Y AILY BXEE HE THE WEATHER Cold ler VOL. XLVII NO. 230 OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1918 SIXTEEN" PAGES nJuU'eA u SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. I -4 I 0MAHA MEN CALLED NQ MAIRCH 29TH . . o ; . t . ' tf if- f UNFIT ARMY OFFICERS -RELIEVED OF COMMAND : BY U. S. MEDICAL BOARD )'.; ' . i.. i Many Drastic Changes in ; Successors for Physically Disqualified Leaders Not Announced; Overseas Service Declared " Too . 1 ' Strenuous for Aged Men.- " ' -" (By Associated Press.) ' Washington, March 12.7-SeveraI : general officers of the army , five of them now commanding national guard and na tional army divisions in this rally unfit for overseas duty and, in the case of the divisional commanders, will be assigned . to other duty. HVTTPSPAS TiTITV WATiTV I' Q This is in line with the announced policy ot the War department to send tto France only general officer's who are prepared to stand -the 'physical ordeal which a ommand on tne oat . tie line entails. The officers , with the"recommenda " tion of the examining board were an nounced today by Major-General March, acting chief of staff, as fol lows: '.' BARRY IS TRANSFERRED., . Major General- Thomas H. Harry, regular army, to be relieved (from command of the 86 (national army) division, Camp Grant, lit, and as signed to command the central depart (" ment, Chicago, '.relieving Major-Gen eral W. ; H. Carter, United States army,1 retired. Maior General Charles G. Morton, "resrular- army, to be relieved .from- command of the 29th .-(National Guard) . djvision, Camp - McClelland, Ala., and assigned to other duty. Major General Edwin St. J. Greble, national army, to be relieved from : command - of the 36th (National Guard) division. Camp Bowie," Tex, . discharged from his commission in the national army and assigned to ; ; other duty with his regular, army rank T ; : Major General ?WilHam,: H Sage? i national army, tcv-pcreueven- rrom command-tf v-the 36th f (fiational , f Gard) rfvTsMktSftnp Shelby, , Miss., 1 discharged from ;his cqmmissipn in r'the national army and. assigned;:-to other duty with his regular army rink . ; f brigadier general. 7 : ' V Plummet to RefcularS. : .;; ; ' Major General1 Edward H" glum mer: national army, to dc renevea frnm command of the 88th (national army) division, Camp" Dodge; Ia.,"diV charged trom, nis commission in inc ; national armv and assigned to .other duty with his regular army rank of brigadiergeneral. ; , ; . :. -." Major General William A. Mann; national army, to be discharged from his commission in the national army, and to remain on his preser.'. duty as the eastern department with his regular army rank of brig-, : dief general. , - . . v M-ior npncral Richard M. Blatch ford, national army, to be discharged - from his commission in the national vmy and remain on his present auty the Denartment of Panama, With hfercgular army rank . or . ongaaier genci .,,, .n .- ; Successors Not Sejecte& . General officers who are to replace the divisional' commanders have not yet been; selected so far as couia De learned nd they may not be.unlil the medical board has examined many other officers wW will be in line for service in France! as divisional com manders if they pass the required physical test. ' Major General M?nn commanded the "Rainbow , division" when -it went to France, but later was relieved of that command and -returned to this country. Shortly, afterwards he was givei1 command of the Eastern de partment, relieving Major General : George Bell, jf., who was assigned to command the 33d (National Guaid) - division at Camp Logan. v The Weather - For Nebraska Unsettled' colder. Tempmture mt Omaha Ieterdaj 7 p. ro.. ........ 6S S p. m. (1 Comparatlva Local Itoeord. S ' - ' 191S.-117. lt. Illghert yeterdayx.. Jl. H 7S 37 Lowest yesterday 40 JO 48 ' sll Mean temperature , S 33 ' 61 ll Precipitation 00 , ,4 .00- .00 Temperature And precipitation departures from the normal: ..,'.. ; Normal temperature .................. Kxcexs for the day fi Total excess since March 1 ......110 Normal precipitation .04 Inch Deficiency for the day............ .04 inch Total rainfall since March 1. .......... . T Deficiency since March 1 .47 Inch Deficiency for cor, period, 1M7. .01 Inch .3 Inch ' Deficiency for cor. period, 1H Reports frem Btatteae at 7 r, Station and State Temp. of Weather. ; 7 p. m Cheyenne, cloudy ...... 0 . Davenport, toudy .... SI Denrer, cloody ........ 62 Des Moines, cloudy .... SC : Dodge City, cloudy .... 73 - Lander, cloudy : "60 North Platte, cloudy .. ! "... QmMi, cfoody ........ 6 HlKh- Rain- est. . fail. -. .00 , .00 70 64 SO i 70 7i 74 '68 ( Pueblo, cloudy ........ (4 Rapid City, raining .... 44 .. Salt Lake City, raining 54 :, Santa Ft, rain z ; Sheridan, cloudy ...... 44 ; Sioux City, eloudy .... 10 Valentine, ralnlnr 40 to 10 it , X indicates trice of precipitation, - . a. , WKt-SH. MeteorolOKiat uour. . . - i, " J . 6 a. ro....1...'... . thYA 7 m 41 nVIOf It ra.....K....4J $Ci jji? 9 m 44 (sWr W- 19 m 48 i vltyil A.'ZfLs ll -a. m. 'J 1 AW a ' ' ' M m- iftl R U y i p. m., ........ 71 I?RH ) 11 , . m.: - to ip ii i.m.. ii..h n..- , National Army Will Result ; country,' have been found physr by a medical examining board 4,000 BALLOON MEN TO TRAIN IN FAR WEST California Congressman An: hounces Famous 'Lucky' Bald win. Ranch to Be Converted Into Signal Corps Station. . i , f (9 AMMiated Pru.) ,. ' Washington, March 12. Represen tative Randall of California announced today he had Been informed that the War department would establish the largest balloon training station in the country at Arcadia, Cat, 12 miles east ot J-os Angeles, on the tamous Lucky Baldwin ranch. He said 4,000 men would be sent there for training. , ' At the signal corps headquarters it was stated that there had been no final plans for a School "at Arcadia. It is 'understood.' however, rthat field 6f- rieers of the corps who investigated theeite have given their approval; ad according to inftrniation reaching Mr. Randall material for .the station al ready Jiad-been shipped. , .. . a, . Don't .Affect nOmaba. ; "K Recent advices from. General Salz man, one of the heads of the balloon division ef the signal corns at Wash ingtohji, declared; the government in tends to establish several great bal loon schools over the count j y. " A large tradt .of land adjacent to Fort Omaha' was recently leased by the government an Is now known as "Florence Field." Many additions, new buildings and hangars will be constructed in Omaha soon, it is be lieved. - , Whether the : school xto be estab lished at L.os Angeles will be on tne order of the Fort Omaha institution is not known, but in all likelihood flying cadets will be trained there. Thousands of balloon men are. needed for service in France in, connection with the balloons, officials here aver. German Airplanes-Drop i Bombs Over'Cityof, Paris London, March 12. German air planes raided Paris Monday night. The first alarm, was given .at 9?10 o'clock, when seven - squadrons of German airplanes .were reported on their way to Paris. Bombs were dropped 'at 10:15 o'clock.' ' Omaha's Dtaft Share - , - Eighty in Next Call Omaha will select 80 of Nebras-, ka's 459 men to be sent to camp" within five days beginning March 29. These will compose the first -qubta of the second draft fdr Omaha. Local draft boards had believed ' there .woujd be no quotas to fill, owing to the voluntary enlistments, but, under the new ruling no credit is given for voluntary induction. - Governor ' Neville and Nebraska members of congress opposed the legislation , doing away with de ducting voluntary .. enlistments, State , Provost Marshal Anderson has announced that the. Omaha boards are to pick the following number of selects: Division, No. 1, 12; Division No. 2, 13; Division No.. 3, 15; Division No. 4, 18; Division No. 5,' 15; Division No. 6, 7. OmdKa Educators 1 Provisions of Members of ahe Board of Educa tion and Superintendent Beveridge of the 'public schools are working but a plan tQ benefit by 'the provTs,ions of tne Smith-Hughes bill, which carries a federal appropriation for. co-operation with state and municipal main tenance of vocationaleducational in stitutions. ' " The probable action in .Omaha will be to convert the' Fort School for Boys into a vocational school along lines which will enform to federal requirements and bring it within the federal aid plan.' . ' The Smith-Hughes bill provides for industrial, agricultural and household economic training. At least six hours a day for five days a week must be devoted to the specific lines of train ing which may be adopted. The Fort school is equipped to "begin this work. It would be necessary to build addi SOPIIUS NEBLE TO SUCCEED LYNCH ON COUNTY BOARD Editor of Danish Newspaper Appointed to Vacancy Cre ated by Ouster Suit; Po- ; , litical "Dope" Upset. Sophus F. Neble, editor of the Pan ish Pioneer," was appointed ' county commissioner Tuesday morning to succeed "Johnny" Lynch, recently re moved from office following an ouster suit brought by Sheriff Clark, 'rlrble will assume office next Tuesday. . The appointment of Neble upset the political "dope" which hai bttn circulated for several weeks in this connection. v Say Political Opportunism, During the 'last few days it was generally believed that Adam bloup was as good ail "made," although a few others were mentioned. A coterie of influential democrats got busy and i SOPHUS t NEBLEt , i.x : comerred 1 with Artnur: MuHerj. na tional committeetnan,and the general understandinp; '-' about town is that Mullen .acquiesced in the selection of Neble as a matter of political oppor tunism as well as filling a place with a onan whose' record "could be ap proved..1 -v'.-' -.-f" -:;. """ ' - Mr,' vWeble served as presidential elector three times and gubernatorial colonel through four state adminis trations. He is now serving as mem ber of the Boafd of Public Welfare and has never . held a"alaricd public office. He has lived" .34 years in Omaha, isa native of Denmark and is editor of the Danish Pioneer, Mr. Neble was mentioned for the position of governor of the Danish West In dies before that post was placed on a military basis." Democratic Majority ( The board which filled the vacancv comprised ! County Attorney Magney, Lounty Uerk Dewey and Treasurer Endres. beine two democrats and one republican. Dewey, minority member of this board, nominated Fred May strick, but when he saw, the hopeless ness of. his , cause,' he- stated that Neble was the best of those who had been mentioned by the democrats. "I was not a candidate forMhe place," stated Mr. Neble when-ad- vised of his selection. "I do not see how I . can refusethe place. I in tend to give the salary I shall receive to Red Cross and other war activi ties. I am too old for military serv iee and I feel that thfs will be an opportunity to do my bit." -The suggestion of Mr. Neble fof the county " ccfnmissionership va cancy was made two weeks ago and was kept as. a profound secret by those who were behind the proposi tion.; - ! : -. v . , , , British Bombard Cambrai. Berlin. March 12. (Via Loudon.- Cambrai has been bombarded bv lonsr (range British guns,' according to to day s army jieadquarter s report. Sev eral shots from British artillery of the heaviest caliber fell in the town, the statement reports. to Benefit By Smith-Hughes Bill tions "fof workshops and the sugges tion has been made that these addi tions could be erected by the boys in their actual training work." The fed eral aid of one-half of- expense refers only to maintenance-rather than to cost of plant itself. Recent -enrollment at Fort school hasbeen between 20 and 25 boys', not sufficient, it is said, when compared wtih the expense, of the plant. C. A. Fulmer, formerly chancellor of the Nebraska Wesleyan univer sity,, is. ir. charge of the Vocational training in this state under the op eration of the Smfth-Hughes bilL He is expectefhere for a conference with school officials. -. i , For the first jear Nebraska will be allowed $8,000 as the federal appro priation for one-half of the mainte nance expense of the work. These appropriations will be increased each year for a limited period, " ' : Some HURL CHARGE OF WASTE ATI FOOD ADMINISTRATOR "Administration Spends Money Like a Drunken Sailor," De l clares Senator: Beed; ; Ex travagance Unparalleled. ' 4By Associated Press.) Washington, March 12. Charges of oss extravagance in the manage ment : of the affairs of . the food ad ministration were made in (the sen ate today by Senator Reed of Mis souri, who demanded' that Food Ad ministrator Hoover give an account ing of the department's finances. The charges were mae after the .Missouri senator had asked that the appropriation ot $i,au,uuu tor tne food and , fuel administrations be eliminated from the urgent deficiency bill.- -f ' ' In all the history of this govtrn menf there never has been such wastefulness as is now going on in the food administration, declared Sen ator ReeL . "A drunken sailor trver threw money around as this adminis tration is now doing." ' Vy' ' Senator Reed said that at a hear ing on January 21 before a house com mittee representatives of the food ad ministration testified that the depart ment then had an unexpended balance of $1,257,950, and added that with this sum on hand it was difficult to under stand why congress was called on to make an additional sum as emergency appropriation. ' .Senator Reed said that since the food administration was created 5, 515,000 had been appropriated fcr it. and besides that it had received $340, 000 from the president's emergency fund. Testimony before the uouse committee, he pointed out, .shawed that out of the amount anoroDriated $1,985,429 had been expended, while incumbrances totalled $2,272,38 j. - I am curious to know whv these bills have not been paid and reported to congress,". Senator Reed said. failure to pay existing; bills and make a complete report to congress is a violation of the law under which the food administration was founded, he said. , - The next thine I want to call, at tention to is the fact that this food ad ministration has large sources of in come, the collection and disposal of which the country is entitled to know about," he said. Senator Tleed said he wanted to know what became of the $12,000,000 paid into the grain corporation 'or ganized by the department. ' Senator Reed said there are items showing that a month before? con gress passed the' food bill by which the food administration was created wood Administrator Hoover spent more than $50,000 1 of government money. . j Senate Resumes Probe of , a La Follette Disloyalty Washington. March 12. Considera tion of disloyalty , charges against Senator La Follette of Wisconsin Sopn will be resumed by -the senate privileges and elections committee, Chairman Pomerene said today. The committee also will consider a protest filed by former Senator Chil ton of West 'Virginia agauist seating of his successor, Senator Suthef land. No action in this case is looked for. Exhibit American Steamer Damaged by ) U-Boat A French Port, Sunday, March 10. An American steamship, for merly a German vesseL arrived here today with its bridge smashed ' and a shell hole through a smoke stack as a result of an. encounter .'with a aubmarine, - r' ' The steamship ; defended itself with Ha guns on being attacked by the submarine. - - A storm was encountered during which the cargo shifted. The ves sel made port with the greatest difficulty . f . PEINCE : OSCAR, KAISER'S SON, MAY RULE FINNS,; r ' The- Finnish government lias asked the German emperor to appoint Prince Oscar, fifth son of the J em peror, king of Finland, according to a cable dispatch. Prince Oscar is 30 years old. In the early months of the war he was rcporte as suffering from heart trouble. v ; 9 w .isw j 4f ; ' A T f j' t " AMERICAN GIRL DESCRIBES Thrilling: Human Intereat Story Told in Letter Received in Omaha from France, i ENEMY AIR RAIDS OVER PARIS Here's a real human interest story of German air raids over Paris. The letter was written by an American girl at the French capital and fur nished The Bee by Omaha friends for exclusive publication; , 'The first air raid, you see, I was at Neuilly and got none of the ex citement; in fact there was very little, as people here have gotten so used to the enemy not reaching the city that they do not get alarmed.'so this time when I was awakened by the sirens I merely turned over in my bed and found myself saying aloud, 'The filthy beasts I' Thinking more of Lon don than that they would really get here. Of course, we expect' them on clear moonlight nights, so I was not surprised. I tried to eo to sleep but the bugle and the fire sirens near u were too insistent, and finally bthel knocked an(jtame in, all dressed, and made me get up. "The useful pajamas served as a foundation for stockings, a skirt, my suede coat, uniform hat covering up untidy hair, and I put on warm shoes. Tucking all rriy papers, passports, etc., and my purse, into my overcoat pocket, I was ready. The" mojjt im portant thing by this time was my flashlight, as the light in the hotel , t NATIONAL ARM IN ALL STATES BUT TWO GOES FORWARD TO BIG CAMPS Order Includes Men of Botl First and Second Drafts; Deferment for Agricultural Workers; M59 "Men From Nebraska Called In New Summons; . Iowa and Minnesota Excluded. - 1 1 - Washington, March 12.- A movement ot 95,000 draft men to begin on March 29 and continue for five days was ordered today by Provost Marshal General Crowder. ! 1 v : The order calls troops from every state in the, union, with the exception of Iowa and Minnesota. . It includes men remain ing from the first draft and those liable to call in the second. AMERICANS CUT GERMAN DEFENSE IN MORNING RAID v ', - .. Enter Enemy Trenches Near Toul; Take Booty and In formation; First Raid At- tempted' Alone. BULLETIN. V -Paris, March 12. An American de tachment in the Woevre region has successfully carried out a surprise attack on German trenches south of Richecourt, says the French official communication issued today. (Bjr Associated Preta.) i With the American Army in France, Monday, March ll. Aa American .raiding party entered the German trenches along the Toul sector at 6 o'clock this morning, after an Artillery bombardment of 45 min ntes, and brought back much .material and- information, .- but captured no prisoners. "It wa3 the first raid under taken- by the Americans without the' aid of the 1 reach. ' m The faid was highly 'successful, as the enemy withdrew many men f?om the front" line when the' bombard ment indicated that a raid might fol low.! 4 The raiders reported that American, gun fire had created de struction iu the German positions and had torn gaps in the enemy barbed wire entanglements. Jhe' German batteries came into action, but ac complished nothing toward disturb ing the progress of the raid. Hand-to-Hand Fighting. " The Americans entered the enemy trenches behind one side of a "box barrag'e whichv moved forward in front of thcm.i TheJ found numer ous ' Germans hiding in the dugouts. In the hand-to-hand fighting which followed a number of the enemy were killed and wounded and left in the trenches. Going far beyond their objective, the raiders; penetrated the German line 300 yards. A few fights .devel oped on the way, but the'Germans were driven off.; The Americans failed to find most of the Germans, who had withdrawn hurriedly from the front line, although they searched for them. In the hand-to-hand fighting the Americans used their automatic pis tols and rifles. i ' ' During the raid the American ma chine guns placed a barrage in the enemy back areas in order to prevent a counter atiactc. . The Americans fought so fast and did their work so quickly that the medical men who accompanied t.rm had little to do. Every American ho left the front line returned. On their wav back the Americans encountered a German listening pest. wnicn nrea at-tnem. in jess tnar. it takes tq tell it, the Germans in the post were silenced., 1 , ' , had gone off at the first alarm. Imagine dressing without itl "On the way downstairs I was sur prised to overtake an old lady in tears: she was groping m the dark and I illumined her down and tried tcV assure her that it was-nothing. She was very grateful and expected to hang around my, neck the rest of the evening, but when I went tosthe front door she left me. Guests In Negligee. '. "The t office was full of guests in varying stages of negligee, the wom en, who had nice hair had not done it up and the others were in-fetching caps. Some of the men were all dressed and some in bathrobes and slippers, all very" friendly and some very scared. ,1 did not like the tense atmosphere and for the first time be gan to fejel that , the London raid might after all be repeated in Paris, if so I did not mean to die cooped up with a lot of scarfed people, and I made for the door. .'. "The French chasseur locked it in my face and said: 'You must not go out. An Englishman standing next to me fumed a little and I said I did not want Jo be locked in. I asked the (Continued race Five, Column One.) ' V rOWPT.TCTIT.S IfTRRT flPAffT Just how many men of the! second draft are affected by the order was not stated at General Crowder's of fice. It is understood that the move ment will virtually complete the first draft and that it is part of the an nounced plan to call registrants in small groups as fast as they can be accommodated. , The apportionment by states fol- lows: , . Alabama, .2,634; Arizona, 148, Arkansas, 1,541; California, 1,745; Colorado, 323; Connecticut, 903 Delaware, 308; District of Columbia, 102; Florida, 2,056; Georgia, o,v25; Idaho, 242; Illinois, 1,961 ; Inditr.a, 2,977;, Kansas, 587; Kentucky, 1.651; Louisiana, 3,573; Maine, 340; Wary land, 382; Massachusetts, 2,069; Mich igan 5,558; Mississippi, 2,220: Mis-, sourt, 1,170; Montana, 521; Nebraska, ' 459; Nevada, 72; New Hampshire, 212; New Jersey, 4,275; New Mexico, 127; New York, 12,288; North Caro lina, 5,174; North Dakota. 2.647; Oi io. 6,955; Oklahoma, 958; Oregon, ."69; Pennsylvania, 7,828; Rhode Island. 301; South Carolina, 343; South Da kota, 226; Tennessee, 2,753; Txas 3,943; Utah, 247; Vermont, 156; Vir ginia, 2,178; Washington, 638; West Virginia, !. 1,514; Wisconsin, 2,214;, Wyoming, 134. , . ; - No call was mad ;upQn,low md Minnesota. . . j ' , Seventy-three will be called from Omaha and tevetl more from Douglas county outside of Omaha. :, Second Draft Announced. . . Provost Marshal General Crowder today made the first official announce ment 61 the time of the second draft. It wilf be ordered as soon- as con gress amends the law to compute the basis of apportionment, among the states on the number of registrants in class 1, instead of population. For purposes of computation 800, 000 men will be considered as com posing the second draft, although no such number will be called to the col ors -at one time. , , . , Men in deferred classification, the provost marshal general announced, would be called in small numbers as well as men in class 1 for the puN pose of utilizing special technical qualifications or sending them to schools to acquire such qualifications. The provost marshal general makes the definite statement, however, that there will beNno sudden withdrawal of great numbers of men fromindustry and agriculture during the coming summer, but thai they will be drawn in .relatively small groups spread throughout the year.: To give the exact numbers, he says, would be to give the enemy military information. Draft in AprU. ; While General Crowder sets no time in his statement,' it has been stated previously that supplies and equipment for the men of the second draft wou!d become available in April and since action on the desired legis lation i expected before that time the first 'calls are expected soon aft erward. ... ."There are difficulties confronting the nation in the supply of labor ap purtenant to agriculture," says the an. nouncement. "Class 1, from which new levies are to be withdrawn, will contain many more men than are; at present required for the army. It would be a most unscientific and fatu (Continued on Pag Three, ColoaJin Three.) ARMY CHAPLAIN ON TRIAL; CHARGE PRO-GERMANiSM Honolulu, March 12. Trial ? b court-martial of Captain Franz Fein ler, chaplain, U. S. A., on charges of pro-German utterances, has begun at F6rt Shafter, where Captain Feinler has been stationed since he was re turned rfom France at the direction of General Pershing, who, it was said by military authorities, believed tfief effect of Captain JTcinler's "work , I among the soldiers would be counter balanced by hisGerman name. Evidence against Captain Feinler, who was arrested a week ago and ha since been held in communicado, was said to have been largely obtained through the use of - phonographic de vice. Aside from this evidence, it was said military witnesses would testify ' concerning lectures delivered by Cap tain Feinler, alleged to have bees tinged with pro-German sentiment. . Captain Feinler was said to have -declared atrocities of war were not all on the German side and that the Ger many army was the best disciplined m the world. ; v; Dr. R. D. Judd, representing the Hawaiian Defense Council, will he called as a civilian witness, it wag sail' ' .-; ... .'.,-; - I , , - v- 4'