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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
FARMERS MAKE
LABOR REPORTS
Situation Studied in AID.
vance Of Harvesting
|. Season.

Farmers all over Grand Forks
county are being called upon this
week to furnish information as to
their requirements for labor for har-
vest and threshing. The local agents
in the various communities have been
furnished with forms for securing this
information and results are already
coming in. -.
In the vicinity Of Grand Forks the
farmers will bescailed up by ,tele-
phone from the Office. of the county
agent and asked tosfurnish the infor-
nation. Any farmers who do not
have phones are. requested to call at
the agents Office and give the in
formation as to their requirements for
labor during the coming season.
The primary object Of securing this
MACS of information is to give a
definite basis for advertising in. the
far away sections where there is some
labor at the present time. If it can. be
determined with a fair approximation
of the amount of labor needed. an ex-
tensive advertising campaign will be
carried on in northern Minnesota, H.
linois, Iowa, Nebraska and even as far
east as New York and. also on the Pa
/. cifc coast.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
RATE HEARING
IS POSTPONED
|! INDEFINITELY
Investigation into Rates
Charged by Power Co.
Il Called OFF.

Mt was oflcially announced today
that the hearing of the board of rail-
read commissioners which was to have
5been held tomorrow in this city for
the purpose of investigating the rates
charged by the Red River Power Co.
q gas and electricity, has been in
definitely postponed. This is the
third or fourth time that the hearing
has been delayed. The reason given
Tor the latest postponement was said
to be the illness Of the expert engi-
neer who was to make the valuation
upon which the investigation would
be based.
Another reason, quoted in a James
town dispatch, was said to be the
fact that the Grand Forks city au-
thorities were not prepared for the
hearing at this time.
City Is Ready.
In regard t. this, city officials
pointed oQt that such a statement
must rest upon misunderstanding
somewhere, for the city of Grand
Forks has been ready to proceed with
The hearing at any time the commits
stoners appointed.
There has been no delay caused by
n steps the city has taken, accord
Ing to one official. On the contrary,
everything possible has been done to
facilitate matters.
1t is true there has been a lack Of
understanding Of certain demands
made, seemingly not by the railroad
commission, but by a member of the
tax commission, to the effect that the
city defray the expenses of the expert
engineer who was to be engaged by
the commission for making a valu-
alton Of the local plant.
The matter came up for lengthy
discussion at the special meeting of
the council last Saturday, and at that
time the aldermen took the attitude
that if such demands were lawfully
objection on the part of the city to
meet them. On the other hand, City
Attorney Geo. A. Bangs said, when
asked for his view of the matter, that
he had never heard Of such proceed
tngs in any other state. He had gen.
orally supposed that where the state
appoints a committee with regulatory
power, it is up to the state to furnish
the experts whose work appears to be
indispensable in such investigations.
Was Going to jamestown.
It was finally agreed at the meeting
Saturday that the. city attorney go to
Jamestown where the commission was
expected to be in session, and that he
services Of the engineer. Mr.. Bangs
was authorized to say that the city
would be willing to stand its share of
the expenses, if necessary, up to a
certain limit.
Because of the most recent develop
ments, Mr.. Bangs abandoned the trip
and the matter for the time being is
completely at a %standstill. It had
been arranged that Mr.. Bangs should
be in Jamestown today and then re-
port to City Auditor W. H. Alexander
by telegraph or telephone so that a
special council meeting could be
called tonight or tomorrow morning
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
STECER WILL GIVE
ADDRESS in CITY
HALL WEDNESDAY

E. G. steger Of Minneapolis. special
lecturer for the home service section
Of the Red Cross. who Is delivering
regular lectures at the university this
week. will speak in the city hall We'd
nesday evening for the purpose Of &C
quainting the people Of this city with
some Of the features of work of the
home service section of the Red
Cross.
In the lecture of Wednesday eve
ming Mr.. Steger will tell about the
part the Red Cross plays in keeping
the people at home back of the boys
at the front, and the actual help the
Red Cross is to the boys "over
there" .
This lecture should be Of special
interest to the relatives Of all those
who, are in the military and naval
service. The lecture will be entirely
educational and no effort will be made
to raise money in connection with 1t.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
BOWLING CASE
E2 ~ ,
ENDED TODAY
~ ! =
Decision in Case Of Alleged
, Irish Traitor Will be
Announced Later.

London. July 4.-The court marital
OF CORPORAL Joseph Dowltng, who ~
seized ~ the British authorttisss sftsf
landing IN asasrman collapsibis boat
on the Irish coast, 40 concluded to-
iday. The svsrdlets VIII - promuisate4
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
intermediate stops being Cracow.
SLemberg and Proskurow.
AMERICAN OFFICER
KILLED IN AUTO
MSHAP IN FRANCE

Paris. July s.-captain Drew web
srtsr. An American infantry onacer.
suffered ,fatalTiajuries whsn5a military
automobile he VA driving couidsd
With another machine 81 vllisrs-sousL.
Gres. IA the department of Gotne-et.
Marine. according to tlasllahn. Cap-
5eean Webster died An ! hospital q
Fontainbleu sevefal hourss aftsr thc
eccldenta Ten French omcsrs who
were infthe other5carsw we're injured.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
WORLDS RECORD is
MADE in BUILDING -,
8,000-TON SHIPS

Belfast, ireland, July 9.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Workman, Clark
& Co.. local shipbuilders, have achiev-
ed a worlds record in completing an
8,0O0-ton standard ship in fifteen days
after h was launched.
The vessel was launched at 9
o'clock in the morning. By 8 o'clock
the sane evening all her engines and
boilers were in position.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
W ARRESTED I'M :.
CONNECTION WITH
~ -.
ASHLAND TAR ACT

Madison. Wis. July s.-Ephriam
Gay and George Buchanan. Ashland,
have been arrested in connection with
the Ashland tar and feather episodes,
according to announcement of At
torney General Spencer Haven today.
He said that William F. Shea, Ash
land, had been appointed as special
attorney to prosecute and that the
mass Of evidence had been gathered
by detectives appointed by Governor
Philip two months ago. Detective
reports fled with Haven implicate a
number Of other persons. Further
arrests are anticipated.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
Members OF Boston.
Wool Firm Arrested
On. Defraud Charge

Boston, July s.-William A. English
and John H. O'Brien, members Of the
on a federal Indictment charging con
spiracy to defraud the government of
income taxes. The indictment al
legged that the shortage through inn
proper accounting amounted to $780,
00o. Both pleaded not guilty and
were held in bonds of $25, 900 each.
Federal officials said it was. the ,Arst
case Of its kind to be brought to the
attention OF the grand Jury. &
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
SIN Harass Anstxiana

Vienna, July 9.-(Via London)-
The entente pressure against the Aus
TRAN lines in Albania is being con-
tinued by forces advancing across the
River Voyusa, according to today's
Office announcement. A gain of
ground by the French along the upper
Devoli 10 reported. Fighting also &
taking place in the interior southwest
of Berat.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09

just prior to the meeting OF the rails
road board here. All these arrange
ments have now been Upset.
The fee asked for the services Of
the expert engineer$who was to come
from Chicago, amounted to $50 a
day and would probably total 5000 or
more.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-09
PLENTY OF MONEY

Money seems to be quite plentiful
In this section of the country with
some. Last Monday William Pratt had
the misfortune to lose his p%ocketbook
containing about $275 in checks and
$50. in bills. while Herby Jaquay plow-
Cd his pocketbook under containing
$110.-Albion (Wash.) New Era.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Officers Chosen for
New Express Merger

Directors and officers for the new
American Railway Express Company
were elected yesterday at meeting
Of the incorporators, in the headquar-
ters of the company, at 65 Broadway.
Under contract with the Director
General of RAILROADS. the new organi-
zatio!: IS 20 assume control Of the op-
Grafton of practically all the express
lines in the United States after next
Monday, July l.
Formal steps were taken for the in
corporation of the new company, and
the following were elected directors:
Alexander J. Hemphill, Charles D. Nor
ton, Morton F. Plant, William NJ. Bar
rett, John G. Milburn, ]. Horace Hard
ing, James S. Alexander, George C.
Taylor, Charles A. Peabody, Henry W.
De Forest, Jacob H. Schiff and Burns
D. Caldwell.
One of the initial steps Of the board
of directors was the appointment of
an executive committee, composed of
Messrs. Peabody, Hemphill, Harding,
Barrett. Caldwell and Taylor. AS had
been anticipated, the election of Off
GERS of the new company resulted as
follows: B. d. Caldwell, chairman of
the board; George c. Taylor, presi-
dent; F. P. Small, secretary, and C. S.
Spencer, treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Taxpayers Oppose Levy

The Board of Estimate yesterday
received the protests Of 500 taxpayers
against the assessments levied upon
them for public improvements incident
to the construction Of the new dual
subway system. Some Of the petitions
dealt with the extension Of Seventh
Avenue.
NJ. ]. Mulqueen, for the taxpayers,
questioned the wisdom of taking Sew
enth Avenue as route in the subway
system. He declared that the route
might just as we'll have been laid out
through Hudson Street, which was of
sufficient width to have obviated the
necessity of resorting to Seventh Ave-
nue., where scores of buildings had to
be torn down to make way for the con-
struction work, and this in turn i'm
posed added burdens upon the tax
payers.
Other petitions taken up concerned
the opening and extending of Corona
Avenue and the widening and extend
ing of Rockaway Turnpike, in Queens,
and the acquisition Of title to a public
playground at Lorimer Street and
Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn. Decision
was reserved.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Vienna Is Dejected;
Prague Asks Peace

GENEVA, June 25.-"La Suisse" says
it learns the Austrian defeat in Italy
has caused profound detection in
Vienna, where demonstrations are tax.
ing place in the streets, and at Prague
where the inhabitants are demanding
peace.
The German newspapers are sarcas-
tic concerning the retreat of the Aus
trians. AS an example, the "Konstanz
Zeitung' asks, "Must German troops
be continually diverted from the i'm
portant Western front to bolster up
our weak allies" ?"
1t is reported the Germans have be-
gun to build a naval port at Triest
entirely independent of the Austrian
authorities, who were not consulted
The purpose is supposed to be the es.
tabllshment of German commerce ir
Austrian ports after the war. All the
commanding officers at Triest since the
loss of the Austrian dreadnoughts arc
German. The Austrians are only ir
nominal command.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Food War Urged
BY Lenine to Save
Starving Russians
(By The Associated Pyossl

MOSCOW, June 3.-The Central
Executive Committee and the Moscow
Executive Committee met yesterday to
consider the critical food shortage, and
were addressed by Nikolai Lenine and
Leon Trotzky, respectively the Boil
shevik Premier and War Minister, who
urged that civil wsr against rich peas
ants and village food spectators was
the only means for obtaining bread
tor the starving cities.
Lcnine urged that the fight against
hunger must be thoroughly centralized
and carried on by bread crusaders,
composed of workmen and the Red
Army sent by Thea Central Soviet to
villages to organize the poor peas
ants in their campaigns against rich
peasants.
Trotzky said the Red Army was un-
able to fight properly because of lack
Of food and that the counter-revolu-
tlonists Of all sorts were using hunger
as weapon to defeat the Soviet He
said the counter-revolutionist had en-
couraged the Czecho- -Slovak troubles,
which were aggravating the food
shortage by stopping Siberian grain.
"The next two or three months"
Trotzky concluded. "must be consid-
cred the hardest times for the Soviet
to pull through. The same men who
create all those troubles for us, who
have fooled the Szecho- -Slovaks, haye
the insolence to say, You are mad; you
are waging civil war when there is
nothing to eat
"'Do not play with hunger re-
tort. Don't play with hunger, your
self. This game may lead you too far.
DO not blame US then. We have shown
you already that we can fight, and we
will fight all our enemies. So, long
live civil war! Within three months vic
tOry will he ours }"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
600. The fiscal year has FIVE more days
to run
Subterfuges of Tax
Experts viii Cost u. S.
Millions in Reuenue

WASHINGTON, June 2b.-Contingent
fee agencies, commissioned by big tax
payers to file amended returns, in
which advantage is taken of all avail
able technicalities to reduce the as
sessment, arc operating extensively
throughout the United States, tending
to deprive the government Of millions
of dollars. These reports reached the
Internal Revenue Bureau to-day just
rs it was gathering in the last harvest
of income and excess profits taxes due
tonight at the latest.
Scores of men who have familiarized
them selves with technical phases of
the revenue law, particularly relating
to deductions allowable, are can
vassing concerns which have made
their returns and paid their taxes. 1T
is reported, proposing that they be en-
ployed to work out new returns, on
which the tax payment would be less,
and be compensated with percentage
cern. These agents then have the con-
Germs file amended returns and apply
for refund of the overpayment.
Tax officials are planning steps TO
stop the abuse of the system. There
is no legal objection, they point out, to
the employment of expert professional
advice in making out returns original
ly. or even in correcting gross errors
which cause injustice to taxpayers.
Some professional tax advisers, how
ever, have persuaded concerns virtual
ly to falsify records of salaries or
other expenses in order to increase ex-
emptions on which tax is not paid
Commissions of these tax experts range
up to 80 per cent. it is said.
More than 100000 tax certiti-
Gates of Indebtedness, issued during
the last six months, were due to-day
for payment, but nearly two-thirds of
the amount already has been turned in
to revenue collectors in payment Of
taxes. Officials looked for the redemp
tion of about half billion to-day, and
these will represent substantially the
last lump payment of income and ex-
cess profits taxes.
Taxes net paid to-day will be sub
ject to imposition of the penalty of S
per cent, and per cent month addi-
tOnal,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Bow Leads in Thrift
Drive at Jamaica
Norman F. Lane, Seven, Sells
SIS, 900 Worth of Stamps and
Has Just Started

The champion thrift stamp salesman
Of Jamaica, Long Island, is Norman
Francis Lane. seven years old. And he
just recently arrived at that august
age, at that
In five weeks Lane has sold 10000
stamps-S5,0O0 worth-and he is just
really getting into his stride. as he will
tell you himself Much of the time dur
ing the last two weeks the youngster
has spent in securing regular custom
ers for the stamps, and he expects to
have clientele which will enable him
to turn over considerably more than
$1,000 each week to the government.
Norman is the son of a representa-
tive of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. That organization recently
pledged itself to dispose Of s65,OOo,O 900
worth of stamps. and the youngster
started in to help his father dispose OF
the share allotted him. The boy soon
outdstanced his father, however. and
is to-day not only Jamaica's champion
salesman, but is said as we'll to be the
champion of the insurance company.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
2 Ships Launched
In 81 Minutes
At Jersey Yard

kEARNY, N. j., June 25.-The first
double launching to take place at any
shipyard in the Eastern section of the
country took place to-day in the yards
Of the Foundation Ship Company.
Without a single untoward incident the
S,500-ton wooden cargo ships Condaree
and Coweta were sent down the ways
this morning into the Passaic River.
just thlrty-one minutes apart These
make four ships Of similar tonnage to
be launched in this yard within a few
weeks.
A loosened blocl. which inflicted a
slight cut in the head of one of the
workmen was the only incident to mark
the launching of either ship as being at
all different from that Of scores of
others that have been floated the last
few weeks. The launchings took place
almost on the minute they were sched
uled for.
The Condaree was christened by Mrs.
w. c.. Hudson, wife of the district
superintendent of the Shipping Board,
and the Coweta by Mrs. Robert Z. Tor.
renee, wife of the Mayor of Kearny,
The two newest vessels to be added
to tire fast growing fleet of the United
States Shipping Board are PSI feet
long, 26 feet deep and 46 feet beam.
They are part Of a large fleet of similar
ships to be launched duringl the next
few months from the same yards.
/, Following the launching honor badges
were presented to eighty seven work
men employed in the yards. The
medals were inscribed on the main sur
face Omitted States War Service Shin
builder" Beneath. on separate bars.
we're the names of the four ships on
which the men have worked.
Colncident with the double launch.
ing. the Accoma. launched few weeks
ago, began its maiden voyage, leaving
here for the Brooklyn navy yard. In.
terest was particularly keen in the sail
ing of the Accoma, as the police nov.
have under arrest a man, charged with
sedition. who, they believe, intended to
injure the ship.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Women's Motor Corps
To Help City Hospitals

There will be no excuse for the hos.
pitfalls Of the city in the future to re-
fuse calls because of lack of ambu-
lances or chautfeurs to operate them,
as has happened frequently under war
conditions. The Motor Corps of Amer
ica, made up of patriotic women, yester-
day placed it's equipment at the dis
vice for emergency assignments to the
hospitals. Each member of this corps
is competent chauffeur, with state
license.
The Ambulance Board, Of which Po-
lice Commissioners Enright is president,
yesterday notified the hospitals that it
had accepted the offer, and that an
ambulance would be sent to any hos
pital when needed. Women chauffeurs
also will drive the hospital ambulances
when hospital chauffeurs are not avail
ah1a
New-York tribune., 1918-06-26
Sixty-hve Per Cent
Of Pershing's Men
Are Co1nbatants
First Division Has Ex-
panded to Fighting Force
of 65O,OOO Men

WASHINGTON, June 25.-The iirst
division of the American army landed
in France one year ago tomorrow
eighteen days after General Pershing
reached French soil. In the twelve
months that have since elapsed this di-
vision has grown to an army in size,
and by July 100000 men, all told, will
have been sent forward.
Behind this 100000. another 1,OO0,-
900 men are in camps and canton
ments, equipped and eager to move,
and behind these third million will
rapidly fill up the gaps left at home
as the divisions sail for the front in an
endless stream.
Secretary Baker estimated to-day
that between 65 and 70 per cent OF
the men already shipped are combat
ant troops in the strictest sense of the
word. The first division has now been
expanded to fighting force of $4,000
men, backed by an organization of the
supply and transport lines that 1t takes
250,00O men to make effective.
On this basis it is clear that General
Pershing now has under lis command
comprising eighteen infantry divisions
with all necessary auxiliary troops. Sc
tar as known, there has been no op'
portunity ye, for the actual formation
Of this army as military unit. The
whole force has been in training, offi-
GERS and men, but the day is probably
rot distant when it will be possible foi
General Pershing to assemble his firs'
army, which will be veteran fightlng
force,
American troops are now noialhe
sectors of varying lengths in at leass
six places on the battle line, 10 mee'
the emergency presented by the Yer yer.
man drive, however, they have been
drawn away from the sector formally
assigned to the United States and are
face to face with the enemy on
the Marine, in Picardy and in Flanders
Americans Hold Right Flank
The real American sectors, however,
tle front. From within sight of the
Swiss border where they stand or
German soil almost to the shadows oi
the battered fortress of Verdun, Amer
ican troops are in the trenches.
There never has been an official
statement of the vast scheme of Amer
lean participation in the war, but the
scope of the plan now begins to become
apparent.
The location of the strictly Ameri-
can sectors makes it appear that the
whole project rests on the assignment
to the United States Of the task OF
holding the right flank, as British
armies hold the left, leading to The
Channel ports. leaving France free to
concentrate all her armies in the Sec
tor along the road to Paris.
In addition to 5000 miles Of sea be.
tween the United States and the ports
through which her armies and supplies
must reach the front. the Americans
have had to prepare more than 60(
miles of railway. Never in history has
such an enterprise been attempted. In
his statement to-day, Secretary Baker
who has personally inspected the great
task that has been done abroad. said:
"The achievements of the past year
have been entirely satisfactory"