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VOL. XLVII. NO. 30.
OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1917. TEN PAGES.
GERMANS
WIN A
GREAT SUCCESS AGAINST RUSSIANS;
MILLIONS
VOTED
THAT AMERICA MAY RULE THE AIR;
UP TO STATES 'PRAISE ARMY DRAFT CONTINGENTS
SLAVS FLEE
AS TEUTONS
RUSH LINES
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Berlin Claims Victory in Galicia
With Capture of Large Num
; ber of Prisoners in Re
newed Fighting.
Berlin, July 22.-, Via Lcmdon.)
The attack begun by the Germansin
eastern "Galicia last week has de
veloped into a great success, the war
office announces. The pursuit of the
Russians' continued yesterday, and,
the , statement says, the Germans
everywhere defeated the Russians,
taking a large number of prisoners.
A new battle developed toward the
northern end of the line. The Rus
sians attacked with strong forces be-
tween Krevo and Smorgon. The com
munication says their assaults broke
down with heavy losses, but that
fresh fighting began later.,
Claim Success On Aisne,
German trooos have nenptratprl
French positions on the Aisne front
T T s ..
ucr ddyc-cn-uaonnis ana cerny, it
is announced Officially. Great activity
va me uiiusn iront is reportea.
British Begin 9dvance.
i-ondon, July 22. A British ad
vance near Monchy Le Preux is an-.
nounced by the war office today. Pa
, trol encounters resulted ,in favor of
the British last night northwest of
Uuentin and south of Lens. The
enemy artillery was active during the
night in the neighborhood of Lens
nd Armentieres and near the coast."
French Check Attaks.
Paris, July 22. The Germans con
tinued their furious assaults on the
Aisne front last night, bringing up
fresh troops, today's official statement
says the attacks were broken up by
the French, who inflicted great losses
np- them.- The Germans also attacked
on the Verdun front, but gained no
success.
; i Austrian Attack Repulsed. -
Rome, July 22.-rAn attack on Fri
day night by the Austrians, who
brought up reinforcements, was re-,
puiseo. oy.tne Italians, it was an
nounced officially today.
German Planes
Make Air. Eaid
On English Coast
London, July 22. Another day
light raid, earned out over the east
coast of England this morning, re
sulted in the repulse of about twenty
German airplanes after they had
dropped a number of bombs over
Felixstows and Harwich, killing
eleven persons and injuring twenty
six. An alarm was sounded in Lon
don, but before the Germans could
reach any point near the city, they
were auacKea neaviiy by defending
squadrons of aircraft, which caused
them to beat a hasty retreat. The
, damage toproperty is insignificant.
An official report issued this eve
ning says, a royal flying corps patrol
encountered several machines return
ing to their base, and brought one
,down at sea, near the Belgian coast.
The morning; broke briht and
sunny, but a thick haze soon ap
peared. At about 8 o'clock the enemy
machines were seen flying toward the
coast. They received a hot reception
and were hardly well over the coast
before their formation was broken up.
They dropped bombs hastily before
retreating. .
Observers say that the gunfire
which followed the section which
went down the Essex coast reached
a pitch of unusual 'intensity. It was
the movements of this squad which
caused the firing for the first time of
new warning signals in London.
British planes pursued the Germans
well out to sea, fighting vigorously all
the time, but handicapped by the low
visibility.
WOMEN APPEAL TO
CONGRESS TO END
GIG FOOD WASTE
Report Dealers Dump Vast
Quantities of Edibles in
River in Effort to Force "
Prices Up.
Four Kings Lose Countries, Two Lose 1
Crowns During War, Which in 3 Years
Rocked .Mighty Empires to Foundation
Discovery that a large quantity of
food is dumped in the river because
it does not bring the high prices de
manded, has prompted the investiga
tion committee of the Woman Voters'
Conservation league to send a resolu
tion to congress demanding that ac
tion be taken to stop the waste.
The resolution was endorsed by the
food conservation committee wjiieh
met yesterday' afternoon in the "city
hall to make further plans for. an ac
tive campaign this week. ,
Mrs. A. C. Anderson received sev
eral letters from parents of boy gar
deners declaring that their sons had
been threatened with arrest when they
attempted to peddle their garden
produce.
To meet this situation, Mayor Dahl-
man promised to issue permits to boy
gardeners at once, which will be given
to them upon proper identification.
Stalls will be established at the oub
lie market Monday where the boys
will sell their produce and from which
they will deliver to families who wish
to order.
Boycott Bov Gardeners.
Mrs. Thor Jorgenson, chairman of
hue investigation committee, said:
"We are going to follow this situa
tion to the end."
Mrs. Mary E. Howe, also a mem
ber of the committee, said when she
presented the resolution to the con
servation committee:
"The present food situation is pro
ducing more anarchists in the present
generation than can be dealt with in
the next." ,
Mrs. Howe also told nf a lad urtin
has tramped the streets in an effort to
sell his vegetables until thev were nr
wilted that he had to throw them
away. She said he was so disheart
ened that he threatened to tone anv-
one who looked at hiin.
I he special committee on invstiira.
tion of food supplies-is-composed of
mis. inor jorgensen, chairman; Mrs.
G. Simpson, Mrs. A. C Anrfe
mis. n, weisman, Mrs. Wary E,
tiowe, secretary. The resolutions
caning lor congressional action were
as follows:
. "Owing to the great scarcity of
food, be it
"Resolved,-That the Women Voters'
Conservation league of Omaha urge
upon congress through any channel it
may deem necessary, that laws be
passed and aDDronriatiniis tna4 nm-
yiding for federal inspection of all
places where food received or deliv
ered for transportation, and said fed
eral inspectors shall have power, when
they deem that any and all food will
in a short time decay and become unfit
for consumption, to declare said food
the property of the United States gov
ernment: aild be it further
Resolved, That the owner, occupant
or lessee of any farm, fruit ranch or
truck garden be given by the afore
said inspectors reasons!! i'm
which said owner, occupant or lessee
shall gather, harvest and store any
produce. And be it further provided
2a e aforesad federal inspectors
shall have power to declare produce
not gathered, harvested or stored
withm the given time, the property of
the United tSates government, subject
to confiscation and to be disposed of
as the government of the United
Mates may deem fit."
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OFFICIAL TALLY SHEETS TO
BE MAILED TO EXEMPTION
BOARDS BY HEXT TUESDAY
Next Step in Summoning Great National Army Soon Com
pleted; District Boards to Govern Industrial Claims
Named; Frank A. Kennedy, and M. C. Peters '
Of Omaha Named iPor State District;
SENATE PASSES
BILL TO PROVIDE
BATTLE PLANES
House Measure ADoroDnatina
$640,000,000 to Complete
and: Operate, Big v Air
; Fleet Is Voted.
Monarchs Minus Titles Numer
ous as Fourth Year of Great
Conflict Will Open1 Early
in Month of August.
War Department Officials
At Training Camp in France
American Training Camp in France,
June 22. Two high officials of the
, United Mates' War department ar
rived at the camp this morning. They
were taken immediately on an extend
ed inspection of the camp by Major
General Siberfc
Report Improvement
In French Wheat Crop
Paris, July 22. The crop report
published in the Journal Official to
day says there has been great im
provement in the wheat crop since
the last report made on June 1.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, : July 22. The house
bill appropriating $640,000,000 for avi
ation service, . was passed yesterday
by the senate without amendment or
a record vote and with less than -an
hour's discussion,' . It now goes to
the president, r "
The senate's ; only dispute, with
many members expressing a ' de
one iv pass me dm, was over an
amendment of Senator Hardwick of
oeorgia to strike out a clause an.
thorizing drafting. of the men for
aerial service. The amendment WIS
cjcticu, oo 10 n, aiter .senator La.
toilette and Senator G rnnna maH
Dnet speeches ODDOsine -the draft.
Details of plan for expendingth
nuge sum appropriated have been
withheld, but it is known that it nrn.
vides for about 22,000 airplanes and
nearly iui.ouu men. ' .
To Sign Bill Monday.
ajic prcsiucni is expectea to sign
the bill Monday and ' the work of
building one of the greatest air fleets
tne world has seen will be pushed
wiin vigor.. , ... .
In rejecting the Hardwick amend
ment the dozen, senators, voting
strike out the draft clause were: Cur.
tis, Borah, Broussafd, Gore, Gronna.
riarawicic, ft.irDy, j-afollettc, McKel
lar, morris,, uwen and -Vardaman. ;
The Weather
For Nebrsska Fair.
Temperatures at Omaha Teeterday.
Hour.
t a. m.
a. m.
7 a: m.
S am.
t a. m.
10 a. m.
11 a. m.
12 m....
1 p. m.
z p. m
P. m
p. m
p. m.
( p. m......
T n. m
Comparative local Record,
1917. 1I 1J1J. ui4.
81 M
' 71 61 7S
8 8S 71 14
T .Ofr .00 T
Def.
75
74
75
77
80
83
85
87
88
89
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93
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RUSSIANS EVACUATE KALUSZ - The prewure
brought from two points. On the north (1), the Rhineland
regiments marched down, while another Teuton army ap.
proached from the west (2). Under this pinching process,
the Russians were forced osjt along the southern bank of
the Lomnica (3).
Highest yeslerilay
Lowest yesterday.
Mean temperature,
Precipitation-
Temperature and precipitation departures
from tlie normal at Omaha yesterday:
Normal temperature.... 77
Excess for the day,. " 7
Total deficiency since March 1.. 2.19 Inches
X Normal precipitation 13 inch
, Deficiency for the day .13 Inch
Total rainfall since 2Hnrch 1 i. . . 15 ; tnh.
Deficiency since March 1 1.31 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period, !!. 7.43 Inches
Deficiency, tor cor. period, 1915. .35 Inch
BOrOROOCZW
PERCHINSKO
rTILKOA,DS
l&'V&Zl SHADED PORTION'
1 ' ,1 OFMA.P INpiCATt.S
WJEK OF RUSSIAN RETREAT
SCAVt OF MILtS
-PREStNT BATTLE LINE
m -FORMER .BWTLtlUNe
Many . strange, startling, history
making events have taken place since
the world began, three years 'ago
to-day, not the- least of which- events"
were the number of thrones upset
aodthe number of kings precipitated
into a hard, cruel world to earn their
daily oread.
,: Four monarchs are "kings without
countries- as a result of the war.
liacn still enjoys his claim to the ti
tie of king" by reason of the fact
that that his subjects have not taken
it away from him, although the Teu
tonic hords in the first flush of vic
torious invasion took their countres
away from them all.
Two other august personages were
compelled to relinquish their thrones
an retire to public life, one to Sulk
and the other to shovel snow from
the pathways of what was once his
magnificent imperial estate. They
are Kings witnout crowns, for they
have abdicated their crowns and
sceptres "voluntarily." That is to say
they didn't jump, they were pushed.
ine jour Kings wituout countries
are Albert of Belgium, almost all of
whose kingdom is in the hands of the
Germans.. Albert is beloved of. his
people, however, and will be restored
to his trone as soon as the Germans
are driven out.
Nicholas of . Montenegro lost his
littfe agricultural kingdom when the
Austro-Germanic armies swept Ser
Nicholas, was compelled to flee before
the oncoming Teutons. Looking far
from anything resembling a king,
Peter joined the lines of diseased,
starving and wounded stragglers that
clogged the roads out of Serbia for
weeks. Part of .the -.way be walked
and part of the way be rode on -a
donkey, until, he reached the British
lines i Macedonia and safetv. .If the
Allies win-the war both Peter and
Nicholas will set ' their countries
backhand their people will welcome
them with open arrns.
Abbas Hilmi Pasha was Sultan of
Egypt under the nominal suzerainty
of the Sultan of Turkey. In reality,
Egypt was a. British Protectorate.
When the war broke out SultanAb
bas swung over to the side of Turkev.
so that the English relieved hitfl of
his throne and elevated Prince Hus
sein .Kamel Pasha to the Sultanate.
Unless Germany wins, ex-Sullan Ab
bas will be out of a job.
Everyone knows the storv of Nirh-
olas Romanoff, late Czar .of all the !
Russians. The "Little . Father" lost
his job of "'little fathering" when the
Russian people became imoatient re
cently. -Nicholas seems to be per
manently out of a iob. He is one of
the kings without a crown.
TJonstantine of Greece lost . his
throne because he was too friendlv
with his brother-in-law. said brother-
in-law being Kaiser Bill. Constan-
tines possibilities of agan wearing
SOCIALIST HEAD
ATTACKS GERMAN
SUBSEA WARFARE
Majority Leaders Before Reich
stag Score Domestic and
Foreign Policy of. Gov 1
ernment.
GERMAN AGENTS
CAUSE OF RIOTS.
SAYS KERENSKY
New Russian Premier. Appeals
to Patriots, in Explaining
Cause; of Recent Dis- ;
" . Vturbance,
1 By Associated rren.)
Petrograd July 22. The recent dis
turbances in J?etrograd were instigat
ed 'by agents o the German govern-
(By Associated Press.) .
Copenhagen, July 22. Berlin news
papers containing the speech of Im
penal Chancellor Michaelis and the
aeoaie in the Keichstag .have not
reached Denmark for ' some reason,
but arriving Hamburg oaoers riv
more extensive reports of the speeches
in the Reichstag than were transmit
ted by the Wolff agency.
rhilipp Scheideman, leader of the
majority socialists, particularly . at-
tacKea tne submarine warfare. It
adoption, lie declared, was a -triumph
of unscrupulous demaeoperv with
Count von Revcntlow, and th
Deutsches Tages Zeitung . playing
leading roles, ihe . censorshm had
prevented effective opposition to the
warfare bv the cress. Sr.hidMnan r.
called the prophesy, made some weeks
ago by . Herr von Heydebrand, the
conservative leader, that the war
would be won m two months through
the submarine and evoked merriment
in the house by adding:' ;
Heydebrand, your submarine
watch has run down '
As a weapon to end the -war this
summer the illusion of the submarine,
(Continued oa Page Two, Column Tw.)
Two Thousand Miners at
Leadville, Colo., Strike H!?,ni"sa reads:
.. . I . ... .... It has been es
Leadville, Colo.. July 22.-AU the
mines in the Leadville Metal Mining
district are shut down today follow
ing a strike order issued by the local
Dranch ot the International Union
ot Aline, Mill and Sme ter Workers.
An average of 2,000 men are employed
nere and with the exception of fifty i
pumpmen, engineers and watchmen
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, July 22. Despite the fact that officers and
clerks of Provost Marshal General Crowder's office worked all
last night to complete the drawing that fixed the order of mili
tary liability of 10,000,000 registrants, the tally sheets had been
compared and corrected before dark, tonight and the master list
was in the hands of the printer.
General Crowder has issued the following statement:
"The drawing is complete and has been apparently suc
cessful. The official tally sheets have been compared, sent to
the printer and the proof is being received. Final copies will
be ready for distribution not later than Tuesday.
9 TO CERTIFY RULES.
"The next step will be the certifies,
tion of the rules of the drawing to
4,557 local boards and the application
by each board of its chart to its ser
ially numbered lists. This need con
sume but little time and when done,
the order of priority of the nearly 10,
poo,000 registrants to report for exam
ination will be revealed. . Such addi
tional drafts as may be ordered by
the president will be filled by calling
men in the order of this established
priority and no further drawing will
ever be necessary, a
"Each local board, upon receipt of
its chart and upon notification by the
governor of the quota to be raised by
it, may proceed at once, under regula
tions already promulgated to summon
men for examination.
Race to Be Swift.
"We' have now! passed the stag
ittihe execution, ol the seieetrve-serv '
ire act when we Vnust have concert
of action by the Estates. In , raising
state contingent, the race is to the
swiftest.;
"I cannot let this opportunity pass
without adverting to the very great
value of the assistance, which has
been so earnestly and efficiently fend
ered by the press. ,
"Without the Systematic campaigf
of public information that prepared
the country for the registration, th
enrollment of 10,000,000 men on the
fifth day of June would have been
impossible. The generous sunoort ol
the newspapers throughout the per
iod since registration day is appreci
ated and only the most thorough ef
ficiency cojld have placed udoii the .
streets, within a few hours after the
first number was drawn, lists for
each registration district, showing the .
names of the persons who would be
summined for examination on the
first call of the local boards."
General Crowder also made oublic
the text of the regulations for their
application, which will accompany the
master lists.
The officially new feaure shown i
ths p'.d . for handling cards that are
found to have duplicate numbers or
are otherwise confused and also of
dealing with those received July 10,
when the local boards closed their
lists to begin numbering.
By the plan worked out. these addi
tional cards will be. given an order
of their own by lot and then will be
added to the lists of the districts from
which they come and be affected by
the drawing precisely as though they
had been received and numbered be
fore the board lists were closed.
Where several cards b ear the same
serial number, one will be drawn
from the group and retain the dunli-
cated number, while the others will
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PREMIER KERENSKY,.
ment, . said Premier Kerensky, ' lii"a
message to the sailors at Rcval, Hel
singfors and other ports. The new
premier appeals to all democrats to
stand by the provisional government
stabtished without
doubt that' the disturbances in Pet
rograd were organized by agents of
the German government. The disturb
ances now have been suppressed com
and those guilty of the blood of their
pletely and the arrest of the leaders
1 1 1. ....
nroiners ana crimes aeainst the gov
ernment and the revolution is proceed
ing. ArrActa alon am Kl.,rv 1
all have quit. Fifty actively producing among the sailors who acted contrary
crown depend npon whether the Ger
mans are victorious. If they are noU
he will have to Ko to work aloni?
with the ex-Sultan and the ex-Czar.
He is another king without a country.
but no crown. . .
And so it eoes. The fourth ve ar of
the war finds kinsrs. with nerfectlv
good crowns but no countries, and
other kings with perfectly good coun
tries but no crowns. ,
Rivers and. Harbors Bill
Declared No War Measure
Washington. Tulv 22A
Senator Fletcher to m.-.. th $-7nrm
000 rivers and harbors bill the unfin
ished business of the senate, was de
feated late todav on ohiertinn nf Sen
ator Borah, who said many features
of the bill, in his opinion, should be
rejected. He said the bill was not a
war measure.
Mexican Deputies Authorize
Loan of 100,000,000 Pesos
, Mexico City, July 22. The House
ot deputies last. night approved a
measure granting permission to Presi
dent carranza to contract a loan for
100,000,000 pesos to finance the new
government bank issue. .
"Dandy Sixth" Gets Its
Popular Name From Bee
The Hildreth (Nebraska) Tele
scope says: "We have asked a dor
en or more why the new regiment
of Nebraska National Guard is re
ferred to as the 'Dandy Sixth,' but
no one seems to be able to furnish
us the desired information. Oan
you?"
The "Dandy Sixth" got its name
when the announcement first was
made that Governor Neville con
templated resigning the . governor
ship to go to war as colonel of the
newest Nebraska regiment.
One of the editors of The Bee,
in writing a headline for the story
filled in the head with the words
"Dandy Sixth." The name at once
became popular, and the regiment
probably will go through the great
war with a blaze of glory
to their civic and military duties.
Appeals, To Patriots
'"I appeal to ah true sons of democ
racy to rally .around the provisiona
government and the democratic or
ganizations throughout Russia to save
the country tnd the revolution from
the enemy without and his allies with
in
Premier Kerensky has addressed an
order ot the day to the army and
navy, directing:
First, the dissolution of the Ccn
tral committee of the Baltic fleet and
the election of a new committee.
Second, the issue of a notification
to all detachments of the shins of the
Baltic fleet that "I desire them to re
move at once all persons suspected
of inciting to insubordination against
me provisional government and
against our offensive and to send
these individauls to : Petrosrrad for
trial."
Third, detachments of Kronstadt
be registered as unnumbered and the
process of adding them to the lists
be followed. .
Another step accomplished during
the day was the appointment of the
district boards of thirty-two of the
states .and announcement of the
names of the five men who will com
pose each of them.
Some states have six or . eight
(Continued on Par Two, Column Three.)
Fighting Homesteaders May
Be Allowed Full Time of War
Washington, July ' 22. A house
and senate conference report agreeing
upon a bill to give full credit for all
time spent in the army or navy in the
war to homesteaders was filed with
the house todav bv Chairman Ferris
of the public land committee.
(Continued on P Two, Column One.)
Santa Fe Road to Finance
Farmers of Southwest
Chicago, 111., July 22. Following
the government's policy to increase
food production, the new farmers in
the sparsely settled districts of south
west Kansas and northwest Texas
will be financed for seed wheat pur
poses this fall by the Atchison,' To
peka & Santa Fe Railway company,
according to a statement made today
by E. P. Ripley, president of the rail
way. The railroad company, will loan the
farmers in this section more than a
quarter of a million dollars through
local banks on reasonable terms. Ex
tra wheaf acreage under this nlan. it
is said, will produce 2,500,000 bushels
of wheat.
Korneloff Commander of
Southwestern Russ Army
Petrograd, July 22. Lieutenant
Governor L. G. Korneloff, commander
of the Eighth Russian army, which
recently advanced successfully on the
Halicz-Stanislau line in Galicia. ha
been appointed commander-in-chief of
the Russian armies on the southwMt.
tern front He succeeds General Gon
ter, who was appointed to the com-
mana eany in June.