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VOL. XLVII. NO. 197. x
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2. 1918. FOURTEEN PAGES.
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GERMAN STRIKERS
REFUSED AUDIENCE
WITH CHANCELLdR
Leading Socialist Newspaper at Berlin is Suppressed for
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. Inciting Strike; Suspicion That Government is
Behind Movement; More Miners Quit Work
v in Sympathy with Plan to End War. .
London, Feb. 1. Martial law has been extended to
Bremen and Hemelingen, a nearby town, according to reports
received here.
The Vorwaerts of Berlin,
three days, says this step was
strike.
MINERS STRIKE. Q
Strikes have broken out in two
more Dorumund mines. The strikers
at Nurenburg, Bavaria, have resumed
work after a two-day demonstration
strike.
None of the Berlin newspapers of
Wednesday's date has arrived and
several of them are not printing,
Owing to strikes among their em
ployes.
REFUSED INTERVIEW. '
Delegates representing the strikers,
according to Amsterdam reports, at
tempted to interview Chancellor von
Hcrtling, but lie refused to see them,
. as had Herr Walralf, minister of the
interior. 7
The actual situation Thursday is
extremely vague. The scarcity of
news induces .some correspondents in
Holland to assume that the, situa
tion, has grown worse, but they warn
against attaching importance to strike
movement as far as the army is con
cerned. The Berne correspondent of the
Daily Mail deprecates a too-ready
assumption that the strike will have a
-serious effect in Germany.
He says no strike or revolt in Prus
sia can be taken seriously until it has
von its spurs.
Workmen Forced to Subscribe.
The mind and moral will , of the
whole population have been, made me
" chanica by year? of military drill.
.Itir nsJUbfc. remembered too, thai,
strike funds are almost nonesistent in
Prussia, for. though the workmen
have been earning high wages, they
virtually have been compelled to sub"
scribe nearly all to the war loans and,
get no interest.?
Newsoaoer opinion in London re
garding the strike is divergent. Some
papers incline 10 me ucuci ui$i mt
strike really denotes the growing
strength of a a democratic' spirit "in
Germany, while others faor the view
that the whole thing to a great extent
lias been engineered by the govern
ment for its own purposes.
The Daily News thinks it is obvious
that there has been spread into Ger
many and Austria some measure of
the spirit which dethroned the Rus
sian emperor. '
. Government Wants Strike.
On the other hand, the Daily ,Mail
s argues that if revolution is talked
about in Germany, it is because the
German government wants it to be
talked about
It says that it is virtually true that
no strike can happen in wartime un
less the government sees profit in it.
In their late editions the mornin'g
' papers print further items on the
strikes received by way of Holland,
(Continued 4n Ps Two, Column Four.) ,
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Sod of Baron Rothschild Dies.
London, Feb! .J .Alfred Charles de
j Rothschild of the banking family of
that name died last night. .
- Born in 1842, Alfred Gliarles de
Rothschild was the second son of
Baron Lionel de Rothschild.
At one time he was director f the
Bank of England. Mr. de Rothschild
. received the Victoria cross iir 1902.
The Weather,
Ft Nebraska Falrr warmer.
Temperature at Omaha Yesterday.
tiour. isvk.
5 a. m 10
6 a. m 10
7 a. m.. 10
8 a. m 8
9 a. m
10 a. m 2
11 a. m 3
1 p. ra 4
2 p. m S
3 p. m 10
4 p. m 12
' 5 p. m 12
6 p. m 11
7 p. m 10
5 D. m 11'
v Comparative Local Record.
117. 1916. 1915. 1914.
Highest yesterday,. 12 12 3 27
Jjowest jrieterday... 11 21 3 19
Mean temperature.. -. . 18 . - 23
A Brecipltation T .00 .00 .40
m (Temperature and precipitation departures
lYora the normal at Omaha since March 1,
and compared ;lth the last two yeara:
Normal temperature 21
Deficiency for the day 21
Total deficiency since March 1... 740
Normal precipitation 03 Inch
rwficlency for the day 03 inch
Total ramfall incs March 1. .22.48 inches
deficiency since March 1. 7.44 inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1916.12.63 inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 191S. .66 inch
Report From Stations at 7 P. M.
Cheyenne, clear..'...... J4 40 .00
Station and State Temp. High- Raip
of Weather. - ' 7 p. m. est. fall,
t'avenport. clear...... 2 ' 6 .00
Denver, celar 38 . 4 .00
De Moines, clear 4 8 .00
pods-) City, clear 20 US TOO
Tender, clear 4 -8 .00
North Pratte, clear.;.. 18 SO .80
Omaha, clear 10 13 T
Pueblo, clear 28 3 .01
Chicago, clear 2 - 12 .00
Salt Lake City, cloudy. 20 24 .09
Mnta-' Fe, clear r 80 34 .00
Sheridan, cloudy....... IS 18 .00
Sioux City, clear....... 10 13 .00
Valentine, clear.. It 24 .00
' T" Indicates trace of precipitation.
V indicate be tow zern,
L A. WJEUSU, Meteorologist.
in announcing its suppression for
taken because it incited to a mass
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GEORGE WALLACE
-DIES SUDDENLY IN
HOTEL IN LINCOLN
Sepretary cf Real Estate Board
of Omaha Fatally Stricken
With Heart Disease While
on Business Trip.
George G. Wallace was found dead,
probably of heart disease, in a room
at the Lincoln hotel, Lincoln, at 3:30
yesterday afternoon. He apparently
was in good health and was heard
whistling in his room at 7 o'clock in
the morning. ,
When Mr. Wallace had not left his
room late in the afternoonand did
not respond to the telephone the
GEORGE G. WALLACE.
clerk became suspicious arid looking
over the transom saw him lying dead
over the foot of the bed ir his night
clothing. He apparently had . died
early in the morning.
Mr. Wallace was attending to busi
ness in Lincoln for the state Young
Men s Christian association, of which
he was treasurer. He was prominent
in church work, being secretary of
the Central United Presbyterian
church Sunday school.
He recently was elected secretary
of the Omaha Real Estate board and
had been active in local -real estate
dealings.
Mr. Wallace was 50 years old and
is survived by his widow and two sons.
George M. Wallace, secretary and
sales' manager of the Nebraska Fuel
company, and Hugh E. Wallace, as
sistant secretary of the First. Trust
company.
Greeks Called to Colors.
London. Feb. 1. Sixteen xlasses of
Greek reservists have been called to
the colors, a Reuter disoatch from
Athens says. , I
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Gerrit Fort Will Direct All
Railroad Passenger Affairs
Washington, Feb. -1. Gerrit Fort,
of Omaha, passenger traffic manager
for the Union Pacific, today became
passenger traffic director for the gov
ernment railroad administration as a
special assistant toEdward W. Cham
bers, general traffic director
Mr.' Fort has been in Washington
at the request of Director General
McAdoo, and friends have anticipated
his appointment
Some of he- Union Pacific of
ficials have Teamed of the opin
ion that if Mr, Fort should"
join the McAdoo onicial tamily
the appointment yuld be only
temporary pr during the continuance
of the war and that for this reason
no successor would be named. Others
are of the opinion that B. L. Wir.chell,
director of traffic for the Union Pa
cific system, jyould, take charge of the
passenger business. and direct It from
his office. There are still other rail- .
road officials who are inclined to the
belief that it is more than likely that
General Passenger Agent Basinger
will be i romoted .nd given charge of
the entire passenger business of the ,
system, at feast during Mr. , Fort's
service with the government.
RUSS RffS
TAKE GREAT SLAV
PORT OF ODESSA
Osenburg Also Falls Before
Bolshevik Onslaughts; Rou
manians Seize Bessara
bian Capital. . N
(By Associated Press.)
Tassv. Roumania. Sunday, Jan. 27.
Odessa was captured by -the bol
sheviki Saturday night. The bolshe
vikj troops are now in full control of
that city.' ' ' ' '
Kishinev, capital of Bessarabia and
the scene of JVwish massacres ' 15
years ago, was taken today by Rou
manian forces who were sent there
in response to an appeal for aid from
the local Bessarabian government. :
' Odessa is the most important city
and seaport of sotithe.n Russia and
the fourth ky of the empire in pop
ulaion. It is located in the govern
ment of Kherson, a short distance
east of the mouth of the Dnieper
river, 90 miles southwest of Kher
son and; about. 400 miles northeast of
Constantinople. The city is of mod
ern growth and well laid out' and
wears a west European rather than
a Russian aspect..
Reds Take Orenburg.
Fetjograd, Feb. 1. The bolsheviki
have captured Orenburg, capital of
the government of Orenburg.
Orenburg is situated on the right
bank of 'the Ural, river in European
Russia, a short distance west of the
Asiatitirontier; It is a railroad junc
tion of considerable importance and
also a manufacturing center.
POLES DECLARE
WAR AGAINST
THE BOLSHEVIKI
London, Feba 1. News has reached
Kiev from -Minsk trjat the. Polish le
eion has declared war against the Bol
sheviki,. a, Reuter diipatclHwMtt.TPo
trograd says, ..,,-.
Both the German and Russian
armies contain divisions made up of
Poles. , V
The Germans had organized a Pol
ish legion, but it was disbanded sev
eral months ago to make way for a
Polish na.ional army. V '
Minsk is behind the Russian lines,
which would indicate that thePoles
in the Russian . army have revolted
against the Bolsheviki.
U. . Puts Ban on Boost in
- Price of Substitute Cereals
Washington. Feb. 1. Unwarranted
price increases in wheat flour substi
tutes will not be permitted. The food
administration tonight gave warning
to dealers that they must not take
advantage of temporary shortages in
other cereals brought on by the heavy
demand the new baking regulations
has caused.
Manv complaints reached Food Ad
ministrator Hoover today that dealers
in the substitutes already have begun
to lift their prices.
NEW BRAND OF
American Soldiers Object to
" Having "German" t Disease.
MEASLES FOR U. S.
Cam Dix. N. J.. Feb. Contend.
ing that it sounds unpatriotic to have
German measles, the soldiers at the
cantonment here who are suffering
from the much-abused malady 'have
started a movement to change the
name of the disease to "Liberty meas
les." '
Camp surgeons who, have heard the
gibes and jokes aimed at their pa
tients are so sympathetic, it was said
today, they might make an appeal to
Washington to have a new brand of
measles officially desigpated,
Gerrit Ior6
FORMER CZAR'S DAUGHTERS SOON
' TO BE MEMBERS OF BOLSHEVIKI
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Titiana and Olga Romanoff, daughters of the" former czar of Russia,
are reported to be espousing the Bolsheviki cdtic and attending radical
meetings in Tobolsk,1 according to Edward A. Ross, professor of sociology
at the University of Wisconsin. Prof. Ross arrived here recently from
Russia, where he spent five months.
sincere and springs from the' heart
the liberation of the people, the establishment of world peace and the in
stitution of a system of pure industrial socialism. -
CORONER'S JURY CHARGES .
JEWELRY STORE ROBBERS
WITH MURDER OF ROONEY
Orders Men Held, Without Bail for Trial and Women ill
Witnesses; Policemen Describe Fight at Fourteenth
Avenue House, Shooting of Detectives and
Capture of Prisoners.
The coroner's jury yesterday afternoon returned k verdict
charging the death of Police Detective Frank Rooney to one of
the five bandits who were captured in the house at 3207 North
Fourteenth' avenue Wednesday night, after a pitched battle in
which Rooney lost his life.
The jury recommended that the five bandits be held for
trial for murder in the first degree, and that Mrs. Buhl C. Kirke
be held for investigation, and her sister, Miss Anna VJil, as a
witness.
VERDICT OF JURY. O
The verdict was as follows:
. "We, the jury, find that Frank
Rooney came to his death from a bul
let wound in the abdomen, received
at 3207 North Fourteenth avenue on
January 30, 1918, at 8:15 p. m and
that said shot was fired by either
Buhl C. Kirke, Frank Martin, Sam
Stone, Thomas . McKay or Harry
Williams. We recommend that all five
men be held without bail for trial for
murder in the first degree. We fur
ther recommend that Mrs. B. C. Kirke
be held for further investigation and
that Anna Uhl be held without bonds
as state's witness,'"
BANDITS IN COURT.
Foiir.of the five bandits who robbed
the jewelry store of Harry Malasshock
1514 Dodge street, late Wednesday
afternoon and who, a few hours later
added murder to their crime, were in
the large court room, in the court
house where the inquest was held.
Each handcuffed to a policeman, they
sat in the front row of chairs. Mc
Kaythe fifth bandit, is in St. Joseph's
hospital.
Woman Handcuffed, Too.
: Mrs. B. C. Kirke, the woman cap
tured at the , house, was there also,
handciffed to the police matron.
Throughout the inquest she kept hef
face almost, entirely covered with the
fur cojlar of her coat, cowering away
from the gaze uf the crowd.
The four bandits seemed indiffer
ent to the proceedings with the ex
ception of Harry Williams, a sallow
young fellow, who leaned anxiously
forward to hear every word of the
testimony. Sam Stone, his head
swathed in bandages, sat with a scowl
on his face. Bs C. Kirke paid
(Continued on Fare Two, Column One.)
f 8 Now Chamber of
s Commerce of, Omaha
The Commercial club Is no longer
the Commercial club. It has out
grown its name It is now the
Omaha Chambet of Commerce.
This'waa officially made so at the
Thursday meeting of the board of
director!.
The club has Jong been a con
stituent rnjember of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, and
the endency of the natioAal body
has long been to induce all con
stituent members to adopt the uni
form name. Many of the eastern
commercial cluos ' have already ,
adopted the new name, and the
Omaha body will henceforth be
known officially as the ' Omaha
Chamber of Commerce.'
He said the Bolsheviki movement is
of Russia itself and has as its object
ROYAL CRITIC
TOPS WORLD'S
PRICE RECORD
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Iowa Man Pays $2,600 for
Noted Brood Sow at Salrf
Held in Missouri
Valley.
Missouri Valley, la., Feb! 1. (Spe
cial Telegram.) The world's record
for high price pork was reached here
today when H. S. FaW of Emmets
burga., paid $2,600 for Royal Critic
536798, a pure bred Duroc-Jersey
brood sow, at the hog sale of Fred
Swan.
The price paid for Royal Critic
tops the world's previous recordby
just $10. She was sold at auction by
Colonel N. T. Krashel of HarlanJa.,
and the sale pjice averaged$375 a
pound. At the' sale 47 head of other
sows averaged $250 a head.
When Big Critic was put on the
block spirited bidding commenced,
and in less time than it takes to tell
it the bids mounted to $2,000.
ISig Critic is 2 years old and is said
to be th largest sow of her age in the
world. On October 4. 1917, she
weighed 800 pounds. She was sired
by Big Cr.'tic 169065. Her dam is
Miss Libby 461216.
This classy brood sow romped
away with ,all the grand champion
ships lat the National Swine show in
1917, and it is claimed she can win
championship ribbons in any show
during 1918. ,
Hit Sunday Amusements
At Army Cantonments
Washington, Feb. 1. A committee
representing the Lord's day alliance
of the United States, embracing 16
religious denominations, urged Presi
dent Wilson today to preVent Sundav
amusements at army and navy train
ing camps and posts. The committee
also asked the president to support
the bill before congress to prohibit
unnecessary work in the District of
Columbia on Sunday. The president
was understood to have favored both
proposals.
RUPTURE LOOMS
NEAR WHEN SHIPS
ARE HELD IN PORT
Spain's Refusal to Permit Shipment of Supplies to Pershi
ing Cause of Strained Relations; German Influ
ence Believed Responsible .for Spanish Ac- ; v ;
tion; U7 S. in Position to Dictate.
Washington, Feb. 1. Spain's interference with the ship
ment of supplies consigned across its frontiers to the'' American
army iii France and the e lies may meet with swift retaliation
on the part of the United States and the entente nations, ac
cording to indications here today. . , - :
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TORTURE O.S.
OFFICERS TO
GEUECRETS
Captured Men Put in Cages and
Starved Four Days; Germans
Hope to Obtain' Military
Information.
(By Aanoelated FreM.)
With the American Army in France.
Thursday. Jan. 31. American officers
at the front have come into posses
sion of documents said to have been
taken from Germans opposite our po
sitions and which deal with the
treatment to be -accorded, prisoners.
The documents say that all prison
ers, including commissioned and non
commissioned officers, after being
captured, are to be kept in cages for
four riavx without fnnd and rntiinelW
flo stand all the time. .
, At the end of the, four-day period,
only small quantities of food are to
be 'given. -'--: '.;
tiAJthough ' definite information " on
the) point is lacking, some American
officers today expressed the belief
that the orders resulted .from the
difficulties the Germans probably ex-
fierieaced.in extracting information
rom the first Ame.icm prisoners cap
tured in November. Such treatment
of prisoners, it is felt, could be de
signed only to make them give up.
military information.
Fuel Body Boosts Price of
Illinois Coal to $7.85 Ton
On the recommendation of the
Douglas county fuel committee, the
maximum retail ton price of central
district Illinois coal, to be sold in
the city of Omaha, k increased from
$7.50 n $7.85. The former price was
based in part on supplies of central
district coal on hand, which had been
purchased at low prices. These sup
plies hae been exhausted.' "
On the recommendation of the com
mittee, the maximum retail ton prices
and gross margins for coal and coke,
to be delivered at th yards, to con
sumers in the county of Douglas,
outside of the city of Omaha, shall be
the Omaha prices and margins, plus
any excess freight over the Omaha
rate, Jess $1 on .coal and $1.25 on
coke, these amounts being: i.llowed
for delivery in Omaha.
Omaha is Hoping the
Groundhog is Blind
Today will be "groundhog" day."
The groundhog will come from
the hole where he has been spending
the winter. If the sun is shining and
he sees his shadow he will give a
frightened "woof" and run back in his
hole. And then we will have six
weeks more of winter. If it is cloudy
he won't sec his shadow, he will stay
out and go about his business and we
will have sprin right away.
Everybody is hoping for a cloudy
day. Colonel Welsh of the weather
bureau says he hopes the-groundhog
is blind.
Right Off the Bat
The Bee Leads in
Total Display Advertising
And shows the greatest gain for the
' Month of January f .
Here's the Score by Inches:
(Hayhes Adv. Co. Measurements) ' '
ia'7. 1918
. ( Bee ......22,319 23,797N "
World-Herald ...... .22,372 . - 23,689 :
News . . . 22,608 23,778
Bee gains . . .... . ' . . . . 1,478 '
World-Herald gains .... ..1,317 .
News gains 1,170
Keep Your Eye
Improving
SrANISH VESSELS HELD. ,
Although the war trade board de.
nied last night that sailing of all
Spanish ships in American ports had
been held up, it Is known that ccr
tain vessels flying" the Spanish iflag
and reay to depart were refused clear,
nces. v ',"-.' i; V,-
PHRSHINO GIVES SPAIN LARGE
ORDERS.
The United States is ; particularly
comerned in the matter because of
large orders placed in Spain ,by Gen
eral Pershing. ' ,
Since Spain reliei io a great extent
on the United States for food", this ' -government
is in i position to force
a lifting of any embargo placed by
Spain. . , - ' ;
Shipments Are Stopped! '
Spam's official reason for stopping'
the shipment ofSupplies across its
frontiers into , France is ' that the
Spanish railroad system has broken
down, but charges of German mflu
ence, said to be strong with a consid
erable element , of the Spanish gov
ernment, have been made. . ..'
It has been charged also that goods
from Spaii.sh Morocco " have been
reaching dcrmany by way of Switier
laud and the Swiss port of entry in
France.-. - .,; .-. i'-
Adjustment of the foreign expha,ogfe
rate- with Spa n lotemove the prcm
ium American business Is paying now
ir another problem awaiting solu
tion, o " . i . V-V .(
TURKS PROPOSE.
SEPARATE PEACE
WITH CAUCASIANS
London. Feb. f. It is reported in
Moscow that the Turks have proposed X.
a separate peace to the trans-Caucasian
council of workmen's ' and . sol
diers'; delegates. . v , "
It is said that negotiations, are fn
progress looking to the restoration of '
steamship services between Odessa
and Constantinople ind Odessa and
Galatz. , . -
Five more entente warships have'
arrived at Vladivostok, according to.
special dispatches from Petrograd.
It is added that China, acting off
allied advice, has forbidden exporta
tion of foodstuffs to Russia. :
; The Mussulmen in south Russia! in
cluding the Crimea, are reported to
nave lormea a government, in opposi
tion to the Bolsheviki and are co-operating
w:th the Ukraine. More than
20,000 Mussulman troops are said: to
be. acting against the Bolsheviki in the
south. i i
The BKtish embassy in Petrograd
on January 26 informed the Bolshe
viki government that British warships
were at Vladivostok to protect allied
subjects against possible, disorder.
Nebraska Leads in the
- Sale oi Thrift Stamps
Omaha letter carriers sold $41,900
woi th of war . savings - stamps on
Thursday of this week. On ihe same
day the total sales in Nebraska, as
reported to the local postoffice, was
$154,000. "Nebraska n&w heads the list'
of states. 'It has bought more war
savings stamps per capita than any
other state.
on The Bee.
Every Day. '