PART ONE
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Omaha Sunday
VOL. XLVII NO. 19.
THE WEATHER
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21j 1917. FOUR SECTIONS FORTY PAGES.
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President Approves New Plan
Classifying Registrants Ac
cording to Dependents ancl
Industrial Value.
Omaha went far over the $9,000,000 mark yesterday in the
drive for Liberty bond subscriptions.
KEJSF BUSY ALL VAX. ,
Women's teams working in various
parts of the city and in booths at
the department stores, the insurance
committee of 60 ment, manufacturers'
, team, retailers' committees. Boy
Scouts, jobbers' committees and teams
Atom various fraternal and other or
ganizations in the city kept up the
charge until dark, hammering away at
every door in the business district,
solociting every employe in the shops
and even invading residence districts
to hustle subscriptions in the homes.
Figures were not available last
night. The tired committees plodded
on until night and then the members
hurried home to supply, many vith
their1 pockets stuffed with subscrip
tions which they did not take time to
turn in at headquarters.
BOY SCOUTS IN PARADE.
At 10 o'clock the Boy Scouts pa
raded the streets, disbanded and en
terJd the office and stare builings so
liciting everyone insight. . They met
with remarkable success.
"I jlidn't think I could afford to
buy one this time," said one lady
solicited by a scout, "but I hated to
turn down a scout in this' good work,"
whereupon she drew""V pencil from
her hair and subscribed.
In the strong wind the three im
mense gas bags of the free balloons
at Fortt)maha swayed and swung
for a quarter of an hour before they
could ascend safely for the Liberty
ighu -' - i-i2;r
Unfurls Huge Flag.
At 10:45 they finally were off. In
the largest balloon'were Pilot Leo
Stevens, Lieutenant' Colonel Fravell
and Student-Sergeant Harley Brown
of Lincoln, Earl Latimer ' of
Seattle and Dale Turnmen of Idaho
Falls. ' As this balloon rose there was
slowly unfurled from, its basket the
largest American flag in this part of
the country, 60 by 90 feet. Even
this immense flag soon seemed a
small patch in the sky a3 the balloon
rose rapidly to an altitude of 2,000
feet above Omaha.
In two smaller balloons wert two
Omaha boys making their solo flight
hi the interests of Liberty bonds. '
While anxious friends and relatives
below waved and cheered the boys
uniled gamely, busily throwing out
the sand.' They were not in the
least nervous, though this was the
first time they ever sailed alone.
Drops Bond Literature.
As soon as the balloons reached the
calm of , higher altitudes they sailed
more smoothly, heading towards
Iowa. From -the baskets came flut
tering down on the city leaflets, books
and pamphlets telling , the reason
why patriotic American citizens
;houW buy Liberty bonds.
"They wi'l probably land in north
' east Missouri," said Lieutenant Good
ale, as he watched them from be
low. All the passengers promised to
lelegraph friends and the press when
they land later in the day.
A number of visitors from the city
as well as the families of officers in
the fort watched the s,tart of the Lib
erty flighty Mrs. Leo Stevens, who
has taken, many flights herself, was an
interested spectator. With her wjre
Mrs. Howard White, wife of Captain
Howard White, and Mrs. Boettcher,
wife of Captain Boettcher. Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Ryan and Miss Ryan of
Omaha were on hand to witness the
solo flight of their son and brother.
Herbert " Ryan. Friends of R. G.
Durke,the Omaha boy piloting the
third balloon, were also present.
Wished SheWas Along. s
While Mrs. Ryan was somewhat
nervous and anxious concerning the
safety of her son up in the clouds, his
sister shared his own daring.
"I only wish I could go along," she
laughed. "IfI were a boy I'd be at
?ort Omaha, too." '
The total subscriptions in Omaha
uft to this morning were $8,839,930,
though it is known that there are
others Jhat have not yet been official
y reported in.
The women's committee is meeting
with, splendid success k the various
department stores where the women
are maintaining booths and selling
btoids to the customers.
The drive will continue with full en
thusiasm until night. -
Mrs. Harriet Bone Necklace .
Wins War Vegetable Prize
Washington, Oct. 20. Mrs. Harriet
jone Necklace of the Wakpanmni dis,
rict of the Pine Ridge Indian agency
n South Dakota was today awarded a
prize of $5 and a national certificate
of merit by the National Emergency
Food Garden commission for the best
canned vegetables grown in a war
- jarden. This contest, for -which the
rommission appropriated .$5,000, is be
ing carried on in all Indian schools as
well as at hundreds of state and
county fairs and scores of war gar-ten-exhibits.
Washington, Oct. 20. President
Wilson has approved the new draft
regulations which will be promul
gated soon to govern the selection of
the remainder of the registered men
for the national army. The new plan
aims to classify each of the 9,000,000
not yet drafted in his place in the
national scheme of defense and to
postpone the drafting nf men most
needed in war industries and those
having dependents. r
MUST FILL QUESTIONAIRE.
X To every registered nran - a ques
tionaire will be sent for him to fill
out and return to his local board.
Upon perusai of the questionaire. he
will be assigned to one of five classes.
If he is dissatisfied with the position
assigned him by the local board, he
has the right of appeal to the district
board to change his status. 1
Class number one, the first from
which the armies will be drawn, will
include all physically fit men who
have nothing to keep them from serv
ing. Class number ,two will include
those less fit or those engaged in arf
industry necessary to the prosecution
of the war; (class three, those still
less fit or highly skilled operators;
class four will contain men who
should be the last to be taken. Class
five wilV-be known as the "discard
class" and in it will be placed those
wholly unfit for , military service,
either on account' of total physical
disability or indispensabilitjr to the
government in other service; -
The local boards will immediately
compile a list of all the registered
men under their jurisdiction and to
each of these they will mail a ques
tionaire resembling1 a very rigid
cross-examinatipn. Men will be al
lowed seven days in which Jo return
the questionaire to the board, which
will immediately assign them to their
respective classes. Each man's draft
order number, wilt be entered on his
questionaire and will determine his
order in the class columns at the local
board headquarters.
First Draft Not Affected.
It is emphasized that the 687,000
men already drawn will cot be affect
ed by the new regulations. The needs
of the government art the first con
sideration and the -men now drafted
are considered necessary to the mili
tary service. All those who have
been exempted, however, will be
questioned and assigned to their
classes along with the registered men
who have not been called as yet.
In 'drawing the men for service
class No. 1 will - first be exhausted;
jhe other classes will follow in their
numerical order. If a man is called
for physical examination and turned
down on account of total disability
he will be assigned to class five,
which probably never foil be called
out.x ' y ... ,
By the time the selection begins, it
is emphasized, all will have a chance
for appeal to their district boards for
assignment to a less liable class. This
is expected greatly to facilitate the
quick drawing of men as the needs of
the government dictate.
Details of the new sysetem were ex
plained tonight by Secretary of War
Baker and Provost Marshal General
Crowder at a dinner at' New-York
given by the draft boards.
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NIGHT HALTS BOND DRIVE;
WEARY COMMITTEES SEEK
HOMES WITH POCKETS FOIL
Thousands Added to Liberty Total in Strenuous Day's
Work; Women Have Quarter Million to Their
Credit; Printers Rally to Help Fill
. War Chest.
TWO DESTROYERS
AND 9 MERCHANT
VESSELS ARE LOST
British Convoy Almost Wiped Out By Two German Ship
ping Pirates In North Sea; Most Serious Disaster
to Allied Merchant Marine Interests
Since War Began. . .
VIGILLITA TAKEN WITH GIRL
BRIDE AFTER NIGHT SEARCH;
Jail
MOTHER'S PLIGHT DISCLOSED
Doors Yawn for Alleged Kidnaper of, 16-Year-Old
High School Girl; Held for Investigation;. Girl v
Turned Over to Matron; Mother Tells
of Struggles to Keep Home.
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With his bride of one day, Sebas
tiano Vigillita, 1920 South Eleventh
street, is held at the city jail (or in
vestigation." His wife, formerly Miss
Ellen Cehler, a 16-year-old high
school girl, is detained in the matron's
department.
The couple were arrested Saturday
morning a)t the home of a friend near
Thirteenth and William streets by De
tectives Murphy and Dolan after an
all-night search through the down
town hotels And rooming houses. The
arrest is a climax of a flight to Papil
lion, where a hasty marriage cere
mony was performed. ,
Louis, Joe and Josephine Caniglia,
cousins of Vigillita, were arrested Fri
day night charged with complicity in
the alleged kidnaping and arraigned
in police court Saturday. They
were released on $1,500 bonds fixed
by Judge Madden. -
Joe Caniglia is aid to have called
Friday morning upon an Omaha
attorney and requested him to accom
pany Vigillita and his prospective
bride to Papillion.. - .
. Alleged Misstatement of Age.
The party met - at Twenty-fourthrjstory of a long, hard struggle of a
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MRS. ELLEN VIGILLITA.
and Farnam streets at 10 o'clock Fri
day morning, from which point they,
drove directly to Papillion. There
the lawyer introduced them to Justice
of the Peace Wheat, who issued , a
marriage license upon the statement
fif the girl that she was 19 years of
age.
The girl's mother, Mrs. Barry Ceh
ler, 1926 South Eleventh street, last
night told Captain of Police Heitfield
that when'She returned home from
work her daughter was missing, and
learned that she had tcn kidnaped
by Vigillita Friday forenoon.
, It was learned that after the couple
were married they returned to Omaha,
to the home of Vigillati's cousins, the
Caniglia family, living at 1920 South
Eleventh street, and celebrated the
wedding the rest of the day.
The alleged abduction discloses the
No Similarity Between Cavell v
Murder and Mat a-Hari Execution
Paris, Friday, Oct. 19. The Asso
ciated Press today asked Jules Cam
bon, general secretary to the ministry
of foreign 'affairs if he had seen the
attempts of the German press to point
out similarities between the .execu
tions of Mata-Hari and Edith. Cavell.
M. Cambpn replied:
"The German audacity in daring to
compare Mata-Hari with Edith Ca
vell surpasses belief. Miss Cavell was
a woman, respectable and respected,
and devoted to charitable work. She
was shot for aiding Belgian soldiers
to escape to Holland. .This, in Ger
man eyes, may be a crime, but not one
that endangered their army.
"Mata-Hari was a courtesan. It was
proved that she was a spy and the
center of a spying system. Her cor
respondence showed that she received
money from Berlin. ' She herself ad
mitted that she was one of Germany's
chief spits in France, who used the.
relations she had been able to make"
by her mode of' life. She merited no
indulgence. No comparison is possi
ble between charity and spying."
widowed mother to keep home and
family together since the death of the
father five years ago.
In then- little rented cottage in
South Eleventh street Mrs. Cehler,
a frail woman of about 40 years and
crippled, kept the wolf from, the Noor
by working as a janitress at the
Omaha postoflice and various restau
rants. Her husband died leaving her
with three children, Reinholdt Ceh
ler, a boy Jl yeafs old; Bertha, 5
years old, and the 16-year-old daugh
ter who figured in 'the marriage at
Papillion. Although the youngest
daughter was barely a year old when
the father died, Mrs. Cehler has suc
ceeded irr keeping the children in
school without outside aid.
The eldest daughter was a fresh
man) at Central High school; the boy
is a Dupil in the Fifth grade -and the
youngest child is a member of the
First grade at Lincoln school.
St. Louis Will Sell
Coal at $3 Per Ton
St Louis, Oct. 19. The board of
estimate and apportionment of St.
Louis tbday approved the plan of
the director of public welfare that
the city establish 12 coal yards at
which fuel will be sold to the soor
.at a low price. .
The board approved an appropria
tion of $25,000 for the purpose. The
aldermen will be asked to vote, the
money at once so the yard can be
opened within three weeks. It is
planned to sell the coal at 12 cents
a bushel or $3 a ton. N
TWENTY-SEVEN
, KILLED IN AIR
RAID ON ENGLAND
Seven Zeppelins Attack East
Coast Towns; French Bring
Down Airship Near Alsa- -tian
Border.
French Bag Four
x Zep8 in Night Raid
JLLETIN.
On the French Front In France,
Oct. 20. Four German Zeppelins
were destroyed or forced to land in
various districts of France in the
course of a raid undertaken by
these hostile aircraft during last
night. .
London, Oct. 20. Twenty-seven
persons were killed and 53 injured in
last night's Zeppelin raid.
At midnight six or seven airships
raided the eastern and northern coasts
of England, dropping bombs at
various points, including a fewin the
London area, according to an official
statement just issued. v i
In last night's airship raid the
casualties in all districts were:
"Killed, 27; injured, S3. There was
some material damage to houses and
business premises."
Seven Zeppelins in Group.
An East Coast Town, England, Oct.
20. Seven Zeppelins Crossed the
east coast at about 8 o'clock last night,
four going in one direction and three
in another. At 11:30 o'clock a Zep
pelin passed out on the homeward
journey. The airships dropped six
bombs at 11 o'clock and three at
11:15. The noise of its engines were
heard for 20 minutes.
Paris, Oct. '20. A Zeppelin was;
brought down in flames- late last
' London, Oct. 20. Two German raicfers attacked and
sunk 11 of a convoy of vessels in the North Sea Wednesday.
Two British destroyers escorting the merchant ships were
among the vessels destroyed.
Three merchant vessels escaped during the action.
The official announcement' of the British war office says
the destroyers sunk were the Mary Rose and the Strong Bow
and the merchantmen lost included five Norwegian, three
SwedisTf and one Danish hulls sunk without warning. ' .
-y "O AT.T..OM DESTROYERS LOST.
"AH the officers. and men of the
(Continued on Fast Two, Column One.)
CHADRON TRIAL
ENDED BY JUDGE;
JURY DISMISSED
Action Based on Disclosure
That Complainants Accepted
Situation When Alleged
Blackmail Occurred.
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Alliance, Neb.,. Oct. 20. (Special
Telegram.) The Chadron case came
to an abruot end here late today when
Judge Grimes thfew the case out of
rcourt and dismissed the jury. . '
Defendants in the case, which In
volved a charge of alleged blackmail,
wcrei Steve Maloney, Harvey ' Wolf,
W- Dolan, Charles W- Pipkin, Gus
Tvlee. PhiltWinckler, Frank K. Motes
and Allan G- Fischer. , , , .
Judge Gnitt.es , had previously in
structed the jury to find for the de
fense. The cause for this unexpected action
on the part of the court was the dis
closure that Mrs.' -Robert Hood, Cdun
tyAttorney E. D. Crites and other
complainants consented last spring to
go to Crites' office in order that the
alleged blackmail attempt might be
made- Judge Grimes said the evidence
showed the object of Crites and others
in going to Crites' olncel that night
to catch the; defendants.
Details of Meeting
Tudee Grimes said that when Mrs.
Hood and Crites consented to go to
Crites' office they cbnsented to the
situation charged against the defend
ants. He said Mrs- Hood, button and
Crites admitted that Elsie Phelps had
arranged the meeting in Crites' office.
Mrs. Hood.' yVunsr wife of Robert
Hood, aged millionaire of Chadron,
was on the witness stand shortly be
fore noon. She did not testify at the
preliminary hearing at Chadron-
She was visibly nervous at first. She
replied to qeustions in a distincf voice-
The witness said she first saw Phil
Winckler, Omaha private detectivn,
early last April, while she was making
calls in Chadron. later, she said, she
saw him enter a buildinsr on the prem
ises of her home- Wirrckler, Mrs.
Hood said, went pasf a house where
she was calling five times in one aft
ernoon. Tylee and other defendants were
seen at different times and places, she
said. Sh told of a telephone call from
Mrs. Phelps about 11, asking for an
appointment, which she avoided.
Agreement Reached- 1
She told of a second call from Mrs.
Phelps on the evening of May 14, fol-
(Contlnued on Page' Two, Column Two.)
Fuel Administrator Calls
State Dealers for Conference
Complaints of shortages in the coal
supply are the principal grievances
that have reached the office of John
L. Kennedy, federal fuel, administra
tor for Nebraska. The complaints
come from various parts of the state.
Mr. Kennedy will go to Washing
ton today to confer with fuel admin
istrators from a number of states-k
called together by Dr. Garfield, fed
eral fuel administrator. -
Speaking of the complaints of coal
shortage, Mr. Kennedy said:
"The situation as to anthracite coal
is particularly acute. A great many
people use base burners and must
have hard coal. There are also a few
extreme cases of specific hardship,
because of the lack of steam coal.
Cars are being traced and pushed
through wherever possible. The pres
ent shortage in anthracite coal seens
to be due in part to the heavy ship
ments made to the upper lake ports
before navigation closes. When lake
navigation closes the hard coal sit
uation will be materially relieved."
Mr. Kennedy hopes those who have
a sufficient present supply of coal will
be willing to permit others who are
without it to have the incoming sup
ply. Those who have' provided for
their present needs should not make
the situation worse by buying in ad
vance of their requirements. With
co-operation on that line, and mutual
understanding, conditions will be im
proved, so f ir as practicable and pos
sible., he said.
On'his return from Washington,
Mrs. Kennedy will be ready to state
.definitely what he hopes to accom
plish, and the lines on which coal
will be handled and distributed. Be
fore he goes to Washington he ex
pects to have a conference with the
local retail coal dealers, and with the
crfy officials and others interested.
So farsas possible, he will also- com
plete his committees throughout the
state.
Month's Supply Here. .
- Dealers assert that there is enough
domestic coal in the yards to supply
the local demanu for three weeks, or
a month. As a result, they are not
predicting that this coal is going to be
exhausted. They anticipate that the
strike will be settled long before
stocks in storage are sold. However,
it is the steam coal situation that is
causing worry. It is 'said that of
steam coal the supply on hand is not
sufficient to keep the furnaces in the
big buildings and manufacturing
plants running longer than a week.
Mary Ross and the Strong Bow were
lost. ' - '-'
- The statement declares untrue the
German story to the effect that the at
tack occurred in the territ6rial waters
of the Shetland Islands.
The hostile raiders, it appears, suc
ceeded in evading the British watch-
en on uaric nigui), un uuui uie ui
ward and homeward dash. , v
The admiralty statement reads:
"Two very fast and heavily armed -German
raiders atjacked a convoy in
the North Sea about midway between
the Shetland islands and the Nor
wegian coast on Wednesday. Two
British destroyers, his majesty's ships
Mary Rose, Lieutenant Commander
Charles Fox, and Strong Bow. Lieu
tenant Commander Edward Brooks,
which, formed the anti-submarine es
cort, t once engaged the enemy ves
sels end fought until they were sunk,
after a short and unequal engage-,
ment. ;; - . . ' .- v '
VTheir gallant action held the Ger- .
man raider sufficientlyUong to enable
three merchant vessels 'to effect their '
escape.". . "'.
Thirty Norwegians were rescued by
patrol craft, - "
The raiders, which were heavily
armed, showed anxiety to escape be-
fore they could be interrupted by
British forces, adds the, official state
ment, and made no attempt to rescue
the crews of the sunken destroyers.
Left Crews to Drown.
The official statement further says:
"Anxious to make good their escape
before British forces could intercept
them, no effort was made to rescue .-,
the crews of the sunken British de-'
srovers and the Germans left the
doomed merchant ships while these
were still sinking, thus enabling the
British, patrol craft, which aruved
shortly afterward,, to rescue some t
thirty Norwegians and others, regard
ing whom the details are not. yet
known. 'The German navy by this
act once more and further degraded
itself by this disregard of the hostoric
chivalry of the sea.
One Hundred and Forty-five Lost
"The German official communique ,
on this subject states that the attack
took place within territorial waters in '
the neighborhood of the Shetland
island and that all the estort vessels.
'including, the destroyers, ere ! sunk
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Willi LUC CAlCllllUIl Ui uuc.caiviL iiait- ,
ing steamer. The statement ' as to
the locality of the attack is untrue,
as is also the statement regarding the
destruction of the escort vessels.
"The enemy raiders succeeded in
evading the British watching squad
rons on long, dark nights, both on
their hurried outward dash and their
homeward flight.
"It is regretted that all the eighty
eight officers and men of his majesty's
service Mary Rose and forty-seven
officers and men of his majesty s serv
ice Strong Bow were lost." '
Weds On Same Date as
Mother and Grandmother t
An old custom observed for more
than a half century in the Newell fam
ily of Plainview, Neb., was carried
out when vVal.ace D. Edingtc-n of
Oswego, N. Y., obtained a license in .?
county court to wed . Jean Newell.
Miss Newell's grandmother and her .
mother were both married on October
20. It was her mother's wish that sh i
wed on t'i S3me date; - -
Grand Army Veterans
Are to Reach Home Tonight
Nebraska Grand Armv ' veterans
who 'went to the national encamp
ment at Vicksburg will reach home
tonight. A special tram bringing the
Nebraskans. will arrive in Lincoln, at"
11 o'clock. From there the veterans
will scatter, going to theif respective
homes on local trains. ' There are 4?5
in the party.
Minneapolis Editor, Held"
For Discouraging Recruits
Minneapolis1 Minn., Oct. 20. DT
R. Johnson, editor of the People's
Magazine, formerly the Royal; Peo
ple's Magazine, published here, . was
indicted by the county grand jury to
day on a charge of .""interfering with
and discouraging enlistments. He
was arraigned and after pleading not
guilty was released on $2,500 bail.
