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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917, First Year's War Cost to United States May Reach : Twenty-One Billions; May. Authori v ,-1 TWO BILLIONS ADDITIONAL ON WAR DOND BILL AS MARGIN FOR POSSIBLE EMERGENCIES Sayings Certificates to Be Sold at Postoffice in Small De nominations With Limited Number to Individuals Takes Previously Authorized Amounts From ' Alaskan Railway and Panama Canal. (By AtMctated Fret.) Washington, Aug. 28. Passage by Saturday night of the $11,538,000,000 war bond and certificate bill, now before the ways, and means committee, was predicted on the house floor today by Democratic Leader Kitchin. Every effort would be made, he said, to report the bill Thursday, and a day or two would be devoted to debate. The ,! house adjourned until Thursday with the intention of taking up the measure upon reconvening 4 iwo Dliuon aoiiars jriay dc auucu ; lo the .total of bonds to be authorized at the present session of congress, ; making a total of approximately $21,- XX),000,000 available to the govern ment during the fiscal year ending ; June 30, 1918. Jast -night that estimates submitted to him by the Treasury department made it appear that the additional authorization probably would be st- . cured. Secretary McAdoo will be asked ' to explain the situation when he appears before the ways and f means committee tomorrow to di$- cuss the forthcoming administration i 411,538,945,460, b5hd. and . certificate bill. " ' Two Billion Margin. I ' Present indications, according "to" Mr. Kitchin; are that $19,000,000,000 i will meet the expenses of the fiscal rear, but it is thought best to have t ' $2,000,000,000 margin for emergen cies. . . ' ' . " ' ' ' "It now seems probable," he 'said, .. "that the total amount of money needed for the fiscal year will be .' about $19,000,000,000. This estimate J covers about $7,000,000,000 for loans to the allies, $3,000,000,000 of which ? already has. been provided; $1,300, i 600,000 for current expenses, exclu sive of, war, leaving about $10,000,000, i 000 for war expenses. Included in the . war estimate is $176,000,000 for the new insurance bill and J$ 1,000,000,000 " ior the shinning board." 1 , The' $21,000,000,000 Would fce raised i is follaws: .,"'."..' : I Bonds for allied loans, $7,000,000,. i 000; pending revenue bill $3,000,000.. 1 000; war certifica,:s, $4,000,000,000; ' bods" for domestic purposes already authorised,, $2,000,000,000; proposed -new bonds, $2,000,000,000; war sav ings certificates, $2,000,000,000; and regular revenue $1,300,000,000. Approximately $11,000,000,000 of the foregoing amouts are included in the bonds and certificates bill which the ways and means commitee today began to consider. The bill would authorize $7,000,000,000 for allied loans; $3,000,000,000 to be used in re funding Sti per cent bonds already authomedrROWj000 in war cer tificatea and $2,000,000,000 in war sav. iiijs certificates. It also contains a reauthorization provision for $2,000,. iXtO.OOO in war certificates and would provide for takinc over other previ ously authorized bonds in the follow ing amounts; i . Panama -canal, $225,000,000; Inaval cotstruction, $150,0f ),000; Mexican border control. Danish West Indies i add Alaskan railway, $100,000,000 and Iper cent Panama canal bonds issued w 1916, $63,945,460 ! No attempt will be made, Mr, Kitchin believes, to add the newly suggested $2,000,000,000 issue to the hill now before the committee. It will come in as a separate measure, it' at all. i , A brief meeting of the committee today to consider, the bill made It obvious that hopes of leaders' to pass thi measure on. vfednesday could not be realized.. An insistent demand for the free discission on the floor created dottbt . if the hill could be .pat.seoVNbefc.rei the end, .of this week at the earliest. , v.-..,. Several tnjeibert Indicated today that they would oppose Secretary McAdoo s plan of taxing the bonds. There was no indication, however, of opposition to the general terms of the bill and both democratic and repub lican committeemen are expected to support it once it reaches the floor. Opponents of the e:retary'a plan, which would make the bcnids subject to supertaxes, war profits and. excess profits taxes, vary in thei views, ome favoring no taxes and others the, application of the straight income tax levy. ' The proposal to create a definite bond issuance policy during consid eration of the present bill was barely touched upc today. Representative ' Hull of Tennessee suggested his plan of, making the bonds subject to termi nation at the dis..ction of the secre , tary after a brief period of possibly lire years. He also plans to suggest abandoning the convertibility feature on all bonds drawing more than 4 per cent " , Certificates In Lew Denominations. Reoorts that the war Savings cer tificates, in tended primarily as a poor man's Investment, would be issued in denominations as low as $1 and be placed on sale at all postoffices aroused interest. Details of dispos ing of these certificates would be left hv the bill to Secretary McAdoo. save hat ainsrle sales to one person would be limited to $100 and; total sales to an individual to $1,000. The amount of interest to be borne by these cer. ificates ea well as by the war cer tificatea also would be left to the sec retary. Both wbold.bt liable under the bill to the same taxes as the ' Vw nmlwtf fe!ar ; fn reoortinz the bill caused Mr. Kitchin to change his dans resrardinsr the. resumption of regular aessions of the house. It wii: meet each day until the bill is re ported, but will transact no important ALLIED ARMY MEN WILL HELP TEACH AMERICAN TROOPS French and British Officers to Act as Advisers to Com manders at the Train- "I! ing Camps.. v Washington, Aug. 28.A group of British or French army officers, spe cialists in various details of trench warfare, will be attached to National Guard and national army camps un der plans .worked out by the War de partment to expedite training of troops for special conditions they will meet at the front. French and British governments have been tasked to detail officers and probably-; eight or ten will be as signed to' each of the , thirty-two camps. ' . . The foreign officers will not come in direct (touch with the American troops. The training will be .done en tirely by the American officers of the companies, regiments or brigades, but the American officers will have the opportunity, of consulting with their foreign associates, who have had arc tual experience at the front with con aa4vssii KUo auu vwwi unratuiK mnvmPn f ftfntrv ,,nit. in .t" tack or on defensive r There will be men who have learned under fire the lessons of maintaining telegraph or telephone communica tion; others whose specialty has been the co-ordination of airplane obser vition with the movements of the in fantry: others who have been highly trained in observation balloon work and so on through the list of highly specialized military subjects that have been developed in three years of trench warfare. ... . ii ii .I,- t Chronic Constipation. It is by no means an easy matter to cure.this disease, but it can be done in most instances by taking Cham berlain's Tablets and complying with the plain printed directions that ac company each package. Adv. INQUEST FAILS TO CLEAR MYSTERY . IN MURDER CASE (Continued fram Tt On.) was returning, he heard Mrs. LeVan, from in front of her mother's' home, calling his wife. Mrs. LeVan said her mother was dead. " Running to the house. Stemle found tlie rooms dark. Entering. the front door, he lighted the lamp and, on the bed in a room on the first floor, found the body of Mrs. Anderson. It was in nightclothes that were slightly aisarrangea. Jt was lying across the bed with one of the feet hanging over the edge. He made an examination of the wounds and found them as de scribed by Dr, McClcheghan. There was blood spattered over the wall and over a windowjf the room. He told Mrs. LeVan that her mother had oeen murdered. Jolice Were Notified. Stemle notified the oolice and called Dr. Wearne. He was present when the police arrived and when a search of the house was made. That search resulted in the finding of a pair of small .scissors in the bed on which' Mrs. Anderson was lying and a letter written in German under her pillow. The letter was a sort of a religious exhortation, was without date and unsigned. Mrs. treda Stemle was home all Saturday and did not see anv stunn ers or suspicious characters in the neighborhood. All that she knew con cerning the murder was that Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, she heard Mrs. Mary JMynn calling "Freda," and at the same instant Sirs. LeVan came running toward her, crying "Mother is dead." . Mrs. Mary Flvnn. residine at 4248 Corby street, 300 feet west of the An derson house, had been at a oicnic and returned at 8:30 in the evening. f.lmost immediately after reaching er home, Mrs. LeVan ran to her house.- screaming, "My-mother is dead." Detective Finds Knife. ' Going to the Anderson house; which wis -dark, 'she entered, went to the kitchen, lighted a lamp and then oro ceeded to the bed room, where lying on tne oca sne saw the body ot Mrs. Anderson. ADVANCES PAST IN THE MA CHINE GUN CORPS. v. - ) w lt Paul kamausw PORTRAIT GT LUMZRC From corporat to second lieutenant is the jump made by Lieutenant Paul Kamansky, of the machine gun com pany of. the "Fighting Fourth" since July. Lieutenant Kamansky is one of the youngest officers in the Fourth, but one of the most promising. He is I Creighton student and a well-known athlete, foot ball being his specialty. called to the Anderson home. He reached there at about 9:40 o'clock. He found Mrs. Anderson lying on the bed, her throat cut and clothing sat urated with blood. He made inquiry of the neighbors and was told that so far as they knew, there had been no strangers around the premises dur ing the afternoon, or evening. In a closet in the bed room, he found a carving knife with a blade ten inches long. It was clean and there was nothing to indicate that it had been -used recently. .... While at the house, in talking with Mrs. LeVan, the nume of Swan An derson, a stepson, was mentioned She thought that he might have been implicated in the commission of the murder, but there was nothing to ra dicate that he knew anything about it, the detective said. Daughter Finds Body. Mrs. Lena Le Van, who had made her home with her mother, Mrs. An derson, told the story of the events f Saturday Shi said she was around the house untiP about 6:30 o'clock. At that hour her mother gave her some money and she went to buy some groceries, ' and then to Thir tieth and Maple streets, where she got some hi her clothes, and' after ward, boarding a car, went to Twenty-fourth and Cuming streets. Mak ince lier purchases, she started home and reached there about 8:45 o'clock. . , . . -JJa:-, . the doors in the same condition as rrTht front door was locked and the kitchen unlocked, the screen door closed. Entering the house, which was dark, sue called "Mother." There was no "response and, lighting a lamp, .went" into the bed room, found her mother on the bed, dead. She ran out and called to Mr. Flynn, who with other neigh bors caine to the house. i Shortly i afterwafB Mrs., Le Van tried to reach her step-brother, Swan Anderson, by telephone at his rooms in the vicinity of Sixteenth and Burt streets, but there was no response to the call. Mrs. Le Vail identified the carving knife and testified that it was, the custom of her mother to keep it, in the closet jn the bedroom. Relative to financial matters, ;Mrs. Le Van .testified that her mother had $680 on deposit with a building and loan company. Some time ago she drew $119.50, and of this, after her death, $85 in gold. and bills was found in an old stocking in the attic, a se cret place where money that was in the house was kept. ' In a box in the bed room there was $6. Mrs. Ander son owned her home, which had been deeded to her by a former husband. Catholics Acclaim Peace Note, but Support War Plans ' ' Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 28. Reso lutions "acclaiming" the peace tro- nosal of Pone Benedict and pledging all Catholics of this country to the war program of the United States, but containing no clause urging ac ceotance bv the American govern ment of the oaDal auiraestions. were rebutted favorably today by the reso lutions committee ot tne American FederatiCn of Catholic Societies. They will be presented to the an nual convention, now in session, later in the day with the belief of leaders that they will be accepted by a large vote. Marine Officer Killed in Motorcycle Crash In France New York, Aug. 28. Word of the first casualty to an officer in Gen eral Pershing's forces in France was received- today by the marine corps in a cablegram announcing the death in a motorcycle accident of Second Lieutenant Frederick Wahlstrom of the marine corps. n , Obituary i Notice EDWARD E. BURR1NOTON, 8 yean old. for twenty-live yean a resi dent of Wymore, died yeeterday of paralyaia. He' is survived by a widow and four children. D DAYS O 3- AM AHEAD TO Pt THE COFFXt USER Jl U WHO CHANCES TO M KORNILOFF SAYS RUSS MUST FIGHT ANARCHY IN ARMY Slav General Tells Moscow Con ference of Terrible Evils Encountered at the Front. Moscow, Aug. 28. The second general sitting of the national confer ence was held todav. General Kor- niloff, the commander-in-chief, en tered the hail in company with Pre mier Kcrensky. His appearance was the signal for prolonged cheers. Premier Kerensky then introduced General Korniloff, saying the govern ment Had thought it necessary to in vite the commander-in-chief to lay before the conference the situation at the front and in the army. General Kornilofjf said the death penalty, restoration of which he had asked, together with other measures, constitutes only a small part of what was necessary in art army stricken with the terrible evils of disorgan ization and insubordination. Commanders "Killed. In the present month, General Kor niloff said, soldiers had killed four regimental commanders and other of ficers and ceased these outrages only when they were threatened with-' be ing shot. Quite recently one of 'the regiments of Siberian rifles, which had fought so splendidly at the be ginning of the war, abandoned its po sitions on the Riga front Nothing except an order to exterminate the entire regiment availed to cause it to return to its positions.: -."Thus we art implacably fighting, anarchy in the army," the command er continued. . "Undoubtedly it will finally be repressed, but the danger of iresn aenacies is weighing constant ly on the country. ' . - , v -7. "The situation'on the' front is bad. We have lost the wholcof Galicia, the whole of Bukowina and all the fruits of our recent victories. At" several Doints the nimv has I j .-. w.vev4 uui frontier and is threatening ourfer- tue. southern provinces. He is en deavoring to destroy (he Roumanian army and is knocking at the gates of Riga: If our army does not hold the shore of the gulf of Riga the toad to reirograa win pe opened wide. r Left Strong: Army. The old regime bequeathed Rus sia an army which, despite all the de fects in its organization, nevertheless was animated b a fighting spirit and was ready for sacrifices. The whole series of measures taken by those who are comoletelv foreign tn th and . needs of the - army hs trans- lormea u into a collection ot indi vidual groups, which have lost all sense of duty and only tremble for their own personal safety. ii xvussia wisnes to oe saved, the army must be '- regenerated at any cost We must immediately take measures such as I have referred to, which have been approved in their entirety by the acttoj minister ; of jwar." - - ' General Korniloff then outlined the most important of these measures, in addition to restoration of the death pertalty which are; First, restoration of discipline in the army by the strengthening of the authority of of ficers and noncommissioned officers; second, improvement of the financial position .of officers, who have been m a very difficult petition in the re. cent military operations; third, re "ALL the wort Iovm a lovarfVand DlamoBiL Oiamenda . tUn heart. 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Call or Write for Uhiatrattd Catelaf no. w. rneaa mag iaa t44 ana aaiaa. ww cam. j THE NATIONAJ, CREDIT JEWELERS , 40 3. 16 th St-OMAHA. .Hi 3 nOFTIS 13 ercs tea r.'.t striction of the functions of regimen tal committees, which, although man aging economic affairs of the regi ments, must not be permitted to have any part in decisions regarding mili tary operations or the appointment of leaders. The commander went on to say that, according to information at his disposal, the condition of the railways was such that by November the army would not receive- any more supplies. In support of his statement he quoted a telegram from the commander-in-chief of the southwestern front say ing that the shortage of bread and biscuit on this front amounted almost to famine. General Korniloff then read figures relating to the production of war materials, which, he said, had decreased compared with the period from October. 1916, to January, 1917, by 60 per cent for guns and shells and 80 per cent for airplanes. "If this state of affairs continues," he added, "the Russian armies will find themselves in the same state as in the spring of 1915, at the time of the retreat in Poland, Galicia and the Carpathians." Florence Says Florence r Was Cruel; Asks Divorce Florence Jackson is suing Florence H. Jackson for divorce in district court on grounds of alleged cruelty and nonsupport. Florence H. is the husband. They were, married, in, Ten nessee in 1907. - : The "Weather For "Nebraska Fair: aftmewhat warmer. . omprainre at umana icsierauy. - ' Hofir. 1 Deg. I t. ra. . 63 , ', S'K- V,.. 61 ,7 a. m. 54 ,-S -trm.-... v .m... i 0 a m.... 59 ti 68 II 73 73 74 75 i m. , i ip. m..;-,,. "S P-'. .t :,,. 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Dea Molhea, cloudy.... 74 Dodse Clty.-pt cloudy.. 66 tander, pt. cloudy 72 70 76 North Platte, clear .... 73 Omaha, clear 78 7g Pueblo, cloudy .68 . 74 Rapid City, pt. cldy..,. s, .' ,74 Rait Laka City; dear,. 86 80 Banta Fe, cloudy 64 , . 73 Sheridan, clear ..,,, 7J-. 71 Btoux City, clear 78 . 78 Valentine, clear 71 78 .00 I A. WELSH. Meteorologist 1 " - TO 0VR PA IRONS AND PARTNERS: f ' .. '5 Newspaper Man Now Heads -Naval Recruiting Station Ensign F. G. Condict, now in charge of the naval recruiting sta tion in th Paxton building, is one of the many men who have found oppor tunity through the war to exchange their vocation for Jhetr avocation. He is a newspaper- man and served last as Sunday editor of the St Louis Globe-Democrat. His avocation and hobby has always been the army and navy. In his spare time Ensign Con dict drilled with the National Guards, played in a military band and read books on military tactics. 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Union Precinct Again Carries Off Blue Ribbon Union precinct successfuly defended its eight-year record for superiority in raising farm products at the fair of the Douglas County Agricultural so ciety last week, when it again carried off the blue ribbon. ; Other precincts were awarded prizes as follows: Jefferson, second; McArdle, third; Douglas, fourth; Elk horn, fifth; Waterloo, sixth; , Valley, seventh, and Benson, eighth. Parasols , , V2 Price - the Men's Shop v 'interwoven hosiery, cotton : . lisle and silks, 35c, ,60c, 75c, $1.15, 41.50. . Wayne Knit, the best full -fashioned hose for men, 25c to $2. Radium hose, 15c a pair. Handkerchiefs . - Pure Irish linen, plain styles, 15e to $1.25; ini tialed, 35c and 50c. Silk crepe de chine, plain shades and fancies, 50c and 75e. . - To tha left at you ovitor V Km bSU3.ess. before .men. .t , Detective Rich told of having been