The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1918, Page 1

THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR, CK TRIBUNE OCT. 16, 1918 THE BISMAI BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDA THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. PRICE FIVE CENTS _ ALLIES CAPTURE 12,000 GERMANS CROWDER ASKED : ‘SWEEP OVER LOWLANDS OF “One week of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign re- fluenza. “Td date not a single case of mains.and three and a half billion dollars have yet to be~, | the epidemic has developed among the i Entente Armies Have Advanced Nearly Seven Miles Since Monday Morning—Durazzo Im- FOREST FIRE VICTIMS TO REACH 900 Searching Parties Constantly | v Adding to Toll of Burned Bodies. DICKINSON ONLY | Sar eT ‘ SCHOOL IN STATE A PROCLAMATION (ate Ee os MANY BOARDS HAVE QUIT! T0 PLOW WELL Liberty Loan.the great victories‘ of our soldiers in France Stutsman Has 25 Per Cent of liberties.of the world. Will you not issue a: proclamation to A {Belgium, the British, French and American armies are rapjlly News Gathering will be negatived. The home army must not turn the &: \ Its Selects Out; i selects Out; Ramsey the people of your state appealing to them to subscribe im- bearing away the extreme right flank of the German battle line. Agency. tories of the field atmy into defeats. The home-army must Hart Hit. 2 —— ! Twelve thousand prisoners have been captured in two days. accord- raised. The American people can provide this money if the: Advised That Flu Epidemic in| students here, and 4t has’ not been!| are equally oueed to the amuerative necessity of: ae a This State Would Make deemed advisable to close the school.'! Without the six billion ‘dollars required for the Fourth Step Risky. ’ not render valueless the bloody sacrifice of our heroes. The Sp ed eA , portant Albania City Captured. : home.army must on the other hand transfer: the victories ASSOCIATED’ GIV HELP’ ———_—__————_ of the field army into the final:and mighty blow which will |} Faye { (By Associated Press.) forever destro¥* military despotism and its menace to the ||Again Proves Superiority as! Sweeping steadily ahead over, the lowlands of Flanders and i < mediately. to the limit of: their ability to the Fourth Liberty 7 SURE gh! Farmers Must Show Good Faith Loan? -Ask the rich and the poor alike to buy Liberty Bonds ing to an official statment. This would indicate a victory of im- ADJUTANT. GENERAL FRAS: | by Properly Prejiaring Wheat on the installment plan, where they cannot pay cash for them portance if the ground gained was not vital. ER ANNOUNCED UATE THis | 2» / Toperly is and urge the banks and bankers of your state’to’carry pur- Capture Menin. AFTERNOON THAT THE CALL | Seed Beds. chaser of bonds on the installment plan at/the same rate of |i Minnesota Public Safty commission; Allied forces have captured Menin and Wervicg and are across interest that the bonds bear, namely 414, percent. The banks must. help the people by lending them money. to buy Liberty Bonds, and the people must help the banks by sub- scribing for them and paying for them as promptly as pos- sible. We must all help each other if our army is to make certain that the great victory now in sight in ‘clinched.” Moose ‘Lake, Minn., Oct. i6—Wire e " North Dakota has made exceptionally good records in |} tighters and relief workers mobilized from Ghent. They have advanced nearly seven miles ‘since Mon- each of the former Liberty Loan camnaigns. Let us here today, and were ordered to pro-|day morning. ayain demonstrate to the world that we are truly back of our |; Coed through a vast stretch of fire- Fighting their way through a maze of barbed wire entangle- soldiers, J.et every County at least make its quota and let [i 2NoP", territory while state officlals| ments, the Americans west of the Meuse river are slowly but,surely the people uf those counties which have veen sc. especially Went lust night to Lawler, Pine Gity|cutting their way through Kremhildt line. They have carried blessed. with bountiful crops and can well afford to buy | |and Red River report today that the| Mont Romange, and have penetrated the_second line of defense in still more bonds by all means do so, and thus assist in mak- | forest fires, wills still burning, are| the vicinity of Landres-et St. Georges. ing up deficiencies of those less fortunate in other parts of Viiclally estimated siiie attornoon that | . .., __ Savage Battle. our nation. Although there is talk of peace let us not slacken |! at least 100 more bodies will be| The battle in this area has been of a most savage nature and our energies, but by increasing them not only ‘add to the | brought in today, and that the known the Germans are making every effort to hold their positions. They efficiency of our armies, but the sooner bring about an abso- |) ¢e#th lst will reach 900. understand the crisis which has developed here and are pouring lute surrender of our enemies, and thus make it possible for TO EXCEED 1,000 DEATHS. _| fresh troops-into the struggle in the hope that the American on- more of our boys to come home to us. Moose Lake, Gct. 16.—The total slaught may be stayed before it reaches the important railway line _ Done at the Capitol of Bismarck this 14th da: umber of victims in the most fearful}in the rear of the German front, A. D., 1918. : e P LYNN J. FRAZIER, ‘forest fire in the history of the north-| Emptying Pocket Governor $84,000 FOR RELIEF. Moose Luke, Minn., Oct. 16.—The today in formal session here turned | the Lys river in the neighborhood of the latter town. There are | over tte entire fund of about $84,000 unofficial reports that Thierrault has been taken and it is confirmed | for the renee OF the Minnesota fire sutj|that the British are within two miles of Coutrai. This completely jferers: Thousands of dollars raised ry a : a ‘hy newspaper subscriptions will swell outflanks Lille from the north and the Germans will probably be jthe amount for the sufferers forced out within a short time. f The allies now are about 11 miles from Brugges and’ 25 miles OR 2,800 MEN TO BEGIN EN- | 4 TRAINMENT NEXT MONDAY | The government will require that FOR FORT WINFIELD scott, | Wheat upon which it makes loans un- der the drouth-stricken area order be CALIF., HAS BEEN TEMPURAR- Well put in and put in early—south of ILY POSTPONED. {the Missouri river before May 1 and a » Sarna jnorth of the river by May 10, advises That North Dakota is in the midst! the extension division of the agricul- of a flu epidemic which has not yet!tural college. The land must be reached its crest, and that the trans- | either fall oe spring plowed, except! portation of Flickertail selects at this |S@4souably clean summer fallow, corn time to Fort Winfield Scott, Calif., may {gn Polat land. Stubhiing in will not not only endanger the lives of our own/;duced but one cvrop’of flax. Heavy soldiers but result in spreading the!clay soils plowed in the fall can be contagion to new areas were among worken to a mellow ood ver wits the facts presented in a message dis- aning, nas rae Rates Tiere patched today from the offices of Ad-|sandy soils will be more inclined to jutant General Fraser to. Provost Mar-|drift if fall plowed. Ordinarily, land shal General Crowder, |plowed Feasons uly, deep is to be pre ny iy dary LOR: e déeper plowing better bur- offices here are being bombarded with |jos the trash focnd on the surface of questions as to whether the call oor ithe ground, forms a larger reservoir £,800 men, to begin training Octo er! for the rapid absorption of heavy rains 21 for Fort Scott, ee stand, ‘ a et (and. provides a larger body of soil to trainment, reports amy jocal, poe. 1 be acted.upon by the air and bacteria at Rae ee Bae teeatraia "haa |, ero plant food for the future every member, including the chiet! Pe ———urwi no | clerk, at home in bed with the flu. (MINOT NORMAL Tt is pointed out that a four-days trip is to‘be made, fn poorly xenvtiatr|, HEAD CALLED TO ed cars, and that it~is planned t ‘WASHINGTON transport men froma relatively high}, i f {. Minot, N. D., Oct. 16.—President’ A of October st will be mdre than 1,000, Already | -, . 5 jreliet workers have found more than! French and Italian troops are moving more slowly on the 800 bodies. Because of the reliet con-|Oise-to-the-Aisne front than they have since Sunday. It would ference here today, state officials sus-|appear the Germans are emptying the pocket formed when the |pended temporariy’ their work of allies broke the line. checking the death lists. The work of | : 5 eee (burial continued, however. The French have passed Sissone, formerly one of the principal ! The only Ropeful feature of this;concentration points for German troops in this part of the front. hat the fires of the last/General Gouraud’s army has crossed the Aisne north of Rethel, ny vic-) and this would appear to render the enemy’s army further east The fires are now r eeping a the ruined ‘district, Efforts are now |Tather perilous. being devoted’ here to the compilation . u M 4 ’ fa new death list. Durazzo, the most important city in Albania, has been entered |. NEW FIRE BREAKS OUT. by the Italians. It seems probable that the Austrians abandoned By ‘the Governor : Thomas Hall, Secretary of State. 3 BILLION \NEW MEXICO NOT DECEIVED BY NEW Durazzo Captured. altitude to the seu level, a movement always attended with danger, but ec pga MIs which may be disastrous Vresent weakened: conditionyof many: of the selects. eneral havoc ny | inflitenza, it is reported that seven-; teen boards have not: even reported | the completion of the first/stage in the | examination of 1918 régistrants. Stutsman Hard Hit. iu Stutsman county -appears to- be. es: pecially hard hit. to entrain for Fort Scot cent of them have the flu,” wires the; county. auditor, who declares that it! be an outrage to proceed "with | from Stutsman deficiency bill ca would ‘ the entrainment in ‘the G, Crane of the Minot normal schoo: has received his commisgion as a“ma: ‘As an ‘indication’ of, the} jor in the U. S. army, reconstruction rought.in this state by i corps and has been called to Washing: ton to report for- active ‘service. The North Dakota edticator will be assign- ed the task of organizing vocational schools at which disabled soldiers will be. trained in useful occupations. BUY W. BS “Wo have §4, men! DEFICIENCY BILL OF SIX BILLIONS Washington, rf ‘ he military ying 3 5,765,000 ‘Council of Defense Wires Presi- |< pwo Harbors, Minn., Oct. .16.—The| the city without a fight, being mainly concerned in making a-safe | tire which threatened this city up to/retreat northward. the time it was boxed Tuesday night, Jt is unofficially reported that Great Britain has received a er f ‘for the enlarged war program was re “We have had 12 deaths since yes-; i terday morning, and God only knows | Ported to the house today by the ap- how many we will have, during the | 86139. 062-000 comma the: It provides next 24 hours,” says the county audi-| $0 io. th 00 for the arr Fr plouatts tor of Stutsman. family all Ne 4 rite : Ramsey county, with 55 men to eny! o.¢ ly allowances of soldiers and sail. train, cannot send to exceed 60 \ per cent of its quota, the remainder of the selects heing epidemic victims. BUY W. 8. 8. Immediate. consideration was given by the house committee ‘today to the new, deficiency bill to prepare for an enlarged program during the coming jnine months. House leaders said the 4 j bill would pass tomorrow. Pye { An army of about 5,000,000 men, 80 | divisions in France and 18 in training HAVE ACCESS T0 juew program calls for, ‘To prepare fs and maintain it the amount now ask- j (| ed for is sought in addition to’ $17,500.- : I) 000 proposed by the annual army bill and appropriations for’the year up. to : REE OY x ao i Z ; } General ’March appeariné before the Required That Information Con- | committee when the vill was drafted panet Questionndires be ‘| pointed to the moral effect of such a at home, by July 1 next is what the $36,000,000. . {measure . Open to Them. pe G setae Adjutant General Fraser in officially | _ notifying local,draft hoards of the ap-j pointment of Samuel Torgerson of; ‘rand Forks, Walter R. Reed of Ame-; nia and W. P= Macomber of Wilton to; be-industrial advisers to the district board, says: é Ye “It ‘is the province of these advis- | ers to furnish the district board with | information necessary to assist the} district board in reaching a correct un-| derstanding and classification of those registrants whose claims ure not srl ally acted upon by’ the different local | boards. In order to ascertain. what reg- | istrants the advisers should study it) becomes necessary for them to obtain | certain information on file with the lo-; cal boards. It is manifestly impossible; for the advisers to pérsonally visit all | the boards, and to overcome this dif- | ficulty they have requested different ; persons in each county. to ascertain | from the records of the local board the | names of registrants who have been’ F 4 «blassified and placed in Class 1. Un-| der the regulations, questionnaires in / their entirety are not public property. This is especially true of certain sec-) tions of them. Sec. 18 of the regula-| tions enumerates the information that | may not be given to tity general pub-| i hy ~ ic. i “However these gentlemen should| be afforded every facility to prose-; cute their labors, which are for the) benefit, of the nation, and the regula-; tions provide that they. may receive, the information ‘under rules to be spre: scribed by the local boards.’7 It is not | Upprehended that any information | -wiJl be requésted that it is not within) + the \power of local boards to give, and; ,this office instructs all\local boards that this question shall ve treated ina; | commonsense manner tnd tat these advisers and their assistance receive every courtesy. possiblé! ‘The advis- ers are not, especially interested in registrants that are already in de- ferred classifications.” turned against him. Washington. Get... {6.—With four | nore days to go, the nation today pass- | rad the three billion half way post in| he Fourth ‘Liberty loan race toward | six ‘billions. before Saturday. night. ! feadquarters reports indicated favor- ible conditions. “The first really en-| couraging reports ‘began arriving to-| day. These reports showed ample ev-| idence the country realized the ‘seri-; rus busiacss ft had ahead for the re- | nainder of the week to make the; ourthdoan a success,” says the state- nent. é suv w.3 so | RICHEST MAN | IN DAKOTA ON TRIAL TODAY Mandan, N. D., Oct. 16.—Charged with part ownership of 16 cases of} whiskey found cached on his farm; near Flasher, Joe Toman was ar-{ raigned in police court here today to answer to the violation of North Da- kota’s bone dry laws. The case is ‘ity by the high wind and is sweeping |away to the northwest through heav- y timbered but sparsely settled dis- “ No towns are in’ its direct | dent Backing Unconditional Surrender Stand. Santa Fe., , Oct, 16.—New-Mex ico is not deceived by the present; peace proposal from the’ Huns but} i hol Mantesols inom Galirday | pleads for the denial of any armfstie® | Srternoon, October 12, until Sunday | and urges the demand for uncondition-} gyening, October 13, and which caused al surrender. The following message | property loss a par with the San ON PAR WITH ’FRISCO QUAKE. | “Phe terrible forest fires which raged | fas been fanned into renewed activ’ | 1,406 proposal from Turkey and that her reply has been a demand for unconditional surrender to General Allenby. CAPTUURE DURAZZO. Washington, Oct. 16.—Capture of the Albanian port of | Durazzo by the Italian and British naval forces was reported today in an official dispatch from Rome. The city was occupied and many prisnoers and quantities of war supplies were taken. The imessage also told of further advances by Italian columns driving the enemy out of Albania and the occupation of several points. defense: was telegraphed last night by Charles Springer, chairman of the executive mmittee of the New Mexico council of defense to the council of national “Please convey to the pres- ident the following message express- ~!ing the sentiment of the peope of the Francisco disaster of 1906, furnished ! an unusual opportunity for comparing: the service and statewide organization LIKE CLOCK WORK. London, Oct. 16.—Tuesday the correspondent of the Mail of the Associated Press, with the -|says the new offensive has gone ahead with clockwork regularity. ice of opposite agenci iThe chief German resistance came from the Bavarian reserve and ieee Laban Sitar ae wth 60th cavalry. Before the end of the first day all the principal {state of New Mexico, as we interpret; were on the job. A chain of corr pandents were gathering ‘the fa throughout the stricken belt, from Du-} Wire service to meet | it: ‘We are. unalterably opposed to any .aymistice which would halt the victorious advance of the allied armies| luth to Bemidji towns 6n the Belgian west frontier were being threatened. _Dur- ing the day there were evidences of expectations of pace on the part of the enemy. The issues of the battle are immense and and permit safe withdrawal of enemy troops to their own country; and to any settlement which will not require and’ guarantee reparation for frightful wrongs done during this war, and just punishment of the persons, respons- ible therefor. | We believe, it isnot particularly interesting because no one | gafe ‘to treat. «ith the central powers in western North Dakota, until Deputy Sheriff Eckroth made the find, im-' agined there. was so much drinking li-| behind the president with all our ‘6n*"Lake, ‘Carlton and many other cities, quor left on earth. Ben Fisk of Bis-| marck, arrested recently for bringing | liquor into the ‘state from ‘Montana, | big German gun was captured by the allies, with told where the stuff could be found.) ntil. they have laid down their arms in unconditional surrender.’ We are ergy and resources for the speedy win- ning of the war and establishment of a permanent peace. —GUTHRIE SMITH: J CAPTURED GUNS T ~ _ In this remarkable war picture. just. rished from France you have pictorial evidence of the extent of the German flight. This! wijson’s latest note. stmt ith its ammunition piled beside it; and the:allied troops immediately turned it around and fired it at the retreating Huns. The photo is diagrammed by our artist te show, by dotted line, how the foe’s own weapon wa8| note had the effect of a cold douche on the hope of peace. URNED ON HUNS ‘already are visible on the field. all emergencies were arranged. Tele-|° tory. ; London, Oct. 16.—President Wilson’s reply to the German EP RGSS ce Nea Ute ey |peace note produced a “most unfavorable impression” in Berlin, eee eens tees tand wag|Says an Amsterdam dispatch. The publication of the reply was lages were afire. A conflagration was aye , a: * jraging in Duluth. Another threatened | followed by a panic in Berlin banking circles and on the stock ex- the Superior shipyards. Refugees|change. The German supreme command will come to Berlin the were fleeing from Cloquet. “atles, etter part of the week to deliberate on mobilization, construction of the national forces and raising the military age. Some came to St. Paul and i | SUBSTANTIAL GAINS. Mii lis. State officials were ar- i 2 by ge I Continued on Pare eThroe F, zy Hl Washington, Oct. 16.—Substantial gains on both sides of the ~~r~v~ | Meuse against stubborn resistance from a reorganized enemy was reported by General Pershing today. NEAR THIERRAULT. London, Oct. 16.—The Belgian army under King Albert is | advancing rapidly. along the Cortmarck-Thierrault road. The fall of the Belgian town of Thierrault, whose capture was prematurely , announced yesterday, is expected almost immediately. INSURRECTION SPREADING. Stockholm, Oct. 16.—Insurrection is spreading in the Ukraine jand recently extended throughout the entire government of Pa- | dolia, according to dispatches to the, Politiken. iti \ At several places it is reported the German troops are siding ‘with the rebels. Several thousand. troops are declared to have \posted the red flag near Ekaerakinslav and to have killed~their jofticers. They are now marching on Kharkov to join_the revolu- ‘tionary forces. “A present force ef 5,000 men, well armed with i machine guns and artillery, is moving on Poltava, TO LEAVE BRUSSELS SOON. Paris. Oct. 16—A high German functionary of Belgium de- clared October 9 that German occupation of Brussels would end at ithe latest within. fifteen days, according to the correspondent of ithe Echo de Paris Rees { All the civil population along the Belgian coast has. been ‘ moved back out of the country, and British aviators report fires |over a vast area. : LOSING HOPE. é Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 16—The central powers find them- selves no longer able to hope for a decisive blow in.thei> favor, For- eign Minister Burian declared to a foreign affairs committee. | “Although the central powers have been able to face the mili- |tary situation, it must be stated that we cannot hope any longer for a decisive success by arms, while our adversaries are not' sure Yost of them on the Northern Pacit railroad. is useless.” : ' REPLY EXPECTED SOON. | London, Oct. 16.—It is expected that the German chancellor will make a decision today on the matters contained in President ruse tor The German newspapers point out that President Wilson's 2 eo tae te on Page Eight.) of their power to crush our existence. Hence, further bloodshed