The Omaha' Daily Bee THE WEATHER Fair VOL.-- XLVI. NO. 307. OMAHA, TUESDAY MOKNING, JUNE 12, 1917. TWELVE PAGES. tifl. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. TAX BOOSTS NOW NUMBER 6, 00 ADDITION AJURAISES' PLANNED CENSUS 10 FIX DRAFT QUOTA IS DECISION Marshal Crowder Tells Gov ernor Neville the Slackers . Must Be Sought Out; May Register. . (From a 6taf Correspondent.) Lincoln, June 11. (Special.) The quota for each state to he raised for the army will be based upon th census of 1910 and pro rated among I he counties ot the state upon the vote ..for governor cast at the last election, according to information received by Governor Neville .today. In connection ivith the ruling of , the War department, Governor Ne ville today sent, out the following communication toN the sheriff's of all counties in Nebraska: "General Crowder. the provost mar shal general, has advised me that the quota for each state to be raised for the army will be based upon the census of 1910 and not upon the registration returns. This will" mean that every man who did not register W'H greatly increase the burden of those who did register. Pro Rating Quota. "The quota for Nebraska will be pro rated among the counties of the state on the basis of the vote cast for governor in 1916, and likewise the burden upon the men who registered will be greatly increased by the failure of every slacker who did not' register. "The provfjst marshal general fur ther advises that the period of leni nicy ha expired and directs that from today you inaugurate a vigorous, ag sresive and effective enforcement of the penal clauses of the -selective serv ice law. using every means at your command to apprehend all men of the ages designated who have, for any reason, failed to register. Tli. selec tive service law is construed to give :yu .mthority arbitrarily to register men who have not already registered. Authority for Arrests. "The i'rovost marshal general fur .'acf directs that, you call to your as- distance in the apprehension of all inert failing to register, the police de partment, and all officers of the cities and towns in your county, and this ' letter is your authority lor such pro cedure. "Hr also directs that you. through I he press, call upon the loyal and pa triotic citizens for information con cerning violations and inasmuch as your records will show clearly whether a man has registered or not. the information given you by citizens nhould be treated as strictly con fidential. AH information portaining to violations of the selective service law shuld be immediately communi cated to the United States district at torney, or United Slates marshal at Omaha, or to this office."y Dr. Withers Dies While In a Chair at Lincoln Dr. A. T. Withers, 1J46 South Thirty-fifth street. dicTl suddculySunday afternoon while seated in a chair at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Eaton, at Lincoln. ' Heart failure caused death. He was born in Bedford. Ind., in 1867 and lived in Omaha from early youth. He was a practicing dentist here twenty-six years and. is survived bv Mrs. Withers, three sons and two daughters. The sons are G. G. With ers of Omaha, Roscoe Vithe of Lincoln and Lec Withers of Salt Lake City. The other daughter is Mrs. Lester Turlcy of Omaha. Members of the family returned from Lincoln with the body yester day afternoon. Funeral services will be held at the family home atk4 o'clock this after noon? Burial will be in West Lawn' cemetery. The Weather For Nebraska Fair: Mrmr wrl portion. f oroperaliira at Omaha Yesterday. v lour.. ung. ft a . tn ,. 72 a. m "1 rempsratha lral Record. 1I7 1fllG. lfll'i. 191 (. H ihat yesterday HIT 77 Lowest yesterday ... 71 (II Mean temuerature .. IS 68 7(1 I'reHpttaHon - on .H .01 .41, Temperature and precipitation departure from the normal: Normal temperature Kxcess for the day Total defelency since, March J Normal prectDllatlol rtfftclency for the day Total rainfall since March K. Excess solnce March 1 - 7" 19 ,J Inch -, .1 lnh .13.14 Inrhea 2.3lncheti Deficiency for cor. period, lla.. S.94 Inches te?clency for cor. period. 1915.. 1.10 Inches Reports Front Stations at 7 P. M. Station and Slate Temp. High- Rain, of Weather. 7 p. m. el. fall, t'heyenne, part cloudy fa lis .00 lavenport. clear 78 .do llenver. cttwr 80 82 .00 Dee Molnea, raining 84 fi .T Ltodge City, clear j 9 -. .00 J.ander. part cloudy 64 61 .on North Platte, pt. cloudy 70 78 .00 Otnaha, clear..... 81 87 .00 Puehln, flcar 88 88 .00 Rapid City.-clear 68 03 .so T Indicates trace of precipitation. i.. A. t tSL.su, Meteorologist. fAlTTl?? I tt""1 I 7 a. m 73 I ' v. m'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. St I p. m an ra'""5- 7 p. m si 8 n. m 77 IFY Ting Fang Refuses To Dismiss Parliament Peking, Sunday, June 10. (De layed in Transmission.) President Li Yuan Hung has announced a willingness to accede to the de mand of General Chang-Hsun that Parliament be dissolved and has drawn up a mandate of dissolution. Dr. Wu Ting-Fang, the acting pre mier, however, has declined to countersign the decree and hit sig nature is necessary to give effect to it. ' PAPILLION GIRL 'MISSING; ASK AID OF OMAHA POLICE Father Declares She Was Kid naped, While Sarpy County Sheriff Pronounces It . Elopement. Myrtle Alden,, 17-year-old daughter of J. W. AldeSi of Papillion, Neb., disappeared from her home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The father of the missing girl in en listing the aid of the Omaha police de partment, declared his daughter had been kidnaped and said he suspected Frank McCarthy of St. Joseph, Mo. He offers a reward of $25 for the ar rest and conviction of McCarthy on a kidnapping charge. Sheriff Hutter of Sarpy county scouts the kidnaping theory. He pro nounces it an elopement with a possi ble chance of white slavery. McCarthy had been working at Pa pillion for two or three days with a railroad signal crew. Miss Alden was employed at the Elkhorn Valley Con densiug company. McCarthy and the girl had been- seen together several times. Hutter salif. . A'den told the Omaha police Mc Carthy had tried to iorce his atten tions on his daughter and tTiat she had spurned them. "This man was always pestering my daughter," he said. "He repeatedly tried to engage her in conversation and-he forced himself upon her every chance he got. It will go hard "with him if any harm comes to her." McCarthy is described' as JO years old, five feet, -five iitehes tall and weighing 150 pout.ds. He is said to have a wife and six children in St. Joseph. Miss Alden has light hair and is light complected. She is five feet two and weighs 120 pounds, i -i South Dakotaf Loses Express Rate Fight Washington, June 11. In the South Dakota express rate case the supreme court today annulled in part, so far as they exceeded the state's powers, in junctions of state court against the American and Wclls-J'argo Express companies which ' required them to maintain certain lower intrastate rates despite Interstate Commerce commis sion tariffs permitting higher rates to prevent discrimination against Sioux City, la. The court, through Justice Brandeis, reaffirmed its ruling in the celebrated Shreveport rate case and held that the federal commission in regulating in terstate rates has power to disturb intrastate rates fixed by local state au thorities. Missing Southland Boat Bearing 40 Men Picked Up London, June 11. The two missing boats from the British steamer Southland, which was torpedoed and ,sung on June 4, have been found and the forty men, who were in them safely landed, Edward Rigney of New York, who had been reported missing, is among them. The South land's captain reports that one Ameri can was killed in the sinking of the ship. Earthquakes Continue To Shake San Salvador Washington, June 11. Earthquakes continue in San Salvador at diminish ing intervals, according to advices to the State department today. Minister Long cables that tons-of debris have been removed from around the Ameri can legation; that many homes are in ruins, and that 'all who can afford to do s'o are fleeing from the city. Bee "Good Angels" Fund Grows; Buy Invalid Chair for Sick Mother A, widow residing at Wahoo, Neb., has joined The Omaha Bee's good angels who are seeking to lighten the burden of the little mother who has fallen a victim of the dread white plague at Holbrook. Neb. She writes: "While reading The Bee today I no ticed an appeal" signed D. D. H., ask ing someone to send an invalid chair to Mrs1. Albert Sockland, Holbrook. 1 can't do that, for I have two small boys to support, their father being dead, but I enclose a dollar and the earnest wish that yoo will be able to raise the rest and send her the chair soon.1 J. Rosenburg. 2209 California strrct, in a letter to The Bee says: "Enclosed please find check for $1 toward the fund for a chair for the sufferer in the country. You are cer tainly doing a noble work." Mr. Rosenburg Is recovering from a long illness. He was struck on the GATE CITM HAS GOOD CHANCE TOGETARMYCAMP Real Estate and Commercial Chtb Men Believe War De partment Will Appreci ate Advantages Here. Washington, , June 11. Little Rock, Ark.; Louisville, Ky.; Battle Creek, Mich., and San Antonio, Tex have been approved as addi tional cantonment sites for the new army. - ' The approval of Petersburg, Va., as a cantonment site was revoked. Fort Worth, Waco and Houston, Tex.; Fort Sill, Okl.; Deming, N. M., and Linda Vista, Cal., have been approved as additional camps for National Guard mobilization, it was announced today. Omaha real estate .and Commercial club men believe they still have a good chance to bring one of the can tonment camps to Omaha. An an nouncement is expected today from the War department. They realize, however, that 'when the number of cantonment camps was cut down from thirty-two to sixteen Omaha's chances were cut in half. The joint committee of the Com mercial club and the Omaha Real Es tate board has been tirelessly at work preparing data since Colonel Mor gan's commission of officers visited here to investigate Omaha's claims. Another of these committees has been in Washington in conference with Senator Hitchcock to enlist his aid in placing Omaha's advantages as a can tonment site before the War depart ment. Another committee, consisting of Frank H. Myers, C. C. George and Randall, K. Brown, was in Chicago last week conferring with officers of the Central department of the army. File Brief of Advantages. This committee filed with the Cen tral department a brief setting forth Omaha's advantages as a concentra tion camp, and also a detailed map giving railway facilities and all other advantages. The joint committee now feels that. even though Omaha should not be chosen as a cantonment site, it will be in a bettei position, by reason of the brief prepared and filed, to be se lected as an army concentration camp later, aS it is believed many min6r concentration camps will be neces sary js time goes on. "It should be remembered that the army commission which was here looking over Omaha as a possible site some veelcs ago was not in a position to consider donations of grounds tor these camps, said Com missioner Manley of the Commercial club. "There has been some feeling in some parts that Omaha might have had one of these camps if it had do natedthc ground. vOn the contrary, the members of the commission made it plain w hen here tha they were here to consider leases and not donations." Guardsman, Drowns While in Swimming in Missouri River Edward J. Brown, private- in Com pany B, fourth Nebraska .National Guard, was drowned "Monday after noon while swimming in the Missouri river near the Union Pacific bridge where he was on duty. Brown had been on guard duty and be jumped into1 the river for a cool plunge after the hot work. He suddenly was seized with cramps and went down. Quartermaster Sergeant Carl Weigl, despite the fact that he" is unable to swim, jumped' in after Brown and almost was drownefJ him self. Weigt was rescued by com panions, but when Brown was pulled out, life was gone. Brown's home is in Boston, Mass., In Omaha before joining the guard he has been living at the Young Men's Christian association. Goethals Lets Contract s ' For Sixteen Wooden Ships Washington, June 11. Contracts for construction of sixteen wooden ships were let today by Major Gen eral George W. Goethals, general manager of the shipping boards emer gency fleet corporation. Ten went to Sanderson & Porter, xa New York concern, and six to' the Maryland Shipbuilding company of Baltimore. head by a bandit who entered his store last year. He was confined to the hospital several months, for a time bereft of the use of one side. Mrs. Archibald Smith wrotes: "I want to add my mite for the fund for the chair for Mrs. Sockland. Wish I could send more, this is such a worthy cause." v , The following contributions have been received to date: Mrs. E. W. Nash, $5. Mrs. George Hoagland, ?5. Victor Rosewater, $1. Mrs. Monroe Reeves, $1. H. C. Hiller, $1. Harry Goldberg. $1. J. Rosenburg, $1. Wahoor Neb., $1. Mrs. Archibald Smith, $1; Virginia Atdous, $1. Frederick Aldous, $1. Checks should be made payable to the editor of The Omaha Beyf. , What's PUBLIC INVITED TO HEAR POLICE INVESTIGATION Dunn, Maloney and Sutton Are Summoned to Appear Be fore Council at Investi gation Tuesday. , The city council committee of the whole decided to summon Chief Dunn, Captain Maloney, Detective Paul Sut ton and all captains and sergeants of the police department to appear for the nolice department investigation to be started this morning in the council chamber. ' Charges against Maloney and Sut ton will be considered first unless a decision to postpone hearing of these charges until after the Chadron case has been disposed of is made.. The police department investigation how ever, will be held regardless of the action on the .Malouey-Sutton charges filed by Chief Dunn. Public Invited. "The public is invited to the investi gation," said the mayor. Witnesses will be summoned ac cording to the necessities ,of the in vestigation as it proceeds. An attorney for Captain Maloney and- Detective Sutton will ask the council i to postpone- the charges against these officers until the Chad ron case is over. It is not probable that the Chadron trial will be heard until September. Tuesday morning's meeting of the council will be called at 10 o'clock and it is proposed to resume the investi gation on Wednesday morning at 9 a. m, and continue until all the testi mony has been offered.' Two Farmers Pay Cash Fpr $10,000 Liberty Bond Upland, Neb., June 11. (Special Telegram.) Harry Rogers; local postmaster, today sold to Emil and Sophus Blace, two brothers living on a farm north of town,' a $10,000 Lib erty loan bond. They paid for it in cash. About $3,000 worth of small bonds have been taken here. "v" Sunday Newspapers Necessary, Says Court Waterloo, la., June 1 1. Sunday newspapers are a necessity, it was held in court today when a complaint against the Times-Tribune for violat ing the Iowa "blue laws" was dis missed. Marine Corps Week This week has been officially de signed ae "Marine Corps Week" all aver the United States. The' Bee will distribute free to its readers an illustrated art book let telling about the Marine Corps and its work as a part of tha na tional program for Marine Corps Weeji. The Marino Book is illus trated with full page reproductions of paintings in thm original colors and with dosens of photographs. A copy will be sent free to any reader f The Bee who asks for it.. Send your name and address with at 2 cent stamp for return postage to Tho Omaha Bee Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. the Idea? MORE ARRESTS IN BABY KEET CASE SOONJXPECTED Three Letters Sent Child) Father Given Out; Suspects ' in Jail at Stockton and Kansas City: BULLETIN. Hutchinson, Kan., June 11. Rich ard Carter, who was arrested here yesterday at the request of Spring field authorities in connection with the Keet kidnaping case, was re leased today; Carter is said to have proven he had not been in Missouri for more than twelve months and could not have been connected with the case. Springfield, Mo., June 11. While thousands followed the little white casket . of Lloyd Keet to the grave today, more arrests were expected soon to clear the mystery surrounding the kidnaping and murder of the chJM, whose body was found in an aban doned well Saturday. j Meanwhile Clctus dams and Claude I'iersol, two of the six al leged abduction plotters, are being held in jail at Kansas City, where they were 'taken for safekeeping after being taken from the sheriff and sub jected to a "third degree' by leaders of a posse, who threatened the pris oners with death. Having failed to obtain a confession, however, the two were returned to the sheriff un harmed. The other prisoners Taylor Adams, his wife and one son, and Sam McGinnis were understood to be held at Stockton, Mo. The cor oner's inquest into the baby's death will be held Wednesday. First Letter to Keet. The letters sent to, Mr. Keet after Ihe baby's kidnaping the night of May 30' were made available today. The first letter received the day after Lloyd was stolen and which sent the falher on a wiltl drive over almost impassable Ozark mountain hill roads, instructed him minutely as to the composition ot the $0,000 he was to pay over for the return of the in fant and added: 'Wc sure got your kid. Don't say anything to the police or put it in the papers. There are three of us and ('ontlniird on Tan Two, Column Onf.) Program of Today's Semi-Centennial Celebration Held at Lincoln 8:00 10:00 10:30 2:00 A. M. Opening of Historical society museum. A. M. Daylight fireworks.. ' -A. M. BandConcerts. P. M. Auto races at State fair grounds and band concerts. 2:00 P. M. University Alumni reunion. General business meeting. Annual report, Chancellor Avery. Alumni address by Prof. F. R. Philbrick. 2:30 P. M. Pioneers reunions at Auditorium, S. C. Bas sett, Gibbon, presiding. - ' Semi-Centennial Historical address by John j L. Webster of Omaha. Historical Round Tttble by pioneers. :00 P. M. Pageant of Nebraska at State fair colieum. 10:00 P. M Fireworks at State fair grounds. . New Bill to Stop Making Of Liquor from Grain Washington, June II. Prohibi tion took more forward steps today in congress. It was decided to combine the many prohibition amendments to the food bills, in one separate measure for conserva tion of grsins and thus prohibit the manufacture of foodstuffs into beer and malt liquors, as well as dis tilled spirits. The aenste agricul ture committee ceached thia de cison. - - The senate judiciary committee favorably reported a resolution by Senator Sheppard of Texas for a prohibition constitutional amend ment. A similar resolution failed last session. TRENCH RAIDS ON FRONT SEVENTY MILES IN LENGTH Smashing of German Salient at Messines is Merely Pre lude to One of Greatest Battles of War. . (.aaoclnld Preaa war tummarj.) The wiping out of the German salient at Messines appears merely the prelude to a projected battle of a far mightier description. The British have resumed tftnch raids over' a front reaching from north of Ypres to as far south as Epehy, a distance of about seventy miles as the crow flies, but far more than that along the tortuous windings of the battle front. The official announcement of raids north of Ypres is of especial inter est, in view of the recent frequently reported heavy artillery fire on the Belgian front. From Ypres the allleX front curves sharply to the sea, and an advance here would threaten the German hold on their great submarine bases on the Belgian coast, Ostend and Zecbrugge. ' In the meantime there are indica tions that General Sarrail is prepar ing to resume itte onrusive in Aiacc donia, (he Bulgarian olticial announce ment reporting a great increase in violence of the allied artillery fire on this front. 1 , British Official Report. .London, June 11. The British have made an additional advance south of Messines, the war office announced this morning. The statement adds: "There was considerable artillery activity east of Epehy and south of Ypres. Bodies of hostile' troops assembling in this area were dispersed by our fire. We made successful raids last night near La Bassee, cast of Vermelles and south pi Armenticres." French Official Report. - Paris, June 11. There was active artillery fighting last night north of the Soinme, the war office announces. A German raid west of Cerny was repulsed. Italians Resume Advance. Rome J (Via London), June 11. The Italians have resumed the offen sive, capturing Monte Ortigara, east of Cima Undice Angello Pass, the war office announced today. Individual Cannot Enjoin Unions Under Sherman Act Washington, June II. Injunction against labor unions under the Sher man anti-trust law, the supreme court decided today in dismissing proceed ings against New York carpenters' unions, can be secured only by the government and not by private per sons. Justices McKenna, Van Dcr vanter and Brandeis dissented. Injunction proceedings brought by "open shop" woot work manufactur ers to restrain New York carpenter unions and others from refttsinar to work on their products were dismissed j hy the court. ' - Prices Paid for Grain Double Within Year Washington. June 11. The level of price paid producers of principal crops on June 1 was 99.8 per cent higher than a year ago and 107 per cent above the last nine years' average on that date, the Department of Agricul ture reported today. Producers of meat animals on May IS received 48.4 per cent more than a year ago and 71 per cent more than the average price on that date in the last seven years. The composite condition of all crops on June 1 was 5.8 per cent below their ten-year average on that u-te. ASSESSOR HAS NOTICES READY TO BE MAILED Household and Business Sched ules Included in the As sessment Rolls Af fected. ' Notices of the wholesale boosls it! tax assessments made by County As sessor Fitzgerald have not yet gone out, but they are there, awaiting the order to drop them itr the postoflicc. , , The first information that came to The Vice va that there were 3.000 of these notices, but it is now said that the number is nearer 6,000 and that they include household as well as business schedules. The county assessor and every one who has anything to do with the makeup of the assessment roll are maintaining the utmost' acwecy, pre sumably in order to hold or! the ex pected protest until the board of equalization is ill session and ready to bear them. ; 1 This, however, has net prevented The Bee from getting a line on the inside and furnishing information in advance of the official release of the new assessments. Some Big Boosts, Here are some more sample boosts which The Bee has succeeded in pick ing up: i ' Coal Hill Coal company raised from 121,000 to $35,000. . Albert Edholm, jeweler, from $17,000 to 150,000. Burkley Printing company from ' , $17,000 to $25,000. Doup Matress factory from $17,000 to $30,000. . Thomas Cusack company, bilk boards, from $10,500 to $25,000. ' - Beaton Drug company from $9,000 to $15,000. ' s " American Radiator company from $33,000 to $55,000. . John Deere Plow company from $242,000 to $700,000. T..IIJ IT 1J rt ! . - ... tivawni uiiifTiiv, utatsi- ) ber company, from $20,000 to $35,000. Burgess Grandcn Fixture company from $14,000 to $25,000. . . - W. L. Huffman Auto company from $12,000 to$78,000. y ' Central Coal and Cok company from $33,000 to $50,000. ' Dreibus Candy company from $16, 000 to $45,000. ' ' ' Fitzgerald Says Jt's Fair. 1 County Assessor Fitzgerald main ' tawed a lamblike reticence when asked for figures on some of the big business houses; factories and corpor ations boosted in assessments, but admitted that vthe raises are general. . "We're playing no favorites," said the county assessor. , "Assessments have been raised where we thought they needed to be raised. ' "None of the boosts are exorbitant . in my opinion," he said. ' "Of course," he said, "I don't think this office is infallible. - , "That's what the Equalisation I board will sit for. We'll try to ar rive at the right amounts if we've boosted anyone too high." County commissioners, who, with County Clerk Dewey and County As sessor Fitzgerald, will sit as a board of equalization, beginning Tuesday ' morning at 9 o'clock, reiterated their statements made to The Bee Saturday night. "All I know about those boosts is v what 1 read in The BecA' said Com missioner O Connor chairman of tha board. . "Same here," said Commissioner Bedford. VI guess the county asses sor knows what he's doing, but all I know about it is what I saw in Ihe Bee." . ' ' The members of the equalization x board expect to sit fpr the entire twenty days. Tune 12 to 30. "I guess we'll Have enough to keep American Ship Magnus 1 Manson Sunk by Subsea London, June II. The American sailing vessel Magnus Manson has been 'sunk by a German submarine. left it. Private advices were received in Mobile late last mouth that the. Mag nus Manson, 1.751 tons, had been tor- pedoed off the French coast. The dis- . patch received there stated that the master and crew were saved. The Sunday Score Advertising in The . Bex ' (Warfltld Ag)cy MaaauramenU) The Bee Far in the Lead SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1917 ' Local Display., 1,739 Foreign Display 329 Automobile 1,263 - Classified 925 Total...... ...4,256 , SAME SUNDAY LAST YEAR Local Display , -965 Foreigp Display 114 Automobile ,. 687 Classified 830 v Total....... ....2,497 V GAINS 1,759 U INCHES Keep Your Eye on The Bee