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VOL. XLVI NO. 35.
OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1916 TEN PAGES.
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FOUR ARE NAMED
FOR PLACES ON
FARM LAND BOARD
President Wilson Expresses
Hope That Senate Will
Quickly Confirm the
Nomination.
TWELVE FARM LOAN BANKS
Country to Be Divided Into
Districts and Institutions
Distributed.
rWO OF EACH PARTY NAMED
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Washington, July 27. President
Wilson today nominated Charles E.
,Lobdell of Great Bend, Kan., jeorge
W. Morris of Philadelphia, V. S. A.
Smith of Sioux City, la., and Herbert
2uick of Berkeley Springs, W. Va.,
as members of the farm loan board
created under the rural credits bill re
cently passed by congress. Secretary
McAdoo is an ex-officio member of
the board.
The president hopes to have the
nominations confirmed quickly by the
senate in order that the organization
of the rural credits system be per
fected without delay. The board will
select the cities in which the twelve
farm loan banks will be located and
divide the country into districts for
the operations of provisions of the
Jill.
Looking (or Locations.
Secretary McAdoo already has facts
on valuable locations for the banks,
but the board will make a thorough
investigation of the question before
meeting.
Lobdell and Smith are republicans
and Norris and Quick are democrats.
The law provides that not more than
two of the appointed members of the
board belong to the same party.
From a list of more than 100 sug
gested by senators, representatives
and members of the cabinet the pres
ident selected a lawyer, a farmer, a
banker and a student of rural credits
problems.
Farmer, Lawyer and Banker.
Mr. Lobdell is a student of farm
ers' problems and has had exten
sive experience in loans on farm
lands. He was- a farmer before study
ing law, served in the Kansas legisla
ture for ten years and was speaker of
the Kansas house in 1895. In 1902
he was elected a' judge and served on
the bench for nine years, resigning
to become president of a bank at
Great Bend. He also is president of
a loan association and is connected
with several banks. He is past pres
ident of the Kansas Bar association
and of the Kansas Bankers' associa
tion. Mr. Norris, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, has been suc
cessively a newspaper man, a law
yer and a banker. In 1911 he retired
from the banking business to study
social and economic questions. Later
he became a director and deputy
chairman of the federal reserve bank
at Philadelphia.
Smith is Banker.
Mr. Smith, a farmer by occupation,
for the last year has been an expert in
farm practice in the Department of
Agriculture here and has had exten
sive experience in farming problems.
As a young man he went to sea and
became a ship master. For several
years he served on the loan commit
tee of a national bank in S.ioux City.
Mr. Quick until a few months ago
was editor of Farm and Fireside .and
for many years has devoted himself
to a study of rural credits and other
farm problems. Early in his career
he taught school and practiced law
and later was general manager of a
telephone company in Nebraska and
Iowa. He was nominated three
.times for mayor of Sioux City and
was elected once, serving from 1898
to 1900. He was nominated for su
preme judge in Iowa in 1902.
The Weather
For Nebraska Fair and continued
warm.
For Iowa Generally fair, with con
tinued high temperature.
Temperature at Omaha Yesterday.
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8 a. m. .
9 a. m.
10 a. m.
4 p. m.
6 p. m.
V
.. 94
.. 93
p. m 92
7 p. m 91
8 p. m 88
ComparatlTe Local Record.
1918. 1913. 1114. 1913.
Highest yttterdajr ..96 73 97 87
Lowtut yesterday ... 76 87 78 V2
Mean temperature ... 86 10 88 80
Treclpltatlon OB 1.36 .00 .00
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal:
Normal temperature 77
Excess for the day 9
Total excess since March I 149
Normal precipitation 14 tneh
Deficiency for the day..... 14 Inch,
Total rainfall since March 1 .9.67 Inches
Deficiency since aMrch 1 B.lltncnes
Deficiency for cor. period, 1916... .17 Inch
Deflclency for cor. period, 1914. . . .2.99 Inch
Beporis from Stations at 7 P. M.
High- Kill il
eal, fall.
88 .00
103 .00
92 .00
100 .00
i T
90 .00
94 .00
Station and Stale Temp.
of Weather. 7 p. m.
Cheyenne, clear 84
Davenport, clear '8
Denver, clear 84
V Molnea, clear 94
Dodre City, part cloudy I
Lander, clear 80
North Platte, clear .... 90
Omaha, clear ,91 96 .1
'Pueblo, part cloudy.... 82 14 .(
Rapid City, clear 109 I
Salt Lake City, cloudy.. 66 84
Santa Fe, part cloudy.. 63 76
Shoridan, cloudy. 86 B
Sioui City, clear ...... to t .
Valentine, clear 92 . 99 .
T Indicates trace of precipitation.
im WSLSH Meteorologist
ARM AND NAVY
BILLS GARRY BIG
TOTALS THIS TIB!
Bill Carrying Appropriations
Passes the Senate and Pro
vides Expenditure of
$685,343,017.
BRITISH WOUNDED BROUGHT IN UNDER GREAT PERIL Thi picture ahows the bringing in of British wounded
during a rain of fire. This photograph shows the manner in which one man courageously carried twenty injured comrades
out of the danger zone.
MEASURE TO CONFERENCE
Two Million Dollars for the
Relief of Families of
Guardsmen.
RIGHT TO VOTE STRICKEN
Washington, July 27. Nearly $700,
000,000 for national defense in the
fiscal year 1917 is the aggregate of
proposed appropriations reached in
the senate today with passage of the
army appropriation bill carrying in
round numbers $314,000,000.
This grand total for preparedness
still is subject to revision, however,
because the army bill will follow the
naval bill in conference, where reduc
tions are probable, despite the firm
attitude of President Wilson in sup
porting the liberal response of the
senate to the call for adequate de
fense. The Appropriations.
The appropriations for prepared
ness, as they now stand, are as fol
lows :
Army, 3I3,!0,H!.lO.
Navy, 1316,828,843.65.
Formications (law), $25,74S.0ol.
Military academy, f U,33S,328.5T.
Army and deflclency, K7,5&d,34S.0v.
Total, 1680,313,017.2;.
As it passed the senate, the army
bill exceeded the appropriations made
by the house by more than $131,000,
000. In the final hours of debate on
the measure, the senate agreed to an
appropriation of $2,000,000 for relief
of dependent families of national
guardsmen and regular army soldiers
in service in the Mexican emergency.
Distributions of the fund is left to
the discretion of the secretary of war,
but in no case shall any dependent
family receive more than $50 a
month.
Cut Out Right to Vote.
An amendment agreed to yester
day, giving the soldiers on the bor
der tne right to vote in the field at
the November election, was elimi
nated from the bill un a point of
order just before passage.
As soon as the army bill was out
of the way the senate took up and
passed, after brief debate, the military
academy appropriation bill, carrying
$2,228,338.57, an increase of $1,019,524
over the house authorization. In the
main the senate approved the military
committee's increase over house ap
propriations in . the army bill, al
though there were a few reduction in
hte committee recommendations due
to improvement in the Mexican situa
tion. Slayer of Wife and
Army Officer Has
Bond Refused
Alpine, Tex., July 27. Harry J.
Spannell, manager of a local hotel,
was given a preliminary examination
on a charge of killing his wife and
Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Butler,
United States army, here today be
fore Justice Ragin and remanded to
jail wtihout bond to await action of
the grand jury, which meets here
September 11.
Spannell, apparently crazed by
jealousy, it is asserted, shot and killed
his wife, daughter of John Holland,
a leading banker and cattleman of
west Texas, and the army officer, a
week ago today while the three were
riding in Spannell's motor car.' The
shooting, which occurred on a resi
dence street in Alpine, caused much
excitement throughout thesection.
When the prisoner was brought
into the court room it seemed obvi
ous to friends that he was on the
verge of a mental collapse. He
sobbed a greeting to the few officers
present and with bloodshot eyes
searched the room. Apparently he
paid little attention to the legal
phases of the examination, but mum
bled over and over again: "Oh, my
little girl, my own little girl" refer
ring to his 5-year-old daughter, now
at the home of her grandparents here.
Blacklist Protest
With Kick in It
Filed at London
London, July 27. Among the
strongest protests against the British
government's blacklist of, American
firms is one just received from G. W.
McNear, head of the Petroleum Prod
ucts company of San Francisco, who
points out that his firm is now load
ing the steamships Cacique and Wai
ruarino with valuable cargoes of pe
troleum products destined for Aus
tralia and New Zealand.
Mr. McNear declares in his state
ment that a large part of the con
tents of both ships already has been
resold by the Australian and New
Zealand merchants and he intimates
that if he is prohibited from deliver
ing the cargoes, a heavy compensa
tion will be demanded.
Cutters in East
St, Louis Packing
Plants Quit Work
East St. Louis, 111., July 27. Meat
cutters employed at the packing
houses here of Swift & Co., Armour
& Co. and Morris & Co. struck today.
Packing company officials say about
300 men walked out, but labor lead
ers say nearly 3,000 struck. The un
ion leaders assert the strike is due to
the discharge of fifty men who were
leaders in a secret movement to or
ganize the butchers.
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RUSS CONTINUE
TO MAKE GAINS
i IN EAST ARENA
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Petrograd Reports Capture of
J More Than Sis Thousand
! Teutons in the Fijht of r
' Tuesday. .
AUSTRIAHS IN RETREAT
AND THIS IS WHY
IT CONTINUES HOT
Weather Sharps Make Discov
ery That a "Bermuda High"
Is Responsible.
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT
Washington, July 27. A "Bermuda
High" is the official cause of the
worst heat wave that has enveloped
the country in fifteen years. Trans
lated from the cryptic language of
the weather sharps, that means a
great area of high pressure air has
been mobilizing on the weather drill
grounds in the Atlantic off Bermuda
for the last month and now has let
go the full power of its offensive from
the seaboard to the Rocky mountains.
For weeks it has stood like a solid
wall against heated currents, trying
vainly to move out from the interior
over the ocean and now as it swirls
rapidly along, it is gathering heat and
moisture from the tropics and sweep
ing them northward over the contin
ent into the vacuum of so called "low
pressure areas." Although its great
est intensity has not yet struck the
Pacific coast, it is expected to do so
within the next few days.
No relief is promised from the phe
nomena, which in the east has caused
sweltering city dwellers to light fires
in their homes to dry out the humidity
or which in the Mississippi valley
is threatening the destroy millions of
dollars worth of food crops.
Worst Yet to Come.
Chief Forecaster Frankenfield said
today that the heat wave only had
begun. It is certain to continue
through the week and probably longer.
None ot the conditions essential to a
break up are yet evident. The relief
which often comes from the north
west is nowhere in sight.
During all this month Forecaster
Frankenfield says the huge body erf
high pressure atmosphere has been
gathering over the western Atlantic
from Florida and east to the Azores.
It is very heavy in weight and thick
in dimensions. Heavy air always
flows to a place occupied by light air,
but unfortunately there is at present
an' area of light air in the tropics.
When the heavy air'arrives there, it
(inds there is still lighter air over the
continent. So it moves north in an
enormous sweep, burning hot from
the tropics and heavily laden with
sea-borne humidity. It is distribut
ing this heat and humidity over all
the continental United States in what
officials call the "Bermuda High."
The air in the middle west is be
coming much heavier and it may form
a local center where the air currents
will clash in series of thunderstorms
affording speedy relief through a re
adjustment of the areas of high pres-
Officers of Newark
Bank Are Held On
Conspiracy Charge
Newark, N. J., July 27. Warrants
for the arrest of Edward H. Hatch,
vice president of the Mutual Trust
company of Orange, N. J., closed
Monday by the state banking commis
sion, and for Thomas R. Brynes, sec
retary and treasurer of the institu
tion, were issued here today. They
are charged with consipracy to de
fraud the bank out of $306,000.
Hatch has for sixteen years been
treasurer of N. W. Halsey & Co., a
New York and Chicago bond house.
Byrnes, as treasurer ot the trust com
pany, is alleged to have allowed Hatch
to borrow $340,000 without adequate
collateral. It is charged, according to
the prosecutor, that Hatch with de
posits in the bank of only $34,000 in
duced Byrnes to issue hiin certifi
cates for the loan, which he hypothe
cated in New York.
Byrnes was held in $25,000 bail and
Hatch was placed under guard at his
home until he recovers from an ill
ness. .
War Summary
HEAVY SHELLING of the German Itatea
on the Bomme Iron or Britten r nne ta In
progress foUowuir the BrlMsb lUccetl In
capturing- Poslares. Apparently this la In
preparation for n renewal of the attaek.
BIMORS THAT an Important narai action
has oeenrrod ta Scandinavian waters worn
net today kj a statement of the Brltlah
admiralty that It had no report of any
naval activities la too region Indicated.
TIBKIHH CLAIMS to advantage over the
British In saralry skirmishes oast of Sues
are denied In n British report.
FETBOOBAD A3N01.NCKS the capture of
a total of o35o priaonen by the RaMlans
In the fighting of Tueaday, when the Ten-
. tonle lines wore pressed back la the alo
ne vka region of Tolhynla.
Hughes Confers
With Fall About
Mexican Outlook
New York, July 27. Charles E.
Hughes, presidential nominee, in a
long conference here today with
former Senator Fall of New Mexico
received a first-hand report of condi
tions along the Mexican border.
Among the nominee's other callers
were John C. Evcrsman, secretary of
the republican congressional cam
paign committee, and Dwight B.
Heard of Arizona, chairman of the
Arzonia state committee.
FODR NORWEGIAN
SHIPSARE SUNK
Vessels Laden With Timber
Bound for British Forts De
stroyed in North Sea.
CREWS ARE TAKEN QF7
London, July 27. German sub
marines have started a relentless war
against timber-laden vessels in the
North Sea. Four ships, all Nor
wegian, were reported to have been
sunk today. They wrcm Bams,
Siebrid, Juno and Kentgern. '
The captain and twelve men of
the Kentgern were landed today at
Shields, where they gave details of
the destruction of their vessels. The
German submarine commander, after
examining the Norwegian vessel's
papers is quoted by members of the
crew as saying:
"Well, I suppose I must do it. I
am sorry, but it is my duty. I am
sick and tired of the whole business."
The ship was then saturated with
paraffin and set on fire.
Twenty-eight men, members of the
crews of the Norwegian ships Bams,
Siebrid and Juno were landed at Rot
terdam today by a fishing smack,
says a dispatch to Lloyds shipping
agency. The three vessels were sunk
by torpedoes in the North sea while
carrying cargoes of timber.
German Steamship Attacked.
Berlin, July 27. (Wireless to Say
ville.) A delayed report from Ham
burg, dated July 19, received by the
Overseas News Agency today, gives
details of the previously reported at
attack by a Russian submarine on the
German steamer Elbe, off the Swed
ish coast, as follows:
"The German trading vessel Elbe,
bound from Bondswall to Lulea,
Sweden, was attacked off the Pert
of Ratan, a half mile from the shore,
by an enemy submarine, a torpe'o
being discharged without any warn
ing. The captain of the Elbe, by a
rapid maneuver, succeeded in dodg
ing the torpedo, which passed the
steamer at a distance of twenty
metres and exploded against the
cliffs."
Wilson Asks House
Dems to Support the
Big Navy Measure
Washington, July 27. President
Wilson summoned to the White
House today Representatives Padg
ett, Talbott and Estopinal, the rank
ing democratic members of the house
naval committee, and told them he be
lieved it vital that the house adopt
the naval bill as it passed the senate
with the construction program in
cluding four battle cruisers and four
battleships to be built immediately
and an increase in the enlisted per
sonnel of the navy.
The naval committee at a meeting
after the committee agreed to report
the bill back to the house with a rec
ommendation that the house disagree
to all the senate amendments and
send the bill to conference for ad
justment there. By some this was
taken as a favorable step for the
larger program.
Chairman Padgett later reported
the hill with ormal recommendation
for disagreement and conference. A
discussion of the senate amendments
followed, Representatives Cox of In
diana, Byrnes of Tennessee and other
protesting against certain features of
the increase.
Brigadier General
, James C. Lee is Dead
New York, July 27. Army circles
today heard of the death at Hague,
Lake George, N. Y yesterday of
Brigadier General James C. Lee,
United States army, retired. He was
80 years old. The funeral will be
held in Washington next Sunday. In
terment will be ill Arlington, Va.
L0BECK PRESENTS
OMARTS CLAIMS
Sees McAdoo Concerning City
as Candidate for Bank
Location.
CITES FIGURES TO SHOW
Washington, July 27. (Special
Telegram.) Representative Lobeck,
realizing that if Omaha was to have
a "look in" so far as securing one of
the farm loan banks was concerned,
action would have to be quick, pre
sented Omaha's claim to considera
tion at the hands of the farm loan
board by laying before Secretary Mc
Adoo cogent reasons why Omaha
should have consideration.
Secretary McAdoo said that for
merly it had been thought wise to
locate these farm loan banks in capi
tal cities, but frankly admitted that
in the case of Boston, Springfield
would be much preferable, althought
Boston is the capital.
This gave Mr. Lobeck his long de
sired opening to tell the secretary of
the advantages held out by Omaha,
and that it would be a most vital mis
take on the part of the board if, in
its tour through the country, if did
not stop at Omaha, , .
Omaha on the Map.
"Don't make a mistake like the one
you made with reference toxthe loca
tion of a branch of the federal re
serve bank," said Lobeck. "Omaha
is on the map and one of the big
towns of the country, you can see
Lincoln and Omaha in a day, and we
insist Omaha should be visited."
Mr. Lobeck recited a series of sta
tistics as to Omaha and then left with
Mr. McAdoo a mass of well digested
facts relating to the Gate City.
Secretary McAddo, seemingly
greatly impressed with the showing
made by the congressman, promised
to give the claims of Omaha and its
business men careful consideration.
Just as soon as the board is named
it will make a tour of the country to
collect, at first hand, dat and infor
mation to assist it in reaching a con
clusion as to the boundary of the
twelve districts into which the coun
try is to be divided.
Warrant Dismissed.
B. L. Benson of Omaha was ad
vised by Rrepesentative Lobeck to
day that the warrant for the deporta
tion of Vasilios (Bill) Kipriodis, a
Greek doing business at Sixteenth and
Capitol avenue, had been dismissed on
the ground of insufficient evidence.
Parshau Airship
Hero with Many
Honors is Killed
London, July 27. Lieutenant Otto
Parschau, recently given the decora
tion of pour le merite for bringing
down his eighth enemy aeroplane, has
been killed in an air battle, accord
ing to a Reuter's Amsterdam dispatch
which quotes the Frankfurter Zei
tung. President Signs Rivers
. And Harbors Bill
Washington, July 27. President
Wilson today signed the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill, carrying
approximately $42,000,000. Most of
the money is to be spent on existing
improvement projects.
Protest Against
Blacklist Cabled
To London by Polk
Washington, July 27. A note to
Great Britain objecting to the black
listing of American business firms as
an "invasion of neutral rights" was
cabled to London late last night by
the State departmtnt.
Acting Secretary Polk, announcing
today that the communication had
been dispatched, declined to discuss it
further than to say that it contained
"representations." He said it would
be given out for publication Monday.
TUNNEL WORKERS
STRIKE NATURAL GAS
New Theory is Given for Dis
aster at Cleveland Which
Cost Nineteen Lives.
FLOW OF OAS IS STRONG
Cleveland, O., July 27. Indications
that a well of natural gas was un
covered by the tunnel explosion here
last Monday were reported today by
L. M. Jones,' the government milling
expert sent here from Pittsburgh.
The flow ot gas not only mikes
recoveries of the bodies iu the wreck
impossible, but may prevent com
pletion of the tunnel, Mr. Jones said
The gas well, according to the ex
pert, is apparently of uncontrollable
proportions and the gas similar to
that at the suburb of Lake Wood.
Despite this development prepara
tions for further exploration were
made today. The bodies lie behind
a cavc-in nearly 300 feet !ong.
Special machinery will be needed
to penetrate this wall of muck. It
will require several days to install
it if the gas clears from the workings.
It will then require several days' dig
ging to reach the corpses, so in any
event no more bodies are expected
to be found for a week or more..
Water works officials said today
thejr believe there are only nine
bodies in the tunnel instead of eleven
as previously estimated. Patrick
Kearns, supposed to be entombed,
turned up alive today. He had over
stayed shore leave Monday and
missed death by a close margin. Jus
tice Aro, another thought to be with
the ill fated force, also has been re
ported alive. This rcduqes the total
loss of life to nincton.
The city investigation reached ex
amination of witnesses today.
Rumor of Big Naval
Fight in the Baltic
Sea is Unconfirmed
London, July 27. Officials of the
British admiralty informed the As
sociated Press today that they had
nothing to report of a new naval ac
tion in Scandinavian waters and had
received nothing in any wy confirm
ing unofficial reports of naval activ
ity in that region. .
A report published in a Stockholm
newspaper on Wednesday said that
prolonged firing had been heard Mon
day coming from fhe Gulf of Both
nia, which forms the northern arm
of the Baltic sea. The newspaper re
port supplied no details.
Worthless "Cures" for Infantile
Paralysis Are Offered For Sale
Washington, July 27. Warning
was iued to the oublic today by the
Department of Agriculture to look
with extreme suspicion upon any
preparation put on the market and p-
fn aQl si -hnincr ffffrtivp. for
icitu iui o.. " ---
the treatment of infantile paralysis.
Department olliciais cnargeo wun
tl, mfnri-rment of the food and
drugs act, an announcement says, "ex-
. tun .ni.thralr nf .nfr.titilp naralv-
sis will tempt unscrupulous persons to
offer lor sale so-caneo cures or rem
edies for this dread malady. They,
therefore, have issued special instruc
in (nnA and HrittT inHnectnr to
be particularly alert for interstate
snipmeillS or impuiauuno wi nicui-
cines, the makers of which allege they
will cure or alleviate tnis disease, tor
which at the present time no medici
nal cure is known."
ln.naptnrc hivr hpin instruptcn tn
collect samples of all such medicines
found in interstate commerce and of
ficials declare the makers will be
vigorously prosecuted whenever the
evidence warrants action under the
food and drugs act. Such remedies
offered for impqrt will be refused en
try. Government officials have noted
that in the past whenever a serious
epidemic has existed unscrupulous
dealers have preyed upon the fear or
ignorance of the public by flooding
the market with worthless, hastily
prepared concoctions for which cura
tive properties, which have no foun
dation whatever in fact, are claimed.
In the present infantile paralysis epi
demic, inspectors already have dis
covered shipments of a few such mix
tures. ' ,
In its warning the department
points out that the federal law does
not apply to preparations made and
consumed wholly within a single
state, such as patent medicines made
within New York state- and sold in
New York City, the center of the epi
demic. "Persons buying or using a
'remedy' made in their own state,
therefore," the announcement says,
"must rely on the protection aceor ded
them by their local health authori
ties." ... I .. . 'v.
Vienna Says Troops Are With
drawing Before Superior
Pressure, '.' ' '
BRITONS FIGHT ALL NIGHT.
i
Petrograd, July 27. (Via London.)
In a battle on Tuesday on the Rus
sian western front 6,250 Teutons were -taken
prisoner, says the official state
ment issued today by the Russian
war department. The Russians also
tapiurca live guns ana twenty-two
machine guns, ; ' .
Russian forces operating in the
Caucasus are continuing their pursuit
of the retreating Turks, the' state-,
nient says. In the Turkish fortress
oi trzingan, tne capture ot wnicn was i
announced yesterday, the Russians
took a depot of war material. "
. Austrian! Are Retreating.
Berlin, July 27. (Wireless to Say
ville.) An Austrian withdrawal be
fore superior Russian pressure north
of Brodv. in northeastern Galicia. is
announced by Austro-Hungarian army
neaoquarters in its report ot July 2b.
The statement says:
"South of Leszinow (twelve miles
north of Brody) our troops were with
drawn behind the Bolduka sector be-
lore superior enemy lorces, very vio-.
lent Russian attacks "in the 'vicinity
of Radziviloff (six miles northeast of
Brody) resulted in significant Rus
sian advantages." The' Russians suf-'
fercd extraordinarily heavy losses.
British Fight All Night
: London, July 27. Throughout the
night British troops continued to
press the Germans with hand-to-hand
encounters at various points on the
Sommc front in France, says the of
ficial statement issued today. 5 '
The text of the British, official
statement says:' '..;,':'''
' Throughout the nigh our artillery ;
had been active and we continued to
press the enemy with, hand-to-hand
encounters at various points.
" ''The enemy is using large numbers
of gas and tear shells in the battle
area. .,.., .
"Elsewhere on the British front
there was no incident of importance
in the last forty-eight hours."
German Official Report.
Berlin, July 27. (Via London.)
Russian troops lasi night made a fu- -tile
storming attack against the Ger
man positions on the Shan river,
norhtwest of Liachovichy it was an
nounced by the German general staff
today. The Russians, it is added, also
were sanguinarily repulsed in the re
gion west of Berestechk. -
British i hand 1 grenade attacks
against the German lines to the west .
of the town of Pozieres, in . the
Somme region, were repulsed yester
day, according to the announcement
made by the German headquarters to
day ' : . , ', ..
South of the Somme river a French
attack, launched at a point northeast
of Barleaux, failed, the statement
adds. , .. n-' - .
In the . Verdun region several
strong French attacks were- carried
out in the region of Froide Terre and
Fleury, but they were repulsed. Fight- '
ing continues at some points. , "
"Everybody Works ;
"But Father," Says
Senator Kern
Washington, July 27. ''Everybody
works but father," said Senator Kern,
democratic leader of the senate, sub
mitting for publication in the Con
gressional- Record a large number of
telegrams he received today pro
testing against passage of the child
labor bill. Among the messages
were: "'. ' ... - .
J'Father of a large family, am op-
posed to child labor bill."
"I have a young family coming on,
dependent on cotton mill. Defeat tho
Keating bill.''-
Mayor of Mitchell
Asks for Troops
Mitchell, S. D.; July 27. Mayor J.
E. Wells today made an appeal to
Adjutant General Morris for militia
to cope with the lawless harvest hands
who are passing through the city 'by
hundreds daily. He requests that the
local militia company, now ' at 'the
state mobilisation camp at Redneld,
be returned to Mitchell. .
During the last few days the liar
vest hands have seized several pas
senger and freight trains and caused
alarm among the people of small
towns on the railroads. .r .
Desirable '
Tenants:.
.are the kind of peopld.
. who: pay - their - renfl
v; promptly. , , .'( .
Advertise your vacant!
, : rooms, in The Bee and,,
vf.'' get desirable tenants."
v "Phone Tyler, 100ft j;;
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