The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1918, Page 1

THIRTY-EIGHTH. YEAR. - NO. | BOCHES BEATEN BACK IN PRESIDENT IN APPEAL URGES TRUCK-RAISING Asks Bureau of Education to Stimulate City Farming Among the Children TO PRODUCE $500,000,000) Chief Executive Believes Kiddies | Can Do Much to Help Feed Our Country Washington, D. C., Mar. 9.—President Wilson in a letter to Secretary Lane ex- presses the hope that “every school will have a regiment, in the volniiteer war garden. army”—the army of school children that it is estimated may raise this year produce valued at $500,000,000. The president’s letter said’ in part: “I sincerely hope that you may be successful through the bureau of education in arousing the interest of teachers and children in the schools of the U. S. and in the cultivation of home gar- dens. Every bov and girl who really sees what the home garden. may mean, will, I am sure, enter into the purpose with high spir- its because I am sure ‘they would all like to feel that they are in fact fighting in Franch by. Joining the home garden army.” HENEY SURFERS REVERSE: CAN'T SEARCH FILES U.S. District Court of Appeal Rules Against. Trade Commission BASED ON TECHNICALITIES Chicago, Ill, March 9—The United States circuit court of appeals today > = | ILLINOIS FLIER IS { | San Antonio, Tex., Mar. 9. | | —Lieutenant L. G. Chand- | | ler, Hindale, Ill., was killed | | in an aeronlane accident at | | ! Kelly Field at 6 o’clock last | | night. Cadet H. K. Huber, | in the plane with him, es- , | ad, 4 caped with slight’ injuries. aes a oe Have ‘ime to Wait for Rein- or forcements HUNSREPULSED AT BEGINNING OF BIG DRIVE i | Attack on Mile-Wide Front in | Belgium Results in No | Gains for Germans \QFFENSIVE NEAR YPRES COMMANDER IS KILLED) |Leader of etude Party Falls} at First Crack—First Liquid Fire Attack With the American Army in France, Thursday, Mar. 7. | —(By Associated Press.) — A lone American sentry to- day attacked an enemy pa- trol of about 40 men, some of whom had stealthi!y en- tered an advance American trench. He drove them off, killing the leader and wounding others. The first reports. of the encounter were that another raid had | taken place and all along the | line details were heing | awaited eagerly. Butinves- | tigation showed. that one American started what there was of an offensive. The name of this man is mentioned in all revorts of |Infantry Moves Forward Under | Cover of Heavy Artillery 4 n .. | Fire, Says Report i | i i | | 1% = — | GERMANS BEGIN ATTACK ON MILE-WIDE TERITORY | | tat ERE | ; |. ‘London, March 9.—After a bom- | | | |.Qardment lasting all day, the Ger- | | ;-mans yesterday evening made an | | | aftack on a front of nearly a mile | | | in Belgium, from a point south of | the Men in Road to a point north of Poelderhoek, the war office an- | | | nounces. Q i the affair, and he has been | 9! iim idetopbna heartily for | | his cour: - | { The Germans were repulsed, except | ednaed by nic: eee -head near Poederhoesk and positions on a; & cers. | The American saw the Germans as: ‘front of 200 yards which were lost | | there were restored during the night.| the patrol began to drop cautiously | ‘The. statement says: ‘into the trench. He knew that an| i” “Yesterday evening, after consider-! American patrol was out along the able artillery activity- all day, east of | | wire not far away and counted on its !Ypres, the.enemy’s infantry covered | j help after-he opened fire. There were | by a heavy bombardment, attacked on| four’ meh | front of nearly a mile.” beg in the American patrol. By the time. five. Germans had entered the | trench, the:sentry thought he should delay no longer, especially as the un- + {der officer who was leading the,Ger- | | man had. approached within a. few | yards of him, The sentry opened: fire | rapidly without challenging. The Ger-| OUT OF WAR AND WAR IN SCHOOL. man leader fell at the first crack of) the rifle. The others in the trench 'State Superintendent N. C. Mae- ; Sought protection, but they were not! \ ; quick enough, for the sentry's bullets | H donald Brings New Slo- | caught some of them. . t The Germans Came Out t gan From Capital ; As the American began firing, a Ge pie _ nan from the distance outside the |. “N.C. MacDonald, state superintend | wire shouted, “Come out, come out.’ ent of public instruction, home from, The Germans needed no second inv | two important school meetings in the/ tation. In fact, those who were still | ,east, reports that Uncle Sam’s mes-/in the wire already had started out. } sagé to KEEP SCHOOLS ‘North Dakota is “Keep the | The small American patrol saw th schools out of war, but take the war| enemy trailing back across No Man’ into ‘the schools.” At Washington,! Land under fire from the sentry and{ from Americans at points further’ WHIPS WHOLE HUN PATROL, FRAZIER NAMES BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, ‘SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1918 o EVERY SCHOOL A REGIMENT IN ‘VOLUNTEER GARDEN “ARMY GERMAN AVIATORS RAID PARIS—SOME LIVES LOST. Paris. March sh 9.—German avia- | tors raided Paris last night. Early | | reports show that bombs were | | dropped with some loss of life and | i property. Signals that all was Clear were given at 12:30 a. m. TROTZKY OUITS RUSSIAN POST AS. PREDICTED 'Berlin Forecast Further Borne Out by Resignation of Peace Pact Promoter ‘PLAYED IMPORTANT PART, Made Public Text of Secret Docu- | ments Exchanged Between Wilhelm and Nick ate LEON TROTZKY ANNOUNCES . | RESIGNATION AS. OFFICER. | _—-& 1 | _ Petrograd, Mareh 9.—Leon | Trotzky, in an address at a méet- ing of the Maximilists party to- | day, announced that he had ré. signed as commissary for foreign affairs. ani As the Bolsheviki foreign minister | | Leon Trotzky was. the most important | , member of the revolutionary govern: ; } ment formed after the overthrow of; Kerensky. in November: although Nik- olai Lenine as premier, was the nom | inal head of the government, Trotz- ky virtually controlled. Russia’s des- tiny up to the second peace conter- ence at Brest-Litovsk. It was Trotzky who made public, the} text of secret documents exchange between’ former Russia government: and. foreign governments, and it was he who proposed the armistice, to the central powers early in _ December. which eventually “letl'to tie” confer. ence .at Brest-Litovsk.,; The negotia tions were disrupted in February and hostilities were renewed. The Ger- mans then sw mitted partial peace terms, but Trotzky took not part in! the conferences. Trotzky’s resignation is the second »mong the Russian leaders forecast by | Berlin. NEW BOARD OF DEFENSE BODY IN LIQUID FIRE, | precipitably, pursued by the H ‘| Americans went into action quashed the search warrant issued by | Supt.. Macdonald attended the annual Judge Landis to permit examination national conference on rural life and | of the letter files in the office of Henry ; Tural schools, which was essentially a | Veeder, counsel for Swift’ & Co. by the| War conference. Messages were re- government. : The decision was “with- | ceived from France and England, tell-| out bar to further proceedings.” jing of the almost complete preak-down | The search warrant was sworn out| of their public’ school system through! ‘ny Francis J. Heney, attorney for the/ |inadvisable war measures taken in the} is; tearly stages of the conflict. They ad- »| Vised against shortening the school ear or permitting students to be ta- federal trade commission, which. conducting a sweeping investigation of the packing industry. It was sald! | along the line. The patrol joined in| | the fray and helped to speed the Ger-| ; mans on their way by hurling a large; nuinber of hand grenades, some of | which probably took effect. Four rifles were found in the American lines. Patrols, both American and German, | are constantly seeking opportunity to; Governor Lynn J. Frazier today) inspect the opposing lines and el named his executive board for the! Germans on this occasion, certainly, vn Dakota defense council, as pro- | |Only Two Members of Former | Executive Committee Re- tained by Governor that the reversal was based on tech-/ nical errors in certain of the Heney' affidavits. HALF AN INCH OF WATER. IN * HEAVY SNOW Friday Evening’s Storm Will! Prove Crop-Maker for Slope Territory Last night’s snow, aggregating sev-) en inches, the heaviest fall of the:sea- son, will reduce to. .42:of an.inch of water, and will be worth millions to the Slope as a crop-maker, reports Observer O. W. Roberts;‘in charge of the United States weather service for North Dakota. “The warm weather of the las st week took ‘much of the frost out of the ground, and this snow ‘will soak | in, as it melts,” ‘said: the government meterologist. “Warmer weather is coming tomorrow, and the ground. will rapidly, absorb this moisture.” SCHOOLHOUSES TO ‘HELP LIBERTY LOAN Washington, D. C., March 9.—Evary, rural school house in the United States is to be made a community center for liberty loan bonds during the cam- paign which will open April sixth, according to plans announced today at the treasury. The opening of this: rural school campaign will-be on the night of Ap- ril 12. when the liberty Joan plans to hold. metings simultaneouely in 100,000" schoofs with’ prominent men to: speak on behalf of the loan and special exercises.. School house bells will be rung, bon fires lighted: and pa-}, rades of: automobiles and. other: ve- hicles arranged expt pe farmers from Toomer antty. plac tt to atend the meetings: * ken out of school, but urged that the |great war and its causes be brought | into the schools; that the school chil-! |uren* be enlisted in patriotic causes, | ‘that they may work with their country | while preparing themselves for great- ier service. At Atlantic City the win-| ‘ter. meeting of the superintendents’, section of the National ‘Education as- sociation was held, and here. too, par ; ticular emphasis was. laid on educa |-tion’s part in the great war. did not wish to be discovered, ‘American troops in the sector north- | west of ‘Poul have been subjected for | the first time to an attack of liquid | fire. OLSNESS GIVEN | “CLEAN BILL. BY STATEEXAMINER| | Conduct of Department Com: | | ‘mended in Report Made by Dakota Investigator [FEDERAL AID FUND GOES TO COUNTIES Apportionment of Road Money Worked Out by Bliss | —_—_— | State Insurance Commissioner Ils} jness’ office is given a clean bill of! {health and the system he has employ [ed is branded “Excellent” in the re {port of the state examiner's office, | which has just completed an examin ; ation of the dusiness from January 1, | 1917, to October 5, 1917. ‘During that! period the office collected in filing} fees $550 from articles of incorpora- j tion and. $3,585. from annual state- State Engineer Jay W. Bliss as sec- retary of the North Dakota highway commission is mailing to each county a@ complete statement of the automo- j bile registration fund apportionment ‘for 1917, showing how money expend- /éd-has 5een invested, and the balance ‘remaining to the credit of these coun-| ments; $691 for «certificates; $30,580 ; tles at the end of the year. In Bur-/from~ companies; $3,422.70 from} ; leigh county’ $5,298 ‘was collected in| agents; $3, 433.70 trom certified cop. | registration fees; the proportionate | ies and $290,686.72 in the 2 1-2 per | expense of the secretary of state's of-| cent premium tax, which applies to all! i fice was $847.79; there was returned but state and county mutual insur- direct to the county, $1,758.95; credit- jance companies and certain fraternal ed to the state highway fund, $2,-, insurance organizations. During the; expense, $593.50; to the state aid con | : | Posi ed with the state treasures $239,- struction. fand, $209,28; remaining ty 515.42. The securities held in the of the’ credit. of Burleigh county, at thé! fice consist of $115,900 from the Pro efid of the year, $1,893.48. This fund | vident Insurance Co. of Lismarck and cannot be expended for work in any; $141,550 from the Great. Northern Life! other county and can only be expend-| Co. of Grand Forks, practically all in ed. for work on state roads in,Burleigh | first. farm mortgages. county, as provided by House Bill 168. / The highway commission may expend | ¢ e the ‘state aid funds inthe improve-| | $400,000,000 ASKED FOR i ment of ahy state. roads, whether or; | MAKING ~F ORDNANCE. | | not they are also federal post roads. i In’ Cass county. $12,743.50. was col- lected; $4,749.83 has ‘been returned to the county,’ and ‘$4,201.68 ‘remains to} the. county's credit. In Grand Forks county: $8,102: was collected; -$3,144.22 has ‘been returned tothe county, which has "i 159.01. remaining to its Washington, D. C., March 9.— | Congress was. asked today by the “army ‘ordnance bureau for an ur- | gent deficiency appropriation of |-$400,000,000- for. the - manufacture of ordnance, principally heavy guns. : ¥ | credit: 12 ;the state defense council, j vided by an act passed in the closing | hours of the recent special session, | as follows: First judicial district—William Eng. | {lish, Grand Forks. Second—Carl Nelson, Cando. ' Third— Thomas Allen ‘on. . Fourth—-C. H. Rony, Oakes. 1 Fifth—K. S. Ramset, Fingal. Sixth—R. J. Montgomery, Tappen, Seventh—T. J. Nielsen, Hoople. Eighth—Dorr Carroll, Minot, Anith onaries D. Backebérg, Bot- ponih—Dr. V. H. Stickney, Dickin son. Eleventh—M. S. Higgins, Banks. Twelve—Charles iM. Whitmer, Yucca. The governor, as ex officio chairman | of the board, has called an executive | meeting for March 14, at the. capitol. | when a secretary and vice chairman) wil be named, The fourteenth mem-; ber of the executive committee is: Attorney General William S. Langer. | Of ‘the original board of directors of | Governor Frazier has retained yut two members | +-Dr. V, H. Stickney of Dickinson and | Dorr Carroll. of ‘Minot. F. 0. Hellstrom of Bismarck is the present executive secretary of the | 691.26; to state highway commission | period the insurance commissioner dé-| hoard, and Dorr Carroll of Minot was chairman. KAISER'S GOAT MADE. KILLING IN METROPOLIS Fargo, N. D., March 9—The “Kais- er's Goat,” which has been traveling around Fargo the past week, collect- ing subscriptions for war savings stamps, has secured pledges. to the amount of $1,025, and this vast. sum will be used for the purpose of thrift stamps ‘every..month for the rest’ of the year,, according: to. the pledges thade-as the result of the “Goat.” Box, Cassel: | PRICE FIVE CENTS, CLASHES WITH U. S. /SAMMIES HAVE - FIRST BAPTISM % RUSSIAN-ROUMANIAN PEACE IS CONCLUDED | London, Mar. 9.—Conclu- on of peace between Rus- sia and Roumania is an- nounced in a Russian wire- | less dispatch received here | today. Roumania promises "| Enemy Troops Carrying Flame} | | eae all of Bessara- || bia. Projectors Discouraged by a American Patrol REVOLUTION : Own Lines They Had to RULE GROWS) (TWO MACHINES CET URED Drop pias in France, Mar. DAME: can troops in the sector northwest of Toul have been | subjected for the first time to an attack of liquid fire. | Enemy troops carrying flame projectors were just | opening the attack when the ; American patrol which hap- pened to be nearby fired on them. The Germans fled | | i} | to Overthrow Bolsheviki Regime in Russia {GREAT ARMY IN THE DON| |News of Uprising Being Sup- pressed by Official Press Agency at Petrograd Americans. four projectors, ‘which were flaming. They dropped two of The London, Mar. 9.—The so- cial revolutionaries have de- cided to organize a national guard to overthrow the Bol- sheviki regime in Russia, according to Dr. Ellef of Moscow university, who is quoted in a Copenhagen dis- patch to the Telegraph as saying that the decision was reached at a recent confer- ence in Moscow. A great army is now being organiz- ed in the Don district, sup- ported by Cossacks, the dis- patch adds, and -it is also planned to introduce a re- public in Russia with a coali- tion government, . which would not accept the Ger- man-Bolsheviki peace. Professor Ellef asserted that the news of the new movement had been sup- pressed by the Petrograd Bolsheviki news _news agency. ' so quickly that the enemy | had no chance to light the other two. No damage was done by the flames. The pro- | jectors lay in No Man’s j Land for three days, and early this morning they ; were brought in by an i American patrol. All had een punctured by shots ftom the American trenches. | Late this evening, the pro- | jectors were taken to head- | quarters and moving pic- ures were taken. They are | of a type long familiar on the western front. | Snipers. Busy. | Enemy snipers have been excep-| tionally busy in the last twenty-four | hours at a certain point, with more or less success. Various parts of the| merican sectors were bombarded | vithout suffering great damage.! !Many valuable points in the German positions were bombarded with suc-} cess..by the American artillery. An enemy observation balloon in he rear of !Montzec caught fire this’ | morning and was hauled down. There | was great a ity in the air all sey, NEW REVENUE | threw down near towns behind ithe! | Wilson fara to Be Consider- American lines, hombs, aerial torpe |does, and heavy shells. They set the} ing Change in War |fuses and dropped them from their} i planes, out the only result was to dig} Tax Law large holes in the ground. American! piace, lanti-aircraft guns drove off several! Washington, D. C., Mar, 9—Presi- j enemy machines many of which cross-; dent Wilson and his advisi accord- :ed the line today, One enemy machine| ing to apparently authentic reports at : was driven down out of control after) the capitol, are beginning to consider (a battle which thrilled the men in the; new revenue legislation for presenta- trenches. | tion to congress. Revision of the present war tax law, ! | it is stated authoritatively is one fea- | ture of tentative administration plans | which are expected to cover the gov- ,|LANGER WOULD ADD T WO GOATS | erament's financial needs for next ‘year, including new bond TO COLLECTION : Broad features of the aeeiation | probably will be discussed by the pres- ident in conference with Secretary Mc- | : Attorney General Seeking De-' ado and administration leaders in con- 1, gress having charge of revenue ques- feat of Kositzky and Waters | ‘tions. Members of congress believe | in State Convention ‘the president will definitely advise! ' congress of the nation’s financial situ-' | ae ‘ation and needs, present and future,| | Wilhelm S. Langer, the attorney: probably submitting tentative bills for; | general, | his intention of carrying into the Non-| the administration's program, le eetaetiedi c maine MONS COUNTY GERMANS KICKING. | ky, state auditor, and Major J. R, Wa- ters, state bank examiner. He will, it, eee [is announced, be content with nothing | Farmers of Teuton Blood De- jless than their official goats. Herr: A 'Withelm, it is well known, has bad a, lime to Help Farm Survey number of runs in with the state audi- vor, and he was particularly incensed | ! when Kositzky compe:led Langer to, | go on record in the defense of league | | menroers of the supreme court who | reneged on the league pledge to the! voters in 1917 that nonparty candi- dates for the supreme bench would} aot accept the $500 annual expense) fee which other judges had been ac- cepting for some years past. Just where the source of Langer’s antag-, onism to Bank Examiner Waters lies! lis less apparent. It is known that since! j the: “Pro and Con” convention In St. 14 to convi these people of the er-/ | Paul, when Waters was quite outspok- |»). of their w and if that does not jen in his opinion of iaFollette’s ad-; | suffice sterner measures will be used.| jdress, there has been a coolness on le part ow the attorney general. ‘BODY ‘OF REDM REDMOND | i RESTS IN IRELAND | TWO RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS London, March 9.—Tt 9.—The body of John / SUNK BY THE GERMANS \ harck Redmond was taken to Ireland last night. Interment probably will be London, March 9—Two Rus. | | sian transports were attacked and | made Sunday in the family vault at Wexford. | sunk by German destroyers after | Messages of sympathy from. Queen John B. Brown. state labor agent, reported yesterday that he had deen’ ‘advised that many German farmers in! | Emmons county were declining to sign {the questionaires presented them by! ‘school children making the govern. ment farm labor survey for the de; rtment of labor. To many of these ilies, Mr. Brown was advised, the! ad been previously rep .ed us some form of note or bond through which the government; would procure a hold on their prop-! erty. Moral suasion is being resorted a fight south of the Aland Islands islands on Thursday, according to |\a Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex. | | change Telegraph Co. mond yesterday. | National Guard Being Organized | is said to have announced | committee consideration, embodying | Mary and Queen ‘Alexandria’ were among those received by Mrs, Red- BIG GUNS IN. LIVELY TILT | WITH TEUTONS Enemy Bombards American Po- sitions Heavily Without Important Result SAMMY SHOTS EFFECTIVE |Sharpshooters in Uncle Sam's. Army Showing What Real Shooting Means: | With the American Army in France, Thursday, March 7.—(By the Assdclat- {ed Press)—There was comparatively lively artillery firing last, night and {today on the sections of the Lor- raine from where the American troops jare now training. Late this evening ithe enemy bombarded the American positions heavily but without result. On the Lorraine sector as on the jfront northwest of Toul, the Amert- can artillery is showing effectiveness and accuracy. Its shells are register- ing well on points. back of the enemy lines, especially on cross-roads bat- teries, and working parties. Because of a new but probably tem- | porary rule, it is not permitted to dis- cuss American casualties, no matter where they occur, ALL BISMARCK TO HONOR ITS” SOLDIER DEAD General Participation of Citizens Assured for Spetz Mem- orial Sunday ‘POSTLETHWAITE PRESIDES All Bismarck will unite at the Audi- !torium tomorrow afternoon in honor- . < ing the memory of the Capital City’s ‘first soldier dead in what promises to | be the most: impressive services ever jheld here. ‘It is certain that the big | Auditorium will be well : filled: with | fellow townsmen of Private .Loyd |Spetz of Co. A, 164th U. S, infantry, \the first Bismarck ‘boy to lay down | his life in the cause of his country. |The Bismarck Tridune’s Associated Press dispatches carried the first ‘ad- | vices of Private Spetz’s death in an official announcement from the war lepartment Wednesday morning. «Pri- | vate advices came to ‘Mrs. Ann Gradin, mother of the martyred. boy, at the same time. | Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite, pastor: of the iFrst Presbyterian church, and who is in charge of the Sunday mem- jorial for Private Spetz today an- {nounced the following program for he services, which will begin:at 3:30: Opening number, “America,” the | congregation joining. Invocation—Rev. ‘L, R. Call, acting | pastor First Baptist church. | “Crossing the Lar,” Tennyson. Scripture reading. Prayer—Reyv. W. J. Hutcheson, Mc- Cabe Methodist Episcopal church. | “Keep the Home Fires Eurning” a henry Halvorson, Memorial Address — Rev. “Hi ¢. Postlethwaite, pastor First Presbyter- jan church. Anthem—"He Shall Come, Down Like Rain.” Dudley Buck . Closing number, “The Star Spangled ‘ Banner.” Benediction, Rev. Geo. Buzzelle. Governor Lynn.J. Frazier and Hon. | A. Wy Lucas, president of /the’ Bis- imarck city commission, will“ occupy | ‘he stage with the officiating clergy- men. The Bismarck Home Guard, ‘under orders from Capt. ©. G. Wanner, will attend the memorial in a -dody, as- sembling at the state armory’ and marching to the Auditorium, in: full | uniform and with their arms. ‘A guard or honor will be provided to’ escort Mrs. Anna Gradin: from her beme to ‘he Auditorium, Ageneral invitation. is extended the oublic to attend and. evidence tts “ppreciation of the supreme sacrifice made by one of Bismarck’s scores of | brave soldier boys who are‘now on he fighting front in France: ‘STATE EXAMINER'S | OFFICE:CATCHES UP | After a strenuous effo! effort to catch up | wtih routine work, after the unusual jload of extra business which was | dumped on his department toward the ieee of the last. year, Major J. R. Waters,'state bank examiner, reported \Friday. evening that everything. was absolutely down to date, every report of-a Dank examination received in the’ office having been investigated. <A special staff of five deputies now. is engaged in| inspecting state - which are coming ‘under. the: positors’ guarantee act, which, made operatt inthe