The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1919, Page 1

.THE WEATHER Generally Fair. TH eure 'H_ YEAR. NO. 89. ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKGTA WED! ESDAY, APRIL 16, 19 NO SPLITA WORKING OUT PLANS FOR PEACE MEBT Secret Plenary Session of Con- ference Will Be Held Be- fore April 25 FIGHTING AT MUNICH| Rumanian Forces in Bessarabia Have Been Forced to Re- tire Before Russians (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Details of the proceedure to be ob- served at the historical meeting of the allies and German representatives at Versailles a week\from Friday are be-{ ing worked out by the allied delega- tions to the peace conference. It is improbable that the world will know the exact demands of the associated governments until after the Teutons have been formally apprised of the ;peace terms. . It seems, however, that not only all the allied governments but the gov- :ments of those countries which severed relations with Germany but did not enter the war'will be informed of the details of the proposed. treaty. | For this purpose it is likely that a secret plenary session of the confer- ence will be held before April 25. Fighting at Munich (| Violent fighting has occurred at Munich between German government and soviet troops, the latter seeming | to have won at least a temporary vic-j tory. ‘It is probable the battle will be renewed, the government forces | having been reinforced, Anarchy is said to reign in the city. Government troops also have been engaged at Mageberg, where the radicals have | been in control for the last few days, and are reported: to have been de- feated. : Labor troubles are still prevalent throughout. western Germany. / Forced to Retire ‘ Rumanian forces in Bessarabia have béen forced to retire before Rus- Sian soviets*troops, and further north the troops of General Tetlura, peasant leader, have been driven westward a considerable. djstance,...The Russian soviets. are_trying<to vat 4 channel through to Hungary to join their.com- rades at Budapest. ANARCHY REIGNS Lontton,>April 16.—Complete anar; chy reigns in Munich. Alt work has. ceased; trains are not running, and robbers are looting houses and threat- ening the banks, the dispatch states. The first infantry regiment is said to have joined the Spartacides. REPORT IMPROVEMENTS Washington, April 16.—Distinct improvement in the general peace conference situation was reported to the White House today from Paris. It was indicated that excellent prog~| ress was being made toward conclud- ing the negotiations. 3 ‘ TAKE PROMPT ACTION. | London, April 16—Prompt measures | taken by the Indian ‘authorities to deal with the disturbances at Bombay, Ahmedabad ‘and other points recently. have resulted in the restoration of or- der, says a Pombay dispatch; ‘FRENCH PRESS PRAISES WILSON. Paris, April 16—‘The time has come to destroy the legend tending to represent Pres. Wilson os .adopt- ing regretfully such a solution,” says La Petite Parisian relative. to the agreement as tothe policy on the left bank of the Rhine. / “Not the least interesting feature of the ‘prolonged discussion was to see Pres. Wilson apply himself, passton- ately to the task of solving the prob- lem: and stil not injuring the rights of France. He uttered-'a phrase one day which Frante ought to knew, He declared. with an accent coming from the heart, ‘it would be the sorrow of my life if the great .peace we are making should be jeopardized by any auteulty between France and Amer- ca’ | “The man who threw his country in- to the war to/save France remains “our friend.” ¢ PASS ON\ REPRESENTATION. Paris, April 16.—Delegates of the eighteen states which declared war against Germany, exclusive of the five great powers; were caled to meét this afternoon with representatives of the five powers. The matters for discus- sion included the question of calling in the German plenipotentiaries and making known the peace preliminar- ies to these 18 states. , 2 TO POLICE GERMANY. Paris. April 16.—The occupafion of the left bank of the Rhine is to con- tinue for 15 years, newspaper reports here say. At first interallied forces would ‘be used, ‘but they would be withdrawn gradually as Germany met her obligations, to be replaced by French and Belgian troops. eri PREDICTS WAR IN 1926. _ London, April 7. (Correspondence of the Associated Press)—There will be another world war beginning in June, 1926, according to a writer in the British Journal of Astrology. This; prophet who. signs himself “Sethariel” asks for a serious hearing, inasmuch as he claims to have publi @ year! in advance, in each case,/ the exact dates of the war of 1914 and of the; cessation of hostilities. “The first phase of the next war,” | bee features (ers : he writes, “will”. be with Turkey, - will lead to its final 23, This time Rus- U. S. CITY MANAGER RULES ALONG RHINE Coblenz—-H. M. Waite was a city manager in Dayton, O., before he en- tered the army as a colonel of engi- neers. Now he’s manager of a score of German cities—in the American zone of occupation. Waite finds the German city governments are effi- cient and that the mayors arg able to give him data the day it is asked for that he and his staff expected would require weeks to compile. “Beyond doubt, the German mayor knows his job,” says Waite, “but the whole dem- Ocratic spirit of our manager cities is missing.” ' U.S. NAVY 10 RUN HARBORS IF NBGESSARY Washington, April 16.—Transports will’ be operated in and out of, New York harbor, if it requires the entire United States navy, it was announce: today, in response to a report that the harbor workers threaten to strike to- morrow with the intention of blocking traffic entirely. ‘SOLDIERS’ VOTE London, April 16.—The vote of New Zealand soldiers has wiped’ out the majority for prohibition, which. was rolled up in that commonwealth April ,1, according to a dispatch to the Cen- tral News from Christchurch. Tn the New Zealand elections the prohibitionists claimed a majority of more than 12,000. It was claimed at that time the ballots cast by 40,000 soldiers had not bee ncounted. ST. PAUL LAND BANK. SECOND Washington, . April -16. — During March $15,946,000 was loaned to 4,630 farmers. by.. federal land banks on long time first mortgages, according to the monthly statement: of the farm loan board, The federal land bank of Omaha‘ leads in amount. of loans closed, $4,565,000, with the federal land bank of St. Paul second with $1,813,20 CIRCULATION MEN FIGHT BOLSHEVISM Utica, N. Y., April 16.—Circulation managers representing newspapers in New York state have formed in co- operation with local county officials, publishers and news writers, the nuc- leus of the “crusadersk”, an anti- Bolshevik organization of proposed national scope ‘to prevent: the spread of Bolshevism in the United States. The organization committee of 37, it was announced today, will spread the plan throughout the United States during the coming week and will pre- sent it to the coming meeting of the American publishers and the Asso- ciated Press for co-operation. Against Jap Rule Shanghai, March 20.—(Correspon- dence, of Associated Press.)—The Korea insurrection, announced as a passive revolution against Japanese tule, will be brought to the attention of :the American goyernment’ in a series ‘of graphically written reports. One of these has just been read by a correspondent of the~ Associated Press. It was written by’ an Ameri- can and recites the sensational events from March 1, when the revolt began, until March’ 15, when the report was started on its way to the American minister at Pekin, . According to this story the Koreans who sought. pub- licly to demonstrate their demands for independence were violently treated, eae being killed, and hundreds in- jared. The report summarizes the of ‘the insurrection: as ‘fol- “In Seoul and Pyeng Yang and ther ae where foreigners resided the military abstained from firing on the.crowds but.in the rural districts violence of the most terrible kind has n practiced. Unresisting citizens have set upon, scorés of people kil and Sees fae dj | ple. ONWARD, MARCH, SAYS PRESIDENT OF COMMISSION Mayor A.W. Lucas Urges: Re- sumption of Municipal Im- provements Halted by War BODY IS . REORGANIZED 'Bertsch Remains Head of Fire and Police and Thompson on Sewers and Water “Onward, march,” was the tenor of President. A. W. Lucas’ annual ad- dress ‘to the city commission which ‘Nyesday evening reorganized for the new year. The mayor called for a re- ‘sumption of the municipal improve- ment program halted by the war. Hé said: “Gentlemen az the City Commission: “With the war at an end, victory won, and peace assured, we find our- selves facing new problems. We have asa municipality as well as national- ly problems, of reconstrucion which must be met. During the war, quite properly, all other interests were made sudservient to military interests. Now that the war has been brought to a successful conclusion, we must turn again to,the pursuits‘of peace, and we must go back over a period of two years and take up our program of mu- nicipal improvement where we drop- ped*it. During the last two years it has been the policy the country over to discourage rather than ‘encourage imunicipal development. From this | moment we must reverse our attitude j;toward municipal improvement. It jbecomes our duty to do everything | within. our power to encourage a sane ‘and reasonable development of our {city along nrunicipal lines. 5 | “A year ago. when property-holders tasked us for an extension of the pav- ing district we begged them to with- draw their applications until a more} {opportune time. That time is at | handivand ifthe property-owners wish more paving it-is-our du.y to see that it is provided. | we are ‘but directors jin a. municipal, corporation in which the: property-owners and taxpayers are the stockholders. - As directors, we ; must be responsive to the will of the | shareholders. ‘The corporation of Bis-| marck Owiis! @wonderful property inj ,the city: of Bismarck. As we develop \it and make it a ‘better place in which to: livéand to’ own property and to! rear children we will increase our div-| idends. i “On the aesthetic side there is muca to be desired. Our parking strips in the new paving districts should be sodded or sown to grass and trees planted. It is too late to’ organize general improvement districts. We must rely upon the public-spiritedness, the personal pride and the initiative of individual property-owners. Bis- marck should look forward to the day when it must have more public parks, jmore play-grounds. The time has come when we must give considera- tion to the need of a public swimming { pool, something that will at a-compar- atively: sligut cost provide the ris- ling generations with privileges of which they are unfortunately depriv- ed. I would recommend to the park commission: that it immediately inves- tigate the cost of establishing ‘a swim- ming pool and that it report -upon the advisabjlity of making this a project for immediate, development, “The city. should throw ity support in every way possible to the campaign which hag been ‘inaugurated for a bridge across the Missouri. Such a bridge would be of mutual.benefit tq; ‘Mandan and Bismarck and would do more toward the advancement of the Twin Cities of the Missouri than any other project that could be devised. “I pelleve that we should hold our- selves ready to cooperate with and promote ‘any economic enterprise which the farmers-of our ‘state and community favor, so long as:a feasible plan which offers a reasonable degree of success. is proposed. I am con- vinced that the city should reach out more toward its farming population, making them feel that the city is al- ways open to them, not alone as a shopping point, but as a recreational and. cultural center, We should ‘en- courage our country cousins to visit us oftener, and when they are here we should do- more for their entertain- ment, and we should not place a price on our hospitality. {[ do not. know what can best be done, but a resump- tion of the market days which were satisfactorily conducted several days, or a series of community. picnics. in which city folk and farmers can join. might be considered. t “Bismarck has in the municipal aud- itorium an institution in which it takes just pride. Unfortunately/ we have not during the last year had/as much use of it for recreational purposes as could | i i \ tthe commissioners 19 = PRICE FIVE CENTS IRE HENRY W. KEYES Keyes will succeed Senator, Hollis of New Hampshire, when. the new con- gress assembles. He has just com- pleted a term as governor of his state, ALMOST MILLION IN FEDERAL AID TO STATE ROADS Amended Highway Bill, Will Make $997,946 Available During Current Year MANY COUNTIES ACTIVE General Demand for All Money Than Can Be Had to Im- prove Trunk System - In addition to the allotment pre-!} viously made to the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1919, amounting to $229,585, the state highway commission an- noounces the .receipt of certification sthat-North* Dakota's: sHare: of thé. $15, 000,000 “nade immediately ‘available, upon the passage of the federal aid amendment, which increased the amount of. federal aid from $75,600,000 to $275,000,600, is $768,390. The total federal aid, allotment for’ the -fiscal year ending June 31), 1919, is, there- fore, $997,946." If the counties and the townships are equally liberal in their appropriations, approximately $3,000,- 00s will be- invested in better roads this year. A number of North Dakota coun- ties are anxious for an opportunity to match federal aid for highway work this year. They are willing to appro- priate dollar for dollar for the im- provement of their highways, and are ready to accept more than their quota for the current year. Barnes county, for example. has passed a resolution asking $325,000 in Federal aid on a three-year program which will provide not less than $650,000 for the improve- ment of state highways in that county. Ward county has acted favorably upon a proposition providing for the ex- penditure of 600,000 on its state high- ways, requesting, $300,000 of federal aid in a three-year ‘program, while Grant county plans to raise $114,000 in the next three years to meet a like amount of federal aid. “Prospects for extended state high- way improvement are unusually good,” said J. E. Kaulfuss, assistant chief en- pinest of the highway commission to- lay. . Chief Engineer W. H. Robinson is attending meetings this week in Oli- ver, Stutsman and Lamoure counties; Assistant Engineer Kaulfuss has just returned from a meeting of county commissioners. and a good roads as- sembly at Washburn; H. K. Craig, project engineer, is in conference with (Continued on page eight) INDICTED be desired: I feel, and I believe I echo a general sentiment. ‘that th av. erage attraction which is brought to the Auditorium is too exnensive to best serve the needs of all our peo- Everyone craves entertainment, ‘but we have many who cannot afford to pay the price. I am convinced that our auditomium could and should be open at least three nights in every week, with- high-grade motion picture plays or stock company “productions which yaa be offered to the people at a nominal price and which would, at the same time, serve to increase the earnings of the auditorium. 1 am proud to say that during no vear since its completion has the auditor ium-been made available without cost) _ : nature, end it has certainly i its existence from this one fact alone. for. so)many ‘gatherings of a patristic justified of Ward. Divide, | BISMARCK WILL PUT OVER FIFTH | LOAN IN A DAY Capital City Expected to Show Returned Soldiers. Their Sacrifice Is Appreciated Citizens Will Be Notified by Mail to Report Monday to Sign Up for Quotas Returned soldiers who at a distance of 5,000 miles or so from home thrill- ed with pride when the word came over, once, twice, thrice and then a fourth time, that Bismarck had gone over the top with her quota in each of the four Liberty loans, will have an opportunity Monday’ to see how the capital city turned the trick. They will see, too, that now the war is won and peace is assured through the sacrifices they and their comrades made, that the people who dwelt in comfort and safety here at home are not lacking in appreciation for the magnificent service these boys ren- dered: Tomorrow notices will go out to every citizen in Bismarck respectfully requesting them to present them- selves at their polling places Monday to sign up for their respective quo- tas. “Conscription?” | NO—We didn’t ‘call it that when; we took these boys from their homes | and loved ones; when we removed them from good jobs and placed a gun in their hands and shipped them 3,000 miles oyerseas to do our fighting for us... * That was “Select service,” and it’s | a, select service we're asked to render | Monday in signing’ up for what Major j Hanley. has .so appropriately termed, “The Mopping Up Loan.” We sent thé boys over, we furnished the’ money to send them. and équip them and to keep them in: the field until victory was assured. Now we're going to furnish the funds.to bring them safe home again, and'to com- plete. the mopping up, process, andj then we're through with our part of} the job... BUT.NOT UNTIL THEN. {| It’s’ Going to Be. Easy. Bismarck, will ‘be asked tor just $100,000 ess-than jt subscrided in the Fourth ~ Liberty « loan—$265,000 as, against $365,000. And the:terms are much ea the payments are spread | over a longer period; the interest rate | is higher, and ‘the bonds mature 16 years earlier than tMose of the last series. : | Uncle Sam has made it so easy for us that it’s going to be a holy pi And, too, so many of us have acquired j the saving habit during the last two year thanks to the War Savings ips and the Liberty loans, that! (Continued on Page Eight.) i BRAVE BISMARCK | FIGHTER IS HOME FROM OVERSEAS, ease eesee Albert Kukacka. who left Bismarck with Co. A of the Fighting First and | who was transferred upon his arrival in France to the First U. S. infantry, | ig home, after several months in army hospitals. The Eismrack Yank was badly hurt last July in the battle of Chateau Thierry, when several fingers and both thumbs were shot away and he was wounded in the face. Before that he had participated in engagements on the Somme and Toul battle-fronts. The last several months of Mr. Kuacka’s service were spent in hos- pitals, where army surgeons worked} wonders in repairing the damage done by Hun shot and shell. As a result he reaches home almost whole, mighty wel satisfied to get back to Bismarck, and proud of the opportun- ity which he had to make a sacrifice, for his country. Mr. Kukacka is a brother of Mrs. William Ferry. IONG ALLIE GENERAL WOOD LEONARD woop . This picture of General Wood was snapped just after he was decorated with a Distinguished Service medal. Though the general was not permitted to go overseas, his wartime service at home has been recognized. | SNOW STORM DELAYS TRIP OF AVIATORS St. Johns, April 16.—With a heavy| snowstorm raging this morning, it was considered doubtful if a start} could be made in the trans-Atlantic flight.’ Both the Australian and Brit- ish pilots are ready to start at the first favorable opportunity. SNOW FLURRIES Des Moines, Ia., April 16,—Snow| flurries prevailed in central Iowa to- day with a marked drop in tempera- |} ture. ! CZAR’S FAMILY ARE REFUGEES Paris, April 16.—Members of the! family of the former c reached Constantinople trom ‘the Crimea sev-| eral days ago, according to Marshall) outin in the Echo d’ Paris. The par-! y ingluded Grand Duke Nicholas! Nicholavitch former comamnder of the} Russian army, and Arch Duke Pete a younger brother of Nichola N olas and Peter, having been invited to reside in Rome, have left Con tinople for the Italian capital. other members of the pa’ ing the dowager empress. will go to} Malta, to await the disp ion of their} fate by the British government. WOMAN HEADS FARGO POLICE Fargo, N. D., April 15—Mrs. F. H. Wilder, Fargo’s only woman commi sioner, was today elected comm sioner of police. She will have com- plete direction of tue department. Mrs. Wilder has been prominent in suffrage and W. C. T. U. circles. CANDIDATES FOR ACCOUNTANCY TO UNDERGO EXAMS Fargo, N. D., April 16.—The annual examination of candidates for certi- fied public accountants’ certificates will be held at the University of North Dakota on July 1, 2 and 3. Applica- tions may. be addressed to the state board of accountancy at the Univers- ity, which will. furnish application blanks. These blanks must be filed by June 1, advises Walter Thomson of Fargo, secretary of the board. GOLDEN VALLEY MATRON IS DEAD Funeral services were held at Per- ry’s undertaking rooms this afternoon for the late Mrs. C. D. Hoppo of Gold- en Valley, who passed away at a local hospital Monday evening after. several months’ illness. Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite officiated, and inter- ment was made in St. Mary’s ceme- tery. years old, coming here with her fam- ily from Michigan ten years ago. She; is survived by her husband and a fos-) ter child and by her aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wolcott, who reside at Golden Valley. She was one of the best known women of the Golden Val- ley region, and her death is mourned, by scores of friends. Young Has Chance Fer Date rea Washington, D. April 16.—Con- gressman George M. Young of North Dakota said today: “I have a pusi- tion at my. disposal which pays $85 per month and which I would like to give to some enlisted soldier from my congressional district. The duties ‘the people of the world,” the -| gaurre The deceased was about 40; mier safd: LLOYD GEORGE PRAISES WILSON. English Premier in Address to Parliament Points Out Huge Task |ATTACKS ALL CRITICS Russia Seething Volcano, He Declares and Opposes. Intervention London, April 1 —The allied repre- sentatives in Paris have reached a complete understanding on the great {fundamental principles which would affect a peace with Germany, Premier Lloyd George informed the house to- day. The premier made a vigorous at, tack upon those who had “attempted to sow dissension, distrust and sus- picion between the nations whose cordiality and good will toward one another was essential.” He could not conceive of a worse crime at a time when nothing would save the world but keeping the na- tions together, he said. Not at Variance. “It is not true that the United States and Europe have ‘been at var- ijance,” Lloyd George stated, declar- ing no one could have treated more sympathetically the problems of Eu- rope than President Wilson. “Then,” he added, “there is the great organization, a :gra@t experi- ment, but an experiment upon which the whole peace of the world hangs— the society of nations.” With almost every nation in the world engaged in considering these problems the premier said, the dele- gates were justified in taking some time fo rtheir work, as a blunder might precipitate a war, near or dis- tant. Calm Deliberation Necessary. After his reference at this point to jwhat he characterized as » ¢ime-sav- ing process in building up the league of nations, he continued along this line to point to the danger of ‘not al- lowing the conferees the calm-deliber-- ation they require. ieee “It is full of peril—peril for this country and for all lands—peril for premier said. ES He believed the conference had sur- mounted its difficulties, but it was no easy task. Questions that had never been heard of before the war had nearly produced a conflict between two of the allied states, he continued, and there were a number of such ques- tions, but, after all, he added, it was 1s over, small states that had caused the war. Question Complex. \ The Russian question was complex. One difficulty was that there was no Russia. There was an organization controlling central Russia, but there is none to say that it is even a de facto government for the whole of Russia,” he said. “Even if we could under any circumstances recognize | the Bolsheviki we cann ot recognize: them as a de facto government for all jof Russia. Russia is a seething vol- |cano, The most we can hope to do is ‘to assure protection for thoge resid- “jing on its uttermost slopes and to seek to check the flow of lava and to prevent its spread to other nations of the world.” Variety of Problems, No conference in history, the pre- mier said, had been faced with prob- lems of such variety, complexity, mag- nitude and gravity. The conference at Vienna, the nearest approach to it, took 11 months for its work. But tuat conference, Lloyd George pointed out, sank into significance when its ac- complishments are compared with that of the present conference. “I would rather leave Russia Bol- shevik until they see their way out of it rather than see Great Britain land- ed in bankruptcy,” was one of the pre- mier’s declarations. Act of Stupidity, |. He said it was his earnest convic- tion that military intervention in Rus- {sia would be an act of the greatest | stupidity. It is not the duty of the government to commit England to a gigantic enterprise to improve condi- tions in Russia. Russia is a country very easy to in-; wane and very difficult to get out of.” The premier said he hed advices that Bolshevism was gradually wan- ing, breaking down before the felent- less force of economic fact. “Asked whethed advances for peace had come from the Russian goverument the pre- “We have had no approaches of any kind. None has’ been placed be- fore the congress.” The premier said that his original intention upon his rettrn_ was to await the expected critich ‘of aim- self, but inquiry had divu that none were forthcoming. He said he was fully aware theré was « great deal of impatience in the worl and~ he intefdet by ee himself to the r sincere honest impatience evi- dent in all circles, — Returning to paths of peace and re-. |ducing armament, the sald the