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TWO TRAINMEN
FATALLY BURNED
AT JAHESTOWK
Engineer' Luce atid Fireman
Brackeen Victims of Washout
Caused by Heavy Rains
SIX INCHES PRECIPILATION
Passenger Engine of Midland
Continental Turn Over Occu­
pants Scalded to Death
Torrential rains at Jamestown'
Monday wrecked the engine at­
tached to he Midland-Continen­
tal railroad causing the death by
scalding of Engineer Thomas
Luce and Thomas P. Brackeen,
fireman.
The train was coming to
Jamestpwn from Edgely. As it
neared the city it ran into a
washout and turned over. Both
men were brought to the Trinity
hospital fatally scalded and died
in the evening. They are both
married and leave families:
None of the passengers was
injured. The train with the ex­
ception of the engine held to the
tracks.
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Thomas Luce was well known
in Mandan. He was. employed at
the Mandan hotel for some time.
Jamestown was in the area of
the greatest rainfall yesterday.
A total of 6.45 inches fell in a
few hours. In the afternoon
3.45 inches fell and in the even­
ing there was an additional pre­
cipitation of 3 inches, one of the
heaviest rainfalls ever reported
in the state.
There was some hail. Shocks
of grain were almost covered,
with water. Basements were
floded. Telephone and power
wires were put out of commis­
sion by the lightning. Base­
ments were flooded and the sew­
ers 'were unable to carry off the
torrents that poured in rivers
down tfye'Jtreets*
Bismarck feceived only ,81 of
rain but nearly all of it came
within the period of an hour. It
taxed the storm iewers in places.
0. W. Roberts of the local
weather bureau stated today
that practically no damage was
reported to the crop. There was
slight hail damage at New Eng­
land. The rain was general from
Bismarck 'east to Jamestown.
-»UY W. S. 9.———-
BRITISH OIL
TANKER SINKS
HUN SUBMARINE
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 20.—A 400
foot enemy submarine was sunk off
the Atlantic coast by a British oil
tanker. The tale of the battle was
told here today by Capt.' Crosby from
his hospital bed where he was taken
for treatment. He is in a serious
condition and the peculiar part of it
all is that until last Friday after land­
ing in port he was in the best of
health. He collapsed after the nerv­
ous strain of the battle.
"The second day out," he said, "I
was on the 'bridge at about 3 p. m.
There was never a sign of a craft."'
He said that he saw the streak
made by a torpedo coming toward
the tanker. He yelled and t'ie ship
was thrown out of its course."
"The torpedo missed," he said. "We
saw nothing of the U-boat that started
the fire but what we did see \yas an
other torpedo. We dodged it as pret­
tily as we could. Then the sub came
to the surface with her guiis ready for
action. She was all of 400 feet. Our
boat was good for 11 knots and we
began to go for all she was worth and
at the same time firing at the sub­
marine. Our 26 shots took the sub­
marine squarely. She did not 'blow up
but shifted around slowly and drifted
broadside. We made for port as swift
as we could travel..
"I am sure that we finished the sub­
marine."
SUBMARINE RAMMED.
Washington, Aug. 20.—The navy de­
partment announced that a captain
of an American steamer rammed and
probably sunk a submarine on Au­
gust, 1 of the northern Virginia
coast. Thfe steamship struck the sub­
marine on her port bow bringing her
alongside.. The crew hailed in strong
German accents saying that -they
were friends.
"You are no friends of mine..' s.iout
ed back the captain.
The steamer is now in port with a
damaged side. The captain thinks
that he sunk the submarine.
-BUY W.
WILSON RETURNS
TO WASHINGTON
Washington* Aug. 20.—President
Wilson returned to Washington this
morning after spending the week end
at the,twue of,,Col.. House. His spe-
tlci$lt
traiu arftoed !,at 8:36 and,.the
President and Mrs. Wilson went im­
mediately to the White House.
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VV,
FREDERICK M. KERBY.
(N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.)
(Passed by U. S. Censor.)
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 20.—Turning
out warships as if they were flivvers
is a success.
Henry Ford told Secretary of the
Navy Daniels he would do it, when he
undertook the contract for the first
100 Eagle boats—the new submarine
chasers designed by the navy depart­
ment. That was last January. In a
few days the plant, which was design­
ed, built and put into operation in
less than six months, hopes to be
dropping "Eagles" into the water at
the rate of one a day. "Dropping" is
the correct term they are not launch­
ed.
The River Rouge plant of the Ford
Motor company .where I spent the
day inspecting the production of the
new navy boatp, is called a shipyard
It looks like a vast factory and it is
in fact a steel fabricating, assembly
and equipment plant.
These boats are built on moving
platforms, conveyed on wheels they
are made of steel parts fabricated in
endless quantity ahd put together with
rivets they are wheeled out to the
water's edge, placed on a platform
operated by hydraulic jacks, and plat­
form and all is let down into the wa­
ter and the ship floated away. It is
the theory of "flivver" production and
applied to ships.
Plant Built In Three Weeks.
Within 24 hours plans were being
drawn, and details or the buildings
worked out. The site op which the
great plant stands was partly under
water. It was filled the river was
dredged, a canal was cut to the fac­
tory doors, and work begun on the
buildings.
The fabrication shop was built in
three weeks. Long before the 1,700
foot assembling buildings was finish­
ed, the fabrication shop was produc­
ing plates, angles, channels, etc., so
that the first ship could be begun as
soon as the assembling plant was
ready.
The first complete "Eagle" went into
the water July 15. Eighteen ships are
under way now. In a few days thete
will be 20 on the shipways—the ca­
pacity of the plant.' Before long a
ship a day will go into the water.
These boats should not be confused
with the 110-footers—the original sub­
marine chasers. These are far larger
Railwaymen Join
Strike In Ukrainia
(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.)
London. Aug. 20.—The railwaymen
of Ukrainia have joined the 75,000 re­
volting peasants in defiance of the,
Germans and are nowWstrike 200,000'
strong.
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 207. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA,TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918.
HOOVER IN LONDON
V. -VV*
Food Controller Hoover photographed^ in London with two
little girls representing 100,000 British children who expressed to
him their thanks to the children of America.for their self-denial
at the food table, which enabled British children to be fed. The
parcels at Hoover's feet contain the 100,000'letters from the
children.
FORD'S SHIP PLANT SOON
TO LAUNCH 'EAGLE' A DAY
Worships Turned Out Like Flivvers in Great
Steel Fabricating Factory on the River
Rouge
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and more powerful vessels. They are,
in fact, halfway between the "chaser"
and the "destroyer" type, two hundred
feet long and 500 tons displacement.
The plant is laid out systematically,
so that the steel is fed into one end
while at the other completed boats,
with naval crews, guns, stores and
supplies aboard, sail away to the At­
lantic. Across from it is the navy
department's cantonment, where the
naval crews to man the ships are be­
ing trained.
Thf boats are made out of sheet
steel stampings, pressed from sheet
metal. In the fabrication shop these
plates—keel, floors, beams, angles,
frames—are shaped, and then run
through great punching machines that
cut out dozens of rivet holes at a
time. Service railways run from the
shop to (the'assembling plant, which
covers 13 acres of floor space. The
keels are laid and the complete hulls
built on .12x12 timber mounted oh 12
standard steel car trucks, -operatiiig
on ordinary rails. There is room for
seven of these trucks in each ship
way ,and there are three shipways.
To the keel the frames are added, then
the bulkheads, plates, the decking, and
at the seventh operation the hull is
complete and the boat ready for
launching.
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Secretary Daniels called Henry Ford
to Washington last January to ask
him if he would undertake the job of
building the new "Eagles." Ford saw
no reason why ships could not be
build in quantity like automobiles. So
the contract was signed January 17.
How Boats Are Launched.
At the lower end of the assembling
plant, a great transfer table oper
plaiu, a great transfer cable oper­
ates. Onto thisv the car trucks car
rqing the complete hull are run, and
this table connects With the launching
bridge. The boat and its carriage are
run onto the bridge and by means of
large hydraulic jacks, the whole is
lowered into the water. The carriage
with its trucks is lowered away from
the boat, thus allowing it to float free.
After launching the hull is floated
down to the outfitting shop, where the
boiler, engines and other equipment
is added."
More than 5,000 men are at work
now. The vista of ships on the plat­
forms, with the three nearly complet­
ed hulls far away at the lower doors,
and the three lines tapering down
until the lower end of the keel only
the keel and skeleton ribs represent
the ships, conveys a clear idea of the
plan- of the whole thing. One can act­
ually see these boats creeping for­
ward day by day to their places in the
fleet that is hunting the U-boats.
The "Eagles" will be sent to the
Atlantic through the New York State
Barge canal. The fuel is oil, and the
steaming radius is sufficient, to take
them across the Atlantic. Ford is
building the engines in a big addition
to his original automobile plant.
LL0YI» (JEOBUE'S CANE
AUCTIONED FOR *500
(By Newspaper Enterprise
ASS'II.J
London, August 20.—Premier Lloyd
George's walking stick brought $500
at an auction in aid of the Blind Sol
Wiers* CliiMreitf'fufrd. Sif'"Edward Car
sou's 'blackthorn brought $325.
CUSTODIAN AT
INDIAN SCHOOL
UNDER ARREST
N.
J. Howard Caldwell Charged
With Misappropriating Gov­
ernment Goods
HELD AT COUNTY JAIL
Waives Examination and is
Bound Over to the Federal
Grand Jury by Fort.
J. Howard Caldwell, custodian of
the Bismarck Indian school was ar­
rested today by Sheriff John French
upon complaint of Superintendent
Thompson, chasged with misappropri­
ating goods belonging to the govern­
ment to the value of f1,000.
Caldwell was arraigned before Uitit
ed States Commissioner John Fort
and waived examination and was
bound over to the federal grand jury
under *1,000 bond. He was unaible to
furnish sureties, but friends were in
hopes of doing so before the day was
over.
The disclosure followed an examina­
tion of the local food administrator
who alleges that he found. 0 pounds
of sugar and 70 pounds of flour in
Caldwell's basement after his atten­
tion had 'been called to the fact by
Supt. Thompson of the school.
In foraging for the food supplies, it
is alleged by Thompson thfat govern­
ment stores were found to the value of
some $1.000 that had been secreted by
Caldwell and partially used.
'Mr. CaldweH maintains that these
government goods got mixed with his
and that when an accounting was
made that he restored the goods or
their equivalent in money and that
all that he Is guilty of is carelessness
in handling the government's prop­
erty.
He admits that technically speaking
he was in the wrong, but that he nev­
er had any criminal intent to defraud
the government or anyone.
Supt. Thompson, however, in his
complaint alleges that the goods were
taken with intent to steal from the
federal government.
Oaldwell'swife
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sick and in A pre­
carious condition. He alleges that he
has surrendered an automobile and
borrowed what money he could get at
a local, bank to make up any discrep­
ancy which an examination of hfs
books 'by government agents dis­
closed.
When the school was formally
closed here last fall. Mr. Caldwell
was sent from Fort Yates as a cus­
todian. Later Supt. Thompson was
assigned to the school and in tne
checking up process that followed the
alleged discrepancies, showed up.
Mr. Caldwell has been in the Indian
service for a'bout three years.
BUY W. «. s.
GIRL'S LEGS
GOT OFF IN
RAIL ACCIDENT
Glen Ullin,. Aug. 20.—Therese Mar­
tin, 8 year old daughter of Joseph M.
Martin, is in a Dickinson lyspital with
both legs (cut off below the knee and
a right hand severed when she was
run down by a freight train at the
crossing here. She was sent on an er­
rand and tried to pass a moving train.
Her parents rushed the girl to a Dick­
inson hospital.
DON'T WAIT FOR
COLLECTOR
All city subscribers of The
Tribune are asked to call at
office and settle for their pa­
per so that the management
can continue delivery each day
after October 1.
The war industries board
has ordered papers stopped
after October 1,1 where sub­
scribers are in arrears. This
ruling applies to mail sub­
scribers as well as those on
the city list.
It will be impossible in such
a short time to reach all city
readers so if you do not desire
to miss any copies kindly call
at Tribune office and ask for
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Collectors are now checking
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prepared when called upon to
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as the carrier boys should not
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one" call for the remittance.
After October first incom­
pliance with order of war in­
dustries boarfl, the Tribune
must, drop from its list all
subscribers who .are delin­
quent.
The Tribune asks the co­
operation of its readers ana
gives this notice so that no
one may be cut off without
due warning.
NATION-WIDE
PROBE INTO
COSTjOFLIYING
Information Will Be Gathered
From Families Regarding
Annual Expenditure
Washington, Aug. 20.—Country-wide
investigation of the cost of living was
started today by the labor depart­
ment! Information will be gathered
from families regarding their annual
expenditures .for food, housing, cloth­
ing, furniture, and miscellaneous ex­
penditure,!. This information is ex­
pected to be' useful not only to the
government but to ttye housewife as
well, enabling her to know exactly
what she is getting for her money.
From data gathered by the bureau,
an1 increase of
f3
per cent over the
price prevailing June 30 is shown on
certain foods within a month's time.
Navy 'beans decreased 2 per cent, and
lard and coffee less than one-tenth per
cent. Fresh beef and chicken. show
the highest increases, advancing 36
per cent. Increases averaging 69 per
cent were shown for the five year
period from July 1, 191:1 to June 30,
1918.
BUY W. S. S.
EXPECTS TO
REGISTER
158,000
Washington. Aug. 20.—Revised esti­
mates announced today by General
Crowder showing that 153,000 men have
become of age since June last and
should register next Saturday. Of
this number it is believed that half
will go into class on find be subject
to immediate call. It is expected that
1,098 will register in North Dakota.
CALLS FOR 2,500.
St. 'Paul, Minn., Aug. 20.—New draft
cals for 2,500 general service and 800
special service registrants were re­
ceived today from Washington. The
men will leave for Camp Grdnt be­
tween Sept. 3 and 6. Thirty-five ne­
groes, the last in Class 1, are called.
18,300 LABORERS NEEDED.
Minnesota today received a call for
18,390 unskilled laborers for immedi­
ate service. The telegram caine from
the Council of National Defense at
Washington, and stated the U. S. "is
faced with a shortage of 1.000,000 un­
skilled laborers in war industries."
PROTEST~ORDER.
Washington, Aug. 20.—Organized la­
bor has voiced its emphatic opposition
to' any work or fight amendment 'be­
ing inserted in the new man power bill
extending draft ages to from 18 to 45.
F. Morrison presented labor protest
to the military committee today, ap­
pearing in support of Gompers' pro­
test.
He declared that the application o?
this 'rule to deferred classifications
would amount to a conscription of la­
bor and be a reflection upon the loy­
alty of the American workman. Con­
scription of American labor he said
would be bitterly resented in every
corner of the earth.
After discusislhg certain phases of
the bill with Dr. Mann of the war de­
partment, the committee closed its
hearings and went to work upon the
bill. It will be reported in a few
days and should be ready for debate
in the'senate by Thursday. It will be
substantially as^drawn by the war de­
partment without a "work or fight"
amendment.
JUY W. S. S.
WHEAT GLUTEN
FOR GERMANY
CONFISCATED
Xew York, Aug. 20—Seizure of the
government of 1,0.77,000 pounds of de­
vitalized wheat gluten whieh was said
to have been destined for- Germany
through Switzerland was announced,
today by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien
property custodian.
The grain worth about $200,000 was
discovered in June in a warehouse
here ready for shipment overseas. It
will be sold at public auction August
26th.
The commodity had been stored by
a German firm. Wheat Gluten is used
in the making of diabetic foods and
has a high nutritive value, and is al­
so used ift the making of extracts.
——BL.'V W. S. FI.
Murman Railway
Workers Are Sick
(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.)
Stockholm, Aug..20—Sixty per cent
of the railway workers on the Murman
railway, running from Petrograd to
the Arctic coast, are reported to he
suffering from typhaid'fever and scur­
vy as result oli,the. la«k offood
stuffs.
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MORE MILES
GERMANS HOLDING YITAL SECTOR HAVE
RETIRED BETWEEN AISNE AND OISE RIVERS
HOLD ON ROYE WEAKENED BY ALLIED ADVANCE
Retirement.
In Old Picardy Battlefield the Teutons have been
Launching Fruitless Counter Attacks. Lys
Salient is Rapidly Being Flattened Out By
I (By Associated Press)
GAIN TWO MILES.
London, Aug. 20.—The French army attacked on a front of
ten miles between the Oise and Aisne and reached a depth of two
miles. This advance endangers the whole Gerrhan position on
the river Aisne. It is possible that a general retirement will follow.
Five hundred Germans have been captured in an attack north of
Roye. The French have taken Bracquemont-Fendu wood and have
occupied Beuvraignes according to advices. It is reported that
the French have made progress southeast of tl\e latter place.
FOUR MILE ADVANCE.
London, Aug. 20.—According to latest advices reaching Lon­
don, the French have made good progress everywhere on a fifteen
mile front. Advance on this front has been four miles since
Saturday.
German forces holding the vital sector of the battle front
between the Aisne and Oise river were hurled back over a 10-mile
front this morning by the French. It is stated that the French
have penetrated the enemy positions to a depth of two miles.
This attack which is a continuation of the assault made north
of Soissons Sunday night is said to endanger the whole Geitnan
positions on the Aisne. It is added the French success will prob­
ably be followed by a German retirement from Soissons to Chem
ins des Zames. An advance of two miles in this sector would
seem to place the Germans both along the Aisne and at Soissons
in a dangerous position.
LOCAL SUCCESSES.
Unofficial dispatches also stajte local successes have been
achieved by the French from the Oise northward to well past
Roye. The line as it is traced in dispatches seems to be very close
to the town of Lassigny, for which the French have been fighting
for the last week or more.
HOLD WEAKENED.
The German's hold on Roye also seems to be weakened by
the recent progress of the French north and south of the town.
It would appear Roye is not virtually enveloped on three sides.
Just northwest of Soissons the French have occupied the
village of Vassens, which is on the eastward bank of a small
stream which flows into the Oise river at Morsain, a town to
the southeast, which was capttired by the French yesterday.
LAUNCH COUNTER ATTACKS.
In the old Picardy battlefield, the Germans have been launch­
ing repeated counterattacks against the British in the vicinity of
Chilly, which is north of Roye. These assaults were repulsed by
the British.
The old Lys salient is rapidly being flattened out by the Ger­
man retirement, from the extreme westerly .positions held by
them after their April offensive. The British official statement
shows that the line now runs from Merville, on the north, to the
vicinity of Locon, on the south, leaving a large triangle of aban­
doned territory in the direction of St. Vincent, which has been
occupied by the British.
GERMANS REPULSED.
London, Aug. 20.—Four German attacks against the' allied
positions at Chilly were repulsed. Attacks six miles north of
Roye have advanced their lines in the neighborhood of Vieuv
Berquin and Outterstween in the Lys salient. The official war
statement says that 162 prisoners were captured.
IN DESPERATE PLIGHT.
London, Aug. 20.—It is believed in Cologne that the Ger­
mans are weaker on the west front than the Allies believe they
are according to a dispatch to London Mail from its Hague cor­
respondent. He gives this fesume.
All leaves from the front have been reudced one half. Men
are sent to the front from hospitals before they are fit for action.
Letters from the front home are destroyed. Deserters are being
treated severely. Wounded horses are seen being driven back to
the front with their bandages still in place. The Germans are
stealing food sent for French prisoners in order to feed laborers.
RUSSIA'S REIGN OF TERROR.
London, Aug. 20.—Hundreds of passengers were killed and
wounded by an outbreak of the- Leetish guards and rioters at
Petrograd. This news is conveyed in a dispatch from the city.
The dispatch says that after the city had been without food
for two days, the workmen marched up and down the streets
shouting:
"Down with the Germans, down with the Kremlin.
Marshal law has been invoked in Petrograd and the battle
between the Leetish guards and rioters continues.
TO STRAIGHTEN LINES.
Paris, Aug. 20.—Apart from the practical results obtained,
the objects of which will be seen more clearly in the near future,
the allied attacks betwen the Somme and the Aisne in the last two
days modestly called local or line-straightening operations in the
war office communications have the effect of keepiftg the enemy
on the alert and preventing him from carrying out counter at­
tacks. The attacks have made it impossible for
dorff to group his troops. In parts, it has been hecessary for him
to increase the density of the first line.'
IMPORTANT ADVANCE
London, Aug. 20.—The attack of the French yesterday be­
tween Matz and the Oise was qn a front of 12 miles, and although
the advance was a small one, it is regarded as important, as it
carried the French line further down the slofe of Lassigny
Massif. The French also moved up the valley of the Oise, the line
being between 5 and 6 miles from Noyon.
J. L. Whitney, director of the shock
troup for Lismarck, today issued a call
for thirty shockers to be duely accput
ered and at the Grand Pacific hotel
not later than 6 p. m. Wednesday .eve­
ning. It is planned to make a trip of
2,". miles into the country and set up
1100 acres. Forty men are desired
and some automobiles to transport
them. All proceeds from this volun­
teer work is turned into the Burleigh
county Red, .Cross chapter.
•V,
Last evening the. shockers motored,
to Brittin after the rain. When they
WHITNEY, SHOCK TROUP
LEADER, ISSUES APPEAL FOR
FORTY YOLUNTEER HARVESTERS
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
General
Luden-
go tthere they found it fine and dry
and the headers busy. They had just
set up 100 acres when the rain com­
menced but the run back to town wa3
made easily.
Mr. Whitney reports crops to 'be in
good shape but the need for labor 13
apparent everywhere. A closer spirit
of cooperation between the city and
the farm is evident as a result of
these parties.
The parties will leave evening
'from the Grand Pkeififc Sl-Ftorig1 as
necessary.