THE SEMl-WBEKLV TRIBUNE. MOWTM PLATTE. NEBRASKA. GOVERNOR SEEKS HELP Callo On Nebraskans to Volunteer Services In Registering Men for Army Under New Draft Law. Governor Keith Novlllo linH Issued a bulletin to nil local draft boards re questing tlwrin to Bocuro tho services of voluntary registrars In every vot ing precinct In the stuto In prepara tion for tho enrollment of men who will como under tho new draft lnw. Nebraskans to communicate with the viable record In tho administration of the selective service lnw. Nebms knns have given freely of their time In thio transaction of this work. In the 1017 registration, volunteer regis trars were secured for the vnst ma jority of counties. It Is tho governor's dcslro that tho titanic task of con ducting tlw? proposed now registration he accomplished with as little expense to the government m poslsble. He Is, consequently, calling upon patriotic Nebraskns to communicate with the local board having Jurisdiction owr their territory, offering their services on registration day. Word has reached the state Liberty loon headquarters at Omaha that ono Nebraska county is so well organized that more than $70,000 worth of sub scriptions for tho Fourth Liberty Loan nro already pledged. In this county, It Is suld, vvcry mnn has filed a report of his net worth and the com nilttco lias Informed him that he is expected by tho end of the fourth loan to own 4 per cent of that amount In government securities, A report from Omaha to the effect that boards there had been notified to place 11 married registrants without children in cluss 1 has been discredit ed by Captuln Walter Anderson, pro vost murshnl of Nebraska, nt Lincoln. "No rules or regulations calling for nny such procedure hnvo been Issued by tho war department or promulgat ed through this office," ho said. Tho Bohemian bazaar to be given for tho benefit of tho Czecho-Slovak nrmy nt Omnhn, September 1 to 8, Is expected to bo tho largest affair of tho kind over hold in Nebrtnskn. Gov ernor Neville will open tho bnzanr. Donntlons amounting to $25,000 al ready hnvo been mnde. A firm nt Morse muff's donated an automobile which will ho raffled off. As tho result of a dcctKuso of coal output in Colorado mines in July it is generally believed thut fuel adminis trators of twelve mld-west states who confor at Denwr this week will de cide on some plan of rationing coal to consumers In this district. Stuto Fuel Controller Kennedy will represent Ne- Craskn. Forty Fremont homo guards signed a resolution to sustain tho action of tho guard committeo thut had printed and distributed cards entitled "Cut Out tho Kaiser's Tongue, Etc.," which Ituy Nye, chairman of tho Dodge County Council of Defense, replaced with cards of mild language. Tho first increment of 027 men who underwont training for speciul military duty at tho State University at Lincoln left for various camps over the country a fow days ago, and an other quotu of tho same number has already urrlvcd at tho state college for similar training. One of tho greatest rahls In tho his tory of Omaha took placo a fow days ago, when federal, stuto and city of ficials rounded up 1,400 young men In an effort to catch draft evaders. It Is proposed to Induct every mun In tho city Into the service who Is found guilty of violating tho draft law. Stute directors of the Y. W. O. A aro arranging n most Interesting ex. iilblt for tho state fair at Lincoln September 1 to 0. This will lncludo articles that will Illustrate tiro actual work being dono by tho organization both in this country and overseas, Dean Burnett of the agricultural lection of the State Council of Do Icnse bus called upon farmers of N fernska to take extra precautionary measures to lessen the annual loss of hay, grass and straw by lire resulting from sparks from locomotives. Corp. Lester 0. Cook of Albion la tho first Iloone county soldier to pay tho supreme sacrifice. lie wns killed In action Ip France, July 23. Two men were Instantly killed und another swlously Injured when an automobile crashed Into n Burlington train near Seward. Preliminary ostlnvntcs of Nebraskns principal crops on August 1 mado by tho state board of agriculture and the federal bureau of crop estimates are winter wheat, 5,258,000 bushels; corn, 209,785,000 bushels; onts, 58,870,000 bushels; rye, fl.352,000 bushels; bar ley, 4,243,000 bushels, and liny 7,151, 000 tons. Tho western corn root worm Is damaging corn In some fields In the Platte and Elkhorn valleys, according to Agricultural Agent Chrlstlo of Dodgo county. Tho first test caso In Uie federal courts to determine whether Director General McAdoo poseurs constltu tlonal power to fix Intrastate rallroud rates and to override state laws or railroad commission orders, may be furnished by Nebraska. Steps nro now being taken by tho nntlonul as eoclntlon of railway commissioners to Intervcno In the Rock Island und Missouri Pacific 2-cont faro cases, now pending In the federal court nt Lincoln, and probably In other suits which all the railroads of Nebraska are litigating. Congressman lteavls of Nebraska, who bus Just retunel to Washington from the battle fronts of Europe de clared that he visited with boys from this state "over there" for two days, found them lti the best of condition and expressed his belief thut they will be called Into active lighting Boon. "The AePrusKn troops aro lo cated In the most beautiful part of France," ho declared. He wild lie had boiikj 2,000 letters to write to parents of boys whom he saw on his visit. A complaint has been filed with Governor Nevlllo against the Interna tional Harvester Co. and other farm machinery manufacturing firms by H. Peters of Huy Springs who charges thut farmers are unable to replace blokcn or wornout parts of their tractors and harvesting machines. Similar complaints have been received by tho State Council of Defense, somo stating grain has been rotting In tho Holds because farmers were unable to secure repairs for their machinery. The voluntary resignation of tho pastor of the Dnnlsli Lutheran church ut Staplehurst because he could not speak tho English language well enough to conduct services In It, is taken by the state council of defense as nn evidence of the patriotic deslro of the Danish people nt that place to conform to the recommendation that all church services and public as- omblnges throughout tho state ho conducted In English. The stnto food administration nt Omnhn has been advised by Washing. ton officials that mall order bouses, shipping sugar into Nebraska to bo used for canning and preserving pur poses, must comply with the cer . W. W. IN GUILTY JURY AT CHICAGO CONVICTS 10O IN SHORT ORDER. FACE LONG TERM IN PRISON Bill Hayward, General Secretary of Organization, Among the Convict ed Serious Uprising In Japan. 1 01U Glory Implanted on German soil for tho first time, at a review of American troops in Miissevaux, Alsace. 2--Wounded Arab soldiers of the nrmy of lledjuz being removed after a buttle wftli tne 'lurus. . Funnel of American torpedobont bearing the star that Is awarded each of these vessels that has met and de stroyed a submarine. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR Geneva dispatches said the Austria-1 them and the ways of combating Swiss frontier was closed for some I them. The submarines, In addition to dnys and nil trains were full of Aus-! sinking a number of steamers and nt- trlnn troops going to the Itnllnn front, tacking others, In somo cases only a which was taken to mean another com- few miles from the hurbor of New tlflcate rule, which provides that sales Allies Continue Their Advance in can bo made only on certificates is- PicardV Steadily DUt QtWvl if flirt mttiltricaAM 1it Tin mintv I food administrator. more fclOWiy. i Tho stnto food Administration hAS HftlinflfMl n U'nrnlnrr in Vntiruolrnna in go slow with ice. Ten suggestions nro ROYE AND NOYON IN DANGER offered for saving ice, among them being Ice should not bo ued In serving food, don't detain tho icemnn and don't jiut more Ice than is neces- snry in ten nnd other drinks. Con- servo or go Iceless, snys the wnrnlng. Moro thnn 400 rcprcsentntlves, pns- tors and delegates of the Nebrnskn district of tho Missouri Lutheran sy nod wero present at a monster pa trlotlc war meeting nt Deshler. A huge service flag with eight gold stars nnd indicating 1,015 Lutheran boys in uniform from this district wns unfurled. Governor Neville hns announced First American Field Army Is Formed Situation In Austria and Russia Improved Man-Power Bill In troduced In the Senate. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Moving more slowly but steadily and with determination, the ullies last week pushed tho Germans further back in Plcnrdy. General von Boehm the Hun "retreat specialist," having been placed in command on tho Somme front, put up nn increasingly strong resistance to protect his withdrawal, that when three of tho six nominees !md, th filing became rather local- far tho Nebraska supreme bench nro clecticd In November, the fourth high cnndldato will be appointed to fill the vacancy caused by tho death of Judge Francis G. Hnmer of Kearney. According to a report Issued from tho governor's ofllco nt Lincoln lines amounting to $108,007.25 have been collected In Nebraska during tho 15 montliH of prohibition. A total of Ized. The fiercest struggle was toward tho south end of tho battle line, where tho French were forcing their Wuy to ward Noyon. Overcoming tremendous resistance, they drove the Germans from most of the massif or heights of Lnsslgny early In the week, and also moved forward In tho Olse valley. Then they gained n secure fdotlng on the Thlescourt plnteuu and thus dom lnnted most of the country northenst Ing offensive there. However, the Itnl lnns wero ready for It nnd dally Im proved their positions, especially In the mountains. In Albnnla tho Austrlnns evacuated nil points held by them south of the Semcni river. An nmnzlng development is the seiz ure of Bnku, center of tho Caspian seu oil district, by n British force which made its way up through Mesopotamlu and Persia. The purlous condition of the central powers resulted in a "kaiser confer ence" nt Gorman main headquarters which was attended by tho rulers of Germany nnd Austria nnd their chief advisers nnd by representatives of the Turks, Bulgarians und Itusslan bolshe vlkl. The Internal situation In Aus-trla-Hungnry cspeclnlly Is growing worse-t-or rather better dully; an ex plosion there almost uny day would not greatly surprise anyone. Bulgaria shows signs of breuktng away from its confederates, and ns for Turkey, the general public knows nothing of whut is going on there or what is expected. 4,1?7n51S"CCUt,.0,I? UnV. ."?en .brouht of them for miles. This movement and ami i.uuu convictions outnincu. , p . n.itioh mi uiuii uuurua in uie muiu imvo ,. t,. ..,.... r.i mnnrl1n1 tlm on uyen oruereu 10 register on August voslilon ln noyei although ho 24 nil men who have become 21 years ,.. ...,. (1ftBtMiP1,tion timt citv um miiw juiiu o. xno registration uny nnd to ciiaulnes further north. Along will bo n national affair. Registration mucn of the Hno ho wns holding ho hours will bo from 7 o. m. to 0 p. m. md tne ndvautaco of the old trenches jfvegro nurses ln Nebraska may en- uni wlrft nntnnclomcntB built by him rou in tne iicu uross service, nno uo prj0r to July, 1010, vn, cnoirman or tlie Nebraska wo- Whether Von Boehm would elect to assigned to nrmy cantonment base hos- trv to make n nrolouced stand there, pltnls, according to Miss Snrkn Ilrbko- 0r fnll back on tho much stronger man's council of defense. Poronno-Novon lino was not revealed "The first member of the Nebraska but observers believed ho would choose Bar association to luy down his life tho latter course, und the fact that In buttle for world freedom Is Fletcher L. Farley of Baucroft. Ho died on July 2, after having arrived In Franco only on Juno 8 Ono hundred and fifty Nebraska draft registrants will entrain for Camp DodgA la., August 30 and 81 under the latest call Issued by tho War department. About 000 Nebraska G. A. It. vet erans, Sous of Veterans nnd Spanish American war veterans are attending tho national G. A. It. encampment at Portland, Ore. several Hundred new and con spi uous signs liuve been placed along tho Lincoln highway through Nebras ka. They give the dlstunco to towns en st and west, The Nebraska Liberty Loun commit teo Is rapidly completing plans for the fourth Liberty Loan campaign which opens September 28, Nebraska Issued 107,400 automobile licenses for 1018 up to August 1. In HUT tne total for tne year was 148,101. Government exhibits ut the Stato fair ut Lincoln September 1 to fl will occupy tho entire Arts nnd Textile building. The exhibit will Include thousuuds of objects of patriotic In terest such us captured trophies, Browning and Lewis machine guns, he wns withdrawing his troops north of Albert strengthened this view. He evacuated the towns of Beaumont, Hninel, Serre, Puisleux nil Mont and Bucquoy, taking up positions on heights more easily defended. Along tho Somme, on both bunks, the British with the able assistance or somo American troops have been advancing slowly, taking Bray and Etlnehem. ta in tho advancu on Itoye and Noyon from tho southwest tho French hnve been fighting over extremely dllllcult ground with numerous ruvlnes that furnish cover for tho Innumerable ma chluo guns the Germans huve been us Ing. But tho French kept bringing up their artillery and clcuning out these nests, and long before the end of the week thoy-hud tnken Itlbecourt, on ,tho Olse, nud had Noyon under con tinual tire, rendering It almost untenable. On the Solssons-Belms front the fighting was mostly confined to repent- vd but futile nttneks on the Americans nt Flsmes, Flsmette and the neighbor ing region. Artillery of both sides wns very active ulong tho Vesle river. Although thy Plainly offensive was slowed up Bomowhat, army olllcers see no indication of n letting down on the part of Marshal Foch. On the cqn- York, also destroyed a considerable number of fishing vessels off New Eng land. Several fights with these U-boats were reported and it was believed that at least ono of them was sunk. What was believed to be a gas attack on the coast guard stutlon and lighthouse on Smith's Island, South Carollnu, In which several men were overcome, has not yet been explained though the theory that the poison gas came from a Bubmarlne was discarded. Presum- Chlcngo, 111., Aug. 20. One hUndredi Headers of tho Industrial Workers of the World were found "guilty as charged ln the Indictment" by the Jury ufter ono hour's deliberation at. their trial for conspiracy to disrupt tho nation's war program lato Sat urday. ' The defendants, Including Wllllnm. D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, general secretary-treasurer of the Industrial' Workers of tho World, the highest position ln the organization, face n maximum penalty of 27 years ln. prison und a $10,000 line ench. Federal Judge K. M. L-undls, In his chnrgo to the Jury, withdrew tho fifth nnd Inst count of the Indictment which chnrged conspiracy to vlolato the postal laws and pnrtlculnrly that section excluding from the malls en terprises ln the nature of schemes to defraud. The remaining four counts of the indictment specifically charge viola tion of the espionage net, the xection of the crlmlnnl code prohibiting In--terference with tho civil rights of citizens, the selective service act, nnd tho consplrncy stntute. The ense had been before the court for 138 days, having started April 1, last. Most of the defendants were nrrest- eed Inst fnll nnd held here during the nbly the fnct that our naval vessels are pretty busy on convoy duty accounts ,nte Thousands of letters nnd for tho compnrntlvo immunity of these books were offerea ns evidence tho U-bonts nlong tho Atluntic coast. men lmd oppose(i conscription nnd in- Tho steady decline of the German terfcre(1 wlth prosecutlon of the war. submarine campaign Is emphasized by Mnp.lInrv wns offered to prove they the official reports on sinkings and shipbuilding for July. The nllled and neutral shipping sunk during the month amounted to 270,000 tons, compared with 531,830 tons sunk ln July, 1017. hnd practiced sabotage by destroying tools when other menns failed. The defense was largely oral, mem bers swenrlng to the high moral tone of the I. W. W., defending "Industrial gas mnsks. trench periscopes, hnnd J""?' ,re1,ct thnt ""other great grenndes nnd depth bombs. Six or soven ulrplnnes will partici pate in n shnm bnttlo and maneuver over tho city of Omnhn August 30. Tho flyers will show what a real combat in the nlr looks like. drive will come soon, either in Flan ders or. between the Olse nnd Solssons, and expect movements of far greater scopo In the near future. Tho Ger man high command seems to huve ac cepted defeat and to be trying to get out of Its difficulties ns best It may. Tho first two volunteera ln Butler ,Tho effect of this on the morale of the county to write up their applications I boldlery Is quite evident In the prls for army nursing were Misses Nellie j oncra taken, nud its effect ln Germany nnd Henrietta Lnnspn of David City. 1 Is rotlected in tho press, which admits Thursday, September 5, bus been failure on tho west front, as else- sot aside 38 Omaha day ut tho state where. fair. Thousands of folks from tho big city are planning to attend. A rumor is current thut an uero- piano factory Is to bo established nt Omaha to cost in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. It Is understood thut liberty motors will bo furnished for tho plunes, which will bo built ex cluslvoly for tho government. Early In tho week it wns announced thnt tho First American field nrmy, of five corpSi had been constituted with General Pershing us commander, . It Is understood that this r.rmy will by Itself hold the eastern part of the line, to Alsace, and some olllcers believe nn ;nll-Anierlcun drive east of Verdun may come soon. The situation in Kussla, Including Slberln, 'also is Improving, for the forces opposed to the bolshevlkl and the Germans are growing stronger and nmnlgnmntlng. The possibility of es tablishing an eastern front that will seriously worry tho Huns Is being con sidered, especially since the "supreme government of the northern territory,' embracing half a dozen districts, hns declnred itsolf opposed to the Gcrmuns nnd rendy to fight them. Possession of the port of Archnngel and the Mur mnn coast gives the allies an Inlet for troops to help this movement. That Germany recognizes the menace Is evi dent from the facts that she Is sending moro soldiers from tho west front to Kussla, nnd has ordered Finland to prepare to make wnr on tho people of Murmiinsk and the allies there. Dis patches from Helslngfors declnred the Germuns intend to occupy Petrogrud, though whut they would gnin by pos session of that hunger-stricken city Is not ifppurent. Lenlne nnd Trotsky nnd their soviet government were re ported to have lied from Moscow to Kronstadt, tho great fortress near Petrograd, and to have placed the exe cution of power ln the hands of a tri umvirate composed of Lenlne, Trotsky and Zlnovleff. Lenlrie nlso Issued a mnnlfesto urging the pitiless unnlhllu tlon of nil counter-revolutlonurles. Moscow being admittedly In the eon trol of the counter-revolutionists, the German embassy also fled from that city to Tskov, which greatly perturbed the Gormnn press. The diplomats of nil the nllled pow ers, now living on wurshlps ut Arch ungel, have demanded of Trotsky nn explanation of his threat thut Itussin wuuld declare wnr "against Anglo French imperialism." ysa The first American regiment sent to Siberia, the Twenty-seventh regulur in fantry from Manila, lauded at Vladi vostok Thursday, and other Yankees are on the wuy. , Tho Czecho-Slovnks In eastern Sl berln now hnvo the assistance of Brit ish nnd French forces which landed at Vladivostok und Joined them In the Usurl river valley. Those ln west em Slberln wero Inst reported us ongi. ,ed In a desperate buttle with u large bol shevik army. A long step forward In the moral support of these fighting Czechs und of their fellow nattonnls who ure ln rebellion against Austrlu-Ilungury was tho formal recognition by Great Brit ain of the Czecho-Slovnks as an al lied nation and of their armies as an allied force regularly waging wnrfare against tho central powers. It Is hoped nnd believed America nnd other nllled nations will follow tho example of Grent Britain. Lust week's dlspatcheB told of furi ous and bloody riots against the Ger mans lu several UuHslun cities, caused by the attempts of the Huns to seize foodstuffs. During the month the allied nations ncUon; profosslng loyalty to tho (.uuauuauu u iuiuiuKt: iu io uovprnmont orations. Serious Unrest In Japan. Ka Toklo. Aucust 20. Troops have The administration's mnn-power bill been called out In nearly every Im extending the draft age to eighteen p0rtnnt city of Jnpnn ns tho result of nud forty-five years was reported to violent food disturbances. At Na- the senate Thursday and that body goyai noted for its manufactures of prepared to toko it up nnd act on it porcelains, a mob estimated nt 30,000 speedily. Chairman Chamberlain ln persons rioted. At several places the reporting tho measure said General March told the military affairs com mittee that he belloved 4,000,000 Amer icans under ono commander could go soldiers fired on the disturbers. At Osaka, during a demonstration, tele phono wires were cut and several tram ways were forced to suspend service through the German Hues whenever ft passengers had been wounded The activities of German U-boats off the Atlantic coast have grown bo an nojing that the cabinet is said to have devoted u long meeting to discussing they pleased and that If the ages are fixed ns asked, the voluntary enlist ment system automatically ends. He also said all the men called for active service under tho amended act would he ln France by next June. Tho new American war program, It was re vealed, calls for 80 divisions, or about 3,000,000 men, ln France and 18 more divisions ln training ln America, by June 30, 1910. Mr. Chamberlain told the senate that President Wilson's program called for concentration of American forces on the western front, Including Italy, nnd thut the theory of the fighting In the future Is thnt we must force the Issue und win on tho western front. The bill us reported contains u work or fight provision to which orgnnlzed labor, through Samuel Gompers, hns filed emphatic objection. The Immediate need for more fight ing men induced the president to issue on Wednesday a proclamation calling for the registration, on August 24, of all young men who shall huve become twenty-one years of age between June 5 lust und that diiy. This extra enroll ment, It is believed, will Include about 150,000 men, one-hulf of whom ure fit for military duty. Chairman Kltchln and other mem bers of the house ways and means committee being wedded to the Idea thut the best way to raise moro rev enue Is to Increase the excess profits tux, rather than to Impose a war prof Its tux, Secretary of the Treasury Mc Adoo was compelled to go before the committee with a muss of figures to sustain his contention that the war profits tax method Is the best and only fulr ono. In reply to Kltchln's asser tion Hint u wnr profits tnx wns "only camouflage to let out the big fellows" the secretary produced figures to show thut lu a great majority of cases the war profits tax would fall more heav ily on the lurge concerns than would the excess profits tax, which, if fixed at 80 per cent ns the committee pro posed, he suld would touch not more than one of the large corporations. He favors the continuance of the existing excess profits tax, with corrections but without Increase. He nlso urged heav ier levies on unearned incomes than on earned Incomes, and the imposition of a tux upon servants us luxuries. Tho secretary Impressed on the committee tho necessity of pusstng the new revenue bill before September 28, the ditto set for launching the fourth Liberty loun cnmpnlgn, Buying that further delay would Jeopardize tho ability of the treasury to sell sufficient treasury certificates to finance It In the Intervals botween the Liberty loans. In Washington most of the de Iny in pnsslng tho mensuro Is expect ed to develop In the senate. Troops were called out nnd twenty-five- police nnd mnny rioters were hurt. Rioters at Tokio damnged 200 stores nnd restaurants, raided rloe depot and unsuccessfully attacked the mlnlstry of tho Interior. Newspaper comment here seems to Indicate that the food riots throughout the country are nn expression of growing unrest nmong tho people, nnd to reflect tho belief thnt the empire is ndvanclng toward a soclnl crisis. It Is remark ed that the uprisings are often antl capltallstlc, mobs destroying property and voicing anger nt evidences of luxury. The wnr hns Incrcnsed the luxuries of the rich nnd the misery of tho poor, ns insufficient wages are paid. Tho riots nre the first to occur since Japnn wns opened to western, clvlllzntlon. Yanks Strike Near German Border. With the, American Arpiy In Lor raine, Aug. 20. The Americans In lively battle early Saturduy mnrnluR captured from the Germans the vil lage of Frnpelle, five miles east of St. Die. The action, which started with the proportions of a raid in the early hours of the morning, developed Into nn organized attuck under tho dash of the American troops Immediately after they left their trenches. The Gorman losses evidently were hoavy ln killed and wounded und prisoners were nlso taken by the Americans. Three Loans Planned. Washington, August 20. Tentative plans of the treasury provide for three big Liberty loan campaign with in tho next year, each to raise $5,000, 000,000 or more. The first will be from September 28 to October 10, as an nounced, the next Is planned for .Tun uury or February nnd the third for Mojr or June. Nearly 1,500,000 Men Overseas. Washington, D. C, Aug 20. Of more than 3,000,000 men now under wins, the American army has sent nearly one-half, or more than 1,450,000' overseas for service against the enemy In France, Italy and Siberia, according to tin announcement by General March. Germane Renounce Kaiser. Chicago, III., Aug. 20. German? members of the Chicago symphony or chestra renounced the kulser, the "Vaterlund," and such of their kin as aro fighting in the enemy armies, nt a meeting ot the Chicago federation or musicians held n few dnys ugo. Loyal alien enemlfs of tho union will not be expelled, ns was formerly announced. Joseph Winkler, president of the organization, who announced the chnnge. In policy, snld all dUloyal member would be n pel fed.