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- i BE A Da Bee : . ,..'. -'. , - . ... ' ; THE WEATHER Fair VOL. XLVIX NO. v 126. NEW S - '-? ... ... s ; ,- TOOOF OMAHA, MONDAY MORNIF NOVEMBER, 12, 1917. ftUitWi Mi!fc SINGLE COPY TWO . CENTS ' T TT TP3 HPtr wiiJJLlaMd sLL il E tfW DRAFT ARMY CLASSIFICATION BEGINS DEC. 15m Doctors, Lawyers and Newspaper Men Can Help in Rais ing New National Forces; 10,000,000 Men to Be Registered in 60 Days; Most Gigantic N Registration Ever Attempted. - . v . v . . ' (By Associated Frew.) t ( -Washington, Nov. 11; President Wilson formally put the f new machinery for the carrying out of the selective draft bill into operation last night with the publication of the foreword he has written to the regulations under which the second call will be made. ' ' 'A'- The regulations themselves and the questionnaires which more than 9,000,000 registrants will be required to nil out are being forwarded to local boards, but have not yet been made . public. ; . ; . ; ;;y y '. rrtMOi trxw wtthtm fin riAVS v War department officials estimate SAVE RUSSIA;. DRAFT IN. ESfECT : ; ' - , : - o ' : -'..'.' .Y-" 1 ; i t VENICE MENACED BY TEUTONS A bird's-eye view of Venice, the beautiful Italian city menaced by the latest Teutonic advance acrosi the Tagliamento. . In view of aid being ren dered to the Italians by the allies, it may be that the Teutonic successes will be stopped be fore the Italians are driven out of Venetia. Venice, however, may fall within the range of German heavy artillery' fire. Y .-" -.'"'.' YV that tfie whole, process can be com pleted within 60 days. This-means that no second call will be made on the I draft forces before the mmdle of next February, as the period for classifica tion will not begin until December IS. The president describes . the Jiew plan of .dividing all registered men not already mobilized into fire classes, subject to military service by.classes, as being intended to produce a more perfect Organization of our man power." ' " V . - Affects 10,00(M)00 Men. "The selective, principle must be carried to its logical conclusion," the president said, and he added that there must be made a complete inven tory of thVqualifications of each reg istrant in order to determine "the place, in the military, industrial or agricul- tural ranks of thenatioa whiclj. his experience and training can besfbe made to serve the commoa good. ' , The inquiry, projected in the ques tionnaire will go deep into the qual ifications of each of nearly ,10,000,000 ' men. The succers, of the plan and its completion within the estimated time rests on the whole-htarted support given by the people, especially by the- doctors ana lawyers oi eacn com munity, and. the president calls upon them for that unstinted aid. The. president's foreword follows: Room for Improvement. N "The task of selecting and mobiliz ing the : first- contingent of ' the na tional army Ts neariifg completion. The expedition and accuracy of .its accomplishment werea most gratify ing demonstration of the efficiency of our democratic institutions. The swjftnes with which the machinery for its execution bad to be assembled, however, left room for adjustment and improvement. New regulations putting these" improvements into ef . ' feet are therefor being published to day: . There is no change in the es sential obligation of men subject to selection. The first draft must stand unaffected by the provisions of the new regulations. ; They, can be given no retroactive effect k ' "The time has come for. a more perfectorganization' of our man power. ' The selective principle must be carried to; its logical conclusion. We must make a Jomplete inventory of the qualifications of all registrants, in order to determine as to each man not already selected --for duty with the colors, the place in the military, industrial or agricultural ranks of the iiiation in which his experience and training1 can best be made to serve the common good. This project in-; volves. an inquiry , by the selection boards into the-domestic, industrial and educational qualifications of near- "Jy 10,000,000 men. 5V-; . , ; Bulk of Work Ahead. '.'Members of these boards have rendered a conspicuous service. ; The work was done without regard to per , sonal convenience and under,a pres sure of . immediate necessity which imposed great sacrifices. Yet the services of men trained by the expe rience of the first draft must of ne? cessity be retained and the selection boards must provide the directing mechanism for the new classification. (Continued on Fata Two, Column Three.) The Weather, - For rfebraeka Fair Monday; not mach ihingn in temperature. . . r Temperatures at Omaha Teaterday Hour. Dec. i a. m.. & a. m. . .4 44 a. m 44 I i. m. ......... 41 a. m 44 It a. m. ......... it 11 a. m 60 12 m B! 1 p. m,, ........ 4 i p. m. ......... it ' p. m. ...... t 67 V 4 p. m.. . S ( p. m. ......... 67 ( P. m 64 7 p. m 61 ComparmtlTa Loral Beeord. Temperature and precipitation departurei front the' normal: , . 1117. 111. IMS. 114. tligheat yesterday.... 66 S3 47 (4 Jxwest yesterday 4J, 11 J 37 Mean temperature..,. 6 26 4Z 60 Precipitation 90 .11- .OS .00 S'ormal temperature..,....,, 3$ Excess for the day..rii 11 Total deficiency since March 1 246 Normal precipitation rt4 Inch Deficiency for the day... 04 Inch Total rainfall since. March 1.... 11.30 Inches Deficiency sine March 1 0.51 Inches Deficiency for cor. period, 10K. .12.00 Inches Pendency lor cor. perled, 116.. 1.14 inches I A. WELSH, Meteorologist. U S. SENDS FOOD TO PRISONERS IN GERfilAN CAMPS Negotiations Under Way to Save American Captives From Suffering in 1 Teuton ' Prisons. . (By Annoclated Tress.)' ": Washington, Wov. 11. The United States has ''opened negotiations ywith Germany for an agreement to govern treatment of prisoners of war. This is being done not ohly" to secure the best possible conditions'" for"American prisoners, but to show how" well Ger man prisoners in the United'States are being treated. v ' r 'Already,; through the Red Cross at Geneva, the United States has be gun forwarding necessaries to Amer icans held n Germany, of whom there are now more tharTlWL It is realized that as the American ftodps increase in numbers on the battle front, more prisoners are bound to find their way to the German prison camps. . ' Alleviate Suffering at Home. A nation pinched for food for it self, probably will feed its 'enemy pris oners last. To lighten the confine ment of Americans will at the same time alleviate the suffering of families at home, which naturally will "be dis tressed at accounts of German under feeding of prisoners. German military prisoners of war in the United States, besides receiv ing every necessity and comfort, have the privilege of their jrank. They are housed in model sanitary camp.s and recently one of the -prisoners se'nding a letter to his prospective wife in Germany wrote that the pay he would accumulate during' his imprisonment would not only permit him to retire from the navy, but would set them up in a little business as welt. ' ' Interned Germans Comfortable. Photographs, showing the1 comfort able surroundings of interned German prisoners in this country have been forwarded to Germany by the War department through the State depart ment and a neutral agent. ' They are intended to reveal the expectation of the United States that similar consid eration will be shown America sol diers and sailors who may be cap tured by Germany. ' Two classes of German prisoners are detained in this country. One is comprised of German sailors, taken into custody when the United States interned various vessels at the begin ning of the wari The other class is comprised of enemy aliens, civilians who have been arrested and ire now being detained under, governmental regulations.. - - Various Detention Camps. The principal detention cafnp is at Fort McPherson, Ga., where approxi mately 850 war prisoners are held, At Oglethrope, Ga., there are 16S enemy aliens, who are not, strictly speaking, prisoners of war. At Fort Douglas, Utah, there are S17 prisoners of war and 80 interned, aliens. " T Siiex's - evb vitw Or.vxOTcn, . .. i CZECHS CAUSE WIDENING RIFT OVER AUSTRIA German Element of 'Political Union Withdraws From Alli ance and Minorities Hold ; ; Whip. Hand. nx y .'' ' "'I " " ' ' " " " (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) Amsterdam, Nov. 11. Austria and Hungary are ruled by minorities who oppose the' majorities T comprising various nationalities. The Magyars ate masters of Hungary, the Germans of Austria. In Austria a change seems to be near at hand. German extrem ists, the Deutscji-Radikale Verein gung (German Ufadical union) left the Deutsch National-Vereingung (Ger man National alliarice), with which all German parties of the Austrian Par liament were affiliated. A Vienna tele gram published in the Koelnische Zeitung, says: "Yesterday's meeting of the German Radical union decided, contrary to the utiiversjil opinion, fo resign from the German National al liance for the purpose of not being restrained ny further by considera tion fof the other German parties. The meeting earnestly protested against the intention of the govern ment to order by-elections arid there by enable the traitors set free by the recent amnesty to return to the House of Representatives, because this plan mean$ nothing but submission to the Czech terrorists who forced their un measured demands on the - govern ment. ' ' : Germans May Resign. "The ' German agrarians were i n fluenced by this action of ' the. Ger man Radical union to .such a degree that they, too, consider their resigna tion from the German National al liance. . "The dissolution of the German Na tional alliance will probably be of far reaching consequences. "First of all the German National alliance ceases to be the numerically strongest party in the House of Rep resentatives, and, therefore, cannot claim that one of its ; members be elected president of the house. That means a loss of political power. "This weakenin of Teutonism is the more to be regretted at a time when the adversaries wisely unite to further their interests. - "As far as the Czechs are. concerned the young Czechs, theChristian so cialist Czechs, the national socialist particularists , and the radicals of Moravia renounced their separate or ganizations and fused into the Par ticularist union., The General Czech union, comprising the above named (Continued on Fage Two, Column Two.) B0LSHEVIKI REVOLUTION . CRUMBLES; LOYAL TROOPS CAPTURE TSARK0E-SEL0 Red, Guard at Moscow It Defeated by Kereniky Follow ers afid Prefaier. Is Reported Nearing Petro grad; Helsingfors Dispatch Reports - - Mrs. Draper Smith for Mayor, ' f Slogan of the Suffragettes Mrs. Draper Smith, for mayor of Omaha, was the re-campaign prog nostication of one- of the enthusiastic speakers at the suffragists' jubilee meeting at the city hall Saturday. "Joy. Joy. joy' At-last we have awakened to the idea of democracy," said,. Mrs. Craighead. "President Wil son has been wonderfully - annoyed lately, but yet he spoke- the right Avord at the right time. It is the beginning of the end. - Both men and women, - husbands and wives, suffragees and suffragettes, as it were, joined with our prominent politicians in celebrating the great New York upheaval'ii which Tam many gave the women the ballot. "Right or wrong," said Mrs. Barry Howe, who addressed the -Tammany leaders in New York at the time of President Wilson's re-election, "Tam many never breaks a promise. The suffrage states re-elected Wilson and they pledged me that Tammany would fcive.usHthe vote. -They have kept their word." "Either women must be excluded from the instruction of the children in the schools ' or, they must be free," said Miss Jeannette McDonald, teach er in the Omaha High school. "The children never gome into contact with a person who- is free except their fathers." "I am here tq join in the halle lujha chorus," said Judge Howard Kennedy, when called upon for a talk. - Mayor Dahlman congratulated the women on their progress in politics. This subtle flattery ..had a noticeable effect upon those Peeking the fran chise of the ballot. Others who spoke were Francis A. Brogan. John L. Kennedy and Miss Mona Cowell. r ' ' ' " Finland Now In Revolt ' ; ' ' ''";. BULLETIN. " - Lon'donNov. The Bolshevik! revolution" in Petrograd is reported to be approaching cpllapse. , " ? Regiments loyal to Premier Kerensky are marching on the capital, and fighting is under way in the city, according to re ports from Petrograd. : O MOVEMENT DEAD. - An organization which has adopted the name of All-Russian committee for saving the country and the revolution announced that the defeat of the Bolshevik! movement was a matter only of days or hours. ..... . The town of Tsarshoe-Selo, IS miles south of Petrograd, where former Czar Nicholas lived much of the time, is said to have been captured by loyal forces, after which the rebels retired to Petrograd in disorderly mobs. The chief wireless station now is controlled by loyal troops. The Red guard has ben defeated in Moscow. Premier Kertusk? is said to be ap proaching PetrogrSd. ' Kerensky Has 200,000 Men, Paris, Nov. 11. A wireless dispatch from Haparanda, in Sweden, near the Finnish border, says that Premier Kerensky has 200,000 men-supporting him. The wireless message escaped the censorship of the Bolsheviki by being esnt from Haparanda. Finland in Revolt. Helsingfors, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 10. Delayed.) A state of war has been declared in Finland. The provisional soldiers' committee has appointed a sailor named Schiecks as commissary of Finland' in place of Governor-General Nckrasoff. 1 i : . The Diet is in session and Russian representation in it .has been com pletely ignored. It has voted to elett a state directorate , with "Supreme power. , BUT FEW I.W.W;S ARRIVE IN OMAHA DURING SUNDAY Police on Lookout' All Day; . 1 Local , Secretary Says But -"400 We're' Expected,'; Anyway, t' Delegates to the general conven tion of the Industrial "Workers of the World (I. W.' W.), called; to meet here on Monday and Tuesday, did not appear on Sunday in appreciable num bers. : A group of men gathered at local headquarters, . Thirteenth and Douglas streets, but there was noth ing of an extraordinary nature in the scene. ... HTM. - ' ! V ine. ponce are not mciineavio ais cuss the situation, believing that the Industrial Workers of the World will not make Omaha the rendezvous of objectionable meetings or acts. Dempsey on Lookout. V , Captain Dempsey, in charge of cen tral police station, reported that noth ing of an untoward nature had been called to his notice. He had been ad vised of the proposed convention and said hi expected to have a conference with Marshal Eberstein of the De partment of Justice. - Chief of Police Dunn did not want to, anticipate any trouble here. -Information conveyed to him on Satur day was that 4,000 or more' Industrial Workers of the World planned to meet here on Monday and Tuesday, on call ol the local, branch, and that an- effort would be made to establish general headquarters in Omaha. V Officials believe that if there was a proposal to open general Industrial Workers of the 'World headquarters in Omaha publicity already ;given the enterprise in the newspapers has been sufficient to put a quietus on the affair. Reported to Marshals f A man who gave a Bee representa tive one of the IndustriaWorkers of 'the World bulletins, calling the convention, said: "Much care was exercised to see that .these bulletins reached only persons friendly to their cause, but of, course it was impossible to accomplish that, as I obtained one of the bulletins and have reported the matter to tli federal and local authorities." . Harry Jenkins, executive secretary of the local Industrial Workers of the World branch, stated that reports of 4,000 delegates coming to Omaha had been exaggerated by persons un friendly to the organization. He said a business meeting had been planned for Monday and, a smoker on Tues day and stated that the attendance would be nearer 400 than 4,000, -. - , Italians Attack Austrian S Troops oh Treritino Front - BULLETIN. Berlin, Nov. 11. The Austro-Hun-garian troops, which are carrying out the enw offensive on the Trentino front, were attacked yesterday by strong , Italian . detachments which pressed them back at one point, the war office announces. The Italians have made a stand on the lower Piave river. The city of Belluno. on the oncer Piave, has been captured by -Austrp-1 German trnnni. ' ' ' - - - r-' , V KERENSKY ATLUGA; TIDE OF REVOLT IS AGAINST LENIN E Bolsheviki Supporters at Moscow, Luja andj Other Point: Turn on Radicals and Rally to Support of Provisional ' Government; Cossacks Favor. Deposed Pre- mier; Petrograd Changing Front. London, Nov. 11. Premier Kerensky arrived at Luga, 85 miles southwest of Petrograd, last Wednesday, and the garrison there attested its loyalty to his provisional, government, accord ing to a Petrograd dispatch of Saturday to the Weekly DisJ patch. Saturday morning he reached Gatchina) 30 miles south west of Petrograd, where the same thing happened. 1 ' ; : . -O , TROOPS TURN TABLE.- The newspaper advices add that troops loyal to the provisional gov- ' ernment are known to be in Petrograd and a division of Cossacks is on the march from Finland.. This news was given out at the "Smolny institute, headquarters, of the workmen's and soldiers' congress.';', ::f .'' ' ' The garrison at Petrograd, which two" days ago was s6lid for the ex tremists, now is said again to be wavering in its allegiance. , SLAVS WOULD UNITE TO FACE GERMAN ARNY Attempted ; Invasion Expected to Bring Together Warring Factions in All Parts of Russia Says Expert. ; ' By ISAAC DON LEVINE. i (Author at "Th Ruian ArolutTon.") New York Nov. ll.(Special Tel egram.) The capture of Helsingfors, capital of Finland, by the ; Germans may be a factor of immense impor tance in the present Russian situation. If anything could stop the tide of Bolshevikism ia Russia today it is a German offensive? If anything could force at the present juncture the re turn of Kerensky and Korniloff to power it is a Teuton blow at eetto- grad or a successful attack on the The story of a German landing in Finland bears the earmarks of truth, as it reports the landing of several b innish detachments with the Oer mans. i ' Now it is known that upward of 3,000 Finns have volunteered to fight in the Prussian army against Russia, It is also'knOwn that since the Rus sian revolution these Finns have been formed into a separate unit, "dedi cated tOv the "liberation"' of their fatherland.; ' 1 i : A ' : , Yf Expect Turmoil to, Help. At first thouglit one would not ex pect the Germans to wage against Russia offensive warfare these days. Whatever the ultimate issue of the Bolsheviki rule may, be the Germans may confidently anticipate a period of turmoil in Russia that would play antp their hands admirably. - From iht point of view of the German" interest it would, therefore, be an act of self- minry to strike at Russia now. : Experience, however, has shown that the military branch of the Ger man government pursues its plans re gardless of political conditions. There is little doubt that the Germans have long' planned some kind of a coup along the Russian Baltic Sea..' ' The Germanmay be right as to the ease with which they; could destroy the Russian fleet or capture the Rus sian capital. ," But by doing so they would render the greatest possible aid to the moderate and conservative elements of Russia. The Bolsheviki, the ' internationalists and the other pacifists would be wiped out of exist ence by the patriotic wav.e. . , s.The Russians are essentially pa triotic, even the Russian radicals, who dream of universal, brotherhood, love their country passionately., I he con servatives, liberals and radicals . are now split into numerous factions and parties. A German offensive would create a common state of mind and sentiment to all of them. The Mujik would defend his land, the bourgeois his country, the radical the revolution, which is synonymousvith tree Kus $ia. 1 ..'',. ",' ; Aviator Instantly Killed ( ,Whsn Fals From Clouds Fort Worth. Tex.. Nov. 11. Cadet Walter I. Jones of Minneapolis, Minn., fell SOU feet at Micks held, Camp Tal iaferro, today- and was instantly killed. , Thousands of Tons of Steel Make Millions of Shells for U. S. Guns New, York, Nov. U.-TheHJnited State government has distributed orders for 5,00,000 six-inch shells and the War Industries board has allotted rollings of the 375,000 torts of steel needed in this manufacture. Additional orders are now lacing placed for 6,500,000 six-inch shells, the making of which will require 487,500 tons of steel. In the last few days Washington authorities ; have been conferring with manufacturers from all parts of the country preparatory to distributing orders for 33,000,000 three- inch shells, the production of which will make draft upon the steel mills for 247,500 tons of steel here. Contracts have just been signed for the building-oi 4,97S freight cars for equipping the uaitcd" States expedi tionary railroad in France. , Addi tional orders for 10,000 more cars foY the sarae- -service,, have been dis tributed, but lack the official signa tures. - .X'f :: , . ' "' ' . , , The American International Ship Building company has distributed orders for the fabrication of 125,000 tons of steel for the building of 54 boats at Hog Island. Some of the steel wilt be put through Canadian shops.- The same; corporatism has ordered 6,000 tons of steel for derrick towers. The submarine ' boat' com pany offered contracts for 75 cargo ships of 750Q tons capacity. . - i Th Weekly Dispatch advices say that at the town hall it was 'rumored Friday night that most of the Moscow garrison had retransf erred allegiance to the provisional government after fighting the extremists' supporters at the Kremlin, where they had taken refuge.'' ' ' ' ; . t ' M. . Skobeleff, minister of labor in Keren sky's cabinet,1 in addressing a meeting Friday night at the town hall, said that -the railway workers' union, which at first had worked under the instructions of Nikolai Leniue, now declared itself wholly on the side of the committee of public safety and " Uar it would-jwrthobey-forther-orders v of the Bolsheviki. .v This is the heaviest blow that the movement of the extremists , has vet received. .In 16 ministries the union of governmene servants has instructed its members to strike, thus paralyzing1 the . whole- government machinery. BritisEKM 10,000 Turks; Germans Now ; Enter. Helsingfors . ' '.' '(''; (BriAiioetktcd'Fnwi.) British forces in Palestine are con tinuing their northward march fol lowing he retreating Turks. They have now, advanced nearly 20 miles in the coast region since their capture of Gaza recently and have nearly attained the latitude of Jerusa lem.. x The city is more than 40 miles inland, ; however, and the in--terior British v column moving, from Beersheba, apparently has made1 lessy rapid progress than the coastal force. The British have taken more than 70 ' guns, and inflicted estimated casualties of. 10,000 on the Turks, ex clusive of prisoners. Germany shows signs of continuing its aggressive moves in northern Russian waters. Following on advices that German troops had landed on ' the Aland islands, off the Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden, came a report from Stockholm that Germair- forces had entered Helsing fors, capital of Finland." Th,is move is consideied as probably having both poliitcal and military objects, the for mer in taking advantage of Finnish discontent and desire for independ ence from Russia and the fatter in the threat that is presented of interference with communications with Russia from the west through Finland , and Sweden.. ' . ;i ',-,,. , . ' .' : : Y; Twelve Hundred Attend I Ball for Lucky Seventh Twelvet hundred persons attended the ball given Saturday evening at the seventh regiment, Nebraska National Guard, at the Municipal Auditorium. Y"" ti. it- r . , t i . I i nc anair was in inc nature oi a Ben efit,' the receiptsbeing turned over to the regimental mess fund. More than half of the big floor was filled with ' khaki-clad lads who arei . soon to leave Nebraska for their, pre-. liminary training in the ways of mod ern warfare, and the tenacity with whieh' they clung to their young woman partners evidenced the fact that ho one appreciated this more than Hie soldiers. - . 1 Prof. W. E. Chambers and Miss Mary Duffy led the errand march. while Gordon Wegworth sang) a solo, "America." in which the entire crowd joined. ' -? , . . ,. 1 1 J. ' -i " Marines Held by Pojice ; For Attack on Mrs. Ort Peter Marinos. emDJove' of the Roger's Confection ery.i was arrested bv Officers Liarhtall. Roonpv and Hnl- : den yesterday afternoon and is held for investigation concerning an al leged attempted assault on 'Mrs. Rirh ard Ort in her apartments. - Richard Ort, engineer for the Phoe nix Construction company, returned . home yesterday afternoon and found his wife in a hysterical condition. She said that Marinos came into her room and attempted to force his attentions on her, , . . " 1 .; ! Y Y i
