THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY G. 1918.
SAYS AMERICA
IS PREPARED
! FOR WAR WORK
f : Chairman Flood Tells House of
i Representatives That U. S.
is Exceeding Expectations
of Allies.
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J ' Wasntngton, Feb. 5. Tlie United
.States will furnish more men and
J "money for the war in a "far shorter
jj time than has been the fondest hope
of our own or the nation w'th which
I I we are associated," Chairman Flood
I lof the foreign affairs committee de
f :clared in the house today, in present
I .ing the diplomatic and consular ap
t propriation bill.
The chairman's assertion was
I Jo connection with his discussion of
j Colonel House's mission to Great
j 'Britain and France, and was made in
J the course of an outline given the
t -house of the State department's war
activities.
I I Complete Understanding.
C I As the result of the wjrk of the
1 'mission,, Mr. Flood said, "a complete
'understanding exists of precisely what
J the allies need from this country and
t exactly what this country can furnish
I and when and how." . -
; , Under the secretaries of alate, war
i and navy, he declared, the country
will furnish "more in men and means
t than was expected of us "
The appropriation bill as presented
I by Chairman Flood tarries $8,206,087
' i for the next fiscal year, $3,000,000
more than the current appropriation,
t because of increased war burdens,
j The increase provides for 25 new
t secretaries to embassies and legations,
- t many additional clerks, augmented
i secret funds and other allowances.
I ; ' Results of Japanese Visit. -
With the Stare department's ganc
5 tion, Mr. Flood told how the Japanese
mission' visit here resulted in ex
I change of notes between Secretary
Lansing and Viscount Ishii, which, he
; said, '.'removed causes of friction be
tween the two countries and works
" for peace in the far east, making quite
, remote the possibility so, often dis
cussed of trouble between this coun
try and Japan.
Rationing of neutrals, involving an
Interference with some of the vital
supplies of such countries as Holland,
Denmark and Sweden," he said, "is a
matter calculated to create intense
irritation, with the tangible risk of its
developing into enmity.
Too much cannot be said of the
splendid manner in which the State
department handled this delicate sit
uation. "There is no friction with any of
the neutrals growing out of the course
which our government was compelled
to pursue with reference to these
matters."
Senator From New
York Says Machine
Is All Entangled
(Continued From Pa Oo.)
brought together, co-ordinated and
settled upon.
"I realize that some may contend
that the president can name all these
directors snd there is no need for
any additional element in our war
time machinery. f
"My contention is that, be he ever
so' able, no president no human being
can perform such a task.
"It is ..tterly impossible for one
man to examine into all these intri
cate questions. The days and nights
are not long enough,"
Referring to the committee's war
inquiry, Senator Wadsworth said if
had covered only a part of the ground
and to investigate all army activities
which might justify inquiry would not
permit the committee to finish its
work during the present sessions of
congress.
Centralize Authority.
"In both the ordnance and quarter
master's departments," he said, "we
had a distressing state of affairs.
Those who attended every day be
came deeply impressed with the con
viction that purchase and production
and initial distribution of the vast
amount of supplies must be essentially
an industrial operation and that mili
tary men, with rare exceptions, are
incapable of bringing about the best
results."
All of the expert civilians appearing
before the committee, Senator Wads
worth declared, testified in the same
direction "proper centralization of
authority established, preferably, by
statute, .whose decisions may be
promptly reached and accepted as
final,'
Lack of preparedness before the
war, the senator said, is costing,
"many, many lives and millions of
dollars," besides prolonging the war.
On the railroads, the senator de
clared, goods with blue priority or
ders have exceeded normal shipments,
and in the e.st 68 per cent of all
freight was so tagged.
Railroads ir. Hopeless Jam.
'"W hat has been the result?" he ask
ed. "A hopeless jam and congestion
of onr railroad transportation facil
ities. "A million three hundred thousand
tons of munitions and supplies are
piled upon the docks along our At
lantic coast, billed to France and Italy
alone. ,
"Some are deteriorating rapidly. In
some places locomotives, boilers and
great piles of shells and other im
portant materials have been dumped
out upon the ground and lie rusting
in winter weather."
Relying to the government's hand
ling of the coal industry, the senator
said:
"As a result of lack of planning
we have great communities starving
for coal, and an order issued by the
fuel administration closing down
thousands of factories and throwing
out of work hundreds of thousands
of men and women, costing millions
of dollars in wages and delayed pro
duct, and crippling, for the time being,
those very activities upon which we
must depend for the winning of the
war."
"Other emergencies will overtake
us," Senator Wadsworth said in con
clusion. "If we are wise and prudent
and far sighted, we shall establish
some agency in our government,
whether it be called a war cabinet or
by some other name, whose members
shall sit around a council table, every
day, morning, noon and night, and
devote their whole time and every
ability toward working out in advance
the methods of meeting and overcom
ing the emergencies."
Army Waiting for
Word From General
Von Hindenburg
(Continued From Pfe One.)
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zcitung
that the blow is now ready to fall
whenever Hindenburg give the word,
and it can only lead to victory.
"The year of decision has dawned,"
writes Von Olberg. "A feeling of
foreboding already permeates our
enemies, and the cry for aid from
Japan and America is constantly
eard.
"Yet the enemy leaders know that
the United States cannot even make
up for the number of men France and
England were obliged to send to
Italy's aid,, especially as the troops
they were sending from America are
inexperienced and la k tracing.
!s2 Damage
Sate
Tlie Reason for This , Greatest
of All Sales
1 The heating in our Annex Department has been from a forced hot &ir
system. ' Through a series of unavoidable circumstances covering a period
of the past 90 days, the heat has been loaded with smoke.
It noticeably soiled the white collars and the delicate evening shades.
It immaterially soiled every garment in the stook.
' We took it up with the First National Bank, and they said: "Sell the
merchandise and we will stand our part." We stand the balance.
The Amount of Garments Offered
Approximately $20,000 Worth of
Merchandise is Offered for This Sale
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. It Will Include Coats, Suits, Dresses, Furs, Waists and Skirts.
We have taken every garment in the stock and put a price on it that
hardly represents the value of the tailoring. We have taken 200 garments
from the finest Beady.to-Wear Store in Omaha (our Farnam Street Store),
. V &nd have put prices on these that are on the same basis as the soiled ones
,. from the Annex Department. , t
' ' 1 This is a sale where every garment must be soldi We realise this and
you will appreciate it when you see the prices we have marked on the gar
, meats. ..'''
No matter how little you want to spend, we will have a garment fw
you at this sale.
Wednesday is Dress Day
Wednesday will be devoted to the selling of Dresses only. Dresses of.
every sort, for morning, afternoon, evening. Dresses for the loifice, Dresses
for the street, Dresses for parties, Dresses that make old ladies look young.
There are Silk Dresses, Serge Dresses, Velvet Dresses, Velour Dresses, Net
Dresses, Satin Dresses your Dress is here. ; COME EARLY.
Dresses Dresses Dresses
AT- -AT- -AT-
$4.95 $9.85 $12.50
Dresses Dresses Dresses
AT -AT AT
$14.85 $17.50 $19.85
THE HOUSE OF
ENAGH ANNEX
"We are quite aware that America
will do its utmost to assist with
money and war material and will
probably send many technical troops
and aviators, but we are prepared for
every contingency.
"America cannot possibly do more
than she (fid when ostensibly neutral.
"So we meet the coming year full
of confidence. Our position on the
western front must improve daily
and an equalization of forces is taking
place there, where the enemy has al
ways been numerically superior.
"In addition, all our munition fac
tories are working for one front and
the whole of our enormous reserves
of material will be at once dispatched
thither.
"With deep feelings of relief our
troops on the western front are be
ginning to realize that the days of
trench warfare are almost at an end.
"Up and at the enemy at last.
"Our rear is free and we have the
reserves at our disposal.
"The great blow can now fall.
"Where and when? Those ques
tions the enemy leaders are anxiously
asking themselves.
"The reply is 'wherever and when
ever Hindenburg wishes.' We know
that he will choose the time and place
that will lead to victory."
The German fleet, too, is to partici
pate in the coming offensive, accord
ing to the Tageblat.
"The German fleet, relieved of anx
iety and pressure in its rear," says
this newspaper, "can now turn to the
west with its full strength.
"The task of the British fleet, even
if it is supported by its allies, will be
difficult. We have full faith in the
German navy, which has so often ex
hibited its will to victory and its ca
pacity to fulfill its duty."
Decisive Blow to
Be Fought on West
Front, Say Germans
(Continued From Fge One.)
on duty until the firing ceased and
the danger was over.
All injured men late- went to a hos
pital for full treatment.
Many of the Americans have had
their first experiences with gas in the
last few days,' as the Germans have
been sending over a considerable
number of gas shells.
None came over this afternoon, but
an alarm was given.
The chief of staff of one division
and another staff officer who were
motoring to a village back of the lines
came upon several companies, all the
men in masks. The officers hurriedly
put on their own masks and rode on
toward the front line. At the next vil
lage the men were wearing masks.
The officers kept theirs on until
they saw, through a shell hole in the
side of a brick wall, 20 infantrymen
with no masks on, rolling dice as if
nothing had happened.
U. 3. Troops Near Toul.
The sector occupied by the Amer
ican troops is northwest of Toul. It
is inadvisable to mention the number
of men in line, the length of the sector
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303 SOUTH 16TH STREET. FIRST NATIONAL BANE. BLDGt.
- Schedule of Sale:
ThursdaySUITS. i Friday COATS. Saturday-SKIRTS, TOES and
WAISTS. Monday and Tuesday FINAL.
Bargains in Refinished
PIANOS
Spies, Mahogany $175
Ho.pe, Oak $300
Steger & Son, Mas S125
Hinze, Oak 8240
Kimball, Oak. . $259
Hospa, Ebony $135
Bush & Lane, Oak $450
Hop., Oak $235
Cable-Nelson, Wa! $290
Manning Rose $ 80
Player Piano Bargains
Apollo ($850) S350
Price A Teeple Player,
Oak $300
Whitney PUyer $300
Player Rolls. . . . 25 Up
You Pay Down a Little, Then
a Small Sum Weekly
or Monthly.
DO IT NOW
A. Hospe Co.
1513 Douglas St
Home of the
APOLLO REPRODUCING
PIANO.
Cocoanut Oil Fine
For Washing Hair
Heavy Death Toll
By U-Boat Sinkings
London, Feb. 5. Girman U
boats, according to a reply given
by Andrew Bonar Law, govern
ment leader in the House of Com
mons today, have killed 14,120
noncombatant British men, women
and children.
and other details. The location of
the sector was kept secret until it
became certain that the enemy had
discovered it.
Toul, capital tt the department of
Mcuthe-Et-Moselle, is 14 miles west
of Nancy anc is a fortress of the first
class.
The present battle line is about 16
miles north of Toul, where it ex
tends eastward from St. Michel
toward the German border. Recently
there have been raids by French
troops in the region of Sdchepray.
When the American trench was
raided last November it was in the
German official statement that the
Americans were stationed along the
Marne-Rhine canal, northwest of
Luneville. Toul is about 28 miles west
northwest of Luneville.
U S. SOCIALISTS
BACK B0LSHEVIK1
PEACEJR0GRAM
Chicago, Feb. 2. The national ex
ecutive committee of the socialist
party announced its peace program
today. An address to President Wil
son and members of congress sup
ports the bolsheviki peace proposi
tions and calls upon the administration
at Washington to join in the discus
sion between the central powers and
the Bolsheviki and to attempt to get
other entente allies to join.
It asserts that mere statements of
peace conditions are futile and likely
to multiply causes of disagreement.
Belligerent nations, it says, must meet
one another in conference. It asks
that the United States recognize the
present de facto government at Petro
grad. The executive committee sent a re
quest to Secretary of State Lansing
that it be permitted to forward,
through Russian socialists, the follow
ing to Leon Trotzky:
"Convey congratulations of socialist
party of America to comrades of Ger
many and Austria on recent revolu
tionary activities for peace."
A message of congratulations was
addressed to Trotzky direct.
Dr. John Hoist to Riley -In
Service of Uncle Sam
Dr. John Hoist left Sunday night
for Fort Riley, where he will be in
charge of the ear, eye, nose and
throat work there.
Dr. Hoist has the rank of first lieu
tenant in the medical corps-
ATTENTION
MUSIC LOVERS
We are cf faring extraordinary
values in
BAND INSTRUMENTS
UKULELES
GUITARS
BANJOS
VIOLINS
and other small instruments.
Teachers' supplies at special
prices. All the latest hits in
Sheet Music, 10c per copy.
Mail orders receive prompt
attention.
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PIANO COMPANY
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Nebraska Postmasters
Confirmed by Senate
Washington, Feb. 5. (Special Tele
gram.) The following Nebraska post
masters were confirmed by the senate
late yesterday:
Isaac T. Merchant, Adams; R. E.
Harmon, Auburn; Clarence R. Tweed,
Bassett; George W. Norris, Beaver
Crossing; Marie A. Lybolt, Bruns
wick; James C. Frandsen, Dalton;
George Beckler, Deshler; James W.
Carson, Edgar; Robert G. Hall, Fair
mont; Andrew B. Anderson, Florence;
Edwin Cutts, Giltner; lames J. Mc
Carthy, Greeley; Fritz A. Rasmussen,
Hershey; Orren Slote, Litchfield; Ira
Lucy, Long Pine; C. F. Beushausen,
Loup City; Joseph J. Heelan, Mullen;
John S. Callan, Odell; Fred Wolter,
Ohiowa; Lizzie Smith, Riverton; Will
iam T. Cropper, Sargent; John C. Vo
line, Sou'th Auburn; Edward H. Hines,
Thedford.
The postoffice at Springfield, Neb.,
having been made presidential, Repre
sentative Lobeck has recommended
the present incumbent, Carl H. Olde
rog. for appointment
The State department advises that
Morris Schalafer of Omaha, assistant
secretary of the embassy at Stock
holm, arrived safely at his post on
February 2.
Many Are Injured in
Iowa Train Wreck
Clinton, la., Feb. . A number of
persons are reported injured in a col
lision this morning between a passen
ger and an oil train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad north
of Clinton.
The wreckage is in flames.
Chicago, Feb. 5. At the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad gen
eral offices it was said two freight
trains collided north of Clinton, la.,
this morning, but there were no fatal
ities, so far as the office had been advised.
Cashier of Defunct
Institution to Be
Tried on 3 Counts
(Continued From Pe One.)
Sears of near Decatur furnished the
$1,000 bond.
Elliott has engaged as his at
torneys, W. M. Hopewell of Tekamali,
and T. R. Ashley of Decatur.
The high financiering of Elliott
attracted wide attention nearly .wo j
years ago, when the state board
closed the doors of his bank :.nd took
charge of affairs.
At that time The Bee exposed the
methods employed in the manage
ment of the bank's affairs in a series
of articles which led the bankers ot
the state to insist repeatedly to the
authorities that this case be pushci
to the limit for the good of the banu
ing interests of the state
First Real Case.
It was the first real case of the
failure of a state bank under the new
depositors' guarantee law, and bank
ers all over the state were anxiou-.
that the machinations of the cashier
be ferreted out to the bottom in order
that the state board might know how
to guard against similar financial ex
plosiems in the future.
The late Secretary Royce of . the
banking board had already in his an
nual report asked for more authority
to determine as to the fitness of any
set of individuals who might apply
for a banking charter.
The Decatur case and the setua
tional expose which followed it wen
said to have influenced the state board
in refusing a charter to several in
dividuals who sought to start a smail
bank in Omaha shortly after the Dc
catur blow-up.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
to Success.
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Cjy Cfashion Center fir Women0
New Springtime Silks
' Weaves, patterns and colors
that will dominate the com
ing season are here in plenty.
Hindu and Moon Glo Crepes
Foulards and many others.
May we have the pleasure of show
ing them all to you at an early date?
A La Grecquc
Corsets for Milady
Select your corseta as you do
your shoes, get them good, give
them more consideration as to
fit and quality, rather than
price.
Allow one of our ctfrsetieres to
fit you correctly in a new La
Grecque model. Properly fitted
they insure perfect comfort.
$3 to $15 a Pair
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Gloves for Dress
And Shopping" Wear
Trefousse kid gloves for
dress wear are the best of
French importation and
Are sold in Qmaha only in
the Thompson - Belden
store.
To be had in colors, white and
black, with self or contrasting
embroideries, $1.75 to $3.25.
Silk and fabric gloves, from
75c to $1.75 a pair.
t nrant. in Vpn vour hair in
good condition, be careful what you
wash it with.
Most soaps and prepared shampoos
.nnt.in Mn much alkali. This dries
the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and
is very harmful, just piain muismea
cocoanut oil (wnicn is pure ana en
frrniWO . is much better than
the most expensive soap or anything
else you can use tor snampooing, as
this can't possibly injure the hair.
Simply moisten your nair wun
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spoonfuls will make an abundance of
rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the
hair and scalp thoroughly, ina latner
rinses out easily and removes every
particle of dust, dirt, danaruii ana
excessive oil. The hair dries quickly
and evenly, and it leaves it fine and
silky, bright, fluffy and easy to man
age. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil
at most any drug store. It is very
cheap, and. a few ounces Is enough to
last everyone in the family for
months. Advertisement.
Looking for work? Turn to the
Help Wanted Columns now. You
will find hundred nf nositions fisted
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