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FAPT ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10 aha Daily BEte x THE WEATHER y Xloudy f'OL. XL VII. NO. 107. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20,- 1917. TWENTY PAGES. 0 TrtlM. l Hottla. Htwt Stud. Etc M. SINGLE COEY . TV CENTS SUN CAff. 1 If. HOMEWARD 1TO niD) FIRST DAY OF LIBERTY DRIVE YIELDS GOOD RESULTS HERE; filORE THAN 1,500 TAKE PART . ' " v . Omaha Being Thoroughly Canvassed That None May Have the Excuse That They Were Not Given a , Chance to Lend Their Money to the Govern ment to Wage War on the Kaiser. With more than 1,500 men and women at work soliciting for the Liberty Bonds in Omaha, the second day of the windup drive now pushed in earnest. Thp first day, which was Thursday .O brought in a good volume of sub' scription, though the committee has not been able to tabulate them all as yet and to make up totals, so strag gling are the reports of some. l EET NONE ESCAPE, i However, the town is being so thoroughly, canvassed that hardly a man can be found who has not been v approached on the subject. Rolland Wellmaa, a Boy Scout, canvassed practically all the homes on both sides of the street for a dis tance of two blocks in the Hanscom park district Thursday night, and found that every -family had either taken bonds or had promised to take them through the firm, with which the head of the family is employed. This shows something of the thor oughness with which the city is being canvassed. The Liberty float which appeared for the first time in this connection on the streets of Omaha Thursday, drawn by two gray horses, attracted a great deal of attention, while the electrical bell contrivance aboard the float played patriotic airs constantly ,.as the float' was drawn through the streets. . .. I Women Do WU. The womdn who operated the booths in the various ; department stores during the day, and wiir con tinue to operate theta during Hbe jre - mainder of the week, met with a glowing success, the first day. -scarcely a man who entered any of these stores escaped without buying bonds '' or giving his solemn promiseto do so. Printers Subscribe." The printing companies of Omaha have canvassed their employes, and have reported Liberty loan subscrip- Hons to the amount ot $vou. mese HUMAN BLOOD STAjNS HAND OFTHE KAISER ( Former President Taft Makes ' Case Again$t Kaiser and Decries Peace Until He. Is Dethroned. ' HOW THE GERMANS HEMMED THE RUSS The Rus sians are bottled in Moon Sound, after desperate engage ments with German warships in which several of the Kaiser's torpedo boats were. vv ; ' tl.V ' MMMWMHMMHMMMMMMMHMBMMM t1 w r r i j M CHtL.BAMK ' XCSWj I MtCMtL .BAHJ(S BAKENHOF scale: of miles SEVENTY LIVES LOST WHEN TORPEDO STRIKES ANTILLES; GOES DOWN IN FIVE MINUTES a.5 so Ger innnv'c vin.at.nnc n( th laws nf intpr- subscriptions come from , sixty-foufT,,ationai morality, telling of the drop- employes out pf the following com panies: Cotnstbck Bhia Prlntlm Co "0 Douglaa Printing Co 150 Gato City Stationery Co. -....J..;.... 100 Hancock-Bpateln lilthographlng Co... B0 Hoga I-inotypo JJJ Kramer & Chandler 160 I. W. Longacr CO Manrum Printing Co 160 McCoy Flnlayson Co 100 National Printing Company E50 pnmha Typesetting Co 100 Ii. J. (Julnby Print(pg Co 100 Ralph Printing Co. .100 Swarts Printing Co. 650 United States Printing Co. 200 Watera-Barnhart Printing Co. S50 Total by Employes , 14,160 Soldiers Boost Total. The four Soldiers of Gamp Funston who spent the first part of the. week .. (Continued on rge Twenty. Column live.) Brieve piser's Trip South Preliminary Step Tow'ard Peace Zurich, Switzerland, Oct 19.-Thel ? . f ir!ii: f journey or .emperor vvuu.aiu auu jtui eign Secretary von Kuehlmann should be regarded in a certain sense as a preliminary 6tep toward peace'ays the Neuste Nachrichten of Munich. - "The emperor's conversafJpn at So fia and Constantinople certainly mean the examination of every possibility in that direction, although it would be a mistake, to exclude that the de cision might embody concessions in tthe .nature of a program' of annexa tions by the enemy. V , ; "The peace by conciliation which we desire has nothing' in' common' 'wijh tht of Lloyd George and Asquith." ' Rescue ,100 Americans Lost In England for Five Weeks London, Oct 18. The American Young Men's Christian association re ports that a detachment of niriety uine American soldiers which had ' been "lost" in England for more than five weeks has Jjow rejoined the American forces. By some mistake ' these men were set down in a British camp without a ingle officer or a penny,! The day after they arrived twenty-eight of them fell victims of the German measles and were sent to an isolation hospital. For five weeks the Americans were unable to obtain stamps for letters home or even tobacco. Then thev were discovered by an American cof :v lege student, who is in - a British Young Wen's Christian association hut, and they were restored to their . prpper ut-. - Through Trains Service . Between Riga and Berlin Amsterdam, Oct. 19. Through runs are running from Berlin to vkiga, the trip consuming twenty-four ' hours. A person can now travel from the Baltic seaport to OWend, Bel- gium, with one chaage of cars at Ber lin, in forty-five hcmrSj I Setting up the. ideal of a league ,of nations to enforce peace, William Howard Taft former president of the United States, traced the 'history of the international conflict since Aug ust. 1914. and showed how that iaeal could not beattined while Prussians iiiitiiai i3iiK.ny.v3. it. xaua lain, Real Peactf 'and Not a Patched-Up Promise," was given, for the, Omaha Socity of Fine Arts at the Boyd thea ter Friday afternoon, the profits to jro to the. Red Cross society, the na tional commission -of which -is headed by-'Mn'Taft,--" ":"'v ;":' . , Standing against the background of a huge American nag, Mr. latt out lined simply, but in telling fashion, thej, world's caSe . against Germany. First he revitwed the conditions exj Jsting-at tHe outbreak of the war, then rev.erted back 100 years to Napoleon's time in orderv to cite Germany's mili tary and Teutohizing policy. Step by step he 'piled . up evidence of gas, floating mines, bombardigN de fenseless cities . and sinking neutral merchant vessels wjthout without warning. ' Germany Guilty of Murder. "In sinking the Lusitania, Germany was guilty of what domestic law calls 'murder.' International law furnishes no other name Mr it 3rhe United States guarantees protection to Amer ican citizens on board a ship flying the United States flag, as well as on the shores of our country. senator La.follette says it is a 'technical right-'we are defending.' It shocks me deeply to hear a United States senator state that the victims.! il. . T I .... i H or me JLusuama were navino oniy a technical right to life violated by that torpedo. He ignores the honor and prestige-f a great nation. If Vene zuela did it, all the pacifists and La Follette as well, would demand repa ration. What's the difference in this case except that Germany is the greatest military nation on earth? "Whether We ,defend the constitu tional rights, of our ctizens,,or give up what we won in 1861 s the ques tion. x: ' "Shall wesurrender our usefulness to the world to take this pusillanim ous position. ,We must defend our selves by war when nothing but war will protect us." , Tribute to the Allies. The United States' part iji the war, how the United States stayed out of the conflict until its safety demanded entrance into the world struggle, a passionate tribute to the allies and es pecially to France for hurling back the Teuton hordes at the Marne and saving the world, and a stirring, ap peal to loyal citizens to stand behind President Wilson nad the government in"prosecuting the wafT followed. 1 Touched here arid there wtfh humor, the audience which filled the theater apjfauded every patriotic utterance-made by the former president, while the deep Taft chuckle which punctuated many of the humorous passages, never, failed to bring a re sponsive chuckle from his listeners. "This war must be foughtso. that German warships . protecting the landing of troops on Oesel island penetrated the channel (1) between tha island and Dago island and en gaged in battle with the Russian fleet in Moon , sound. Several German torpedo bpatJ were sunk here and for a time it was a successful fight for the Russians. German vessels, however, slipped ground Dago island Wednes day and blocking the channel betweetj that island and Worms island now hold the Russians bottled. Arensburg (2) capital of Oesel island has been captured and the Germans now hold Moon island (3). The Storb peninsula (S) has been isolated. SUGAR BUYERS v LilTED: PANIC SEIZES WOMEN No T. Cause For 'Alarm, Says Monroe; Beet ' Sugar ; Will SoOn Arrive and Umits Will Be Removed. (Continued on Face Sixteen, Colunjft Six.) A sugar panic lias seized the people of Omaha. Reports-that -New York City is to be put on half sgar ra tions ledto many rumors today. , George Monro, Omaha food , ad ministrator, says tHat a large number of.Omahans have, smarted hoarding sugar in a frenzy. . "The stores have adopted a , rule, refusing to sell more than '50 cents wocth of sugar to any one customer," isaid Mr. Monro. "To get around .this rule many people have gone from store to store, ordering-' 50 cents worth of sugar, at each place." One woman boasted that-she had secured 200 pounds of sugar by this method. ; - Omaha jobbers have no sugar in stock. Whatever-sugar is' still-for sale in Omaha is in the retail stores. The 50-cent rule has served to alarm many people, who have felt, for the first time,- i. restriction placed upon th amount of sugar, they may buy. "There is no need for panic," says Mr. Monro. "Just at this time , we are between the end of the cane sugar crop and the beginning of the beet sugar crop. ' Some of. the beet sugar factories are already in operation and within two weeks their sugar will be gin to arrive at the stores. Then it will be possible to buy any quan tity." The beet sugar crop this year is one- of the largest, inthe history of the country. ' "The price of sugar will not ad vance. The big crop df beets makes that sure and besides the price is fixed by the food administration. Retail ers are buying it at $7.85 per 100 pounds. They are selling it at about 9 cents a pound. "The supply will be ample for all within the next two weeks. 'Those who hoard it now do not benefit them selves and may hurt others," he said. Rufsian Aviator Flies Over Caucasus Mountains Pctrograd, Oct. ' 19. A Russian aviator has arrived at Vladikavkaz, after a flight of ten hours from-Tiflis across the Gaucasus mountains.' COAL MINERS fflAKtTHREAT TO DEFYJGARFlELfi On Verge of Rebellion Against Mandates of Fuel Adminis trator; ' Chicago. Is in ( Desperate Straits. Chicago, Oct. 19. Despite the threat of Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois Mine Workers, to oust any. striking miner from that or ganization who didnpt immediately return to work, it was predicted here today that the coal strike would not be settled : until the fuel administra tion permitted a higher price schedule, so that the operators might meet the miners' demands.. . ! ' The Black Diamond, drsran of the coal industry, in tomorrow's "edition will say that no settlement is possible unless Fuel Administrator Garfield yields. D. ,W. Buchanan, an official of the Illinois Coal Operators' as sociation, .said thjt reports received from southern Illinois were that the miners were on the verge of open re bellion .against Garfield, Farrington and John P. White, international president of the mine workers. ' Peori9 Miners Back. ' - A dispatch from Peoria stated that 400 miners returned to worl this morning in that' district. The miners said that, they had qot been actually on strike, but had suspended work pending the outcome of the trouble in the Springfield district. r Mr. Buchanan's report showed that the miners had returned , to work around 'VirSen, Thayer,, Auburn Athens and Andrew, ID., 'and in the Clinton fields of Indiana. On the other hand, walkouts oc curred In Toluca, 111., the first trouble in the northern part of the state; the United States Steel corporation mines at Benton, and the Madison CoalXqrporation at Glen Carbon. Mr, Buchanan figured, the loss to 'about Balloon From Fort' Omaha to Fly . ; Over City Boosting for Bonds Bearing the largest American flag in this part of the country, which he has had made especially for the pur pose, Leo Stevens, chief instructor a the FortOmaha army balloon school, will today fly over Omaha in the in terests LlftStty bonds. Mr. - Stevens will use the largest passenger balloon at Fort Omaha and will take with him three student pas sengers from the, fort. The big bal loon with the immense American flag, 60 by Oieet in dimensions, will cir cle the city for several hours. ' The aeronauts will drop down from the, clouds literature urging the. pur chase of Liberty bonds. Two ether free balloons will follow in the wake of Mr. Stevens and then will fly over the surrounding country. t t In eacji of these balloons will be an Omaha boy. Sergeant R. G. Duke will pilot one balloon' and Sergeant Ryan the other. These students will also drop liberty bond literature over the landUab they fly across it. For each of these students this will be the first "solo" flight, of which a student at Fort Omaha must hive taken one in order to qualify for a balloon pilot's license A 150,000 tons daily in Illinois alone. Situation Is Serious. - The situation in Chicago became more critical today as the (tempera ture shot downward toward freezing mark. Fred W. Upham'. presidtnt of the Consumers' company; announce that his company would be without coal within five days and that no new orders were being accented. Hos-. pifais will be unable to get coalwftcr next week, was his statement) alter a talk with other dealers. The depart ment stores are fortunate in having about ' two weeks' coal supply tin various yards. Other loop buildings appear to be in desperate straits. Norwegian Held for Attempted Sabotage New York, Oct 19. The police , turned over to the federal au thorities today Charles W. Walnum, a Norwegian, 32 years old, ' sus pected of trying, to get aboard a United States government vessel, formerly an interned German liner, . with intent to loosen some of the ' rivets. The ship is being converted . into, a transport. , . - Walnum has been employed as chef and pantryman on a yacht 'owned by Hajry Payne "Whitney. He was to be arraigned late to- day -before a United States com missioner. SLAV CAPITAL TO BE MOVED TO MOSCOW Capture of Oesel and Mopji Islands and Threatened In vasion of Esthotiia Causes V Evacuation; v - ny Asoelntd Frrm.) , Petrograd, Oct. 1 19. The govern ment has definitely determined, to move to Moscow in the very near fu ture. The newspapers publish a official announcement that the evacuation of the fortified port of Reval, on the Bal tic at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, has begun. , The schools at Revil have been closed. The inhabitants of the city 'are being sent to the Interior of Rus sia. Announcement that the government will move to Moscow was made to day by M. Kishkin, minister of public welfare. The sailors of the main Baltic fleet are demanding that the ships be sent out to meet the Germans, but the gov ernment is understood to have taken the position that as the enemy forces are of superior sjze, it 'would be dis astrous to leave Petrograd. unde fended. , , ' , . i The Germans on Wednesday befcan to land trooos on Dasro island, south of tite entrance the Gulf of Finland. i: REMOVAL PLANNEp BEFORE;, ' After the capture of Riga by the' Germans preparations for removal of the government to Moscow were be gun. The failure of the Germans to develop their offensive after taking Riga, as well as the approach of win ter weather, making open campaign ing .impracticable, relieved the fears for, the safety of Petrograd for the near future. Last week announcement was made that, the preparation for transferring the seat ot government had been stopped, as there was no prospect that suc'i action would be necessary, at .feast for some time. Threaten Esthonia Invasion. The new offensive operations bv the Germkns resulting in the cap ture of Oesel and Moon islands and the threat of an invasion of Estho nia again changed the situation, how ever, and may be responsible for the decision to remove the government to Moscow, the ancient capital. The turbulent political contlons in Petro grad and the presence there of large umbers ot extremists and agitators nay also have influenced the cabinet Reval, a town of about 65,000. 200 miles southwest of Petrograd, was a naval station, and with Helsinfors No Trace of Submarine That Did the fatal 'VYork; k Of Missing Enlisted Men Not Announced Until Ascertained From Muster Roll of General Pershing. ames (By Anoelalfd Pre.) Washington, Oct.19. The American transport Antilles, homeward bound, was torpedoed in the war zone October 17, and went down with a loss of about 70 lives. . The ship, a former Ward liner, was. under convoy by a naval patrol when attacked. The submarine was not seen, nor was the torpedo. ' - All naval and army officers aboard were saved and all but three of the ship's officers, but 16 soldiers out of 33 aboard were lost. . . SEVENTY ARE MISSING. - , Those lost Include: Walker, third engineer officer; -Boyle, O'Rourke, junior engineer officers. , - ! Navy Men E. L. Klnzey, second class seaman, Water Valley. Miss.f J. W. Hunt, second class seaman, Mountain Grove, Mo.; C. L. Ausburn, radio electrician, New Orleans; H. F.AVatson, radio electrician, Rutland, Mass. EXAMINE MUSTER ROLL. The names of the soldiers and of the merchant crew missing cannot be determined until the muster roll in France of those on board has been ex- amined. Further details will be made fublic by the Navy department as soon as they are received. No army units were aboard the vessel.' Such officers and men of the army as were aboard were being sent home on special assignment, invalided home, or those to be discharged for some reason or other. The list of these will not be available until It can be obtained from General Pershing in - ine army personnel aDoara .returning ships-ii'not communicated t i France. to the War department in advance. (Continued on Fag Twenty, Column Four.) Drafted Chemists Are -Given Special Duty Washington, Oct 19. Several hun dred chemists drafted into the na tional army have been assigned to The ininers-fspecial work under governmental de partments. and-others are being with drawn from cantonments dailyt it was announced today. Army authori ties were able to picft out these men with the aid of a census of all cliem- lcta .t.f1.it. iliji 'Amft net A l.m.fe r. - ......... ...v ugv mi ranged by the bureau of mines. A similar census hag been made of min ipg . engineers, 'showing age, de pendency conditions, position in the draft liability list and the nature of work each could do if drafted. Admiral Mayo Makes Report to President Washington,' Oct ' 19. Atlmiraf Mayo, commander of the Atlantic fleet, who has just returned from the allied naval conference in London, went. to the White House today, ac companied by Secretary Daniels, to make-his personal report to President Wilson. : The admiral went abroad at the. president's personal direction to discuss further means of naval co operation with the allied fleets. BERNSTORFF'S -FRIENDS DENY PASHA AFFAIR Tageblatt Declares Ambassa dor Never Knew Spy; Calls It "Another Forgery of ; Secretary Lansing's." Amsterdam, Ocl. 19. Count von Bcrnstorff, former German ambassa dor to' the United States, did not know, Bolo, Pasha, the Frenchman held as a spy in France, according to the Tageblatt. Discussing the Bolo affair, the newspaper says: ' "In connection with the Bolo pasha episdde and the "disclosures of Secretary Lansing concerning v the part Alleged to have been played by Ambassador von Bernstorff and For eign Secretary von Jagowr we , are informed by a competent source that the. personality of-Bolo Pasha was not known to Voir- Bernstorff in Washington, inasmuch as' the. ambas sador did not have recourse to sources in ,1 lie- United States, which might have been at the disposal of official quarters here. ,Never Knew the Name. " i "It is also established that the name of Bolo Pasha was never made known to Von Bernstorff and his banker intermediaries did not mention him. Consequently the passage in the al leged telegram ' published by Secre tary Lansing in which Von Jagow asked Von Bernstorffi 'What is new about Bolo?' is false,, "This warrants the obvious deduc tion regarding the trustworthiness of other details in this telegram." The Taglische- Rundschau says that the mention of Bolo's, name in the. Von Jagow dispatch is'"anqt.icr for gery of Secretary Lansing's for trans parent purposes." Bolo Got $1,700,000. . In the inquiry into the Bolo af fair in New York early this month it was learned that Bolo had an. ac complice In Switzerland, through whom he had learned the terms on which Germany would conclude pca?e with France. Bolo Pasha is said to have received more than $1,700,000 from Von Bernstorff to aid in-carrying out his lot. American Flyer Defeats German In Fight ThreqMiles Above Trenches Headquarters of the Lafayette s-, cadrille, on the French Front, Oct. 19. Lieutenant Raoul"Lufbery of Wel lingford, ConTf., member of the Lafey ette escadrille, fought the latest fight in which'ie brought down a German machine (reported yesterday as his thirteenth) at. an altitude of; 5.000 yards and directly over .the trenches. T When it was first seen by Lieuten ant Lufbery the" German" airplane was several hundred yards above hihi, but by making a ' wide detour and climbing at a'harp angle the Ameri can was able to make a near ap proacn to tne uerman biplane betorc being discovered. The German pilot was killed at the first burst of fire from Lufbery's machine gun, and the enemy returned the fire, despite the fact that his pilot had been killed and that his t)wn death, was imminent. One bullet from the German machine gun- punctured the radiator oh Luf bery's monoplane and lodged in the carbureter, so that he was compelled to land immediately v ' Except for "the -fac'V that a' stropg wind had beenvbloWhrg'in the direc tion of the GernUrt lines, the weather of; the past few days has been ideal for flying, and tlif members of the Lafayette squadron have been busily engaged. While on a low patrol pro tecting a photographic machine, Ser gent Walter Lovell of Boston was attacked three times and his machine badly shot up by machine gun bullets. O Secretary . Daniefs authorized th following statements ;'t:SfNKSN Fl,VE.MINUTEsV ' , The department is in receipt of advice from Rear Admiral Sims which states that the steamship Antilles, an army transport, was torpedoed on Oc tober 17, while returning this coun. try from foreign service. This vessel was under convoy of American patrol vessels at the' time.,. . "The torpedo which struck "the An tilles was not seen, nor was the sub-' marine which fired it. The torpedo hil; abreast of the engine tiom bulk head and the ship sank within nve minutes. One hundred and sixty seven persons out of about 237 on board the Antilles were saved. About 70 men are mwing. . 1 ARMY OFFICERS SAVED. T "All the naval officers and officers of the army who we're on board at the time were saved, as were the offi cers of the ship with the exception of, the following: - Walker, thirds engineer ' officer; Boyle, junior engineer , officer and O'Kourke, junior engineer officer. The following enlisted naval per sonnel were ldst: E, L. Kiniey, sea. man, Second class, - next to kin, Thomas M.'Kinzey. father, Water Valley, Miss,; J. W. Hunt, seaman, second class, next of kin, Isaac Hunt, father,- Mountain Grove, Mo.; C L. Ausburn, radio electrician, first class, next of kin, R. Ausburn, brother, New Orleans, La., and H. F. Watron, radio electrician,' third class, next of kin, Mrs. W. L. Seger, mother, Rutland, Mass. . , ' SAVE 17 ENLISTED MEN. "There were about 33 of the army enlisted personnel on board of whoiii 17 were saved. .The funnies of the missing of the army enlisted person nel and of tne merchant crew of the ship cannot be given until the muster roll in France of those on board has been consulted. As soon, as the .de partment is in receipt of further de tails concerning the .casualties they will be made public imndiatcly."" -1 ' Crack Coast Liner. ; New Ydrk, Oct 10. .The Antilles, a frei&ht and passenger ship of 6,873 tons gross, owned by - the.. Southern Pacific Steamship company (Morgan. line), was one of the, crack Americau coast liiicrs. ' It plied between Xew Orleans and New York and had carried thousands of persois to the Mardi Gras celebra tion in the southern city. The vessel was taken over by the government as a transport early in the war; . Captain IV F. Bojde, master of the . Antilles, retained his command wben. the. vessel entered the government service as did most of his officers. The crew as recruited, by the quarter master department included many of -the men who had rved on the steam ship when it", was in-the merchant service. -" - The Antilles was built by the Cramps at Philadelphia in 1907. - It was 421 feet long with a beam of S3: feet and a depth of 27 feet. - ', .- Baker Accepts First:. ; t : ' Two Heavy .Army Trucks Washington, Oct." 19.In the pres- '. ence of many distinguished officials1 and others Secretary Baker today ac- ceptcd on behalf of the War depart ment the first two heavy-duty war trucks to be completed undtfr'designs prepared by the quartermaster's de partment, the automotive products section of the Council of National De fense aiM the Society of Automotive Engineer. v. V- :V-
