The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1918, Page 8

BISMARCK DAILY TRIB Baker to Act to Reduce Cost of Living at Capital Temporary Markets to Sell Food at Cost and ‘'Flivver’’ Trans- portation for By GILSON GARDNER. N. E. A. Staf¥ Correspondent. Washington, Sept. 3.—Secretary of War Baker is considering measures to reduce the cost of living in the na- tional capital. Reports have been made to him of- | ficially that high rents, food pri and impossible transportation fa ties have greatly injured: the morale of his working force of thousands of clerks, mostly women. Temporary markets under the man- agement of the quartermaster general, set up at convenient points, possibly on the eclipse back of the White House, where all staple foods could be purchased at cost plus the actual cost of handling, is one plan definite- ly recommended. Another plan intended to help trans- portation facilities is for the quarter- e a thousand or nd run them for the use of war clerks at a small fare. Street car transportation has entirely broken down, and as winter approach- THAGES KIN IN ARMY Red Cross Will Keep Relatives Informed. Bureau Will Get Information Regard. ing Men Wounded, Killed — or Missing. ~Washington—The American Red Cross, through its bureau of communi- | cation, issued a request to the rela- tives of soldiers who are in the Amer- lean expeditionary force, in whtch it asks these relatives to make inquiries regarding their kin who are in the army through the Red Cross bureau of communication in Washiugton in- stead of, as is the case in numerous Instances, of communicating with agencies or individuals in Europe. The request was issued in the name of Harvey D. Gibson, the American Red Cross commissioner in France. Mr. Gibson points out the fact that In a majority of cases such inquiries are merely turned over by the individ- ual or agency to the Red Cross, which has charge of such communication with soldiers’ relatives, and which has de- veloped special facilities for obtaining Information about those reported killed, wounded, or missing, and those from whom letters have not been re- ceived. Congestion of cables and a loss of time and energy are also oc- casioned by making the request other than through the Red Cross. It has been known that as many as four sep- erate requests have been received about the same men by different in- stitutions. Edward M. Day, acting director of | the bureau of communication, said: “The function of this bureau {s to} give relatives all possible information | which will lessen anxiety. Every in- quiry is handled with full realization that a prompt and full reply is of seri- ous moment to the happiness, peace of mind, and not infrequently to the health of the relatives. By writing to | the: bureau, relatives frequently will | get immediately information at hand | and may be sure that search is started | abroad as quickly as the case war rants.” MADE $35,000, CAN’T PAY TAX Boldier Told to Save Pay for Income Assessments, Says “I Blew It All.” Washington.—Difficulties of soldiers who formerly were successful business men, in paying last year’s income tar on this year’s pay, are illustrated by a story brought to Washington by an officer serving at one of the southern cantonments, Last February, the officer said, he sgh explained to the men of his command H that all married men would have to pay a tax on all their last year’s earn- ings over $2.000. while all unmarried cartridges the pi: on to win—the on UMC one misfire in a hundred shots target champion Remiagioe UMC Cartridges all right. ene vy baked Pistol and Revolver Cartridges for Shooting Right home defence, for pape or for target shooting, buy the kind of and revolver experts Ksowing that SNe ee en eer eee throw him out of his winning form.” chooses Remington UMC Cartridges. . Hl bewws tht ever since te looked dows the sgh of hi fire pital. be hae found Clerkc Planned es the authorities realize that some- thing must be done to solve the prob- lem. The monthly review of retail food iprices compiled by the Bureau of La- | Statistics shows Washington to } bor have the highest food cost in the Unit- ed States. T indicates profiteer- | jing at the expense of war clerks. Prices since 1913 have more than | doubled. Rents have increased in Washington all the way from 15 to 25 per cent. Clothing has increased 77 per centi Shoes have increased 80 per cent. board has been igations in the cost he War Labor | making some inves jot living. It intends to adjust wages lon some kind of sliding scale which wili meet the changing cost of living. At present the board finds the great- st difficulty in the housing problem. Landlords do not place their patriot- jism above their desire for the dollar. The National Housing commission has | not yet been able to do enough con- | structing to brek the grasp of the lextortionate landlord. men would have to pay on all {ncome over $1,000. Coming to him later one of the men, |a private, said: | “I guess I won't be able to pay that income tax. I haven't any money.” “Oh, that’s all right,” replied the of, ficer, “you have until June to pay it jand you can save it out of your pay by | that time.” | “I’m afraid I couldn't,” responded ithe private, “I made $35,000 last year and I blew it all in when I was called jinto the army.” . ‘RABBITS A PEST NO LONGER Australia Finds the One-Time Curse | | Now a Profitable Source of Revenue. Washington.—Rabbits, which were ;once the curse of Australia, as they have been to a lesser extent in the j Southwestern United States, now are providing a profitable source of reve- {nue and at the same time helping to win the war by increasing the food ‘supply. Official dispatches received here say the British board of trade has ordered |600,000 crates of skinned rabbits, j Which will require the killing of 21,- 600,000 jrabbits, weighing 36,000,000 pounds after dressing. Previously the rabbits were shipped with the skins on, but inconvenience was experienced jat hospitals in England in removing the fur. How to dispose of the skins is caus- ing the Australians speculation. There jis a ready market for them in this country, but tonnage is scarce, Walks 145 Miles to Enlist. Tulsa, Okla—Chester Bunch, twen- ty, of Tonkawa, walked from his home to Tulsa, a distance of 145 miles, in order to enlist in the army, but was | ‘ejected because of a slight physical Hyetect, The defect can be remedied }oy a slight operation. Bunch has a desire to become an tviator. He has gone to work in or- ier to earn enough money to pay for he operation. tebthtttbtttett tht bth DRAFTEE GETS TIRED ; WAITING; JOINS POLES Tarentum, Pa.—When the members of the draft board searched for Alexander Czy- mon, who failed to show up for entrainment for Camp Lee, they discovered that he had got tired of waiting for the call to serv- ice and had joined a Polish regi- ment and is now believed to be on the western front. eee SEE EEE ETE ETT iP | PEEEEEEPEEE ESTEE E TELE DES One Reason for Men’s Pockets. One reason a man has more pockets than a woman is because his collar is | too tight to permit him to throw things down his shirt front. — Galveston News. i sergeant got his pigeon shooting just SPY ROUNDED UP BY TRAP SHOOTER Former Top Gun Solves Cause of Mysterious Happenings in Toul Sector. GERMANS WERE TIPPED OFF Sees Pigeons on Wing Sergeant Shotgun and Bags Five—Have Code Messages Attached. By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER. | Paris.—There is a certain’ United States signal serrice sergeant up in | the Toul sector at the front who has | been able of late to combine a little j pleasure with his business. The cen- | sor won't let one tell the sergeant’s name, but without revealin any mill- tary information it may be sald that before the war the sergea:.i ‘was rated as one of the top guns a. .° well-known | trap-shooting club .n the States. There is not much trap-shooting just now in France. They are not crack- ing away at live birds, either. But the the same. } The particular front in which the | sergeant operates fs infested with Ger- | man spies. } All sorts of things were happening. A “tramp” battery, one of those par- ticular guns that whisks up, slams & few at the Fritzies, then slides out on the jump, found itself being shelled the instant it lined up for a shot. Again, every time there was a troop movement, the movement was anticl- | pated by the Boche. Beside that, ev- | ery time a body of our men got to- gether for any purpose whatever, the Germans shelled them with everything they had, big guns included, Tipping Off the Hun. Now, the Hun doesn’t use his big guns unless he knows what he’s shoot- ing at. How he learned, however, was ! pretty evident. Some one back of our lines was tipping him off. The signal service sergeant was the | first to detect how it was done. His squad was repairing signal wires back of the trenches. The sergeant halted in his work and gazed skywards. A {| pigeon was going over his head. The sergeant watched it idly, calculating as he stood there how far he'd lead it with a 12-gauge. Then with a sigh he went to laying a wire again. A few minutes later the sergeant stopped again. Another pigeon had | risen from the wood. But a few min- , utes later, when a third pigeon rose from the wood, the former trap-shooter | tarried no longer. A half hour later he | bolted into the quartermaster’s depart- ment, clicked a salute and spoke hur- riedly. “Gimme a shotgun,” he demanded. Shotguns are a regular part of cer- | Dreams of Days at Traps, Grabs | jing in jwill have to serve as consolation for jor's secretary, isn’t mi 'moon stanza of the w | German under officer, New York. (By Newsppaper Enterprise Ass’n.) New York, Sept. 2.—Matrimo: all interfere with Enrico Caruso’s Therefore is post- not making of movies. poned his honeymoon. The famous grand opera singer is too busy. The three or more thousand dollars flow- each week front the movies the honeymoonless Caruso wedding. {It is believed it will. The new Mrs. Caruso, says the ten- ng the hone; ling progr ARR eee quartering. “Ki,” murmured the ser- geaht methodically, as he yetrieved the fallen game. That afternoon the sergeant got four other birds. Attached to a leg of each pigeon was a code message in German handvriting. A short time later a detachment of military police got the owner of the pigeons. In his blouse and sabots he | looked like any of the peasants tilling the fields behind the lines. On being stripped, however, he proved to be a Since his. cap- ture the nigntly bombardment of the tain quartermaster’s supplies. Soon the sergeant might have been seen | standing behind a hedgerow gazing to- | | ward the nearby wood. Presently he was seen to stiffen, at the same time | murmuring “pull.” The 12-gauge | | swung briefly in an are; a crack and | a crumpled ball of feathers came tum- | bling toward earth. To make sure, the | sergeant gave it a second barrel just | before it hit the earth. { Clever Shooting. It was pretty clever shooting, The bird was high, gving over fast and oa 1c penery xe champions depend “Red Ball" brand. re im the match, the whe * “yockied « vis-choster ill he was epeided” « ill delighes ia Tks REMINGTON ARMS UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. Ine. Gee art ae “WOOLWORTH BLDG. NEWYORK an American offensive in Alsace that will bring Rhine. Here’s the Rhine front—you may. ra de get accustomed to pronouncing those German names and post. yourself on the; location of the Rhine towns NOW. The leave. tne in the: lower “y” huts and other places where sol- | diers congregate has been more or less haphazard. The Fritzies still chuck / ex-pigeon shot, the sergeant, they. are not scoring as frequently as formerly. “Tt’s bum cards’they’re bringing in,” says the sergeant. ‘ Never, Went a man starts co-tir’ “trouble” he don’ hahdly ebuh get turnt down!" | THE RHINE FRONT | stn estphalia “vortmuno -RFELD, pe BARMEN left corner is the Present. American. front. Ab | | | | 1 | i | i | = When the Germans get behind that Hindenburg line. look for our boys to the NO..TIME FOR. HONEYMOON Caruso Too Busy Making Movies.to Give His Golden Moments Wholly to His Bride. Enrico Caruso and his bride, who was Miss Dorothy Park Benjamin of She is much interested in the filmin of Enri and would not for’ t world, have him disappoint the mil- lions of movie fans throughout the country. “Honeymoon? “Not the trip, No," said Caruso. the tour, the going away all by ourselves. But yes, there will be a honeymoon. It began the moment when we became one and will | é until the end of our days. Al- will it be our honeymoon.” ou see, the highest paid tenor So. movie man in the world isn’t too busy to have a life-long‘ honeymoon. ‘BISMARCK MAN IN HOSPITAL | AT WASHINGTON | Advices have ,reacned Bismarck from Rep. George M. Young that Ben | Mooney of Bismarck, a well known lo- |cal violinist, who enlisted with the 18th infantry, in Pershing’s own com- mand, at the outbreak of American | hostilities, is in the Walter Reed milf- tary reconstruction ,hospital near Washington. having lost an arm in action in France. Mr. Mooney is training for magazine illustration. Charles. C. McGonegal of Minot, who i was serving in the same regiment, and who lost both hands through the exx- | heavy stuff at them, but thanks to the plosion of a hand grenade ,is also at the Washington hospital, preparing himself to become a chauffeur. WUY W. 5.8 AUGUST WET BUT | YEAR STILL DRY In spite of the fact that August! was wetter than normal, the month closed with an accumulated moisture defi- ciency of 2.09 inches dating from Jan- uary 1, says Edwin G. Larson. tempor- arily in charge of the weather service for North Dakota. The precipitation for August was 2.62 as against a nor- mal of 1.98. The rainfall. however, {was considera ly less than in the ban- ner year of 1915, when 3.44 inches fell during August. The mean. tempera- ture was 69, the highest since 1913, when the mean was 71. The highest temperature for the month was 97. BUY W. 3. ——— PLAN STREET SERVICE FLAGS Cleveland Has Banners Showing Num- ber of Residents on Street In Service. ‘ Cleveland, O.—Service flags have been flown here from homes, clubs, churches and afmost every kind of or- ganization headquarters, but now there ‘has been introduced the street service | flag. In a number of the suburbs of j the city, as well as in outlying bust- ‘ness streets, flags have been raised ‘ showing how many residents of the street as a whole have ‘joined the col- ors. The new flags are being flown by | municipalities as well as by business | houses. Marries With Broken Neck. Easton, Pa.—Miss Alice Foulks of ! Annandale, N. J., and Henry B. Bowlby :of Lebanon, N. were married at @ | private hospital. , Five weeks ago Mr. Bowlby met with an accident in | which he dislocated his spinal cord at the neck. Since then his head and | neck have rested in a mold. Tho young couple haf decided» several months ago to be married Tuesday and decided not to postpone the wedding. ger. | Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. 1 ise its own humid “The bridegroom is not yet out of dan Washington, tollowing casualties are reported by the commanding general of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces: ‘Killed in ‘The casualties include: Killed in action: PRIVATE AM- BkUSH WALSH, JAMESTOWN, N.° DAK.; Private Joseph Vandeputte, Hibbing, Minn. Died of wounds: Corp. ‘Arvid Wayry- nen, Troy, 'S. D. Wounded severely: KY, MERICOURT, N. ga Willian A. Randolph, Rapid City, 'S. Wounded “degree undetermined: ; George L. Staton, Wells FROLIE BER-, D. C., Sept. 4.—The :Sergt. Oliver Bernard Hove Garfield, Minn. Section No, 2, Killed in action, 53» missing in ac- Poe 37: missi it ar -,|tion, 75; wounded severely 166; died action, 57; missing in action, 95; /of disease, 15; wounded degree unde- wounded severely, 143; died of| termined 78; died of wounds, 7; died wounds, 14; died from accident and |from:aeroplane accident 2; died from other causes, 5; wounded, degree un- | 455 ident and other causes, 6; total, 82; f , 85 * seers es Cats | Died of wounds: Capt. William H. aerop! 0 35 *;Coacher Mitchell, S. D.: Wagoner Minn, Wounded severely: Mecnaie Jhon iT. Jacobson, Chisholm, Minn.; E al- VATE PETER KLEVEN, | HILLS- BORO, N. D. : Wounded severly: PRIVATE Al- BERT GUNDERSON, NORTHWOOD, N. D.; Private William. Smahl, Hutch- inson, Minn.; Private Henry Willis, ; Deadwood, S. D. Wounded, degree undetermined: ; Private Haskel Hurt, Lins, S. D. McLEAN COUNTY MAY HAVE FARMING AGENT K. W. Hall, assistant state leader of | county agricultural agents, is in Wash-! burn conferring with McLean county farmers wro are interested in the ap- pointment of a county agent. ~ BUY W. 8. 8. AUDIENCE APPLAUDS , .. GREAT. WAR, PICTURE. “To Heli with the Kaiser,” a, sev- en-reel feature patriotic production, opened atthe Orpheum Monday for a run of three days. The startling title of this Screen Classics, Inc., picture is enough to commend it at once to pa- triotic people, and a big audience was present to see the production. The spectators were. enthusiastic in their applause. The picture is warranted to fan the spark of national loyalty to white heat. ‘ “To Hell with the Kaiser” is a clever commingling of fact and fancy. The war lords of Germany, the “Pots- dam gang.” presided over by Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, are shown planning the conquest of the world. To each is allotted a nation as a reward—the United States, reserved for the last, intended for the Crown Prince. The now historic incident are shown in which Wilhelm the monster tore up the treaty of Belgium, declaring it to convents and the violation of nuns and young girls are indicated in a way that makes the blood boil with righteous indignation against the Huns, but these matters are so deli- cately handled that the youngest child can see them without harm. “To Hell with the Kaiser” will be shown tonight for the last time. It re- quired the Bismarck police forte to handle the crowds last night so if you wish a seat go early. First perform- ance starts at 7:15 sharp, second at 9 o'clock. , SCHOOL-TEACHER NEEDED BRAINS “T never have had suc ha Godsend come to me as when I took the first dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. [ was afraid I would have to give up my school bezause of severe stomach, liver and bowel trouble which caused such a pressure of gas that I could not use my brain at times, and my heart would palpitate awfully. 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