The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 1

s tthe rncncesviete “. war press conference called by the . form of a patriotic mass meeting. Ad- © of the defense council; by Dr. Will THE WEATHER Partly Cloudy. penciptatetenccrt oman creme Mcuntermame aye HE* 3 THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 110. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LIBERTY DAY FINDS LINE HOLDIN NORTH ‘DAKOTA NEWSPAPERMEN HERE IN WAR CONF ERENCE CONFERENCE OF NEWSPAPERMEN AT AUDITORIUM Between 150 and 200 Knights of Fourth Estate Attend Opening Session BANQUET TO BE FEATURE City’s Guests Will Be Feted by Council of Defense at the McKenzie With between 150 and 200 ‘North Da- Kota newspaper men in attendance, the first session of the North Dakota state council of defense was held at the auditorium this afternoon, in the dresses were made by Governor Lynn J. Frazier, who presided as chairman ord ( Rlever. vresident of the col- lege of journalism of the University SCN ‘aa by Dr. Thomas FF. Moran of Purdue university, attached lux cue period of the war to the speak: ers’ bureau of the committee of pub- lic information, and who greeted the newspaper men as a personal repre- sentative of President Wilson, one of whose students Dr, Moran was at Princeton. The afternoon by proclamation of the president of the city commission was observed as a holiday, in keeping with the request of Governor Frazier. The state house, county and city offi- ces and Bismarck banks closed at noon, and all other business was sus- pended at 3 p..m. The services at the! auditorium began about 3:15, with ev-; ery seat in the big’ building filled. A section of seats in the center of the) house was reserved for the newspaper men. Many city. people were turned away after the building had filled. This evening the newspaper men will be’ guests of the North Dakota Council of Defense ‘at.a:war banquet to be served at the McKenzie. Chief Justice Alexander) A. Bruce: will pre- side, and Governor Frazier, Dr: Bley:| er, Dr. Moran, Sam Clark, publisher of} Jim Jam Jems, and Jerry D. Bacon, publisher of the Grand , Forks’ Her- ald, are to respond to toasts. It has been agreed that all references to politics are.to ‘be carefully eschew: | ed. | Dancing. After Banquet. If there is time following the close | of the banquet, O’Connor’s orchestra will play a brief dancing program. ! Saturday morning the -newspaper | men will go into executive session with the council of defense to plan a rap- licity program. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to sight-seeing, and Saturday evening a reception and dance will be given in honor of the Knights of the Fourth Estate. : Among Those Present Among the newspaper men who had registered at conference head- quarters at the McKenzie hotel up to noon today. were: A. R. ‘Wright, Oakes Times. Rex Lampman, North Dakota Lead er, Fargo. C. H, Potter, Enderlin Independent E. L, Peterson, Dickinson Press. L. Rockwell, Fargo, Forum. Ed Sullivan, New Salem Journal. J. B. Bergster, Jamestown Capital P. Nye, Fryburg Pioneer. B, McElroy, Dawson Press: . O. Haugen, Maddock Standard. D. Larin, Parshall Leader. R. C. Colburn and wife, Hazelton Republican, John L. Charmley and wife, Mott. D. W. Dickinson, Sykestown News. J. S, Mulloy, Minot Messenger. W. R. Hall, Glen Ullin News. A. I. Stearns, Flasher Hustler. S. A, Young, Mandan Republican. 'T. D. Monson, ‘Wells County Farm- er, Fessenden. Ed X. Moore, McClusky Gazette. W. J. Burke and son, Bowdon Guar- dian. G. W. Stewart, Wilton News. ie D. McGahan, Minot Messenger. M. Young, Farmers’ Press, Ami- ion M. J. Connolly, Hettinger County Herald, New England and Slope Coun- ty News, Amidon. BARON RHONDA RESIGNS POST OF FOOD CHIEF London, April 26—Baron Rhondda. the Daily Mail is given to understand has resigned the office of British food comptroller which he has held for the last ten months. He:has been ‘absent from his post for some weekrs owing to illness. John R. Clynes, parlia- mentary secretary for the food min- istry, has been in charge temporarily. ¢ PAIRORAFT BILL IS FURTHER ADVANCED | | Washington, 0. C., April 26.— | Addition to the Overman bill of the amendment of Senator Wadsworth, | of New York, providing for reor- | ganization of the aircraft program | | by authorizing the president to es | tablish an executive agency with | | complete powers was assured to- { | day, when Senator Overman of | | ‘North Carolina in charge of the | | bill advised the senate he would | Give DRAGONS | | TAIL A DAMN | |__ 00D TWIST | London, Thursday, April 25. To Reuter’s Ottawa Agency.- ‘Captain Carpenter of the Vindic- tive says that before starting on his dash for Zeebrugge, Admiral Keys signaled “St. George for England.” The Vindictive replied: “May we give ie dragon’s tail a damn good Swit ae 4 THREE DAYSIN NO MAN'S LAND, SAMMIES ALIVE Two American Soldiers Wounded Last Saturday Discovered Today in Dugout ANOTHER BURIED, LIVES New Haven Soldier Unearthed by “Red Cross Stretcher Bearers Under Fire With the American Army in France, Thursday, April 25.—(By ‘Associated Press)—Two Ameri- can soldiers, wounded in the en- gagement around Seicheprey, last Saturday, were found alive today in a dugout in ‘No Man’s Land. The dugout had been badly smashed by German shellfire, and how the men managed to keep alive in the rain and mud and un- der continuous German bombard- ment, physicians’ say is little short of iculous. Another soldier, Raymond Dum- unsky, of ‘New Haven, Conn., was buried alive for three days when he crawled to -the surface. Dem- unsky was born in Russia, but had been naturalized. He was found by. American Red » Cross stretcher bearers who went,out in- to wo. Man’s Land this morning. Thé Germans fired on the Red Cross flag but the stretcherbear- ers kept waving it and the en- emy fire stopped. The American troops in the fight additional details show were outnumvered in some instances eight to one. The latest advices are that the American casualties are much under the first esti- mate. FRENCH SEEK TQ RECOVER MONT KEMMEL Counter Attacking This Morning to Reclaim Positions Taken by the Germans COST HEAVILY HUNS’ GA Advances Made in Face of Des- perate Resistence—Britons Clean Up With the British Army in France, April 26. (By the Associated Press.) —The French this morning are coun- ter attacking at Mont Kemel in an atempt to reclaim the positions taken by the Germans. Yesterday’s fighting was of a des- perate nature, and enemy gains were only made at a frightful cost. One Gun Disabled. French counter batteries have been placed so as to interfere with the ac- tion of the gun. On Tuesday, one of these guns was’ damaged so that at present, only one is in service. All the crew of this gun were killed. GERMANS GAIN FOOTING London, April 26.—A footing has been obtained on Kemel hill by the Germans in their attacks on the north: ern batle front, the war office an- nounced today. The fighting is still continuing in this region. The allied forces were engaged all day yesterday with greatly superior enemy forces along this front from Bailleul to Hollebeke (a distance of about 10 miles), and finally were compelled to give ground. - German posts, which were holding out southeast of Villers-Bretonneux on.the front south of the Somree aft- er its recapture by the British, were cleared up. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRING Paris, April 26.—Heavy artillery fighting south of the Somme is re- ported by the war office. ..LONG RANGE BOMBARDMENT.. Paris, “April 26—The long range bombardment of Paris was resumed during the night. Up to 6 o’clock as far as could be ascertained nobody | aceept the provision. || had been ‘hurt, and the damage done oA was not appreciable. O say, can you see, by the dawn’s) And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs early light, bursting in air, What so proudly we hailed at the twi-| Gave proof through the night.that our light’s last gleaming? flag was still there; | Whose broad stripes and bright stars, | O say, does that star-spangled banner | through the perilous fight, | yet wave | O’er the ramparts we watched, were oir the land of the free and the so gallantly streaming! | home of the brave? Pee ane ea Oe DIT KEEP ON HOPIN’” “Keep on Hopin’”, the song featured by Mrs. H. H. Steele at this afternoon’ 's meeting in the Auditorium, and which will be repeated at the banquet at the Hotel Mc- Kenzie this evening, proved a real hit.. In honor of the newspaper men, Mrs. Steele especially arranged for this Secanloy two new verses, the third and fourth. The song follows: Keep on lookin’ for the bright, bright skies. Keep on hopin’ that the sun’llrise, Keep on singing when the whole world sighs, || And you'll get there in the mornin’. Keep on sowing when you’ ve missed the crops, Keep on dancin’ when the fiddle stops, : Keep on faithful till the curtain drops, * And you'll get there and you'll get ‘there in the mornin’, Keep on writin’ tho your ink is blue, Ke Keep on smilin’ tho your bills are due, Keep on boostin’ tho the world owes you, And you'll get there in the mornin’. ~ | | | | i | | | Keep on aimin’ at the Kaiser Bill, Keep on fightin’ with an iron will, Keep on workin’ till peace prevail, And you'll get there and you'll ies there in the mornin’. | ee ee ee, RRA RRR having been* a faijure. Some, how- | ever. admit that'the attack was made with great boldness. The Lokal. Anzeiger says the raid- ers succeeded in blocking the water- way to a great extent. GERMAN VICE ADMIRAL OUT HIS COMMAND |“Ttexper souousr Tee MEMBERS SMOKER Bismarck council, Knights of Co- lumbus, will tender members who soon are to leave for service at Camp 3 Dodge ae farewell social, session at Amsterdam, April 26.—Vice Admiral] the club rooms: this evening. An Schroeder, ‘the commander at Zee-| american luncheon will be served, and brugge, according to reports reaching}, number of short addresses were here will he iden'-ed of his com-| made, Among the Knights of Colum- mand for being taken b; ‘ise b; the British Tiesday ’,Y | bus trom this iurisdiction who are] Schroeder Removed for Permit- ting British to Surprise Him at Zeebrugge See eee {LIBERTY DAY 191 1918) Two BILLI BILLION. | | MARK WILL BE |, PASSED TODAY Washington, April 26. — Liberty Day opened with a total of $1,956,776,650 sub- scriptions already raised for the na- tion’s third big war credit, or within $43,- 300,000 of the $2,000,- 000,000 which will be passed before night. Then conquer we must, for our cause | it is just, And this be our motto: our trust.” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! (Photos posed by Miss Geraldine Farrar as she sings the national an- them.) HOLLAND SHOWS AMERICA TEETH AT HUN BEHEST Netherlands Shut Off Exports of Articles Essential to War Work | “In God Is WASHINGTON PERTURBED Suggested That Measure May Be in Retaliation for Tak- ing Dutch Ships | HOLLAND PUTS | | EMBARGO ON eee ee | i | OUR WAR NEEDS | ‘Washington, D. C., April 26.— | | Holland has placed an embargo | | on the exportation from Dutch | | East Indies of tin ore, tin cinchona | bark, quinine, quinine salt and | kopak, all of which are needed | in large quantities by the United ; ue for war purposes. * Official notification of the embargo, effective April 22, was received today, and has caused much perturbation. In some quarters, it was suggested the| measure was in retaliation for the Am- erican requisitioning of Dutch ships. Eisewhere, it was thought to have been prompted by the critical situa- tion in which Holland finds herself with Germany. The embargo on tin and tin ore will prove especialy em- barrassing to the United States.. Sup- plies needed for munitions and food Preservation were expected to come from Dutch East Indies. IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND NOTED St. Paul, Minn., April 26. ae im. | German newspapers in commenting included in the next call are Joseph the raid at Zeebrugge generally take| Boehm, Wilfrid Woulfe and C. H. the hint given in official reports at} Boyle of Bismarck: and-\M. J. Tobin Berlin and represent the enterprise as| and €. F. Kelsch of Mandan. provement was noted today in the condition of Archbishop John Ireland fe ‘St. Paul, who has been seriously 1 ~|tained a footing on the hill. ten mile sector, between Bailleul and 1] Hollebeke, the Anglo-French troops battled stubbornly, giving ground only * ‘or 24 hours ending at noon April |} 26th: Temperature at 7 a. m.. 30 porting Contingents. naval raid on the German submarine storming parties, the account says: Tales of into the mole. “The Iris had trouble, stand the parapet. PEAK OF MONT ~ KENELCENTER OF FIGHTING Heavy Hostilities Still in Prog- ress Along Ridge Line of 1 Flanders Front POINT IS OF IMPORTANCE 'Possession by Germans Would Mean Abandonment of Ypres Salient by British (ASSOCIATED PRES.) Heavy fighting-is still in progress along the ridge line of the Flanders front, where the peak of Mont Kemel is the German objective. This peak evidently is yet disputed ground, but with the German threat against it, more menacing as the enemy has ob- In the when compelled to by weight of num- bers. The line seems to have held fairly well southwest of Mt. Kemel which is virtually impregnable to frontal attacks, but to the northeast the Germans were able to push far enough to approach the heights on the flank. That they have not conceded the heights to the Germans is evident ter attacking. Definite possession of Kemel Hill by the Germans might mean that the Eritish would have to abandon the Ypres salient, according to corres- pondents at the front. The fighting on the Somme front has died down to artillery fire. The Brit- ish troops last night completed their cleaning out hostile posts, which were ‘holding out to the southeast of, Vil- lers-Bretonneux. This establishes the British once more well on the high ground in this sector. | THE WEATHER | Temperature at noon. Highest yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation ..... | Highest wind velocity. Forecast For North Dakota: and Saturday; Fair tonight colder southeast por- tion tonight; somewhat warmer Sat- urday. Lowest Temperatures Fargo . Williston .. Grand Forks Pierre .. St. Paul . Winnipeg Helena .. Chicago . Swift Current . Kansas City ... San Francisco CLARK DECLINES STONE’S BERTH. Washington, D. C. April 26.— | Speaker Clark today declined Gov- / | ernor Gardiner’s proffer of a sen- | atorship caused by the death of Protccadt Stone. ary C3 DETAILS OF BRITISH NAVAL RAID TELL OF MEN'S FINE HEROISM Official Narrative Describes Manner in Which Crews of Auxiliary Boats Went to Their Death in Order That Operation Might Prove Success—Commanding Officers Lose Lives —Casualties Extremely Heavy Among Sup- London, April 26.—(To Reuter’s Ottawa Agency.)—Detalls of the British ‘base at Zeebrugge as contained in the official narrative issued by the admiralty showed to what length the crews’ of the cruisers Vindictive and the Liverpool and the ferry boats Iris and Daffo- dil sacrificed themselves to draw the attention of the Germans from ‘tho three cruisers assigned to block the canal. Concerning the engagement on the mole, where the Vindictive landed Heroism “The Daffodil after aiding to berth the Vindictive should have proceeded to land her own men, but Captain Carpenter ordered her to remain as she was, with her bows against the Vindictive’s quarter, pressing the latter ship Her own first attempts to make fast to the mole ahead of the Vindictive failed as her grapnels were not large enough to Two officers climbed ashore and sat astride the parapet trying to make the grapnels fast till each was killed. RAR eee Commander Killed “Commander Gibbs had both: legs shot away and died the next morning. “Lieutenant Spencer, though he was wounded, took command and refused to be relieved. The Iris was ‘obliged at last to change her position, and fell in astern of the Vindictive. ' She suffered very heavily from the fire. A single big shell plunged through the upper deck and burst below at the point where 56 marinés waited ‘the order to go to the gangway. Forty- nine were killed, the remaining’ seven being wounded. Another shell burst in a wardroom and killed four officérs and 26 men. Her total casualties were eight officers and 69 men killed; 102 men and six officers wounded. Demolition Proceeded..--. “The storming and demolishing’ par- ties upon the mole met with no te sistance from the Germans other. than an intensive and’ unremitting _ fire. The geography of the great mole wita which they. were lined with many buildings and store buildings was well known and the demolition party moy- ed to their appointed work in perfect order, “And while they worked and ae- stroyed the covering party below the parapet could see in the harbor by the light of the German star shells the shape of the block ships stealing in and out of their own smoke and making for the mouth of the canal.” HEADS INTO. DEADLY VIGE since the French are vigorously coun-|The Further They Advance on Amiens the More Perilous :- Is_ Position OCCUPYING KEMMEL HILL operations here for the time being by |Official British Notices Admit Capture— French Regi- ment Immortalized On the French Front in France, Thursday, April 25. (By Associated Press.)—The more they advance to- ward Amiens, the more perilous be- comes the salient the Germans are forming in the Somme region, The present moment is less: favor- able to the German plan than when they started their advance March 21. Then, a weak point existed between the French and British armies.. Now there is no sensitive part of the line. | Unified command has given the op- portunity to make the most.. prac- tical use of all the allied troops. GERMANS. occupy KEMEL* HILL London, April 46—The Germans, in their attack on the northern battle front, have occupied Kemel hill, Gen- eral Delma Radcliffe, chief director of military operations at the war of- fice, stated this afternoon. One French regiment, defending the crest of Mont Kemel with orders to hold it to the last man, immortalized itself. ROCHESTER MAN : SLAYS WIFE AND WOUNDS STEPSON Rochester, (Minn., April 26.—Thomas Armstrong, former city assessor; late last night killed his wife, wounded his fourteen year old stepson Martin, ‘and fled. Armstrong, it is claimed, algo tried to shoot his stepson John} but the latter wrested the revolver trom his father. Armstrong’s mentality pas been questioned. Posses today are searching the: coun try for AER SOnE q