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WEAT
OENCRALtY FAjft
THIRTY-EIGHTttYE AR. No. 64.
LOTD SPETZ
MEMORIAL AT
Priblic Military Services' to Be
Held in Honor of the
Soldier Dead
POSTLETHWAITE PRESIDES
Chaplain of the Bismarck Home
Guard Will Deliver Trib
ute in Uniform
Almost as a voice from the
grave came to Mrs. Anna Gradih
this morning the last letter from
her son, Private Loyd Spetz of
Co. A, First North Dakota in
fantry, now the -164th U. S. in
fantry, whose death oh the firing
line, shot down while repelling a
'Hun attack, was reported in The
Morning Tribune, on Wednesday.
This letter, received .by Mrs. Gra
din only a few days ago, had been,'
forwarded to the young soldier's
sister, Miss Esther Spetz, at th^
iv it in so a a S
S it a it
when she huried home yestirday
to console her grief stneken I
mother.
Loyd Spetz's last letter is a
[typical message from a typical
b$y. It is a letter from a- brave,
cleans manly boy, a jy wh6 was
living in the clean, true American
boy way, and whose "Hang-Out"
was the Young Men's Christian
association. The litter was Writ
ten on Y. M. C. A.'sMMonsry, un
der date of January 4$, and, is fell
lows:
."DEAR iMOTHEH—h thought I
would write you afew i|«iM to let
you know I am well and hope
you are the saqpe.. I am some
whero in Fraricfe. That is all I
cah tell you. I s'pose it is cold in
North Dakota about th.s time..- It
is not so very c^ld here now. I
think it is getting spring.
'1 Was golngf to write you' a
letter a long time ago, but have
no had a chanoe.. I have not had'
a, letter since have been hare/
so write oftert, I s'pos? WijH
take a month:ortwob?fore ydu
get this letter I thln^/tWa/wili
b* a nice country in ihe
time,! but I wili take the good old'
U. 8. A. for ming •••.'
r*
"I wish you would'! aahd me
some Bull Durham Smoking to*
baoco, if you will Hope Esther
and.the rest of you are O. K. Will.
Write more nixt time. Write soon.
Tail them, all hello.
"From LOfYD.
N. Bt—-Esther said she wai go
ing to send me a sweater. I have
not got it yet. It may be on the
jroad, -ecause intakes a long tim^
j,to
get mail hei*e. I have been in
'the thenches. Came out 0. K. Like
,j it fine."
In forwarding this letter to her
I daughter,. Mr*. IGradin* Obeying {j
some prophetic impulse* unde^
I lined a notation: "KE£P THIS I
LETTER."
The sweater which iMiss Esther
Spetz was to send her brother is
now on the way to Franco,, as are
a half-dozen or more letters, de
layed on the way by the incompre
hensibie break-down qf the United
States mail service. Like many An |.
other American boy in the trench-
Private Spetr is believed 'to be
A
any cause since it entrained from
Fort Lincoln last fall. 'So far as
known there have been no Other
J'casualties. Under the plan adopt
[, ed of. breaking up American units,
it is probable that fOw, if/ any oth­
er Bismarck boys, participated in
'the raid which cost Private Spetz
his life,
1
es over there Loyd, Spetz longed
for letters which his loved, -ones
had written him and which he
should have had. 'Now they will
arrive too late.
A military memorial Service in hon­
or, of Private Lloyd Spetz of Co. A,
Fir.st North Dakota National Guard,
(the first Bismarck boy to lose :l%is life
on the battle-fields of France, will be
held at the municipal, auditorium at
3:30 Sunday afternoon/ ynderith6joint
auspices of the First Presbyterian
church, with which' the young man
was affiliated, and the Bismarck unit
of the North Dakota Home: Guard.
Rev. H. C. Postlethwaite, 'the dead
iContinued on Page l'uree.)
TWO NEW LAWYERS
Crosby and Valley City Young
tH
Men Admitted to
Olaf Braatelein of Crosby, county
auditor of Divide, and Fred J. Fred
erickson of Valley /City, who- passed
the state bar examination at Fargo
recently, have been formally admitted
to the North Dakcfta bar at special
session of the supreme bench.
GUS WOG NONPARTY iv
LEGISLATURE CARD
Fryburg, N. D., March 7.—The Non­
partisan leaguers of Billings county
have endorsed for the state legisla­
ture from this district GUs Wof, a
prominent farmer In the south end. of
the county. He has been a leader
among agriculturists of BlUji^sv^ctr
Slacy-fis
he last elerejn years/ and. jnis cr
regarded
PETROGRAD IS CALM IN
FACE OF HUN ADVANCE
Petrograd, Tuesday, Mar.
5.—Petrograd was calm and
orderly today regardless of
the presence of German
troopp at Narva, 100 miles
from/ the capital, and there
were evidences on aU sides
of the removal of war sup
plies.
SAHHY BOYS
HAS PET HUH
jtermah Lieutenant Captured
Single Handed in Trenches
Is Very Docile
fRAINING WITH FRENCH
rhird American Contingent Fac­
ing Enemy at Chemin
des Dames Post
With the Amreicar Army in France,
March '6,—(By the Associated Press.)
An American staff colonel while with
^French raiding party for the purpose
of securing information a few days
bjefore his men took up their positions
in the new American sector on the
Lorraine front, meta Prussian lieuten
ant in an enemy trench and captured
him. The colonel with an American
captain brought the Prussian officer
jack to the lines the Americans are
now pccupying.
The German raid in this new scctor
occured on Monday night, a sharp
fight taking place in which the Ger­
mans suffered a repulse with loses
In it, a unit which was among the
most recent arrivals displayed the
customary American fighting energy
and apparently gave the enemy a
much warmer reception than he ex
Training With French.
The American troops here are train­
ing with French troops as at the Che
mln lies Dames position. .This makes
the third American force now facing
the enemy.
During several days of the American
service here, the casualties have been
extraordinarily slight, as the sector
If
one of the quietest. The lines are
far apart
The Prussian lieutenant's capture
was the first instance of an enemy
officer'.being taken prisoner by the
Americans and also the first occasion
upbn which an American officer had
captured either-' an enemy officer or a
soldier in this sector.
PALMER WOULD
SELL ALIEN'S
U. SJjOLDINGS
Property Custodian Asks foi
Measure Which Would
Back Up Wilson
TAKE GERMAN WHARVES
Washington D. C., March 7.—Con­
gress was aked today by A. M. Palm­
er, alien property custodian, for legis­
lation empowering him to sell any
alien. property in the United States
within his discretion.
Such legislation attached to the urg­
ent deficiency appropriation bill was
requested by Mr. Palmer before the
appropriations committee in supple­
menting President Wilson's request
for authority to acquire legal title to
the German wharves and docks at Ho
boken, N,. J.
ANOTHER AIRMAN MEETS
DEATH WHILE TRAINING.
Fort Worth, Texas, March 7.—
Burton Huriburt, Royal 'Flying
Corps cadet whose mother lives
at Prescott, Ont., was killed this
morning when he tried to make a.
landing. He was flying with an in­
structor at- the time. The latter
however, who was sitting in the
seat, escaped uninjured. Huriburt
is the 36th- cadet killed here.
Washington, D. C., March
7.—Based upon tj\e three
line method of trench war
fare evolved in France, trfe
war department, it was
learned today, has approved
a pbin of organization which
fixes six divisions as the
strength of an army corps.
Three or more corps will
constitute afield army and
le irtraediate purpos^
AMERICANIZED SECTOR FOR GEN.
PERSHING PROMISED BY PLAN OF
REORGANIZATION OF U. S. ARMY
r'',
WHEAT FARMERS ON FIRING
BIG ARMY OF
CHILDREN TO
MAKESURYEY
Youngsters Will Cooperate with
Government in Finding
Farm Labor Needs
BURLEIGH COUNTY IS BUSY
Fifteen Hundred Questionnaires
to Be Distributed Through
Eighty Schools
Friday will be observed as a gen­
eral school holiday in North Dakota,
vhile, in obedience to the proclama­
tion of Governor Frazier, an army
)t
more than 2U0,0G'Q school children
will diligc ntiy apply themselves to
labor survey designed to discover
forth Dakota farm labor needs. This
survey is made in cooperation with
:he united Mates government., in
naking it the kiddies are acting as
iartners with Uncle Sam.
In Burleigh county, County Superin
endent of Schoo Parsons and Coun
Farm Agent Brander have mailed
8'0 schools more than IjoOO ques
lonaires. When these are returned,
.he county agent, through Federal La
or Agent John B. Brown of the de­
partment of agriculture will set aiiout
olving the problem of supplying the
abor which is needed in this'county.
imilar work will be done in each of
he other 52 counties of the state. "We
nust have farm labor enough to plant
and harvest every available acre,"
3aid J. M. Grander today.
The Proclamation.
Governor Frazier's proclamation
?e'?ting aside Friday, March 8, for
farm labor survey day, follows:
"The superintendents, teachers, and
ihe boys and girls of our public!
a a re on to
a to a id he in
re at on a is is an I ha
on id ha he
come an opportunity to unite their
efforts in the accomplishment of an
important purpose at this time. We
are all determined that our state shall
io its shkre in producing large quan­
tities of food products. How well we
succeed will depend upon the amount
1f individual effort that is put into
'his work. A survey must be maue
for the purpose of determining just
what and how extensive our avail­
able resourcesv are. This will be
'tndwn as the Farm Labor and Crop
Survey, and will ibe under the juris­
diction, of the department of agricul­
ture and labor,, acting in conjunction
with the Federal Department of Agri­
culture, the State Department of Edu­
cation and the State Council of De­
fense.
"These departments are calling up­
on superintendents and teachers of
our public schools to assist in obtain­
ing the necessary data to insure a
(Continued"~on~Page Five.)
plete the organization of the
first field army in France
in the shortest possible time
to give General Pershing the
strength to hold a fully
"Americanized" sector of
the front.. The plan leaves
to General Pershing the de­
termination of the number
of corps ftnd number of field
armies needed and also au
thorizes jtim to recommend»
.cmftfwtor^flK the higher
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BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7,1918
flNAL ARGUMENTS IN
PACKER v. AGE CASES.
Chicago, ill., March 7.—Urging
a a
I granted, Attorney Frank H. Walsh
1
READY FOR COOPERATION
Declares Wilson Will Recognize
Any Legally Constituted
Government
FRANCIS NOW QUARTERED
WITH SIAM AND BRAZIL.
Washington, D. C., March 7.—
.j Ambassador Francis, reporting to
the state department under date I
of March 4, said he was temporal
a re it S am
I and Brazilian diplomats in a club
house placed at their disposal by
I
WHERE RUSSIA'S FATE WILL BE DECIDED
1
today delivered his closing argu
I ment in the packers wage arnitra
I in as
packers, Attorney Condon sug
gested that the arbitrators fix the
working day. for unskilled men at
one hour more than for skilled
labor so as to provide for the
necessary clean-up of plants af
killing and dressing beef.
FRANCIS TELLS
U. S, ATTITUDE
TOWARDRUSSIA
American Ambassador Issues a
Formal Statement from His
New Headquarters
a a a
that a few of the Red Cross and
1
it re in
Petrograd.
MAKES STATEMENT
In a public statement to the peo­
ple of Volgda, today, on the inter­
national stuation as it affects Rus­
sia, David B. Francis, the American
ambassador, said 'that America has no
plans or desire for territorial con­
quest in Russia.
While the present government has
never been formally recognized by
my government or any of the allies,"
he said, "both Premier jLenine and
Foreign Minister Trotzky are aware,
because I so advise dthem, that I
had recommended to my government
that it recognize eny government the
uussian people might select and would
also earnestly urge that material as
sistante be rendered to such govern­
ment, provided that it Wiould con­
tinue the war agalhst the central
powers."
INTERVENTION
IN FINLAND IS
SWEDE POISON
Scandinavians Losing Much of
Their Love for Teutonic
Friends
Amsterdam, March 7.—Intervention
by Germany of Finland and the con­
sequent ill-feeling Against Germany in
Sweden is criticised severely by inde­
pendent socialists and progressive
members of the Reichstag, a 'Berlin
dispatch says. Baron Von Dem Bus
sche-Haddenhausen, under-secretary
of foreign affairs, in reply, said that
Sweden np longer raised objections to
Germany's action^ which was taken in
response to appeals for help from Fin­
land.
The occupation of the Aland Islands
a fetAe," htf -iatd,"
had not yet taken
Mvw
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The ancient capital of the Russian czars, the Kremlin, surrounded by its wall of many towers, where Napoleon, in his
winter campaign saw the tide of conquest turn against him when the rigorous Russian winter came to beat back his hosts
which had overrun all Europe—Here the workmen's and soldiers' council delegates now gathered will meet to consider
the final ratification or rejection of the peace treaty of Brest -Litovsk, which spells the end of Russian nationality.
HUNS WITHIN
68 MILES OF
RUSSCAPITAL
Germans' Advance Cantinues,
with Capture of Jamburg,
Ignoring Treaties
IMPORTANT RAIL POINT
Invaders Now Apparently Have
Clear Sweep to Descend on
Helpless Petrograd
London, March 7.—The Germans
captured Jamburg, east of Narva,
while the Turco-German offensive is
continuing beyond Trebizond, says
a Russian official agency dispatch re­
ceived here today. This action, the
statement adds, is despite the official
announcement by the German nigh
command that hostilities against Rus-' WOULD
sia have ceased.
Jamburg is on the railway line from
Reval to Petrograd and only 68 miles
from the Russian capital. The Ger­
mans were reported in yesterday's
dispatches to have halted at Narva,
approximately 100 miles from Petro­
grad. Trebizond is on the Black sea
were reported to
Trebizond region in their offensive:
when the recent peace treaty was
ty.
The Bolsheviki government has
been showing concern over reports
that the Central Powers were contin
uing on the aggressive against the
Russians despite the conclusion of selves.
peace under the recently signed trea- The new frontiers traced by
BISMARCK WOMAN
LOSES VALUABLE
TEAM BY POISON
Mrs. J. W. Moran, who has a dairy
farm near the city limits, has lost
a valuable team of horses which she
is confident were deliberately poison­
ed. A strange sack which had contain­
ed oats upon which the horses evi­
dently had fed wes discovered on the
farm. Three other horses were very
sick but recovered. Mrs. Moran de­
clares she had no oats on the place for
weeks past, and that the poisoned feed
could not have come into her fields
by accident.
SAMMIES THOUGHT LOST COME TO
LIGHT AND MAKE THRILLING RUN
FOR LIFE OVER NO MAN'S LAND
(By Associated Press)
With the American Army
in France, March 6.—An
American patrol, comprising
one officer and eight men,
which had been missing
since last night in the sec­
tor northwest of Toul sud­
denly emerged from a shell
hole close to the German
lines today and made a dash
across No Man's Land with­
out a shot being fired at
them.
It was noon when the pa­
trol carried out its rusk to
the American line. Hw'
men's comrades looking on
FORMER GREAT LAKES BOAT I
AlirlORE ON THE ATLANTIC.
An tlantic Port, March 7.—iA
I steamship, the Susquehanna, be
lieved to be the vessel of that
name owned by the Great Lakes
Transit corporation, went ashore
today on the coast near this port.
Thirty-seven of the crew were
rescued. The vessel is not thought
I to be in danger of breaking up.
a to a id
re a id 2 7 8 2
tons gross, sailed from an Euro
a it a
NEW FRONTIERS
RING OF IRON
AROUND RUSSIA
Deeply Moved, Revolutionary
Leader Tells of Duplicity
of the Germans
CRUSH REPUBLIC
\y0rkmen's Council, in Face of
Knowledge, Advises
Acceptance
Petrograd, Wednesday, March 6.—
To a gathering of workmen's and sold
iers' delegates at Moscow on Monday,
M. Prokrovsky, leader of the second
peace delegation at Brest-Litovsk, ex­
plained the treaty with the central
powers. Deeply moved, he begged
those in syjmpathy with the demo­
cratic revolution not to deceive them-
Ger-
many, he declared, constitute a ring
of iron around revolutionary Russia.
He said the Germans were endeavor­
ing to stifle the revolution, the con­
quests of which were reduced to noth­
ing by the economic demands in Ber­
lin.
Workmen Would Accept.
The central executive committee of
the soldiers' and workmen's council
while recognizing that the German
peace terms were those of "political
bandits," has called on its delegates
at the Moscow council to vote for the
ratification of the peace, says the Iz
vestia, the Bolsheviki organ. This ac­
tion is advised because the peace has
afforded the social revolution an "ab­
solute necessary respite.''
expected every second to see
them wiped out, and their
safe return was an agree­
able surprise. They ex­
plained they had lost their
way in the dark.
The enemv artillery has
not resumed its activity.
The American guns today
effectively shelled the en­
emy first lines, and also a
town behind the German
lines, and buildings which
their troops were using were
destroyed. There was much
artillery activity during the
day, the anti-aircraft bat
teriesdttViH&<off a number
of enemy iritofWnes.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GRAIN GROWERS
SERVE
ASSAMKY-
Farmer Can Best Prove His
Patriotism by Producing a
Bumper Crop of Cereals
Agriculture as a Business,
Mr. Shorthill, who is also secretary
of the National Council of Coopera
I Uve Farmers' Organizations, repre
senting 300,000 organized American
agriculturists, laid stress upon the
necessity for a better appreciation
I (Continued ~on~ Page Five.)
STEELMAKERS
URGE CONTROL
OF MATERIALS
Believe Products Entering Into
Manufacture Should Be
Regulated
WOULD STABILIZE MARKET
Washington, D. C., March 7.—Steel
manufacturers have asked the govern­
ment to fix prices on all products ent­
ering into the manufacture of steel in
order that the fixed price for steel
may be stabilized.
The steel manufacturers urged that
it was inconsistent to set a price for
the finished product without at the
same time controling prices of pro­
ducts entering into its manufacture.
Raw materials of which steels are
made already have come under gov­
ernment control, but accessories have
not.
SCORPIONS O N
RATHER FAR NORTH
Marmarth. X. D., March 7.—A col­
ony of 20 scorpions, discovered in a
coal min eight miles north of Mar­
marth, on the Little Missouri, by
John Brennan, has been on exhibition
here. Scorpions seldom are found in
this latitude, and the venemous in­
sects are attracting much attention.
MONTANA LIFE MAN HERE
General Manager of Insurance
Company Calls on Cook
Harry P.. Cunningham of Helena,
Mpnt,, vice prei*Jent and general
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NO HALF-WAY LOYALTY
Must Stand with Kaiser Bill in
Berlin or Wood row Wilson
in Washington
"There may be some
things wrong probably all
things never will be exactly
right, but right or wrong,
it is the duty now of every
American ciiizen to so con­
duct himself that there can­
not be the least shadow of
a doubt as to whether he
stands back of Kaiser Bill
of Berlin or Woodrow Wil­
son of Washington," de­
clared J. W. Shorthill of the
United States Grain" corpor­
ation, in addressing the
North Dakota Farmer Grain
Dealers' association at the
Auditorium this morning.
Mr. Shorthill was a member of the
federal board which fixed the price of
wheat. Dr. E. F. Ladd, president of
the North Dakota agricultural col­
lege served on the same important
committee. The speaker was discuss
ing wheat prices in particular when
he made the above assertion, which
was greeted by a whirlwind of ap­
plause.
"The price fixed was not of neces­
sity leased upon equity and justice.
If the price fixed last August had been
exactly right then, it would not 'be
right now. Jt was simply a war meas­
ure and must be looked upon as such.
A big wheat crop is more essential
today than it has ever been before in
American history. There has been
agitation for a higher price of wheat
to encourage the growing of wheat in
preference to other crops The ef­
fect of a higher price for wheat would
have been to have brought up thp.
price of ether grains, and wa would
have the present situation right over
again, except that .the consumer
would have to pay a higher price for
every cereal that he eats. And: the
farmer must rememlber that if he does
put in bumper crops of parley and
rye and oats and if he does have a
splendid yield next fall he has no way
I of knowing what he is going ito get
for it. He does know to a penny what
every bushel of wheat he raises will
be worth he knows he can glut the
market with wheat he knows his
I wheat will be worth a fixed price, no
matter if every railroad in the coun­
try is tied up, and if there are no
cars to move his grain to market."
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