THE BEE: OMA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917. SOCIALISTS WILL FORCE MICHAELIS TOQUTTOFFICE Members of Reichstag to Re fuse to Support New War Credit if Chancellor Does Not Resign. BULLETIN. Amsterdam, Oct 17. (British Ad miralty per Wireless Press.) A Ger man socialist newspaper says the so cialists have decided to vote against the new war credit of 10,000,000,000 marks, twhich is to be lubmitted to the Reichstag in Dacember, unless Chancellor Michaelis resigns. Socialists Hare Majority. Except 'or the independent so cialists, represented in the Reichstag by about twenty deputiei who broke away from the party last year, the so cialists have supported the German government through the war and voted for the war credits. Defection of the entire socialist body m the Reichstag would represent a serious diviiion, inasmuch as the social demo crats and the independent socialists combined have 108 seats, a greater number than any other party. Admiral von Cappelle's announce ment in the Reichstag of the outbreak in the German navy, with his insinua tions that three independent socialist deputies were concerned in the move ment, arrayed against the government the whole socialist party, already dis pleased with the. attitude of Chan cellor Michaelis toward the Reich star neace resolution. and by hts countenancing of panrGertnan propa ganda, ihe vorwaerts oi serun, m great German socialist organ, de clared that the chancellor must go and that the socialists would oppose hira unrelentingly. Ha; May Defy Reichstag. rntienhBxn. Oct 17. The Berlin correspondent of the Fremdenblatt of Hamburg discerns indications inai forces are actually at work in the en t mince of Chancellor Michaelis, with the thought of a military dictatorship, or at least with, the idea of having the chancellor continue in office in defiance of the Reichstag supporting himself by military backing. . . Conservative and socialist papers in , Germany have been engaged in a controversy for some time on the subject' of & dictatorship, but hitherto it had not seemed to be of such a nature that it should be taken seriously. , . IOWA ELECTION S ' EETURNS BEING : RAYS OF HOPE IContlMM tnm rnrt 0m.) Patriotism of Omaha Preachers Challenged By Protestant Minister; Record in Question RICHMOND HAS MIXJITH HALL Secretary of Council of Defense and Former Hotel Man in Mix Over Contested Bill for Room Rent. . been popular with Omahans. It has 1 - hrn avoided, shirked and shunned. i ' But its days of. isolation 'are netring an end a boom started yesteraay, I Yho Boom Is On. Land which ibid for a song a few weeks ago, is unobtainable for a chorus . lew. Shacks, huts and hovels are ai valuable a mansions and you can't buy, borrow or rent them. They are all taken. Options exist on almost every : of attainable property in this little strip o! Iowa that branches oft into r Omaha-and tempting premiums will not persuade holders of those options i otraae tnenu . . "The old world's cominst back." glee fully exclaimed a denuen of Omaha's old underworld whose- income ceased abrootlv last Mav. ' - - "Why the joy," he was asked, "Oma. ha isn t-in Iowa. "But East Omaha is." was the Joy ful response. "East Omaha it and I've got two options and I'm going to open two swell bars and oh, boy I He wasn't alone. A score more, who went by the boards when Nebraska's voters clamped down the lid, are i similarly prepared and equally as ; happy. There was only one dessent in voice. He conducts a transfer line between Omaha and 'St Joseph, V-"- and the rates from Council Bluffs to - the gate city aren't nearly as steep as . . those from joetown. It's a gay life, if you don't weaken, ' " ' May Make More Police. Police officials say that if Iowa does go wet it may be necessary to aug ment the force by considerable num bers, but think that the vvsgs and tramps will make tracks for Council . i Bluffs, as offering better territory for the pan-Landler and the ones who want to get by without working. , One wide-awake man said he had purchased lots in East Omaha last 4 week, basing his action on a premoni tion that the neighboring state would go dry, ar.d says he is thankful that he 'i did so, for the value of the real estate will now be double the amount which -. he paid for tt i "" mmma m annua m bmmm Postal Rate to Foreign Countries is Three Cents Washington, Oct 17. Great Britain has agreed to a modification of the postal treaty, which fixed a 2-cent letter rate from the United States, so as to increase it to 3 cents for practically all foreign letters now taking the Z-cant stamp. . This will bnnsr a large ouantitvfel ' foreign mail into the class where the United States may collect the addi tional i-cent letter tax imposed by the war tax bill. The 3-cent rate also will apply , to the Bahamas, lanaaa, Cuba, Harba dos. British Guiana, British Hondu ras, Dominican Republic. Dutch West Indies, to gland, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Leeward Islands, Mexico, Newfoundland. New Zealand and Panama. The 3-cent rate becomes effective November Z t Daniels Announces 950 Naval Promotions Washington, Oct 17. Secretary Daniels Has appointed 9S0 enlisted men of the navy as temporary war rant officers for the war. Promotions of all but forty-two date from Seo teraber 24. and the others from Oc tober 15. The promotions apply to 176 boatswains, 172 ' machinists, 296 gunners, 64 carpenters, 154 acting pay cierks ana bo pnarmacists. : Lincoln, Oct 17. (Specnal Tele gram.) Dealing with war problems appears to have made some members of the State Council of Defense war-1 like. Today Secretary Henry C Rich- i mond and Harry Mall, tormer pro prietor of the Lindcll hotel, met face J to lace, and as a result nan attempted swear out a complaint against Richmond for assault, but for some reason it was ont carried out. Bystanders say the men applied epi thets to each other and Richmond swung his good right at Hall, but did not land. The trouble was over a hotel bill which Ha 1L while oroonetor of the Lindell, tried to collect from Richmond, and failing sued him, the case coming off today. Richmond says the reason he did not pay Hall was because there had been several ar ticles of more or less value missing from his room. Blacksmiths Discuss How Best They Can Help U. S. York. Neb.. Oct 17.-(Special Tele gram.) The eleventh annual conven tion of the State Association of Black smiths and Wheelwrights convened in this city today. The delegates were welcomed to the city by Mayor T. W. Smith. This afternoon a demonstra tion was given at Fred Hanson's shop of practical welding by the "acetylene process. Later the following subject was discussed: How Can a black smith Best Serve His Country at Home, at the Anvil, or With a Gun in the Army?" Fairbanks Will Speak At Lincoln Today Lincoln, Oct 17. (Special Tele gram. ) Former Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks will be the speaker at a mass meeting to be held, in 4 Lincoln at 11 o'lcock tomorrow' in thai interest of subscriptions to the Liberty bond issue, , 1 here will be a parade and a big effort made to raise the $2,641,000 al lotted to Lincoln. Schools Close to Permit . Pupils to Dig Potatoes Ashiand, Wis.. Oct 17. Public. parochial and private schools of city and county cjosed today for the re mainder of the week to- permit pupils to aid in gathering the potato crop. The action was taken Dy the County Defense Council. To Raise $4,000,000 for Y Soldiers' Recreation New York, Oct. 17. A national campaign to raise $4,000,000 to pro vide wholesome recreation, ..for the men training in the national army will be inaugurated October 29. it was announced here today by : the war and navy commission on training camp activities. East St. Louis Votes On Commission Government East St Louis. III.. Oct 17. East St Louis will vote on the adontion of the commission form of govern- mem on iNovcmocr o. Agnation tor a commission form of government be gan after the recent race riots and 2,000 persons signed the petition for the election. ' Killed in Auto Wrek. ' ei.. tr.ii. c n n. i e. cial.) Peter Welter, a prominent farmer whose home a was south of Lane, waa instantly kilted when his automobile upset in turning a corner. He was driving on a newly-graded road. The car Jell upon him. Beatrice Nawa Hot. Beatrice. Neb.. Oct 17. (Special. W-In the drive for recrulte for Company p In Oae county thl week, mooting woro hold last evenlna at Fllloy ana Virginia. At tho latter pine. Charlee Votrovaky, a native of Bohemia, elated that he wii (or Old Glory and loat no time In enllatlnf a a member of the company. , H cam from Bohemia three year act and opened a autre at Vir ginia. He eta tee that he I anxious to help the alllee, and will do hie bit M called to service. - Kllsbe C Buck and Mra. Mayme Mo Intvre. eld reeldenta of Beatrice, were mar rted by Judge H. A. La Belle at hie oltloe la thla city yesterday. Bearle a Chapln of Lincoln, whoee turn ber yard waa destroyed at Barneaton More day. visited that place yeeterday and In' veetlrated the cauo of the fire. They place their lose at about I3M0O, fully covered by Insurance. They did not etate whether or not they would rebuild the yard. Sheriff Aeton. who 1 Investigating the cause of the fire, I of th opinion that tt waa the work or an incendiary. Two of Beatrice's four-minute men, a na tloa-wlde movement to preeent impoftant subject to the publlo at local theaters, apoke last evening at the Jewel and Gil bert They were A. H. Kldd and rulton Jack and both talked on the Importance of purchasing Liberty bond. A number of farmers in wage county are making plana to begin the work of harvest ing their corn crop and are advertising for mta to aeelst them la the work. The price to be paid corn huakera win be from f to cent a buehel. although eome will pay aa high aa 10 cents. Aa effort will be made to have the crop gathered and la the crib before the holidays. Practically all of the merchant! whoae place of business were wiped out by fire at Barneaton Monday morning, are making plana to rebuild and re-engage la business. George Wilson, a resident of Barneaton who recently broke his arm. and who waa Just recovering from his Injuries, fell from a ladder yesterday and fractured his ankle. - Challenged for Allowing Bulga rian to Defend His King and Make Prophecy of Suc cess for Kaiser. Omaha, Oct 17, 1917. To the edi tor of The Bee: When the war broke out in Europe three years ago I won dered at the tactfulness of the Amer ican ministers toward their German colleagues. When war was mention ed in the Omaha Ministerial Union, it was always done with due respect toward the German brothers. Before America entered the war, I could un derstand that. But when the same attitude continued even now, when America has been forced into war by German ruthlessness, the situation takes on an entirely different aspect In the light of the recent events the American citizens have the right to ask of what kind is the patritism of the Ministers Union. Last month the officers of this Union for the first meeting after va cation have invited Mr. Balzly as a speaker. Everybody knows what Mr. Balzly said of our president and the war. It was just as the kaiser would have it, and I think it was only an oversight on the side of the kaiser that Mr. Balzly was not fittingly decorated for his loyal (to the kaiser and Germany) remarks. Mr. Balzly never regretted his utterance, al though his disloyal words aroused a storm of indignation all over the state. When the Ministers' Union invites this gentleman as a speaker it practically concurs in his views. This is regrettable. And this month, for the second meeting after vacation a Bulgarian missionary, Rev. P. D. Vassileff, was invited. According to the newspaper he said: "The great war will end without either side being victorious The Germans are too strong to be beaten." So this is the message of this kdiserite agent to the people of Omaha, and understand that this kaiserite agent, invited to Omaha by the Ministers' Union, travels all over Nebraska and is repeating his mes sage. Of course he is afraid to say so, but in. his heart he believes the Germans and Bulgarians will win. The propaganda of Rev. Vasileff borders very dangerously on treason. He gives aid , and comfort to the enemy by. discouraging and disheart ening.our people. His propaganda is a direct challenge to the patriotism of the men and women of America and it seems to be a plain duty of our government to pack this) Rev. Vassileff and send him post haste to the kaiser or his great and good friend, the Sultan of Turkey. We Americans' entered into this great war with .the object of defeating, autocracy and upholding democracy, and the Ministers' Union invites a Bulgarian agent to speak for kaiser and inform us that we are not going to winl Interesting are the excuses of this kaiserite why Bulgaria joined Germany. Of course h i cannot help but to try to. whitewash the infamous govern- ment OI BUlgaria Willi HI vmoyof' king. That the Bulgarians at the in stigation of their government, their king and the Germans have commit ted the most horrible atrocities on Serbians and Roumanians, that they helped to ' carry away and sell the Serbian girls into l urkisn narems, ne does not mention. And to culminate his kaiserite - speech, he played a ophet, but I am afraid a taise one, hen he said: "I had made prediction of every move made on the various fronts since the war started, i imnx Mr. Vassileff will dp well to go post haste to Sofia to be a prophet and ad viser to Ferdinand, v He may need him badly and the patriotic Americans may get tired ot tne Kaiserite agents in their midst and deal with them just as they deserve and might prove very unpleasant for the said Rev. Vas- silett and nis sponsors, wany times we have wondered how well the Ger mans are informed of our military movements, forgetting that they have their Bulgarian allies in America. Rev. Vassileff is a fit subject for the obser vation of the federal agents. The American public knows very little how the kaiser has used the min isters, teachers and professors for his plans and aims. For instance, to Basel the German government since about 1890 was sending and paying through missionary societies, ministers "and teachers, 'o foster and keep up the German element in order to use it at proper time for its plans- of world dominion. And what this same godly government has done in America needs no repeating. Every well in formed American knows it Twice I went to the meeting of the Ministers union, but when I heard who is to speak. I turned away in dis gust. If the Ministers' union wants to continue, as it began, why not Invite some Turkish pasha for the next meet ing, to justify and extenuate those Turkish atrocities committed on Christians and explain why the Turks had to join 'Germans and kill the women and bury alive their children. No doubt h would be interesting. And then why not go a step further and invite the kaiser himself to speak St the meeting of the Ministers' union? Would not it be grand to hear him speak about the theme: "I and God?" It is to laugh and it is to cry. The American citizens have the right to ask, "Of what kind is the patriotism of our iMnisters' union in Omaha?" A PROTESTANT MINISTER. SPLIT IN CHADRON RANKSTIS SAID Reports Indicate Day Will Tes tily for State and Maloney Has "Made Up" With Lynch. Alliance, Oct. 17. Defection among the defendants in the 'conspiracy case before Judge Grimes has caused con siderable comment. Charles I. Day, Chadron hotel keeper, will testify for the state, it is generally understood. This is taken to mean that the case against him will be dismissed. Others of the defense say they are not per turbed over the reported change in front of Day, as they maintain that there is no case against them anyway. It was alleged in the information filed against the nine defendants by Edwin B. Crites. Dawes county at torney, that one feature of the al leged conspiracy v.as to have been an attempt to compel Crites to drop liquor cases pending against Day. Another morsel of gossip in con nection with the case is that Stephen Maloney has "made up" with Lynch and that he has broken with his co defendants in this pase. Maloney wilj not talk on this.subject. He and Mrs. Maloney are living quietly at the resi dence of friends. Selecting Jury. The work of selecting a jury is in progress and will not be completed before Thursday noon. The state ex pects to offer twelve witnesses and the defense will have about twenty. An effort is being made by the defense to require the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hood of Chadron as witnesses. Alleged domestic differences of the Hoods started this whole affair. Elsie Phelps is keeping herself se cluded as she did when at Chadron last spring. She appears on the streets only when she goes for her meals and is modestly attired. Thomas Placing Maine on the Map In School Affairs (From a Staff Correspondent) Lincoln Neb., Oct. 17. (Special.) Former State Superin&edent A. O. Thomas of Nebraska, who recently was appointed to a like position in Maine appears to be the big man in educational affairs of that state and is causing the natives to sit up and take notice, according to a copy of the Lewiston Evening Journal pub lihsed in Lewiston, Me., which was received in Lincoln this week. According to the paper Maine is the first state to take advantage of the national appropriation for voca tional schools in' that part of the country and through the efforts of Dr. Thomas, Lewiston, which is sit uated near the gefirgraphical center of the stated is to have established a textile school for the teaching of the young rren and women of the state. The people of Maine have become so enthusiastic over the methods used by Dr. Thomas that they are back ing him to the limit and his requests are met with quick responses. It would appear from the paper that Maine has taken a step forward in educational affairs under the manage ment of Dr. Thomas in the six months he has been there such as it never be fore experienced and Nebraska people will probably be pleased to know of the grand success he is having in his new field. Ross Hammond on His Way Back Across Atlantic Fremont, Neb., Oct. 17. (Special Telegram.) Ross L. Hammond, the Fremont eidtor, wno is on nis way across the Atlantic with a party of congressmen and senators, in a letter to his newspaper detailed some of the difficulties encountered in obtaining their passporte and other papers be fore sailing. He wrote from "some where on . the Atlantic coast" the night before sailing. Mr. Hammond and Congressman Dan V. Stephens of Fremont are members of the party, which comprises altogether thirteen congressmen and one senator. Collects $100,000 Back Taxes. Fremont Neb., Oct. 17.-(Specia Telegram. 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Base of American Flotilla in Brit ish Waters, Sept 30. In the five months of active service that they have sen in the great war, the American destroyers have steamed collectively a total distance of 675, 000 miles. This i more by several times than the distance cruised in two whole years of peace. And what makes the figures all the more impressive is that they have been reached without the loss through an accident of war of a single life or a very serious mishap to any of the units. Roughly, the destroyers have spent five-eighths of their time at sea and their average time in port has been three days after each turn of five or six outside. Weather Favors Work. Clear weather and long days have favored them and aided the men in learning the technique of their busi ness of combating the submarines, convoying troop ships and merchant men, oatroling. the shipping routes and rescuing survivors from tor pedoed ships. The Americans, therefore, can claim no small part of the credit for the gradual decrease in shipping losses. First of all, the addition of their units to the allied forces, patroling as they do an area as large as that bounded roughly by the great V formed by New York, Detroit and Knoxville, was certain to make life less comfort able for the U-boats. Next, the Americans applied all the tactics of the long experienced British and in some instances improved on them. All the destroyers added to their equip ment depth charges and othef devices. Then the crews learned some more about the business of smoke screening a merchant fleet, while they beat off the attack of submarines with gun fire and depth charges. Their gunnery, too, has greatly improved. One crew saw a spar of a sunken ship the other day, which they at first thought was a periscope, and shattered it at 2,000 yards. Lieutenant in Training Heir to $10,000,000 New York, Orft. 17. Lieutenant Joseph L. Seligman, now on duty at the training camp at Spartanburg, S. C, will receive one-half of the residuary estate of his father, Isaac N. Seligman, New York banker, who was killed by a fall from his horse September 30, under the terms of the financier's will, which was filed for probate here today. The value of the estate is estimated at between $15, 000,000 and $20,000,000. Lieutenant Seligman is given $100,000 outright by the will. AnoTher $100,000 is divided among charitable and educational in stitutions. ' New Yort School Children Picket Boycotted Schools New York, Oct. 17. The police to day continued to guard the four pub lice schools on the upper East Side, where several thousand pupils went on strike yesterday as a protest against the so-called Gary system of school administration, which has been made an issue- in the local mayoralty campaign. Trouble started when pickets at tempted to prevent boy pupils from goinj to their classes. 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