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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
10000 FARMERS in
WASHINGTON ENTER
. PRODUCTION CAMPAIGN
Big Contest Being Led by U. S.
Department of Agriculture
and County Agents.

Pullman, Wash. April 3.-More
then 10000 farmers on at least sew
enty-five thousand Washington farms
in the last days of March entered up
on the greater production campaign
led in Washington by the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the state College Of Washington act
ing through the county agricultural
agents in the different counties and
their cooperating agencies. Accord
ing to the government plans under
which the state college is acting. the
county agriculturist is the leader of
food production work in his own
county. Thirty eight, of these men
are now employed in the thirty-nine
counties Of Washington.
The opening Of spring farming
work in Washington marks the clos
ing days of the statewide agricul-
tural census dealing mainly with la
Dor, seed, livestock. and crop acre
age which in recent weeks the county
agriculturists have been conducting
in their own counties preliminary to
the opening Of the greater production
campaign. Data and estimates now
in hand, which include the names of
most Of the leading farmers in each
county. together with their equip
nent for farming and land acreage.
show over and above the 1910 CEN
s,,s estimates of $4,000 farms in
Washington. no. less than seventy FIVE
thousand farms at present. and a
corresponding increase in the number
of people engaged in farming.
The most active help the county
agriculturists have received in max
ing the farm survey in their respec-
tive counties have been from the
farmers themselves. working through
such groups Of their own as the
oranges and farmers unions. cooper
alive marketing associations. live
stock associations. cow testing aseo-
Citations. fruit-growers organizations.
farm Joan associations :. vegetable
growers associations. breeders. poul-
try, and hay-growers' organizations,
creamerfes. milk pro-
ducers' associations, and others of
this kind. In seventeen Of the coun-
ties containing county agrtculturists,
the above named groups have CEN
tralixed their endeavOrs through a
county agricultural council or
similar working group or-committee.
This county agricultural council un-
der the war-production plans Of the
present spring will act with the
county agriculturist in both an adj
'yisory and cooperative way. Their
organization. corporation, and help
is sought In every county on the
grounds that they help an can no 9TH
.er agency Z II, Z keeping before the
farmers the fact that 1t IL upon them
that rests the success or 4ailure OF
the nations war-produetion can.-
sYpiEn - a. S5 iit,sss
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
TEACHERS HOLDING
CONVENTION IN
SPOK KANE, WASH,

Spokane. Wash., April School
teachers are here today. for the open
ing session OF; the twentieth annual
meeting Of the Inland Empire Teach.
ers' association. Schools. colleges
and Universities Of Idaho, Montana,
oregon and Washington are repre-
sentedss5 The meeting will continue
until Friday afternoon.
j. A. Churchill bf Salem. Ore, fSu-
perintendent OF Public INSTRUCTION Of
oregon. 10 president OF the, aAsocia-7
tion, and will deliver his address at
tho first session. James r. Hosic, Of
the Chicago Normal school and Sec,
retary Of the National Council OF
English teachers. is to speak on The
social Point OF View ii teachlng.'' ( (
Many sectional j, meetings. will / be
held, each teacher Of . certain sub
ject will meet with others interested
in the Same subject but at certain
times during the session all delegates
will attend the general meetings.
The viAting teacherx will be given
"A banquet and tendersd reception
tonight. Tomorrow nilht DR.. will
lam 4. Foster Of Reed C0lleGe, Port
land and DR.. 81 B, u &Penro1e Of
Whitlan college, Walla WAlia i viii be
the principai spealers at, . general
nesting iS ~ N stss
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Ct / OF /
DAILY CASUALTY
LIST STOPPED
Definite Interpretation From
Secretary Baker is
~ Awaited.

. !. J. 4-ts - & ri.
Washington. April 3.-Major Cen
eral March, acting chief Of staff, to-
day directed that issue of the daily
casualty list here be suspended,
pending definite Interpretation from
Secretary Baker as to whether 1t is
forbidden by his new order providing
that General Pershing's headuarters
shall issue all news relating to the
troops in France. A5ss =
The war department does not be-
lieve the order Is intended to preclude
issuing these lists in Washington and
expects to resume them as soon as
Secretary Baker confirms this under
standing of the order.
Officials here see no reason why
publication of casualties through the
war department should not be con-
ttnued as formerly. If the lists are
to be given out abroad and carried
over by press cables there. will be
great duplication and an added bur-
den on the already overworked wire
facilities.
1t was pointed out that casualty
lists from the forces now being ANAL
gamated with the French and British
armies at the battle front necessarily
will be slow in arriving. It may be
weeks before the names are availa BILE
through British and French commun-
ication channels to American head
quarters. For that reason it is OBJ
vious. officials say. that publication
could disclose nothing of military
value to the enemy. Z
Lists from General Pershing's own
army will be available as quickly as
| heretofore since only American COM
| munication lines are involved in the
| transmission.
| The war department had not re-
ceived any amplification of Secretary
Bakers terse direction, that here
after all information regarding Amer.
ican forces in France be given out
through America n Headquarters there
The text of the order, made public
yesterday, is in the form of a mem
orandum. from General March trans
mitted to all bureau chiefs for their
/ information and guidance. Until the
situation has been cleared up and the
desires of General Pershing are
known in detail, the war department
is under orders to give out nothing
whatever regarding the American
units abroad.
| 1t is assumed that for some time a,
4 least the only news, Of the operations
of American troops with the British
and French armies will come through
British and French official statements
| Presumably. in view Of the new or.
der General Pcrshing will begin with.
out delay the issuan nee Of formal daih
statements, covering the Operations ol
MS. own men. J.. az ~ d -
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CIVIL SERVICE COST
$500. 600, 900 IN ENGLAND.

London April 3,-The sum of
$500 0O0, 900 was expended in MAIN
4taining the civil services in Great
Britain for the past year. says an ofh-
icial announcement. This includes the
sums spent on the kings palaces. Im-
mense excesses Of expenditure, over
the amounts originally estimated are
accounted for by war bonuses. in
creased cost Of labor and material.
and the higher cost Of food. y.
In some items there are consider.
able: savings. Il Members Of tparlia-
tment turned back their salaries to
tho. amount Of: $4,000 There Is a
saving In the estimstes for prisons,
due to the decrease IN, the number
OF prisoners ReformAt tories and Sim
liar institutions however. cost, more,
owing to . alarRsr number of Juvenile
delinquents. There were. onsiderable
aavings IN the diplomatic and COM
sular service due to the withdrawal
Of missions from enemy countries,
Another side of the war is reflect
ed n ! an a, ten r . e . 9, foE warrant re-
hood. 4. IN Il, 81 I y u 81
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garians. We, however, have no de-
sire to destroy Serbia. We will en-
able, Serbia to develop and would
welcome closer economic relations
with her"
Count Czernin, Austro- Hungarian
foreign minister in an address to the
Vienna municipal council Tuesday,
France had asked Austria Hungary
on what basis she would negotiate
peace, according to a dispatch from
The Hague to the Daily Mail Aus
tria replied that the only obstacle to
peace with France was Alsace-Lor-
raine and Premier Clemenceau said
that{it was impossible to negotiate on
that basis.
"Thereupon there was no choice
left" continued Count Czernins ad-
dress. The colossal struggle in the
Hungarian and German troops are
fighting shoulder to shoulder. Come
what may we will not sacrifice Ger
many's interests any more than she
will leave us in the lurch. We are
not fighting for imperialistic or an
nexationist aims for ourselves or for
Germany"
The Austro- Hungarian foreign
minister. according to an Amsterdam
clared also that he had an earnest de-
sire for peace and ,that his country
wished to avoid any further military
offensive. After referring to his re-.
ply to Premier Clemenceau regarding
Alsace-Lorraine, he said that Austria
would insist on the status quo, add
ing:
Italy are Utopias which will be terri
/ bly, avenged"
| Count Czernin declared he did not
believe that President Wilson In his
recent address really desired to cause
a. separation between Vienna and
Berlin, because the president knew
that such a thing was impossible.
The count added that President Will
son probably saw that Austria Hun
gary was more favorable toward
peace than Germany.
4 Paris, April 3.-"CzeEnin lied" This
! is all Premier Clemcnceau had to say
i when told today of the statement of
Count Czernin that he had inquired
through an intermediary whether
! Austria Hungary was ready to nego-
tiate and if SO on what basis. The
premier departed from Paris for tho
front this morning and learned OF
/ Count Czernins speech on his arriva!
there.
! Count Czernin's decla ration that
Austria Hungary almost was on the
/ point Of beginning peace negotiations
was branded by officials as false. IT
was said that no suggestions of sucn
q discussion had reached Washington
and that if they had been made this
government would have been In.
4 formed.
lFI Officials characterized the foreign
ministers speech as "A ''feeler." which
probably would be followed by some
declaration or announcement in Ger
many. Fl -.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
SELECTION SCI j . !; I | | | N !. OF I
JURY WILL !! / Be
STARTED / TODAY
Fifty More State Why They
Should Not Act in I. w.
w. Case.

y Il + i 4 Il +
Questioning of prospcctivefjurorsjin in
the total of l12 leaders of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, charged
with conspiracy to block Americas s
war plans, got under way in federal
court today after SS of 200rventremen,
summoned in the last three days had
been excused. &
Such questions as .,Do you read
German" and do you belong to any
German society or subscribe to. ANT
German publications?'' were put to
the first twelve men examined by Dis.
trict Attorney Charles i. Clyne.
This is a criminal Casa case OF
America on one side and William d.
Haywood. ct al, on the other" he said
in explaining the. charges against the
defendants under the espionage act.
The prisoners then stood before the
veniremen, one by one for identifica
tian.s after which questions were asked
as to sympathies for the accused.
1t was predicted that the jury would
be completed and the most unusual
criminal case in the nations history
be under way in two days. ,3
All defendants were present. They
had abandoned their boisterous spirit
and were dewncast. some of the lead
ers said. because of delays caused by
illness the first two days of the trial.
The indisposed prisoners We're
brought into court. lt,
The prisoners were supplied with
copies of the Defense News Bulle-
tin" an organization publication, in
cleaning streamers announced the
''rtial of our social system is on" add
ing that defense funds were badly
needed. Copies Of the "Liberator," a
publication by Max Eastman. also
were brought into court by the pris-
oners.
Reports were current that the
growing unrest among the prisoners
in court was due to the fact that they
were not permitted to chew tobacco.
Later yudge lands turned to the
clerk and said:
II want sixty metal cuspidors in
this court room in two hours These
men have right to chew tobacco and
must not be deprived Of that com
FORT Y
Chicago, April 3.-Fifty additional
vcniremen, making a total of, 20u
Summoned in three days. were per-
1nitted to present reasons today why
they should not. serve on the jury
that is to try more than one hundred
tine World for alleged violation of the
espionage act.
Il vas expected that actual selec-
t;cn cf a jury would begin before adj
i.urnment Of Judge Lands court to-
night. eg
Illness among some Of the prison
ers has caused delays in the pro.
cer..inga and the government is. con.
siderin:: the advisa bility OF tSngaEfns
"A, J.u1.he 4 Of phSsiNians sto attend thu
defendants during the long trial ~.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
ALLIED RESERVES ARE
PRACTICALLY INTACT.
Local Attacks Of Little Importance Keep Outpost on Both
Sides Busy-Aled Lines Holding strong against
New Thrust-Teuton Lines Pushed Back Some
By British and French Forces

Local attacks the battlefront in Northern yester-
day and last night kept both sides fairly busy the
while back of the lines the preparations
indicated renewal of the engagement scale.
Fortified by the that the powerful allied
virtually intact and by apparent evidences Of
nervousness the crisis approaches opinion
OUTLOOK hopefully.
Reports from the field show the allied lines holding
against newyaunched tentative hrusts there
at two three points the British forces able
push back the hostile line for short distances operations
improve the tactical position.
This resulted notably the British side in
occupation of the town of Ayettebelow Arras-whh the
Germans few days declared had
forces and in attempting hold which they heavy
sacrifices On the French sde the notable gain
salient north of Peont where
the French position appeciaby extended French
repulsed German attack south Moreu and the
of the Germans who assaulted Fampoux northern
part of the battle
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
Late Election Reports

La Crosse, Wis. April 3.-Complete
returns from Buffalo county give
Lenroot 1924; Davies 500; Berger
$50.
Twenty out of twenty-seven pre-
cincts in Jackson county give Len
root 1857; Davies $50 and Berger
1872.
Oshkosh, Wis, April 3.-Complete
returns from all precincts in Winnie
bago county give the following:
1884; Davies plufa1it. 335; Rosen-
berry. 6,O22; Cronwhart, lass; Ros-
enberry's majority. 3;0S3. ;
Rev. A. G. McHenry; -Universalist
minister. was elected mayor Of Osh-
kosh over Peter L. Marden by a ma
jority of 1889. =
This city voted 3,S26 for license,
1888 against license. majority for
the vets of 2.1Ss. The vote in other
parts of. the county on local option
was: Menasha city went wet by 522
Neenah city went wet by 49,, town Of
Aigoma went wet by Al, town of Win
neconne went dry by Is. Winneconne
Village went wet by 27 Votes
Crandon, Wis, April 3.-With one
precinct missing in Forest county. the
vote in the senatorial election stood:
Lenroot 754; Davies S72; Berger 1874.
Whitehall, Wis. April 3.-Complete
returns n-Trempealeau county, an
nounced at $3.50 n. M, today give Len
root 1886; Davies 1.136: Berger 253
The village of Trempealeau went dry
by 80 votes ousting two saloons, while
Independence went wet, retaining
fhYno q lnanS voto NF 10
Racine. Wis, April 3.-Revised re-
turns from Racine county tcomplete)
for United States senator give: Davies
3,599; Lenroot 4.179; Berger 1903
Judicial: Crownhart 3,433; Rosen-
berry 4,662. ~
On the issue of municipal coal
yard the voters carried the bond by
an overwhelming majority.
Green Bay. Wis, April 3.-Revised
senatorial election yesterday give:
Davies 5,s7s; Lenroot 3,342; Berg
er 1908: Rosenberg 6,175; Crown
hart 1851.
Milwaukee, Wis. April s.-With
four precincts not heard from the
vote of Milwaukee, both cityi and
county was: -
Lenroot 15,442: Davies, 2s,ss7:
Berger, 31,907.
Milwaukee, Wis., April a.-Unoff1-
cial returns from 66 out of the II
counties in Wisconsin including II
counties with complete returns and.
all OF Milwaukee county and city ex-
cept four precincts gave:
Lenroot 1"s,02S; Davies 12o,2s6;
Berger s7,O96.
Madison. Wis. April 3.-Complete
unofficial returns from Dane county
give Lenroot 1904. Davies 5,627. Ber-
ger 1854. For justice OF the SUI
preme court, Crownhart SOIL and
RoSenherry G,6lo .L-A-
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PLANS TO
BEGIN TRAINING

Chicago. April. 3-Jess Willard.
champion heavyweight. pugilist, who
is just back from Baltimore where
he held conference with Colin c.,
Miller III omoter Of the proposed fight
July a. between Fred Fulton and
himself. planned to begin light train
ing today. He was uncertain how,
long he would remain in Chicago, but
said he intended to. do his heavy
training at. his home. in Lawrence,
kans., where he has plans for q
mnasiumS on his farm. ESSJ@
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
FRENCH WAR CROSSES
AWARDED TOslJ. S. 4
SOLDIERS IN FIR ANCE

Paris, April 3.-Corporal Elmer
Narlund and Private Raymond Hun
ter of section 645 Of the United States
army ambulance service and Private
Perrin III. Long and Ethelbert w. Lowe
of section 63S have been awarded the
French war cross. Section 629 has
been commended in the divisional or
ders.
\: Reports from the front say the
American ambulance service has been
doing excellent work in the big bat='
tie. u
There have been but few losses in
the many sections engaged
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TWO ALLY VESSELS
HIT FIFTY MEN
REP r TED MISSING.

/. London, April 3.-Ii,e steamer
C0marxO Wns & tArpedOed In the
Irish 500 ON Sunday mdrnihg, &C.
cOrdinx To- tho Evening News To-.
day. 5s;; Z ~. s.. 5;s ~ s
This vesea Is = british steanacr
OF. AHA toms GrOsa and owned by
the CoEnnl0nWealth or Austfalia.D y lsgs
Al abOnt thc same ~ timc. the
ucwSpaper states. d tlie Grcekl
steamer EalAminia Of 81 IL tons
WAs ennk ~ guniltc. rs Z
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
ANGUS MCDONALD
NAMED TREASURER
FOR R. R. BOARD

Washington. April s.--Angus d. Nc
and controller Of the Southern Pacific.
was appointed today by Director Cen
eral McAdoo as,1treasurer. for the rail-
road administration. He will have
charge of the 100000, 900 revolving
fund and of financial transactions be-
tween individual companies and the
railroad administration.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
INDICATIONS OF
STRIKE AT ITALY,
DECLARES MAURICE

London. April aa.-"Thcre are in.
J dications that an Austrian attack
on Italy Is In preparation and we
shall not be surprised II It devel-
ops before long. = said Major Gem
cral +. b. Maurice. chief director
Of military operations at tho war
Office. in his weekly talk today.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03
COUNT CZERNlN DECLARES NO
NEGOTIATED PEACE CAN COME
BETWEEN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA

4 London, April a. Austria Hun
gary was recently almost on the
point" of beginning peace negotiations
with the entente. Count Czernin, the
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister
declared yesterday in an address to
the Vienna municipal council. The
wind suddenly veered'' he added,
the entente deciding to await devel-
opments in his country which saused
it to hope that the dual monarchy
would soon be defenseless. The
foreign minister's words were:
sgE Recently we were almost on the
>point of entering into negotiations
with the western powers. when the
wind suddenly veered around. and, as
we know with certainty, the entente
decided it had better wait. as parlia
mentary and political events in our
country justified the hope that the
monarchy would soon be defenseless.' =
Washington Opinion. Y
Washington. April 3.-Count Czern-
ms statement that France had sug-
gested peace discussions with Austria
Hungary was characterized by officials
here today as the beginning of a new
German peace offensive with the Aus
tro Hungarian foreign minister act
ing at Germany's behest.
The speech of Count Czernin. it was
declared, was a political maneuver
, designed to spread the impression III
the allied countries that the allied
governments are fighting solely to re-
cover sAlsace-Lorraine. The peace
move. they said was timed to follow
the breakdown Of the Teutonic mili-
tary Offensive.
Any Teutonic suggestions that the
time for peace discussions is near at
hand will find nothing but a negative
response in America.
At the state department it was made
clear today, that officials of this gov
crnmcnt do not believe the present
great engagement inS Europe will re-
capitals orr among the people of the
nations at war against Germany. Count
Czernin's statement that Premier
Clemenceau had indicated a willing
ness to discuss peace was not given
credence. 1t was believed that a will
full misinterpretation had been given
; to some statement Of the French pre-
mier for the purpose of securing a
favorable reaction in France and her
co-belligerents.
| London. April 3.z-'I do not intend
to go begging for peace or to obtain
it by entreaties and lamentations, but
to. enforce it by our moral right and
physical strength" Count Czernin.
the Austro- Hungarian foreign minis
ter. declared in an address to the Nt=
emma municipal council on Tuesday.
1.Ank other tactics l consider will
contribute to the prolongation of the
war" s5'
/ In regard to Bulgaria's claims
against Serbia the foreign minister
said :3. ss:s "a 5s.
Bulgaria plist receive from Serbia
,fcertain .distffcta inhslSAa BY l' Bull
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-03

Military operations are al
most at an ominous stand
still on the sixty mile front
from Arras to Chauny. At
any hour the battle may
again burst madly over the
plain of Picardy.
Their great attack stem
med, with heavy losses. the
German leaders probably are
preparing for another plunge
toward Amiens, and. British
and French esbusy prepar- T
ing for the next great effort.
Both armies arc confident
that the German attempts to
separate the British and
French will continue futile.
There is mucl, significance
in the announcement that the
allied reserve army is still
intact. This is the army of
which General Focl1 had im-
mediate command and which
it was thought might be used
in a counter offensive. Mean
while, more than 100000
American soldiers are march
ing forward to the front. 1t is
announced that American
aviation mechanics have been
assisting the British airmen
OH the battlefront.
Tuesday the Germans
made no attacks north or
south of the Sornme. North
of Albert, the British cap
tured an enemy post. In the
south, the artillery lombard
ment was heavy between
Montdidier and Noyon while
further east German detach-
ments were driven back
from the Disc.
Small attacks have been
repulsed by the French in
the Woevre and in upper Al
SAGE. In Flanders there has
been the usual artillery ac-
tivity. Germans have been
bombarding the American
sector northwest OF Toul
heavily. Inclement weather
is hindering operations on
the Italian front.