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THE SEMI-WFrfl Y TRIRUMF NORTH PLATTF NEBRASKA. MINOR NOTES FROM ALL PARTS OF NEBRASKA: FOOD BILL ADOPTED STANLEY H. ROSE SAYS ULSL MUST HELP BAINBRIDGE COLBY GUSH WITH REBELS CONFEREES' REPORT ACCEPTED BY HOUSE WITHOUT PSSENT INQ VOTE. HOOVER TO BE DIRECTOR I Measure Confines Control to One Man, Provides $2 Wheat and Elim inates Committee on War Expenditures. Wn&hlngton, Auk. 0. Tho confer ence report on tho food control hill was adopted on Friday hy the house without it dissenting voice. Cnleh Tow ors voted tigulnst tho acceptance, hut afterward changed his vote. J eft Lo more of Texas votel "present." The house also adopted almost unanimously the conference report on the bill creating a food survey. Sonic dissatisfaction was expressed that the fooil control hill provided $2 wheat, eliminated the committee or war expenditures and confined tho control to one man. itepuhltcans spolco against these features. Hut In the end the Republicans Joined In tho "uyo" vote. The vote on acceptance of the re port was :57 to 0. The objection of Powers was based on thu I'omerene section, which regulates coal and coke thrrfugh the federal trade com mission. The report on the food survey shows that the bill carries an appro priation of $n,:M0.000. The house originally made it $1 -1,770,000, hut tho senate made the cut.' DRAFT TO HIT NEWLYWEDS Boards Ordered to Halt Exemptions In Some Cases Men Who Fall to Report to Be Taken Into Army. Washington, Aug. After confer ring with Secretary or War Halter, Pro vost Marshal General Crowder sent the following telegram on Thursday to every governor In 'the country : "The selective service law docs not require discharges In all cases of tech nical legal dependency, but only per mits discharges where, In view of de pendency a discharge Is advisable, "Local boards may well hold that a marriage hastily consummated recent IyL and especially one contracted by a person after he has been called to pre Kent himself for examination to deter mine his fitness for military service, does not create a status of dependency In which It Is advisable to discharge him." This ruling, It was stated at the provost marshal general's olllce, should settle the status of the marrlagu slack ers, i President Wilson Issued n supple mental order under the draft law which provides that persons who fall to report to loval boards for examina tion shall be regarded as physically fit mid liable for military service. ST. JULIEN WON BY BRITISH Haig's Troops Win Back Position 6,. 122 Germans Captured In Drive. London, Aug. fl. Northeast of Ypres, In Flanders, Field Marshal Hnlg's troops again have established them selves In the town of St. Julleu, from which they were driven early this week, sayH tho ofllclal statement from Hrltlsh headquarters In France on Fri day. South of Hollebeke, between Ypres and Warneton, tho Hrltlsh advanced. On Tuesday, the statement says, the Anglo-French troops captured 0,122 prisoners. U. S. REVEALS SECRET DATA War Blame In 1914 on Germany Shown Berlin Had Foreknowl 1 edge of Ultimatum. Washington, Aug. 0. Germany had possession of Austria's ultimatum to Serbia 14 hours before It was deliv ered to Rolgrnde, according to posi tive Information which has reached of ficials here and which was made pub lic on Friday for the llrst time. It was stated that former Foreign Secretary Zlmmermann admitted this himself when pressed very closely as to Ger many's foreknowledge of the action of her ally which precipitated the Huro pean war. NINE U. S. GUNNERS LOST Twenty-Four Members of Motnno's Crew Also Drown When Ship Is Torpedoed. Washington, Aug. fl. Nino gunners and 24 men of the crew of the Aniorl cun steamer Motnuo were lost when the vessel was sunk, tho state department wus ofllclally advised on Friday. Nino were saved. Four Killed In Auto by Train. Gulesburg, III., Aug. 0. Kdna Lnr sou. her sister, Hazel, both of Aitoonn, and Hilda Hoqulst, twenty, and Ken neth Swunson of Rock Island, were In stantly killed on Friday when their auto was struck by a train. Arrest Distributer of Court Plaster. Salt Luke City. Aug. 0. Charged with selling In and about Salt Lake court plaster Infected with tetanus germs, Joe Horgeiuiiin, twonty-ono year hi was urrustud by deputltw of Sh rlT John S. Corlegs. . Stanley If. Rose, formerly with an asphalt company In Philadelphia, has been placed In charge of the New York branch office of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. He will pass on many applications for ex port licenses without submitting them to the department. SENATE FOR DRY U. S, APPROVES AMENDMENT BY A VOTE OF 65 TO 20. Resolution Provides That the States Must Be Asked to Ratify, With f in Six Years. Washington, Aug. '. The senate on Wednesday passed the Constitution al amendment, which If agreed to by the house and ratliled hy three-fourths of the state legislatures will forever stop the manufacture, sale, importa tion or transportation of Intoxicating liquors In the United States. The amendment went through with a vote of 05 to 20. As adopted, the resolu tion contains a provision that the states must be asked to ratify the amendment within six years. The vote stood : Aye"s. Democrats Ashurst, Hankhead, Heckham, Chamberlain, Fletcher, Gore, Mollis, Jones (N. M.), Kendrlck, King, Klrhy, McICellar, Martin, Myers, New lands, Overman, Owen, I'lttman, Hans dell, Robinson, Saulsbury, Shafroth, Sheppard, Shields, Simmons, Smith (Ariz.), Smith (Gu.) Smith (S. O.), Stone, Swnnson, Thompson, Trnmmell, Vardamnn, Walsh, Williams, Wolcott HO. Republicans Horab, Rrady, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Fernald, Frellnghuy gen, Grouna, Hale, Harding, Johnson, Jones (Wash.) Kellogg, Kenyon, Knox, La Follette, McCumher, McNary, Nel son, New, Norrls, Page, I'oindexter, Sherman, Smith (Mich.), Smoot, Ster ling, Sutherland, Watson 20. Total 05. Noes. Democrats Rroussard, Culberson, Gerry, Hardwlck, Hitchcock, Hustlng, James, Lewis, I'helan, I'omerene, Reed, Underwood 12. Republicans Hrandegee. Calder, France, Lodge, Penrose, Wadsworth, Wurren, Wei'ks 8. Total 20. REMAIN IN RUSS CABINET Kerensky and Other Members, Except ing One, Withdraw Resignations Governor of Petrograd Killed. l'etrograd, Aug. 0. Premier and War Minister Kerensky and nil the other members of bis cabinet, except VJce Premier Nekrasoff, resigned on Frldny. Later, with the exception of M. Terestchenko, tho foreign minister, they withdrew their resignations. Tho action of Premier Kerensky and his fellow cabinet members came about as the result of accusations against. M. Tchornoff, the minister of agriculture, leading that minister to resign, and a complete breakdown of the negotiations to hi'lng the Consti tutional Democrats Into the cabinet. M. Tehemoff was accused of having been connected with the German gen eral staff. General Hrdelll, military governor of Petrograd, says the Hourse Gazette, has been killed. He was treacherously shot In the back. 24 DIE ON AMERICAN SHIP Many Members of Crew of the Mo tano Lose Their Lives. London. Aug. 4. It was reported at the American consulate here on Thurs day that 24 members of the crew of the American steamship Motnuo, which was sunk by a German subma rine July Hi, lost their lives. They were Insured by the American govern ment war risk bureau. Bad Roads Bar Camp. Indianapolis, Aug. 0. The plan to mobilize the Indiana National Guard at Fort Henja'mln Harlson has been abandoned because poor road condi tions would make transportation of supplies dltllcult. Italian Airmen Bomb Pola. Rome, Aug. 0. Large squadrons of Italian airplanes effectively bombed I'ola, the chief naval station of Austria-Hungary, on the Adriatic, accord ing to an olllclal statement" Issued by the war olllce. MAJ. GEN. MAURICE SAYS AMER ICA MUST TAKE RUSSIA'S PLACE IN THE FIELD. FLANDERS FIGHT A SUCCESS Chief Director of Military Operations at London War Office Says Halg Obtained His Objective , Easily. London, Aug. 4. "Looking from tho broader aspect at the events of the last fortnight in Russia." said MaJ. Gen. Frederick H. Maurice, chief direc tor of military operations at the war olllce. on Thursday. In his weekly talk, "It will necessarily mean a prolongn- 1 Hon of the war. We cannot longer ' count on any great material assist- ' mice from Russia. This means a greater burden on the other entente allies, and for the United States It means that she must come Into the ( Held us soon us possible and with the greatest possible force." Major General Maurice In comment ing on the Flanders battle, said : "This week the battle In Flanders was an entire success. Gen. Sir Doug las Halg llxed a definite line of objec tives and, speaking generally.- he at tained It successively. On the south ern third of the front be attacked and gained his objective easily. On the northern third the enemy's resistance broke down so completely that Generul Halg felt Justllied In permitting his troops to go well beyond the objec tive. In the central third we fell a little short of the objective owing to stubborn enemy resistance." General .Maurice said that the Hrlt lsh commander's next move was to determine another objective and then, after the customary process of prep aration, to proceed similarly to achieve It. , "In cases of this kind," said the gen eral, "the objective line depends main ly Upon the range of the artillery. The attacks must be patient and method ical. In this way we can gain ground and Inflict heavy losses on the enemy without heavy losses to ourselves. That Is the system we used at Arras and at Messlnes and the one now be ing used In Flanders. "In this week's battle we co-operated with the French.. There were about six times as many Hrltlsh troops as French soldiers. Of the Hrltlsh four llftbs were purely English and one tlfth Anzac (Australians and New Zonlandors). Welsh and Scotch. No Irish or Canadian troops participated." TO QUELL ANTI-ARMY RIOTS Opponents of Selective Service Law Spread Terror In Three Coun ties of Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 0. Or ganized hands of negroes, tenant farm ers and Indians, whose purpose is to defeat the selective service law In Ok lahoma, have spread a reign of terror through at least three counties In ttio central part of the state, damaged two bridges, abandoned their crops, sev ered wire communication, planned raids on ranches and stores and threat ened to burn all the bridges In the dis trict, according to reports received at the olllce of Governor Williams here. The affected counties are Seminole, Hughes and Pontotoc, and the sheriffs and prosecuting attorneys from each of them are. forming posses in an ef' for to forestall the rioters. Seventy of the rioters were captured by the posse. RAISE WAR TAX TO 2 BILLION Senate Body Decides to Get More Rev enue Increases Tax on Dis tilled Spirits. Washington, Aug. 2. Increase of the pending 91,(170,000.000 war tax bill to a total of !?2.00S,000,(00 was decided upon by the senate tlnance committee on Tuesday. This will be an Increase og $!t:58,000,000. Increases on corpora tlous, normal Income taxes, on Incomes of Individuals of $15,000 and over and a further Increase of $1 a gallon on distilled spirits and 50 cents i: barrel more on beer, with a few other minor tax Increases, will make up the uddl tlonul levy. . Austrian Premier Will Stay. Amsterdam, Aug. . According t the Vienna Allgemelne Zeltuiu;, Dr von Seydler. the Austrian premier, ha Informed the leaders In parliament that he will he Intrusted with the for mation of a permanent cabinet. Kaiser Honors Hlndenburg. Amsterdam. Aug. 4. Kalsor Wll helm has conferred the cross and star of the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern on Field Marshal von Hlndenburg. American Schooner Is Sunk. London, Aug. 4. It was announced hen that the American schooner John Hammond has been sunk by the gun lire of a German submarine. All the members of the schooner's crew were saved. Waiting for Him to Recover. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 4. "To hell with America," shouted G. Hergester inann, forty-four, a German, from n soap box. Federal authorities aro waiting for him to get out of the hospital. Bainbrldge Cplby of New York, was appointed a member of the shipping board to succeed Capt. J. B. White of Kansas City. He was formerly a Pro- gres6lve leader and supported Presi dent Wilson In the last campaign. RUSS STILL RETREAT AUSTRO-GERMANS FORCE SLAVS BACK IN GALICIA. Two More Towns Captured, but Dis patch From Seventh Army Says Situation Is Hopeful. London, Aug. 2. A dispatch to the Post from Petrograd, referring to the Russian retreat in Galicia, says It Is conservatively estimated that more than 2,000,000 Russian troops are steadily marching rearward. These constitute the Eleventh and Seventh armies, with their reserves. A dispatch from Herlln says Emper or William left Mltau, 25 miles south west of Rlgn, Russia, and went down the river to the Rlgn front. A dispatch to the Times from the headquarters of the Russian Seventh army says the situation is more hope ful. Panics among the retreaters are suppressed ruthlessly. Three divisions of cavalry have tnken positions across the whole front of retreat. Deserters are shot and attempts to spread panic are suppressed by prompt executions. Deserters, spies and ngl tators who enjoyed complete Immunity under the committee system lie dead on the highways. A paper pinned on the corpses reads: "Here lies a trai tor to his country." 3 ATTACKS ON TROOPSHIPS Secretary of Navy Sends Report of Rear Admiral Gleaves to Senate Committee. Washington, Aug. . Details of the attack's by German submarines upon the llrst expedition of American troops sent to France became known for the llrst time when the report of Renr Ad njlral Gleaves, coninmndlng the naval convoy, was made public on Wednes day by SecrMury of the Navy Daniels. The llrst attack was made on Ad miral Gleaves' flagship, leading the llrst group of the expeditionary force. and at least two submarines were In dlcated to have been engaged. The second group of transports also was attacked by two submarines, one of which apparently was sent to the bottom by a bomb dropped from an American destroyer. There Is disagreement among ofil cers of the third group as to whether tht.v were attacked, but much ovl deuce Is presented to Indicate that tlie.v also were assailed. Secretary Daniels made the report puhfie. with certain military lnformn t ton deleted, after he had sent an tin censored copy In confidence to the sen ate iiuvnl committee. AUSTRIANS WIN CZERNOWITZ Capital of Bukowina Changes Hands for Tenth Time Russ Continue Retreat. Vienna, Aug. 0. Austro-IIungarlnn troops have entered Czernowltz, the capital of the crownland of Hukowina. Petrograd, Aug. 0. Klmpolung .In southern Hukowina has been evacuat ed by the Rusisans, the war olllce an notinced on Friday. The Russians are now engaged with the Austro-Germun forces on the River Hystrltza. Re tween the Dniester and tho Prulth the Russian retirement Is continuing. The Russian forces In southeastern Gallclii, after a battle with the Austro Germans, retired across the River Zlirucz at Us contluenco with the River Dniester. Foreign-Born Test Case. Oshkosh, Wis., Aug. fl. Seventy-four German-born citizens who were grant ed citizenship after the war started, will contest the ruling of the federul naturalization board that the action was Illegal. French Crisis Passed. Paris, Aug. 0. The French crisis has passed. The chamber of deputies upheld the hand of Premier Rlbot by a vole of !U2 to 01, repudiating nn nt tack on tho premier by one wing of the Socialists. CITIZENS AND SLACKERS BAT- TLE IN OKLAHOMA. ONE DRAFT OBJECTOR KILLED Jails Crowded With Prisoners- Dreams of Conquest Implanted In Minds of Farmers. Oklahoma City. Okla. The Okla homa draft objectors' operations have resulted in several armed engage ments between tho resistors to serv ice in the national army and the num ber of citizens' posses which Is nutk ng strenuous efforts to suppress the trouble. Clashing In the hilly county north if the South Canadian river, at a lo cality called Cross Roads school bouse, the renegades left one of their members, Ed Hlalock dead as they withdrew. Jack Pnlge, a possemnn, was wounded In the leg while Henry Johnson, another member of the clt- zon's forces, was shot In the head. The seat of operations of the out laws Is a very wild country. J. F. Moose of Okemah. was shot and killed a mile north of Ilolden- vllle .last Sunday when he disregard ed the order of a guard line Hung around that city, to halt. Caring for the large number of captives Is causing the ofllcers much worry. The Jnils at Konawa. Ilolden vllle and Wewoka are crowded to ca pacity. Although resistance to the selective draft seems to be tho chief factor in tho uprising, drenms of conquest, riches and power have been Implanted in the minds of the Ignorant tenant class by organizers of the different or ganizations until they were led to be lieve that n show of force was nil that wns necessary to gain the promised fruits. Allldavlts In the hands of officers tell of the belief of the tennnts that to be drafted Into the nntionnl nrmy was to go to sure death. This resistance to service has been the binding element holding together tho scattered elements of the upris ing. However, the discontent which rendered the movement possible had Its beginning more than two years ago, it Is said. Shortly after the out break of the wnr. when col ton prices were low and transportation costs high, tenant cotton fnrmers asserted that If they ran out of food and money they would got it by force. Since that time agitators with prom ises of wealth nnd power have work ed continuously in the vicinity, find ing n fertile ground for their propa ganda. It Is reported that mnny of -the homes of tliu malcontents have been deserted. Guards Soon to Europe. AVashington. According to the opinion of Warrington military men, one hundred thousand soldiers will bo In France by January 1, and more than G0O.0O0 will be there by next summer. From this source It Is gathered that peace Is believed to be three years hence, and even that Is not limiting preparation. If transportation conditions Improve, It Is thought, more than a million Americans will be lighting the Prus sians by next summer. The next troops to go to France will be the Nntionnl Guard units, which are now being mustered Into tho federal service all over the coun try and sent to concentration camps. They will be moved across the Atlan tic as rapidly as. possible. Slacker May Face Firing Squad. Washington, D. C Registered men who resist selective draft law faco military court-nmrtlnl for desertion and the possibility of execution by a bring squad for desertion In time of war. The whole military and civil powers of the federal government, states, cities or counties will be em ployed to bring them to hook. This was announced In a formal statement by Provost Marshnl Gen eral Crowder In response to reports from North Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma of anti-draft disturbances. Thlrty-One Die In Explosion. Clay, Ky. The death list from the explosion here last Saturday In the south entry of No. 7 mine of tho West Kentucky Coal Co. totnls thirty-one, according to tho Information supplied by Charles S. Richardson, vice presi dent and general manager. From fifteen to twenty men were still in the workings, wlum this report was issued and little hope was being entertained that any of them will be found alive. Draft Cost Over $8,500,000. Washington, D. C The cost of drafting Ameiicn's first great nntionnl urmy from registration to enrollment was placed by Secretary Hnker at $8,GOO,4SO In his estlmntes to con congress. This amount Includes nil overhead expense of registration, ex amination and selection. It Is bnsed on registration of 10,000,000, examina tion of approximately 5,000,000 and enrollment of 1,187,000. The organi zation Includes a personnel of more than 1S.000 persons. The town of Funk, with a popula tion of 105. has duplicated New York's record of sending an entiro band to war. Four members of Funk's band of twenty pieces decided) to enlist and rather than ha't their organization broken up the others en listed, New York is the only other city In the country having a band en list In n body. Nebraska's new debtor law Is duo for a test a case having been filed in. the Gage county court. The new law permits a debtor to appear In court, give a statement of bis Indebtedness and have the court set aside a por tion of his wages to satisfy claim heluV against him. Considerable Interest Is being taken In the case. R. Porter of Muywood, put a new top on the cattle market at the South' Omaha yards the other day. with u load of choice 1,400-pound beeves. They sold at $14 per hundredweight, the highest price ever paid for cattle on that market. ' A new record for the seliiols of higher learning In the state has been set by the Kearney State normal In Its summer attendance. There wore f)Sf enrolled students In the high school and 11. 'I In the model school, Nebraska hna provided more than six applicants for each available place In the second officers' training camp. The quota assigned the state was 200' and there are 1.250 applications. A moveemnt Is on foot to llccnso soft drink establishments In Omnhn. It Is proposed to revoke licenses In case proprietors are found guilty or bootlegging. The new ?:t.",000 German Lutheran church In Hanover township. Gage' county, was dedicated last Sunday. The church is one of the hiindso'niest" in southeastern Nebraska. Prionors In the Douglas county jnlt' during the last three months, under prohibition, were less than half the number during the corresponding' months ,a year ago. S. S. Grove near Clmppell expects, to receive nearly SIO.OOO for his crop of wheat from 040 acres. The average yield Is estimated at 35 bushels to the acre. Members of the Omaha Grain Ex change are unanimous In their opinion that the Nebraska corn crop has not been materially damaged by hot weather and drouth. No trace has been found of Mabel Garrison, Ifi, daughter of Mr. and' Mrs. Charles Garrison of Fremont who disappeared from her home July .'i0. Twenty-two acres of oats on the Tom Hlalr farm near Cedar Waffs: yielded 112 bushels to the acre, a record for Dodge county. The new 20.000 bushel elevntor built at Harneston by the farmers' co-operative union has opened for business. Nearly 20.000 acres of land are un der cultivation along Union Pacific-right-of-way in Nebraska, Colorado,, Utah and .Wyoming. The largest flour mill In Nebraska with a dally milling capacity of 2.500' barrels of flour Is to bo erected ln Omaha. J. T. Smith near Fremont harvest ed 2.100 bushels of oats from a field' of 24 acres, making a yield of 00 bush els to the acre. Women of Polk county met at Os ceola and perfected an organization of the Polk County Women's Defense league. The Gage county board of super visors decided to offer n bounty of 10' cents for gophers. Fire of an unknown origin destroy ed several buildings at Thedford. The loss Is placed nt $S.000. A muntclpni Ice plant with n capac ity of 100 tons of Ice a day Is to be erected In Omnhn. Scottsbluff county has four damage cases to answer. Involving claims amounting to $:i7.000 growing out of automobile accidents oh country roads.. Nebraska senators were divided on: tho constitutional amendment for na tional prohibition passed by the sen ote. Senator Norrls voted for It while Senator Hitchcock cast his vote agalnst the amendment. Rain of untold value to vegetnyom nnd corn visited the state early last week, extending from the north to the south bouuilnry and from the Mis souri river to North Platte. State Director F. W. .Tudson an nounces a big state-wide Red Cross rally to be held In Oinahu so-netlme-In October. There will bo a general discussion of all things relating to state Red Cross work. Delegates nnd workers from each chapter In the state nre expected at this rally. All July records of oatSle receipts nt the South Omaha market were broken last month with the arrival of" over 00.400 head. Hog receipts were' 200,ri:?5 head, over 44.000 more than the same month last year. Soldiers from Fort Robinson did4 heroic work In helping to save $150,. 000 of oil and rolling stock when on oil train on the C. & N. W. road tonk fire nt Crawford. Kleven cars of oil were destroyed, entailing a loss of about SS0.0O0. Work has commenced at lli.n on the moving of the old Methodist church to make room for the pro posed new building. A nev parson- ago also will he built. Mllford Is organizing n home gnu nit nnd now has sevenfcr sgtid on the roll. 4 s