The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 30, 1918, Page 1

> ing for @ vote on the proposal to re- THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. Ni 216. THE BISMARC SMASH TH R 5 KILLED IN STILL RAIDS BY GOVERNMENT Intensive Roundup of Illicit Whiskey Distillers is Started by Federal Department PITCHED BATTLE FOLLOWS Many Army Slackers and De- - serters are Caught in Drag. » Net Washington,.,Aug. 30.—The biggest intensive roundup of illicit whiskey distillers ever undertaken by the gov- ernment has just been completed in the southern mountain districts by revenue agents. Several hundred-illi- cit distillers were taken in; five who resisted arrest were killed. The raid was conducted mainly in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennes- | see for five weeks. They cleaned out nests of moon-; shiners who had een operating with- out serious interference for years, and they left behind them follow-up vigil- ance committees to prevent the out- | laws from going back to their busi- ness. | Over $100,000 worth of illicit copper stills and other paraphernalia, auto- mobiles, horses, mules and wagons were etaken. ‘Much sugar found on, distillery pjremises was confiscated, | and most of it given to the Red Cross. Recommendations for 321 prosecutions have been sent to the department of | justice. i Most of the moonshiners caught at their stills are behind the bars in| southern jails, more than eight score | of army deserters were found particl- | pating in the traffic. | BUY W. 8. §.——— | SUBMISSION OF HB. 44 10 BE “UNDER CONTEST Attack Upon Regularity of Pro-| posed Action Planned by | | Divet i 1 Action aimed at setting aside the proposal to submit by the initiatory route, @ group of amendments to the state constitution of North Dakota, the amendments in question being in} the main the provisions of the famous ; Nonpartisan House Bill No. 44, defeat; ed in the last session of the legisla-; ture, will be taken this week, it was, announced today by Attorhey A. u.! Divet of Fargo. {| Mr. Divet was a member cf the leg-' islature that defeated House Bill No. 44, and in the proceédings now being framed, he will challenge the legality | of proceedings so far had by which} the Nonpartisan league Socialist doc- trines as set forth in House Bill No. 44 are proposed for submission as amendments to the voters in the gen- eral election in November. The supreme court, two years ago, declared in the case of petitions ask- move the state capitol from Bismarck to New Rockford, that the initiative clause of the constitution was not op- erative, inasmuch as the legislature | had failed to provide the necessary machinery to put it into effect. { ‘Petitions Circulated. Notwithstanding that decision, how- ever, the Nonpartisan chiefs, determ- ined to force the issue of their amend-; ments, circulated petitions last spring,,' and filed them with the secretary of state, asking a vote on the group of 10 amendments. ELEVATOR FUND AIDS FARMERS ;ve needed.” Fifteen banks were awarded $3,000 | | llies too little. Secretary of State Thomas Hall, af-| ter the petitions were filed, asked At-/ torney General William Langer for; an opinion as to what course he! should take, inasmuch as the supreme | court had -ruled that such petitions! were not & compliance with the law; and that the initiations clause of the| constitution was inoperative. | So far as khown, the attorney gen-| eral has not given the secretary of! state any opinion. | Wouldn’t Take Responsibi.ity. Recently, when it came time to ad- vertise proposed amendments to the constitution of the stte. Secretar of State Hall, who, like the attorney gen- eral, was elected as a Nonpartisan, | certified the proposed group of amend- ments as being slated for a vote in November. The secretary of state is understood to have taken the position that he would not personally assume responsi- bility for declining to put the amend- ments on the ballot, particularly in view of the fact that the attorney gen- eral had declined, or had at least fail- ed to give an opinion as requested. BUY W. 8.8 — INSANE LEFT WITHOUT CARE DUE TO WAR The‘ state hospital for the insane at! Jamestown was short 62 men out of a staff of 200 at the beginning of Au- gust, and in spite of every effort this) shortage has been relieved ‘very lit- tle at the close of the month. The war has made it almost impossible to obtain competent guards nd aitend- ants, and the situation at the state hospital is more serious than in the average institution becaus2 of the na- jure of the work to be done there. |give England and France 20 pounds; ALL SUPPLIES ON HAND MAILED TO REGISTRARS Adjutant General’s Office Mov- in Rapidly to Expedite Work The adjutant general's office has al- ready forwarded to local registration boards 200,000 registration cards; u,000 certificates of registration and 66,000 questionaires, all of the sup- plies which have been received by the adjutant general's office to date for the registration proposed for Sep- tember 5, when more than 100,000 North Dakotans between the ages of 18 and 45 will sign up with Uncle Sam. Governor Frazier will proclaim the registration date as soon as the new manpower act is finally passed by congress. All of the machinery for this big registration has already been perfected so far as possible, and it is¢ expected to move much more smooth- ly than did the: first registration. of | June 5, 1917, when the work was new to all of thé local boards and the as- sistant registrars. -——8UY WY. 8. 8. IN DRY REGION ‘Sum of $116,000 Farmed Out ‘to; - Banks Where it is Most | Needed The terminal elevator fund, for| which the state has had ‘no use since, Governor Frazier’s veto of the termin-| al elevator bill passed in 1917, was; farmed out by the state board of aud-/ its yesterday to state banks in the! drouth stricken districts of North Da-! kota. None of the money will go; further east than Kulm, whence the re- gion benefitted extends north to Mi-| not and west to the Montana line. All of the bids received on the term. inal elevator fund, which amounts to 9116,000, offered five per cent. The board therefore selected banks in re- gions hardest hit by drouth conditions of the early summer, believing that it will’ do something to relieve the stringency in this territory by. going back to the farmers in the form of loans. “We did not discriminate between league: banks-.and. non-league institu. tions.” said State Auditor Kositzky.in response to a query. “Some of this money went to our worst enemies, but all of it went to districts where it will i apiece; 35 banks got $2,000 apiece and one bank got $1,000. Among those re- ceiving $3,000 was a Youmns bank. =| ——auyw i WHY HOOVER ASKS YOU T0 SAVE SUGAR’ BY MILTON BRONNER. Washington, D. C., Aug. 30.—\Why has Herbert C. Hoover taken so much of the sweetness out of the lives of the American people? Answer: So that he can put more sweetness into the lives of the Ameri- can troops, the allied armies and the allied peoples. 4 The East Indies source is cut’ off! because of the lack of shipping. ‘Sugar can come only from United States, Cuba and Hawajiian islands. We used to consume all that sugar ourselves. In the old days we used to eat up 8,218,582,000 pounds per year. Sugar is a necessary part of the hu- man diet. Since the war began we have been eating too much and the al- Italy got down to 9! | pounds per France to 13. If our people will save one-third of what they used to consume, it is hoped by the food administration to person per year and and Italy 12. pounds per person per an-, m. And: what is perhaps more import-/ ant if we save, there will be'ample| sugar for the American, British, | French, Italian and Belgian armies. | The only way to get this sugar is to save. it. The food administration won't g0 jinto every American kitchen to find ; whether he is only using two pounds ‘of sugar per month, ‘but there is a check in another way. Sugar is allo- {cated each month to each state ac- jeording to population. For a state with 500,000 inhabitants — 1.000,000 pounds is allowed. Every person who FRUITS OF VICTORY K TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918. LAST EDITION ~ PRICE FIVE CENTS. The broken line shows the year. snice July 15. The black is th: still-hold, the eastern edge of it representing the Hindenburg line, which the British have reached opposite Arras. DOYLE TO OPEN STATE CAMPAIGN AT FORMER HOME Opening .Gun. will be Fired. at Carrington Evening of September 14 comet S. J. Doyle, Democratic candidate for governor of North ‘Dakota, will open his campaign at, Carrington, his former home, on the night of Sep- tember 14, and he will close his cam- paign in Fargo‘on the eve of the elec: tion, according to announcement made today by W. E. Byerly, chair- man of the state committee of the Democratic party. Arrangements already have been made at Carrington fora big tent, as the committee in charge sys it is im- possible to obtain any hall in Carring- ton with sufficient capacity to handle the crowd that is ekpected. “Mr. Doyle will make a tour of the entire state from Sept. 14 to the time of the election,” said Mr. Byerly. “We are planning an itinerary that will carry him into practically every coun- ty in the state. Already we have re- ceived many offers of active support in the election campaign, and will put many other speakers on the platform. “The work of organization is pro- ceedfng very satisfactorily, and: we have the nucleus of an effective cam-/ paign organization at this time. [ am well \satisfied with the progress so far evidenced, and am confident that Mr. Doyle will be enthusiastically supported in his campaign”. HUY W. 8.8. EARNED INCOME I$ TAX PUZZLE: Congressmen Must Decide What It Is BY GILSON GARDNER. N. E. Staff Correspondent. The shaded portion is the territory gained by the allies Germans’ farthest advance this} | at: part of the HUN gains they |ANNUAL REPORTS | OF DEPARTMENTS IN PREPARATION iState Highway ‘ Commission’s | Summary: for’ Year will ‘be Interesting Various reports of state depart- ments now are being prepared for sub- mission to the governor.’ Among the most interesting will be those of the secret2ry of state and the state en- gsineer, both of which will deal large- ly with the operations of ‘the motor vehicle, registration department and the expenditure of the funds received through this department by the state jhighway commission. The state high- ; way commission is one board named by Governor Frazier which has been subjected to compratively little criti-| cism. The board has met frequently, | nd it has under way and planned a/ system of state and federal aid high- ways which will reach evey section of North Dakota. It has also planned for the upkeep of these highways af- jter their construction. BUY W. 8, 8. ——-— iSTENOGRAPHERS WANTS IN Q. M. C. CAPITAL CORPS Excellent Pay Offered Beginners} —Living Conditions Imptoved | Washington, D. C., Aug. 29.—The quartermaster’s corps, which supplies ; the soldiers with food and clothing and | which has charge of seeing that they get their pay, needs a large number of | |competent stenographers, Capt. W. R. Rooinson of the organization branch, methods control division announced to- | ;day. Any stengrapher who can qual- i ify will be given $1,100 a year to start with increase to $1,200 at the end of three months. A few stenographers, | |with special qudlifications, who can, take dictation at not less than 120) words a minute and who have hadj some secreterial experience have been | lengaged at $125.00 a month and there; lis room for more of this type. Those who wish to quality for these their posts. j the working classes 800 men failed to} | report. Washington, D. C. Aug 30.—How to {positions may obtain information at | ery post office in the country, even | in the smallest community. Applica- tions should be made to the local rep- |resentative of the national civil serv- | jam easy task, the committee finds. It ice commission with headquarters at | recognizes the difference hetween the the, local postoftice. Captain kobinsn comes is one of the knotty questions t‘eing up the revenue Dill. . | Defining an unearned income is not |dishonestly and unpatriotically uses|income from property inherited and !more than the allotted two pounds of/from property accumulated by the “Living conditions in Wshington are more satisfactory than for some |sugar, robs some other person of his| {sugar allowance just as surely as it} {he entered the other’s pantry and car-j| jTied away thé sugar bowl. | The world’s sugar situation is best! from ‘business, a profession or person ple and the shipping board has recent- jilustrated by a comparison of the | wholesale prices per 100 pounds for sugar in the great cities: New York, $7.30; Montreal, $8.01; Paris $12.28; London, $1 Rome, $26.30. UY WS, $——— NEW CORRESPONDENT | | C. K. Gummerson to Represent , Courier News Here ; (C. K. Gummerson, a young newspa- per man well known in other sec- tions of the state, has succeeded ; George McPherson as correspondent for the Courier News at the capitol. Mr. McPherson has gone to St. Paul td become assistant to Herbert Gas- ton, general editorial manager of the several Townley, publications. owner. As a general principle, how- ever, an unearned income is made up of interest, rents and dividends. while an earned income is received al labor, mental or physical. This would include also the profits from trading, promoting and speculating. Secretary McAdoo before the Ways and Means committee urged a higher rate than 12 per cent on unearned in- comes. The committee has been trying to carry out this recommend- ation. A majority of the committee are agreed in the matter of taking 80 per cent of war profits. as urged by President Wilson. The treasury Department figures show that the government's outlay of money for war purposes is now con- siderably over $1,508,000,000 a month. At this rate, with the increase ex- pected, the annual expenditure will approximate 24 billion dollars during the next fiscal year. The revenue bill soon to, be passed by, the ‘house will furnish one-third of this money. time past. and it is apparent that the | ; Situation will improve. Work has; been started on enormous govern-! ment dormitories. to house 2,400 peo- ly moved some 2,500 employees away frm Washington. The result has been that the room situation has been eas- ed off a little and will, undoubtedly, he better in a short time as the new dormitories gre completed. The cost: of living in Washington is about the! same as it is in Chicago or any other} city of that size. Satisfactory room and board can be secured for not to ex- the inclinations of the individual.” RUY W. 8. 8.——— KENISTON TO TALK George N. Keniston, secretary of the Bismarck Commercial club, will ad- dress a patriotic meeting at Oakes on September 8 and will speak at Moffit jthe Red Cross. j ceed $55.00 or $60 a month. Addition-)and made false entries on customers’ al exepnses will ,of course, vary with|cards. They paid $100 and will make NDENBURG LINE 40,000 POLICE LEAVE POSTS TN LONDON Drivers and Substitutes Handle Vast Traffic of England’s Metropolis NO DISTURBANCE NOTED Strike for Higher Pay and Ree-| ognition of Lately Formed Union London, Aug. 30.—London outside of the square mile composing the city proper has -been without police pro- tection since midnight, when the fum- ous metropolitan police fore+ went on strike. The police strike became worse as the morning wore on. Many members of the day force joined. Only a small number of the older men remained at | Plain clothes men pick-} eted thé stations and tried to induce the old men still on duty and the con- stables to strike. A tour of the metropolitan district | found few men at their posts. Some! had donned uniform through failure! to receive notice of the strike, but, they later joined their comrades. in} one section alone which looks after! Traffic Proceeds as Usual. Before the heavy traffic appeared in the streets. it was remarkable what | little difference the absence of the; policemen made. Traffic proceeded as | usual. Drivers, many of whom were! themselves on strike a week ago, reg- ulated the passage of vehicles, and there was little confusion. A -call was sent out ‘by Scotland; yard for special constavles, and by! 10 o'clock many of them had reported for work. Heretofore they had simply acted as patrolmen in quiet sectors or around public buildings. The stations were not so badly affected as were the streets, as the men of higher rank “re not so ready to disregard regu: lations. Union leaders said at noon’ today that 10,000 were on strike. The metropolitan police demand in-} creased’ wages, recognition of their union, and the reinstatement of a dis- charged man who was active, in the policemen’s union. { — —nUy w. 8. 5: THRESH LATE: MOISTURE 100 ~ ABUNDANT NOW First Wheat Marketed Here Loses Grade Because of Dampness RUNS 12 BUSHELS EASILY Evident That General Yield will be at Least Ten to the Acre The Deltox Grass Rug Co., and east- ern concern which has 500-acre farm five miles east of Bismarck, is the first in this vicinity to market 1918 wheat. Its grain is of high quality! and /would run No. 1 generally but| for the high moisture content, which has knocked off all the way from one to three grades in samples taken of grain brought in thus far. The com- pany will have about 600 bushels of spring wheat. 600 of Durum and 500; of rye, and the wheat is ‘averaging | 10 to 12 bushels the acre. “It would be much ‘better for all! concerned if threshing were not done| too early in this vicinity,” said C. A.| Baker, manager of the Russell-Miller Milling Co., with whom this wheat is| being marketed, today. “Wheat that has been properly stacked for two or} three weeks wi!l show a comparative- lv low moisture content, but the mois-! ture in wheat that is threshéd now will run high, and at the present prices of wheat, when a grade is} knocked off it means a loss. The Deltox Co. is the first we know of in} this section to begin threshing.” There is a wide range in wheat yields apparent within the area of a! single field, where actual threshing tests have run as low as five bushels; and as high as 23, in the neighborhood of Bismarck. All of the grain appears to be of an unusually high quality, ex-: cept as to overabundance of moisture. | which can be corrected by stacking | and delaying threshing. HUY W, 8, eee Violators of Foo Regulations Must | Pay Red Cross! Fargo, Aug. 29.—L. V. Thorson, ; baker at McVille, nd Roken & Lille- mon, general merchants of Wellsburg, have made contributions to the Red Cross as a result of violations of food regulations. Thorson admitted sell- | ing short-weight bread and paid $20 to; Roken & Lillemon sold wheat flour without substitutes weekly reports to the food adminis- tration. ———auy w. MINOT EXAMINER HERE A. Johannsen. examiner for the Mi- not district, called upon his chief, ‘ALLIES CONTINUE T0 MAKE VITAL GAINS IN PICARDY; GERMAN RETREAT I$ GENERAL Great British Successes Along Cambrai-Arras Road May Shatter Teuton Hopes or Resuming an Offensive Campaign Along This Front. Americans Near German Border on Trip to Berlin. NEAREST BERLIN American troops east of Tuneville are the nearest allied forces to Berlin, which is 400 miles northeast as the crow flies. .In Southern Alsace the Americans are eighteen miles from the German line. Moving forward with sustained power, British armies south and tek of Arras appeared to have crashed clear through the Hindenburg ine Dispatches received ioday indicate that they have begun to “roll up” the German forces on the front to which’ the enemy is retreating along the whole Picardy front. Bullecourt, whieh was on the Hindenburg line was taken this morning. Hendecourt and Le Cagnicourt, to the north of Bullecourt, has fallen before Field Marshal Haig’s men, South of Handecourt, jslightly to the east, Rinecourt has been captured by the advancing British. East of Arras astride the Scarpe, further gains are reported. The Drocourt-Quent ‘switch line’? now is within striking distance. TAKING COMBLES Further south the British have taken the village of Combles, where there was terriffic fighting during the German retirement a year ago last, Mareh. West of Perronne the British have cleared the town of Clery, and i they also have crossed the Somme south of Peronne. Alon gthe front from the Somme south to the Noyon region thence east to the Ailette, a sector vital at present, the enemy appears to have checked the French until he can extract his troops from the perilous position in which they have been thrust. Canadians, it appears, are slowly advancing along the Arras- Cambrai road, and are widening the gap in the famous line to whieh the Germans retired 18 months ago. It seems that any great British success in this region may shatter Germany's hope of conducting an offensive campaign along this front. SEVERE FIGHTING Tokio, Monday, 26th.—There has been severe fighting between the allies forees and the Bolsheviki Red Guards on the Ussuri river front. along the Manchurian border. The Japanese casualties in the last. few days numbered 170, including officers. -NEARING PERONNE ( With the British Army, (noon) Aug. 30.—Biaches, on the south bank of the Somme, and about a mile from Peronne, has been cap- tured by Field Marshal Haig's forees. British troops have entered Lesboeufs and patrols have passed through Morval to the southeast. British troops this morning pushed forward in an easterly direction from Bapaume. The British have advanced to north of Lens. At one place they pushed forward {gy a distance of a thousand yards. LeTransloy, on the Bapaume-Perfne high rdad was reported to have been captured this morning. — * is ‘ PROGRESSING FAVORABLY. With French Army in France, Aug. 30.-The advance is progress- ing very favorably with Gen, Mangin. The Germans are making the most determined resistance against the’ French army in an effort to prevent it from gaining a foothold north of the Ailette. Cavalry was employed by the Germans yesterday. f REPULSE COUNTER ATTACKS Paris, Aug. 30.—German counter attacks between the Aisne and ‘Ailette were repulsed by the French last night. The French main- tained their gains east of Pasle, 1 DRIVE'ENEMY OFF With the American Army, Aug. 30.—In the different patrol encoun- ters in the Vosge last night the enemy was driven off. The German artillery fire increased materially on the Woever. PREDICT FALL OF PERONNE Paris, Aug. 30.—The British line on the Somme has been carried beyond the line indieated last night, and the British are now several kilometers beyond Combics, The advance continues, and the fall of Peronne is predicted. Correspondents of Paris newspapers at the front agree that allied loses have heen comparatively light. They say the allies never have taken so many prisoners and guns and so much tervitory at so little cost. PENETRATE 2,000 YARDS London, Aug. 30.—-British forces east of Arras at an early hour this morning had penetraicd another 2,000 yards on a front of seven miles between Billecourt and the Searpe. The British forces have reached within a mile of the Doucourt switeh line and have captured Oriem- court. TO MAKE STATEMENT London, Aug. 30.—Admiral Von Hintze, the German minister of foreign affairs, will make a statement Monday before the foreign ian diet. Imperial Chancellor Von Hertling has committe of the Prus: arrived from headquarters, THROW IN FRESH TROOPS orth of Soissons the Germans have thrown in fresh troops to stop the advance of the French and Americans toward the heights domi- nating the Cremin Des Zames, allied oceupatign of which would com- pel the enemy to withdraw from the Vesle. The allies have the more favorable position and have only one more plateau to overcome to reach their objective As the fall of Roye capture of Bapaume by the British made it necessary for the enemy compelled the Germans to retire to the line south of Peronne, the to retreat north of the Somme, whether the enemy will make a stand is problematical, but his best line would seem to be north of the Canal du Nord which runs northeast from Peronne. The canal eurves east five miles east of Bapaume, and crosses the old Hindenburg line near Havrincourt seven miles east of Bapaume, STOUT RESISTANCE The canal du Nord extends across the Picard batlefield in a general north and south directioi, and the fact that the Germans are affering stout resistance to the French south of the Somme would indicate the probability that they may attempt to stand ou the line of the canal, Noyon, the southern end of the canal, was carried after heavy fighting and the Germans are contesting bitterly the oceupation of the heights northeast of Bapaume. A NEW MOVE General Mangin’s move in erosing the, Ailete and the Franee- State Examiner J. R. Waters yester- i 1 pease > fon September 14. day. American progress north of the Aisne, may be the beginning of a (Continued on Page Three.)