FRENCH RECEPTION
PLANS COMPLETED
Alliance Francaise Finishes Its
Plans for Entertainment of
Noted Mission Coming
to Omaha.
Lieutenant DeCourtivron, whose
fall French name ia Lieutenant Henri
LeCompasseur Crequy Montfort De
Courtivron, and who ii one of the
dignitaries of the French high com
mission to be the guests of Omaha
Saturday, will arrive this morning.
Word has just been received by the
Commercial club that this member
will arrive in advance of the rest of
the party, and will be in Omaha short
ly after 7 o'clock Friday morning.
The other members will arrive Sat
urday morning.
Trie Alliance Francaise of Omaha
has just completed arrangements for
its part of the entertainment of the
noted Frenchmen Saturday. The Alli
ance will give a dinner and reception
for the commission at tne fiotci f on
lenelle in the evening, so timed that
ihe dinner and reception will be over
in time for the public meeting to be
held in the ball room of the Hotel
Fonunelle at 8 o'clock.
'The Frenchmen will be the guests
of the Commercial club Saturday
noon at luncheon.
NAVAL FORCES
: CONVOYING U.S.
MERCHANT SHIPS
.(Continued fram Pm On.)
engines are used to recharge the bat
tcrics. The decision of the navy depart
ment to spend $350,000,000 on new
'lestroyer and destroyer building
facilities, approved yesterday by Pres
ident Wilson is based on the eftective
i ess of. the swift fighting machines as
nroven by Admiral Sims' forces.
Lvery effort to speed the new pro
gram as well as the old will be made
and during the next year the Ameri
can destroyer force in European wa
ters probably can be more than
doubled. Destroyers now unde con
struction are being rushed to comple
tion' and reports on progress are sat
isfactory. ' Developed Depth Bomb.
American experts have developed a
depth' bomb - lor use against sub
marines that is deadly at considerable
range. The bomb, containing high ex
plosive, is dropped from a destroyer
over a spot where the presence of a
submarine Is indicated. It is timed
to explode at a certain depth, If the
explosion occurs below the U-boat
and within a reasonable distance, The
hull of the underwater craft cannot
withstand the pressure, but is crushed
like an egg shell. . s
Signs of the destruction in this way
appear on the surface in the shape of
oil from tanks, bits of floating wreck
age and the like. It is difficult to be
certain of a hit as the Germans on
wore. than cue occasion have released
oil purposely, tinned loose wreckage
prepared" in 'advance" and done every
thing else to create the impression
that a hoat 1iad been sun'fc " f
Airplanes Wprk With Destroyers.
Airplanes are being used in connec
tion with destroyer work of the allies
along the Grench coast and in the
channel. This means of detecting the
presence of submarines will be used
by the Americans wherever practic
able as the. planes become available.
The under water radius of the aver
age U-boat is less than ISO miles
under most favorable conditions. To
get that distance it would have to
travel at a rate of very few miles an
hour. It is argued, therefore, that if
bv means of aircraft, destroyers and
all other agencies for the detection of
submarines, a zone 150 miles or less
in width could be drawn about the
German bases or the entrance of the
North sea in which a submarine could
come to the surface only at rare in
Wvals, the Germans would n6t be
nble to operate on a scale to threaten
supply lines except inside that zone.
Plan Permanent Destruction.
Whatever the plans of the allied
governments are as to future policy
against the U-boats, rapid develop
merit of the device for checking the
under. water campaign accelerated
by the entrance of the United States
into the war, are now taking such
shape as to indicate that a way may
be found in the end to dispose of the
menace. Results of U-boat activities
this winter will be closely watched as
baying a bearing on the subject.
Rough weather may work equally
against submarine or anti-submarine
plans. ' '' ;- . v " '
Debate on War Profits Tax
! Is Opened in the Senate
i Washington, Aug. 30. The long ex
pected senate debate on war profits
features of the war tax bill was final
ly in full swing today following dis
posal of the publishers' tax provisions
yesterday. -
Factions favoring even higher levies
on war profits than the comoromist
advances of the finance committee
were preparing to support a flat rate
of at least 50 per cent. When debate
ppened Senator Underwood was ready
to speak in favor ot senator Bank
head a substitute providing for a tax
of 75 per cent on profits based on cap
italisation of 20 per cent and over.
Pending today was a petition for
cloture; signed by fifty-six senators
in an effort to limit debate and hasten
passage of the bill. ;
Germans Meet to Consider
' Peace Proposal of Pope
Amsterdam, Aug. 30. The com
mission appointed by the German
' chancellor to consider a reply to the
peace note of Pope Beneditc held its
1 first session Tuesday, according to
the Lokat Anzeiger of Berlin.
Chancellor Michaelis presided at
' the meeting, which lasted about two
hours and a halt. The session ad
ionrned until the results of the discus
lions over the note are available from
Vienna, Constantinople and Sofia.
Coal Consumers Asked.
V " To Be Sparing of Fuel
' .Washington, Aug. 30. An appeal
? td coal users to endeavor to reduce
. consumption as a wartime' measure
; was issued today by the Chamber of
Commerce of the . United States
v through its committee, which is co-
operating with the Council of fit-
FRENCH OFFICERS MAKE USE OF
BUT, MY! HOW
(Special
Paris, Aug. 30
Three members of the Tribune staff
Set out one summer's day
To visit at the Yankee camp
Some Kilomettes away.
They started in a motor car,
And in a driving storm;
The rain it soaked them, head to
heel,
And rendered them unwarm.
They got as far as So and So,
At one O'Clock P. M.
Up stepped a young French Officer
And coldly halted them.
Ha asked them (or their papers ,
In parlez vous francaise;
And they did show their papers
This Luscious august day.
Tt la imnortant far the novice to
learn the pronunciation of French
numerals.
ITn diMir and trnix need not be
mastered as nothing ever comes that
cheap. The words four, five, six,
else up to seven million may be
found in any French dictionary, and
are pronounced just the opposite
way trom wnai you win.
Vocabulary
In French and English. What do
want, Monsieur? Eggs, oeufs
goroline? No, monsieur.
Translate the sentence
1. Avez vous bacon, and eggs this
morning? Oui, oui, oui.
FIRST FIVE PER
CENT STATE ARMY
SOON OFF TO WAR
(Continued from Put On.)
Camp.Funston on the morning of
September 7.
Each man should wear a pair of
comfortable high shoes.
Each man will board the . union
Pacific special at concentration point
fittirtHt a tirtt Hi will nresent
his identification card to the railroad
official in charge of train, who will
inciuae mm in pany ucuci.
TYi fvirt nnnihr of men desig
nated in this communication, no more
no less, must leave the home station
on the tram and at the time desig
nated.. ( .
An officer from the adjutant gen
eral's department of the state will be
on the union racinc special to iook
after the comfort of the men and to
iff that th details are oronerlv car
ried out The train schedule was
drafted with the assistance of H. V.
Kauffman, who was designated by
the department for this work and it
has been aDoroved by the provost
marshal general.
Exemption Board to Take
Up Industrial Claims
Na Industrial claims have come
before the appeal board in their first
meetings except those claiming ex
emption as farmers. The men ex
empted thus tar nave ownea iarms
and were supporting a wife and
children. - '
The majority claiming exemption
are farm hands or men that are rent
ing farms by the season. These men
are given until December 1 to finish
their farm work and then they are
called for strvice in the army. In
cases where two brothers have claim
ed exemption for farm work one is
chosen and other left to run tne
farm.
Some claims have been filed by
Omaha firms in behalf of their men
that thev.say they cannot do with
out. The board is given leeway to
exempt these men if they are ex
perts and can perform better duties
at home than they could on tne hr
ing line.
In Garfield county the claim of
Walter Straub for farm work was de
nied. Joseph Nekuda and Lewis
Macn were exempted because they
owned farms and supported a wife
and children.
Will Auction Leases
On Oil and Gas Land
The government has taken over
25,000 acres of the deeded portion of
the shoshone Indian reservation in
Wyoming and at Fort Washakie
October 10. at auction, will sell oil
and gas teases on the same, the high
est bidders taking the 150 or more
tracts.
The purpose of the government it
is asserted, is to prevent speculation
in petroleum and the by-products
found on its land. To secure the
eases, the bidders must nay 20 per
cent bonus at the time of bidding,
an annual rental of $1 per acre and a
royalty of uvs per cent on the gross
proceeds at the time of sale, or re
moval of the gas, or oil. No bidder
will be permitted to acquire leases on
more than 2,400 acres of the land.
Leases will cover a. period of twenty
years.
On the lands that the government
has taken over it is asserted that
there are a number of oil producing
wells. The land on which these welts
are located will be sold on the basis
on an appraised valuation.
"No bowl is too
big when it holds
Post
Toasties
THE BEE:
Tale of Trip One Luscious August Day
To Front That Wasn't Any Front at All
THOSE YOUNG MEN CAN SCOLD!
By RING W. LARDNER.
Cable to The Omaha Bee. Copyright,
A Perfect' Day
Their passports and their passes,
Which latter said quite plain
That they should be allowed to go
To camp Americain.
Their passports and their passes
He glanced them through and
through.
And then Francaised o "I'm sorry
Gents, I'll have to ride with you.
He took them where he took them,
And officers were thick,
The Frozen Frowns that they re
ceived Did make them fairly sick.
And now they trembled part with
fright,
As well as with the cold!
For officers all look so cross.
And Heavens, how they scold.
For seven hours scolded they,
Yes, Lwas in the Mess,
And each and every hour they grew
More cross instead of less.
Our Own French Class
LESSON TWO.
2. Donne moi? Some.
3. Avez vous the money to pay lor
them.
Come bien are they? Cat Francs.
Oui and apportez Moi di cafe.
Comme beaucop is that?
Sank Francs.
A All right and make it snappy.
Comme du like Paris? '
We suis crazy about him.
Au comme long are vous restez
here?
Till I get le money enough to
leavey.
Tres few hommes seem to aves
money around oui?
Je Ejave noticed that.
Want Christmas Money
Spent to Aid France
Washington, Aug. 30. Officials of
the national committee of patriotic
and defense societies in a statement
issued today urged that the vast
sums of American money ordinarily
devoted to the purchase of Christ
mas gifts be used this year to relieve
the sick and wounded soldiers in
France, to rehabilitate devastated
French villages ahd to support war
orphans and cripples.
Moscow Council
Sends Reply to
.Wilson's Note
Washington, ' Aug. 30. The reply
of the Moscow conference to the
greeting of President Wilson in the
form of a resolution was received to
day and follows:
"The message of greeting of the
president of the United States to the
Moscow state council being read in
conference ' on August 27. the ' coun
cil had manifested by enthusiastic
cheers its gratitude for the wishes
formulated by the president, empha
sizing that the feeling of the great
American democracy and its faith in
the common triumph of the allies for
the sake of justice and liberty are
shared by all the people of Russia."
Commercial Club Members
Attend Good Roads Meeting
Seven Commercial club men went
to Nebraska City yesterday to attend a
meeting of the King of Trails asso-
iaiivii. A lie nic 4 , A.vaillla J. 4U.
Gillan, P. r. Murry, J. il. Lionberger,
Fred Hill, G. ti. .Brewer and W. d.
Cheek.
When You Eat Too Much.
Distress in the stomach after eating
is relieved by taking one of Cham
berlain s Tablets. Try it the next time
you eat more than you should. A
vertisement.
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!;ood looks when your teeth
eave you." -
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TEETH ,
OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST
FRO ZEN FRO WNS
1917.)
And when dark night fell over France
They told us we were fret
Provided we would drive right back
To So-called Gay Paree.
We tried our best, French officers
To do as we were told;
We started back, though it was
dark, ; r
And O so wet and cold. , .
'Twas not our fault a wagon stood
Directly in our way;
Our flyer s in the dry dock now
And there she's apt to stay.
Moral:
It's easy for a Yankee Scribe
To see a British trench
A pipe to visit at the front,
Defended by the French;
But when one wants to call upon
One's fellow countrymen,
Why, that, O, Gents and Ladies,'
Is something else again.
Did you hoir le ball game
dimanchy? y
Oui, je saw cat innings.
Oui won?
Le score was tied when je left.
Quand je checked out le la hotel
this matin le clerk asked me if had
taken deux servettcs from the room.
What did you dire to him?
Gee told him to alter enferu.
Did II aller?
Ne yet has.
Avez vous been to any theatres
Icij
Oui, to the Follies Bergere et il
Olympia.
Gee, am I to go to the theatre?
So do, Gee. 1
Society Women Play
Hostess to Men of
27th T. Division
New York, Aug. 2&-Nearly 30,000
officers and men who once made up
the National Guard of New York, but
who are now designated as the Twen
ty-seventh division, sat down to din
ner tonight in armories and camps as
guests of the city and later were" en
tertained with patriotic speeches and
theatrical performances.
The dinner was the second eyent in
the three-day farewell arranged by a;
citizens' committee to show the city's
appreciation for it soldiers The con
cluding event will take place tomor
row when the entire division just be
fore it entrains for Camp Wadsworth,
C will parade.
Dinner was served in every camn
and armory tonight, the hostesses for
the occasion being )00 society women
The dinner was followed in each in
stance by excellent entertainments ar
ranged by the Lambs club.
Tom Dennison Breaks
, , Hand Jacking Up Ford
Tom Dennison broke his. left hand
while trying to raise one of Henry
Ford's automobiles on jacks. One of
the jacks slipped and the machine
caught his hand.
HARTMAN
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Denton, Kansas, June 28, 191 4 .
Mr. W. C. Wilson, President,
Bankers Life Insurance Company,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dear Sir: Twenty years ago I bought a $1,000 twenty payment
life policy with the Bankers Life Insurance Co. of Lincoln, which cost
me $31.10 per year.
I have had protection for all these years commencing at age 31 and
I am now 51 years old and you now offer me in cash $946.13. or $324.13
more money back than I paid in. You also offer me $471.54 in cash and
a paid-up policy of $1,000.00, which will pay me a dividend annually
until death. I have taken advantage of the latter settlement and
your Mr. John W. Willoughby has today handed me von" chir for
$471.54, together with my new paid-up participating policy for $1,000.
00, and I am well pleased.
I have been instrumental in getting you some good business and I
will always speak a gofid word for the BnVers Life beanie yon fcve
treated me right. I have another policy maturing in an Eastern Com
pany and I can truthfully say that I wish it was with the Bankers Life
Insurance Co. of Lincoln instead of the company in which it is.
, - Very truly yours."
534 . ALEXANDER B. SWARTZ. .
The Success of any institution lies in its ability to servo. If our
universal favor, would it aot ho well for you to join us?
31, 1917.
GERMANY PREPARED
FOR WAR IN 1909
Former Bass Representative at
Berlin Testifies at Treason
, Trial of General Souk
homlinoff. Petrograd, Aug. 30. Germany's
military preparation was known to
the Russian war ministry and it was
also aware that Germany contemplat-
ed a declaration of war in 1909 and
again in 1913, according to testimony
given yesterday by General Michels-,
son at the trial of General Soukhomli
noff, former minister of war, for high
n " '
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For Women
Suits, Coats, Dresses
Furs, Skirts, Blouses
Even thus early in the season the
selector of fall mc-Hes may choose
hf r wardrobe with assurance. '
Second Floor
!x Housewear Sale
Friday Basement
Sport Blouse Coats. .$3.95
White Uniforms.... $1.19
Breakfast Sets. , . . . .$1.19
Silk Boot Hose
Extra Values, 69c
In black and a few colors. Made;
with lisle tops and soles where
wear is hardest. Excellent silk
boot. The price only, 69c.
Men's Shirts
New Arrival.
Alto a SaU
A final disposal of Manhattan,
Eagle, Arrow, Earl and Wilson
Shirts. Some very desirable pat
terns left at August sale prices.
Sizes 14 to 18.
Fall Arrivals
J
New Shirts in beautiful patterns
for men who like to start the sea
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wear styles that will appeal to the
most particular man.
.To the Left as Yon Enter
We Are Thirty Yean Old and Still Growing.
ASSETS $11,800,000.00
treason. The witness wks the military
attache of the Russian embassy in
Berlin from 1906 to 1911. He swore
that he had reported Germany's mili
tary activity to the Russian war of
fice. Six Injured When Taxicab
Crashes Into Pleasure Car
Louis Schlank, taxi driver, crashed
into a machine driven by his uncle,
Charles Schlank, 2960 Harris street, at
Twenty-fifth and Leavenworth streets,
yesterday afternoon, demolishing the
car belonging to Charles Schlank and
injuring his wife and her three sis
ters. Young Schlank was driving west on
Leavenworth street. In order to pass
a truck and a street car at the same
time he swung over to the wrong side
of the street.
Mrs. J. Rosenstein of Sioux City,
la., suffered a deep gash in her fore
head andva probable fracture of the
skull. Mrs. Caroline Merritt, 1334
Georgia avenue, was cut about the
head and arms and was badly bruised.
Mrs. D. Shaw, 1334 Georgia avenue,
suffered a fractured leg and body
bruises, Mr. and Mrs. Schlank were
badly shaken up, but escaped with a
few minor cuts.
The victims of the accident were
taken to the Wise Memorial hospital.
Predicts Successful
Maximalist Revolt
Copenhagen, Aug. 30. Another at
tempt at revolt by the Maximalist fac
tion in Russia which will bring them
into power is prophesied by M. Kirk
off, a Bulgarian socialist, in an inter
view in the Vossische Zeitung of Ber
lin. Kirkoff recently returned to Ber
lin from Stockholm, where he had
been associated closely with the Rus
sian Maximalists there,
The signal for the revolt, he says,
will be given from Kronstadt, which,
as well as the Russian fleet in the
Baltic, is undef the influence of Niko
lai Lenine and his adherents.
Vipasiion (?pn(prfbrffompn
foteb fished rS86
FRIDAY APPEAR ON OCTOBER 1ST OTATjEMDENYS
A Bargain Event in Blouses
About 200 Blouses for 69c
Formerly Selling From $1 to $5
To clear our stocks thoroughly we offer
-1 " Summer Blouses Friday at this 69c price.
ALL SALES ARE FINAL
The Newest Millinery
For Women of Fashion
Original models ahd Interpreta
tions of the most recent crea
tions are shown in a truly won
derful variety. Made through
out by hand. In the season's
best colors and black,
$6.50 to $35
Second Floor
Cotton Challies, 20c
' Persian designs and floral
effects, in attractive color
combinations. Suited for
Comfort Tops and Kimon
as, 36 inches wide, 20c a
yard.
Basement
policies meet such
Gotham Town Bids '
Fond Farewell to
Its Fighting Men
New York, Aug. 30. The spectacle
of 25,000 fighting men marching down
Fifth avenue, New York's troops for
democracy's battle line in -France,
stirred this great city to the depths
today. - "' "
Pride, patriotic fervor and the emo
tions that go with farewells to a sol
dier, seemed to grip with a common
intensity the 2,000,000 of people who
watched the rank upon rank of khaki
sailing by.
The troops, New York state's for
mer National Guard, now the Twenty-seventh
division of the United
States army, marched, before leaving
forj their preliminary training at
Spartanburg, S. C, so that the city
might give then a "send off' worthy
of their ultimate mission. The sol
diers called forth roars of cheers that
were almost continuous for the more
than six hours that it took the di
vision to march from 110th street to
Washington square.
Labor Agency Law is
Held Unconstitutional
Judge Sears, sitting in law court,
this' morning held unconstitutional
the Uw passed by the last legislature
regulating labor agencies.
He sustained a motion by attor
neys for Harry H. Knapp, manager
of the Western Reference arid Bond
association, to squash the informa
tion filed by the state. .
The last legislature passed a law
providing for registration of labor
agencies and payment of a state li
cense fee. Tne law was passed in
an attempt to correct certain alleged
abuses of private labor agencies.
Omaha was the city most affected by
the law.
65c-75c White ;
Shirtings for 35c
Plain fabrics and novelty styles
in white go on sale at substan
tial savings.
Linen Section
Patterns;
Both McCall's and
Ladies Home Journal.
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COMPANY
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Name of insured. ..... .Alexander B. Swartt
Residence. .Denton, Kansas
Amount of policy, .$1,000.00
Total premiums paid Company ...... $622.00
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