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OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1917. TEN PAGES.
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TO WEEING NATIONS
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FORT CROOK CERTAIN TO
BECOME ONE OF IMPORTANT
ARMY POSTS OF COUNTRY
Omaha Business Men Point Out Sarpy County Fort Cannot
Be Overlooked as One of 'Camps Where Uncle
Sam Must Train His Thousands of A
Fighting Men. (
Plans to make Fort Crook one of the big army camps of
the country will be carried out in less than one year, according
to some of the best posted businessmen in Omaha.
At present the War department is not ready to announce
what disposition will be made of the fort after the troops now
stationed there are sent to Deming, but those in close touch
with War department affairs say the department already con
siders making extensive enlargements and improvements.
The Omaha ,C6mmercu.. -lub hasO
been workjr.g hard to place before
the dep'Vtment the importance of
Fcit'irook as an army camp or mob
ilisation point, and the department at
present has a file, furnished by the
Commercial club, giving details of the
amount of. time and work required to
furnish an adequate water supply and
build proper and permanent roads
from the fort to Omaha for transpor
tation purposes.
CAN HAVF CITY WATER.
The wells at Fort Crook are insuf
ficient. The fort has been supplied
with water from wells which were
used in the government water tys
tem there. These wells cannot supply
any more water, than the quan
tity required for the troops at present
stationed there.
Water mains can be laid and city
water ca.i be supplied in thirty days,
according to General Manager R. B.
Howell of the Metropolitan Water
district.
A committee of Commertial club
men has gone over the roads from
Omaha to Fort Crook in considerable
detail an ' has tabulated therequire
"ments. It is held that -..permanent
highways could be built and paved,
from Omaha to the fort in perhaps
even less time than it would take to
lay the water mains, particular if
the soldiers were put to building
roads under government supervision.
Those in touch with the situation
say that without question the canton
ment camps now being built will not
be large enough to accommodate all
the soldiers it will be necessary for
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tne unitea stales xo train oeiore inc
winter is over, y .
Million Men to France.
This means that the War depart
ment will have to survey the country
for branch cantonment camps, or
sites for such camps. Omaha's location
is so favorable that it is pointed out
Fort Crook cannot possibly be over
looked. If transportation is available,
and the troops can at all be whipped
into condition, those high up declare
the government will send a million
men into France before spring.
This v"l mean the training of a
vast army in a short space of time,
(Continued on Faga Two, Column Fire.)
German Plotter Brought
Back From Canadian Side
Chicago. Aug. 14. George Paul
Boehm, alleged German plotter, was
brought here today from Winnipeg.
Boehm, Gustav H. Jacobson, Albert
Wehde and others are utiHer indict
ment, charged with attempting to
foment a revolution against the Brit
ish government in India. Boehm
was their emissary sent to India, it
is alleged. He was arrested at Singa
pore and brought back to Canada. It
was expected that Judge Landis would
set a date for their trials this after
noon. The Weather
" Temperature at Omaha yesterday, 1
S 7 a. m 68
" 8 a. m 68
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5T i2 m.. '!!!!!.'!!! 74
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t i p. m. ....... 1!)
'3 p. m 78
D 4 p. m 78
K n t . - 7ft
"""' " p. m
7 p. m 78
s p, m io
am.
ComparatUe Loral Bet'ord.
1917. 1916. 1815 1914.
Highest yesterday ,. 79 70 M 84
lowest yesterday .. 67 3 ' 60 61
Mean temperature ..73 6lf 72 72
Precipitation On .35 .00 .13
Temperature and precipitation departure!
from the normal:
Normal temperature 75
Deficiency for the day a
., Total deficiency elnce March 1 194
Normal precipitation 11 Inch
I Deficiency for the day Hindi
Total rainfall since .March 1 .... 18.49 Inches
'.Deficiency since March 1 1.47 Inches
IDeflclency for cor. period, 1916.. 8 64 Inches
deficiency for cor. period, 1913. r .06 Inch
-. Reports from Stations at 7 r. M.
Ration and State . Temp. High- Rain
of Weather. J p. m. est. fall.
CHeyenne. cloudy 72 "6 .01
Davenport, Part cloudy. 76 h2 .00
Denver, cloudy 74 7S T
Des Moines, ciear 7S SO .00
Dodse City, cloudy.... 72 fii 1,02
Lander, cloudy 7S v: ,00
Omaha, clear ; 7$ 79 .00
Pueblo, pt. cloudy 74 s . .00
PanU. Fe., cloudy 62 7 2 00
Sheridan, cloudy 82 92 .00
Sioux City, clear , 80 84 .00
Valentine, clear .80 82 .00
T Indicates trace of precipitation.
- V U A. WELSH, Meteorologist.
GUARDSMEN FROM
26 STATES SOON
LEAVE FOR FRANCE
Nebraska Guards Among Those
to Be Formed Into One Di
vision in World Fight for
Democracy.
Washington Aug. 14. Plans for
sending the first National Guard
troops to France have been perfected
by the War department with the or
ganization of a division which will
Linclude troops from twenty-six states
and the District of Columbia.
The states from which the National
Guard troops are to be assembled are:
Nebraska, Louisiana, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, Georgia,
Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Min
nesota, Maryland, South Carolina,
California, MissouriVirginia, North
Carolina, Kansas, Texas, Michigan,
New Jersey, Tennessee, Oklahoma,
Colorado, Oregon. The others come
from the District of Columbia.
Mobilization Point Secret.
Among the comoanies summoned
for mobilization to form the division
is the First Field Hospital company
of Nebraska.
"The sanitary train, to be known
as the 117th sanitary train, will be
comprised of the First, Second, Third
and Fourth ambulance companies, be
ing respectively the First ambulance
companies of Michigan, New Jersey,
Tennessee and Oklahoma; the First,
Second, Third and Fourth Field Hos
pital companies, being respectively
the First FiehJ Hospital companies
of Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon and
the District of Columbia."
Discussion of the time and place
of mobilization of the division or of
its departure for France are not per
missible under the voluntary censor
ship. The structure of the division
as given in the official statement
shows that it will conform to the re
duced trench warfare divisional or
ganization recommended by Major
Pershing, which would give it a total
strength with auxiliary troops of ap
proximately 20,000 men.
The commanding officer of the di
vision will b Brigadier General W.
A. Mann of the regular army, now
chief of the division of militia affairs
of the War department.
Official Notice of China's
War Declaration Is Received
Washington, Aug. 14. Official .no
tice of China's declaration of war on
Germany and Austria-Hungary was
received today at thi Chinese legation
in cable dispatches from Peking.
Gen. William M. Wright, Former
Omahan, Receives High Command
Gen. William M. Wright, one of
the army officers promoted to the
rank of major general, as announced
in press dispatches from Washington
yesterday, will be remembered by
older Omahans.
He was stationed at the old army
post in Omaha about twenty years
ago. He was Captain Wright then.
The names of two others who were
army officers stationed in Omaha
years ago were Colonel Grote Hutche-
son and Colonel James B. Erwin, each
promoted to the rank of brigadier
g.neral. These iwo new brigadier
generals were also captains when
they were stationed in Omaha.
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German U-Boat is Rammed;
Three Members of Crew Lost
London, Aug. 14. A German sub
marine of the largest and latest type
has been towed into Zeebrugge, Bel
gium, by two torpedo boats, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Amsterdam. The subma
rine is reported to have been rammed
in the North sea and damaged severe
ly, resulting in the loss of three of
the crew.
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BANDITS KILL
DRAFTED MAN
AT COLUMBUS
Philip Dreisen Shot by One of
Three Highwaymen as He
is Driving Along a
Country Road.
Columbus,. Neb., Aug. 14. (Special
Telegram.) Phillip Dreisen, 24 years
of age, was murdered last night by
one of three highwaymen, whose com
mands he disregarded when ordered
to stop his automobile.
He vas accompanied by his father
and a brother and, was on the way
from his home at Platte Center to
this city.
The bullet struck Dreisen in the
back of his head. He immediately re-,
leased his hold on the steering wheel
and, as the machine began to run
wild, tfte brother reached over and
guided; the car into "Columbus at a
rapid speed, holding the dying man
in one arm as he sped along. Drei
sen died before the machine reached
this city.
The murderer and two companions
were masked and carried a lantern.
Their command to halt and their ap
pearances suggested a motive of rob
bery. The command was followed by
Dreisen's increasing the speed of the
car and just as he did so the fatal
shot was fired. Dreisen died within
a few minutes.
News of the tragedy was spread' by
telephone through this and adjoin
ing counties. Bloodhounds from Al
bion followed a trail to the Loup
river, where animals stopped. Hun
dreds of citizens are searching the
countryside and public feeling is in
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NEW WAR BILL
IS SUBJECTED TO
BIG CHANGES
Discussion Is About Concluded
And Vote Will Be Taken
Latter Part of Next
Week.
(By Associated Trens.)
Washington, Aug. 14. General de
bate in the senate on the $2,0006,000,
000 war tax bill virtually ended today
and such rapid progress was made
on the finance committee amendments
to the house bill that leaders tonight
predicted the measure's passage late
next week. Senator Simmons an
nounced that he expected to ask soon
for a time limit on debate and also
to set a date for a final vote.
In rapid succession and with little
debate the senate in committee of the
whole approved the finance commit
tee's revision of the soft drink, tobacco
and most of the public utilities sched
ules. The liquor and income tax sec-
tionsare to be considered tomorrow
It is evident the principal disputes
facing the senate are the income,
war profits and publishers' tav sec
tions. Adoption of most of the finance
committee s other revisions with little
change was forecast.
War Tax on War Profits.
Senator LaFollette in a minority re
port concurred in bv Senators Gore
and Thomas, urged that the bulk of
an 'war taxes be laid upon incomes
and war profits.
In closing the general discussion
Senators Smoot and Jones of New
Mexico, both of the finance committee
commended the committee's proposed
increases in the income and war pro
fits sections. The former, however,
opposed repeal of the "drawback" al
lowance to sugar refiners, and the lat
ter advocated a higher tax on cor
poration's undivided surplus.
Extension of 3 per cent tax on
freight transportation to motor
vehicle lines competing with railroads
was approved in the new freight sec
tion, designed to raise $77,500,000. The
senate also accepted the committee's
reduction from 10 to S per cent in the
taxes on passenger transportation and
Pullman accommodation, both charges
paid by individuals and not the car
riers. Electric Tax Over Ruled.
Committee elimination of the house
taxes on gas, electric light and local
telephone bills of consumers also was
accepted without debate. They were
estimated to yield $30,000,000 and were
stricken out because of their direct
burden upon the general public. The
tax of 5 cents on telegraph, radio and
long distance telephone messages
costing more than 15 cents was ap
proved. It is estimated to yield $7,
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Labor Parade to Give Way
To Patriotic Demonstration
Boston, Aug. 14. The labor unions
of this city for the first time in nearly
forty years will hold no parade on
Labor day this year. A patriotic dem
onstration on the Common will be
substituted.
RESTORATION OF SERBIA,
BELGIUM AND R0UMAMA
BASIS OF VA TICAN'S TERMS
Pope's Peace Proposals as They
Are Understood in Washington
Washington, Aug. 14. Reduction of armaments, settle
ment of all international disputes by arbitration, freedom of
the seas and no retaliatory after-the-jvar economic struggle
for supremacy, are the foundation stones of Pope Benedict's
peace proposals.
Included in the restoration of territory, the pope's pro
posals insist, should be the return to Germany of all its
colonies, as well as the complete restoration of Belgium to
its sovereignty.
The pope's proposal declares that the injuries to all
belligerents have been so great there should be no thought
of reparation except for the return of territory.
FIVE COMPANIES
OF NEBRASKANS
OFF FOR DEMING
Three of Them Now at Omaha
Ordered to Start for South
ern Training Camp on
Wednesday
Five companies of the Nebraska
National Guard, now in the federil
service, have received orders to en
train for Deming, N. M., Wednesday.
The companies are:
Company B of the Fourth Ne
braska, Omaha. '
Company G of the Fourth, Aurora.
Company tC of . the Fitth, Bea
trice. ,
Company E of the Fifth, North
Platte.
Company C of the Sixth, Omaha.
All Ready to Leave.
Last week these companies received
orders to be ready to leave at an in
stant s notice and they have been on
GENERAL GEORGE H. HARRIES.
Head cf Nebraska Brigade,
the qui vive ever since. Their per
sonal affairs are all settled, the good
byes all said.
Saturday Company C was equipped
with all the clothes it will need while
at Deming. This was the only com-
(Contlnaed on Pace Two, Column Four.)
Smeltermen of Montana
Vote" Against Strike
BUtte, Mont., Aug. 14. The appar
ent lack of a two-thirdsNvote in favor
of a strike on the part of the Ana
conda smelter men was declared this
moruing by the American Federation
of Labor officials to indicate the end
of the wage controversy in this dis
trict between the mining companies
and metal trades organizations.
The Retail Clerks' union of Hutte
refused to donate to the strike fund Of
the Metal Mine Workers' union until
such time as this union affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
The iron workers accepted the con
tract offered them by the Anaconda
Copper Mining company as a. compo
nent part of the metal trades council.
No Disorder in K. C. Strike,
Which is Complete Tieup
Kansas City. Mo., Aug. 14. The
street car strike was at a deadlock
today with no cars moving and little
prospect of relief.
Rainx added to the discomfort of
citizens seeking transportation from
their homes to their work.
Plans Jor obtaining federal protec
tion through the courts were cred
ited to the street car company and
the city council discussed means for
putting the company in a receiver's
hands that the municipality might
participate in the operation of cars.
There was no disorder.
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FAITH OF JAPAN
IS PLEDGED TO
ONITED STATES
Speeches Made at Luncheon
Given in Honor of the Visit
ors State Good Feeling
of Countries.
The Japanese mission now on the
Pacific coast. will visit Omaha be
fore returning to Japan. Brecken
ridge Long, third assistant secre
tary of state, has definitely inform
ed Commissioner Manley of the
Commercial club that he intends to
route the mission so that it will
make a visit to Omaha on its tour
tf the country. This will not, how
ever, be on the way to Washing
ton. Secretary. Long made it plain
that the party would probably go
through to Washington direct and
make the tour of the country after
it has been received by official
Washington. This means that it
will probably be several weeks be
fore the Japanese officials will be
the guests of Omaha. When they
come the Commercial club will en
tertain them.
(Br Associated Prrss.)
A Pacific Port, Aug. 14. "That
Americans and Japanese should stand
almost in the surf of the great ocean
we botli love, to pledge our faith in
each (Qther and consecrate ourselves
anew to the common interests which
unite us, is most fitting," said Vis
count K. Ishii, head of the Japanese
imperial mission to the United States
at a luncheon given in its honor to
day. The luncheon was participated in
by members of the imperial mission
as guests of the government, the state
and city, and followed a morning de
voted to a tour of principal points of
interest.
Viscount Tshii, ambassador extraor
dinary and plenipotentiary; Vice Ad
miral I. Takeshita and Major General
S. Sugano, and other mnnbers of the
mission, which arrived yesterday,
were in splendid spirits ana drank in
the sights with expressions of great
delight.
The ambassador's address follows
in part:
"I ani' grateful because I can in
terpret your courtesy and hospitality
in but one way, and that is a way
which accords with the hopes and the
desires of the people whom I have
the honor to represent. It means
good will. It means that you want
kindly relations with Japan, just as
Japan wants them with you. It means
that your minds and hearts are open
to friendship and all that friendship
implies.
"It means peace, trade, fellowship
and a common interest in a common
civilization. For these assurances I
thank you in the name of my govern
ment and people.
My own mission to this country
is one of peace and good yill. I come
to you at a critical time ir. the affairs
of men to consult upon grive matters
of common interests. I come to you
as an ally in arms, bringing the assur
ances of the liberty-loving people of
Japan that they stand with you,
shoulder to shoulder, in the great
struggle which you are now making
for justice and human rights. 1 come
to congratulate you on your splendid
courage in demonstrating to the
whole world that a nation can rise to
such moral heights that it puts con
siderations of humanity before love
of ease, of wealth or life itself.
"Surely ihis welcome at the very
threshold of the west is a happy omen
and carries assurance that our mis
sion is destined to bnngta harvest of
good things."
County Urged to Pave
West End of Ames Avenue
The county commissioners will be
urged by the city commissioners, to
pave Ames avenue, Forty-eighth to
rifty-second streets, in connection
with new paving being laid on this
thoroughfare from Thirty-sixth to
Forty-eighth streets.
ate of Alsace-Lorraine, Trent,
' Triest and Poland Left Open;
Washington Suspects Teu
ton Origin of the Plan. 1
Rome, Aug. 14. Peace proposals
made by Pope Benedict have been de
livered to all the belligerent govern
ments. The pope suggests restoration of
Belgium, Serbia and Roumania and
peaceful solution of the problems of
Alsace-Lorraine, Trent, Triest and
Poland, according to reports received
from Vatican sources. It is expected
the proposals will be published today
by the Vatican.
UNOFFICIALLY NOTIFIED.
Washington, Aug. 14. The State
department acknowledges that it has
received unofficial knowledge of Pope
Benedict's peace proposals before to
day's news dispatches were received
here.
No official cognizance can be taken
of it until the proposal is conveyed
officially.
Whatever consideration is given to.
it will be after consultation with the
allies.
At the apostolic delegation all
knowledge of the pope's proposal was
disclaimed. It was said the papal
delegate had not transmitted it to the
United States government and did
not expect to do so.. The opinion was
expressed that it would come through
a neutral government.
GERMAN ORIGIN SUSPECTED.'
Within the entente diplomatic circle
the opinion was freely and promptly
expressed that the peace proposal was
inspired by Germany and was an at
tempt to split the allies in a conflict
ing discussion of their war aims.
The issue of the State department's
information does not indicate through
what channel the proposal will be con
veyed and Pive'X nn infnrtnafinn fmm
which an inference might be drawn n
10 wnetner it will come through one
of the allied governments or through
a dignitary of the church.
Officials were unusually explicit in
saying that it could not be discussed
until it came oflicially before the gov
ernment and were rnmhatir in !. -lur
ing that no statement whatever could
be represented as reflecting the official
clew.
Proposal Given Hearing.
If an inference micht hr drawn fmm
the undercurrents which were started
til official circles bv the rennrt a train
ed observer would venture the opinion
that the proposal is one which would ,
he discussed in good faith bthe al
lies, hut that it does not meet their
war aims It was indicated that a
peace proposal coming from the pope
the iirst actual proposal of the kind
to come from the Vatican would
necessarily have to be considered care
fully and deliberately, and that an
answer convincing to the world would
necessarily have to be made.
How far the peace proposal re
flects the closer relationship of the
Vatican with Austria, whose earnest
desire for peace, despite German in
fluence, is well known, or how far
it reflects Catholic" agitation for peace
m Germany no one here would ven
ture to say. It was recalled, however,
that leading Catholics were prominent
figures in the recent peace flurry in
Germany.
Spanish Ambassador to Act.
Announcement that the ' Spanish
ambassador at Rome had transmit
ted Pope Benedict's proposals to the.
Itajian government and the opinion
expressed at the apoltolic delegation
here that they might be delivered to
the United States by a neutral led to
the possibility that the Spanish am-
(Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
Moscow Conference to Be "
Attended by 1,000 Russians
Petrograd, Aug. 14. More than
1.000 persons have been invited by
the government to ttend the confer
ence which is to be held at Moscow
August 25-27 to consider in their'
broadest aspects the situation of the
nauon ana tne plans tor the new na
tional government.
Those who have been asked to at
tend include all members of the four
Duuias, other persons prominent in
public life and representatives of all
important organizations, whether po
litical, jcoiromic, commercial or sci
entific. The conference will be held in the
Kremlin palace. It will be opened bv
Premier Kerensky with a general
statement respecting the situation and
a program of the government The
premier will be followed by various
ministers, who will represent the sit
uation in their departments.
Kerensky Again Confident
Russian People Will Win
Petrograd, Aug. 14. Premier Ker
ensky, in replying to a message of
good will' King George sent him at
the beginning of the fourth year o
the war, said:
"I am certain the Russian people
will find the necessary strength to
surmount the serious trials of th
present time and conduct the world
war to an end which will be worthv
of the terrible sacrifices already made
by every nation which is struggling:
for right against might."
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