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VOL. XLVII NO. 19.
OMAHA, TUESDAY J10RNING, JULY 10, 1917.-TWELVE PAGES.
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MALONEY
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CABINET SHAKE-UP IMRMANY COMING;
EXPLOSION . WREGtffNAVY MAGAZINE
VOVBUELOW
MAY BECOME
CHANCELLOR
Bumor that "Peace Chancellor"
Will Attempt to Meet Great
issues that Are Now
Threatening Empire.
BULLETIN.
London, July 9. According to
reports reaching Rotterdam from
Berlin and' forwarded by the Ex
change Telegraph, Emperor Wil
liam invited the neutral ambassa
dors and ministers to a conference
on Saturday.
Amsterdam, July 9. The Tage
bLatt of Berlin says it is rumored that
a change in the German chancellor
ship may be expected. Among those
mentioned as the possible successor
of Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl-vveg
it names Prince von Buelow,
former chancellor; Count von Hart
ling, Bavarian prime minister, and
Count von Roedern, secretary of the
imperial treasury.
Count von Hertling has had several
conferences recently with Austro
Hungarian officials, presumably with
regard to peace questions. He is said
to favor- peac-C' -without -cash 'in
demnity. During the war Prince von' 6ueW
has spent most of his time in Switzer
land. It has been reported that the
German government has kept him in
a detached position in the expectation
of calling him back when the time
came to arrange peace with the idea
that he co 'd render greater services
on account of having had no share in
the conduct of the war.
Kaiser Faces JPoJ&caJ. Crises.
Berlin, Saturday, July 7.-V(Via Lon
don, July 8.) Unless all present in
dications fail, in the course of the next
few days the German empire is on
the eve of a momentous, if not his
torical, parliamentary upheaval.
Developments in the last fortv-
eiglit hours point to a significant
realignment of various factions in
favor of sweeping electoral and par
liamentary reforms.
Although the sessions of the main
committee and the constitutional
committee have been of an executive
nature, press comments permit the
inference that the discussions of vital
subjects of governmental policy fre
quently reached the boiling point.
That they have been of gravely sig
nificant import is indicated clearly by
the sudden decision to postpone the
Saturday plenary session, which was
to have marked the opening of t!.e
general debate and the expected
speech of Chancellor von Bethmann
Hollwcg. The absence of the chancellor from
the sessions of the ma;n and constitu
tional committees in the last few days
lias caused general comment in parlia
mentary circles as exceptional in view
of the confidential character of the
discussions.
Monday will mark the inauguration
POWDER HOUSE
AT MARE ISLAND
YARDS BLOWN UP
Early Reports Say Eight Men
Killed and Great Numbers
Wounded; Shock Felt
Forty Miles Away.
(By AnnoclaW Ire.t
Vallejo, July 9. While no official
statement has been made as to the
cause of the explosion in a Mare
Island navy yard store house, offi
cials said this afternoon that they
believed it was due to a plot. In
vestigation has been started along
these lines, it was said.
Six Persons Killed.
Vallejo, July 9. Six persons are
known to have been killed by an explo
sion which wrecked two store houses
at the Mare island navy yard today
and at least thirty-one persons were
injured.
Fire which started from the explo
sion and for a time threatened to
spread to the magazine proper was
extinguished. No estimate of the ex
tent of the property damage has been
made.
Buildings on various parts of the
island were damaged and in some in
stances roofs were lifted. The build
ings demolished are understood to
have been - used for the storage of
loaded. shells of large caliber. v
The damage in Vallejo was ex
tensive windows being shattered and
doors, as far as two miles from the
scene of the explosion twisted from
their hinges.
In the meantime no one is allowed
to leave the island and only those
having official business with the Navy
department are allowed to land at the
yard.
Names of the Dead.
An official announcement of the
dead resulting from the. explosion ot
the" Mare ..island -navv vard at 7-56
tHis mornfng was given out this after
noon and included the following
names:
AIXAV F. McKENZIE, a chief runner.
MRS. MrKKNZIK.
DOROTHY MeRENZIK, 13, their daughter.
MILDRED McKENZIE, , their daurbter.
OEORGE KTANTON, a fardner.
C. M. 1JAMSTEADT, civilian employe
ot ordnance department.
Two Store Houses Destroyed.
San Francisco, July 9. Two store
houses at the Mare island navy yard
on San Francjco bay were destroyed
by an explosion this morning.
.twelve or fifteen magazines were
badly damaged by the explosion, the
force of which broke thousands of
windows in Vallejo, about half mile
The Sphinx
Aeavens sake!
loosen up an1
peep .
A
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fe. XS
6Wfy
most memorably parliamentary ses
sions in the history of the empire. AH
the Reichstag factions remained in
session in individual groups until late
last night io decide what action might
be taken.
The .Zeitung Am Mittag says that
a deputation of six members from the
social democratic party in the Reichs
tag called on Chancellor von Beth-mann-Holhveg
Friday to impress the
gravity of the situation on him.
The delegates insisted that the
chancellor make an unequivocal dec
laration that the government was pre
pared at any time to enter into peace
negotiations on the basis of the status
quo.
The deputation also demanded im
mediate introduction of parliamentary
and electoral reforms, urging the ap
pointment of leading Reichstag dep
uties to secretarial and ministerial
posts. J
There are rumors that Professor
Adolf von Harnack, one of the most
away.
Fire started in the wrecked build
ings and desperate efforts were made
to prevent its spread to other build
ings where explosives are stored.
Barracks Are Wrecked.
Several buildings used as sleeping
quarters for detachments of gunners
were wrecked. Whether any men were
in the buildings is not known. ,
Naval officials at Vallejo said about
200 men were employed in or near the
buildings wrecked, but whether thete
men had reported for work at the
time of the explosion was not known.
J he explosion occurred at 7:44 a. m.
PRESIDENT CALLS
GUARDSMEN INTO
SERVICE AUGUST 5
Entire Organization Is to Be
Drafted Into Regular Army
on That Date; Nebras
kans Called July 15.
of what promised to be one of the f?he concussion was terrific and con
intimate advisors' of the emperor, is Salburg, Pasadena, and J. D. Soule, a
siderable damage is reported from
Vallejo, this being confined principal
ly to window glass.
At the Southern Pacific freight
house in Vallejo, about two miles
from the scene of the explosion, the
doors of the buildings were torn from
their hinges.
Santa Rosa, about forty miles
northwest of Mare island, reported
that the explosion was felt there.
Residents thought it was an earth
quake. Men Hurt Two Miles Away.
The first injured to be reported
were three men on the Southern Pa
cific ferry boat El Capitan, which
operates between South Vallejo and
Vallejo Junction. The ferryboat was
in the stream, about two miles from
the scene of the explosion, and was
damaged considerably, all the win
dows and doors of the boat being
blown out.
The injured: Lieutenant C. Bird,
ITnitpr! States marine rnrns- D XV
slated to succeed llerr von Trott zu
Solz a Prussian minister of educa
tion. The present minister is said to
be opposed to sweeping electoral re
forms. Clericals Vote Peace.
Copenhagen, July 9. A Berlin dis
parch to the Frcmdcnblatt of Ham
burg says that the entire clerical
party in the Reichstag, with the
exception of three members, voted i
on Saturday night to support the i today.
carpenter. Ihese men suffered from
shock and were cut from flying glass.
Their injuries are not serious.
New Food Law to Close
Thousands of Saloons
Chicago. July 9. Chapin & Gore,
one of the largest whisky making
firms in the United States, is going to
go out of business, it was announced
sund taken by Mathias Lrzbergcr.
who made a sensational speech in the
secret session of the main committee
attacking the admiralty and Pan-Germans,
as the great obstacle to peace
and advocating peace without annexa
tions or indemnities and the introduc
tion of a parliamentary form of gov
ernment. This action was taken, the
dispatch said, under ihc presumption
that Chancellor von Bithmaun-IIull-ucg
wtnild retire.
The clerical party is the largest in
the lirichstag. Hitherto it has worked
wit!" the conservative in giving the
goveruirent ;i majority. Any such
move as is indicated by the forecoing
li-iaicii would i.uioiini io a political
(criun' i' the hlt ni;;;iiiiuk
(By AsHocUted Prest.)
Washington, July 9. The last step
necessary to make he entire National
Guard available for duty in France
was taken by President Wilson today
with the issue of a proclamation
drafting the state troops into the
army of the United States on Au
gust 5.
To make certain hat the purpose
of he national defense act is carried
out the proclamation also specifically
declares the men drafted to be
discharged from the old militia on
that date. In hat way the constitu
tional restraint upon use of militia
outside the country is avoided and
the way paved for sending the regi
ments to the European front.
Prior to the application of the draft,
regiments in the northern and east
ern section of the country are called
into the federal service as National
Guardsmen in two increments to be
mobilized on July IS and 25.
To Federalize Units.
Many units are also federalized and
presumably they will be mobilized
with the other troops from their
states. The guard from the other
states will be mobilized on the day
of the draft. The arrangement was
necessary to provide for movement
of the regiments to their concentra
tion cmaps without congestion.
The operative date of the draft was
delayed until August 5 so that all
regiments can be taken into the armv
simultaneously. Fourteen camp sites
for the sixteen tactical divisions in
to which the guard will be organized
have been selected already and the
militia bureau is preparing the rail
way routing of the troops to the
camps.
Seven of the sites selected are in
the the southeastern department, five
in the southern, "and two in the west
ern. The two others will be in the
southeastern department and until
they are approved assignment of reei-
I ments to camps and divisions cannot
ie tuny worked out. I he only two
divisions positively assigned are the
Nintcenth, including the California
FOUR NEBRASKA
DEMOCRATS ARE
OUT FOR SENATE
Reed, Metcalfe, Shallenberger
and Morchead Seek to Wear
Toga that Now Covers
Senator Norris.
(Continued on Page Two. Column One.) j
Charles If. Hermann, president of
the firm and directing head of the;
National Distiliers and Wholesale i
Liquor Dealers' association, made Ihej
announcement which comes as the
first direct result in Chicago of the'
recent national anti-whisky legisia-:
lion.
Mr. Hermann also declared that
within sixty days not less than 2.00(1 !
saloons .'u Chicao would be closed; Washington. July 'A Conjecture
by t lie new legislation and lhat a like; here as to the purpose of the confer
proportion tlir ji:j;houl the country i cure between Emperor William and
would be similarly affected. He csti-j the neutral ambassadors and illum
inated that the whisky now in exist-Iters ranged all the way from new
ence would be exhausted within a ' peace" proposals to titrates of drastic
year, saytr.g tna'. !ic had positive
At least four Nebraska democrats
arc very busy planting underground
wires and making connections to
place themselves in position to run
for the United States senate in 1918.
Senator George W. Norris' term will
expire at the close of that year.
The four aspirants are Attorney
General Willis E. Reed. Richard L.
Metcalfe ot Omaha. Coticrcssman A.
C. Shallenberger of the Fifth district
and J. H. Morchead, former -governor
of Nebraska.
Each is working on his own pecu
liar line, and each working on the
buttonhole of his personal friends.
Metcalfe, once associate editor of
Bryan's Commoner, once governor of
the Panama canal zone, once candi
date for the senate, once candidate
for governor of Nebraska before the
primaries and now editor of a weekly
anti-German paper in Omaha, has for
some time been confiding to his close
political friends the fart that he has
been getting letters from various
parts of the state urging him to run
for the senate. How many of these
letters he has is not definitely known,
though it is whispered he has a neat
little file of them, an ! that he cher
ishes them and guards them with
great pride and jealousy.
Morehead Raising Potatoes.
Former Governor Morehead, since
he relinquished his gubernatorial title
to the war governor, Neville, is at
tending to his banking affairs at Falls
City and raising many acres of pota
toes in the 1iope of profiting by the
nign price, it is said he is divining
his time at this stage between laying
political wires for his senatorial can
didacy and worrying because the price
of potatoes is coming down when his
crop is not yet ready for the harvest.
Attorney General Reed, who was in
110 a candidate for the senate before
the primaries against Hitchcock and
who recently came into the limelight
through his attempt to enjoin the
greater portion of the universe in the
Omaha strike case, is said to regard
the Morehead candidacy for the sen
ate as a huge joke. Reed takes his
MANY VILLAGES
TAKEN BY SLAVS
IN LATEST DRIVE
Russians Take Thousands of
Prisoners and Cavalry Pur
sues Fleeing Tuetons as
Far as Lukva River.
(K;, Atum-lnled l'r.)
Petrograd, July 9. Several vil
lages and more than 7,000 men
haye been captured by the Rus
sians west of Stanislau in Galicia,
the war office announces.
Forty-eight guns including twelve
of large size, and many machine
fmrs also were captured by the
Russians.
Russian cavalry is pursuing the
retreating enemy and has reached
the Lukva river.
(Aioi-lHlrd TrcM War ftummar?.)
New and powerful blows are being
struck by Russians in Galicia. Appar
ently they have broken the Austro
German line west of Stanislau, south
of Ifalicz. as today's official reiwt
from Petrograd not only reports im-
portant gams for the Russians in the
Stanislau area, but declares the Rus
sian cavalry is pursuing the retreating
cnemv. -:
This OUrsuir alrra.lv .,!.. .1
the Lukva river. IJa1icz the gateway
to Lembcrg fromr the south, seems
doomed to fa unless .,;....,
onslaught is quickly stopped. A Kus-
yuau iionnwcst irom Stanislau
would result in Halicz being hemmed
in on three sides.
More Prisoners and Guns.
The renewed U H Ski an finclatmUt- I-
this sector brought with it not only
territory, but 1,700 prisoners and for-
iy-Vgnt guns, including a dozen
large caliber pieces. The total Rus
sian captures of men in thcnvi..t
remarkable offensive is mounting
rjipidly and now is in excess of 25,000.
.wi n 01 me .M.unsiau area General
brussiloff is holding fast to fits newly
won positions in the vicinity of
I'lzezanv and ne.ir Knnimln, t,.,.
his troops are will placed for a rnn.
Initiation of the ririve nnrm l.mk.,.
along converging railways. Austro
Gerniau counter attacks here have
failed to shake the Russian possession
of this valuable terrain.
Germans Active In France.
There is little but Wal r,cKt.,
along the British front in northern
i rancc, but further down the line the
Germans are giving the French little
rest. Attack after attack is being
launched by the crown prince in des
perate attempts to shake tlo. Vri-rU
from their positions along the Chcmin
Des Dames. There was another such
drive last night at Pantheon, but like
outers that have preceded it, the cf-
iort was unsuccessful.
Mc;r hi!e such trenches as the
Germ;. were able to retain after
their repulse in the attack of Satur
day tv'ght in the Aisne region were
wrested from them in greater part
by a brilliant counter offensive started
by the French.
German Attacks on Aisne Fails.
Paris. July 9. Another attack in
strong force was made by the Ger
mans lasi night on the Aisne front
in the region of Chemin-Dcs Dames
between Bovrtte and Chevregny ridge.
The war office announces that the at
tack was without success. In a bril
liant counter offensive the French
recaptured a major part of the
trenches occupied by the Germans
yesterday between Pantheon and
Froidmont farm.
COUNCIL HALTS ACTION IN
OMAHA POLICE SQUABBLE;
WILL AWAIT SUTTON HEARING
Fear Final Action at ThU Time Might Complicate Matter
and Result in Court Proceedings; Commission
ers Expected to Give Decision in
Maloney Case Today.
'1
lis!
CAPTAIN STEPHEN MALONEY
Wilkerson to Attack
Charge of Conspiracy
City council in executive session Monday afternoon de
cided not to take action on Commissioner Butler's resolution for
the removal of Chief of Detectives Steve Maioney and Detective
Paul Sutton, until after the hearing of the charges against the
latter. It was the opinion of the commissioners that to take im
mediate action would complicate the situation and might result
in court action.
Commissioners Parks, Withnell, Jardine and Hummel
were outspoken for dismissing Maloney and Sutton from the po
lice department, on the general grounds "that they have
brought the department and administration into disrepute."
TO AWAIT SUTTON HEARING.
In view of the fact that Sutton has
not had a hearing, the commissioners
decided to await the Sutton hearing
and then take action on both at the
same time.
Date of the Sutton hearing will be
fixed at the regular council meeting
Tuesday morning.
At the afternoon executive meet
ing Commissioner Butler offered a
motion to remove Maloney from the
department on account of having
brought the police department into
disrepute. He was backed by Kugel
and Withnell. Jardine announced (he
would support the motion if Sutton
would be included and then Parks and
Hummel voiced the sentiment ex
pressed by Jardine.
Parks made a motion to discharge
front the service Maloney and Sut
ton and was seconded by Withnell,
but in view of the legal opinion that
such action should be deferred until
after the Sutton hearing, Parks and
Withnell yielded. In fact, Parks.
Withnell, Jardine and Hummel, the
four who were outspoken for re
moval of Maloney and Sutton, finally
agreed that it would be better to wait
until the Sutton hearinsr had been din-
Spposed of. although there was a strong
K-ciing mat Mitton, to all intents and
purposes, had been heard in connec
tion with the Maloney hearing, al
though technically it was only a Ma
loney hearing.
Would Defer Decision.
Mayor Dahlmin favored deferring
a decision on the Maloney case until
after the Sutton hearing, because he
contended that the two cases were
closely linked and that if Maloney
should be found guilty before the
Sutton hearing it might have the ef
fect of clearing Sutton. "If I voted
to exonerate Maloney at this time I
would have to vote against Sutton
when his case came up," said the
mayor.
"Maloney," said Commissioner But
ler, "has been the bone'of contention
on the police department during sev
eral administrations. The time has
conic to weed out not only Maloney,
but others."
( Commissioner Withnell ' said':
"Chief Dunn said he would resign un
less Maloney, and Sutton were both
removed from the department."
"Mr. Withnell is mistaken in what
T said," said the chief. "I did say
(hat it would be better for the serv
ice if Maloney and Sutton would be
let out."
Commissioners Kugel and Butler
voted for disposition of the case at
the conclusion of the arguments of
fered by Attorneys Ben S. Baker
and Elmer E. Thomas and a brief
resume by City Attorney Rine Mon
day. There were five votes to take the
matter under secret advisement.
The dominating reason for taking
the hearing under advisement was the
peculiar relation which charges pend
ing against Detective Paul Sutton
bear to the charges against Maloney.
Sutton is charged with "falsely ac
cusing Maloney, knowing that the
charges were false and without foun
dation." Would Convict Sutton.
Maloney is charged with having
been a party to and engaged in what
is known as the Chadron conspiracy
i to commit blackmail. Some of the
CHANCES TO BE
DRAFTED ONE TO
EIGHT IN OMAHA
Election Commissioner Believes
1,400 Men in Douglas
County Will Be Called
in First Draft.
(Uy Ao'lntd I'rfm.)
Washington, July 9. Unofficially
it was indicated today that 687,000
is the number of men to be selected
for the first national war army from
the millions registered June 5.
Probably twice that number of
names will be drawn, as the num
ber of exemptions to be allowed is
estimated at 50 per cent. Next Sat
urday is understood to have been
tentatively fixed upon as the date
for th edrawing, although no an
nouncement has been made to the
provost marshal general's office.
One Absorbing Thought.
Nearly 21,000 Douglas county
young men and their fathers, moth
ers, wives, brothers, sisters and sweet
hearts have one all-absorbing thought
in their minds today.
That thought iV
"Will I or he he drawn tomorrow
or whenever Uncle Sam conducts the
big lottery for selective army con
icription? Greater Omaha, which means Doug
las county, can hardly wait for the
flash from Washington that will an
nounce the numbers of mrr, all over
the I'nited States selected to make up
the hig national draft army of a half
iimpon men.
(Continued on rK Twelve (olumn tine.)
Believe Germans Threatening
Northern Europe Neutral Countries
Corning, la., July 9. (Special Tele
gram.) J. N. Wilkerson, the detec
tive, who has been investigating the
Villisca ave murder, was arraigned
!irr l,fl'nf i.i, 1,,-rrrt ..f .......
ron joncs store at Villisca. e ,f, 71Vv J Y i KI T . y ' commissioners are wonderinir whether
waived examination to awtit aetion r.f "'7,)0 registered has a serial nuni ber, c on,nns 5!" 1 lf rs -ire wonaenng wn etner
the grand v of which will rorrespond with a number a" arjJ.'" of Maloney would not
im me irt it'ii im uie oran oinciais in ' , , . . ,
Washington ' his argument Attorney Baker,
1 Numbers will he drawn in Washing! for Captain Maloney, said:
ton for the .50,000 exemption districts' ,,,ere nas bern a d'abolical plot to
in the United Sialcr,. Omaha has six ! ''stroy Maloney. The only conspir
districts. acv ,0k place was the one to
One to Eight ! cct 'a'one.Vi ann tnat was conceived
I'hc state decided to introduce its
witnesses, not wishing to take any
chances that they might disappear be
fore the grand jury reached the case.
While waiting for the state wit
nesses to appear Wilkerson said he
did not concede guilt and desired
privilege of entering demurrer.
Nebraska Man Bound Over
For Threatening President
Mack Dennev, living seven miles
from Tilden, Neb., was arrested for
u... .1.- -I... t, .
iMiiaicniiiK uir urcsmrm. uuiterl M.-nu will oe Lfoiic as coun v
States Commissioner Hayes of Nor-1 If no exemptions are allowed he
Klcctiuii Commissioner Moorhead
bcl ieves the chances of being drafted !
in wougias county arc about one in
eight.
Based on the government's estimate
that about one-half of the 10,000,000
men rigestered will be exempt, the
election commissioner figures about
1,1110 will he Douglas county s quota
(Continued on face Two, Column Two.)
Knowledge 1 H;t. tlicic was not more
than 200.000.000 gr.Hoiu of whisky
now in bond
actions against the north European
neutrals in the event that they should
yield to the United States and refuse
t' continue le supply Gennanv with
food and raw materials. The genera',
belief isvthat the emperor is making
it plain fo the Scandinavians that if
they allow their territorial waters to
be patrolled or mined by the entente
allies or refuse to continue to ex
change goods with Germany lie will
regard the action as a breach of neu
trality and as an act of hostility to
wards Germany
folk bound him over to the
jury.
John Johnson was arrested at
North Platte for failure to register.
United States Commissioner Ober
felder hound him over to the federal
grand jury.
Jess Adams was arrested at Kear
ney for failure to register.
grand ' says approximately 2,500 men will be
! drawn in the six Omaha districts.
No Definite Orders.
"There really is nothing definite as
to just how many men the govern-
Kate Sanborn, Author
And Teacher, is Dead
HollUt. M ass., July 9. Miss Kath
crine Abbott S'uiborn (Kate San
born), author, died today at the age
of 79. Miss Sanborn was formerly
professor of Fnglish literature at
Smith college.
The Sunday Score
Paid Advertising In The Bee
(Warficld Agency Meaaurements.)
Good Showing of Gain
SUNDAY, JULY 8-rIN INCHES
Local Display 771
Foreign Display 73V4
Automobile 692 H
Classified 584
(Continued on Te Two, Column Four.)
Nebraskans Assigned to
Canadian Aviation Camp!
Fort Snelling, Minn., Julv 9.The !
first detachment of student officers
assigned to the Canadian aviation
camp for training was,announced to
day. Among them are C. W. France
of Lincoln, Neb.: R. O. Turner of
Presidio, Cal., and Frank Reed of Lin
coln. Xeb.
Total 2122
SAME SUNDAY LAST YEAR
Local Display 651
Foreign Display 104
Automobile 547
Classified 640
Total 1942
GAIN 179'j INCHES.
Keep Your Eye On The Bee
IMPROVING EVERYDAY