SE BEE : ' OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. ' 1917.
m PEOPLE
SEE STARVATION
Girls Who Smuggled Their Father
' Out of Alsace to United States
food Commissions Issue Appeal
;' to Scandinavian Countries
for Help in Time of
Need.
Stockholm. Dec. 7. The Helsing
for Newspaper Huvudstadsbladet re
ports that the. Bolshevik! government
bas issued an order tnat no ireigm
ears, exceptmilitary, shall be per
mitted to pass Bielo-Ostrov station
(mm "ftnecia. Amnncr the trains al
ready held are cars carrying 500 tons
of gram.
Food conditions jn Finland, which
are most serious, have become much
vrorse by the new order and by the
f tendering by Russian soldiers and
innish Hooligans of other trains
loaded with provisions. Forty tons of
rice from Sweden were confiscated by
' Russian soldiers. Ttie Bolsheviki
government promised Finland 16.000
tons of grain monthly. In November
and so far in December only 700 tons
have been received which is about
three days' rations. '
London, Dec. 6. A number of
Finnish food commissions issued
through the Swedish press, appeal
to the Scandinavian countries for help,
according to an Exchange telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen. They
pay the situation is desperate, that
Finland is unable to save itself and
that thousands of families must
,starve unless help arrives soon. It is
i reported from Haparanda, the dis-
patch adds, that Russian soldier or
ganizations have seized large quanti
fies of food and have completely cut
eft imports from Russia into Finland.
Want America to Release Flour.
New York, Dec. 6. Speedy death
Jrem hunger threatens a, great part of
jthe population of Finland unless they
'can obtain flour from the United
States, asserts Dr. Kaarlo Ignatius,
'commissioner of the Finnish govern
ment for negotiating the release of
foodstuffs by the United States gov
ernment, in a statement to The Asso
ciated Press.
Dr. Ignatius said: " ' ,
."In regard to food supply, Finland
Is worse off than any of the Euro
pean states whose sufferings have
been brought before the American
public. For months past, our people
have, been eating bread made out of
..- .n;.-4 t.Mth ntni harlr and
lichens; but even with this expedient
we cannot hold out, as the flour re
serve virtuallyis exhausted, and even
our hardy population cannot eat un
mixed bark.
; "The sufferings endured m the
Rummer were terrible;' and since I
left Finland in September they have
become much worse. Nothing tan
save s except the prompt" release by
the American government of the
flour, which we have already ordered
and paid for in the United States.
"Finland has never been self-sup-toorting
as regards food. Her 3.500,
000 of people scattered over 373,000
quare kilometers of territory, have i
'depended largely upon foreign sup-1
flies of grain, in exchange for which
they exported forestry products. Be
fore the war we ...imported annually
about 400,000 tons of breadstuff s; and
of these tbout 50,000 tons came from
the United States. The rest came
from Russia. With war, the Import
from America ceased and as Russia
own food troubles grew and her rail
road service became disorganized, the
import from Russia ceased also. Then
Itarvation began. , ,' ,
"All I want is the release of enough
flour to save us from death and nun
ger. Privation we have stood and are
.willing to stand. We ask for this con
cession and we base our demand upon
'justice 9fi regards the past and upon
policy as regards the future.
"As regards the past, we are only
asking for payment for services al
ready rendered to the Allies. These
services have been of great value.
Finland loyally helped Russia as long
as Russia was ..fighting nd' she is
willing to help in future if Russia re
sumes fighting. During the war Fin
land has been absolutely loyal to the
entente." ;
(Theater Collections Net -'
Good Sum nor .Y. W. ; Fund
. The collections taken by women at
Trie uiuei-iil
Young Women Christian associa
iUn Ariv are a follows: Strand.
$192.65; Sun, $168.82; Muse, $41.05;
Empress, $204.84; South Side, $54.38;
Orpheum, $1 10.21 ; Brandeis, $08.41 ;
r,,,.t in Total. $843.12. . . .
: Nurses , raised the following
, amounts in different hospitals for the
i equipping of a nurses' rest hut . in
'France: Methodist, $507; Birch Knoll,
$185; Swedish Mission, $105; Presby
terian, $25;, University, $40; nurses'
club, $92,
Aviators Most in Demand, -
; Says Ensign Condict of Navy
Ensign Condict of the navy recruit
ing station says the greatest present
need of the country is for men to
ioi the aviation branch of the serv
ice. There is an immediate demand
for mechanicians-for naval aviation
which covers the following branches:
. Quartermasters, carpenter's - mates,
machinst's mates,- blacksmiths and
coppersmiths, second class. The main
requirements for enlistment in any- of
these are . American citizenship, intel
Jigence and . alertness and reputable
character, .'..:' .-'
Two Are Fined for Sale
Of Liquor to Soldiers
J. R. Fauster and his wife were
fined $100 and cost, each by Judge
Munger in federal court when they
.pleaded guilty to the charge of. selling
liauor to a soldier m uniform, t-m
tnett Lindsay was fined the same sum
on the same charge. It is the estab
lished oractice of the courts to let
offenders off with a fine on' the first
offense. If brought up for repetitions
of the crime they are sentenced to
jail. -
Swiss Satisfied With U. S.
' Neutrality Declaration
- Washington, Dec 7.Formal assur
ance bv the United states ot its in
tentions scrupulously to respect Swiss
'fleutraljtr has given tlie keenest sat
Ufaction in Switzerland, according to
disoatches reaching Washington.
The declaration by the American
government was regarded there as
iiaving completely neutralized the in
sidious efforts of German propagan
dists to lead the Swiss people to be
lieve that the United States was plan
ning to send troops . through their
ountry to atttcktbe German Sank.
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These two girls were instrumentalOa male. relative, whom they pressed as
COUNTY'S BONDED
DEBT IS GROWING
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State Auditor Smith Reports on
-Increase, as Shown by Pa-
pers Registered in His
Office.
(From a Staft Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 7. State Audi
tor Smith's report showing the bond
ed indebtedness of the counties of
Nebraska places Douglas county's at
$1,967,000 and Lancaster's at $127,887.
The total indebtedness is $3,778,887,
an increase of $441,887 the past year.
A year ago it was $3,377,000.
Dodge, Pieace and Sarpy counties
incurred bonded indebtedness the past
year. Sixty-one counties have no
bonded indebtedness. It is possible
that some of the indebtedness of some
of the counties listed may have been
reduced, the past year.
Following is the lrsf of counties and
indebtedness:
Box Butte
Boyd .. ..
Buffalo ..
Burt
Chasa ....
Cherry ...
Cheyenne
Deuel
2,00OKelth
SO.OOOKeya Paha.
15,000Lancaster .
38,000Merrlck ...
n.OOOMorrill ....
lO.OOON'ance
35,000
0.00O
127.887
90,000
32,000
45'.000
Sl.OOOOtoe ISO. 000
2O,000Panee .... 73.000
Dodge ..... l0,OOOPierce 76.000
Douglas .... 1,167.000 Scottsbluff . 80,000
S7,0008arpy 60,000
JO.OOOSherman ... 30.000
83,000Thurton .. 60,000
.000Val!ey 32,000
16.000 Washington 1,000
91,000
51,000 Total ....13,778,887
in saving their father, a former mayor
of Colmar, in Alsace, from arrtst if
not death at the hands of the Ger
mans. They have recently arrived in
New York with their father, Daniel
Blumenthal. The girls, on . learning
that their "dad" was to be arrested
as a French sympathizer, smuggled
him out of the town to a safe hiding
place. They then returned to rescue
a girl. All eventually reached Switz
erland and safety,- y
;V 'flew "Bone Dry" Bill.
Washington, Dec 7.Representa
tive Randall of California today in
troduced a bill to make th national
capital "bone dry." ' The recent pro
hibition law did not prohibit the im
portation of liquor tor personal use,
Gag
Garfield
Greeley
Hall
Hooker
Howard
Kearney
Nebraska Lawyers Retained
In Simmons Divorce Case
Chicago. Dec. 7. (Special Tele
gramsNebraska lawyers have been
retained in a case here in which Mrs.
Margaret E. Simmons is trying to
have a decree of divorce granted Dr.
George H. Simmons, editor of the
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation, set aside after it has stood
for 25 years.
The decree was given in .Lincoln,
Neb. Mrs. Simmons declares Dr.
Simmons after their marriage forced
her to become a drug addict, sent her
to a sanitarium in Ohio and during
her absence obtained a divorce by
fraud.. Dr. Simmons, who Vas mar
ried to his present wife in Lincoln
five months after the decree of di
vorce, says the action is a frameup by
patent medicine concerns to discredit
him, his journal and the American
Medical association.
John J. Ledwitn of Lincoln and Al
bert S. Ritchie of Omaha are among
counsel for Mrs. Simmons. They
hold that because she Was practically
insane the statute of limitations can
not take effect.
Bee Want-Ad. columns are the best
business producers you can use.
Champion Steer Sells
At $2.10, Record Price
Chicago, I1L, Dec. 7 Merry
Monarch, owned by Purdue univers
ity, granl champion steer of the
National Livestock show thjs year,
wa sold for $2.05 a pound to the
American Short Horn Breeders' as
sociation today.
The association donated the ani
mal, which weighed 1,610 pounds,
to the American Red Cross, which
.resold it to Armour and Company
for $3,381.00, or $2.10 a pound, a
record price. y
Scarlet Fever in State Home.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 7. (Special)
Ten cases of scarlet fever and five of
whooping cough have been quaran
tined at the Home for Dependent
Children in Lincoln.
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Who Will Win
This Battle?
Tour kidneys are theN filters of the
body. If they become inactive and fail
to eliminate the waste matter, they are
apt to throw ,the whole mechanism of
the body ont of order, thus toxic poisons
can accumulate in the system ana be as
deadly as snake venom.
Besides causing fhn mnnr uhnand
of rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago and,
Dacjtacne, neglect oi tne Judneys is apt
to develop into more serious disease
such as diabetes or stone in the bladder.
Eid the body-of toxic poisons clean
the bladder and kidneys and enre the
twinges of rheumatism with Anuria and
you win the battle,, of life. -
Annric was first discovered by Dr.
Pierce and has benefited thousands of
sufferers as well as appeased and elimin
ated the ravages of the more serious
kidney diseases. Now procurable in vials
for 60 cents at any good drug store,
or send Dr. V. M. Pierce," Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. T.,
10 cents for trial package. ;
Omaha, Nebr. "Two or three months
ago I ached all
over and felt so
badly that I could
not sleep at night,
my bladder seeme(
weak, gave me con
siderable trouble,
"and caused sting
ing sensations. I
read an advert,!.
inent I of Anuria
bottle. It was Onlv . f aw itavii hat at T
felt wonderfully relieved, and all the
soreness left me. I am glad to endorse
such a worthy medicine and always shall
recommend it" Mrs. W. C. Zeschman,
1832 N. 17th St.
Geranasi
With
Peace
Autocrats?
. ... .
Just what word has passed between Berlin and Petrograd may never be known, nor are we
advised as to the German government's precise attitude toward the Bolsheviki and their peace
advances. The Springfield Republican recalls the Qerman propaganda for a "negotiated"eace;
Lenineand Trotzky, it says "are merely going on where German diplomacy left off. They are
welcome Allies, and the only doubt entertained in Germany is as to whether they can 'deliver
the goods.'" , , ; ' ... )'. ,
For a full description of the complications, in the Russian situation, you should read THE
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Germany Weakening on the Western Front
Running Thirty-eight Railroads As One
Switzerland in Danger '
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Air-Raid Psychology ;
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v How Kerensky Fell .
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New York's Disloyal School-Teachers
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