6 A
WILSON REJECTS
PLAN OFROOSEVELT
President Says, After Being
Advised by Experts on Both
Sides of Water, He Will
Not Use Such an Army.
Washington, Ma; 18. Colonel
Roosevelt will not be permitted to
raise his volunteer expedition to
carry the American flag against the
Germans in France.
On signing the army bill last night,
President Wilson issued a statement
saying that, acting nnder expert ad
vice from both sides of the water, he
would be unable to avail himself it
the present stage of the war of the
authorization to organize volunteer
divisions.
Cites Officers' Arguments.
In his explanation of his reason for
not availing himself of the so-called
Roosevelt amendment to the army
mil, Mr. Wilson has brought out
sharply the points made against that
amendment by army officers, regard
less oi tneir personal political lean
ings or their regard for Mr. Roose
velt himself.
Many officers have unhesitatingly
condemned nis proposal to raise a
volunteer army corns or division on
the ground that it would drain the
regular service of men vitally needed
to train the millions that must be
quickly whipped into fighting trim.
Want Wood at Home.
The list of regular officers Mr.
Roosevelt desired to take with him
has been the subject of much specula'
tion and comment It has been re
garced as virtually certain that
Major General Leonard Wood was
the former president's selection for
supreme command oi the force.
Under the plans of the War de
parlment. General Wood has been as
signed the hardest task of any gener-
al officer. He will direct, as com
mander ot the southeastern depart
ment, the mobilization and training of
twelve divisions, or more than 300,000
men, among whom, without Question
will be those who will be first selected
to follow General Pershing's forces to
ranee.
There was talk in army circles to
night of the possibility that a way
would be found to use the former
President's services in another way,
ut official comment on the subject
was lacking.
Wilson's Statement,
The president's statement follows:
"I shall not avail myself, at any rate
at the present stage of the war, of
the authorization conferred by the act
to organize volunteer divisions.
"To do, so would interfere with the
carrying out of the chief and most
immediately important purpose con
templated by this legislation, the
prompt creation and early use of an
effective army, and would contribute
practically nothing to the effective
strength of the armies now engaged
"I understand that the section of
this set which authorizes the creation
of volunteer divisions' in addition to
the draft was added with view to
providing an independent command
for Mr. Roosevelt and giving the mil
itary authority an opportunity to use
his fine vigor and enthusiasm in re
cruiting the forces now at the western
front
Acts on Expert Advice.
"It would be very agreeable to me
to pay Mr. Roosevelt this compliment
and the allies the compliment of send
ing to their aid one of our most dis
tinguished public men, an ex-president,
who has rendered many con
spicuous public services and proved
his gallantry in many striking ways.
"Politically, too, it would no doubt
have a very fine effect and make a
profound impression. But this is not
the time or the occasion for compli
ment or for any action not calculated
to .contribute to the immediate suc
cess of the war. The business in
hand now is under practical and of
scientific definiteness and precision.
I shall act with regard to it at every
step and in every particular under
expert and professional advice, from
both sides of the water.
"That advice is that the men most
needed are men of the ages contem
plated in the draft provision of the
present bill, not men of the age and
sort contemplated in the section
which authorizes the formation of
volunteer units, and that for the pre
liminary training of the men who are
to be drafted we shall need all of our
experienced officers.
Mr. Roosevelt told me, when I
had the pleasure of seeing him a few
weeks ago, that he would wish to have
associated with him some of the most
effective officers of the regular army.
He named many of those whom he
would desire to have designated for
the service and they were men who
cannot possibly be spared from the
too small force of officers at our com
mand for the much more pressing and
necessary duty of training regular
troops to be put into the field in France
and Belgium as fast as they can be
got ready.
"The first troops sent to France will
be taken from the present forces of
the regular army and will be under
command of trained soldiers only.
Cannot Escape Responsibility.
"The responsibility for the success
ful conduct of our own part in this
great war rests upon me. I could not
escape it if I would. I am too much
interested in the cause we are fighting
for to be interested in anything but
success.
"The issues involved are too Im
mense for me to take into considera
tion anything whatever except the
best most effective, most immediate
means of military action. What these
means are I know from the mouths
of men who have seen war as it is
now conducted, who have no illusions
and to whom the whole grim matter
is a matter of business. I shall center
my attention upon those means and
let everything else wait.
"I should be deeply to blame should
I do otherwise, whatever the argu
ment of policy for a personal gratifi
cation or advantage.
Wife of Rich Army Man
Granted Divorce Decree
San Francisco. Cal Mav 19. Mrs.
Margaret C Crimmins was granted a
divorce here today from Captain Mar
tin L. Crimmins,'. reputed to be one of
the wealthiest men in the United
States army.
She alleged desertion and was given
the custody of two sons, 14 and 11
years old.
May Queen
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Gala dav festivities at the Univer
sity of Omsha Friday reached the cli
max when Miss May Leach, popular
senior, was crowned queen of May.
Miss Esther Knspp of the junior
TROOP VESSEL IS
SENT TO BOTTOM
Delayed Admiralty Report An
nounces Oameronia, With
Soldiers on Board, De
stroyed by U-Boat.
London (Delayed by Censor), May
19. It is officially announced that the
transport Cameronia has been sunk.
One hundred and forty men on board
are missing.
The admiralty statement follows:
"The British transport Cameronia.
with troops was torpedoed by an
enemy submarine in the eastern Medi
terranean on Anril IS. One hundred
and forty men now are missing and
are presumed to have been drowned."
J. he survivors of the Cameronia sav
the vessel was torpedoed in fine, calm
weather in the afternoon. The sub
marine was not seen.
One Boat Smashed.
A large number of the casualties
are due to the explosion of the tor
pedo which struck where there hap
pened to be many soldiers. There
was some excitement and confusion
at the outset .after the torpedo had
struck, but discipline soon prevailed.
The boats were smartly launched, but
one of them was smashed and many
lives were lost.
The Cameronia was afloat for forty
minutes after it was torpedoed, which
enabled torpedo destroyera to run
alongside the doomed vessels. Sol
diers from the Cameronia jumped on
these boats in disciplined succession.
The destroyers ceased taking on men
as soon as they had obtained their
tun complement Many men from the
Cameronia. who jumped into the
water were picked up by the boats.
Commander Last to Go.
Several tales are told of gallant
rescues. Chief Officer McBurnie sank
while trying to save a drowning sol
dier. McBurnie was a survivor of the
Anchor Line steamer California, when
it was sunk off the Irish coast bv a
submarine in February of this year.
uavia w. cone, commanding the
Cameronia, was the last to leave the
steamer, jumping from the bridge into
the wireless apparatus of a torpedo
boat destroyer.
One of Biggest of Anchor Line.
The British steamer Cameronia. of
10,963 gross tons, was one of the
largest ships belonging to the Anchor
line of Glasgow. It was requisitioned
dv tne British government. May l,
1916. and its passengers were trans
ferred to the Lusitania, which was
sunk off Kinssle, May 7, 1915. while
carrying the Cameronia's passengers.
For the last two years the Cameronia
has been.used in the transport service.
Railroads Are Roasted for
Unwillingness to Pay Debts
New York, May 19. The Equit
able Trust company was awarded a
verdict ot fii,Ji,i? against tne
Denver & Rio Grande Railway com
pany in the United States district
court today, upholding a contract to
float a SiU.WU.WO bond issue to fi
nance the Western Pacific Railway
company and the Denver St Rio
Grande system made in 1905.
the court ruled that repudiation
was dictated by a "naive unwillingness
to keep on paying their debts."
German RumOr of Peace
Between Russ and Teutons
London, May 19. According to the
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam, it is rumored at The
Hague that a truce is about to be
arranged between Russia and the
Central Powers as a result of the po
litical changes at Petrograd. The
rumor is characterized as of German
origin.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
To Success.
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 20, 1917.
and Her Maid
class took was her maid of honor.
The crowning took place in Kountze
park Friday evening. Pretty girls
from the other classes also attended
the queen.
Villa Kidnap 110
fiirh; Twenty Die
Chihuahua City, Mexico, May 19.
Official confirmation was re
ceived here today of a report that
while in the Kamiquipa district
Villa kidnaped 110 girls between the
ages of 10 and 20 and kept them in
his camp while there.
Twenty of the girls are' said 'to
have died in two days as the result
of the brutalities of the men.
Labor to Be Represented
At Conservation Meeting
Dr. George E. Condra of the Uni'
versity of Nebraska, director of state
soils, spoke last night before the Cen
tral Labor Union and urged the mem'
bers to attend the conservation con.
Sress to be held in the Municipal Au
itorium from Tuesday to Friday.
In response to Dr. Condra's suirires-
tion, 1. V. Reynolds, president of the
central i-soor union, appointed the
following men to represent the union
at tne congress:
A. a WeltMl
John Pollan
H. W. Rnitoelc
E(l Bent&l
Hush Drohan
B. W. Dlnr
T. A. MentUl
Frank Lynrh
John M. Barsar
Q. Lawaon
M. Courtanay
John P. Hanaon
BJ. H. Farnam
K. B. Oohn
A. J. Honnlntaon
J. B. Van Boaklrk
V, J, Andaraan
l. 10. Barsantael
1. M. Finn
?. A. SrhroMar
T. V. Crawford
T. W. Butlar
M. P. Nalaon
Jamaa F. Murphy
J. D. Murphy
O. L. Baker
J. Whlllnl
M. N. Orlfflth
P. J. Hullar
Adolph Hullar
H. B. Hyland
J. P. Carlon
J. J. Xerrlsaa
r. W. Cowney
Charles Crlaman
Krank Maniell
3. E. Phelpa
N. B. Dalay
C. H. Stacey.
J. Oruhn
3. C. Maxwall
Robart Dunlap
Iowa Man With Smallpox
Walks Into Police Station
J. T. Larson, aged 23, of Sidney,
la., a victim of smallpox, drove in his
auto from Sidney to Omaha last night
and walked into the police station. He
was suffering from an advanced stage
of the disease.
Before he came to the police sta
tion Larson drove to Immanuel hos
pitsl. He called outside his sister,
Minnie, who is a nurse. She noticed
the eruptions on his face.
"You have smsllpox," she told him.
Larson got in his car and drove
alone, to the police station His sis
ter and another nurse followed in a
street car.
Police Surgeon Nigro ordered Lar
son's immediate removal to the pest
house.
Larson drove in his own car to the
pest house. Albert Wallace, a taxi
cab driver, who drove another ma
chine a few rods in front of Larson,
showed him the way.
The nurses were allowed to go
home on their promise to fumigate
their clothing and take every other
precaution.
Barricades Himself in
Bathroom When Police Come
John Zilnik, aged 40 years, threat
ened to kill his sister and himself last
night at their home, 1030 Dominion
street ,
She telephoned to police. Officers
Joe Heil and John Coffey found Zil
nik had barricaded himself in the
bath room.
"He's armed," the sister warned, as
the police made for the bath room.
Heil went to the window of the
bath room. Coffey went to the door.
"Open that door," Coffey ordered.
"No," said Zilnik.
"I'll break it down and shoot," said
Coffey.
Zilnik slid the lock' open and the
officers grabbed him. The sister told
police that he was released a year ago
from the Norfolk asylum for the in
sane. DRINK
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TAXPR0ISI0H
Tentative Decision Beached to
Change Clause of Bevonu Bill
Attacked by Publishers as
Blow to the Press.
Washington, May 19. A stormy
session of the ways and means com-
mittee yesterday resulted in a final de
cision not to attempt to raise through
the pending war revenue bill a total
of $2,245,000,000, Secretary McAdoo's
estimate of half the cost of the first
vear of the war.
The advisahilitv of raisinor snnroxi-
mately $400,000,000 by bond issue for
the purchase ot ships was discussed
and a tentative decision was reached
to modify the second class mail rate
and automobile and musical instru
ment tax sections of the measure.
Republicans declared at the meeting
they would comhat any attempt to
write into the bill $445,000,000 differ
ence between the original total of the
measure and the secretary's latest war
cost estimate. Pressure for such a pro
posal, they declare, would result in
abandonment of their agreement to
support the committee measure.
Convinced of the iniouitv of the one
rate system on second class mail mat
ter now contained in the bill, the com
mittee virtually decided to substitute
a proposal which would fix a flat rate
of 6 cents a pound on reading matter
and the parcels post zone rate on ad
vertising matter. Under this plan
publishers would make their returns
to the Postoffice department and be
charged accordingly.
This proposal, as well as the one to
lower the automobile and musical in
strument 5 oer cent, now contained in
the bill, will receive further considera
tion as the daily meetings of the com'
mittee progress.
After thrashing out its differences
the committee returned to the house,
sitting as a committee of thewhole
and successfully resisted repeated at
tempts to amend the retroactive -income,
excess profits, beveraee and
cigars and tobacco products sections
OI 1116 OHI.
Whisky Toll Increased.
Provisions upheld include a retroac
tive tax of one-third the amount of
the income tax of every1 person as
sessed last year, a doubled excess
profit tax. an increase on whiskv from
$1.10 to $2.20 a gallon and from $1.20
to iK.iu on oeer as well as a new sott
drink tax and a doubled tax on to.
bacco and snuff and many other to
bacco products.
It is estimated that approximately
$550,000,000 in additional revenue will
be produced by the increases in the
four sections. Retroactive income
taxes are expected to vield $108,000.
000; excess profits $200,000,000; bever
ages, $l7l,mu,W0 and cigars and to
oacco ?&s,zuu,uuu.
Wet and drv forces clashed for at
most two hours over an amendment
by Representative Howard of Georgia,
designed to eliminate the liquor tax
increase. The amendment was over
whelmingly defeated.
Roosevelt Has Nothina to
5ay About Rejected Plan
Oyster Bav. N. Y.. Mav 19. Colo
nel Theodore Roosevelt declined to.
night to comment on President Wil.
son's refusal of his offer to raise a
volunteer army for immediate service
in r ranee.
I have nothina- to sav tonieht."
said tne tormer president. 1 wired
to President Wilson this afternoon
offering to raise two divisions for im
mediate service, and if he so desired,
two otner divisions.
Colonel Roosevelt exoressed keen
interest in the news of Major General
Fersmngs order to lead an expedi'
tionary force of reeulars to France.
General Pershing is one of the few
regular army officers Colonel Roose
velt has often mentioned as suitable
to command the American overseas
torce.
Omaha Girls Prepare to
Take Up the Work of Men
Young women and girls of Omaha
are beginning to fit themselves to
take up the work of the men palled
to the front as soldiers. Alreadv
many of them are laying plans to go
to the harvest fields as soon as grain
is leady to cut.
In most of the bis stores and in a
numby of the office buildings women
are taking lessons in running ele
vators and doing janitor work.
Little Lad Hit by Auto
Is But Slightly Injured
Ivan Turver. asred 9 vears. was hit
by an auto last night at Eighteenth
and Cass streets while his mother and
father looked on.
The bov suffered several cuts in his
face.
The driver of the auto took the boy
to the Turver home at 411 North
Eighteenth street
rolice Surgeon Nigro reoorts that
the lad suffered no broken bones.
Bum le Shifted.
Art Buea. formerly with tin New York
Olante. haa bean ahlfted from tha Columbua
American aaaoclatlon team to tha Baltimore
team ot the International league.
Persistent Advertising- Is the Road
To Success.
"Oh ttear, tbckrthe8 E
v vrffl be jnettrtv. I
President Wilson Confers
With Leaders in Congress
Wsshington, May 19. President
Wilson had an hour's conference to
night with Senators Gallinger, Lodge
and Knox, three of the most promi
nent republican members of the sen
ate. All the senators refused to dis
cuss the object of their visit, but it is
understood the president explained
some of the legislative questions that
have come up in the last few weeks
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Doctor Says Crying
Of the Woman of Today
Is More Iron In Her Blood
TO PUT STRENGTH
Any Woman Who Tires Easily,
Administration of Nuxated
Strength
"There can be no healthy, beautiful, rosy
without iron." says Dr. t erdinand King,
York physician and medical author. "In my
to physicians on tha
grave and serious conse
quences of iron defi
ciency In the blood of
American women. I have
strongly emphaslied the
fact that doctor should
prescribe more organic
iron nuxated iron for
their nervous, run-down,
weak, haggard - looking
women patient. Pallor
means anaemia. The
skin of the anaemic
woman is pale, the flash flabby.
The muscles lack tone, the brain
fags and the memory faila. and
often they become weak, nervous.
irnuaoie, neeponaent ana melancholy.
When tha Iron sroea from tha hlmirt
of women, the roses go from the
cheeks.
"In the most common frvwfa nf
America, the starches, sugars, table
syrups, candles, polished rice, white
bread, soda crackers, biseultsu mac.
nroni, spaghetti, tapioca, sago, farina,
degerminated eornmeal no longer la
iron 10 oe round. Kenning pro
cesses have removed the iron of
m otner uarth from these im
poverished foods, and silly math.
ods of home cookery, by throw
ing down tne wast nine the
water in which our vegetables
are cooked, are responsible for
another grave iron loss.
Therefore, if yon wish to
preserve your youthful vim and
vigor to a rip old age. you must
upply the iron deficiency in your food by
using some form of organic iron, just a you
would us salt when your food ha not
enough salt.
'A I have said a hundred times over.
organ (c iron Is the greatest of all strength
builders. If people would only take Nuxated
Iron when they feel weak or run-down. in.
stead of doaing themselves with habit-forming
drugs, stimulant and alcoholi bever
ages I am convinced that in
this way they eould ward off
disease, preventing It becom
ing organic in thousand of
cases and thereby the live of
tnousanas might d saved wno
now di every year from pneu
monia, grippe, kidney, liver.
heart trouble and other dan
gerous maladies. The real and
true eaus which started their
disease was nothing more nor
less than a weakened condition
brought on by lack of iron in
tne Mooa.
'On aceonnt of the oeenliar nature of
woman, and the great drain placed upon
nor system at certain periods, ane require
iron much mora than man to help auk up
for the loss.
'Iron is also absolutely necessary to en
able your blood to ehanga food into living
tissue. Without it no matter how much or
what you cat. your food merely passes
through you without doing you any good.
You don't get the strength out of it, and
lou .on c get ino .ir.nBMi ou oi it, ana
as a eonaeuuenee you become weak, pale and
sickly looking, just lik. a plant trying to
grow In a aoll deficient In Iron. If you are
net strong or well, you w It to yourself
to make the following t.ett 8n how long
you can work or how far yon ean walk
withowt becoming tired. Next take two five-
min- eahlt. nf XT.tMl Imn thrM time,
per day after naeala (or two weeks, then
7
that have excited vigorous criticism in
congress.
Mr. Gallinger is the minority leader
of the senate, Mr. Lodge ranking re
publican on the foreign relations com
mittee and Mr. Knox a member of
that committee and a former secre
tary of state. All three have criticised
the administration, but have dis
claimed any desire to take a partisan
view of the war.
As a result of the conference the
president was said to be hopeful that
many of the principal measures on
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CHEEKS
is nSwous or Irritable, or Looks
Have Her Blood Examined for Iron Deficiency.
Iron in Clinical Tests Gives
and Makes Women Look Years Younger.
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recent talks
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Dr. Ferdinand King, New York Physician and
Medical Author, UUi physicians that they
should prescribe more organic iron Nuxated
Iron Jor their patients Says anaemia iron
deficiency is the greatest curse to the health,
strength, vitality and beauty of modern Ameri
can Woman. Sounds warn
ing against use of metallic
iron which may injure the
teeth, corrode the stomach
and do far mors ham than
good; advises use of only
nuxated iron.
. . k
teat your strength again ana see now muen
yon hav. gained. I have aeen dosena M
nervous, run-down people, who were autng
all the while , donbl. their strength and
endurance and entirely rid themselve.
of all symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and
other tronblea in from ten to fourteen daya'
time .imolv h. takins Iron In the vroMf
fans. And this, after they bad ia sem. caeca
the administration's program of war
legislation will not meet serious op
position when they appear on the sen
ate floor.
Plan to Deepen Hell Gate
Channel to Forty Feet
Washington, May -9. Amendment
of the river and harbor bill to provide
for a channel of forty feet instead of
thirty-five feet through Hell Gate into
New York harbor has been recom
mended to congress.
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AND COLOR IN HER
Pale, Haggard and Worn, Should
Most Astonishing Youthful
m
TV'
hen doctorlnc for months without obtaining anj bene
fit But don't take the old forma of reduced Iron, Iron
acetate or tincture of iron simply to savt a few eenta.
The iron demanded by Mother Nature for the red color
n matter in the blood of her children in, alas! not that
Kind of iron. You must take iron in a form that ean be
easily absorbed and assimilated to do yon any rood
otherwise it may prove worse than useless.
'I have used Nuxated Iron widely In my
own practice in most severe aggravated con
ditions with unfailinu results. I have in
duced many other physicians to five It a
trial, all of whom have given me most sur
prising reports in regard to its
great power as & health and
strength builder.
"Many an athlet. and Arite
fighter haa won the day limply
became he knew tha aeeret of
sreat itrength and endurance
and filled hie blood with h-on
before he went into the affray
while many another haa gone
down In Inslorione defeat .im
ply for tha lack of Iron."
Dr. Schuyler C. Jaqnea, Vlalt.
Ini: Surgeon of St. EliiabetVa
Hospital, New York City, aaid:
I have never before given
out any medical-Information or
advice for publication, aa I
ordinarily do not believe in It.
But eo many American women
Buffer from iron defi
ciency with ita attend
ant Uls phyaical waak
neae, nervoua irritahil.
ity, melancholy. Induc
tion, flabby, aaggine
muaclee, etc., tc and
In eonaequenc. of their
weakened, r 11 n-d own
condition they arc eo
liable to contract eer
loua and even fatal dia
eaaea. that I deem it
my duty to advlie all
auch to take Nuxated
Iron. I have taken it
myeelf and given it to
my patleota with moat
aurpriaing and aatisfae-
tory reetilta. And those
who wiah quickly to in
ereaea their atrangth,
power and endurance will find
It a most remarkable and won
derfully effective remedy."
NOTE Nuxated Iron, which
la prescribed and recommend
ed above by physician, in
auch a great variety of cases,
ia not a patent medicine nor
aacret remedy, but on.
whieh la well known to druggieta and whose
iron constituents are widely prescribed by
eminent physicians both in Europe and in
America, unlike the elder inorgania iron
produeta, It ia easily aeimiiated. doea not In
jur, tha teeth, make them black nor vpeet
the stomach; on the contrary. It ie a moat
potent remedy In neerly all forma of indiges
tion aa well as for nervone. run-down condi
tions. Th. manufacturer have auch great
confidence In nuxated iron that they offer
to forfeit 1100.09 to any charitable institu-
lion u mey miiiiul mihw mitj man w woman
mi , who Iok, (, Mni Increase their
itr.ngt, ion per cent or over In four weeke"
tmti provided they have no aerioue organic
trouble. They ale. offer to refund ronr money
if it does not at leaat double your atrength
and endurance in ten days' time. It la dia-
peneed In thie eity by Sherman ft McConnell
Drug Co. Store, and all good druf.il tam
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