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OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1917. TEN PAGES.
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REFORM WAVE, IN GERMANY FORCES
EMPEROR TO
ANT BIG CONCESSIONS;
NEW SLAV&RMY GAINS NEAR HALICZ
THE WEATHER
Fair V
RUSS OCCUPY
MORE TOWNS
IN BIG RUSH
Wedge is Driven Further Into
German Position in Galicia;
Teutons Forced Across
the Lomnica.
(Aaociated Prm War Summary.)
Several villages captured and more
thau 1,000 additional prisoners and
three field guns taken attest the suc
cess of the second day's attack by
General Korniloff in eastern Galicia.
Already this branch of the Rus
i sian offensive movement has resulted
y in a deep wedge being driven into
the Austro-Gcrman lines between
Satariislau and Halicz southeast of
Lemberg. It took the throwing in
of strong German reserves and the
launching of heavy counter attacks
even to slcyw up the rush of Korni
loff's men. ' '
Russians Clearly Gaining.
The strategic position in this sec
tor is now clearly in favor of the
Russians. The long established .Teu
tonic line has been definitely driven
back and the speedy fall of Halicz,
Opening up the way to Lemberg
along two first-class railway lines, is
predicted. A dangerous salient al
ready has been created around Halicz.
Petrograd's official statement, be
side announcing a retreat of the Teu
tons to the Lominca river and report
ing the penetration of the enemy lines
to a depth of six and two-thirds miles
in the two days' fighting in the Stan
sialau sector, gives indications that
the offensive further north in Galicia
is soon to be resumed. Intense artil
lery activity south of Brzezany, an
important bridgehead point which the
Russians are closelyfiressing, is now
reported. . .
Activity Near Riga. '
Berlin admits-the Austro-Germans
retirement in the Stanislau sector be
hind the Lompinca. The headquarters
report Contains the additional inter
esting statement of increased activ
ity on the northern Russian front at
Riga, Dvinsk and Smorgon.
A Russian stroke on the German
lines on this northern ffont would
show conclusively that the rehabilita
tion of the Russian armies had also
extended to those nearest Petrograd
and most subject to the disturbing in
fluences, which, during the critical
weeks immediately succeeding the
revolution, eminated from the
treme radical elements there.
ex"i
Each day now -witnesses a new at
tack by the German crown prince
along the Aisne front in northern
France, suggesting an attempt at a
substantial offensive. The French guns
are proving too much for the attack
ing ranks of Teutons, however.
Germans Repulsed in West.
Last night's attack on the Chemin-Des-Dames
plateau, the high ridge
which the Germans lost in the spring
campaign and are now trying desper
ately to recover, was even less fruit
ful than others have been at the out
set. The Germans were not able to
get near the French lines at the Hur
; tebise monument and the Dragon,
where their attacks were launched,
and they fell back with severe losses.
General Haig is again nibbling at
the German lines in Belgium. Last
rrtght he took another bite into the
territory east of the Messines and
advanced the British lines slightly
near Oosttaverne, a mile northeast of
Wytschacte.
Russian Official Report.
Petrograd, July 10. General Korni
loff's offensive in eastern Galicia con
tinues despite the-energctre resistance
and stubborn counter, attacks of the
Teutons, the war office announced to
day. Additional villages have been
captured. ' More than 1,000 prisoners
were taken yesterday. The Russians
also captured three field guns, many
trench mortars and machine guns and
a quantity of war material.
The statement says the enemy has
retreated to the Lomnica river. In
two days the Russians penetrated to
a depth of six and two-thirds mijes
. the enemy position west of Stanislau.
Talk Harries for
Officers' Place in v
Nebraska Guard
Washington Burean
Of The Omaha IW.
725 Fourteenth Street. N. W.
fFrom a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, July 10. (Special Tele
gramsPersistent rumors that Gen
eral George H. Harries of Omaha will
go into the army as a high officer of
the Nebraska troops today followed
the presence of General Harries and
Governor Neville in Washington to
gether. They both made a visit to various
army departments.
One suggestion was that General
Harries might be chosen colonel of
the "Dandy Sixth," but the general
has the rank of a major general in the
National Guard, which title he held at
the time of hi? retirement, and if he
accompanies t;ie Nebraska troops, it i i
mcf?e than likely he will be one of the
brigade officers. Governor Neville's
recognized desire to go to the front,
therefore is not thought to clash with
iny ambitions that General Harries
i may have.
FOOD BILL WAITS
RESULT OF STRIFE
IN THE REICHSTAG
Senate Agrees to Cast Vote on
Important Measure July 21;
Various Theories as to
Cause for Delay.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, July 10. Unanimous
consent to begin final voting on the
food control bill and all amendments
not later than :30 o'clock Saturday
afternoon, July 21, was given in the
senate late today and the cloture n;o
tion filed yesterday was withdrawn.
The agreement was souelit by Sen
ator Chamberlain, in charge of the
bill, when it became apparent that the
storm of opposition to the prohibition
and other sections wouul make pas
sage of the bill within the next few
days impossible. After Thursday,
July 19, speeches will be limited to
five and ten minutes.
New Plans Laid.
Plans were laid during the day by
special meetings of the senate agricul
ture and democratic steering commit
tee for material revision of the bill to
meet objections.
Senator Chamberlain announced
that he intended keeping the bill con
stantly before the senate until the
final vote. Opponents, including Sen
ators Lodge, Reed and others, ex
pressed satisfaction over the length
of time given for further considera
tion. ;
Causes Various Conjectures.
Washington, July 10. (Special
Telegram) The senators' decision
not to .begin voting the tood con
servation bill until July 21 is variously
construed in legislative circles espe
cially among house members.
.That momentous eyentsare tran
spiring in Germany is the general be
lief in circles best acquainted with
German politics and it is thought that
the "wise old owls" of the senate are
advised of these conditions anq are .
therefore not disposed to hurry rtiat
ters along the lines of the food con
trol bill until the results of the presi
dent's embargo proclamation arc de
finitely known.
VThen there is the amendment to
the food control bill giving the presi
dent the right to purchase distilled
spirits, in bond at some upset price to
be fixed for manufacturing plus 10
per cent for profit, that does not sit
lightly on the souls of prohibitionists
for they realize that "should millions
of gallons of distilled spirits now in
hrtnrt li --witllrlrawn Kpfnrp flip law
becomes effective that one of the
supreme sources for raising revenue
would be compltely wiped out and
so the prohibitionists look upon the
postponement of the, vote upon the
food control bill with intensive
shivers. . i
To Give Distillers Time?
There is a. third group of legis
lators who regard the senate's action
today as a scheme on the part of the
whisky representatives to give the
distillers longer time in which to take
the nearly 300,000,000 of distilled
spirits out of bond at the current tax
of $1.10 per gallon ind house it in
independent storehouses subject to
immediate sale rather that run the
risk $2.20 per gallon as the food con
trol bill provided when k passed the
house.
However, the sanest view of the
present situation as to the food con
trol bill seems to point to an inside
knowledge that tremendous events'
are due in Germany shortly and a
delay of two weeks in legislating on
food control will not be wasted.
Anti-Draft Socialist Papers
Are Excluded From Mail
, Washington, July 10. Investieation
of the Postofhce department activities
in excluding socialistic newspapers
and periodicals from the mails tinder
the new espionage law is sought in a
resolution introduced today by Repre
sentative London, New Yprk socialist.
Mr. London named ten papers ex
cluded. Most tit them are understood
to have been placed under the ban
because of anti-draft propaganda.
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Bar Silver Rises to New
High Record for the War
New York, July 10. Bar silver was
quoted at 79J4 cents an ounce in the
local market today.the highest price
since the beginning of the war. The
alvance was almost wholly attributed
to the increased foreign demand for
the metal, silver having been substi
tuted for gold coin by most of the
European countries.
Has Narrow Escape from Death
WhenBig Truck Turns Over on Trestle
Jack Collier, Harley hotel, nar
rowly escaped death and a number of
workmen injuries, when a five-ton
truck, loaded with sand and driven by
Collier, turned over on the trestle
work at the new Conant hotel building-
under construction at Sixteenth
and Harney .streets. ,
That Collier was not crush?d, eye
witnesses said, was due 'to the fact
that he jumped from the trestle to
the basement, twenty feet below. He
suffered a sprained back and possible
internal injuries.
Collier was hauling a load of sand
Waiting!
EMPLOYERS FAIL
TO APPEAR BEFORE
STRIKE HEARING
Business Men's Association Of
fers No Witnesses and Even
Attorney Deserts Media
tion Board Meeting.
t
lite hearing before the state board
x
of mediation and investigation on the
sinwe situation in . Umana lias re
solved itself into a one-sided affair.
Only the employes are testifying.
The Business Men's association,
which is the organization of employers
concerned in the strike, is not offering
any witnesses and Attorney .Francis
A. Brogan for the employers even has
deserted the hearing.
It is on the advice of Mr. Brogan
that the employers are refusing to tes
tify. The attorney advised them a few
days ago that under the provisions of
injunction' now running .against both
employers and employed, restrain
ing both sides from aeitatinir, or inter
fering, they might stand pat and re-
tuse to talk m this hearing. At the
same lime he advised them that they
might waive that right if they cared
to and appear voluntarily to testify
They chose, however, to stand pat and
keep away irom the hearing.
Jay Personal Checks.
L. W. Smith, a painter, who former
ly worked for 'the Drake Realty Con
struction company, testified that this
company pays 55 cents per hour, the
old scale, in making up the regular
company paychecks, and that when
ever an employe complains of this
check he can go to the office and re
ceive the personal check of W. B.
Drake for the difference between the
55-cent scale and the 62-cent scale.
(Continued on Fags Two, Column Four.)
Man Crushed to Death
Under Electric Liaht Poles
Sioux Falls. S. D , July 10. (Spe
cial.) Conrad Maul' employed as a
sugar beet worker 'at Fruitdale, was
instantly killed at Nisland while un
loading electric light poles from- a
freight car. Thirteen of the heavy
poles got away from him arid passed
over his body, reducing his head to a
pulp and breaking every bone in (his
body. He is survived by a widow and
five small children. He had taken the
contract to unload the poles. When
he cut the retaining wires the poles
swept down upon him before he could
jump out of the way.
and was midway on the trestle when
a section of the false work gave way.
The heavy car caught on the rafters
and turned completely over.
A number of workmen underneath
the t-estle were warned away by the
creaking of the timbers.
Had the truck plunged from the
trestle,-it is caid, at least five v.ork
men would have been killed.
Contractors wcre at a loss to ex
plain the reason for the trestle giv
ing way. They said that it had been
built to withstand many times the
weight of the loaded auto truck. "
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NEW CHARGES
- FILEAGAINST
SLEUTH SUTTON
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Hearing on Five Counts Will Be
Held Before City Council
". Friday Morning at
9 o'Clock.
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l iitn niaigta, wn latinug live tuuiuo,
I wcre filed with the city counci, by
Chief of Police Dunn against Detec
tive Paul Sutton and were substituted
for the former charges.
The council definitely fixed Thurs
day morning at 9 o'clock for the hear
ing. The new charges contain in sub
stance the following specifications:
Charges Against Sutton.
That Sutton falsely accused Malo
ney with conspiracy , to blackmail,
that during 1916 and 1917 he visited
and became an inmate of a disor
derly house at 514 and 516 South
Nineteenth street, well knowing that
said house was disorderly; that he
knew of law violations at tha't and
other places and failed to report
same to his superiors or to cause ar
rests for such violations: that he re
ceived $20 from Ruth Bass and $5
from Dorothy Davis and various sums
of money from other persons in con
sideration of protection; that on va
rious occasions he advised, demanded
and suggested that other members of
the police department should not ar
rest or interfere with certain per
sons who were his friends or who
had paid him for protection, all of
which acts and doings tended to dis
organize the effective working of the
police department.
Commissioners Butler and Kugrl
insisted that Sutton should first be
heard on the first charges, which
referred to thee harges brought by
tne detective against Maloney in the
Chadron case.
"The city council has no right to
hear these new charges against Sut
ton. These charges should be tried
and tried now," vigorously announced
Attorney Ren S. Baker..
Mayor in Clash.
Mayor Dahlinan and Commissioner
Butler engaged in an exchange of
words, during which the mayor stated
that at the time Maloney was sus
pended ninety days for the "rat"
episode, not one commissioner sug
gested to dismiss the captain from the
service.
"It was all concocted by four votes
to impose ninety days on Maloney,"
answered Butler.
Attorney Elmer Thomas, for Sut
ton, said: "The new charges are in
famous and false."
Fred C. Harper Elected
Head of Elks' Order
Boston, July 10. Fred C. Harper,
a lawyer of Lynchburg, Va., today
was elected ' grand exalted ruler of
the Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks and Atlantic City was
unanimously named as the next con
vention city.
The total membership of the order
for, the year was given as 474,690.
A surplus of $712,722 was reported
by the treasurer.
Resolutions endorsing . President
Wilson's stand in the war with Ger
many were adopted. s
Pacifists Must Take
White Border From Flag
Janesville, Wis., July 10. A
United States flag bordered with
white has . been flying over the
Clear Lake camp of the Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones, prominent among the
pacifists. Today Sheriff Bob
Whipple served notice on the min
ister that the flag must be lowered
and the white margin removed to
comply with federal statute.
COPIES OF RULES
TO GOVERN DRAFT
ARRIVE IN OMAHA
Relative or Employer of
Drafted Man May Claim Ex
ception for Him in Case
He Refuses to Himself.
Six Douglas county exemption
boards are ready for business as soon
as the government draws the num
bers in the huge lottery for selective
army conscription.
These numbers will correspond
with serial numbers opposite each of
the approximately 20,700 name of
young men who registered June 5.
Every man drawn in Douglas coun
ty's quota, which is expected to be
about 1,400, will then be subject to
army call, providing he does not ap
pear before the exemption board in
his district and show proper cause
why he should be excused.
Election Commission Moorhead
hopes the drawing of numbers in
Washington will have been made by
the last t)i the week, but admits he is
as much at sea as the general public
as to just when the lottery will be
held.
"I and everyone else realizes the
suspense incident to the drafting of
men for the army, and I believe the
govern meht realizes it, too," (aid the
election commissioner.
'-! : (. -"'vRulet Arrive. ; '"Tf,
' 'Exemption boards today received
copies of the official rules and regu
lations governing conduct of the local
bodies. " ' '.
These rules cover every angle and
phase of problems expected to come
up before the boards,
The boards will spend considerable
time from now till the time the gov
ernment advises them to begin work
studying the regulations and getting
ready for tasks before them.
One of the important points touched
upon is the rule governing residents
of Douglas county who are now In
other parts of the country.
May Ask Transfer.
These individuals, who registered
here and elsewhere as residents of
this county, may go before exemp
tion boards wherever they happen to
be when the bodies start their ses
sions and ask that their hearings toe
transferred.
The local board will then make re
quest of the foreign board to trans
fer the hearing.
Exemption's will not necessarily
have to be asked for by registered
persons themselves. A relative or a
third person may claim exemption
for. a registered man and appear be
fore an exemption board in his be
half. Thus a wife, a father or a mother,
could appear before a board and ask
exemption for a young man, even if
the registered person himself did not
care, to do so.4
Employer May Claim.
An employer could also claim ex
emption tor certain of his men, if he
believed their services were of greater
need in some particular line of busi
ness than in the army.
Husbands, who like Rip Van
Winkle, would welcome life in the
army as relief from matrimonial war
fare, may find themselves out of luck
in case their wives "get wind" of
their intentions and appear before ex
emption boards.
The six district exemption boards
fin Douglas county are as follows
1. Twelfth and Fifth wards, fire
barn at Twenty-second street and
Ames avenue; W. G. Ure, chairman.
2. Tenth and Fourth wards, old
South Side city hall; J. J. Breen,
chairman.
3. Eighth and Third wards, Patter
sou block; W. W. McComb. chairman.
4. First, Second and Seventh wards.
court house; Clyde Sundblad, chair
man .
5. Ninth, Eleventh and Sixth wrds,
Judge Estelle's office, court house;
Charles Foster, chairman.
6. Country precincts, Dr. W. R.
Reed's office, Benson; Oscar J. Pick
ard, chairman.
American Commission to
Russia Finishes Work
Washington, July 10. America's
commission to Russia headed by Elihu
Root virtually has completed its work
in the new democracy and soon will
start for home. Administration of
ficials expressed the greatest satisfac
tion today over what has been accom
plished by the mission.
Administration Spy
Crazy, Says Leader Mann
Washington, July 10. Republican
Leader Mann declared in the house
today that hysteria and "spycraze"
possess the administration. He was
speaking in opposition to a section of
the trading with the enemy bill de
signed to permit the president to des
ignate alien enemies.
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IIAISER READY TO SACRIFICE
ZIMMERMAN AND HELFFR1CH
TO RISING TIDE OF DEMOCRACY
German Emperor Making Strenuous Efforts to Meet De
mands for Peace and More Liberal Form of Parlia-
mentary Government; Opposition in Reichstag
Receiving Support from Austria. '
Dispatches from Copenhagen, Zurich and Amsterdam in
dicate that political unrest in Germany and dissatisfaction with
the conduct of the war has thrown the central empires into a
state of ferment.
The kaiser, it is said, has decided to ask for the resigna
tion of Foreign Minister Zimmermann and Vice Chancellor Helf
ferich in an .effort to save Chancellor von Bcthmann-Hollweg.
GANG FIGHT AT
MUNYPOOLVINDS
UP IN SHOOTING
One Youth in Hospital and Two
in Jail as Result of Quarrel
at Morton Park Swim
ming Tank.
' Mike 'Shea, 3815 U street, is in the
South Omaha hospital with a bullet
wound in his right leg and II. E. Ar
rington and F. J. Wachal, 4721 South
Twenty-fifth street, are being held un-
'dec bonds of $500- as a result of. an
altercation which occurred at tne mu
nicipal swimming pool in Morion
park South Side, Monday night.
Arrington is charged with shooting
with intent to wound. Tolice say he
fired two shots at Shea, one of which
took effect. Wachal is charged with
carrying concealed weapons.
Arrington and Wachal were held
under $300 bonds following hearing
in police court and an investigation
of the case will be made by the county
attorney today.
II. S. Brookins and fi. Norton, also
giving ," 4721 South Twentyfourth
street as their address, were arrested
with Arrington and Wachal, but were
later released.
Break Up Gang.
The South Side police, declare, as
a result of the affair, they have broken
up a gang of rowdies who have been
practicing their pernicious tricks st
Morton park. Captain Briggs says
he has the names of seven or eight
other youths who have been making
Morton park a battle ground under
surveillance.
According to the police story, Ar
rington, Wachal, Brookins and Nor
ton went to the park to swim. Shea
and a number of others, it is said,
started to chase them away. Pur
suers and pursued, police say, ran to
Thirty-ninth and Q streets, where
Arrington is said to have pulled a
revolver and fired twice into the
crowd of pursuers. One bullet
struck Shea. ,
Liner Caledonian
Sunk by Torpedo;
51 Lives Are Lost
Paris, July 10. The French liner
Caledonian wss sunk by a mine or
torpedo in the Mediterranean June 30,
according to an announcement issued
last night by the ministty of marine.
Fifty-one persons were lost and 380
were saved.
The Caledonian was a vessel of
4,410 gross tons, built in 1882 and
owned by the Messageries Maritimes
of Paris.
Krupp Plant Wrecked
Says Dutch Newspaper
Amsterdam, July 10. Les Nouvelles
of Maestricht, Holland, reports that
Dutch workmen who were laid off at
the Krupp works on account of the de
struction of buildings in the recent
French air raid, assert that a quarter
of the Essen plant was destroyed. The
material damage is placed at millions
of francs and it is said that 100 em
ployes were killed and hundreds of
others, including forty-five French
prisoners, wounded.
One and possibly two French air
planes dropped bombs on Essen last
Friday. The official German report
of the raid said only two bomb holes
were found.
Six-Year-Old Lad Runs v
Away from Orphanage
Six-year-old Clyde Parkhurst dis
appeared Monday morning from the
St. James, Orphanage, Benson, and
all efforts to find him have been
futile.
It is believed the tot pulled a pair
of overalls over his nightshirt and
ran away thus scantily attired, as his;
hat and shoes are not missing, while
his nightshirt is.
The lad is a nephew of Neff Sower
wine, 6201 Main street, Benson.
HnTT.wr.rt SAVS WiD
Berne, Switzerland, July 10. Ac
cording to . Berlin newspapers, the
German chancellor, Dr. von Beth-mann-Hollweg,
said to members of
the Reichstag: "I repeat that the for
mula of peace without annexations is
dare our terms of peace. .We must
fight and conquer."
The chancellor made a stronff at.
tack on Matthias Eriberger, leader of
the Catholic center, who assailed the t
pan-Germans tn his address before the '
main committee last week and advo
cated peace without annexations or
indemnities. V ,
Dr. von Bcthmann-Hollweg said
Herr Erzbcrger's attitude was unpa
triotic. According to the summary of the
chancellor's speech before the main
committee published in the Lokal An
zeigcr 'of Berlin, lie said:
; Need Alltef Energy.
?. V tlUk ' Willi
our -whole energies. I do not deny,
that we have great difficulty to over
come, but to have our enemies.
"We shall see whether their difficul
ties or ours are greater.
"I am sure we can win if we hofd
out. . ; , i. ; ,
"Nothing was further from my in
tention than to cling to my post, but
now it is a question of protecting the
fatherland from injury and for this
reason, I consider it necessary to re
tain my post." : i ; '
Leaders of the centrist party in the
Reichstag, , who have been attaching
submarine warfare as a failure an de
manding parliamentary 'reform with
a ministry responsible to the. people,
are said to be receiving direct sup
port from Austria.
The centrist proposition for peace
without annexation or indemnities is
expected to gain support in Russia
and the United States.
Leaders-in the Reichstag are ex
pected to agree upon a policy at a
meeting to be held late today.
- Zimmermann and Helfferlch Out.
(By AaMcUtd Vren.)
London, July 10. It is reported Jn
Amsterdam, says the correspondent
of the Exchange Telegraph company,
that the resignation of Dr. Karl
Helfferich, the German vice chancel-'
lor and secretary of the interior, and
Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, the German
secretary for foreign affairs, have
been been decided upon by Emperor
William.
. Crown Council Meets.
The crown council called by
Emperor William was held in Berlin
yesterday, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam
today, but no announcement as to
what took place at, the gathering has
been made.
It is believed, says the dispatch,
that one of the results of the council
will be the introduction of a franchise
bill for Prussia granting universal,
direct suffrage, and the secret ballot.
Austria May Take Hand. . . ,
Zurich, July 10-Six influential
representatives of the centrist party
- . it: t i'
in uermany went 10 v lenna iasi wees,
where they conferred with leading
.t
memoers oi me Austrian aristocracy.
Immediately after their return, ac
cording to a summary of the German
political situation issued here, friends
of Matthias Erzberger, the clerical
leader in the Reichstag, began strong
opposition to Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg.
The south German national-liberal
newspapers, particularly the Meun
chener Neuste Nachrichtenr aban
doned their pan-German policy and
energetically demanded democratic
(Continued on Fnf Two, Column Two.)
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 Of fie. . . . . . .Bee Buildinr
Am Office.... 4110 North 24th
Lak Offic 2516 North 24th
Vinton Offic. ..... .1715 Vinton
Park Offic. . .2615 Lavnworth
Walnut Offic. . . .819 North 40th
South SW.........4827 S. 24th
Council Bluff. ... 14 North Main
Get in touch with the ;
one nearest to you,
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