The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1918, Page 1

ee CUAET UT 00 00008 000 Lo VW THE WEATHE- GENERALLY FAll- HE BISMARC THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 219. ene eee 33 NORTH DAKOTA SOLDIERS APPEAR IN CASUALTY LISTS. FROM THE FRENCH FRONT Report of Commanding General of American Ex- peditionary Forces Shows That Our Men Are In Thick of the Fray Over There. The heaviest drain on North Da- kota’s manpower shown since America entered the war is reported in today’s casualty lists, Nos. 14 and 16, which contain the names of 33 north Dakota} men killed, wounded or missing in action. A number of these casualties have been previously reported, but a majority of them are first announced today. The larger proportion of them| are boys from the Slope. ~Many of the young men reported in- jured are members of the field artil- Jery battalions to which the first Flick- ertail contingents sent to Camp Dodge were assigned. This detachment 1s believed to have played an important part in the capture of Cantigny, in which glorious victory the North Da- kota national guardsmen also had a} hand. List no. 16, Section No. 1 as follows: Killed in action, 6. tng in action. 96; wounded severely, cident and other causes, 4; wounded, wegree undetermined, 145; died of disease, 4; total. 492. ‘Killed in attion: Private Holcomb, Centerville, S. D.; Private Melvin Marvin, Sioux Falls, S. D5 ‘PRIVATE HARRY J. MADSEN, DRAKE, N. D. Died of wounds received in action: Privates Victor H. Nelson, Minneap- olis, Minn.; Frank K. Anderson, La- fayette, Minn Died of disease: Private Mike Pro- kup, International Falls, Minn. Wounded severely: LIEUT. CHAS. A. LOUGHLIN, Jr... GRAND FORKS, N. D.; CORP. JENS S. LARSON, HEIMDAL, N. D.; PRIVATES GEO. BuESEL, ROBINSON, N. D.; GER- ALD GILLEN, BURT, D.; Robert KE. Gloege, Hutchinson, Minn.; PHILIP 'MILDENBERGER, FLASHER, N. D.; ROBERT D. MOOREHEAD, FLASH- IR, N. D.; Carl A. Nelson, St. Hilare, Minn.; Henry E. Nelson, Sebeka, EST R. RULPH, CROSBY, .. ROBERTSON, LANG- PETER SINGER, HE- LEROY E. STARKS, Frank MOTT, N PETER STRICKER, GLADSTON D.; GUY 8. VARIS. MOTT, N. D.; LAWRENCE WARNES, MOLINE, . D.; Edwin D. Wood, Supringfield. S. D.; George Nesseth Twin Vallev Minn.; RALPH 1. PEK- RY; KENMARE, N, D.; EDMUND H. SHEMORRY, WILISTON, N. D.; WY. OTT KE. SILKER, MARMON. N. D.; IBROSE, JOHN R. SLYNGSTAD, A N.D. Missing in action: Gracie, Bemidji, Minn.; Lieut. Ralph D. PRIVATES WALTER (¢. GLOCKER, GRAND FORKS, N. D.; William F. Goodrich, Minneapolis, Minn. Casualty List No. 14, Sec 2, reports: Killed in action. 68; missing in ac- tion. 114; wounded severely, 163; died of wounds, 11; died from accident and other causes, 1; died of disease, 5; wounded. degree undetermined, 143: died of aeroplane accident, 1; total 506. Killed in action: Corp. Charles R. McArthur, Hancock, Minn. Wounded severely Corp. HARRY L. YADLWIN, LEITH. N. D.; CORP. RAUPH A. MOORE, MENOKEN, N. D; [Ci . LLOYD i. ROUNDS, . Dj. Privates Edward B. Big Falls, ‘Minn.; SELMER ITVEDT, MOTT, D.; SN Hi TERRILL, FAIRMOUN' FRED E. LANGSTROM, SHEY- . D.; LOUIS N. LATRAIL, Minn.; MARSHALL, which will ‘be given eastern anthra-: day. INKSTER, N. D.:! . Von Almen, Elizadeth, : DAN PANKO, WADE. N. D. , STEVED WIEGLE? . JAMESTOWN, N. D.; Sigurd; terlund, Braham, Minn. ded in action, degree undete: John Tomala, Pierz, Minn. | i Private Harry 8.1 NETS 4,000 MEN: York, Sept. 3—In a great; » of draft evaders throughout | rk today, government agents | noon gathered in nearly 4.000 | men. More than 2,500 at that | ad been herded in the 69th arm-| adquarters, and more than 1,000 | n captured in ‘Newark and oth- | y New Jersey cities. i BUY W..S. 8. ust Droughts | Hits Cotton Hard: tshington, Sept.. 3.—August was ost disastrous month to the cot- srop that has been recorded, a ~n prospective production amount [= 230,000 bales, resulting from the ye drought. The department fore- » the crop at 11 000 equivalent Syound bales, basing its estimate: canvass made August 25. COTTON PRICES SOAR. Sw York, Sept. 3—The govern. | cotton crop today considered | tionally bullish by the market | caused a swift advance of ap- mately $11.00 per bale for fu- 2 advance continued until some of position, notably October, had © 260 points or $13.00 per bale. twhi jfore, every time we take a ton of an-| |thracite from one of our troop ship: {increasing the danger to our boys, on ‘ bituminou: {Canada Boosts | FUEL CRISIS MAKES DEMAND FOR SACRIFICE Personal Convenience Cannot be) Considered in Present | Emergency SCRAPPING BASEBURNERS | | Missouri Has Given Up Hopes of Getting Any Anthracite Coal ' | “One hundred thousand baseburn-| ers are being apped and sold for junk in Missouri because their own-; ers know it will be impossible to ob-} tain anthracite coal for them.” was a| statement made today by Capt. 1. P.} Raker, federal fuel administrator for North Dakota, who recently returned; from a conference of state administra- tors at W: ii “The is largely one of! transportation,” said Capt. Baker in further referring to the fact that very) little anthracite would be available| west of the Mis: ppi this winter. { “We have a certain production of fuel | and a certain dead limit in our trans-j portation resources, and the country ig consuming 10 per cent of both. It stands to reason, then, that the differ- ent sections of the nation must con- sume the coal which is nearest to; them. Missouri is almost surrounded | by ‘bituminous coal fields. It would | not be logical to ship anthracite all the way from Pennsylvania to Mis-| souri and to ship the local bituminous | coal’all the way back to the seaboard. “North Dakota expects to mine| more lignite than last year, and it will: help the nation to that extent, An-; hracite will be supplied only where it | actually needed. Sections of the! state which have an abundance of lignite cannot expect to have all the} anthracite they want. This must be reserved for portions of the state; which have an abundance of lignite; cannot expect to have all the anthra-! icite they want. This must be reserved | for portions of the state which have'Senator Cahill of Leith and that he is one of the firs ans of the Italian campaign to return; the war, no, lignite. i “This great war is causing a steady | and unusual drain on our fuel resour-! ces. We must keep-our transports! and out munition ships and our supply ships moving and we must keep ou her essential | The govern-| bending every effort to sup-! ply ntial industries and private: consumers, to prevent actual suffering | and discomfort. ,But many non-essen. tial, though none-the-less worthy in-| dustries must suspend in order that} this may be accomplished. “The great bulk of our anthyaelts| coal will come all the way up the! lakes as return cargo for iron ore car-| At the head of the lakes it will! d into empty grain cars which | have discharged their wheat and flax | at the elevators. Some sections of ‘ARO, N D.; ELDRED E. SILT-| South Dakota, Minnesota and lowa|Fred Bartholomew of Grand Forks, will be allowed to bring in Illinois and} India coal. Northwestern states! cite are generally adopting the North: Dakota policy of regulating the dis- tribution of anthracite through thi S, BERG. N. D.i state fuel administration. in order that | hotel which is bi E GLAD-|it may get into the hands of those't WILLIAM TIEDE-| consumers who most need it. “If the war continues another year, i. is most likely, it is probable! hat the northwestern states may be| cluded from the use of anthracite | entirely. As I have pointed out be-| or munitions or supply ships we are| the sea and in the trenches, just s much, for a vessel bmurning ordinary | is viible at sea within a! radius of 26 miles. while the use of} anthracide or highgrade ss | bituminous coals reduces t i f visibility to six miles. “Furthermore, it is hardly fair in| vie wof the fact that all the coal) mined in the United States will be! consumed and because of the need of conserving every ton of coal that is mined and the necessity of husband-} ing our transportation resources that coal be transported a long distance! from the territory where it is pro-' duced to another region which has coal of its own, while the coal from the! latter territory is carried a long dis-! tance to some other point before ‘be-| ing consumed. It is our patriotic duty, | dictated by necessity as well as loy-} alty, that we use the coal which comes to us with the least transportation.” ‘BUY W. 8. .——— Rail Wages to 15. Millions Yearly weston, of Ypsilanti Montreal. Sept. 3.—Wage increases aggregating $15,000.000 annually ‘be granted to 30.000 men in railway shops throughout Canada, affecting all railroads in the Dominion, it is an- BAKER LIKES HIS Here's Secretary of War Baker's personal picture of veneral Foch, commander in chief of the allied arm-!\When the Germans reached the west ies. It was drawn by Major EK. Re- quin, Marshall Joffre’s chief ot statf at the beginning of the war, and now} Kequin took the dictation to this or- military attache of the French mis: | sion to Washington. Major Requin was with Joffre at} the time of Von Gluck’s drive to Paris | and the French retreat to the Marne. As reports of the retreat reached | TRY TO STEAL Conferences Between Bloom and Lemke Promise Excitement | for Tomorrow | NONPARTIAN DEMOS HERE Peterson of Bisbee Among | Early Birds | | i A plot for the capture of the demo-| ratic state central committee by the eague is scented in the early appear- ance of such league wheel-horses among the democrats as John Bloom! of Devils Lake, who was in close con-; ference with William Lemke, league | chairman of the republican state cen- tral committee, all morning; Sen. J. 1. Cahill of Leith, C. P, Peterson of bee, floor leader for the league in! now league candidate for the senate; | Owen Solberg of Rolette and oth-| ers. | Chairman W. EE. Byerly of the demo- | cratic state central committee and; democratic candidate for congress in he First distric' They had previously made their} ervations at the Grand Pacific, H ime immemorial rallying place for, he progressive hosts, which is not the | ng patronized on) is trip by John Bloom. William! Lemke for some time past has made) a different hostelry his headquarters ; while in Bismarck. It is notorious that; Chairman Lemke still registers from; Fargo. With Mr Bloom, who has been} given the chairmanship of the state game and fish’ board, much public! printing and other little evidences of! appreciation for his loyalty to the! league, is M. F. Fitzgerald of Deviis, ake. Stopping at the same hotel is} J. P. Halvorson of Sheyenne. i Peterson declined to be interviewed | this morning. Chairman Lemke of the republicans and John Bloom,} league manager for the’ democrats, ; were conspicuously absent from pub- | sic view, and Chairman Byerly of the democratic, state central committee | had not yet put in an appearance.) Messrs. Cahill and Peterson professed ignorénce as to the probable choice of; their party for chairmanship. Mr.! Bloom knows the name of the man he would like to have made state chair-, man. His initials are identical with! those of John H. Bloom of Devils} Lake, but Mr. Bloom is not yet pre-_ pared to promise that he can put Mr. Bloom over. BUY W. 8.8, To Give Proceed: Of Farm Sale to War Relief Funds. i —Mrs. T. A. Michigan, a} former resident of Stutsman county, Jamestown, Sept. Y. M .C. A., and other war funds. She asks for a-cash customer, for a good nounced today. farm, \ { { LEAGUE Ws iratiaN war IN BISMARCK Senator Cahill and Representative | s BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1918. GERMANS IN GENERA PICTURE OF FOCH Jottre at fi headquarters, his only SUPER JUNKER PLOT MAY GET KAISER’S GOAT Wilhelm Stands in Fear of Inde- pendent Commission for German Peace ‘RICH MEN BACKING PLAN Fatherland Party Calls in Vain Upon Militarists to Back | Up Wilhelm H 3.—The powers re- Berne, Switzerland, Sept. vague reports as to the | sponsibility for the recent Gerinan of- |! for the continuance of the} ne warfare, for the Brest-{ {Litoysk peace and for all the crimes | jthat can be laid at Germany's door, | jhave brought to light the work of; one of the most autocratic and des-/ potic organizations in the world. | The kaiser fears and obeys it, as} the Hohenzollern dynasty depends on} it for its continuance. The Reichs-! tag fights vainly against its decrees.) while the people themselves are iad | into dreams of conquest and peace by| its promis | This secret and powerful body is! known as the “Independent Commis-! sion for a German Peace.” and true! to its name it seeks to force a Ger- | man-made peace down the throats | | fensives, reply was, “Tres bien” (very well),{of the allied nations, regard of | the cost to the people of the central | dank of the Marne. Joffre issued his’ empires. | famous command of the day. Major Its members include practically all! der manufacturers and high mil ot-j “The Ger . mae fae wal The control of the German; hay eile Date Ie oC one tacts thee | with but few exceptions lies inj ‘ ee ee “Y {its hands, and its voice carries the) shall not pa where he stands.” Sebastine Torti, wiv claims that he; mannn-Ho!lweg, SECOND PARTY si sustaining a scratch but was honor-, lably discharged at the end of that Party under the leadership of Admi-| time because of il] health, is in Bis- ral von Tirpitz, of | marck selling plaster of Paris images has been one of its steps in deluding } months in the foremos! trenches of the Italian army without through the activities of these men. and other wares common to his coun try. Sebdastino was in Des Moines, la. when his country called him two year: ago. He possesse a remarkably curate knowledge of affairs at the Ita! ian. front, 2 {be no reason for doubting his story! nex st real veter-} poy¢ to this continent. ay wes. August War Bill The least France ex- pects of each of her sons is to die aC-i Jing upon all good Germ final say in all military matters. | Hindenburg, Ludendorft, Conut Hertling and Foreign Minister Hint-/ ze are but the mouthpieces of these super-junke d the work of these men is but an example of the work! of the others in Germany. proper. | It was the secret power of this or-| ganization that, has forced from pub-! lic office all those with any taint of; offering the allies a fair di Beth- Michaelis , and forced re-| it cently KuehImann: were out ; The organization of the Fatherland! submarine fame, ; n- the people as to its real aims. aa Radicals Fight Cabat. Il S$, The Fatherland party has been cal- s to rally} !'to its banners, to help defend their against the invaders, to an- 1 territories conquered and to} German. enemies to pay for! However, of late this pa has been falling into disrepute, its |105 calibre guns and 78 machine guns. K TRIBUNE [==] PRICE FIVE CENTS LENS CAPTURED BY BRITISH IN SMASHING OFFENSIVE; CAMBRAI LINE THREATENED Huns Perilously on Verge of Disaster Because of Swift Unexpected Blow of Allies—Take 10,000 Prisoners. , (By Associated Press) American Headquarters in France, Sept. 3.—A great fight has been in progress all day north and northwest of Soissons. Germans are defending Pont Rouge Plateau, northeast of Soissons and Loan railway with great vigor, as well as a line on the right along the north bank of the e Aisne: Americans are bombing German positions from south and west. The lines of the enemy for hours have been a seething inferno of smoke and dust. The villages he has been holding are burning like vast torches. With the British Army in France, Sept. 3.—While the British were fighting their way further forward well inside the Drocourt-Queant line today, an attack was - launched just to the south where a strong British force is driving ahead on the northern reaches of the Hinden- burg line proper, Again there has been furious fighting, Thousands of prisoners have been taken, and the enemy has suffered terrific losses. Operation by the French and Americans in the south may be counted on to work toward such a result. There is a hint in today’s dispatches that some development of importance is im- pending on the southern front where the left front of the Hinden- burg line is under Franco-American uressure. On a front of virtually 50 miles from just below. Ypres to near Peronne on the Somme, the Geman army is in retreat. This retrograd movement is not voluntary ou the part of the enemy but has been foreed by the unremitting blows inflicted by Marshal Foch during the last six weeks. Already the taking of 10,000 prisoners by the British in their advance is reported, and German casualties in killed or wounded, are declared to have been notably high, as their thiekly massed forces felt the weight of the allies’ blow. So speedy is the German retirement that it seems as if the enemy if he has not met with disaster is perilously on the verge of one. CAPTURE HAMBLAIN-LES-PRES. London, Sept. 3.—Carrying their attack to the northeast of Arras, the British today captured the village of Hamblain-les- Pres, just to the south of the Scarpe in the direction of Douai. CONTINUED ADVANCES. Washington, Sept. 83—Continued advances by the American troops north of the Aisne in, spite of the strong enemy resistance are reported by General Pershing in his communique for Monday announcing the capture of Terny-Sorny. The communique follows: “Section A. North of the Aisne our troops have continued to advance in spite of the strong resistance of the enemy and have taken the village of Terny-Sorny. } In the operations yesterday they captured 572 prisoners, two North of the Velse, two local hostile attacks west of Fismes were repulsed with losses GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY. With the British Army in France, Sept. 3.—Thousand more prisoners had been taken to the hospital wounded, while probably more than 2,000 additional captures have been effected on the southern half of the front. j At one place along the battle, eight German divisions, and |remnants of four other divisions, were fighting against three British divisions. An officer of these divisions said that his di- jtrue character having been brought | jto light. | With the recent defeats inflicted Is $1,714,000,000 | uron the German armies by the al-! Washington, Sept. —Governmen| war expenditur previous record: lion dollars, amounting to $1,714,000 600 on rr s up to today, ports ma e this bv 0,000,000. Ordinary war expenditures amount-j price to stave off an economic $,000,000 or — $200,000,001 ed to $1. more than last month's vet to be tabulated. Loan vaturday are reported at $244009, to the allies 000. ———tryw.ts — TO HELP UNCLE SAM. GR. Mye' th terday for Tacoma to ente rnment service. 4 govel AMERICA’S i American, Japanese and British troops are aiding the Czecho-| jorted by the corre: has offered for sale one quarter sec-|Slovaks in driving back the Bolsheviki along the Ussuri River, | Hospitals and dre n‘August broke all!and ind by one hundred mil-|Rhine cities, has set forth to wrest aLter re who had been clerk at! Commi e Hotel Van Horn for some time.! await with interest the struggle be- arrived at noon to-! jor Mies, a small but powerful group of | aided by the strial magnates shipbuilding and the t | radical the control of German politics out of \the hands of these junkers This group wants peace at any | war} Olafter the war which will mean ruin! iS high record. |to them and to Germany. ' the house of the 15th assembly, and| pis did not include outlays of last They were given a setback by the s enforced r nation of Kuehlmann and the si sion of Admiral von} {Hintze as foreign minister, but they have declared. themselv opposed to the pe terms of the “Independent ; jon” and the world will) r tween these two forces, on which the jfuture of Germany depends. | EAST FRONT will |tion of land near Ypsilanti, N. D., the!north of Vladivostok. The map shows the battle line, which lies proceeds to be given to the Red Cross. | midway between the station of Ussuri and the city of Habarovsk. The allies are trying to clear the Vladivostok-Habarovsk railway of the pro-Germans. (tack on the Hindenburg switch line, which the j alization of the German fore vision had been in the fighting for more than a week and its ef- tectives would number less than a thousand men. In this bat- talion only himself and 24 of his men had survived, he declared. He added German losses had been heavier than any they had pre- viously suffered. RETIREMENT ACCENTUATED Tn what appears like an effort to escape in time, the seope of the German retirement which had been proceeding somewhat leisure- Iy north and south of the Somme, has been markedly accentuated north of that river. This morning the French coal mining city of Lens, at the gates of which the British battled vainly last year, has been evacuated and the British moved in. South of Lens the Germans, apparently acknowledging them- selves beaten on the Drocourt-Queant line, and ave retreating in this vitally important sector without attempting a counter drive. STEADY ADVANCE Still further south the retirement has resulted in the evacua- tion of areas three to four miles deep on both sides of the Bapauime- Cambrai road, the British taking town after town in this area in their steady advance Although the German command must have been expecting an at- British approached in their earlier advances, it apparently Was not expected at the mo- linent. The Germans seem to have been surprised with the quickness fwith whieh Haig’s Canadian and other British forces organized a crushing attack against the line itself. This morning. alone, on the 20 mile front where the British are ‘mainly engaged, they are reported to have advanced no less than a imum of four miles. This seems to have emphasized the clear- ss of the break and with a capture of prisoners points to a demor- sin this area. It is too early to estimate with any degree of accuracy what j effect the present big drive of the allies may ultimately produce. The fall of Drury and Cambrai which now seems not improbable, would put the German line out of joint from the North Sea to Rheims, and would force the evacuation of a great part of northern France now ‘oeeupied by the Germaus. MAKE DESPERATE STAND With the British Army in France, Sept. 3—The enemy was re- inforeed north and southwest of Queant. He was pouring a heavy ‘machine gun fire at the British, who returned the fire and gained | ground at the same time. On the Somme battlefield, the British are driving at the Canal Du Nord, where the Germans have erected wire. Their trenches here, though, have only been half dug. The Germans, it seems to be expected. will offer determined -re- sistance along this line as they are doing in front of it and then re- tire back of the canal if necessary. On the north half of the Drocourt-Queant battlefront there were last night. 2 HARRASSED BY AIRPLANES. Paris. Sept. 3.—Constant movements toward the r of the Ger- jman line in the Somme front between Ham and Guiscard are re spondent of Le Journal at British headquarters. i ng stations are being cleared while convoys are |moving eastward, harrassed by allied airplanes. | i London, Sept. | some 3,000 taken —The capture of the town of Queant, the south- (Continued on Page Four.) el L RETREAT »