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VOL. XLVII. NO. 120.
OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1917.
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Belief That Americans Are Holding Gateway to France
on Eastern Part of West Front; Expert Believes x
Scouting Party Was Taken in One of
Many Night Encounters.
British Artillery Overcomes German
"Pillbox" Defense; Solid Concrete
Forts BecomaJtl Traps for Boches
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(By FRANK SIMONDS.)
Kew York, Nov. 4. (Special Telegram.) Granted that
today's German official statement is accurate, the position of the
American troops in France has been disclosed. The German
statement announces that prisoners have been taken Vt the
point where the Rhine-Marne canal crosses the battle front. The
Rhine-Marne canal crosses the firing line at the village of Par
roy. Parroy is on the road from Nancy to Strassburg, and 1
rather less than two miles inside the old French frontier between
Pr.nij snrl A 1 car A.T .nrjlin. O '
SAMMIES IN LORRAINE.
It is about five miles north of the
city'of Luneville and six miles east of
the town of St Nicholas Du Port.
Nancv is about a dozen miles due
west.
If the Germans are right, then the
American troops are in Lorraine close
to the old frontier, and are covering
one of the main roads between Nancy
and Strassburg. Along this road the
Germans came in their great advance
of 1914, which was stopped just east
of St. Nicholas Du Port. The forest
of Parroy, just south of the town of
the same name, has seen some of the
severest fighting on the whole Lor
rdne front. '
There has been no fighting on this
f roni for more, than two years, but if
the German statement is correct, the
American troops are now holding
lines covering the easfern gateway to
France. The positions which they
hold' were lost by the French as a
corsequeiice: of the defeat : of Mor
. 1 ti$e-n August, 1914, and-regained
'-in 4ite-&Hiays i September,. 1914, ..,
: catoi on German .Report, ;
All the, foregoing speculation rests
Woi the German official statement.
Conceivably the Germans have issued
this statement in "the hope of elicit
in?; information. But the chances are
thr.i they have known for many weeks
cr.i' jt; where our troops were.
He-'i'i's terse announcement today
t'ir.t Worth American" soldiers had
i:r,i captured by German patrols on
the Rhine-Marne canal on' the French
fvojit, brought ,the American people
a rtep nearer to the heart of the great
struggle..-". -
There was no doubt here that the
men referred to were members of
General Pershing's force undergoing
final training wjth French regiments
in front line trenches. Confirmation
from General Pershing was lacking,
but In due; course he will transmit
the names,-of--ahy men missing and
this may furnish some light. .
May Have Been Scouts.
If,"' as is assumed, a small scouting
party was surprised by a German pa
trol in No Man's Land and all cap
tured, details of the incident may
never be fully told, since only captors
and captives would know what hap
pened in the encounter under cover
of darkness..! ..
This is . the -first report received
here of Jhe capture of any members
of. the American expeditionary forces,
but a numbj& of naval gunners taken
from Americalranned ships sunk by
submarines and civilian members of
the crews, of other ships are held, in
German prison camps.
Night patrolling is a vitally import
ant part of the final training of the
American forces, aS it is on these pa
trols that the commanding officers re
ly, for information of activity in the
enemy's 'front line. ; '
Every night the scouts creep- out
with faces blackened against the keen
vision of enemy lookouts and a swift,
deadly spurt (. from a machine gun.
They go creeping across the shell torn
ground up to the enemy's entangle
ments, crawling and listening, drop
ping flat when a flare breaks out in
the air above them, sometimes lying
still for hours, while rifles and ma
chine guns hammer above them.
Not a night passes on many parts
of, the line but patrols encounter each
other. Sometimes it results in firing,
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The Weather
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Temperatures at Omaha Tetterday.
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117. 1116. 1216. 1114.
Hlgheat yeaterday.... 67 71 64 62
Loweat yesterday..... 42 46 4S 46
Mean temperature.... 64 68 ' 6'4 64
Precipitation .00 .00 .00 .00
Temperature and precipitation departnrea
from the normal: - , . .
Normal temperature......... 42
Exees for the day. 11
Total deficiency sine March 1 421
Normal precipitation...,..-. Oi inch
Deficiency for the day. ........ . .06 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1.. ,,.21.24 Inches
Deficiency since March 1 6.2S Inches
Peflrlency for cor. period, 1916. .12 15 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1611.. 2.26 inches
I A. WELSH, Meteorologist.
ROSS DIFFER
WITH ALLIES;
FEAR BREAK
Kerensky Insists Delegate of
Workmen Be Seated In Paris
. Conference to Discuss
War Aims.
.I 1 1.
Washington, Nov. 4. (Special Tel
egram.) A new issue has arisen be
tween Russia and the allies which is
regarded in Russian circles as possi
bly critical, v It concern! "the 'adrttis.
sioa of $kobleff, the delegate, from
the Soldiers and Workmen's union, to
the coming Pari conference. Within
the last few days Jules Cambon, for
the French, has siad that Skobeleff
would not be admitted, the ground
taken being apparently that this was
a conference of representatives of na
tions and that Skobeleff was not the
representative of a governmental, but
of a private organization.
KERENSKY'S ULTIMATUM.
"Now comes word 'to this city that
Kerensky has declared that the Rus
sian democracy must be represented,
which is taken to mean that he will
insist upon the seating in Paris of
the representative of the Russian sol
diers and workmen. The administra
tion here, which in general sympa
thizes with and supports Kerensky
more heartily than others of the allies,
does not sympathize with him re
garding seating Skobeleff. The posi
tion that is taken is that the confer
ence should be the judge of the qual
ifications of its own members.
In the meantime some doxibt has
arisen over the two governmental del1
egates from Russia to the con
ence. Terestchenko within the last few
days' has got into a controversy with
the soldiers' and workmen's organiza
tion and ha ; publicly criticized it
an it is supposed here that the issue
raised over Skobeleff has led the rad
icals to object to Teretchenko and,
perhaps, to General Alexieff as dele
gates from the Russian government to
the conference.
Would Take Up War Aims.
Apparently the aim of the Russian
radicals is to force the Paris confer
ence to take up the question of war
aims in detail. This is one thing that
the rest of the allies are determined
not to do. And, whereas, when the
Russian revolution was new, a re
definition might have been forced, the
disposition today everywhere, except
in this country, is to feel impatient
with Russia and to make it plain that
it is possible to pay .too much for such
a support as Kerensky's recent state
ment promised. - : '
Italian Army Says U. S.
' Should War on Austria
Washington, Nov. 4. America can
best aid Italy : in her present crisis
by declaring war on Italy's arch
enemy, Austria-Hungary, an official
cablegram received here today from
the general headquarters of the
Italian army, said.
"Thus America will best answer the
blows which Austria-Hungary has
given Italy and in a short time render
the most important service to her al
lies undergoing such a strain at the
present moment," the message said.
Hun Wreckers Dismantle
Belgium s Big Plants
Havre, Nov. 4 The Belgian
government continues to receive
details of the Germans' systematic
destruction of plants in Belgium.
Organized wrecking crews have
been engaged in dismantling blast
furnaces.
Seven out of 11 rolling mills
at Cugree-Marihaye have been car
ried oF At Anglenr everything
has been removed, as well as at
Grivegne, where nothing remains
but the steel works which the Ger
mans are working for their own
needs.
Took Heavy Toll of Allies' In
fantry Until Gunners of Heavy
Artillery Learned to Smash '
Them.
By FRANK W. GETTY.
' (Special Cable to The Bee.)
London, Nov. 4.-The "pillbox" has
come and gone. Like the submarine,
the giant Gotha biplane, the liquid fire
and gas, and other German inventions
which were to turn the tide of battle
in Germany's favor, these much talker!
of concrete forts have been laid on
the shelf as far as settling the war
is concerned. They are not . inef
fectual, but they are not decisive fac
tos.
'The "pillbox," or pillar-box, as the
German communiques have it, is a rec
tangular structure, built generally by
piling boxes of concrete one upon the
other, like children's toy blocks. They
are then allowed to form into a solid
mass of concrete about a yard thick,
which affords the gunners inside pro
tection against anything except a di
rect hit by something over nine
inches.
Occasionally they have robfs of sim
ilar thickness. More often they are
left open to the sky, the better to be
concealed from hovering enemy aero
planes. : In action they bristle with machine
guns, which are thrust out through
numerous cracks and loopholes, the
gunners, safe behind their thick walls.
being able to rake advancing in
fantry without exposing themselves.
Each "pillbox" holds from 40 to 50
men, and becomes a veritable death
trap if a British heavy does land, a
shell on it or a cloud of poison gas
sweeps that way. .
Were Hard Nuts to Crack.
The Boches have shown t great'
adaptability in placing these pillboxes
where they will be most effective.
They had sowed them in and out
among the little hollows on the west
ern slopes of Passachendaele ; ridge,
frequently running up a rim of con
crete.arrurfd -shell rattfrr lvifn
the top uncovered,' Where they-did
this, of course, a high trajectory Brit
ish barrage quickly made the position
untenable, but such pillboxes as es
caped the hail of steel and lead which
preceded the British advances were
difficult , nuts v. -for the infantry ' to
crack. ? ' ;' 11 . '
Many a decoration has been won
in the last month or two by men who,
bv a sinfcle act of bravery, have taken
a pillbox which was holding up an
advance. '
I talked with a Tommy who was
later awarded the D.- G. M. for dis
cosine of one of. these obstacles
sin trie-handed.
"It was a cinch," he said. (He was
a Canadian, by the way.) My com
oanv was held ud by one of the in
fernal things, which kept spitting bul
lets all over the ground we had to
cross. So I took a couple of Mills
bombs, and crawled up behind a little
rise, hardly higher than your hat, with
bullets picking up the dirt all around
us. Then', when I got within a dozen
yards of the place I rushed it, taking
a chance they wouldn't get me. Some
how, I got through, and flattened my
self right up against the wall of the
blessed thing, whera the Boches in
side couldn't get me. I .could hear
'em swearing away in fneir hut, know
ing I was there, but not being able to
hit me. Then I just pulled the pin
out of one of the bombs, ' reached
around quick and shoved her in past
the nose of one of those little quick
firers they had playing on the boys.
The explosion darn near blew the
thing to pieces, and when we got in
by the rear door every one of those
OaSSURE FARMER GOOD
PRICE FOR HOGS SO HE WILL
BE CERTAIN TO MAKE MONEY
Meat Administrator Cotton Outlines Policy of Government
in Regulating Packers; Price Not to Be Permitted to
Go Below $15.50 Per Hundred on the ,
Chicago Market;
(Continued on Pago Three, Column Two.)
Clip Wings Lower
Prussian House to
Beat Third Estate
Copenhagen, Nev. 4. The German
authorities think it advisable to clip
the wings of the Prussian legislature
finally before the power is turned over
to art under-house elected on equal
suffrage.
The billion budget rights, mentioned
recently as part of the Prussian re
form program, ' forbids the lower
house to introduce new appropriations
in the budget or increase the items
as submitted without, the permission
of the government. ,
The House of Lords is authorized,
if the lower house rejects the stand
ing appropriation of the budget, to
demand a revote or a discussion in a
conference committee of both houses.
The bill also provides for continu
ance of the standing appropriations of
the preceding budget if the estimates
are not postponed at the opening of
the fiscal year.
Women Drive Nails and
Tacks at Ralston Factory
, Women are now driving nails and
tacks jn the upholstering department
of the Ralston Furniture factory. The
superintendent has recently put five
young women to work in the plant,
and he declares they are peculiarly ef
ficient. "These - young women are
turning out some of the best and
neatest work we have ever had done,"
said the superintendent, after he had
watched them work for several days.
"If enough help can be obtained, this
factory will increase its output by 50
per cent this year." ' '
Policies for the development of the live stock industry of
the state, which will include plans for the encouragement of
the breeder and especially the hog breeder, will be determined
today when the live stock committee of the Federal Food Ad
ministration for Nebraska will meet in the directors' rooms of
the United States National bank.
O This meeting, which will be directed
by E. L. Burke, will be the first since
the appointment of this all important
organization. Mr. Burke returned yes
terday from an extended visit to Chi
cago, where he was in conference with
Joseph P. Cotton, chief of the United
States Food Administration, meat de
partment. ACCORD WITH GOVERNMENT.
"The policies of the Nebraska com
mittee will b4 in sympathy with that
of the national policy, as outlined by
Mr. Cotton," said Mr. Burke, "and
can best be told in his words:
"The main purpose of the food ad
ministration as to hogs are four:
"To see that the producer at all
times can count on a fair price for his
hog, so that it will be profitable for
him. -
"To see that the, farmer increases
the number of hogs bred.
"To limit the profit of the packer, ,
"To eliminate speculation.
Must Have More Hogs.
"All 'these are necessary because
we must have more hogs, so that the
ultimate consumer nhall at ali times
3U dqu4te supify xf -hog r t ifie
lowestlfeasible price. ' ' ; t- ;
"We shall establish rigid control of
the packer.: Fair prices to the farmer
we believe, will be brought about by
the full control which tne food ad
ministration has over the buying of
the allies and other big consumers.
"The first step is to stop the sudden
break in the prices paid for hogs at
the central markets. These prices
must become stable so that the farmer
will know, where he stands and will
feci justified in increasing" his produc
tion. The prices so far as we can af
fect them will not go below a mini
mum of $15.50 per 100 on the Chicago
market until further notice.
Practical Growers' Advice.
"We have had, and will continue to
have, the advice of a board composed
of practical hog growers. That board
advises the best way to determine
prices is the cdst of corn.
"The board further advises the ratio
of hog prices to, corn prices for a
series of years has been about U to
one, but to bring the production back
to where it should he the ratio should
be about 13 to one that is, the farmer
should get for his hogs farrowed next
spring 13 times the average cost per
bushel of the corn fed into the hogs
to get them ready for market.
"Let there be no misunderstanding
of the meaning of this statement. It
is not a promise by the packers. It
is a statement of the intention and
policy of the food administration,
which means consideration for the
farmer."
CARLOADS 'SPUDS'
LEFT TO FREEZE
BY SPECULATORS
Police Find Great Quantities of
Cabbages. Onions" and Beets
Rotting in Freight Cars
. Marked "Hold.", ;
. a . ,
Bf AMociatcd PreM.)
Chicago, Nov. 4. Report was made
to the police tonight of the finding
of several hundred loads of potatoes,
cabbage, onions and sugar beets that
have been allowed to freeze and rot in
thtraflro$'jrards
detectives -assigned to ihelcne assert,
to force' a' higher market. ,'" v V
Fbod Administrator Hoover, Harry
A. Wheeler, representing the, federal
fodd commission in Illinois and the
Department of Justice have been ad
vised of the' discovery.
The detectives declare they found
a hill more than. 30 feet high and 100
feet long, composed of decomposed
vegetables, recently dumped from
freight cars. In the railroad yards
they ' said they found many freight
cars bearing no destination tickets
and markod "hold spuds.". They also
discovered that in moving the de
cayed vegetables to the dumping
grounds the cars were marked "rub
bish" and the contents were covered
with a thin layer of dirt and sticks.
The reoort showed that between
300 and 500" car loads of decayed
vegetables were found m the yards
with orders that they were not to
be moved. All were marked "hold."
The car numbers are in the possession
of the police. v -
Trainmen Must Talk .
Before They Decide
Whether to Strike
Chicago, Nov.1 4. The ' conference
of the 'executive committees, of the
Brotherhood of Railroad . Trainmen
and the Order of Railroad Conductors
continued yesterday .with no an
nouncement made as to plans for a
contemplated demand for wage in
crease which, it is, said, affects 250,
000 railroad employes. Officials ex
plained that the subject under dis
cussion was too important to be de
cided without-deliberation.
W. G. Lee, president of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen and one
of the conferees, answering a ques
tion as to probability of a strike, said:
"I would rather talk a month than
strike a minute." . .
Spain Forms New Coalition
Cabinet; Name Personnel
Madrid, Nov. 4f -A monarchial na
tional coalition ' cabinet bas been
formed by Marquis Manuel Garcia
Prieto De Alhuemas, who takes the
rost of premier. The cabinet in
cludes: ' '
Minister of foreign affairs, Senor
Alvaredo. .
Minister of interior, Senor Baha
monde; finance, Senor Ventosa; pub
lic works, Senor Alieal Zamora; jus
tice, Fernandez Prida; war, Juan De
La Civera; marine, Amalie Jimeno;
public instruction, Senor Rodes.
The cabinet comprises three demo
crats, two catalanists, two friends of
Maura, one friend of Romanones and
one independent.
Emperor Charles to Sit
' On Throne of Poland
Amsterdam, Nov. 4. The Munich
Nueste Nachrichten prints a report
from Vienna that Emperor Charles
on Sunday, which is his birthday,
will be proclaimed king of Poland,
and also ruler of the south Slav
states, embracing especially Bosnia
and Herzegovina and that part of
Serbia already occupied lay Austria.
These states, it is added, will receive
a certain measure of autonomy.
Catch Lithuanian Carrying
' Bomb on U. S. Transport
(; New York, Nov. 4. A high explos
ive bomb, so made that it could be
timed to explode, was found in the
possession of Matthews Vailickouncs,
a Lithuanian, by representatives of
United States Marshal Power yester
day, as he walked aboard an American
transport, where he has been em
ployed as a carpenter.
The machine, described as "an
electric detonator of unusual shape,"
contained powder, gun cotton, sul
phate and chloride of potash and
was closed at one end with hay." The
tube was slightly more than a foot
long.
The man told conflicting stories of
how he came to be in possession of
the bomb. '
CADQRNA'S ADVANCE GUARD
STANDS LIKE WALL IN FACE
OF ARTILLERY SHOCK FIRE
Report From Battle Line in Italy Show Romans With
standing Early Attacks - of Foe ; Germans Make
Counter Attacks From Line to Which They
i Withdrew in France.
, (Br AhmIiM Fkm.) v
Rome, Nov. 4. -Heavy attacks were launched on the
Italian lines in the Giudicaria zone on the Trentino front yester
day after extended artillery preparation. The war office an
nounced ioday that these attacks which were dirwAed at ad
vanced posts in the Daone and Giumell valleye were repulsed
after hard hghtingr.
The artillery duel along the Tagliamento is proceeding and
the Italians are replying with vigorous measures to stronger
Austro-German pressure on the Italian left wing. '
REPORT FROM BERLIN.
Berlin, Nov. 4v-Artillery acivitiei of
varying degree are reported along the
line of the Tagliamento in northern
Italy by the army headqTEarters staff
in today's official statement
: A vigorous artillery battle is in
progress in Macedonia between the
Vardar and Lake Doiran, the state
ment says, British troops have made
tentative thrusts, which the Bulgar
ians repulsed.
. No change in the situation on the
eastern front is reported.
LIVELY CANNON FIRE. '
Lively artillery fire and reconnoiter
ing clashes along the i Ailette river
front in northern France are reported
in today's Verdun region, German de
fensive fire prevented a French attack
which was preparing at Chaume wood.
In Flanders, the improvement of
the German lines st various places, to.
gethev with the repulse of local Brit-
VACCINE POINTS
USED IN OMAHA
ARE INFECTED
Drs. Conneil and Langfeld As
sert Supply Contaminated and
Believe Pro-berman Mis
creant to Be Guilty.
Vaccine points . manufactured by
the Nationat Vaccine company at
Washinston. and used in Omaha, have
been tested 'by ;City Bacteriologist
Langfeld and found to contain vpds
germs in dangerous quantities. : ;
Health Commissioner Council and
Dr. Langfeld assert that these points
have been contaminated and their be
lief is that a' pro-German miscreant
(accomplished his purpose. I ' ,
t, Df. Conneil urges air physicians to
return without delay all vaccine points
of the National Vaccine company's
manufacture. A telegram received on
Sunday by Dr. Conneil from the Na
tional ,Vaccine company requested
that all of its points in. Omaha be re
turned af once, and stated that the
company had called in all of its points
in the United States.
The health commissioner and city
bacteriologist believe that vaccine
points used October 3, when 200 chil
dren were inoculated at Madison
school, were polluted before reaching
Oma'.ia. ' 5
Points Tampered With..
"I made a bacteriological examina
tion of some of these points, as in
structed by Dr. Conneil, and found
evidence of pus germs in such quan
tities as4o cause me to believe that
the points had been tampered with bv
a person having a 'sinister design,'
stated Dr. Langfeld. l.
One hundred boys and girls of the
Madison 1 school. Seventeenth and
Madison ' streets. South Side, have
sore, arms as the result ' of general,
vaccination applied at this school on
October 3, on order and under direc
tion of the city health department.
There were 20Q Vaccinated .at this
school on that date.. None of the
stricken cases is serious, according to
the health commissioner, who gave
the following statement yesterday: '
Pro-German Miscreant, ' 0
" I am convinced, that the stricken
children of Madison school are 'vic
tims of a pro-German miscreant who
contaminated a supply of vaccine
points used by us and manufactured
by the National company at Washing
ton, D. C. This company is one of
the oldest and. most reliable in the
country. I have just received a tele
nxam from them, asking me to sen l
them airy supply I have on hand an?
theystated they have called in all of
their points in this country. These
points were contaminated with: pus
germs which cause sore arms, but l
do not look for any serious results
from any case. The National com
pany 'advised me that in some city,
the name not being mentioned by
them, tetanus , germs were discoverd
in their points. .
, "Two weeks before the Madison
school children were vaccinated, 800
children at ; Long school were vac-
(Contlnaed on Vnga Two, Column wo.)
British Sea Lord Tells Why Big
Fleet Could Not Succor Russia
London, Nov. 4. The passage in the interview of Premier Kerensky
recently given to The Associated Press, which has aroused the greatest
interest here was his inquiry as to why the British fleet had not been sent
to the Baltic Sea. A detailed and authoritative reply to that question was
given by Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, first lord of the admiralty, in his
speech before the House of Commons delivered the same evening on which
Premier Kerensky talked to the correspondent.
"Before the Germans attempted operations in the Gulf of Riga they
deemed it necessary to occupy the islands commanding the entrance to
the gulf," he said. "The islands which command the entrance of the Baltic
belong to a neutral power, Denmark. Would it not be an act of madness
for the British fleet to pass through into the Baltic, with the certainty
that the Germans would occupy and fortify those islands in our rear?
"If we did pass through, should" we find the German fleet there on our
arrival? The leading vessels of our fleet, debouching from the Great Belt
the only possible passage in a necessarily deep formation on a very
narrow front, would find the whole German fleet deployed and concentrat
ing fire on them.
. "I do not touch upon such questions as those of line communication to
be maintained with the fleet once in the Baltic and the fact that every
supply ship passing through would do so within 30 miles of Kiel. Our fleet
in the Baltic, if it got there, would soon wither to impotence with its vital
communications cut and our Russian ally could not supply it with fuel, am
munition or stores." j ' ,
ish attacks, is reported.
! . British. Take Two Ports. .
; London, Nov.' 4. On the Flanders'
battle ' fronf lasr night small 'detach
ment of British troops captured from
the Germans . two stronpf . defensive -points,
'.east .of Broodseinde . and
outheast-of Pqelcapelhvtbe, war of-
fie says. . irtshitisillicrs carried out"
a successful raid southwest of Havrin
court. Two raids by the Germans on,
the Arras, front near Monchy Le
Preux were, repulsed. ,
The British army in Palestine cap
tured IS guns in. the recent attack
which resulted in the taking of
Beershba, it was officially announced
today. e " ..,'', . ,,
Repulse German Attacks. ,
Paris, Nov. 4. Notable artillery
activity is continuing on the Aisne
front north of the Chemis Des Dames,
where the French are occupying ad
vanced ground along the Aillette river,
the war office announced today. In
the Verdun area the Germans fol
lowed up their heavy bombardment
with two attacks north of Chaume
wood, with both of which the French
artillery dealt successfully, causing '
the Germans to sustain heavy casual
ties. A surprise attack in the Dam
loup region. was repulsed, as was a
simitar German enterprise northwest
of Rheims.' . .
County Of ficials )?' '
; RaidEoadhouse;
Arrest Waiters
i Sheriff Clark, with two special state
agents, raided a roadhouse at a place
known as Schlitz Park, Sixtieth and
Center streets, Saturday and arrested
three bartenders and an entertainer.
The proprietor is out of town. The
officers found a. half pint bottle of
whisky in the place.
The roadhouse , was t enlivenecf by
strains of popular music, and 30 men
and women were having a hilariour,
time, when the officers appeared.
Softdrinks slightly "sticked' with
whisky were being served. , f i
The four employes -of., the place
wer taken to the county jail and
later released on bonds. Thcv Grave the
names of h. D. ' Westover, Carleton
hotel; "George M. Elliot, 624 North
Eighteenth street; James. Falconer
1314 Douglas street, and R. W.
Daugherty, 1026 Park avenue. . V
The others departed for more pleas-1-ant
realms. Officers have had the road
house under - surveillance; for sornct
time. : " ' ' a ,
Reserve Board Official
: Tells America's War Needs!
Philadelphia, Nox. 4. To win' the!
war the United States must devise a
system of economic, financial and in
dustry strategy that will unite the
whole nation and its energies as a
basis for the armies in the field. A.
C. Miller, of the Federal Reserve
board said yesterday at the war fin
ance conference ' of the " American
Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence. ' . - .
"Such a system will be as infinitely
important as the strategy of military
force," he said.
"Those who have been producing "
must produce more." -,
Mr. Miller pointed out :that at least
15,000,000 nien will have to labor in
the United States at the- exclusive
task of maintaining and equipping the
military forces of America and the
allies. - . ; .
"The gross earnings 'of the Ameri-'
can people total : $50,000,000,000 an- '
nually and under r present conditions
$14,000,000,000 or $15,000,000,000 of
this is clear profit,, which under an
enlightened borrowing system might
be enlisted for the rtr-" '-". -ST-ii
