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British Troops at St Quentin; Surround Lens The Omaha Sunday Bee NEWS SECTION PART ONE PAGES 1 TO 16. THE WEATHER R ainoronow VOL. XL VI NO. 44 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 15. 1917 FORTY-FOUR PAGES FIVE SECTIONS. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. -.5 HOUSE PASSES SEVEN BILLION WAR MEASURE . x Lower Chamber Unanimously Adopts Bill Providing for ';. Bond Issue and Loan to the Entente Allies. LONDON REPLIES PRESENT Carried Late in Day - Amid Plaudits of the Members and Galleries. WHAT THE PROVISIONS' ARE Washington, April 14. The $7,000, 000,000 war revenue authorization bill was passed late today by the house. The vote of the house was unani mous, Speaker Clark directing that his rote be recorded as aye. Represen tative London, New York' socialist, was the only member answering pres ent. Cannon Likes Russia. Representative1 Cannon of Illinois said that personally his sympathies would be more with Russia than with the other governments among the al lies because, while other great powers during the American civil war wavered as to interference in behalf of the southern confederacy, Russia sentits fleet to New York and by its presence aided preservation of the union. The Moore proposal to provide re demption in fifty years wa rejected on a viva voce vote. After rejection of proposals to limit the term of the foreign loans bonds, an amendment by Representa tive Kitchin was adopted providing that not only that part of the $5,000, 000,000 bond issue first offered as a popular loan should be at not less than par, but the portion not sub scribed for, which the secretary of the treasury may otherwise dispose of, stall, be "at not less than par." A proposal by Representative Hdw ard of Georgia to write into the bill a provision that bonds should be is sued in denominations as low as $25 was defeated on the ground that it , ihould be left to the Treasury-depart-' irtcnt. - '.;"!'; rjt .loaning Knda,Witfc.Wr. (-,, ,' A committee amendment limiting ' the loaning authority so as to cease on the termination of the war with Germany was adopted; Another amendment limiting loans to the al lies against Germany and, declaring specifically that the foreign loan is for national defense purposes was adopted. "Representative Mann warned con gress the United States might be called on to spend vastly more money than proposed today and that the United States might have to raise great sums to finance the war on its own account. A resolution by Representative Sloan of Nebraska to strike out a section of the bill that permits any series of bonds issued to be converted into bonds bearing higher interest if any subsequent bonds are issued at higher interest by December 31, 1918, was overwhelmingly rejected. ; Three Drowned When High River Water Swamps Skiff Decatur, Neb., April 14. (Special Telegram.) Three persons were drowned here today when a skiff in which they were attempting to cross the Missouri river swamped and turned over. The three.drowned were Louis Beaver and his wife and a man named Jezipen. A fourth member of the party, Wylie English, swam ashore and saved himself. The party came to Decatur Friday and spent the night here. They were .eturning to their nomes on larms un it., t, ;u nf the river when theTHawarden youths in its ranks. The accident occurred. Th. river is vfrv hlEh at tniS time. I In some places near here it is so bad the waters are cutting away the nanks, and this morning the water was particularly rough, - Safe at Wyoming Coal Mine Robbed of $5,200 Sheridan, Wyo., April 14. The safe of the Carney Coal company at Car neyville was blown some time last night and the semi-monthly payroll of $5,200 taken. The robbers escaped. The Weather For Nebraska Rain or snow. , -Temperatures at Omaha Yeaterday. Hour. . Dea. Comparative Local Record, 1917. isit 11S. 1114. Hlglieit yeatcrday.... GS 3 80 71 bowaat yecterday. . . , . 38 37 (0 48 Mean temperature... it 60 65 86 Precipitation 00 .00 .00 .00 Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal: Normal temperature M lflf3lency (or the day... 4 Total excels since March 1 68 Normal precipitation 08 Inch Deficiency for the day..,,,. 08 Inch Total rainfall since Id arch 1.. t.OO Inches peflcleney since March 1, .60 Inch peflclency for cor, period, 1916,. 1. 11 incites Deficiency for cor. period, 1916.. .48 Inch U A. WELSH, Meteorologist. 1 . m jTwrt nm,..!!!!'!!! ENLISTMENTS BOOM IN ARMUNDJAYY Chief Fontenelle's Descendants Join Machine Gun Company of Nebraska Guard. GREEK-AMERICANS READY OMAHA MUSTER ROLL. Today. Total. . . .30 492 .. 1 225 .. 14 206 .. 0 14 .. 45 937 Army . . National Navy . . . Guard. Totals..... 45 National Guard officers momenta rily expect orders to move their head quarters to Fort Crook. They will not say whether they expect the or ders will be closely followed by an other order to assemble the Fourth regiment for active war service. In the latter contingency it is believed the Fifth regiment would then be called Into federal service to take over the guard duty now being done by the Fourth guardsmen. In the meantime recruiting in -the various(branches continues with good results. The army ai.d navy are still making fine howingSof new recruits and the guard companies ar. slowly but surely securing full complements of men. i ; Indians Respond. Indian braves, descendants of the great Chief Logan Fontenelle of the Omahas, and young Greeks of Sioux City are among the latest recruits for the war. ' Pierre Picotte, 19, and George Springer, 20, both from Walthill and tracing their warlike blood back to the brave Fontenelle, the red-skinned friend of the whites, have been signed up for the machine gun company of the guard by Private J..,Drolickv f Picotte 'told Private Drolick that his father -was Henry Picotte, a close relative of Logan Fontenelle, and that his aunt is Mrs. W. T. Didock of Walthill, one of the survivors of the old generation of Fontenjlle's kinsmen. Young Picotte and Springer are, therefore, of French as well as Indian blood. John N. Eliopoulous,' editor of a Greek-American paper, conferred with Captain McKinley Saturday morning. He told that army recruit ing officer that fifty young Greek Americans of Sioux City are ready to volunteer for the army. College Lads Apply. . Twelve college students applied Saturday to enlist in the aviation sec tion of the army signal corps. Four ct them, P.-F. Allen, E. J. Waugh, R B. Stowell and E. D. Barnes, came from the arts and science college of the University of Nebraska at Lin coln. The other eight, from the- en gineering and agricultural depart ments of the, Iowa State college at Ames, were: W. S. Wade, R. N. Haskins, W. P., McConnell,' E. B, Spencer, S. A. Mathrc, G. H. Knupp, Wayne Smith and Will J. Paige, the latter a foot ball player. -Boys Out State Join. Nineteen more army recruits were secured in communities around Grand Island and Hastings Friday and were sent direct from there to Fort Logan by Captain McKinley. More lads are coming from Hawar aen, la., to join the National Guard there. If they pass Company A of the guard will then haveiwenty-three boys 'of that town certainly are pa- u lulls. Arms Owned by Enemies in Denyer Seized by America Denver, April 14. Acting upon or ders from Washington, Department of Justice officials today notified chiefs of police and sheriffs in this district to issue orders to their men to notify all "alien enemies" to sur render their arms to the polite within twenty-four hours. If the orders are not complied with the department will confiscate the weapons. Philadelphia, April 14. An order was issued by the Department of Public Safety today directing all alien enemies in Philadelphia to it once surrender to the police all fire arms and other implements of war, in accordance' with President Wilson's recent proclamation declaring that a state of war exists with Germany. Failure to heed the order will result in summary arrest. ' Sixty-Eight Bakeries in Cologne Closed by Police Copenhagen (Via London), April 14. A Cologne dispatch to the Ber lin Tageblatt says that ' sixty-eight bakeries there have been closed by the police for violation of food reg ulations. At a meeting of bakers the guild master said that a third of all the bakers in Cologne were facing court proceedings, He declared that the method of many bakers in dispos ing of the flour allotted to them was shameful. URGE STOCKMEN TO STOP SELLING vniiNc- I Willi l Board of Stock Ej lutions mer TO AVOID MEAT SHORTAGE Use of All, Possible Rough I Stuff and Potatoes Is i j Desired. PRICE REGULATION COMES Fear of a shortage of meats and foods, caused directors of the Live Stock -exchange yesterday to pass resolutions encouraging stockmen and farmers to discontinue marketing im mature cattle, hogs and sheep and fur ther that they put to the fullest use ail rough pastures and gain in feeding, raising and fattening cattle. The di rectors held the exchange responsible to assist in the movement. This action was taken in co-operation with a nationwide campaign now being carried on by the National Live Stock exchange, in the conservation of meat'and food sources, at a special meeting of the directors. The Resolutions. The resolutions read: "Whereas, There is a grave danger of a serious shortage of food products, including meats, in this country, and as the present war is bound to create a still greater demand for food and meat products of all kinds, and a shortage1 bf meat would work a seri ous hardship on the welfare of our countrj-, therefore, be it "Resolved, By the board of directors of the South Omaha Live Stock ex change, in 'special meeting assembled this 13th day of April, 1917, that the stockmen and farmers of this terri tory be encouraged and assisted in every way in making the fullest use of all rough feed, pastures, and grain in feeding, raising and fattening live stock, and that they be encouraged to discontinue marketing immature cat tle, hogs or sheep; and, be it further y "Resolved, That the officers be in structed to give this matter the fullest publicity. '"... Look for. Regulation. Reported contemplatedTactiort bf the government in the plan of regulating meat, prices has a part in the move ment. It was given out at a meeting of members of the National Live Stock exchange held in Chicago last week. Messages from congressmen to Secretary C. B. Heinemann of the national exchange and to members of the board caused nation-wide interest to be taken in the matter. A meeting of the directors of the exchange was called and a plan of counter action immediately decided on. The assistance of live stock ex changes throughout the entire coun try was enlisted, congressmen from each of these, sections were notified and finally a committee of three, com posed of Mr. Heinemann, C. E. Brown, president of the Chicago Live Stock exchange, and Mr. Fletch er of the Indianapolis Live Stock ex change was dispatched to Washington to interview tounders ot the bill which 'proposed the abolition of speculative features of live stock ex changes of the country. this committee laid bare that the markets in the live stock centers are run on a cash basis and that prices are fixedxonly by the law of supply and demand. The committee, after meeting with senators and, representatives inter ested, was assured that congress planned no such action as reported. in a telegram sent to exchanec boards of. the country Mr. Heine mann gave positive assurance that there would be no action on the part of the government. His message reads: "The report that the govern ment intends to close the live stock exchanges is without foundation. The government contemplates no such action. Turks Driven From Positions and Now Are Being Pursued London, April 14. The Turks were driven from their positions near Ghaliyeh, ten miles northeast of Del tawah. (Deltawah is thirty-five miles north of Bagdad). They then with drew toward Seraijik and thence toward Dely Abbas. The British are pursuing the Turks. On Wednesday the Turks lost 500 killed and 700 wounded. - - i The Brtish won their victory by generalling the Turks. They made a strategical retreat, drawing the Turks after them and followed this by a night march, which enabled the Brit ish to fall on the Turks from the flank and put them to rout. Two Houses Are Agreed Upon Constitutional Convention Lincoln, Neb., April 14. (Special.) The conference committee report on House Roll No. 2, the constitution al convention bill, was adopted in the senate today. . It provides for a constitutional con vention to be composed of 100 mem bers elected from each representative district at the next general election. The members shall frame a constitu tion and upon a petition of twenty five of the members of the convention any amendment to the constitution may be submitted separately. This was a matter of disagreement between the two houses. vr jt- uf j4t Live 0 tfffina T?.0n- 1 J , tffTerritory. j 'What Is Condition, of tho Cont.itl For the best and cleverest answers, not exceed ing 50 words, the Bee will give prizes as here enumerated. Address Picture Puzile Editor, The Bee. Answers must be in by Wednesday, April 18. Awards announced Sunday, April 22. Award and Bait Answers in Lait GOVERNOR DECIDES MUST PASSDRY LAW House and Senate Told Special Session Will Be Called if Prohibition Bill Fails. URGES A NEW COMMITTEE (From a Staff Correapondent.) Lincoln, Neb., April 14.f-(Special Telegram.) Governor Neville took the bull by the horns this morning and sent a communication to both blanches of the legislature informing them that unless the, legislature passed the prohibition bill that he would call a special session. He declared that he would intro duce no new bill and that as the con ference committee, which had agreed upon everything but one section, could not get together he urged a new committee. It is understood that the hitch is on Section 1 of the bill, which describes irtoxicating liquors and the "near beer" proposition is the cause of the disagreement. Deadlock Over Near Beer. According to a statement tonight by Representative Flansburg, who speaks for the other members of the house conferees on the prohibition bill, the question over which the committee is at loggerheads is the manufacture and sale of "near beer." The senate members of the confer ence committee hold that the manu facture and sale of near beer is not prohibited by the amendment because it is not intoxicating, while the house members insist that any beverage containing alcohol of any per cent is capable of intoxication and therefore prohibited by the amendment sub mitted. Outside of this one item the com mittee is together in reporting the bill. Cold Weather is Good For the Growing Crops Railroad men assert that the con tinued cold weather is the best thing that could happen. to the small grain, as it gives it a chance to root; even if the growth of the plant is slow. At the same time it is contended that the cold weather is ideal for the fruit crop, holding the buds back so long that when warm weather does come, the season will be so far advanced that there vill be no danger of a kill ing frost. ' . i : Quentin Roosevelt Joins -Canadian Aviation Corps Montreal, April 14. Quentin Roose velt, son of. Colonel Theodore Roose velt, has joined the Canadia aviation corps to obtain instruction for service with an American army at the Euro pean front should such an expedition go abroad, it was announced by Col onel Mulloy. one of the organizers of the Tour of War convention. If no American troops go to France young Roosevelt will Serve with the Cana" dian'air forces, Colonel Mulloy stated. i ; . the Father Saying to Ton First Priie Second Prize Three Prizes Five Prizes Anawara may eparata ahft of WmIc's Cont.it Art to bo Found on La STORE' CELEBRATES THIRTjETHBIRTHDAY Hayden Bros. Have Been Con stantly Growing in Same Location Thirty Tears. TO HAVE GLAD CLOTHES The story of the growth of the de partment store institution known as Hayden Brothers, fits closely to the story of the growth of Omaha. Hay den Brothers have been growing with growing Omaha for thirty years, To day is the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the firm in this city. The-original store was in one room on Sixteenth street, between Douglas and Dodge streets, the floor space be ing ' 33x100 feet. Today the stores cover acres of space and a large corps of employees serve the many patrons of this vast mercantile firm. The anniversary will be observed this week by holding monster sales and by displaying new and large stocks in all departments. The store will be decorated for the occasion. Starts in Modest Way. Joseph Hayden, who is head of the firm, remembers when the first store was opened on Sixteenth street. It was a modest place, in keeping with the demands of the time and the place, and by adhering to the policy of ''Best goods at best prices,' the firm steadily advanced, increasing floor space and stocks and clerks until today it stands as one of the great establishments of the west. A year ago attractive show win dows were added to the main floor on Sixteenth street. Hayden's music de partment for many years has been one of the strong features of the store. The basement of Hayden's has developed into a market place where thousands visit every day. Much of the success which has been enjoyed by this firm has been due to their liberal policy it. newspaper ad vertising. President Hayden has ap preciated that it is one thing to have the goods the people want and an other thing to let the people know he has what they want. He has found that by reaching the people through judicious advertising in the daily press he is enabled to increase his business. It is a notable tact that Hayden Brothers were the first department store men in the west to add a line of pianoes to their stock. The growth of their musical department has been marked from the time it was started. The furniture department likewise has grown by leaps and bounds. Vari ous institutions have been furnished through Hayden Brothers furniture department. "Try Hayden's First" is the motto of the store, the thought being that when a patron buys goods at this store, he will be served in such a manner that he will return for more goods. Hayden's store is known through out the west. The anniversary sale this week will have many attractive features for all classes of patrons. Preparations are being made to re ceive purchasers and visitors. His Son? Prisos for Best An.wars. 12.00 in Cash .... The Original Picture - - (each) 2 Orpheum Tickets . - , - (each) A Popular Novel b wrtttan hi blank ip.e. In pletura or on paper, aa preftrrad. it Pago of Today's Feature Section PREDICTS PEACE ' WITHIHFEW WEEKS Danish Paper Says Negotia tions Carried On, Through International Socialists. KAISER'S ALLEGED TERMS Copenhagen, April 14 (Via Lon don). Peace within two months and a half is predicted by the Copenhagen correspondent of the Danish socialist press, which confirms the reports of unofficial negotiations between Rus sian and German socialists as against the diplomatic denials in the socialist newspapers here and in Berlin. The first negotiations, says the cor respondent, who is a socialist mem ber of the Danish parliament, were broken off, enabling two papers to launch a denial that they were in progress, but they were immediately resumed and are being prosecuted vigorously. Ihe correspondent then enters into a discussion ot peace terms, in which he appears to take German socialist expectations and hones for the government policy. "I am assured from an absolutely trustworthy source," he says, "that Germany is ready to restore Belgium and Serbia, evacute trance ana wjtn Turkey arrange an agreement with Russia over the free navigation of the Dardanelles. An agreement is also possible on the Polish question, as the Russian government Knows. The correspondent pictures Eng land as the sole obstacle to peace There is reason to believe that the first part of his statement regarding negotiations betweei. Russian and German socialists is correct, but his exposition of German peace terms conflicts with the recent highly offi cial dec aration of the North German Gazette that Germany is willing to conclude peace, hut on terms com patible with the great saennces wnicn lb nas iuhuc. German Socialists Enroute. Amsterdam, April U. (Via Lon don.) A Vienna dispatch says that the Austrian Parliament win De sum moned to' meet in the middle of May. The. German newspapers say that not only is Philip bcheidemann, leader of the majority socialists, on his way to Stockholm, but that he is accompanied by three prominent German socialists, Addler, Erzberger and Haase. The men are traveling on special passports and it is believed in Berlin socialist circles that they will meet envoys of the Russian gov ernment, with whom they will proceed to Petrograd. Topeka Club Women Adopt Thirty-Five War Orphans Topeka, Kan., April 14.-rTopeka club women today adopted thirty-five French war orphans following organ ization here of a branch of the Amer ican Society for the Relief of French Orphans. The children were adopted by individuals and so:ieties, who pledged themselves to contribute funds to pay for their maintenance. I ENGLISH WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED YARDS OF GOAL Carry Nearby Village' at Point of Bayonet, Germans Losing Heavily as They Make Tierce Resistance. LENS AREA IS INVESTED Fayet, Mile Northwest of St. Quentin, is Captured by British Troops. FRENCH BUSY IN SOUTH BULLETIN. London, April 14. Bntun troops now art within a few hundred yards of the town of St Quentin. During Saturday, says the official statement from British headquarters in Franc tonight, Field Marshal Haig'i men fought their way south and east of fayet, one mile northwest ot St. Quentin. The village of Cricourt, one mile north of Fayet, was carried at the point of the bayonet. The Ger mans are reported to have resisted tuDDomiy ana suncrea many jcuicu and wounded, in addition to the loss of more than 400 prisoners. The mining center of Lena now is virtually surrounded on three sides by th advancing British troops. The town of Lievin, southwest of St. Pierre, northwest of Lens, also has been taken. Along the entire front ' from the Scarpe river to south of Loos, the British have pressed for ward and have reached points two to three miles cast of Vimy ridge. South of the Scarpe river there was heavy righting in which the Germans employed strong reserve forces, tier-, man attacks and counter-attacks fol lowed one another at short intervals, but the British troops maintained the positions previously captured and in flicted serious losses on tne attackers. London, April 14. The British have taken a bulldog grip on the whole German line from Loos to north of St. Quentin and refuse to be shaken off. . ; Under what the newspapers call the "Haig plan," first cme section of the Hindchonrg line and then another has been subjected to violent bom bardment, followed by infantry attacks which have badly shaken, if they have not seriously, broken! the , front !oh which the Germans have depended for the defense of the industrial dis- tricts of France which have been in their hands for more than two, years. The Lens coal-mining area around the town is being closely invested and the German hold on it is becoming most precarious. Several more vil lages and positions southwest' of the town fell into British hands during tht night, together with four eight inch howitzers, and the line here has been linked up with the positions taken from the Germans in the bat tle of Loos. . i . The German stay in St. Quentin is likewise additionally threatened through the capture by the British of the village of Fayet,' a bare mile northwest of the town, from which point the British guns command the German ' lines ;of communication northward. Again the British have advanced further toward the Cambrai St. Quentin road, while southeast of Arras they are approaching Quean t. which is tho northern extremity of the new German line defending Cam b:ai. Home Commands Artillery. ' General Home, who is considered the greatest artillery expert in the Britith army and who assisted Gen eral Nivelle in the successful attack by the French north of Verdun in December last, commands the Brit ish forces around Lens, where, owing to the natural defenses composed of waste dumps around the mines, the artillery must largely be depended upon. General Home has on his right the army under Major General K. H. H. Allenby, who has also gained new laurels in this war. These generals and their colleagues under Feild Marshal Sir Douglas Haig work which many military writers expected would occupy a great part of the summer, but thus far there has been no flag-waving nor celebra tion in Great Britain. The impres sion prevails that greater events .will soon follow and that with the fall of Lens the relief of Lille will not be long delayed. f ' n : n T--r British Headquarters in France, , April 14. (Via London.) The Brit ish last night broke the German (Continued on I'aae Two, Column One.) Will United States Need Food Dictator? In Europe the food question is the biggest question or alt. All the principal European nations have their food supplies under government control. ' No food dictator is needed in th United State. Our vreat na tional food problem falls naturally to the federal Department ot Ag riculture for solution. The depart ment is already spending $38,000, 000 a year to solve problems of production, distribution and econ omical use. ' ' In the next few months its worl will be vitally important That work will be described in a series of articles by Frederic J. Haskin, entitled "The Department of Ag riculture," .appearing in The Bee, beginning .todays - .