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VOL. XLVII NO. 8.
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REGISTERED MEN WHO REFUSE
TO REPORT MAY BE TRIED
ON CHARGE Of DESERTION
General Crowder Says Slackers Will Be Posted as Drafted
Into Army and, If They Do, Not Appear, 9
They Will Be Coirt
Martialed.
(By Associated FrenD.)
Washington, Aug. 4. Registered men who resist the se
lective draft law, face military court martial for desertion and
the possibility of execution for desertion in time of war.
The whole military and civil powers of the federal govern
ment, states, cities or counties will be employed to bring them to
book.
CROWDER MAKES STATEMENT?
This was announced in a formal
statement tonight by Brigadier Gen
eral Enoch H. Crowder, provost mar
shal general, in response to reports
from North Carolina, Georgia and
Oklahoma of anti-draft distrurbances.
As yet the power of the federal gov
ernment has not been invoked by the
governors of the three1 states nor by
the agents of the Department of
Justice.
The only official notice received in
Washington of the disturbances was
a telegram from the governor of
North Carolina, saying the registered
men of two townships in that state
refuse in a body to comply with the
summons for examination.
Will Use Troops If Needed.
No official word came from Okla
homa, where the most serious situa
tion prevails. It was believed the gov
ernor, both in his official state capac
ity and the direct agent of the presi
dent in the execution of the draft law,
is confident that order can be restored
without military aid. There will be
no hesitation, however, in employing
federal troops if they are needed.
In practice under General Crowd
er's construction of the law, register
ed 'men who do i3t appear for ex
amination will be posted to the dis
trict boards as selected for military
service as soon as the five-day per
iod allowed them to put in an ap
pearance after they have been sum
moned has elapsed. Two days more
will elapse after their names reach
the district board to await appeal
action by the individual. They then
will be posted to the adjutant gen
eral of the state as selected to fill
the quotas of their district.
Orders for the mobilization of the
selected men will be given sometime
during the present month. If the
resister fails to obey that order he
will be set down as absent without
leave and the machinery will be set
in motion to bring him in. When it
is clear that he is wilfully absenting
himself with no intention of reporting
to the army, a charge of desertion
will be placed against him. From
that time on. any civil officer who ar
rests him will earn a reward of $50.
Death Penalty for Desertion.
If found guilty by court-martial of
desertion, the individual may be sen
tenced to death and only the presi
dent can save him from punishment.
General Crowder believes that the
resisters in Oklahoma and elsewhere
are acting under a delusion, fostered
probably by agitators, that they are
conducting a political campaign
against the draft, whereas the time
for that passed when the registration
was completed. The government
(Continued on Tae Two, Cx'umn Four.)
Arrangements Under Way
To Draft Allies' Citizens in U. S.
Washington, Aug. 4. Negotiations
with the allies foi drafting their citi
zens into the new' national army will
be entered into immediately by the
State department in accordance with
the resolution recently passed by the
senate. This will require revision of
treaties in the case of Italy and Ja
pan and a common understanding"
with the other nations involved.
If the United States asserts the
right to draft aliens here the allied
governments may insist on military
service for American residents among
them. To avoid having Americans
enrolled compulsorily into foreign
armies some sort of exchange system
may be evolved similar to that now
in operation between England, France
and Russia. Under this plan Ameri
cans abroad liable to military service
would be returned to this country,
while aliens here would be sent to
their home armies.
Deliberate Consideration of
War by Germans Confirmed
London, Aug. 4. Louis Einstein,
former special agent of the American
embassy at Constantinople, writes the
Times supporting the story of the
German conference July 5, 1914, pre
ceding the declaration of war.
He says that Marquis Garroni, the
Italian ambassador at Constantinople,
told him that on July 15 the German
Ambassador Wangenheim, who had
returned to Constantinople from Ber
lin the previous day, informed him of
the conference at which Herr Wan
genheim himself was present and that
the war was decided upon at the con
ference. The Austrian arhduke's murder was,
to be the pretext and the plan was
tc present an ultimatum to Serbia,
which she could not accept and from
which war would ensue in forty-eight
hours.
SLACKERS DREAM
OF REVOLUTION
IN OKLAHOMA
Between 500 and 1,500 Draft
Registrants Are at Liberty
in Rugged Thickets Cov
ering Many Miles.
Washington, Aug. 4. Persons re
sisting the draft law, Department
of Justice officials announced to
day, whether in Oklahoma or else
where, will be sought out, run down
and brought before the proper au
thorities, no matter at what cost.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
and , Assistant. Attorney General
... Fitts, in'jcharge of the enforcement
of the draft law, conferred at length
today as to steps to be taken to
check anti-draft agitators in North
Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma and
other localities.
""The War department is in- close
touch with the situation and is pre
pared to take drastic and effective
steps if necessary in the affected dis
tricts. Secretary Baker or General
Crowder probably will issue a state
ment outlining the department's po
sition later today. Just what steps
will be taken to bring to justice the
men who are spreading sentiment in
the south and elsewhere against the
draft law has not been announced.
Mr. Fitts, in '.ic absence of Attorney
General Gregory, issued the follow
ing statement:
Federal Law Be Invoked.
"Whether in Oklahoma or any
where else, if persons who are regu
larly selected for military service un
der selective soldiers' act, fail to
obey when properly notified and
called, they will be reached and over
taken by the strong arm of the, fed
eral law and brought before the
proper registration boards."
Should the situation in Oklahoma
get beyond the control of the sher
iffs' posses or other civilian forces,
the only recourse of the governor
would be to ask General Parker, com
manding the Southern department, to
send troops .o do the work. There
will be no Oklahoma National Guard
under the rovernor's jurisdiction
after today, as the Oklahoma Na
tional Guard passes under complete
control of the federal military au
thorities. Oklahoma City, Okl., Aug. 4. In
dulging in a dream of revolution and
defying the draft law, half a dozen
armed bands of tenant farmers, half
breed Indians and negroes are run
ning rampant throughout five coun
ties in east central Oklahoma today.
As the disturbed territory is about
100 miles loni by ninety miles wide,
the topography of which is rugged
and full of thickets, only an estimate
can be made of the total number of
rioters, this being placed variously
at 500 to 1,500.
One thousand armed possemen,
with orders to shoot to kill, began a
drive at dawn upon 400 of the draft
resisters, who were said to be en
camped near Sasakwa, in Seminole
county, where the anarchistic cam
paign was reported to have had its
birth. Determined resistance is ex
pected. Last night rioters burned a railway
bridge in Hughes county, another
near Tyrola, and a third near Maud.
Telephone and telegraph wires were
cut at many points. The districts af
fected include Pontotoc, Seminole,
Okmulgee, Pittsburg and, Hughes
counties.
More or less friction between the
landlords and tenant:, has occurred
for years, owing to differences of
opinion respecting the crops to be
raised, evictions and alleged efforts
to control elections, according to the
testimony befor. the industrial rela
tions committee in 1915.
Americans in England to
Be Registered for Draft
London, Aug. 4. Robert P. Skin
ner, the American consul general, has
requested and received from the for
eign office a list of all American citi
zens within the United Kingdom eli
gible for draft under the American
selective conscription law. These per
sons are now being circularized by the
consulate and told they are expected
to register. ,
ROOT DECLARES
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ObrUWrTLlBERTY
Head of U. S. Mission Says
Great, Free, Self-Governing'
Democracy Will Be Cre
ated in Russia.
(By Associated TreM.)
A Pacific Port, Aug. 4. "I have
abiding faith that Russia, through
trial and tribulation will work out,
create and perpetuate a great, free,
self-governing democracy," Elihu
Root asserted today in an impas
sioned speech at a luncheon in honor
of the return of the American mis
sion from Russia.
Professing a sincere admiration for
the kindly character of the' Russian
people, "considerate of the rights and
feelings of others, and with a high
capacity for self control and a noble
idealism, heading always in a better
way toward bigger things," he
pleaded for deep sympathy for the
nation, "which is struggling with the
problems that we have been studying
for 140 years and have not yet
solved.'
New Democracy Will Arise.
Declaring that "America must mus
ter its manhood with democracy
against the power of autocracy," he
said, "there will be death, widowed
homes, sacrifice and suffering, doubt,
almost despair. In the end will rise
a great free country, re-made in the
spirit of our fathers, competent to
accomplish its divine mission and
carry liberty and justice throughout
the world.
"Don't argue about why we are in
the war, but realize that the time has
now come when American liberty,
American justice, American inde
pendence and freedom is the stake for
which we must fight."
U. S. Socialists Cause Trouble.
Charles Edward Russell declared
that the task of new Russia was
greatly handicapped by German in
fluences and the ceaseless activity
of the German propagandists.
"Most of the trouble, however, has
been caused by Russians naturalized
as Americans who have returned to
Russia since the outbreak of the rev
olution." he added, and said the Rus
sians from the United States spread
the report throughout the country
that America had entered the war
from sordid reasons. I
"These propagandists," he ' contin
ued, "who pretend to an intimate
knowledge of American conditions
and American motives inform their
native countrymen that the govern
ment of the United States is more
oppressive that the old regime at Pe
trograd." Declaring that the socialist party
in Americr is in the hands of Ger
man propagandists, Mr. Russell
made his first answer to his expul
sion from that party.
"The constitution of the socialist
party in the United States provides
that no one could be expelled with
out a hearing," he asserted, "so I
consider that I have never been ex
pelled, but I have no interest in an
organization that is disloyal."
Rear Admiral Glennon tonight
learned for the first time of the death
of his son, which occurred three
weeks ago. Wireless messages carry
ing the news were directed to him,
but failed to reach him.
Russia Has Its I. W. W.
From the Russian revolution will
be evolved a stable government, ac
cording to James Duncan, vice presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor. Its establishment is retarded,
he declared, by the radical so-called
reformers, of the character of In
dustrial Workers of the World, who
have returned to Russia after having
lived a while in America. The success
of the revolution Mr. Duncan attri
buted to the workmen of Russia, by
whom the propaganda of freedom
was first carried to the peasant class
at the time of the original Duma, in
1905.
Seven More Letter
Carriers Ordered
- For Omaha Office
Washington, Aug. 4. (Special Tel
egram.) Congressman Lobeck was
assured today that Omaha would be
given 3even additional letter carriers,
although he had asked for ten on the
recommendation of Fostmaster fan
ning. Lobeck said he was pleased to
receive any concession the rostomce
department might make in the inter
est of Omaha, but knowing the city
and its increasing postal needs, he
would not be satisfied until the de
partment "came across" with enough
postal carriers to meet the demands
of the public.
"Jones Family" .Would Make
Resolution Simultaneous
Oklahoma City, Okl., Aug. 4. With
the arraignment in federal court here
this morning of eleven alleged lead
ers of the "Jones family," a so-called
anti-draft organization, it was dis
closed through the office of John
Hait, United States district attor
ney, that the organization had planned
to raise the red flag of revolution
simultaneously in all parts of the
country. .
Attaches of the district attorney s
office likewise disclosed how two fed
eral agents became members of the
"Jones family" and obtained infor
mation on which the arrests were
based.
HOW THE GERMANS MADE THEIR LAST AIR RAID ON
LONDONThis remarkable photograph was taken as the
invading fliers came over the city; more than thirty persons
were killed by the bombs they dropped.
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GERMAN All ATTACK.
BUSINESS MEN
WANT TESTIMONY
BEFOREGOVERNOR
Make Two Efforts to Present
Their Case, Which They
Refused to Present to
Mediation Board.
The Business Men's association of
Omaha, though it would not allow its
members to testify before the State
Board of Mediation and Investigation
in the strike matter in Omaha, has at
tempted by other means to get its side
of the case properly represented.
After repeatedly refusing to testify,
while the strikers were giving testi
mony which filled 1.500 pages of
transcript, the Business Men's asso
ciation called a meeting at the Com
mercial club and invited Chairman
Robert Cowell of the State Board of
Mediation and Investigation.
There, behind closed doors, they at
tempted to put Chairman Cowell on
trial. They criticised him severely for
holding this strike hearing in Omaha
in spite of the fact that his board is
created by law and in spite of the
fact that the governor ordered the
board to hold the hearing. Member
after member of ths Business Men's
association got to his feet and poured
questions at Mr. Cowell.
Argue Before Cowell.
They argued their case before him,
though they would not come before
the board to argue it.
Mr. Cowell told them they had been
repeatedly invited to come before the
board and testify in order that the
report going to the governor might
contain the testimony from both sides.
In reply J. A. Sunderland and Walter
Jardine asked Mr. Cowell if he en
dorsed violence.
Mr. Cowell, in return, is said to
have asked Sunderland why he kept
48 cents per day out of the wages of
some of his men, as testified before
the board by some of the former em
ployes of Mr. Sunderland.
The argument grew hotter and hbt
tcr, until Mr. Cowell informed the
gentlemen that he was not on. trial,
that he had committed no crime in
holding the strike hearing as or
dered by the governor of the state..
Some of the members then attempted
to apologize to Mr. Cowell for the
rashness of others and the melee
gradually quieted down.
Report to Governor Monday.
After a few days more of the
board's hearing the 1,00-pagc trans
cript of the strikers' testimony was
completed and the report of the board
to the governor was drawn up. It
was reported through the papers that
the report would be made to the
governor Monday, i
When the Business Men's associ
ation learned this a delegation consist
ing of J. A. Sunderland and Secre
tary Victor Smith went to Lincoln
to wait on tlje governor in advance
of the board's report. They called on
Governor Neville Friday to tell him
the report of the board was coming
and to ask him not to allow himself
to be influenced by it, since it con
tained only the strikers' side of the
story. They then told to the gover
nor orally their story, which they re
fused to tell the governor's special
board on oath.
Thus the governor will have the
verbal word of the employers as to
the strike case in Omaha, while lie
will have the 1500-pagc story of the
strikers under oath.
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OMAHA DONATES
GENEROUSLY TO
-YARN DAY FUND
Willingly Digs Down Into Its
Collective Pocket to Buy
. Yarn for Uncle Sam's
l. Lads at Ssa.
Omaha was digging down in its pock
ets' yesterday' to buy the little yellow
tickets which testify that the wearer
has 'helped the boys at sea."
Four hundred girls besieged shop
pers and business men, both on
the streets and in the offices, in behalf
of the Navy league's effort to buy
yarn to knit helmets, socks, wristlets,
sweaters and mufflers for Uncle Sam's
marines. Miss Katherine Newbranch
and her staff of captains, including
Misses Helen Giltner, Geraldine John
son, Margaretha Grimmel, Harriet
Sherman, Helen Pogue, Rachael Met
calfe, Gertrude Weeth, Ruth Thomp
son, Luella Petersen and Bertie Hoag,
had chosen their groups of ten each
last night, and they were on the jobs
as early at 7:30 yesterday morning.
Many and varied are the experiences
related by the girl canvassers. One
old man thought the money was being
raised for the Red Cross and he gave
a dime, saying that his son was leav
ing August S, and he was gone before
the fair recipient of the coin could
explain her mission- He said he hoped
it would help his son.
Miss Dorothy Black, stationed at
Sixteenth and Farnam streets, tackled
a sailor lad. "Filled up," he said, pat
ting his bulging middy pocket, from
which numerous tag strings dangled.
"We are all knitting for you," laughed
Miss Black, as he passed on.
Soldiers Liberal.
Soldiers, the girls report, are very
liberal. One private, drawing his $30
per month, forked up 50 cents.
"Gosh, I'm broke," is a frequent
reply flung at the knitting lassies,
which interpreted is . signifying the
willingness, but also the inability to
buy a tag.
One man, when asked to contribute
his bit, said: "You bet. I have a son
in the navy. Of course I'll help."
A foreign woman, of very evident
Teutonic origin, cheerfully handed
over a $1 bill.
A poorly dressed' man, when so
licited for a tag, said: "B'gosh, I'm
out of a job, but 1 11 do this much,
and handed the canvasser a quarter.
Four admiring, dark-eyed little
newsboys at Sixteenth and Farnam
were some of Miss Harriet Sher
man's best customers. They all con
tributed generously of their small
hoards.
Leonard Trester, state chairman of
the Navy league from the headquar
ters in Lincoln, is in charge of the
work of Yarn day. The Navy league
is working in conjunction with the
National League for Woman's Serv
ice. Miss Helen kottman is in charge
of the Yarn day headquarters at the
league office in the First National
bank building. Miss Eunice Chapin,
local chairman of the knitting work
for Lancaster county, is also in
Omaha for the day assisting with the
work.
Most of the money comes m the
form of quarters and half dollars, the
girls report. Very few reported con
tributions of more than $1, but on the
other hand, these dollar contributions
were frequent.
MUNICIPAL
SURROUNDED
GUARD AS 'MUSTER IN' GOES ON
Uniforms Fail to Arrive, but Men Will Be Sworn Into Fed
eral Service as Rapidly as Possible and Sent to
Training Camp at Deming War Tense
ness Marks Procedure.
The bugle has sounded for the "Dandy Sixth".
The boys who enrolled in the new Nebraska regiment
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are soldiers today. I ney Degan 10 De musierea in ai v o ciock
yesterday morning at the auditorium. Captain Newbold and '
Lieutenant Van Horn quietly administered the oath.
Pickets, carrying regulation guns with hxed bayonets,
were flung about the Auditorium. Visitors were excluded.
The Auditorium was not the scene of easy-going jollification
which the recruiting headquarters has been.
STEEL SPLINTER
IN EYE BOARB'S
FIRSTPROBLEM
One Doctor Rejects South Side
Man Because of Injured Op
tic, but Second Medico
Passes Him.
PHYSICAL EXAMS UNTIL
SATURDAY NOON.
For
Dis- Ex
trict. amined.
First ...... 35
Second .... 72
Third 2
Fourth .... 62
Fifth 72
Sixth 160
PaMs- Re-ex-ed.
ination.
21
62
1
56
61
124
14
10
1
6
11
36
78
Total ...403 325
Whether a steel splinter in the
left eye is sufficient cause for rejec
tion gave the South Side exemption
board its first problem in examining
recruits for Uncle Sam's great draft
army. '
Daniel Rearing, employed at
Swift's the very first man examined
on the South Side, was the victim.
He has a steel plinter lodged in his
left eye.
Dr. R. E. Schindcl, who examined
him first, rejected him, but Dr. H. G.
Allingham passed him on the second
examination with the explanation that
he thought the man could see some
with the injured optic.
This put it up to the other two
members of the board for decision.
But the board was lucky and did not
have to determine Hearing's fate. It
was found he was not called on the
first draft.
Kearing gave his reason for appear
ing so far ahead of time that he in
tended to go to South Dakota and
fellow workmen advised him to be
examined before he left.
Have Poor Hearing.
Perry Wheeler, clerk of the South
Side exemption board, said that it is
interesting to see the men examined.
"Some of them have poor hearing,
verv noor." said Mr. Wheeler.
"One fellow kept saying, 'I can't
hear you.' Even when the doctor
would ask him in a low voice, 'Can
you hear me now?' he'd say 'No' de
cidedly." Another young chap afflicted with
peculiar hearing could not hear the
names the doctor asked him to re
peat after him, but as soon as the
doctor would say, "Raise your hand"
or "Stand back," the deaf fellow
would comolv with the request.
The South Side exemption board
has examined seventy-two men. Ten
of them were rejected.
Twelve an Hour.
Fourth district exemption board
this morning began examining drafted
men at the rate of twelve an hour.
A line of men had formed outside
Dr. C. W. Pollard's office in the Kee-
(Contlnued on Vag Two, Column Svn )
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Keep Your Eye on The Bee
Improving Every Day
AUDITORIUM IS
BY BAYONETED
It was a place of business. War
time tenseness pervaded everything.
From all quarters came the boys in
response to the call. Up to thi's time
those enrolled had been pursuing their
regular civilian occupations. But
when Uncle Sam sounded the call
they came. They came as the patriots
of 76. Plows were left m the fields
and the boys .swaggered into the Au
ditorium in overalls. Dels kg were
left hurriedly, ledgers were left open,
with trial balances uncompleted, and
the nation's defenders stepped brisk
ly, some with the quill still behind
their ears.
CALL OF WORLD IN DISTRESS.
Not in ranks did they inarch to the
Auditorium. There was no excite
ment. There was not the urge of
martial music and the rhythmic tread
of many feet in column of fours to
encourage them.
But one by one and in pairs and
threes, from this part of the city
and from that; from machine shop.
from factory, from drygoods counter,
from harvest field and stock yards,
they came marching marching not
to the hery snap of the ' Vicksburg
Quickstep, but quietly, sternly
marching alone to the anxious, silent
heartbeat of a world in distress.
Officers clicked their heels to
gether, raised a hand 3nd pledged
themselves if need bf ta make the
supreme sacrifice for the country that
protected them and theirs.
Enlisted men came next, company
by company, and took the great oath
to defend the land of their fathers
in any and all emergencies the great
world war may bring to the boys
who storm the cannon's mouth in
defense of freedom."
Die for Country.
Hearts' of mothers all over Ne
braska reach out td the auditorium
in Omaha today. A conflicting senti
ment of anguish and pride stormed in
the bosoms of 600 mothers in the
state as they carried on their daily
work in their homes and contem
plated from afar the ceremony in
progress at the Omaha auditorium.
For they are the mothers of a na
tion which as one mother expressed
it, "A land good enough to live for,
and good enough, praise God, if need
be, to die for."
By 11 o'clock the last officer had
been mustered in, and the mustering
of the enlisted men began.
Take the Great Oath.
The mustering in of the enlisted
men will take longer, for they come
from the uttermost ends of the state,
and a few from out of the state.
"We have been geting word to
them as fast as possible," said Lieu
tenant Kenworthy. Some live far
away. One I know of lives in Brook
lyn. It will be several days before we
are through with mustering. We
have 600 men and each must have a
thorough medical examination. Then
he is innoculated for typhoid and
vaccinated. Next he is inspected. Af
ter the examinations are over, if he
is passed, he takes the oath of al
legiance to the United States."
Whole companies in a body take
the oath.
Uniforms are not available at once.
They are at the quartermaster's de
pot in Omaha, and cannot be had
until the proper requisition order ar
rives. But uniform, or no uniform, the
boys of the "Dandy" Sixth are sol
diers today, and will soon be on their
way to Deming, N. M., for the in-
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