Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, March 10, 1918, Image 1
today B 1 PART ONE NEWS SECTION ' PAGES 1 TO 12 VOL. XLVII NO. 39.. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 10, 1918. FOUR SECTIONSFORTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Omaha EE THE WEATHER Warmer; In fv . - - 5 5" " : 9 ' ; - v. . '.'::'''; 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. ......... 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 - . 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. i -v . . 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 . 4