TW-rr ima Daily THE WEATHER Fair 7r c-'aV VOL. XLVII. NO. 16. Or .sPAlDAY MORNING. JULY 6. 1917 TWELVE PARES. ttJ2K.2?"i. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. AKC1 t 0 Bee RED 0 RZEMS T0 TEH SfWF OF Villi S ER 1M OMAHA MEETING BOARDS GIVE OUT NUMBERS ON THE DRAFT Unfounded Rumors Circulate Quickly Concerning Nebraska Drawing; . Neville's Trip Stirs Up Talk. Washington, July 5. Exemption boards which will administer the selection of the draft have begun giving serial numbers to the men who were registered on June 5. Instructions from Washington are to post the numbers publicly as soon as given. This was being done in some parts of the country today and led to false reports that drafted num bers had been announced. No drafting whatever has been done as. yet and probably will not be done for several days. Nebraska Not Yet Included. No drafting whatever has been done -as yet, according to dispatches from Washington, despite persistent rumors which circulated over Omaha shortly after noon today. The "tip" came through a local stock broker's office that the numbers had been drawn. Omaha literally "ate up" the stock broker's tip, which gave out the infor mation that numbers. 11, 17, 59, 61, 111, 145, 62, 67, 97, 100, 125 and 146 had been selected. It was explained 1hat under the workings of the draft persons holding these numbers in every precinct in the country were the ones summoned on the first call. The numbers were postefl at a num ber of points about town and within half an hour the report had become known on every street corner. News paper offices were besieged with tele phone calls. Washington dispatches declared no drafting had been done. Exemption boaydt aAich wH4 -administer the selec tion of the draft, dispatches said, have begun giving out serial numbers to the men who were registered June 5, and this led to the rumor that the draft had started. Governor Neville in denying the rumor, vouchsafed the information that the draft would not begin until July 10. The governor also .said the precinct numbers would not be used, but that each county will be a unit and the registered men numbered con secutively from one up. Neville to Washington. (From a' Staff Corrrspondtnt.) Lincoln, July 5. (Special.) Gover nor Neville will leave for Washington tomorrow to look up the matter of me man. iie ucnies mat me irip nas anything to do with a commission in the JJandy bixth, but that his mis sion is simply one to get first hand advice on the methods of conducting the dratt. The governor yesterday notified the War department that all local exemp tion boards were organized and ready for business. German Commercial Agent In New York Kills Himself New York, July 5. Richard Adam Timnierscheidt, representative of Ger man commercial interests in China, committed suicide here today by jumping from his rooms on the tenth floor of a bachelor apartment house. He had first slashed his wrist with a razor blade. Timmercheidt, who was said to have been at one time an agent for the Russia government, took out his naturalization papers here in Decem ber, 1914. He was apparently a man of considerable wealth. No motive for the suicide has been ascertained by the police. The Weather For Nebraska Generally fair. Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday. Hour. Def. 6 a. m 68 6 a. m 68 7 a. m 69 8 a. m ., 6 9 a. m 70 10 a. m. . . ., 69 11 a. m 72 12 m 76 1 p. m..... 80 2 p. m , 80 3 p. m 89 4 p. ni 81 5p. m 82 6 p. m 8 7 p. m 83 8 p. m 80 Comparative Local Kecord, 1917. 1916. 1915. 1914. Highest yesterday.. 83 89 78 89 Lowest yesterday.... 68 68 ' 64 ' 71 Mean temperature... 76 78 66 80 Precipitation IS .00 ' .00 .00 Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal at Omaha since yesterday: Normal temperature 78 Etcess for the day Total deficiency since J larch 1 !!!227 Normal precipitation' 16 Inch Deficiency for the day 03 inch Total rainfall since March 1.16. .. 48 Inches Excess since March 1 76 Inch Deficiency for cor. period, J916. 6. 28 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 115. 2.10 Inches Station and State Temp. High- Bain of Weather. 7 p. m. est. - fall. Cheyenne,, clear .. 78 80 .00 Davenport, cloudy .... 78 84 ,00 Denver, p.-;rt cloudy ., 86 90 .00 1 les Moines, cloudy .... 78 Si y Dodge City, clear .... 96 100 .00 Lander, clear 84 86 .00 North Platte, clear .... 86 90 . .00 Omaha, part cloudy ..83 r: .iz Pueblo, cloudy 86 .00 Chicago, part cloudy .. 6S 72 .00 Salt Lake, part cloudy. S8 90 ,00 Santa Fe, cloudy 82 88 ' .00 Kherldan, clear 78 80 .00 Sioux City, clear 83 82 .24 Valentine, clear 84 84 .01 "T" indicates trace of precipitation. L. A. WELSH, Meterologist. Are They r PART OF CHINESE ARMY BALKS AT NEW MONARCHY Military Governor of Chi-Li Province Sends Ultimatum to Chinese Dictator; Nanking is Capital. London, July 5. A dispatch from Tien Tsin, China, to the Morning Post says that Tsao Kun, military governor of Chi-Li, whose attitude hitherto has been dubious, has sent an ultimatum to General Chang Hsun, who restored the emperor, demanding that he withdraw from Peking within twenty-four hours. Tsao Kun is now mobilizing his forces. His action, it is considered, will endanger the chances of the monarchy. Tuan Chi-Jui, former premier, has reaccepted that post and is mobiliz ing 20,000 men in the province of Shan Tung Hung to march against the monarchists. Nine alleged traitors, including Prince Pu Lun, chairman of the coun cil of state, have been executed by Chang Hsun. A dispatch from Shanghai says the military commissioner of Shanghai and the military governor of the province of Che-Kiang refused to recognize the empire. - Dictator Ignores Ultimatum. Tien Tsin, July 5. A military clash in China is imminent. The troops of Peking .are showing signs of opposition to General Chang Hsun's dictatorship under the guise of a monarchy. At the same time the troops of Tsao Kun, military gov ernor of the province of Chi-Li, are. mobilizing and preparing to proceed to Peking. Tsao Kun's action followed an ul timatum sent to General Chang Hsun giving him twenty-four hours to withdraw troops from Peking. Gen eral Chang Hsun took no notice of the demand. A provisional government has been established at Nanking, capital of the province of King-Su. Baron Feng (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) The Bee's Free Milk i and Ice Fund The Widow's Mite. Inclosed find a widow's mite for your kind and good efforts for the poor babies," writes Mrs. Pauline Lynch and incloses ?1 for The Bee's Milk and Ice fund. Five dollars comes to the fund as a fitting memorial for one who has passed from life. YOU want to have a part in this great work of saving the lives of the poor babtes'of Omaha through the critical hot days of summer. There is no other agency besides The Bee's fund through which this can be done. The number of babies that can be provided with life-giving, pure, cool milk, depends on the amount you and others give to this fund. Do your part now. Send or bring any sum from 10 cents to $ 5.00 to The Bee office. Your reward will be sure. Previously acknowledged. .$20.50 Mrs. Pauline Lynch 1.00 A. M. L 3.00 In memory of - Edward Kohn . ... 5.00 E. M. Morsr.an, Sr 5.00 Total. .$34.50 BSS '." a i 1 1 'I, - 7" - , ... . ..... All Shot Off? ALLIED ARMIES RESUME FIGHT v ON WEST FRONT Germans Believe British Local Operations in Belgium Pre lude to Offensive on Big Scale. (Associated Press War Summary) With Russia proving that its army, now rehabilitated, can strike telling blows again, the allied forces appar ently are preparing to resume the forward movement on the western front. That the British blow will fall north of Arras is the German expec tation, according to General von Stein, the Prussian minister of war. He told a German Reichstag commit tee yesterday that General Haig ap parently, was preparing for an offen- sive on a large scale in this area In this connection it is to be noted that the Britis'i in a local ODeration. last nigiu pushed their lines forward slightly on a 600-vard front southwest of Hollebeke, in Belgium. Petain Beats Back Assaults. General Petain. on the French front, is bending his efforts toward retaining intact all the commanHintr positions his troops now occupy. The latest uerman attempt to wrest con trol of an important sector on the Aisne from him not only came to naught, with exceptionally heavy Ger man losses, but the French in their reaction took a salient near Cerny from the Germans, Paris dispatches report the Amer ican . contingent which paraded in Paris yesterday as proceeding to the permanent American training camp and announce that the other units of the army now at a French port will leave there shortly for camp instruc tion. The entire expedition is ex pected to be encamped by July 15 under command of Major General Sibert. British Capture Trenches. London. Ttllv 5. The Rritish marte an attack" last night southwest of Holebeke, in Belgium, near the lYpres canal. Today's official state jment says the British line was ad vanced on a front of 600 ycards and several prisoners captured. "On Tuesday night bombing at tacks were carried out by naval air service machines on the airdromes (Continued on T Two, Column One.) Russ Democracy Formally ' Represented by Bakhmetieff Washington, July 5 Boris Bakhme tioff, the new Russian ambassador, presented his credentials to President Wilson today and was formally re ceived as the premanent diplomatic representative here of the Russian democracy. He assured the orcsident again of Russia's steadfast adherence to the alliance against Germany, and was told by President Wilson that every confidence is felt here in the purposes of the new government. With the formal ceremony the am bassador is given a permanent status in place of his temporary position as head of the Russian war mission., .tonight the ambassador gave a din SENATORS WILL LIMIT DEBATE ON DRY AMENDMENT Threat of Cloture Rule in Upper House Decides to Take Up Food Legisla tion at Once. Washington, July 5. With a resort to the cloture rule threatened, the l senate Jy unanimous consent late to day agreed to begin consideration of the prohibition section and of any amendments or substitutes of the food bill at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with debate limited. Final disposition of the prohibition issue before adjournment tomorrow night and passage of the bill next weelc is deemed assured. Senator Chamberlain, in charge of the measure announced that Saturday he would seek another unanimous consent agreement for a final vote not later than Wednesday or Thursday and be lieved it would be obtained without usng the cloture motion. Forty-two senators have signed the cloture measure, which required only fifteen signatures. Limited to Ten Minutes. When the prohibition question is taken up tomorrow each speaker will be limited Jo ten minutes upon the Gore prohibition amendment, prohib iting manufacture of distilled bev erages during the war and giving the president authority to suspend manu facture of malt, fermented or vinous intoxicants and to limit their alcoholic contents. Upon amendments and sub stitutes for the Gore plan each sena tor's debate will be limited to five minutes. - f All the formal steps for a decisive and spirited struggle on prohibition have been taken. Senator Robinson introduced the socalled "administra tion compromise" substitute today for the Gore plan providing only that dis tillation of foodstuffs for intoxicating beverages shall cease. Private polls of the, senate,, leaders of both .factions """admitted privately tdnight, indicate a large majority for the Robinson substitute. May Sell Necessities. After agreeing to proceed with the liquor fight tomorrow, the senate late today adopted Senator Kenyon's amendment to a section ot the bill greatly exceeding the government's power to purchase and sell supplies to secure reasonable prices. Under the amendment m addition to foods feed and fuel, the government would be authorized to buy and sell, at mini mun prices fixedsby the federal au thorities, all other "necessaries" named in the bill, n A determined effort will be made to broaden it so as to insure that the government will have power to regu late toal prices and to take over and operate coal mines. " Senator Pomerene of Ohio made a lengthy speech today on the coal sit uation, reciting alleged exorbitant coal prices and necessity for govern ment regulation. Prohibition also came in for some attention. Senator Thomas of Colo rado advocated national prohibition "when squarely and fairly presented," but announced opposition to the pro posal for immediate "bone dry" pro hibition because both of effect uoon public sentiment and from the revenue standpoint. Riots Are Discussed. Senator Thomas brought up the race riots in East St. Louis as an in dication of social unrest which is manifested in various parts of the country at times. He declared that one-tenth of the population of this country is black and said their loyalty in the present crisis is essential. Senator Sherman declared the dis orders in East St. Louis were due to the saloons. "It's the worst saloon town in America," he said, adding that the sa loons openly disregarded the laws and for years the town had been an oasis to the people of St. Louis, Mo., who came across the bridge on Sundays to get liquor. "I. have no apology for East St. Louis or for my state, or for any other state which allows such condi tions to exist," he declared. "I am a bone dry senator from now on." Eleven Millions in Farm Loans Approved by Banks Washington, July 5. A total of $11,661,905 in first mortgage loans to farmers at 5 per cent interest had been asked by the 230 farm loan as sociations, chartered by the Federal Farm Loan board, up to July 1. ner to American officials as an expres sion of gratitude for the reception ac corded the mission in this country. Vice President Marshall, Speaker Clark, members of the cabinet and other high officials were invited. Complete independence for Poland and a wide degree of selfgovernment for Finland, Ukraine, and other sub sidiary nationalities of Russia was said by Ambassador Bakhmetieff to be the object of the new Russian gov ernment. Plans now are under way, he said, for the actual working out of the principle that government should rt on the consent of the governed and to the widest degree possible for a centralized autnoritv Villisca Ax Murders to Be Discussed in Mass Meeting One thousand residents of Montgomery county, Iowa, will come to Omaha Saturday to attend a mass meeting in Boyd theater, at which the blood-curdling Villisca ax mur der case will be discussed. A majority of those who will attend the meeting will travel 100 miles by motor car and special train. It will be charged that free speech has been denied in Iowa under an injunction against J. N. Wilkerson, a detec tive, whose four years' investigation of the murders cast sus picion on a prominent state senator. This state senator is said to be using his influence and apparently is backed by Attorney General Havner to prevent further disclosures. No precedent is known for such a gathering. The audi ence, composed of outraged citizens of one state, will travel into another state to hear testimony against their neighbors because state officials are alleged to have lent their influence to proceedings which make free speech at home impossible. Eight persons were cruelly murdered at Villisca in the dead of night June 9, 1912. by a fiend who crushed their skulls with an ax. Joseph Moore and his entire family and the two Stillinger girls, who were overnight guests at the Moore home, were the victims. No person has been tried for the crime. Rev. Lyn George J. Kelly, an itinerant minister, was arrested May 14 and now awaits ,trial in Red Oak on a murder charge. The father of the murdered girls and a sister of Joe Moore openly assert Kelly is innocent. Attorney General Havner is pushing the prosecution of Kelly. Residents of Villisca and Red Oak declare that Hav ner was instrumental in obtaining the passage of a law by the last legislature placing a ban on free speech under which public disclosures in the murder case were stopped when they attempted to hold a mass meeting at Red Oak. Havner is said to have sought to commit Kelly to an insane asylum, a step which would bar the prosecution of any other person suspected of the crime. State Senator F. P. Jones of Villisca prosecuted and. lost a $60,000 damage suit against Detective Wilkerson, who will address the Saturday meeting in Omaha. MILLION WATCH TROOPS OF U.S. MARCHJ1 PARIS Uncle Sam's Soldiers Presented With Flags at Notable Ceremony; Lay Wreath On Lafayette's Tomb. vraris, Wednesday, July 4. (De layed.) When the 230th regiment of French territorials with its band escorted the battalion picked from the regiments of United States in fantry into the Court of Honor as a part of the Independence day celebra tion, the court, the arcades and the corridors of the Invalides resounded with the prolonged acclamation of the company of massed spectators that left just room enough for the troops to form a hollow square. Standing in the center were descen dants of spldiers of the American rev olution with fanons in United States colors and the colors of a major gen eral of the United States army a flag of red ground with two silver stars embroidered by French women; and American veterans who fought with the French in the war of 1870 with the flag of the American volunteers in the French Foreign legion. A few surviving inmates from the soldiers' home, erett and soldierly in appearance in spile of their grey hairs, stood behind as a guard of honor. Alongside was a delegation from Le Puy, the nearest city, the birthplace of General Lafayette, carrying a lace adorned flag to be presented to the Amercian troops. . Poincare, Pershing and Joffre. The head of every spectator was uncovered precisely at 9 o'clock when the American band struck up the Mar seillaise. The simultanteous appear ance of President Poincare, General Pershing, General Joffre, American Ambassador Sharp and other digni taries at the entrance of the building was the signal for tremendous cheer ing which continued until the offi cial party passed the troops in review. Hats were off again and impressive silence prevailed when the fanons sjid the flags were presented to the American troops. General Pershing was grave and apparently moved. General" Noix, governor of the In valides, received the flag of the Amer ican Foreign legion for the war museum. The colonel commanding the Amer ican battalion advanced and saluted President Poincare. The bands began playing and the cheering broke out again as President Poincare shook hands with the members of the official party as the troops began to file out of the court of honor. Populace Goes Wild. An airplane, circling a few hun dred feet overhead, followed the line of march some distance. Thousands (Continued oa Pat; Two, Column Two.) Fourteen Persons Hurt in Trolley Collision in Ohio Toledo, O., July 5. Fourteen per sons were injured,1 four of them so serious that they may not recover, as the result of a rear-end collision of two Toledo and Indiana irttcrurban cars at Stryker early today. Three of the injured suffered ampu tation of limbs, while the leg of an other was mangled. The cars were runuing in sections, and when the first stopped to release passengers the other crashed into it. BIG MUDDY IS ON RAMPAGE; TOWN MAY BE FLOODED Entire; Town of Decatur; Threatened as River Cuts Into Banks at Rate of Fifteen -Feet a Day. The entire town of Decatur, Neb., is in danger of being eaten up by the Missouri river. The long-continued siege of high water in the Missouri this spring has cut 190 feet of the bank away, and many small shaVks and houses have been abandoned. The river is still cutting the bank at the north edge of the town at the rate of fifteen feet a day. Pickets guard the river bank day and night to be ready to warn anyone whose residence or whose property it might become necessary to move during the night. The Gallup elevator, a huge grain elevator, had to be moved a few days ago, and now the river has com pletely devoured the site where the fine elevator formerly stood. Iust Move Old "till. The historic old" mill, one of the oldest in the state, a landmark to the old settlers and early pioneers of Ne braska, will probably have to be moved within the next fewtdays, as the stream now is cutting 'danger ously near its foundations. The river strikes the northwest part of the town on its southward cfjurse and then swerves sharply to the eastward. It is on this sharp turn that it is cutting its bank. The bank here is about ten feet high. The swift current undermines the grounl and the sodded bank falls in with a succession of cmendous splashes. People watching the ravages of the river and workmen endeavoring to save property dare not go nearer than ten feet from the edge of the bank, lest it be so undermined that it will crumble away and fall in with their weight. Many Acres Devoured. From six to ten acres, it is esti mated, have already been devoured by the Big Muddy. The unusual ravages of the river this spring and summer are attributed to a combination of the heavy and continuous spring rains, and the June rise. Ordinarily, the river comes up a little when the ice ges out. Then it subsides, and does not rise again until the snow water from the moun tains brings on the annual June rise. This year, however, the river came up as usual when the ice went out. Immediately the heavy rains followed, unusual rains all up and down the Missouri valley, which caused the river to leap over its banks, a thing (Continued on Vg Two, Column Two.) Pilot of Robert E. Lee Dies at New Orleans New Orleans, July 5. Captain Max Blanchard, for sixty-seven years a pilot, captain and owner of vessels on the Mississippi river, died at his home here late last night, aged 87. Captain Blanchard was pilot on the old steamboat Robert E. Lee in its celebrated race to St. Louis against the Nat chez in 1861, at the finish of which the Lee Burned. IOWA'S WORST CRIME TO BE AIRED HERE Stillinger and Relatives of the Moore Family Will Relate at Unusual Gathering How Eight Were Slain. On the stage of the Boydyieater Saturday afternoon will sit a fcup of Red Oak and Villisca citizens who are closely identified with the Villisca One will be Joe Stillinger, father of ax murder case. two girls who were among the eight Jersons murdered at the home of oseph Moore, June 9, 1912. Another will be Ros Moore, brother of Joseph Moore, who was killed with his wife and four children. Relatives of the Moore and Stillinger families will oc cupy seats on the stage. It is expected that Joe Stillinger will preside. Attorney A. L. Sutton, who represents Rev. Lyn G. J. Kelly, has been asked to preside, but de clared it would be better if Stillinger would serve as chairman. COMING BY SPECIAL TRAIN. A special train will arrive here from Red Oak and Villisca shortly after the noon hour and the meeting will be called at 3 o'clock. A section will be reserved for the Montgomery county contingent who are coming to Omaha to hold a public meeting, a right denied them in their own county. Attorney General Havner of Iowa invoked the Thompson law, which prohibits public meetings which may influence witnesses or jurors. In this instance it is contended that the Rev, Mr. Kelly is awaiting trial, under a grand jury indictment, on charge of being the ax murderer, and that the meeting would prejudice the case. Detective J. N. Wilkerson, in the employ of Montgomery county citi zens, will return to Omaha Friday morning. He will be the principal speaker Saturday afternoon. -He at tempted to speak at Red Oak last week, but was prevented by an in junction issued on the prayer of the attorney general. The citizens im mediately raised a fund of $700 to defray the expenses of Wlkcrson, rent of the Boyd theater and the spe cial train. Say Kelly is Innocent. In Montgomery county many sub stantial citizens do not believe that Rev. Mr. Kelly was in any way con nected with the ax murders, and they further declare and will reiterate Sat urday that Kelly is being made the scapegoat merely to get the case closed. They contend that an effort is being made to have Kelly adjudged insane and thus bolster up a theory that he was the ax murderer. Ross Moore, brother of Joe Moore, who was one of the ax victims, scout ed the theory of Kelly's guilt to" a Bee representative. Moore visited Kelly at the time the minister was brought from Illinois by Attorney Sutton and could not restrain a smile when asked if he thought Kelly was the murderer. i Montgomery county citizens who will meet here Saturday contend that Kelly had no motive and that his movements on the night of the mur der have been accounted for. They have contended and will contend Sat urday that evidence which might have yielded results was not followed up with zeal by the authorities at the time of the murder. L. J. Longnecker, an Omaha detec tive, who was one of the first men to investigate the case, alleges there was gross negligence on the part of offi cials in failing to take up the trail of the case as soon as the murders were discovered. Mr. Longnecker will at tend the Omaha meeting. Regular Army Will Be Filled by Conscription New York, July 5. United States army recruiting headquarters here it was said today that the ranks of the army now about 47,000- men below war strength, would be filled by con scription, buch ;ntormation came from Washington, it was asserted and it was indicated that the draft ing might begin withiu ten days. Four Persons Drown In Illinois River at Hardin Hardin, 111., July 5. Mr. and Mrs. George Houghtlin and their 4-year-old son of Jerseyville, 111., and Miss Rena Johnson of Los Angeles, Cal., were drowned in the Illinois river here last night when Houghtlin drove his automobile off -a, ferry boat The Bee's New Offices For convenience of, pa- . trons and efficiency of distribution The Bee has added five new branch offices. Here's the whole list : MAIN Office Bee Building Ames Office....4U0 North 24th Lake Office. . . . .2516 North 24th Vinton Office 1715 Vinton Park Office. . .2615 Leavenworth Walnut Office. . . .819 North 40th South Side 2318 N St. Council Bluffs. . . .14 North Main Get in touch with the one nearest to you. t .1