The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1918, Page 2

%. fe tal inf vas the knt the not ae BISMARCK TRIBU: a i] THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918 * TALONS: FOOD’ ISCHIER GAIN Hungry Hunnish People Mus' be Fed Through New East- ern Effort 4 Guards ODESSA IN HUN RUSSIANS STAGE BOLSHEVIKI REVOLTONSHIPATNORFOLK: | ‘ARESUBDUED BY THE POLICE , Attempt to Take Ship Like Countrythen Took Russia, and Run it in the Same Way, but American Port Interfere. STORES OF WHEAT FALL} . crew of the Russian steamer Omsk, re- Advance to Afghanistan hide moved today by Collector of Customs out Interference | Hamilton ut the request of Captain | Edmond Yanvosky because of, their Probable. ; Bolsheviki tendencies, on being par- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) oled tonight by federal authorities, ; armed themselves and made an effort While the entente allies are “nib- to take the ship. The American arm- bling” at the German lines from the|ed port guards in charge of. the ves- North sea to Switzerland, but are mak-| sel refused to allow the men aboard ing little or no serious attempts to} and police reserves were sent to arrest break through or to bring about a cul-| them, minating struggle, the Teutonic pow-| Before the police arrived, however, ers have taken another step In the ex-|the Russians defied the guard and ploitation of the east. \ boarded the ship without violence. The advance guards of the German} Half a dozen port deputies, were rush- have entered Odessa the greatest Rus-' ed to the ship and with the guard sian port on the Black sea and the! searched the Russians and their quar- center of a great agricultural section, ters. A large assortment of fire arms the products of which are desired to| and knives was confiscated. feed the hungry peoples of the central | Captain Has Czar’s Part empires. The German advance! Investigation by Collector Hamilton through Moldavia and Bessarabaria | revealed that the Russians had sought has been virtually unopposed. | to put the principles of the Bolsheviki Wheat Supplies Opened {into operation on the ship, demanding With Odessa safely in their hands,/ that the vessel be operated by a com: the Teutons will have access to vast; mittee of the crew With the captain stores, of wheat which can be trans-| deposed. They also wanted a per- ported oyerland or by sea to points | cent in se in pay and threatened to where it can be readily shipped into! land the cotton cargo in Russia Austria and Germany. tinstead of at Liverpool, to which port But the capture of Odessa will mean! it is consigned, something more—an advance over the} Previous Trouble. route to Persia, and Afghanistan and; This action followed an outbreak on possibly India, which is to be followed | LEAGUE HEADS east, Soviet Meeting Postponed. The congress of Russian Sovie which was to have convened at Mos cow on Tuesday, postponed its meet- ing until Thursds This gathering may be historic, as it will be asked to ratify or reject the peace forced up- on the Bolsheviki peace delegates by the Germans at Brest-Litovsk. When, i the congress meets it probable that Townley and Gilbert Appear Be-' the message of President Wilson to S the Russian people will’ be read. It for Court to Answer is expected to make a profound im- - it pression upon the assembly. | Charges Americans Are in the Game i The American sector in Lorraine, which is now definitely located east o! Luneville, is the most active on the ———- French front. Great artillery combats | Fairmount, 'Minn., March 14.—A. C. are being carried out by the Ameri-| Townley, president, and Joseph Gil- cans, who have determined, by raiding | bert ,manager of the National Nonpar- operations, that artillery fire has forc-| isan league, will be arraigned at 9:30 ed the Germans virtually to abandon! a. m. Thursday on two indictments their lines. Two hundred gas pro-| charging them with publishing liter- jectors installed for the purpose of {ature of a seditious nature, and tend- supporting attacks on the Americans; ing to adversely influence recruiting. have been destroyed by shells, Attorney M. J. Sullivan, partner of The gallant conduct. of the Ameri-/ Jas. Manahan who arrived Wednesday can soldiers in the field,is reflected by | to help conduct the defence, spent the their. brothers in arms, the American | day preparing demurrers to the indict- sailors of the destroyers squadron in| ments, which he said would be pre: British waters. The courageous ac-| sented at the arraignment. If these tion of eight American sailors who are overruled Townley and Gilbert wil) plunged overboard from: the destroyer | plead not guilty, and will be released Parker to rescue survivors of the hos-/ on bail. pital ship Glenart Castle has been the | Speeches May be Cancelled subject of complimentary remarks in} County Attorney A. R, Allen today the British house of commons. ‘said he would ask trial of Townley German airships re-appeared over! and Gilbert Monday or Tuesday, which the northeast coast of England Wed-| would mean the cancellation of sev. nesday night, according to an official; eral speeches the Nonpartisan chief statement. | has announced. OF WOOD SHIPS ss. H Deputy sheriff Wim. Roepke, accused qT). | by Harding in an affidavit of telling ‘him that the grand jury had J. D. | Bacon's book ‘on *‘Towleyism” before ; them while considéring the ledgue of- ? zi De _ | ficials case, said, Townley per- Chairman of Wooden Ship Div- sonally told him that if-the charges Par f ‘ against Harding were dropped a sé- ision Makes'Plea in traction of the affidavit would be Letter. made. LAN DEMURRER ATTEMPT ' Nonpartisan league newspapers, who | was indicted on a charge of perjury today, also will be arraigned Thurs- jday, He is tree on $1,000 bail, furnish- | ed by two farmers, and will plead not FLOOD IS APPROACHING West Virginia Menaced by Ris- AMERICA MUST HAVE SHIPS VAST Declares Ships Must Be Built Swiftly if Allies Win the War FOR SEDITION «~~ Washington, D. C., Mar. 14—Renew- ed efforts, to hasten the wooden ship- building program were launched today by the shipping board. After an announcement that au- thority had been given to southern yards to use smaller timbers in ship) south-central West Virginia, including | laneiwhe gpened’a two day:convention| r the territory continguous to Charles- sity jfor bringing large timbers: from; ton the Pacific coast, a.circular letter to! aced by what frames, thereby obviating the neces- all wooden shipbuilders was made pub. y lic by James Ohey Worth, manager, four ho of the division of wooden ship con- struction, in. which he called for new | j methods of building by which more’ er: men can be employed simultaneously on each ship: p Speed Up Construction. ti “This .is no time to work on thet; old basis for wooden ships construc-) Michigan railroad. tion,” said the letter. “The country needs Ships more than anything else. We must have ‘them. Production must | population of 4.000 is under be speeded up. Real co-operation be-} night, tween the shipbuilders. of each di trict can double our production in tho tl available for shipbuilding are ‘being made on the Pacific coast and will be commenced inthe south.at once ‘by, TJotin H, Kirby, of “Houston Tarofigh these ‘inquiries. t! boatd expect to eliminate the delays die ito: inaccurate -estimates’ by: lum: Lermen, of /what,.they:,can ‘produce: The; order perinitting the, use of | ae finibers: follows urgent pro-| tes t ine growers, who} have ed that they have plenty, lumber of sufficient. sizevand: tha -board's— insistence. upor the er timbers required by the original spec: ification for the Ferris type ees welding. up. th slides throughout the mountair sale-of fi the P| was runner up in the Southern Asso-| enced ‘to an official reprimand and Sec- * ing River Waters, Follow- ing Rains Charleston, W aMr, and Huntington, was men- predi worst flood since 1861. Due to twenty: s of continuous rainfall all reams in this section of the including the Kanawha and Elk have overflowed their bank paralyzed railroad traffi on tonight is isolated with the ex Dp: ion of one branch of the Kanawha &| No loss of lilfe has been reported. Half the town ef Western, with a ater to- Reports from Burnsville sas hat water is four feet deep. in the) 0 Baltimore & Ohio station. At Sutton it! next six months.” ‘is reported that the water is four Surveys of''the timber’ resources; feet deep on the main street, Clay| courthouse is reported flooded. H ; Chesapeake & Ohio main and branch | ESTABLISH GUILT | lines aro all out of commission east of | n, Texas.| Charleston, and. the. lines. south, of | shipping | here on the Kanawha & Michigan ard’ badly damaged. j PHILLIES GET MUNCH i psc yy Atlanta, Ga Mar. 14.—Manager ‘Frank of the Atlanta Southern Asso- | and mitles at Superior, Nebraska, have Cation team Jast night antiounced the | been’ found guilfg, --,. | baseman Jake; Munch: to. élphia Americans. Munch | to the United States in its struggle “| whether prayer should be introduced! * “quarrel here today is the result of ce | Sa the opinion that German a ARE WELL SUPPLIED WITH WEAPONS| UTR | Norfolk, March 14.—Members of the | the ship after she arrived here a week | Sere ae ‘Bombers Follow Railroad andi | ago, three members of the crew at thar time driving the American port guard from the vessel. Force was threatened and the guard, one man, was allowed to return unmolested. Captain Yan- vosky then called in Victor FE. Martz, counsel to the Russian consulate at New York. for assistance in settling the trouble, but when no agreement could be réached, Collector Hamilton was asked to intervene. Parolec, They Arm Themselves © After an investigation the collector, acting under the new port regulations, issued by Secretary McAdoo, had the men removed from the ship and deliv- ered to Immigration Inspector Morton. All were paid off and the majority paroled, under guardéof a federal agent j with the idea of sending them back to Russia. It was these men who return- ed to the ship and armed themselves. The three men who made a demon- stration against the naval guard were | arrested. They.are John Bikov, Theo- 'dore Slenschenker and Alexander Elec: j honko, The first, signed on the vessel ‘at Archangel, Russia, and Elchenko at New York. Five others found to be | ineligible to entrance into this coun- were detained. | fe ‘ % SOLDIERS WHO Today’s Expurgated Death Roll of Honor. H Washington, D. C., Mar. 14.—Today’s casualty list issued by the war depart: ! ment carries the name of six men killed in action, two dead of wounds, ; seven dead of disease, two wounded severely and eleven slightly wounded. | The only officer in the list is Gapt-| at confer ,ain Archibald Roosevelt, who was | ' slightly wounded. News of his wound-} ing was told first in private cable dis- | patches, The list follows: { | Killed in action: \ | Sergeant, Paul H. Loudwig, Corporal | Wm. Gehring; Privates Harry L. An-| derson, Homer Dawson, Homer Klein, | John Legall. | Died of wounds: | Privates Guiseppe Fanucchi | Corporal, Pudolph O. Hoff, | lism by cutting instruments.) | Died of disease: Corporal Clyde B. Jones, Privates and} (trauma- | ; Fern W. Bristol, John Bailey Gill, Lor-| ‘en H. Mitchell, Jesse Moody, George | ; Washington Rutledge and Maurice I..| | Schwartz. | | Wounded severely: { ! Sergeant Virgil H. Brady and Pri-} | Vate Jerrell E. Jennings. | | Wounded slightly: | Captain Archibald B. Roosevelt, Cor-| Fréd A. Harding, correspondent for} porals Wm. Seibert and Chas. R. Sim-| “Feckage. MacNaughton’s body was mons; Privates Nicholas Christow, Willie N. Cornelii-, Edward B. Dar- land, Jacob Keller, Robert M. Manter, Edward S. Parry, Howard L. Spidel, and Joseph Yezesnk, i { LITHUANIANS N 4 : j | superior’ ‘Bolsheviki* force; according | to'advices from the border. The ac- AT CONVENTION | | Pledge Themselves Americans ; and Agree on Aid for For- | . ! mer Countrymen. » SReret LES, } A MILLION REPRESENTED} New York, N. Y., Mar, 14.—Support | militarism and aid to Lithuania in ob- taining {ts independence after -the war, were pledged by 3,000 Lithtan-! here today. When it appeared that the conven-} tion might split on the question of! at the meetings, a. delegate who is; serving with ended the debate by charging that this man spies.” Later other delegates ents were ‘attempting to break up the conyention because of its loytl-! ty to the United States. | The convention then proceeded to’ form a permanent organization of the} 00,000 to 90v,000 Lithuanians in th: country, with headquarters here and local Soviets in every city having a Lithuanian ‘colony. i ‘try under the immigration laws, also! ; dropped on the Gothas landing fields, HAVE DIED | and The probabilities seem to be that} the national army at! ": Camp Dix, rushed from the stage andj | Sto: ‘TOLL OF HUN PLANESTAKEN DURING RAID [French Aerial Defence Makes | Paris Attack Costly to the Germans. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN River But Few Reach Paris man machines brought down and fif- teen trained aviators, mechanics and pilots killed or made prisoner were the German casualties in last night's air raid on Paris. The raid was attempted on a scale ;of magnitude hitherto unapproached, nine ‘squadrons, participating in the attack, Some of the machines follow- ‘ed the rivers Oise and Ourcg,' while others came along the Creil-Paris and | Soissons-Paris railroads. | The percentage of the units that suc- ceeded in reaching Paris was small. fhe aerial defense has improved | greatly since the time of the former {raids and many of the German mach- | drop their cargoes of bombs in vacant fields in the suburbs. Thé Aiherican Red Cross was again | Prominent in rendering delp to the wounded. (While the raid upon. Paris, was, in | progress, French machines executed a | counter air offensive upon the enemy's !airdomes from which the German, [raiders ahd started. | More than three tons of bombs were 1 Paris, Tuesday, Mar. 12.--Four Ger-| RS | BEFORE BRITISH London, Mar; 14—Attack- ing ,over an eleven mile front on the costal sector in Palestine,» East’ Angelian, | | South Angelian and Indian | |, troops have advanced to an | | | average depth of 3 miles, | | | according to an official | REPEL GERMANS | Paris, Mar. 14.—A_ Ger- | man attack in the Cham- | pagne was repulsed Wednes- | day, according to the war of- | | fice. announcement. The | | Germans suffered heavy | losses. | | NEW AIR RAID ON | ears ENGLISH COAST | _ London, Eng, Mar. 13.— | Hostile air ships again raid- | | ed tite northeast ~ coast of | ; England Wednesday. \ \ | In his report on the raid | Field Marshal French says: | | “One or two hostile air- | | ‘ships attacked the northeast: | | coast. soon after 9:30 o’clock | tonight. About 20. bombs | have fallen‘close tothe coast | There are no reports regard- | | ing the:casualties or damage | ines were forced back’ and- obliged to} as yet. ; | i : OTT Ey BR Ca PEPER pitas Nerd ININETEEN SHIPS IREE ‘CUSHION | BILLIARD MATCH | STARTS IN CHI. Chicago, Ill, Mar. 14.—Robert Can- nefax, of St. Louis, won the first block! of.‘his: match with Augie ‘Kieckherer for. the world’s three cushion billiard chainpfonship tonight, 50 to 42, Canne- many of them made disastrous land- ings upon their return. | | SAVE WHEAT FOR. ALLIES IS PLEA: | Washington, D. ‘Mar. 14.—-Thej necessit, ’ conserving wheat so that) he allies may be supplied i pressed today on Food Administr from nearly every state in the union) with officials of the! food administration. Reports of the | food situation throughout the coun-| try were made. Mrs. Burnet Smith, of London, who | lost her home in.a German air r appealed to the officials for inc exports to relieve the s ty of food iu England. ‘ | SEAPLANE FALLS; | ENSIGN DROWNED. Norfolk, Mar. 14.--Ensign | le M. MacNaughton, United States Navy, R. F., was drowned and © Malcolm Stevenson, U. S. Ret slightly hurt today in the lofa plane in which they were flying over Hampton ‘Roads. The engine appi ently becaine deranged yn the play was three hundred feet in the air and the machine plunged into the water. Navy craft sent to the rescue saved Stevenson, who was hanging to the recovered a short time afterward. GERMAN PRISONERS FIGHT WITH REDS| Harvin, Manchuria, March 12.—Gen- eral ‘Semenoff, the’ anti-Bolsheviki leader in‘ Siberia,” has’ retréated into Manchutia beforé’ the advance of “a curacy /of thé *Bolshevilii firé. during the fighting is taken to indicate the cooperation of former German prison- STORP CORN AGONY IN FOUR SECONDS USE “GET'S IT°—SEE CORNS PEEL OFF! The relief that “Gets-Jt" gives from corn-pdins—the way it mikes’ corns and calluses peel off painlessly in one piece—is one of ‘the wonders, of. the e : — workl. ‘The woman in ‘the home, shopper, the dancer, the: foot. tra the- man ‘in the office, the clerk in the , the ‘worker in the shop, day, in this great discovery, me sure, quick relief from all corn ala MI pains—the- one sure, pain-| OF. GRAFT. CHARGE | IN COURT MARTIAL! |" Omaha, Nebr. ‘Mar. 14—The Fort! Omaha commissioned officers, court | martialed on charges of accepting gra-| | tuitifes. in. connéction with the pur- | chase of $890,000 worth of army horses { L,- HH. Li. Régedate and | (fou need pay no more than: 25 cents ~jat bottle); or, sent om receipicuf: price less remover that makes corfis conie| off us easily as you would peel a ban-| ana. It fakes. 2 seconds to apply It; it’ dries at .once. THen} walk with painless joy, even with.tight shoes. You know your corn will loos-! mfroii’ your. toe—peel it off with! your flingers. Try it, corn sufferers, and’ you'll smile: Shag hiss “Gets. it” Is) sold at: all druggists by E, Lawrence & Co, Chicago il. ‘Sold in Bismarck and. Recommend- ed. ag the world’s best corn remedy by ?s Dri ore,” ERE) C \ fax, the challenger, . was behind | throughout most. of the block but by a beautiful spurt near the end over- came the champion's lead, and there-j after was never in danger. Each man played a steady game, with the St. Louisan scoring a little more consistently than Kieckhefer. "TURKS FALL BACK | statement issued by the war | | _ office Wednesday night. | | - | | | governments desire to withdraw their ‘DUTCH SHIPS TO TRANSPORT U.S. WHEAT | Allies Request Permission to | Withdraw War Zone | Limit | | ARRANGEMENT THOT MA DE Mague, ‘Mar, 14,— | Dr. London, presented to the state’s general today a note ex- | plaining the position of the negotia- | tions with the allies for an economic | arrangement. The m said that , Since the ‘note was drafted he had | reecived information that the allied promise to accept the Dutch condi- ion that vessels sailing in the interest f the allied governments should not be employed in the danger zone. He states that America has agreed to furnish 100,000 tons of wheat to Holland before, the conclusion of a | definite arrangement, on _ condition that Holland immediately places at the disposal of the allies half a million tons of shipping, as if a definite ar- rangement already existed, The Dutch government is inquiring as to whether it is'possible to enter into such a transaction and hopes speedily to ar- rive at a decision.” OF BRITAIN ARE London, Mar. 14.—The admiratty re- ports the loss by mine or submarine of eighteen British merchantmen in thé past week, and one fishing vessel. Of these fifteen were 1,600 tons or over, and three under that tonnage. The arfivals at ports in the United Kingdom numbered 2,046; _ sailings 2,062. Merchantmen unsuccessfully at- tacked eight. i} For the third time in as many weeks eighteen British merchantmen have been destroyed by mine or submarine, he foreign | SUNK IN A WEEK| vessels were 1,600 tons or over and six under that; tonnage, while in the pre; ceeding week fourteen of the vessels were of more than 1,60y tons. “Take My Life, But | Spare Me My Honor! | Woman Slayer Begs tien Visalia, Calif, March 14- | by the repetition in court o: i leged to have been circulated against [her by the man she killed, Mrs, Or- Jean Howe, on trial here on a charge of murdering W. TH. Brooks, sprang: ‘from her’ seat in’ the court room | and offered her life to the state, asking me my honor.” Mrs. Howe shot and killed Brooks in the lobby of a Porterville, Calif, | hotel last November. Her attorneys | base the defense on emotional insani- ty, alleging that Mrs. Howe's reason \ ted by the scorn of former iates, amounting to on and ass | s j ed slanders of Brooks. . and strenuous outdoor brings the rheumatic aches: You work can’t afford to belaid up, so heed that. first ‘twinge ‘of rheumatism. Use. Slosn’s Liniment. Clean and con- venient, no: need td rub, no stains, ‘no clumsy. plasters and your pain In the previous week twelve of the Cannefax made the high run by scor- ing six consecutive points, while The only sensational shot of the | game came when Cannefax executed | a brilliant masses reverse about the middle of the match. In making the shot he broke the tip off his cue, which seemed to affect his playing for !a while, but he regained his form, se sixteen points in twelve inn- Kieckhefer’s safety held Canne- for five innings, but the ger then ran two, winning the chal block. The second block of fifty points will be played tomorrow night, GURED HIS RUPTURE. 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