The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 1

4. THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. THE BIS j y WHA! THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 204. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. LAST EDITION (a PRICE FIVE CENTS. MACHINERY READY FOR NEW DRAFT General Crowder Has Plans All Laid for Registering Thirteen Million Men MAY BE READY SEPT. 5 Hoped to Have Measure Passed by Last of Next Week Washington, Aug. 16.—Machinery for the registration of 13,000 additional men coming under the provisions of the new man power bi.1 extending the ages for military service from 18 to 45, has already been set in -motion. Provost Marshal General Crowder -who will have ‘charge of the registration said that preliminary instructions have been issued and upon the adop- tion of the bill everything would be in yeadiness. The registration will not be later than Sept. 15 and it is hoped to have it set for Sept. 5. Senate leaders today believed that it was possible to begin consideration of the new manpower bill next Tues- day. —wrw.s s——— HEAD OF FRENCH COMMISSION IS DEAD IN WEST A Pacific Port, Aug. 16.—Albert Me- tin, head of the French commission in America, died here last night follow- ing a stroke of apoplexy. He was sricken shortly after his arrivel and the stroke was caused by exhaustion of the journey, say reports here. He was a member of the French commis- sion of which Gen. Pau, noted military leader, ,was: joint head. J The body will be taken to France for burial according to a statement of members of the-commission. BUY W..8. 8. LLOYD GEORGE EULOGIZES YANKS IN RECENT TALK London, Aug. 16.—(Correspandence of the Associated Press.)—“There is a new ‘landecontronting us,” said Pre- miler Lloyd George in a recent speech. “What manner of country it will be’ he continued, “will depend on. how the war goes.and on how things go after the war. > “I am mqte confident today than I have ever been, for reasons it would not be relevant for me to enter on.at the moment; but one of the latest rea- sons is the impression made on me by the American troops I saw in France. They are superb in material and in training, and in the way they have borne themseives in the trying condi- tions of battles they have fought. [ found a great spirit of confidence which strengthens our conviction of victory. “The war has upset everything and when it is over the falling back into normal conditions will be another di turbance. There will be a great so: cial and economic disturbance. “There are two flternatives. One is that the war: will have sobered the millions who have passed through the fires, whether in France or in the anxieties at home. ‘ Their vision will have been broadened, their sympathy deepened, their outlook and purpose made clearer, firmer and more exalt- ed. There are millions who have been in daily contact with death, walk- re hourly over its trap doors. They ave come into eontact with very terrible realities. That is one view. “The other is that there are mil- lions who far these years have en- dured privations, discombort, wretch- edness( as well as pajn and terror and who have made up their minds to have a good time for the rest of their lives when it is over. That is a very dangerous frame of mind for a nation to be in.”_ BUY W. S. 5. REV. MAXWELL TO SPEAK IN STATE St. Paul, Aug. 16.—Rev. S. R. Max-; well, author of the series on Townley and Townleyism, which was finished in the Dispatch on Monday, has been speaking to the men in training in the Great Lakes Naval Training station, and will fill other engagements of the same kind before returning to Min- nesota. “Instead of working for Townley’s autocracy I am now out in the clear wide open space of loyal work for our country in this hour of crisis,” he writes to the editor of the Dispatch. “It Townley wants to see me I am still presentable, for the mud he slings does not stick. Will Speak in Northwest. “Please announce that I have re- ceived invitations to speak in the Da- kotas and in Minneapolis on Town-} ley’s autocracy and that I have accent- ed them and am coming back to St. Paul as soon as I finish my present work, although Townley's kept editors have tried to create the impression that I am afraid to come back. “T am not, and I am ready to meet them on the issues I have raised. “In my articles I kept the distinc- tion between Townley and the league clear—am with the league and eter- nally hostile to Townley.” BUY W. 8. To Entertain Bismarck Club. Many members of the Bismarck country club are planning to attend an entertainment arranged in honor of the, Capital City club. ere wil he sical. pro} atthe Mandan Country” “gti, aa {fol lowed by a banquet at the Lewis & Clark hotel. The affair is given by the Mandan Country clab. . LEADS AMERICAN FORCE IN RUSSIA DHaeaeis & Qrorc. GENERAL WS. GIRANES Maj. Gen. William S. Graves, until recently assistant chief of the army general staff, has been selected by Chief of Staff March to lead the Amer-| ican Expeditionary Force that will be} sent to Siberia. SHOCK TROOPS — "BARN MONEY "FOR RED GROSS “Jack” Whitney’s Army of First “Aiders” Doing Yoeman Ser- i vice in Burleigh Fields \ | CROPS ARE PROMISING Pam i Some Wheat will go as High as! 25 Bushels to the Acre—Oats 40 or More Shock troops are doing yeoman ser-; vice in Eurleigh county fields. A troop, of thirty “huskies” under J. L. Whitney has been working like beav- ers. Farmers who are-in need of help should communicate with Mr. Whit- ney, . i This ‘week: the company went to} {George Gussner's farm and at the con-| clusion. of the eyening’s work, Mr. Gussner. turned ina check for $15 payable to the Burleigh county Red) Cross chapter. These volunteer shockers leave it {up to the individual farmers to give what-the service is‘ worth. After the work ‘is completed there is a big feed | and a social hour and everyone re: turns to jtown better for the exercise and happy in the realization that he has assisted in piling up.the food re-| serves for next winter when the de- mands will be heavy both at home and; | abroad. |’ The crops in Burleigh county are: averaging up well. The shockers re-} port that some of the-wheat is run-| ning as high as 15, 20 and even 25) bushels to the acre. Some oats were; shocked that will easily go 40 bushels. | | These harvest troops go through} trom 60 to 5 7acres in an-evening. | Anyone desiring to assist can apply to Mr. Whitney. Parties are formed at the state cap-/ itol daily and nearly every state of-| ficial from the governor down has) assisted. i BUY W. § §--—— Red Cross Workers of North Dakota Help in | Conservation of Food! Red Cross workrooms' of North Da-| kota have been of great assistance to: ‘home demonstration agents as offer: ing flaces where large groups of wom- | len may be reached and interested in| special food supply. i In addition to giving talks on' food saving in several towns, the agent prepares the noon lunch once a week! for the workers. This serves to dem-} onstrate good conservation recipes. Suppers for the benefit of the’ Red | Cross have been given successfully in| many places under the agents. Men as well as women are thus interested | in the possibilities of war cooking. | Buy. 8.8 \Drafts and Checks For Week Paid By | Local Banks $950,400: Beginning August 9 the Federal Re- serve bank of Minneapolis has request-; ied banks in the district to report to- tal of checks and bank drafts paid here. Bradley C. Marks, manager. of the Bismarck clearing house, today sent in the figures for ‘he week end-| ing August 15. Checks paid aggregat- ed $570,400 and bank, drafts $380,000, or nearly a million dollars in one i week. Considering that this is usual- ‘ly the quietest time of the year. the showing is excellent and indicates a healthy business condition. BUY W. SS Find Dismembered Body In Water Hole! | gia coh Wester, Ohio, Aug. 16.—James Martin, caretaker of the Point Breeze chautauqua, grounds at Smithfield here, found the lower half of a wom- an’s body in a sack weighted. The ‘sack was in a water hole and evident- ly shad been there for several weeks. The legs had been sawed in two at the knees. The sack was floating on the water. A woman’s hat was found in the-saek) Sheriff Smith of Wayne county left to- 1 | who . lived lover quiet for his age. ALLIES CONTINUE AMERICAN BOY, 15,18 HUN PRISONER 3 YEARS Coristantine Coin, Captured inj 1914 in France, Is Finally Re- turned to His Relatives in ‘Paris. -- Sees | (‘By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) . Paris, France. Aug. 16.—Constan- tine Coin, of Johnson City, II, who was captured by the Germans when 12 years old, at the age of 15 has now been restored to his aunt and uncle inj Paris. Amberican born, of French parents in Mlinois, Constantine, with his mother, was visiting an aunt; in ;Roubaix, France, when the war started. He was not well enough to make the journey back to America; when the German invasion began and so, thinking she was leaving him in perfect safety in Roubaix, his mother went back to America, Constantine and his aunt were caukht in the invader’s net and sent! to Germany, where for nearly three years, ‘he was held in captivity. But! finally he was sent back to France| through Switzzerland. At Evian, through which 50,000 other French and Belgian boys, girls, women and old men have returned to France, Con- stantine was met oy a representative of the American Red Cross.. As the first American “Repatrie (repatriate) | he was the center eof interest. The Red Cross advised his mother that the boy had been found; prompt- ly cathe the answer that the mother wanted her boy sent home to: Illinois as quickly as possible. The boy was notified that. hig mother was well. Not once in the three years spent in Germany had the boy or his aunt ; been able to send word that he was alive. Every mother will know what ; those three’ years of silence meant to the mther of Constantine Coin, griev- ing in Illinois. The boy ‘was ‘apparently happy but He-has left Paris to“ stay..with relatives at Le Havre, and thence will journey back to the United States. . Neither to his companions nor to the Red. Cross officials would Con-| stantine talk of his experiences. This! is usually the way with “repatries” of all. ages... Captivity in Germany does not make boys’ talkative. Constantine ‘and his aunt}. while in the hands ‘of the Germans, kept. quiet the fact; that. he was more American |_ than’ French. for. they felt’ that this might prevent his return. Teyeres betwee BU YI, Sst LAWSUIT’ SETTLED BY TURNING $125 INTO RED CROSS F.. D, Woodworth, Driscoll, and Paul Lang,*Sterling, recently had a con- troversy over a commission on a*land deal. Negotiations were in progress and ‘attorneys hired when it was sug- gested that the matter be settled by. Lang turning over $125 to the Red Cross. This Lang consented to do and today deposited a note due Nov. 1 for 125.00. The Burleigh county chapter sug- gests that some other litigants might settle their differences profitably in this way. * [THE WEATHER ‘ For twenty-four hours noon Aug. 16. Temperature at 7 a. m. . Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation. ...... Highest wind velocity FORECAST. For North Dakota: Unsettled but /Benerally fair weather tonight «nd |Saturday; not much change in tem- perature. Lowest 3 Temperatures. Fargo .... ‘ . 58 Williston . . oo Grand Forks . . 4 St. Paul .. 62 Winnipeg 58 Helena . a4 Chicago 70 Swift Current 50 Kansas City . v4 ORRIS W. Meteorologist. On Way to Paris As Bolivia’s Envoy GENERAL ISMAEL MONTES Washington, D. C., Aug. 16.—Gener- al Ismael Montes, exx-president of the Republic of Bolivia, has just arrived in the. United-States and after a brief sojourn will continue his journey to; Paris to_enter upon his duties as en-| voy extraordinary and iminister pleni- ‘potentiagyig! Bolivia; to iFrance. Gen. Montes has been president of Bolivia’ day to drag the water hole in hopes of locating the rest of the body. two terms, first from 1904 to 1909 andj} again trom 1913 to 1917. WAR CAPTIVE Constantine Coin 30 10 ENTRAIN AUGUST 28 FOR CAMP LEWIS Burleigh county contingent to en- train for Camp*Lewis, American-Lake, Tacoma, Wash., on train ‘No. 3, August 28th: . Andrew/ Barbieri, Minneapolis. Gilbert A. Johnson, Chisholm, Minn. Voehn Keiler,’Fort Snelling, Minn. Trikiby LL. Demeéy, Milwaukee, Wis. Godfrey Olson, for Traill’ county, Chester “A, Wilcox, Bismarck, liichard°S. ‘Wilcox, Bismarck, Rudolph "'I.Lee, Minneapoiis. Jack Segall, Bismarck. Walter Ojanen, Wing. John, Stewart, Driscoll. Thomas R. Bailey, Menoken, Joseph Phifer, Driscoll. Karl E.- Chamberlain, Duluth. George W. Bernges, Bismarck. Richard. A. Schuite, Unity, Wis. A. N. Wysong, ‘Minot. Jacob Perlman, St.. Paul. Adolphe E. Mahnke, Regan. _.. Clair G. Derby, St: Albans, Vt. George R. Peterson, Seattle, Was’, Richard 0. Shaw, Turner, Mont. John H. Bowers, Bismarck, Jens C.. Christensen, Oakes. John Delzer, Eismarck. Clayton Fulton, Bismarck. Harold Henderson, Bismarc:. Gerald Richholt,. Bismarck: Edward J. Fischer, Baldwin. Jesse A. Erickson, Drisco.l. WUY W, 8 */Chinese Riot Over ending at High Cost of Rice BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tokio, Aug, 16.—Ten_ policemen have been wounded seriously in a riot at Nogova over the high cost of rice. Fifty Chihese have been arrest- 2 | ed and 300 women have been detained Industrial disturbances continue elsewheré. Meetings in To- kio. have been prohibited. The in- crease in the price of rice is due to a corner, reports state. It has doubled twice within short periods. * at Ohaka. DON’T WAIT FOR COLLECTOR All city subscribers of The Tribune are asked to call at office and settle for their pa- per So that the management can continue delivery each day after October 1. The war industries board has ordered papers stopped after October 1, where sub- scribers are in arrears. This ruling applies “to..mail . sub- scribers::as well as those on the city list. It will be impossible in such a short time to reach all city readers so if you do not desire to miss any copies. kindly call at Tribune office and-askfor4 circulation department. Collectors are now checking up the various routes. Be prepared when called upon to pay all past due subscriptions as the carrier boys should not be. asked to make more than one call for. the remittance. After October first in com- pliance with order of ‘war in- dustries board, the Tribune must drop from its list all subscribers who are delin- quent. - The Tribune asks the co- operation of its readers and jgives this notice so that no: jone:;may be cut off without due warning. HRUST SIBERIAN ARMY IN DIRE NEED OF AMMUNITION Allied Capitals Taking Up Ques- tion of Supplying Them with Armies to Oppose Germans LARGE STORES OF FOOD People Have Never Accepted Treaty Made By Bolsheviki Government, with Huns Washington, aug. 16.—The pressing jneed of arms and ammunition by the people of western Siberia, who have arrayed themselves against the forces of German and Austrian prisoners and the German influence upon the Bol- sheviki, is being’ considered in the allied “¢apitals, according to informa- tion received today. The answer to this appeal has not been disclosed. The people of western Siberia with the aid of Czech-Slovaks proclaimed their independence on July 4. They are reported to have thousands of well trained and loyal troops, who are waiting only for equipment before be- ginning active resistance against the ermans. The people never have accepted the surrender to the Germans under the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and have pre- vented the Bolsheviki from shipping millions of tons of supplies from here which have been bought and paid for by. the German government. now held in western Siberia would support an army until the crops come in next season. Included in the food- stuffs now in storage in this section is two million tons of wheat. Besides this, are butter, cheese and other dairy products and meat. There are thousands of heads of cattle, sheep and horses, carefully held from the Germans and.,Bolsheviki. Most im- portant however aré the, mines in the Ural mountains that the government of western. Siberia controls. These mines produce more than 90 per cent of the platinum: of. the world. MUY W. 8, 8 —— FORMER MILL CITY CHIEF IS VISITING IN CAPITAL CITY O. Martinson,’ former chief of the Minneapolis police, and now running for sheriff, is visiting friends in Bis- marck. He is one of the best known police officials of the northwest al- though he has been out of the service ‘since the Mayor Van Lear regime. He served for four years as chief and was connected with the department for fourteen years. ‘Mr.'Martinson has a son in the avia- tion corps who is now in active ser- vice an the French front. Friends an- ticipate’ that Martinson will have lit- tle difficulty in defeating Sheriff Lan- gum of Hennepin county. Mr. Mar- tinson and Chris Martineson, Bis- marck chief of police, are old friends. Martinson, Martineson and Rollin Welch were Warden Talcott's guests at the Penitentiary Thursday. They went through the institution and then dined with the warden. Last evening he was the guest of A. Bougas of the Van Horn Cafe. BUY W. 5. S. YOUTHS CHARGED WITH INSULT TO FLAG FREED The case against Christian Jodt and j@ youth by the name of Miller who were charged with tearing down a United States flag and the picture of Abraham Lincoln from the walls of a school house in Mercer county went to the jary late last night and after a short deliberation the jury returned a@ verdict of ‘not guilty but with a clause that the court should severely reprimand the ‘defendants and their fathers for the actions of the boys on the occasion named in the indictment. Judge Amidon gave the boys and their parents a long lecture impress- ing upon them respect for the flag and American institutions. This case closed the criminal cal- endar which took several ‘weeks to dis- pose of. This morning tthe federal court began the civil cages. ON HUN SOIL Gen. oJ .L. Hines Gen. J. L. tHinesi 4scih ‘command of the 35th division, U. 8. *~--~ which is fighting on German soil in the Vos- ges, near the Swiss border It is stated that the food supplies | tby French troops would EASTWARD HEAVIER COMBATS 70 BE RESUMED ON WEST FRONT; FRENCH CONTINUE PRESSURE Unofficial London Estimates Place Losses Since August 8 at 34,000 Men and 870 Guns—Night Air Raiders Visit Paris. (By Associated Press.) Fighting activity in Picardy is confined to local actions. There are now signs that the heavier combats of earlier in the week are about to be resumed, although artillery on both sides con- tinues active. On the line between Chaulnes and Roye where the Germans are said to have large numbers of men, Canadians have pushed farther eastward, completing occupation of the vil- lages of Parvillers, and Dammery. These points are about two miles west of the highway and railroad running north and south through Chaulnes and Roye. COMPLETED WITHDRAWAL Apparently the enemy has completed his withdrawal move- ment in the Hebuterne sector, north of Albert. Berlin announces officially that German troops were withdrawn from small salients. However, it is not yet clear, how far the Germans have retired. The enemy still holds Albert, but the British are in the western outskirts. CONTINUE PRESSURE. Between the Oise and Matz, the French continue their steady pressure, and have gained aditional high ground west of the Oise and northwest of Ribecourt. Unofficial estimates in London place the allied capture since August 8, at 34,00 men and 870 guns. It is declared the com- parison of German losse with the Allies’ have been greater than at any time since 1914. The German artillery fire and aerial activity has decreased along the Vesle, where the French and Americans maintain their pressure. AERIAL OPERATIONS INTENSE Aerial operations still are intense. On the British front, 28 German machines were put out-of action Wednesday, while the British lost 15. Bombs have been dropped on railway junctions within the enemy lines, and British aviators have flown into Germany to attack Thionville, and Offenburg. American aviators have brought down two more enemy ma- {chines, and have bombed railway junctions in the Metz-Verdun jarea with good effect. | PARIS NIGHT RAID Paris was visited Thursday night by raiders who dropped several bombs. Several person were killed, and there was some property damaged. On the Italian front, the Italians have seized an island in the southern reaches of the Piave. In the east, from Moscow to Vladivostok, and fromthe White Sea to the Caspian, the situation daily becomes more interesting and more menacing to Germany. From Archangel all troops have made progress southward. The occupation of Baku by British troops, who travelled north ‘through Persia and Bagdad, is a blow to German and Turkish pre- tentions in the Cacausus. To the north, the Czech-Slovaks are in force along the Volga under the command of: experienced Russian generals. In eastern | Siberia, the position of’ the allies apparently is improving as more troops are landing in Vladivostok. i Allied pressure has been effectively renewed in the region of Roye on the Picardy battlefront. The enemy is slinging de- terminedly to this town as bulwark on the which to form its re- sistance. Both the French and British are approaching closely making the occupation doubtful. London reports an advan:e north and west of Roye. Paris | reports forward movement west and southwest of Roye. Roye iis fast becoming the virtual apex of a salient which will soon in- vite a crushing allied stroke if the Franco-British pressure can be maintained. GERMAN LOSSES SIX MILLION Paris, Aug. 16.—The total of German losses are understood to ‘be-six million to the end of July, 1918. These figures are given in morning newspapers. The losses up to beginning of offensive ‘last March were 1,400,000. From March 27 to June 17 the esti- mate of lost in killed alone is placed at 170,000. | | DWINDLING MAN POWER. With Britsh Army in France, Aug. 16.—Germany has ac- ‘knowledged that her manpower is dwindling in proportions to cause anxiety to the high command. The toll taken recently and the prospect of being confronted with an ever growing American force has caused General Ludendorf to issue orders for a combing out in order to recover all men fit for trench service from auxil- iary units. | —_——— TO ABANDON OFFENSIVE. London, Aug. 16.—The withdrawals on the western front by ‘the Germans in the last few days, it is believed here, indicate \that the enemy intends to abandon the offensive. It is said to be doubtful whether they will be able to resume the offensive since 35 divisions now are necessary between the Oise and the Ancre, of which 15 are from the reserves. There are now only 16 fresh enemy divisions in reserve on the entire western front, and only 11 of these belong to the army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. nous Military observers say there is every indication the Ger- mans intend to stand on their present line. ROYE HELD IN VISE. Paris, Aug. 16.—Roye is held in a vise like grip by the French resistance by the Germans is being crushed. The French are slowly encircling the town. The French advance at Villers-les-Roye makes the fall of Roye inevitable, it is believed by military men. Possission of the town make necessary a ratification of the German lines. A The Germans are clinging desperately to a range of hills east of Ribecourt. They are also stubbornly defending the Lassigny- Oise Canal, the loss of which would entail the evacuation of Noyon. Ree wero in compat MINOT GUNNER es IS COMMENDED Paris, Aug. 16.—Lieutenant Walter B. Miller of New York city, a former) Washington, Aug. 16.—Frank Willis, machine gunner of Minot, N. D., was member of the Lafayette escadrille, who was transferred to the American service, was killed in an aerial com- bat on August 3. His patrol consist-!commended today by Secretary Dan- ing’ of © mac was attacked by a jiels for prevehting' the stikite’ df a! German squadron of 30 airplanes. Hé| United State’ ‘submarine, July 8, “by’ fell inside the American lines. The | quickly closing a tube which had been other members escaped after a fierce |left open by workmen who were ex: struggle. tracting a torpedo that had jammed. eR