OIL IS INCLUDED
IN U. S. CONTROL
ONNDUS TRIES
President Issues Proclamation
Putting Under License Manu
facture 2nd Distribution
. of All Fuel Oils.
Washington, Feb. 5. Government
control of industry was extended to
oil in a proclamation by President
Wilson tonight putting under license
the manufacture and distribution of
all fuel oils.
No mention is made of other oils
' or oil products, including gasoline
and kerosene, but they too probably
will be put under control soon.
Authority under the proclamation
is to be vested in Mark L. Requa of
California, recently named as chief of
the fuel administration s oil division
Licenses must be obtained before
February 11 by all manufacturers and
distributors whose gross sales of fuel,
including gas oil, amount to more
than 100,000 barrels year.
A series of regulations drawn by
the fuel administration establishes in
the east a list of preferential "con
sumers who must bfr supplied in the
order they are given regardless of
contracts outstanding.
License Essential Industries.
Difficulties of transportation, it is
declared both in the president's proc
lamation and in a statement prepared
by the fuel administration, make
licensing necessary that essential in
dustries be supplied. . .
Operation of the control will cut
the supplies of the less essential In
dustries where lack of transportation
creates a shortage. The preferential
list is set forth as follows:
Railroads and bunker fuel.
Export deliveries or shipments for
the army or navy.
Export shipments for the navies
tnd other war purposes 'of the allies.
Hospitals where oil is now being
used for fuel. ,
Public utilities and domestic con
sumers now using fuel oil, including
gas oil
Shipyards, engaged in government
work. ,
Navy yards " v
ON PREFERENTIAL LIST, , :
Anenala. . : ; '
Plants engaged in the' manufacture,
production and storage of food prod
ucts. ; ' ' '':.(- I
Army and navy cantonments where
oil now is being used for fuel.'
, Industrial consumers engaged in
articles under government or.
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I All other classes, v r ?
In issuing the' preferential list the
fuel administration at the same time
exempted all users of oil from the
'operation of the Monday' closing or
der as it has been shown that most
of the: oil consumers already were
excepted under previous exemptions.
This exemption includes not only
users of fuel oils, but also consumers
of all petroleum and petroleum prod
ucts. : r :;'''- ;.'"
Oil Steamships Withdrawn.
The proclamation is issued under
the food controhact.
The president savs that nearly one
half of the fleet of oil tankers which
have brought dfl frbiri Mexico to the
United States have been withdrawn
from the service tolupply the Amer
ican and allied navies. : This has de
pleted the oil supply hr the United
States to a considerable extent, and
has created a serious situation in the
east. In the west, too," especially in
California, consumption 'is outstrip
ping production; ; v.vj ;; ) ,
Art explanatory ; statement , issued
tonight by the.. net administration
said: .,v;,! -,i , .
"These rules and regulations! are
promulgated by the president fop the
purpose of assuring an adequate supt
ply and equitable distribution of fuel
oil, for purposes vitally essential to
the national security and defense and
to the successful prosecution of ,the
war," ' :.;,..
Council Hears Protests
On Closing Dance Halls
City council was flooded with pe
titions from organizations opposed io
impending closure of public dance
halls.
The matter will be up for discus
sion in the city council, chamber next,
Monday morning at 10 o'clock, when
the whole world and his brother may
be heard. i
Local union of International Iron
Molders declared that closing 'of
dance halls would deprive them of
freedom and enjoyment after the
day's work. Cooks' and waiters' un
ion sent in a vigorous protest and
the steamfitters and plumbers were
likewise 'strong in opposition. The
Board of Public Welfare and Central
Labor union also protested.
Welfare Board Women
Meet and Shake Hands
The Board of Public Welfare met
to discuss a situation which has in
volved the wonking relations of
Superintendent Ohaus and Mrs.
Zaida .Dimond.
The differences between these two
women, have been city hall gossip
for some time, their friends stating
that each believes the other is work
ing at cross-purposes.
The board brought them together
and induced Mrs. Dimond to recog
nize that there must be discipline in
the affairs of the board if efficiency
is to be gained. i
With the understanding that Mrs.
Dimond will lend herself to the best
interests of the organization, the
board . decided not to ma.ke any
change in the working force at this
time. ;
Alleged "Check Artist"
Held For Investigation
Officer, Sullivan arrested Jack Ben
dixon, who says his address is SJ0
South Twenty-first street, last nigJC
on complaint that he has passed sev
ral worthless checks here. Bendixon
was arrested in the Henshaw hotel
and police say he is known as a
."check .artist" He came to Omaha
recently from Sioux City, la. He is
booked at the central station for in-
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! TELLS OF BEAUTIES
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OF UPRIGHT LIFE
Funeral of G. O. Wallace From
Central United Presbyterian
Church, of Which He
Was Member.
Funeral services for George G. Wal
lace, who died last Friday morning,
were held yesterday at the Cen
tral United Presbyterian church of
which he had been a member since its
organization. Rev. Frank Foster,
pastor of the First United Presby
terian church, officiated, assisted by
Rev. E. H. Jenks, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church.
Rev. Mr. Foster spoke of "The
Heavenly Mansions," dwelling upon
the beauties of an upright life spent
in good works and the upbuilding of
the community for righteousness.
"The influence of George G. Wal
lace's life for good in this community
cannot be measured," he said. "He
was never weary of well doing. He
accepted with gladness the most
onerous burdens from which he re
ceived no compensation except the
consciousness of duty done.
Leader in Sunday School.
"He was a leader in Sunday school
work, in Young Men's Christian as
sociation activities and in many other
praiseworthy things. He was super
intendent of the Sunday school of this
church for 18 years. lie was clerk of
the session of his denomination. He
was secretary of .the board of trustees
of Bellevue college for years.
these things came first with him.
He did not allow his large private
business to take him away from them.
He was a thinker as well as a
doer. Thirty years ago he advocated
prohibition. He was a pioneer cham
pion of prohibition in Nebraska. He
owned a newspaper in Pawnee City
at that time and he fought so firmly
against liquor at that early day that
some of his enemies once attacked
him on the street and he suffered
physical punishment for his faith."
Mrs. b. A. Baird sang bye natli
Not Seen Nor Ear Heard."
The Pallbearers.
The honora. pallbearers were
John L. McCague, George M. Welch,
William Baird, J. H. McWhinney, W.
T. Graham, G. S. Benawa, E. A. Ben
son and J. E. Douds.
Active pallbearers were J. Dean
Ringer, Byron R. Hastings, J. II. Mc
Millan. G. W. Noble, W. G. Ure and
E.-Ev McMillan.
, .Mrs. Mortimer J. Brown of Perth
Atnbov, N. J., a daughter of the de
ceased, and Mr. and Mrs. George P.
Bissell of Central City. Neb., were
here for, the funeral.
The body was placed in the receiv
ing vault at Forest Lawn cemetery,
to be interred later.
Navy Appeals for the
: Loan. of More Spy Glasses
Naval recruiting officers are mak
ing another appeal for binoculars, spy
glasses, telescopes, sextants and
chronieters for ue in fighting the
submarine, . i he appeal made several
weeks' ago was liberally responded to
and several glasses, sent from Omaha.
lhe glasses should be careful v
tagged- giving the name and address
of the owner. A careful record will
be kept and all-glasses returned at
the cpiiclusion of the war. Upon re
ceipt at the, ships -the owner will be
notified by iwhqiij,tJiey are being used
and for Iwnat purpose.
1 he. binocniarv.hortage has handi
capped men on submarine chasers
considerably in searching the sea for
periscopes ot .hostile submarines and
the jNavy department is making an
especial drivs for these articles at this
time. More than 6,000 were secured
in . the . United States following the
first, appeal. T . V
Qistrict' Board Needs
";ome Volunteer Help
;.The district exemption board is
again becoming swamped with ques
tiounairesr according to Chief Clerk
Sqtton And volunteer clerks ran be
ued for several days. Several days'
mail has not been opened due to the
shortage of help.
The office force provided bv the
government has been inadequate to
care for the work. Clerk Sutton and
his assistants ptovided by the gov
ernment have been working nights in
an endeavor to classify questionnaires
as rapidly as received from the local
boards, but the task proved too large.
renmanship is the only retire
ment for volunteer clerks. It is de
sired to have volunteers report as
soon as possible on what day they
can assist in order that desk room
may be provided for them.
Farmers Test Winter Wheat;
Find No Injury From Cold
Reports come to the railroads that
farmers out through Nebraska are
making tests of their winter wheat
for the purpose of ascertaining
whether it has been injured by the
intense cold of the winter. So far
the reports indicate that there has
been little, if any, injury, but it is ad
mitted that the critical period for the
grain will he during the next two or
three weeks, when thawing weather,
followed by quick and severe freezes,
is to be expected.
Only Half of Chauffeurs
Have Taken Licenses
Chauffeurs are warned by the su
perintendent of police that unless they
take out 1918 permits within a week
or so, the city license inspector will
be requested to take action. Only
1,006 permits have been issued, being
less than half. Every person driving
an automobile of any type for other
than his personal use is required by
law to have a city permit which
cost $1.
Tough Luck! "Evidence
Lands in Big Snow Bank
R. A. Thompson of Ainsley, Neb,
lays claim to the "bard luck" rec
ord. He was accosted by Officer
Chaddock on the Tenth street via
duct on suspicion that he had a
bottle of "booze" on his person. A
bottle was found, according to the
officer, but in the struggle which
followed Thompson succeeded in
wresting it away frpra the officer
and throwing it over the railing to
the tracks below. But the evidence
would not be destroyed, and it waa
found neatly imbedded in a snow
bank . into which . it had fallen.
Thompson was fined $100 and costs.
THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1918.
Billy Sunday and Rockefeller
Confer on Plans for Campaign
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"Billy" Sunday, the evangelist, and
John D. Rockefeller, jr., are working
out some joint idea. What it is will
not be disclosed for several weeks. Mr.
Rockefeller, who has been in Wash
ington sizing up the war situation,
and Sunday, who is in the midst of
his evangclistical campaign in the
GERMAN DEPUTY
GETS FIVE-YEAR
JAIL SENTENCE
Oittman, Socialist Leader,
Found Guilty by Court Mar
tial of Inciting Strike and
Ordered Imprisoned.
(Rjr Amoclalfd Frm.)
London, Feb. 5. Meager informa
tion concerning the strike situation in
Germany docs not make dear whether
the workmen returned to their tasks
Monday, as their leaders had advised
after threats of force had been issued
by the military authorities.
Wilhelm Dittman, an independent
socialist deputy in the Reichstag, has
been sentenced to confinement in a
fortress for five years by a court-martial
by which he was tried on charges
growing out of the strike movement.
Conferences in Berlin between
statesmen and military leaders of the
central powers are reported to -concern
the food question and the prob
able attitude toward Russia and the
Ukraine.
German political circles feel, a re
port says, that the retnrn to Berlin
of Foreign Ministers von Kuehlmann
and C;nn forecasts the breaking of
the negotiations at Brest-Litovsk.
Active fighting between the Rou
manians and the Bolshevik! has be
gun. Two Russian divisions were
captured by the Roumanians, who also
have gone to the aid of the authori
ties of Bessarabia against the Bol
sheviki. Heavy fighting is in progress in
Bessarabia between the Russians and
the Roumanians.
There has been no change from the
daily routine of raids and artillery
duels in France and Italy. Entente
aviators again have bombed the Ger
man submarine base at Zeebrugge.
Bombs also were dropped in the har
bor of Bruges.
Venice, Padua, Treviso and Mestre
have been bombed by Austro-Gerrnan
airmen. There was no loss of life or
property damage in Venice, but the
other cities suffered casualties ' and
property loss. Italian airplanes have
bombed the enemy rear lines and rail
way traffic.
Alfred Reeves to Talk to
Omaha Auto Men Friday
Alfred Reeves, vice president and
general manager of, the National Au
tomobile Chamber of Commerce, will
speak before the Omaha Automobile
Irade association at the Commercial
club at'noon Friday.
Officers and the executive commit
tee of the Commercial club and exec
utives from Omaha banks will be
guests of the auto trade association
at the meeting.
Mr, Reeves will speak on "The Fu
ture . of the Automobile Industry."
Mr. Reeves is locatea at Washington
and works in close co-operation with
the automobile industries committee
of the government, as well as the war
industries board and the war and
naval departments.
New York, With Zero
Weather, Faces Coal Famine
New York. Feb. 5. Zero weather
continued today and accentuated the
seriousness of the city's coal short
ge. Coal receipts were far below nor
mal and fuel administrators estimated
that the metropoli has but one day's
supply of coal ahead.
The thermometer registered 7 de
grees, below zero, making the day the
coldest, except one, in the history of
the local weather bureau.
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Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
"I have never found a medicine
for coughs or colds ' that equals
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,"
writes Mrs. Ella Martin, Andrews,
Ind.
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capital, had their heads together in
conference recently for more than an
hour. , At its conclusion neither the
evangelist nor Mr. Rockefeller would
give an indication of what their talk
was about, but promised that within
two or three weeks the i subject of
their conversation would be made
public.
EAST FACES FUEL
FAMINE WITH NU
RELIEF IN SIGHT
Low Temperatures Cause Dis
tress in Eastern States;
Industry Forced to
Close.
Pittsburgh, Feb. 5. Ten degrees
below zero was registered by the
weather bureau here today. At 9
o'clock there was a rise of one degree,
but no encouragement for relief from
the intense cold was offered.
The Allegheny and Monongahela
rivers, that had been partially opened
up by ice-breaking steamers and dyn
amite, in an attempt to avert serious
flood conditions and ice gorges, are
again frozen.
New England Freezes.
Boston, Feb. 5. A cold wave that
sent the temperature way below zero
swept over New England last night
and held on today with little prospect
of an early breaks
The mercury in Boston dropped to
10 below at 7 o'clockTthis morning.
Forty Below in Michigan.
Detroit, Feb. 5. Temperatures
ranging from 16 below zero in De
troit to 40 below in villages along the
west shore were recorded in Michigan
last night. The coal situation is the
worst it has been this winter. Prob
ably 35.000 persons were thrown out
of work here by factories closing
down.
Ohio Suffers from Cold.
Columbus, O., Feb. 5 With but lit
tle coal at its command, Ohio today
was suffering the coldest weather of
the winter.
The thermometer ranged from 5 to
17 degrees below zero in various
sections of the state.
HEATLESSDAYS
ARE TO REMAIN
FOR FULL TIME
Washington, Feb. 5. After confer-
erences today between Director Gen
eral McAdoo and Fuel Administrator
Garfield, it was definitely decided that
the heatless Mondays cannot be
abandoned, as had been hoped, be
cause storms and cold have so badly
crippled the movement of coal.
Two Killed Trying to
Save Children From Blaze
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Feb. 5.- Two
women and one man are missing, three
persons injured and damage estimated
at $175,000 caused as the result of a
fire which destroyed the Riverview
hotel in the Elmwood suburb of Win
nipeg early today.
The missing are:'
MARTHA SHEBEUS, nurse.
LENA WUCHAN, hotel employe
TATRICK TIMMONS, believed to
be a returned soldier.
Miss Shebeus and Timmons ap
parently were trapped in the burned
building as they attempted to get six
children of the hotel out of danger.
The cause of the fire is not known.
Boys Replace Girls as
Messengers at Boston
Boston, Feb. 5. Girls who have
been delivering telegrams in Great-'
er Boston must give up the field to
boys. The State Board of Labor to
day ruled that no female minor
should be employed in messenger
service in the state.
TROOP SHIPS TO
RUSH SOLDIERS
TO BATTLE FRONT
Administration Considers Meas
ure to Cut Imports in Half to
Provide Tonnage to Carry
Fighting Forces.
(By Auoclated Pre.)
Washington, Feb. 5. A 50 per cent
reduction in the volume of imports is
one of the measures under considera
tion to make availabl. ships for
transporting troops to France.
Overseas transportation is rec
ognized as the real problem facing
the government in its effort to put on
the firing line a big fighting force
and keep it in supplies.
Estimates of the amount of tonnage
necessary to keep an army supplied
vary. The United States now has in
all services about 4,000,000 tons of
shipping of which probably one foutrh
is engaged in bringing materials here
tofore regarded as essential to the
national industrial life.
If negotiations now under way with
neutral countries are concluded suc
cessfully a large amount of neutral
tonnage will be used to supplant
American ships engaged in the non
hazardous trades.
It is regarded as entirely likely that
the entire 1,000,000 tons of American
ships engaged will be put into the
trans-Atlantic service, leaving the neu
tral ships to supply insofar as possi
ble the gap made. The general
opinion is that about 50 per cent of
the shortage wil! not be supplied.
Take Over Sailing Ships.
In addition to its efforts to obTain
tonnage the government expects soon
to take over all American sailing ships
and a large number of French sailing
ships, all of which will be put in the
non-hazardous tradis. This move
will add some tonnage to that avail
able for bringing in imports.
If a cut in imports is made the gov
ernment will select for elimination a
list of articles which it regards as not
essential in the prosecution of the
war. Imports of certain materials, in
cluding nitrates and manganese, must
be kept up to a maximum. The coun
try will need this year about 1,500,000
tons of nitrates from Chile and fully
750,000 tons of manganese from
Brazil.
Officials who are working out de
tails of the transportation of troops
have not disclosed to what extent the
allies are ready to assist with a loan
of tonnage, but many American sol
diers will go broad in allied vessels.
This was arranged for in the inter
allied conference at Paris and was
announced on the return to the United
States of Colonel Edward M. House.
Shipping board officials estimate
America's shipping output during
1918 at from 4,000,000 to 5.000,000
tons, much of which they expect to
become available in the summer. Pro
duction in the latter half of the year
is expected to more than double that
during the first half and officials say
the shipping situat:on will grow
steadily more favorable as the year
advances,.
Supplies for the allies and for the
American army abroad still are piling
up faster than they can be transported
and it is estimated that more than
1,000,000 tons of cargo are awaiting
shipment along the Atlantic seaboard.
Even had the country's production
of materials come up to expectations
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A foot specialist from Chicago will be at this store all this
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DOUGLAS SHOE STORE
and had the railroads been able to
transport it no more goods, officials
say, could have been transported
across. the seas.
The shipping board realizing the
situation is redoubling its efforts to
speed up the building of ships. With
the assistance of the Labor depart
ment they are creating a reserve of
ship yards labor, which they expect to
place in the yards as fast as it can
be absorbed.
Ashland Minister Brings
Son to Enlist in Navy
Rev. Bert W. Salmon of Ashland
visited at the Omaha naval recruiting
station Monday and spent several
hours inquiring of jackies on duty
concerning the environments and op
portunities for young men in this par
ticular branch of the service.
He was greatly surprised to learn
that men located' in the Omaha sta
tion were now being paid as high as
$250 per month and to show his con
fidence in the . opportunities offered
Warn Song
The makers of genuine
Aspirin caution you to
see that every package
and every tablet of
Aspirin bears
"Tho
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Bottle of 34 and 100
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EXPERIENCED DRUGGIST'S
OPINION OF KIDNEY
MEDICINE
For about nine years we have beer,
selling Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root and
it has given utmost satisfaction to
our customers, according to the words
of praise received from 'those who
have used it and proved its value. We
are satisfied that Swamp-Root has
high curative, value and we recom
mend it whenever we can.
Very truly yours,
HOYT & POWELSON, Druggists.
J. K. Powelson, Akron, Colo.
June 30,-1916.
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer 4 Co.,
Binfhamton, N. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You.
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size
bettle. It will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing, be sure
and mention The Omaha Daily Bee
Medium and large size bottle for sale
at all drug stores. Advertisement.
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week to examine feet anal give advice on the correction of foot
troubles without charge. This expert, who was trained under the
personal direction of Dr. Wm. M. Scholl, the recognized foot
authority, has been engaged by us for the occasion.
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Hundreds of foot sufferers of this
taken advantage of this opportunity to
how foot comfort can be obtained
Private Demonstration Room For
Come in the Morning, if Possible,
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willingly gave his consent for his
son's enlistment. Maxwell W. Salmon
i is now enlisted and his anxiety for
a call to attend the training school
is shared by his father.
Panor Shoe Co. Moves ,
Sioux City Stock Here
The Panor Shoe company of Oma-
ha has closed its Sioux City branch
I store known as the Shoe Market and
has moved the stock to Omaha
Closing of the store was made neces
sary by the wrecking of the Martin
block in which the store was located
and the inability to secure another
desirable location.
The entire stock was moved to
Omaha and will be disposed of at a
special sale to be held in the store
here. The clerks in the Sioux City
store moved to Omaha and are now
busy assisting the local clerks in ar
ranging the stock preparatory to the
opening of the sale in the Douglas
street store.
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Your Guarantee
of Purity"
The trade mark "Aspirin" (Reg.O.S.PatOJ
ia a guarantee that the monoaceticacidester
of saiicylicacid in these tablets and capaules it
of the reliable Bayer manufacture.
HEAD STUFFED FROM
CATARRH OR A COLD
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Says Cream Applied in Nostril
Opens Air Passages Right Up.
Instant relief no waiting, ifour
clogged nostrils open right up, the air
passages of your head clear and you
can breathe freely. No more hawking,
snuffling, blowing, headache, dryness.
No struggling for breath at night;
your cold or catarrh disappears.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. It
penetrates through everyair passage
of the head, soothes the inflamed or
swollen mucous membrane and re
lief comes instantly.
It's just fine. Don t stay stuf fed-up
with a cold or nasty catarrh. Adv..
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community have already
get expert advice as to 1
Your Convenience.
to Avoid Waiting.
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117 North Sixteenth Streel
Opposite the Post Office