The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 93. TEUTONIC SUGGES DISCUSSION FIN HUN ATTACKS REPULSED ON | i I | 1 | i TWO SECTORS) successful Attempt to Gain Germans Lose More Men in Un New Foothold } BRITISH Retake From Teutons Town! Eight Miles Southwest of — | Arras, Says. Report | Paris, April 3.- German attack south of Moreuil last night was re-/ pulsed by the French fire and the! enemy was unable to gain a footing |. in any part of the French front the! war office announces, except at one; point. The French also broke up an; attack near Rollot, and gained some. ground north of Plemont The Germans again began to bom- bard Paris at 9:50 o'clock this morn- ing. BRITIS HREPULSE HUNS. London, April 3.—British troops, aft- | er sharp fighting last night, repulsed determined . attacks by, the Germans | in the neighborhood of Fampoux, the war office announced today... The town of Ayette. (about eight miles southwest of Arras), is again in British possession, the statement an- nounées. MAY GET CORPS OF DOCTORS TO “CAREFORI. WS. As ‘Soon as Way is Cleared for Jury Selection Another Defendant is Ill iT BISBEE ATTY. IS ‘COUNSEL: Chicago, IL, Apr. 3,—A corps of, physicians to maintain health among | more than one hundred leaders of the | Industrial ‘Workers of the World, on! trial for alleged violation of the es-| pionage act, may be engaged immed- iately by the government to prevert further delays of the case through ill-; ness, District Attorney C. F. Clyne anounced tonight. Hl ‘When the way has ‘been cleared to- day for the selection of a jury, coun-; sel for the defense announced that adjournment would be nécessary be-} cause of the illness of Walter T. Neff, of. Philadelphia, secretary of Branch! No. 100, Marine transport workers of the Atlantic. “The government will make immed-! fate arrangements for an army of phy. sicians to attend the defendants iff further delays occur,” Mr. Clyne de- clared, ) One hundred and fifty veniremen summoned yesterday and today have been given opportunity to present rea- sons why they should not serve. More than forty of the number have been excused. Claims of exemption because of being engaged in agricultural work or other industries necessary to the prosecution of the war were recogniz- ed by the court and many of the pre-; spective juriors excused ,on these | grounds. W. B. Cleary, the Bisbee, Ariz., at- torney who, with several ‘hundred In- he: dustrial Workers of the World, was deported from Bisbee, during the ser-; fous: mining disorders last year,. arriv- ed here tonight, and announced that} he would aid the defense... “Have yot received a financial re-/ tainer from the I. W. W.?" he was asked. “No, - have taken’ the “same. attitude as the. bald headed man who put an annoying fiy out of the window with the remark, ‘there‘is room in the; world for both of us.’ ” STEELE EXPLAINS NEW SCHEDULE OF TAXATION —_—_ New Rockford, N. D., April 3.—H. H: Steele of the state’tax commission’ is here in conference with Mayor Sch¥o- ebel and County Auditor McLachlan with regard to placing in operation in New Rockford and Eddy county the; new tax schedule which now is effec-/ tive through a) an ac act of 1917. SHAVES GOING UP: New Rockford Barbers Put in 33 Percent Increase. «= New Rockford, D., April. 3:—New Rockford barbers have, proven ‘them- selves abreast of the times by advanc- ing the ptice of shaves from 1 tO. 20¢, and. hair-cuts.from ‘25¢..to.,40c.- ‘7 ae can't make common: into pg ehaY-1.0 ing and sawitg hair at t 6 enys one of abe city’s boss it fies yan baths HOLD AYETTE, | | private discussions for weeks, broke | ident. , | effective execution. of authority al- i ready granted by congress, and that NO MORE “BULL” FOR CIVILIAN SMOKERS New York, April 3.—The | government has taken over | the entire output of the Bull Durham cigarette tobacco manufactured by the Ameri- can Tobacco Co. at the fac- | tories at Durham, N. C., and will devote it to the needs of | | the American troops abroad, ;, it was announced here to- | | day. It was stated that the | government will pay the same price for the goods as domestic jobbers have been | | paying. * STRONGHOLD OF HUNS TAKEN BY BRITISH FORCES: lines the preparations went on for the! Auditorium Will Be Filled With; ‘German Point South of Harbu- terne, Which Menaced De- fending Positions, Falls \ ' AYETTE’S LOSS HARD BLOW With the British Army ir France, | April 3. ,; (By Associated Press.)—The ; British last night stormed and cap-| i tuted. a ‘strong German point south| of 'Herbuterne which menaced the de. eine Positions. ‘he recapture of Ayette, south of; | artes. by the British also. is one of| “thd most’ important: pieces of news | froin the northern’ battle front... The vette’ sector has been’ one of the, cet fiercely contested zones. The| Getmans have sacrificed great num-: | bers of troops to secure a to secure a hold there. | TO SUSPEND CASUALTY LIST TEMPORARILY Major General Mareh March Will With-, hold News Until He Hears | From Gen. Pershing |UNDER» BAKER'S ORDER’ i Washingion, D, C., April 3.— Major! . General March, acting chief of staff, today directed that issue of the daily; casualty list here be suspended pend-; ing definite interpretation from Sec- retary Baker as to whether it is for- bidden by his. new order providing that General Pershing’s headquarters shall issue all news relating to the ; troops in France. The war department does not be- lieve that the order is intended to preclude issuing these lists in Wash- ington and expects to resume them as soon as Secretary Baker confirms this understanding of the new order. Coimmittees End Discussion; Overman Makes Explan- . atory Statement Washington, .D, G Apr, 3.—Contro-} versy over the Overman bill, to give! ‘he president general authority to re- itween the United States and Euro-| ity organize government departments and; ‘agencies during the war, which Let been smoldering in committees and} ont in the senate today, with the be- gining of formal debate on the meas-/ ure. é \ Senator Overman, of North Caro; lina, chairman of the judiciary: com- mittee, opened the debate with an explanatory statement. He said the measure had been’ greatly misunder- stood; that it does not confer any} new substantiative power on the pres: | ‘but. merely provides for more| he did not see how any senator coul? opnose it. Determined opposition was express ed by Senators Cummins, of Iowa, re: -publican,-and Reed, of Missouri, Smith an’ Harwick of Georgia, democrats. and others. Senator Nelson, of Minne: sota, republican, Lhe ante! the bill. as hecéssary. {ni gets ps to France 1 qthatoeppositien: to gely.| 48 rbased:tupon reluctatice‘t he :presitient. ( nt QVERMANBILL DEBATE BEGUN Both. senasora’ Qverman and Néison | tothe bm | BUSY NIGHT IS TAKEN UP WITH MINOR ATTACKS, No Movement of Importance Re. | | corded on Western Front During 24 Hours |ALLIES MORE THAN HOLD «,, Repulse Thrusts Here and There and Push Back Hostile Lines (ASSOCIATED PRESS.) Local attacks on the battle front in | northern France yesterday and last | night kept both sides fairly busy in} the outpost areas while back of the, ndicated renewal of the engagement } !on-a vast scale, Fortified by the news that the pow- jerful allied reserves are as yet vir- ually dence intact and by apparent evi- ot Teutonic nervousness as the | s approaches, entente opinion | s the outlook hopefully, Reports j allfed lines holding -against ne: ‘hriusts here and there, while at two; or ‘three points the Franco-British | ‘forces were ‘able to push back th hostile lines for short distances i operation to improve the tactical pe | sitions. ‘This, process -resulted motably on the British side in the reoccupation of} the town of Ayette. “below -Arras, which theGermans. a fe. wdays. ago; id liad: beet’ cleared’ of ' British} dex forges. and. in. attempting to.-hold whjch, they have, . sacrificed ‘heavy losges. mah attacks south of Moreuil, and the ritish -drdve off the Germans. who ‘assaulted near -Fampoux,- in the lorthern part of the battte area. ‘UNCLE SAM TO _ FEED NEUTRALS DESPITE HUNS {Assures Switzerland Its Grain Needs Will Be Taken Care of Promptly | UNCLE SAM WILL PROTECT NEUTRALS | TO UTMOST LIMIT Washington, April 3.—In endeavoring to protect neu- _ tral European nations from , the consequence of the Ger- | | man ruthless submarine | warfare, the United States ; is prepared to go even fur- | ther than it originally prom- | ised to keep Switzerland provided with food and, if necessary, will allow that country to iake grain thru ° France. | % The grain supplied from France | would be replaced by the United States, Switzerland has failed to get iermany’s consent for grain to be j landed at Cette, for transfer to her i needy population. The grain is ready and ships have been provided. The| German attitude has delayed the ship-; ments to Switzerland by approximate- ly 90,000 tons. Desperate atten'pts to prevent com-| mercial agreements of any kind be-| pean neutrals are being made by Ger-| many, according to information re-; ceived here. The efforts even have| gone so far as the sinking of Spanish steamers ,carrying grain to Spain, | and it is reported in cable dispatches that submarines have been placed around Spanish harbors, It is thought there the same policy was pursued with Holland, and it is believed that} hreats have been made against the ‘candinavian countries. BILL PROVIDING’ FOR 4 | GOVERNMENT CONTROL |.FOR PACKING PLANTS | Washington, April 3—A | | resolution providing for the | | taking over and operating | | by the government of pack- | | ing houses, .was introduced: | | from the field) show the, French troops repulsed Ger-| [* BOLSHEVIKS ADOPTING | COMPULSORY MILITARY || TRAINING IN” RUSSIA | | London, April 3. the | Bolsheviki government has © resolved to, introduce com- | | pulsory military service, ‘de- cording to an ‘Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd and has agreed'to discuss a proposal: forthe | , conclusion of peace from the Central Ukrainian rada of Kiev. WADE 10 TALK TO BIG HOUSE HERE TONIGHT People Anxious to Hear Jurist , | iGO EARLY T0 GET SEAT A ful house will greet Judge Wade at the auditorium: tonight, and to ‘be-‘sure* of a gect those who are planning to, hear’ him should “report early.. A‘ concert by the On to Victory, orchestra will’ precede. the ‘address. _ Yudge Martin J. Wade is one of the. best ‘talkers it has ever been | - Bismarck’s good fortune <to: hear. {| | «He talks straight to the point «| and says things which eppeal to + 100 ver cent ‘Americans, and’ his : address. tonight is expected to be «one which: will long be ‘renem: bered, Judge Wade:is speaking under the auspices of the Burleigh coun- ty Liberty ‘loan committee. .. He goes from here to fill a series of speaking engagements which the bureau of speakers of the United States department of public in- formation tas booked : for ~ His duties United States ‘dis- trict’ judge at Des: Moines will be filled during ‘the interim by some other jurist. WEEKLY BANK - CLEARINGS G0 OVER $240,000 | Bismarck Chensioe House oe ciation Shows Capital in Big City. Class ANNUAL ELECTION Is HELD ures to speed up the dratt program! fakota bar. iCol. C.B. Little Again President; : Lahr, Vice President; Marks, Manager The first thirty weeks’ clearings of! five Bismarck banks through the Bis- | | !marck Clearing House association ag- lgregated $7,225,381, reports present- | fed at the annual meeting of the asso- [ ‘ciation showed. These thirty weeks icovered a period ‘of unusual financial | stringency for Bismarck, beginning | April 6, following a .second year cl} j moat complete crop failure for some} ‘sections of Burleigh county, and a; itime when money probably was. as “tight” for everything except patriot- | ic war funds as the capital city ever.) has known it. Clearings for the entire 30 :weeks | more than $240,000 per week. Dur- jing the best week reported clearings; aggregated $478,523, which is believed very near the high record for any of 8,000 in Bismarck’s class. Association a Success. | The banks clearing through the- Bis: imarck Clearing House association— ithe First National, the City National, the Bismarck Bank the Capital Secur- jity and the First Guaranty and Deposit | * are thoroughly satisfied with the |first years’ operations. The clearing house has simplified’ Bismarck _bank- | ing to a large-degree and has great-) {facilitated prompt’ ‘exchange. The as-! ‘sociation has also, for |afforded. an: accurate record of. the financial transactions of the city from day to day and week to week, reveal- ing daily clearings-sanging up to $56,-/ 000 and higher: The association at its annual meet- ing reelected . Colyis Little, dent of, the First® al bank, to the presidency, and B. president of the City \ the postion of mecieeay and manager and made E. V. Lahr, :cashier of the First, Guaranty. sre 50 to 0 100 the first time, | presi-|-| ed, we. “t aed Fat eas ordinarily: ooo : el 4 SATE RETURNS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY RECENTLY: “ALMOST ON POINT” OF NEW: | CONFRE LEAD FOR LENROOT NEGOTIATION §, SAYS CZERNIN Republican Senatorial Candidate Foreign Minister in in Addtess to to Vienna Municipal Council Seeks to Make It Appear That. France Was Willing in Wisconsin Has Plural- ity of 9,575 erga Socialist list Candidate, Runs | Third in Race for Toga a spies blNos HOPE LEFT FOR DAVIES. DAN BRENNAN Poor Milwaukee, April Belated returns from yes terday’s election confirm the victory of Irvine L. Len- root, republican, for senator. His plurality at noon was 8,575. With 19 counties complete and comparatively full re- ports from all but four oth- ers, the vote stood: Lenroot, 130,508. * Joseph -E. Davies, demo- erat, 121,933. Victor L. Berger, social- ist, 88,038. The missing counties will maintain. Lenroot’s winning. ratio, as they are safely re- publican. ‘The last hope for Davies disappeared with _ returns from all but'four: Milwaukee county precincts which gave Davies a lead over Lenroot of 14,555, and this was not sufficient to overcome the Lenroot plurality in other parts of: the state of 24,130. 800.000 MEN | TOBECALLED FOR SERVICE |Next Draft Will Be Announced | Sooner Than Expected to i Meet Emergency \ — ‘TROOPS NEEDED IN FRANCE, | Meas- Washington, D. C., April j are in contemplation, and an official! "announcement is expected soon. ' The intention is to meet the emerg-| ; ency in France. For that reason the! 800,009 to be called this year will be | called more rapidly than was previ ously planned. War department officials said no arrangements were in sight to call} }out more than 890,000 men it was planned to take into the service. No Boost in Draft. | Revorts that the draft would be raised from 800,000 men to 1,000,000 men were denied. Officials do not re- | gard it as possible that more men will; he sent abroad this year than the de- | partment has arranged to summon.: »ven with additional British shipping wailable as transports. There are now under arms here and in Europe | more than 1,500,000 American soldiers. | | The number will have to be raised to | aoout 2,500,000 by the end of the ' year, counting drafted men, volun- | ‘eers and special technical forces to, ne enjisted. The present effort is | directed more towards getting men to ‘rance early to meet emergencies | there than toward increasing the num- | ber to ae sent during the year. \ BRITISH AVIATORS DROP 17 TONS OF | BOMBS ON HUNS London, Tuesday, April 2. _—British aviators were very active Monday on the battle front in France, drop- | ving 17 tons of bombs and | bringing down 16 German aeroplanes and two balloons. Eleven British machines are | missing. The official state- | | ment on aviation issued to- | night says that the night ; bombing squadrons dropped ek | bombs on ee stations.(. | in ‘the atea’behiiid the Ger- mari lines. ‘Dakota and then entered the law of | | partnership | generalship. ‘which he entered January 1, 1917, ; judgment rare in a man of his years, ' Mrs, pf National fF Rn en eee ~ DIED EARLY THIS MORNING (First Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Succumbs to Double Penumonia WELL KNOWN THRU STATE: Last rites for Assistant Attor- ney General Daniel V. Brennan will be held at Devils Lake at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The funeral will be attended by at least one member from practically WASHINGTON SCOFFS — IDEA—PURE HUNNISM ‘Present Great Engagement in Europe Will Not Reaul in’ ' Any Weakening : London, April 3. — Austrié- Hungary was recently “almost _on the point” of beginning, peace negotiations with the -entente, /Count Czernin, the Austro-Hun- | garian foreign minister, declared :in an address yesterday to Vienna municipal council, Tye wind “suddenly veered,” bi + ,ed, the ententé decidin to mu | developments in. his count every department at the state cap-- , which caused it to hope’the: aya) itol, including Attorney: General William S. ‘Langer, Assistant At- torney General H..A. Treasurer John Steen, Dr. W. F. | Crewe of the animal husbandry ~ board, a member of. the supreme court, a member of the state board of control, a member of the state tax commission. and a repre- sentative of the executive ofice. monarchy “would soon’ be’ Bronson, fenseless.” : 5 VES “T'do not intend tc! gol be; for peace or 'to obtpin’ it by, \ treaties and lamentations, bul |enforce it by: owr.-morak ‘and physical strength,’ ; Czernin declared. “A ny, “Ob St. Paul, Minn., Apr. 3.—Dan./ tactics I consider will contribt iel Brennan, first assistant attor-| ney general of North Dakota, died here early today. Mr. Brennan came to St.-Paul : Friday from his home in. Devils | Lake and entered St. Joseph’s| § ‘hospital. Pneumonia was the cause. of jccent His wife was at his bed- side. | The body will be sent to his! old home at Devils Lake today. Brilliant Career Cut Short. Although barely 30 years old, Dan; Brennan had made a name for him-; self as a brilliant young trial lawyer. Born in Devils Lake in 1887, Brennan after graduating from the public schools of his home town, took a liter ary course at the University of North fices of his father, Michael H, Bren. nan, a gratuate of the University of) | Michigan law school, who located in} Devils Lake on St. Patrick’s day, 1886. :M. H. Brennan had already establish-| ed himself as a leader in the Nortb After reading law for! several years, full partnership with his father un der the firm name of Brennan & Bren- nan, and in the Devils Lake courts the young barrister sharpened his wits in contest with some of the best law- vers the state has ever known. This| continued until Decem- ber, 1916, when Dan Brennan resigned to accept the first assistant attorney In this position, upon! Erennan had distinguished himself by his brilliancy and the exercise of Brennan, who was Miss ‘Norton, daughter of another Michigan family who became pioneer residents of Dev- s Lake, and her two young children had recently joined her husband here. The young people had established aj} home in Bismarck and had won for themselves a firm place in the hearts of capital city folk. There survive the deceased his widow, a three-years’-old daughter and a son less than a year old; his par- ents, M. H. Brennan and Mrs. Mary Coyle Brennan of Devils Lake, a sis- ter, Mary Norton Clapp Brennan, a Dan was taken into| ; to the prolongation of the, wan’? : In regard to Bulgaria's claims against Serbia, the foreign, e ister said: “Bulgaria must Yeceiv Serbia certain districts ithabited by Bulgarians. “We-have, - ever, no desire to destroy Serbia We will enable Serbia to develop ind would. welcome close eLCQ~ nomic relations with’ her.” New “Peace Offensive” Washington, D. C., April. 3. {Count Czernin’s statement Sat | France had suggested peace dis- cussions with Austria-Hungar was characterized by officals here “as the beginning of a-new German peace offensive with the Austrian - Hungarian foreign niinster acting at Germany’s be- | hest.” The speech of Count Czernjn. t was declared, was a politi maneuver designed to spread the impression in the allied countries that the allied governments, are fighting solely to recover Alsace Lorraine. The peace move, they 3ay, was timed to follow the breakdown of the eutone mais tary offensive. No Response in America Any Teutonic suggestions that | the time for peace discussion near at hand will find nothing. Hee a negative response in Amer- wat the state department today it was made clear that the, pres- ent great engagement in Europe } will not result in any weakening ; either at the capitals ot among. the peoples. at war with Ger-. many. Count Czernin’s state-, ments that Premier Clemenceau‘ had indicated a willingness | | discuss peace was not given'¢! high school instructor in ‘Montana; s . Brennan, orthern | nree.) ' civil engineer the }Continned on Page LABOR PLANS TO BE GIVEN TODAY Washington, Dd, Cy A C., Apr. 3.—Action on the recommendation of the labor planning board, which has framed & *\ naliev evrarted to euminate sirines | nd lockouts, will be announced to- 1 .Tuw by secretary of Labor Wilsou ' It is generaly believed by both em- ployers and labor interests that the; recommendations will be accepted and | Thursday morning at the ai that the same board which submitted | | | them will be chosen as the national | ; labor board. ' ETROIT WINS, EXHIeTLION co, Texas, April, 3.—S secon Awhericatis ‘117° 1 C. Jones and Yell ler and Wingo, Smith. ence. It was believed that a vik ‘ful misinterpretation’ had beer igiven to some statement of the ‘French premier for the purpose of securing a favorable reaction jin France and her na [sae 2 Vv. bids: Me TO: HeeMe pute state “norticultupat at the Agrigultural ‘college and, with the; extension — division, will -spéek = of the high school on ‘gard | putilic erally is: invited. to pttes ; Anyone who is plapning a ‘ can. get}-20me Marti on prom: Mie) Werner: De-; gst sonics aS 2, Cincinnati} be present >and pat Bitteries: James, Schneider, Bress- SCHOO! ‘children ‘hav py Supt. Martin to came: Werner,