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4 THE 8EM1.WEEKLY TW1BUWE, KOftYrt PLATO. NEBRASKA. TO LICENSE ALL MILLERS Nebraska Food Administration An nouncea New Ruling 8omc Prod ucts Without Substitutes Additional nnd supplemental wheat rulotr are announced by deputy food administrator (or Nobraska, as fo' lows: "All mlllcrn ot mixed flour must tako out Internal rovnntio llconso and pay Bpoclal taxes ns follows an Dual tax of (12 and a tax ot (our cents on each barrel of flour uioro than 08 pounds; two cents on all packages moro than 40 and Including 98 pounds; ono cont on all packages moro than 24 pounds and Including 49 pounds; ono-hnlf cent on nil packages 'IVA pounds or Ions. Mixed flours con'nln lng 20 por oonfc or moro substitute may bo sold without Bubstltutos after Soptcmbor 1; mixed flours containing loss than 20 per cont must bo so'd with Kiibstltutos on the ratio ot one pound of BulmtltutoB to thafour pound o( standard wheat flour. Tho only exception is ryo flour or meal, which must ho mixed In tho ratio of two pounds or moro of ryo to throo pouudi. ot wheat. Tho Burlington has filed a motion asking dismissal ot tho appeal Mod by slato Lnnd Commissioner G. L. Shum- way In a suit Involving tho question ot whom rental shall bo paid. Tho Burlington leasod lands at tho station of Burnhnm and paid rent to tho stato asylum for tho lnsmno, tho land having boon sot nsldo to tho uso of that Insti tution. Mr. Shumway contends that tho rontal should go Into tho stato school fund. Tho district court on Joined him from molosting tho Bur lington. He was tho only mumbor of tho board of educational lands ana funds which entered into tho litigation or who appealed from tho decision of tho lower court. East of Sidney, Union Pacific pas aongor train No. 20 wont into tho ditch, nix cars being derailed. Fjrn man A. Nollls ot North Platte suffered a brokon rib and eloctrlcian A. Wyck. ham of Omaha was badly bruised. No pasHongors woro hurt. Two mon em ployed in tho signal maintenance de partment, working on tho switch when tho passenger train camo up, bocamo flustered and throw tho train onto the siding. Tho executive committee of tho democratic stato contral cominktco named, comprlsos tho following mon: J. C. Byrnos, Columbus; J. C. Dahlman, Omaha; J, S. McCarty, Lincoln; Clar enco Ilarman, Lincoln; Bat ICoohlcr, Gonova; Harry Gantz, Alliance and 11 Cox of Bladen. Lincoln is head quarters. Warden Fonton ot tho stato peniten tiary Is In nood ot throo mon to net as guards and doosn't know whoro to find them. He has asked tho board ot control to help, but tho board doesn't have any mon on its list. It may yot como to pass whoro Fonton will havo to ubo convicts to guard other convicts, Records of rho West Point military academy nhow that Alfred Gruonther of Platto Contor stood sixth in his class of 311 mombors. Ho was first In his class in English and in infantry and artillery drill regulations. Thn showing Is ono of tho highest ovor at tained by a Nobraska boy. A photograph of tho Gorman kaiser found In a building formorly owned by tho German Landwohrvorion, at Norfolk, was publicly burned by mem bers of tho council of dofonso. The Gorman society disbanded a short timo ago and mid their building bocauso ot Its unpopularity. Ono divorco suit was filed for every two marrlago pormlts Issued ob tho Dodgo county court houso during tho month of August Thoro woro eight potitlonn for divorco filed and slxtoen marrlago permits Issued. Sullivan Bros, ot Spauldlng, topped tho Omnha markot with thlrty-nlni head ot cholco Durocs that nvoraged 197 pounds and sold for $19.05 por 100. This Is tho highest price ever paid In tho stock yards. A ralso In rates from 1 to 1.25 per month on all classoa of subscribers business, resident nnd farm lines has boon allowed by tho state railway commission to tho Union Mutual Tele phono Co. of Union. Tho annual reunion ot ploneors and old settlors of Burt county was held at Toknmah In Folsora park, and with fair weather und good roads, brought close to 5,000 people from nil parts ot tho state. A norvico flag containing ono hun dred nnd; four Btars for Oonovn boys In tho army nnd navy has boon placed in the city hall. A county flag has also boon orderod by tho board of supervisors. A lottor rocolvod by friends from Ingrnld Myhro, ono ot tho first aoloc's from St. Edwards, Indicates that he has been seriously wounded by a shell, IncroaBod telephone rates at Hebron aro approved by tho stato railway commission. 'Frank Damme, a young farmer re siding noar Syracuso, committed sui cide by hanging hlmsolf. Ho was among tho August draft list that wero to ,loavo that night for Camp Funston. Firo destroyed 150 tons ot coal In BhodB of tho Farmers Elovator Co. at Waco. It Is thought tho flro wns caused by spontaneous combustion. Loss Is about $1,500, Mllligan and vicinity furnished a $2,000 draft U tho Omaha Liberty bazaar for the benefit of tho Czecho. Slovak 'army. George IIsrrT, a pioneer ot Time Springs, died nt a hospital In Wncoln He was woll fcnown In tho wouthorn part ot Gage county nnd four yoars ro Bided cw farm near Holmotvlllo. Dwdel Brant, Jr., n member of th crerw of tho U. S. 8. Pocahontas, is homo for a visit with his parents at Table Hock. Ho has .mado four trips across, and Is expecting to soon make another. W. F. ThlfihofT hns boon appointed acting general manager of tho Den vor nnd Salt Lako railroad. Ho was formorly assistant general manager of tho Burlington linos west, and his home was In Lincoln. An nutomobllo contnlnlng Elza More bond of Pawnee City and Miss Dorothy Phillips, Glen Kont and Miss Mcta Gallas ot Tnblo Itock overturned in juring Miss Gallas sorlously. Tho rest of tho party oscapod with bruises. John Olson, of Fremont, rccolvod word that his brother Sam, a former Fremont ronldont, has boon wounded in action in Franco. Ho was a mem ber of tho draft contingent from Mon tana and wont oversoas this summer. Will Maupln, fltato publicity commis sioner, this week purchased tho plant of tho old South Omaha Domocrat and ho Is now ongaged in packing tho ma terial for Khlpniont ro Goring, whoro ho will establish a now paper. His now Journal will bo democratic in politics. Nels E. Nolson of Pllgor Is In a hospital suffering from injuries be. Moved to be fatal. As he was cross ing tho Northwestern railroad track near. Pllgor train No. 108 struck his automobile, throwing him Bcyenty-flvo feet, fracturing his skull and dislocat ing his hip. A campaign has been started by tho county food administrator and tho do fenso council to induce Dodge county farmers ro plant moro wheat this fall. Furmors nro being urged to prepare tholr ground nt onco. Fifty thousand acres of wheat In Dodgo county next year is the slogan. Henry C, Blttenbondor, prominont prohibitionist and lawyer of Lincoln, died at his homo after an Illness of several weokB. At tho time of his doath ho was tho prohibition nominoo for attornoy gonoral of Nebraska, and socretnry of tho prohibition stato cen tral commlttoo nnd had boon Its chair man for many years provious. Tho corn crop In Polk county nnd adjoining districts is tho most com plete failure that has occurred for twenty-four years, and tho ontlro crop is tho shortest in tho history of tho county. The condition ot tho ground Is bucIi that farmers aro hesitating about planting fall wheat, as thoro Is absolutely no molsturo In tho ground. Llout. Charlos J. Hyde, killed when his aeroplano foil from an altltudo of 300 feet at Dallas. Tex., was a resi dent ot Norfolk, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hyde. Ho was twonty-flvo yoars old and a senior In tho Albnny, N. Y law school. Tho body will bo brought homo for burial. Burllncton ctod ronortH show fhnt corn was hard hit in Nobraska, and that contiuuod drouth slnco August 1 hns added to tho damage dono by hob Winds. Tho hoart of tho corn nrn. daclng territory in tho stato, tho coun try surrounding Lincoln immediately nnd for a distance of ono hundred milos west was most affocted. It has boon rlponlng far too fast and a good quality of corn Svlll bo hard to find in mo south central part ot tho Btato. Mercantile and industrial linos of business aro being urged by tho stato council ot dofonso, in a circular Just issued, to Block up with matorlal and goods nB far as possible in advanco of tho winter season, so that trans portation facilities may not bo too lioavily taxed in cold and Inclement woathor. An exception to this request is maao in tho caso of lumber dealers, who are naked to hold oft for a timo yot until the government noedB nra mot. Tho circular which thn sintn council has prepared urgos this that congestion may bo avoided. Whole boIo and Jobbing concerns are asked to urge patrons to tako immodlato do- uvorios. The atorago of fuel oil Is of special Importance. An aviation examining board has boen sent by tho government to Omaha from tho Aviation Meohanlcs' Training School at St. Paul, Minn., to examine applicants for training In that branch of tho sorvlco. Students that nru woll qualified may apply for examination for ontranco to tho Ground School for training as avia tors. Students aro sometimes sent from this school to tho Olllcors Train lug CampB for several other branches of tho sorvlco. Any man registered In tho draft, except thoso in Class 1, who aro qualified for general military duty, may apply. If ho Is acceptable tho examining board will request his ro leaso from tho Provost Marshal Gen eral, who will order tho local board to roloaso tho man, and furnUh him transportation to tho Aviation Me chanics Training School, St. Paul. Tho board Is located In tho Array building at Fifteenth and Dodgo streets. Dr. C. W. Enrln of Lincoln has been nppolntod by Governor Nevlllo as as sistant udjutant gonoral, succeeding Major C, M. Williamson, who lately received a commission us assistant di vision adjutant with American troops now In training for overseas service. In tho now registration ot mon who havo bocomo 2 years ot ago sines Juno 6, tho number onrollod In Ne braska waa 1,95a as shown by reports from all tho count loo received nt Gov ernor NovIIIo'h ottlco. Ot that total 1,887 wero white Americans, 24 col' orod, and 47 ot alien nationalities. 1 One lone American acting ns gunrd of a long lino of Hun prisoners. 2 Scene In the ruins of Pcronne which the British hnvo recaptured. 3 Gem nil Humbert, commnnder of the French army northwest of Noyon, In conversation wltl n coluiel. NEWS REVIEW OF THE GREAT WAR British Smash the Wotan Line and French and Yankees Drive Huns North. GERMANS QUIT VESLE RIVER Continue Their Retreat From Lys Sec tor, WJiere Americans Fight on Belgian Soli Bolshevlkl Are Defeated in Siberia and Northern Russia. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Tho wholo western front, from Ypros to Helms, was ublozo nil tho week, nnd throughout nil the long stretch the Ger mans continued their retreat. Tho ar ,mles of the allies followed closely on jthclr heels, hammering nt them duy and night and giving them not a mo ment's pnuso for reorganization of their wcnrlcd forces. It wns another week of uninterrupted allied success, and tho withdrawal o tho Huns was extended to Include the Veslc river sector, between Solssons nnd Jtclms. Until Wednesdny there had been llttlo activity there, except continuous artil lery work and some shnrp fighting be tween tho Americans, and the Germans In tho rcgRTn of Flames nnd FIsmettc. But In tho first days of the week ulr plnno observers reported evidences of a coining retreat by the enemy, and this developed on Wednesday. Tho American nnd French patrols pursued the Huns promptly and by Thursday had renched the crest dominating tho Als-iie, .across which river the Germans seemed likely to tnko the main bodies of their troops. This retrograde movement was made necessary by the successful ndvnnco of General Mnngln's army north nnd northwest of Solssons between tho AH ettc and tho Alsne, threatening the Chcmln des Dames und flanking the enemy line townrd Fismes. With the aid of Americans, Mangln was moving stcndlly down the Alsne plateau and In the direction or Lnon, and It nn peared doubtful that tho Huns would bo nblo to remain long south of tho Ilindenburg line through Anlzy nnd Craonne. They wero driven out of Clemency, Bray, Mlssy-sur-Alsno nnd many other towns In this region, and the French ns early as Wednesday night were In the outskirts of Coucy, ono of the Important flenniin bases on tho edge of the St. Goboln forest. Be tween there and Chnuny the enemy wns forced from a series of dominat ing heights that he has relied on to piotect La Fere. To the northwest of Chauny equally Important victories gave General Humbert' possession of Gulscard nnd Maucourt after ho had forced the retirement of tho enemy from Mont St. Simeon and the Canal du Nord. This latter action was a desperate fight, for tho Gerinau posi tions were protected by a wilderness of wire entanglements nnd by innumer cble machine-gun nests. Captured offi cers said they hod orders to retreat to the region of Hethuncourt, northwest ot Clmuny. Thoro were liullcutlons that tho Huns planned to make a stand nn n line through Ham, but tho French udvnnco was so swift that their abil ity to do this was doubtful. The French First army wns moving Irre sistibly on Ham from Voslo and tho Canal du Nord. At Fresnes the French and Ameri can advance reached the old Ilinden burg line, had Ham practically flanked and was rapidly approaching Luon. The Inst nnmed city lias been ono of tho most Important of the German bnses In Flcordy nnd tho heart of the present Hun operations. It Is a great center of railways and, hlghwnys and Its enpturo by tho allies, It was said, must mean tho furthor retirement of tho enemy. Ha The British In PIcnrdy opened tho week by occupying Peronno after an Australian force had captured Mont St. Quentln In a brllllnnt oporntlpn. A llttlo to the north Hulg's men then :ook Comblos Morvnl, Courceletto nnd to Tinnsloy, mid straightened out their new lino by advancing It to Molslnns and to tho cast of NeilvIUe. Then, on Monday, camo a grand British smash which wrecked the much-vaunted Wo ton switch line of the Ilindenburg line, from Drocourt to Qucnnt. Despite tho resistance of great masses of Infantry nnd artillery, tho British rushed for ward on a tcn-mllc front and speedily made a gain of some flvo miles, tho Germnn losses being frightful. In tho succeeding days they kept up (lie drive remorselessly, putting much of the Ca nnl du Nord behind their lines nnd ap proaching within n few miles of Dounl und Cambral. These two cities were so important to the German defensive system that largo ,numbers of troops were rushed to their rescue and tho British drive was slowed down percep tibly by the end of the week, though It was by no means stopped. All through the week there were re ports thnt many towns and vlllnges back, of tho German lines In PIcardy were In flames and It wns ccrtnln thnt tho foo wero destroying great quanti ties of supplies which they were not given time to remove. ta in the Lys sector, tho salient west of Armentleres, tho German retreat, under compulsion, continued steadily and the British ndvnnced ns fur as Neuvo Chnpello nnd Luvcntle, taking a number of vlllnges. Tho northern part of this sector became of especial interest to Americans because the Yun kces wero there engaged In their first bnttlo on Belgian soil. These troops, later Identified by General March as the Thirtieth division of Tennessee, North Carolina nnd South Carolina men, captured Voormczcele nnd other towns In tho vicinity, und next dny pushed on further eastward. Thurs day tho British,, presumably aided by these same Americans, took Ploeg steert village and Hill 03, dominating points on tho Messlnes ridge. By that time tho British, from Neuve Chapclle south to Glvcnchy, had reached the lino they held before the German drlvo of April 9 last, nnd enst of Glvcnchy they hud occupied parts of the old Germnn positions. Altogether it was n highly satisfac tory week on the west front. Tho German military critics hnve given up tiying to conceal wholly the truth of tho Hun reverses, but somo of them predict that tho retreat will not go much .farther. The German crown prince broke Into print with an Inter view In which he declared the German Idea of victory now Is "to hold our own and not nllow ourselves to be vanquished." He said only the allies were waging a war of extermination; that the Germans wished to annihilate none of their enemies. The Hun peace offensive seems to havo petered out entirely for the time being. fcjj The British government, aroused by the sucking of Its embassy In Petrograd nnd the murder of Captain Cromle, tho British attache, has sent an ultimatum to tho soviet government at Moscow, demanding reparation and prompt pun ishment of the guilty and threatening to hold tho members of tho bolshevik government Individually responsible nnd to hnve them treated as outlaws hj all civilized nations. Meanwhile tho British are holding Lltivunff, bol shevik representative In London, und his staff under nrrest pending tho re lease of British ofllclals win" wwe ar rested In IUisslu. fca Bc)ntcd dispatches from Siberia tell of tho destruction of the bolshevik army east of Lnke Baikal by the Czecho-SIovnks anil, say tho Cossacks aro co-operating with the Czechs. It appears that uninterrupted connection hns been established between the al lied forces across Siberia nil the way from the Volga to Vladivostok nnd that the vanguard of the Czechs has Joined hands with General Semenoffs troops on tho Onon river. In northern European itussla the allies and loyal Russians have gained further successes south of Archangel und inflicted severe losses on the bol shevlkl. On the Ussuri front In eastern SI berla the allied forces havo been driv ing tho bolshevlkl northward, defeat ing tllcm In every engagement and In dicting heavy casualties. Tho Ameri cans under General Graves Joined In these operations. The suppression of the Social Rev 0 olutionists In Moscow Is holm? carried out with n heavy hand. About five thousand of them hnve been arrested nnd sentenced to denth, and It Is said tney will be executed if their partj shows nny further opposition to the Soviet government. Tho streets ol Moscow nro under the strictest mill' tnry guard. Details of the supplementary Russo German agreements have been made public. Germany promises to ovueu ate all occupied territory east of Li vonia nnd Esthonla ns soon as boun daries nro established, and to get mil of nil other territory enst of Germany when Russia has fulfilled her finan cial obligations, which must be with lu four months. Russia Is pledged to fight against the entente forces In northern Russln, nnd Germuny prom ises that Finlnnd shnll not attack. Russia renounces Its sovereignty over Esthonla nnd Livonia, but Is to have free transit to Reval, Riga and Win dau. An nttempt to nssasslnnto NIcolal Lenlne, soviet premier, was made by n girl In Moscow, but nt Inst reports ho was still alive though in n serious condition. Very likely his denth would be a godsend to Russia. Pa There Is not much to say of the wot on the Italian, Albanian and Greek fronts. Small engagements are nu merous, but no decisive operations hnv been stnrted lately. In Albania the retirement of the nliled line for a shorl distance Is explained by the necessity of preparing for winter by occupying ccrtnln domlnntlng heights. Austria has not attempted anything Important In Itnly, possibly because she Is too busy trying to settle her Internal trou bles, or because of the call on her foi troops to help out the sorely-pressed Germans In France. Severnl Austrian divisions huvo been Identified on the west front. Meanwhile the Italian airmen, aided by American flyers, hav been doing a lot of bombing of Aus trian towns, railways and naval sta tions. Ma -a According to dispatches from Mu nich by way of Genevn, Count von Hertllng, the Imperial chancellor, re signed Thursday, giving poor health as the cause of his action. From Cologne enmo the news that tho commandant of tho Brandenburg province hnd placed the province, 'In cluding the city of Berlin, under mar tini law In order to stop the "Invention and circulation of untrue rumors cal culated to disquiet the populace." S General March said last week that more than 250,000 American troops were landed In France during August, and that up to the first of September moro than 1,000,000 hnd cmbnrked for tho vurlous fronts, Including those sent to France. Englnnd, Itnly and Si beria. There has been no official men tion of late of the First Amerlcnn Field army, and observers In France nnd lu England believe it Is being prepared for a great drive, of which the present big offensive Is but tho preliminary. ca AH nrcnurutlons hnve bcpn com pleted for tho registration of men be tween the nces of elchteen and twenty- ono and thirty-one and forty-five, un der the new draft law. General Crow dor has called on tho people to nld in making the registration n complete suc cess, nnd. so far as the older men are concerned, has given assurance that a very large proportion of them will not bo required to go to the front. The young men, he and most others believe, will be only too glad to get into this grcntcst and most righteous of all wars. s Spnln has not yet come to the break ing point with Germany, but another Spanish vessel having been torpedoed. tins uecHieij to seize Herman Interned ships without further parley. The tone of the press there, and also In other neutral countries, Is becoming distinctly pronlly. nu Amerlcnn shipyards set a record during August, turning out (id ships: aggregating 3-I0.M5 dead weight tons. Forty-four wero of steel. Tho total tonnage built for tho shipping board has now pnssed the two million mnrk British merchant vessels completed during August amounted to 12-I,07.ri gross tons. Tho new construction In the nliled countries Is now well nhead of the destruction by submarines. HEI PUfflT LIST ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES PLACED. IN FOUR CLASSES. BASIS FOB SUPPLY OF FUEL Serves Also As Means For Industrial' Exemption from Draft. Monthly Report Required. Washington, Sept. 10. A now pri orities list of Industries nnd plants es sential to tho war or tho civil popula tion has been announced by Chttlnnnti. Baruch of tho war Industries board. It was described us the "master key" governing the Issuance of priority cer. tlllcates by tho priorities commission er of the board for fuel supply or elec trical energy, transportation, material,, facilities, capital and labor und us tho basis for Industrial exemption from, thu draft. "The Inclusion of tho Industries and plants on this preference list," said the announcement, "does not operate as an embargo against all others, but the effect is to defer the requirements of all other Industries and plants until the requirements of thoso on the pre ference list shall have been satisfied." Industries liuve been grouped Into four classes according to their rela tive Importance. No distinction Is made between Industries or plants, within any one class and It was ex plained that no significance is to be uttoched to the order In which they are listed within any clnss. The in dustries or plants under Class 1 u ro of exceptional Importance. Fuel for domestic consumption residences, apartment houses, restaur rants and hotels is In Clnss 1. Food ; railways operated by the railroad ad ministration; the army nnd navy, air craft, ships and shlpynrds, war chemi cal plants, coal mines and byproduct coko plants, certain public utilities, ordnance nnd smnll nrms plants, nnd. nmnnmltlon and explosives are also ln Class 1. , Requirements of thoso grouped un der Classes 2, 3 nnd 4 will be given, priority over thoso not on the prefer ence list, but as between these three classes, there Is no absolute prefer ence provided. Relative importance of the Industries nnd plants within each group will be the basts of opera tion. Each plnnt listed In the three last classes will be required to file wltlv the war Industries board before the 15th of each month u report of Its activities during the preceding month. Failure to comply with this order will mean removal from the preference list. 35 of Ship's Crew Killed. Wushbigton, D. C, Sept. 10. Thirty flvo members of tho crew of the army transport Mount Vernon, formerly the North German Lloyd Liner Kron prin zess In Cecllle, were killed by the explosion of a torpedo which struck the vessel Inst Thursday when she wns 200 miles from tho French const, homeward hound. The passengers In cluded Senator Lewis of Illinois, who was among those safely landed after the transport returned to a French port under her own steum. Navy of ficials assume, since the vessel wns able to reach port under her own power, she was not badly damaged. The men killed were firemen, en ginonien and water tenders. . Believe Fire Work of Enemy. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 10. Police aiv working on the theory that fire, which caused ;i loss of nearly a quarter of a million dollars here, was of incen diary origin and tho work of German sympathizers. The blaze, one of the most spectacular fires In Lincoln In re cent years, wiped out nn entire block In tho northeast part of the city. Must Pay More for. Sugar. Washington, D. C, Sept. 10. Con sumers will pay nt least 1 cent m pound more for sugar after the pres ent stocks of the country nro exhaust ed, nntler the new price of cone sugar at the seaboard, announced by t he sugar equalization board with the np- proval of President Wilson. New York Saloons to Close. New York. Sept. 10. Two-thirds of New York's 1 15.000 thirst parlors will close their doors October 1. under the food administration's order suspending brewing nfter December 1, Colonel Jacob Ruppcrt, millionaire brewer, predicted. Many breweries also will be closed. To Abandon Deming Camp. Washington, Sept. 10. Camp Cody New Mexico, will be ohandoned when the Ninety-seventh dlvlslbn, soon to bo assembled there, has boen trained and left the camp, according to au announcement. Iowa Regiment Suffered Heavily. Des Moines, In., Sept. 9. During the final stages of the last German offenslvo nn Iown battnlion, com manded by Mnjor C. E. Worthlngton of Des Moines, was virtually wiped" out. In ten dnys' time its fighting ranks were reduced from 1,200 to 200 men, nccordlng to a letter received by Lafayette Young from the major Tho-lll-fnteil battalion comprised Com pnny A, Wlnterset; Company P, Des Moines; Company C, Crestnn: Com pnny D, Centervllle, and th D -s-Moines mnchlne gun company