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HENDRIX SIGNS
TO LEAD ST. LOUIS
CANS YEAH
Former Western Leaguer to
Succeed Miller Hugglns in
Wound City; Rickey Silent
Regarding Terms.
Louis. Mo., Dec. 31. Jack Hen
dricks, manager of the Indianapolis
association team, today signed a eon
tract to manage the St. Louis Nation
als next year.
President Rickey would make no
announcement as to the duration of
the contract or as to its terms.
!t is known, however, that to retain
Miller Muggins as manager, Rickey
offered a salary of $10,000 and a per
centage of the club's profits if they
exceeded $25,000. It is surmised that
similarly liberal terms were made to
Hendricks, Huggins left the St. Louis
Nationals to manage the New York
Americans.
Rickey paid nothing to Indianapolis
to Tet Hendricks.
President Rickey began negotiations
with Hendricks several months ago,
but the deal unexpectedly was
blocked at the Louisville meeting of
the American association by President
McGil! of the Indianapolis club, who
said Hendricks was bound to him by a
three-year contract.
Hendricks was born in Joliet, 111.,
April 9, 1876, and lived in Chicago
through his boyhood and graduated at
Northwestern university law school.
After practicing law three years in
Chicago he entered professional base
ball. He went on the spring training
trip with the New York Nationals in
1902, but Manager McGraw sent him
to Columbus. In 1903 he played with
Spokane, and later that season with
the Washington Americans.
In 1904 Washington released him,
and in 1905 he managed the Spring
field (O.) club. In 1907 he became
manager of the Fort Wayne (Ind.)
team, and in 1910 of the Denver club.
Since 1914 he has managed the In
dianapolis club.
OPEN HOUSE AND
SPORT CARNIVAL
ATY.M. TODAY
Open house with continuous sports
will be held at the Young Men's
Christian association today.
Basket ball, athletic events, gym
drills and water sports will make up
the program.
The Nakens team of the Commer
cial league and the Hanscom Park
Methodist five of the Church league
will clash in a baseket ball game as
the feature of the night program.
Inaddition, senior track events and
a water carnival will be held at night.
All of the crack "Y" athletes will
take part in the track competition.
Ribbons will be awarded winners of
positions.
This morning the annual junior in
door championships will be staged.
Ninety youngsters are entered.
Four Leading Clubs in Big
Leagues Cut the Melon
Chicago, Dec. 31. First division
clubs of the major leagues will share
in the world's series prize next sea
son as a result of a decision reached
today by President Johnson of the
American league, and August Herr
mann, chairman of the National Base
Ball commission.
The players on the club winning the
world's series will receive a flat sum
of $2,000 each and $1,400 will go to
each of the players on the losing club.
The balance of the prize will be di
vided among the second, third and
four clubs in the two leagues.
Members of the Chicago Ameri
cans each received in the neighbor
hood of $3,600 for winning the world's
championship last fall.
Chicago Cubs to Make Tour
To Coast Again in Spring
Chicago, Dec. 3. The Chicago Na
tional League base ball team will de
part from Chicago on its training trip
to California on March 12, it was
definitely announced today. The
tem will reach Pasadena on March
15 but active training will not start
until the 18th. Only one trip will
be made to San Francisco this sea
son, probably on March 22, for a
game with the San Francisco team.
The next day the Cubs are scheduled
to play Oakland. Another game with
San Francisco, is scheduled for the
24th After this the Cubs will return
to Pasadena and remain there except
for trips to small California towns.
The usual stops will be made on the
return trip.
Thousand Serbians Go
Back to Fight Austria
Chicago, Dec. 30. One thousand
Serbs departed from Chicago today
for the east on their way to Europe
to help retake their native homes
from the Austrians and the Bulga
rians. Most of the men were not
naturalized, but the few who were
in the draft age were released by the
American government.
CURLERS TO CLASH
FOR TROPHY TODAY
Six Rinks Start Annual Compe
tition for John L. Kennedy
Cup at Miller Park This
Morning.
Omaha curlers will clash today at
Miller Park in the annual tournament
for the John L. Kennedy trophy now
held by the Balmorals.
Play starts at 10:30 this morning
with first round matches scheduled
as follows:
Balmorals against' Heaters.
Bobbie Burns against Thistles.
At 1 :.50 this afternoon the winners
of the Balmoral-Heathers' tangle will
play the Clan Gordons, and the win
ner of the Bobbie Burns-Thistles'
combat will clash with the Tarn
O'Shanters.
The Balmorals, skipped by Bob
Melvin, are out to capture the trophy
and championship again, but the
other rinks have been showing rare
form in practice matches and threat
en to unseat the title holders.
This week also marks the start of
play for the Robert Malcolm trophy,
emblematic of the individual cham
pionship of Omaha. Alex Melvin is
the holder of this title. All first
round matches in this competition
must te played tins week.
Open House -at K. C. Club
Rooms New Year's Day
Program at the Knights of Colum
bus open house New Year's day at
the club rooms, 2025 Dodge street,
will begin at 2:30 o'clock. The follow
ing have volunteered their services:
Miss Addie- Fogg, classic - dancing;
Mrs. J. W. Evans, reading; Miss Ruth
Flynn, pianist; Mrs. Ernest Reese,
violinist; Lieutenant Herbert Hoff
man, recitation; Jerry Maher, vocal
ist; Prof. Patrick O'Neill, vocalist;
Edward Reijly. vocalist; Miss Luella
Anderson, violinist; Reese orchestra;
George Hughes and Patrick McBride,
Council Bluffs, recitations; Mrs. Hazel
Eldredge, vocalist; Mrs. John Mullen,
recitation; Ernest Reese, pianist; Miss
Fay Ratchford, vocalist; Barney Mc
Ardle, monologue artist; Miss Charline
Barnes and Tommy Bonney, songs
and dances; Knight tf Columbus quar
tet, composed of Thomas Swift, Harry
Burkley, Clint Miller, Charles
Moriarty.
Catholic ladies of Qhiaha will serve
luncheon, beginning 'at 5 o'clock and
lasting as long as there are soldier
boys desiring to partake. All soldiers
in Omaha New Year's day are invited
to attend.
Nevada Governor Evasive
On Newlands' Successor
San Francisco, Dec. 30 Governor
Emmet D. Boyle of Nevada, to whom
aspirants to the toga of the late
United States Senator Francis G.
Newlands are looking, arrived here
today enroute to Carson City., He
refused to comment on the candidacy
of any of the aspirants nor upon the
report that he himself would be a
candidate.
"The new senator, of course, will
be a democrat," he raid. Among those
suggested to him by friends for the
appointment, he named Charles Hen
derson, regent of the University of
Nevada; P. A. McCarren of Carson
City, justice of the state supreme
court; Samuel Belford and James
Boyd, Reno attorneys; Attorney Gen
eral George Thatcher, Charles Lee
Horsey, district judge of Lincoln
county and Robert Douglas, banker
and cattleman of Fallon.
Pan-German Press Says
"Hiss Dr. von Kuehlmann"
London, Dec, 30. According to an
Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company, Dr. Richard von
Kuehlmann, the German foreign sec
retary, is expected to reach Berlin
today on his return from the peace
negotiations. He is to be received
immediately by the emperor, and after
that will probably visit Field Marshal
Hindenburg's headquarters. The pan-
Gernian nanprc cava this Hisnalrh- in
vite their readers to hiss von Kuehl-
niann when he arrives in Berlin for
"betraying the German army."
Maximilian Harden asserts that
Alsace cannot be considered an
obstacle to peace.
Godfrey Tells of Traffic
Congestion in the East
T. F. Godfrey, general agent of
the passenger department of the Mis
souri Pacific, has returned from
Philadelphia, where he went to spend
Christmas with his son, Dr. Godfrey.
Mr. Godfrey asserts that when it
comes to traffic congestion people of
(he central west know nothing about
the conditions with which the rail
roads have to contend.
According to Mr. Godfrey, at all
the eastern terminals and on the sid
ings in the towns there" are miles of
loaded freight cars. The major por
tion of them are loaded with goods
and supplies for oversea , trade and
consumption.
Fort in Kronstadt Is
Blown Up; No Details
London, Dec. 30. One of the
forts in Kronstadt, the naval base
near Petrograd, has been blow up
by an extremely violent explosion,
according to a Petrograd dispatch
to the Times. There are no de
tails. " '
P" ICES FIXED
ON FEEDSTUFFS
FOR LIVE STOCK
Schedule Must Be Maintained
in All States as Published
by Federal Food Administration.
Prices of mill feeds for live stock
have been established by the federal
food administration, and the schedule
of prices must be maintained in all
states.
Complaints of excessive charges by
brokers and jobbers of mill feeds in
some parts of Nebraska have been
made to State Food Administrator
Wattles.
The federal food administration lias
ordered Mr. Wattles to make imme
diate and careful investigation of the
complaints of excessive charges in
these lines in Nebraska. The federal
administration points out that prices
for these articles have been estab
lished and that it is highly important
that the public should have the bene
fit of these regulations.
The United-States food administra
tion, in a- bulletin just issued, says
licensees engaged in the business of
milling flour and feed from wheat
shall not sell wheat mill feed at any
price in excess of the following:
Shorts or standard middlings, $2
per ton of 2,000 pounds or over basis.
Mixed feeds, $4 per ton.
Flour middlings, $9 per ton.
Red dog, $15 per ton.
The bulk price per ton of 2.00Q
pounds at mill in carload lots in no
case shall exceed 38 per cent of the
average Cost to such mill of one ton"
of wheat at the mill, which cost' erf
wheat shalrbe the average cost as
shown in the previous month's rec
ords of said mill and shall include the
1 per cent administration fee paid
by the null -on all wheat ground. .
Says Peace Terms Fail to
Solve Single War Problem
London, Dec. 30. The Belgian
minister at Petrograd is quoted by the
Exchange Telegraph correspondent
there as having declared the German
peace proposals to be unacceptable. A
return to the status quo ante bellutn
would not solve a single problem of
the war, in the minister's opinion. He
added, the dispatch says, - that the
proposed terms failed to indicate any
means for the prevention of future
conflicts or for the removal of the
causes which brought oh the present
war.
As for the indemnification of Bel
gium, the minister pointed out that
this had been promised by the allies.
Famous "Marathon" Bought
By Maryland Trainer
Cincinnati, O., Dec. 30. One of the
biggest turf deals of the year was
pulled off today when H. G. Bedwell,
the Maryland .trainer, purchased from
J. R. Respess, the great sire, Mara
thon. Bedwell was acting for his em
ployer, J. K. L. Ross, the Canadian
millionaire and the price was reported
to be $30,000. It was only two weeks
ago that Bedwell purchased the colt
Cudgel for the same price and for
the same man.
Marathon was 14 years old Tuesday
and is an imported horse by Mante
gan, out of Ondulee and is an inbred
Ben D'Or. He is the sire of numer
ous good horses, including Jack Hare,
jr., Gypsy Queen, Desire and James
Foster.
General Anson G. McCook
Dies at Home in New York
New York,' Dec'. 30. Brigadier
General Anson George McCook, pres
ident of the New York Law Publish
ing company and a veteran of the civil
war, died at his home here today from
pleurisy.
In 1854 he drove cattle to Cali
fornia and was a gold prospector there
for five years. He organized a vblun
terr company in the civil war that be
came part of the Second Ohio infan
try, saw action in several historic
battles and retired in 1865 brigadier
general of volunteers. General. Mc
Cook represented the Eighth New
York district in congress from 1877 to
1883.
Remove Eight Dead From
Passenger Train Wreck
North Vernon, Ind., Dec. 30. The
work pf removing the wreckage of
passenger trains No. 2, St. Louis to
New York and No. 23, Cincinnati to
St Louis, which collided head-on near
here last night, was nearing comple
tion tonight. Eight persons are
known to be dead, but only seven
bodies have been fAand, the body of
Harry French of Seymour, Ind., en
gineer of the westboilnd train, not
haying been located. One of the 20
injured is expected to die.
David Bonner, Famous
Horse Breeder, Is Dead
New York, Dec. 30. David Bonner,
for more than half a century a prom-'
inent figure in the horse world, as
breeder and official in harness rac
ing and horse shows, died of pneu
monia at lfi home in this city today.
Apaches Proudly Show
New Red Cross Buttons
Globe, Ariz., Dec. 30. One hun
dred and eleven full blooded Apache
Indians walked into an auxiliary of
the Globe chapter of the American
Red Cross at Rice on the Indian
reservation and their leader handed
$222 in bills over to the secretary.
"What's that for?" asked the sec-
rC'v7e want to join the Red Cross,"
said Arthur Johns, their spokesman
who L a Carlisle alumnus and whose
Indian name is Flying Fox. "We're
the first contingent. Two hundred
more will be in during the week."
They asked for the largest Red
Cross buttons available and proudly
departed.
COUNCIL DECIDES
BUDOETTHDRSDAY
Commissioners to Apportion
Funds Among the Various
Departments After Trim
ming Them All.
City commissioners will sit on
Thursday as a budget board to appor
tion a general fund of $1,750,000
among the various municipal depart
ments. Total of the amounts wanted by
the departments exceeds the general
fund, wherefore arises the annual or
deal of trimming down to meet the
available funds.
A recent amendment to the city
charter removed maximum funds for
the police, fire and a few other de
partments. Superintendent Kugel
wants $278,500 for 1918, as against
$249,000 for 1917. Patrolmen and de
tectives will receive increases of pay
beginning January 1. Superintendent
Withnell of the fire department will
require $413,110 and if his men are
eiven a $10 raise instead of $5 he will
ask for $430,000 for the year. It is
practically assured that the police and
fire departments will be allowed more
than $700,000. '
Heads of departments in the city
hall are asking for increases for many
of their employes, the amounts rang
ing from $10 to $25 a month.
There has been some discussion on
the. subject of abandoning or reducing
some of the boards, but this has not
yet been formally brought up;
The general fund for 1918 is $250,
000 more than 1917 and it is said it
will be absorbed by increases of sal
ary, wages and cost of materials.
OVERDOSE OF
HEADACHE CURE
KILLS THAMANN
John Thamann, 2225 Dodge street,
father of four small children ranging
in ages from 2 to 10 years, died
early Sunday 1 morning, six hours
after swallowing an ounce of essence
of wintergrcen, with which he said
he hoped to relieve a headache.
Dr. McCrann, jr., and Police Sur
geon Mullin attended him Saturday
night immediately following his sud
den illness, but he never regained
consciousness.
A post mortem will be held.
Besides the children Mr. Thamann
is survived by his wife. The body
was taken to .he Leo A. Hoffman
undertaking parlors.
GENERAL WOOD
AND "SAMMIES"
NOWINJRANCE
Camp Funston, Kan., Dec. 30.
Word has reached here that Major
General Leonard Wood, commander
of the 89th division has arrived safely
irtAI - 6EK- KOMAJap "WOOD.
in France with his chief of staff, Lieu
tenant Colonel C. E. Kilbourne. They
went there to study field conditions.
Paris, Dec. 30. A Havas dispatch
dated "somewhere in France," says
a "contingent of United States volun
teers" has landed there. The volun
teers was received by the general
commanding the military district, the
prefect, mayor and other civil and
military authorities.
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CONGRESS CUTS
ESTIMATES FOR
ARTILLERY MEN
General Crozier Tells Commit
tee That Successive Reduc
tions Made Artillery Appro
priations Inadequate.
Washington, Dec. 31. Major Gen
eral Crozier, army ordnance chief,
today gave to the senate committee
investigating the conduct of the war
his side of the reasons (or artillery
shortage and of the celebrated con
troversy over the Lewis machine gun.
Responsibility for artillery shortage,
the general said, lay with the whole
country and he showed how every ef
fort of his to get larger appropria
tions for artillery in time of peace was
overruled by the secretary of war
and by congress. The British and
French governments, he showed by
official records, had of themselves of
fered to supply General Pershing's
forces with artillery, and he gave
statements from abroad to show that
the allies were able to do it because
they had a surplus.
General Crozier submitted the tests
of the Lewis gun, showing that other
guns performed better; disclaimed
any personal prejudice, as claimed by
Colonel Lewis, the inventor, and
showed that since the gun had been
perfected to use American ammuni
tion the War department had bought
quantities ot them.
Desire to make America's forces of
actual aid on the fighting front as soon
as possible was a prune factor. Gen
eral Crozier said, in the artillery loans
from France. Correspondence was
produced in which M. Tardieu of the
French high commission asked the
War department tat order f rettch ar
tillery and that French deliveries ex
ceeded the number promised.
"I am not attempting to excuse the
situation that requires us to depend
on our friends for heavy artillery,"
said General Crozier, "but the respon
sibility rests on the whole country."
"This is a plain statement of . the
case," said General Crozier, citing one
instance before the war in which a
"modest program" of artillery appro
priations calling for $1,200,000 was cut
in half by direction of the secretary
of war, and then further reduced by
congress to $310,000. No considerable
appropriation, he said, was made for
heavy artillery until 1916. Appropria
tions in preceding years, he said, were
"absolutely inadequate."
Turning to the charges that preju
dice had kept the Lewis machine gun
out of American equipment, General
Crozier detailed the official records
of the department.
The Vickers ,was adopted because
the board's repoit showed the Lewis
gun jammed 206 times, had 35 broken
parts and 15 parts required replace
ment while the Vickers gun jammed
only 23 times and had no parts broken.
The board held Lewis' ggn inferior
to the Vickers or Bennett-Mercier.
The board formed to test machine
guns, General Crozier -pointed out,
were not subject to his jurisdiction.
Colored Celebration
Results in Broken Leg
During a hasty retreat from a
colored pre-New Year celebration,
Viola Johnson; one of the merry
makers silently darted out of a sec
ond story window, after having been
pursued by her sister, in a temper, and
as a result of a fall upon the "col',
col' groun'," is now suffering from a
compound fracture, of her left sup
port. Viola was removed to St. Joseph's
hospital where she is recuperating on
hopes of an early recovery "fer other
reasons dan ar' publicly known."
"All ah wishes fcr now is dat mah
leg'll dun get well," said Viola, who
will spend an eventful New Year
period in a ward.
Marconi High Commissioner.
Rome, Dec. 30. William Marconi,
inventor r f the wireless telegraph, has
been appointed Italian high commis
sioner to the United Slates.
Food at Danger Point
In France and Denmark
Washington, p. C.t . Dec. 30.
Further reduction of civilian ra
tions in European countries today
was reported necessary.
Information received by the food
administration said the wheat short
age in France was becoming alarm
ing and that Maurice Long, min
ister for general fevictualling for
the French government, had indi
cated a decrease of 20 per cent in
the bread ration soon would be im
perative. Denmark also is looking forward
to a reduction of the bread ration
because final figures for the
cereal harvest show a total of only
62,000,000 bushels, or 20,000,000
bushels less than in 1916.
Food supplies in Switzerland are
falling off to the danger point, the
food administrator's information
said. The Swiss now may have
only a pound and a half of sugar
per person each month, half a pound
of bread daily, and one-fifth of a
pound of butter monthly
G0REMYKIN IS
SLAIN ON RUSS
ESTATE; 3 DEAD
Petrograd, Saturday, Dec. 29. The
murder of former Premier Goremy-
Win ht uiiV and liic hrru'npr-in-ln w !
is reported in the Petrograd news
papers today.
They are said to have been slain by
robbers at the estate of former Pre
mier Sotohy, Tr. tiscaucasia.
Goremykin was a conspicuous figure
during the later years of the old re
gime in Russia. At the fall of Premier
Witte during the political upheaval in
1906, M. Goremykin was called upon
by Emperor Nicholas to form a gov
ernment. After a stormy administra
tion of less than less than three
months, he was removed.
In Febuary of 1914 he was again ap
pointed premier, holding office until
February of last year. After the rev
olution he was arrested, and confined
for a short time in the fortress of St.
Peter and St. Taul.
273 German Aeroplane
Squadrons Now in Field
With- the -French Army, Dec. 30.
The German army possesses 273 aero
plane squadrons, comprising 2,500 ma
chines, according to approximately
exact figures. I hese squadrons are
divided into 100 artillery spotters, 80
scouts, 23 bombers, 40 chasers, and 30
battleplane squadrons for the protec
tion of the bombers.
The German output ,of aeroplanes is
reported to be rapidly increasing.
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DAMAGED BY
EXTREME COLD
Daytonia, Fla., Dec. 31. For the
second time this winter thermometers
tins morning registered 25 degrees
above zero and ice froze to the thick
ness of one-half inch. Vegetatibfl
and winter crops suffered much dam
age. ;
The intense cold , has not been
equaled in the territory south of New
York along the coast and inland since
December 30, 1880.
Canton, N. Y., reported the lowest
temperature at 8 O'clock this morning
of any point in the country. It was
20 degrees below zero there. Official'
temperatures showed the below zero
line to extend northward of Phila
delphia and eastward of Buffalo.
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and Boston 8 below, Albany and Port
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troit, Louisville and Omaha it was 10
above zero; Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
Indianapolis 8 above, St. Louis 12
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