The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1918, Page 1

cH a THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR e THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 230. HAIG DR EVERYONE 10 BE ASKED TO STEP LIVELY Letters Will Go'Qut Next Week Giving Individual Loan Allotments Registrants May Volunteer for Navy and Marines Washington. D. C., Sept. vost ‘Marshal General Crowder today announced orders to local draft boards which will permit the voluntary induc- tion of registrants into the navy and marine corps and which provides for ‘drafted men to be assigned to those services if voluntary induction does not suffice. Calls for men for the navy will go before the end of this month, and imarine corps inductions will be an- nounced within the next few weeks. BUY W.S.3.-— TROOP TRAIN _ WRECK FATAL . TO ELEVEN Believed Five to Twelve More Bodies Lie in the Wreckage of Coaches PINCH SELF IF NECESSARY | | Chairman Goddard Doesn't Be- lieve a Little Sacrifice Will Hurt Us Next week letters will go out. to every man and woman in the Ninth district who is regarded as capable of | investing in a Liberty bond of the fourth issue, requesting that they pres- ent themselves'to their local commit- tee on or before September 28'to be! assigned their quota of the forthcom- ing loan. This plan will be following in Bur-| leigh county as well as elsewhere in | , the ‘Ninth federal reserve district, at | the direction of the national govern- ' ment. Burleigh county's share of the xourth loan 15 $500,000, more than twice the amount of the last loan. Peo- pis who have not heretofore taken their proportionate share of the loans must take a larger bite of the Fourth, in order to put the big allotment over. “It may be necessary for us to pinch ourselves a little in order to make up our allotment of this loan,” said County Chairman H. P. Goddard this morning. “I don’t believe that any of us of average means have denied our- selves anything in the way of luxuries or amusement to permit previous loan purchases. If we have to sacrifice; just a trifle to meet the demands now | made on us ,it surely will not hurt any of us. In fact, with the giorious things which our Yanks are doing for us over there, we ought to be glad of an opportunity to actually sacrifice a lit- tle for them right now.” Some who have taken $50 bonds will ev called upon to take those of $100 denominations. Those who have been buying $100 bonds may be asked to take $200..-The average man and wom.- | an of small means has been doing his | bit more. faithfully,.it.is claimed.-than. some of those whose bond purchases should mount up into the thousands. TO-GLASSIFY . cetormeerectece REGISTRANTS IN NEW LIST worth will be expected to take his al-| District Board Will Not Await lotment as cheerfully as the laborer; whose allotment is $50 or the salaried Drawing of Order Numbers at Capital CONFUSION OF ORDERS Springfield, Mo., Sept. 18—Wreck- ing crews of the St. Louis & San Fran- cisco railway were working today to recover additional bodies of soldiers killed last night, when a troop train and a freight met head-on near Marsh- field,and it was believed that five to a dozen were in the wreckage. Fifty of the moreseriously injured have been | brought here in relief trains. - ‘names of the seriously injured have been given out, it is stated, however. that most of the men in the forward coach, which was wrecked. were from | Colorado and Minnesota, with a few from Illinois. CONFUSION OF ORDERS. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 18.—-Confusion of orders, it was said at the general offices of the St. Louis & San Fra cisco railway here this morning, was the cause of the wreck. No list of the dead and injured has ‘heen receiv: ed here.as yet, but 12 soldiers and two railway employes are known to have been killed. and 38 soldiers in- jured. BUY W, S. 8. man who is asked to buy only $100 or $200 worth. auyw.s s WELL KNOWN AMENIA MAN NOMINATED Walter Reed Named for Agri- cultural Member of Advisory Draft Board |. The classification of men of 19 and 20 and from 32 to 36, inclusive, who registered last Thursday will be un- dertaken by the district board ay soon @s their questionnaires are returned. | without awaiting the assignment of or- der numbers, as was done in the prev- jious draft, Judge Luther iE. Birdzell, chairman of the district board, an- nounced today. Indications are that the war depart- ment will do everything possible to expedite the induction of new regis- trants into the service. The order numbers. following the lottery drawing in Washington, will be put on the reg- istration cards by ‘the district board. {In the meantime, the registrants will Walter Reed of Amenia, manager of the Amenia & Sharon Land Co., and a successful business man as well as a farmer, has been nominated by the U. S. department of agriculture to be a member of the North Dakota indus- trial advisory board, which will assist the district draft board in passing on claims for industrial exemptions. The | iM S. department GE lshor will nom-| inate a second member of this advis- - ory board, and the third member will | ig up tHe’ odds and ends of the, old be nominated by the district draft |Tegistrations. It has orders to do board. The appointments will come | othing with regard to the new regis- from Washington. trants until it receives its instruc- ‘he ity of this board will b tions from Washington. Indications iy ae Its menbers will inves. | Te that the decks will be cleared for tigate and report on industrial claims | action by the time the provost mar- and will suggest to the district board | shal general's instructions are re- a course of action. The final decision, | Telved. as heretofore, will rest with the dis- trict board. It is probable that ‘all; nominations for the advisory board will have been made within the next! ten days. and that it s personnel can be announced. BUY W. 5. 8. NEW. GOLD STAR .IN_BURLEIGH’S SERVICE BANNER} Private Joseph Leroy Loomis of | Sterling Makes Supreme Sacrifice A new gold star in Burleigh county's service flag represents the name of Joseph Leroy Loomis of Sterling, kill-: ed jn action in France on July 15. His sister-in-law, Mrs. R. M. Loomis of Bismarck, received official notice of his death Sunday, just six weeks from the date upon which the last letter from him came. Private Joseph Leroy Loomis, who| would: have been 22 had he lived until next month, enlisted in Bismarck on December 2, 1917, and was sent to partment may then proceed to call its select service men in the order of their liability for service. The district board is now in ses- sion at the federal building here, clos- HERO ACE LIEUT E.G: CHAMBERLAIN: First Liet. Edmund G. Chamberlain, | marine corps aviator, was recommend- Camm Greene. at Charlotte, N. C. At|ed for the Victoria Cross and the Con- the tims of his death he was serving|gressional Medal of Honor for down- in the headquarters company of. the! ing five boche airplanes and disabling 30th infantry. The first letter receiv-|two while on a flight as guest of a ed from him in France was dated) British air squadron on July 28. April 12. Landing with a disabled engine behind He is survived by his father and|the HUN lines, he dispersed a com- mother, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Loomis,| pany with his machine gun and took at Sterling; by three'brothers, one of}one prisoner. When he reached the whom, Hugh j' f ig Wow:st: Fort] alrdtome he asked that his exploit be Des Moin Poplar, Mont. was on a furlough. mand because he 18.—Pro- | | | i | 1 i 1 | | -|for munitions in the last four i | have been classified, and the war de-| | ; Mottled and fissured. a MIHIEL, Ye battle line. ‘PAT NORTON IS NOT CANDIDATE Representative From Third Dis- “trict Pulls Out | = | Washington, Sept. | tative*P. D. Norton of North Da- | kota has announced he would not run as an Independent candidate for congress in his district. Mr. Norton was invited to become ithe nominee of the Democratic state ;committee, and ‘Republicans who are {anxious to bring avout the defeat of the Nonpartisan league candidate in that district also offered their sup- port. He was imporiuned also by {members of the Democratic songres- |sional campaign committee to stand tas the Independent fusion candi- date. “I declined the invitation to be- come an_ Independent candidate,” said Mr. Norton. “because I felt could afford to stand on thé record 1 made as a Republican. 1 do not want to be under obligations to the Democratic party as an organization, having made my fight as a member of the opposite party.” BUY Ww. S LAIST LEAVES FOR FURLOUGH | Capitol Custodian Has Earned His Vacation This Year 18.—Represen- | William Laist. veteran custodian of ; the capitol, begins his annual two; weeks’ vacation today. “Billy” enters | upon hig furlough ‘with a good heart, | for he has just completed one of the! biggest jobs he has ever tackled at the state house—the reconstruction of the old senate chamber—and every- one who has witnessed the transform- ation has declared the job a good one. The senate chamber had perhaps{ undergone a change or two since the; original capitol building was complet- ed back in the early eighties, but it! showed little to support such a con- clusion when the last legislative as-| sembly, in 1917, appropriated $3.500 for a new carpet. new curtains, new chandeliers and other improvements. | The old oil-lamp chandeliers, massive, if not particularly ornate things, which would have made short work of any} legislator upon whom they chanced! jto fall, still supplied the modern. il-j luminant for the senate chamber. The turkey red carpet was old and worn and spotty. The curtains hung in tat- ters, and the walls and ceilings were| { The work of rehabilitation was not| undertaken until this summer. In the) meantinie the price of everything had | gone up,.and the carpet, which was | the biggest item, had doubled. Cus- todian Laist brought his ingenuity to {the front, stretched every dollar to; the breaking point, and finished the | job within the appropriation, and as, a result North Dakota's next legisla- "BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, IRON MINES IN U.S. GRASP SEPT. | | |Hero of Battle of Catigny Home| ‘Apparently Enemy is Determined to Hold His j myself flat,” said Mooney. telling of TRI LAST EDITION BUNE(- 18, 1918. MOONEY TELLS OF GREAT WORK OF OUR YANKS. | i | i i | 1 ) on Furlough with an Empty Sleeve | THE RED CROSS! Says Too Much Cannot be Said of Organizations Working for Soldiers PRAISES “You can't say anything that's too! good for the Red Cross and the Sal-| vation army--they're looking out for! the boys over there every minute,” ! says Private Ben Mooney of old Co. A of the Fighting First, who, with an empty sleeve as a memento of the! Yanks’ famous victory at Cantigny, is home trom Walter Reed reconstruc-| tion hospital at, Washington on a 30- days furlough. { A piece of shrapnel “got” Private! (Mooney on May 29, the second day of! the battle of Cantigny. “We got in! the habit of flopping when we heard | a high explosive shell hit. and when: this ‘shrapnel shell bursted I threw his isjury. “A piece of shrapnel} struck my head and was stopped by ;fore I could tind anyone to look after | | me. | but theré were fellows who needed at: BE z a x a i | tention worse than | did ,and I kept ‘The reduction of the St. Mihiel salient brings the American! |army to the edge of the famous Briey iron mifing country of east- ern France and German Lorraine, spown by thé ‘shaded portion of | the map. From this country Germany has ‘got. most’ of its iron'! “They certainly do look out for .a years. The solid Hine is the present , BUSINESS MEN TO LET STAFFS SEE TROPHIES Stores to Close Saturday Morn- ing at Various Hours for War Relic Train CAPITOL FORCE TO GET OFF Every business house in Bismarck will suspend operations for at least one hour Saturday morning to give its employes an oportunity to inspect the collection of ‘war relics which is to be shown here by the Liberty loan war trophy train, which arrives in the cap- ital city at 5 Saturday morning and remains until 12:30 in the afternoon. In order that there may not be too much congestion, half the stores will close from 3:30 to #:30 and the other half from 9:30 to 10:30. The capitol will close from 10:30 to 12, and the county offices, federal building and penitentiary will close for at least an hour during the morning to give offi- cers and employes a chance to visit the train. James chairman of aj A. Brown, !yangements for the coming of the Lib- erty loan trophy train, has notices ap- pearing today, tomorrow or Friday in twelye country weeklies in the Bi: marek territory. The coming of the train has been announced by Four-|jof what the boys did there, not by a} Haig. The village of Alnon, thre Minute men in every address made this week and has been proclaimed from every pulpit in the Bismarck dis trict. my helmet, another piece struck me in the left arm, leaving it dangling. ! All of our first aid men’were killed in| this battle, and I walked two miles! and passed three dressing stations be-' Everybody was doing their best, ; {walking back until I found a station; {that wasn’t so busy. It was 14 hours jafter 1 was hit before 1 was taken! care of. j fellow, over there. From the dress-; jing station I went on back to a Unit-| ed States field hospital and then to a |French hospital. I was in seven dif- | ferent hospitals before they finally got ime fixed up. Then I left for home. j landing in Boston, July 27, with a lot lot other fellows who had been messed. {up. From Boston we went to Wash- ‘ington to Walter Reed hospital. There \{ am studying illustrating. One of my pictures, showing a German plane ; Which kept flying over our trenches iuntil we finally got him, is going to [pe used by the reconstruction serv- | tee. |. ‘Private Mooney joined Co. A. of the | Fighting First on August 27, 1917.! i Prior to that time he had played in jthe orchestra led by Robert Bruce, the }Indian musician. and in Laufer's or- :chestra at Leith. ‘He was a good vio- , linist in those days. “I'll never finger fhe violin again,” said Mooney, ruefully ; surveying the stump of his left arm, as he told about the old-times, “but jI'm going to make good with this il- lustrating game. As soon as I am in school. ithat [ have the goods.” “How's the grub over there? Well, {any sort of grub is good when you're in the front line trenches. The boys are all feeling good. It's tough while they're in the firing line but there's iso much excitement they forget about the danger .and when they get back to a rest camp they're just like a bunch {of kids on vacation. The old Fighting tirst is all split up. All the privates have been taken out and put into the line. Our division was one of the first {to see active service, because they r=- {garded the western boys, from the Da- The First has been back behind the jlines, being filled up with drafted men, jand they are using the 41st generally a replacement division. We went right in there on the Somme and took jover lines that had been held by the itish, We had three weeks of it on the Somme front .and I'm not ashamed jlong shot. {We took Cantigny on the 28th, the jday we made our charge. The Boches This publicity is expected to in-' moved out, with us after them, and |shape, they'll send me to a vocational} They tell me at the hospital | kotas, Montana and Wyoming as fit! {to go into the trenches right away.! PRICE FIVE CENTS. —_[—>_—_—_ BRITISH GENERAL SEEKS TO QUTFLANK CITY BY AN ATTACK ON NORTHWEST 4 Ground Between Scarpe and Oise—Start Attack West of Cambrai RESISTANCE WEAKENS. London, Sept. 18.—Bulgarian resistance on Macedon- ia front is weakening, and allied troops have advanced at an average of ten miles, accordnig to latest reports re- ceived. Fifty guns have been captured. (By Associated Press) Field Marshal Haig, two months from the day of the allied offensive on the Marne has begun a closer investment of St. Quen- tin. His troops are attacking northwest of the city with the evi- dent intention of outflanking it on the north. The new operation follows the capture of Holon village, on high ground, 3 miles northwest of St. Quentin Tuesday night. Hol- non is on a hill as is Maissemy, captured late Sunday. These hill positions dominate the terrain north of St. Quentin and the road connecting the city with Cambrai. “JUMPING OFF” POINTS. From thesé favorable “jumping off” points, the British are moving in toward the city. Full details of the operation still are lacking, but the British will undoubtedly meet with stiff resistance. The British are here near the Hindenburg positons, and captured documents have ordered the Germans to maintain their positions. The Germans use their big guns actively against Moeuvres, west of Cambrai, and pressed the British back to the western outskirts. DETERMINED TO HOLD GROUND. Apparently the enemy is determined to hold his ground be- tween the Scarp and the Oise. The American artillery are busy back of the St. Mihiel sector. The attack of the enemy was made Tuesday evening, and the enemy did not follow up his attack with 4 . ‘any further movement toward the American line. | The Kaiser can’t put any- DRIVE PROGRESSING. In Macedonia the allied drive is progressing. French and, Ser- jbian troops after taking Sokol ridge have pressed on a front. of ifive miles on a line of thirty miles. The early success of the allied | troops hay lead to a general offensive in this area for the purpose jof cutting off Turkey. A move of this character would crush Bul- \garia and free Serbia. | USE ANTI-AIR CRAFT GUNS.. With the American Army in Lorraine, Sept. 18.—German avi- ation machine gunners and bombers attacked what they supposed ito be the American positions in the region west of Vandieres last night. The mist and low clouds prevented the Germans from find- ing their targets. The Germans themselves were located and driven back by anti-air craft guns. i VIOLENT COUNTER ATTACK. | Paris, Sept. 18.—German troops last night launched violent ‘counter attacks against the French positons on the plateau north- east of Sancy, seven miles northeast of Soissons. The French war office statement issued today says the Ferman attacks were un- successful and that the French troops maintained their gains. MEN WELL PLEASED. With the American Army in France, Sept. 18.—From the ‘manner in which the American army received the reply of Presi- {dent Wilson’s reply to the Austrian peace note, its attitude might jbe said to be one of grim approval. ' The reply was circulated from the front line trenches far to the rear, and it was stated emphatically that the allied govern- iment, certainly not theirs, would not listen to such a trick of the jenemy to gain time. i There was a feeling of relief among officers of the high rank, land enlisted men. The men said: “Sure he won't. thing like that over on him.” ATTEMPT ATTACK. ' With the American Army in Lorraine, Sept. 18.—German in- lfantry attempted to attack the American line west of Mosele Tues- jday morning, but was driven back by American artillery. ALNON CAPTURED. London, Sept. 18.—British forces attacked tonight northwest of St. Quentin, according to an official report from Field Marshal e miles northwest of St. Quentin, has been captured by the British. A German attack last night at Moevures under heavy artil- lery protection resulted in pushing the British back to the out- i sure the presence of thousands of out-!then on the 29th 1 had to get mine.|skirts of the village. of-town people in Bismarck on Satur-; 'Tisn't so bad as you'd think, tho. My) day. Capt. E. G. Wanner of the Bismarck home guard has been called upon to; supply 24 home | guardsmen in uni- forms to assist in handling the big crowds. Mayor A. W. Lucas has an- buddy in this picture (showing a | postal card taken at Boston) Hannibal Farwell of Maine, is only 18, and as you can see he has one leg gone. Well. ‘after we got to Washington they fixed jhim up with an artificial leg, and three days later he was dancing.” nounced his intention of naming a! ‘special reception committee to greet; Private “Paddy” Cox of Bismarck | was wounded at Cantigny, but went those in charge of the train upon their back to his company the day Mooney arrival. and he will also urge the ob- servance of a partial holiday during! left for home. Private Carmichael of Linton, also of Co. A, lost a leg at| the morning. | ‘Bismarck willbe expected to throw | Cantigny, and is at his home in Linton! Old Glory to the breeze bright and jon furlough. | early Saturday morning, and every | business house and home should be | dressed in the national colors. With! i the traim will ve the famous Great) Lakés training: station Blue Jacket} band. of 30 pieces, directed by John; Philip Sousa;"the world’s greatest, band-master, and this organization | will play “a cogtinuous concert during the forenoon. UY Ww. $.5.——— Start to Mail WW. 8. Y. M.C. A. Wins Place in Hearts of American Soldiers: With the American Army on Loar- raine Front. Sept. 18.—The Y. M. & A. has won its place in the hearts of | the American soldiers. An instancei of the part played by the organization | is told in connection with a recent! charge. Just before the charge on PENETRATE FOUR AND A HALF MILES. Paris, Sept. 18.—Allied forces on the Macedonian front have penetrated four and one-half miles on a front of 15 miles, and have captured 4,000 prisoners, according to an official statement issued MAJOR OPERATION EXPECTED. Washington, Sept. 18.—It has been hinted for some months that this autumn would see a major operation on the Macedonian front. While it is not possible for military reasons to give the number of men intended to participate in this movement, its ob- jects are clear: To cut off Turkey from its allies; to reduce Bul- garia; free Serbia and liberate the Jugo-Slavs. The Serbs are fighting valiantly, for they are at last near home, and are fighting for the restoration of their native land. The Bulgarians already are having trouble with themselves and with Turkey, Germany and Austria. In some quarters it is be- lieved they may desert their allies, and sue for separate peace, try- ing to save as much of their conquered territory as they can. The Bulgarians have killed many thousand Serbians and Ru- manians, but the entente is assured of the ardent cooperation of the people who have survived the massacre. The Jugo-Slavs are merely awaiting an opportunity to join the allies to free their { | | | : tonight. Bt Out Questionnaires Washington, D. C., Sept. 18.—Local tive assembly need not feel ashamed the St. Mihiel salient a Y. M. C. A. of its senate chamber. BUY W. 3.5. ing a huge pack on his back. When worker appeared among the men bear- | ie BURLEIGH COUNTY REGISTERED 1890 Burleigh county’s registration last Thursday as totaled by Chairman French of the local board was 1,890. or approximately the same as the first registration of June 5, 1917. ieraaattemt | than, draft ‘boards today began mailing out questionnaires to ‘aproximately 6,409.- 000 men of 19 to 36 who registered last. Thursday. . Kegistrants will have six days to fill out and’ return the questionnaires. act w. 5. 8. BURNED TO DEATH. Toronto, Sept. 18—When hi& ma-jhe returned to the rear, reappearing chine caught fire while flying more | soon with ane het pack. une 10,000 feet. in‘ the air, Cadet|his trips t * department - cou! ‘Henry C. Saunders was burned to/ move up to the front lines with its the order to advance came he moved | forward with the men. At the first | pause, while the soldiers were shelt- ered behind a little rise of ground, the .¥. M. C. A. man made his way from {soldier to soldier. giving each a cake }of chocolate and a package of cigar- ettes. When his pack was exhausted. a., and bya sister, ti] kept ‘secret ‘as We ‘feared’ a’ repri‘/ py Volmmiry aAltstn {homes from the yoke of Austria. BELGIUM REFUSES. Paris, Sept. 18—The Belgian government, after consultation with the allies, according to La Petite Parisian, has decided to re- fuse without elaboration or commena a recent tender of a separate peace made by Germany. ENDORSE WILSON’S STAND. London, Sept. 18.—The British delegates to the inter-allied labor and socialist conference today introduced ai resolution“en: ‘dorsing the 14 points laid down by: President for: peace. : fa death. Saunders’ was from Erie, Ont. \supplies,- (Continued on Page Two.)