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THE WEATHER
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LONE AMERICAN SENTRY
DRIVES OFF 40 TEUTONS
KILLING BAND'S LEADER
Germans Advance on Tour
Reckon With Courage and Alertness of One Sam
mie; jUnited States Troops Receive First
Dose of Liquid Fire.
oy AHWiaicu i coo.
With the American Army in France, Thursday, March 7.
A lone American sentry this morning attacked an enemy
patrol of about 40 men, some of whom had stealthily entered
an advanced American trench. He drove them off, killing the
leader and wounding others. v
,n iimnrniM 6T4BTS 0
The first reports of the encounter
were that another raid had taken
place, and all along the line details
were being awaited eagerly. Inves
fgatlon showed that one American
started what there was of an of
fensive. The-name of this man is
mentioned in all reports of the affair
and he has been congratulated heart
ily by his officers and comrades tor
his courage and level-headedness.
The sentry saw the patrol advanc
ing, and looked on as the Germans
began to drop cautiously into the
trench. He knew that an American
patrol was out along the wire not far
away and counted upon its help after
he opened fire. There were four t.en
in the American patrol. By the time
five Germans had entered the trench
the sentry thought he should delay
no longer, especially: as the under
officer who was leading the Germans
, had approached within a. few yards
of him. v
- German leader Falls. ' - -
""The sentry opened fire rapidly with
out challenging. ' The German leader
fell at the first crack of the rifle. The
others in the trench hurriedly sought
protections but they ;were not quick
enough, for the sentry's bullets caught
some of them. v 'c
A the American beean firing a
distance outside the
wire shouted, "Come out, come out,1
vifatinn.1' tn fact, those who were
still in the wire already had started
out The small American patrol saw
trailinc bck across - No
Man's land, under fire from the sen
try and from Americans at a point
further along the line. The patrol
joined in the fray and helped to speed
the Germans on their way by hurling
a large number of hand grenades.
some of which probably took ettect.
Four rifles were found in the Ameri
can lines. , " .'
Patrols, both American and Ger
man, are constantly seeking oppor
tunity to inspect the opposing lines
and the uermans on tnis occasion
(Continued on Pa( Two, Colnmn Three.)
Special Program Sunday
When Service Flags Rise
Logan, la., March 9. (Special.)
The Presbvtenan and Methodist
churches will hold flag service exer
cises Sunday evening. At the Jrres
byterian church Mary Rice will make
the presentation of the service flag,
and F. D. Stearns will make the re
soonse.' Rev. W. J. . Cresswell will
deliver the address of the evening.
Rev. L. E. Ripley will deliver the
address at the Methodist Episcopal
church and the flag will have 16 stars.
At the Presbyterian church, nine stars
will be placed on the nag. ;
Farmers to Plant Large
Acreage, Says Railroad Man
"Farmers are enthusiastic over crop
prospects and are making plans to
produce an nnusually large acreage of
spring whe.t, oats, rye, barley and
corn, said General Manager Walters
of the Northwestern upon his return
from a tour ct the Northwestern lines
west of the Missouri river
- "'The ground is in perfect'eondition
for spring work, declared tne ran
road man. "farmers are all prepar
ing for planting, testing their machm
cry and the seed." , :
The Weather.
For Nebraska Rising temperature.
Temperature . at Omaha Ymtardajr.
WARMER
Hour. - -,"" Deg.
t a. m....,
a. m
7 a. m.
, fa. m.
a. m.
10 a. m.
11 a. m.
12 m....
1 p. m.
f I p. m.
S p. m,
i p. m.
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f. m... .......
p. m. .........
7 p. m. .........
CenparaUre local Betord.
1118. 1J1T. 1116. lilt.
Highest yesterday
Ixwest yesterday
Mean Temperature
SI II II tl
12 25 SO SI
it 44 4 21
, T .0B '.08
Precipitation
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal:
Normal temperature 12
Exces for the day 4
Total excess glnco March 1.... .......... TS
Normal precipitation 04 Inch
Deficiency for the dy.... ........ .04 Inch
Total rainfall since aMrch 1 ...T
Deficiency since March 1 .25 Inch
Deficiency for cor. parlor, 117..... .12 Inch
Deficiency Ul cor. period, ISIS.,. Jl i&cb
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of Investigation, But Fail to
EX-CONGRESSMAN
IS INDICTED ON
ANTI-WAR CHARGE
Chicago Grand Jury Accuses
Victor Berger of Interfering,
I f With Prosecution of Na:
v ' tion's Progress.
Chicago, March 9. An indictment
charging former Congressman Victor
L. Berger of Wisconsin with interfer
ing with the United States' prosecu
tion of the war was handed down to
day by the federal grand jury,
Others indicted were! Adolph Get
-nrer.'-tiationaf 'secretafy of the socialist
party; J. Louis Engdahl, William t.
Kruse and Irwin St. John Tucker. ,
Would Boost Rates on
V Lumber and Machinery
Washington, March 9. The Pacific
& Arctic Railway and Navigation
company today asked the Interstate
Commerce commission for permission
to make increases ranging from 50
cents to $8.25 per ton in class rates
on mining machinery, fuel oil and
ore and increases ranging from $1 to
$4.30 per, 1,000 feet on lumber be
tween Seattle, Tacoma, Prince . Ru-
fert, Vancouver, Victoria and San
rancisco and points in Alaska, Brit
ish Columbia and Yukon territory.
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South Dakota in Grip f
I Of Worst Storm of Year
Yankton, S. D., March 9, (Special
Telegram.) Snow storm of blizzard
proportion sweeping Yankton Satur
day morning. Heavy snow fall con
tinues, with exceptionally strong
wind from northwest, making worst
storm of year, .
WHEN WITH A LITTLE. SELF
German Planes Strike
Paris in Night Raid
' . Paris, March 9. German aviators
raided Paris last night Early re
ports show that bombs were drop
ped with some loss of life and
property. Signals that all was clear
were given at 12:30 a. m.
FEAR DES MOINES
MEN ON CASUALTY
LIST JUST ISSUED
Name of Captain McHenry,
Thought to Be Son of Attor
ney in Iowa, Capital,
Included.
. . .
(From a Staff Correspondent) . '
Des Moines, March 9. Special Tel
egram.) A casualty list without next
of kin or addresses, issued from
Washington late today, contained the
name of Captain Harry G McHenry
and 15 men killed in action. It is
believed here that Captain McHenry
referred to is a Des Moings boy, son
of Attorney Walter McHenry. It is
feared other Pes Moines men may be
included in the casualty list of 15.
McHenry was captain of company B
in the old Third Iowa.
List From Washington."
.Washington, March 9. A second
casualty list without next of. kin or
addresses, issued late today by the
War department, contained the names
of Captain Harry C. McHenry and 15
men, killed in action, and of First
Lieutenant Frank J. ' Montgomery,
killed in an airplane. '
The list also showed that Second
Lieutenant Alex William Terrell had
been severely wounded in action and
that First Lieutenant Arthur Ward
haA A'teA from naralvsi '
vKe-yey Scores Department, i-
Chicago, March 9. James Keeley,
publisher of the Chicago Herald,
brought prolonged applause from 300
Illinois editors today by . an attack
on the War departments ofder that
only the names and not the addresses
or names of next of kin of slain Amer
ican soldiers would be :f given the
newspapers. ', --'-
Mr. Keeley characterized the order
as "assurd. cruel." infamous and ' im
possible." v 4 :; :$
The editors" were the guests of the
Illinois State Council ot JJetense at a
luncheon. ,.
Mr. Keeley. in addition to crit'eising
the War department order as inflict
ing the cruelty : of uncertainty m
thousands of homes, remarked that
there were all together too many pub
licity agents in Washington.
Major Falconer of Omaha ,
.Arrives Safely in France
Maior Allan D. Falconer, formerly
chief quartermaster at Deming, N. M.,
has arrived in France, according to a
message received by Fred J. Stack of
:he Stack-Falconer company. Major
Falconer's business partner.
The ."Own-Jour-Own-Home" Argument
DENIAL Y&U CAN. OWN YOUR HOME AMD LA 16 H AT VWLonnrl
GERMANY SINKS
TWO RUSS SHIPS
AFTER HOT F
T
Teutons Attack British Lines
m Belgium oh Mile Front;
Repulsed After Severe
Night Battle. ;
(By Associated Frees.)
London, March 9. Two Russian
transports were attacked and sunk
by German destroyers after a fight
south of the Aland islands on Thurs
day, according to a Copenhagen dis
patch to the Exchange : Telegraph
company.
After a bombardment lasting all
day, the Germans yesterday evening
made an attack on a front of nearly a
mile in Belgium, from a point south
of the Menin road to a point north of
Poelderhoek, the war "office in
nounces. The Germans were repulsed except
near Poelderhoek and positions on t
front of 200 yards which wereost
there were restored during the sight
ine statement ioiiows:
"Yesterdav eveninor. after consider-
able arti'lery activity all day east of
Ypres, the enemy's infantry, covered
by a heavy bombardment, attacked on
a front of learly a mile from couth
of the Menin road to north of the
Poelderhoek chateau.
; Repulse Enemy Attack.
''Despite the intensity of -his artil
lery fire and the determination of his
attack, the enemy was repulsed at all
points except in the neighborhood of
Poelderhoek. where . his troops suc
ceeded in entering some of our ad
vanced post? on a front of about 200
yards. In this locality severe fighting
during the night resulted in the re
capture by us of the whole of our po
Tv party or me pnemy wnicn ap
proached our, line yesterday evening
east of weuve ihappelie was driven
off by our hre, the war office an
nounces. "At dawn this . morning
Portuguese ttoops successfully raided
German trenches in this neighborhood
and captured several prisoners.
' "Another successful raid in which a
large number of prisoners were cap
tured by us was made this morning
by West Kent troops south of Fleur
baix." County Supervisors Sell
Seed Wheat at Cost
1 Shenandoah, la., March 9. (Spe-cial.)--The
farmers of Page county
will have an opportunity to buy 1,000
bushels of spring wheat at cost The
wheat is shipped in to Clarinda first
and then Shenandoah. It was bought
by the board of supervisors of Page
county and will be sold under the
direction of the food administrators
and members of the board.
The left hand of Benjamin Hall.
21 years old, was amputated - at the
wrist joint at the city hospital
Wednesday night, rlis hand was
mangled in a corn shfedder. He is
son of C J. Hall of tarragut.
IGII
WAR PARTY SETS UP MW
SLAV REPUBLIC TO FIGHT
MADM GERMAN HOSTS
Resignation of Trotzky, Bolshevik Foreign
Minister, Leaves Lenine Sole Surviving ;
: s Member of Radical Triumvirate;
Against New German Peace.,
London, March 9. The social revolutionaries have decided to organize a na ;
tional guard to overthrow
of Moscow university, who
Telegraph as saying that the decision was reached at a
rrtur
WJWe .
. A great army is now being organized in the Don district supported by Cossacks,
the dispatch adds, and it is
coalition government which would not aaept the German-bolshevik peace. Pro
fessor Eleff asserted that the news of the new movement had been suppressed by
the Petrograd bolshevik news agency. - '
JAPS LAND ARMY
AT VLADIVOSTOK
TO WATCH ENEMY
Petrograd Newspaper Declares
4,000 Soldiers Reached Si
berian Post in January;
Bolsheviki Armed.
London, Friday, March 8. Details
of an alleged landing of Japanese
troops at Vladivostok in January are
given in the Petrograd newspaper
Novaia Zhizn of January 19, which
has Just been received here.
The paper says that the Japanese
cruiser Mikado arrived on January 12
and was followed by two more cruis
ers on January 14.
Four thousand soldiers were landed
and numbers of officers continued to
arrive in Vladivostok daily, accord
ing to the newspaper, lhe Japanese
admiral assured the local workmen's
and soldiers' council that the arrival
of ships and troops should not be con
sidered as the beginning of military
operations, but they were there to
protect Japanese subjects.
The message to the Novaia Zhizn
says the Vladivostok public was
alarmed and the revolutionary com
mittees were concentrating bolshevik
troops. ,
Information ' concerning the re
ported entrance of British and Japan
ese cruisers into Vladivostok harbor
was asked of the British and Japanese
embassies in Petrograd on January
20 by the bolshevik government. The
embassy in Petrograd immediately
issued an official statement denying
the Japanese forces had been landed
at Vladivostok. It was added that
the presence of a Japanese cruiser at
Vladivostok had no connection with
the situation in Russia. The British
embassy said that British warships
had gone to Vladivostok to protect
allied subjects against possible dis
orders. "' I
BRITISH SKIPPER USES COAL
y Captain of Small Trawler Demolishes
Periscope of Menacing German U-Boat.
SHOVEL TO SMASH SUB'SIYES
London. March 9. When one's ves
sel is in danger from enemy subma
rines anything will do as a weapon of
defense, as is shown by the story of
captain of a British trawler wno
used a coal shovel with good ettect
against a German U-boat.
The trawler, according to tne story
told by one of the crew, was in the
North Sea in a stiff breeze when the
skipper saw a periscope crawl through
the breaking surface of the sea about
100 vards off. . There was no gun
aboard and the trawler's best speed
was less than eight knots..
Tt was a situation to dismay most
men, said the sailor. . "uur SKipper,
however, has a fighting spirit. A
touch of the wheel sent the trawler's
blunt bows pointing at the submarine's
whaleback and we wallowed menac
ingly toward the pirate.
"Jhe U-boat swung round to avoid
the bolsheviki regime in Russia, according to Dr. Eleff
is quoted in a Copenhagen
also planned to introduce a
- LEON TROTZKY
Y Petrograd, Friday, March 8. Leon Trotzky, in an address
at a meeting of the maximalist party today,' announced that'
he had ipaslgiiec! tmtfa$i
- As the bolshevik foreign minister, Leon Trotiky, whose
real name is Leber Braunstein, was the most important mem
ber of the revolutionary government formed after the over
throw of Kerensky last November, although Nikolai Lenine,
as premier, was the nominal head of the government. Trotzky
virtually controlled Russia's destiny up to the second peace
conference at Bresi-ucovsK.
RUSS AT PEACE
WITH ROUMAUIA,
FORMER COMRADE
1 "
Bessarabia Surrendered to
Slavs Under Terras of
Treaty Which Concludes,
; Hostilities. " V
London, March 9. Conclusion of
peace between Russia and Roumania
is announced in a Russian wireless
dispatch received here today! Rou
mania oromisca to evacuate all ' of
Bessarabia, including Benderi, on the
Dniester river, 40 miles southeast of
Kishinev, within two months.
Russia and Roumania have been at
odds for several months and a num
ber of battles have been fought by
the former allies. Roumanian troops
disarmed Russian forces left, in
Roumania after the conclusion' of
peace with Germany, saying the Rus
sians were plundering! Roumanian
towns. Roumanian troops were sent
into tsessaraoia, a Russian province
populated largely by Roumanians,
savin thev had been asked . by '.he
Bessarabian authorities to, intervene
and restore order. The Russians
made a number of ineffectual attempts
to subdue the Roumanians and sev
eral weeks ago issued an order for
(Continued on Fare Two, Column Two.)
the impact and the sides of the trawler
scraped along the sides of the subma
rine, lhe periscope was still well out
of the water, but was beginning to
slip down as the submarine dived.
"The skipper bawled 'for a hammer,
a crowbar, anything that would hurt.
One of the crew thrust a coal shovel
into his hand and he scrambled ion
the bulwarks and leaned over, two
of the crew hanging onto bis coat so
that he would not fall overboard
Backwards and - forwards he swung
the heavy scoop at the fragile peri
scope and the third blow reduced it
to fragments.
"The submarine commander, hearing
the noise and wondering what new
and horrible device the enemy had in
vented, crept to his periscope to have
a look,-but all -was black. He was
blind and the trawler got away in
safety,"
dispatch to , the Exchange
recent conference in Mos
republic in Russia with af-
RESIGNS POSITION. J :4 f.
CAST DECIDING VOTE.
To Trotsky probably more than to
any of the other bolshevik leaders is
due the present situation in Great
Russia. ' v.' - '
He was said to have cast the decid
ing vote on the question whether to
send delegates to Brest-Litovsk a
fortnight ago. . f
Germany In Its ruthless demands
shattered his program of self-deter-mination
and nonresistance.
It was Trotzky who made public
the text of secret documents ex
changed between former Russian
governments and foreign govern
ments and it was he who proposed
the armistice to the central powers
early in December, which eventually
led to the abortive conference tt
Brest-Litovsk. . t '
' The negotiations were disrupted in
mid-February and hostilities were re
newed. The Germans then submit
ted partial peace terms, but Trotzky
took no part in the conferences.
Trotzkv's resignation is the second
among the Russian leaders forecast
by Berlin. On February 25 Berlin re
ported that Ensign Krylenko, com
mander of the Russian armies, had
been superseded.
Lenine Sole Survivor. , ;
A dispatch received in London
Thursday said Krylenko had resigned
owing to differences with the council
of people's commissaries. ' Trotzky's
resignation was forecast by Berlin
last Tuesday. 'The withdrawals'- of
Trotzky, and Krylenko leaves Lenine
as the survivor of the bolshevik ruling
triumvirate. Trotzky also is president
of the Petrograd council of .workmen
and soldiers' delegates and was' ap
pointed food dictator with unlimited
authority on February 20. , v
Having escaped from Siberia, where
he was sent for political offenses,
Trotzky was an exile at the outbreak
(Contlnaed an F( Two, Colnmn Two.)
Charged With. Red Oak Murder;
Is Given Heavy Reparation
Topeka, Kan., March 9. The Kan
sas supreme court today affirmed, a
judgment of $2,250 awarded. William
Mansfield against the William T.
Burns Detective agency by the Wyan
dotte district court It was chareed
that force, threats and intimidation
were employed by a detective agent
to force a confession from Mansfield.
who had been placed under arrest at
Kansas City, Mo., in connection with
the Moore family, killed by an axe
murderer at Red Oak, la. i
General Scales Removes .
Board on Graft Charge
Jackson, Miss March 9.-AActine
on charges that money had been paid
to ootain exemption irom military
service, Adjutant General : E.: C
Scales has summarily removed i the
exemption board of Smith county. A :
report filed with J. W. George, United
States attorney, charges that Dr. P. "
B. Baueh. a member of the board, in
one instance was given $40 for giving
an exemption certifying that' a regis
trant was afflicted with heraia, 4
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