The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1918, Page 1

said ph Da ALLIES GAIN TWO TRAINMEN | pecighotrain arrived ,at _ THE THER eae ep te Partly cldidy tonight. THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 207. BISMARCK, NORTH FATALLY BURNED AT JAMESTOWN Brackeen Victims of Washout Caused by Heavy Rains SIX INCHES PRECIPILATION Passenger Engine of ‘Midland Continental Turn Over; Occu- pants Scalded to Death Torrential rains at Jamestown} Monday wrecked the engine at- tached to he Midland-Continen- tal railroad causing the death by scalding of Engineer. Thomas Luce and Thomas P. Brackeen, fireman. re : The train was coming to Jamestown from Edgely. As it neared the city it ran into a washout and turned over. Both men were brought to the Trinity hospital fatally scalded and died in the evening. They are both married and leave families. None of the passengers was injured. The train with the ex- ception of the engine held to the! tracks. __ Thomas Luce was well known in Mandan. He was employed at the Mandan hotel for some time. Jamestown was in the area of the greatest rainfall yesterday. A total of 6.45 inches fell in a few hours. In the afternoon 3.45 inches fell and in the even- ing there was an additional pre- cipitation of 3 inches, One of the heaviest rainfalls ever reported in the state. There was some hail. Shocks of grain were almost covered, with water. Basements were floded. Telephone and power wires were put out of commis- sion by the lightning. Base- ments were flooded and’the sew- ers “were unable to carry off the torrents that. poured in rivers down the'.treets, ~ ~ Bismarck 'teceived only 81 of rain but nearly“all of it came within the period of an hour. It taxed the storm sewers in places. O. W. Roberts of the local weather bureau stated today ‘that practically no damage was reported to the crop. There was slight: hai] damage at New Eng- land. The rain was general from Bismarck ‘east to Jamestown. BUY W. $. 8.——— BRITISH OIL TANKER SINKS HUN SUBMARINE + An Atlantic Port, ‘Aug. 20.—A 400 foot enemy submarine was sunk off the Atlantic coast by a British oil tanker. The tale of the battle was told here today by Capt.\Crosby from his hospital bed where he was taken for treatment. He is in a serious condition and the peculiar part of it all is that until last Friday after land- ing in port he was in the best of} health. He collapsed after the nerv- ous strain of the battle. “The second day out,” he said, “I was on the ‘bridge at about 3 p. m. There was never a sign of a craft.” He said that’ he saw the streak made by a torpedo coming toward the tanker. He yelled and tiie ship! was thrown out of its course. “The torpedo missed,” he sald. “We saw nothing of the U-boat that started the fire but what we did see was an; other torpedo. We dodged it as pret- tily as we could. Then the sub came to the surface with her guns ready for action. She was all of 400 feet. Our| boat was good for 11 knots and we began to go for all she was worth and at the same time firing at the sub- marine. Our 26 shots‘ took the sub- marine squarely. ‘She did not blow up but shifted around slowly and drifted broadside. -We made for port as swift as we could travel. “I am sure that we finished the sub- marine.” SUBMARINE RAMMED, Washington, Aug. 20.—The navy de- partment announced that a captain of an American steamer rammed and | probably sunk a submarine. on Au- gust 1 of f the northern Virginia coast. The steamship struck the sub- marine on her port bow bringing her, alongside.. The crew hailed in strong | German accents saying that -they were friends. “You are no friends of mine,’ s.out- ed back the captain. The steamer is now in port with a damaged side. The captain thinks that he sunk the submarine. | ———auy w. = WILSON RETURNS TO WASHINGTON | Washingtone Aug. 20.—President Wilson returned to Washington this morning after spending the week end at the home. of,Col. House. His spe- 8:36 and,.the President and Mrs. Wilson went im- mediately to the White House. HOOVER IN LONDON m4 1 Food Controller Hoover: photographed’ in London with two} little girls representing 100,000 British children who expressed to him their thanks to the children of America.for their self-denial at the food table, which enabled British children to be fed: The; parcels at Hoover’s feet contain the 100,000 letters from the jand that ‘three weeks. {foot assembling buildings was finish- children. FORDS By FREDERICK M. KERBY. (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.) (Passed by U. S. Censor.) Detroit, Mich. Aug. 20.—Turning out warships as if they were flivvers is a success. Henry Ford told Secretary of the Navy Daniels he would do it, when he undertook the contract for the first 100 Eagle boats—the new submarine chasers designed by the navy depart- ment.’ That was last January. In a few days the plant, which was design- ed, built and put into operation in less than six months, hopes to. be dropping “Eagles” into the water at the rate‘of one a day. “Dropping” is the correct term; they are not launch- ed. The River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company ,where I spent the day inspecting the production of the new navy boats, is called a shipyard It looks like a vast factory; and it is in fact a steel fabricating, assembly and equipment plant. These boats are built on moving platforms, conveyed on wheels; they are made of steel parts fabricated in endless quantity ahd put together with rivets; they are wheeled out to the water's edge, placed on a platform operated by hydraulic jacks, and plat- form and all is let down into the wa- ter and the ship floated away. It is the theory of “flivver” production and applied to ships. 5 Secretary Daniels called Henry Ford to Washington last January to ask him if he would undertake the job of building the new “Eagles.” Ford saw no reason why ships could not be build in quantity like automobiles. So the contract was signed January 17. Plant Built.in Three Weeks. Within 24 hours plans were being drawn, and details of the buildings worked out. The site on which the great plant stands was partly under water. It was filled; the river was dredged, a canal was cut to the fac- tory’ doors, and work begun on the buildings. The fabrication shop was built in Long before the 1,700- ed, the fabrication shop was. produc- ing plates, angles, channels, etc., so ithat the first ship could be begun as soon as the assembling | plant was ready. The first complete “Eagle” went into the water July 15. Eighteen ships are under way now. In a few days there will be 20 on the shipways—the ca- pacity of the plant. ; Before long a ship a day will go into the water. These boats should not be confused with the 110-footers—the original sub- marine chasers. These are far larger Railwaymen Join Strike In Ukrainia (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.) -. London, Aug. 20.—The railwaymen of Ukrainia have joined the 75,000 re- yolting peasants in Germans and are now strong. SHIP: PLANT SOON. TO LAUNCH “EAGLE” A DAY Warships Turned Out Like Flivvers in Great Steel Fabricating Factory on the River Rouge RRR RR Re and more powerful vessels. They are, ) in fact, halfway between the “chaser” and the “destroyer” type, two hundred | feet long and 500 tons displacement. ; The plant is laid out systematically, so that. the steel is fed into one end while at the other completed boats, with naval crews, guns, stores and supplies aboard, sail away to the At- lantic. Across from it is the navy department’s cantonment, where the! naval crews to man the ships are be- ing trained. | The boats are made out of sheet steel stampings, pressed from sheet metal. In the fabrication shop these plates—keel, floors, beams, angles, frames—are shaped, and then run through great punching machines that cut out dozens of rivet holes at a time. Service railways run from the shop to the*assembling plant, which covers 13 acres of floor space. The keels are laid and the complete hulls built on.12x12 timber mounted on 12; standard steel car trucks, -operatitg on ordinary rails. There is room for seven of these trucks in each ship- way ,and there are three shipways. To the keel the frames are added, then the bulkheads, plates, the decking, and at the seventh operation the hull is complete and the boat ready for launching. : \ How Boats Are Launched. At the lower end of the assembling plant, a great transfer table oper- plant, a great transfer cable oper- ates. Onto this. the car trucks car- rqing the complete hull are run, and this table connects with the launching bridge. The boat and its carriage are run onto the bridge and by means of large hydraulic jacks, the whole is lowered into the water. The carriage with its trucks is lowered away from the doat, thus allowing it to float free. After launching the hull is floated down to the outfitting shop, where the boiler, engines and other equipment is added.’ More than 5,000 men are at work now. The vista of ships on the plat- forms, with the three nearly complet- ed hulls far away at the lower doors, and the three lines tapering down until the lower end of the keel only the keel and skeleton ribs represent the ships, conveys a clear idea of the plan of the whole thing. One can act- ually see these boats creeping for- ward day by day to their places in the fleet that is hunting the U-boats. The “Eagles” will be sent to the Atlantic through the New York State Barge canal. The fuel is oil, and the steaming radius is sufficient to take them across the Atlantic. Ford _ is | building the engines in a big»addition jto his original automobile plant. LLOYD GEORGE'S CANE i AUCTIONED FOR $500 (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) + London, August 20.—Premier Lloyd George’s walking stick brought $500 at an auction in aid of the Blind Sol- DAKOTA,TUES CUSTODIAN AT INDIAN SCHOOL UNDER ARREST J. Howard Caldwell Charged, With Misappropriating Gov- ernment Goods HELD AT. COUNTY JAIL Waives Examination and Bound Over to the Federal Grand Jury by Fort. is J. Howard Caldwell, custodian of the Bismarck Indian school, was ar- rested today by Sheriff John French upon complaint of Superintendent Thompson, changed with misappropri- ating goods belonging to the govern- {ment to the value of $1,000. Caldwell was arraigned before Unit- ed States Commissioner John Fort and waived examination and‘ was bound over to the federal grand jury under 31,000 bond. He was unable to furnish sureties, but friends were in hopes of doing ‘so before the day was over. ‘ The disclosure followed an examina- tion of the local food administrator who alleges that he found. 40 pounds of sugar and 70 pounds of flour in Caldwell’s basement after his atten- tion had been called to the fact by Supt. Thompson ‘of the school. In foraging for the food supplies, it is alleged by Thompson that govern- ment stores were found to the value of Caldwell and partially used. ‘Mr. CaldweM maintains that these government goods got mixed. with his when .an ‘accounting was made that he restored the goods or their equivatent in money and that all that he is-guilty of is carelessness in handling the government's prop- erty. He admits that technically speaking he was in the wrong, but that'he nev- er had any criminal intent to defraud the government or anyone. Supt, Thompson. however, in his complaint alleges that the goods were taken with intent to steal from the federal government. Caldwell’swife is sick and ‘in @ pre- carious condition. He alleges-that he has surrendered an automobile and borrowed what money he could get at a local bank to make up. any discrep- ‘ancy which an ‘examination of his books ‘by government agents dis- closed. When the school was formally closed here last fall. Mr.-Caldwen was sent from Fort Yates as a cus- featian. Later Supt. Thompson was ssigned to the school and in’ tne checking up process that followed the alleged discrepancies, showed up. Mr. Caldwell has been in the Indian service for about three years. BUY W. 6 §.——— GIRL'S LEGS CUT OFF IN RAIL ACCIDENT Glen Ullin,, Aug. 20.—Therese Mar- tin, 8 year old daughter of Joseph M. Martin, is in a Dickinson byspital with both legs ‘cut off below the knee and a right hand severed when she was run down by a freight train at the crossing here. She| was sent on an er- rand and tried to pass a moving train. Her parents rushed the girl to a Dick- inson hospital. SOOO 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 nog desire to miss any copies kindly call at Tribune office and ask for cirtulation 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 an gives this notice so that no one ‘may be cut off without Miers’ CHildre'fund. Sir’Edward Car- son's 'blackthorn brought $325, due warning. AUGUST 20, 1918. TWO MORE MILES WAAR some $1,000 that had been secreted by |1 . a ee far! ainsi aI ep es nc ESSENSE ; sat PRICE FIVE CENTS. GERMANS HOLDING VITAL SECTOR HAVE = RETIRED BETWEEN AISNE AND OISE. RIVERS; HOLD ON ROY E WEAKENED BY ALLIED ADVANCE NATION-WIDE PROBE INTO COST OF LIVING Information Will Be Gathered _ From Families ‘Regarding Annual Expenditure Washington, Aug. 20.—Country-wide investigation of the cost of living was started today by the labor depart- ment. Information will be gathered from families regarding their annual expenditures for food, housing, cloth- ing, furniture, and miscellaneous ex- penditures. This information is ex- pected to ‘be’ useful not only to the government but to the housewife as well, enabling her to know exactly what she is getting for her money. From data gathered by the bureau, ! ' In Old Picardy Battlefield the Teutons have been Launching Fruitless Counter Attacks. Lys Salient is Rapidly Being Flattened Out By Retirement. (By Associated Press) GAIN TWO MILES. London, Aug. 20.—The French army attacked on a front of ten miles between the Oise and Aisne and reached a depth of two miles. This advance endangers the whole Gerfnan position on the river Aisne. It is possible that a general retirement will follow. Five hundred Germans have been captured in an attack north of Roye. The French have taken Bracquemont-Fendu wood and have occupied Beuvraignes according to advices. It is reported that the French have made progress southeast of the latter place. FOUR MILE ADVANCE. London, Aug. 20.—According to latest advices reaching Lon- don, the French have made good progress everywhere on a fifteen mile front. Advance on this front has been four miles since Saturday. , German forces holding the vital sector of the battle front between the Aisne and Oise river were hurled back over a 10-mile front this morning by the French. It is stated that the French have penetrated the enemy positions to a depth of two miles. This attack which is a continuation of the assault made north an: increase of’3 per cent over the/of Soissons Surtday night is said to endanger the whole German price prevailing June 30 is shown on certain foods within a month's time. Navy ‘beans decreased 2 per cent, and lard and coffee less than one-tenth per cent. Fresh beef and chicken, show the highest increases, advancing 36 per cent. Increases averaging 69 per cent were shown for the five year period from July 1, 1913 to June 30, BUY W. S. 8.——— EXPECTS T0 REGISTER £58,000 Washington. Aug. 20.—-Revised esti- mates announced today by General Crowder showing that 153,000 men have become of age since. June 5 last ani should register next to immediate call. It is expected that 1,098 will register in North Dakota. CALLS FOR 2,500. St. ‘Paul, Minn., Aug. 20.—New draft cals for 2,500 general service and 800 special service registrants were re- ceived today from Washington. The men will leave for Camp Grant be- tween Sept..3 and 6. Thirty-five ne- groes, the last in Class 1, are called. 18,300 LABORERS NEEDED. Minnesota today’ received a call for -]18,390 unskilled laborers for immedi- ate service. The telegram came from the Council of National Defense at Washington, and stated the U. S. “is faced with a shortage of 1,000,000 un- skilled laborers in war industries.” PROTEST ORDER. ‘Washington, Aug. 20.—Otganized la- bor has voiced its emphatie opposition to! any work or fight amendment 'be- ing inserted in the new man power bill extending draft ages to from 18 to 45. F. Morrison presented labor's protest to the military committee today, ap- pearing in support of Gompers’ pro- test. : He declared that the application of this ‘rule to deferred classifications would amount to a conscription of la- bor and be a reflection upon the loy- alty of the American workman. Con- scription of American labor he said would be bitterly’resented in every corner of the earth. After disciissing certain phases of the bill with Dr. Mann of the war de- partment, the committee closed its hearings and went to work upon the bill. days and should ‘be ready for debate in the senate by Thursday. It will be substantially as-drawn by the war de- partment without a “work or fight” amendment. RUY W. S. 8. WHEAT GLUTEN FOR GERMANY CONFISCATED New York, Aug. 20>—Seizure of the government of 1,057,008 pounds of de- vitalized wheat gluten whieh was said to have been destined for Germany through Switzerland was ‘announced \today by A. Mitchell Palmer. alien property custodian. The grain worth about $200.000 was discovered in June in a warehouse here ready for shipment overseas. It will be sold at public auction August 26th. The commodity had been stored by a German firm. Wheat Gluten is used in the making of diabetic foods and has a high nutritive value, and is al- so used in the making of extracts. Murman "Railway Workers Are Sick (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) . Stockholm, Aug..20.—Sixty per cent of, the railway workers on the Murman railway, running from Petrograd to the Arctic coast, are ‘reported to be suffering from typhaid’fever and scur-, vy agym.resalt of, the.lack of. food:./ stuffs. es Saturday. Of this number it is believed that half will go into class on gnd be subject. It will be reported in a few! positions on the Aisne. It is added the French success will :prob- ably be followed by a German retirement from Soissons to Chem- ins des Zames. An advance of two miles in this sector would seem to place the Germans both along the Aisne and at Soissons in a dangerous position. oe LOCAL SUCCESSES. _ Unofficial dispatches also state local successes have been achieved by the French from the Oise northward to well past Roye. The line as it is traced in dispatches seems to be very close to the town of Lassigny, for which the French have been fighting for the last week or more. : E HOLD WEAKENED. The German’s hold on Roye also seems to be weakened by the recent progress of the French north and south of the town. It would appear Roye is not virtually enveloped:on three sides. Just northwest of Soissons the French have occupied the village of Vassens, which is on the eastward bank of a small stream which flows into the Oise river at Morsain, a town to the southeast, which was capttired by the French yesterday. LAUNCH COUNTER ATTACKS. In the old Picardy battlefield, the Germans have been launch- ing repeated counter.attacks against the British in the vicinity of Chilly, which is north of Roye. These assaults were repulsed by the British. Y The old Lys salient is rapidly being flattened out by the Ger- man retirement, from the extreme westerly ,positions held by them after their April offensive. The Bfitish official statement shows that the line now runs from Merville, on the north, to the vicinity of Locon, on the south, leaving a large triangle of aban- doned territory in the direction of St. Vincent, which has been . occupied by the British. i GERMANS REPULSED.; London, Aug. 20.—Four German attacks against the' allied positions at Chilly were repulsed. Attacks six miles north of Roye have advanced their lines in the neighborhood of Vieux- Berquin and Outterstween in the Lys salient. The official war statement says that 162 prisoners were captured. IN DESPERATE PLIGHT. London, Aug. 20.—It is believed in Cologne that the Ger- mans are weaker on the west front than the Allies believe they are according to a dispatch to London Mail from its Hague cor- respondent. He gives this tesume. . All leaves from the front have been reudced one half. Men are sent to the front from hospitals before they are fit for action. Letters from the front home are destroyed. Deserters are being treated severely. Wounded horses are seen being driven back to the front with their bandages still in place. The Germans are stealing food sent for French prisoners in order to feed laborers. ; RUSSIA’S REIGN OF TERROR. | London, Aug. 20.—Hundreds of passengers were killed and |wounded by an outbreak of the, Leetish guards and rioters at | Petrograd. This news is conveyed in a dispatch from the city. The dispatch says that after the city had been without food for two days, the workmen marched up and down the streets shouting: : “Down with the Germans, down with the Kremlin.” Marshal law has been invoked in Petrograd and the battle ‘between the Leetish guards and rioters continues. TO STRAIGHTEN LINES. : Paris, Aug. 20.—Apart from the practical results obtained, | the objects of which will be seen more clearly in the near future, the allied attacks betwen the Somme and the Aisne in the last two days modestly called local or line-straightening operations in the war office communications have the effect of keepiig the enemy ‘on the alert and preventing him from carrying out counter at- tacks. The attacks have made it impossible for General Luden- dorff to group his troops. In parts, it has been hecessary for him to increase the density of the first line. : ; | IMPORTANT ADVANCE London, Aug. 20.—The attack of the French yesterday be- tween Matz and the Oise was on a front of 12 miles, and although the advance was a small one, ‘it is regarded as important, as it learried the French line further down the slope of Lassigny- ‘Massif. The French also moved up the valley of the Oise, the line |being between'5 and 6 miles from Noyon. JL. WHITNEY, SHOCK TROUP _ LEADER, ISSUES APPEAL FOR _ FORTY VOLUNTEER HARVESTERS J. L. Whitney, director of the shock, go tthere they found it fine and dry ; troup for E'ismarck, today issued a call) and the headers busy. They had just \for thirty shockers to be duely accout-| set up 100 acres when the rain com- ‘ered and at the’Grand Pacific betel) menced but the run back to town was ‘not later than 6 p. m. Wednesday eve-| made easily. Mr. Whitney reports crops to ‘be in ning. It is planned to make a trip of {25 miles into the country and set up| good shape but the need for labor is ‘100 acres. Forty men are desired | apparent everywhere. A closer spirit tand some automobiles to t port|of cooperation between the city and ‘them. All proceeds from this volun-| the farm is evident as a result of ‘teer work is turned into the Burleigh these parties. | county Red, Cross chapter. The parties will leave @ach‘evening ‘}y Last evening,the shockers motored |from the Gramd Pacific ds fodg! as When they. | nechseary: sales jto Brittin after the rain. Z