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'The Start and Stripes
Forever."
BATTLE
PHASE
Increased Fury Foreshadows
Approach of Crisis; Picked
Troops Hurled Against
Yanks' Spearhead.
Hiy Associated Press.
Washington, July 30. The
second battle of the Marne has
entered a hew phase. Both
French and German official
statements tonight reflected the
increased fury of the fighting,
indicating to officials a new
crisis is approaching.
It was not clear whether the enemy
had reached a line on which he pro
posed to halt. The general trend of his
present front along the irregular line
that now" forms the bottom of the
Aisne-Marne salient was regarded by
most observers as not representing
positions of such nature as would
lend themselves to-a determinde ef
fort to Dring the allied forces to a
halt
Attacks Center on Spearhead.
The intensity of the struggle and
the vigor with which picked German
troops have been hurled forward in
local . counter attacks showed con
clusively the importance the German
high commend attaches to holding
fast, for the moment at least. The
.reaction appearedrto center on the
Afitrican spearhed at the center of
v the enemy position. It was quite
evident ; that the . Germans regarded
. this thrust as menacing.
" Officers based their views on press
reports coming from London, Paris
or the - fighting fronts. These told
of repeated attacks and counter at
tacks, but a summary of all reports
seemed to show that the Germans had
failed to relieve their situation, al
though the rapidity of the advance
was reduced. Last accounts indicated
the American positions southeast cf
Fere-en-Tardenois had been retained.
The fiercest fighting of the battle ap
pears to. have taken place here with
the , village of Sergy as the storm
center. A
Envelopment Threatened.
If the American .spearhead is fur
ther advanced, this,- coupled with
French and British flank operations to
the east and west, would create a
situation that might well force fur
ther German withdrawal to escape
envelopment on one side or the other
of the American thrust, it was
thought. There was some fear that
the impetuosity of the American
troops might lead them too far for
word in case of renewed successes,
placing them in danger in their turn
of squeeze operations by the enemy.
; Whether the enemy resistance is
along a definite line or is merely a
screen behind which he is struggling
either to prepare strong defense posi
tion, along the heights of the Vesle
or id organize resistance-could not
be told. The report that 71 German
divisions had been concentrated in
this section, led to speculation as to
the answer the Germans are plan
ning to , the striking victory General;
Foch has thus far achieved.
May Announce Units Engaged.
Secretary Baker said today that he
favored announcement of the speci
fic units engaged in such operations
as the battle of Sergy or the crossing
of the Ourcq.
Mr. Baker also anticipated that
General .March would be prepared to
detail the supplemental regulations
on which he has been at work which
will complete the merging of all
branches, of the army, regular, na
tional army or national guard, into a
single army. This is already largely
an accomplished fact under an opinion
rendered by the acting judge advo
cate general in which it was held that
there was but one army, the army of
. the United States, and that every ele
ment of it should be interchangeable,
regardless of its origin.
Nineteen Members of
Western Jewish Trade
Council Disappear
, Stockholm, July 30. A great sen
" sation has been caused among the
Jewish workmen in Warsaw by the
iudden disappearance of 19 members
of the executive council of the Jewish
Trade unions, according to Jewish
newspapers of Warsaw, says the Jew
ish press bureau here. The men had
been working with Zionist and social
ist Organizations Thr'tr linnnr.
t v. v1 pvui I
ance, it is added, is apparently due tol
i mysterious arrests connected with
the persecution of Jews now going on
throughout Poland, Germany and
Austria: ,
IN
NEW
PATRIOTIC AMERICANS FREFER THE BEE FOR ITS INSPIRATION TO TRUE LOYALTY
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REPUBLICANS PLEDGE
LOYALTY TO NATION AT
LINCOLN CONVENTION
Greatest Gathering of Party in Nebraska Since Primary
Law in Effect, Adopts Platform Brimming With
Patriotism; Addresses by Chairman DeVoe
and National Chairman Hays Features.
BY EDWARD BLACK.
Lincoln, July 30. (Special.) Chairman Devoe of the re
publican state convention sounded the keynote of this inspir
ing gathering when he said, during his address: "The demo
crats will say that this is no time to swap horses in the middle
of the stream, but America will reply that this is no time to
ride one poor horse when there is a good horse in the barn."
Many in Attendance.
The convention was the largest in
attendance and interest since the di
rect primary law became effective.
The lack of any discordant note of
fered ample evidence of the solidarity
of the party this year. If anyone
would have had it in his mind to
have projected any fireworks, the op
portunity was there, but there was
none to fly in the face of the general
good feeling which prevailed among
the delegates and candidates.
Stress was placed on the more or
less well known statement of demo
cratic origin, that politics had been
adjourned; that a vote for a repub
lican was a vote for the kaiser, and
that rejoicing in Potsdam and bon
fires in Berlin attended the election
of every republican candidate.
The democratic camouflage was
disposed of by several of the speak
ers, one of whom stated (that politics
has. not been adjourned, but has just
been convened.
;' Hays Central Figure. '
Will H. Hays of Indiana, national
chairman, was the central figure of
the day. He arrived on a 'morning
tiain from Omaha and immediately
was escorted . to the Lindell hotel,
where the Lincoln Indiana society
tendered him a reception, under the
direction of Paul Goss and State
Chairman Beach. Mr. Hays ad
dressed the society briefly, telling the
members that the chief business of
every man, woman and child in this
country today is war, and that every
thing else is chores.
Beach Calls to Order.
The convention was called to order
by State Chairman Beach, who an
nounced Robert W. Devoe tempo
rary chairman and he was also named
permanent chairman. Jesse V. Craig
was named as secretary. Dr. J. H.
Clemons offered an invocation, the
Grand Army of the Republic quartet
sang "The Star Spangled Banner,"
and then the convention settled down
to the business in hand.
The resolutions committee was an
nounced as follows: John E. Kelley,
McCook; Edgar Ferneau, Auburn;
Myron L. Learned, Omaha; Frank D.
Williams, Albion; Frank E. Kdgerton,
Aurora; James N. Clark, Hastings,
M. A. Brown, Kearney.
Chairman, Devoe won a splendid
tribute at tile close of his address.
He aroused enthusiasm when he
Siid, "Those who fail to support the
government in this crisis are neither
democrats nor republicans; they are
traitors."
Brings Forth Cheers.
And an outburst was heard when he
said, "The republican party- never has
been, is not how, nor ever will be,
the slacker party of America. The
republican party holds that the war
should be conducted by a national ad
ministration, rather than by a political
administration. It is to be deplored
that the democratic party has not
caught the spirit of our allies by tak
ing politics out of the war."
National Chairman Hays joined in
the applause which greeted Devoe
when he related the circumstances
under which Senator Lenroot of Wis
consin was elected,-in opposition to
democratic propaganda that a vote
for a republican was a vote for the
kaiser.
Blasphemous Talk. .
"We are going to hear again that
a vote for a republican will bring joy
(Continued on Fage Two, Column One.)
Draft Party Ends in Riot;
They're in the Jail House
Tlie "going away" party given by
William Pearson, negro, 2011 North
Twenty-fifth street, for two of his
friends who leave with him Thursday
for training camp, developed into such
a noisy affair Monday night that the
police were forced to intervene.
The party of six had gracefully
draped themselves on the furniture
about a keg of beer in the center of
the room and were lifting up their
voices in song. The room looked like
a field of battle, say the police, when
Detectives Chapman, Jensen, Turner
and Vanous entered. With some fit
tie difficulty the merrymakers were
corraled and held in check until the
iwon.eUM wtlj Mo ft.
I i OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY
o. utu act ot Mink
CHAIRMAN HAYS
TELLS G.O. P. THIS
IS COUNTRY'S WAR
National Head of Party in Ad
dress at Lincoln Pictures
Republican Party as "War
Party of Nation."
By EDWARD BLACK.
Lincoln, July 30. (Special.) Na
tional Chairman Will H. Hays in his
address to the republican convention
today said: "
"I. havi just been iroracoast to
coast, and I caff le'il. you there is no
geography in our party's patriotism.
Everywhere the winning of the war
and the preparation for the recon
struction which is to follow are recog
nized as our basic aims. This is the
counry's war, it is your war and my
war, and we appeal to all patriots,
whatever their politics, to aid us in
every way possible m our efforts to
require that partisanship be taken out
and kept out of the war management.
We call upon all men and women to
support the government without
thought of party.
"We do not propose to build on
recriminations 6r criticisms. This is
no time for little things. The world
is on fire. The republican party is
constructive, has always been, and al
ways will be It is a war party, and
stands as sturdily American and as
staunchly militant in this world war
as when it prosecuted the civil war to
a glorious conclusion and stood spon
sor for a triumph again in the war
with Spain.
Republican Mission to Excel.
"Has it occurred to you, my friends,
what it means for the country's cause
for the minority party to make it its
one chief business to try to excel the
majority party in support of the war?
Have you estimated what it means for
the sake of that cause for the minority
party to strive continually to outdo
the party in power in every war ac
tivity, and actually lead in its unquali
fied support of all war measures?
This is the mission of the republican
party at the moment.
"The fact that the party in power
refused to prepare for war in 1914 and
1915 has not lejsened the support by
the republicans in congress who so
strongly urged it. The most unfair
unpatriotic efforts in many quarters
for political purposes to prevent the
full participation by republicans in
war activities have had no effect
whatever on the republican party's
patriotic and loyal membership in its
giving to the last of its blood and its
treasure.
"We are fighting today in France
to make certain forever that men shall
have the right to govern themselves.
Here where we hav that privilege we
propose to exercise it fully, now and
always. To do less is to shirk the
supreme duty of a sovereign citizen
ship and squander the richest heritage
with which we are endowed. The war
does not lessen the war accentuates,
our responsibilities in this regard.
"The party in . power says
'Politics is adjourned,' and then
(Continued on Page Three, Column Two.)
arrival of the police patrol. One of the
bacchanalians had entrenched himself
under the bed and had to be fished
out legs first.
At the police station Pearson took
such umbrage at being booked with
u g?ests on a charge of drunkenness
that he not only protested that he was
a soldier of Uncle Sam's but also
struck at several 'of the officers at
once. He was, subdued after. a brief
but fierce struggle.
Pearson's guests were all charged
with being drunk and with being in
mates of a disorderly house. They are:
Gilbert Penn, Charles Saunders. B.
King, James King and Harry Madison,
HITCHCOCK
MEN BEATEN
AT HASTINGS
Democrats' Force Endorsement
of Prohibition, Suffrage and
'Do Not Mention Senator's
Name in Resolutions.
Hastings, Neb., July 30. (Special
Telegram.) Democrats of Nebraska
today at their platform convention
endorsed national prohibition and
woman's suffrage.
This radical change of front came
after a day's session during which
the advocates of these principles un
der the Bryan banner succeeded in
brow-beating the Hitchcock-Mullen
machine into doing their will.
Resolutions adopted contain no
mention of Senator Hitchcock's
name, largely due to the threat that
a resolution would have been passed
condemning the democratic senator
from Omaha for pro-German sym
pathy. Machine in Cpntrol.
The resolutions committee was
dominated by Mullen-Hitchcock
henchmen. Early in the meeting the
committee was so constituted and
W. H. Thompson of Grand Island,
friend of Bryan, was flatly thrown
off its roll by a slender majority of
six of the entire convention, made
possible by the enforcement of the
unit riile in the Douglas county dele
gation which placed more than 30
friends of Bryan on record for the
machine program.
During the day it frequently was
threatened that the Douglas delega
tion, under the leadership of I. J.
Dsnm would "'bring- itf 'a resolution'
condemning Senator Hitchcock; for
his attitude on the war and Governor
Neville for failure to urire the soecial
"legislature session to ratify the na
tional prohibition amendment.
Fight in Committee.
As the earlier test of strength had
shown the machine able to muster
503 votes to 497 for the opposition,
the situation was extremely critical
for the Mullen-Hitchcock tang and
it was no, wonder thev made com
plete surrender.
The resolutions committee was in
conference from 6 o'clock until mid
night. Appointed bv Chairman James
Donahoe of O eul, it consisted of
the followine:
P. L. Hall, Lancaster; E. T. Camp
bell, Lincoln; Harvev Newbranch,
Douglas; Noble Price. Madison; Ed
ward Cauful, Butler: Georee Richard
son; William Marshall. Scottsbluff.
In a long battle in committee, dur
ing which the Mullen. men held out
against compromise with the Bryan
faction, it is said that Dr. P. L. Hall
of Lincoln finally persuaded his col
leagues that the interests of the dem
ocratic party in Nebraska would not
brook almost certain defeat of a plat
form such as the majority cf the com-
( Continued on Faite Two,, Column Three)
Americans Exultant
Over Having Defeated
Fresh Guard Divisipns
London, July 31. The Daily Mail's
correspondent with the American
army on the Aisne-Marne front,
telegraphing Monday night, empha
sizes the severity of the fighting in
the Serev-Serintres section. He says
j the Prussian guards suffered heav
ily in 'repeated attacks against the
Americans, who piled up enemy
corpses on their front.
ThejSghting Monday afternoon was
most intense. The Americans had no
cover and were obliged to lie in street
gutters for shelter, but with bayonet
and machine guns they stormed the
heights.
"Sergy changed hands nine times,"
the correspondent continues, "but to
night is in American hands. The bit
terness of the fighting is shown by
the fact that the Americans have only
taken a few prisoners. The men are
exultant over having defeated so se
verely the fresh guard divisions.
"The Americans found their
wounded in Sergy had been bay
oneted. The Germans placed machine
guns in the church and also, in the
Red Cross buildings." .
Liohtning Destroys Navy
Balloon Near Atlantic Port
An Atlantic Port, July 30. A navy
observation" balloon, stationed near
the entrance to this harbor, was
struck by lightning and destroyed
during a thunder squall this afternoon,
according to word brought here by a
passing steamship. It could not be
iearned whether there were any fa
talities. Edward A. Rumely
Life Story of Man Who Bought
New York Mail for the Kaiser
on Page .Ten of This Issue.
31. 1918. WtiSJ TWO CENTS,
CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY
STILL FACING DANGER
OF PINCER MOVEMENT
Germans Launch Violent Counter Offensive Measures
Against Allies, Who Make Further Gains After Bit
terest Fighting; Days of Rear Guard Actions
in Retrea Seem Drawing to Close.
1 By Associated Press.
American troops fighting north of the Ourcq river in the
Soissons-Rheims salient have enlarged their brilliant victory
of Monday at Sergy, where they cut to pieces divisions of Ger
many's picked troops and took and held the village against
counter attacks. Prussian guards
maneuvered and outfought by
'
WORLD-HERALD
VOLUNTEERED TO
USE PROPAGANDA
Attorney General Lewi. Said to
Have Found That Hitch
cock's Paper Printed It
Without Asking Pay.
Special dispatches from New York
have brought out the information that
Louis N. Hammerling, president ot
the American Association of Foreign
Lanyqage ewspapm,,told .Attorney
General Merton. E. Lewis that he had
obtained infortutlon from the Maliin
Advertising company of Chicago to
the effect that the Omaha World
Herald had published gratis an adver
tisement in the interests of Germany,
entitled "An Appeal to the American
People."
The statement was made in connec
tion with the nation-wide probe of
newspapers that jiave been active in
promulgating German interests in this
country.
Custodian of Big Fund.
According to Hammerling's state
ment, he, (Hammerling) had been
made custodian of a fund of $7,5J0,000
to be distributed for the publication
of newspaper articles, beginning in
April, 1915, and extending over a pe
riod of five years. The campaign was
to be carried on- principally in for
eign language newspapers, he said.
The Mahin Advertising Agency was
allotted a portion of the fund for dis
tribution, Hammerling told Attorney
General Lewis.
The Omaha W'orld-Herald volun
teered to insert the advertisement,
"An Appeal to the American People,"
free of charge on the grounds that
it was "timely, humane and a service
to humanity," without the Mahin
agency having offered or sought to
use publication in that paper.
Pro-Germans Confer.
It was about this time also that a
ring of pro-German propagandists in
cluding George Sylvester Vierick, ed
itor of the Fatherland; Dr. Heinie Al
bert and Dr. Carl Fuehr, German pay
masters in this country; Dr. Wil
liam Bayard Hale and Edward A.
Rumely, ex-editor of the New York
Mail, were holding secret conferences
in New York.
The advertisement which Mr. Hitch
cock inserted gratis in the World
Herald appeared after two American
(Continued on Pairs Two, Colnmo
Machine Guns Used Upon
Strikers at Kalk, Prussia
Amsterdam, July 30. A new strike
has broken out at Kalk, in Prussia,
near Cologne according to the Echd
Beige. Machine guns were used to
suppress the movement and the lead
ers were arrested, the. newspaper de
clares. The police, it is added, were still
busy when the report was sent, dis
persing the crowds which continued
to gather in the streets.
GUNNER DEPEW
IN PERSON '
Will tell. his amazing story of the Western
. Front, of Gallipoli, the Dardanelles, the,
Yarrowdale, with its cargo of human
wretchedness, of a .grim three months of in- '
human cruelty accorded him in Germanyi -'
j ' , THE BURGESS-NAgH CO. is pay
ing Depew's expenses, the Boyd man
"agement donates the house, Gunner
lectures for nothing. A voluntary
offering to the Bee's Milk and Ice .
fund will be taken up
BUT ADMISSION IS FREE, .
BOYD THEATER SUNDAY NIGOT .
and Bavarians were again out-
the Americans.
O The Germans apparently are on the
eve ot attempting to end their re
treat from the Soissons-Rheims sali
ent and turning and offering frontal
battle in force to the entente allied
armies.
Allies Exact Heavy Toll.
The day of rear guafd actions
seems drawing to a close. Violent
counter offensive measures against
their antagonists already are in prog
ress by the Uermans over most of the
battle front.
Further gains have been made by
tne allies only alter the bitterest
fighting. Standing firmly, and giving
ground only under absolute necessity,
the allied troops everywhere have ex
acted a huge toll.
Particularly heavy has been the
ichtiiig in the center of the salient
and on the right and left anchor
points of the salient resting respec
tively southwest of Rheims and south
of Soissons. It is still on two anchor
'loints-tl-tbk 'tjerrtKnH are -keeping
a most watcntui eye, tearful that the
allied troops may yet press back the
line and threaten the armies of the
German crmvn prince with the pincer
maneuver, for the Germans are not
yet far enough out of the pocket to
have passed the danger.
Hun Gains Quickly Overcome.
In the center of the pocket, north
of the jQjircq river, the Germans in a
counter attack drove the Americans
out of Cierges, but the slight gain
was more than overcome later by the
penetration of the Americans north
ward from Sergy. Beugneux, lying
on the west side of the pocket north
west of Fere-en-Tardenois, also was
taken by the Germans, but later the
French and Americans recaptured it
and with Grand Rozoy in their pos
session they still hold vantage for a
small turning movement toward Fere
which, if successful, would give them
a goodly number of prisoners.
Southwest of Rheims the Germans
delivered a violent attack against the
French from both sides of Et. Eu
phraise. Their effort to capture the
village, however, was futile, although
they pushed their line slightly for
ward on the west side of it.
Southwest of Ypres the Australian
troops are keeping up their attacks
against the Germans and have cap
tured the town of Merris and with it
169 prisoners and a number of trench
mortars and machine guns. The Ger
mans at last reports were heavily
bombarding the new positions of the
British.
McAdoo Abolishes Shysters
- And Ambulance Chasers
Chicago, July 30. The abolishment
of the shyster lawyer and ambulance
chasing doctor was recorded today at
the annual meeting of the Association
of Railway Claim Agents when J. H.
Howland of Washington, speaking for
W. G. McAdoo, director general of
railroads, announced that hereafter
the government will assume 'direction
of the settlement of all personal in
jury cases. A committee was appoint
ed to proceed at once to Washington
to discuss tlc new arrangements.
Clarence Brown, Publisher
of Toledo Times, is Dead
Toledo, O., July 30. Clarence
Brown, attorney, capitalist and pub
lisher of the Toledo Times, died this
morning. .
THE WEATHER
" .
For Nebraska Fair .and j
warmer. j .
Hourly Temperature:
S . m 0 1 1 p. m 13 I
m M IS p. m 16 .
1 a. in '58 j 3 p. in lit
8 a. m S3 1 4 p. ill., 1
a. m 66 I S p. m 80 '
10 a. m 6ft 6 p. m
It a. m 70 1 7 p. m XI
IS noon 73 S p. m SO -
US. LADS
TvlOPUPV
ENEMY
Charge Through Terrific Bar
rage, Kill Gunners at Their
Posts and Hold Their
New Lines.
By Associated Press.
With the American Army on
the Aisne-Marne Front, July
30. Through a barrage .as
deadly as any the Germans
have laid down on any sector
for months, the American sol
diers, comprising men from the
middle west and eastern states,
pushed their line forward a lit
tle more today, and tonight1 it
forms the apexr-of the long &l
lied front.
Their progress was considerable, '
though less than two miles, but it is
regarded as a brilliant operation in
view of the determined countering by
the Germans.
Enemy's Sacrifices Vain. .
On either side the French also
moved forward, while steady pressure
was maintained against the east and
west flanks. . . : '
Information early in the day indi
cated the withdrawal of the Prussian
guards, but it developed, that; that re
nqwued organization nA tha ',I!ava- -rians
were still on the front and the ,
strong opposition they offered testi
fied their reputaion. But their sacri
fice was in vain.
Withstand Two Heavy Attacks. -
The Americans withstood two
heavy attacks during the night 'and .
at daylight began their operations,
which left them tonight, well .to the
north of Sergy on the long slopes
approaching the heavy woods beyond
Nesles, little .town directly east of
serignes'et Nesles, . whose retention,
the Germans bitterly opposed. f
Jhe east end of the line swings -
northeasterly opposite this point and';
then drops off sharply in the direction
of Cierges and Roncheres. The Ourcq
river has been left far behind, the
line being pushed forward across the'
zone to the northwest. - 5
The Germans are holding dositions :
in Nesles forest, from "which their'.
guns are shelling ineffectively. -
it was late in the day before the
whole of Serihges was Wholly cleared.
The Germans clung to th northern '
part of the town tenaciously and used ,
tneir machine guns murderously.
Drive Enemy Before Them. ! -
Neither side used artillery. There
was hand-to-hand fighting in the'
streets, in which the . Americans
proved the masters, driving the enemy
Deiore tnem. ',
The story of the fight for the pos-
session of the Meurcy farm, lying di--.,"
rectly south of Seringes, will long be '
remembeped in the history of the di- -vision.
The Germans left behind a
strong force of machine gunners and
infantry. The Americans moved for- '
ward through the yellow wheat fields, !
which were sprayed and torn' by bul-:
lets. But they advanced 'as though
on a drill ground. ' '',"'
The American guns laid downf a -heavy
artillery fire, ut notwithstand
ing this many of the Germans' re-r
mained when it came to hand-to-hand
fighting. In a group. Of farm build-'
ings the enemy had set up a strong
defense. Here the Germans stuck to
their guns, and the Americans rushed
them and killed the gunners at theif i
posts. ,
It was a little battle without mercy.
typical of similar-engagements occur-
ring along the whole line. The Prus-: '
sian guards and Bavarians, every-'
(Continued an fuge Two, Cojuma Two.) ;'
Four Neb'raskans !
Killed in Iowa as .
Train Crushes Auto
Marshalltown, la., July. 30. J. P. r
Franke of Albion, Neb., his wife and ,
two daughters were killed near State
Center last night when their antomo
bile was run down by a Northwestern
railway train.
Rev. Franke was pastor of the ,
Lutheran church at Albion, for the
last three years. He was 57 years old.
The two daughters attended the.
Albion schools, one being graduated '
from the high school this spring. The
details of the, accident are not known, j
Increase in Tobacco
Washington, July 30. About 220.. '
000,000 pounds more tobacco were on '
hand July 1 than was held on that f
date last year, a canvass by the cen- i
sus bureau just made; shows. Aggre-
gate stocks of leaf tobacco' amounted l
to 1,386,049,368. pounds.'-
a t, .M u