The ,Omaha; Daily Beb THE WEATHER - , ..... . ..;-V- . Fair; Wanner 1 r. 5 - 1 0. VOL. XLVII. NQ. 196. r (r ' W i ill I ?5 1 IB pM Lb U.lS-5: u u U Lb I f i f I w HI W Mo IfctA k ii 2, i , loJi liilrtV i !w e P i . PERSHING'S TROOPS BATTLE WITH ENEMY 4 .... -v . ' ON TRENCH FRONT ( ' , t , -- i Germans Raid American Sector and Inflict Small Loss; , Teuton Casualties Reported Heavy; Artillery Bar rage Preceded 'Attack; One Sammy Blown to Pieces By Exploding Shell. " . . f - (By Associated Press.) With the American Army 30. An American position on a certain section of the French frontwasVaided during the heavy fog shortly after daylight this morning, y ' The attack was preceded by a violent artillery barrage. : til TWO SAMMIES KILLED. Two Americans were killed and Mi four wounded. One soldier is missing and is believed to have been captured by the enemy; , BUSY SECTOR. ' Casualties. have been occurring: al most daily for several , days in this It is now oermitted to disclose that ' all the recent casualties given out from, Washington occurred in this sector. . ' , . The deaths were caused by shell fire, mostly shrapnel Last pight was fairly quiet, through out the American sector. The usual aumber of shells came over, doing no damage, aniii there were the cus tomary sporadic outbursts of machine gun fire from both sides1 at points where the opposing lines are near est. ': ".. ' ' : -: '- Eeavy Fog in Morning; At daybreak this morning1 the heavy - . Tog which--hd-4t.-irvlopiiJfT -the whole , position and ithe country for miles around for several days became still thicker, blotting' out all, except the nearest . enemy positions. . , At 7 o'clock three muffled' reports sounded through the fog. i The.j were three-whistles, follower quickly by 'three shell-bursts. . . , The projectiles exploded on three sides of an American listening post just outside the wire, within 45 feet of an enemy listening post .' "Hell Broke Loose." "Then hell broke loose," said one of the men there. ForMS minutes the enemy Ijroke hundreds, of high explosive 77s around the cost and the surrounding , ground, cutting off the men there. , f r Two of them were killed in the first (nut m!nntf . . 'ew minutes. Another man who was at the post told ; the corres iGndent later, as he was lying on a cot in a field hospital, that he saw fsur Germans approach ing out of the. fog as the barrage lifted. : . , . .a . ,He brought his automatic rifle into play and saw two of the Germans fall. ': , ; , , ,. : He kept on firing until shell tplin 1 ters hit him in head and amis. , : . . "The last 1 remember in the time before I reached the hospital," said .another wounded mai, "is seeing something mcmjng through the fog. "I determined to get some Ger mans and put my. rifle to my. shoul der, but nevei. pulled the trigger. There was a deafening explosion be hind me. Frozen earth, ice, stones md shell splinters came my way." Inspection of the scene of the raw (Con(lnud no I'll He. Colnma ""ThTWeSher For Nebraska--Falr; warmer. Tninprratnm at Omali Xesterdar Hour. Dee. ,18 .20 , 1 ,20 , it , 1 ,14 n , 8 7 6 7 7 5 a. m.'. 6 a.m...... 7 a. m. ..... 8 a. m. . . ... a. in JO a. m. i.. .. H a. m...... 12 m 1 , p. m 2 p. ni 3 p. ni 4 p. m 5 p. m 6 j. m ' 7 p. m Comparative Iorat Record. 1118. 1917. 1916. 1915. Highest yesterday ... . 20- 35 lowest yesterday ... 20 15 i S7 Mean temperature ... 13' 2 ' 21 J'-L'ipltatlon ........ T .02 .00 .20 ' 4 (temperature and l recipltatlon departures rrom the normal: S'ormal temperature .-. 1 Deficiency for the day S4 Total deficiency since March 1.., 724 Normal precipitation 0) Inch Deficiency for tho day .02 Inch Total rainfall since March 1.. ..22.49 inches ""Deficiency since Marcji 1 7.41lnches Deflcfency for cor. "period, 1918.1 J.60inche Deficiency for cor. penoa, isis. .62 men Report From Stations at 7 F. M Itaticti at.d State Tentp. Hlgh- Rain fall. T .41 .01 .00 .J .00 .01 of Weather.- t p. ra. , est. Cheyenne, clear ....... i 4 - - 0 davenport, ptly, cldy.. It 3 Denvr clear . . 4 Des Moines, cloudy.... 4 4 Dodee Cityclouffy...... o . lander, clear. . 10-. 4 Vorth Piatte, clear.... ( 2 "imaha, snow I - T .01 .01 .10 .00 .01 .00 .00 ?jeh!o, anoir 4 4 tapld City. cr.,.... 14 ' H :hlcag. ptly cldy 4 14 Hnta Fe. cloudy....., ti- 43 herldan, clear It ( - ?lou City, ptly cldy... s S valentine clear V IS "T" indicates trace of precipitation. lndicatas below sero. ' v . t,. WELSH. Meteorolor1- ' ; : ''v ' ' o . - - .'V in France, , Wednesday, Jan. DISORDERS IN FINLAND ARE GROWING WORSE Wealthy Russians Who Fled to Helsingfors for Safety Now , Find Situation More Pan-N: gerous There. t London, Jan. 31. The latent ad vices from Petrograd report continued fighting ahd disorders in Finland. It is believed that the Roumanian lega tion, who started for Stockholm, got no further than Terijoki, about 30 miles front Petrdgrad. , ' '. .Many of iherwealthier residents of Petrograd fled into Finland to escape the-revolutionary -trouoles in trte Rus sian capital,' thmking" to find a safe retreat.: ; ' , 'Some took their entire f&rtunes with them.' It how" appears that' they . . , . . r . - . - f I a- escapea irom one evii omy io en counter another equally as great. Members of the Finnish ienatc are said to have taken refuge n Vasa. Most of the news of the puzzling situation is coming from Stockholm and Copenhagen. It consists largely of reports of fighting in which General Manner holm, commanding the "protection corps," which seems to be the national guard formed by the Finijish govern ment, claims successes. General Mannerholm is reported mai-ching to attack Helsingfors, where the Red Guard arid its adherents'seem to be still in control. Ohio River Five Feet s Above the Danger Line Cincihnnati, O.,' Jan. 31. With gorges at Carrollton, .Ky., and Madison, Ind.,' holding, the Ohio riv(er,' rising here one foot an hour for the last ,24 hours, had reached a stage of 55 feet at noon, today, or five feet above the danger line. The Central Union railway station was abandoned. The government weather bureau explains that a break in the gorges uwill send theriver stage here down r . . i ' I a. 1 lasier man it raised louay. British Casualty List for Month ' " ' Shows Decrease London, Jan. 31. British casual . tie reported during January totaled 73,017, divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 358; men, 13,698. Wounded or missing: Officers, 1,205; men, 57,756. i 1 ' -' , The January casualties show a slight falling off from those Nre ported during December, which reached a total of 79,527. The total for 'November was 129,089, reflecting the severe fight ing on the Cambrai front in that month. MRS. B. C. KIRKE One of the women arrested v 6 -xV- ''ir r WkV OMAHA, FRIDAY GERMAN STRIKES ENDANGER AIR POWER OF KAISER Spread of Unrest to Aldershof and Spandau Jeopardize Bal loon and Munitions Plants Vital to War. BULLETIN Amsterdam, Jan. 31 The military commander at Hamburg has ordered a cessation of the strike here, says the Cologne Gazette. .The despatch adds that the commaruler also ordered that future strikes be avoided. ..Clergymen vainly exhorted the strikers in Hamburg yesterday to con tinue their work, the Cologne Gazette says. The workers proceeded to the trades union headquarters and ad opted a resolution opposing the pan German fatherland, party and demand ing immediate peace without annex ations or indemnities, better labor conditions ' and improvement , of the food supply. A deputation waited on the general in command of the district and said the strikers would not resort to violence. A (By Associated Press.) ' . Amsterdam, Jan. 31. (British Ad miralty .per Wireless Press.) The strike has been, extended in districts hear Berlin," especially in Tegel, Aldershof, Spandau and Mariendorf, where 500,000 men have quit work. A similar number of workmen are on strike in the remainder of the em pire. .. 1 ...' Evidence of the extent of the strike i.n Hamburg is found in the. Cologne Gazette, which says that almost all the-'-shipyr4"'l;a1)pre8 - ofj that city striKf i$ urowing.v AfTeVthe men in the vulcart yards walked out," the others struck yester day, declaring their solidarity with the vulcafi workers. v . Germany's strike troubles are grow ing artd more than 700,0QO men are out in Berlin alone, according to press dispatches to neutral countries. .Affect Balloon Industry. New York, Jan. -31. Acorrespon dent of the Associated Press who was "tationed at Berlin until America en tered the war, and ,who recently re turned to the United States from Copenhagen, where he went after the outbreak of hostilities, has written the following statement of the effect strikes in German cities are likely to have upon the production of muni tions. "Strikes at Adlershof, ,the Berlin suburb mentioned in today's dis patches, will affect one of the im portant centers of the German mili tary airplanes an(T balloon industry Important war chemical works, spe cializing in the manufacture of con "tituents for munitions, also are lo cated in the Berlin suburb. Arsenal at Spandau. - "Spandau, wiierethe striWalso is reported spreading, is the site of one of Germany's big arsenals, and cen tet for the manufacture of ammuni tion, as -well as electrical plants de voted to war work. "Spandau and Adlershof differ from the usual German industrial centers in that large numbers of skilred ervice because of their greater value in war plants, are employed there rrather than the women and youths who make up a high proportion of Germany's industrial army in war June. The ; men arelargely enrolled in the rrn of the .radical socialist party and ave been restive and dis satisfied .. Hi the government for long tinie. y Boosted Former strike. "The Spandau workmen formed the backbone of Germany's first po litical strike' during the war. called as a protest against the conviction of Liebknecht, the radical socialist mem ber of thc Reichstag, and held out the longest of any during the April protest apam"t the reduction of the bread ration Householder's Dream of Rout of H. C.L. Dashed Washington, Jan. 31. Retail prices I of food regained in December the 1 a 'whole advanced 24 per tent. 1'ota per cent decrease which in November , toes and onions were the only articles caused householders to hope that the j time of deliverance from the high j cost of living was at hand. ! Of 27 articles for which prices are received by the bureau of labor sta- fiatirs 1f Viir mnr rneflv in Tl ru ber than in the preceding month, three remainea tne sme ana eigiu aroppeajoi 11 cents to i in lvio ana a st slightly. j Lggs showed the greatest increase. 9 per cent; butter and hens advancing per cent eacn; ncev milk, lard and chuck roast following close after. Onions showed the greatese decrease, 14 per cent; bread, potatoes, sugar. pork chops., flour and prunes being other foods selling at lower prices. Cheese, cornmeal and coffee remained stationary. - - . In the vear trom December. 1916. MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, ' ' M.w. Sti. Itc. e. OllXVJUij UUri IWU'ID. FIRST DEGREE MURDER CHARGES FILED AGAINST ALL FIVE DIAMOND ROBBERS Five of the Aito Bandits ' Captured By the Police 1 k ' to I amiemm, njummt Vi'. miii.,,,. !. m "i fm.. m iiiiiniaiiii FRANK MARTIN, SAM M'KAY, BANDIT, THOMAS SHOT THROUGH BODY ilSil One of three desperadoes wounded in gun fight at robbers' den. Surgeons at St Joseph's hospital say he will die. LATE WAR BULLETINS BRITISH TAKE PRISONERS. London, Jan. 31. The official state ment from. British headquarters in France and Belgium issued today reads: "Our patrol secured prisoners last night in the neighborhood of Epehy. Beyond some hostile artillery activity south and north of Lens and in the neighborhood of Passchendaele .there is nothing further to report." FIGHTING IN FINLAND. Stockholm, Wednesday, Jan. 30. All is quiet in Helsingfors, a dispatch from that city reports, but fighting is under way at other points in Fin land between the red guard, which is supporting the revolut.on. and the white guard, which is upholding the Finnish government. " The white guard is fighting with enthusiasm and scoring successes everywhere, notably at Kemi. Ulea- borg, Kajanailmola and St. Michel, disarming the red guard. In fighting Tuesday near Kaesere station the red guard lost 87 killed and 127 injured, wh:le the white guard lost only eight killed and one wounded. by Increased Prices to Decemberj 1917. orices of" food as showing a decline. ' Interpreted in dollars, the food that cost $1 in 1916 cost $1.29 in 1917. The same food could be bought for 72 cents in 1907, 82 cents in 1910 and 90 cents in wif. j nere was a decline to 88 cents in 1915. then a bin iumn bigger increase last year.- Since the beeinnine of 1917 the re tail prices have fluctuated at a rela tively lower level than the wholesale prices. - ' Farm products and clothing reached their highest price in November, 39 per cent above the January price. Fuel, lighting and metals declined rapidly since June to levels below those of January, due to government regulation 1918. -TWELVE PAG"ES. STONE, B. C KIRKE, HARRV WILLIAMS, LEAPED FROM ROOF EATING PLACES MUST OBTAIN U. LICENSE President's Proclamation Pro vides That 'All Restaurants, Clubs, Bakeries and Hotels Must Get Permits. Washington, Jan. 31. President Wilson today, by proclamation or dered that all persons,, firms, corpora tions and associations manufacturing bread in any form, cake, crackers, bis cuits, pastry or other bakery products must procure license on or before February 4, excepting those Already licensed and those whoe consumption of flour and meal is less than three barrel a mnnth. " The order includes hotels, restau rants, public eating places and clubs which serve bread or bakery products of their own baking. . ; .,' The proclamation also orders that persons, firms, corporations and asso ciations engaged in importing or dis tributing green coffee also must pro cure license on or before February 4. All applications for license are to be made to the United States food administration. .'.. Violations are. punishable by a pen alty prescribed ""by congress iij the food conservation act. . Under existing regulations pro claimed by the president in Novem ber last, all bakers, clubs, hotels, etc.; using 10 barrels of flour or more a month are licensed. Q"hc new proclamation extends the food administration's control so as 1 to take thousands of small estab-1 lishmerfts hertofore 'unregulated. RAIL EMYL0YES ASK 40 PER CENT ! WAGE INCREASE Washington, Jan. 31.- Demands for wage increases pending before the railroad wage commission ate for an aggregate average of 40 per cent, it was disclosed today. The demands represent total of nearly $500,000,000 this year, or about half of the railway op'eratinir income of last year. - ( . WHO OFFICERS AND GUNMEN i WOUNDED IN BATTLE FEW HOURS AFTER BOLD RAM) Frank Rooney Dies in Hospital After Making Statement; Thomas McKay, One of Cornered Men, Gets" ' Bullet in Back; Two Others Wounded; One Man Is Still At Large. POLICE FIGHT GUN BATTLE IN ROBBERS' DEN Reporter for Th3; Bse' Eye Witness to Bloody Battle in North Fourteenth Avenue Thieves' Rendezvous. BY JOHN E. KENNEBECK. Sin hours after the sensational dia- mond jobbery lh Dodge street yeter.l k', i V" V . T aay aiternoon tne umana ponce ae partment had captured five auto ban dits charged with-the crime. The arrests were made after a bloody battle fought in vthe dark be tween the desperadoes and a posse of ilain clothes men at xit robbers' den n North Fourteenth avenue. . Detective Ftank Rooney was shot in the abdomen. Thomas McKay, one of the banditf,- was wounded n the back, tho bullet penetrating the abdo- lmen; Sam Stone, another of the high. waymen, sustained a bullet wound in tho head and Frank Martin was wounded by flying splinter torn frpm the woodwork of the bungalow. While the battle raged in the bed-, room on the second floor Harry Wil- , FRANK. ROONEY' . Detective who was mortally wounded. liams, the fifth of the fugitives, who naa escaped to the root, opened fire rm police officers who had surrounded the m. building. Automobile search lights were brought into play and a rain of bullets was directed at the desperado. v,rtv-C '. I - '' When the bright lights revealed the gunman's hiding place ahd the leaden missiles began to chip off bits of wood work and shingles around him he leaped to the ground. His back was broken in the fall. ' , , was an eye-witness to the battle, accompanied the officers to the house. No othet newspaper man was present.- . . While the hfuse was being " sur. rounded by police officers,' Detectives Dolan, Rooney and Danbaum were met at the front door by Mrs. Kirke. "Who lives here, lady? We're of ficers," Dolan said. , ' ) ' FORCE THEIR WAY IN. "Why, Mrr: Daisy lives here," the woman answered, and the detectives forced their way into the place. Two bandits who were downstairs opened fire on the detectives from' ambush, and then rushed upstairs af ter several more shots were exchang ed in the dark. - , - . ' ,Wb' the detectives made their (f ontlnncit on Ps Five, Cnturon Six.) JllliliBifl-J " wi :'!" : ; : . . i SINGLE COPY TWO I CENTS. i 1 Charges of murder were filed yC3terday afternoon against all five 'of the diamond banditi captured Wednesday night after a bloody battle in a Dodge street house. Detective Frank Rooney died at St Joseph's hospital at 2 o'clock on tha afternoon and police immediately changed the charge against the, des peradoes' to murder. y ' - BANDIT NEAR DEATH. , B. C. Klrke, Sara Stone, Prsnii Martin. Harry Williams and Thomas' McKay are the five bandits charged with murder, , -.. McKay lies at St. Joseph's hospital at the point of death. , Stone was shot throuth.thi head. Martin was also injured, aa was Wil. Vams.hovkspsi'lrpW'ltti'baf. A fc -Iif- ,- . .... A 'sixth run man. escaned in his HUNT SIXTH MAN,. - Police late yesterday left for, East Qmaha in automobiles following a report the1 bandit wi hiding ( in s house, but found no one. . The officers were armed ' with sawed-off shotguns and rifles. They said they would take no chances with the desperado, who was reported to be heavily armed. .-.:. ; v, Rooney,' detective,' who gamely fought the robbers until two bullets, penetrated his ' abdomen, , made . a dea'hbed statement, t : -, ' The detective, one of the most pop. ular men . on the 'police force, was surrounded by his relatives when he died. ' --.. y:-.. "One of the best-hearted and 1 gamest men who ever wore, a star on the Omaha police force,", was the unanimous tribute to the murdered detective, when his fellow officers at central police station received word that he had died. s : , . ROONEY SHOT TWICE. ' Police-Detective Frank Rooney and Thomas McKay, alleged diamond rob ber, were shot in a pitched battle between officers and bandits in -a house at 3207 North Fourteenth ave nue .Wednesday nieht. Rooney, shot twice through tha abdomen, gamely attempted to on tinue the fight, McKay, most serious, ly Injured of the gun men, fell with a bullet which penetrated his ab domen. ' Another of the bandits escaped to the roof. Searchlights were played up. on him and he was -made the target for . a battery of police revolvers. Caught like a rat in a trap, the des perado attempted to slide down a wire and fell to the ground. He suffered a broken back. .' ,r Frank Stone, bandit, was shot by detectives as he attempted to escape through a window. The bullet entered his head. He will I've. . t-- , ESCAPE WITH LOOT. 7 The battle occurred about five hours after six unmasked bandit? swooped down uppn a jewelry store in Dodge street, cowed the propr.r(or and clerks with tiweats of death and es caped with,$15,000 worth of diamonds -and jewelery. - 5 y ; . The daring daylijrlit . robberr. and the gun fight which followed when de tectives surroundec the rendezvous of the bandits were the most sensational Tn the Jji story of Omaha crime.- . , " I ; -Five Gun Men Captured.' ' " HundredsVof shots were exchanged , by detectives and bandits. ; Detective Rooney fell mortally wounded early in the fight. The bat tle carne to 4 close, when five of the gun men. .were capturei ? Two women were arrested in the same house with the bandits.,''"" Two other robbers besides McKay were, injured. ! "The sixth gunman escaped from the bullet-riddled house. -Early Thursday morning detectives' found nbout $5,000 wortb of the miss ing diamonds in a creyrce of the roof of the bandits' retreat Between $8.00(1 and $10,000 worth of gems and jew- r elrjr still are missing. . - ,,v Recover Missing" Diamonds. -Investigation by Detective Dolan led to thv discovery of the fugitives in the hotuse owned by Mrs. Pessie Dtfisy. formejjy Mrs. E. R. Tarrv. at 3207 North Fourteenth avenue. "After a two-hour, watch the detective (Conttntted on Fs.ro Sftcn, Clumm On.). 4' 1.