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HUGE $5,000,000,000 TOTAL
PASSED; NEBRASKA EXCEEDS
QUOTA AFTER GIANT DRIVE
Ten Million Americans Swell Loan to Big Amount Fixed
By McAdoo at Opening of Campaign; State's $30,-'
000,000 Share Generously Oversubscribed;
General Wood Hauls in Dollars.
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1 BULLETIN.
Washington, Oct. 27. Indications late today were that
the Liberty loan had reached $5,000,000,000 in subscriptions.
A compilation of estimated subscriptions from all districts
made public by the Treasury department showed a total of
$4,555,000,000.
The number of subscribers, officially estimated, would
be at least 8,000,000 and may go as high as 10,000,000.
EMSsmS ASSUME PLACE
AMONG SOLDIERS OF ALLIES
TAKE UP POSITIONS ALONG
FIRST LINE TRENCHES; GET
INTO FIGHTING IMMEDIATELY
Pride
With 20 counties yet to be heard from, Nebraska's Lib
erty loan subscriptions reported through Omaha headquarters
amounted to $Z5,4Z3,4&U at noon, me state quota is ww,
000. Omaha has oversubscribed its quota.
WOOD GETS RESULTS.
Major General Leonard Wood,
commander at Camp Funston, closed
his whirlwind, one-day campaign in
Omaha Friday night with a total of
$11)6,100 to his credit from Omaha
audiences in a tidal wave sweeping
Omaha's total over the mark set ear
lier in the week and leaving it high
and dry at $10,036,050 up to noon to
day.
Go to Banks Today.
Liberty loan subscribers must go to
their banks today and make a deposit
of 2 per cent of their subscription. If
that deposit is not made today Oma
ha -will not be credited with the sub
scription in the first official reports
from Washington. The banks will
remain open until 9 p. in. tonight
solely for the purpose of receiving
these first payments. The loan board
requests every subscriber to ''get ill j
early antl make good jeurafKa sv total
subscription." ;.;
' ;- -State Oversubscribed. ' ,
' The state quota will probably- be I
reacted; and possibly oversubscribed,
when full reports from the outlying
counties have been received. Many
of these have reported direct to Kan
sas City and their subscriptions are
rot included in these figures.
Gurdon W. Wattles, who is a di
rector of the Chicago Great Western,
received a telegram from President
S. M. Felton of the road authorizing
liini to place a subscription of $10,000
to Omaha's credit. .
Barney Copeland, Seventeenth and
Chicago, a patriotic Omaha lad, ap
peared before the loan board with his
pockets bulging with $50 worth of
buffalo nickles, the savings of many
years, and bought a Liberty bond.
Mail Carriers Ac five.
Omaha mail carriers have brought
in more than $40,000 in subscriptions
to the second Liberty loan. Of -this
sum $18,000 was subscribed by per
sons on their routes to "whom they
distributed applications. The rest was
subscribed by the carriers.
American Express company here, re
Adams Express company here, re
ceived a telegram from President
George C. Taylor of the company
from New York headquarters autho
rizing a subscription of $50,000 to
help boom Omaha's oversubscription
campaign.
The Austrian-Hungary society at a
meeting Friday night voted to sub
scribe to $500 in Liberty bonds. This
society invested $500 in these bonds.
The members of this organization
have in other ways demonstrated their
loyalty to this country.
Women Buy Bonds.
Though a club to which members
nay no dues, the Scottish Rite Worn
an's club Friday voted to purchase
$1,000 worth of Liberty bonds. The
bonds will do a second good war serv
ice, for they will be turned over to
the r oung Men s Christian associa
tion war work fund.
I his club is less than three years
old. Its funds are secured by furnish
ing meals to Scottish Rite Masons at
the semi-annual reunions. Mrs. Cuth
bert Vincent is the president.
Mrs. Ernest Sweet and Mrs. O. Y.
Kring, members of Mrs. L. M. Lord's
committee during the Liberty loan
drive, sold a larger number of bonds
than any of the other women on the
committee.
Danish brotherhood, Omaha lodge
Jyo. 1, has bought Liberty bonds worth
$2,100. These were bought from the
funds oi the lodge.
Results of Omaha's
Liberty Bond Campaign
Liberty loan subscription totals
reported up to noon Saturday :
Stale of Nebraska 198,6.18,450
Major (irneral Wood's one-day
rampairn in Omaha:
Commercial club, noon J25,nno
llojri, afternoon ,MK)
Kveniwt meeting! at theaters:
Orphemn 41700
Strand 1M0O
IlrandelH 4.00
Kmoreiw 4,8.10
Gajetj- a.050
Total of one-day campaign. S 196,100
I'reTlouxly reported for Omaha 9,K'i9,950
Adams Kxpreiw company 50,000
hinixo tireat Western 10.000
(rand total, Omaha, noon
Saturday , $ . 10,086,050
FOOD DRIVE FOR
PLEDGE CARDS ON
IN 70 COUNTIES
Students Get Thousands of
Signers of "Kitchen Creed"
in Advance of Food Pledge
Card Week.
Red-haired Gunner Sends First Shell Screaming Into Teu
ton Trenches; Missouri Mules Pull Guns Into Posi
tions Behind American Infantry and United
' States Gets Into Fight for Democracy.
Municipal Coal Supply
Assured, Butler Indicates
City Purchasing Agent Richard
Grotte has received from City Com
missioner D. B. Butler written and
telegraphic information which indi
cates that regular shipments may be
expected for the municipal coal de
partment. The plan '.s to arrange for 10 to IS
cars each week ancL arrange for haul
ing facilities accordingly.
Four cars now on the way are ex
pected Monday. All outstanding or
ders are being fillet' as rapidly as pos
sible. Mr. Butler, who lias been in Chi
cago several days, wired: "The situa
tion seems to be clearing." He went
as far as Chicago with-John L. Ken
nedy, federal fuel supervisor for .Ne
braska, who is in Washington, D. C.
Seventy counties in Nebraska re
ported results of their food pledge
card campaigns to the state commit
tee in Omaha yesterday, indicating
that between 60 and 05 per cent of
the families in Nebraska have already
signed cards which pledge them to
conserve food in every possible way.
This has been accomplished in ad
vance of food pledge card week, which
begins today.
I his result has been achieved by
getting the school children of the
state to work. They under direc
tion of their teachers, principals,
superintendents and committees, have
achieved this result.
This week families who could not
be reached by the children will be
canvassed by other workers and" it is
expected every family in the statewill
have been reached by Saturday and
practically all of them pledged to food
conservation.
Douglas County Makes Good.
Returns up to last night from Doug
las county showed 22,711 signed cards
had been returned. Of these, 20,297
came from children of the public
schools and the remainder from chil
dren of three parochial schools. The
work was pushed by the county
superintendents and principals and
teachers.
Dawson county reported 3,500 cards
signed out of a total of 4,249, families
in the county.
Valley, Neb., reported a card in
every home. The report was from
M. A. Sams, superintendent of schools
and was accompanied by 187 pledge
cards. Food Administrator Wattles
was so pleased at this showing that he
wrote a letter to Mr. Sams and sent
him a silk flag.
Meeting Called for Monday.
Frank Boyd, hairman of the com
mittee in charge of the work in Doug
las county, has asked all precinct
chairmen to have their campaign
mapped out by Monday morning and
to call at headqaurters, 606 Bee Build
ing, for cards and supplies. The
various labor unions were asked to
do the same. ' I
COLORED MEN OF
DRAFT HIT HOT
TRAIL TO BERLIN
Station Rings With Cheers
When Dusky Warriors De
part for Camp Funston
This Morning.
Ninety young colored men of the
selective draft left at 9 o'clock Sat
urday morning for Camp Funston.
As they left the station rang with
cheers from the men and their
friends.
About 1,500 friends and relatives
were at the station to bid them good
by. Mothers and sweethearts smiled
bravely to keep back the tears. A
colored band played patriotic airs and
all the local board members were on
hand to sec the boys off.
A large American flag covered
most of the outside of the car oc
cupied by men from the South Side.
"We've got the finest men in the
bunch," boasted J. J. Breen, of the
South Side local board.
Judge Foster of the Fifth district
disputed his claim, pointing proudly
to 35 men from his district under
command of 'Captain Wynne McCul
lough. Below their windows were
chalked the words "Goodby, Kaiser."
Leo Clemmons was captain of the
Fourth district men. He was recently
married but claimed no exemption.
He stood on the iron fence waving
goodby to his wife till the train be
gan to move. Robert Pinkston cap
tained the Second district quota.
Dr. J. E. Britt and Dr. C. H. Single
ton distributed a large number of
cigars to the boys. Several officers
from Camp Dodge were on hand to
witness the entrapment, including
Lieutenant Madison of the medical
reserves corps, Sergeant Joseph Carr,
Sergeant Bailey, Lieutenant S. B.
Barrows and Lieutenant W. Peebles.
Lieutenant Barrows was with Per
shing in Mexico. He leaves for Camp
Cody today.
McAdoo Says Huge Loan
Is Overwhelming Success
Washington, Oct. 27. Secretary
McAdoo announced late tonight
that the second Liberty loan was
an overwhelming success.
Community Centers Open Nov. 5;
War Work to Be Leading Feature
45-CENT RAISE
IN COAL PRICE
MADE BY WILSON
Advance Asked for by Opera
tors, That Miners' Wages
May Be Increased, Effec
tive Monday.
(By Associated l'reat.)
Washington, Oct. 27. President
Wilson tonight granted an increase of
45 cents a ton in the price of bitumin
ous coal at virtually all mines in the
country, effective at 7 o'clock Monday
morning. '
The new price will absorb wage
raises recently agreed upon between
operators and miners in the central
competitive and other fields.
The president's order provides that
the increase shall not apply in case
o fexisting contracts providing for an
increase in price to cover any raise in
miners' wages. Neither will it apply
in districts where miners and opera
tors fail to agree upon a miners'
penalty provision satisfactory to the
fuel administration.
Dollar Worth 83 Cents
, In Copenhagen Now
Copenhagen, Oct. 27 The dollar
continues to slump and it is now
worth under 83 cents here. The Ger
man mark also lias touched a low rec
ord of 42, a depreciation of 53 per
cent.
HOOVER
WARNS
Women will serve this season as
supervisors of the community centers
held at public school buildings under
the direction of the Board of Public
Recreation.
These centers will be opened Mon
day evening, November 5. Chairman
Hummell and Superintendent Isaac
son of the board are preparing a pro
gram tor the season s activities at
Central park, Miller park. Monmouth
park, Kellom, Castelar, Deaf insti
tute, Dundee, South High, West Side
and Edward Rosewater schools.
The board will co-opt rate with the
government in the food conservation
movement. Knitting classes will be
organized. Members of the Four
Minute club will give a series of talks
in connection with the war. Athletic
and social clujs will be encouraged.
Supervised community dances will be
resumed in the auditorium of the
Deaf institute, permission having
bn granted by the state board of
control. Debates and spelling bees
also will be features of the centers
this winder
Miss Helen Cudahy
Commits Suicide
Paris, Oct. 27. Miss Helen
Cudahy, daughter of Patrick
Cudahy, the Miiwaukee meat packer,
committed suicide in midocean
October 19, according to the army
edition of the Chicago T.ibune.
Fear of submarines is believed to
have been the motive for her act,
the newspapers say.
A friend who went to her cabin
on the night of October 19 found
the room empty, the port hole
open and this hurriedly written
note:
"It is all for the best. Keep as
much as possible from father and
mother. Notify my brother,
' Michael."
Search of the boat failed to re
veal any further evidence of her
disappearance. The body has not
been recovered. She was going to
France on a Red Cross mission.
OF CONSPIRACY
TO DESTROY FOOD
Wires Wattles to Strengthen
Guards About Stock Yards
and Elevators; Foe Plots
Threaten Meat Supply.
Washington. Oct. 27-G. W.
W a 1 1 1 1, s, food administrator,
Omaha: Am informed wide
spread conspiracy exists to de
stroy animals in the stock yards.
In view of tremendous loss of
food by recent fire at Kansas
City stock yards, urge you get in
touch with all stock-yard compa
nies in your state and emphasize
importance of their largely aug
menting watch service and other
fire precautions. Also believe gov
ernors mould have, principal yards
patroled by home guards. The
above also applies to grain ele
vators. Serious loss of wheat and
barley in recent Brooklyn fire
must not recur.
HERBERT HOOVER.
The alrtjvc telegram was received
by State Food Administrator Wat
tics from Federal Food Administra
tor Hoover.
It shows the men who are best in
formed believe enemy plotters are at
work to destroy food by fire and dy
namite whertver a loophole is left in
the home defense.
" Mr. Wattles immediately conveyed
Mr. Hoover's warning to. Manager K.
Buckingham at the Union Stock
Yards, South Side. Mr. Buckingham
called a meeting at the stock yards
and discussed the situation there.
WE MUST SAVE
F00DT0 KEEP FOE
FROM OUR SHORES
Herbert Hoover Declares
Western Front Will Move to
Atlantic Seaboard if Allies
- Are Not Fed.
"Our Jim" May Yet Go totheFront
With Full Uniform and Straps
BULLETIN.
Paris, Oct. 27. Another powerful drive by' the French
troops today on the Ypres-Dixmude road resulted in the capture)'
of several villages and a great number of fortified farms, ac
cording to tonight's announcement by the war office. An
additional advance was made along the Aisne front, including:
the occupation of Froidmont farm.
(By Associated Press.)
The American Army in France, Oct. 27. -The following;
is the first official statement issued from American head
quarters: "In continuation of their training as a nucleus for instruc
tion later, a contingent of some battalions of our first contin-4
gents, in association with veteran French battalions, are in the
first-line trenches of a quiet sector on the French front .
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"They are supported by some bat
teties of our artillery, in association
with veteran French batteries.
"The sector remain's normal
"Our men have adapted - thtSN
selves to actual trench conditions hi
the most satisfactory manner."
INTERMITTENT FIGHTING.
"American . troops are in the first
line trenches on the French fronts
The artillery fired the first shot of
the war at 6 o'clock on the morning
of a recent day at a German working
party. There has been intermittent
artillery fighting since.
FOIL GERMAN OBSERVERS. !
The helmcted infantry marched iri
without the knowledge of the enemy,
on the same night through rain and
mud. The French soldiers in the
trenches welcomed them enthusiastic
ally.
The nearest enemy trench is sev
eral hundreds yards away. The sec
tor is one of the quietest on the
front. It has not been taken over,
being under the control of troops
under the direction of the French. ,
Red-Haired Gunner Opens Fire, i
The Americans have, shelled Ger
man positions and trodps, the enemy
sending shell for shell. TJie first
shell case will be sent to President
Wilson. The case is now in the pos
session of General Sibert. The shot
was fired by a red-haired runner as
his comrades in the ranks and the '
assembled officers cheered. Later a
luncheon in the field was attended by
the American and French artillerists
in celebration of the 3rst American
contact with the enemy.
The gUn used in firing the first shot
was one of the famous French 75s.
f)n the second day the French shelled
a German battery position, which was
located by sound, and the enemy re
plied vigorously, projectiles falling
close to the Americans, who joined in
the artillery duels.
Actual War Conditions.
All the troops will be relieved after
a certain period by others. Thus the
American expeditionary forces are
getting the benefit of actual war conditions.
Standing in a little, almost de
serted, shell-wrecked village, well
within hostile gun range and a few
kilometers from the trenches, the As
sociated Press correspondent watched
the troops marching up in a driving
rain over roads covered with sticky
mud. The artillery had been firing all
day and as a result the impression
was given that there was consider
able more activity on this front than
there had been for some time.
Missouri Mules Pull Up Guns,
It was soon after lulls In the firine
and in the dark that the first machine
guns hauled by Missouri mules, the
Washington, Uct. J.i l tie gov
ernment of the United States is ask
ing every citizen of the country to
eat less beef, pork, pork products,
wheat, butter and sugar, and to waste
no foodstuffs, as an act of common
defense.
This is the explanation given by
Herbert Hoover, food administrator,
of the meaning of the national food
pledge week, w!tch begins tomor
row and continues until November 4.
Half a million canvassers are ready
for the campaign to induce at least
13,000,000 of the country's 22,000,000
housewives to sign a pledge to con
serve food ddrmg the war.
"Owing to the large failure of the
harvest in France and Italy, and the
inability to send the world s shipping
to remote markets, said Mr.
Hoover, "we have thrust upon us a
larger duty in providing foodstuffs
for them than we are capable of ex
ecuting, unless we can reduce the
consumption of these foodstuffs in the
United States. If we cannot secure
this reduction in consumption, we
cannot maintain them constant in the
war. If we fail, the western line will
move to the Atlantic seaboard.
"Furthermore, the problem of
ameliorating the prices to the Amer
ican consumer is entirely involved m
our ability to supply the allied needs
and still leave us a sufficiency at
home. If we accept the alternative of
maintaining the allies in the war from
our supplies, without savings, we
shall have shortages in the United
States that make any hope of price
control absolutely futile.
It is, therefore, in the interest of
every man, woman and child m the
United States that we should achieve
these ends first, in his personal de
fense and protection, and, second, in
the interests of his pocketbook. Be
yond all this and greater is the ques
tion of common humanity."
It may be "Lieutenant Colonel
James C. Dahlman." of the Lucky
Seventh.
And, then, it may not he.
Omaha's mayor is being mentioned
as the prospective r iff hthand man to
Governor Keith Neville when the lat
ter assumes active command of the
Seventh regiment.
Mayor Dahlman is not saying a
word about this, but seems to be do
ing a lot of thinking. His friends
aver that he is trying to decide
whether to remain in his mayoralty
position or join fortunes with Colonel
Keith Neville.
The lieutenant colonelcy of the
Lucky Seventh would place the
mayor next in command. He admits
he has become imbued with the fight
ing spirit. When Theodore Roose
velt was considering raising his
division of Rough Riders Captain
Seth Bullock called on the mayor
and offered a tempting place and the
mayor at that time was seriously
considering joining the Rough Riders.
In the event that the mayor should
join the Seventh, his office would be
taken over by City Commissioner D.
B. Butler, who is acting mayor under
the rules of the city council. The
commissioners, however, may voteHo
select another for the vacancy.
The politicians are doing a lot of
gossiping over what may happen.
Some are advising the mayor to re
riain where he is, while others ad
vise1 him that a military career would
place him in line for governor, an
ambition he has cherished for a long
time.
The question of the hour is: "Will
the mayor take the lieutenant col
onelcy of the Lucky Seventh?"
(Continued on Pag Three, Column One.)
Spanish Cabinet
Follows Italian v
Lead and Resigns
Madrid, Oct. 27. The Spanish cab
met has resigned.
Political conditions in Spain have
been greatly disturbed in the last
year and there have been widespread
strikes and rioting, accompanied at
times by movements which appeared
to be ot a revolutionary character.
Several changes in the ministry have
occurred. No recent dispatches have
been received to explain the present
ministerial crisis. The retiring min-
stry was formed by F.duardo Dau
last June.
