received in Lond- on of a later date than Tuesday in're- ference to the situation. at Pskov, on the German advance toward, Petro- grad. LIEUTENANT DIES; COMPANION HURT Anothet Fatal Accident Reported From Aviation Field member of the army aviation corps, {the ambasgador,end some of the oth- iF “appears” Jultus’ Gadehott;who;|* | Lake Charles, La., Fed. 28.—Lieut |. William“, Magill, of Jersey City, ¢ NOTHING: ;FURTHER HEARD OF FRANCIS News Lacking-as to Plans of Am: bassador at Petrograd Washington, D..C.,. Feb. 28—No further word from Ambassador Fran- cis as to his plans for leaving Petro- ied had been received here early. to- day, and Secretary Lansing when asked about wiofficial reports that er embassies. beg d&parted declared the state department ead no Inform: tation -wirttever. GOVERNMENT TAKES OVE R LUMBERING Logging Camps and Logging Mills Now Under Control of U. 8. Portland, Ore,’ Feb. 28.— Absolute control of the lumber industry of the states of Oregon and Washington has been~ taken ‘over“by the government and beginning March 1, the logging | camps and the lumber. mills: of the two states will go on a basis ‘of eight hours a day. Announcement of the basic eight hour day was made} in this city tonight simultaneously | with the decision by the war depart- ment, announced. from. Washington that the government had commandeer- ea .the lumber industry of the two Pacific Northwest states. BARBARIC. WAR METHOD. KILLS- “TWO:AMERICANS | Sammies Die in Hospital ‘Follow. | > ing Gas Attacks--Others Recover ‘With the American Army in France Feb. 28.—(By ’ Associated Press)— Two more American soldiers died in a hospital, Wednesday from the affects of. the German shells, making five dead in all. Throughout the day groups:of men were ,discovered who suffered from effects\of the poisonous gasses, and about: sixty, most of whom are not badly affected. Some of the men belong to a trench mortar battery. The gas effects resulted from. the fact that the men were not able to adiust their masks quickly enough or in some cases to make them secure. Americans - Return. Fire. The enemy to day heavily shelled the American battery positions with gas and high explosive shells, while the American artillery secured a di- rect hit-on a large enemy: dugout, where: many Germans probably were sheltered. The American shells. also reached numerous: working parties. In a two-hour period Tuesday even- ing twenty seven enemy airplanes crossed the American lines. One group of seven was shot down by anti-aircraft. guns. ‘The infantry .activity was confined to patrols, but there was no engage- ments. . Rain fell again today, ac- centuating the muddy condition of the position. GRAND LECTURER CONDUCTS SCHOOL Masonic Officers of 14th District Given Instructions. | Henry. H. Berg \of Towner, grand lecturer of the Masonic grand lodge of North ‘Dakota,’ was in Bismarck yesterday holding an officers schoo! of instruction for the Masonic lodges of the fourteenth district, of which L. K. Thompson is district deputy. Representatives from the Masonic lodges of Garrison, Mandan, ‘Steele, Linton, Flasher, Hazen and Mott were | present: making ‘a total of over. thirty | visiting officers. © The school was held in the: after. | noon: and. evening at. the Masonic temple. ~ < |THE WEATHER For; twenty-four honrs noon, Feb. 28. ending at Forecast '* | For North Dakota: Generally. fair tonight and Friday; warmer: tonight end patient Portion: ready : : Williston . St. Paul’ . Winnipeg . was fatally injured and Lieut. Felland A Colman, of the Marine corps, war : sHOOT. GUARD DEAD penitentiary slightly hurt when (their aeroplane fell. bed feet: late yesterday, accord- ing to. tion today at’ Garstner Treldt ‘Magill’ died edo Helena . Chicago NO BASIS FOR PEACE IN NEW fairs Does Not Regard Hert- ling Talk Encouraging |ARMY MEETS RESISTANCE Advance Into Russia—Aerial Activities Increase (ASSOCIATED PRESS) No basis for neace is found in the speech of Count Von Hertling by A, J. Bajfour, the British sec- retary for foreign affairs. In mak- ing the first reply to the German chancellor in the house of com- * mons, he rejected the German suggestions concerning Belgium and said the Chancellor's profes- sed acceptance of President ‘Wil- son’s four principles was only “lip service.” There is nothing to indicate that diplomatic conversations peace. mitted by Germany would be “a crime against the future peace of the world.” Secretary Balfour declared that Germany changed her policies to suit her needs and that Von Hertling offer. ed no new proposals, Huns Meet Resistance In their advance into Russia, the |Germans are meeting with more re- sistance, and apparently they have been unable to make much headway | toward Petrograd from Pskov. Petro- grad is declared to be the Teuton -ob- the Germans: made. no,progress: there,..or jective in the north, Tuesday, at least Berlin reports none, while tn; the south the greatest’ gains’. were made inthe Ukraine. A German at- tempt to take Vitebsk, near the cent- er of the front, failed before Russian resistance, which forced the enemy to retire, Petrograd says. The Exchange Telegraph correspondent in Petrograd reports to London that the German army has received orders to stop its advance. The American sector in France on Wednesday again was subjected to an attack by gas shells, which had little effect. Tuesday’s two gas attacks caused five deaths and the poisoning of about sixty American soldiers. The majority of those affected are not in a serious condition. German aero- planes are still active over the Ameri- —(Continued"on Page Three.) ele ee FOOD COST 25 PERCENT MORE THAN IN 1947 Bureau of Labor Statistics Shows How Prices Are Unprece- dently Mounting POTATOES ALONE CHEAPER of food from December 15, 1917, to; January 15, 1918, made a total of 25/ per cent which, the cost of living ad- vanced in the year ending on the lat-| ter date. The bureau of labor statistics today announced that eleven of fifteen standard articles increased in price from December to January, the great- est advance being 8 per cent in hens. Flour decreased two per cent and lard, bacon and corn meal 1 per cent each. In the twelve months, from Janu- ary, 1917 to, January, 1918, potatoes alone registered a decline in price, be- 16 per cent cheaper. Corn meal ad- vanced 77 per cent, bacon 64 per cent, ; lard 53 per cent, ‘milk 35 per cent,! | hens 29 per cent, butter 25 per cent,! eggs 23 per cent, sugar 18 per cent,| and flour 17 per cent. T it 7 A.M. 161% Temperature ee ; \GLENART CASTLE Towert yesterday». #| HAD 182 ABOARD Procintianias cee Note Precipitation +--+" NON@] Of People Carried, But 38 Have Been Landed to Date London, Eng., Feb. 28.—The Brit- 182 persons on board, it is stated un- officially,, when she went down Tues- day in the Bristol channel. Three par- ties, aggregating 38, have ‘been lund- ed at three points. None of the oth- ers have heen heard from, The miss. Swift: Curren! Kansas City . ORRI: | was torpedoed by es, Survivors, ofthe - hospival ship landed, .atione soit GERMAN NOTES British Secretary for Foreign Af. | Hhuns Bitterly Opposed in Onward | that with the Central Powers in their present frame of mind would bring a lasting To undertake negotiations un- less they would right the wrongs com- | i. —— M’ADOO ORDERS Washington, D. C., Feb. 28—Anoth- | er 2 per cent added to the retail price CONSIDERATION | ish hospital ship Glenart Castlo hadi ing include about. seven female nars- cae ay eft in tta.& ply Hostile Newspapers GERMAN ARMY ADVANCE INTO Orders Come From Headquarters Directing Cessation of General Invasion PEACE TERMS CARRIED OUT London, Eng., Feb. 28.—The Ger- man army. has received orders to stop its advance into Russia, according to jthe Petrograd correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph who has receiv- el] information to this effect which he. regards as reliable, When the Bolsheviki government agreed to accept German peace terms last week, the commander-in-chief of the Russian armies inquired of the Germans if the previous armistice would be renewed and the German invasion halted. He did not receive an immediate reply and the German {advance continued. A dispatch from Petrograd on Wednesday said Gener- al Hoffmann, the German _ military representative at Brest-Litovsk had replied to the Bolsheviki communi- cation by declaring that the advance would continue until ‘a treaty of peace was' signed and carried out along the lines laid down in the Ger- man peace terms. 5 SHITHIES WALK OUT IN MILES Non-Union Man Hired; Black- smiths Take a Vacation of Indefinite Length Miles City, Mont., Feb, 28.—All the blacksmiths employed at the Milwau- kee shops in this city are out on strike. Trouble arose over a man being put to work who did not have a union card. Members of the blacksmith’s union immediately took action by giv- ing themselves a holiday. The men are still out and while efforts have been made to settle the trouble with- out delay, it is impossible to say when the men will return to work. Superintendent Hills is at present out of the city and could not be seen. Master Mechanic R. W. Anderson, admitting trouble at the shops and that the blacksmiths are on strike, refused to express any opinion re- garding a settlement. Several of the leading members of the union were seen but pil positively refuped to discuss the matter.or even admit that a strike exists. FOR ALL LABOR Washington, D. C., Feb. 28.—Region- al railroad directors cautioned against any action in labor disputes which might appear arbitrary said Director) General McAdoo in a statement is- sued tonight, particularly because railroad labor men still have a suspic- jon that executives, while working under government control, are seek-} | ing to discredit federal management. | The statement also disclosed instruc- tions given the regional directors on | many other subjects. “You should bear in mind” said the | instructions, that “labor has the very | natural feeling that railroad managers | although now working for the govern- ment and on government account, nec- i cessarily continue the same concep- tion of, and attitude toward the labor | problems, that they had when acting under private management. Wants No Walk-Outs “The general policy as to all labor is.that there shall be no interruption of work because of any controversies between employers and employes.”’ Most disputes, the instructions said, should be referred to the director gen- eral; who will deal with them: through | | CHARGED THAT STATEMENTS IN WAR AIMS PAMPHLET ISSUED BY LEAGUE DISOURAGED PATRIOTS Nonpartisan Chieftain Says Action Is Says Action Is Taken Solely to Sup- lines in Efforts to Discredit Organization RUSSIA HALTS With Sensational — FEDERAL AUTHORITIES | _ HAVE APPROVED, ACTION Copies of Booklet Long ‘in Hands of Administration—Men ‘Have’ Praised It, He Declares °- St. Paul, Minn. Feb. 28—A. C, Townley, president of the Nation- al Nonpartisan league was arrest- ed here today by Sheriff Carver of Martin county, on a warrant’ charging him with the canspiracy to discourage enlistments and: t obstruct the draft. phlet issued last June in the “war aims” of the were put forth among othe tures included in its. p ind: Joseph Gilbert, secretary of the ’ league, was also arrested on ‘a similar warrant. Goes to Martin County: Sheriff Carver declared he had been difeeted by the Martin: county: attor- néy to bring Mr. Townley to that jurisdiction, at once, but the defedd- ant claimed the right ‘to otté; before the nearest district the question late today’. wag;, bro up’ in-the office of -the sere £ eral for solution. In a statement issued by ’ ley the pamphlet is*said ‘to‘have “set forth’ principles: exactly ‘inline with: the domestic policies and ‘internation: al<war aims expressed. by Président Wilson.” “Hundreds of’ patriotic me: ‘have nialeed ‘its statements,’ ae, “Copies have been in.thé:bat federal ‘authorities, for, ning: mot The post office department. has } questioned our right to: cirowate ‘it. These facts’ speak’ for themselves: arrest is simply for the purpore sot supplying hostile. newspapers *; with sensational headlines in their- cettorts to discredit the league.” The Pamohiet. Ea The league pamphlet entitled “Ori. gin, Purpose; and Method of Opera- tion: War Program, and Statement of Principles,” contains under the Jagr named head a copy of resolutions a ed: ~~~(Continued on Page ‘Three: PATRIOTIC SHOW OF WAR POSTERS » AT STATE HOUSE Famous Cartoons Which Have Done Their Bit in This Great Struggle Displayed While the Council of Defense has been in session in our city. there has been an exhibition a special. display of war posters in the public reading room of the State Historical society library. All four walls of the reading room are.covered by this unique dis- Play. The collection compri re. | cruiting posters of the American:army ~~~ and navy, the American Red ‘Cross,’ -° Y. M. C, A. war work and Y. ea war work, food conservation, agricul: tural promotion, | fuel. conservation, first and second series: of war loan posters, war savings posters, etc; There is also one of the famoua-Rae: maker's posters. here. Besides the ‘American - posters’ there are also many excellent Eritish; and. Canadian posters for recruitment. The British and Canadian seem ‘to be more artistic and at the same, time more forceful ‘than the American posters. One of the British posters ; bears the question, “Are you answer- ing the call?” This is the most 9p: < Pealing and forceful poster in the’ col jlection, It. portrays the old lion of the home land standing sfaunch ‘upon a height of the war. torn world and sounding forth a mighty cry ‘which is answered by the young: cubs com- ing from all directions, scrambiiag over. the rocks, gathering ‘to, . the strong call of. the parent lieh—Can- ada, India, South. Africa, : itd. Wew Zealand.and the rest: ‘ The curator will ‘leave. this :eoliée- tion of posters on exhibditi time yet. after the. close of sion of the council, so. that all sire.may have opportunity to librarian has. placed ‘also, a table. timely war books ih the, reading roam so that. readers in. the. libbary. have ready access to.the latest oritative material on the Germia. rian. WAP. Late maps and other . illutiinating’ the railroad administration’s division of labor, headed by ‘W.S. Carter, or: through the raflroad commission, said, Mr. McAdoo. Mr. Carter now is con- sidering formation’ of a permanent tling disputes after the wage com! sion has completed its work and t helps are also’ to be found at the His. torical library. * HUGHES TO 80 mediation board to assist him in set-j.