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VOL. XLVII. NO. 42.
OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1917.
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SUNDAY FINDS
uMAHA BUSY IN
FITTING ARMY
Work Carried on With a Rush
at the Auditorium, the Quar
termaster's Depot and at
Doctors' Offices.
Perhaps the busiest place in Omaha
. v--:L'rday was the Auditorium where
tiic examining officers were atwork
mustering in the Sixth Nebraska.
But the quartermaster's supply de
pot at Twenty-second and Hickory,
ran a close second. There the requisi
tion orders had just come in for
equipment for the Sixth and the whole
force from Colonel Grant to the
youngest truck driver were hustling
to get the uniforms and guns ready
for the newly enlisted soldiers.
Colonel Grant issued the orders,
checked lists and talked to visitors
o stood in line to get their busi
ness transacted. Major Maher signed
pay checks for Fort Omaha men with
one hand and with the other held
the telephone receiver for city mes
sages.
Captain Ray wrestled with the prob
lem of getting 1,000 uniforms out of
the storehouses, checking them up and
sending to the dinerent company
captains immediately if not sooner,
"We were given a week to do a
certain amount of this work and there
was plenty for even that much time,'
said Captain Ray. "But we thought
the boys ought to have them as soon
as possible, so we have vorked with
all our might and completed the work
in two days. Jow we can rest easily
knowing the boys will be supplied
right away with uniforms and other
equipment.
Many Are Examined.
Almost as much curiosity was in
evidence around the exemption boards
headquarters, and the offices of the
examining physicians. Men were put
through the physical examinations at
a stiff pace all day Sunday. The sec
ond district heading the list with ex
aminations. At one tune more than
seventy-five were in line for examina
About 15 per cent of the men in
this district were exempted because of
physical disabilities, but the larger
share wanted to claim exemption on
one groiyid or other. s
Had Seen Service.
On man stated: "I thought that men
who had seen military service would
not be drafted or I would have en
listed." j
A i other thought he should be ex
empted because he owned a farm al
though no one was dependent upon
him.
Work in the third district started
at 7 o'clock and will proceed as fast
as the five available doctors can ex
amine the men. Although this is the
heaviest district of the six, Chairman
Redwood believes that everything
will work according to schedule and
the last man be examined before
Wednesday evening.
The first district examined men all
day Sunday at the fire barn at
Twenty-second and Ames avenue.
Messages From Labor to
Be Read at Little Funeral
Butte, Mont., Aug. 5. No minister
of the gospel will utter the last sacred
riles over the body of Frank H. tit
tle, the Industrial Worker of the
World chieftain, who was lynched
here Wednesday morning, but leaders
of the Metal Mine Workers' union
will read messages from labor organ
izations in various parts of the state
at the funeral of the deceased tomor
row. Following the receipt of a tele
gram from W. D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer
of the Industrial Work
ers of the World, to "1. ury Little on
his battle grounds." changes in the
funeral arrangements have beer! made
;md interment w ill take place in Moun
tain View cemetery.
Six Armed Bandits
Steal Statue of Catherine II
Petrograd. Aug. 5. Six armed
men, three of whom were disguised as
soldiers, motored to the senate build
ing, garrotted the guards, stole a sil
ver statue of Catherine II and other
antiques valued at 1,500,00 rubles.
The Weather
For Nebraska Generally fair Mon
day, s-
TVmpratiirM nt
Omaha Yntwday.
Hour. Deg.
K n. m. . . ,- 69
6 a. m (8
7 a. ni., 69
Si a. m 69
STT in 71
10 a. m 74
it a. m 77
12 m 77
1 p. ra 77
2 p. m
78
79
80
80
-80
.... It
8 p. m
4 p. m
6 p. m
p. m
7 p. m.
Comparative I .oral Record.
191". 1916. 1915. 1914.
80 9i 81 89
"9 56 8
74 87 68 78
.19 .00 .00 .14
Highest yesterday
Lowest yesterday . ,
Mean temperature
Precipitation ,
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal:
Normal temperature 78
Deficiency for the day 5
Total deficiency since March 1 132
Normal precipitation .11 Inch
-Encera 'for the day 08 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1..., 17.10 Inches
Deficiency since March 1 1.79 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1916., 8.20 Inches
Excess for cor. period, 1915 84 Inches
GREAT TRACTOR
SHOW STARTS AT
FREMONT TODAY
Forty-Two Companies to Dem
onstrate Steel Giants at Na
tional Power Farming
, . Exhibition This Week.
When the crowd of farmers begins
to arrive at Fremont this morning,
scores of gasoline and kerosene en
gines will already be popping and
roaring, for the great farm tractors
will be clanking into position for the
National Power farming demonstra
tion to be held just outside the city
of Fremont all week
Every year the army of farm trac
tors at this show grows larger. Every
year, these monsters are trimmed
down to greater and greater effi
ciency. They march together today,
forty-two abreast at Fremont, like a
mighty army of steel giants, trained,
skilled, hardened-exulting in their
strength and masterfullness.
It has been a process of prepared
ness, this process of mobilizing the
farm tractors during the past few
years. A dozen years ago farmers in
Nebraska laughed at the idea of farm
ing with a tractor. They believed
that tractors belonged only on the
great wheat farms of thousands of
acres in the Dakota's and Minne
sota. They sneered at the idea of
plowing an eighty-acre or a forty
acre field with tractor power.
Faith is Lasting.
But there were those who had
faith in the ability of the horse of
steel. There were those who insisted
that the day must come when horse
farming must give place largely to
power farming. They toiled with in
vention after invention, confident they
must reach the epitome of power and
efficiency at last.
Then came the gasoline and kero
sene tractors, and with their coming
the old steam tractors began to be re
garded as too heavy and clumsy for
the fields. Soon invention after in
vention began to improve the tractors,
until farmers saw that they could be
used to advantage on the smaller
farms. Still they were slow to try
them, though they Veard good reports
at Jong distance.
Practical Exhibits.
Then came the Fremont Power
farming demonstration, when a few
alert minds decided to show the
farmers of this and adjoining states
what tractors could do in the fields.
Only fifteen tractors were exhibited
at the first demonstration in Fremont
in 1913. . ...
Forty-two tractor companies will
exhibit their various tractors today
when the show opens. Thirty;six ac
cessory companies will exhibit their
accessories.
A field of 3,000 acres lies ready for
the demonstrations. With much
clanking of steel, and churning of
wheels, the hissing iron monsters
will fling the furrow wide, and hurt
the stubbled sod of the many acres
lightly aside.
From tables of the crowds of peo-;
pie who have visited this show during j
the past four years, it is carefully esti
mated by the management that there !
will be fully 500,000 people at the.
show this year.
To Haul Water Wagon.
Some tractors will attract special
ttention because of similiarity to the
a
British "war tanks now m action in
Franrr
The little outfit shown above is the j
invention of Ro in H. V lute ot Cleve
land, renowned automobile and motor
truck desienine engineer. 11 win, in
addition to participating in competi
tive demonstration work be usefl lor
hauling the official "water wagon"
around the demonstration grounds.
Aurora Interested in
False Imprisonment Case
Aurora, Neb., Aug. 5. Special Tel
egram.) The interview Friday in
the stale papers purporting to have
come from T. E. Nordgren, who with
his brother-in-law. Attorney R. R.
Smith, was arrested Thursday and
taken to Omaha on the charge of
false imprisonment preferred by Fred
Luff, created much interest in Aurora,
where most of the principals reside,
Attorney C. P. Craft against whom
Attorney Smith, filed complaint im
mediately on his return to the city, de
manded early trial, and it is now set
for August 14.
Captain Who Tried to Enlist
Drafted Men Is Censured
Nevada, Mo., Aug. 5. Captain F.
P. Coester, of the Fifth infantry, Mis
souri National Guard, with head
quarters at St. Louis, was found
guilty late today by a court-martial
of unmilitary conduct in attempting
to enlist through fraudulent methods
into the Fifth regiment, men whose
serial numbers came out first in the
drawinir for the national army, ac
cording to an announcement from the
office of Brigadier General r. u
Clark. The penalty was fixed by the
court-martial as a reprimand from
the regimental commander.
Bold Daylight Robbery
In Office at Chicago
Chicago, Aug. S. Three robbers,
armed with revolvers, bound and
gagged three men employes in the
offices of J. W. Synder & Co. con
tractors, in Michigan boulevard at I
noon today and escaped with $5,100.
the concern's pay roll. j
Hoanks of Peace, at Tractor Show,
Compare With War Tanks in Flanders
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British Tanks
Modern Engines of Warfare In
Bloody Battle of Flanders,
One Great Monster Plows Its
Way Through Railway Train
and Proceeds on Its Way;
Terrorize Enemy.
(By Associated Pre.)
British Headquarters in France and
Belgium, Aug. 5. The great squadron
of tanks which went into action with
the British infantry t dawn Tuesday
proved their right to a place among
the modern engines of war.
The battle of Flanders furnished the
most comprehensive test of the worth
of these monsters as, fighting ma
chines which has yet been given and
they came through the ordeal with
flying colors, notwithstanding the fact
that thev were oneratinsr under the
I most trying conditions of terrain.
lhe opening of the conflict saw a
considerable concentration of tanks.
Fewer tanks proportionately were
knocked out by a direct hit than in
any previous engagement.
Total of the casualties among the
tank crews was remarftably low and
most of these were among men who
deliberately left off the cover of their
iron fort and worked in the open un
der machine gun fire.
Material Damage Enormous.
The material damage the tanks did
to the enejny defenses was enormous
and prisoners state that Heavy casual
ties were inflicted on the Germans.
That the enemy is extremely afraid
of the tanks is without question and
in numerous instances the Germans
surrendered freely on the mere ap
pearance of one of these engines,
which truly are of terror-inspiring ap
pearance. At one place eight German
officers surrendered without question
when a tank crawled up and threat
ened to open fire and sixty soldiers
were captured by a single tank near
Saint Julien.
There were accidents, which, though
regrettable, were not without touches
Germans and Turks Will
Try to Retake Bagdad
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 5. The
Germans and Turks are preparing to
make a great effort to regain Bagdad,
according to the Secolo of Rome.
General von Falkenhayn, who com
manded the Austro-German armies in
Roumania last year, has arrived at
Constantinople to take command of
the forces now being assembled. Four
Turkish divisions from Dobrudja and
Turkish troops from Thrace are being
concentrated at the Turkish capital.
Prove Right to
of humor. One tank, which was trav
eling in the dark toward the front
some time before the battle, encoun
tered railway wagons standing at a
crossing.
The operator of the tank did not
see the obstacle and the engineer of
the train could not hear the approach
of the tank because of the noise made
by his machinery. The tank went
through the train as if it were made
of pasteboard and continued its lum
bering but ruthless way, leaving one
of the railway wagons much the worse
for wear.
The tanks did much fighting in the
difficult country -about Saint Julien
and Frezenberg and in the territory
lyirig directly east of Zillcbeke.
Spectacular Battle at Frezenberg.
At the defenses near Frezenberg a
spectacular battle occurred. This con
sisted of two strong redoubts, one of
which was known as the castle. In
front of them flows the Hanebeek
and the surrounding ground was
marsh-like and difficult for heavy
bodies to move across.
The attacking tanks advanced over
the stream and sodden ground under
a heavy fire from the machine guns in
the redoubts and the anti-tank guns
hidden behind the fortifications. One
tank worked its way around the castle,
and opening fire, drove all the de
fenders into the other redoubt. It
then forced its way to the rear of the
occupied redoubt and compelled all
the enemy to flee back to the eastle,
where, in a frenzy of fear, the Ger
mans took refuge.
At this point other tanks joined in
the fray and after surrounding the
castle delivered a concerted assault,
clearing the castle for the second
time, as well as all the outlying de
fenses. Fort Is Captured.
Another tank attacked St. Julien
with the infantry. It drew the fire
of a small fort to the west of the
village and turned aside to deal with
this. One sh'ot only it fired at the for
tification and the Germans to a man
ran out with hands raised crying,
Woman Rough Rider Is
Accidentally Killed
Denver, Colo., Aug. 5. Mrs. Ed
Wright, 20 years old, of Douglas,
Wyo., widely known through the west
for her skill as a rough rider, was
killed at a park here yesterday while
riding a broncho for a motion picture
company. Soon after she mounted
the horse, it made a mad rush and
somersaulted over a fence, Mrs.
Wright's head striking a post. Her
husband, also a skilled rough rider,
witnessed the accident.
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Plac,e Among
"kamerade," and gave themselves up.
This was a capture totalling sixty
prisoners. v
Having silenced this fort the tank
crossed the Steenbeck river and pro
ceeded through the shell-torn main
street of St. Jiiin to the northern
side. It assisted tlw infantry to clear
the place of the German defenders,
who were concealed in the buildings
and then returned without having suf
fered damage, leaving the British in
possession.
The British next day withdrew
from St. Julien, but continued to shell
the place so heavily that the Germans
could only re-occupy it in part. Later
the British re-entered the village un
der cover of a heavy barrage and took
up the postidns which they hold to
day. Valuable work also was done by the
tanks in sections of woodland back
of the German defenses astride the
Ypres-Menin road. The largest of
these reaches of forest had a strong
redoubt in front. The wood was filled
with machine guns and afforded ap
portunity for the massing of German
troops. The tanks were sent ahead to
clear it out. The redoubt in front of
the wood was taken after a tierce fight
between the guns of a tank and those
of the little fort.
Beyond the redoubt the tanks
found themselves under a steady hail
of machine gun bullets, but they
lined up on the edge of the woods
and lor hours continued to sweep
them with their guns, until all con
cealed machine guns had been
searched out and the Germans forced
to retire, lhe tanks then returned
behind the British infantry. Two
tanks were ditched temporarily near
Frezenberg, but helped to repeal a
counter attack by the Germans. The
enemy believing the tanks helpless be
cause they were stuck in the deep
mud, advanced in the hope of regain
ing the ground lost and capturing the
monster machines. The tanks opened
fire,' on the advancing line of infantry
and mowed the Germans down in
large numbers. Scotch troops finished
the repulse with bayonets.
Iowa Bugler Thirteenth
Man to Take Var Bride
Shenandoah, la., Aug. 5. (Special.)
Even the bugler in Company E is to
have a war bride and his marriage to
Miss Mary Smith of Malvern will be
the thirteenth one among the soldiers,
the bugler, by way of introduction, is
Walter Flynn.
Judge G. B. Jennings performed
the ceremony last night uniting Lee
W. James, Company E private, in
marriage with Mrs. Lillian Walters
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TEUTONS YIELDING GROUND
UNDER STEADY PRESSURE OF
BRITISH AND FRENCH IN WEST
New Areas Are Occupied by
clement Weather; Fierce Artillery Fire Believed
To Be Prelude to Another Assault
Soon to Be Made.
(Associated Press War Sumrrtary.)
The Teutonic armies, still advancing, although against in
creased resistance on the eastern front, are slowly being forced
back by the pressure of the allied masses in the west.
Gains made by the British
when the village of St. Julien was re-entered, were followed by
an advance by the French on their front Friday night.
KERENSKY AGAIN
IN FULL CHARGE
OF RUSS AFFAIRS
Following Votes of Confidence
Premier Says H Will Execute
Republican Policy With
Strong, Firm Hand.
- (Bj Anwclatcd Prn.)
Petrograd, Aug. 5. Premier Ker
ensky has returned to Petrograd and
withdrawn his resignation. He at
tended a ministerial meeting on Sat
urday evening and afterwards con
ferred with various politicat leaders.
M. Kerensky has issued a mani
festo in which he declares that he
considers it impossible, when the
country is threatened with defeat
.without and disintegration within, -to
refuse the'heavy task agin entrusted
to him, which he regards as an ex
press order from the country to con
struct a strong republican government
ot carry out the principles already
laid down.
"At the same time," said the mani
festo, "I consider it inevitable to in
troduce changes in the order, and
distribution of government work,
without allowing myself to be in
fluenced by the thought that these
changes will increase my responsibil
ity in the supreme direction of the
affairs of state."
Two Votes of Confidence.
By a vote of 147 to 46 a joint meet
ing of the executives of the Work
men's and Soldiers' and Peasants'
councils confirmed the decision of the
all-night polotical conference of on
tinued confidence in Premier Keren
sky. The Maximilists strongly protested
and forty-two of the members of this
party abstained from voting.
The Duma committee also has con
firmed the vote of confidence in M,
Kerensky.
Sioux Falls Druggists
Shy at Liquor Permits
Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 5. (Spe
cial.) So strict are the provisions of
the state-wide prohibition law regulat
ing the sale of liquor for medicinal,
scientific and sacramental purposes,
and so small the chances of obtaining
a reasonable profit from the invest
ment of money in liquor stocks, that
thus far but one druggist in Sioux
Falls has taken out a permil to sell
liquor for these purposes. Several
other applications have been made,
but none of them are being pressed
very earnestly. So far as known not
a single physician in the city has yet
taken out a permit to prescribe liquor
for patients.
Ban on Patent Medicine
In South Dakota Town
Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 5. (Spe
cial.) A woman was arrested in this
city on the charge of being drunk, and
when asked by otticers to tell where
she had secured the linnor. stated that
all she had drank was a bottle of
patent medicine, which she had pur
chased at a local drug store. Front
this l)as resulted the placing of a ban
on this medicine by Sheriff Shanks.
The state sheriff states that anyone
selling the medicine will be prose
cuted under the provisions of the
state-wide prohibition law.
Lenine Escapes From
Finland in Garb of Sailor
Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. S.
Nikolai Lenine, leader of the Maxi
malists in the recent disorders in
Petrograd, according to a private re
port from Stockholm, received by
Swiss socialists here, escaped from
Finland on a Swedish vessel. He was
disguised as a sailor. Lenine, it is
said, will remain in hiding for a while
and then return to Switzerland.
Civil War Veteran Shoots
Wife and Kills Himself
Boston, Aug. 5. Major William
Hoffman, U. S. A., retired, a civil war
veteran, shot and killed his wife with
a revolver today and then turned
the weapon on himself, dying in
stantly. The reason for the act is un
known. I
Allied Forces Despite In
on the Flanders front on Friday,
-Q Notwithstanding the continuing in
clement weather, French forces drove
m beyond the Kortekeer Cabaret,
moving their lines forward, while their
patrols pushed back German outposts
and explored considerable areas in ad
vance of the French positions.
ARTILLERY FIRE VIOLENT. .
Berlin announces an increase in the
artillery fire to great violence at times
on the Flanders' front. Apparently
the renewal of the great battle in all
its fury is only awaiting the return
of favorable weather.
The London war office makes it
clear that no shifting of British troops
was found necessary to cope with the
situation created by the German di
version of Thursday night near
Monchy Le Preux, on the. Arras bat
tle front, through which inroads were
made upon the British position on in
fantry hill. Attacks carried out the
following day and night by the troops
on the spot, the official statement an
nounces, forced the Germans out and
completely restored the postions.
Russian Defense Stiffens,.
The situation on the Russian front
continues favorable to the central
power, but the 'Russians appear on
the whole to be offering a stiffer de
fense,, particularly along the t.tastern
Galiciarr bo'rUct. ' At one point an en-"
ergetic operation cleared the Austro
German forces from a sector of the
east bank of the Zbrocz. Near Skala,
the Teutonic troops were driven out
of two villages. '
The Russians continue to , yield
ground in Bukowina and in the Car
pathians. They arc engaged in a stiff
battle with the enemy northeast of
Kimpolung. however. Below Kimpo
lung the Russian forces are falling
back on the Moldava ad have yield
ed the town of Watra to the Austro
German advance.
Berlin sums up the campaign of the
last fourteen days in the east as hav
ing cleared ail Galicia of the Russians,
with the exception of a small strip of
territory extending southeast from
Brody.
Activity On Italian Front.
On the Austro-Italian front there
is somewhat more activity. The
Italian airmen are notably busy. They
rapidly followed up their recent raid
on Pola, carrying out a second air
attack in which great damage is re
ported to haye been done this Aus
trian naval base.
Freight Service
Gains 16 Per Cent nr
Efficiency in Year
New York, Aug. 5. Railroads of
the United States gave 16 per cent '
more freight service in May 1917 than
the corresponding month a year ago.
with virtually the same number of
cars and locomotives, according to a
statement made public tonight by .
Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the .
Railroads' War board.' '
This is interpreted, the statement
pointed out, as "a gratifying indica
tion of the extent to which the rail-'
roads of the United States are ma'k
ing effective their efforts to produc
greater transportation efficiency to aid
in winning the war."
"Actual returns just compiled," tin
stateWnt said, "are from railroads
having 173,105 miles of line.. The re
ports show that these lines in May
last year gave service equivalent to
carrying 25.4J6.845.01 1 tons of freight
one mile, while this year they car
ried 29,522.870,109 tons one mile, an
increase of 16.1 per cent.
Von Waldow Named Food
Dictator by the Kaiser
Copenhagen, Aug. 5. Herr von
Waldow, high bailiff of Pomerania,
according to the Berlin Vossische Zei
tung, has been designated as successor
to Adolph von Batocki as president
of the German food regulation board
or "food dictator" as that post is com
monly known.
Amsterdam, Aug. 5. According to 1
the YVeser Zcitung of Bremen, the
German system of food distribution
is about to be entirely reorganized
under Herr von Waldow.
Rumor of Resistance to
Draft in Minnesota
St. Paul,' Minn., Aug. 5. Fifteen
communications reporting war, pro
test meetings scheduled at various
points in Minnesota were received at
the office of the Public Safety com
mission today. No reports were re
ceived of disorders at any , meeting
already held, but sheriffs have been
instructed to be on the watch for out ....
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