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THEWBATHEK
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5 KILLED IN
STILL RJUDS BY
GOVERNMENT
Intensive Roundup of Illicit
Whiskey Distillers is Stasted
by Federal Department
PITCHED BATTLE FOLLOWS
Many Army Slackers and De­
serters are Caught in Drag.
Net
Washington, ,\ug. 30.—The biggest
intensive roundup of illicit whiskey
distillers ever undertaken by the gov­
ernment has just been completed in
the southern mountain districts toy
revenue agents. Several hundred illi­
cit distillers were taken in five who
resisted arrest were killed. The raid
was conducted mainly in Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina and Tennes­
see for five weeks.
They cleaned out nests of moon­
shiners who had ibeen operating with­
out serious interference for years, and
they left behind them follow-up vigil­
ance committees to prevent the out­
laws from going back to their busi­
ness.
Over $100,000 worth of illicit copper
stills and other paraphernalia, auto­
mobiles, horses, mules and wagons
were etaken. Much sugar found on
distillery pjremises was confiscated,
and most of it given to the Red Cross.
Recommendations for 321 prosecutions
have been sent to the department of
justice.
Most of the moonshiners caught at
their stills are behind the ibars in
southern jails, more than eight score
of army deserters were found partici­
pating in the traffic.
——flUY W. S. «.
SUBMISSION OF
H. B. 44 TO BE
UNDER CONTEST
Attack Upon Regularity of Pro­
posed Action Planned by
Divet
Action aimed at setting aside the
proposal to submit by the initiatory
route, a group of amendments to the
state constitution of Nor th Dakota,
the amendments in question being in
the main the provisions of the famous
Nonpartisan House Bill No. 44, defeat­
ed in the last session of the legisla­
ture, will be taken this week, it was
announced today by Attorhey A. u.
Divet of Fargo.
Mr. Divet was a member cf the leg­
islature that defeated House Bill No.
44, and in the proceedings now being
framed, he will challenge the legality
of proceedings so far had by which
the Nonpartisan league Socialist doc­
trines as set forth in House Bill No.
44 are proposed for submission as
amendments to the voters in the gen­
eral election in November.
The supreme court, two years ago,
declared in the case of petitions ask­
ing for a vote on the proposal to re­
move the state capitol from Bismarck
to New Rockford, that the initiative
clause of the constitution was not op­
erative, inasmuch as the legislature
had failed to provide the necessary
machinery to put it into effect.
Petitions Circulated.
Notwithstanding that decision, how­
ever, the Nonpartisan chiefs, determ­
ined to force the issue of their amend­
ments, circulated petitions last spring,,
and filed them with the secretary of
state, asking a vote on the group of
10 amendments..
Secretary of State Thomas Hall, af­
ter the petitions were filed, asked At­
torney General William Langer for
an opinion as to what course he
should take, inasmuch as the supreme
court had 'ruled that such petitions
were not to compliance with the law
and that the initiations clause of the
constitution was inoperative.
So far as kftown, the attorney gen­
eral has not given the secretary of
state any opinion.
Wouldn't Take Responsibility.
Recently, when it came time to ad­
vertise proposed amendments to the
constitution of the stte. Secretar of
State Hall, who, like the attorney gen­
eral, was elected as a Nonpartisan,
certified the proposed group of amend­
ments as being slated for a vote in
November.
The secretary of state is understood
to have taken the position that he
would not personally assume responsi­
bility for declining to put the amend­
ments on the ballot, particularly in
view of the fact that the attorney gen­
eral had declined, or had at least fail­
ed to give an opinion as requested.
BUY W. S. S
INSANE LEFT
WITHOUT CARE
DUE TO WAR
The* state hospital for the insane at
Jamestown was short 62 men out of a
staff of 200 at the beginning of Au­
gust, and in spite of every effort this
shortage has been relieved 'very lit­
tle at the close of the month. The
war has made it almost impossible to
obtain competent guards nd attend­
ants. and the situation at the state
hospital is more serious than in the
average institution because of the na­
ture of the work to be done there.
ALL SUPPLIES
ON HAND MAILED
TO REGISTRARS
Adjutant General's Office Mov
in Rapidly to Expedite
Work
The adjutant general's office has al­
ready forwarded to local registration
boards 200,000 registration cards
cu.OOO certificates of registration and
66,000 questionaires, all of the sup­
plies which have been received toy
the adjutant general's office to date
for the registration proposed for Sep­
tember 5, when more than 100,000
North Dakotans between the ages of
18 and 45 will sign up with Uncle
Sam. Governor Frazier will proclaim
the registration date as soon as the
new manpower act is finally passed by
congress. All of the machinery for
this ibig registration has already been
perfected so far as possible, and it is^
expected to move much more smooth-*
ly than did the first registration of
June 5, 1917, when the work was new
to all of the local boards and the as­
sistant registrars.
BUY »W. S. S.
ELEVATOR FUND
AIDS FARMERS
IN DRY REGION
Sum of $116,000 Farmed Out to
Banks Where it is Most
Needed
The terminal elevator fund, for
which the state has had no use since
Governor Frazier's veto of the termin­
al elevator bill passed in 1917, was
farmed out by the state board of aud­
its yesterday to state banks in the
drouth stricken districts of North Da­
kota. None of the money will go
further east than Kulm. whence the re­
gion benefitted extends north to Mi
not and west to the Montana line.
All of the bids received on the term­
inal elevator fund, which amounts to
.*116,04)0, offered five per cent. The
board therefore selected banks in re­
gions hardest hit by drouth conditions
of the early summer, believing that it
will do something to relieve the
stringency in this territory by going
back to the farmers in the form of
loans.
1
"We did not discriminate between
league. b#Bkf- *ind.. non-league institu­
tions." said State Auditor Kositzky in
response to a query. "Some of this
money went to our worst enemies, but
all of it went to districts where it will
be needed."
Fifteen banks were awarded $3,000
apiece 35 'banks got $2,000 apiece and
one bank got $1,000. Among those re­
ceiving $3,000 was a Youmns bank.
HbY W. S. i.
WHY HOOVER
ASKS YOU TO
SAYE SUGAR
BY MILTON BRONNER.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 30—Why
has Herbert C. Hoover taken s6 much
of the sweetness out of the lives of
the American people?
Answer: So that he can put more
sweetness into the lives of the Ameri­
can troops, the allied armies and the
allied peoples.
The East Indies source is cut off
because of the lack of shipping.
•Sugar can come only from United
States, Cuba and Hawaiian islands.
We used to consume all that sugar
ourselves. In the old days we used to
eat up 8,218,582,'000 pounds per year.
Sugar is a necessary part of the hu­
man diet. Since the war 'began we
have been eating too much and the al­
lies too little. Italy got down to 9
pounds per person per year and
France to 13.
If our people will save one-third of
what, they used to consume, it is
hoped by the food administration to
give England and France 20 pounds
and Italy 12 pounds per person per an
num.
And what is perhaps more import­
ant if we save, there will be ample
sugar for the American, British,
French, Italian and Belgian armies.
The only way to get this sugar is
to save it.
The food administration won't go
into every American kitchen to find
whether he is only using two pounds
of sugar per month, but there is a
check in another way. Sugar is allo­
cated each month to each state ac­
cording to population. For a state
with .00,000 inhabitants 1.000,000
pounds is allowed. Every person who
dishonestly and unpatriotically uses
more than the allotted two pounds of
sugar, robs some other person of his
sugar allowance just as surely as if
he entered the other's pantry and car­
ried away thfe sugar bowl.
The world's sugar situation is best
illustrated toy a comparison of the
wholesale prices per 100 pounds for
sugar in the great cities Xew York,
$7.30 Montreal, $8.0 Paris $12.28
London, $12.59 Rome, $26.30.
'BtJY W &•
NEW CORRESPONDENT
C. K. Gummerson to Represent
Courier News Here
C. K. Gummerson, a young newspa­
per man well known in other sec­
tions of the state, has succeeded
George McPherson as correspondent
for the Courier News at the capitol.
Mr. McPherson has gone to St. Paul
t6 become assistant to Herbert Gas­
ton, general editorial manager of the
several Townley publications.
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. No. 216. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918.
SlOmer
BETHUNt
PARIS
utterita
SSSti
mus
S. J. Doyle, Democratic candidate
for governor of North
:Dakota,
will
«pen his campaign at Carringhon,
his former home, on the night of Sep­
tember 14, and he will close his cam­
paign in Fargo on the eve of the elec­
tion, according to announcement
made today by W. E. liyerly, chair­
man of the state committee of the
Democratic party.
Arrangements already have been
made at Carrington for a big tent, as
the committee in charge sys it is im­
possible to obtain any hall in Carring­
ton with sufficient capacity to handle
the crowd that is expected.
"Mr. Doyle will make a tour of the
entire state from Sept. 14 to the time
of the election," said Mr. Byerly.
"We are planning an itinerary that will
cfirry him into practically every coun­
ty in the state. Already we have re­
ceived many offers of active support
in the election campaign, and will put
many other speakers on the platform.
"The work of organization is pro­
ceeding very satisfactorily, and we
have the nucleus of an effective cam­
paign organization at this time. I am
well \satisfied with the progress so
far evidenced, and am confident that
Mr. Doyle will be enthusiastically
supported in his campaign*'.
BUY W. S. S.—
EARNED INCOME
IS TAX PUZZLE
Congressmen Must Decide What
It Is
BY GILSON GARDNER.
N. E. Staff Correspondent.
Washington. D. C. Aug 30.—How to
work out a just tax oi} unearned in
comes as compared with earned in-:
comes is one of the knotty questions
t'eing up the revenue bill.
Defining an unearned income is not!
an easy task, the committee finds. It
recognizes the difference between the
income from property inherited and
froni property accumulated by the.
owner. As a general principle, how­
ever, an unearned Income is made up
of interest, rents and dividends,
while an earned income is received
from 'business, a profession or person­
al labor, mental or physical. This
would include also the profits from
trading, promoting and speculating.
Secretary McAdoo before the Ways
and Means committee urged a higher
rate than 12 per cent on unearned in­
comes. The committee has been
trying to carry out this recommend­
ation. A majority of the committee
are agreed in the matter of taking
80 per cent of war profits, as urged by
President Wilson.
The treasury Department figures
show that the government's outlay of
money for war purposes is now con­
siderably over $1,508,000,000 a month.
At this rate, with the increase ex­
pected. the annual expenditure will
approximate 24 billion dollars during
the next fiscal year. The revenue
bill soon to.'be passed by, the Jiouse
will furnish one-third of this money.'
]THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE!
SMASH THROUGH HINDENBURG LINE
FRUITS OF VICTORY
CMetct
The broken line shows the Germans' farthest advance this
year. The shaded portion is the territory gained by the allies
snice Jyly 15. The black is that part of the HUN gains they
still hold, the eastern edge of it representing the Hindenburg line,
which the British have reached opposite Arras.
DOYLE TO OPEN
STATE CAMPAIGN
AT FORMER HOME
1 1
Opening Gun will be Fired at
Carrington Evening of
September 14
Scale of Milea
ANNUAL REPORTS
OF DEPARTMENTS
IN PREPARATION
I—:—
State Highway' Commission's
Summary for Year will be
Interesting
Various reports of state depart­
ments now are being prepared for sub­
mission to the governor. Among the
most interesting will be thdse of the
secretary of state and the state en­
gineer. 'both of which will deal large­
ly with the operations of, the motor
vehicle, registration department and
the expenditure of the funds received
through this department by the state
highway commission. The state high­
way commission is one board named
by Governor Frazier which has been
subjected to compratively little criti­
cism. The board has met frequently,
nd it has under way and planned a
system of state and federal aid high­
ways which will reach evew section of
North Dakota. It has also planned
for the upkeep of these highways af­
ter their construction.
STENOGRAPHERS
WANTS IN Q. M. C.
CAPITAL CORPS
Excellent Pay Offered Beginners
—Living Conditions
Improved
Washington, D. C., Aug. 29.—The
quartermaster's corps, which supplies
the soldiers with food and clothing and
which has charge of seeing that they
get their pay, needs a large number of
competent stenographers, Capt. W. R.
Robinson of the organization branch,
methods control division announced to­
day. Any stengrapher who can qual­
ify will be given $1,100 a year to start
with increase to $1,200. at the end of
three months. A few stenographers,
with special qualifications, who can
take dictation at not less than 120
words a minute and who have had
some secreterial experience have been
engaged at $12").00 a month and there
is room for more of this type.
Those who wish to qualify for these
positions may obtain information at
every post office in the country, even
in the smallest community. Applica­
tions should be made to the local rep­
resentative of the national civil serv­
ice commission with headquarters at
the local postoffice. Captain hoibinsn
said:
"Living conditions in Wshington
are more satisfactory than for some
time past, and it is apparent that the
situation will improve. Work has
been started on enormous govern­
ment dormitories to house 2,400 peo­
ple and the shipping board has recent­
ly moved some 2,500 employees away
frm Washington. The result has been
that the room situation has been eas­
ed off a little and will, undoubtedly,
he better in a short time as the new
dormitories are completed. The cost
of living in Washington is about the
same as it is in Chicago or any other
city of that size. Satisfactory room
and board can be secured for not to ex­
ceed $(k.00 or $60 a month. Addition­
al exepnses will ,of course, vary with
the inclinations of the individual."
-RUY W. S. 9.————
KENISTON TO TALK
George N. Keniston, secretary of the
Bismarck Commercial club, will ad­
dress a patriotic meeting at Oakes on
September 8 and will speak at Moffit
on September 14.
10,000 POLICE
LEAVE POSTS
JUONDON
Drivers and Substitutes Handle
Vast Traffic of England's
Metropolis
NO DISTURBANCE NOTED
Strike for Higher Pay and Rec­
ognition of Lately Formed
Union
London, Aug. 30.—•London outside
of the square mile composing the city
prbper has been without pj'ice pro­
tection since midnight, when the fam­
ous metropolitan police for^ went on
strike.
The police strike became worse as
the morning wove on. Many members
of the day force joined. Only a small
number of the older men remained at
their posts. Plain clothes men pick­
eted the stations and tried to induce
the old men still on duty and the con­
stables to strike.
A tour of the metropolitan district!
found few men at their posts. Some
had donned uniform through failure!
to receive notice of the strike, but
they later joined their comrades, in
one section alone which looks after
the working classes 800 men failed to
report.
Traffic Proceeds as Usual.
Refore the heavy traffic appeared
in the streets, it was remarkable what
little difference the absence of the
policemen made. Traffic proceeded as
usual. Drivers, many of whom were
themselves on strike a week ago, reg­
ulated the passage of vehicles, and
there was little confusion.
A call was sent out by Scotland
yard for special constables, and by
10 o'clock many of them had reported
for work. Heretofore they hafl simply
acted as patrolmen in quiet sectors or
around public buildings. The stations
were not so badly affected as were
the streets, as the men of higher rank
~re not so ready to disregard regu­
lations.
Union leaders said at noon' today
that 10,000 were on strike.
The metropolitan police demand in­
creased wages, recognition of their
union, and the reinstatement of a dis­
charged man who was active, in the
policemen's union.
IUV w. s. s.
THRESH LATE
MOISTURE TOO
ABUNDANT NOW
First Wheat Marketed Here
Loses Grade Because of
Dampness
RUNS 12 BUSHELS EASILY
Evident That General Yield will
be at Least Ten to the
Acre
The Deltox Grass Hug Co., and east­
ern concern which has 500-acre farm
five miles east of Bismarck, Is th«
first in this vicinity to market 1918
wheat. Its grain is of high quality
and /would run No. 1 generally but
for the high moisture content, which
has knocked off all the way from one
to three grades in samples taken of
grain brought in thus far. The com­
pany will have about 600 bushels of
spring wheat. 600 of Durum and 500
of rye, and the wheat is averaging
10 to 12 bushels the acre.
"It would be much 'better for all
concerned if threshing yvere not done
too early in this vicinity," said C. A.
Baker, manager of the Russell-Miller
Milling Co., with whom this wheat is
being marketed, today. "Wheat thar
has been properly stacked for two or
three weeks will show a comparative­
ly low moisture content, but the mois­
ture in wheat that is threshd® now
will run high, and at the present
prices of wheat, when a grade is
knocked off it means a loss. The
Deltox Co. is the first we know of in
this section to begin threshing."
There is a wide range in wheat
yields apparent within the area of a
single field, where actual threshing
tests have run as low as five bushels
and as high ,as 23, in the neighborhood
of Bismarck. All of the grain appears
to be of an unusually high quality, ex­
cept as to overabundance of moisture,
which can be corrected by stacking
and delaying threshing.
BUY W. H.
Violators of Food
Regulations Must
Pay Red Cross
Fargo, Aug. 29.—L. V. Thorson,
baker at McVille, nd Roken & Lille
mon, general merchants of Wellsburg,
have made contributions to the Red
Cross as a result of violations of food
regulations. Thorson admitted sell­
ing short-weight bread and paid $20 to
the Red Cross. Roken & Lillemon
sold wheat flour without substitutes
and made false entries on customers'
cards. They paid $100 and will make
weekly reports to the food adminis­
tration.
MINOT EXAMINER HERE
A. Johannsen. examiner for the Mi
not district, called upon his chief,
State Examiner J. R. Wateis yester­
day.
ALLIES CONTINUE TO HAKE
VITAL GAINS IN PICARDY
GERMAN RETREAT IS CENERAL
Great British Successes Along Cambrai-Arras
Road May Shatter Teuton Hopes or Resuming
an Offensive Campaign Along This Front.
Americans Near German Border on Trip to
Berlin.
NEAREST BERLIN
American troops ea.vt oi Luneville are the nearest allied forces to
Berlin, which is 400 miles northeast as the crow flies. .In Southern
Alsace the Americans are eighteen miles from the German line.
Gloving forward witli sustained power, British armies south and
east of Arras appeared to have crashed clear through the Hindenburg
line.
Dispatches received loday indicate that they have begun to "roll
up" the German forces on the front to which'the enemy is retreating
along the whole Picardy front.
Bulleeourt, which was on the Ilindenburg line was taken this
morning, llendecourt and Le Cagnicourt, to the north of Bulleeourt,
has fallen before Field .Marshal Haig's men. South of Handecourt,
slightly to the east, Rinecourt has been captured by tlie advancing
British. East of Arras astride the Scarpe, further gains are reported.
The Drocourt-Quent "switch line" now is within striking distance.
TAKING COMBLES
Further south the British have taken the village of Combles, Mere
there was terriffic fighting during the German retirement a year ago
last, March.
West of Perronne the British have cleared the town of Clery, and
they also have crossed the Somme south of Peronne.
Alon gthe front from the Somme south to the Novon region thence
east to the Ailettc, a sector vital at present, the enemy appears to have
checked the French until lie can extract his troops from the perilous
position in which they have been thrust.
Canadians, it appears, are slowly advancing along the Arras
Cambrai road, and are widening the gap in the famous line to which
the Germans retired 18 months ago.
It seems that any great British success in this region may shatter
Germany's hope of conducting an offensive campaign along this front.
SEVERE FIGHTING
Tokio, Monday, 26th.—There lias been severe fighting between
the allies forces and the Bolsheviki Red Guards on the Ussuri river
front, along the Manchurian border. The Japanese casualties in the
last few days numbered 170, including officers.
British troops this morning pushed forward in an easterly direction
from Bapaume.
The British have advanced to north of Lens. At one place they
pushed forward foe a distance of a thousand yards. LeTransloy, oil
the Bapaume-Pciwjne high rrtad was reported to have been captured
this morning.
PROGRESSING FAVORABLY.
With French Army in France, Aug. HO.—The advance is progress­
ing very favorably with Gen. Mangin. The Germans are making the
most determined resistance against, the' French army in an effort to
prevent it from gaining a foothold north of the Ailettc. Cavalry was
employed by the Germans yesterday.
REPULSE COUNTER ATTACKS
Paris, Aug. 30.—German counter attacks between the Aisne and
'Ailette were repulsed by the French last night. The French main­
tained their gains east of Pasle.
DRIVE ENEMY OFF
With the American Army. Aug". HO.—In the different patrol encoun­
ters in the Vosge last night the enemy was driven off. The German
artillery fire increased materially on the Woever.
PREDICT FALL OF PERONNE
Paris, Aug. HO.—The British line on the Somme has been carried
beyond the line indicated last night, and the British are now several
kilometers beyond Combles. The advance continues, and the fall of
Peronne is predicted.
Correspondents of Paris newspapers at the front agree that allied
loses have been comparatively light. They say the allies never have
taken so many prisoners find guns and so much territory at so little
cost.
PENETRATE 2,000 YARDS
London. Aug. HO.—British forces east of Arras at an early hour this
morning had penetrated another 2,000 yards on a front of seven miles
between Billecourt and the Scarpe. The British forces have reached
within a mile of the Doucourt switch line and have captured Oriein
court.
TO MAKE STATEMENT
London, Aug. HO.—Admiral Von Ilint/.e, the German minister of
foreign affairs, will make a statement Monday before the foreign
committe of the Prussian diet. Imperial Chancellor Von Hertling has
arrived from headquarters.
THROW IN FRESH TROOPS
North of Soissons the Germans have thrown in fresh troops to stop
the advance of the French and Americans toward the heights domi­
nating the Cremin l)es Zames, allied occupation of which would com­
pel the enemy to withdraw from the Vesle.
The allies have the more favorable position and have only one
more plateau to overcome to reach their objective As the fall of Roye
capture of Bapaume by the British made it necessary for the enemy
compelled the Germans to retire to the line south of Peronne, the
to retreat north of the Somme, whether the enemy will make a stand
is problematical, but his best line would seem to be north of the Canal
du Nord which runs northeast from Peronne. The canal curves east
five miles east of Bapaume, and crosses the old Hindenburg line near
llavrincourt seven miles east of Bapaume.
STOUT RESISTANCE
The canal du Xord extends across the Picard batlefield in a general
north and south directioi, and the fact that the. Germans are aft'ering
stout resistance to the French south of the Somme would indicate
the probability that they may attempt to stand ou the line of the
canal. Xoyon, the southern end of the canal, was carried after heavy
fighting and the Germans are contesting bitterly the occupation of
the heights mrrtheast of Bapaume.
A NEW MOVE
General Mangin's move in crosing thfv AUete ajid the France
American progress nortli of the Aisne, may be the beginning of a
(Continued' on Page Three.)
LAST EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NEARING PERONNE I.
With the British Army, (noon) Aug. 30.—Biaches, on the south
bank of the Somme, and about a mile from Peronne, has been cap­
tured by Field Marshal Haig's forces. British troops have entered
Lesboeufs and patrols have passed through Morval to the southeast.