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i v. -V. OHDAY, DECEMBER PIjATTS MOUTH BEMI-WFTITLT JflTJRNAL. i rin JBranrrrWEl aa5iaMMa III I uni in " ' i v r.. 1, i I I n 'J 5 i ; -9 mi - r -5 n harmony with the of nood ! We Extend to You season s u 3 ' N r arc Vish You Health, Happiness and Prosperity Throughout the NEW YEAR Store closed ell day Christmas VALUE! QUALITY! I To 151 !:; n mr P This, the season opportunity to hind favors and Christmas and rTfS. ft J &a U ' ' S n ierry Christmas AND A Prosperous F Is. Phone 136 THE FIRST -WISHES YOU- u Christmas irv Happy and Most Prosperous New prevading spirit will SERVICE! nencls: of good cheer, is an thank you for your to wish you a Merry a Happy New Year. New Year reeungs &Son N IHXtM Fricke & Co., Store 186 Bsumlk Year DC DO NOT EXPECT FLATTURN Admit Chagrin Over President's Ask ing What Allies Ugl.ting for, as This is Well Known Kegret, Not JiitUr. The Hague, Deo. 2l Germany will disclose her chief pence 'erms inn e diately, if the forhcomi ig note from the entente powers in reply to Both- mann-Hollwcg's leave the peace peace propolis, j door open, German dispatches said it was semi-ofiicially announced today. 1 Washington, Dec. 22. For the same reasons that Great Britain and her oli; . not flntK- vebw tho npnw proposals of the Teutonic powers, they will not flatly turn down the sug gestions made by President Wilson in his "peace message," was the ex pressed belief of some entente diplo mats here today. This opinion was voiced to a United Press correspondent in intimate and i confidential talks at two of the most important entente embassies in Wash- ington. At these embassies two reasons were given for the above opinion: To show officially and formally "any regret" over the president's peace sug- DOWN gestion by flatly refusing his request jn tn3 kiuheu stove. Her clothing for specific terms would be playing di- caught fire. rectly into German plans, since Ger- state Engineer George Johnson will many then would have opportunity to retain his place under the new admin reiterate oft-repeated protestations istration and Hoy U Cochran of North that the entente allies are responsible I,Iatte wiU be Inade assistant in piaco ,of William Stockelberg. who will go 1UI JIUlUllliL tt4l. Such a flat turn-down would tend to . weaken what sympathy there now is ' in the United States for the entente allied cause. I Saj-s Allies Aim Known. These allied diplomats did not hesi- eight-year sentence to ten years, tate to admit "chagrin" over t.he presi- Fearing the grilling he was to get dent's suggestion that specification of In the effort to get him to confess his war objectives is necessary. They Part in forgeries at Grand Island and ,,. , , u u : Kearnev, James Pence, prisoner in the said allied speakers have been speci- "tw" ' 1 , . jL . , . .. Kearney jail, attempted to kill him- fying their objectives for two years gelf eaUng 1K)Wdered glass Jlc and a half and that they ought to be .jjj recoVer. apparent to all students of the war. J The Nebraska jaw requiring rall It was this phase of the president's roa(is to transmit live stock in ship note one which seemed to cause ment at an average rate of eighteen more regret than bitterness which miles an hour on main lines and four was particularly emphasized by the teen miles an hour on branch lines, 1 -was declared unconstitutional by the Not Acting for Germans'. Allied diplomats believed Secretary Lansing's first statement yesterday morning indicated the United States plainly was not acting for Germany in making its peace suggestions. Teuton diplomats, somewhat star- tied at the first Lansing statement, felt rather relieved at the supplemen tary statement of the afternoon. Miss Helen Leiner departed this morning for Lincoln where she will visit over Christmas with relatives i and friends in that city and vicinity. B. F. Cronk was among the busi ness visitors in Omaha today going to that city on the early Burlington train this morning. !s mornintr. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh Is a local disease, greatly in fluenced by constitutional conditions, and in order to cure it you must take an internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Medi cine is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years. It is com posed of some of the best tonics known, combined with some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the ingredients In Hall's Catarrh Medi cine is what produces such wonderful results in catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. All DrutTKlsts. 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipation. NEWSOFIPMSKA Interesting Happenings Print ed ft Condensed Form. fOLD IN A FEW WORDS. News of All Kinds Gathered From Points In the State and So Reduced In Size That It Will Appeal to All Classes of Readers. Scott sbluff has bought a combtna lion fire-fighting truck. Nebraska cattle are now barrel in Duly one state, Montana. Mrs. .Martha Powell of Omaha lias been elected president of the State lVachers' association. A jury at Fairbury acquitted Itoy Barnes of attemptin- to kill Finest 12. McLnne, May 'H',. Fjir.. Senator I'hil Kohl of Wayne wilt bo a candidate for re-election us presi dent pro tern of the, senate. George Pickering l'.emis, aged eighty years, twice mayor of Omaha, died at Lis home in Florence of old aye. In a runaway at Geneva, a three-month-old child of Victor Kavanda was thrown out of the buggy and killed. After obtaining leases on farm lands totaling over S,'0 acres, drilttn for oil has commenced near Table Hock. Several candidates are out for sec retary of the state banking board, a place held by E. Royse lor lifieen years. H. F. Wiggins, who lives six miles south of Gothenburg, lost twenty-six stacks of small grain, bailey and outs by an incendiary fire. Two small children of John Lattrell Of South McOook were burned, one oi them seriously, when a lamp over turned in their bed room. With the burning of the old Duff grain elevator at Plattsmoulh, went an old time institution, had done duty for forty The building years. , ATa(.oinbel. one ot the prominent members of the Omaha bar. is dead, aged sixty-live. He was twi e judge of the circuit court of north- western Iowa. Keiorts that the Fourth regiment is coming home Nebraska from the Mexican, lorder in lime lor Christinas are denied by war department otlicials at Washington. Comparing revolvers which were supposed to be '"not loaded." Thomas Jeffrev shot and seriously wounded ids brother, Fred, in a room at their boarding houe at Omaha. Thousands of evergreen trees are being dug up on the islands in the Platte river south of Fremont and 6iiippHi u lyinccm wj.pre mey are Uced for landscape gardening. Doris, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vanl.iew. liv ing in South Reatriee. was burned to dcath when ghe attem,,ted to Iiut col)S on a farm in Stanton county. Harry Forbes, -companion in crime of "Shorty" Cray, who led the out break in the state prison in March, 1912, has applied to the state prison board for a reduction of his twenty- state supreme court. In an opinion handed down the supreme court upholds trie validity or thf sunrpmn court commission act passed by the 1915 legislature with one exception. The high court de Jclares that it, and not the governor. has the appointing power. The movement, for the pledging of B sustaining fund having failed, the Hastings Young Men's Christian asso ciation was ordered closed by the di rectors. Efforts will be continued to raise in the fund in the hope of re- openin the building Jan. 1. ' Under the law passed by the last legislature, establishing a budget sys tem and making the governor chief budget officer, Governor Moreiiead sent a letter to each of the state de- nartment heads calling for an esti f OTnoRftR fnr th(, rnmjn. in. IAA4AfcVWfcrt-.v- " " O I omi;,im enmum. Lyle Fisher, a student of the Mc Cook high school, fell from the wire less telegraph pole on top of the Bchool building, twenty feet to the roof of the building, sustaining injuries which it Is feared will result in his death. A guy rope gave away, letting him fall. Although the casting of schedules for the various sports for the coming season was not completed at the an nual meeting of the Missouri Valley conference, a football game betwenn Missouri and Nebraska was agreed upon. The teams will clash at Lin coln, Nov. 10, 1917, for the first tim in many years. Albert Lemlre was instantly killed and William Crethers had both bones of his right leg broken below the knee when a motor-driven grindstone in the Palace butcher shoj at llold l'ege flew to pieces. The live-year street lighting con tract with the Omaha Electric Light company was sustained at a special referendum election in Omaha by a vote of 11,0.4 to 8.7SS, a majority of 2(L'7t; in favor of the contract. The Oklahoma state board of agri culture lifted the quarantine placed recently ou live stock from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, upon as Kii ranees that the reported cattle mal ady in those states was not hoof and mouth disease. The Mitchell (Neb.) Community club has started a movement which will result in the establishing of a through highway up the North 1'latte valley, connecting the Lincoln high way at North 1'latte with the Yellow btone highway at Wendover, Vo. Leo Wing, said to be leader of the Omaha chapter of the On T.eong Tons, a Chinese secret society, was arrested by police and federal detectives on advice of department of justi'e inves tigators at. Chicago, in connection with an alleged plot to murder several Omaha Chinese. hew Scott, the well known Wyoming sheepman, returned to Casper with the announcement that his lambs had broken all recordr at the South Oma ha stock yards. He sold nearly 1.0'0 !i,ad of range lambs at 11 cents per Ioui:d without a cut back. This price has never been equaled In the history of that market. Injuries received in an automobile accident mar Lindsay caused the death of Hugh Jehu, salesman, ot Omaha. He was on his way from Lindsay to Newman Grove when his machine collided with the mail wagon driven by William Winkler. The car and wanon were demolished and both men were hurt. Coojerative buying in wholesale quantities is to be tried out by the Central Park Congregational church brotherhood of Omaha as a means to cut down the high cost of living. Not only members of the church, but neighbors in the community in north west Omaha will be permitted to en joy the benefit of the scheme. In order that the people of Nebras ka mav be sure that the state went dry at the last election. Governor More-head has issued a proclamation in which he assures the people that such is the ca.se. He also assures the people that the pure food amendment did rot receive the required three liflhs vote in its favor and is there fore lost. No telephone poles will be stuck up in representative huTT'to keep the root from falling down on the legislators this winter, as proposed when the matter of strengthening the wall of the east wing was considered. In stead it has been arranged to lengthen the big timbers by giafting on addi tional timbers sufficient to reach the ceiling and the roof above. Uirge quantities of foodstuffs have been withdrawn from Nebraska cold storage warehouses and shipped east withiu the last two months. There has been a notable reduction in the storc d-up supply of meat. eggs, poultry and miscellaneous meats. Oct. 1 there weie in Nebraska warehouses G ;3S 0S1 pounds of cured meats. Nov. 25 this amount had been reduced to 2.SS4.100 pounds. After robbing the Winslow State bank of $6,330. riding forty miles north in a stolen automobile and disarming Mai thai Clinton Huffman of Winne bago, when he attempted their arrest, two bandits were captured in the woods east of Winnebago by Sheriff Pat Dorcev of Thurston county and a pose of citizens. The robbers were identified as Iouis Assman and Thomas Colcord of Omaha. A call was extended by the mem bers of the Plymouth Congregational church of Lincoln. Neb., to Rev. W. W Bolt, pastor of the College Hill Congregational church of Wichita. It is not definitely known whether Er. Holt will accept, but the committee which talked over the matter with him at Wichita, and when he was in Lincoln recently, believes he will ac cept. The call included a proffer of $2,:00 a year salary. The beautiful new Catholic church at Aurora was dedicated by Bishop J. Henry Tihen of Lincoln, in the pres ence of 1.000 people. He thanked both Catholics and non-Catholics for their generosity in building the church, de claring it shall be used in teaching practical and useful Christianity. The new church cost $18,000 and takes the place of the wooden structure which burned several months, ago. leather Edgard Hagan is in charge. "Generar Philip H- Caramel, con victed on a statutory charge against his lifteen-year-old foster daughter Tjy a jury in district court at Fremont, was sentenced to serve twelve years in the penitentiary by Judge Button. "11 am innocent of the crime charged against me." Gammel said to the court. With Will Henry, sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary for killing John Witte of Scribner last summer, Gammel was taken to Uie penitentiary to begin his sentence. There is still $46.7S5.7S due ttu state on the old insane accounts, ac cording to a statement prepared by State Auditor Smith. At the time for mer State Auditor Howard first made the attempt to collect these claims some of the counties made objection and went into the courts to keep tht state from collecting. The case was put up to a special referee. J. II Broady of Lincoln, and he reported in favor of the state. Gage and Stanton are now withholding payments and disputing the claim. METEORIC CAREER' OF GENJNWELLE His Rise Breaks Tradition of the French Army. ENTERED WAR AS COLONEL Today He Is Field Commander of French Armies In France and Suc- cessor, In Active Warfare, to Joffre, Idol of Nation Is One of Youngest Generals. General Nivellc, new field command er of the armies in Franco, is the per sonification of the famous French phrase, "a band of steel in a velvet glove." Nivelle has had a mint remarkable career during the past two and a half years of war. When the great conflict broke out be was an obscure colonel; today he is the- successor of Joffre, idol of the Fiench, as lield commander of their mighty army. Joffre still re mains commander in chief. One of the Youngest General?- Nivelle is one of the youngest gen erals. . He is fifty-eight years old, hav ing been born Oct. 15, ISoS, at Tulle, in the department of Corre.e. He se lected the artillery arm of the service and has always been an exponent of in exhaustible shell supply and innumer able big guns. The name of Nivelle was first heard by the public during the German crown prince's Verdun offensive. He went to the Mouse last April, commanding the Third army corps, and a month later succeeded General Petain, commanding the Verdun army. ly his masterful genius he saved the fortress, llien in two recent bounds retook Douaumout and Vaux, undoing the Germans' work of eight months. When the war began Nivelle was colonel of the Fifth lield artillery regi ment, statioued at Besaneon. Being ordered to Alsace in the French drive against Thana and Muelhauscn, he earned the distinction of destroying an entire German artillery battery, thus permitting the temporary capture of Tbann. During the Marne-Ourcq battle be commanded the Seventh army corps artillery under General Manoury. Checked Germans at Soissons. Promoted to be a general in October, 1914. he scored a decisive check against the Germans when they launched the Soissons offensive in January, 101T, itt i desiderate thrust at Pari. A month later, Feb. 19, he recaptured the Queenevieres plateau, oast of Soissons, thereby relieving that sector and forc ing a part of the German line to fall back across the Aisne. Nivelle studied at St. Cyr and also at the polytechnic school in Foutaine bloau and Saumur, besides the war college. After the ludc-Ckina cam paign he undertook a mission to the emperor of Korea. Afterward he serv ed in the French colonial campaigns, notably in Algeria, A sturdy, semiblond type of French man, with plentiful hair, closely crop ped mustache, hard, calculating eyes and a viselike mouth and chin, Nivelle is loved alike by otlicers and soldiers and credited with having instilled a wonderful spirit into the army of Ver dun, which is said to have n higher morale than even Napoleon's Old Guard. A comrade of Nivelle named Nord man recounts bow all the officers and soldiers ducked Mauser bullets at the beginning of the war. but Nivelle re mained impassive. "What is the use of trying to lodge bullets?" Nivelle explained. : "One of War's Revelations." On another occasion Nivelle was heard earnestly trying to imitate the whistle of the machine gun bullets spraying about him as he advanced with bis troops. All the French papers call General Nivelle "one of the war's revela tions," and long biographies are pub lished. Some papers think the fact that Nivelle is half English, his moth er having belonged to a well known Kentish military family, makes his appointment particularly acceptable across the channel. A decree issued recently, in Paris di rects that the commanders in chief of the Armies of the North and Northeast and of the Army of the Orient shall exercise command in conformity with the decrees of Oct. JS. 1910. and Dec. 2, ,1913. which made the commanders in chief of the armies in the field re sponsible directly to the minister of war. The effect of this decree Is to make both General Nivelle, command er on the western front, and General Sarrail, commander , of the entente forces in Macedonia, responsible dlrect lyito the war minister nnd independent of the commander in chief. U BOAT 55 DAYS AT SEA. In That Time Submarine Did Not En ter Any Port. A record achievement Is chronicled of a German submarine which has return ed' to its base after fifty-five days at sea without entering harbor cr receiv ing outside . assistance of ur.y form. The wen finer generally wan bad. This is by far the longest submarine trip on record. The merchant subma rine Deutsehland generally makes a transatlantic trip In from seventeen to twenty-three duys. CHARGING INTO MACHINE M An American Describes French Bayonet Charge. HEROISM OF RED GROSS MEN Ambulance Workers Fearlessly Go Into Sheet of Fire and Steel to Pick Up Wounded Terrific Slaughter Wrought by Machine Guns, Which Appear to Be Everywhere. Harry Collins of Lowell, Mass., now a member of the Tenth company, Firt regiment of the Foreign Legion of thn French army, writing of an inc ident of the Seiunie fighting at Sauterre, says: "Midnight was not far away, but o;e was sleeping, for the continual roar of heavy arti!lry, which caused the ground under our feet t pder like a huge rnonst'-r in the throes of death, and the countless thousands of soMilntr war rockets with the ir ghastly grcenih glar smartly whipped by a whisk little breczi from t lit iirth told us that the moment of the attack was near at hand. The Bayonet Charge. "Suddeiik there seemed to be a halt in the firing, and. feverishly grasping our lilies, we got ready to execute the order which arrived almost immedi ately: " 'L'n avonf a la baioinielte!" "Our bayonets were already fixed to our rifles, and an instant later we we re out of our trenches and up on the level uround, while around us little invisible messengers of de:ith of all doseriptioin dew swiftly by with a curious whis tling sound that was menacing in the darkness of the night. "The war rockets and bursting shells revealed our presence to the watching fix, however, and his firing became more and more galling as we stumbled heavily along over a plowed field striv ing to reach him. "Although our artillery had careful ly prepared the ground for us niauy Gerruans bad managed to escape the deluge of fire uiid si eel, and as they came crawling out of their hidiu-r places like so many gigantic beetles it seemed to us that almost every one of them had a machine gun. for their monotonous 'tic-tie-tic' constantly in creased in intensity. Holes Torn In Ranks. "Great gaping holes were torn in our funks as we pressed forward. At this moment the American ambulance field service, which is connected with the American Bed Gross, entered into action and showed what American grit and courage are capable of. "Filtering boldly right into the midst of this swirling sheet of fire and steel, the young American chauffeurs of these ambulances carefully and ten derly picked up the wounded men and placed them in their ambulances. They continued this Laardous work until their ambulances were filled; then, climbing upon their seats, they slowly drove away as nonchalantly as if they were taking a little pleasure spin. "This is only one of the thousands of ways that the American Bed t'ros is aiding the cause of humanity and civilization, for it not only rescues the wounded on the field of battle, but it takes care of them in the hospitals. It also feeds, clothes and lodges their un fortunate wives and children when these innocent victims of the war are in distress because their husbands or fathers are miles away nobly doing their duty as citizens of France." WILL AID RECRUITING. Postmasters to Help Swell Membership of Marine Corps. Postmasters are to lend assistance to the United States marines in the secur ing of recruits and will be paid .?." for each accepted applicant, according to an otiicial announcement made at Washington by the major general com mandant of that organization. A Hereafter the military looking youth who uppears at the postoflice may fail to be attracted by the gaily colored poster depicting the life of a marine, but he can scarcely escape the apprais ing eye of the postmaster or the hit ter's ' query, "ny, young fellow, why don't you join the marines V" 'Doubtless the young man with mili fary Inclinations will bring little ap prehensive shivers to his sweetheart when she suspects his frequent conver sations with the postmaster are rela tive to. the arrival and departure or "males." DEMAND FOR 22 CENT COIN. Director of Mint In Annual Report Rec ommends Their Coinage. A two and a half cent piece is de manded by the country, according ! the director of the mint, whose Jinnu.it report, made public recently, nvoiu mends passage of a law authorizing coins of that denomination from oopHr and nickel. "When you consider that we have n coin between the one cent piece ami the five, cent piece and that many an article worth more than a cent and less than 5 cents sells for the latter price be cause of the lack of an Intermediate monetary unit of value," says the di rector, "the economic importance of it will be readily eeen." i. I 1 1 r J