Omaha Daily Be
VOL. XLVII. NO. 179.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1918. SIXTEEN PAGES.
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AMERICAN FORCES MOVING TO
NEW HEADQUARTERS "SOME
WHERE IN CENTRAL FRANCE'
Preparations for Transfer Have Been Under Way for
Weeks; Will Be Stationed There for Duration of
War; To Be Housed in Huge Barracks
Outside Healthful' City.
(Br Aafoclated Frew.)
A City of Central France, Thursday, Jan. 10. -Although
the influx of hundreds of staff officers belonging to the lines
of communication branch of the American army has not yet'
begun and although their transfer from Paris here is supposed
to be a deep secret, this beautiful little city in central France is
already aware that it will soon be host to the newest allies.
American flatrs are already wavinirP
from'tnany buildings and the citizens
are preparing what promises to be a
most enthusiastic welcome to the
newcomers.
Ready, for Men.
The preparations for the advent of
the Americans,, numbering several
hundred officers and twice as many
oci tf antarlprk-s civilians and mili
tary workers are almost completed;!
so tnat wnen tne men oegin 10 arrive,
within a day or two, each one will
find comfortable quarters arranged
for him, either in one of the hotels
here, or in private houses that have
been rented by the advance agents.
They will find themselves quartered
"for the duration of the war" huone
of France's hea1thiestmd most beau
tiful cities, where cleanliness appar
ently has been made a cardinal virtue;
where food, especially fresh vege
tables in season and dairy products,
are plentiful;, where the water supply
offers none of "the drawbacks that
must be contended with close behind
the front, and from which they can
operate fully as advantageously as
from Fan's. ' 1
Huge Barracks. '
AH available hotel rooms have been
engaged and private houses have been
rented until the end of the -war.
Rooms also have been engaged in
private homes .for additional officers
wna may e?me here.f The big clerical
force: will be distributed, utt, part
among the families of the city and n
part wilt be housed in huge barracks
iin the outskirts of the city. .
One of the first moves wiH.be to
Install a "sales commissary;' it which
foodstuff brought from America will
be sold at less than the local, market
prics, If ' p'oslble,."so that the pres
ence of the: Americans will not have
the effect of forcing up prices to the
distress of the inhabitants..
i, i Modern Conditions.
A medical .officer who has, made an
exhaustive examination finds the wa
ter even better than in Paris, sanita-
! .. .ti.n onH iht nouses, clean
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and everything modern to a surprising
C Arrestments already have been
completed whereby the American
4 tees qan draw, from the French all
necessary fuel; thus there will be no
suffering from what at this time is un
usually cold weather. The American
officers have found the .mayor and
Uher city officials ready for co-operation'
in the. fullest degree. ;
The quarters, in the mam, have
beetf secured by the mayor, who
asked the citizens to show their pa
triotism .'by giving up a portion, of
their houses to their American allies.
The Red Cross and the Young Men s
Christian association already have
established branches . here.
Arthur Thsedore Ziebell
Dies arHorne Near Wisner
Wisner. Neb., Jan. " -(Special.)-
Arthur Theodore ieoen uiea at mc
farm home near Wisner last Wednes
day. He was 43 year old. ; He leaves
a widow and'four children. ' -
The Weather
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BILLS HELD UP
BY COMPTROLLER
Bee Publishing Company, Pro
tests Against Overcharge
by World-Herald and Pay
ment is Refused.
' City comptroller is holding up
World-Herald . advertising ' bills for
October, November and Decenjpef
because of alleged overcharges, -U
.The action of the comptrollers
prompted by Assistant City Attojhey
De Ppel's opinion that fractions Oj a
square, sometimes consisting of only
two or thre,e lines, could not be prop-'
erly charged on a basis of full squares.
If an official city - notice was two
squares arfd three lines, for instance,
,the'. World-Herald is alleged lo have
submitted bills for three squares.
- It is -the- contention of The Bee
Publishing company in a formal pro
test -filed thaf by reason of thenar
rower columns now being used by.ths
.World--Herald,'1ts Contract with the
city for official advertising has been
rendered null arid void. .
"The. Beetles Protest.
The -tityrAleik. has received , from
The Bee Publishing company a pro
test against the payment of bills
rendered ' by, the World-Herald for
advertising city official notices on the
basis of charging at the rate of 448
cents! for; fractions -of "squares;" also
for charging the full contract rate for
advertising which has appeared , in
the narrower style of, columns re
cently adopted' by the World-Herald.
The letter to the mayo and city
council follows: .
Allegations in Complaint.
'tion the fact that in response to .your
.... . r . i r - A
invitation ior proposals,. iyi u-
Taricitir tact Tntv the award went
to the bid submitted oh' behalf of the
Omaha Evenmg vY.orld-Herald on the
ground that it was lower than that
submitted on behait ot tne umana
Evening Bee.
"That since the city, advertising has
hMH rutin tti or n eain
'the, publishers of that paper have
rendered Dins demanding payment ior
a full square in every separate pub
lication, insisting it is . entitled tc 48
cents Jor every single line in sucn
net. anrl thus matpriallv raisinsr its
charge above the figure upon which
its Did was accepted.
Increase in Rates.
"That still more recently said
World-Herald has again increased its
rharoro in rVrpca nf ila hid hv nar
rowing its' column by 4 per cent, and
inus snlnKing us incasuicuiciii. su
as to make each advertisement count
more lines.
"That -by reason of these facts, the
contract of the World-Herald has
been by it violated and the bid of said
paper as compared with that of The
Bee is no longer the lowest and best
bid, but on the contrary, is higher and
more costly to the taxpayers.
"Wo tberitfnrr rpsnprtf nil v renuaft
and urge your honorable body to de
clare the contract tor city advertising
with the World-Herald, to have teen
forfeited and to make the award to
The Bee on its bid as already sub
mitted." Schools Report Plenty of
Heat Despite tns uom
5ttnr;ntnHnf RvprMffC of Oublic
schools reported that no complaint of
lack of heat had been received from
any school.
Woman Tries to Kill Husband Who
Will Not Provide for Children
Hermina Cherrett, 1261 South Fif-j
teenth street, told Police Judge Fitz-i
gerald Friday morning that her hus
band, John V. Cherrett, has refused
to work for the last three weeks, and
as a result, she and her children are
in destitute circumstances.
"I have pleaded with him to get
a job, but he said he wouldn't work
if someone offered him a position.
We have only three bales of coal in
the house and if it weren't for moth
er's help, the babies wOuW have
starved to death." '-Hpw old are the
bab'es?"' she was asked. "John is 6
CflSS)w.firfORM
REPUBLIC UNDER
GEN. WINES
First Russ Battalion Goes Back
to Trenches; Women Maloe
Request to Form Le
gion of Death.
(Br Associated Press.)
' Petrograd, Thursday. Jan. 10. Re
ports from Rostov today say that the
republic of the Don has been declared
existent with General Kaledines as
president and prime minister.
Organize Struggle.
General Alexieff. former Russian
commander-in-chief, around whom
has gathered a corps of some 25,000
officers, has considered it necessary
to organize a struggle against the
Bolshcviki on an all-Russian plan and
to create in Russia a moderate liberal
regime. Monarchical principles are
said to be very strong among Alex
ieff's group.
General Kaledines and his party op
pose General Alexieff in "lis desire to
utilize the Don government against
the Bolsheviki and is willing to in-.-lnfU
in Dnn envprnment repre
sentatives of all the democratic or
ganizations in order to bring an en
to civil war. v
The French government has ap
pointed General Tabouille the repre
retjtr.tive of France to the Ukraine
republic. This is considered in Petro
grad as recognition by France. of the
independence of the .Ukra'ne.
The announcement was made by an
oft'iAr of the French military mission.
Russ Go to Trenches.
Poric l-m 11 Th First battalion
of ' the Russian legion, composed of
mempcrs ot tne Russian expcuwun-
ary torce, wnicn neia a sector u
the front m uiampagne unui mc
time of the revolution, has left for
the trenches. It was formed as the
result . of an appeal by General
Lokhvitzkyv who commanded the
Russ'an contingent in France. Fur
ther detachments will follow as soon
as they have been organized, ' .
Tn a ctiicmpnt todav General
Lokhwtzkf saici he hoped, to; be able
tr) Wuit -mny mote JRusjjnd
of the. original two brigades who
wire still m France ana were ac
sirous of joining the legion: "show
ing that all Russians should , not be
confounded with thosehd are serv
ing the interests of Germany. t A
numbef of .Russian women have ask
ed that' a woman's battalion of death
be formed to fight on the French
front, but the. general said this could
not be realized. ; i "
Reds Ready for War.
London. Tan. 11. Nikolai Leiiine,
the Bolsheviki premier, although he
has possibly gone on a holiday to Fin
land,' also possiDiy may go io oiut-n-holm
to confer- with German and
Austrian socialists, the Petrograd cor
nnion nf the Dailv News savs.
In a speech before his departure
from Petrograd Premier Lenine said:
all have tc ston the
demobilization and prepare for war. If
A ita a11i do not accent
our conditions of peace, we will de
clare a revolutionary war on tnem,
Urtres Agreement.
The correspondent emphasizes the
irflportance ot an agreement Deiwcen
k Rnlstiviki and Ukrainian neco-
tiators, as the position of the Rada has
lessened Trotzky's chances of obtain
ing a satisfactory peace. He says that
if the Germans could buy off the Uk
raine, the significance within uermany
rtf rntrkv's stand wouia De cut in
half. " ' . ,
. Tli rnrrp tnnn'pnt adds that noth
ing Is more foolish than to suppose
Viat Kronco thf Illrrainp onnose the
Bolsheviki, it. therefore, favors the
allies anu prosecution ot tne war.
Mvsterious Youna Woman
Falls Beneath Booze Car
Shenandoah, la., Jan. 11. (Special
Telegram.) Identification of the
young woman who was injured, per
haps fatally, when a big car and cargo
of 300 pints of whisky turned over
last night during a snwstorm near
Norwich, has not been reveiled, al
though she has been seen by a num
ber of persons and has been treated
by physicians. Her companion, a
young man who refused to tell her
name, disappeared in a second car
that rami" nlnne later. Dr. VV. F.
Storler. who with Dr. B. II. Barnes
attended her, says she may have fatal
internal ininrics. She was nearlv
frozen when rescued. She is said to
be a young married woman from
Council Bluffs. She is about 25 and
unable to talk.
vears old. and Henrv will be 2 to
mnrrmv "
, Cherrett alleged that his wife had
tried to asphyxiate him hy turning
on the gas in his room while he slept.
'Vc T rfirl T u'a rlesnprate and
intended to kill you and then myself
and the clitldrcn, she soouea.
Cherrett was arrested in a raid on
tho Haupn'a hotel, whprc. it in al
leged he has been living with another
woman. He was bound .over to dis-
trirt rnnrt nnrlpr $700 hnnrlf: Deoutv
County Attorney Abbott stated that
he would endeavor to nave cnerrett
mm the armv. that his wife mav re
ceive a monthly allowance from his
salary.
Embarrassing
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VOVSEE MWXt
. I ITS THIS jgL If CM
V WAY J M'Jhl' S
KAISER WITHDRAWS PEACE
TERMS OFFERED TO RUSSIA;
PARLEY WILL BEX0NTINIJED
derman Foreign Secretary,
Made Public Last Deceitiber Have Been Recalled ;
Refuse Russ Demand That Conference Be
Held -On Neutral Territory.
Amsterdam, Jan. It. The central power have with
drawn their peace term made public at the Brest-Litovsk con
ference, on December 25, it was announced by Dr. von Kuelh
mann, the German foreign secretary, in his speech at the Brest-
Litovsk conference with the Russians yesterday. V
Count Czernin. the Austro-Hun-O
garian foreign minister, at a full sit
ting of the peace contcrence at lirest
Litovslt .on Thursday, said that as
Russia's allies had not replied to the
invitation, to participate in the nego
tiations it was now a question of a
seoarate peace between Russia and
the central powers.
Gives Reasons. j
He gave reasons for not wishing tqj
transfer the negotiations to neutral
territory and said that i-the Russians
were animated by the same intentions
as the central powers the result of
the negotiations would be satisfactory.
If not, responsibility tor war would
fall exclusively on the Russians.
Dr. von Kuehlmann. the-Ucrman
foreien minister, said he 'Considered
that the difficulties which had inter
rupted the previous negotiations were
not sufficient to justify the failure of
the peace work and a presumable re
sumption of hostilities. He said that
it was the fixed and unchangeable
determination of the central powers
not to conduct elsewhere the peace
negotiations begun at Brest-Litovsk.
Keviews contcrence.
After a lengthy review of the pro
ceedings to date, Dr. von Kuehlmann
said he hoped tney wouia leaa to a
salutary result. His hope was' based
on knowledge gained during the nego
tiations and on the expression by the'
Russian delegation of the Russian
people's wish for secure and lasting
peace. He continued:
"I consider that the difficult its met
with up to the time the negotiations
were interrupted were not great
enough to cause the failure of the
peace work and presumable resump
tion of war in the east, with its un
foreseen consequences."
Owing to the nonacccptance by all
the enemy powers of those terms, Dr.
von Kuehlmann stated that document
had "become null and void."
PILOTS WHO DROP
U.S. PROPAGANDA
CLASSED AS SPIES
London, Jan. 11. Referring to the
report that it is intended to drop a
million copies of President Wilson's
address in Germany from airplanes,
the Daily Chronicle, while thinking
the idea excellent and that if every
German could read the address it
might lead to a national strike against
the war, recalls Germany's recent an
i.ouncement that pilots caught drop
ping propaganda would be shot as
spies.
Accordingly the paper ippeals to
inventora to produce a machine
which of itself will drop the propaganda.
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Announces That Conditions
ALABAMA TOWN
WIPED OFF MAP
BY BIG TORNADO
Storm Strikes Winter Quarters
of Circus; Wild Animals Es
cape and Tear Through
Country on Rampage,
(Uy Associated Prrs.)
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 11. Seven
persons were killed and 2S injured
at Cowarts, Ala., and the entire town
was destroyed by a tornado today, a
report received at the local office of
the Atlantic Coast Line railway said.
Circus Animals Escape.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 11. A tornado
struck Camp Wheeler and Central
City park (state fair grounds)' late
today. Great damage ha9 been done
at the park and animals from a circus
wintering there are reported on a
rampage. Several persons have been
injured.
One freight train on the Macon,
Dublin & Savannah railroad was
wrecked by the storm between Macon
and Camp Wheeler. Railroad men
say the tornado was followed by a
cloudburst.
WAR MUNITIONS
PLANTS FORCED
TO CURTAIL FUEL
Washington, Jan. 11. Even some
plants making munitions and other
war supplies may have to curtail fuel
consumption during the next 60 days,
Fuel Administrator Garfield said to
night in a statement assuring the
public that every effort would be
made to distribute the available sup
ply of coal where most needed, and
that no partiality would be shown
any section.
Part of the 38,000,000 tons shortage
of the last year has been made up,
Dr. Garfield saij, but there still is a
large deficiency and it will be felt
i chiefly this month and next.
P. B. Noyes of the fuel administra
I tion left tonight for New York to dis
cuss the situation with local -officials
j and to take up with the manufacturers
of the essential products the question
j of reduction in consumption. .
MERCURY 22 BELOW HERE,
BREAKING RECORD FOR THE
WINTER; 32 AT VALENTINE
Snow Extends to South and East, Breaking Cold Records
in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico; Sleet-. .,
ing at Galveston; Clear in te Rocky
Mountain Region. V . ,,
Some Cold Spots
Omh 1 Pulntli IS
Mnroln 21 llvr, Mont. .. tJ
Vlntln 34 Huron. H. It M
North riMtte ... tfl.riom), . I 4
Norfolk S Knpld Dty, 8. P. !4
niMimrrk lt Ho.ufll. N. M. 4
rhoynno 1 1 Flnnff 410
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BISHOP STUNTZ
HEADS PROGRAM
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Leader Honored With Hitjh
Commission; is Chief of
Platform Division.
Bishop Homer C. Stuntz of Omaha
has' been selected to give his entire
time to a nation-wide -campaign to
mobilire the Methodist Episcopal
church in a war program and iilace
it at the service of the government.
Bishop Stuntt will be plrec? at the
head ot the platform 'aivfclohr He
will be in charge of the sjueakcrs bVer
the entire country. The; executive
lifcad will be Bishop Theodore S.
Henderson ofr Detroit. .ITheie selcc-
Bishop Home? CSfaidz
tions were made at a meet'iig of the
war council in Philadelphia Thurs
day. " .
The campaign to uphold the morale
of the soldiers in the camps and the
large mass of people behind the 'lines
will start at once and probably will
be completed about July 1 Bishop
Stuntz will 6tart on a, sneaking tour
of six weeks Sunday. He will visit
and address every army camp in the
United States and counsel and en
courage workers in the (Young Men's
Christian association huts at the va
rious camps. In connection with
these meetings he will address gath
(Contlnurd n Paxe Two Column Fire.)
F0RW0RK1NVAR
THE OMAHA BEE
LED IN AMUSEMENT
DISPLAY ADVERTISING
for 1917
And Also Showed By Far
the Greatest Gains
Here Are the Figures in Inches
(Warfiald Agency Measurement!) ;
1916-- 1917.L
Bee ...,.12,047 14,743
World-Herald 13,912 13.453
NeW. ..11,778 13,217
Bee Gains 2,696 Inches
World-Herald Loss. '.. .457. Inches
Newt Gains 1,439 Inches
The Omaha theater and amusement man
agers know the paper that brings the crowds.
And they really know, for it is absolutely direct '
results that they go by.
Keep Your Eye On The Bee
Improving Every Day ; ,' " ! .
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Twenty-two 'degrees ' below sero
wss the official weather bureau tem
perature, registered at 8:30 o'clock
Friday morning. It was the coldest
so far this winter.
Twenty degrees below was reached
in the cold snap of a few weeks aro.
The Omaha record for cold is 32 be
low tero, recorded January 5, 1884.
The entire day was a record for en
during cold,' the mercury never rising
above IS degrqes below zero. At I
o'clock last night the temperature
was 18 degrees below. ,
NEBRASKA COLDEST.
Nebraska is the coldest Spot in the
whole country. Valentine,' Neb., ' re
ported aminnnum of 32 degrees be
low zero thid morning, the coldest
in the United States. North Platte
had 24 below, Grand Island 25 below
and Sioux City, la., 22 below.
So far as the railroad officials could
ascertain, O'Ncil, Neb., with a tem
perature of 34 degrees below sero,
was the coldest spot located in Orda
ha territory. . Other low tempera
tures out in the state were:
RandolpK -30; Greeley Center, 28;
McCook. 27; Inman, 25; Central City,
Grand Island, Hastings, Clay Center,
Blue Hill, Edgar Erickson, Long
Pine, Stanton and St. Paul, 24 below.
At Winner, S.-D.. it was 37 and all
through the Black hills rero to 25 be
low. x i s
In Wyoming temperatures ranged
from ero to 20 degrees above. , ;
Snowing In Louisiana.
The cold extended far to the south,
breaking some, records in Oklahdina.
Tsxst and , New Mexico.- Oklahoma,
and. 'northern, .'texas .had. the unpre-
cedentcd Jovf temperature of 6 below
rtrct afld New Mexico points, reported
4 below. It was snowing in Shreve-.
pprt, La. and Little Rdcjc Ark., -places
that have rarety If even seen -show
before. Ir) Galveston, Tex., it waY
sleeting and the temperature was 22.
' Saturday will be the thirtieth anni
versary oi the great blirzard of Jan-;
uary 12, 1888, which is a landmark in
th weather history of the nation. .
Many people lost their lives as they
wandered about in the snow and. cold'
on the'plains. Stock losses were 'tre
mendous " ; ...
. Record Cold at Lincoln. '
Lincoln Neb, Jan. 11. With 1
minimum temperature of 21 degrees
kclow zero, Lincoln and southeastern
Nebraska today experienced not only
the coldest day of the winter, but the
coldest for several years. At no time
during the day did the thermometer
ascend, above 15 below zero, and the
reading at 7 o'clock tonight Was 19
below, with the prediction of the fore
caster at25 below before moraine.
The cold was aggravated by a high
northwest wind. . ,
In Lincoln dealers reported an em-
pie supply of coal tor- Immediate
needs, but in . some of thi smaller
towns of the state there is a shortage,
Redcloud, Superior and Edgar re
porting but little on hand. ' Ih some
places it. has, been, found pecessary.
to hold only half-day' sessions of the
public schools in .order to conserve
the coal supply, and private homes
have been permitted to purchase only
a half ton. ' .
County Treasurers to
Meet in Omaha Feb. 25-27
. State County Treasurers' - associa
tion will hold its annual meeting In
Omaha, February 25, 26 and 27. Frank
G. Frame of Fulletron is secretary
of the association. . ,.