The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 1

Spates i oe ane ma THE WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR, ad THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE! LAST EDITION THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 1918: PRICE FIVE CENTS LIEUT. MARKLEY TO TOUR STATE AND TALK WAR Fighting Chaplain of Smashing Second Will Tell What Boys Did Over There PEOPLE READY FOR HIM Lieut, HH. G. Markley, whose sobri- quet, “The Fighting Chaplain of the Smashing Second,” won when he threatened to smash on the snoot a husky proGerman who attempted to break up a patriotic meeting he was conducting in the northern part of the State prior to the departure of his regiment, stuck to him through the war, is back in America, When the Second regiment was or- ganized, Lieut, Markley was a Meth- odist minister with a small_ charge ’way up north. Nobody knew much of him, and everyone was surprised when Governor Frazier commissioned him chaplain of the Second. They were more surprised when they got a glimpse of Markley, for he was youthful, and he seemed retiring and somewhat washed in strange com- pany. Then Lieut. Markley started out on a tour of the central part of the state to raise a chaplain’s fund for the Second. He not only, raised his fund but he raised the wind in certain sections where pro-Germanism had been rife, and he not only person- ally threatened to whip into line the scoffers and knockers, but he saw to it that one or two of the most dan- gerous were arrested, and he by him- self went into at least one district and brought out a bad man and hand- ed him over to a U. S. commissioner. ‘So folks generally changed their opinion of the beardless young chap- lain, and they christened him with a new name that stuck and which he lived up to. In France he made good with the 116th Engineers; founded a snappy little paper for them, “The Pick and Shovel,” and when he left his command in October, because of ill ‘health, the boys gave him a fine send-off and said nice things about him in their paper. Secretary Thomas Allan Box of the state council of defense will meet Chaplain ‘Markley in Chicago tomor- row and will: pilot him back home, where the ‘sky pilot will devote sev- eral weeks ¢ speech-making, in com- pany with Secretary Box, telling the folks back home what the boys did over there and’ what they hope to do over here when they get back. And where the “Fighting Chaplain” is best known he won’t have. to threaten to lick anydody to gét'a hearing now. His itinerary will include Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils Lake, Minot wiarvey, New. Rockford, Jamestown, Bismarck, Mandan and Dickinson and possibly other of the larger North Da- kota towns. COMPENSATION - ACT T0 PLEASE _ ALL CONCERNED Secretary of Welfare Commis- sion Says Bill to Be Offered Will Be Ideal North Dakota is to have a model compensation act says Miss Aldytie Ward, secretary of the state’ public welfare commission., This act is now ‘being drafted by John Andrews, in Washington. to especially meet ‘Norta Dakota’s needs. Miss Ward has dis- cussed the bill with Mr. Andrews, but she is not prepared to say whethe: it will cover farm labor and domestic help. She is confident that the iil! will be acceptable to organized labor. Ninety per cent of North’ Dakota's industrial workers are engaged on the farm. A compensation act which does not embrace them will do little to re- lieve the courts of liability litigation. If North Dakota follows the experi ence of Michigan and other pioneers in workmen's compensation legisla- tion, it will find it difficult to procure farmer support for a measure whic compels them to insure the safety of their helpers. The same is generally true as to domestic servants. North Dakota, having a Nonparti- san administration, will go in for state compensation insurance to the exclus- jon of all. other types. In states where the method of insuring em- ployes has been made optional with the employes, state insurance has been the least popular of the four plans, which usually have included liability stock companies, mutual companics, the privilege of the employer's “car- rying his own risk,” if financially cap- able, and state insurance. North Da- kota legislators, hqwever, are bound to accept not other plan vut a state insurance monopoly. FOCH NEARLY KILLED IN 1916 AUTO CRASH N. E. A. Special to The Tribune. London.—Publication has just ‘been permitted here of the fact that in May, 1916, Marshall Foch, then com- manding the army of the north for France, narrowly escaped death in an auto accident. He was in a hospital for several weeks and his son-in-law, Captain Fournier, with whom he Was riding. was more seriously hurt. The car dashed into a tree between Dam- martin and St. Souplets. Foch was injured in the head. Both were taken to the American hospital at Juilly. It was during the dark days of the sec- ond battle of Verdun, and nothing was permitted to be printed of the ac- cident, weSs : 200,000 BOYS TQ ENROLL FOR MILITARY COURSE New York, Dec. 3.—Boys in New York between 16 and 19 are register- ing for military training under the military training law. The number of registrants,is expecte dto exceed 200,- 000. Each boy will receive a’ card assigning him to some armory for drill. Without such card\ he cannot work or go to school and if he does neither he .is liable to arrest for a vagrant. RESTRICTIONS OFF BUYING OF CHEAPER COAL Bituminous and Lignite May Be Stored Without Limit Un- der New Order ANTHRACITE IS TIGHTER The federal fuel administration for North Dakota today issued an order officially removing all restrictions from the storage of lignite and bitum- inous coal. This order, as regards lig- nite and bituminous, rescinds an order issued last aMrch, effective April 1, which provided that no domestic con- sumer should obtain more coal of any; kind than would be required to last to the end of the coal year, March 31, 1919. It also required domtstic con- sumers to make aplication in writing, setting forth certain basic informa- tion, and it prohibited dealers from dejivering coal to consumers not mak- ing such aplication. These restric- tions are now removed, and consum- ers may buy and store coal as freely as their means may permit. Benton Baker, assistant administrator for North Dakota, states, however, that it is hoped that consumers will not take advantage of this relaxation of restric- tions to hoard coal to the detriment of their neighbors. The action is tak- en in North Dakota in keeping with the policy of the national administra- tion to remove fuel restrictions wher- ever it is reasonably possible. Restrictions with regard to anthra-| -cite are made even more severe un- der the new order. Originally it was equired that dealers should not de- liver to any consumer more than two- thirds of the amount. of coal ordered until all who had filed aplications for coal were gupplied with an equal pro- portion of their requirements. An ex- ception was made in that applications for six tons of anthracite or less might. .¢: filledin full in, turn, .. The) new order. provides that consumers may receive only - one-half of their season’s requirements, up to such a time ats all who have applied for soal jshall have been similarly supplied, and the quota of six tons of coal for delivery in turn upon aplication is reduced to one ton. The new order becomes effective December 10. The movement of anthracite into North Dakota is improvingy reports Mr, Baker. Shipments. to this state are approaching their percentage of the shipments to other northwestern states, but the actual tonnage is sill much less than for the corresponding | period last year, and a shsortage of anthracite for the winter seems more and more imminent. “30” WRITTEN THIS MORNING FOR CHARMLEY Well Known Slope Newspaper Man Succumbs to Pneumonia at Local Hospital \ John I. Charmley, a well known 'Slope newspaper man, passed away ‘at a local hospital at 1:50 Tuesday morning from pneumonia, after an ill- ness of two weeks. The deceased was born in Chester, England, on December 14, 1875. He came to America at the age of 23 and took up a claim near Kenmare. Later he entered the newspaper game at Kenmare, whence he went to Mott in 1912, when he purchased the Mott Spotlight, which he continued to publish until last December, when he sold out to a stock company organiz- ed in Mott to consolidate the two weekly newspapers there. Last spring he came to Bismarck to make his home. Here he was asso- ciated for a time with a local weekly and later he entered the service of the state council of defense. ‘The de- ceased was married September 12, 1914, at New York to Miss Nell Mur- ray, who, with one daughter, Helen Kathryn, |survives, together with the aged bhrents of the deceased and three sisters residing at Chester and one brother and a sister in New Zea- land. The deceased lost three ‘broth- ers in the recent war. Funeral services will be held at St. Mary’s pro-cathedral at 9 o'clock Wednesday forenoon, and interment will be made at St. Mary’s cemetery. TWO SEATED PLANE SHOWS NEW SPEED Washington, Dec. 3.—Development of a new American type of two-seated monoplane was announced today by the war. department in a statement disclosing that in a recent test at Day- ton, O., the machine attained a speed of 140 miles an hour with full mili- tary load and an altitude of 2,400 feet with two passengers in a remarkably short time. ‘President Wilson will sit in the or- ganization period of the peace con- ‘ference at Vercailles and set forth | America's attitude. iSecrotary Baker, lit is expected, will replace him later. Secretary of State Lansing. by virtue, of his post, is familiar with all of the diplomatic activities of the govern- ‘HALL THINKS ALL AMENDMENTS HAVE Secretary of State Predicts the League Program Will Lose by 800 Votes “It, is my opinion that all of the league amendments to the constitu- tion have lost by around 800 vote ‘said Secretary. of State Hall today. “With 12 counties missing, the more important amendments are from 400 to 600 votes behind the required ma- jority.” There is. no indication.as yet of ;the suit promised by the Nonpartisan league orgaris to test out the word- ing of the initiative amendment to the constitution, which requires that amendments proposed by initiative pe: i tition must receive a majority of “ali the qualified electors voting at such general -election.”- So -far-as-can-be} learned the. attorney: general has not been asked for an opinion on this suo- ject. CALENDAR FOR. ‘DECEMBER TERM CALLED TODAY Criminal Trials Will Open To- morrow With Judge Craw- ford on Bench The calendar for the December term of the Burleigh county district court, which promises to be one of the longest and most important in the his- tory of this bar, was called this morn- ing by Judge Nuessle, who set for trial the comparatively brief criminal docket and some seventy civil actions, some of which are of much import- ance and of general interest, The attention of the court this af- ternoon is being occupied with natur- alization matters. Of seventeen appli- cations for American citizenship, prov- ably a dozen will be disposed of to- day. Tomorrow Judge Nuessle will exchange places with Judge Crawford} of Dickinson, and there will be taken up the trial of Karl Kovlin of Dog- den, charged with giving or attempt- ing to give a bribe. This case is ‘brought to Bismarck on a change of venue from MoLean county, and Judge Nuessle is disqualified in this mat- ter, as he is in a dczen or more cases; which will follow, arising from the Hazelton riot. WILSON LEAVES TONIGHT FOR [AW YORK ‘Washington, Dec. 3.+President wil- son is expected to leave Washington this evening for New York, from which port he and other peace representa- itives will sail on the liner George Washington. URGES HARMONY Washington, Dec. 3.—In a_ state- ment today declaring factional strife should not be permitted to interfere with President (Wilson’s mission abroad, Representative Mann, of Illi- nois, Republican leader of the House, said there would be no concerted ef- fort on the part of house republicans to embarrass the president and did AMERICA’S PEACE ENVOYS ment. Colonel House has been the personal representative of President Wilson throughout. the armistics nego- | \tiations. General Biss is now mem-! ber of the Inter-Allied War council. Henry White, former ambassador to} France, is chosen that the repuvtican party may have a membership in the peace conference, WILTON ALWAYS GETTING WORSE OF THECREDIT G. W. Stewart Says They’ve Simply Got to Quick Kick- ing His Town Around CITY MAKES GOOD RECORD “This is a wail of two counties,” sald Gilbert W. Stewart, former m sionary to the cowboys, and now news- paper publisher extraordinary to the lignite luggers of Wilton, as he strode into a local newspaper office with a demand that his town be given jus- tice. “Having a town sitting straddle of two counties isn’t what it’s cracked hap >to-be,” explainéd ‘Mr: Stewart. “Of course, it lends us. distinction in a way, but on the other hand it divides all our energies by two, and never do we seem. to get credit for all of them in a lump sum. “The particular instance of pestif- erousness:.to which I refer concerns the recent United War drive, Wilton’s jucta, Was $2,650, and we made $3,- 56.60. Do we get credit for it with the ‘outside reading publics We do not. The Washburn Leader will re port that ‘Wilton subscribed $1,841 to the McLean county total,’ and the Bismarck papers will give out the news that ‘Wilton’s subscription in Burleigh county was $1,325.50.’ And there you are. Time and again Wilton in this way has received credit for just half, or less than half what it really has done for war causes or in patriotic work.” (Mr, Stewart. who came to North Dakota to preach the gospel to the cowboys, and whose church for sever- al years was a chuck wagon or yann!- gan, liked North Dakota so well that after all the cow-punchers had be come converted to a point where they merely said “sugar” when they felt like using strong language, he settled down at Wilton as publisher of The Wilton News. His brothers, back in Beaver, Pa...are also newspaper pub- lishers, and it runs in the family. He was chairman of the recent united war drive committee for the Wilton district, with P. J. Cahill and J. A. Spitzer as chief aides. Among the enjoyable features of that drive NORTH DAKOTA |CROWN PRINCE DECLARES HE PAYS TRIBUTE TO A.A. BRUGE Retiring Jurist Receives Splen- did Testimonial From Fel- low Barristers GOING IS A LOSS TO STATE North Dakot: statesmen generally agree, has seldom witnessed the de- Parture of a citizen with more regret than was experienced when Chief Jus- tice Andrew A. Bruce finally bade his associates of many years farewell ‘Saturday ovening and departed for (Minneapolis to take up his new duties as professor of law in the University of Minnesota. “We have had public men who have lived among us longer; I know of none who have lived better nor who have left a more definite impress up- on the life of the state,” declared a member of the Burleigh county bar in commenting upon Judge Bruce's leaving. ‘In evidence of the esteem in which the learned North Dakota jurist was held locally, a number of lawyers of Bismarck tendered Judge Bruce an in- formal dinner at a local hotel prior to his departure. Among those present were Justice A. M. Christianson, who has succeeded Judge Bruce as chief justice of the North Dakota supreme court, and Hon, W. L. Nuessle, judge ef the sixth district court. Everyone who attended spoke feelingly of their personal friendship and regard for the guest of honor, and express re- gret at his departure. Judge Bruce was born in India. He came to America a poor boy. In a recent address before the American Bar association at Syracuse, N. Y. commenting upon the duty which fos- ter sons of America owe their apodt- ed mother, he referred to himself as having come to this country a pau- ver and as owing everything to the land of his adoption. Judge Bruce's first “profession” was that of farm hand in Minnesota. Through his own Jabor he worked his way through college and law school, and he became prominent as a practicing attorney in Illinois, where he occupied important positions un- der the state administration, prior to being called to the University of North Dakota as dean of the law de- partment. From this post he went to the supreme court‘of the state, where be became recognized as an able jur- ist and a legal authority. “Judge Bruce,” said one of his as- sociates of the Burleigh county bar. today, “has rendered invaluable serv- ice.as a constructive jurist during the time that he has been a member of our supreme court, and the state suf- fers a genuine loss in his resignation.” (He will be especially missed in Bis- marck, where he was always promi- nent as a public speaker and for his participation in campaigns for public improvement. BAKER SAYS NO DELAY IN GIVING LISTS Answers Criticisms That Casu- alties Are Being Held Up by Départment Washington, Dec. 3.—Secretary Ka- ker apearing before the senate mil- itary committee today to explain the delay in completing the publication of American casualties overseas said he thought most of the unreported men were those slightly wounded. ‘Senators were unable to understand why something over 100,000 have been published when it has been officially ‘announced that the casualties num- ber 262,693. The secretary said every effort consistent with a racy was being made to prevent delay and that was a canvass of the Washburn Lig- General Pershing had been urged to nite Coal Co.'s miners. Many of these men were foreigners, not yet natural- ized, and with comparatively little un- derstanding, as yet, of America and its institutions. But not a single one of them -sent the committee away empty-handed, and many increased anu not a small number doubled the quota which had been allotted them. NOVEMBER WAS NOT UNUSUALLY WARM PERIOD Mean Temperature Was Lower Than Average for Sev- eral Years Past Cold facts and figures furnished ‘by Orris W. ‘Roberts, meteorologist in charge of the U. S. weather bureau for North Dakota, dispell the general fancy that the recent November, was an exceptionally warm and /ltogether unusual month for this latitude. The mean temperature, which was 31 de- grees for the month, was five de- grees above normal, but it could not compare with a mean temperature of 40 fo rthe same month a year ago; it just tied the mean temperature for 1916, and it was colder than 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915, with mean temperatures of 34, 35, 35 and 33, respectively. The records of the weather bureau, tiot believé the American people would “tolerate any meddling in that which so vitally concerns them.” WANTS VICE PRESIDENT TO. ACT Washington, Dec. 3.—Senator Sher- } man of Illinois, Republican, today pro- posed that the office of president be declared vacant on the president’s which date back to 1874, do reveal one November with a real “mean” temper- ature. That was in 1896, when the thirty days’ average was but 7 degrees above zero. During November the expedite his lists, sending the names of the dead first. “The department from the begin- ning has never held up, withheld, or delayed giving out casualty lists. Our policy has been to give complete state- ments as soon as possible.” General March. chief of staff and Assistant Secretary Kellpel were with the secretary. Mr. Kellpel said the system of obtaining and verifying cas- ualty reports in France had ‘been slow at first and if it had to be done over again it would be done differ- ently. General March discussing demobil- ization, said General Pershing was selecting units for the occupational force of about 1,250,000, and that all the other American soldiers in France would be brought home as -#pidly as shiping could be provided. MORE ON WAY HOME. Washington, Dec. 3—Two steamers, the Empress of Britain, and the Ad- riatic sailed from Liverpool for New York yesterday with returning Ameri- can troops, the war department an- nounced today. The Empess carries 76 officers, 1¥ nurses, and 2,389 men. The Adriatic carries 80 officers and 2,208 men. : PRISONERS WELL, \ Washington, Dec. 3.—Twenty-three hundred American prisoners of wat at Camp Rastatt, Germany, were re ported “well organized. well clothed, and morale excellent,” in a cablegram today to the American Red Cross from Lem G. Levy, of the prisoners’ re- lease section who has just visited Ras- local ‘bureau recorded but .51 of an inch precipitation, .17 of an inch be- low normal and. boosting the total de- ficit in moisture for-an unusually dry departure for Europe, and that the vice president’ be chosen to adminis- ter the duties. ¢ year to 4.54 inches. During the tatt. The German authorities, Mr. Levy reported, are willing to release the prisoners at once, under charge of the delivery of the ultimatu: 48 hours. It says Mathias The foregoing is an “add” to London, Dec. 3.—The diplom: gram of the socialistic group. ganization of an association to and will have the support of the Paris, Dec. 3.—It appears th over all the 5,000 locomotives stip! probably will begin December 20. London, Dec. 3.—Kurt Eisne prestige, dam, Copethagen and Berne. A honor of returning soldiers. not allowed to make a speech and Eisner.” Bavaria is gradually attaining a is approaching. Berlin, Dec. 2. light cruisers with a small land: guise. Baron Eksel says Britis defeat. according to advices here. light on the demand of Von Solf, Vienna, Friday, November in Vienna becomes more perilous Madrid, Dec. NORTH DAKOTAN FIRST TO FLY LIBERTY MOTOR 3.—The, Spanis| tinction of Initial Sail Over Enemy Lines To a North Dakota boy, Capt. Thom. as Allan Box, fell the honor of flying the first “Liverty motor” over the enemy lines. Capt. Box, recently promoted from a lieutenancy in Uncle |Sam’s flying forces, in a letter to his |father, Secretary Thomas Allan Box of the state council of defense, tells of this experience. When the war broke out, Capt. Box was in South Africa, following his profession of mining engineer. He wanted to get into the shindig, so he paid his own way to England, and there enlisted in the royal flying corps. He remained with this organ- ization, advancing to a lieutenancy, until America threw her hat into the ring, when he applied for a and re- ceived a commission in the first American flying corps. Most of his time since has been devoted to train- ing cadet aviators, but he has done some flying himself, and has had the pleasure, more than once, of leaving a souvenir for Fritz. ‘He has shipped his father a notable month 3.5 inches of snow fell, on the| nineteen officers, to be taken to the|collection of 30 war posters done by 7th and $th. camp at Karlsruhe. the foremost French artists. Nirva when they were attacked by the Bolsheviki. guards gave protection five months ago to 5,000 Russians who al- leged they had deserted from the Bolsheviki because of bad treat- ment. They fired upon the white guards from the rear during a recent attack by the Bolsheviki, contributing to the white guards’ DESTROY EVIDENCE London, Dec. 8.—The German government destroyed by fire all damaging documents at Brussels and damaging documents were similarly destroyed elsewhere, Herr Melkenther, a former socialist delegate in the reichstag, declared in a speech in Berlin, former Austro-Hungarian empire continues. Thomas Allan Box Claims Dis-} HAS RENOUNCED NOTHING; HUNS DESTROY DOCUMENTS MAY OCCUPY GERMANY London, Dec. 3.—A Reuter’s dispatch toda yconfirms im, the time-limit of which is Erzberger (of the German armistice commission) offered to deliver all the locomo- tives as soon as they were repaired. The Germans news- papers point out there is no hope of prolonging the armis- tice, and that it is likely the allies will occupy Germany. a London dispatch which has not been received. It would indicate that Germany has been served with some sort of an ultimatum, apparently threatening occupa- tion of Germany by the allies if the armistice terms in re delivery of locomotives are not carried out within 48 hours. (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Oosterland, Holland,’ Dec. 3.—“I have not renounced anything and I have not signed any document whatever,” the former Ger- man Crown Prince declared to a correspondent today. ASKS PROTECTION atic corps in Berlin has asked the German government for protection against the anarchistic pro- PLAN ASSOCIATION Paris, Dec. 3.—French military aviators are planning the or- foster aerial sport and to place competent pilots at the service of the government, industry and business. The association will include the leading French aviators government. DELAY SURENDER OF LOCOMOTIVES e Germans will be unable to hand ulated in the armistice agreement by December 18, according to the Matin, and it is possible that the allies will grant more time to the enemy. This will have the effect of delaying peace negotiations, since they cannot begin un- til all armistice conditions have been fulfilled. Discussions between allied delegates to the peace conference LOSING PRESTIGE r, the Bavarian premier, is losing ording to Munich advices received here via Amster- Copenhagen dispatch says Eisner was hit by his own partisans at Munich during a celebration in Later a supporter of Eisner was not was forced to flee from an angry ‘crowd which tore down the red flags and shouted “Down with A Berne dispatch to the Mail says it is believed that decision to retain its unity with the rest of Germany. This evidence also shows growing hostili- ties toward Eisner and that there are signs in Munich that a crisis TREACHERY OF BOLSHEVIKI (BY. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) ___ Monday) —If a few British torpedo boats .or ing force could reach Revel this week they could dam the Bolshevik flood which has been burning, murdering and pillaging Esthonia and Livonia, according to Baron Eksel of Livonia, who escaped from that country Thursday in dis- th forces had begun to evacuate The white The revelations of Melkenther, Paris newspapers say, throw a , foreign secretary, for a neutral commission to inquire into the cause of the war. DISINTEGRATION CONTINUES 29.—The disintegration of the The food situation each day. Czecho-Slovak forces are reported to have occupied Bodenbach, near the German fron- tier, thereby cutting off from Vienna large stores of provisions belonging to the German-Austrian republic. FLEET OFF LIBAU Copenhagen, Dec. 3.—A British fleet arrived yesterday at the port of Libau, in Courland, on the Baltic, says a Wolff dispatch. SPANISH MINISTRY RESIGNS h ministry resigned today. WANT WOMEN CONDUCTORS ‘DISMISSED Cleveland, 0., Dec. 3.—To enforce | their demands on the Cleveland rail- {road Co. for the dismissal of women employed as conductors since last | August, 2.400 motormen and conduc- |tors went on strike at 5 o'clock this ; morning. | The carmen rejected an offer of mediation by the city this morning ; and the situation was g1e of absolute ; deadlock. Up to 11 o’clock not a car {moved from any barn in the city. | Thousands had to walk to work. General Manager Radcliffe of the railroad company said he was ad- | vertising for men and women to man the cars. ‘ NANT PRICE FIXING RULES DEFINED. | Washington, Dec. 3.—Legislation permitting manufacturers to fix re- jtail prices for trademark or other- wise identified articles under gov- ernment supervision was recommend- ed to congress today by the federal trade commission. | Under the present law, as interpret- ed by the supreme court, mainten- ance of retail prices is regarded as in restraint of trade and the com- mission pointed out that it has been i] | | | question has come up. . é obliged to enforce this rule when the