Nebraska Newspapers

    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originally made it $1 -1,770,000, hut tho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
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