The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 1

Fee i THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. N 232, NORTH SIBERIANS ROUT COAL SHORTAGE - OF 100,000,000 - TONS PREDICTED. Necessity for Saving Fuel If We Would Not Freeze Next Win- ter is Nrgent PRODUCTION INCREASING Steady Gain in Output of Bitum-. inous Noted Since Low Mark of Last January | | By E. C. RODGERS (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.) Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 21—The coal shortage this year will run up to 100,-; 000,000 tons. The nation will be that) much short of domestic and industrial | fuel. It may be warse. Careful coal investigators with ed predict a shortage of 120,000,000; tons. They are pessimistic. After aj visit through the leading bituminous | coal states and the anthracite dis-— tricts of Pennsylvania, I am_borced j to the conclusion that this winter will | ©see fuel famines in many American; reities. H More coal has been mined this, year than laét. The production per mine; per man, per day, has been greater. Also, the consumption has been great-| er. War industries have first claim on anthracite, and domestic consumers west of Pittsburgh must burn soft coal. fe But much of the bituminous must go to war industry, more than last year. And the nation will have a shortage | at least 100,000,000 tons. This is not altogether due to the fact that not enough coal could ‘be mined. Probably more of it may be laid to the fact that the coal ‘gate- ways were crowded with other freight, | and that locomotives were pulling war \ supplies instead of coal cars. War industries workin day and night have used double and _ treble the coal those same factories and mills used in peace times turning out peace products. There are several ways in which the nation can overcome all, or most of this shortage. These include: High pressure production in- increases. Coal ban to non-essential in- dustries; Coal conservation in home.tiress Non-wastage of fuel in essen- tlal industries; ‘ Heatless days. Production ‘of ‘bituminous — coal reached its lowest point tnis yea. January, lower than at the same time \ in 1916 and 1917. Since then it bas gone steadily upward, with but two falls, in eary April and in June, in both instances touching the same prt- duction mark made the year before. , Every other month the production por day has exceeded that of preceding years. TROPHY TRAIN © INSPECTED BY | GREAT CROWDS Line of Slope People. Stretches for Blocks Awaiting Admission REAL SOLDIERS IN PARTY Trooper H. A. O’Connor Shows Bayonet That Accounted for + 72 Huns | Greeted by ~a fanfare of bells andj hom I have talk-| whistles, the Liberty loan trophy train} pulled into Bismarck at 7:45 this beds. All afternoon Friday and late into the night and at early day-break ! { this morning a file of autoes sireamed cial. As soon as the train was spot- ted on the switch wes: of Third street the crowds began ‘to assemble, and long before 9 o'clock it became necessary to form a line, which son {stretched out into Main street for a | distance of more than a block. Hun- dreds of people stoop patiently in line ‘for an hour or more awaiting their op- portunity to go through the train. | While everyone was given an oppor tunity for a thorough inspection, the crowd was kept moving steasily, and jbefore noon several thousand peuple ; had been accommodated. Jackies’ Band Favor | Equal in importance to the ics themselyes as a center y rel- I EOPLE VIEW WAR RELICS | THOUSANDS OF PE 4 morning at an hour when some tardy | ! Bismarck folk were just leaving their} j into the city, bringing country people | | who wished to see the famous war/| relics carried by the Liberty loan spe- | of aturac:} One of the main exhibits on thousand people during the forenoon is a German “77” captured by the United States marines at | Yhateau Thierry. Wherever the train goes this big gun is the center of attraction. in the picture are Fort Snelling LEADERS PLAN CAMPAIGN FOR - MERGER FUNDS ‘Successful Meeting of State Di-| rectors of War Work at i DAKOTA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1918. B OOOO OOO ned wren 3S. the special war trophy train which was inspected by at least ten The soldiers Yanks who assembled the gun on its flat car. BRILLIANT RECORD OF ALLIES CONTRASTED WITH START OF GERMAN DRIVE 6 MONTHS AGO In Less Than Two Weeks German Lines South- west of Arras Gave Way—St. Mihiel Fargo 176 REPRESENTATIVES OUT In mid-July it went up to the! 2,200,000 tons mark, higher than ever’ tion was the famous Jackies’ band | - jfrom the Great Lakes training sta-! . : . ‘Every Organization Engaged i !tion. “hes thirty sailor musicians {tumblédout*of their berths early and Help to Soldier Sends s s Is {they hadvbreakfasted by the time the train reached Bismarck. They immed-) D jlately filed out and opened their con-} D elegates jcert, which included scores of the pop- ta iJ North Dakota’s campaign for the jwlar hits of the day as well as the mar-| j tial reutle of bygone days. ; < (mereek drive for funds which’ will | The Jackies ran into a streak of;}e held in Novem! by vel tough luck on this trip when one of sae Rae ti ia ree the ih on, |their number brought Spanish influen- e organizations "doing © work lza aboard. Jt quickly spread: uutil at n | Jamestown yesterday it became neces-| ed when ‘state worker's from ‘the var- (sety tor romoye eu pugen ie 8 bya ious drganizations met tor a confer- pital, wi ve ys were kept} anug SEAS s ‘in their berths here this morning. For; eee, Sut organization meeting in a’ that, the band proved one of the | Fargo. There: were, 176 representa- (best ever hetard in this city. * ; tives from the organizations through- Among the bandsmen was Glen Rug-/ out the state. tgles of Sioux City, Ia. a nephew of} ‘The nation wide campaign rs. W, L. Smith of Bismarck anu! will be held during the, week of No- Mr. Ruggles say that all the | $170,500,0¢0 to be used for the wel- boys,‘are: praying that after this trip|fare work among the soldiers by the they will be sent across and given an| Young Méii’s Christian ‘association, (Continued on Page ‘I'nree.) ithe Young Women’s Christian associa: BUY W.3 5 |tion, the Salvation Army, American with the. American army was open-} which! o {freduefitly has visited in this! vember 41-18 “is to raise a fund -of| before. /In. August there was a drop | IN EFFORT TO. tember climbing back up again. ! At this time, the production of bi- tuminous is near or above the 2,200,- 000 record. If it can be kept above that the rest of the year the increase | over last year will run about 400,000 Marriages After a week, and half of the predicted shortage will be made up. But that | is merely coal at the mine. It is not! near the stove or furnace, Railrads may not be able to handle it plus the norma! -production. Gradually. Coal Administrator Gar- field is ‘cutting down on fuel for non- essential industries. That is conserv- ing coal for war work and homes. In normal winters domestic con- sumers use about 120,000,000 tons of coal in furnaces and stoves. Last win- ter they used nearly 140,000,000 tons, due to the excessive and widespread zero weather. ne Taking this to be a normal winter, the home fires must be kept burning with LESS than 120,000,000 tons. It has been said tinie and again that the home fires are too hot and too poorly kept. fuel. Homes can be heated comfort- ably and healthily with less coal. Coal dealers themselves say so. Good coal experts, as for instance the editor of the Black Diamond, say homes can be heated with a third of the coal used in other winters.. They say that domestic users can save 40,- 000,000 tons,of coal this winter, and not be uncomfortable. They also insist that war industries, by careful firing, can savé at least 10,000,000 tons. These make up the 100,000,000 tons shortage— Increased production in next three months, 50,000,000, 4 Saved in home fires, 40,000,000. Saved in war industries, 10,000,000. If not saved—fuel famines for the poor, and heatless days for ail. 3 . And what is saved by excluding non- essentials may! be balanced against increased use in increasing war work. BUY W. Ss. August Fifth Not: To Be Considered Washington, Sept. 21.—New editions of the revised selective draft regula- tions fixx” August 5 as the date from which the draft boards shall disregard marriiages, as a' basis for exemption. auy W. 8. S- Ireland’s Condition Is Slightly Improved} St. Paul, Minn. Sept. 21— <Arch- bishop Johg Ireland passed: a comfort- able night and was somewhat improv- ed this forenoon. His physicians add- ed, however, that his. condition is crit- ical. s ‘i They waste too much; EXCLUDE DEMS Supreme Court Holds Nomina- | tion Percentage Provision i} | ‘Unconstitutional |FULL TICKET WILL GO ON ; Sec. 862. of the laws of 1913, which ;at a primary election provides that “if | the total vote cast for any party can- didate or candidates for any office for | which nominations are herein provid- | ¢d for shall be equal less than 25 per cent of the average total number of votes cast for governor, secretary of state and attorney general of the polit- ical party he or they represented at the last general election, then no nom- ination shall be made in that party for {such office,” 18 unconstitutional, in that its provisions are arbitrary, un- ‘| natural and lack uniformity in the dif- ferent courities of the state ,and do not provide a standard for determining | the basis for classification which is stable and constant throughout the ; counties of the state. | This is the opinion of the supreme ; court in the action brought by Attor- ney Edward E. Allen, on behalf of the Burleigh county democratic central committee, asking a writ of mandam- us to compel the printing thte name ; of the petitioner on the official ballot. The opinion is written by Chief Jus- tice Bruce. Justice Grace especially concurs, and Justice Christianson dis sents.. The writ of mandamus is ord- ered issued, and all of the, democratic county nominees whose names were presented at the primaries in June will go on the ballot for the fall elec- tion. The only democratic candidate whu } received the required 25 per cent vote at the. June primaries was H. ,A. i Thompson, seeking the shrievalty. the attorney general originally ruled off the three democratic candidates for the legislature as’ well as the candi- dates for county office whose votes fell under the 25 per cent. Later, how- ever, the attorney general backed up insofar as the legislative candidates were concerned. Ed 'S. Allen argued his own case, while Attorney General Langer repre- sented County Auditor T. E. Mlaherty, who was the defendant. j Library association, Jewish Welfare ‘board, National Catholic War Council jand the War camp community service. |The meeting in Fargo was jliminary to the organization of this | State for the campaign. H. W. Gearey. chairman of the state committee, presided at the ses- sions and in his opening address point- jed out the added effectiveness that {had come to the armies of the allies |after they had merged their forces and predicted the same increase in the aceon plishments and work cf the jorgaifizations® represented now that their forces were. united. The principal address of ‘the morn- ing was given by Karl L. Shumak- yer of Chicago, associate director of the central division of the War: Work campaign. “I have. been in. this business of campaign funds for a good many years, raising funds for buildings and for endowments and for running expenses,” said Mr. Shumaker, “and I am more than ever satisfied that oratory does not raise money. The Prospect of success lies much more in getting an intelligent grasp af the Proposition that lies before you; to come to beliece that the thing you are attempting to do is just as much your service tp your country and to God as does the boy over there be- lieve that he has been called to that service. The president of the United ; States asked that every resource of every organization represented in this merger be placed at the disposal of our soldiery early in the waf and every resource has ibeen so given. The president now asks. that all seven of these organizations become unitd in United thing that we are starting to do, to raise $170,500,000 is the largest sum that has ever been asked of a people for ‘religious, educational or philan- thropic work and there'are just three things to keep in mind as you go about it; they are that it can be j done. it must be, dorie and it will be done.” | W. L. Stockwell of Fargo, present- ‘ea a brief outline of the campaign for Nordth Dakota and the work of ithe various societies in thei army labors. was told of by workers. Miss Owers of Minneapolis, told of the war {work of the Y. W. C. A. in the com- munities where girls are employed in war industries; in the efforts to mob- \ilizze the efforts of women in the; eagerness to serve, in the cantonment centers, ‘the efforts to help with the adequate- housing of women workers ; in the new industries. the more widely | |known work of the hostess houses and the ‘work among foreign women to help them to an understanding of the nresént situation and their relation to it and the work in recreational huts in Europe for the women who are working wit hthe army,’as Red Cross (Continued on ‘Page’ Three.) on merger organization in their drive! for funds and it shall be done. ‘The | was her hope in March. Germany’s losses cannot be made good. Salient Has Been Obliterated. (By Associated Press) Six months ago today, the German great offensive began and ‘for a week it looked as though victory was about to perch upon! erman banners. Today the star of the-Allies is in the ascendancy. | When at dawn, March 21, when the greatest battle in history be- | gan, the Germans had reached their high tide of success. There .| was a period of incessant fighting. Released by the absolute col-) southeast, and by making progress to the north of the village. jiapse of Russia, vast numbers of German veterans had been rushed | to the western front and had been given intensive training ‘for | battle. LARGE BODIES CONCENTRATED. | It. was knows that great hodies of, men had been concentrated land that:large supplies of ammunition had been gathered along the front. Moving witha swiftness that carried concernjto the Entente Nations, the Germans rushed over the British lines west like a/| | clad Germans. . | SWAYED BACKWARD. | } Again the British line swayed backward. This advance reach- {ed high ground southwest of Ypres and then too it was stopped. ‘A; pause followed for a month and then on May 27. the Germans} ‘broke through and smashed to the Marne over a wide front east of Chateau Thierry. ' No sooner had the Allies stopped the momentum of this drive} |when a new assault was made by the Germans. Successes here| ‘linked up the Picardy and the Marne sectors. It was here that the | world had the first impression that the allied armies were under | their strength against that time when it could best be used. CAME TO A PAUSE. . The German attack came to a pause after six days of terrific then that Foch struck back at the invaders American forces took in the final phases of the battle and had been instrumental in stop- ping the Germans at Chateau Thierry. at The sanguinary check of the Germans at Montdidier gave the | Allies hape that the German tide had been stemmed. This hope i was heightened by a series of local actions in which the Germans were steadily driven back. By these very actions, Marshal Foch forced the Germans to attack in the Marne region. On July 15, the Germans made what was called the “Offensive of Peace.” From Chateau-Thierry eastward far into the Chapagne region the Germans struck. No sooner had the news of attack \came than the report reached the world that the Allied lines were standing and on July 18, Marshal Foch launched an attack that has changed the entire situation. The German lines were torn to pieces and the entire Marne salient threatened to collapse. It was only by the most savage fighting that the Germans succeeded in retreating across the Vesle river. ; These are not simple trench communications, but serious forti- fications constructed all along the line. / Six months of the warfare of motion has taught the allies that a trench is no. stronger than the troops that man it. Two methods of attack. the employment of tanks, and a higher morale ‘than ever before in the history of the war will be relied upon in the fighting to break the line and force retreat. Germany has lost her chance of forcing peace on the allies be- fore the Americans entered the fight in a serious manner. This Hope blasted, crack divisions broken up. and seeming victorie turned into defeat have sapped the morale of the German army, which is on the defensive everywhere. > | Fallen For Freedom | ° Washington, D. C., Sept. 21.—The following casualties are reportcd by the commanding general of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces: Killed in ac- tion, 23; missing in action, 51; wound- ed severely, 49; died of wounds, 6; died of disease, 5; slightly wounded. ;1;_total, 135. Wounded severely: Private Reisenauer, Dickinson, N. D. Want Monuments of Hohenzollern Melted Geneva, Sept. 21—Owing to indigna- tion at the melting of historic bronze monuments of Goethe, Schiller and others while those of the Hohenzoll- erns were left intact, an order has been issued that the Hohenzollern }manuments are missing from Berlin and monuments are reported missing | from other large cities of the empire. Section No. 2. | BUY W. S. S. Killed in action, 22;\ missing in ac-! SECOND-HAND SHOE tion, 57; wounded sevetely 50; died | SHIPPET of accident and other causes, 7; died from wounds, %; total 143. ‘Killed in action: , Private Peter D. Getz, Grant Forks, N. D.; wounded severely, Privates Ernest E. Larson, Drake, N. D.- Henry Martin, Crystal. N. D.; Daniel J. Olsen. Kenmare, N. D.; Frederick Schneider, Grafton, N. John Paris, Sept. 20.—A.shipment of 1000 second-hand shoes has just arriv- ‘ed in France stowed away inside lo- }comotive boilers from the Baldwin works of Philadelphia. The shoes are for refugees. The novel shipping idea was conceived by Miss Alice C. Arch- ibald of the Red Cross, metropolitan {canteen servipe,here.-;, 1,5, ULGARIAN i trib |the supreme command of General Foch and that he had conserved | ¢™ ‘fighting in which the French and British lines held firm. It was | BRITISH AND FRENCH CONTINUE OPERATIONS BEFORE ST. QUENTIN: | SHASH THROUGH HUN POSITION Attacking Over a Front of About Sixteen Miles the Allies Virtually Have Overrun Entire Turk- | ish Positions on Mediterranean Coast—More Than 3,000 Prisoners Taken. ‘ | TOWN IS AFIRE | (By Associated Press) Amsterdam, Sept. 21—Explosions are oceuring in the Casperian Seaport of Baku-in Trai neasia and the town is afire, according to a telegram to the Russian Embassy in Moscow, : Driving northward on an ever widening front the Serbian ‘and allied forces in Central Macedonia now menace the entire Bulgarian positions m the Adriatic to Saloniki. The eutting of the Uskub- Saloniki railway which is only nine miles from the new Serbian line would upset completely the Bulgarian defenses. MOVING RAPIDLY _ Serbian infantry is moving rapidly toward the highway frem | Prilep to the Varda river, and eight miles southward parallel the \road on a front of more than 15 miles. At Drogojel, north of which the cavalry is operating, the Serbs ye advaneed fram the Sokol positions the capture of which precipitated the Bulgarian retirem .at, | The formidable salient driven into the Bulgarian line is being jextended rapidly the terrain becomes more favorable. Apparently ithe Bulgarian resistance is not very great, and there is no evidence japparently of wh the Bu intend‘to make a stand. The Yarda river and the town of Uskub, Serbs are approaching the Va | CONTINUE SUCCESS i In France, the British and French continue with sueeess their j ope rations looking toward the cneirelement of - Quentin and breaking of the Hindenburg line between St. Quentin and Cambrai, ;On a front of three miles the British are today smashing’ into the | German positions west of Catelet, with the object of getting east of | the section of the Sheld@t Cauai, between St. Quentin and Cambrai. |The Canal is less than two mics from the British line east of Epehy, j Near Bellengliz, Field Marshal Haig’s men also are working toward ‘the Canal, which probably forms an important part of the Hinden- burg defenses in this region. FORCE EVACUATION OF BENAY South of St. Quentin the French have followed the. capture. of! Elligny-le-Grand by forcing the Germans to give up Benay, to the : The terrain here is difficult, but the French advance has ‘been steady throughout the week. TurRish forees from the Mediterranean, Sea to the Jordan, north of Jerusalem; appear to have suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the allie If the situation develops as favor- ably. tothe allies as peports indicate the Sultan’s forces may snffer disaster. ~ : : OVERRUN TURKISH DEFENSES Attacking over a front of about 16 miles the allies have cirtually tidal wave until at last the British reached a position where they | overrun the entire ‘Turkish defenses on the Mediterranean sea 3 ne n i is ses Me anean sea coast. stood at ‘bay and the French formed a living wall before the gray | Cavalry is operating in the rear of the Turkish fore These enemy units ar prevented from retreating, westward by the hostility of Hejas beyond the Jordan, and they face a serious problem in making their way back to safety along the western bank of that historic stream. t ‘ ze More than 3,000 prisoners have been eaptured by the allies who have also taken great quantities of war material. Fighting on the front in Lorraine has been of a minor nature since the German were forced back to Metz. Petrograd dispatches state the Bolsheviki retreat was caused by the treachery of Lettish Regiments, which refused to fight against the British. The Letts heretofore have been the staunchest support- sof the Bolsheviki regime. METZ UNDER FIRE Gene Sept. 21.—The bombing of Metz caused surprise but no | panic says a German paper. “The enemy,’’ said the paper, ‘‘is merely copying our method of the bombardment of Paris. Few persons were killed and the damage jis insignificant.’” t iSlearned from other sources, however, that the hombardment eansed a sensation in Germany. It is the first time since 1870 that Metz has been under artillery. fire. | REMOVING POPULATION | Sept. 21.—The Germans appear to be hastening the removal 1 population of St. Quentin and fires have been observed The Germans, the report adds, are | | | Paris lof the in different parts of the city. {placing numerous batteries. : MONITOR IS SUNK London, Sept. 21—A British Monitor was sunk Monday while lying in harbor. One officer and nine men were killed and fifty- jseven are missing presumably killed. a GAIN NINE MILES. 1 London, Sept. 21.--The Serbian troops have'advanced more than nine miles in one day. Serbian statements say that they have cap- tured large numbers of prisoners and have reached Godyak. 1,750,000 SENT OVERSEAS | Washington, Sept. 21.—Einbarkation of 1,750,000 men is the mark to date Gen. Mareh announced today. He said the news from [the fronts had been considered guod. H On the Lorraine front, where General Pershing’s first American army has complefed its first operation to eliminate the St: Mihiel alient, the situation has become stabilized. The line stretches for 20 miles from Maizeray to the Moseule at Vandieres. The Americans now are ten miles from Metz, and an equal distanee from Camblons. | On August 8th the French and British stormed the lines in Pi- jeardy from the Ancre river to Moreuill north of Montdidier, and sent the enemy reeling back toward the Somme. The next day |the French crushed in the German front south of Montdidier, and limking their lines with the British forced their way back east- ward. Less than two weeks later the German lines southwest of Arras gave way, and the British joined their comrades farther south. While this retreat was going on, the Germans began a with- drawal from the Flanders salient, and today they are nearly back to the lines from which they sallied to their attack late in April. The first*American field army has obliterated the St. Mihiel | salient, and straightened the line east of Verdun, and now stands | before Metz into which American shells are falling. Before the allies there now stands the great lines constructed by the Germans during four years of warfare. CROWN PRINCE HAS FLED. : Copenhagen, Sept. 21.—The Roumanian Crown Prince has fled from Roumanian territory and arrived in Odessa. ing - to the Ukrainian newspaper Wrewskaia Mysbi‘)? = to4: sna ts