The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1918, Page 1

r) + | bacgce,-if. you: will: : recently, have ‘bee! TR BISMARCK, N NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1 1918 BUN PRICE FIVE CENTS. LOYD. SPETZ MEMORIAL AT . _, AUDITORIUM]. Public Military Services to Be| | Held in Honor of the Soldier Dead © POSTLETHWAITE. PRESIDES Chaplain of the Bismarck Home Guard Will Deliver Trib- ute in Uniform Ce ~% Almost as a voice from the | grave came to Mrs, Anna Gradih | this morning the last letter from | her son, Private Loyd Spetz of | | Co. A, First North Dakota in- ; | fantry, now the .164th U, S. in: | fantry, whose death on the firing | line, shot down while repelling a | ‘Hun attack, was reported in The |, Morning Tribune on Wednesday. |’ This letter, received by Mrs, Gra- { din only a few days ago, had been | forwarded to the young soldier’s;| sister, Miss Esther Spetz, at thq | University of Minnesota, and ‘Mia¢ | Spetz brought it back with her when she huried home yest2rday | to ‘console her © griet stricken mother. Loyd Spetz’s last letter is. a | typical message from a typical \” boy. It is a letter from a.brave,,| clean,‘ manly boy, a boy who was | living in the clean,‘true American : boy way, and whose “Hang-Out” | was the Young Men's Christian | association. The letter was writ. ten on Y. M. C. A. stationery, un- | der date of January , 23, aud, it fol- | 1 | “ | | ao lows: “DEAR MOTHER—+ thougnt i} would write you a’%ew lines to let you, know: | am. well ‘and hope you ‘are the same.. | am some- where in France. That .is all | cah tell you. | s’pose it is:cold in | North Dakota abopt this time.: It is. not so very cold here now, |! think it is getting spring, “1 was going: to write‘ you a letter a long time ago, but aye ;) no had a chance... | have not hat a, letter since 1, have. been. here; get this letter: | think, thia wilt 2.8, A. for mines ; re { os Hope | Tell them. all. hello. | ing to.send me a sweater. | have | to get mi ere, | have been in so write often, | s'pose, it will be a nice country in the sumniér- “i wish you <Wwould: send and.the rest of you are 0. K. wilt “From ‘LOYD. not got it yet. It may be on the I the Trenches. Game out 0. K. Like | | take a month ‘or.two: before you time, but, 1 will take the good old” some. Bull Durham : smokin write more ndxt time. Write Soon. N. B,-Esther said she wae Qo | road, pert iy sakes a long time’| it fine.” | | _ In forwarding this letter to. her i | daughter,, Mrs. (Gradin, obeying } i some prophetic impulse, under.) lined a notation: “KEEP THIS | LETTER.” § The sweater which Miss Eather ' Spetz was to ‘send her brother is now on the way to France,.as are || ; a half-dozen or more letters, de- | layed on the.way by the incompre- hensible break-down of the United States mail service. Like many an Other American boy in the trench. ' es over there Loyd, Spetz longed for letters which his loved. ones had written him and*which he | should have had. ‘Now they. will | 4 i | arrive too late, i Private: Spetz is ‘believed to be the first man lost by Co./A from any cause since it entrained from | ‘Fort Lincoln last fall. So far as | known there have been no other: casualties. Under the plan adopt- , ed of breaking up American unit it is probable that few, if’any oth- | er Bismarck boys, participated in | the raid which cost Private Spetz | | his life, Py ry A military memorial bervice in hon- or.of Private Lloyd Spetz of* Co: ‘A, First. North: Dakota . National Guard, ‘the first Bismarck boy;to-lose his‘ life on the battle-fields of France,’ will, be held. at the: municipal, auditorium at 3:30,Sunday afternoon, under, thé:joint auspices of the First’ Presbyterian church, with which, the young man was affiliated, and the Bismarck unit of the North Dakota Home, Guard. Rev. H. C, Postlethwaite, .the dead (Contiiued on Page Taree.) TWO NEW TAWYERS (Crosby and Valley. City Young |AMERICANIZED SECTOR FOR GEN. Men Admitted to Bar j Olaf Braatelein of Crosby, county auditor of Divide, and Fred J.’Fred- erickson of Valley fy who! passed the state bar examination at Fargo formally admitted to the North ‘Dak bar at a special session of the supreme bench. GUS \WOG NONPARTY Us LEGISLATURE CARD ryburg, N. D., March 1—The ‘Non partisan leaguers of Billings county have endorsed for the state .legisla- ture from: this districtGus ‘Wof, prominent farmer in the south end: of the county. He has been 9 jeader Ee ee TRAINING WITH FRENCH | ' Lorraine front, met a Prussian lieuten the. third American force now facing ithe enemy. /one of. the quietest. | gress was aked today by A. M. Palm- among agriculturists of ot ie last: eleven: years; and, vhs Rocha tard PETROGRAD IS CALM IN FACE OF HUN ADVANCE : Petrograd, Tuesday, Mar. .—Petrograd was calm and orderly today regardless of , the presence of German troops at Narva, 100 miles from: the capital, and there were evidences on all sides of the removal of war sup- i plies. OLONEL OF SAMMY BOYS /~ HASPET HUN ¥ ! jerman Lieutenant Captured | i Single Handed in Trenches ‘Is .Very Docile i o o Third American Contingent Fac-| | ing Enemy at Chemin des Dames Post | With the Amreicar Army in France, | March 6,—(By the Associated Press.) | An American staff colonel while with French raiding party for the purpose of securing information a few days befere his men took up their positions in the new American sector on the ant in an enemy trench and captured him. The colonel with an American captain brought the Prussian officer sack to the lines the Americans are now occupying. The German raid in this new sector occured, on Monday night,. a sharp fight taking place in which thé Ger- mans suffered a repulse with loses In it, a unit which was among the most recent arrivals displayed the customary American fighting energy and apparently gave the enemy a much warmer reception than he ex pected. Training With French. The American froops‘here are train. ing with French troops as at the Che win Des Dames position. This makes During. several days of the American service here, the casualties have been extraordinarily slight, as the sector is The lines are far aparti The Prussian lieutenant’s capture was the. first: instance of an enemy officer being: taken prisoner by the Americans and also the first occasion upon which ‘an American officer had captured. either’an enemy officer ora soldier in this sector. PALMER WOULD SELL ALTEN'S U. §. HOLDINGS Property Custodian Asks foi Measure Which Would Back Up Wilson TAKE GERMAN WHARVES Washington, D, C., March 7.—Con- er, alien property custodian, for legis- lation empowering him to sell any alien. property in the United States: within his discretion. Such legislation attached to the urg- ent ‘deficiency appropriation bill was requested by Mr. Palmer before the appropriations committee in supple- menting President Wilson's request for’authority to acquire legal title to the.German wharves and docks at Ho- | boken, .N. J. - —% ANOTHER ‘AIRMAN MEETS ‘| «DEATH WHILE TRAINING, | 1 | Fort »Worth, ‘Texas, March 7.— | ¥ Burton Hurlburt, Royal Flying | | Corps cadet; whose mother lives | | at Prescott, Ont. was killed this \ {morning when he tried to make a. | | landing. He‘was flying with an in- | + |‘structor at: the time. The latter | | | however, who was sitting in the | i seat, escaped uninjured. Hurlburt | is the 36th. cadet killed here, | ture and labor, acting in- conjunction ; | with the Federal Department of Agri-! ‘sation and the State Council of De-| WHERE RUSSIA’S FATE WILL BE DECIDED The ancient capital of the Russian czars, the Kremlin, surrounded by its wall of many towers, where Napoleon, in his winter campaign saw the tide of conquest turn against, him when the rigorous Russian winter came to beat back his hosts which had overrun.all Europe—Here the workmen’s and soldiers’ council delegates now gathered will meet to consider -the final ratification or rejection of the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which spells the end of Russian nationality. BIG ARMY OF = CHILDREN TO MAKE SURVEY. Veengiinns Will “Will Cooperate with Government. in Finding | Farm Labor Needs BURLEIGH COUNTY IS BUSY Fifteen Hundred Questionnaires to Be Distributed:-Through Eighty Schools Friday will be observed as a gen: aral school holiday in North Dakota, vhile, in obedience to the proclama- dion of Governor Frazier, an army af more than. £00,000 school children will diligently apply . themselves to 1 labor survey designed to discover North Dakotas farm labor needs. This survey is made in cooperation with che united states government. in naking it the kiddies are acting as ‘artners with Uncle Sam, | In Burleigh county, County Superin-| endent of Schoo.s Parsons and Coun- _y Farm Agent Brander have mailed o 80 schools’ more than 1,500 ques- donaires. When these are returned, che county agent, through Federal La-| or Agent John B. ‘Brown of the de- yartment of agriculture will set aout olving the problem of supplying the abor which is needed in’ this ‘county. | ‘imilar work will be done in each of he other 52 counties of the state. “We nust have farm labor enough to plant| ‘' and hatvest every available acre, said J. M. Erander today. The Proclamation, | Governor‘ Frazier's__ proclamation; secting aside Friday, March 8, for| farm labor survey day, follows: { “The superintendents, teachers, and | the boys and girls of our public; schools have loyally responded to every call to aid their country in the) present national crisis, and I have} every confidence that they will wel-| come an opportunity to unite their! efforts in the accomplishment of an| important purpose at this time. We are all determined that our state shall| Jo its share in producing large quan- tities of food products. _How well we} 3ucceed will depend upon the amount | 3 individual effort that is put into| ‘his work. A survey must be maue ior the purpose of determining. just what and how extensive our avail-| able resources* are. This will be ‘nown as the Farm Labor and Crop} Survey, and will be under the juris-| diction of ‘the department of agricul- | culture, the State Department of Edu- fense. “These departments are calling up- on superintendents and teachers of} our public schools to assist in obtain-| ing the necessary data to insure a} (Continued on Page Five.) PERSHING PROMISED BY PLAN OF | REORGANIZATION OF U.S. ARMY, Washington, D. C., March 7.—Based upon the three- line method of trench war- fare evolved in France, the ; war department, it was ; learned today, has approved ‘ a'plan of. organization which fixes six divisions as the strength of an army corps. Three or more corps will constitute a field army and the: ier oe fate oe to com plete the organization of the | first field army in France | in the shortest possible time to give General Pershing the strength to hold a fully “Americanized” sector of | the front..‘The plan leaves to General Pershing the de- termination ofthe number of corps and number of field armies needed ‘and also au- thorizes.him. to:.recommend for, the higher | | never een formaily recognized by | FINAL ARGUMENTS IN’ PACKER ..AGE CASES. Chicago, Il, March 7.—Urging | that the demands of the men be | granted, Attorney Frank H. Walsh | today delivered his closing argu- | ment in the packers wage arnitra- tion. In closing the case for the | packers, Attorney Condon sug- , gested that the arbitrators fix the working day for unskilled men at ‘one hour more than ‘for skilled | lator so as to provide for the | ; necessary clean-up of plants af. tilling and and Sroseing: beets beef. FRANCIS TELLS U. 8. ATTITUDE TOWARD RUSSIA American Ambassador Issues a Formal Statement from His New Headquarters READY FOR COOPERATION Declares: Wilson Will Recognize | Any Legally Constituted : Government FRANCIS NOW QUARTERED | WITH SIAM AND BRAZIL, Washington, D. C., March 7.— | Ambassador Francis, reporting to | the state department under date | of March 4, said he was temporar- | ily quartered with the Siamese | | and Brazilian diplomats in a club house placed at their disposal by | the mayor of Viodga. He added | that a few of the Red Cross and ! publicity workers were still in | | Petrograd. | ey MAKES STATEMENT In a public statement to the pe | ple of Volgda, today, on the inte national stuation as it affects Ru sia, David. B, Francis, the American) | amassador, said that: America has no! plans or desire for territorial cor quest in Russia. “While the present government has my government or any of the allies, jhe said, “both Premier ‘Lenine an | Foreign Minister Trotzky are aware, because I so advise dthem, that I had recommended to my government that it recognize eny government the! nussian people might select and would also earnesily urge that material as- | sistante be ‘rendered to such govern- ment, provided: that it would con- tinue ,the war against the central ‘ powers.” INTERVENTION IN FINLAND IS SWEDE POISON Scandinavians Losing Much of Their Love for Teutonic Friends Amsterdam, March 7.—Intervention | by Germany of Finland and the con- | sequent ill-feeling Against Germany in Sweden is criticised severely by inde- pendent socialists and progressive members of the Reichstag, a ‘Berlin dispatch says. Baron.Von Dem Bus- sche-Haddenhausen, _ under-secretary of foreign affairs, in reply, said that “|; Sweden no longer raised objections to Germany's action, which was taken in response to. appeals for help from Fin- land, The’ ocdupation of'the Aland Islands ae a dase he! saree not yet. taken sti Laos 10m fin {places iis 1072: | “FARMERS ON FIRING ~—RUSSCAPITAL Germans’ with Capture of Jamburg, | Ignoring Tre Treaties IMPORTANT RAIL POINT | Invaders Now eee Have; Clear Sweep to Descend on _ | Helpless Petrograd | 3 London, March he Germans | jcaptured Jamburg, east of Narva, while the Turco-German offensive continuing beyond Trebizond, says |a Russian official agency dispatch re- | ! ceived here today. This action, the statement adds, is despite the officia! ;announcement by the German nigh j command that hostilities against Rus-! | Sia have ceased. is| Jamburg is on ‘the railway line from | Reval to Petrograd and only 68 miles ‘from the Russian capital. The Ger- |mans were reported in yesterday's, dispatches to have halted at Narva, | approximately 100 miles from Petro- {grad. Trebizond is on the Black sea | coast of Turkish Armenia. The Turk: were reported to have reached the} Trebizond region in their offensive when the recent peace treaty was signed. |. The Bolsheviki government has; | been showing concern over reports ‘that the Central Powers were contin- uing on the aggressive against the Russians despite the conclusion of: | peace under the recently signed trea- ty. BISMARCK WOMAN LOSES VALUABLE | TEAM BY POISON, Mrs. J. W. Moran, who has a dairy | farm near the city limits, has a valuable team of horses which she is confident were deliberately poison- jed. A strange sack which had contain- ed oats upon which the horses evi- ‘dently had fed wes discovered on the farm. Three other horses were very | sick but recovered. Mrs, Moran de-} clares she had no oats on the place for weeks past, and that the poisoned feed could not have come into her fields by accident. SAMMIES THOUGHT (By Associated Press) With the American Army in France, March 6.—An American patrol, comprising one officer and eight men, which had been missing since last night in the sec- tor northwest of Toul sud- denly emerged from a shell- hole close to the German lines today and made a dash across No Man’s Land with- out a shot being fired at them. It was noon when the pa- trol carried out its rushto: the American .line. : The men’s comrades tooking on “HUNS WITHIN. =: | 68 MILES OF — Advance Cantinues, | | a pean port with chalk. LIGHT AND MAKE THRILLING RUN fo control, but accessories have FOR LIFE OVER NO MAN’S LAND scoppiONSFOU ND 4 teries dPIvitiz-off a number LINE |GRAIN GROWERS =. SERVE AS WELL AS SAMMY-LADS Farmer Can Best Prove. His Patriotism by Producing a Bumper Crop ef Cereals iINO HALF-WAY LOYALTY Must Stand with Kaiser Bill in. 0v: ) 2 & | Berlin or Woodrow Wilson , {in Washington | “There may be some | things wrong; probably all things never will be exactly right, but right or wrong, | it is the duty now of every | American citizen to so con- | duct himself that there can- | Rot be the least shadow of | a doubt as to whether he | stands back of Kaiser Bill of Berlin or Woodrow Wil- son of Washington,” de- clared J. W. Shorthill of the | United States Grain’ corpor- ation, in addressing the North Dakota Farmer Grain Dealers’ association at the Auditorium this morning. Mr. Shorthill was a member of the federal board which fixed the price of ; Wheat. Dr. E,\F. ‘Ladd, president of the North Dakotej agricultural col- lege served on the same important committee, The speaker was discuss- ing wheat prices in particular when he made the above assertion, which was greeted by a whirlwind of ap | plause. | “The price fixed was not of neces- | sity ased upon equity and justice, | i ——— FORMER GREAT LAKES BOAT | GdORE ON THE ATLANTIC, An tlantic. “Port, March 7.—A | | steamship, the Susquehanna, be- | lieved to be the vessel of that | name owned by the Great Lakes Transit corporation, went ashore today on the coast near this port. | Thirty-seven of the crew were | rescued, The vessel is not thought | to be in danger of breaking up. Tugs have been sent to her aid. | The crew said the ship, of 2,782 | | tons gross, sailed from an Euro- oS If the price fixed last August had ‘been exactly right then, it would not ‘be right now. It was simply a war. meas- ure and must be lodked upon as such, 'A big wheat crop is more essential today than it has ever been before in American history. There has been agitation for a higher price of wheat to encourage the growing of wheat in preference to other crops: The ef- fect of a higher price for wheat would have been to have |Srought up the. |price of cther grains, and we would have the present situation right over {again, except that. :the consumer would have to pay a higher price for every cereal that he eats. And:the farmer must remember that if he does |put in bumper crops of carley and {rye and oats and if he does have a | splendid yield next fall he has no way !of knowing what he is going to get for it. He does know to a penny what every bushel of wheat he raises will !be worth; he knows he cant glut the market with wheat; he knows his WOULD CRUSH REPUBLIC| wheat will ‘be worth a fixed price, no ‘matter if every railroad in the coun- \try is tied up, and if there are no :Workmen’s Council, in Face of | cars to move his grain to market.” Agriculture as a Business. Knowledge, Advises Mr. Shorthill, who is also secretary {of the National Council of Coopera- Acceptance |tive Farmers’ Organizations, repre- senting 300,000 organized American Petrograd, Wednesday, March 6,—;28riculturists, laid stress upon the To a gathering of workmen’s and sold-; hecesnity. (OF ea belie appreciation, ‘iers’ delenates at Moscow on Monda (Continued “on” inued “on Page Five.) “URGE CONTROL OF MATERIALS powers. Deeply moved, he begged | j Believe Revaucia Es Entering Into tho: in sympathy with the demo- | cratic revolution not to deceive them-| Manufacture Should Be Regulated NEW FRONTIERS RING OF IRON AROUND RUSSIA | Deeply Moved, Gedy Revelatienaey| Leader Tells of Duplicity of the Germans selves. The new frontiers traced by Ger-; many, he declared, constitute a ring! of iron around revolutionary Russia. ! He said the Germans were endeavor-; ing to stifle the revolution, the con- quests of which were reduced to noth. | ing by the economic demands in Ber- | | {lin. Workmen Would Accept. The central executive committee of ‘WOULD STABILIZE MARKET the soldiers’ and workmen's council —— while recognizing that the German; Washington, D. C., March 7—Steel peace terms were those of ‘ “political | j manufac ures. have oeted ne soremn ” | ment to fix prices on all products ent- bandits,” has called on its delegates ; | ering into the manufacture of steel in at the Moscow council to vote for the oraer that the fixed price for steel ratification of the peace. says the Iz-) may be stabilized. vestia, the Bolsheviki organ. This ac-' The steel manufacturers urged that tion is advised because the peace has jt was inconsistent to set a price for afforded the social revolution an “ab- the finished product without at the solute necessary respite.” same time controling prices of pro- ducts entering into its manufacture. LOST COME TO Raw materials of which steels are ;made already have come under gov- RATHER FAR NORTH Marmarth, x “Dy Mat March 7.—A col- ony of 20 scorpions, discovered in a coal min eight miles north of Mar- | marth, on the Little Missouri, by | John Brennan, has been on exhibition | here. ‘Scorpions seldom are found in | this latitude, and the venemous, in- | sects are attracting much attention. |MONTANA LIFE MAN HERE | ri | General Manager of Insurance Company Calls on Cook Harry P.. Cunningham of Helena, Mant,,; vice president and Sete expected every second to see them wiped out, and their safe return was an agree- | able surprise. They ex- | plained they had lost their way in the dark. The enemy artillery has not resumed its activi The American guns today effectively shelled the en- emy first lines, and also a town behind the German lines, and buildings which | their troops were using were | destroyed. There was much | artillery activity during the ': day, the: anti-aircraft’ bat- | -of enemy ntachines.