The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1918, Page 1

: ie WILSON ORDERS. ‘ROUND DUP OF AGITATOR “DISTURBERS NCIL AND SIMILAR MAP OF NEW ‘DRIVE AGAINST RUSSIA RESUMPTION OF TEUTON FORWARD MOVEMENT AND PEACE EMISSARIES’ DEPARTURE INDICATIONS OF BREAK Reds Making Frey Possible Preps Preparation for Stubbort Resistance to Hun Advance—Moscow Declares Against the Treachery of Entente Allies PEACE BELGIAN FRONT _| INSPIRATION T0 RED CROSS MEN Everyone from Generals in Com- mand of Armies to Little Children Optimistic P reaching a £ Doctrines of Discord and Hate Severely Con- demned and Professional Defamers Touring the Country Are Directed Taken Up + + + | LYNDON A. SMITH IS | | IN SERIOUS CONDITION | Ie. | THEY’LL BE TAKING 'EM DRIER IN HAWAII Washington, D, C., Mar, 2.— | A favorable réport to the senate was ordered by comm'ttee to- day on the bill providing prohi- | bition in Hawaii during the war, | r STRATEGIC RAILWAYS ADVOCATING, SABOTAGE WRECKE ARE BEING WRECKED SEE STRUGGLE THROUGH WARRANTS DEPORTATION St Paul, Minn, March pa | Lyndon A. Smith, attorney gen- | | eral, who was stricken with par- | | alysis last Monday, suffered & ' turn for the worse last night, Sentiment of War-Torn Populace Is to Fight on to the End, Come What May People’s Defenders Blocking the Progress of Armies—A\ Evo Though Overt Act Has Not "Been Committed, Foreign- ers May Be Shipped Washington, D. D..C., March 2.—A, general roundup of aliei disturbers’in' the Pa- /ific northwest spreading sabotage and anarchy was ordered today by the depart- ment of labor. Il aliens ‘preaching these doctrines, Secretary. Wilson ruled, whether they be members of the I. W. W. or not, shall be ; confined for deportation from the country. In response to a demand for | some 3,000 I. W. W. in the Pa- | the wholesale however, that mere membership in the I. W. W. would. not, be ground for deportation. QUAMME DIFFERS WITH BRENNAN ON SEED BONDS; AGT. “Law Would Not Have Been En- acted If We'Had‘Any States. | men in Legislature” - St, Paul, Minn., March. 2.—Farmers of North Dakota face ruin unless the seed bond law recently passed. by the Nonpartisan legislature is repealed 0: modified, President E.:G. Quamme of the St. Paul Federal Land bank de- clared today. “The legislature by this act, un- questionably done unwittingly, have made themselves the worst enemy of the North Dakota farmer,” Prest- dent Quamme said. “Such a- law should never have been passed and would not have been had there been real statesmen in: that legislature.” Extra Session Suggested. The farmers are greatly alarmed as,they face the possibility of being unable to obtain _ financias support from the land bank because of ‘the operation of the seed bond law, Mr. Quamme said. He admitted the St. Paul bank is not making any new loans in. North’ Dakota, and has pot since. the seed law became effettive, He suggested an extra session of the legislature to annul the law may be the solution. Automatic Bar. Cited. “The matter which comes. up in connection with the new. seed law in North Dakota may or may.. not be serious, according to the final con- struction which will be placed upon ‘the law by the attorney general's de- partment at Washington or the courts,” said iMr.. Quamme. “The Federal Land banks can make only. loans which are first liens on the farms of the applicant. If the new law in North Dakota prevents mort- gagés now placed ‘upon thé farms in that state from: béfng first mortgage! lens, it would automatically. stop’ our} service in that state; a3 long as this condition exists. ay ie “This would présent’ ® father séri- ous situation because thé" péople of North Dakota ,need the service which the Federal Land bank of a Paul can render and should have: it Corporations ‘May Withdr: “it\the law is sidh ythat (twill force the Feder pd jbank sys- tem to withdraw: "the state, it also will force many of the larger and more conservative,/mortgage compan- fies, insurance companies: and ‘trust companies to withdraw. from the state for the same reason. mortgages to clients in the Hast, they. must assure the investor.their mort- gage is a first lien on the land; oth- erwise they would be deceiving the investing public.” internment of cific northwest, Secretary Wilson ordered that any alien advocat- ing. sabotage or anarchy be de- ported even though he may have committed no overt act. He ruled, To sell their with a referendum vote within | manent GERMAN RAID LEAVES DEAD ish Lines Either Killed or Taken Prisoner SAMMIES SUFFER HEAVILY Berlin, “March 2—In a Ger. | man attack northeast of Seiche- | | | trey yesterday the Americans suf- | | ers, the war office announces. against.'theRortugese . trenches counter attack promptly uation as it was before: the raid. ed or captured. near Arleux-én-Gohelle. Dead in American Trenches graduate of 1917, was killed in a gal- lant. exploit. When my from the rear as they retreated. On the other sector, had captured‘ten American prisoners. oners: in American hands, he had ‘been trying to regain since. front has been of great intensity. as to Japanese intervention in Siberia. East. officially." EVERYTHING FOR DEFENSE, BUT NO Interior of Russia, Will Have None of Peace Pact. Vologda, Russia, Mar, 2.—The inter- @ separate peace with Germany. Work- finish in behalf of the revolution. | two years after peace, to determ: | | ine whether the law shall be per- | — | splendid IN TRENCHES Every Man Who Reaches Brit- COUNTER ATTACK BLOODY LOSE TEN IN PRISONERS il \ fered -heavily, and. lost 10 prigon- | London,: March: 2—German “troops! carried: out_a raid op a. wide © front |, May" northern France early today, the Brit- ish war office statement announces. A i launched : r ‘ ejected the Germans and ‘left the sit-| | MAY INVESTIGATE 0. C. LEE Several raiding operations by the} Germans were conducted last night. In one case, near Hargicourt, every German who ‘succeeded in .reachfhg the British trenches was either kill- British troops took prisoners in the raid in the Armentieres region and The dead were found in the Ameri- can trenches and many enemy bodies were scattered over No Man’s Land. An American captain, a West Point the Germans reached the American position, he led a party out in front of the wire entanglements and attacked the ene- the Germans were driven back, but not until they In both attacks the enemy left pris- “The. French in Champagne have been hotly. engaged by the Germans. After being repulsed in attacks south- west of the Butte-du-Mesnil, the en-; emy attacked again and obtained a/ footing in part of the position from + which he was driven by the French more.than two weeks ago, and which The artillery battle on the Champagne No decision has yet been reached Negotiations between the Allied gov- ernments are proceeding. According toa London report Japan has been requested to do all that is necessary to guard Allied interests in the Far This has not been confirmed SEPARATE PEACE Workmen’s Delegates From the ‘ior of Russia, following the example of Moscow, declares strongly against men’s and Soldiers’ councils in many provincial centers are issuing mobiliz- ation orders proclaiming a fight to the Press)—General Hiliott Wadsworth, mons, all of the American Red Cross, Belgian front. “Our experience has been most in- spiring,” said General . Wadsworth. “Adove all, we were impressed by the courage and optimism of every one from generals in command of armies to children who are stay- ing on farms and studying in schools within the sound of the German guns The cheerfulness of the sol- diers, the determination of the peo- ple to see the. struggle through to a successfuj conclusion and free Bel- gium—these are circumstances which strike the Amerjcan visitor forcibly.” LEAGUE QUEST FOR OFFICIAL _ SCALPS. FAILS Smith Holds Charges Made: - Are Insufficient of nonfeasance and malfeasance on the part of certain county officials preferred by the representatives of the National Non-Partisan leagué whose meetings were broken up by. sufficient to warrant trials, according General L, A. Smith, given to Govern- or Burnquist today. In the case of O. C, Lee, sheriff of Jackson county, the charges, accord- ing to the opipion, may be adequate to demand an investigation. ‘The other offictals against whom the league complained are acting Sheriff H. E, Davidson, Ramsey county, Sher- iff C. M. Livingston, Rice county, and Attorney E. H. Nicholas, Jackson coun. ty. It 1s exnected decisions on these cases and others involving county of- ficials will be given by the governor next Monday. FIFTY SHIPS TO BE LAUNCHED FROM HOGISLAND YARD Washington, ‘D.C, , D.C. Mar: 2.—Launch- ing of fifty ships at the Hog: Island yards this year was promised the sen- ate commerce committee today by ‘Harris D. H. McCormick, vice presi- Shipbuilding Corporatton; building ships for the government. He) said 25 would be ready by November 1, another 25 by December 15, and ed for would be delivered before time) | specified, July, 1919. Mr. Connick. made: a vigorous de- fense of the corporation against charg- penses beyond the original esti- mates had been made necessary by ‘enlargement of the plant and chang: es ordered by the shipping board. STATE LAND BOARD TO TAKE UP BONDS At the next meeting of the state board of university and school lands it is probable that the balance of. $80, 000 due on the board’s purchase of $200,000 worth ‘of the Second Liberty loan bonds wil be taken up, as & means of saving accrued interest. The board has plenty of money in its funds for this purchase, eee ry With the British Army in Belgium; Friday, ‘March 1.—(By the Associated of Boston, Colonel’ Ernest Bicknell of Chicago, ‘Major Icy ‘Lee of New York, Major Van Schiack and’ Major Sim- have just completed a visit to the Attorney Glaaral Lyndon: A. : St. Paul, Minn., March 2.—Charges | the officials do not contain allegations | to an opinion written by Attorney! dent of the American’: International| which. is | that all of the 125 ‘vessels contract-| es of mismanagement, and extrava-| gance, declaring that: enormous ex:) _AU UO STRIA, VIERBA. | HUNGARY, This map shows where the new German drives principal railroad lines. Berlin .announces; one from Riga and one from The Riga drive is aimed at Dvinsk, 100 miles away. the Russia, centering, -and driving ‘on into Kovel. isan important .railroad center. north into’ Petrograd, 250 miles. to have been cantured. by Red Guards after terrible bloodshed in the strife. Previous to. Berlin’s..announcement Swiss reports said that immediately. after the armistice expired Gernian troops began pushing into the Baltic provinces Capture of these provinces would cut Russia off from Baltic and. put’ Reval in the hands of Germany. ‘mans could easily. operate against Pétrograd by sea. other ‘reports that Germany was preparing to occupy Finland. Russian civil drives, Esthonia: {}o°GERMAN, CAPTORS OF | PSK! DIE IN. BLAST | “Amsterdam, March 2.—In the | capture: of Pskov,-by the Ger. |, mans, one of the German _bat- | tallions suffered heavy losses thru an explosion caused by the retreating Russians, according |. to a Berlin. dispatch printed in | the Volks Zeitung of Cologne. MORE: BONDS FOR STATE. TEACHERS’ ‘RETIREMENT FUND Board Will Meet at State Capitol Next Saturday to Consider Investment At the sugestionof Wesley McDowell of Fargo, state chairman for the Third Liberty loan drive, John Haig of Dev- ils Lake, president of the North Da- kota teachers’ retiremént fund execu- tive committee, has called a meeting of the board to be held at the capitol March 9 for the purpose of consider- ing a further investment of funds in the national Liberty bonds. The teachers’ retirement fund was the first department .of the state administra- tion in North Dakota to take usch ac’ tion. It already has invested $100,000 in these bonds, and it now has con- siderable more money available. “FROM BALL ROOM TO HELL,” OFFERS SOME SIDE TRIP “From the Ball Room to Hell” is’ the ‘title of an interesting “Little Journey,” not done into.a book by the Roycrofters, which has been received ‘by Supt. J. Maurice Martin. ‘ The Bis- marck board of education at its last meeting suspended the ban which: had existed from the beginning of the time on dancing in the high. school gymn and decided that hops might be staged there by the students. “From the Ball Room to Hell” describes an interest-/ ing trip, hut it isn’t disposed to popu- larize Hades, as a winter resort: THE WEATHER | For. twenty-four’ hours ending at noon, March 2. ‘Temperature at. 7, a..m. . 26 Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest. yesterday» Lowest last night Precipitation .:. Highest wind velocity 38] ton ‘high 28 to 27 and Redfield high against Russia are Two German armies are Dvinsk From ‘there'a direct rail line runs Kiev, shown in the lower right, is said of the new of Livonia and the From Reval the Ger- Tiere have been GOETHALS IN HOT RETORT TOBREAD IB Declares Major Mosher of Wal- nut, Ia., Doesn’t Tell the | Truth About Food SAMMIES EAT THE BEST Washington, D. C., March 2.—In a memorandum prepared for Secretary of War Baker, Major General Goethals today denies a complaint of Major O. Mosher of Walnut, Ia., that the bread fed to soldiers lack nutrition. * “It is not true that soldiers are be- ing forced to use a bread: from a flour that the government declared to be “bled white,” by the millers, as stated by Mr. Mosher,” General Goeth- als says. “The greatest care is taken by the quartermasters department to see that the bread fed to the soldiers is nutritious, wholesome and tasty in every respect.” The bread, General Goethals says, ed, ABERDEEN WINS FIRST:-GAME IN BASKET TOURNEY District Contest Starts With Close Game Between Groton and Aberdeen. | Aberdeen, S. D., March 1.—Six teams played Friday in the district high school basketball tournament. The winner of the elimination contest ‘woll represent the district at the state tourney at Huron the middle of the month. In preliminaries Friday afternoon Aberdeen: high school won from Gro- won from Waubay high 22 to 21. GERMANS SEEKING TO. STARVE OUT PETROGRAD | interest of the state. | His condition was pronounced at aie favorable today. DUALMONARCHY BYPLAINING ITS UKRAINE MOVE and Not an Act of War, Von Seydler Says JUST A NEIGHBORLY ACT Amsterdam, March 2.—The decision of ‘the AustroHungarian government to send troops into the Ukraine was explained yesterday in the upper house of the Austrian parliament by Premier Von Seydler as having been taken in response to a urgent request for assistance from the Ukrainian government. The request was made, he said, in consequence of events in Uukralne which threaten to interfere with the transportation of food stoofs, “In the circumstances,” he contin- ued,. “we could not‘ refuse our help? The ‘netéssity has arisen ‘for partictpa- tion by the monarchy in an action which lias not’ the least connection with any act of war and which pos: sesses no political character whatever. It constitttes solely an act of legal ad- ministrative assistance rendered at the request of another state in the Naturally, this assistance cannot be given except by the employment. of limited military forces.” RAILWAY HADN'T PAID "PHONE TAX Karl Kositzky Assesses Great Northern Auxiliary $400 The fact that the Branden-Devils Lake Railway Co., a branch of the Great Northern, has not been paying taxes on 70 miles of telephone and telegraph line has been unearthed by State Auditor Carl Kositzky, who has assessed the company for six years back, approximately $400 in all. The state auditor has also clamped a tax on‘a small stretch of railway entering Cavalier caunty which has heretofore escaped..This small international rail- way is owned by private parties, and connects on the other side of the line with the Canadian Pacific. is bei de in the various camps, : 1 in which ‘trom ten ke ckicatt i debi BILLION A MONTH f eals, rye, barley, rolled oats Saaivleg ars aie for substitutes, de- COST OF THE WAR pending on the locality and facilities! TOUNITED STATES with which the supply can be.furnish- Dictated by Political Necessity | icans Outfight Enemy | By ASSOCIATED PRESS. Peace negotiations between the. > German and Bolsheviki., govern- ments apparently have.been. brek-: off again. Resumption : ef...the . German forward movement, and; the. facts that. the peace ematle-.” saries have asked. that a. train... Under military gu: be . sent ‘to. meet them near Pskov: indicate. - that Teutonic aggression MMe neti yet been satisfied, Rede Meet Hui Hun. Advance, , The Bolsheviki are * making: streny- ous preparations to meet the German. advance, and Premier Lenine: is:senu- ing forth proclamations urging: ‘@ll Russians to save the revolution. :-Mos- cow and the interior of Russta, fowl declared against a separate; and the. local: councils. in ,the interice are making ready to. resist, the invad. ers. Belated dispatchos from “Petrograd say the Bolsheviki are ‘deat strategic railways, bridges and: “roads, and sending: large forces to the fight- ing front.. The Germans, are*sajd to’ be. within eighty : miles: of Petrogred -* on the southwest and are-approaching’ Orscha,-on. the same. meridian.of long- itude as Petrograd and 300: miles: ewes of Moscow. 4 Vitebsk. Threatened: : . Vitebsk,. 75: miles:north: of Orabaxnt so is threatened. In.the Ukraine,-the advance of the Germansand ‘Austrisis who now. have joined:: their ‘ally;jn driving. the Bolsheviki from : the new Republic goes .on: rapidly. -Xiey;the capital, which has. been in: Bolsheviks control, is in danger. “Vienna :r@port® the surrender of 10,000 Russians and the capture of much war material and railway rolling stock. : Americans Outfight Huns American soldiers :on the-firing line in France have met the famous Ger- man “shock troops,” for the:first time, and have outfought thein.. In: two sectors,—northwest of Toul:and along the Chemin Des. Dames, the: Germans. failed in attempts to. penettate the positions held by the Americans.‘ : The fight northwest of Toul resulted in a desperate hand to hand. struggle. The Germans reached the Amefican line, only to be driven back with heavy losses, a PREVENT WOMAN DISLOYALIST’S BUFFALOTALK Conviction on Sedition Charge in Bismarck Follows Mrs. : Kate Richards O’Hare we Buffalo, N. Y., Mar. 2.—Because of Washington, -D, C., Mar. 2.—The money cost of the war to the United States still is running near a Dillion dollars a month. Despite official fore- casts: of steadily increasing expendi- tures from month to month, the gov- ernment’s outlay in February accord-; ing to a treasury statement issued to- day, was slightly less than in either Jaunary or December, and would have been approximately the same if the month had been as long as other months. SPECULATION IN RYE IS HALTED; PRICE AT $2.71 Minneapolis, Minn,, Match 2.—Fu- ture trading in rye, the last of the speculative grains, was barred by the Minneapolis chamber of cf commerce today, and a maximum price of $2.71 fixed. ONLY THREE DIVISIONS receipts of telegram by Buffalo police late Thursday from District Attorney. Hildreth, of Fargo, 'N. D,, stating that. Mrs, Kate Richards O'Hrae, “who. was, scheduled to speak here in Elmwoad Music. Hall, was ‘convicted. at.,..Bie-. ' marck and sentenced to five years. dp Missouri penitentiary for. seditious: ut- terances Mayor Buck and local coun- cilmen refused to allow. her. tg:.ad- creas meeting here. r SWISSRESENT TORPEDOING OF. SPANISH SHIP Paris, March 2A Spantd ship which has been chartered by’ Switser- land, and was conveying 3,000 toms of © wheat from America to Europe, ‘has been ‘torpedoed and sunk according to a dispatch from Berne to the Pe- tit Parisian. The sinking, the Berne advices say, was contrary to the solemn undertakings entered into by Germany. The news has had a strong effect on political circles in Berne. | A. A. A. SCHEDULE | OPEN TO SELECTED MEN 4 FOR 1918 PUBLIC ALLEGED SLAYER AND WIFE NOT FRIENDLY ———— | BROILERS EXCLUDED FROM CHICKEN BAN, London, March 2.—German forces are moving on the town of For ‘North Dakota: Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer northwest por- Forecast. ae \ i Provost General Marshal Crowder BADGER SOLONS es i cps ti - “} Washington, , March 2—The t. Bologoie, on the Moscow-Petro- i) fs Milwaukee, Wis, March 1-—The| Bemidji, Minn, Mar. 2—Roland Pe Gaaieitation announced (Heenan Lowest | | gradvratirond, which place is the Baie tan tne ancy aeoduction ab DEADLOCKED ON £ playing schedule of the American as-| Henrionet, charged with the murder/ | today that the prohibition against chief freight center for the feed. | | calls for phe Shag naive SEN. LaFOLL! t sociation of baseball clubs, adopted|.on November 15th, of Oscar Nelzon,| | the sate of live or freshly killed Fargo. . ing of Petrograd, says a dispatch | ion of the aviation section, Vancouv: i. ; ETTE Barracks, Wash., and the special calls for bricklayers at Camp Sevier, Green- | | ville, S.C. . This leaves now open for| ; | voluntary induction nothing but the medical department, infantry and coast, artillery. Local boards. still. en- train .men, for these three . tee ments. cashier in @ local bank, took the stand in his’ own defense Friday. He testi- fied that he and his. wife were not on friendly terms for some time before the shooting. It 18, expected that the poe ‘will attempt to show that Nel- tape br intimate with “Mrs. Hen- pas this afternoon calls; for Minne- Wiltetoa, is opening at Kansas City,, St. Pe il at Milwaukee, Indianapolis at Columbus and Louisville. at, Toledo. Admission tickets, to the will cost 27c, grand { | from Petrograd under date ot | || Friday, received by the Exchange | | Telegraph Co. The Germans prob | ably intend the message adds, [ | thus to cut off the supplies from. | Petrograd and ocenet eh poultry does not apply to broilers | eee, two pounds or less each. | sale of this | ‘Madison, Wis., Merch 2.—The state assembly, failing by five’ or more votes, on repeated roll calls, to faisn - the ca'l which would permit voit