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tack of Water Power Alone
Prevents Vast Territory
From Becoming as Great
as East
Henry Ford, master engin
eer, great executive, altruist
and typical American, made
the trip from Salina, Kan.,
where he had been to visit the
tractor show, to Omaha in that
most democratic of American
vehicles, a touring car of his
own make.
The man who has made his
name a household word among
Americans by his practical and
inexpensive solution of the do
mestic transportation problem,
by his revolutionary social and
economic ideals rode from
Fairbury, Neb., to this city, 130
miles, yesterday, making a
brief stop at Lincoln. He
reached the Fontenelle hotel
' at 7 o'clock. Though well
advanced in years Mr. Ford did
not show much fatigue. -
The party consists of Mr. Ford's
son, Edsel Ford; Wm. Smelzel, trac
tor manager for Minnesota, with
headquarters at St. Paul; Gaston
Plaintiff, manager for New York;
Charles E. Sorenson, manager of the
Ford tractor plant, and his assistant,
Ernest Kinzler, and Clyde and Er
nest Herring, managers of the Des
Moines branch.
Mr. Ford, after dinner, came out
into the lobby of the hotel. There
he was met by an old acquaintance,
Capt. Charles J. Glidden, donor of
the famous Glidden trophy for auto
mobiling, now personnel officer at
Fort Omaha, and there was mutual
recognition and a happy reunion.
To Visit Balloon School.
Mr. Ford said the Glidde.i tours
. did much in the early days to intro
duce the automobile and compliment
ed Mr. Glidden in the manner on
which they were handled.
Captain Glidden then presented
, the compliments of Lieutenant Col
onel Hersey, commanding officer at
Fort Omaha, and an invitation to Mr.
Ford and his party to attend the bal
loon school was accepted.
"It's too hot to talk here, let's go
to the room," was Mr. Ford's hos
pitable invitation to the reporters in
response to their request for an in
terview. Says Knows No Party.
"I am not a partisan in the strict
sense of the word," said he in reply
to a questiot. as to his politics. "I do
not subscribe to the tenets of any
party but am for those things which
will conserve the best social, econo
mic and political interests of the
people.
"While I am a candidate for the
United States Senatorship of Michi-
fan, in response to the request of
resident Wilson. I have no rersonal
. ambition to serve in my candidacy
and will not spend a cent on it.
"In the event I am elected senator
there are certain ideals I have wh-h
I would like to see put into practical
effect
"I am an enemy to the large city,
for I believe a congestion of popula
tion breeds a parasitic class that is
unhealthy to the body politic.
"Then there are unhappy physical
conditions such as improper housing,
a lack of fresh air for children of he
poor and environments of a nature
which will not permit them to build
healthv minds and bodies.
Boosts for Water Power.
"This is the first time I have had an
Intimate view of the great agricultural
belt of the transmississippi valley.
' Heretofore I have seen the country
" From a car window and had no knowl-
(Contlnued on Pane Two. Column Two.)
Clemenceau Given
Vote of Confidence
By French Chamber
Paris, .Aug. 1. Premier Clemen
ceau's government today was given a
vote of confidence in the Chamber of
, Deputies, the ballot standing 312 to
164. The vote of confidence was
asked on the question of rejecting an
tto of tht 1920 class of recruits, .
MOW
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AMERICANS BOWL 0 VER HUNS
IN FURIOUS ONWARD SWEEP
Teutons Cling Desperately to Their Strongholds and Do
Not Give Ground Until Actually Shot From Their
Positions; High Command Pushing Up Re
inforcements in Effort to Stem Advance.
With the American Army on the Aisne-Marne Front, Aug.
1. The American troops pushed forward their lines at certain
points Thursday on the center of the Rheims-Soissons salient,
notwithstanding the resistance of the Germans who did not give
ground on some sectors until they actually had been shot from
their positions.
The Germans are desperately clinging to their stronghoids
at Nesles and in the Bois Meuniere, northeast of Roncheres,
but the Americans have gained a hold on the northern edge of
the Meuniere wood. The Nesles forest is under the range of
the American heavy guns.
Aviators renort that the Germans
STREET CAR MEN
IN OMAHA TO GET
41 T0J5 CENTS
Wage Increase Awarded by
War Labor Board in Wash
ington; Employes May
Join Unions.
Motormen and conductors em
ployed by the Omaha . & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company, by
an order of the war labor board is
sued in Washington Thursday, will
receive as pay for the first three years,
41 cents per hour, next nine months
43 cents per hour and thereafter 45
cents per hour. This order became
effective yesterday.
This was included in the awards to
street railway trainmen employed in
several cities of the country.
The scale now in effect in Omaha
is 35 to 40 cents, so that by the in
crease granted by the natio: 1 r
board, first year employes are in
creased 6 cents an hour.
In the order the minimum wage
for other employes is set at 42 ;ents
per hour. Overtime must be paid
to "swing" men when the elapted
time consumed by them exceeds 14
hours.
Additional Pay.
An addition of pay for .the period
of excess time shall be allowed as
follows: For the 15th hour, 15 min
utes: for the 16th hour, 30 minutes;
for 17th hour. 45 minutes; for the 18th
and each successive hour one hour.
The war labor board, William
Howard Taft and Frank P .Walsh,
joint chairmen, acting as administra
tion m street railway controversies, in
(Continued on rage Two, Column Four.)
Dealers' Tax on Tobacco
Is Doubled by Bill in House
Washington, Aug. 1. Federal li
cense taxes on retail dealers in to
bacco, cigars and cigarettes were
doubled today by the house ways
and means committee in framing the
war revenue bill. Licenses for
amusements also were doubled and a
new tax was put on shooting galler
ies. A new tax of 1 per cent on retail
sales of mail order houses doing more
than $100,000 annual business was
adopted. Pullman seats and berths
and passenger rates will be subject
to a uniform tax of 8 per cent. Stamp
taxes were undisturbed.
Economic Fate of World
In Hands of Allied Powers,
Asserts British Premier
By Associated Press.
London, Aug. 1. "No man should
should boast until the battle is over
But all men who know are pleased at
the way it is going."
Premier Lloyd George . thus com
mented in addressing a deputation of
200 members of the National Union of
Manufacturers, whom he met today
for a discussion of after-the-wa. com
mercial problems.
"We must necessarily, in whatever
policy we proclaim," said the premier,
"keep in touch and be in complete ac
cord first with our dominions, and.
second, with our allies. There is a
good deal of discussion about a
league of nations. I am certainly one
of those who believe in it. But there
are two leagues of nations already in
existence the British empire nd the
great alliance against the central
powers."
Referring to the Paris resolutions,
he said:
"Up to the present time America
has expressed no ooinion upon them
and it is vitallv important that the
U'MAilA IS
tZTSSSKEJt i OMAHA,
mm
are rushing up reinforcements, in
cluding tanks. The enemy's heavy
guns are pounding the Nesles and
Meuniere woods unmercifully.
Massed in Forests.
Observers and prisoners who had
been brought behind the lines pre
viously reported the 'forests as hav
ing been jammed with German troops
and also with large quantities of sup
plies. The German losses in men,
therefore, must have been very great
as the heavy guns started shelling the
woods several days ago.
The allied troops continued today
to encounter barbed wires. Between
Seringes and Sergy there were woven
fields of wire entanglements. At
creek crossings and in the valleys the
German machine gunners held their
commanding positions until the heavy
guns of the French and Americans
blasted a way through the wire and
ousted the enemy from his positions.
Some of the enemy machine gunners
stuck to their posts under terrific fire
till they were killed.
Artillery Commands Chamery.
The American heavy artillery com
mands the village of Chamery north
east of Sergy, the Americans having
wrested the hill beyond the4 last
named village from the Germans in
a battle lasting for hours. The lines
swayed back and forth many times,
but the Americans eventualy pushed
the Germans back. This fighting was
iu the open and the American in
fantrymen showed great courage.
To the north of Cierges the Ameri
cans also advanced their line. The
fight began early Thursday for the
possession of a farm from which the
Americans swept away the Germans.
North of Sergy the Americans crossed
wheat fields that had been planted by
French peasants, the crop of wheat
having been partially garnered by the
Germans. What remained of the
wheat was recovered by the Ameri
cans. Two Farmer Boys Drown
In Ponds Near Meadow
Louisville, Neb., lAug. 1. (Special
Telegram.) Will Sail, 16, son of
Fred Ball, and Clark Wykert, 14, son
of County Commissioner W. B. Wy
kert, were drowned in a pond at
Meadow this afternoon.
They were found at the bottom of
the pond clasped in each other's
arms as if one had gone to the rescue
of the other and had been seized by
him and dragged down.
Twenty-two New Vessels.
Washington, Aug. 1. Contracts for
22 additional steel cargo vessels and
10 tugs were awarded by the emer
gency fleet corporation, the shipping
board announced today.
policy of America and that of this
country should be in complete agree
ment on economic as well as other
problems. An agreement among the
allies means that the economic fate
of the world will be in the hands of
the great allied powers federated to
gether at present.
"The longer the war lasts the stern
er must be the economic terms we
impose on the foe. I think the sooner
he realizes that the better. He is
fighting in order to impose his own
economic terms on the allies. He will
never succeed in doing so.
"So far as that is concerned we
must be in a position to .determine
the conditions which we regard as
fair, without having them imposed
upon us by the will of the. enemy.
"If he goe on fighting, imposing
greater burdens on us, destroying our
young manhood and guilty also of
outrages which shock humanity, and
makes it difficult t shake hands with
him when the war is over, sterner
will be the terms imposed upon him."
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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST
Oyster Bay Celebrates
Burning Kaiser 8 Picture
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 1. The
portrait of Emperor William, orig
inally presented by him to Theodore
Roosevelt, which was seized and
mutilated last Sunday night by
"Vigilantes" at the home of C. H.
Pollutz, who had purchased it at a
fair for $5, was burned tonight at a
celebration in the village square.
The Oyster Bay band and nearly
1,000 "mourners" turned out for a
parade that preceded the cremation.
DRAFT AGE
EXTENSION
IS SOUGHT
Limits Not Announced, but
War Department Officials
Prefer to Take Youths
of 19 and 20.
Washington, Aug. 1. War depart
ment recommendations for enlarging
the army and for the extension of
draft age limitations in order to pro
vide new reservoirs of man power to
back up the forces already at the front
will be laid betore congress next week.
Members of the tvo military commit
tees have been recalled to Washington
by the chairmen in order to expedite
the bill.
In an announcement following a
conference with Chairman Dent of the
house committee that his increased
army project was virtually ready, Sec
retary Baker would not say what age
limits had been settled upon, nor in
dicate in any way the size of the
army which he is planning.
.Chairman Dent was even more reti
cent, but said he was willing to go
either up or down in extending age
limits of the draft, to win the war.
My personal preference is to
up first," he added.
19 to 40 Limits Considered.
The only specific information
carding the new age limits to
go
re
be drawn from Mr. Baker was a state
ment that the limits of 19 to 40 had
been among the suggestions can
vassed, but rejected. In many quar
ters it is believed extension to the
ages of 19 and 36 will be recom
mended. The reluctance of many members of
congress to go lower than the 21 limit
is still apparent, although there is evi
dence of a strong sentiment toward
carrying the maximum up as high as
45. There is no doubt, however, that
War department officials would pre
fer to draw on the classes of 19 and
20-year-old youths to fill the ranks
and see no decided military advantage
to be gained from any considerable
extension upward.
Army of 5,000,000 in View.
There are now upwards of 1,300,000
American troops either overseas or
en route. Secretary Baker said today
the shipment rate of the early part of
July had been maintained throughout
the month, although he did not have
available the total shipment.
Under the 250,000 a month sugges
tion and without mishap to the sup
ply line, October should see 2,000,000
Americans overseas and the opening
of the spring campaign of 1919, when
many officers believe the final scenes
of the German defeat will begin in a
graat combined drive against the Ger
man lines, might easily see 3,000,000
ready for action, with another force of
substantially 2,000,000 organized at
home. That would represent the army
of 5,000,000 men for which, in a gen
eral way, the War department may be
aiming. .
Supplied Plans to Germans.
New York, Aug. 1. Charged with
plotting to supply German agents
with plans and specifications of air
plane stabilizers, Hans Jacobson uid
Court Courant. both of German birth,
were arrested today by agents of the
Department of Justice.
ADMISSION FREE.
Gunner Depew, the fighting,
laughing American sailor boy of
the United States who went over
seas in 1914 to join the French in
the war against the Hun, is coming
here to tell us in person of his war
experiences and just what kind of
a man the German is
His story is hardly describable.
He was on the Yarrowdale in the
coal hole, he was in four Ger
man prison camps and is alive
today only because Ambassador
Gerard was able to obtain his free
dom. AT THE BOYD, SUNDAY
NIGHT.
AIL, I
2, 1918.
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RETREAT
Withdrawal to Vesle Made Nec
essary by American Thrust,
Followed by French and
British Attacks.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 1. The
German armies apparently
again are on the retreat in the
Aisne-Marne salient. The
American thrust in the center
of the line at Seringes already
has given results. The Paris
statement tonight showed that
the allied forces had leaped
forward on the German flanks
on both sides, indicating to ob
servers here that the with
drawal to the Vesle was in full
swing.
This has been expected by officers
here since the American divisions out
fought crack German divisions in ter
rific conflicts which began Saturday.
The enemy made every effort to hurl
the Americans back across the Ourcq,
but he failed.
Enemy's Back Broken.
His picked troops fought to the
death, reports from all sides indicate,
but the fierce attack of the Americans
was not to be denied and the posi
tions which broke the back of the
German line on this front were con
solidated. With magnificent gallantry, British
and' French forces took full advantage
of the situation. The enemy was
hurled off Chalmont-Butte in a dash
ing assault by Franco-British units
and to the east the French also ham
mered at his line. Tonight's report
shows that it was made untenable and
that French and British have made
rapid progress in exploiting the suc
cess. The fact that 600 prisoners were
taken in one part of the action indi
cated that the retreat was more pre
cipitate than it has been for the last
few days. This was viewed as further
evidence that the enemy was with
drawing under pressure and gave new
hopes that his lines along the Vesle
would not be fully prepared when the
allies arrive before them.
Germans Taught New Lesson.
Aside from the gains in territory
made in the allied counter drive, of
ficers believe it has already served its
greatest purpose in proving to the
German army that it is not invincible.
Its best troops have been thrown in
recklessly and fought with utter hero
ism without avail.
It is a new lesson for the German
army, many officers say. There is no
thought that it will sap the morale of
the enemy forces, but filtering back
through the fighting men to the
people at home will go a new concep
tion, it is said a feeling that Ger
many's best is not sufficient for the
task it has set itself.
Booty Shows Paris Was
German Goal in Drive
London, Aug. 1. The booty cap
tured fiv ibt French in following UD
the German retreat from the Marne
includes a large amount of bridging
material just north of the Marne.
The intention of the oermans to
iffrt tbi naqsace of the river in
great strength and drive in the di
rection of Paris is thus indicated.
if M U W lE, UU.
GERMS
AGAIN IN
Needy Farmers May Obtain
Loans for Seed Up to $300
By Associated Press.
Washington, Aug. 1. Regulations
under which drouth-stricken farmers
of the northwest and southwest may
obtain loans for seed from the $5,000,
000 fund set aside for that purpose
by President Wilson were announced
today by the Treasury and Agricul
tural departments which will admin
ister the fund jointly. Only farmers
whose credit and resources already
are exhausted, and who consequently
cannot get advances privately from
banks, may participate.
Loans will be limited to $3 per
acre with a maximum of $300, and
will be payable at 6 per cent, October
1, 1919, in southern districts and No
vember 1, 1919, in northern districts.
Federal land banks will make and col
lect the loans after Department of
Agriculture agents have investigated
and approved the applications.
Applicants must agree to use seeds
and methods approved by the De
partment of Agriculture. The money
will not be advanced until the seeding
is completed, but a certificate will be
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FRESH BLOWS PUT
ARMIES OF CROWN
PRINCE IN PERIL
Germans at Bottom of "V" in Precarious Plight as Result
of Loss of Cierges and Meuniere WoorJ; Elbow in 7 r
Line Blotted Out; Great Number of Cap
tives Taken Since July 15.
BULLETIN.
London, Aug. 1. For the first time since the opening
of this year's campaign, March 21, fresh reserves at the
disposal of the allies considerably outnumbered the fresh
reserves at the disposal of the enemy, notwithstanding the
fact that the enemy still holds a substantial numerical su
periority on the whole of the front, according to the view
in military circles here.
By Associated Press.
After a short period of relative calm on the Soissons-Rheims
salient, the central and western sections of the battle front
again have been the scenes of mighty struggles. , '
On both sectors the allied forces have achieved notable ,
gains of ground which seemingly place the German armies in
precarious positions.
From the region south of Soissons to the northwest of Fere-en-Tardenois
and southeast of the last named town over the
upper portion of the left branch of the "V" salient running 10
miles eastward from Nestle to Ville-en-Tardenois and with
St. Gemme as its southern base, American, French and British
troops have pushed back the armies of the German crown
prince.
MARGIN'S ARMY u
IN FIERCE FIGHT
llORTIHjF OURCQ
Allies Capture Heights of
Grand Rozoy and Are With
in Five Miles of Bazoches
Railroad.
With the French Army in France,
Aug. 1. -General Mangin, with the
French and British troops of his com
mand, is fighting a severe battle north
of the Ourcq river and is making con
siderable progress.
After taking the village of Grand
Rozoy, northwest of Fere-en-Tarde-nois,
the allied troops advanced to
the Plessiere wood, where the com
batants are in the closest of grips
and the combat is extraordinarily
fierce. The heights north of Grand
Rozoy have fallen into the hands of
the allies and at several points the
allied troops have approached within
five miles of the railroad leading to
Bazoches, which is the only railroad
that can be used by the Germans for
maintaining communications.
With the fall of darkness to
night fighting continued between the
allies and the Germans on the west
ern side of the Soissons-Rheims sali
ent. Allied observers reported that
bodies of Germans were fleeing pre
cipitately northward along the road
leading from Launoy, which lies about
midway between Soissons and Fere-en-Tardenois.
Commons Votes Credit.
London, Aug. 1. The House of
Commons unanimously adopted the
vote of credit of $3,500,000,000 intro
duced today.
given as the basis for temporary
credit. Each borrower will be re
quired to agree that if his wheat yield
is seven bushels or more per acre he
will pay 25 per cent of his loan into
a guaranty fund to cover possiDie
losses to the government. Applicants
for loans or banks wishing to assist
are to apply to the federal land bank
of their district.
Ludendorff Orders Huns
Hit Americans Hard Blow
Washington, Aug. General Per
shing's communique for Wednesday,
received tonight, gives the following
translation of an order from German
great headquarters, transmitted by the
first army to the Schemettow corps,
June 1, 1918.
"In order to hinder the formation
of an American army in France, it is
important that the American troops
engaged along the front be struck as
hard as possible. It is intended to use
these troops as a nucleus for new for
mations. LUDENDORFF."
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S Northwest otf ere the entire ei-
bow of the line where it turned east-,
ward along the "not them hank of the
Ourcq has been blotted out, making
the line a straight one from Fere to
Hartennes and giving the allies much
better ground over wkich to work in
further outflanking Soissons on the
southeast and for pressing on toward
Fismes in conjunction with troops,
now holding strategic points north
and northeast of Fere.
Advance Two Miles.
In this fighting the allied troops
drove out the Germans who had- been
tenaciously holding positions between
Plessier Hulas and the river and took
the high ground north of Grand
Rozoy, pressed on past the village
of Beugneux and arrived before the
villages of Cramoiselle and Cramatlle.
The general advance was about two
miles, and 600 Germans were made
prisoners. 1 t -
The most important gain, however,
was on the upper western point of
the "V" southeast of Ferei Here
the village of Cierges and the Meu
niere wood were taken, a maneuver
which places the Germans at the bot
tom of the "V" at St., Gemme in a
seemingly precarious plight, for from
the wood and the village the allied
guns witl be able to rake the Ger
mans, if they should endeavor to
make their way northward, their onlv
avenue of escape, - by an ' enfilad
ing fire. Through the capture of the
Meuniere wood the" width of the "V"
from the fringes of ' the forest to
Romigny on' the east has been cut
down relatively to four miles.
As has been the case during the "
last week, the Germans contested
stubbornly the advance of the allied
troops, but to no avail.
Prisoners Number 34,000. ,;
Since the battle of the Marne began
July 15, the allied troops have taken
more than 34,000 German prisoners.
From July 15 to July 31, the prisoners
captured by the allies numbered 33,
400, the French war office statement
last night announced. '
Just what part " the American
troops played in Thursday's battle
has not yet been unfolded, but' they
doubtless were in the center of the
battle front and in the thick of the
fray. Between Seringes and Cierges.
respectively northeast and southeast
of Fere, they are known to have made
goodly gains over a four-mile front"
and to have pushed further beyond
Sergy and reached within a mile and
a half of the village of Chamery.
British Front Bombarded.
On the British front in France and
Flanders the bad weather has ceased .
and the sun is fast drying the muddy
ground. The Germans are bombard-,
ing heavily various positions held by
Field Marshal Haig's men, who in
turn are answering the fire of the
enemy's guns arid keeping up . with
much success their annoying raids '
into the German lines.
According to the claims of Vienna,
the Austrian troops in Albania have
compelled the Italians to give up a
considerable portion of the ground
they won in the recent fighting. It ;
is asserted by the Austrian war office '
that the Italians are being pursued
by the Austrians. ...
Edward A; Rumely
Life Story of Man Who Bought
New York Mail for the Kaiser
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