The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1919, Page 1

CK: TRIBUNE LAST ED ION oecereneeraeannasnnsent THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 159. PRICE FIVE CENTS HOT FIGHT UPON DRY AMENDMENT RESUMED TODAY) Bitter Struggle Is on to Save 23-4 Beer and Light Wines From General Ban PROHIBITION IS CERTAIN Amendment for Straight-Out Repeal of War-Time Drouth Defeated by Big Vote Washington, D. C., July 15.—With indications that there will be no let-up in the general fight which several times yesterday reached such a stage that deliberations were conducted in confusion and disorder, resumption of the prohibition debate was expected to be the only. order of business in the house’ today. Members of the dry forces who have expressed the bellef that some phases of the prohibition amendment were too drastic are expected to continue their campaign for . moderation. Amend- ments voted dowm yesterday included that permitting the sale of 2 3-4 per- cent beer and another permitting the manufacture of light wines, which was designed to protect California grape- growers. Numerous amendments were yoled out under points of order, and a straight-out motion to repeal the war- time act. was defeated overwhelmingly. MURDERER OF 25 WERCHANT SHIPS 10 BE RESTORED Count Felix von Luckner Sent to England to Be Repatriated to Germany ~ Sydney, Australia, July 15.—(Cor- reapondence. of The Associated Press) —Count Felix Von Luckner, commander of the German raider Seeadler, which sank twenty-five merchant vessels in the South Atlan- tic in 1917, has been sent ‘back to England to be repatriated to Ger- many. On the same vessel also were sent Lieutenant Kirchiess, Von Luck- ner’s second-in-command on the Seeadler and others of that raider’s crew. Dr. E. Schultz; who was governor of German Samoa when it was cap- tured by New Zealand troops, also has been sent from Sydney to be re- patriated, together with Dr. G. Sees- sons, formerly agricultural director in German Samoa. Von Luckner has had @ romantic career. Before the war he deserted from a Russian ves- sel on which he had run away ,to sea. Then he worked in a south Austra- }fan hotel and later was a newspaper vendor in Melbourne. ° Having raided merchantmen in the Seeadler, xe was captured in the Fiji Jslands and while in internment at ‘Auckland, New Zealand, escaped, captured a lumber coaster and head- ed for the Kermadsic islands ‘but their vessel was overtaken and re- captured by an armed New Zealand vessel. Since then Von Lucker has Deen kept in confinement at Well:ng- ton, New Zealand. ‘AMERICAN FORCE ABROAD REDUCED Second Division of Regulars and Attached Units Assigned to Early Return Washington, D. C., July 15.—The scecond division of regulars and “all attached units” have been assigned to early return home. This division includes the fifth and sixth regiments of marines. Its release from duty overseas leaves only the first and third divisions assigned to active duty in France. Third of Million Left. American overseas forces aggre- gated 337,339 officers and men on July 8, according to an official an- nouncement today, On the same date 100,000 troops were at sea en route to the United States, and 389,000 were in this country. . COMMITTEE TO URGE JAP STUDENTS TO DO POST GRAD WORK HERE London, July 15——Al committee to encourage postgraduate study on the part of Japanese students in American scientific institutions has been formed here, That Japanese medical students should go to the United States instead of Germanv is one of the ideas behind the project. Dr. R. B. Teusler, head of St. Luke's hospital, Tokio, and now Red Cross commissioner to Siberia, is one of the originators! of:the plan. The American, committeé :to-handle "the question bas already been formed. RNS OOOO ata onto capital. was host to the cardinal. POSTAL RECEIPTS FOR’ THE FIRST SIX MONTHS SHOW GAIN |More Than $73,000 Collected by Postoffices in City and County: to Date Conditions |in Bismarck and Bur- le'gh county are much “better this year than last, according to the re- port of postal receipts for the first six months of 1919 prepared by the local postal authorities. The total receipts for the city and county amounted to $73,153.64, an increase of approximately 13 per cent. For the city of Bismarck /the re- ceipts for the first six months $68,193.97 compared with $69,611.43 for the first half of 1918, an increase of $7,582.54. It is expected that the receipts for the next quarter, ending Sept. 30, will show a corresponding increase. CROPS GOOD AND POOR ALONG N. P. RAIN WILL HELP City Agent McDonald Believes Rain Will Save Great Por- tion of Crop Facific in some sectio while in others they are cons below normal, according to W. A. Mc- Donald, city agent of that road, How- ever, with a good rain within the next two weeks, Mr. McDonauld believes that conditions will be greatly proved. “On our line east of Dawson, condi- tions are very good,” said Mr. Me- Donald today, “but on the main line as far as Dawson it is only fair, On the Linton line, the crops are in very good condition, but on the Mott line to Cannon Ball it is only fair, while west of Cannon Ball the crops are all dried up. On the main line west the crops are very poor as they have had no rain in that section for many weeks.” 6,000 CATTLE THRU BISMARCK Mr. McDonald also stated that the eattlemen of eastern Montana are now shipping a large amount of their cat- tle to St. Paul where it is turned into dressed beef. More than 200 cars, totalling over 6,000 head of cattle have passed through Bismarck on their way to St. Paul. “There is a good deal of grazing now going on at the reservation at Fort Yates,” said Mr. McDonald. “A short time ago an entire train load of Texas cattle was shipped into Fort Yates and these are to be added to, I under- stand.” good, Big Transfer Company Goes in for Trucks A fine new International ton and a half truck made its appearance on the streets yesterday, having just been delivered to the Wachter Trans- fer Co. by the Lahr Motor Sales Co. It is the largest truck plying the streets of Bismarck, and is more evi- dence of trucks taking the place, of|, horses. is CARDINAL VISITS CAPITAL Crop conditions along the Northern} iderably | im-, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919. ~ SECRET JAP PAC PAGE IN HIS Here is Cardinal Gibbons on one of his rare visits to the national With him, at the right, is Senator Walsh of Massachu: tts, who POSTAL GLERKS RETURN FROM OVERSEAS DUTY Government Sets an Example for. Patriotic Firms in Re- employing Former Clerks Assistant Postmaster Lundquist is wearing a happy smile these days and there is a good reason for it, too, Out of twenty men in the employ- ment of the local postoffice, ten of them entered the service and with the exception of Victor E. Blomgren, who died in France of influenza and pneumonia, all of them either have retufied, or will yeturn to their old positions. The latest-one to return is Walter ‘A. Sather, a clerk, who will.resume his duties July-15. On June 15 Wal- ter A>Smith “carried on” after many months in_the. service. On August 1, D. Ferris’ Cofdner, will put away his uniform .with his nice gold lieu- his duties at the postofiice. Lieut. Cordner is in the infantry and is now stationed at Cap Dodge, but will bé discharged in a day or two, There are two more men from the loeal postoffice still in .the service, Park A. Finnenger, whose interegt- ing letter “from. “over there” ap- peared yesterday in the Tribune, and Leo: Morris. Mr. Lundquist expects Db these men to be feleased from military service shortly and return to Bismarck. As an example of what the gov- ernment has been doing for the men in its employ who entered the serv- ice, Assistant Postmaster Lundquist stated that the promotions and in- creases in pay to which these men were entitled had they not entered the servise of Uncle Sam, have taken place during their absences and they all return to positions either be‘ter than they had when they left, or with the regular advancement in salaries. UPLIFT IN MORAL TONE OF JAPANESE IS SOUGHT Tokio, July 15.—After extensive conferences with Japanese religious workers and other persons interested in uplifting the moral tone of the Japanese people as well as increas- ing their material presperity and happiness, the home minister has drawn up-a program to meet the ‘growing problems of the times in Japan, including the spread of dis- satisfaction among the workers. The project includes propagation of popular education and observance of ancestor worship; cultivation of public moral'ty and devotion to the national welfare and a careful se- lection of new ideas from abroad, to- gether with their proper assimilation by the young people of the empire. EIGHTY DROWN; $200,000,000.00 LOST IN BLOW Valparaiso, Chile, July 15.— Eighty persons are known to have been drowned! and the loss of life may have been much greater in a_ hurricane which swept ‘this’ region Saturday and Sunday: The property loss is es- timated’ at $200,000,000, tenant bars~and:once more take up| STRIKE RIOTS IN ITALY GROW: VIVA SOVIRTS IS CRY Disorderly Mobs Parade Streets Shouting “Long Live the Bolsheviki” ili § GOVERNMENT IS READY Administration . Opposed to Bloodshed But Will Use i Troops If Needed Rome. Monday, July 14.—Strike dis- orders occurred af various places in Italy today.» At Lucetia eight persons were killed and 80 wounded. Near Genoa two, anarchists were killed in a! fight with: Carabinie. A general strike began at Caltanisset- tia, Cleilys The people there marched through ‘the streets crying ‘Viva So- viets” and forced dealers ‘in foods and other necessities to reduce prices fift; rer cent, - ° : TO PRESERVE ORDER. Premier Nitti announced in the chamber of deputies today that the Itallan government has taken ample measures to preserve order in view of the threat of a general strike through- out the country. Troops he said, have been distributed everywhere and sup- plied with food for more than 24 hours, in case they should be cut off from their bases. There is no cause for a general strike in Italy, the premier said. The government. does not want Woodshed and. will do its utmost to prevent it. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE The government of Premier Nitti, which took office several weeks ago, tonight regeived a vote of confidence in tht Chamber of Deputies. The vote passed 257 to 111. WILSON’S SWING 10 BEGIN SOON Earlier Start Than Contemplated May Result From Senate’s Attitude Washington, D. ©., July 15.—Indica- tions that President Wilson would not be asked to appear before the senate foreign relations committee for discus- sion of the peace treaty were said to- day to have been received in adminis- trative circles. High officials intimated they had been informed by some member of the ‘committee that the majority members ot that body seemed hostile to sugges- tions that.the president be asked to appear or that the committee in a body consult with him at the white house. Should the committee not ask Prest- dent Wilson to appear before it, Mr. Wilson might begin his tour of the country earlier than planned. NORTH DAKOTA RAIL BOARD IS AGAINST BILLS Commission Strong in Opposi- tion to Legislation Propos- ing Centralization The North Dakota railway commis- sion has joined other state boards in a protest against the Pomerene Dill and the Cummings bill, now before congress, and each of which would greatly abridge the pre-war powers of states to regulate rates and rail serv ice. The Pomerene dill would de- prive state railway commissions of all powers over rates, the regulations of service, the establishment of sta- tions, crossings, junctions, etc, and would place this authority in the hands of the interstate commerce commission, The Cummings bill would perpetuate to a large extent the pow- ers which the United States supreme court has ruled were conferred upon the federal railway administration by the acts of congress and the proclam- ation of President Wilson placing the carriers under federal control for the period of the war. LOCAL PASSENGER TRAFFIC IS HEAVY Passenger traffic from points in the east to points on the Pacific coast has been so heavy that the Northern Pacific now runs_ trains Nos. 1 and 2 in two sections. The first section of each train is com- posed of standard sleeping cars, din- er, club car and observation car, while the second section is composed of baggage and express cars, tourist sleepers, standard sleepers, dining car and observation car. The local passenger service is ‘be- ing taxed to its greatest extent, ac- cording to local officials, and it is said that travel between local sta- tions never was so heavy. The same is true of local freight traffic, farm- COMMANDS ON RHINE OCT Rt GEN FEN LD ALLEN = Major General Allen has been pla- ced in command of the American troops along the Rhine, succeeding Major General E, T. MacLachlin, who has been in command since the de- parture of Lieut. General Hunter T. Liggett. MILLION SHEEP; {00,000 CATTLE DROWN IN FLOOD Month of Heaviest Rainfall Ever Recorded in Buenos Ayres Takes Heavy Toll Buenos Ayres, July 15.— Government reports show that one million sheep and one hundred thousand cat- tle have been drowned in floods, in the southern part of: Buenos. Ayres provinces. The railways and telegraph communications have’ been interrupted, and several sec- , tions completely isolated for more than'a week. The floods were due to a month of the heaviest rainfall ever recorded here. The snowfall has_ been nearly continuous for a month, and in some places is more than 25 feet deep. LANGER CALLS ON PUBLIC TO HELP GET TAX SLACKER Requests Public-Spirited Citi- zens in Each County to Report Evaders Attorney General William Langer is calling upon patriotic North Da- kota citizens to assist him in en- forcing the provisions of House Bill 83, under which it is made the dut; of the attorney general to camp on the trail of tax dodgers. In a letter to the public, the attorney general says: “Reports have been frequent that certain persons and corporations of wealth and influence have not been paying their full tax and that some of them have tried to evade the'r money and credits tax. I have already ta- ken steps to compel foreign corpora- tions to pay their proper tax on money and credits, “If you know of any persons or cor poration that is evading his or its taxes or paying less taxes than they should pay, I would appreciate it if you would let me know. I want to do all in my power to make all peo- ple and corporations pay their full and just tax.” ONE OFFICER AND SIX MEN KILLED ON MINE SWEEPER Washington, D. C., July 15.— One officer and six enlisted men were killed in the destruction of the American mine sweeper Rich- ard H. Buckley by the explosion of a mine in the North sea July 12. Two other officers were injured. L CATTLE FUTURES TO BE SOLD TO BOLSTER PRICES Washington, D. C., July -15.—Appli- cations now will be received from re- sponsible American banks and export: eis for advances against cattle and cattle products shipments the war fi- nance corporation announced today, the purpose being to stimulate exporta- tion and broaden the demand for these products. TAKES VACATION. John McLaughlin of the Kupitz grocery, left on Saturday evening for ing implements, etc. but through freight business is light, ea a few days* vacation which he will spend at points near Bismarck, T “BLACKEST ORY,”---NORRIS in 1917—China Invited to Japan, whose ratification by the 4— aD Government Wins First Point in Fight on Beer Pittsburgh, Pa., July 15. —The government won its first point today in its fight against the sale of beer con- taining 2 3-4 percent alcohol, when Federal Judge Thomp- son overruled demurrers of officers and directors of the Pittsburgh & Independent Brewing companies to charges of violation of the war time prohibition law. Each of the 19 defendants was held in $1,000 bail for the November term of court. & LETTS SURPRISE SAVE THOUSANDS Middle Classes at Riga; Threat- ened With Red Terror, Res- cued by Quick Attack Stiockholm, July 15, (Correspond. ence of The Associated Press).—The lives of several thousand persons of the middle classes at Riga were saved ‘by the Letts when they sur- prised the Bolsheviki and captured that city on May 19. These people had been held as hosiages by the bolsheviki. The suddenness with wihch the Lettish yeomanry captured the city in a half hour rush prevented the bolsheviki from murdering them. Only in one large central prison out- side the city where the Letts were ten minutes late did the bolsheviki have time to kill more than 100 edu- ‘cated persons. This information has been ‘brought here by Hans Fraenckel, who has returned to Stockholm from an ad- venturous trip in a motor boat to rescue some of hig friends. Fraenckel saved thirteen persons and brought them with him to Stockholm. He said the situation at Riga was worse than any description could picture, Famine had paralyzed every- thing and the inhabitants looked like shadows. Traces of the terror that had converted Riga into a real infer- no were to be seen everywhere. Corpses were lying in the streets. The people were most pessimistic and the future looked hopeless for their pillaged city. They doubted if it could be held against the bolshev- iki unless the allied powers gave military support. 54 PERCENT OF GERMAN VOTERS OF ‘WEAKER’ SEX Berlin, July 15.—Fifty-four per cent of the voters in the last national assembly election were women. The total number of qualified voters was 37,000,000 as against 14,000,000 in the last Reichstag elections. Young women proved more ardent voters than youths of the same age. Both wings of the socliaists polled forty-five and one-half per cent of the total vote. PARIS WEARY BUT STILL BENT UPON ITS CELEBRATION Paris, Vuly 15—Weary but still bent on continuing its festiv- ities until the last ounce of cele- brative energy had been spent, Paris kept up its Victory day celebration well into the early hours of this morning. Each of the traditional features of the Fourteenth of July found its par- ticular crowd. SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA AIRS ALLEGED SECRET PACT BETWEEN JAPANESE AND Statesman Declares That Shang Tung Peninsula Was Pledged to Tokyo Government by France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia FOUR OF ALLIES Help Entente While They Were Plotting Against Her, Solon Alleges—Would Oppose Ameri- can Ratification of Agreement. Washington, July 15,—A charge that Japan secretl pledges from Great Britain, France, Italy and Rule cate fn eit that in the ‘peace settlement Shang Tung peninsula should, for certain considerations, be turned over to the Tokyo government, was made today in the senate by Senator Norris, f Nebraska, who produced what purported to be copies of diplomatic correspondence. These: pledges, plained the pressure which resulted in Chang Tung’s transfer to republican, of the senator declared, fully ex- senate, he said, “would write the blackest page in the nation’s history.” Great Britain’s influence in the mat- ter, he charged, was secured by Japan’s support of British claims to Pacific |Tslands, south of the Equator while France’s aid was purchased by a prom- ise by the Tokyo government to draw i China into the war. PLOTTING CHINA’S DESTRUCTION “It is thus clearly disclosed that while these leading governments of the world were inducing China to get into the war, in order that they might se- cure her assistance and particularly that they get possession of the German ships interned in China’g - harbors,” said Senator Norris, “they were secret- ly plotting among themselves as. to her destruction as: soon as. she had. com- plied with their wishes and the war Was over. In all the annals of history I do not believe there is recorded an honorable agreements to carve up the territory not of an enemy but of an allied friend.’ “And if we approve this wicked de- cree, is it any defense to say that we were the only member of ‘the, court that was not bribed? *If-we: ratify this treaty as it stands, we approve Lot only the judgment but the repre- ‘WOULD HAVE DOCUMENTS The foreign relations committee to- Gay adopted a resolution requesting the President. if not incompatiable with public interest, to furnish the committe with documents conerned with the peace treaty. It was said that the resolution of which Senator Johnson, of California, was author, was adopted by virtually unanimous vote, and that action by the senate was not considered. It re- quests the President to submit drafts of all proposals for a league of nations, as well as stenographic transcripts of formal proceedings at the peace con- ference, Debate Continues, The debate on the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant was continued today in the senate with Senator 8. Norris republican, of Ne- braska, attacking the Shantung set- tlement and Senator Underwood, demo- erat, of Alabama, urging unqualified ratification, Senator Norris said he believed the treaty should be sent to the peace con- ference for rectifying the wrong which he said was done in the manner by giving Japan the material rights in Shan Tung formerly held by the Ger- mans, He also declared the league of nations covenant contained so many objectionable features it should be changed completely. The Alabama senator said principal- ly that the league would go far toward ending wars and said that it involved no sacrifice of national soverignity. UNDERWOOD DENIES PACT Washington, D. C., July 15.—Char- acterizing the league of nations as a practical step toward world peace in- volving no sacrifice of national sov- ereignty, Senptor Underwood, dem- ocrat, of Alabama, urged in the sen- ate today acceptance of the cove- nent without reservation, “The great causes of war, he said, may be characterized in two words: ‘National selfishness.’ “Until the civilization of the world is prepared to dethrone its own self- ish ideals and to recognize the rights of other peoples the inherent causes of war must continue to exist. I am not prepared to say that the adoption of the present treaty carries within itself the elimination of the causes of war, or that in the end there will be no more war( but I do say that with- in the folds of this treaty we find an agreement ‘between the great na- tions of the world that probably will in the future carry the questions in national dispute to a court of final ar- bitration and which will in many in- stances avoid the horrors if not the injustices of war.” 35-CENT NATURAL GAS RULING HELD COMPANY VICTORY St. Paul, Minn, July 15,—Federal District Judge Wilbur Booth, an- nouncing his decision in the Kansas natural gas case today, fixed a gate- way rate of 35c per thousand feet. for Kansas City, Mo., and adso fixed gato way rates for gas in‘all the vities ué- ing the -products~of- thé: gaa eorudn- tion, The decision was considered a victory for the Kansas Gag (a. instance of more disgraceful and_dis-,