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4L I THE BEE t OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917. STATE BRIGADE; REACHES DEMING IN FINEHEALTH Omaha's Machine x Gup Com panies Start Immediate -Training; Boys Served with - Lunch by Redtross. Deming, N. M., Sept" 18. (Special Telegram.) The Nebraska infantry brigade at Cody is complete with the arrival here today of the Fifth and Sixth infantry respectively command ed by Colonels H. J.Paul and Phil Hall. The troops arrived in a drizzle, which fell on their, trains through the last few hours of the trip. No sick ness is reported and no accidents. The running time of all trains is con sidered good. " Band Plays at El Paso. Colonel Paul allowed the band of the Fifth to march and play on 1 Paso streets between the Union pas senger station and Plaza San Jacinto in the center of the'city for a half hour while the section bearing the headquarters, Ccyhpaay A and supply company were served lunch an.d cof fee by the refreshment committee of the Red Cross. Major E. E. Sterricker was in charge of another train and Major R. L. Crosson managed the third. All , the sections got lunch at the hands of El Paso Red Cross women. The companies from Wymore, Blue Hill and Aurora arrived at Camp (Cody last night, ahead of the remain- der of the regiment. Company C, from Beatrice, here long ahead of any other unit of the Fifth, pointed the way to the regimental street to night. " v. Conduct Was Exemplary. The supply outfit from Lincoln, Captain H. C. Stein commanding, worked late unloading wagons and animals preparatory to delivering supplies and provisions to the regi ment early Tuesday. Omaha's machine gunners in both the Fifth and Sixth will be among the first special units to get into training. Under the new army for mation they, probably will be extend ed into larger numbers.. Major H. T. Harries, commanding the Omaha battalion of the Sixth,said the conduct of the men wasT ex emplary all through the trip and that every man was eager to get into, the new training and be ready to join the big movement eastward. " The Sixth did not pass El Paso. Men of the Fifth traveled in coachs without berths and were glad ' to stretch their legs and stand for the welcome7 they got at El Paso. They said they had not been dealt with so kindly anywhere else on the trip as they were here. Great quantities of pies, cakes and fruit were bought here by groups of the men to carry on the train. ' " ' . Bee Want 4ds Produce Results. , Pueyredon Advised "Sink Ships" Says VonXuxburg Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept 18. Since being handed his pass ports Count on Luxburg, it was stated, , has been circulating the statement that the idea of sinking Argentine ships "without leaving a trace" was suggested to him by the. foreign minister of Argentina as a means of preventing cbmplications. This statement was characterized by Foreign Minister Pueyredon as the "greatest, most shameful, bare faced lie" in his official experience. The reoort from Berlin that Dr. Luis B. Molina, the Argentine min ister to Germany, had explained to the German government that the handing of passports by Argentina to Count von Luxburg, the German minister, was a personal matter and did not signify a rupture of rela tions, was classed as of doubtful ac curacy by Foreign Minister Ptttyre don today. It was true that a rup ture had not been created by hand ing Count von Luxburg his pass ports, the foreign minister stated, but Dr. Molina's instructions did not provide for any explanation of the situation to Germany. . The foreign minister reiterated today that there will be a rupture of relations with Germany if 'the latter's explanation' of the Luxburg incident is not absolutely satisfac tory. - Count von Luxburg has noti ' fied the foreign office that he plans to leave Argentina by a Dutch steamer sailing September 28, or on a Spanish vessel October 2. Witness Puts the Blame on Chemical Defect in Bullets i Washington, Sept 18. Colonel George Montgomery, commanding officer of the Frankford Arsenal, was the first witness today-before the house military sub-committee investi gating the manufacture of defective cartridges at the arsenal. He told how) there had been trouble with primers since last January, resulting in the condemning of millions of them by the arsenal's chief inspector, of the purchase from private manu facturers and of the permanent sub stitution in June of a privately owned primer. t A chemical defect which the spectors could not detect was respon sible for the difficulty, the colonel said, though he suggested 'that the committee should go into that ques tion with the chief chemist. In addi tion to the chemical deterioration, he said, there had been insufficient dry ing of primers in crowded ammuni tion warehouses. Indian is Considered k White for Draft Purpose St.. Paul, Minn., Sept. 18. A red skin, makes a white man, according to a ruling given by Minnesota state draft officials today. A local exemp tion board official in the Indian reser vation region of northern Minnesota, had sent a telegram asking whether Indians- could be included in the con tingent made up exclusively of white men. "An Indian is, counted as a white man in the draft regulations," was the reply. WOMAN COMES TO . MYSTERIOUS END Body Found in Unfurnished Chicago Flat Gives Little ' Clue to Manner of Vic tim's Death. Chicago, 111., Sept. 18. In the bath rdom of an unfurnished flat in one of the better residence sections, the police today found th& body of a woman about 26 years old, expensive ly dressed. k A tube led from her mouth to the gas fixture above, but the gas was not turned on. One of the woman's wrists had been almost severed with a razor, which was found on a win dow sill in the parlor. The walls and the floor of the apartment were spat tered with blood and there was a bucket of water with a sponge in it, wth which efforts apparently had been made to wipe up the stain. A complete trousseau was found in a trunk. There was no furniture in the flat. The only identification possible was a postal card postmarked Decatur, 111., and addressed To Miss Josephine Parker.' It was signed Clara and said, "Do not worry, your furniture is oh the way." . ' ' Mrs. Lars Anderson said the woman leased the flat a month ago, but had rebuffed all attempts of the neighbors to be friendly and had been so eccentric she was called "the Ger man spy." Newspaper Publishers Enter Protest Against Postal Tax New York, Sept. 18. The Ameri can Nevftpaper Publishers associa tion whose membership consistsbf daily newspaper publishers in all parts of the country, through its pos tal committee of which Don C. Seitt is, chairman, strongly protested again today against either punitive taxation of the newspaper publishing busi ness "or the principle advpeated by some of the use of the postal service as an instrument of taxation." A statement issued by the committee said: "Newspaper publishers without ex ception expect vto pay full taxes of everykind and are protesting splely against proposals to visit them with a form of taxation not applied to any other business." Tank Steamer Sunk In Collision With Liner Paris, Monday. Sept. 18. (De layed.) The tank steamship Bouvet was sunk in the Mediterranean on September 12, being in collision with the French passenger liner Orenoa,ue, of 3,833 tons. There were no victims. After colliding with the Orenoque fire broke out on the Bouvet, a.nd this was followed by an explosion, the ship sinking within a quarter of an hour.The Orenoque, notwithstanding that it was damaged, managed to reach the Algerian coast. Available shipping records do not contain the name of Bouvet. Presumably it was a French tank steamer. St. Louis Appeals to .Hoover on Milk Increase St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 18. St. Louis milk distributors at a meet ing today decided to appeal t. Food Administrator Hoover if the milk fcroducers of Missouri and southern Illinois insist on their proposed in crease from $2.20 to $3.50 a hundred pounds for milk, which means a jump in the retail price from 11 cents to 16 cents a quart An effort to reach an agreement on milk prices will be made at a meeting tomorrov of producers,, distributors and city officials. Activities on The Various Battle Fronts (By AMoclated"PrMi.) Still lacking in large offensive op erations, the European war fields con tinue to furnish news of rmiltiple lo cal activtie. The Germans last night in an attack toward the Neufchatel road near Rheims reached the French lines, but were ejected. ' London's official statement is par ticularly colorless today, but recent communications have mentioned very active raiding work and airplane ob servation. The Russians apparently have stopped their forward movement in the Riga district, in which some of the ground lost (in the resent retreat was reclaimed. Enterprise continues to be shown by the Roumanians, who yesterday captured a section of the Teutonic fortified positions in the Varnitza re gion on the Moldavian front. . tm ti.i: n;: 1 . . - l -t 1 lie Jiauan ouitiai siaicmcm merely reports the- repulse of further Aus trian counter attacks on the Bainsizza plateau and heavy artillery fire on the Carso. President Nominates Newton ' For Collector of Customs Washington, Sept. 18. Byron T. Newton of New York was nominated today by President Wilson to be col lector of customs at New York. Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina was nominated to be commissioner on internal revenue. Texas Conducts Wholesale House Cleaning , o( State Austin, Tex., Sept. 18. Both branches, of the Texas legislature to night decided on a .sweeping investi gation of all state departments and institutions ' a large committe ap pointed for that purpose. German Barley Once Fed to Pigs, Now to Humans Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 18. The German war food department announces that no barley will be available for feeding purposes, as it is needed for human consumption. The department proposes; there fore, to kill all pigs weighing more , thun thirty pounda as soon as the pasture season ends, leaving only a few for breeding purposes. FEDERAL EMPLOYES OPEN CONVENTION Hear Addresses by Jeanette Rankin and Gompers; Seek Saturday Half Holiday for Government Workers. Washington, Sept 18. Delegates from federal employes' unions throughout the country opened a con vention today to perfect a national organization. They expect to elect officers tomorrow. President Gompers ! of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, with which the national body is to be affiliated, addressed the delegates and offered his personal assistance and that of the' federation. Other speakers were Miss Jeanette Rankin, representa tive from Montana, wh asked the convention to advocate woman suff rage; James O'Connell, vice president of the American Federation - of La bor; Frank Morrison, secretary, and Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary of the National Federation of Postal Em ployes. After the organization is complete, it is understood a campaign will be started to obtain for government em ployes, among other things, better pay, a scientific reclassification, re tirement legislation and a year aronnd Saturday half holiday. Engineer Admits He Slept At Post, Causing Wreck Aurora, 111., Sept. 18. A. C. Carl son, engineer of a Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy freight train which killed seven when it crashed into aj i j i tii . t T siock train at ran vine, in., looay, ad mitted to E. R. Norton, coroner ot Kane county, tonight that he was asleep at the time of the accident. He had been sick for several days and dropped asleep on his run ten miles Woman Sentenced to Labor for Murdering Husband Shawnee, Okl., Sept. 18. Mrs. Florence Mary Roe, 38 years old, was found guilty today of the mur-' der of her husband, Jesse Roe, 54 years old two days after their mar riage at Drumright, Okl., and was given a sentence of ninety-nine years at hard labor. Insanity was the plea of the defense." ' Roe's body was found, the throat cut hidden in a trunk, which had, been buried under the floor of their i house at Merrimac, near here. before reaching Earlville, he declared in a statement to the coroner's in quest. Jhe Kane conty grand lurry brought in a report, holding Carlson responsible for the accident. Carlson will be charged with manslaughter, according to State? Attorney Wiley. Convention of Business Men Predicts End of Anti-War Move Atlantic City, N. . J., Sept. 18. American industry's support of the government in its prosecution of the war was reaffirmed today at the open ing of the war convention here of American business mqn called by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Speaking at a preliminary meeting held by the chamber's national coun cil, John W. Fahey of Boston, hon orary vice president of the organiza tion, declared that the country's busi ness men, after helping win the war, will "so organize that never again shall a group of murderers form a government to threaten the progress and liberty of the nation." .. Press Women Into Service; Shortage Of Male Help Spokane, Wash., Sept. 18. Thirty women started to work today as lumber pilers and machine tenders at a woodworking plant here be cause of a shortage of male help. BEET SUGAR WORKS FOR LOWER PRICES Voluntary Service of AH Indus, tries Better Than Arbitrary Lcts of the Government, Says Hoover. Washington Sept 18. Beet sugar refiners and brokers opened confer ences today to work out details of a plan for a central distributing agency planned to co-operate with the fool administration and to agree on stan dard prices. About 10 per cent of the refiners protested against prices proposed, say ing they had made contracts with beet growers at unusually high rates. The food administration announced, how ever many of the growers affected by these contracts had agreed to accept a lower price as patriotic duty. A solution will be sought at other con ferences tomorrow. ' Food Administrator Hoover in an address to the sugar men emphasized that voluntary, service of all indus tries is the only, democratic means of. meeting the war emergency. In a contest between methods of autocracy and democracy, he said, economic problems in the democracy should be regulated by business men in co-operation with the government rather than by arbitrary acts of the govern ment ? t Von Bernstorff is 1 ? Received byvSultan London, Sept 18. Count von Bernstorff, formerly German ambas sador to the -United' States, and re cently appointed . ambassador to Tur key, was, received by the Sultan to day and presented his credentials, ac cording to a 'dispatch from Constan tinople. ' ' ' Important Announcement! The Schmoller & Mueller Piano Company take pleasure to inform the public that they have purchased Hayden Bros, entire stock of Pianos, Player Pianos, Phonographs, Sheet Music and Musical Merchandise. ; I The stock will be removed at once to our warerooms, tan 1313 Farnam St., and go on sale next Thursday morning, Septem ber 20th. Watch The Bee for special announcement. SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO CO. ' u Largest and Oldest Piano House in the Vt Established 1859. 1311-13 Farnam St Omaha, Neb 3Z V I H -1 (n)Ul ' '' HE Pierce Shoe Company stock was danr 11 aged by fire June 5. Entire stock sold out . , ; ,N: ' t : , We have a complete new stock bought at lower prices. Can sell you shoes much cheaper than six months ago. We keep no orphan V Wright & Peters, E. P. Reed & Co., Patterson and La France boots for ladies. r Strong & Garfield, Slater & Morrell, Dr. Reed's sCushion Soles, Chicagoan Shoes for young men, Herman and U. S. Army Shoes. III MP i 111 nn ill ITS HARRY F. PIERCE, Council Bluffs' Oldest Shoe Man BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET r V I