SEMI-WETXLT JOURNAL.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, lfi 13.
PACE 21 X
FLATTSMOUTH
REDS ROUSED
TOO LATE TO
STOP INVADER
SLAV ARMY DEBACLE COMPLET
ED WITH AUTHORITY OVER
UNITS UTTERLY GONE.
RUSS SOLDIERS DESERTING
Lenine and Krylenko Order Guerilla
Warfare Be Carried
On.
Fifth Corps Ears Retreat of Army
London. IYb. 22. A dispatch to
Hi.' Kxchange Telegraph from Petro-
yr.nl. dated Thursday, says:
"The retirement of the northern
. rmy is complicated by the fact that
i !! fifth armv is barring the road.
!U'iitiih-ring it in disorderly retreat
To save the situation the bolsheviki
are sending lied guard detachments
from units which are not entirely
is organized.
INnding the flernian reply to
Tro'zky's pe:c offer, the commander
i f the western front has ordered the
retiring armies to avoid fighting
Aiih the enemy and to destroy their
:.Tni'mnit ion."
Facing absolute subjection at the
l:2!iiN of the advancing Germans, the
Husian premier and commander-in-hif
have tak-n what steps they
could to initiate at least a nominal
defense acrainst the invaders of their
country.
Ord-rs directing that guerilla war
fire In carried on and placing Pet-n-grad
in a state of siege have been
i--o;"d by Lenine and Krylenko and
ir ! expected that t!ie Germans will
j.-.-et with some resistance before
long.
That the Teutons can be temporar
ily checked, however, is doubted,
v. n in IVtrograd. The Russian ar
my's debacle aparntly is so com
plt'e that there is no shadow of
authority over its units.
r.-rlin reports that the first
II- 'hs.r.iun regiment lias deserted in
. !niy and offered its services to
(lerinaii -ommander, who is
operating in the northernmost Baltic
province.
Navy Disorganized.
The Russ;an navy, too. is eor.i-t..t.-!y
disorganized and, while it is
d. -sired to withdraw the warships
from Ucval and 1 lei. ingforst to
Kron-tadt. it believed that this
Iteration is impossible, in view of
t!i" disuse into which the Raltic
fleet has fallen. Only the submar
ine boats are in a seaworthy condi
tion, it i reported.
There is as yet no definite ad
vires as to the rumored fall of the
Lenine-Trotzky government. The
proclamation directing that resist
ance ! offered to the German ad
vanre. however, did not bear the
name of Trotzky. who hitherto had
been a virtual dictator, which may
be significant. ,
Germans Push Still Further.
The Germans have pushed still
further cast ward in the part twewey
four hours. In the fr north. .ho
village of llapsal. on the .south coast
1 HASTTC SELVAGE EDGE
(cannot uavcl)
ELASTIC RIB
(EASY ON AND H013S UP SOCK)
CTTNrr.Drrn era .iniMT -
(PREVENTS BREAKING A-LADDIRlNi)
TINE GAUZE TEXTURE
SILK-LISLE THREAD
(cool and sightly)
FtRMANENT BRILL! ANT
SILK-LUSTRE
-STRICTLY SAMTAHT LYE THROUGHOUT
SNUG ANKLE TIT
j i
(NEVER BAGS EITHER
BEFORE CRAFTTR LAUNSERtNC I
tiO WRINKLES ANYWHERE
TO E "3 H ft E L
NO EqUAl. FOP. WEAR
DOUBLE TO PREYTNT
SHOE CREASES
CUTTJN'3 TO? Ql I-COT
Philip
Siimuom, &y
; .-CI
of the Gulf of Finland, has been
captured.
Further south the city Ileiscbitsa,
nbont 1(10 miles east of Riga, has
been entered bv the Teutons, Who
report that they were welcomed hy
the neonle. Still further south the
village of Lcuzin. east of Minsk, has
been taken.
It is noticeable tlmt the German
official reports are silent a.s to any
progress in the region of Lutsk, but
Austrian troops, under General von
Linsingen, who "are aiding Ukraine
in her struggle for freedom," accord
ing to the Tierlin report, have moved
eastward and have joined forces with
Ukrainian forces which are converg
ing on the fortress of Dubno.
Cry Victory or Death.
Petrograd, Feb. 22. "If the Ger
mans refuse peace to Russia a strug
gle to the death or victory for us is
inevitable," says an official state
ment issued today. "The people's
heroism must be opposed to the ad-
ancing enemy." it is declared.
The statement says that detach
ments of 1,000 to l.aOO strong,
lightly armed and able to entrench
quickly and attack determinedly, will
be able to stop the German advance.
What is characterized as "real revo
lutionary mobilization" has been ord
ered. Ensign Krylenko, bolsheviki commander-in-chief,
says that if the peo
ple succeed in throwing against the
enemy concentrated masses of revo
lutionary citizens, who, not onW in
accordance with military strategy
but also secretly, from every corner,
every where, in small detachments
and large battalions, will struggle
for every town, village, street anil
house, then there are no forces which
the Germans can successfully oppose
against them.
All Must Work On Trenches.
The statement says that all able
bodjed men must be ordered to work
on fortifications and in the con
struction of obstacles along all the
routes of the German advance. Any
boiirgeoise who resists must be tried
and forciblv compelled to work.
Resignation facilities for the revolu
tionary army have been opened at all
local councils and with the staffs of
the red army.
It is added that arms will be de
livered bv localities.
Revolutionary discipline mint be
brought to t ho highest degree of effi
ciency by the handing over to the
revolutionary tribunals all who do
not obey the order.
"All to arms! All to the defense
of the revolution," says the state
ment.
A general mobilization for the dig
ging of trenches is ordered. The
ggcrc will be under the orders of
the councils and everv detachment
will be commanded by responsible
commissaries with unlimited powers.
Mrs. K. R. Darker, of Plain view.
who has been visiting in this city
for the past few days at the home
cf her parents W. A. O'Neill and wife
departed this morning for Omaha,
where she goes to meet Mr. Rarker.
who cane to Omaha a few days since
when Mrs. Rarker also came, and
had been looking after some busi
ness there and visiting with their
children who are attending school
there. They will visit for a time
with the children before returning
to their home at Plainview.
Lafe Gilmour departed this after
noon for Omaha, where he is visiting
at his home over Sundav.
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NO LACK OF
gars exists
now, mpadoo
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAIL
ROADS HITS FAMINE CRY
SQUARELY ON HEAD
ASKS HOOVER TO SPEAK UP
Says Transportation Facilities Will
be Coming Forthwith to Move
All Needed Supplies.
Washington, Feb. 22. Director
General McAdo today gave assur
ance "that so tar as transportation
is concerned, there is no danger of
suffering from a serious food sbort-
ige in the eastern part of the coun
try."
This was prompted by the warn
ing given last night of Food Ad
ministrator Hoover that unless grain
and meat movement is greatly in
creased in the next CO days, the
country is threatened with an acute
shortage of food, and the program of
food shipments to the allies will fail.
Eeraands Information
In a letter to Mr. Hover the di
rector-general declared that if the
food administration will give defi
nite information on the location of
stocks of supplies intended for the
allies the railroads will move them
promptly to seaboard. .
Simultaneously the railroad admin
istration gave out figures showing
that the movement of grain to pri
mary markets in the west within
the last 10 days was far greater than
in previous years.
Although declaring their desire to
avoid a controversy with the food ad
ministration, officials of the railroad
directorate today did not conceal
their belief that Mr. Hoover's state
ment was not borne out by facts
shown in their reports. Members of
Mr. McAdoo's staff assumed the at
titude that Mr. Hoover had dealt in
generalities, not supported by figures
or other evidence, showing such a
pessimistic outlook on future food
conditions.
Writing to Mr. Hoover, Mr. Mc
Adoo said:
Guarantees Transportation
"You are, as I understand it, the
sole purchaser in this country of
food supplies for the allied govern
ments. You must, therefore, know
the location of the food supplies,
which you, from time to time, pur
chase and the ports in this country
to which you desire such supplies
shipped.
"If you will notify me from time
to time of the location of the specific
supplies and the port or ports in the
United States to which you wish to
have such supplies transported, I
will guarantee the necessary trans
portation, subject alone to interrup
tion from blizzards and tloods.
"I wish to reassure the country by
saying that so far as transportation
is concerned there is no danger of
suffering from a serious food short
age in the eastern part of the coun
try."
The food administration, upon re
ceipt of the letter, issued this state
ment: Will Overcome Shortage.
"While Mr. Hoover is out of the
city, food administration officials
consider Mr. McAdoo's statement as
very reassuring, since it indicates
that further cars will be furnished
to western terminals and the short
age lrom the western terminals to
eastern territory now will be over
come, as uie raiiroau airecioraie
are evidently alive to the situation,
they will no doubt take all necessary
steps.
HOW HE GOT "BROWNIE'
Yesterday while speaking with
John W. Crabill the jeweler, he had
occasion to remark, that Maldon
Brown was with him for ten years
before going to the war. The con
versation came about, by the speak
ing of the matter of there being so
many people who are careless about
the matter of keeping a nice new
flag hanging out from their business
places and residences. And by the
way it i3 really a shame how some
people let an old dirty flag repre
sent them in their business, when a
nice clean new one could be put in
its place for a nominal sum, and the
doing of it.
Well to Brownie, Mr. Crabil! said
to Maldon's brother, tell your broth
er to come down and see me, maybe
I can give him some work. So it was
but a short time until Maldon ap
peared, and began to work for one
dollar per week, sweeping out. and
from that he went on, until he was a
fine jeweler and watchmaker. He
always manifested a uesire to have a
flag and at last gave up his place
with Mr. Crabill to go to the front.
When he went .to work he put all
he had into the job and succeeded in
advancing rapidly, and Mr. Crabill
was speaking about it nerer taking
him more than thirty minutes to go
to his meals and return.
VERY SICK AT HOME
Dorse Jordan, of near Cedar Creek
a son of J. M. Jordan, is confined to
his bed at the home of his parents
with leakage of the heart. The fath
er has been compelled most every day
to come to town for medicines and
supplies to care lor tne son. It is
thought that probably a specialist
will be secured.
C0NFERING WITH G. L. L00MIS.
(;. I). Quinton. sheriff of this
county was called to Omaha this af
ternoon, where he is conferring with
the revenue collector G. L. Loomis,
regarding the man Frank Luce, who
forged the name of Mr. Loomis to a
check which was issued by C. L
Herger for the payment of a book
At the hearing yesterday at Council
Bluffs the other young man was re
leased while Luce was held awaiting
the further investigation.
WILL SPEAK HERE THIS WEEK
Miss Eliabzeth Kelly, will speak
here this week on Conservation of
Food. The Federal Food Adminis
tration of Nebraska will send out
speakers of ability and who have the
experience, and knowledge to speak
with authority on the matter of the
food situation, and who can give the
requirements of the government on
the food situation, and reason why
such is. We may think and wonder
why things are so, but we must re
member we are in one of the worst
wars that the world ever knew.
The requirements are great and
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suss nu.Birrii Jvellhy
while we think we can see better
ways of doing than the ones the gov
ernment has ordained, we will have
to submit out ideas and desires to
that of the government.
Miss Kelly will speak here this
week on the situation as it is, not
as we would liek to be, it is stubborn
facts which face us and we have to
meet them as such come out and
hear this gifted speaker and know
the true situation.
Mrs. M. E. Buttery departed this
morning for Lincoln, where she goes
to visit with friends over Sunday.
During her stay, she will be a guest
at the home of John Buttery and
wife.
Edward Lack ton and wife, of
Galesburg, Illinois, who have been
visiting at the home of their uncle,
Wm. Shea, Sr., of this city, for the
past week, departed for their home
in the east this morning.
W. II. Bunch was a passenger to
Omaha this morning, where he is
looking after some business at the
Omaha office of the Grand Union
Tea company, he being a represen
tative in this city of that company.
William and Holland Sutton, sons
of W. H. Sutton, departed this morn
ing for Randolph, where they are
going to visit with their cousin. Ar
lando Niday for some time. and,
should they find profitable and agree
able employment there they will
stay for the summer.
G. S. B. Hicks of near Cullom, ar
rived in this city this morning to
look after some business in the city
for the day.
Miss Geraldine Smith arrived in
this city this morning and is visiting
at the home of Martin Steppart for
the holiday.
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W. A. ROBERTSON.
Lawyer.
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GERMANS PLAN AN
OTHER STRATEGIC
RETREAT SOON
NEW HINDENEURG LINE UNDER
CONSTRUCTION. INCLUDING
PART AMERICAN SECTOR ;
SHORTEN LINE 10 MILES.
London, Feb. 22. Petain's 11-mile
attack Wednesday near the Seille
river, in Lorraine, has added inter
est today with the news the Ger
mans in that part of the front have
prepared a new "Ilindenburg line."
It is far in the rear and appar
ently they are ready to fall back up
on the Fortress of Met., fro mthe St.
Mihiel salient this spring, as they
did from the Xoyon salient, further
west, a year ago.
Includes American Sector.
The part of the line they would
give up if this maneuver is carried
out. includes the sector near Xivray
and Seicheprey, held by American
troops.
The extreme depth of the retreat
on the center of the line involved
would be 25 miles. The new line
selected, running from near Etain,
due east of Verdun to near the
Rhine-Marne canal, where American
troops first went into action, would
be about CO miles long, replacing a
tortuous front about 20 miles longer.
Metz New Pivot.
The new line makes the great
fortress of Metz the pivot and gives
up all the Plain of Woevre. A cor
respondent in the field for Le Temps
of Paris has just visited this section
of the front. From Verdun -to Par-
roy the French hold all the high
ground and look across the plains to j
the east.
The German lines are in places on
the slopes of hills, and others in the
valley at the foot of steep declivities
the correspondent was able from the
high ground to see what he described
as a new "Hindenburg line."
Trenches Sea of Mud.
"Infact." he says, "the Germans
have finished or near finished here a
Hindenburg line, as elsewhere along ;
the front. From the heights of the '.
Meuse to the Mosele our muddy j
trenches are opposed by their trench
es, equally muddy, but behind their
trenches they have built their new
Hindenburg line, which cuts off en
tirely the St. Mihiel salient.
"The entrenched camp of Metz is
the pivot of the new line. South of
that point it passes through the forti
fied heights of Delme and joins the
present lines south of Chateau
Salins.
"Behind this new line the Ger
mans are concentrating large bodies
of troops between Metz and Sarre-
bourg. while there are still other
concentrations along the Rhine."
JERICO FALLS
INTO HANDS OF
BRITISH ARMY
TURKS SURRENDER HISTORICAL
BIBLE CITY WITH BUT VERY
LITTLE RESISTANCE
English Forces Advance Beyond Je
rusalem as Turks Retreat
Australians Victors.
London. Feb. 22. The British
have captured Jerico, in Palestine.
the war office reports.
Since the capture of Jerusalem the
British have been pushing ahead.
steadily, striking out to the north
and east.
Official statements from London in
the last few days have reported rap
id progress and apparently the Turks
have offered no determined resis
tance. Australians Take Town
The city was entered by Austral
ian troops yesterday. Little opposi
tion was encountered. Subsequent
ly the Australians established them
selves on the line of the Jordan and
the Wadi-Auja.
The official statement reports the
continuation of bad weather. North
and northwest of Jerusalem the Brit
ish advanced positions were extend
ed slightly and made secure.
During the fighting Wednesday
the casualties of the British tr.oops
were again slight.
Aside from its historical impor
tance in connection with the British
plan to free the Holy Land from the
domination of the Turks, the capture
of Jerico is of little significance.
It consists merely of a group of
squalid hovels and a few shops, with
about 300 inhabitants.
Its strange strategic value lies in
the fact that it gives the British
domination of the valley of the Jor
dan, and also control of a network
of highways radiating from the
town.
A further advance eastward of 2."
miles, however, would take the
British to the railway from Damas
cus to Mecca, which would cut off
the Turks' line of communication
with Arabia and greatly assist the
revolting Arao trines, which are co
operating with the British.
jerico is near the northern ex
tremity of the Dead Sea, 14 miles
northeast .of Jerusalem.
The ancient Jerico, which was sit
uated to the west of the modern
Jerico. was a town of considerable
size. It was the first Canaanite city
to be reduced by the Israelites, who,
the Biblical story relates, encom
passed its destruction by the blow
ing of trumpets.
LOCAL NEWS
From S.itui-lay's Diiily.
Earnest Kephart, of Watson, Mo.,
who has been visiting in this city
at the home of his grandfather, Wil
liam Taylor, for the past few days,
returned today to his home in Mis
souri. Frank Toman and little son, Fred
die, were visitors in Omaha this
morning, where Mr. Toman is look
ing after some business and Freddie
goes along to see the sights in the
big city.
It. G. Kiser and wife, with their
little son. Noble, together with
Grandpa Addison Kiser, were all pas
sengers to Omaha this morning, at
which place they are spending the
day with friends and looking after
the transaction of some business.
The opening of spring business is
about to make its debut upon us
once more. While some few alarm
ists have predicted a curtailment
in business on account of the war,
the general concensus of business
men in Plattsmouth. as elsewhere,
is that business will go on and the
I ,"'opit W1U "" t'amousm mcor-
. i ;it - .
j porates only the saving of unneces
sary articles and not a curtailment
of the necessary ones.
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Bovey's After -Inventory Sale!
On next Tuesday, February 26, promptly at 9 o'clock
the following extra specials will be offered on sale for Tues
day only, as long as quantities last. You will want to be
here on time to get your share..
Gordon Silk Hose
on Sale Tuesday.
The famous Gordon round ticket silk hose, in black,
white and all the wanted shades. All sizes, Tuesday special
85 Cents per Pair
Sale on Towels.
10 dozen 19x38 bath towels, fine quality, full bleach
ed. For Tuesday's selling. Extra special
17 Cents Each, or 3 for 50 Cents
(Not over 6 to a customer)
1 0 dozen Huck towels, 1 6x34, plain or colored bor
der, Tuesday only 12 Cents Each.
Linen damask towels, fringed fast turkey border. Extra
Special. 21 Cents Each.
Quilts 98c
A lot of white crochet quilts, full size, hemmed, good
quality (some are slightly soiled). Special at 98 Cents Each.
Lace Insertions, Tuesday only. 1c per Yard
Grocery Specials
Our grocery department has contributed the following
worth-while extra specials for Tuesday's selling:
CANNED GOODS
No. 2 can standard corn 122
No. 2 can standard peas. . . . 12c
Fruited Wheat, a delicious food, special, package 25c
Fruited Oats, special, package 25c
E. C. Corn Flakes, per package. . .:; 8c
Pineapple, large size can (sliced) 25c
No. 2 can Pork and Beans, "Yours Truly" can 13c
No. 2 can red beans, special qc
j "
Please bear in mind that the extra specials herein
t quoted for next Tuesday, February 26th, are in addi-
tion to the General Clearance Sale throughout the X
store. Other extra specials will be added on certain .f
days as the sale progresses. It will pay you to attend t
t this sale every day. Watch for Bulletin No. Two.' t
E.G. Dovey & Son
ARMY ALEENS
PLOT AGAINST
OUR FORGES
FOUR DRAFTED MEN HELP AT
CAMP LEWIS N CHARGE THEY
PLAN TO SHOOT OFFICERS.
THEY CONSPIRED TO REVOLT
Death Will Ee Their Fate If Convict
ed of Scheming to Mutiny
at Front.
Camp Lewis, Tacoma. Wash., Feb.
22. Four national army soldiers
are held in the guard house today,
awaiting a presidential warrant
from Washington which will mean
their internment as enemy aliens,
who plotted not only to shoot their
officers the first time they got into
action in Europe, but also to deliver
all the American soldiers in their
organization to the German armv.
The names of the men under ar
rest have been withheld.
A general cleanup of enemy aliens
at Camp Lewis is in full swing.
Thirty-four were discharged today.
Altogether 200 men have been weed
ed out from the Ninety-first division
and the work is not yet completed.
The internment or prosecution of
those discharged today rests with
the federal civil authorities.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 20. Offi
cers of the judge advocate general's
office said today that any national
army soldier charged with plotting
treason would be tried by military
court-martial and if found guilty,
would be liable to the death penalty
Xo report on the arrests at Camp
Lewis had reached the judge advo
cate general.
L. F. Salee of the Masonic home,
was a business visitor in Omaha to
day. MOa U