The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1918, Page 1

\ ’ =s"s> ‘litle probability hat the difference ex-) ¥ There are seven other elevators at | which is specifically covered by North; THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 236. CIVILIANS T0 BE ADMITTED . TOTRAINING Those with Deferred Classifica- tions Given Chance to Be- come Officers. MAY RETURN TO OLD CLASS If Commission is Not Won, Orig- inal Status May Be Re- stored Registrant. Applications of civilians for adinis- * sion to the central officers’ training schools may now be received, advises Adjutant General Fraser. The age limits for admission are from over 18 to less than 46 at the date of registra- tion. Candidates from the army at large or from civil-| jans in Class 1-A or from civilians} with deferred classifications on! grounds other than industry, ocoupa- tion or employment, including agri- culture. Civilians in Class 1-A who may be; admitted will upon entrance to the service for the duration of the war, and, provided they fail to obtain the commissions they are trying for, they! will be required to remain in the ser-} vice. Civilians in the deferred classific: tions on grounds other than industry, occupation or employment, including | his neighbor, Ernest E. Lack, on the! , agriculture. who may be admitted will, | upon entrance to the schools, be in- ducted into the service for the dur- ation of the war, and, provided they; should fail to obtain their commis- sions, they may be given the option of! a discharge from the service and a reversion to their original classifica- tion under the selective service regu- lations. Civilians in North Dakota should submit their applications to Major M.! F. Steele, Agricultural College, N. D. No applications will be considered by the war department or by “Adjutant General Fraser. BUY W, S. 5. NEW ENGLAND ELEVATOR ROW United States Railway: Adminis- tration Fails to Simplify Matters. . According to recent advices to the railway commission from the federal railway administration, there is very isting between the Aavey Light & Power Co., of New Hngland and rival elevator companies, with Director Gen- eral McAdoo’s aides as referges, will be amicably dissolved. The Aabey company has been granted permis- sion by the railway commission of North Dakota to use certain lots on the Milwaukee right-of-way at New England for elevator purposes. New England, and the lots given the ‘Aaby company were at the head of the row. The rival elevator compan- ies protested against the establish- ment of a competitor in this favored position, and they appealed to the fed- eral railway administration. Regional Director R. H. Aishton sent an agent to New England to investigate, and he reported that the lots assigned the aby company were necessary to fur- nish ingress and egress to the other elevators. x : In the meantime, the New England city council. had passed an ordinance vacating a street which would have to be closed to give the Aaby com/ pany the location it sought, and Mayér Charles: Simon, who is also said to represent in a legal way. some of the; protesting elevator companies, vetoed the ordinance. In the federal railway administration's most recent letter to the Aaby company, it advises the jatter that it cannot have the lots awarded by the railway commission, but that the- federal administration has “something just as good.” The; Aaby company’s reply was that. it was secured in the possession of the lots it wanted by the ruling of the state rail board, and that it intended to go ahead with its building in spite of Mr. McAdoo and the rival elevator com-; panies. “And there,” says the North Dakota ; railway commission, “you are.” The important question is whether the federal railway administration has jurisdiction over a matter of this kind Dakota statutes. jevening of June 25. MUST CAREFULLY STATE OCCUPATION | General Fraser today calls the atten- {tion of local boards to he importance lof carefully filling out page three of the new questionnaires, which takes the place of the old occupational card, which was a source of annoyance to a majority of the local boards. ' “The attention of his office has been called to the fact that some boards and some members of the le- gal advisory board are not filling the blank on page three of the question- naires with the key number and letter on list,” says the adjutant general. “This information is extremely import- ant, especially if the registrant is giv- en a deferred classification. You.are instructed to see that this blank is filled, and if any questionnaises have shave it supplied.” BUY W. 8, 3.——— BISMARCK MAN'S SLAYER GIVEN Existence at Hard Labor in Gopher Prison, Minneapolis, Minn. Sept. 26.—Sen- tence of life imprisonment at hard la- bor, in the state penitentiary at Still- water, was imposed today upon Reu- ben C. Curtis, convicted of murdering Curtis was taken to the penitentiary at noon today. commitment papers were prepared immediately after Judge Hale in dis- trict court pronounced the sentence. been received \acking this information, | Reuben C. Curtis will Round Out ; NEW ALLIED: i | i { ( i i CLOTHING FOR " YANKSTOWARD BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THUBSDAY, SE Bismarck commercial traveler up to} the time of his departure for the Twin j Cities, about two years ago. His widow is a former Bism>rck woman, and both have many friends in the! capital city. BUY W. 3. §.—-—— STEPUPAND — SIGNUP FOR FOURTH LOAN ; ~ i STILLBUBBLES to Receive Notice wal Not Deter Any Patriotic American. Step up and sign up for your Lib- erty bonds Saturday. between 9 a. m. and v p. m. Failure to receive an of- ficial notice to report should not de- ter any patriotic American from do- ing his duty in this respect. This is the message which the Bur- leigh county executive committee for the Fourth Liberty Loan sends to-100 per cent Americans within its juris- diction today. “We have made an effort to include everyone in our census,” said Chair- man H. B. Goddard today. “It is al- most impossible, however, to avoid an oversight; all of this work has been done by volunteers, serving without pay, and we have been rushed to get the notices out in time. So, if anyone should be overlooked, I beg that they not consider it a slight, but that they report Saturday at their polling pre- cinct to receive their allotment ac- cepting this public invitation as their official notification.” Interest Rate 4 1-4 Per Cent. Through a typographcal error, The Tribune stated yesterday that the in- terest rate for the Fourth Liberty loan would be 4 1-2 per cent. The rate is 4 1-4 per cent, as in the last previous bond issue. 1Y W. 8. 8 ——— ABANDON PLAN TO VOTE ON SUFFRAGE TODAY Washington, Sept. 26.—Plans for a vole by the senate today on the Fed- eral of debate. Chairman Jones, of the Woman's Suffrage committee, ‘Major Leader Kitchin and other leaders join- ed in private statements that the reso- lution would go over until Saturday. while the debate was under way, awaiting final test, Chairman Jones made. the following statement to a vote will be taken today and that the resolution will go over until next Saturday when Senator LaFollette of ee NEW YORK CITY PLANS - nod Wisconsin is due to arrive.” -UMQUEOPENING OF _ LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN New York, Sepf: 26—The opening of the campaign for the Fourth Lib- erty loan in New York tomorrow will be proclaimed by powerfttl police air- raid sirens, the inging of church bells and other devices about half an hour ‘before lent Wilson speaks at the Metropolitan opera house. ‘Simultaneously police reserves will begin the distribution of 1,500,000 cop- ies of a “Surprise Paper” in the city. The drive will begin Saturday morn- ing at 9. Every man, woman and child heer is requested to rise as the clock strikes the hour and stand looking toward the east. facing France and Pershing. Woman's suffrage amendment | - | virtually were abandoned in the midst |through the four or five months of representative of the Associated Press: “It now appear’ likely that no| {Uncle Sam Makes Provisions, for i Soldiers on Prodigious | Seale. 35,000 STOVES ONE ITEM Tours, .Ceitral France, Sept. 26-— The supply of clothing for American jsoldiers in France is maintained on a |prodigious Scale, for soldier service is hard on clothes and shoes, and be- sides the million outfits always on ‘hand there isthe .continual renewal land upkeep. This upkeep for a sin- gle month for the American force now in, France is 300,000 service coats, 400,000 pairs of trousers, 200,000 over- seas caps, 340,000 pairs of puttees, 200,000 pairs of socks. and 340,000 Pairs of/ field shoes, or about fhree million articles monthly of these six essentials, with a long list of lesser articles. & “More is coming all the time,” said one of the officers o fthe quartermas- ter's department, “but if nothing more was sent we would-:be in good shape to look after all requirements for the nxt three months.” “A considrable part o fthe big re- serve stock must be kept at the hos- pitals, where the call$-come suddenly and cannot, wait. The wounded come in with clothing blood-soaked and muddy and most of it has to be re- newed. So that at a 10,000-bed hos- pital there are 10,000 complete out- fits, besides a reserve of 10,000 more. Sizes and weights’ also greatly in- crease the requirements. There are some 70 sizes of army shoes carried. One soldier called for a 13% AA, which was so beyond anything in the millions of shoes, on hand that he jhad to be sent to an orthopedic hos- jgital. It is estimated that about four pairs of shoes per man are required for a year, which for a narmy of a | million men méans 4,00,000 pairs -of shoes. " In underclpties, wool and cotton, |light and hedvy are carried, but the soldiers *seem to preter wool. even for jsummer time, Looking ahead to the winter, it is calculated that 55,000 stoves will be needed to keep‘ the troops warm cold weather, apd some 20,000 wood {cutters will be required to produce the | wood for heating. There are already ‘15,000 foresters at work, but as their {product is being used largely for j buildings, more-will be put on for the jwood cutting and the total of enlisted foresters may reach 45,000. Wood is the chief dependence for iwarming, as the 175,000 tons of coal| jis used chiefly by the railroads and constructive works. French forests are proving the main source @f sup- ply, but. Spain and Switzerland. are| also furnishing large supplies of lum-{ ber. { Every day a table is, made up to/ show the exact state of all the sup-j plies required by this big army. This} table isa Sort of barometer, which jgives warning of any shortage. But there is no shortage, and on the con- trary, all the articles considerably overrun the provision for three months’ stock always’ahead. Flour, for instance, is on hand much beyond ; the three months’ limit, and so are beans and, tobacco. It is known each day, too, whether the advancé zone has its required min- imum of fifteen days of reserve stores, the intermediate thirty days, and the base ports forty-five days—in all three months of reserve supplies con- 4 French refugees returning to their village homes:which have been recaptured from the Germans on a small army-railroad truck. ‘SERIAL NUMBERS MUST BE ADOPTED | Provost Marshal eGieral Crowder ;advisess Adjutant eGaeral Fraser that a list of serial numbers has been ;received at his office which divide: | the registrant into grouns as to age: ‘and then gives consecutive serial registrants within age groups, commencing with 1 in each group. “This, of unauthorized,” says General i “and, the practice makes it | impossivle to proceed with the assign- ; ment of order numbers ‘until the regis- | tration cards have been consecutively ‘serially numbered, irrespective, of the ages of the, registrants. CWurevadvise | all local boards against-this ‘error, and if any board has so serially numbered litsregistration ‘cards, they: must be renumbered. immediately consecutive- ly without regard to age.” * BUY W. S.%$—— GAIN OF OVER "600,000 WHEAT " KOREAGESHOWN Statistics Made Public by Com- missioner of Agriculture and Labor. numbers tothe | separate | serial No. SOUTS 8 acreage of spring wheat was 379 as against 6,114,191 in 191 durum 1,809,020, as, compared with 1,384. 682, and winter wheat, 57,- 691, as against 44,503 .a total wheat acreage of 8, 172.000 for 1910, as com- pared with 7,543,376 according to a report which has bi compiled in the office of Commissioner of Agri- culture and Labor John .\. Hagan by R. H. Thistlethwaite, statistician. The flax acreage for 1918 was 765,- 3..as compared with 1,198,369, as compared with 1318 Poatoes were grown on 82,720 acres.in 1918, as compared wih 69,9 These figures are compiled from re- | ports filed by he township assessors. {In 1917, according S. there were 643 horses and 983,075 cattle on Norh 1 149 farms. kota’s BUY Ww. f———, .WOULD VACATE SIDING. The Great Northern railway has re- newed with the railway commission its j request for permission to take up its siding at Cayuga. ‘The only proper- ty: which this siding serves is a mill which was abandoned in 1916 and PT, LAST EDITION 26, 1918, |: PRICE FIVE CENTS. . YANKS STRIKE AT IMPORTANT | BASEFOR HUN Metz, Center of Valuable Iron ‘Fields Supplying 2-3 Total, | Production. PRINCIPAL RAIL CENTER i | Possession of Strongly Fortified ; ‘Point Gives Command of | Communications. | | Offensive operations toward Metz jstrike at one of the most important | German bases in the west. The city jand the twenty-eight encircling forts ‘comprise what has been regarded as} jone of the most formidable fortresses | jin the world. Metz also is the center of important iron fields, which ‘before {the war supplied France and Germany j With more than two-thirds of the ore | used by their iron manufactories. Metz is on the Moselle, i st of the French border. as on both sides of the Seille. of the city is on islands in the Mo- Part selle. To the east, north and north- | west are the iron and coah fields of 'French and German Lorraine. De- prived of these fields, Germany could | not conduct the war another three ‘months, it is asserted. The Chief iron field of the Rhine dis- ! ‘trict is that of Lorraine, including | (the Bassin de Briey (the center of! |which is the little village of Briey),i the greatest iron-producing region in} { —_—_—_— * FRENCH AND AMERICANS | STORMING CHAMPAGNE POINTS; BULGARIA. IS INVADED In Macedonia, Entente Army is Advancing on 130 Mile Front From Monastir to Lake Gobain— Turkish Troops Continue Their Retreat. : : (By Associated Press) 3 French and American troops today are storming the positions in Champagne and further east in what apparently is another | stroke by Marshal Foch. The new offensive is progressing favor- ably, according to early reports. On the Macedonian front, British troops have invaded Bulgaria. as the allied armies pursue the hard pressed Bulgarians east and west of the Varda. The new allied thrust in the west comes on a front which has not been very active since the defeat of July 15th east and west of Rheims. French soldiers are attacking in the Champagne sector. which runs from Rheims eastward to the Argonne, west of Ver- dun. The Americans are moving forward east of the Champagne simultaneously with Genera] Petain’s men. Great possibilities might result from an allied advance on the front east of Rheims, as the.German communications would be severed and the formidable position from Arras to Laon endangered with the important south- ern end outflanked. LENGTH OF ATTACK The length of the attacking front is not disclosed but it may be from eastward of Rheims to southwest of Metz. In Macedonia the allies are advancing on 130 miles from Mon- astir to Lake Gobain. The Bulgarians have been placed in a dang- erous position by the cutting of the Prilep road at Izvor, while the Serbians on the outskirts of Ishtib, eighteen miles east of Vesles, and one of the bases of the Bulgarian second army, Apparently the Bulgarian Ishtib line will prove untenable. CROSS FRONTIER Northeast of Lake Dorain the British troops have crossed the | nee id overlaps tito els frontier into Bulgarian Macedonia threatening the extreme enemy ‘gium atid Luxemburg. It extends/left flank. Enemy territory was invaded at Kosturino, a few miles along the Franco-German frontier for south of Strumitza. the Bulgarian base in the region north of Lake thirty-five miles, almost up to Pont- | Dorain. Kosturino is at the head waters of the Trekanya river. \ aE ; ,; Which flows through virtually level country to Strumitza. Mean- possession of the majo o these repors. ; ‘portion o ‘ed the signing of the Treaty of Frank- | fort, in 1871. Previous to the present ; war Germany obtained from the mines | jon her side of the frontier 21,000,000 jtons of her total annual production j fof 28,000,000, while France got 15,000,- | {000 out of a total production of_ 22,- 000.000. “Since her occupation in 1914 of the j mines on the French side of the fron- | {tier Germany has added to her min- eral wealth the 15,000,000 tons annu- tally. obtained by the French, bringing {her total production from Lorraine Jalone up to 43,000,000 tons a year. | | The only practical road to this im- |portant region, military authorities jagree, is the valley of the Moselle. At the head of the valley and barring | jthe way lies Metz, ranking with | Strassburg as one of the two great , bulwark: of the German southwestern |frontier. Metz is a city of 60.000 pop- tulation, its chief industries being the; ; manufacturing of weapons, clothes, shoes and hats. As a fortress Metz has been import- jant since the Roman era. Since that jtime it has never succumbed to front- al attack. Its present system of forti- | fications includes 28 detached forts, | 'which encircle the city proper. The outer chain of defenses, built within {the last two decades, and undoubtedly perfected since the outbreak of the present war, extend to Thionville on the north, and Gravelotte on the we: | West and southwest of Metz the {course of the Moselle is lined with high, wooded hills. The German fort-| ress also is protected by heights and woods northward. On the south, how- ever, the terrain is more open with! few hills and little wood. From the American lines southwest of Metz the nearest forts, are Forts jHaeseler and de Somy, on the right bank of the Moselle, and Fort Kron- | prinz, on the left bank. Fort de Som-j ;my is less than five mi from the! iFrench town of Arnaville. on the) Franco-German border. The forts sur- rounding Metz were similar to those {at Liege, which were notable tor their; !disappearing turrets. German guns, ! ‘however, overcame these forts. | Metz also is an important point on ; the railway line supplying the German line eastward from Laon. i | The fall of Metz, not only would} ‘probably seal the fate of the iron and | {coal fields, but, through the seevrance this productive area tollow-| While the French and Greeks are pushing eastward from the Varda, which lies in a valley between two high mountain ranges. BRITISH ADVANCE 4 In local operations between Cambrai and St. Quentin, the Brit- ish are pushing further into the Hindenburg line and capturing points vital to the defense of St. Quentin. West and northwest. of St. Quentin the British have advanced in the region of Selency and Gricourt. : 5 Turkish troops in Palestine have-not rallied from their retreat which must by this time have carried them past the northern end of the Sea of Gallilea.. Of utmost importance here is the position of the Arab tribesmen who have been advancing along the hills east of the Jordan. If they have advanced swiftly with sufficiently strong forces they may complete the discomfiture of the enemy by getting between him and Damascus. The situation in this battle area is still quite obscure. TURKISH ARMY SURROUNDED London, Sept. 26.—The fourth Turkish army on the Palestine front is virtually surrounded and virtually faces annihilation, ac- cording to General Allenby’s dispatches today. The number of prisoners taken now numbers over 45,000. COMMUNICATIONS THREATENED The Franco-American attack on the Champagne front is the first allied thrust made on that sector since Marshal Foch assumed the initiative in July and is the logical result of the allied success in Picardy in driving the Germans back to the Hindenburg line from Arras to Laon. 5 A drive in Champagne threatens the communication line where the Germans are struggling to keep the British and French rom breaking through. Military critics have pointed out that the Champagne front was the logical place where the allies intend to destroy the effec- tiveness of the Germans in their resistance. An advance here of some distance would outflank Laon and possibly St. Quentin. More important still, such an advance would sever the communication line east from Laon, the pivot of the German defenses from Rheims to Ypres. An allied break through might separate the German forces in the west into two groups. There has been rather lively raiding activity by both sides on the Champagne front in the last two weeks and some military commentators have felt that these were the forerunners of greater activity. JOINT ATTACK é Paris, Sept. 26.—French and American troops began a joint altack this morning on the Champagne front and on the region be- yond it to the east. TAKE 42,000 PRISONERS . Paris. Sept. 26.—The number of Turks taken in Palestine now aggregates 42,000. A British official statement Wednesday reported 40,000 Turks and 265 guns captured. which is now in poor repair,,and the!of railway lines, imperil the German | company believes it could better use/ line west to Laon and thence north- | u the rails elsewhere. | ward to the Belgian coast. All reports London, Sept. 24.—Serbian troops have reached the outskirts lof a possible German retirement in| of Ishtub an important Bulgarian base. Elsewhere east of the the west have indicated that Metz i . ie = 7 i 7 | would form one of the bastions of the | Varda the Serbs have made important gains. a pas inert oe |German defense. ; tured Gradtsko station. It was defended by ‘enormous quantity of supplies, including 19 guns was captured by REACH ISHTUB DEFIES RED: wees {brought in from England every month |. Consul _ General DeWitt _C.. Poole is helping American Francis to organizze the North .Rus- sian republic into an anti-Bolshevik force.. He is now at Archangel, where stantly moving forward as they come from America on the way to the fight- ing front. he recently helped to put down a re- volt against the government of Presi- dent Tchaikovsky. Ambassador | g: LIVING COSTS ARE MOUNTING ; Washington, Sept. 26.—Cost of liv-| | ine investigators of the bureau of sta-! ‘tistics now working in the principal cities. reported today that costs in Philadelphia _ have increased 66.67 | per cent since December 1914. Furni. |ture has increased 105.76; food, 68.9; housing 69.9 per cent and fuel and { light 3165 per cent. The increase was 113.30 per cent since December, 1917. BUYW.S.5—— HONOR ROLL oe Killed in action: Privates Ludwig Coy, Wildrose; Frank M. O’Brien, Far-| 0. ‘Missing in action: Nick Kallis, Wim- oledon. | Marine Corps Casualties. H Killed in action: Bert Selcher, ‘Tower City; Conrad L. Johnson, mer ie, the Serbians. The Bulgarians are in full retreat, pursued by the Serbians. AIRDROMES BOMBED London, Sept. 26.—The airdromes at Buhl, and Kaiserlauten between Metz and Mannheim have been bombed by machines of the British independent air forces. * ATTACK IN FOG With the French Army in France, Sept. 26.—French troops to- day attacked in the Champagne in a thick fog after artillery oper- ations which terminated in intense gunfire, : CHANGED POLICY Paris, Sept. 26—In ‘well-informed Circles it is claimed a new ministerial crisis and a complete change in foreign policy is im- pending in Bulgaria. Martial law has been proclaimed at Sofiam say German dispatches. The parliament is in continuous session, and the King had a conference with, Premier Malinoff yesterday. TO EXPLOIT VICTORY Paris. Sept. 26.—‘“Fresh dispositions made by Gen. D’Esprey, who has the pass through Prilep, justifies the belief there will be {an energetic exploitation of the great inter-allied victory in Mace- donia,” says a French newspaper today. NEW SEAT OF GOVERNMENT Paris. Sept. 26.—Monastir or Prilep will become the seat of the Serbian government as soon (Continued on Page Eight.) as the allied lines north of those cities” RTS ©