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GERMANS SEIZE FIRST U. S.
SOLDIERS TO FALL CAPTIVE
III THE GREAT WORLD WAR
Berlin Reports Capture at Rhine-Marne Canal, Result of
Reconnoitering Thrust, Probably at Night; No Word
;v From Pershing; to Care for the American
Prisoners in Germany.
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AGAMEMCAN. PRISONERS
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"Gone Are the Days"
(Br Ateocisted Frew.)
Berlin, Nov. 3.(Via London.) The capture of American
Boldiers by a German reconnoitering party is announced by
Ihe war office.
The statement says that on the Rhine-Marne canal, as a
result of a reconnoitering thrust, "North American soldiers
were brought in.
Two U. S. Privates Dead.
Washington, Nov. 3. General Pershing reported to the
War department today the death of two privates, one from
natural causes and the other from a gunshot wound, recorded
as possibly accidental.
PRIVATE RALPH W. WHEELER, Machine gun battalion,
a son of Fred Wheeler, Westmoreland, N. H., died October 29
of natural causes.
PRIVATE FRANK VANA, infantry, died November 1 of
blood poisoning as the result of a gunshot wound, possibly acci
dental. His mother, Mrs. May Vana, lives at 437 Twelfth
street, Milwaukee.
Nn Renort From Pershing. O
Washington, Nov. 3. None of Gen
i1
eral Pershing's dispatches received by
the War department up to this aft-
ternoon says anything .about any
American troops having been cap
tured by the Germans, but officials
have no reason to doubt the Berlin
announcement.
Capture, killing and wounding of
American troops on the battle front,
they say, will be one of the inevitable
fortunes of war. Moreover, the Ger
man high command . has appeared
very eager to capture some Ameri
cans, and recently tne commanders
on the front offered special rewards
to the first German troops who should
take a man in the American uniform.
. ,-PrababJy Jfisnt JRaid.
jh, &ft1imirh tS tfrtmr in whicn the
American unirk being hardened to
quiet one, there have been flight Raid
ing parties on both sides in which
American soldiers participated arid
K-"tf-me have been taken" prisoners, it
probably was on one of those noc
turnal expeditions. The American
government otiRv .. v.j
care for American prisoners, in Ger
man.hands. , - ' t '
The Rhine-Marne canal, near where
American soldiers are claimed by. Bert
lin to have . been captured," . runs
throueh a section of - northeastern-
France, in which there Jias been lt
i fi-rtifintr inrft.the-earlv days of
the War.! It crosses the;rencn troni
at a point near-, the German border,
20 miles northeast of Luneville.
Big Drive for War Camp
Funds for U. S. Soldiers
Waslnnorton. Nov. Beginning to
mnrrow and continuing through the
week, there will be in Active swing
all over the United states a orive ior
a fund of $3,750,000 to be raised by
the War Camp Community service.
.. Thousands of ministers will preach
on the importance to the morale as
well as the fighting spirit of the arrny,
or proper communuy .service ic
men in uniform; This will opeh the
campaign; then, 'during the week,
through local committees organized
everywhere, cities and towns will
raise the quota assigned to them of
the total amount.
Broken Bow Flour Mills
Burn; Loss is $25,000
Broken Bow, NeK, Nov3. (Spe
cial ' Telegram.) Shortly before 3
o'clock this morning the, Globe flour
mills at this place were, completely
destroyed by fire, which originated in
the second story. No one knows how
it started and. incendiarism is hinted.
" The mills were-being operate! by
Bahr & Jones and the loss in flour
and Meat will amount to about $3,000.
On car o flour was saved, .
The plant was the best equipped
between here and Lincoln. It was in
litigation. There was no insurance
on the building or contents. The total
loss is probably $25,000. The mill was
built in 1886.
GERMANS TRY OUT
NEW RADIO BOAT:
BRITISH SINK IT
Attack Along Belgian Coast by
Electrically Controlled High
Speed Vessel Prevented by
QuiclcWork of , Navy.
-liwjlon, J. An ''attack t -'..waV
made today on British vessels patrol
ing the Belgian coast by ah electrical.
!y cofifiblkd ,Jiigi utfeed 1bat; The
boat was destroyed. -
The . following official . statement
was given out:
"An attack was made, today on our
vessels patrohng the Belgian coast by
an electrically controlled high speed
boat The attack was' defeated and
the boat was destroyed."
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BRITISH DESTROY FOE
CRUISER AND PATROL ,
IN BIG NA VAL BATTLE
Sixty-four Prisoners Taken in Engagement in North Sea;
No British Losses Reported; German Raider
Is Sunk for Second Victory; Traw
lers Sent to Bottom.
PICKET GOAT PATROL FROM
BATTLESHIP MICHIGAN IN
-HWATEItS'ilf
DISASTER
FOOD CAMPAIGN IN
NEBRASKA SHOWS
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Three Bodies Swept Ashore; Craft Believed To Have
Foundered in a'Heavy Sea; Crew Believed Lost '
and Navy Department Has Announced
Casualty List of Twelve.
The Weather
Temperatures at Omaha Yenterdsy.
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19 a. m ,
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Comparative Ioca! Becord.
1917 1916 1916 1914
Highest today 66 78 1 , 74
lowest today 42 49 46 48
Mean temperature .... 64 64 66 61
Precipitation 00 00 00 00
Temperatures and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March 1,
and compared with the past two years: .
Normal temperature 44
Excess (or the day ...10
Total deficiency since March 1, 432
Normal precipitation .06 Inch
Deficiency (or the day .05 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1... .21.24 inches
Deficiency since March 1.. 6,20 niches
Deficiency (or cor. period, 1916. .12.10 Inches
Deficiency (or cor. period, 1915.. 2.21 Inches
Report. From Stations at f P. M.
Button and States . Tem. High-Rain-
of Weather., 7 p.m. est. (all.
Omaha, clear... ,. 60. 66 .00
L. A. WELSH. Meteorologist.
New Radio Device.
Washington, Nov. 3. tjse by the
uermans ot an electrically con
trolled boat" off the Belgian' coast
was taken here to mean that a device
similar to the ' radid controlled tor
pedo with which the United States has
been experimenting .for some time,
has been developed by German engi
neers to supplement their land bat
teries along the coast.
The ' theory of distant control of
boats, torpedoes or airplanes through
the use of radio apparatus is an old
one In this, country basic patents
for device of that character were
obtained by Rear Admiral Fisk, ap
proximately 20 years ago.
Hammond Tries Plan.
No practical application of the
theory, to boats or torpedoes was oi
record until John Hays Hammond,
jr., began his experiments and worked
out the plan with which the govern
ment has been .experimenting.
The Hammond device, as originally
demonstrated, was applied to a swift
motor boat. From a shore station the
inventor was abje to send the motor
boat in any direction he pleased by
the use of a radio telegraph key. The
little craft -skimmed far out, almost
out of sight, stopped, ' turned back,
circled about a schooner that was
passing and then returned to its dock.
Thanksgiving Dinners
For Soldiers in Omaha
The cordial reception given The
Bee's plan to obtain Thanksgiving
day dinner invitations for the sol
diers at the Omaha army posts as
sures success in advance.
Detailed arrangements will be
perfected and announced this
week. A blank will be formulated
and sent to you to e filled in and
returned to us as authority to in
vite for you a Thanksgiving day
fuest for the, time and place speci
ed. The invitation will be ad
dressed by The Bee to one of the
boys in khaki, with request to com
municate his acceptance direct to
his host.
This will entail a great deal of
labor upon The Bee, which, how
ever, -we will gladly do, confidently
believing we are doing a good
work. Time is also necessary to
carry out the, plan, because the
soldiers at Fort Omaha are con
stantly coming and going and we
will have to make sure that the in
vitations are sent to those remain
ing for the festal holiday.
For the present all we ask is
that you take the subject under
consideration and be ready to re
spond promptly when the invita
tion blanks are distributed.
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LATE WAR
BULLETINS
Washington, Nov 3i Twelve men- the crew of the picket
boat of the battleship Michigan were lost when their little
r. e .1 ' l l .
crarr. rounaerea in nome waters.
In a brief announcement of the disaster today the Navy
department gave no details of place. Presumably the fast
little picket boat was .on patrol duty and foundered in a heavy
sea or met with some accident.
THREE RODIF.S tfOIINn. V
Three bodies have been found, and
inasmuch as al the others are miss
ing, the Navy department 'assumes
that all were lost. With the casualty
list the department made this formal
announcement: '
"The '.Navy department announces
that on. October 30. the picket boat
of the United States steamship Mich
igan fptmdered. Apparently the en
tire crew was lost. The5 rinding of
the, bodies of three of the crew and
the failure to find any other trace of
the boat or its occupants leads the
department to Deneve that all were
lost- .;
Casualties Announced.
The Navy department made public
the. following crew list of the lost
picket boat:
JOSEPH J. SCHULTZ, seaman,
Fort Wayne. Ind. ,
JOSEPH H. , HENDRYCKSON,
seaman, York, Fa.
ROSCOE SCOTT, fireman; brother,
Frank C Scott, Denver, Colo.
STANLEY J. WING, fireman, De
- troit, Mich.
AUSTIN ATWOOD, seaman, San
dusky,' O.
ARTHUR A. FLOW, . seaman,
Matthews, Mecklenberg county,
North Carolina.
ANDR3W F. MEISTER, gun
ner's mate, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
-WALTER H. FISCHER, cox
swain; father, Henry J. Fischer, 2515
Courtland street, Chicago, 111.
CLARENCE L. JONES, seaman,
BuCKsport, Me.
EDMUND L. TAMILLO, cox
swain; mother. Bessie Tamillo, 3109
North Central Park, Chicago, 111.
JAMES P. YOUNG, chief gun
ner's mate, Brooklyn, N. Y.
GEORGE M. HIDMARCH, JR,
seaman, (no detailed information re
garding enlistment.
The body of Coxswain Edmund L.
Tamillo, whose mother lives in Chi
cago, has been recovered. It was
found by fishermen entangled in their
nets last Tuesday and later identified
and claimed by navy officials.
A violent storm had swept the coast
where" the accident occurred on the
day previous to the finding of Ta
millo s body. It is believed by the
fishermen that Tamillo, when his boat
foundered, had endeavored to save
himself and may have swam some dis
tance when he found the nets.
His hands were tightly clasped
around the lines of the net as if in a
death grip, and it was necessary to
cut the ropes to untangle the body
and loosen the hands of tire drowned
man
BELIEVE "LEAK" IS FOUND.
El Paso, Tex, Nov. 3. In the ar
rest of Ernest Lahendorff, govern
ment agents .here believe they have
discovered an "underground" route
by which information has been trans
mitted between the United States and
Mexico City for relay to Germany.
. ITALIAN LEFT ATTACKED.
Rome, iNo. 3. Austro-German
pressure was more noticeable yester
day on the left wing of the Italian
armies on the Tagliamento line, says
the official statement, issued today by
the Italian war office. Attempts made
by the Teutons to reach the . right
bank of the river, the statement adds,
has been detained by the Italian
troops. .
REPORT 200,000 PRISONERS.
Berlin, Nov. 3. (British Admiralty,
per Wireless Press.) More than
200,000 prisoners have been taken in
the Austro-German campaign on the
Italian front, the war office reports.
There was no important fighting on
this front yesterday.
Aged Storm Lake Pioneer
... Dead at Home of, Daughter
Storm Lake, la.. Nov. 2. (Special.)
N. W. Richardson, 90 years old, died
of pneumonia at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. W. L. Geisinger. Fu
neral services will be held Saturday.
One son, J. S. Riclardson of Comp
ton, 111., also survives.
Notice
The new war postage rates in
first class mail are now. in effect.
Every sealed letter must carry a 3
cent stamp. When you send a
question to The Omaha Bee Infor
mation Bureau enclose a 3-cent
stamp for return postage.
The new postal rates do NOT af
fect third class matter. If you are
sending to our Information Bureau
at Washington for a' free book or
pamphlet, enclose a 2-cent stamp
for postage
LARGE RETURNS
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GERMANS
FORCED
TO RETREAT ON
WESTERN FRONT
French Take 12,000 Prisoners,
422 Pieces of Heavy Ar
tillery and 720 Machine
Guns Since Oct. 23.
Partial Returns Show 92,000
Cards Signed Jn State; Honor
Districts of 100 Per Cent
v. Enumerated.
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A record of the school districts of
Nebraska who turned in 100 per cent
food pledge cards shows that Dodge
county, with IS, leads the state.
Close behind Dodge county comes
Washington county with 17; Cedar
county with 16, Thayer county with
15 and Butler county with 14.
Hall county, in which Grand Island
is located, has the highest average per
capita of the state. Much credit for
this goes to the wife of Mayor Ryan
ot brand island, through whose ef
forts 7,324 pledges have been secured.
Incomplete returns from 21 coun
ties out of the 93 in Nebraska give a
grand total ot V,(XJU cards signed.
ihe school districts with 100 oer
cent loiiow:
HONOB SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Cedar County
Dlt. TeacharPl.t. ' Te.cher
89..... Sara Flotcher 66..., Ida M. Burnt
74...Frida Bartllns 75.... Tlllla Johnson
7...... Leila Jamei 71.... Mabel H.n.en
8.... Freda Thaden 60. ...Anna Nygaard
63 Prarl Wright 32 Lola Roberts
29 Faye Gordon 63. Mabel Klanderud
43.. Amanda Pauleen 12.... Daisy Newman
016 Fern Lewis 68 E. Chaeman
riatte Count
I... Chun. A. welch, Lindsay Emapuel
jioiy rammr i-ara- juitneran bchool
chial Bchool
Douglas County
Irvlngton School, 47... Louise Peterson
Union precinct 63.. Madeline Dorsey
66.... union precinct 23 Eleanor Peterson
7 Verda Thorpe 24Mrs. H. Johnson
16..Verby KlIpatrlcK 4 Ann Cualck
14..... Anna Larsen
Colfax County
11, 28, 1 and 47.
Deuel County
31 Peter Jacobs 13.. Mt. Vernon Bchl
41 Pierce School I Pudue Bchool
Neman County
30, . 61. 33, 31, 42 62, 17, It, 31
Burt County
St Mlna Ireland 60. .....C. Jacobson
71 Lucy Burna 87. ...Frances Miller
36 Elzada, Close 46....Kstel!a napp
Dodge County
22 . .15, Brlmacombe (6 Mabel Cuslck
65. .Lilllo etnaniarlc 69. ...Ruth Baldwin
SO.. .Mary Brennan 3, ..Joseph Pollock
70... Henry Warner 13. . .Marcella Kelly
..H. R. Partridge 24 Ida Woerth
17..Luella Sampson 37 Hazel Snow
27 Fern Phillips 76..AIollle "Richards
73...... Mary Wolfe 34 Ethel Lund
61. .Mabel Forney
Webster County
16, 32, 64, 14, 83, 87 (...Mrs. H. Smlnla
Butler County
l...Mrs. C. Hewitt 34 Louisa Ilahn
32 T. Z. Zacelt 43 Anna Hlatt
38. ...Martha Thoge 63 Anna Drake
46. .Marie Proskovec 33. ...Agnes Randall
68.. ..C.Edna Kgly 20 ..Alice Flynn
23.... Nellie Lanspa Bralnard Holy Trln-
14 Irene Norrls Ity School.
Thayer County
22. ...Ida Morohead 78 Min. Young
31 Verna Walker S Mary Burber
36. Gertrude Backer 69. Rachel Mllbourne
14 Cecil Cane 37 Blanche Carey
22 Herbert Sinn 36. .....Carl Yoitlg
19 Ceclle Polago 66 ...LiIu Reed
48 Bessie Dill 6 Mrs. Bignell
16. .Adeline Hesteen
Washington County
14. 30, 33. 2. 28. IS 4S, 62, 7, 6, 13, 32
10, 20, 39. 60, 21, 13.
Iowa Pastor Resigns. s
Red Oak, la., Nov. 2. (Special.)
Rev. Royal J. Montgomery, pastor
of the Congregational church, has ten
dered his resignation
(By" Associated Press.)
Paris, Nov. 3.--The French are ad
vancing between the Oise canal and
the region of Corbeny and have
reached the south bank of the Ailette
river, the war office announces.
The Germans have retreated to the
north bank of the river. The bridges
across the Ailette were destroyed by
the Germans. Since October 23 the
French have captured 422 guns and
7-0 machine guns.
The announcement follows: --'
, "In the course of the night our
tfoopl continued to make progress
between the Oise canal and the region
of Corjbeny, and. reached the south
bank of the Ailette river over this en
tire front (Friday night's ' official
French communication, in which the
beginning of this movement evidently
was announced, has not been re
ceived). "The enemy lias retired to the north
bank of the river, whose bridges and
foot bridges were cut.
"Artillery fighting continues very
vigorously in the sector of Chavignon
and at certain points in the region of
the platpaus. ' , '
"In the way of material captured
since October 23, we have actually
counted 200 heavy and field guns, 222
trench cannon and 720 machine guns.
"On the right bank of the Mcuse
(Verdun front), there were violent
artillery engagements in the region
of Chaume wood. An enemy attack
north of St. Mihiel was without re
sult. The night was calm everywhere
else.
"In the period between October 21
and 31, 23 German airplanes were
brought 'down. ' Of these 21 were de
stroyed by , our pilots after combat
and two by our special cannon. Fur
thermore, 28 enemy machines were
damaged seriously and descended
within the German lines." i
.Another German retirement Is ud
der way in France. For the second
time within eight months, allied pres
sure has caused a withdrawal of the
Teuton line on the .western front. -
The Germans have retired froin the
hilly front of the Chemin des Dames.
BULLETIN.
London, Nov. 3. Thirty men on the German auxiliary
cruiser Marie of Flensburg were killed in an engagement with
British destroyers, according to an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Copenhagen.
London, Nov. 3.-The admiralty announces that certain
British forces have been engaged in the Cattegat, an arm of
the North Sea between Sweden and Denmark, and that prison
ers are being brought in-
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admiralty says that 10 armed patrol
craft, in addition' to a German auxil
iary cruiser, which was equipped with
six-inch guns, were destroyed.
The statemen. issued by the British
admiralty says:
"further reports from our forces
operating in the Cattegat have been
received. We destroyed a German
auxiliary cruiser armed with six-inch
guns and we also destroyed 10 armed
patrol craft. , v . -
"Sixty-four prisoners , have been
rescued by our forces.
"No British losses have been re
ported. "Further details will be published
on the return of our forces to their
base." , ,
The Marie, a 3,000-ton vessel, met '
the British destroyers 12 miles north
of Kullen. It immediately opened fire,
which was answered by the destroy
ers. In ten minutes, the Marie was
ablaze. , '
Of the 81 members of its crew,
the dispatch says, 30 were killed and
the others took to the boats. Seven
wounded sailors . subsequently ' were
rescued; by the panish . steamship
Dalgas. .
Another man "was picked up by the
steamship Trondhjem. "They were
landed last night. The other members
of the crew are believed to have been
rescued by the destroyers.. V .
' Raider Is Sunk.,. .
Copenhagen, ov.'., 3. A German
commerce raider,:, the Crocodile,, and
five armed trawlers have been sunk
by British destroyers in Scandinavian
waters. . ,' . , 1 .
The Crocodile was a new ship' of
nearly 1,000 tons and carried a crew
of 100 men.'
The two Danish steamers that wit
nessed the engagement arrived to
night with 21 survivors of the crew
of the Crdcodile. The fate of the re
mainder of the Crocodiles' crew and 1
of the crews of the trawlers is not
known.
One of the Danish sailors gave the
following account of the incident:
On Thursday night at 10 o'clock
torpedoed boats of undetermined na
tionality were passed by the steamer
on which the narrator was a seaman.
At 8 o'clock this morning cannonad
ing was heard. Shortly ' afterward
British destroyers steamed bv bound
westward. A little while following
British destrovers were sighted firing
westward at S German 'armed trawl
ers, which were burninsr fiercely.
There were ho signs of life on board.'
All of them sank in sight of the
Danes. Fifteen minutes later they
passed the Crocodile, which was like- ,
wise aflame and soon sank.
Wounded Are Landed.
Elsinore, Denmark, . Nov. 3.
Wounded men from a German auxile
iary cruiser sank in the North Sea
were landed here today.
Boy, Mentally Deficient, f
Acquitted of Murder
. Sac City, la., Nov. 2. Leo Zieg
man, 16 years old, was found not
guilty today of the murder of his
father, John Ziegman, July 24 last.
The defense was that the boy . was
mentally irresponsible. Ziegman shot
his father while thaj latter waa en
gaged in a quarrel with his mother. '
(Continued on Page Two, Column Two.)
Fire in Coal Fields
Threatened Town
With Destruction
Texarkana, Ark., Nov. 3. Oil City,
in the midst of the north Louisiana
oil and gas field, is threatened with
destruction by fire, according to word
received here this morning. One en
tire business block already has been
destroyed, it was said, and a bank
building was afire. The cause is not
known.
Damage is Slight,
New Orleans. La., Nov. 3. Special
dispatches received here from Shreve-
port shortly before noon stated that
the fire at Oil City, La., caused only
slight damage and that it was under
control at 11 a. m. The fire started
in a tailor shop, the dispatches stated,
and burned several small buildings.
No oil was burned and the authorities
did not believe it was of incendiary
origin.'
Tables Are Turned,
Banks Ask Newsies
' Jo Help Them Out
Chicago, Nov. 3. Tables have been
turned and the banks are now going
to 'the newsboys for money. More
over, they are offering a premium
for this privilege, as they are srivins:
$1 for 97 cents, with the provisio
that each of the 97 shall be a copper
coin. I he shortage of pennies is the
cause, the mints till failing to meet
local demands caused by the imposi
tion of the new war t.-'j
Gains for The Bee ,
Losses by Competitors
Bee Gains In October
4450
Incite T, of
Paid Display
Advertising
Over World-Herald
Compared With Latt October.
Bee Gains In October
6350
Over The
JM Inches , of
Paid Display
Advertising
Daily News
Compared With Lett October.
October's Record 9;
7 1, . V; Inches. '
The Bee's Gain. ... .,,3,779
World-Herald's" Loss.; 671 -The
Daily. News' Loss.. 2,571
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