MY Y. M. G. A. IS
- AT WORK IN FRANCE
Preparationi Well Under Way
for Reception of First
- United State Ex
pedition. Kew York, May ' 28. Chairman
William Sloane of the National Wtr
Work Council of the Young Men'i
Christian association today announced
' that plans for the reception of the
first American expeditionary force to
northern France are rapidly being
perfected.
Tents and buildings, fully equipped
to carry on the association work, are
being arranged for the American
troops. They Will find the Young
Mens Christian , association with its
triangle emblem on the ground ahead
gf them. ' , ,
Steps have been taken to utilize the
services of twenty or more American
' secretaries, who have been waiting in
Switzerland since the entrance of the
United States into the war. These
secretaries were former! engaged in
, association- war1 -work in the central
empires. .
Workers Precede Troops.
"It cannot be stated at this time
when the first contingent of our ex
' neditionary forcr will arrive in
France," said Mr. Sloane, "but the as
sociation plans to go a step further
than it did in establishing; the forty
two buildings on the Mexican border.
It has been a custom of the associa
tion in ita army work heretofore l.jt
to follow, but to go with the troops.
In this case the association is actually
i going ahead of the troops into north
ern France. i .
! "Arrangement, hav been mad lor
I 200 large huildings to be erected -at
! the thirty-two training camps in the
; United States as rapidly as they are
1 needed. Contracts have now been let
for buildings in as many camps.
Activity at Training Camps.
"The association is co-operating
; with the federal commission on train
' ing camp activitiea.
; "Immediately around the camps will
! be tones to bar out vice and alcoholic
: excess, but the aim will be to wlth
1 draw so far as possible the attention
' of the soldier from the rigid restric-
tions of the aones by the organized
presentation of better means of
: recreation and entertainment. It is
I to be a great affirmative system, in
r stead o a merely, sterile,, .negative
! one." " - '
1 From present indications it is ex
! pected tint the - entire amount of
$3,000,000 with which to carry on this
I work will be in sight by June !..
CROSS TIMAV0
RIVER; FORCES
. NEARTHEGULF
say today's official report on the
Franco-Belgian front operations.
"Successful raids were made by ns
north of Armentieree and in the
neighborhod of Wytschaete. Our
troops reached- the German support
line and captured between twenty and
thirty prisoners." 1
... Fighting in Roumania.
Petrograd, May 28. (Vi London
British Admiralty, -. per .Wireless
Press.) "On the Rnsso-Callclan and
Roumanian fronts rifle firing oc
curred," says today's' official state
. ment. "Two Turkish attacks were
repulsed on the Caucasian front
Enemy airplanes dropped bombs on
our airdrome northwest of Luninsta.
Berluv-May 28. (Via London.
German troops yesterday aptred a
line of French trenches on the Poehl
berg and the Kenlberg, south of Mor
onvilliers, in the Champagne region,
together with more than 250 prison
ers, army headquartera announced to
day. American Beet Sugar
Industry Grows Rapidly
Washington. May 28. Growth of
the American beet sugar tndustr)
from 1870 to 1914 is traced in s re
port made by the federal trade com
mission -to congress toaay. :
- In 1914 the country produced 700,
000 tons, of beet sugsr, 16 per cent
nf ita eensnmntion. -At that time
there were seventy-eight factories
against three in 1870.
"Ranid development of the '. in'
dustry since 1897," says this report,
"has been largely due to direct en
couragement by the federal end state
government, particularly the former."
In the five yeara ending with 1913-
1914, manuiacturing companies, ac
rnritins to the reoort. earned an aver
age of U per cent on their capital. In
1913-14 V earnings were ' unusually
small because of the low price of
'"Seet srowlnar the reoorf sayl. has
proved profitable to the farmer, al
though growers complain tney no nui
' receive a price lor tneir prouuci com'
i inenswrate with the price of sugar.
German Air Raids
- Approach invasion
London. May 28. The newspapers
in tbeir.edilorials today deal with Fri-
day'a air raid, i They say that not only
did it result in the. greatest number of
casualties of. any raid yet made, but
they consider it as a probable fore-
rUIlflCIt yi-'MMII Blllltiai u, not,-..
.nay. in tuna 6e multiplied to tne ex'
lrnt of amountitiff to invasion.
The great speed and height at winch
airolanes bDeratc. as well as their
virtual immunity from damage by
' anti-aircraft artillery, are regarded as
, among the reasons why they have re
placed the Vulnerable Zeppelins, and
i are likely to become I more serious
1 1 menace - '
. sils Intoxicating Liquor
t And is fjned $100 and Costs
"Cbirles AltVaie, 1024 Dodge street,
,' ks fined $100 and costs for selling In-
oaicating liquor to Bon Darouk. Da
' rouk is a Russian and it was neces
r sary to secure an interpreter to find
' out from whom he had purchased it.
I" Darouk alio was fined $100 and costs
fqr having the liquor in his possession,
but (he sentence was suspended when
' he told from 'whom the liquor had
beta obtained. . -
Creirjhton Uh1 Buys
y " $40,000 Liberty Bonds
t relghton University has invested in
- $40,000 worth of Liberty bonds
through the Merchants National bank.
, This is the money left by the late
Mrs. Cummings for' remodeling St.
" lohn's church, but it has bten de-
tided not to do this with the present
high cost of building material.
Spectacular Fire Which Destroyed Maney
Mills Elevator, With Loss of $200,000
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MORE CHANGES MADE
. IN WARTAX BILL
Senate Finance Committee Ex
empts Motion Picture
Films, Jewelry and
Ohewinjf Gum.
Washington, May 28. Involving
further reduction of the house war tax
bill by $15,500,000, the senate finance
committee decided to exempt motion
picture films, jewelry and chewing
gum from taxation. A new confec
tionary tax was considered.
Instead of the house rates on man
ufacturers' gross salca of athletic
goods,- perfumes, cosmetics and
oronrietarv medicines, the committee
decided to keep them aa sources of
revenue, but br stamp taxes instead
of the 5 per cent gross sales tax. The
committee also is considering a tax
on tonnage of pleasure yachts instead
of the house tax on their cost.
The changes decided upon today
followed the committee's decision to
strike out the 5 per cent tax on all
manufacturers sales.
IHpartnttat Ordwa,
Washington. May ST. fHpMlal Talaaranv)
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maatar at Orant, Platta county, Wyo., vlea
ura. mint Roman, raairnoa.
Rarnl lattar oarrlar aDDolntadt Nebraa-
ka Niobrara, Nab., Oeorga W. Dvrkaa,
Iowa Dacorah, Ho D. Hontaavlki DUton.
Harbart J. Hauarl Quarnaajr, Hanry A. Cer-
art.
I-AX-yoa Aa Imatorad aaena.
A dla-aatlva llould laiatlva. oalhartlo
and llvar tonla. Comblnfa atronslh with pal'
atablfl aromatto taata, loaa not srlpa or dU'
turn atotnacn. aBs,-Advartlaament.
Belgian Army Holds Section of
Line and Makes Its Own Arms
(Corraapoudtnoa at Tha Aaaootatad. Praaa.)
Headquarters of the Belgian Artil
lery Establishment, Behind the Al
lies' Front, May 7. Here, where the
Belgian army is making its own can
non, its own rifles, its own shells, its
own transport wagons, its own sad
dles and harness, one can appreciate
how other outstanding features of the
war have unduly obscured the Belgian
military effort since the battles of
1914.
The Belgian army had six divisions
of infantry and two divisions of cav
alry left to hold a line of approxi
mately eighteen miles, or Just about
four men to the yard of front, on a
front where particular vigilance is
required. No part of the allies' line
is more closely watched and explored
by the enemy's patrols. A weak spot
anywhere would provoke an Immedi
ate offensive.
Belgium lost all its manufacturing
establishments and all its resources
in raw materials in the defeat of the
allies at Charleroi and in the retreat
from Antwerp, yet Monsieur de Bro
queville, minister of war, has built
up artillery and munitions establish
ments, that not only enable the Bel
gian army to reply shot for shot to
the Germans on the Yser front, but
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BEEF TO BE HIGHER
SAY LIVESTOCK MEN
Cattle Men Appearing in Kate
Hearing; Protest That Higher
Rate Would Make Meat
More Expensive.
Washington, May 28. Agricultural
and livestock interests, protesting to
the Interstate Commerce commission
today against the railroads' proposal
for a 15 per cent general increase in
freight rates, declared not only would
unjustly burden food producers, but
would handicap seriously the whole
food production campaign initiated
by the government as a wear meas
ure. Purin gthe day's hearing represen
tatlves of the American - National
Live Stock association and of the Na
tional Council of the Farmers' Co
onerative association submitted a
'mass of evidence calculated to show
that stock rsisers and farmers al
ready are bearing unusual heavy ex
pense and could not make a Support
ing 'profit if a freight increase were
added.
' Fourth Increase for Beef.
Speakihg for the live stock associa
tion, T. W. Tomlinson told the com
mission that western cattle raisers
will have to get 25 per cent more than
last year for their product even under
present conditions in order to make
a living. Even then, he said, many
cattlemen doubtless would have to go
out of business, and with tn increased
freight rate to market the effect was
also contribute to the supplies of the
allied armies. Fourteen thousand
workmen are employed in these es
tablishments, which are using Ameri
can machines and tools.
The invasion found the Belgian
army in the midst of an entire re
organiiation of its artillery. Siege
cannon, ordered from the Krupp
works in Germany, had not been fur
nished. Millions of cartridges or
dered from the same source also had
been held up. It was with a disor
ganised armament and insufficient ma
terial that the Belgians held the Ger
mans in the retreat to the Yser.
The reorganisation waa ' difficult
Unable to call a session of parlia
ment to revise recruiting laws to ac
cord with the new situstion, the gov
ernment could only appeal to the pat
riotism of refugees in England and
France. The response was such as
to reconstitute an army of six di
visions of infantry and two divisions
of csvslry, while 14.000 men were de
tached for the manufacture of muni
tions in France and 600 sent to Rus
sia for the same purpose. About 30.
000 more nn were raised by decree
calling up all Belgians eligible for
service between 18 and 40 yeara of
age.
i " - . .
sure to be (ett In a decrease in meat
oroduction.
Botn Mr. jomunson ana umora
Thome, who appeared for the farm'
era' association1, pointed out in detail
how the price of everything entering
into grain and meat production had
increased. The middle western farm
er, said Mr. Thorne, would would
have to pay much of the proposed
rate increase, now has an average
yearly income of only about $480.
Mr. Thorne and other shippers'
representatives urged that rates be
readjusted rather than increased by
IS per cent. i
"When I keep house," said
The Little Bride of Mystery, "I
certainly will hare Alamito
Paateurixed milk because it is
safe and their dairy is 'Milk'
White.' "
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RAPP-SCHROEDER
CASE BEFORE JURY
Widow Sues Former Saloon
Keeper for Damages; May
Be Reopened in Lynch
Ouster Case.
A $25,000 damage suit, arising out
of the Rapp-Schoeder murder, triple
killing, which shocked Omaha three
years ago, and which, it is persistently
rumored, will be reopened as an issue
of Sheriff Clark's ouster proceedings
against Johnny Lynch and Police
Chief Dunn's charges against Captain
of Detectives Maloney and Detective
Sutton, was begun before Judge Sears
in law court Monday.
Mrs. Marguerite Kapp, widow ot
William Raoo. one of the victims of
the tragedy, is suing Peter Moscrey,
formerly a saloon keeper at iau
South Twentieth street, on behalf of
herself and her four voung daughters.
The widow alleees that liouor pro
cured in Moscrey s place on the nignt
of the murder, July IS, 1914, caused
her husband, frred Schoeder ana reter
Schoeder to "loiter and delay on their
wav home and to become boisterous.
noisy, careless, reckless, annoying and
quarrelsome to persons unxnown.
The Schroeder brothers and Rapp
were shot down in the street in the
neighborhood of Twenty-fourth and
Pecifii streets between 10 and 11
o'clock at night, according to Mrs.
Rapps petition.
Kapp died the next day.
Could Not Protect Self.
His widow says that as a result of
THOMPSON BELDEN &CQ
sAz6tsAfd AS06
Two Hosiery
Specials Tuesday
Women's pure dye Silk
Hose, in white and black
with lisle tops and double
soles, $1.25 quality for $1
a pair.
Children's Cotton Hose
black and white, double
knees; 35c quality, 25c pr.
It's a Long Ways
to Better Silk
Shirts for Men
To find a selection so good as
this one would be rather diffi
cult. Styles and qualities are
tip-top, Prices are below the
average.
To, match your shirte with wash
neckwear, ask for Dalpark'a
wide ends or tubulars colors
t that stand the tub. -
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Just In Time
for the Holiday
Outing Hats
A selection of the best variety
of attractive styles it has been
our pleasure to show, especially
at such low prices. Hats to
match your sweater or costume,
65c, 95c, $1.25
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THE MAGNIFICENT M08IAC CHAPEL at FOREST LAWN CEMETERY will be open for inspection
Memorial Day. There will be extra street car service on Forest Lawn and Florence lines. There
are 820 acres in Forest Lawn, north of the city limits, sufficient to accommodate the people of Doug
las county for hundreds of yeara. There are only a few larger cemeteries in the country none in this
vicinity. . f
" A lew of the manr adrantaeaa of Foraat Lawn! Fmpr Location. Hlth Rollins Ground. Salt from DlsturbMM.
BaantlTul Ludaeajw, So Proitta to Anyone, Perpetoal Care. Street Car Terminal.
his condition on the night of the mur.
der. following slleged drinking in
Moscrey's saloon, he was unable to
protect himself.
The murdered man, according to
his widow, was an expert mechanic
earning $150 a month at the time of
hia riratll.
Sitting beside their mother in the
court room were tne lour uuie giria,
Audrey Rapp, 11 years old; Marguer
ite. Rapp, 6 years old; Josephine Rapp,
8 years old, and Madeline Rapp, 4
years old.
Joe Rapp, brother of the murdered
man, and W. W. Slabaugh, are attor
neys for Mrs. Rapp.
The former saloon keeper is repre
sented by Arthur Mullen and A. S.
Ritchie.
Training Camp Vacancies
Not to Be Filled. Now
Washington, May 28. The War de
partment announced today that vacan
cies in the officers' training camps, re
sulting from the withdrawal of candl
dates for commission or from sny
nthr rraann. will not be filled.
A considerable number at each of
the thirteen camps have dropped out
hraua thev nroved unsuited to mili-
i tary lite, and there Has Deen a rusn oi
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applicants to nil tne gaps, ine oe
partment holds, however that the first
two weeks of the training course are
essential, and will delay the entrance
of all applicants until the second
series of companies to be started
when the first series has completed its
work.
Applicants for the negro officers'
training camp at Fort Des Moines
were examined today in all the mili
tary departments. Officials do not
doubt that more than the 1.000
civilians who can be admitted have
enrolled.
Fashions for the Bathing Beach
Styles and kinds of Bathing Dresses are varied, but
there is quite as much fashion in these garments as in
the more formal summer appareL Women of refine-: .,
ment will approve of these styles.
For Women and Children
One and two-piece Knitted Suits, in colors of black
or navy, with, trimmings of white, green and red. .
Also gray and mustard colors with trimmings of
purple. Suits of plain black and blue mohair, either
with or without bloomers. Prices to suit all. Bathing
Caps, Shoes and Floater Wings all that goos toward
a successful beach costume are also shown.
Third Floor
The Season's
Sale of Pumps
and Oxfords
About' 300 pairs, formerly
priced at $5 to $7.
Tuesday
$3.95
Patent leather, dull kid, white
buck-skin and a few colored
and bronze kid. Both high and
low heel styles.
All Sales Final.
GRAIN III STORAGE
HERE IS AT LOW EBB
Smallest Amount in the Ele
vators for any Time cur
in the Last Ten
Tears. .'
For the first time in ten years grain
stocks in storage in Omaha elevator!
have fallen below 1,000,000 bushels
The report of the inspection bureau
of the Omaha Grain exchange for the
week ending last Saturday shows an
aggregate storage of 625,000 bushels.
Storage figures now and one year ago,
in bushels, toiiow:
Now.
VhMt ....1I3.QOS
Year Ago.
1,414.0(10
105,000
442.00O
1,000
21,000
Corn 08,0(0
Oata IST.eoo
Ry !.
Barley
Totala SiS,o0 8,Sll,0(i0
. The decrease is 1,753,000 bushels. It
will be noted that the greatest de
crease is in wheat This cereal, in
stead of having been allowed to re
main in Ktoratrf. has been resold al
most as rapidly as bought from first
hands and country elevators and has
gone out to the millers of Omaha
trade territory, or else has been ex
ported. .
Two Lads and Pony
Are Enroute to Idaho
Two young boys, John Zeber and
Paul Rodin, with a pony, are in
Omaha on their way to Idaho to join
their parents. They are working
their way. One is bell-hopping at a
hotel and the other works in a biscuit
factory.
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