The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1918, Page 1

5 i; “mouth THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. THE BIS L K TRIBUNE LAST EDITION. THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 159. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JUNE. 22, 1918, PRICE FIVE CENTS. 100 KIL - PRESSURE ALONG PIAVE — TINE HAS DECREASED; _ FEAR ATTACK ON PARIS Premier Discusses‘'Rumor That Germans Have Placed 30 Cannon of Long Range for Destruc- tion of French Capital—Austria Seethes Discontent (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ‘ATTEMPT ABORTIVE Harbin, Wednesday, June 19.—General. Semenoff’s Bolsheviki in eastern Siberia has proved definitely abortive in the opinion of: British and French military observers in Manchuria. General Sem- enoff has been surrounded by superior forces and obliged movement against the to retreat into Manchuria. The Chinese authorities have demanded that he dis- arm on crossing the frontier and surrender his cannon and munitions. General Semenoff has refused, but rec- ognizes that unless a third power intervenes the surren- der of his arms is imperative. The Bolsheviki forces are assisted by from two to three thousand released German.and Austrian prisoners. DISCUSS POSSIBLE BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS BY LONG RANGE CANNON Paris, June 22.—Premier Clemenceau and Leon A. Brami, under secretary for effectives and pensions at the war office, had a lengthy hearing before the senate army committee today on the question of effectives. It has been widely rumored that the Ger- mans have placed a number, varying from eight to 30, of long range cannon for bombardment of Paris. Several questions were put to Premier Clemenceau, most of them concerning this rumor, but treated it as idle gossip. Fighting on th Piave line apparent- ly is decreasing as the Austrian offens- ive enters upon its second weék. In the mountains there: has been little ac- . tivity for several days but the Aus- trians are reported to be concentrat- ing large bodies of men there presum- ably for another ‘attempt to push southward to the Venetian plain. Ital- ian resistance and counter attacks, ajded by the suddenrise of the river. have played havoc with ‘Austrian hopes of captyring Montello and dom- _inating the plain. Slowly the enemy ) +) Plateaus being driv- the Italians and his efforts ints have’ either been driy- y The fighting. on: tense. - - lave the Ital- an @ 4 We, capture the. angle ‘between the, old Piave ‘and the Fossetta canal, which they reached north of Capo Sile. West of San Dona di 'Piave,‘where the canal bathe thesia hes-dtalians riven bac , Austrians. Vienna claims the rete Seal attacks. A statement from the office of the Italian premier ‘says ‘there; was,no in- fantry fighting Friday and the situation is unchanged. Losses Heavy. 4 Austrian losses have been heavy and an Italian newspaper estimates them at 120,000. \More than foriy Austrian divisions have been engaged on the batt.e line and thirty of these have suffered heavily. A report re- ceived in London is to the effect that twelve German divisions are to be sent to Italy to take the place of an equal number of Austrian divisions to be transported to France. Seething With Discontent. Behind the fighting front ‘the dual monarchy is seething. with discontent over the food situation which appar: ently shows no signs of improvement. Dr. Von Seydler, the. Austrian pre- mier who has attempted to resign sev- eral times in the past year, is report- ed on the way to Austrian headquar- ters to place his resignation in the hands of Emperor Charles. -Much anti-German feeling is being manifested in iVenna and in Hungary. In the Austrian capital the police have prevented an attempted attack on the German embassy. . On the fron’ in France anid Flanders there has been no break in the lull since the German repulse at ‘Rheims. Small raids are being carried out here and there but no general engagements appear to be in the making. Berlin, in its’ official statement re- fers to allied raids as.attacks and mentions the repulse ofa local Amert- can a‘tack northwest of Chateau Thierry. There.has: been no fighting on that sector since Thursday when the Americans advanced their lines in! Belleau wood a half mile against weak German resistance. CHINESE AVAILABLE. ‘London. June 22.€hinese soldiers are available for cooperation with the Japanese at Harbin and near the Si- berfan frontier and if necessary more will be sent General’Tuan Chi Jui, the Chinese premier and war minister told the Peking correspondent of the Daily Mail. The premier added: ‘ “The threatening situation on our frontiers certainly demands _ safe- guards. We do not want the Bolshev- iki in China.” With reference to Chi- nese participation in the war on the European battle fronts, the premier said: “I would like to help the allies and would be glad to send 40,00 or 50,- 00 Otroops but am prevented by finan- cial difficulties and the activities of the provincial rebels. I have sent 150,000 troops south. I am hopeful that the Canton rebellion can be re- pressed within two months and then a good many of these troops can be re- leased for service elsewhere.” ~ ———ary w. s,s —— REFUSED TO SURRENDER. Green Bay, Wis., June 12.—Sergeant Paul Gegre, named in today’s army casualty list as killed in action, was the first Greenbay man to have spe- cial honor conferred upon him. He had _ been in ‘the regular army. nine ~ (Continued on Page Three.) -|WORKMEN ARE FIRED ON ‘lic buildings with + INTERNAL TROUBLES ~_HRNAGING Rumored Attempt Has’ Been Made Upon the Life of Emperor Charles ‘ ATTEMPT ON EMPEROR'S LIFE. Lendon, Juné 22.—Reports. are current on the Amsterdam ex- change today that an attempt has heen made on the life of Emperor Charles of Austria, says a central news dispatch from Amsterdam. The reports are unconfirmed. London, June 22.—According to the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, during ser- ious street rioting in Vienna the po- lice and militia were called out and took strict measures and issued warn- ing to parents making them respon- sible for the actions of their child- ren, says an exchange telegraph dis- patch from Copenhagen. According to the Arbeiter Zitung of Vienna a great strike movement has developed in the Austrian capital’ though it’s full enxent is not, known. The Vienna workers’ council, the newspaper says, has issued a man- ifesto saying it hopes the government will understand, in view of the strike moveemnt how necessary it is to’ in- crease the food rations: The Times correspondent at The Hague is informed through a Dutch source that the remnants of some sev- erely tried Austrian regiments ar- Tived in Vienna on the 16th, many of the men being slightly wounded. These troops were employed to patrol the city, but their bearing was such that they were withdrawn. All pub- in Vienna now are guarded by cavalry. The Times correspondent cites in- formation apparantly from Vienna that the collection of the harvest in Austria, Germany and Hungary will in the future be strictly a state af- fair. Austria enters the new harvest year without any supplies whatever. The workmen demanded a wage in- crease of over 160 per cent which would place them on an equality with the employes .of private enterprises. The strike lasted for a whole week after this demand has been granted. FOUR WORKMEN KILLED, | Basel, Switzerland, June 22.—Dr. Alexander Wekerle, the premier, speaking before the Hungarian cham- ber_of deputies_yesterday, making a (Continued on Page Three.) + BUY W. S. 8, General Crowder Orders the Mailing of Questionnaires Washington, June 22.—Draft execu- tives of all states today were directed by Provost ‘Marshal General Crowder to begin on June 25 and to continue for three days thereafter the mail- ing of questionaires to registrants of the class of 1918. Twenty-five per cent of the registrants of each board will be provided with questionaires each day. Boards were instructed to leave serial and order number spaces blank until classification takes place, probably some time in July. ORDERED TO DODGE. ‘Des Moines, June 22.—The adjutant general's office announced today that 17,820 Iowa selective men were order- ed to Camp Dodge during the five day period beginning July 22. Adjutant General Logan announced that the July draft movement would complete- ly exhaust class one. DOGS OF WAR CHARGE MACHINE GUNS The dogs being trained by the British army'to act as dispatch bearers at the front are utterly without fear. and machine guns. Gas attacks, grenades and\pombs do not feaze them. shows ‘British dogs in training charging a line of firing soldiers. — i They will charge directly into a line of soldiers firing volleys from rifles This photograph 900,000 MEN SHIPPED 10 FRENCH LINE General"March Announces That United States Is Five Months Ahead of Schedule EXPECT. NEW DRIVE SOON Washington, June .22—Nine hun- dred thdusand men have been shipped across the. seas, General March: told newepapér’’ correspondents ‘at the weekly conferenté today. These in- clude the troops shipped”: from all American ports of embarkation. The United States is’ today five montas ahead of its program for placing an army in France, General March said. The figures on American troop ship- ments are ‘significant since General March at his first conference last week fixed the number shipped at more than, $90, the addition of 100,000 dur- ing ‘the rate of progress that is being! made. . While the general battle situation looks good today, General March said, the pdesent Jull on the western front means only thet German combatives are being reformed for another drive. Viewing ,the whole, situation ,includ- ing the Italian front. the chief of staff said that the central powers again were held on all fronts. BUY W, $.8.——— SOCIALIST "HBLD FOR ~ SEDITION Duluth, Minn., June 22.—John Car- ney, editor of the Duluth Socialist pub- lication Truth, was arrested by Unit- ed States marshals last evening on a warrant issued by United States dis- trict attorney Alfred Jaques, charging sedition. Carney arraigned before James A. Wharton, United States commissioner was released under $2, 000 bail, pending federal grand jury investigation July 9. Publishing the platform of Victor L. Berger, as a candidate for the United States Senate in Wisconsin as an alle- gation in the sedition charge. Carney stated that the platform which he pub- lished was clipped from a Wisconsin paper where it was run as a political advertisement. ——-a0r Ww, s, 8, S$ —— KILLED WIFE INSTATE ROOM Kansas City, Mo.. June 22.—The po-; lice today were holding J. R. Jackson, cashier of a motion picture film con- cern here who. late last night gave them a written statement in which he declared he was responsible for the death of his 24- year-old wife, whose semi-nude body was found near the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail- road tracks near Shelbina, Mo., last night. : According’ to Jackson's story to the police. ‘he killed his wife in the state room of a sleeping car the night of June 13 and threw the body out of the window, tossing after it the waman’s | clothing and personal effects. Revela-| tions made by her the night of the! killing, prompted the act, the state ment says. Jackson and his wife had been mar- ried about four years. Jackson told the police he and his wife had had differences over an in- fatuation he claims she had for a man now:..in..the navy and stationed at Great-Lakes naval. tyaining station. COMMUNITY Superintendent County Agricultural Sauer held five community picnics last week in Emmons county in ‘the interests of better rural life. tendance was from 350 to 600. Tents were provided for each of the follow- ing: wards stook Macdonald's place last three days. Great Britain ‘ May Celebrate Fourth of July London, June 22,—Observance of the Fourth of July in:Great Britain is suggested in a letter ‘to the Times by the Bishop of Exeter, brother of. the Marquis of Salisbury. He writes: “It should. be -a-day of solemn thanksgiving: and humble prayer as an act of courtesy to our allies and an act of mighty forthe ‘noble: reasons which have inspired America to come to our aid. that the day which for years has.com- memorated ‘the bitterest hostilities be- tween the two nations should now be opserved as.a festival of amity.” thanksgiving to the. Al- It is particularly appropriate The Bishop'says that.he has already arranged‘to tcelebrate the: day in his djocege... fig SOB WS. Si PIGNIGS ARE BIG SUCCESS |Series of Get-Together Sessions Satisfactorily Held in Em- mons County HUNDREDS ENJOY TALKS Linton, N. D., June 22.—County Lester Briggle and Agent H. O. The at- School nurse, Miss E, Swenson, Grand Forks. Canning Demonstrator, Mrs. A. S. H. O. Batzer; Kinney,’ Linton. Baby clinic, Mrs. Hazelton. Women’s Council of Defense, Mrs. H._E.. Winchester, Hazelton, Two addresses were delivered. each day to the entire audience by State Superintendent Macdonald and 0. A. Barton of the agricultural Great interest was taken by all in community singing of old and new war songs as well as national songs. college. Mr. A: F. Martinson of the extension department of agriculture mixed poi- son: with oats, distributed same on nearby fields and brought inthe dead victims—gophers. Inspector Ed- State High School the This new and unique venture met with ‘such success that it is hoped these community. gatherings will be Permanent annual events. QUESTIONNAIRES TO BE SENT OUT BEGINNING 25th The first 25 per cent of question- naires will be mailed June 25 to North Doakat select service candidates who registered ‘June 5, Adjutant. General Fraser announced this morning. additional 25 per cent will go out each of the three succeeding days until all of the 4,902 young men of the class of 1915 are supplied. Direc- tions were received from Provost Mar- shal General Crowder today. LISBON ASKS ITS An MONEYS AND CREDITS GIVEN ANOTHER 0. 0: The state tax commission is in re- ceipt of resolutions passed by the.Lis- bon city council at a recent session directing a reassessment..of moneys and credits. that a number of business houses in Lisbon did not properly list moneys —land credits, te The resolutions allege UNITED MINERS’ CHIBF 10 TALK HERE TOMORROW Samuel Pascoe, Montana-Dakota President, to Share Plat: . form with Schmahl BIG MEETING AT “WILTON Samuel:;Pascoe,’one of the, organiz- ers. of the United. Mine Workers of America, ‘and; now. president- of. the Dakota:Montana district, which num- bers several thousand organized min- ers, will share the platform with S retary of State Julius Schmahl at ¥ Auditorium on Sunday, when he will talk.on “Organized Labor's Part in the Great War.” Julius Schmahl, who has just been renominated for secretary of state in M{nnesota, has established a record for loyalty and efficiency: in patriotic work. He will make an out-and-out American address at the rally to be held at the Auditorium on Sunday, un- the auspices of the Independent Voers’ association. John Sullivaft of Man- dan also will talk. The speakers will be introduced by George N. “Keniston, secretary of the Bismarck Commercial club. Bib Wilton ‘Meeting. Five hundred people are said to have attended an Independent voters’ rally at Wilton last night, when John S.een, indeepndent candidate ‘for the republican nomination for governor, {8 reported to have received an ovation. Samuel Pasco spoke, making a great impression upon the organized miners of the Washburn Lignite Co., who were in his audience. The party was driven to Wilton by Sen. E. A. ‘Hughes. ORE PRIGES ADVANCED Washington, June 22.—Iron ore prices will be advanced forty-five cents a gros ston on July 1, but steel prices will remain fixed at the present level through the terms of an agreement between the war industries board and representatives of the American Iron and Steel Institute ‘and the ore pro- ducers. The new ore prices will be based on the present price of $5.05 a gross ton f. o. b. lower lake ports, plus: the ad- vance The iron ore producers asked for an increase on the ground of higher wages being paid workers and the ad- vanced freight rates. Announcement of the details of the new price will be withheld pending its acceptance by president Wilson. Bulgaria “and Turkey Quarrel Over the Spoils Amsterdam, June’ 22.—Differences; have arisen betwéen Bulgaria and Turkey over the division of lands ta- ken from Rupmania under the peace agreement with the central powers, Dr. Von Kuehlmann, the German for- eign secretary, indicated yesterday in addressing the Reichstag at Berlin upon the occasion of the first reading of the Rumanian peace treaty. “We all take,the standpoint,” said the foreign secretary. “that the provis- ional arrangement must find its ra- tional solution in the union of the northern Dobrudja with Bulgaria in accordance with the desires of the Bulgarian people. “The question of Dobrudja of of the compensation due to Turkey, if this sense, has in a high degree excited public opinion in both countries which are looking with keen ‘attention for eve-v expression of the central pow- Ors." Mime, a! ai: git Aaa bel iam LED IN WREC HAGENBACK’S CIRCUS IS WIPED QUT IN REAR END COLLISION; ENGINEER ASLEEP IN HIS CAB Various Estimates of Dead Place Number at from 75 to 150—Worst Accident in History on Mich- igan Central, Near Perish in Flames Hammond, Ind.—Many ' 69 KNOWN. DEAD Chicago, June 22.—Ten more bodies were later taken from the debris and the Michigan Central list of dead was thus increased to 69. The injured list remained at 115. is 1s (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Chicago, June 22.—The personnel of the Hagenback-Wallace shows is believed to have been practically wiped out in a railroad collision between Michigan City and Hammond, Ind., today. Ac- cording to meager details received at Michigan Central offices'a hundred or more persons were killed or injured. Four coaches in a rear end collision. - ‘|which members of the circus were sleeping, were demolished by IN TWO SECTIONS ' The show was traveling in two sections of a Michigan Cen- tral train going from Michigan City to Hammond. At East Ivan- hoe a hot box caused the second section to stop. A train of empty pullmans ‘coming from the east, to Chicago crashed into it, the locomotive plowing its way through the way-car and four cleeping coaches. The injured Gary, Ind. were ‘taken to hospitals at Hammond and A message from Gary said that the heavy steel pullman crashed through the lighter circus coaches like so much wet paper. The wreck was complete. INTENSE SUFFERING : map Here and there in the wreckage legs and arms protruded and groans testified. to the suffering of those still alive. -.Trainmaster Whipple of the Michigan Central was on the train and was ed among the. missing.’ L. W. Landman, general passenger agent of the ; report- Wrichigan Cen- tral said that his only explanation of the wreck was that the'engi- neer of the train of empties must have been dead at, the throttle. IGNORED “In no other way. can I account for the fact that SIGNALS 0 ee he ignored all of the usual danger signals placed by the circus train,” said Mr. Landman. “He ran past two block signals, two red. light: signals and the usual fuses planted between the rails and throwing off a brilliant red light visible for a long distance in: the , This engineer is, missing. My information.is that with the tion of the engineer, whose fate is a mystery, nd one on'the train was hurt. : It will be a long time before an ‘accirate: darkne y Nat of the dead can be compiled. It is the worst wreck in the history ‘of the road, I believe.” . PERFORMERS MISSING.) : Among those reported missing are the Rooney family of-bare- back riders, the Meyer family of animal trainers, the Cottrell: ‘aimi- ily,equestrians, Haryy La Perle, Ed Dvore, Mark Adams and Joe Coyle, clowns. Heavy loss in dead and injured is said'to have occurred among the ballet of 100 girls. PERISHED IN FLAMES Daylight was just beginning to show when the crash came. Those thrown free from the wreck and not unconscious stood near the wreck in their night clothes, helpless, while their comrades perished in the flames. Surgeons and nurses were dispatched from Chicago, Gary, Hammond, Whiting and other nearby towns. CO. A LOSES _ ANOTHER MAN FIGHTING HUN Private Christ Peterson, Son of Pioneer Farmer, Killed in Action (Co. A; Bismarck’s pioneer unit of the Fighting First, loses another man in action in Christ A. Peterson, whose name appears in today’s casualty lists. Private Christ Peterson en- listed with Co. A here last summer. He was a son of Louis C. Peterson, re- siding seven miles southwest of Wil- ton, and who has resided in Burleigh county for 35 years or more. The martyred soldier’s father is now a candidate for county commissioner from the third district. Private Peter- son was born on his father’s farm, where he had resided all of his life up to the time of his enlistment here last summer. He is the sixth mem- ber of Co. A to be killed in action, while several other members of this unit have been seriously wounded. List of Casualties. Co. A’s list of dead in: action to date is as follows: Private Morey, Dickinson. ~ Private Gaard, Crosby.-— X Private ‘Mullen, a drafted man from Camp Lewis. Private Loyd Spetz, Bismarck. ~ Private Lawrence Ousley, Wilton.~ Private Chris Peterson, Wilton. x The deaths of Privates ‘Morey, Gaard and Mullen have previously been reported, but they had not been credited to Co. A because their home addresses only were given. Privates Morey and Gaard were killed in the same action in which Loyd Spetz lost his life. : Jack Serres. formerly proprietor of the Banner House, was badly gassed, and Privates Joe Mathews, Pataski, a Minnesota man, and perhaps a dozen members of old A. company have been seriously wounded. A company is split up between the 16th and 18th regiments, U. S. infantry. The en- tire First regiment is so divided, no privates’‘remaining with this command back of the lines. Among the missing is Mrs. Charles Gollmar, of Baraboo, Wis. Her hus- band is manager of the circus. The wrecked train was the second section which carried performers and officials of the show. The first section car- tied the menagerie, canvassmen, tents and other equipment. Those .on the first section did not learn of the ac- cident until they reached Indiana Har- bor. In all the sho wearried: about 350 persons. Wakes Up Engine:r A flagman on duty aear the wreck is reported to have sean the approach- ing train of empty cars on the Michi- gan entral. When the engino passed him he threw his lantern through the cab of the engine, awakening the én- gineer, who it is said, was asleep. Both the engineer and fireman jump- ed, % Most of the dead showed oaly. su- Perficial injuries and evidently were killed by. suffocation or burning. The circus train was. gas lit and the gas released by the broken. pipes was in- stantly ignited from the burning: !eis and from the fire box of the locomo- tive which plowed through the ‘cars, Head Between Ties. Z A rescue party from Hammond found one woman clad bnly in night clothes pinned beneath a rail with her head between two ties. She was dragged out and when the dirt and sand was washed from her face she opened her eyes and soon afterward was found to be unhure except for a broken nose and bruised face. Many deeds of heroism and sactft- fice were done. ne woman screaming in agony betneath the burning tim- bers, saw the flames nearing those who were trying to release her, shout- ed “get away, get away kuick, or you'll get burned too.” The rescuers were unable to telease the woman and her cries weré atilled by the flames, Screams of Tortued ictima. Screams of the tortued. victims min- gled with the moans of the dying as survivors frantically tugged to tear them from the overturned and blaz- ing coaches. Water was carried from nearby pools in buckets but had no effect in checking the fire. All avail- able doctors and nurses rushed to the scene in taxicabs and all kinds of con- veyances and they have beeh’ at work continuously since. emoval of bodies is made difficult by the fire which is still smouldering. At 11 o'clock er Gollmat of the Hagenbecks-W: show, said that his casualty list as checked to that hour risclosed thirty-three known dead, and that.-he expected deaths (Continued on Page Two.) Z