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Chancellor Von Hertling Says
f i Four Principles Can Be Dis-
I cussed as Basis; World
is Prejudiced.
(By Associated Frass.)
-. Germany, through its chancellor,
Count von Hertling, declared that a
general peace can be discussed on the
basis of the four principles laid down
recently by President Wilson.
: However, the chancellor's accept
ance was followed by the statement
that the principles must be recognized
by all states and peoples, which stage,
he said, had not yet been reached.
. A court of arbitration is lacking,
he said, adding that the tribunal of
the world is prejudiced against Ger
many, which declines to be judged by
it. He insisted that the entente war
aims were still imperialistic, although
admitting that the president's mes
sage is a small step toward peace.
The abject surrender of Russia was
gloried in as leading to peace on the
astern front, and a hint was thrown
jut to the Belgian government to
inter into separate negotiations with
Germany. The problem of Alsace
Lorraine continues to be held as hav
ing no international aspect.
Russ Ready for Peace.
Meanwhile, although Russia is now
ready to conclude peace, the Teuton
conquest of its territory goes on
practically unimpeded. Reval, the
Russian naval base on the southern
coast of the Gulf of Finland, and
Pskov, 175 miles southwest of Petro
grad, have been occupied. The rapid
German advance continues along the
line southward, especially in Volhynia
and the Ukraine.
In Siberia the situation is serious
and Japan is reported to be preparing
to intervene there soon. The non.
Bolsheviki forces there have to con
tend not only with the Bolsheviki, but
also against released Austro-German
prisoners.
Activity on the western battle fronts
is still confined to minor fighting.
" Another German raider, the Wolf,
. has arrived in port after harassing
entente merchant vessels in the At
lantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. The
total number of vessels destroyed by
the Wolf has not been disclosed, but
the loss of 11, three of them Ameri
can, in the Indian and Pacific oceans
is assumed by the British admiralty
to be due to Its activities. . .
I Unable to break the British cordon
around the North Sea, the Wolf
slipped into the Austrian port of Pola,
on .the Adriatic. It brought 400
prisoners and a valuable cargo taken
from its pizes. A second auxiliary
cruiser which the Wolf equipped was
sunk by its crew, which was cap
tured by a British warship last Feb
ruary. . .
1 While the Wolf was gone 13
months, it appa'ently did not do as
great damage as its famous sister
ship, the Moewe; which carried out
two raids in the Atlantic in 1915 and
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Icwa Millionaire Dies .
! V Suddenly of Apoplexy
'Ida Grove, la.,1 Feb. 26. (Special
Telegram.) Noah Williams, million
aire resident of this city, died sudden
ly this morning of apoplexy. His for
tune, estimated at $2,000,000, consists
largely of land holdings in Ida and
Woodbury counties, Iowa, with ad
ditional tracts in South Dakota,
He was born in Ohio, September,
1840, and came to Ida Grove in 1877,
before the railroad reached here. He
founded the Ida County bank, and
was its president for 12 years, after
which he organized a land bank, giv
ing his entire attention to real estate
holdings and investments.
He is survived by his widow and
one son, Noah Williams, jr., who are
passing the winter in Los Angeles,
Cal. . . ,
L. & N. Slush Fund Spent
: In South on Newspapers
Washington, Feb. 26. An official
.record of how the Louisville & Nash
ville railway spent many thousands of
dollars in political activity and sup
porting newspapers in southern states
between 1907 and 1914 was made pub
lic today by the interstate commerce
commission.
The disclosures were based on an
affidavit recently filed by Milton H.
Smith, president of the road, answer
ing questions to which he had refused
replies during an interstate commerce
commission inquiry in May, 1916, an J
to secure which the commission ob
tained from the supreme court last
November an order requring Smith
to, give answers. This affidavit has
now been made public.
Stores May Light Windows
During Auto Show Week
Omaha retail stores will be permit
ted to light their display windows
during the Omaha auto show.
Owing to relief of the coal short
age, Fuel Administrator Kennedy,
after a conference, granted pertnis
' sion to the stores to lisht their win
dows this week out of compliment to
tne out-oi-town visitors who are in
Omaha to attend the auto show. ,
This permission is granted for the
entire week of the auto show, ;
Ten Thousand St. Louis :
Store Clerks on Strike
St. Louis, : Mo.. Feb.: 26.-Strike
pickets surrounded the five large de
partment Stores here tnriav and on.
J deavored to persuade clerks from go
ing io worx. i
Union leaders claimed that in four
of the stores 75 per cent of the em
ployes were out Ten thousand
clerks are said to be out
Employers placed the number at
much smaller figures.
t Recognition of the union and a min
imum wage scale are the demands.
Popularity of Smallpox
, Hospital Depletes Fund
Unnsual popularity of the muni
cipal smallpox hospital on West Cen
; ter street has sadly depleted the ap
- propriation of $3,500 made by the city
council January 1.
Health Commissioner Connell has
asked the council to pass an emer
gency ordinance to cover an addi
tional appropriation of $3,000.
The attendance a , this institution
Ills been averaging more than 60,
Liberty Quartet One of Big Musical
Features at Omaha Automobile Show
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The Liberty quartet is proving one of the most popular attractions at the Omaha Auto show. The young
women composing the musical organization have excellent voices and can be clearly heard over the entire
Auditorium.
POSSIBLE ROAD
OF ESCAPE FOUND
FORMATTERS
' .v Interpretation of Statute
by Attorney John L. Web
ster Affords Loophole for
. Convicted Omaha Man.
A possible loophole of escape for
Thomas H. Matters was disclosed in
a five-hour argument by his attorney,
John L. Webster, before Federal
Judge Wade Monday. Matters has
een twice convicted in the Omaha
division of federal court of aiding
President Luebben of the First Na
tional bank of Sutton in the illegal
issuance of certificates of deposit. The
argument Monday was to obtain new
trial.
Attorney Webster contended that
a bank's certificate of deposit is nei
ther money, funds nor credit. The
statute under which Matters was
prosecuted specifies that the crime
consists in misuse of a bank's money,
funds or credit Now u certificates
of deposit are neither one of these
three, then Matters was not guutyl
violating that statute, Webster con
tends. 1 ;;:?' . i'r :. .'.J1'; '
Matters attorneys presented their
brief , to United States Attorney Al
len only Monday, so he had no time
to study his argument. Judge Wade
therefore has allowed him additional
time to reply to Matters' argument.
In Court Five Years.
The Matters case has been in the
federal court for nearly five years.
He was found guilty on 18 counts at
his first trial in March, 1915, and was
sentenced to six years in the federal
prison. He appealed to the circuit
court of appeals, which remanded the
case for retrial. The second trial
took place last November and Mat
ters was found guilty on 14 counts.
So far United States Attorney Al
len has been unable to find any cases
holding that a bank's certificates of
deposit are either money, funds or
credits, and unless he can find such
cases to present to the judge the cel
ebrated Matters case may come to an
end with a victorv for the defendant.
Tries to Sell Booze
To Police Officer
Edward ' M. Hook, 218 North
Seventeenth street, used poor judg
ment In attempting to dispose of a
bottle of whisky, he admitted in
police court Tuesday. He believed
the debonair gentleman standing in
the Paxton hotel entrance waa a
"high flyer4 and asked him if he
would not like to purchase a little
booze. He found to his sorrow that
. he had addressed Officer Frank
Rose. He was fined $100 and costs.
Why I Believe
in Nuxated Iron
As a Tonic, Strength & Blood Builder
By E. Sautr, M. D.
Probably no rmdy hai ver met with
tuch' phtnomcnal iuect m h Nuxated
Iron. It la eonirrattvtlr Mtlmated that
over three million people annually are taking
R. in thia country alone. It hai been highly
endoreed and need by Former United Statei
Senator and Member of Concrete : Phyil
elant who have been connected with well
knewn hoipltali have preieribed and recom
mended it; Momtigneur Nanntnt, prom
inent Clergyman, recommendi it to all. For
mer Health Commissioner Wm. R. Kerr, of
Chicago, says it ought to be used in every
hospital and prescribed by every physician.
Dr. A. J. Newman, late Police Surgeon of
the City of Chicago, and former Rouse Sur
geon Jefferson Park Hospital, Chicago, says
Nuxated Iron has proven through his own
tests of it to excel any preparation he has
ever used for creating red blood, building
up the nerves, strengthening the muscles and
correcting digestive disorder.
Dr. James Francis Sullivan, formerly phy
eieian of Bellevue Hospital (Outdoor Dept.),
New York, and the Westchester County Hos
pital, saya there are thousands of men and
women who seed strength and blood builder
but do not know what to take. In his opinion
there is nothing better than organie iron
Nuxated Iron for enriching the blood and
helping to increase the strength and endur
ance of men and women who burn op too
rapidly their nervous energy in the atrenu
oua strain of the great businesi competition
of the day.
If you are not strong or well, yoa owe it
to yourself to make the following testt See
how long you can work or how far you ean
walk without becoming tired. Next take two
five-grain tablets of Nuxated Iron three
times per day after meals tor two weeks.
Then test your strength again and lee bow
much you. have gained.
KOtE-Kuxsted Iron." which he tea used br
frnnr mumbers of the l'nltd Bute gentle and
Houw of KrirwittlM. and oteer prominent fa
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t'HE HEE: OMAHA WEDNESDAY, EKRUAKX 27, 1918.
NEW ARMY RIFLE
GREATEST GUN
EVER INVENTED
Washington, Feb. 26. The Brown
ing machine rifle, adopted for the
American army in France and de
clared by ordnance experts to be the
greatest weapon of its kind yet de
veloped, is now being turned out in
three factories, Secretary Baker an
nounced today, and more than 100
already have been delivered.
The department estimates that high
Jroduction mark will be reached in
une, when several thousand will be
turned out each week.
This is gratifying, said Mr. Baker,
as it has been the experience of the
government heretofore that machine
gun production has rarely met pre
determined schedules.
It also was announced that produc
tion of the Colt-Browning machine
gun, the heavy type, soon will be in
progress on a quantitative basis.
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Seme of Touch is
Perfect, Says Judge
Jeannette Stepp, negress, charged
with stealing $25 from Elage
Standing Elk, Indian, proved to be
deaf, but not mute. Before the
charge had been read to her, she
began in loud and discordant tones
to protest her innocence. "You
see, judge, she can't hear very well,"
said her attorney, apologetically.
"No, but her sense of touch is per
fect. Twenty-five and costs," was
the retort perfect.
U. S. Steamer Stranded;
May Save Part of Cargo
'Santiago, Chile, Feb. 26. Latest
reports from the American steamer
Kentra, stranded near Coronel, are
that the steamer remains in a critical
position. If the weather remains fa
vorable it may be possible to salvage
the cargo in the upper holds.
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SIBERIANS FROM
GERMAN RAIDERS
Japanese Prepared to Take
Action in Siberia, Where Teu
tons Are Reported to
Be Mobolizing.
(Br Asoctatd Press.)
Harbin, Feb. 26. The Japanese, ac
cording to reliable authority, intend
to take action in Siberia at an ear'y
date, and there are evidences that the
Japanese have long been preparing to
carry out this move.
SITUATION IS DESPERATE.
The situation in Siberia is consid
ered extremely grave owing to the
inability of the Cossack General
Seminoff, head of the anti-bolshevik
movement in that vast territory, to
secure allied support for which he
has appealed to the Japanese.
General Seminoff's movement now
is officially recognized and a general
committee has been formed at Har
bin, which will act as a general staff
divided into three departments
financial, military and administrative.
The Rusian Consul M. Popoff, has
been appointed chairman of the com
mittee. GERMANS ARE DRILLING.
Two thousand Germans have been
armed and are drilling at Irkutsk,
capital of the government of Irkutsk,
in eastern Siberia and according to an
official report received from a foreign
consul, the Geramns are making all
preparations to bring much larger
forces there.
For some time bolsheviki have been
operating in eastern Siberia, and even
in Manchuria. In December it was
reported that Japanese had landed at
Vladivostok, where large quantities of
stores for the Russians had congested
and where the bolsheviki were said to
be gathering preparatory to an attack.
with the object of .capturing these
supplies, inc Japanese minister 01
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Tc! !;one Men at Home
Until employees are trained to take the places of those who have
gone to war, those telephone workers who are remaining at home
must shoulder the load.
This Is a part of the tremendous burden the war has placed on the
telephone companies in this country.
The thousands of skilled telephone workers who have gone into
the army cannot be readily replaced.
One man in every six from our telephone maintenance and con
struction forces is now in some branch of the military, service. Only
the telephone companies could furnish the skilled telephone men
needed in the army.
The number of telephone calls between the various camps, military
headquarters and supply depots scattered all over the country has been
steadily increasing.
Private business, accelerated by the war, has required constantly
increasing amounts of additional telephone equipment and service.
There is also an astonishing demand for telephone equipment for
the training camps here and for the armies in Europe. The cost, too, of
telephone equipment and materials is now double what it was three
years ago.
These extraordinary demands for telephone service and equipment
for government and private needs have come upon the Bell Telephone
Companies when they are short more than 6,800 trained men who have
gone into the army
foreign affairs, however, in an inter
view denied that Japan was mobilizing
or landing troops in Siberia.
Disarmament.
"So your league is getting every
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Purchases charged Wednesday and Thursday
will be carried over to April 1st statements.
j In Newest Tailored Suits
j Priced $29.50 to $100
There is such an air of distinction about
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Are Doing the Work
of Those Going to War
But In spits of the war and what Ft has meant to this company In
the Increased number of telephone messages to handle, In the high cos
ef material. In the shortage of equipment, In the scarcity of labor, and
In the enlistment of so many of our trained men
In spit of all these obstacles, we are meeting the needs ef the
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thing ready for the time when peace
and disarmament shall come. No
doubt you have selected some
symbolical figure to represent the new
combination of disarmed nations."
"Yes, the Venus de Milo.
Confer fir Wome?J
charges for alterations
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