The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR $$$ THE BIS THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 220. BISMARCK, NORTH SDAY, SEPT. DAKOTA, WEDNE: TRIBUNE PRICE FIVE CENTS 4, 1918. BRITISH BLOOM FAILS TO BREAK UP DOYLE UNITY Democratic State Committee Goes Into Convention in Close Accord “LEAGUER MAKES TALK Dell Patterson, who Campaigned for Sinclair, Poses as Democrat BYERLY WINS. There were only four dissent- ing votes against the election of W. €. Byerly of Velva as chairman Of the Democratic state central committee. Four Nonpartisans voted for Alf Nelson of Dunn Cen- ter, the Townley-Frazier candidate in the democratic ranks. William Lemke who resides in St. Paul but holds his league residence in Fargo was unani- mously selected to succeed him- self as chairman ofthe Nonparti- san state central committee, some- times known as the Republican state central committee. The Nonpartisans held an exec- utive meeting after unseating E. L. Peterson of Dickinson who holds a proxy for a Stark county member, Harmony prevailed in the dem- ocratic meeting while the usual Townley - Lemke - LeSueur steam roiler was working nicely in the Nonpartisan conclave. John H. Bloom, the Devils Lake newspaper man and state fish com- missioner ‘by grace of Governor Frazier, who has hitched _ his kite to the Townley machine. had failed to inject one element of discord into the smooth-running Doyle machine when the democratic state central committee convened in formal session at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Bloom's and Lemke’s heads have been rather close together for the last 48 ‘hours, but no indications that they had achieved anything were apparent in a very harmonious caucus held ‘at demo- cratic headquarters in the Grand f.- cific this morning. Bloom was not in evidence but C P. Peterson of Bisbeé. league floor lead- er. in. the house: of: the last assembly and author. of the Red Cross resolu: tion which the house so promptly vot- ed. into oblivion was there. He sat silent when other members of the committee ringfugly applauded Fred Bartholomew's statement that North Dakota must send to congress from the first district a representative who will not take his orders from Townley and LeSueur and fellow socialists; he did not applaud when Bartholomew stated that he wanted to 70 to Wash- ington to stand squarely behind Wil- son in the trying days that are com- ing; Peterson sat with folded arms when others expressed their approval of Rartholomew’s statement that A. C. Townley, a registered solialist, made John Baer congressman in the first | district and Lynn J. Frazier governor of North Dakota, and that both are creatures of Townley. ‘Dell Patterson was also there. Rep. Patterson will be remembered as the league house member who campaigned the Third district with J. H. Sinclair of Kenmare a candidate for the re- publican nomination for congress. It was Patterson from whom the’ state council of defense asked an apology for things he said of the Slope coun- ty council of defense when ‘that body endeavored to bar political meetings in Slope at a time when public senti- ment there was. in an effervescent state. Patterson claims to be a dem- ocrat although he is not. so far as can be learned, a member of the state central committee. He was allowel to give a rambling disconnected dis- course dealing with a letter in which he is alleged to have written to Lieut. O'Leary of Minot in response to the latter's letter from France in which he stated that he had always been a democrat but that he wished he was home in order that he might support Steen and Norton in the primaries against Townley’s machine. Patter- son is charged with having written to weary a letter which would not read well in any What purports to be Patterson's sig- nature is attached to the photographic facsimile of this letter which is in the hands of the democratic stafe central committee. Patterson consumed a great deal of time this morning to say that he did not write the letter and that he knew nothing about it. “Are you going to support Doyle in this campaign, or, as a democrat are you for Frazier?” Patterson is said to have been asked during the caucus. “TI can’t say who I’ll support until 2 see the resolutions” is said to have been Patterson's response. Bartholomew for Doyle. \ “I am not a speech-maker. My way of campaigning has been to go out un- officially among my people and to ex- plain to them the issues as I see them,” said Fred Bartholomew of Grand Forks. democratic candidate (Continued on Page Six.) BUY W, 8. 5. MUST REPORT STEEL. Washington, D. S., Sept. 4.—More; than forty thousand manufacturers us-) ing steel in their products have been asked to make a@ report o ftheir steel stocks down to the smallest hold- ings. © avy W. 5. 8. ISSUE BANK CALL Washinton, Sept. 4—The comtroller of currency today issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of business Saturday, August 31st. 4 |pointment of Lindley H. Patter, iPATTEN TAKES HARDY JOB ON LABOR RESERVE Bismarck Man Takes Responsi- bility for Finding Help in North Dakota The resignation of J. ? Hardy, aFrgo, as federal state director of the United States pubdlic service reserve, has ‘been accepted by W. E. Hall, Washington, D. C national director, who in a telegram to Mr. Hardy to- day, says: “Your resignation accept- ed with deepest regret. The depart- ment of labor appreciates your capa- ble and unselfish’ service.” Press of Red Cross work and other war activities was assigned by Mr. Hardy as reason for his resignation. Official announcement of the oe o! Fargo, state director of the United States employment service, to suc- ceed Mr. Hardy was made today. Mr. Patten will serve in the dual capa- city. BUY W. 8. 5 BEAT TOWNLEY _ BY GOING HIM | ABIT BETTER \Linton Merchant Has Idea as to ; ‘Competition with Chain Stores Hindenburg Line Now Unten- able and French Soil Affords No Good Opportunity for De- fense. | Ludendorff Will Withdraw His Armies from France in His- tory’s Greatest Defeat. | (B Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Hindenburg line from Arras to Svis- sons and rapidly outflanking il at boih ends, it becomes apparent that Luden- dorfé will not ‘be adle to halt his great {retreat at his famous and strongly fortified line, observers of the great battle then be- comes, where will the Germans stop after they quit the Hindenburg line? There seems little doubt now that the Huns are engaged in a great re- treat which will not stop until Foch's hammering tactics permit it. The northern end of the Wotan section of Queant. has already been flaxf.ed by yond it. ‘North of Soissons General Mangin’s RIVE GERMANS TO MAKE FINAL STAND AT FORTS IN BELGIUM ‘Jondon, Eng., Sept. 4.—With the al-; lied armies pounding ahead toward the j The question of greatest interest to! {the Hindenburg line, from Arras to} the British, who are four miles %e- E iFrench army, with American units, is! acting in accord with the flanking pro-| 1gram and driving toward the Hinden-| burg line, where it comes down to-; j ward Coucy-le-Chateau and turns off/ jto the east. Several towns have been! captured in this advance, and the fa-' /mous line will be reached within a few! OFFERS REAL INVESTMENT Would Pay Farmers Interest and Share Profits with Them ‘American community. | on Stock A new form of attack is to be jlaunched on the Townley Chain stores jby J. J. Kremer, manager of the Broadway Mercantile Co., of Linton, who was at the. capitol today looking up articles of incorporation of the Townley. con.ern which on a caital- ization ‘of $10,000 has collected from North Dakota farmers in ihe neigh- horhood of $2,000,000, “The Townley — organization plans putting in stores at Linton, Hazelton ind elsewhere in my territory,” gaid Mr. Kremer. “The fact that the farm- ers are subscribing to his scheme con- vinces me that they want an interest in the stores, and I intend to give the man opportupnity. But | am going to ‘go Mr. Townley one better. ! wiil give. the farmer actual stock in ex- change for his $100; I will agree to undersell for cash the Townley stores, and if the farmer hasn’t the cash I will loan it to him; I will pay the farm er good interest on his investment; 1 will share profits with him at the end of each business year, and [ will js! until the $100 which they have paid |They will still remain stockholders and profit sharers in the store. ‘By placing my business on a cash basis. 1 believe I can do business for 20 per cent less than it is now gener- jally costing. I am confident that I can duplicate any order that is now going to the mail order houses, and I know I can do business on a closer margin than the Townley stores, with a hired manager in charge. We are prepared to put in dollar for dollar of our own money with the farmer. We are building a large new store building, and will have something like $20,000 invested. We're going to in- vite the farmer to go in with us, and become a shareholder in the business. |, “In the Townley chain stores the farmer is offered no chance of getting his money back, unless the store goes out of business inside of ten years, and then only a portion of the invest- ;ment is returned. In. the Townley ccheme not over $10.000 is invested in the local store, no matter how much is subscribed, as I understand jit. In my plan every penny will be in- vested in the store. 1 believe the Em- mons county farmer is a good enough business man to recognize the differ- ence between being a stock-holder and a certificate-holder, and I intend to! meet Mr. Townley on his own ground.! In talking with my farmer custom-! ers I find that they generally regard | the Townley chain stores 2s a cooper-| ative proposition, like their farmers’| elevators. As I understand it, this| is not the case. The certificate which | each member receives in exchange for{ his ,100 gives him the privilege of} trading at the Townley store. but it! jdoes not entitle him to any share in| the business nor to any portion of the profits, if I understand the proposi- tion correctly. It isa very different | {thing from a farmers’ elevator, where} ycontrol is retained ¥ in the farmers’ jhands, and where, if there are any pro- ifits, they are pro-rated among the) | farmers. ! “I intend to draw up my plan care-| fully and I will enter into a straight agreement with the farmer, pledging | him interest on his investment, a, share in the profits and absolute rock- | bottom prices for everything he buys. That’s the only argument I intend to) ‘and I believe it will win.” ——-10v w. as. ELEVATORS OPENING Plants That Were Closed Pre- paring for ’18 Crop Scores of elevators which were closed for several months are now re- Wheat is not coming in in any large qantities, recent rains have necessi- :|tated delay in threshing. : ive’ shareholders a special discount| jfor stock has beea returned to them.! jdays. i Great Withdrawal Near. | Thus. flanked from iwithdrawal on a grand scale’ will {become necessary. for the Germans | which will force them completely out ot France, except perhaps for a small salient in the vicinity of Verdun. It will be the greatest military disaster Hin history. . This retreat will have to be accom- |Dlished rapidly to enable the Germans ito make a stand on their. new line jbefore winter sets in. There will be no time: to. fight rearguard actions. The flight will have to be as pre- jcipitate a one as that from the Marne jin 1914—but on a much vaster scale. |Beyond question thousands of prison- jers and guns will be left in the hands of the allies. German military power will be forever crushed. It will only be“necessary then for Foch to wait until spring permits the resumption of hostilities to drive the Germans dack to their own borders. As for the next German line, it must be located miles behind the Hinden- burg positions, for the/ territory be- tween the present front and the !Franco-Belgian border is not such as {will permit making a stand. Will Stop in Belgium. Just inside the Belgian border, how- ever, is a line of fortifications erect- ed by the Belgians over which the Ger mans swept in their rush of 1914. This jline runs roughly from Ypres through Roubaix, Tournai, Mons, Charleroi {and Namur to Liege. Some of these fortified cities, not- ably Liege, were destroyed or damaged by the German siege guns in the first weeks of the war, but they still present the best positions for a_ final German stand on occupied territory. |, Eetween the present front and this {line are few strategic lines of defense {which would be valuable, except the jcities of Mezieres and which are many miles apart. It seems most likely to Lritish ob- s rvers therefore. that the German retirement, once the Hindenburg line |border and back of it before snow i flies. UY W. 8.8 SELLENS GETS RECORD YIELD Big Showing Made on Farm North of the Capital | Record yields for Burleigh county are reported from the Walter E. Sel- jlens farm north of Bismarck where! Lynn Sperry’s rig last week threshed oats which went as high as 60 bushels to the acre and which averaged 45 bushels, and wheat averaging nine bushels on the high land and 21 in the bottoms. On the Gussner bottom farm wheat on fall plowing will average 30 bush- els to the acre. Corn in this section never has been better, and farmers are now carefully selecting prize ears for seed. As a whole the crop in Bur- leigh cQunty is turning out much bet- ter than predicted. BUY W. S. S——— LAIST URGES GARDNERS TO SAVE SPUDS' Harvest your potatoes early, is the {make against the Townley scheme, | Warning of Willidm Laist, for manyj years one of Bismarck’s prize truck farmers. Potatoes where properly cultivated attained an unusual sizze this season, says Mr. Laist, who has duZ tubers weighing 1 1-2 pounds. These big potatoes forced themselves near the surface, and recent rain and hail storms laid them bare. As a re-) sult of this’ exposure they will be nipped by. the first light. frost,. says ‘Mr. Laist, and he urges gardeners to opening to handle:the annual harvest./dig their potatoes without unneces-| presenj are at Paris, but its territorial sary delay. ast fall potatoes which were not dug uhtil October suffered Namur and Char'§roi.| Maubeuge, | lis broken, will extend to the Belgian) i The broken line is the present battle front; the solid line in Belgium, | touching Ypres, Roubaix, Tournal, Mo: both ends. a' which the Germans probably will retreat before snow flies. | 250,000 YANKS LANDED IN FRANCE! - DURING AUGUST | | Wash., Sept. 4.—General March an- |mounced. today that jhe total embark- j ations for all frobi? hat passed ithe 1,600,000 mark August: 31.— The chief of staff identified the American units: which partic‘pated ne the Flanders advances the 3Jrh divi- sion composed of troops of North Car- olina, South Carolina, and ‘Tennessee. ; The advance resulting in ihe cap- ture of Terny-Sorney was participated in by the 32nd division, compose of Michigan and Wisconsin troops. ‘In answer to!a question, General aMrch said it was estimated that more: |than 250.000 nad been landed |France during August. The record ne added for monthly shipment was 00. Taking up the military situation, General March said the objective of |the Canadian drive across the ola |Drocourt-Queant switch line was Cambrai. i BY BUY W. S. 8.-—-— RAIL BOARDS 10 TAKE UP THEIR KICKS | Commissions of Northwestern States Have Bone to Pick With McAdoo | Railway commissions of North and |South Dakota, Iowa, ‘Minnesota. Ne- | braska and Montana will meet at the/ St. Paul hotel in St. Paul tomorrow | to confer upon several problems which \have presented themselves under fed-| jeral control. North Dakota will be represented by Commissioner C. W. Bleick and Rate Expert James A. Lit-) ‘tle. | One of-the matters to be considered | with be a complaint filed, by a large} farmers’ organization with headquar- | ters at Chicago against the increased {freight rate on coarse grains. In oth- er years coarse grains have taken a lower freight rate than wheat. This {summer when the tariff on wheat was jadvanced 25 per cent, the rate on {coarse grains was moved up to the ‘same basis. | The question of more favorable rates {for lignite also will come up for con- j sideration. Under a recent ruling of federal railway administration the sale of lignite is confined to North | Dakota because of high freight tariffs. |South Dakota and western Minnesota would appreciate an opportunity to} \buy lignite, and another effort may be |made to make the federal administra- | | tion see the light. } 'UNITED STATES RECOGNIZES THE | CZECH-SLOVAKS)| Washington, D. C:, Sept: -4.—The! yUnited States has recognized the! | Czech-Slovak people as a co-belliger-| ‘ent in the war against. Austria-Hun- gary. Minister Masaryk, president of} | | i the Czech-Slovak national council anc} commander in. chief-.of. the Czech-Slo- vak armies, met Secretary of State Lansing at the state’ department to- day and was informed of this recog- | nition. The headawarters.of the nation at possessions include Bohemta, Moravia, and portions of Galicia, all now under Austrian Domination. | make available much reservation hay | jon the latter system which heretofore GERMAN RANKS REPORTED 10 BE BADLY DISORGANIZED: ALLIES ADVANCE FOUR HILES 'To North Enemy Still in Retreat and Allies Have Occupied Additional Towns in Lys Salient— Mangin’s Army Makes Good Progess. LENS CAPTURED. . London, Sept. 4.—City of Lens has been definitely evacuated by Germans according to report from northern France today; British, it is stated, are refraining from occupying ia only because of gas fumes remaining there. Patrols protected against fumes have entered the city it is stated and found it clear of the enemy. (By Associated. Press) ‘ji ___ The British have driven home their push through the Wotan line as far as the Canal Du Nord, and as yet theri progress is not reported checked. Already the wedge they have driven into the German de- |fenses in the sector between railway centers of Dury and Cambrai jis a menace to the Germans. DISORGANIZATION REPORTED Disorganization in the German ranks is reported in official ad- ivices from the front. and there seems more than a possibility that the enemy command will not be able to reconstruct his formation even in time to hold up the British temporarily along the canal | Dositions, | The main feature of the British push seems to be in the direction fof Cambrai along both the Bapaume-Cambrai and Arras-Cambrai roads and in the territory north of the highway. In this area they (are reported to have captured the towns of Inchy-en-Artoise and ; Moeuvres. i | i i ! ADVANCE FOUR MILES ies This represents an advance of between three and a half and four imiles from yesterday between the sound salient of the ‘‘switeh’’ line 5 {at Queant. na; “Charleroi and: Namur). te:that:t The British have reached the canal line well down to Peronne, j making their front cover an extent of more than 20 miles, As a mat- jter of fact they are reported to have crossed the canal along its southern length just across from Peronne. ON WIDE FRONT The menace to both Cambrai and Douai may be seen by the jfaet that the British are within five and a half miles of the out- iskirts of the former city and not more than six miles distant from | Douai. At Che-Artois they are a, little more than two miles from jthe Bourlan wood position, where General Byng was temporarily | anchored in his drive for Cambrai last fall, marking his nearest ap- {proach to the city. In Byng’s drive however the British approached ; Cambrai on only a narrow front, whereas at present the advance is ;on a wider front and offering no opportunity for an effective count- ‘er blow, especially in view of the present state of eGrman disor- |ganization in view of the constant pounding the armies have re- Jamestown N. D. Sept. 4.—A terri-/Ceived from Rheims to Arras since July. ble tragedy occurred at the Melville} GERMANS IN RETREAT meat market Monday evening when oe % é aia ie Ker} ja b iy of this elt To the north the Germans are still in retreat and the British James stewart, formerly of Yl hava coecipied additional avrne tie eT LOS Galion Es Th fe while ‘counting the cash in the cash e occupied additional tqwns in the Lys salient. he enemy’s drawer, received a load of shot dis-|"eported retirement at La Bassee has not been confirmed, however, charged from a “pump” shot gun,/@nd the Germans apparently are still holding the greater part of about six feet distant in the hands of |the coal mining city of Lens in this area. a small boy, a son of Jacob Schocker. | On the French front, General Mangin’s army has made good The entire charge of shot entered/ Progress in the direction of the forests defending Layon. Stowers tack below the shoulder) While the western front battle is in full swing with the Ger- blades. Death followed in a brief per-; mans hard pressed, news comes of an attack by the forces of the iod as the victim never recovered con | Central Powers on the center of the allied line along the Vardar in Sear ons ae: hear Macedonia, This move may be an attempted diversion on the part and was placed behind the icebox in| Of the Central Empires as its development would threaten the al- the shop. The boy was playing with | lied base at Saloniki and the territory of Greece. It does not ap- the gun, and claimed that he askel)| pear to have great development as the allies, it is reported, have"? Mr. Stewart if it was loaded. and was} repulsed the attacks d informed that it was not. The boy} ¢ was between Mr. Stewart and the i i BRITISH PUSH FORWARD. . hi s discharged Mr. | : a en lived sonly 30 minutes. dying London, Sept. 4.—In their push beyond the Drocourt-Queant at 9 o'clock. iline, British troops have reached the line of the canal Du Nord. pebtatiy ‘North of the Arras-Cambrai road they have occupied the town of BOMB GERMAN TOWN. HROUGH | With the American Army in Lorraine, Sept. 4—American airmen successfully bombed Longuyon twice today. About thirty airplanes flew over the German lines last night and dropped a NFERENCE ‘few bombs. ss H Paris, Sept. 4.—French troops yesterday and last night con- | tinued to push back the Germans to the east of the canal ie Nord bs ; sand betwe Ailette and the Aisne, says today’s war office an- Fact That Hay is to be Had Will 470, Perec” Allette and the Aisne, says today Prevent Selling of Light | Prisoners to the number of 1500 were taken. ; Cattle i Along the Vesle, parties of French troops captured the river ; us at several points. As a result of several conferences} held recently between the railway SECURE HOLD ON CANAL commission, Slope cattlemen and H. London, Sept. 4.—The British have secured a hold on the V. Wilmot, regional traffic director | west bank of the canal Du Nord by taking Muncturt to the north for the Northern Pacific, it is believed | Serene ry ceardin syites from the: battle front that a threatened hay shortage west (Of Sains lez-Marquion according to a of the river can be averted. Mr. Wil-, today. a ; mot was in a position to report an Near the Somme, the British, the advices state, have crossed abundance of hay in a number of sec-' the canal at Haut Allaines, slightly more than two miles north of tions accessable to the cattlemen of Peronne. te pee out ue Lada ied Further south, along the canal, they are reported to have cap- shipping of light cattle, a practice tured Inchy-en-Artois, Demicourt, to the east of Doignies, and which had become general because of Hermies, three miles northeast of Berthincourt. the fear that thes could not be car’| From Hermies southward the British line is indicated as ried over tne Wier pacific end the Tunning to the west of-Ruyaulcourt, a mile and a half east of Milwaukee line at New Leipzig will Berthincourt. Between Nieppe and Sailly, in the, Lys salient, the British ‘have captured the village of Croix du Bac. has been shipped out over the Mil-| waukee’s transcontinental line to Mon- HUN HOLD SLIPPING. eranaieeal Paris, Sept. 4. = Between Yores and Reise, = Generel TO) !Mangin menacing the St. Gobain forest an e emins WAR HISTORY OF ‘Dames, with General Debeney advancing on St. Quentin and DAKOTA WILL BE !Franco-Americans on Vesle, with General Rowlandson before Per- GIVEN POSTERITY |onne, General Byng before Lens. and General Plumer before Arm- \entieres, the enemy feels the soil of France slipping. : Commntators point out that ae naif siletaive. peer ssi ‘i tinuity has been maintained lasting lays without a break abby: protessor of historr at the Uak|that not since the beginning of the war has such an e versity of North Dakota; Dr. M. R.|series of hammer blows been directed. © Gilmore. curator of the state histori- PATROLS NEAR LENS. 2 1 ns museum, Leah Nas as Am- : ie don, wife of the federa ge, aS * x London, Sept. 4.—Information from the front today is that ee German possession, BANK CASHIER SHOT TO DEATH BY SMALL BOY Shotgun With Which Lad was Experimenting is Accidently Discharged | | | | ary wos. © i Governor Frazier has completed the organization of the North Dakota war} members. This commission wil! re-|\ ~ bee r S 3: tl ining city of Len: fea North Dakota's =“ - = great; the coal mining By -_