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The Omaha Daily B PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 10 THE WEATHER Unsettled; Colder VOL. XL VII NO. 203. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY- 9, 1918. EIGHTEEN PAGES Or Tnilna. tt tlot.li. Ntxn gtaada. tic, te SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. T7VTPV IB 1 1 MY LJf viJ -Li LJ L A v v ... i : . 1 ARTIST DECLARES B0L0 STOLE HIS WRECKED ... Frenchman, on Trial for Treason, Accused of Brutally Mis treating Woman Whose Affection He Won; Hus band Duped Man Who Befriended Him; Defendant Admits Cruelty. , (By Associated Press.) Parts, Feb. 8. M. Panon, an artist, testifying at the treason trial of Bplo Pasha late yesterday, said that he had known Bolo jl since he was 10 years old He became Bolo's partner in vari ous undertakings at Marseilles, where he lost his fortune of 100000 francs' when Bolo disappeared with Panon's wife, leav ing Panon liable for debts aggregating 50,000 francs. Th witness said he had paid off the debts. v ADMITTED SWINDLE. O - Sixteen years later, when he was I llffin a (11 Aft Alii sign a paper declaring that he and not Bolo had swindled a charwoman. Bolo, he swore, sent him to New York in March, 1917, to obtain from the Amsinsck bank and Adolph Pav enstadt a statement of Bolo's account f from May, 1914, to February.,917. Panon said he was asked by the pris oner to send Bolo this message: "We send your account from the first transfer in May, 1914, of $1,600,000 or $1,700,000 to the transfers of Feb ruary, 1916, to the Royal Bank of Canada for the creation of a Cuban bank. WARNED AGAINST BOLO. Favenstadt told him, Panon testi fied, tnat Bolo's request for the cable gram was impossible and warned Panon against Bolo, whose wife re turned to him after Bolo had aband oned her, concluded his testimony by saying: "Thanks to all this publicity my wife has lost 26 to 30 pupils she had. Slie is almost blind and ruined, thanks lo that citizen, "pointing to Bolo. Ad mitting that he had done wrong to the witness, Bolo contended : that Favenstadt had bribed Panon. He then accused Panon of being a traitor and was reproved by the court. The court room became silent as Madame Panon was led to- the stand. She is an Instructor in elocution. Madame 'Panon described how her infatuation for. .Bolo had ruined her life, how brutally Bolo had treated her and how she had won her hus band's pardon. . President Voyer asked the witness -if she recognized Bolo. She replied: "I am blind. I canont see' him nor your ' Bolo Visits U. S. Witnesses testified regarding Bbjo's - visit to the United States in 1916. Madame Buzenet told of attending a dinner in New York in company with a French captain, Verdier, and Adolph Pavenstedt; former ; head of the Amsinck bank, and Bolo Pasha. Colonel Voyer, the presiding officer, announced that the court would be cleared if yesterday's scenes were re peated. f f Lieutenant Prevost of the French censorship department testified that articles praising William Randolph Hearst had been taken to Senator Humbert's paper, Le Journal, in which Bolo Pasha had an interest, by Charles F. Bertelli, the head of the Paris bureau of the International News Service, who accompanied Bolo to America and introduced him to Mr. Hearst. Hearst Called Germanophile. The lieutenant said his attention had first been called to Bolo Pasha by a eu!ogy of Mr. Hearst printed in La ' . ictorie, whiqh ' also described Bolo pasha's relations with the American . 'lpress.v . Lieutenant Prevost said he had been commissioned to translate several ar titles from the Hearst newspapers aft er which the French censor had de- cided not to allow further articles laudatory to Mr. Hearst to appear be cause he considered him thoroughly Germanophile. , Hearst at Bolo's Dinner. M. Bertelli began his testimony by protesting at the report that President Voyer of the court martial had said Mr. Hearst was Gcrmsnophile. "Mr. Hearst is not and never was Germanophile," declared Bertelli. "He always has been a friend of France." The witness then recounted BolcV Pasha's trip to New York. He said Bolo had met Mr. Hearst only social ly at a dinner at Sherry's for which Bertelli sent out invitations, but for which Bolo Pasha paid. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Gerard, Mr. and Mrs. Hearst, Adolph Favenstadt and Jules Bois. Bertelli said that Bolo spoke like a true patriot and that Mr. Hearst thought he was doing France honor by receiving Bolo, who he be V;eved one of its distinguished citizens. Trhe" witness was cross-examined by President Voyer. Woman Takes Seat as . Legislator in Canada Victoria, B. G, Feb. 8. British Columbia's first woman member of the legislature assumed her duties to day. Rounds of applause greeted the appearance of Mrs. Ralph Smith from Vancouver, as she took her seat at (he opening of the British Columbia legislature here yesterday. In intro ducing Mrs. Smith, Premier Brewster said her appearance marked a mo ncnt historic in the legislature's his tory. v Aviation Cadet Killed. Wichita Falls, Tex., Feb. 8.-Hu-bert W. Game, 22. of Oakland. Cal.. an advance aviation cadet, was killed today, when his plane crumpled at an altitude of several hundred feet. WIFE AND HER CAREER SHIPMENTSJO BE HUSliED ON CARS Preference Given to Transpor tation of Cereals by Order of Director General McAdoo. (By Associated Frets.) Washington, Feb. 8. To facilitate the movement of grain for the allies and home consumotion. Director Gen - eral McAdoo today ordered prefer ence given to grain shipments throughout all the principal granger states. The order directs that preference be given in loading grain cars in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne braska, Kansas, Missouri and Okla homa. Train Dispatchers Deny tads Discredit U. S. Control Washington, Feb. 8. Railroad train dispatchers, in fne west today telegraphed the railroad wage com mission denying charges that they were, delaying movement of trains under gpvernment operation and said: "Our instructions are that we must earnestly and in every manner what soever, continue to assist in the ef ficient' operation of the railways." The telegrams came from Arkansas Lajnnta, Colo. They were in an swer to statements made by heads of the conductors and trainmen's unions, that railway managements were at tempting to discredit operation after the eight-hour law. and government management of the railways by in creasing expeiiGes and inefficiently operating the country's transporta tion system. Spain Protests Sinking. Madrid, Feb. 8. The Spanish am bassador at Berlin telegraphs that he sent to the German government Thursday evening a note of the Span ish government protesting against the recent sinking of the Spanish steamer Giralda. New Draft Law is Favorably Reported By Senate Committee Washington, Feb. 8. Favorable report on the War department's bill amending the selective draft law to require registration of men as they reach 21 years and basing quotas on the number of men in class one, instead of state popula tions, was unanimously ordered today by the senate military com mittee. The proposal to exempt men as they reach 31 years, if they have not been drafted, which was op posed by Provost Marshal General Crowder, was not included in the bill. An amendment proposed by Sen ator New of Indiana to require reg istration of youths at 19 years and over, also was rejected. American Aviator From Missouri Brings Down First German Airplane (By Associated Pres.) With the American Army in France, Thursday, Feb. 7. The young American lieutenant who had the honor of shooting down his first German airplane while accompanying a French escadrille on a bombing ex pedition Tuesday night had never operatecTa machine gun before in his life while in flight and never before had been over the enemy lines. tHe got his man over the German city of Saarburg. ' The bombing squadron was over Saarburg and in the act of dropping bombs when enemy airplanes were seen approaching rapidly. By the time the bomb dropping had been completed the enemy was close at hand and the French formation of which this American and another American aviator had accompanied as gunners was at an altitude of 12,000 feet. ; ' The lieutenant, who is a Missou- rian, took off his gloves so that he might operate his machine gun more 1 effectively, when he saw an enemy ROOSEVF M GOOD AFTER TWO OPERATIONS Temperature and Pulse Normal, Say Doctors; Mrs. Roosevelt Remains at Hospital; Wil son Sends Message. BULLETIN. New York, Feb. 8. Marked im provement during the past 24 hours in the condition of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was indicated in a bulletin issued at 9 o'clock tanight by the physicians attending lum at Roose velt hospital. The bulletin said: "The outlook is very encouraging." Condition Is Unchanged. (By Associated Press.) New York, Feb. 8. The condition of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, who was operated on Wednesday for fistula and abscesses in both ears, was pronounced as "unchanged" by Dr. Harold K. Keyes, of Roosevelt" hos pital, early today. Dr. Keyes added that Colonel Roosevelt had slept all night and had rested comfortably. Colonel Roosevelt's temperature and pulse were normal, a bulletin is sued at the hospital this morning said. "Doctors Duel and Martin saw Colonel Roosevelt at 8 a. m.," the bulletin reads. "He has had a very satisfactory night, having slept about six hours. He will be able to take nourishment at regular intervals dur ing the day. His temperature and pulse are normal." Doctor in Constant Attendance, Three special nurses and Dr. Keyes were in constant attendance at the i former's president's bedside during the night. ! Mrs. Roosevelt spent the night in an adjoining room or tne nospitai. Her daughters. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Mrs. Richard Derby, remained at the hospital until a late hour last night and then left for a nearby hotel, leaving word they should be notified in case of any change in the colonel's condition. It wtis learned today that it was not found necessary to communicate with them. During the night hundreds of tele grarus from, all parts of t the. country were rccived at the hospital and were turned over to 5tfs. Roosevelt this morning. - . . ' It was stated that visitors would not be allowed to see Colonel Roosevelt during the forenoon. Unfounded reports that Colonel Roosevelt had died, wich appeared to have spread throughout the coun try, resulted in a flood of inquiries at the hospital today by telephone and telegraph, many of the telephone calls coming from long distance points. - i Message from Wilson. Washington, Feb. 8. President Wilson today sent to Mrs. -Roosevelt the following message of sympathy: "May I not express my warmest sympathy and the sincere hope that Mr. Roosevelt's condition is improv ing." Turkey in Complete Accord With Germany Amsterdam, Feb. 8. Turkey is in complete accord with the attitude of Germany and Austria, as expressed in recent speeches of Count Czernin, the Turkish foreign minister, Nessi my Bey, told the chamber of deputies yesterday. He also declared: "The Dardanelles will remain open in the future to international traffic as in the past and on the same con ditions." W'hile he was aware of the desira bility of peace he said, "we never will conclude a peace at any price." The foreign minister concluded his address with the declaration that he was in complete accord with German and Austrian policies., Austrian Cabinet Has Resigned, Says Report from Vienna Amsterdam, Feb. 8. -Dr. von Beydler, the Austrian premier, has tendered the resignation of his en. tire cabinet to Emperor Charles, according to a dispatch from Vi enna., JL plane driving in from the side and firing its gun. The bullets whizzed close to tha French, machine before the American acting as gunner could get his piece into action. Then he turned a stream of bullets into the enemy and before the first drum was exhausted the enemy ma chine toppled and started to spiral. Then it flopped and fluttered down with a flare of smoke and flame in its wake. It crashed to the ground a short distance from the German city. The other American aviator, also a lieutenant, was not so lucky as the Missourian, for the machine he picked out to engage dodged away quickly and he was unable to get in any ef fective shots. When the squadron returned the Missouri lieutenant's hands were swollen to twice their normal size from the cold, he having lost his gloves during the encounter. Otherwise, he is today about the happiest officer in the American ex peditionary forces. i "S. U. S. PATROLS GO OVER TOP TO GET GERMAN SNIPERS Crawl Over No Man's Land Into Front tine tfencfiesl Sharp shooters Do Effective Work Routing Enemy. . (By Associated Press.) With the American Army in France, Thursday, Feb. 7. American artillery and infantry have succeeded in clean ing out a majority of the snipers who caused considerable' annoyance from the time the sector was taken over by the troops. Snipers' posts in buildings have been destroyed by knocking down the shelters over the heads ot the Ger mans witn sneiis. Americans Root Snipers. Snipers hidden in bushes or in shell holes have been routed by American sharpshooters. Night patrols have succeeded in lo cating some of the positions and the Germans in them have been finished off later. Last night a small patrol entered an advanced German trench in search of a nest of snipers. A lieutenant, a corporal and two men left the American wire and re turned five hours later. They walked across No Man's Land, picking their way carefully to avoid discovery. Reaching the enemy wire, they crawled beneath it cautiously and ap proached the most advanced enemy trench. ' Find Loaded Rifle. The men looked down into the trench, which apparently was aban doned, but they were sure snipers were there. They dropped down noiselessly and found a place where the trench bot tom showed fresh footprints. On the parapet the corporal discov ered a rifle, loaded and pointed in the direction of the American trenches. There was not a German around. The corporal broiiRht back the rifle to the American lines. It is a typical German weapon, made in Berlin and in good condition. At another point enemy snipers were discovered in a shell hole. A (Continued on Pace Two, Column Three.) May Investigate Lack of .Identity Tags on Soldiers Washington, Feb. 8. War de partment officials are unable to account for the statement made in news dispatches that blank identification tags were found on the bodies pf 44 American sol diers washed ashore. Even if the men had not been definitely assigned to an organ ization the army regulations re quirt that the tag bear on one side the full name of the wearer. When the soldiers is assigned the number of his regiment, the designation of his company and his individual number in. that company are supposed to be added immediately to the other side of the tag. The organization commander is held responsible by military regulations for the completion of these tags, .the purpose of which is to prevent just such a situation as is described in the dispatches from abroad. 0, S." WOMAN PRAISED FOR HER HEROIC WORK OF RESCUE Slid Down- Rope From Sinking . Tuscania Into Boat and Then , Helped Save Marty Lives. (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 8. The correspond ent of the Press association at an Irish port says survivors' thene of the Tuscania were greatly relieved to hear of the safe arrival elsewhere of Major Benjamin F. Wade, of Wash ington, commander of a contingent of the steamer, and hundreds of Ameri can troops. The only two women on board, the correspondent's account says, Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Parsons, went down a rope into a lifeboat. The former said that when their boat left the Tuscania many of the troops had been thrown out in lowering the next boat. "We were immediately surrounded by men in the icy water wearing life belts," she said. "We had only two men in our boat who could manage the oars. They did their best, and as we came across a swimming or floating man we gathered him into the boat. Soon the boat was full.' Eventually we got on . board a destroyer. I don't re member a harder bit of work." A soldier who heard Mrs. Collins, a stewardess, tell the story, said: "Yes, and you did as much as the best man in the, world could have done. I was in your boat and saw you." Federal Food Speakers to Tour State Last Week This Month Eleven cities of Nebraska will be visited by the team of federal food speakers, which opens its state tour in Omaha on February 25. The trip through the state of this team will require a full week, according to the schedule arranged by Federal Foo'd Administrator Wattles. After all day in Omaha, the team, which will consist of Dr. Ray L. Wil bur, president of Leland Stanford uni versity, and Everett Colby, Orange, N. J., and Miss Elizabeth Kelley, Uni versity of Wisconsin, will go to Fre mont for Tuesday meetings. Tuesday evening they speak in Norfolk, then go to Columbus for a noon and after noon meeting Wednesday, ' and to Grand Island Wednesday night. - Thursday morning they speak at Kearney and that evening in North Platte. Friday afternoon and even ing will be given to talks in Gering and Scottsbluff. Then they g to Al liance for Saturday meeting, winding ur in Broken Bow Saturday night with a mass meeting there. The schedule for the team which will work from Lincoln and will cover j the southern part of the state will be perfected today by Mr. Wattles. A heavv schedule is being arrangedV for the day in Omaha and includes meetings at the Chamber of Com merce, the University club, the Young Men's Christian association, a mass meeting of public schdol teach ers in the high school auditorium, and PLAN BIG MILITARY FUNERAL IN HONOR OF MEN LOST AT SEA Latest Casualty List Indicates That Nearly 200 Ameri cans Went Down With Big Cunarder Off Irish Coast; Many Soldiers are Reported Among the Missing. (Br Associated Press.)!, London, Feb. 8. The British admiralty tonight informed the Associated Press that the latest figures available on the Tuscania disaster showed that 2,235 persons had been saved, and that about 166 were missing. ' The saved, it was added, included 133 American officers, and 1,917 American men, 16 officers and 183 men of the creyr and six passengers., , The bodies of 126 American soldiers have been recovered. Of the 148 survivors landed on the Scottish coast 134 be-j longed to the United States army, including seven officers. Of these one officer and 25 men' are remaining where they landed to attend to the funeral arrangements for the American dead. OFFICIAL LIST TUSCU DEAD HARD TO OBTAIN War Department Checks List of Survivors; Impossible to Learn Names Until Infor mation is Centralized. (By Associated Press.) ( Washington, Feb. 8. Physical dif ficulties in preparing lists of surviv ors of the Tuscania, it was said today at the War department, niay greatly delay publication of an aceuratejlist of the .lost...' '-' , The survivors have been landed at various points. .Until officers manage to get in touch with them and check them off against the muster rolls or until a complete list of the names of survivors can be assembled at some central point ftnd checked against the ship's papers there is no way to de termine who are missing, although the number may be known. tfhere also is a possibility that addwj tional survivors may have been picked up bjj patrol boats. The list of lifeboats also must be checked up, as one or two might have made shore unaided. P'here are instances in the subma rine disasters where crews have been taken from their boats by outward bound vessels. It is regarded as unlikely, however, that any survivors of the Tuscania will be found to have matched this experi ence and when all patrol craft in the vicinity have reported the list of miss ing will be regarded definitely as the list of dead. Ambassador Francis Quiets Government Fear Washington, Feb. 8. Late today the State department received a rou tine telegram from Ambassador Francis in Petrograd dated Febru ary 4. This was regarded as discounting further the unconfirmed report that the diplomatic representatives of all the allies have been expelled from the capital by the bolsheviki. JUSS ELIZABETH JKJELLEY. talks in eight moving picture houses in the city at night. Lincoln is arranging a similar schedule for the team which will be composed of Roscoe Mitchell and Miss Kelley. a .ti.il tf-Y J M1HV APT?. MT5TM(1 Reports received at the American' embassy yesterday indicated the loss of 101 lives, while the British admir alty's estimate was 210. v This discrepancy now appears to have been due to the fact that the figures supplied to the embassy evi- dently did not include the missing, of which there are still many. , It was announced today that ar rangements were being made by British and American officials jointly for great military funerals for the Tuscania's dead. , AWAIT DETAILS. -Washington, Feb. 8. Advices to the War department accounting for all except 113 of the 2,156 American soldiers who were aboard the Tus cania when it was submarined Tues-' day night remained! unchanged to day and officials anxiously awaited, additional details expected to clear up the conflict with foreign figures on the losses, y ' - ,-- . BODiEstvyXsiisBQisiipRr ;: . Cable press dispatches from Irish port last nht saying that 44 bodies of American soldiers, battered beyond recognition, had been washed ashore 15 miles from the scene of the torpedoing dampened hope .that the troop losses would prove very small. According to figures given in earlier press dispatches, only 101 of those aboard, including soldiers, members"' of the crew and passengers, were missing. . , - This had led officials to believe that with , the heavy loss first indicated among the crew that most American soldiers had been saved. Few Narcks Received. ' No attempt was being made thus far to prepare a list of the lost or missing. ,Only the names of a few survivors have been received and indications today were that names of survivors would continue to come in slowly as , they are assembled in Ireland by rep resentatives of, the War, State and Navy, departments. The report from the Irish port which also said that army identifica tion tags found on the bodies of tha soldiers washed ashore bore no names or numbers, making identification impossible, caused considerable spec ulation. - Army regulations require identifica tion tags bearing name, rank, com pany and regiment of the wearer. Although there was no official con firmation of this report and officials declined to comment, it was pointed out that the dispatch said that the soldiers had not been assigned , to definite units. .Reported 210 Missing. According to advices in the hands of the War department, the ,, total missing from the 2,379 souls aboard the liner is 210, of which 113 are American troops. Cable press dispatches say that 2,296 persons have been landed and are being cared for in Irish 1 villages and cities. No official story of the sinking has (Continued on Pago Two, Column Three.) ' TUSCANIA'S SICK WERE FIRST TO BE MOVED T0SAFETY London, Feb. 8. How American soldiers behaved when they found that the boats assigned to them on the Tuscania had been smashed, is told by an American officer who landed at an Irish port. The officer said that his men be haved as they had expected them" to. Two full boatloads under his com mand assembled on the deck wfcen"" the torpedo struck the liner and marched to the boats assigned them. Arriving at their station. , they found that both boats had been-destroyed. "The men lined up on deck at at tention," said the officer, "and all prer served the utmost composure until a destroyer came alongside and ef fected the transier from the gradually sinking deck. - We stood alonesids until the last man was taken off, who, as might be expected, was the commander of the ship. , , ; v". The patients in the ship s hosmtaL including several cases of scarletina and fever, were among the first takO f O