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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1917)
PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10 TTnrir jl1U& Omaha Sunday Bee VOL. XLVII NO. 20. OMAHA, -SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 28. 1017. FOUR S CTIONS THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. THE WEATHER Fair SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ) -4 drivel shrapl came canai and kite by u. sJtooopI ns 1 1 j j 10 NW AM warn) cay HUGE $5,000,000,000 TOTAL PASSED; NEBRASKA EXCEEDS QUOTA AFTER GIANT DRIVE Ten Million Americans Swell Loan to Big Amount Fixed By McAdoo at Opening of Campaign; State's $30,-' 000,000 Share Generously Oversubscribed; General Wood Hauls in Dollars. o AM I i i j II j 1 BULLETIN. Washington, Oct. 27. Indications late today were that the Liberty loan had reached $5,000,000,000 in subscriptions. A compilation of estimated subscriptions from all districts made public by the Treasury department showed a total of $4,555,000,000. The number of subscribers, officially estimated, would be at least 8,000,000 and may go as high as 10,000,000. EMSsmS ASSUME PLACE AMONG SOLDIERS OF ALLIES TAKE UP POSITIONS ALONG FIRST LINE TRENCHES; GET INTO FIGHTING IMMEDIATELY Pride With 20 counties yet to be heard from, Nebraska's Lib erty loan subscriptions reported through Omaha headquarters amounted to $Z5,4Z3,4&U at noon, me state quota is ww, 000. Omaha has oversubscribed its quota. WOOD GETS RESULTS. Major General Leonard Wood, commander at Camp Funston, closed his whirlwind, one-day campaign in Omaha Friday night with a total of $11)6,100 to his credit from Omaha audiences in a tidal wave sweeping Omaha's total over the mark set ear lier in the week and leaving it high and dry at $10,036,050 up to noon to day. Go to Banks Today. Liberty loan subscribers must go to their banks today and make a deposit of 2 per cent of their subscription. If that deposit is not made today Oma ha -will not be credited with the sub scription in the first official reports from Washington. The banks will remain open until 9 p. in. tonight solely for the purpose of receiving these first payments. The loan board requests every subscriber to ''get ill j early antl make good jeurafKa sv total subscription." ;.; ' ;- -State Oversubscribed. ' , ' The state quota will probably- be I reacted; and possibly oversubscribed, when full reports from the outlying counties have been received. Many of these have reported direct to Kan sas City and their subscriptions are rot included in these figures. Gurdon W. Wattles, who is a di rector of the Chicago Great Western, received a telegram from President S. M. Felton of the road authorizing liini to place a subscription of $10,000 to Omaha's credit. . Barney Copeland, Seventeenth and Chicago, a patriotic Omaha lad, ap peared before the loan board with his pockets bulging with $50 worth of buffalo nickles, the savings of many years, and bought a Liberty bond. Mail Carriers Ac five. Omaha mail carriers have brought in more than $40,000 in subscriptions to the second Liberty loan. Of -this sum $18,000 was subscribed by per sons on their routes to "whom they distributed applications. The rest was subscribed by the carriers. American Express company here, re Adams Express company here, re ceived a telegram from President George C. Taylor of the company from New York headquarters autho rizing a subscription of $50,000 to help boom Omaha's oversubscription campaign. The Austrian-Hungary society at a meeting Friday night voted to sub scribe to $500 in Liberty bonds. This society invested $500 in these bonds. The members of this organization have in other ways demonstrated their loyalty to this country. Women Buy Bonds. Though a club to which members nay no dues, the Scottish Rite Worn an's club Friday voted to purchase $1,000 worth of Liberty bonds. The bonds will do a second good war serv ice, for they will be turned over to the r oung Men s Christian associa tion war work fund. I his club is less than three years old. Its funds are secured by furnish ing meals to Scottish Rite Masons at the semi-annual reunions. Mrs. Cuth bert Vincent is the president. Mrs. Ernest Sweet and Mrs. O. Y. Kring, members of Mrs. L. M. Lord's committee during the Liberty loan drive, sold a larger number of bonds than any of the other women on the committee. Danish brotherhood, Omaha lodge Jyo. 1, has bought Liberty bonds worth $2,100. These were bought from the funds oi the lodge. Results of Omaha's Liberty Bond Campaign Liberty loan subscription totals reported up to noon Saturday : Stale of Nebraska 198,6.18,450 Major (irneral Wood's one-day rampairn in Omaha: Commercial club, noon J25,nno llojri, afternoon ,MK) Kveniwt meeting! at theaters: Orphemn 41700 Strand 1M0O IlrandelH 4.00 Kmoreiw 4,8.10 Gajetj- a.050 Total of one-day campaign. S 196,100 I'reTlouxly reported for Omaha 9,K'i9,950 Adams Kxpreiw company 50,000 hinixo tireat Western 10.000 (rand total, Omaha, noon Saturday , $ . 10,086,050 FOOD DRIVE FOR PLEDGE CARDS ON IN 70 COUNTIES Students Get Thousands of Signers of "Kitchen Creed" in Advance of Food Pledge Card Week. Red-haired Gunner Sends First Shell Screaming Into Teu ton Trenches; Missouri Mules Pull Guns Into Posi tions Behind American Infantry and United ' States Gets Into Fight for Democracy. Municipal Coal Supply Assured, Butler Indicates City Purchasing Agent Richard Grotte has received from City Com missioner D. B. Butler written and telegraphic information which indi cates that regular shipments may be expected for the municipal coal de partment. The plan '.s to arrange for 10 to IS cars each week ancL arrange for haul ing facilities accordingly. Four cars now on the way are ex pected Monday. All outstanding or ders are being fillet' as rapidly as pos sible. Mr. Butler, who lias been in Chi cago several days, wired: "The situa tion seems to be clearing." He went as far as Chicago with-John L. Ken nedy, federal fuel supervisor for .Ne braska, who is in Washington, D. C. Seventy counties in Nebraska re ported results of their food pledge card campaigns to the state commit tee in Omaha yesterday, indicating that between 60 and 05 per cent of the families in Nebraska have already signed cards which pledge them to conserve food in every possible way. This has been accomplished in ad vance of food pledge card week, which begins today. I his result has been achieved by getting the school children of the state to work. They under direc tion of their teachers, principals, superintendents and committees, have achieved this result. This week families who could not be reached by the children will be canvassed by other workers and" it is expected every family in the statewill have been reached by Saturday and practically all of them pledged to food conservation. Douglas County Makes Good. Returns up to last night from Doug las county showed 22,711 signed cards had been returned. Of these, 20,297 came from children of the public schools and the remainder from chil dren of three parochial schools. The work was pushed by the county superintendents and principals and teachers. Dawson county reported 3,500 cards signed out of a total of 4,249, families in the county. Valley, Neb., reported a card in every home. The report was from M. A. Sams, superintendent of schools and was accompanied by 187 pledge cards. Food Administrator Wattles was so pleased at this showing that he wrote a letter to Mr. Sams and sent him a silk flag. Meeting Called for Monday. Frank Boyd, hairman of the com mittee in charge of the work in Doug las county, has asked all precinct chairmen to have their campaign mapped out by Monday morning and to call at headqaurters, 606 Bee Build ing, for cards and supplies. The various labor unions were asked to do the same. ' I COLORED MEN OF DRAFT HIT HOT TRAIL TO BERLIN Station Rings With Cheers When Dusky Warriors De part for Camp Funston This Morning. Ninety young colored men of the selective draft left at 9 o'clock Sat urday morning for Camp Funston. As they left the station rang with cheers from the men and their friends. About 1,500 friends and relatives were at the station to bid them good by. Mothers and sweethearts smiled bravely to keep back the tears. A colored band played patriotic airs and all the local board members were on hand to sec the boys off. A large American flag covered most of the outside of the car oc cupied by men from the South Side. "We've got the finest men in the bunch," boasted J. J. Breen, of the South Side local board. Judge Foster of the Fifth district disputed his claim, pointing proudly to 35 men from his district under command of 'Captain Wynne McCul lough. Below their windows were chalked the words "Goodby, Kaiser." Leo Clemmons was captain of the Fourth district men. He was recently married but claimed no exemption. He stood on the iron fence waving goodby to his wife till the train be gan to move. Robert Pinkston cap tained the Second district quota. Dr. J. E. Britt and Dr. C. H. Single ton distributed a large number of cigars to the boys. Several officers from Camp Dodge were on hand to witness the entrapment, including Lieutenant Madison of the medical reserves corps, Sergeant Joseph Carr, Sergeant Bailey, Lieutenant S. B. Barrows and Lieutenant W. Peebles. Lieutenant Barrows was with Per shing in Mexico. He leaves for Camp Cody today. McAdoo Says Huge Loan Is Overwhelming Success Washington, Oct. 27. Secretary McAdoo announced late tonight that the second Liberty loan was an overwhelming success. Community Centers Open Nov. 5; War Work to Be Leading Feature 45-CENT RAISE IN COAL PRICE MADE BY WILSON Advance Asked for by Opera tors, That Miners' Wages May Be Increased, Effec tive Monday. (By Associated l'reat.) Washington, Oct. 27. President Wilson tonight granted an increase of 45 cents a ton in the price of bitumin ous coal at virtually all mines in the country, effective at 7 o'clock Monday morning. ' The new price will absorb wage raises recently agreed upon between operators and miners in the central competitive and other fields. The president's order provides that the increase shall not apply in case o fexisting contracts providing for an increase in price to cover any raise in miners' wages. Neither will it apply in districts where miners and opera tors fail to agree upon a miners' penalty provision satisfactory to the fuel administration. Dollar Worth 83 Cents , In Copenhagen Now Copenhagen, Oct. 27 The dollar continues to slump and it is now worth under 83 cents here. The Ger man mark also lias touched a low rec ord of 42, a depreciation of 53 per cent. HOOVER WARNS Women will serve this season as supervisors of the community centers held at public school buildings under the direction of the Board of Public Recreation. These centers will be opened Mon day evening, November 5. Chairman Hummell and Superintendent Isaac son of the board are preparing a pro gram tor the season s activities at Central park, Miller park. Monmouth park, Kellom, Castelar, Deaf insti tute, Dundee, South High, West Side and Edward Rosewater schools. The board will co-opt rate with the government in the food conservation movement. Knitting classes will be organized. Members of the Four Minute club will give a series of talks in connection with the war. Athletic and social clujs will be encouraged. Supervised community dances will be resumed in the auditorium of the Deaf institute, permission having bn granted by the state board of control. Debates and spelling bees also will be features of the centers this winder Miss Helen Cudahy Commits Suicide Paris, Oct. 27. Miss Helen Cudahy, daughter of Patrick Cudahy, the Miiwaukee meat packer, committed suicide in midocean October 19, according to the army edition of the Chicago T.ibune. Fear of submarines is believed to have been the motive for her act, the newspapers say. A friend who went to her cabin on the night of October 19 found the room empty, the port hole open and this hurriedly written note: "It is all for the best. Keep as much as possible from father and mother. Notify my brother, ' Michael." Search of the boat failed to re veal any further evidence of her disappearance. The body has not been recovered. She was going to France on a Red Cross mission. OF CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY FOOD Wires Wattles to Strengthen Guards About Stock Yards and Elevators; Foe Plots Threaten Meat Supply. Washington. Oct. 27-G. W. W a 1 1 1 1, s, food administrator, Omaha: Am informed wide spread conspiracy exists to de stroy animals in the stock yards. In view of tremendous loss of food by recent fire at Kansas City stock yards, urge you get in touch with all stock-yard compa nies in your state and emphasize importance of their largely aug menting watch service and other fire precautions. Also believe gov ernors mould have, principal yards patroled by home guards. The above also applies to grain ele vators. Serious loss of wheat and barley in recent Brooklyn fire must not recur. HERBERT HOOVER. The alrtjvc telegram was received by State Food Administrator Wat tics from Federal Food Administra tor Hoover. It shows the men who are best in formed believe enemy plotters are at work to destroy food by fire and dy namite whertver a loophole is left in the home defense. " Mr. Wattles immediately conveyed Mr. Hoover's warning to. Manager K. Buckingham at the Union Stock Yards, South Side. Mr. Buckingham called a meeting at the stock yards and discussed the situation there. WE MUST SAVE F00DT0 KEEP FOE FROM OUR SHORES Herbert Hoover Declares Western Front Will Move to Atlantic Seaboard if Allies - Are Not Fed. "Our Jim" May Yet Go totheFront With Full Uniform and Straps BULLETIN. Paris, Oct. 27. Another powerful drive by' the French troops today on the Ypres-Dixmude road resulted in the capture)' of several villages and a great number of fortified farms, ac cording to tonight's announcement by the war office. An additional advance was made along the Aisne front, including: the occupation of Froidmont farm. (By Associated Press.) The American Army in France, Oct. 27. -The following; is the first official statement issued from American head quarters: "In continuation of their training as a nucleus for instruc tion later, a contingent of some battalions of our first contin-4 gents, in association with veteran French battalions, are in the first-line trenches of a quiet sector on the French front . "IT C ADTTTIffBV TM CTTt)DrtD1 "They are supported by some bat teties of our artillery, in association with veteran French batteries. "The sector remain's normal "Our men have adapted - thtSN selves to actual trench conditions hi the most satisfactory manner." INTERMITTENT FIGHTING. "American . troops are in the first line trenches on the French fronts The artillery fired the first shot of the war at 6 o'clock on the morning of a recent day at a German working party. There has been intermittent artillery fighting since. FOIL GERMAN OBSERVERS. ! The helmcted infantry marched iri without the knowledge of the enemy, on the same night through rain and mud. The French soldiers in the trenches welcomed them enthusiastic ally. The nearest enemy trench is sev eral hundreds yards away. The sec tor is one of the quietest on the front. It has not been taken over, being under the control of troops under the direction of the French. , Red-Haired Gunner Opens Fire, i The Americans have, shelled Ger man positions and trodps, the enemy sending shell for shell. TJie first shell case will be sent to President Wilson. The case is now in the pos session of General Sibert. The shot was fired by a red-haired runner as his comrades in the ranks and the ' assembled officers cheered. Later a luncheon in the field was attended by the American and French artillerists in celebration of the 3rst American contact with the enemy. The gUn used in firing the first shot was one of the famous French 75s. f)n the second day the French shelled a German battery position, which was located by sound, and the enemy re plied vigorously, projectiles falling close to the Americans, who joined in the artillery duels. Actual War Conditions. All the troops will be relieved after a certain period by others. Thus the American expeditionary forces are getting the benefit of actual war conditions. Standing in a little, almost de serted, shell-wrecked village, well within hostile gun range and a few kilometers from the trenches, the As sociated Press correspondent watched the troops marching up in a driving rain over roads covered with sticky mud. The artillery had been firing all day and as a result the impression was given that there was consider able more activity on this front than there had been for some time. Missouri Mules Pull Up Guns, It was soon after lulls In the firine and in the dark that the first machine guns hauled by Missouri mules, the Washington, Uct. J.i l tie gov ernment of the United States is ask ing every citizen of the country to eat less beef, pork, pork products, wheat, butter and sugar, and to waste no foodstuffs, as an act of common defense. This is the explanation given by Herbert Hoover, food administrator, of the meaning of the national food pledge week, w!tch begins tomor row and continues until November 4. Half a million canvassers are ready for the campaign to induce at least 13,000,000 of the country's 22,000,000 housewives to sign a pledge to con serve food ddrmg the war. "Owing to the large failure of the harvest in France and Italy, and the inability to send the world s shipping to remote markets, said Mr. Hoover, "we have thrust upon us a larger duty in providing foodstuffs for them than we are capable of ex ecuting, unless we can reduce the consumption of these foodstuffs in the United States. If we cannot secure this reduction in consumption, we cannot maintain them constant in the war. If we fail, the western line will move to the Atlantic seaboard. "Furthermore, the problem of ameliorating the prices to the Amer ican consumer is entirely involved m our ability to supply the allied needs and still leave us a sufficiency at home. If we accept the alternative of maintaining the allies in the war from our supplies, without savings, we shall have shortages in the United States that make any hope of price control absolutely futile. It is, therefore, in the interest of every man, woman and child m the United States that we should achieve these ends first, in his personal de fense and protection, and, second, in the interests of his pocketbook. Be yond all this and greater is the ques tion of common humanity." It may be "Lieutenant Colonel James C. Dahlman." of the Lucky Seventh. And, then, it may not he. Omaha's mayor is being mentioned as the prospective r iff hthand man to Governor Keith Neville when the lat ter assumes active command of the Seventh regiment. Mayor Dahlman is not saying a word about this, but seems to be do ing a lot of thinking. His friends aver that he is trying to decide whether to remain in his mayoralty position or join fortunes with Colonel Keith Neville. The lieutenant colonelcy of the Lucky Seventh would place the mayor next in command. He admits he has become imbued with the fight ing spirit. When Theodore Roose velt was considering raising his division of Rough Riders Captain Seth Bullock called on the mayor and offered a tempting place and the mayor at that time was seriously considering joining the Rough Riders. In the event that the mayor should join the Seventh, his office would be taken over by City Commissioner D. B. Butler, who is acting mayor under the rules of the city council. The commissioners, however, may voteHo select another for the vacancy. The politicians are doing a lot of gossiping over what may happen. Some are advising the mayor to re riain where he is, while others ad vise1 him that a military career would place him in line for governor, an ambition he has cherished for a long time. The question of the hour is: "Will the mayor take the lieutenant col onelcy of the Lucky Seventh?" (Continued on Pag Three, Column One.) Spanish Cabinet Follows Italian v Lead and Resigns Madrid, Oct. 27. The Spanish cab met has resigned. Political conditions in Spain have been greatly disturbed in the last year and there have been widespread strikes and rioting, accompanied at times by movements which appeared to be ot a revolutionary character. Several changes in the ministry have occurred. No recent dispatches have been received to explain the present ministerial crisis. The retiring min- stry was formed by F.duardo Dau last June.