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VOL. XLVII. NO. 32.
OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 23, 1917. TEN PAGES.
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BUILDER OF PANAMA CANAL
AND CHAIRMAN DENMAN ARE
FIRED FROM SHIPPING BOARD
Executive Stops Row Which Has Been Delaying Construc
tion Program by Dropping Both Heads of Factions
Edward N. Hurley of Chicago Becomes
Chairman and Washington L. Capp Gen
eral Manager of Corporation.
Washington, July 24. President Wilson today asked
Chairman Denman of the shipping board to resign and accepted
the resignation of Major General Goethals as general manager
of the emergency fleet corporation.
. Official announcement of the acceptance of the resigna
tions of General Goethals and Captain John B. White was made
with publication of a letter from President Wilson to Chairman
Denman asking for his resignation and giving the president's
opinion that the only way to end the
row which has delayed the shipbuild
ing program was for both Goethals
And Denman to be removed from the
situation.
Official announcement of the ac
ceptance of the general's resignation
was made today with the publication
of a letter from President Wilson to
Chairman Denman saying he was con
vinced that to accept the resignation
of General Goethals was the only way
io stop the row which has been' de
laying the program.
Hurley Becomes Chairman.
Edward N. Hurley, a Chicago bus
iness man and former chairman of
tli e Federal Trade commission, will
become chairman of the shipping
board.
Washington L. , C'apps, chief con
structor of the nayy, will succeed
General Goethals as general manager
of the emergency fleet corporation.
Bainbridge Colby of New York will
become a member of the shipping
board in place of Captain John 15.
White, whose resignation the presi
dent accepted. .
WttSOT'S'Lettcfto Denman.
In asking for Mr. Denman's resig
nation President Wilson suggested
that he would be glad to take the
"same disinterested and self-forgetting
course that General Goethals has
taken."
"When you have done as he has
done," the president wrote Air. Den
man, "I assure you that you may
count with the utmost confidence
uppn the ultimate verdict of the peo
ple of the country with regard to your
magnanimous and unselfish view of
public duty and upon winning in the
retrospect the same admiration and
confidence that I have learned to feel
lor you."
President Wilson's action came as a
surprise. Officials generally had
thought he would make a further ef-.
fort to patch up differences and divide
specifically between Chairman Den
man and General Goethals powers
conferred on him by the shipping act.
Denman Acts Promptly.
Chairman Denman received the
president's request for his resigna
tion at noon and tendered immedi
ately. "I want to help the-president in
every way possible," he said, "and
never fcave questioned the wisdom of
his decisions."
Now Retired Officer.
General Goethals in now back in
the status of a retired officer of the
United States army, subject to any
duty to which the president may call
him. It is well known that the gener
al wants to join the troops in France.
When congress appropriated $500,
000,000 for tl.e ship building, an at
tempt was made to specify General
Goethals by name as the man to have
charge of it and make his removal, by
the executive branch of the govern
ment impossible. It was not success
ful. Mr. Denman is a San Francisco ad
miralty lawyer.
Differences between General Goeth
als and Chairman Denman over the
question of steel or wooden ships be
gan immediately after the general was
put in charge of the building pro
gram. General Goethals steadily opposed
the board's plan of wooden ships in
.large numbers, declaring that steel
construction was more practical.
Treason Charge Made
Against Broken Bow Man
Broken Bow, Neb., July 24. (Spe
cial Telegram.) B. R. Warbelton, a
blacksmith of this place, was arrested
this morning by Deputy .United States
Marshal Carroll of Lincoln.
He is charged with making treason
able utterances directed against Presi
dent Wilson. Several witnesses are
alleged to have heard the talk and
Sheriff Wilson reported Warbelton to
the government last Saturday.
Other investigations are now being
made and more arrests are expected.
Marshal Carroll will take Warbelton
to Grand Island today for preliminary
hearing.
British War Bill Seven
Million Pounds Daily
London, July 24. Andrew Bonar
Law, the chancellor of the Exchequer,
announced in the House of Commons
this afternoon that for 112 days the
average British expenditure was
6.975,000 daily.
The chancellor said the total ad-
vance made by Great Britain toi its
allies and its dominions was 1,023,-
000,000.
MAJOR GENERAL GOETHALS
Who ha resigned as general
manager of the emergency fleet
corporation.
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TRACTORS WORTH
A MILLION AT THE
FREW SHOW
Three Times as Many Acres to
.' Be Plowed by Twice as
1 Many Exhibitors as
Last Year.
Fully $1,000,000 worth of power
farming machinery will be on the
grounds at the rational tractor show
at Fremont August 6 to 1U.
This is the estimate now made by
those in charge of the enrollment of
exhibitors. Sixty companies will ex
hibit machinery and fifty will exhibit
accessories, making a total of 110 ex
hibitors, which is almost double the
number exhibiting last year.
Fully 500,000 people are expected
to attend the show this year. This is
based upon the general interest shown
everywhere, on the normal increase in
attendance from year to year and
on the increased number of attrac
tions this year.
Fremont hotels have been taking
reservations for some time and ior
weeks Omaha hotels have been re
ceiving telegrams reserving rooms for
factory men who will stop in Omaha
and go back and forth on the train
daily. It is the opinion of those in
charge that every hotel in Omaha
will be filled up during that time with
the factory representatives who will
sleep in Omaha and work in Fre
mont. Three Thousand Acres.
Three times as much ground as
usual for demonstrating the plowing
has been leased this year. In former
years the demonstrations were made
on a field of 1,000 acres. This year
3,000 acres have been leased.
Henry Ford, his son and one of
his engineers are scheduled to be at
the show much of the week. They
are to have a special Northwestern
car in which they will live while at
Fremont.
The Society of Automobile Engi
neers is to have a big banquet
Wednesday evening of the week of
the show-
Present indications are that 1.000
factory experts will be at the show
demonstrating
Fremont has already imported three
carloads of watermelons for the an
nual treat to the visitors.
A wrestling match is to be staged
one night of the week.
A battle royal between a half dozen
colored men is on the schedule and
the week is full with a program of
sports generally.
Disloyal High School
Teacher is Dismissed
Clinton. Ia., July 26. Despite his
protestations of loyalty to the United
States, but opposition to the present
war and 1o the draft system, J. A.
Kainin. teacher in the commercial dc-
partntmt of the Clinton High school,
was discharged by the school board
Mat evening.
Sentry Fires S
at mtjlMission
Louisville, IyW v. A sen
try guarding thefttonment dis
charged his rifle at the parade of
the Belgian war mission today
when the car leading the proces
sion refused to heed his command
to halt. The rifleman fired above
the heads of the occupants of the
car. He was arrested.
The mission was about to enter
the camp under the guidance of H.
T. Kelsey, a civilian, who was in the
first car directly in front of Baron
Moncheur, chief of the mission.
When the order to halt was re
ceived he directed the chauffeur to
ignore it. The sentry promptly
fired over the car.
Military men declared the en
listed man had been justified in fir
ing when his command was ignored.
WILL BE SENT
ABROAD SOON
Call for Five Billion Dollars
More Indicates Equipment
. of Big Army for For
eign Service.
BULLETIN.
Washington, July 24. An Ameri
can army of 1,000,000 men for scrv-.
ice abroad at once.' instead of the
500,000 contemplated for the first
draft, is foreshadowed" by the gov
ernment's request for an additional
$5,000,000,000 made to the senate fi
nance committee today.
The first million men are to
be made up of the first draft army
of 500,000, the National Guard and
the regulars. It is improbable that
the first draft will be increased, but
the government is arranging its fi
nances for othcr drafts without the
necessity of going to congress again
for money.
(Conesronienca of The Associated Press.)
, Washington, July 24. Plans
worked out in congress for raising
war revenue were overturned today
by announcement of forthcoming ad
ditional estimates for war expendi
tures aggregating more than $5,000.
000,000 pricipally in anticipation of
assembling a second army of 500,000
men under the selective draft.
Secretary McAdoo, at a special
meeting or the senile finance commit
tee revealed that the war department
alone is preparing estimates to cover
additional expenditures of nearly $,
000,000,000 and asked the committee
to hold up the $1,670,000,000 war tax
bill until the estimates of all depart
ments are submitted. The committee
agreed to the request and pigeon
holed a report on theNneasure which
it had planned to sttbjnit during the
day.
More for Shipping.
The new estimates, including $500,
000,000 additional for the shipping
board and $100,000,000 for the navy
department are to be submitted to the
committee late this week. Then
there will begin another revision of
the war revenue measure, probably
resulting in an increase of the bills
gross tax levy by from $350,000,000 to
$1,500,000,000. Further credits may
also be authorized in the form of
bonds or indebtedness certificates.
Besides the additional sums needed
for the American war program, Secre
tary McAdoo told the senate commit
tee that the $3,000,000,000 authorized
for loan to the allies probably would
last only until October and that about
$2,000,000,000 for their further assist
ance would be needed. Provision
for this, however, is not planned in
connection with the pending revenue
legislation. It probably will be con
sidered at the next session.
No Recommendation.
The secretary made no recommen
dation as to what part of the total
should be raised by taxes and what
part by bond issues or other credits.
It wkas reported, however, that. -the
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MILLION
MEN
Great Steel Barrier Twenty Miles
Long Blocks the English Channel
British Port on the Southeast
Coast, June 30. (By Mail.) Across
the eastern mouth of the English
channel there still stretches the great
barrier which is one of the principal
defenses of the allies' vital channel
traffic against the visits of the Ger
man submarine.
The "barrage" they call the bar
rier in naval phrase., it .consists,, in
general terms, of a series of "obstruc
tions" stretched from huge buoys,
shore to shore, twenty odd miles.
Any craft which strikes one of. these
obstructions straight away explodes
a group of mines, which spells finis
to the intruder.
A whole fleet in constantly engaged
in maintaining and . patroling the
great barrier. Its existence is no se
cret to the Germans, for they are
constantly sending over airplanes to
chart the buoys and mark any changes
that may have been made since their
last visit. And changes arc con
stantly being made.
Here and there along tlie line are
secret openings through which naval
pih.ita may guide legitimate Liait on
tjjicir way,
but these openings are
GERMANS ATTACK IN THE WEST The Germans have
apparently entered upon a well planned attempt to break
through the French line between Soissons and Rheims. The
official reports from Berlin and London show fighting of a
desperate character around Gauchy (1), near St. Quentin,
and an extremely heavy assault from northeast of Craonne
to east of Hurtebise (2). The new offensive also included
heavy assaults on the French lines at Corbeny (3) and
Cerny (4).
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ALLIED DRIVE ON
WESTERN FRONT
NOW UNDER WAY
Unparalleled Artillery Action in
Progress in Flanders' Indi-'
.eating Beginning of Tre
mendous Drive.
BULLETINS.
Petrograd, July 24. Stanislau is
being exacuated by the Russians, ac
cording to tonight's official state
ment. The Germans have crossed
the Sereth river in the region of
Mikulice (south of Tarnopol) de
feating Russian detachments. South
of the Dniester the Russians are
retiring eastward.
After the Russians had occupied
the German positions on both .sides
of Dvinsk-Vilnar the statement says
entire units retired to their original
trenches without German pressure.
A number of units refused to obey
commands during batlft.
Berlin (Via London), July 24.
An artillery battle of an intensity
never paralleled previously is rag
ing day and night in Flanders, the
war office announces.
The German announcement in
dicates that in all likelihood the
expected British offensive is at
hand. .It has been predicted that
the next attack of the British would
surpass any effort previously made
by them.
(AssoiIbIimI rrrm War Kummnr.v.)
Signs of a halt in the Russian re
treat in eastern Galicia before the
advancing Austro-Gcrman armies are
largely wanting, but Indications of
stronger resistance in' some sectors
are cropping out.
The Austro-Gerinan forces arc
pressing southward in an effort to cut
in between the Russian forces on their
old line and the Dniester river, suc
cess in which would spell disaster for
the Russian units until in this sec
tor. .
While Premier Kerensky, armed
with almost dictatorial powers, is
struggling to right the situation on
the Russian front the allied armies
in the west are holding the threat of
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frequently altered and not even the
airplanic eye of the German can tell
which buoy marks safe passage and
which marks destruction. If his
mine-laying submarines wish to enter
the channel they must lake their
chances. They must cross sub
merged, for the patrol boats are on
constant duty, and. if they escape the
traps while submerged it can only
be said that another liliracle has hap
pened. Such miracles seldom happen.
Sometimes twice a week, sometimes
oftener, explosions are heard at night
from the great barrier, indicating that
"something" has touched off a group
of mines. Immediately, the patrols
hurry off in the direction of the ex
plosion. What they find there is a
well-kept secret
Last week the Germans tried a new
plarf to break the harrier. They sent
over three seaplanes with orders to
descend low over the barrier, at any
risk, and shoot their machine guns
into the buoys, thus sinking them and
the barrier with them. But the patrol
boats were on hand, and two of the
three seaplanes never returned to
their German home.
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WORK OF MORALS
SQUAD BLOCKED
BY NEW RULING
Police Judge Holds Beer Seized
in Raid Not Evidence and
It is Ordered Returned
to Owner.
"J'lie work of the morals squad is
virtually at an end." exclaimed City
Prosecutor McGuire yesterday in
his comment on the ruling of Police
Judge James M. Fitzgerald in a
"liquor case."
Otto Borchcrt was arrested on July
19 and charged with the illegal posses
sion and the sale of intoxicating
liquor. Officer Trapp had been or
dered to investigate thi house at 32G
North Seventeenth, Borcliert's hotite,
against which a complaint had been
received at the station.
On the evening of July 19, when Of
ficer Trapp went to the place, he saw
Clinton Miller, an employe of the
Omaha Printing company, leaving the
house (wtih a package under his arm.
On investigation of the package Trapp
iound it to contain four bottles of
beer.
Seizes Store of Liquor.
The officer arrested Miller and
brought him to the central station.
Then he returned to the house and en
tered contrary to the wishes of Mrs.
Borchert, whose husband at the time
was not at home. After entering the
house he telephoned for Sergeant Rus
sell and the morals squad and bad
nineteen cases of beer and several gal
lons of liquor seized.
John Morearity appearing for the
defendants held that the liquor seized
in the raid could not be submitted
as evidence in the case, as it was itself
illegally acquired by the officers. He
cited supreme court cases in which
the rulings held that officers were not
allowed to enter a home forcibly and
search the premises.
McGuire contended that the of
ficers had a right to enter and search
the place, because he had seen the
crime being committeed, namely the
sale of liquor to Miller.
Miller Owned Liquor.
Miller testified that he had taken
up his residence with Borchert in
March and that shortly before May I
he had purchased fifteen cases of
beer for his own use. These were de
livered to 320 North Seventeenth
street, then the home of Miller and
Borchert. "
After May 1 Miller moved and
was unable to get an expressman
who would bring the liquor to his
new residence in the California apart
ments. The testimony showed that Miller
had been in the habit of making
weekly calls to Borchert's home and
taking home with him enough beer
to last him a short time.
The judge held that Miller was a
techincal violator of the law, but that
there was no evidence on which to
convict either of the defendants.
Borchert's share of the seized liquor
was ordered returned to him, but no
disposition of Miller's was made.
"The only alternative we have now,"
said the city prosecutor, "is to pro
vide the morals squad with search
warrants stating definitely the places
to be inspected."
Charged With Plot to
Poison City Water Supply
Fargo. N. D., July 24. Thomas
Mathieson, an alleged member of the
Industrial Workers of the World, and
Ira L. Louist, said to be a German,
were arrested last night on suspicion
of having poisoned the water in the
tank of the Moorhead (Minn.) water
works and are being held pending an
analysis of the water.
MASKED ROBBER HOLDS OP
TWO AOTOS FILLED WITH PEOPLE
AS HIS COMPANIONS LOOK ON
Two Men and Two Women With Holdup Joke Victims at
They Give Up Their Valuables in a Lonely Spot;
Police Have No Clue to Identity of
Highwayman.
While hit four companions, two men and two women, re
mained in the automobile laughing and joking about the vie
tims, a masked bandit at the point of a gun held up two auto
mobiles and relieved the occupants of their 'valuables.
All were ordered from the car and lined up alongside of
the road while the bandit went through their pockets.
DRAFT EXAMS ON
OMAHA'S LIST TO
STARTNEXTVEEK
Notices to Be Sent Out; Exam
inations Come First and
Then Claims for Exemp
' tions Will Be Heard.
Local exemption boards will not
begin conducting examinations of
drafted men before next week.
Official lists of numbers drawn in
Washington are not expected to reach
Omaha until Friday or Saturday,
Election Commissioner Moorhead and
members of exemption boards said.
After these lists are received no
tices will be sent out to the quota of
drafted men in each district, of which
there are six in Douglas county
five tn, Greater Omaha and one, m the
country precincts.
Men in each quota will be exam
ined for physical defects which would
disqualify thtni from army service be
fore any claims for exemption arc
heard.
Swarms of men who are unwilling
to abide by the olhcialness' of the
lists of numbers appearing in the
newpaptrs visit the court house and
exemption board members daily. In
each case they are told the news
papers have printed the only lists
available to date.
Must Wait for. List.
Official verification of numbers
drawn cannot be made until the lists
sent from Washington are in the
hands of exemption officials. "We be
lieve the official lists will show few,
if any, mistakes in numbers printed
by Omaha dailies on the day of the
draft,"' said the election commis
sioner. Drafted men anxious to leave the
city on business beseige exemption
officials and ask for "early hearings."
' "There is no such thing as, an 'early
hearing,'" said Acting County Judge
Sundblad, chairman of one of the
exemption boards.
"Anyone wishing to claim exemp
tion must wait his turn. Positively no
claims for exemption will be heard
until after examinations are held."
No Early Hearings.
Several traveling , salesmen . who
were drafted say their employers are
holding off sending them out on their
territories until they find out how
tbxy fare before exemption boards.
Cither drafted men, temporarily out
of jobs, say they cannot get perma
nent positions until they know for
sure if they are to be called for serv
ice in the army.
"A drafted man, if he knows there
is nothing the matter with him, and
if he has no one directly dependent
upon him for support, might as well
get into training for the army, as far
as 1 can see," declared Acting Judge
Sundblad.
Belgians Forced to Dig
Trenches and Make Roads
London, June 30. (By Mail.)
Belgians recently deported from the
Mons district by order of German
military authorities have been taken
to France, where they are only ten or
twelve kilometers from the front,
according to a Belgian official. They
arc chiefly at Ferrain, Arlcux, Cantain
and other places in the neighborhood
ol Douai.
The men, of whom the large ma
jority have never done manual labor,
6re forced to do military work such as
laying railway lines, digging trenches,
loading war materials and machinery,
and arc compelled to work about
twelve hours a day and also on night
shifts.
It is chargejd that they are cruelly
treated, insufficiently fed and badlv
housed, and that many of them are
ill. Among them are some who al
ready had been deported to Germany
and then sent back . because ot ill
health. .
Alleged Disloyal
Postmaster Under Fire
Washington, July 24. Postmaster
General Burleson today ordered an
investigation of Senator Mi-Cumbers'
charges that the postmaster at Bow
man, N. D., was guilty ot disloyal ut
terances. Mr. Burle; a in a letter
to Senator McCumber said no re
port on such acts had been received
by the Postoffke department,
$ A lonely toot on the Dodse road
west of Dundee was chosen for the
scene of the holdup. The two ma
chines, which followed one another
closely, were returning to Omaha
about 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. The
bandit blocked the road with his car
and apparently was repairing - it.
When the victim's car approached he
stuck his revalver in the face of the
driver and gruffly ordered the oc
cupants out of their car.
BANDIT HASTENS AWAY.
After the holdup the bandit again
entered his machine and drove rap
idly west.
L. E. Huppel, who was returning to
Omaha with his wife and a party of
iriends, was having trouble with his
rar when the two automobiles of the
victims passed him. As he was near
a farm house they requested that he
notify the Omaha' police. The vic
tims would not give their names, say
ing that they did not desir notoriety.
They did not state the extent of their
loss. ,
From the insulting manner in
which the bandit talked to the women
in the party they believed that he
was the same man who committed
the Sunday night holdups near Myn
stcr Springs hill, east of Council
Bluffs.
Police Start Search.
Two automobiles loaded with offi
cers and detectives from the central
station led by Sergeant Samuelson
and Officer Francl rushed to the .
scene. No trace could be found of
the holdup car and a careful search
of the surrounding country4atled to
reveal any clue as to their where
abouts. A good description was secured of
the automobile m which the holdup
party was riding. It carried no li
cense number, but is believed to be
an Omaha machine. Additional in
formation was received describing the
bandit and all Omaha police and de
ttctives have been instructed to watch
for him. ;
He is nearly six feet tall and
weighs about 180 or 185 pounds. He
is about 35 years old, was the judg
ment of those in the robbed cars
Holdup in Council Bluffs.
Detectives and officers of the
Dodge Engineers, after searching all
day Monday, were unable to locate
the highwayman who Sunday night
held up two automobiles, shot one
man and attacked one woman.
Twelve persons were robbed iy the
fiend and only the pleading' of the
husband and the cries of her little
children prevented his forcing him
self upon another woman.
Detectives made a general roundup
of railroad yards and hobo camps in
a vain search for the bandit who held
up the Council Bluffs autoists. During
the afternoon YOung and Wright,
accompanied by police detectives and
Captain Howard and Lieutenant Spet
man of the Dodge engineers, visited
the . Northwestern elevator and
searched among the hundreds of men
employed in construction work there.
The men were positive of their ability
to recognize the fiend. He was not
found. '
Wa3 Not a Stranger. J
The man was not a stranger in
Council Bluffs. He at least knew the
location of the police station. Wright
was driving the car with the bandit
sitting beside him. He had directed -
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American Squadron
Visits Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires. July 24. Severe
measures of surveillance of the docks
during the visit of the American
squadron have been taken by the au
thorities here. ,lhe vessel will reach
port this afternoon. After welcom
ing addresses, one of the first acts
of the visiting marines will be to
leave a wreath on the tomb of Gen
eral Jose de San Martin, the South
American liberator, and at the
statue of Washington. The Ameri
cans have been given the freedom
of the city during their stay. There
will be numerous luncheons and
banquets, including one given by
leading men of Argentina, at which;
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ing the number, 5,97, was found to
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man was discovered by aut mobile
travelers. The man had been shot to
death. An abandoned automobile, be
lieved to have been the property ot tha
man killed,, was found iwaour jajleg..
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