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0 Daily. Bee MAHA' THE WEATHER1 Fair 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 ft - 1 'I' 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." 1 ')'' -v-;:'-;-r 1 4J' : j pS ir l ?i8M. 1 ; r- , . . 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 1 4 93 n 1 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 ! W. ) - : I vi M.- ' w j- stataswtc ammmmmmmamitok I 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.