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THE BEE: OMAHA FRIDAY. JANUARY II, 191S.
GERMANS HALTED
BY HEAVY SNOW:
ROADS BLOCKED
Enemy's : Winter Campaign is
-Interrupted by. Mountain
Storms; Line of Communi
cation .Threatened. ,
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Italian '. Headquarters in - Northern
Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 9. The en
emya winter tampaign appear ' to
have bcn interrupted Seriously, if not
halted definitely by heavy snowfalls
during the last, 24 hours. The snow
covers the mountain front to if depth
of from three to five feet , ; -
Monte Grappa, whictf is the cen
tral poinr of the operations between
the Piave and the Brenta rivers, has
three feet" of snow, while further
north," the .position.; occupied by the
enemy' are buried to a much greater
depth. -The snow barrier is operating
strpngjy; against Uhe enemy -as they
are on the.-higher summits, while the
'Italians are on, the lower ground slop.
Jng'oward the" plain.
" - Use Snowplows.
On Monte Grappa, which is the
dominating summit held, by -the Ital
ians; and on Monte Pertica and Monte
Caprile, nearby, held by the enemy,
Oxt cannonads fell off today and there
i little activitv beyond patrol move
ments. Most of the soldiers are busy.
clearing the mountain paths ,so as to
permit the steady movement) of sup-
piles. , Huge tractor snowpiowa r
being used and sledges are taking the
places of .trucks for, carrying food
and monitions. " . . "" i . , '
: In addition to the interrupUon at
Ihe immediate front, the heavy snow
fan may close tle enemy s line of
eotnmunication from. Austria south.,
ward into Italy. V", "
The principal route runs through
the Stelvio, an Alpine pail,' and has
a railway down to Trent nd thence
to'Priminolo, which is only 10 miles
from Monte Grappa and the fighting
iront. It is this route which has. been
open up to this time and has, given
the enemy direct communication to
the front ,:
I ; Pais Is Blocked, ;,
While the lower section . Is' ot
Mocked, indications are that Strfvio
pass, which is the" vital link in the
route, is blocked by from ,10 to 15
feet of anow. The Stelvio is the
highest pass in Europe, exceeding
9,000 feet and connects the Adige val
ley of Austria with the Adda valley
in Italy.- Snows in that section invar
iably are followed by avalanches
which further block the valleys and
available outlets. -',
The enemy's eastern communica
tions in the Friuti region are simi-i
larly, but, it is believed, not so se
riously affected, The railway line
running southward along the upper
Piave is blocked by heavy snows and
avalanches. Further east1 the route to
Goriiia,v which passed through the
Trans-Alpine pass -of Feistntx is
snowbound,, though; two: other 'routes
acresi the Carso ange are, Jess af
fected, - . '. .; . ' - ,' i
The Indications are that the enemy
will be unable to carry on any large
'operations, bartieularly on the moun
tain front, during the period that his
. communications are snowbound.
La' Fayette Fliers
. . Join U. S. Aviators
With the-American Army in France,
Jaiv 10. The American members of
the Lafayette escadriUe. are going, to
'Paris three and four at a time to sign
for their transfer into the American
army jwiation service, , a formality
which Is expected to occupy, 10 days.
The Americans regret losing their
v-oni-h l ieutenant Louis., verdier
Fauvety, second In ipommand fit the
Lafayette escadriUe, whose family is
well known in California and who now
goes to command a French escadriUe.
The American niera ay wj j
law ha. been naSsed by con'
gress permitting them to wear -the
rreecn oecorauons wey
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Citv Firemen Strike
1 When Demands Are Refused
irv.il..' "T" Tan: 1 10. Aooroxi
rnately 150 of the 176 members of the
Dallas City fire department went on
strfke at 6 o'clock this evening.; Six
htiArA members of the -Dallas home
guards have been ordered by Mayor
Joe E. Lawther to assemble as vpre-
caution against disorder. -
The strike was caused by the tus
pension today of 21 firemen, who re
fused to withdraw from a newly or
firemen's union, which is tl
filiated with the American Federa
tion of Labor.- "-v; j-.
jrssnsss to Open .Branch
Bank in New York City
New York. Jan; 10. The Sumitomo
hand- limited, of Osaka. Jinan, with a
capital and surplus of more than $12,
000,000 has, completed arrangements
for the opening , of a New York
branch, it was announced here Wed
nesday eight , ' ' v ' '
V. Vamashita. the manager of the
general head office, now in this city,
is a member of the special Japanese
finance commission. - '
German Spy Under Arrest r
: Escapes From Authorities
San Francisco, Jan. lO.-f-Adolph
" Rntlman. detained bv federal. author
ities as a suspected German spy, and
who it was sata naa oeen acuvc in
German circles here, has escaped, ac
cording to, announcement today. by
Don Rathbun. of the United States
Department of Justice, s '
Ignition Plants May Close
Unless Coal is Received
Jaterson, N. J Jan. 10. Closure
of theDuPont powder; plants at
Fompton Lakes and Haskell, engaged
exclusively on war work, was declared
to be only a matter, ot a few hours
, by the management today, unless fuel
waf , rcecivcfi promptly. , .. .-; , . t
Fc-d Grand Jury , . ; ,f
; .Ibds in 18 Indictments
r Tacomau Washn tan; 10. Eighteen
' Ini Ictmen ts have t been returned by
f the federal grand jury which has been
.inv:',.ns acta of pro-Germanism
and I. V." W. activities in this district,
?f-.t .
& pocairw iown loaay. ,
C. C. George to Be' President 1
Of Omaha Commercial Club
C C George, chairmanof the exec
utive committee of the' Commercial
club, was favored at Wednesday's
election of club directors with the
highest vote cast for any one man on
the directorate, with the exception of
the two candidates in the traffic and
publicity bureaus, who htd no opposi
tion, and one or two others who had
practically no opposition. Out of the
13 candidates in the real estate classi
fication Mr. George polled 400 votes.
Randall K. Brown, president of the
club, elected as one of 15 directdrs in
a list of 75 candidates in the whole
saling classification, polled the heav
iest vote in that class, a total of 337
votes. , -. ., ." : ,
The newly' elected directors will
meet Saturday at the Commercial
club to name members of the execu
tive committee and the officers for
the ensuing year. According to the
established practice of the club, the
chairman of the executive committee
is regularly elected to the presidency
of the club for the ensuing year. This
means that C C George will be pres
ident 'V-V' - . ,
The executive committee will elect
its own chairman. '
SENATOR KENYON
WARNS AGAINST
A FALSE PEACE
Returns; From French Front
Filled With Wrath at Kaiser;
America Must Not Be
; "Too'Late."
. Washington, Jan. 9. Senator Ken
yon,' who recently returned from" a
visit to the French front and to Eng
land, today warned the senate against
Germany's peace offers and ; stories
that , the country was exhausted.
"Nothing could .assist Germany
more, he declared. "
'Those , who are trying to help in
bringing about' a patched-up peace
and lend their influence in that direc
tion,; are weakening the. American
forces, weakening American prepara
tion, he said, "and they will do well
to remember that it will cost us more
now to lose this war than to win it"
' Shell the Kaiser. ;
Senator Kenvon. in relating his ex
perience, said that what he had seen
in France had aroused him to such a
pitch that he wished the kaiser might
be compelled to be at sea in an open
boat that was being shelled, that the
palaces of the German ruler might be
blown up and that he might be
placed where bombs, dropped .around
him during a London air raid. t
Pointing to the tact that it took
England ' two years or more to get
ready to fight, he. declared there was
no reason lor gloom in this country
now, "but, the saddest words this na
tion .can ever write if it fails in this
emergency by reason of delay will
be the words, 'too late.' j
Wt must bring to the western
front. 2,000,000 men and have a mil
lion in reservc'V Senator Kenyon de
clared. "We must do it as quickly
ab possible. We must cut fed tape:
stop quarreling about the guns and
like things, and carry this thing
through on business-like principles. Is
it not possible for each individual
in this country to quit thinking about
what someone else would do and
reserve to do everything he can do?
"It is not e'nou:h to do our bit. We
must do our best There is too much
grandstanding and limelighting; toe
much patriotic poeing and not enough
saenhce. ; . t
"Out of this war will come great
things to our people. We will hav$
no hyphenated Americanism in this
country, It is not a time for partisan-,
ship nor pontics and, i may say, it is
no time for inefficiency ia any de
partments of our government;' " 1 -
senaior xenyon saicniuai in iu
''spirit of nonpartisanship" he would
like to see a coalition cabinet includ
ing Elihu Root and Theodbre Roose
velt and that the services of William
H. Taft might be used in some of the
commissions sent abroad.
Kenyon Denounces Reports
.; Of Drunkenness in Army
. Washington; Jan. 10.-Senator Ken
yon, who recently returned from the
battle fronts, today denounced re
ports of drunkenness among Ameri
can troops abroad. : He urged Ameri
cans not to repeat the stories, brand
ing them as unfounded and intended
to divert their attention from prose
cution of the war.
"General Pershing can look after
that better than you or I," the sen
ator declared in his speech. "He does
not want a drunken or diseased army.
Let's quit this and leave the matter
to Pershing." f
Two Killed in Powder ( "r'r
Explosion at Bisbee
Bisbee. Ariz.. Jan. 9. Two men
mere killed, two fatally injured andJ
Sight others severely hurt when over
,000 'pounds of blasting powder was
prematurely exploded today on Sacra
mento hill, where the Copper Queen
mine is carrying on exhaustive steam
shovel operations. 1
- The men killed were Sidney Drak
enfeld, an engineer in the employ of
the company, and Modesto, Vastido, a
laborer. ; Carlos Calderon and Juan
Nunei probably wil die.
Dividend Payments Are '
v Ordered Stopped by Reds
London, JanV 10-The Bolsheviki
fovernment, a Reuter's dispatch from
etrograd says, has issued a decree
suspending all payment of dividends
by private companies. The govern
ment also has forbidden transactions
in stocks, pending the issuance of
ordinances relating to the further na
tionalization of production and de
termining the amount of interest pay
able by private companies. '
Kindergarten Children
. . Dismissed From School
' Kindergarten children of putyic
schools ; were dismissed' at noon
Thursday, on "account of. the storm.
Schools in the outlying, distr jets did
not hold afternoon sessions. i
Indian Forge ;:
"."':To. a Check
( Denver, Colon Jan. 10. Pleading
guilty to a charge of ' forging his
uncle's finger print to a bank check,
Walter Lang, Ute Indian, was sen
tenced In federal district court here
Wednesday to 100 days in the
county jail at Durango. - ;
: . The. cheek was for $47. Indorse
ment of checks by finger prints isv
required of Indians who cannot
read or write. V i
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Hartmann
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this premier among trunks carried in the past,
with the additions of beautiful linings that
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Service with the trunks regarding repairs the '.
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"Omaha's Best Baggage Builders"
1803 FARNAM STREET.
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MORTALITY IN:
ARMY CAMPS
ON INCREASE
Washington, Jan. 10-Measles epi
demics i e subsiding in both National
Guard and National Army divisions,
but pneumonia persists, , according to
the deUileo health report for the
week ending January 4, made public
today by the army mtdical corps. .
The tables show 109 deaths during
the week in the National Guard, 80
due to pneumonia, and 167 in the Na
tional army, 111 being cue to pneu
monia. The death totals for the previous-week
were 108 for the National
Guard and 98 for the National Army.
.A sharp outbreak of meningitis
occurred at Camp Beauregard, with
27 new cases, against seven the pre
ceding , week, and several deaths.
Elsewhere in the National Guard
meningitis is rapidly declining..
Explosion Kills Head of
Powder Mill; Heavy Loss
Wilburton, . Okl., Jan. . 10. James
Garvy, superintendent of the "glazing
department of the Patterson Powder
company i
was killed
t Patterson, OTcL, near here,
: todav when a terrific ex-
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plosion wrecxea uie pianu ns ii a
has been teamed only one man was
killed, although the property damage
is large. - ; ' .
Seattle Mayor Barred
- From Practising Law
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 10. Hiram C.
Gill, mayor of Seattle, was barred to
day by the state board of bar exam
iners from practising law in the state
of Washington for one year. Today's
decision was reached following a
hearinr of charsres that the mayor al
lowed the law firm of .Gill, Hoyt &
Frye to use his name in soliciting
Plymouth Church Women
Make Many Articles
The Plymoutu Women's auxiliary
of the Red Cross has made in its 17
meetings since November 1 50 large
sheets, 128 operation sheets, 47 towels.
24 bed socl:s, 75 operation caps, 50
operation helmets, 75 oandage, soclfs
and 25 bed jackets. The meetings.
...wi, have hem held in the home of
A G. Kittell, will hereafter meet on
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
in the ' Plymouth : church parlor at
Eighteenth and Emmet.
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QRecbl Cizsrxs, Cared l7ithoat Ocsra'ion
mrf J Most: every, case cured in one treatment No knife or
. . cumng opmuon. o wn ai noiei or nospiiai. every
case guaranteed, une-hal' WHAT CnARG Men and women
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DR. J. C WOODWARD. 301 Scunties B!dgu Om&heu Neb.
Awe
You
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' Your 1917 Income and Profit Tdxes
' Are Due and Payable to the United States r -,
Government on June 15, 1918.
IF in the operation, of your business during the first
five and a half months, of 1918 you should lose the
profits you made in 1917, you will pay your taxes
due the Government out of your capital
GET BUSY NOW. DO MORE BUSINESS AND
THEN MORE BUSINESS. MAKE MORE PROFITS
AND MORE PROFITS EACH MONTH.
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G0VHNMENT
CO-OPERATION
ASSURED
PR0FITASIE
BUSINESS
CHIEF
WEAPON
; ?The President: 'of the United States took over the
railroads not only to assure the stockholders the safe- i
ty of their investment an'dthe income thereon, but
, for the great big broad purpose of making it possible
, that the railroads be operated Mn such a way that no
legitimate business be hampered for lack ; of trans
pprtation, either over the railroads themselves; : or
over waterways and highways as adjuncts. . ;
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The railroads under the direction of the I . United
States , Government - must , be t so efficiently operated as :
io eliminate embargoes and priorities affecting 'busi
ness. . '.V -' .:' 1 :
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The United 'States must assist in winning this
War. WAR IS OUR BUSINESS NOW AND
BUSINESS ES OUR CHIEF WEAPON. ' i '
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No legitimate business is. a non-essential if it
can make money because money is the.most import
ant munition of War, ' .
, Business must make more money this year than
last year; The Government is goin to need more
money and still more money until this War has been
won. v ' ;N ' - '
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