The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1918, Page 1

‘* RULE ALLOWS CUT is oi if "THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 71. MILLION TONS AVAILABLEIN DUTCH BOATS) ’ Large Amount of Shipping Made Immediately of Service FRENCH ACCOUNT FOR ENEMY PLANES Paris, March 14.—French aviators have accounted for four enemy machines, ac- cording to a statement from office tonight, which also reports a suc- the war cessful yde, Belgian | movement near Lombaertz- forward ARMIES KEYED FOR APPROACH! ALLIES WILL TAKE OVER HOLLAND SHIPS IN ‘CHASE OF PIG ALMOST COST HUNS A SUB ‘Captain So Interested in Pursuit | of Porker He Forgot All | to Entente © NETHERLANDS PROTESTING Government. Whose Slowness to| Act Brings About Seiz- ure, Makes Plea London, March 14.—Because of the; long delays in negotiations with Hol-| land and over Dutch ships in allied: ports and the slowness of the ‘Dutch government to act in this respect,| Great Britain and the United States; have reached an agreement to end the negotiations and take over all such ships next week for the use of the ‘ alies. The amount of tonnage made avail | rangement is 1,000,000 tons, of whicr 70 per cent is in the United States. 15 per cent in ‘British ports, and %5 per cent in other alied ports. Every precaution will be taken to sefeguard the rights of the owners The ships will be insured, and armed and any ship sunk will be-replaced at , the earliest posible time after the) ‘war. America Joins in Ultimatum. States and Great Britain have nresent- less the pending agreement for the allied use of Dutch ships is accepted by March 18 the ships will be taken over for alliend use. ‘Declare CZECHS MAKE DEMANDS FOR INDEPENDENCE Unshakable Nation’s Right to and Will for Self Determination sentative of Austro-Hun- garian Monarchy . Washington, March 14.—Representa-| He ordered them to cease firing, com-; tives of the Czech nation ai Prague} mandeered one of the Siran’s life have made a public their nation’s unshakable will and un-; to investigate. assailable right to self-determination and complete political indeepndence from Austria. Washington, March 14.—The United | ceedings of the Czech representatives | ge:] it out: were ordered suppressed by the Aus-'then there began a pig hunt up and! ed a final notice to Holland that un-| ‘rian censors, but deiails have reach-| down the decks, the men clutching at} ed the Czecho-Slovak cil here and today were made public.; the German captain, watching through | es | of the! his binoculars, was dole] up with, lands of the Bohemian Crown met in! laughter, The constituent declaration of { | | | | | | | + About War . |DESTROYER STOPS FUN| |British Vessel Prevented From Firing by Use of Survivors as Screen london, March 14.—A German U. boat, a pig, the crew tried to catch| on the deck of a ‘Norwegian steamer, | !a Lsitish destroyer, and three boat-j loads of Norwegian seamen, were the | principal figures in the tale of an en- jemy submarine, which was ‘nearly! caught” in the Atlantic recently. The oan Baron Usaka is chief on the Jap- PEOPLE NAME DELEGATES | story is told in the following letter | anese military general staff. i from Norway: | “Our ship, the 'Siran, was attacked the submarine heard a noise on board | che ship. “A pig,” he ca‘led out to his men. DIVISION HIGH “They found the pig in a pen on the} boats, and sent some of his men over All reports of the pro- deck and two of the vermans drag-; French and American Officers; assem ly national cow Prague on January 6 with more than| 2&0 Czech deputies of the Austrian reichsrath and the national diets of Bohemia, ‘Moravia, and Silesia, elected} by the free choice of the people of! the Czech lands, in attendance, con-; stituting a legal representation of the whole nation: grearins aah The declaration adopted by unani-} mous. vote is looked upon as proof of the sentiment of the whole Czecho Slovak nation, and of their attitude to- ward the government and ruling class- es of Austria. It cites the declara- tion of the Czech at the time of the Franco-Prussian war when they said “all nationalities, be they great or small, have the same right to self: determination and in the same man ner they must be considered equal.” To, Make Final Appeal. | +. The Netherlands minister, Augustus Phillips, had an engagement to see President Wilson today and. it was be- leved, he would present a final appeal for his government that the intentions of the United States. and.Great Bri- tain take over Dutch shipping at least ‘be ‘modified, STANDARD GRADE IN WHEAT FLOUR Spokane, Wash., March 13.—A re- duction of 40 cents a barrel in the wholesale price of flour, from $9.80 i to $9.40 was announced today by local! i i mater ICs made poate wer HAYNES, CONSUL, Titions -requtrinie that a higher per- OF U. S. LOC. ATED | IN BJOERNEBORG | “centage of the wheat be used in flour Stockholm, Mar. 13. — American, making and permitting only one grade i Consul Thornwetl Haynes, who fled of flour. THARALSON LIVES from Helsingfors with fifteen Ameri-| IN HIGH ESTATE! can residents in that city, is now at; Bjoerneborg, Finland, according to a on aes ae -) | Message reaching Minister I. N. Mor-; Former Bismarck Boy Well Bil-| ris, The Germans are‘reported to be arresting Americans and Englishmen leted on French Front {of military age wherever encountered, 4 . {which makes it impossible that Sergt. Noel Tharalson of the head-} Haynes and his party traveled by the quarters company of the il¢6th am-| way of the Aland Islands. They may ‘ulance train writes his father, Gen-; have traveled by sledge under a flag eral T. H. Tharalson, that he is now/ of truce through the lines of the White quartered in a splendid French dha-/ guards to Thornea and thence to Bjo- teau which embraces all the American | erneborg. | standards of modernity, not: excluding | es, | bund: { bath rooms and elec: | ire Tights. Sergt. "Tharaleon, torm-| “AMERICANS WILL {the former Russian foreign minister, | ; and that he will advocate reorganiza- The pig broke away and) Rats x Join in Praise of National Guardsmen ' n- | the flying pig and falling headlong un- |REPULSED GERMAN RAID “In fact he was so much amused! j that he forgot to keep a lookout, anu| a British destroyer was well in view; on the horizon when he suddenly} can troops that rep d the German; awakened to the fact that a war was|0n ‘March 5 were from .the 42nd or| in progress. Then followed a great{ Rainbow division, which is made up| scramble to get thte men back to the! of national guardsmen, General Per: | submarine and. get-it below the sur | shing reported today. i face, before the destroyer could’ get |’ The commander of the American di-| within range. The destroyer migh ; Vision was personally congratulated | have fired some very effective sho.s| by General Gerard, commander of the| before the submarine emerged, ex-! Eighth French army for the manner in: cept that the German captain forced; Which the Americans conducted them-| the Norwegians in their life oats to: Sélves. keep close to his ship and between it! tate apmmaaine enemys mbSTRANGE MOVES | REGARDING LOAN} | LEON TROTZKY | Buenos Aires, March 13 | offered to loan to Argentin W | LL OPPOSE | Probably would not be accepted be- cause of “the difficulties attending the | negotiations.” | Great interest has been aroused by | | the recent publication of a statement that this offer’ originated in Berlin, a ee | Spain to act as intermediary. | Former Foreign Minister At-) "BE SHORETARY FOR DEFENSE Washingion, D, C., Mar, 14.—Ameri-} Spain has: ' 500,000,000 | | nesetas, but the Argentine minister | | of finance said today that this offer) IS AGAINST RATIFICATIO Washington, D. C., March 14.—fiar- ther indications that Leon Trotzky | will oppose ratification of the Soviet £ | congress of Germany's peace terms, Townley Man Is Given Executive tion and use of the army in defend-! Position by Frazier | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918 ~ HEADS OF JAP ARMY AND NAVY able to the alies thru the Dutch ar-; Songress at Prague Truly Repre-! by a U-boat in the Atlantic. She was | > |wadly damaged by gunfire and aband | ;oned by the crew. The commander of | A erly. assistant cashier of the: First! State bank of Killdeer, writes that he! frequently runs across Serg. Asa Daw- son of Elsmarck, who enlisted with the headquarters company of the Sec- ond regiment, and that he has met ” ing Russia, were contained in a dis- | NOT FAIL, POLING! patch to the state department toaay, | Board | —————— {from Ambassador Francis at Vologda. Boston, Mass., Mar, 13.—An enthus- | CARROLL iu fastic report of conditions among the IS RECEPTIVE: American forces abroad was received | here today from Dr. Daniel A. Poling, GROSS EXTRAVAGANCE CHARGED TO HOOVER! Thomas Allen Box, Casselton ' Capt, Dave Ritchey of Valley City sev- eral times since arriving in France. MECHANICS GO citizenship superintendent of the Un- ited Society of Christian Endeavor, who is now in France representing that organization. “We are literally performing mira- ale of the men is superb and when the hour strikes they will be found worthy | of high traditions of our people. They | realize that stern thing are before them, but they will! not fail.” Four men left Bismarck yesterday, as volunteers in the mechanics branch of aero service. They are: P. Aman- ; Fred Daniel- , dus Birdauiet Giuronce ilbertson,| _D®- Polling characterized the work, baldwin; Dmil Eourgois, Bismarck./ of the Y. M,C. A, as “beyond all’ Their chief work will be similar to| Proise- that of blacksmiths. Charles Swick entrained at Detroit yesterday to en- ee ter'service ats a mechanic. Floyd Al-| TH E WE. 'A THER | lison’ entrained at Missouri Valley, aan Ja, as a mechanic. The latter two 4 i; ar) were registered in Bismarck. All the; 5, anh prea ur hours ending et é ert Oma near San AN-|Pomperature at 7 a. m. - In the next draft, according to board! ister yasterdag x members, only fourteen of the 27 to Lowest yesterday z be called will entrain from Bismarck. | To west last night . | . 34) 28) 18; The others are scattered about the Precipitation .:...- .” None! country. Highest wind velocity ........ 20-NW) ar RIPE S STATIN A Forecast. LUTHERAN CAMPAIGN || For North Dakota: Fair tonight and | FOR WAR FUND “OVER” Friday; somewhat colder east portion — | tonight; rising temperature Friday. | .,| Chicago, Ill, March 14.— | | Lowest | The executive committee of ranks Aer tel the National Lutheran com- Williston ge | mission for soldiers and sail- St. Paul . Py | t.ors welfare, announced to- ; Winnipes 10 day that the campaign to |; Helena .. 2 | raise $750,000 for the aid of || {hicago Lutherans in service has. ||: Kansas City “40 | been more than suctesbedl,” he ORRIS, W. RUBERTS, |. ~ i - wre Metebrotigist, - age erat 2 jbanker and. incorporator Townley enterprises, was named Washington, March 12.—Charges of | gross extravagance in the manage: | Secretary of the North Dakota TRIB BARON WAYAD SHIMAMURA @PRESS heustaarine Sravice.- Baron Shimamura is chief of the Japanese naval admiralty staff. DYNAMITE FOUND Washington, D. C., Mar. 14.—Enough dynamite to | blow up half the great ship- yard at Hog Island has been found there during Febru- | ary, Dudley R. Kennedy, | manager of the industrial relations department, told ‘the senate investigating , committee today. Secret ser- | vice men, he said, have been unable to find who placed it . there. * es x at 00 PERCENT MORE MEATS Exports to Be Greatly Increased ‘overrun recently by bandits against | to Accumulate Reserve for Fighters AMERICA HAS BIG SURPLUS Washington, D. exports to the alli o0 per cent and arch 14.—Meat will be increased perhaps doubled here. The purpose is to build up the al- lie meat reserve from the great sur- plus which has been accumulated in this country and which brought a re- BIG STOCKS OF | AT HOG ISLAND | | | |beNed and are marching into Szech- 1] 10,000 oe IN RAID | ‘ACTIVITY ON . | London, March 14.—In | | A LL FRONTS z INCREASING last night’s raid ore airship |More Favorable Weather Brings | crossed the coast and drop- | ped four bombs on Hartle- | pool. Six dwelling houses | | were demolished there, and | | 30 were damaged. Five per- | sons were killed, and nine in- ; jured. Renewal of Brisk Fighting in War Zone > TIBETANS ON [BRITISH TAKE PRISONERS s | THE WARPATH: | Raid Southeast of Polygon Wood TOWNS T A KEN Results in Capture of 37 Germans | | (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) Mongols, Armed With Modern! Favorable weather on most of the 2 western front has led to increased , Rifles, Rebel and March | fighting, but none of the armies has | Into Szechuan 1 = + | | | yet made an attack in great strength. | All apparently are keyed up, to the thighest pitch, and the raids into op- | | posing trenches are becoming stronger [ARE TROUBLESOME RACE tach day. Suet Hl | In the Champagne, where the Ger- | ¥ {man artillery has been active, the |Demands for Complete Auton-; French have withstood a German at- "4 tack. The effort was repulsed by the omy Made on China Have [+rench with severe losses to the at- Not Been Answered tackers. American raiding parties and American gunners both are busy on the sectors northwest of Toul and west of Luneville. The Germans do not remain in their trenches to fight the Americans, but flee to the tear lines when General Pershing’s men appear. Pekin, Manday, March 11—Taking| | advantage of disorder in the province; |of Szechuan, the Tibetians have re- juan, where they have captured sev: | leral towns. The force is estimated ai; and is armed with modern British Take Prisoners. British troops in the Ypres area \itleg: | Wednesday took the initiative and in | fee a raid southwest of Polygon wood cap- | CONTROLED BY MONGOLS, tured 37 prisoners and three machife Tibet is controlled virtually by the! Suns and inflicted casualties on the | natives, who are a branch of the “Mon-| enemy. The German artillery. activ. | gol race; the Chinese government! ity is intense on the Ypres sector and looking after foreign relations and|between Arras and Armemtieres, i where strong German raids earlier in PRICE FIVE CENTS. _ NG OFFENSIV “AMERICAN PORTS | maintaining small garrisons of Chi-; nese troops. There is a regent ap- pointed by the Chinese government se- lected from the Lamas or religious leaders. In 1913 Tibet demanded complete au- |tonomy and in October of that year \the Tivetians were successful in fight- jing against Chinese. A conference at | Simla, Indian, in July, 1914, failed to} | agree on a convention between China, ; |Great Britain, and Tibet, assuring the! {autonomy of Tibet. 'Great Britain presented ten demands fon China affecting Tibet, but these {nave not been agreed to by China. The province of Szechuan has been i | whom Chinese troops have been able ‘to make little headway. MACOMBER IS MEMBER N. D. DYNAMITERS shortly. under arrangements, being ne-| General Manager Washburn Lig- gotiated by the food administration . . lwith the Allied food representatives! Rite Co. on Explosives Committee |W. P. Macomber of Wilton was ap: jointed to/the North Dakota advisory In January, 1917,| the week, were repulsed by British and Portuguese troops. On the costal sector, in Palestine, north of Jaffa, the British have’ ad- vanced three miles on an eleven mile front. Six villages were taken’ and two streams were crossed in the face of the Turkish resistance. A slight advance also has been made on the Jerusalem-Nabulus road in Central Palestine. 'COX SAYS HUGHES ; WAITED TOO LONG Assistant Attorney General | Holds Appeal Can’t Be Taken The Burleigh county district court | records in the tax commission's suit ‘for entry to the books of the Hughes i Electric Co. of Bismarck were filed {in supreme court today by the elec- | tric company, which some time ago | filed notice of appeal from a ruling of | Judge W. L. iNuessle of the lower ‘court holding that the company must | open 1ts books to the tax commission. | Assistant Attorney General E. B. Cox ,at the same time filed a motion to dis- | miss the appeal on the grounds that | the defendant company which is the | appellant did not prosecute its appeal laxation of restrictions on meat Con-; eommittee on explosives by Federal! with sufficient promptitude. This mo- sumption. The allies would furnish all the ships for moving the meat. MORE TREASURY CERTIFICATES ARE TO BE ISSUED Washington, D. (., Mar. 13.—An- other block of treasury certificates da! ed March 15, to mature next June 25, and acceptable in payment of income 'and excess profits taxes, due them. , was announced tonight by Secretary of | McAdoo, The new issue bears four | ing. percent and is identical in all respects except the date with other so-called tax certificates of the current issue. | Explosives Inspector W. P. Porterfield ' yesterday, at the meeting held by the committee in Fargo. Mr. Macomber is secretary for one of the large lignite coal mining concerns of the state and represents the largest users of ex- plosives in North Dakota. Organization Completed. ‘ Organization of the committee was completed yesterday morning with In- ‘spector Porterfield as chairman and ‘W. G. Owens is a mem*er of the ‘state council of defense and repre- sents that vody on the committee, He was unable to attend yesterday's meet-_ i | tion will be argued Friday ‘DRISCOLL WILL HAVE BIG DAY Market Fete and Geenral Good Time Planned for March 233 Driscoll, N. D., March 13.—Driscoll js to stand out on the map of North Dakota on Saturday, March 23, when enterprising businessmen of the Bur- NEAUPUADODOSERDOGERHORONORODOSEONORRCHEueSaaooNoonoResoooeseNaconeaooneers— 0 7 The other members of the commit-’ jeigh county village will stage the :tee are A. A. Comrie of Fargo, repre-! first of a series of market days. Stafe senting the state underwriters; M. L.; pairy Commissioner J. J. Osterhaus is Hibbard of Fargo, representing the na-| oy the program for an address. There ment of the affairs of the food admin- Council, of , Defense this after-| put py changing the date they will: |; } u TO CANTONMENT) cles,” Dr, Poling asserted. “The mor-) istration were made today by Senator! noon, succeeding F. oO. Hellstrom | save subscribers from paying so much tional council of defense Morton; Page: wij} be a tug of war between the | Keed of Missouri, who demanded that’ of Bismarck,. and R. J. J. Mont-! ‘ood ive an A accounting. of the administration's n.(gomery of Tappen, president of nances. The charges were made after/the North Dakota Farmers’! Reed has aswed that the appropriation union and close personal friend of $1,750,000 for the food and fuel ad-iof Townley, was named vice ministrations be eliminated from the | chairman. urgent dericieney Tee |, Dorr H. Carroll of Minot \chairman of: the old defense DELAWARE LINES UP \date for the secretaryship, but WITH. DRY FORCES ‘council, was a receptive candi- lit is understood that Box had Dover, Del, March 14.—The Dela-|been picked for this place before ware house of representatives adopted | the governor made public his a joint resolution ratifying the fed-ltwelye members of the new Cr rey lite ‘measure now goes to |board, The governor presided at the senate for consideration. | today’s ‘meeting as chairman, ize! r ‘and William S, Langer was er jent as a member by virtue of his | PREFERRED DEATH | (position as attorney general. TO HUN REPUTATION | | Governor Frazier's appointees who — | {met for the first time this fore: Calumet, Mich., March 14. | {noon as the. state council of de- —John Lintz, 50 years of | | fense are William English, home ad- A Ane) dress Grand Forks, recently foreman age, a resident of this city, || of one of the Townley newspapers, last night killed his horse | | and named as a representative of the and then himself because, | | North Dakota Federation of Labor; according to a note left by | him, his best friends and | | Carl Nelson of Cando, pwolisher of { | ari, which he, had | oy Tai | one of the league chain newspapers; K. S. Ramset, Fingal, merchant and \ | | neighbors claimed him to be | |former state senator; Thomas | pro-Ger' Allen | Box, -.Casselton, incorpor- ; stoutly erahs heath 4.| ater, of Townley. enterprises; C.. H. — — £ —- (Continued: on Page e.) accrued interest. The last block was dated February 15, and sales am- ounted to about $75,000,000 making the total of tax certificates now out- standing about $1,255,000,000. WISCONSIN LEADS IN BIG TEN MEET Lafayette, Ind., Mar. 13.—Wisconsin picnship here tonight by nosing out Purdue 24 to 18. Knapp, Wisconsin, scored three field goals in rapid suc- cession near the close of the game when Purdue was leading. a BERLIN CLAIMS THREE aes | Berlin, via London, Mar. | 14.—Three machines of an | entente air squadron flying | towards the city of Freiburg | ‘ were brought down, army headquarters report today. On the Franco-Belgian , front yesterday, the state- | ment adds, 17 enemy air- | planes and three captive bal=‘'| loons were brought to earth. \ 5 sy PUR ART ASRS NN AT ITT ER TSTMS TI NEE RTE TS clinched the big ten basketball cham- auditor is appointed in each county to ENTENTE AIRPLANES, | jor ingredients used in explosives are; | || Mr. Porterfield discussed the pro-| | a ea a gut tes 4 isos er, and the South side, captained ‘by of Grand HOTES: the) police department | A, M, Meland, with 50 men on a team. eee Me cecieareural interests + of a public auction will be conduit bes fatal - an Cols. J. H. Riley and H. A. Ersiland, copra a iy enacted ty ee a and the big day will end with a public plosives of the country to prevent/ cence in a eee ste ae ee them from coming into the hands of; ~ elements plotting against the nation, , ™US!® every individual and concern selling, |. ___ handling or using explosives musi, a have a federal license. The county} A OT LEY FLOOD Rochester, N. Y., Mar. 14. —Scores of families have been driven from their homes and all industries in Hornell are paralyzed as the result of a disastrous flood due to a cloudburst that swept down the valley early | today, inundating one-third | of the city. The entire factory district is under water and many. buildings have been dam- | aged to the extent of thou- visions of this law with the members| | sands of dollars. Firemen lans were & ce 10 i | ‘ ty ee in ientze operation. a cam: | TE ea ibe ee align o! wD LIC) concernin{ @ pro-| | by ’ | istond'ot te Ayysone will te dtarted | been lost. z in the-state, ~~~ ¢ > { | \ lissue these licenses and in addition! | ‘the federal inspector of each state is) ‘to appoint persons in every town and) community where considerable quan-! | tities of explosives are used as agents; | jof the department to issue such li-| | censes. | | Keep Records of -.Ies. i | Under the law every drug store must} | | have a license, and also each clerk em-; | ployed therein. Dealers in explosives, | forbidden to sell such to any person | who does not possess a government li-| ieense. Dealers are compelled to keep, ja record of all such sales and the: |names of the person sold to. | 3 BTR CTTR BRATS OTR RARE OO UIT RS feecreearitg oS -: