Nebraska Newspapers

    Omaha 'D.
VOL. XLVII. NO. 21.
OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1917. TEN PAGES.
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THE
Bee
THE WEATHER
Fair 1
REFORM
KAIS
MAIL CARRIERS
IN OMAHA LOSE
EIGHT-HOUR DAY
'ostmaster Fanning Orders
All Deliveries Must Be Com
pleted, Despite Federal
Law Against Overtime.
These facts developed yesterday
following orders issued by Post
master Fanning that all mail deliv
eries in Omaha must be completed
by carriers regardless of the time
clock:
No mail shall be returned to post
office by carriers.
Deliveries must be completed
even though eight hours of legal
working day arc over.
," Carriers will receive overtime at
regular scale. ,
Postmaster issues orders in di
rect violation pf federal statutes in
order to give Omaha prompt mail
service. , '
Fourteen carriers and clerks have
resigned , to enter military service.
Postmaster's unprecedented move
caused by inadequate help.
In direct violation of federal statutes
which provide for a penalty for gov
ernment civil service employes who
work longer than eight hours a day,
Postmaster Fanning Tuesday issued
M order that all Omaha mail car
riers sh..ll deliver every letter and
piece of mail on their routes each
day regardless of the number of hours
. that may be required to complete the
task. -
Heretofore mail carriers have
worked eight hours a day. regardless
of whether, complete delivery had
been made. If the carrier had more
mail to distribute, whether it was
one package or 100, he returned to
the postoffice and the additional mail
was not delivered until he resumed
his route the following day. This
practice was in accordance with an
old federal law which provides a pen
alty for postal employes who work
beyond the stipulated eight hours,
Thus deli.verxJ.n many instances
was delayed fitteen to twenty hours,
even-in normal times.
Answers Many Complaints. .
The postmaster's decision to work
the carriers overtime Pas the result
of constant complaint from hundreds
. of citizens. Complaints and protests
became so frequent and the situation
so acute the postmaster took matters
kito his own hands.
"I. know the law only allows gov
enment employes to work eight hours
a day but we have such a shortage of
carriers here that unless we work
overtime we cannot get the mail out
on time," he said. ,
Postmaster Fanning admitted that
lie really didn't know what to do about
the matter. '
Between Two Fires.
"If I don't get the mail delivered
the business men complain and if I
work the carriers more than eight
hours the government probably will
raise a rumpus. .
"I'm doing this on my own respons
ibility, and I ni going to get the marl
out the best way I can: Carriers
will receive overtime at the regular
scale." , '
Postmaster Fanning said fourteen
carriers and clerks recently had re
signed to enter the different branches
of military service. r
"We have used up the: names on
the. civil service list and cannot hire
men to take their place until after the
civil service examination.
"The fourteen men we lost were
among the best we had and it will
take twenty-five new persons to do
their work until the novices are brok
en in." ,
Postmaster Fanning admitted that
the Omaha office has been dragging
along for a long time with inadequate
help. Carriers who were- scheduled
to make five deliveries a day have
been making only four, and those
whose schedules called for four, were
making only three on many days.
TJie Weather
For Nebraska Fair; cooler.
Temperatures at Omaha Tetterta?.
Hour.
Deg
1.8
71
'ii
7U
74
14
76
76
1 a.
11 a.
t2 m
79
80
79
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79
79
77
Comparative Loral Record.
' 117. 11S. 1915. 1914.
80 99 S 98
... 7 7 4 66 76
.. 74 8S 7S 87
.X9 .00 .01 .00
Highest yestrday.
Lowest yesterday..
Mean temperature.
Precipitation
Temperature and precipitation departure
from the normal:
Normal temperature. ..'IS
Deficiency for the day 2
Total deficiency since March 1, 1S17. ...!1J
Normal precipitation .. .13 Inch
Excess for the day.. v..... .06 inch
Total rainfall since March 1. .. .15.67 inches
Stress since March 1 .11 Inch
Deficiency for cor. period 1911.. 6.13 Inches
Seflclency for cor. period 1915.. 3.47 inches
Reports From Stations at 7 P. M. .
Station and Sta! Temp. ItiKh- HHin
of Weather. 7 p. m. est, fall.
. Cheyenne, rain 7 71
Denver, clear.... . .. 7S 7S .ni
Des t Moines, clear,..,. . 73 .10 .00
Dodge lty, clear 86 X8 .00
Lander, clear 8i". as .oo
North Fiatte. clear..... 82 , , , .01
Omaha clear 79 80 .13
Kansas Tity, clear 82 S6 .
Stnax City, elear. . . , .. . so " , 82 .14
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PICKDEMING,N.M.,
AS TRAINING CAMP
FOR NEBRASKANS
Troops From Husker State, as
Well as Dakotas and Iowa,
Will Be Sent to New
Mexico Town.
Washington, July II. Subject to
approval by Major General Bliss, act
ing chief of staff, the following as
signments of National Guard troops
to concentration camps has been
made by the militia bureau for the
trpops from the western and central
areas of the country:
"Nebraska, Iowa, South and North
Dakota, to Deming, N. M.
"Kansas and Missouri to Fort Sill,
Ukl.
"Texas and Oklahoma, to
Port
Worth, Tex.
"Colorado, Utah, Oregon. Califor
nia, New Mexico and Nevada to Lin
da Vista, Cal.
"Washington, Montana. Idaho and
Wyoming to Palo Alta, Cal."
. Small Men May Enlist.
New army regulations made pulbic
today reduce the minimum weight
limit for recruits from 120 to 110
pounds and the minimum height from
five feet four inches to five fee.t one
inch. This will add thousands who
otherwise would be .exempt to the
national army to be raised by draft
and open the doors of the regular
army and National Guard to many
volunteers turned down in the past.
Rubin Bound Over.
Louis Rubin, Twenty-sixth and
Hamilton streets, a tailor, was bound
over to' the federal grand, jury by
United States Commissioner Mc
Loughlin for failure to register for the
selective draft. Bond was- placed at
$500.
Rubin's brothers and others were
there to testify that he is beyond the
draft age. Rubin cla'ims he is 37 years
old.
But all the documentary evidence
submitted showed that he is under 31.
A declaration of intention to become
a citizen of the United States, made
in New York City in 1912 was shown.
In this his age was given as 25 years.
" IIe: has also' taken out life insur
ance since he has beenjn Omaha, and'
according tothe age he gave' the in
surance company he is not vet 31
years old.
Half to Ask Exemptions.
Members of the six Douglas county
exemption boards sav thev believe at
least one-half of tha vounsr men
drawn for selective army conscription
win appear oeiore tnem and ask ex
emption.
Election Commissioner Moorhead
also is of the opinion that about 50
per cent of all men registered will
claim exemption if they are drafted.
These predictions are based on the
exeniptions claimed by those who
registered and from personal inter
views with scores of Omaha young
men.
Every angle of any question that
could possibly arise before an exemp
tion board is covered in the official
rules and regulations, copies of which
are being studied by board members.
Exemptors are speeding up their
perusal of the rules and regulations
in anticipation of the numbers being
drawn at Washington the last of the
week.
Election Commissioner Moorhead
expressed the hope that the draft
would be made before Sunday.
"The suspense is telling on the
registered men and on thfeir families
and relatives," he said.
Local exemption boards are re
lieved of the duty of passing on oc
cupational and industrial claims for
exemptions by the officials at Wash
ington. . They will pass on claims arising
from dependents and physical
reasons.
Mysterious Little Machine
Taps New Ocean of Power
Washington, July 11. Favorable
report on a resolution providing for
a test, of a mysterious little machine
which its inventor claims could pro
pel an aeroplane from Washington to
European battlefields and back again
without carrying fuel was voted to
day by the house patents committee.
T. K. Giragossian, the inventor, says
his discovery harnesses at trivial cost
an untrapped ocean of power. The
committee's resolution would guaran
tee governmental protection in case
he demonstrates the usefulness of his
machine to five scientists.
American Ship Kansarj
' Is Sunk by Submarine
New York, July 11. The American
steamer Kansan, carrying a crew of
fifty men, has been sunk, presumably
off the French coast, according to a
cablegram received today by the
France and Canada Steamship com
pany, which chartered the vessel. The
fate of those on board is not known.
Sullivan is Allowed $50, 000 in
Legal Fees from Joslyn Estate
Attorney John J. Sullivan was
allowed a $50,000 fee today by. Acting
Judge Sunblad of county court in the
final accounting of the distribution of
the estate of the late George A. Jos
lyn. multi-millionaire.
Dr. LeRoy Cruniiiicr was allowed
a J7.000 doctor bill and the Dodder
Undertaking 'company $2,500. An ad
ditional ?J.500 was allowed Arthur
Mullen ior special attorney's fees,
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State Council of Defense Warns People
of Nebraska of Treasonable Utterances
and to Guard Against Acts of Disloyalty
First Effects of War Between
United States and Central
Powers Felt irr Issuance of
Sedition Instructions.
After serious investigation and con
sideration, the Nebraska State Coun
cil of Defense deems it to be its duty
to present certain facts to the pa
triotic people of Nebraska in order
that they may have timely informa
tion as to the situation in this state.
The statement follows:
un tne wnoic, Nebraska is in
tensely patriotic. It has contributed
generously in the way of Red Cross
Subscriptions, Liberty bond pur
cnases anu voluntary enlistments, uut
reports come from various sections
of the state relating to un-American
words and conduct, varying all the-r
way from utterances of treasonable
character to direct acts and words of
disloyalty and embarrassments put
upon faithful American i citizens.
These reports would' be unbelievable
but for the fact that they have come
in such large numbers and from so
many discreet and responsible men.
Due to Thoughtlessness.
"Many cases reported by individ
uals were, upon investigation, found
to be exaggerated. The council
adopted the policy of assuming that
many of the so-caled treasonable ut
terances were due to thoughtlessness
and proceeded along educational lines.
In a number of instances personal
friends of the offending persons were
assigned to call upon them for the
purpose of trying to convince them of
the importance of Americans stand
ing united behind the government in
the present war. In many instances
this plan was successful and change
was brought in the individual's point
of view. In many other cases, how
ever, appeal and educational effort
were not productive of good results.
In tne meantime, complaints in
numerable continued to reach the state
council. Careful investigation of many
of these complaints makes it the im
perative duty of the State Council of
Defense to: make ..tbjjrank,aUeatJ
to,. tne " people : oi iNeorasKa.
Acauainted as the council Is with the
solemn and deplorable facts, the very
fact that therer are so many patriotic
people who cannot conceive of such
a situation or believe tnat tne condi
tion described is so general as to
make it serious, compels the council
to give to the public this formal state
ment, r
vvnen me .Liberty oonus were in
process of sale a number of bankers
reported to the state council that
they had been threatened with with
drawal of deposits in the event they
(Continued on rage Ttvo, Column One.)
10,000 Draft Cards '
Lost in U. S, Mails
May Delay Drawing
Los Angeles, Cal., July IT Mail
bags said to contain more than 10,000
registration cards for the selective
draft, which were 'sent from here Fri
day night, directed to the office of
Adjutant General J. J. Boree, in Sac
ramento, have not arrived, accord
ing to an announcement made today
by Charles L.' Wilde, city clerk, and
David B. Lyons, county registrar of
voters.
The cards should have arrived in
Sacramento Saturday morning, draft
officials say. The matter has been
referred to postal authorities here.
News that the draft cards had not
reached Sacramento came in a tele
gram from Adjutant General Boree,
urging that the missing districts be
reported without delay. The adjut
ant general was quoted here-as hav
ing held that until the missing cards
are found he cannot report to Wash
ington that California is ready for the
draft.
Council Bluffs Ice House
Totally Destroyed by Fire
An ice house at Tenth street and
Twelfth avenue, owned , by the
George Elevator company, was com
pletely destroyed by fire at S a. m.
The loss is estimated at $3,000. The
fire started Tuesday night from . a
spark from a passing switch engine.
It "Vas believed the blaze was ex
tinguished, but it broke out again in
the morning, and this time the plant
was consumed.
Bomb Explosions Kill
Two Persons in Chicago
Chicago, July 11. Three bombs be
lieved to have been placed by "black
hand" agents caused the death of two
men here last night. A number of
persons were injured, none of them
seriously.
Acting Judge Sunblad further -allowed
$-17,325 as executrix fee. This
sum goes to IJrs. Sarah Joslyn, widow
of the late Mr. Joslyn, who was named
in the will as executrix.
The bulk of the estate, amounting
to about $6,500,000, was left to Mrs.
Joslyn, who is now said tobe the
Joslyn. said to, be the wealthiest
woman in Nebraska. The inheritance
tax to the state was $54,000 and to
the federal government about $500,000.
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POLICE EXPOSE
WILL FOLLOW IF
MALONEYISGOAT
Head of Oetective Bureau De
clares He Will Get at the
"Higher-Ups". if He
is Dropped."
Cantain Stephen Maioney does
not intend to be made the goat for
the Omaha police department' H'
has stated on several occasions that
he is going to "have a few words to
say.'and the atmosphere at the city
hall is surcharged with suggestive
rumblings.
Some of the details of the pros
pective expose are known. Maioney
said he would speak right out and
"let the chips fall where they may."
It is no secret that Superinten
dent Kugel will be more than inter
ested in what Maioney will have to
say. ,
The fight may eventuate in ouster
charges being filed with the-governor
against Superintendent Kugel.
It is common rumor that Kugel is
afraid of Maioney and that he dem
onstrated that fact when be failed to
show fight on the occasion when Ma
loney called him a "dirty rat" in the
council chamber during the recent
hearing. ,
The situation is, that if Maioney
falls he does .not intend to fall alone.
He avers he can and will "a tale un
fold." It' is further understood that
Kugel will not be the only person
who will be particularly interested in
Mr. Maloney's words of reprisal,
Tells of Kugei's Diamonds.
Maioney inteiids to include Chief
Dunn and Detective Sutton in his
charges of irregularities.
"I am going to show that when
Kugel lived at the Paxton hotel at
the time members of his ;family were
quarantined for scarlet fever his rent
was paid by a man who was conduct
ing a gambling place," said Maioney.
"I will also show who paid for a dia
mond ring Kugel has and who paid
for diamonds worn by Mrs. Kugel.
"I am going to show that certain
places were not raided, while it was
known they were operating illegally.
You know that Kugel took over the
morals squad work and it was taken
out of my, hands. The work of raid
ing places was not in my depart
ment. I am gojng to show up somi
things."
Will Fire at Kugel.s
The captain takes the position that
during his recent hearing he had to
stand for all sorts of abuses was
charged with all manner of things
(Contlnurd on Paga Two, Column Four.)
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Toronto Traction Lines v
Are Tied Up by Strike
Toronto, July 11. With 1,600
street railway employes on strike for
higher wages and shorter hours, traf
fic in this cify today was almost
paralyzed. Trucks and automobiles
had much trouble in moving the
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STICK MAY HOLD
NEVILLE IN LINE
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Nebraska Governor Said to Be
Less Determined to Go to
War; Senior Senator Fears
Succession of Howard.
Governor Keith Neville is less de
terminod to get into the war" since
he has been in Washington talking
to,Scnator" G. M. Hitchcock, his po
litical foster father.
ine senator maae mm Kovernor
and he does not purpose to let him
slip the halter now by resigning. No,
for that would leave Lieutenant Gov
ernor Edgar Howard in line for the
governor's chair and that would be a
calamity to the Hitchcock faction.
Hitchcock and Howard are not only
political enemies at long distance,
but even when together are scarcely
on speaking terms.
Spine weeks ago, . after The Bee
announced that Governor Neville con
templated resigning to join the army,
a procession of Hitchcock democrats
from all parts of the state invaded the
state capital and the executive man
sion and pleaded pathetically for the
governor to remain at the helm of
Ktate to save the jobs of, those he had
appointed, since it was known those
appointees are not of the stripe that
is pleasing to Lieutenant Governor
Howard.
Clanked His Sword.
Still Governor Neville was deter
mined. He clanked his sword as loud
as before and studied military tac
tics harder than ever.
The plea was made that he should
be senatorial . timber , four years
hence, after he had served two years
as governor of the state. .
"What are you talking about?" the
governor is uuoted as answering to
this senatorial proposition. "Do you
think I want to spend six years of
my life in a dusty office in the sen
ate chamber of the United States.
Not me. It doti't look good to me,"
But when the constant plea of the
Hitchcock democrats of the state
could not wring from the governor
a promise to stay by the helm Sena
tor Hitchcock himself got a turn at
Neville. That was a few days ago,
when the governor was in Washing
ton on business of various kinds.
Like Dutch Uncle.
Those who have seen some tele
grams exchanged on this subject say
that Hitchcock "talked like a Dutch
uncle" to the Nebraska governor to
make him stay in the chair and that
this talk for the first time set the
governor to wavering a little in his
craving to get into the 'war.
Still the colonelcy of the "Dandy
Sixth" loomed big in the executive's
eyes.
And the governor's future course
remains still something of a puzzle.
Colonel John G. Maher of Lincoln,
a man close to the governor, has bet
good hats that the governor will go
to war. Others are offering to bet
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TEUTON CABINET MINISTERS
ARE ONLY PUPPETS OF GREAT
GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY
Washington Officials Say Military Leaders are Real Power
in Empire and That Dismissal of Civil Of ficials Will
Have No Real Effect Upon Foreign Policy
of Kaiser or Conduct of the Wan y
BULLETIN.
Copenhagen, July 11. -The coalition of the various ele
ments in the German Reichstag, now arrayed against the gov
ernment, seem determined not to vote the war credit asked until
the political crisis is settled. The attitude of the opposition ele
ment has excited conservative papers to discriminatory com
ment.
Washington, July 11. Germany's latest political difficult
ties are regarded by officials here as due largely to internal
problems.
The dismissal of Foreign Secretary Zimmermann, Ministei
of Finance HelfFerich or' Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollwet
himself would be considered largely a surface movement, fot
GERMANS BEGIN
OFFENSIVE NEAR
BELGIAN COAST
Bridges Across Yser Destroyed
by Heavy Fire and Wedge
Driven in British Line
Toward Dunkirk.
(Aiwoclittad Frcu War Summary.)
Just as the Russians in the east
have torn a big gag in the Austro
German lines in. Galicia, captured
Halicz and pressed on toward Lem
berg, the Galician capital,- the Ger
mans on the western front have
started a menacing offensive near the
Belgian coast.
This movement, while it may turn
out to be nothing but a local effort
or something with which the British
can cope after the shock of the first
thrust has been met, nevertheless in
dicates the possibility of a determined
attempt to bend back the British flank
on the Belgian coast and reach the
French city of Dunkirk, about seven
teen miles distant. -Bridges
Are Destroyed.
The Germans succeeded in their
initial push by leveling the defenses
through an intense bombardment for
twenty-four hours and then attack
ing last evening over the devastated
ground. The bridges across the Yser
were destroyed by the heavy fire and
the sending up of reinforcements was
found impossible. Thus a penetration
600 varriq Aeert on a front of 1.400
Tyears was effected, the Germans
pushing as far as the east bank of
the Yser, near the North sea. The
attack also extended further south,
opposite Lombaertzyde, but here,
after having temporarily driyen in the
British advanced line, a counter at
tack forced the Germans back to their
original positions. ,
First Rush for Months.
There have been no serious at
tempts by . the Germans to break
through the British front in Belgium
since their two campaigns for Calais
in the early months of the war. The
first was checked along the Belgian
front by the combined British and
Belgian defense, aided by the partici
pation of British warships along the
coast. In the second battle of Ypres,
in the fall of 1914, the Germans sac
rificed thousands of men in a terrible
drive but failed to effect a penetra
tion. Reports from London today indi
cated that the battle in Belgium is
still in progress. The sounds of
heavy firing, heard in England all
day yesterday, were again heard to
day, beginning at dawn.
In the sensational campaign which
the revolutionary army of Russia is
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' not until the great army general stal -
itself is reached, it is believed, wit
the real crust of German militarisn
be broken.
The German foreign office, it wai
pointed out today, has served during
the war merely as a means to get th
military leaders out of trouble.
Decisions have been made without
reference to the civil branch and mat.
ters brought to the attention of the
latter only when it was desired to
negotiate a way out of the difficulty.
CABINET MINISTERS PUPPETS.
American officials agree with allied
diplomats here that many of the Ger
man officials who figure so largely in
the news are, in fact, largely puppets
being, pulled acrosi the stage as a
blind to German people. Their rise
or fall, they say, has little significance
on Germany's military and foreign
policies.
Nevertheless it js agreed that there
is au enormous ainouut of unrest -m-Germany
today which in all proba
bility will lead to internal changes in
personnel of the government and in
reform of the obvious abuses of the
German governmental system.
Austria Wants Peace.
Austria's influence is becoming
more and more insistent toward a lib
eral peace. Austria is said to be
treated most conremptuously by Ger
man officials and given consideration
only as the unavoidable weak link in
the chain. Nevertheless it is known
that it would make peace tomorro.
if possible, and its activity in consult
ing German -statesmen and political
leaders is undoubtedly causing worry
at German headquarters.
Resignations Accepted.
Amsterdam, July 11. The session
of the crown council on Monday, says
a Berlin telegram, lasted until 1
o'clock Tuesday morning, when the
resignations were accepted definitely.
The imperial chancellor has decided
to offer the vacant ministerial port
folios to leaders of the reichstag and
Prussian diet. An imperial ministry
of labor will be created under the
socialists, Herbert or David.
Catholics Support Erzberger.
The Catholic organ Gcrmania says
the Catholic center in the Reichstag,
has decided by an overwhelming
majority to support Mathias Erz-.
berger, who last week attacked the
pan-Gei mans and advocated peace
without annexations or indemnities.
Herr Erzbcrger's object, the news
paper says, is to induce the Reichstag
to makk! a declaration of war aims in
the sense that Germany has not gone
to war with a desire for conquest, but ,
merely to defend its freedom and '
preserve its territorial possessions.
In order to nullify definitely any
impression on the part of the entente,
that Germany's peace terms would be
dictated by the Prussian military
caste ,the Reichstag is asked to set
fourth with unmistakable clearness
the German war aims. The entente
would, then realize, it is contended,
that it is waging war with the entire '
German people.
The Gcrmania adds that the chan- '
ccllor had accepted the idea and that
the formation of a coalition ministry '
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