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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1918)
CITY HALL LINEUP IS AGREED UPON BY TIIENEW MEN Smith, Mayor; Urc,' Finance; ;. Ringer, Police, and Towl, Improvements, is Ar- r rangement. - ii ft El P. Smith, mayor fnd superin tendent of department pf public affair. W. G. .Ure, . superintendent of de partment of accounts and finance. J. Dean Ringer, superintendent of department of police, sanitation and public safety. Roy N. Towl, superintendent of de partment of public improvements. The foregoing arrangement has practically been settled between the four commissioners-elect mentioned, although no official statement has been made and a complete and final agreement will not be reached until after the new city council meets next Monday morning. Canvass of Situation. A canvass of the situation leaves Unit doubt that the foot departments referred to will be assigned as out lined. - ... Mr. Smith would not commit him self saying that this was t hard-and-fast agreement, but he inferen tially affirmed that he would be made mayor, and Ure, Ringer and Towl will have charge of the departments s above shown. This would leave the fire, park and streets departments between Harry B Zimman, Thomas Falconer and Dan B. Butler. ... Mi. Smith gave an interview as mayor-elect "It is safe to say, that every man subject to the mayor's ap pointment' will be changed, not that all of them are necessarily incom oetent, but I believe the people de creed that there should be a change, he said. , Voted for "Housecleaning" "The city" voted for a houseclean ing and we are going to have men whrt are in thorough sympathy with mr administration. . The legal de partment will be reduced from six to four attorneys. I am confident that four men can do the work. It is pro posed to have the city attorney de fend lawsuits against the city and he should be a high-grade man. It is also 'proposed to have a confidential lent advisor for the city council whom you might refer to as corpora tion counsel. " .. ... "We will have some big problems coming up, such as the gas plant, ana ''the council should have the best ad vice on . these matters. The two prosecutors in ine ponce cournnuuiu be able to devote some of their time tn tha learal department office, such as obtaining ' information in connec " tion with suits filed against the city. "I am going to Lincoln Saturday ' to learn when the street railway's 6 cent fare case will be heard before the State Railway commission and I will urge that tlje city shall intervene ' and resist the application filed by Mr. Wattles. A hich-srrade man will be reauired to defend the city in this Probabla "Ax" Victims. Mr. Smith stated that Health Com missioner Connell, Gas Commissioner . Butler and City Clerk O'Connor are . among those who will be replaced. The present personnel of the ap pointive 'officers within the jurisdic tion of the mayor's department, known as "public affairs," most of whom will have to go, follows: . Legal DepartmentJohn A. Rine, W. C Lambert. H. B. Fleharty, L. J. TePoel, T. J. McGuica and Fred An heuser City Clerk T. J. O'Connor. , Gas Commissioner J. P. Butler. "4 City Abstracter Wood Hartley. Uerksof fonce courts jonn wur- fMl and Perrv Wfieeler. " License Inspector Anton Hoff man. Marketmaster John Killian. Weights ' and MeasuresAmos Scruggs. . City Hall - Superintendent Emil Wahlstrom. Agreeable to Ure. ' - Mr. Ure stated that the proposed arrangement of Smith for mayor and himself for superintendent of ac counts and finances, with Ringer for -police department, and Towl for pub' lie improvements, was agreeable. He stated that was the logical solution and added that he wished to lend ium self to a logical and agreeable ar rangement - Mr. Zimman said: "I am willing to get together with the other commissioners-elect and discuss the problem of assigning the departments on the bases of qualifications. I do not care to state at. this time just what my preterence may be. Mr. Butler conferred with the head of the Falconer organization. Bntler gave this statement:. - Would Retain Department. ."I take it that the vote I received was an endorsement of my adminis trattoa as superintendent of the de partment of accounts and finance. I owe it to my staff, as much as to my self, to retain this department. Na turally I will vote for the man for mayor who will help me attain my end. . I owe nothing to any of the successful candidates in the way of neiping roaica m; mayor. Some ; of Butler's democratic "frtaids" have him slated for super intendent of the department of street cleaning and maintenance and are . even trying to help him into that berth. Other wise men of the east or west have Zimman slated for the fire department and Falconer for parks .and ' boulevards. As matters now stand at "allied" headquarters- Zim man may have fire, parks or street department, according to his inclina tions.. , Henry P. Wulf, only defeated can didate on the "allied" ticket will be cared for by the new administration. He will have a place in the city build inf department as his. experience has been along building lines. V.zn Held Up snd Robbed of Diamond Ring and Watch . 'Stanley Dillon. 522 North Twenty. third street was held up at the point of a sun and robbed of a 560 diamond ring and a "gold watch at Twenty fourth and Cass streets about 12 clock Wednesday night SHELLPROOF. A Common Soldier s Recital of Thrilling Adventures in the Terrific Struggle for World Democracy By ARTHUR JAMES M'KAY. (Copyright. 1SI. bT Small. Mjrnrd Co.. Inc.) Arthur immrm MrKy, who won the nbri qoot of "Hhllproo Mk" whn ho Jntnod Brltlnh MdnMnt the ulnkln of the tanltenl and wb tbo I nlt4 Statm hail tmilmA to dvkn nr lmmelitly. rcachrd the front and was wounded MveraJ time and tMd oa. ' Ho wlfhdrow an application for dlM-harc, areonnt of Mni on American rltlicn, when told of hi. DOM hjr tho KnglUh. Tho l raatio battlo of Mwwlnea Rlilice waa rrlatod by Mark In connection wua (no pmn m hbw no Hill SO. Mack and eomradro to oror.tho top when 1,900,000 poond of aro- mona aro exploded. ThF warn tne mrmj troachoa thrnnih a heavy naehlno and rifle tire. Tho British eaaoaltlea worn o par ceni of them mea when wno went over. Tbo Tommlos wore naming lenr wm k.lu. with Ked CroM liana painted on roof and eldea. Indicating a hoepUal, when thejr faea m tremendone manure, f ney tonaj the treaeheroo ehantean and cap two the Oermana therein eoneealed. Mark relate the aerero dlerlpllao of the EncHeh army and refer to an Inntanre when a man faeed the firing aquad beranM he re- fnaed to divulge Identity 01 eomranee wno aided blm In getting away to it hie family. . r CHAPTER Xlli. Hollebeke. ' (Continued.) It was interesting to look over the surrounding country that day from the shell holes. This was the same ground that we had fought over on the 7th of June. When we had last passed over it, shot and shell had been falling thick and fast and mds' of us had never expected to pass that way again. It looked different now. During our little rest to the rear the engineers had been busy and roads had been constructed and re constructed. On any advance the bringing up of good roads is of the utmost importance, as supplies and ammo and the big guns have to be got up immediately or it is impossible to hold against counter-attacks. We could see the White Chateau twav off there in front , and to the rieht the place where we had cleaned out the treacherous Hun from his hiding place behind the Red Cross flag. A wide and very good road led up to the chateau. The remains of an old German light railroad led away from where we were to this new road Just after sundown we started for the front following this old rail and eventually hitting the main road. It was brieht moonlight. Things were comparatively quiet all along the line. On the war uo we passed several fatiarues cleaning uo. and several car rying parties going out after grub or ammo. Thev told us that Frit had been very meek for some days and that it was nearly time for a savage counter attack. In fact, such an attack was ex pected at any moment. Just our luck to run into a lam like thatl we naa been in the thick at Messines and here we were coming back to take the punishment on the counter. ."It's good we've got a navy," says one fellow. "Wot th' blinkinV 'ell's the use,1 says somebody else. "We got to fight the whole bloomin war. that plain." And then someone struck "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag.'' An officer stopped that, and the rest of the trip we just groused under our breaths. Not a shell came over until we were nearly up to the chateau. Then at Oak Dumr they came, good and plenty. The first one burst near me and killed two men who were elbow to elbow with me. We tried to get into artillery formation and scattered. Shortly we were all over the place and had lost touch with all our offi cers. But ti early allf us knew the way up to the front, and all through the night we straggled in by threes and fours. The front line was in the town of Hollebeke. This had been a consid erable place before the war, but it had been battered into powder. No semblance of a wall was standing. Even the cellars had been filled in and leveled off with fine crushed de bris. It was possible to make out the outlines of the streets and some of the larger buildings, but that was all. Hollebeke, when we found it, was a name a signboard. The trench was a good one, new and dry. For a bloomin wonder Kissel Trucks i .... - . p., A size for every purpose. 1 A model for every business. ' ' - - ' Backed By 10 YeaiV Experience Ten years of truck designing and con struction for over 100 different lines of business give Kissel trucks that adaptability so necessary for an eco nomical solution of your transporta- ". tion problems. 'i Kissel trucks reach their highest point . of efficiency in the. present models. Built in a range of sizes for every purpose. , V - .... FOSHIER BROS & DUTTON 2056 Farnam St someone had done a good job of trench building. There was no para pet of sandbags, but the ditch was deep and well drained and the fire step was solid and ft the right beigh't , There was the customary lack ' of dugouts nothing you "could really call more than a head-and-slioulder shelter. ' The rumor went around that first night that there was almost certain to be a German counter-attack within a few hours. Thercwas some reason for expecting this, for, although Friiz had been somewhat tame, he had a victory to his credit that heartened ! him a lot. It had happened in this way. Dur- ifig the time uiai our pan was oiu resting the British had tried an at tack in front of Hollebeke that had been a complete washout. .Not only iad it been a failure, but it had been terribly costly. The Germans seemed to know every move that our troops were about to make, their objectives, the number to come to each point, and so on; and they had met the British at every point with perfect preparation. The reason lor tnis was aisciosea to the men officially that if, each batt was paraded and a statement was read as issued from headquarters. This was it. Two days befsre tht attack a ser geant named Phillips nam a Welsh regiment had been taken prisoner by the Germans. When the attack came off a German officer was taken pris oner, and on him were found docu ments giving every detail of the pro posed attack and tne statement that the information had been furnished by the man Phillips who had disap peared. Now it was not known whether or not Phillips was a deserter or whether he had given up the in formation under torture, or what It was "enough that he had given tfie information. And the story was read out to us as a warning. v I do not mention this occurrence to srive the impression tnat u was a common things for inside plans to be betrayed by men in our ranks. It was not. As a rule a British soldier 'will suffer the worst kind of third degree before he will give up. It simply shows how easv it is for a man" to ruin the plans of his superiors and play into the hands of the enemy. It can readily be seen what a dis astrous thing it might turn out to have alien enemies in our army. I personally believe that in a great na tion like ours, which is really a eon glomeration of many nationalities, we should examine very caretuiiy tne record, the ancestory and the sympa thies of every soldier, high and low. Our first night up at Hollebeke we were under a heavy bombardment which continued through the next day. Our casualties were quite heavy. It was clear that the attack might come off at any minute, and all hands had to stand to all the time, we nad to keep a sharp lookout all the time for gas, too, and the omcers were watch ing the wind every moment, in prep aratioa for the attack an extra large number of machine guns had been brought up and were emplaced both on the parapets of the front trench and in the supports. The artillery to the rear had the range marked down and were ready for the signal to be gin to pepper Fnti when he started to come over. We felt sure enough that we could stop him, but the waiting, humped up on the fire step under the parapet, was wearing. Along about half past four the bombardment increased to a ter rible fury and held so for half an hour; then the shells began dropping to the rear and in the supports and we saw the Germans coming over. It really was a magnificent sight They were Bavarians, -big, husky, heavyset larls, and they came in mass formation, four deep. Our rockets went up and before they were well on their way we were dropping shells into them and over there. They came forward in a great gray wave at double, heads down, rifles at the hip, We cut loose with a hellish machine gun fire and every man was on the fire step, going through the "mad minute" that is, a rapid fire of all the cartridges your rifle will hold and some of the men were so excited that they jumped up on the parapet yelling, " , . "Come on. you blighters, come onT They came. We had no wire up and it looked as though they might come right on through. But the shell hre got them early, ureat gaps opened up in the close-packed (line, These filled and they came on again Omaha, Neb MACK The machines ripped into them and laid out windrows of dead. Our officers walked up and down. the crowd trench we had every avail able man on the fire step calling: "Stick to it, boyst Hold 'em and give 'em hell." I think that as the Fritzies came nearer we almost wished that some of them would get to us. The strain of waiting and watching that advance OMAHA'S Store Hour, 9 a. m. Till 6 p. m.. 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My of order and my J )t that I couldn't meals a week. I ; . and miserable I couldn stomach was all out appetite was so poor eat more than two meals couldn't digest anything properly and suffered more or less all the time with indigestion. I was badly con-, stipated and had dizzy spells and aw ful headaches. I also suffered from catarrh of the head and had rheu matism in both legs and the upper part of both arms, which was very painful. I had been in this condition for almost a year and the way I fell off in weight was alarming. -: I lost 6ft pounds going down from 185 pounds to 125 and while I had too much will power to give up, it was all I could do to drag around and do my '. work. And tired as I was at night, I ' couldn't get any sound sleep and al ways got up in the mornings feeling even worse than when I lay down. "I spent so much money for medi- 4 clnes of different kinds without get ting any benefit that I had begun to ' think nothing could help me. But ' pretty soon after I commenced tak- ing Tanlac I found I was mistaken, for I began feeling better with my iirsi iew aoses. My appetite is fina now and my stomach has improved .J until I can eat anything I want 1 and never feel a sign of Indigestion. -My strength has increased until I can work from morning tilj night and then go to bed and sleep all night ' like a child. The catarrh has left me entirely and the rheumatism is -so much better that I hardly notice it any more. I am now regaining my lost weight and am a real booster for Tanlac because it has done so much forme." Tanlac is sold in Omaha by Sher man & McConneli Drug Company, corner 16th and Dodge streets; Owl urug iO., loth and, Harney streets;; Harvard Pharmacy, 24th and Farnam streets; Northeast corner 19th and Farnam streets, and West End Phar macy, 49th and Dodge streets, under the personal direction of a special Tanlac representative. Adv. . DOCTOR GIVES RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR Well Known New York Physic! 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