THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918.
RAIL CONTROL
BILL TO HOUSE
: FOR FINAL ACT
Senate .Adopts Conference Re
port After Elimination of Pro
vision Limiting Power of
1 States to Tax Carriers.
(By Associated Press.)
Washmgton, March 13. The stnate
tonight adopted the conference re
port on the administration railroad
control bill by a vote of 47 to 8, after
it had rejected and the conferees had
eliminated a provision limiting the
power of the states to tax the car
riers while under federal control. The
bill now goes to the house for final
action, probably tomorrow.
Elimination of the tax provision re
sulted from initial use of the new sen
ate rule prohibiting conferees from
writing new. matter into a bill.
point of order by Senator
rreyhnghuysen of New Jersey, repub
lican, against the tax clause was up
held today by Vice President Mar
shall and sustained by the senate. 51
to 23. The bill then was returned
to conference, where the original tax
section, providing that state taxes and
railroad regulations shall not be in
terfered with so far as they are con
sistent with federal control was re
inserted.
Principal Provisions 0. K.
Other principal provisions of the
bill retained as the conferees ad
justed therein are those forcompen
sating the railroads on the basis of
their net income for the three years
ending June 30, 1917, involving an es
timated federal guarantee of about
$945,000,000 annually, limiting federal
operation to 21 months after the war;
authorizing the president to initiate
rates, subject to approval by the In
terstate Commerce commission, ap
propriating $suu,uuu,uuu for a revolv
ing fund for the director-general and
placing all "short lines" within the
federal system.
In the final debate today Senator
Johnson of California, republican, said
the bill was unfair and unjust to the
people and outrageously generous to
the railroads, while senator Town
Rend of Michigan, republican, and
Cummins. Iowa, republican, reiterated
their criticism of some sections of the
bill.' Some' of the bill's principles,
senator iownsend said, are sub
versent of good government."
SAMMIES NEAR
TOUL CUT TO FOE'S
SECOND DEFENSE
(Continue! From Pace One.)
into one of the most active on the
' frbtit, from the standpoint of artillery
fisrhtinK. '
American artillerymen are hurting
iiivuamius vi sncns oany against me
, German positions, making it virtually
imnOssihle for the fncmv tt mrrimn
them. Investigation shows that they
nave oeen virtually aoandoned. i
Thii is especially tru In th noicrfi
borhood of certain places northwest
ana nortnesut or uaaonvilter, where
it is now permissible, to say the two
raids rnenti.v',ers having, been car
ricd out simultaneously took place.
Certain information obtained in
the American sector northwest of
Tou! leads to the conclusion that the
American raid, . there this morning
came at such a time as to cause the
Germans to abandon plans of their
own for a raid. Norma! artillery fighN
ing continues in this sector, shells
falling on towns on both sides of the
line.'1 i ,.,.';. "';' 1
At one place the Germans used
mustard shells. 1 A small number of
Americans, walked through the gas
later, , a y . -:.- x -. .
Last night , an American " patrol
brought in an enemy sniper's camou
flage suit, made, of woven colored
grass, the same shade as the land
scape. There was the usual work by
patrols invo Man' land during the
night, but, no encounters have been
reported. .
Conditions were excellent today for
riving and many hostile and friendly
, planes were, in the air. In virtually
all allied planes there was an Ameri
can observer. Once or twice the
Americans wen close enough to the
Germans to try their machine guns,
but without result
One plane in which there was an
American went far back of the enemy
lines. It was the target for hundreds
of enemy shells, which seemed to
burst all around it. On returning, the
American admitted that they seemed
pretty thick, but he was unharmed.
The French official communication
issued by the war office tonight says:
"In the Woevre an American de
tachrnent carried out with success a
raid into the German trenches south
of Richecouit "
The Weather
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Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
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Wonderful New Machine Gun
. Shoots 33,000 Shots Per Minute
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SIX AMERICANS
ARE KILLED IN
BATTLER HURT
Name of Captain Archibald
Roosevelt Appears Among
Those Wounded; Only
. Officer on List.
ityi Ttmxss kd machine gvt
A machine gun that fires 33,000
shots a minute is the invention of
Levi W. Lombard of Boston, Mass.
The new weapon is of a centrifugal
type and can be operated by motor,
gasoline, steam or by hand. It has no
barrel, operating on a disk which
revolves with tremendous speed. The
ammunition is fed through a funnel
like attachment, round ball bullets
being used, when run through a tube
leading into veins beneath the disk.
The inventor claims that in a re
cent test the gun turned on sheets of
steel plates three-quarters of an inch
thick and hundreds of feet away,
forced the bullets clean through the
plates
One More Air Raid
By Germans in England
BULLETIN.
London. March 13. Hostile air
ships again raided the northeast
coast 01 England tonight.
GERMAN TOLL HEAVY
IN RAID ON PARIS
Four Machines 'Brought Down
and Fifteen Trained Aviators
Killed or Captured; Great
est Raid Yet Attempted.
Paris. Tuesday. March 12. Four
uerman machines brought down and
15 trained aviators, mechanics and
pilots killed or made prisoners, were
the German casualties in list night's
air attack on Paris.
Theiraid was attempted on a scale
of magnitude hitherto, unapproached,
nine squaarons participating in ine at
tack, borne of the machines followed
the River Oise and Ourca. while
others came along the Creil-Paris and
boissons-Paris railroads.
The percentage of the units that
succeeded in reaching Paris was small.
The aerial defense has improved
greatly since the time of former raids
and many of the German machines
were forced back and obliged to drop
their cargoes of bombs in vacant
fields of the suburbs.
.The American Red Cross was again
prominent in rendering help to the
wounded.'
While the raid upon Paris was in
progress French machines executed a
counter air offensive upon the enemy's
airdromes, from which th? German
raiders had started.
More than three tons of bombs were
dropped oruthe' Gothas' landing fields
and the probabilities seem to be that
many of them made disastrous land
ings upon their return.
Hoover Will Investigate
Milling and Bran Profits
"Washington, March 13. The jues
ion of mill feed was reopened to-lay
by the food administration, with an
announcement that complaints that
some millers have failed to abide by
regulations as to profits, will be in
vestigated by a committee headed by
Dr. Frank Taussig, chairman of the
tariff commission and including a rep
resentative of the federal trade com
mission, a member of the food ad
ministration, a representative miller
and a representative producer.
Soaring prices for bran affecting the
cost of dairy products, have been one
of the most irritating problems of the
food administration. The nvllers
committee requested that the inquiry
be made so that discredit might not
be brought1 on all by the action of a
few, , ,
Food Administrator Hoover will
also refer to the committee, when the
personnel is completed, propose! al
terations iu the milling regulations,
which experience has demonstrated
should be changed before next season. '
Raised Rent; Home
Would Take Action
To Aid General
Washington, March 13,
When members of congress
heard today that the owner of a
house occupied by Major Gen
eral Black, chief of engineers,
had notified the family after the
general's departure for France
with Secretary Baker, that the
rent hereafter would be $250,
instead of $100 a month, Repre
sentative Johnson of Kentucky,
chairman of the District of Co
lumbia committee, introduced a
resolution authorizing the pres
ident to commandeer the prop
erty. Under the resolution. General
Black would be permitted to
keep the house, if he desired,
until one year after the war,
paying $100 a month, minus re
pairs and expenses.
U. S. Will Not Pay Debts
Of Roads Under Control
Washington, March 13. The 'gov
ernment as manager of the railways,
will not be responsible for individual
companies' financing obligations, but
will exercise "a benevolent interest"
in maintaining railroads' credit. This
attitude was set forth today by offi
cials of the railroad administration,
discussing the New Haven's prospec
tive difficulty in meeting an issue of
$43,000,000 notes due April 1.
Secretary McAdoo today made it
plain in discussions with Representa
tive Kitchen, chairman of the house
ways and means committee, that he
advocates a clarifying of wording of
the war finance bill to remove any
doubt that bank loans to railroads
may be covered later by credits from
the corporation.
Although the railioad administra
tion might continue to operate a road
which had gone into receivers' hands,
paying the government compensation
to the receiver instead of to the pri
vate management, officials say it will
be the administration's policy to pre
vent this whenever possible. '
"King of Loan Brokers" Dead;
Left Estate of Four Million
New York. March 13. Daniel H.
Tolman, who was known from coast
to coast as King of the Loanbrok-
ers and who died at his home in
Montclair. N. T., last month, left an
estate of $4,OOQ,000, yielding an annual
income of $150,000.
At one time the elder Tolman had
82 agencies in 27 states and the Dis
trict of Columbia, and his practice of
exacting extortionate interest resulted
in widespread agitation against "loan
sharks. In lvu tolman was, con
victed here of usury and served a sen
tence of six months in prison.
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Army Orders,
Washing-tan. March If. (Spatial Tata-
f ram. ) Socond Uaotanant Prank Dunn,
quartarmaatar corps, national army, la as
signed to temporary duty at Fort Omaha,
and Captain Claranca E. Smith, quartermas
ter mervs corps. Is relieved from duty as
assistant to tba camp quartermaster, Camp
Dodae, la.
Washington, March 13. Today's
casualty list issued by the War de
partment carries the names of six men
killed in action, three dead of wounds,
seven dead of disease, two wounded
severely and eleven slightly wounded.
The only officer in the list is Cap
tain Archibald Roosevelt, who was
slightly wounded. News of his
wounding was told first in private
cable dispatches. The list follows:
Killed in action:
SERGEANT PAUL H. LOUD-
WIG.
CORPORAL WILLIAM GEH-
RING.
PRIVATE HARRY L. ANDER
SON.
PRIVATE HOMER DAWSON.
PRIVATE HOMER W. KLEIN.
PRIVATE JOHN LEGALL.
Died of wounds:
PRIVATE GUISEPPE FANUC
CHI'AND CORPORAL RUDOLPH
O. HOFF (traumatism by cutting in
struments)
Died of disease:
CORPORAL CLYDE B. JONES,
PRIVATE FERN W. BRISTOL,
PRIVATE JOHN BAILEY GILL,
' PRIVATE LOREN H. MITCH
ELL.
PRIVATE JESS E. MOODY.
PRIVATE GEORGE WASHING
TON RUTLEDGE.
PRIVATE MAURICE L.
SCHWARTZ.
Wounded severely:
Sergeant Virgil H. Brady and Pri
vate Jerrel E. Jennings.
Wounded slightly:
Captain Archibald B Roosevelt,
Corporals William Seibert and Charles
R. Simmons, Privates Nicholas Chris
tow, Willie N. Cornelius, Edward B.
Darland, Jacob Keller, Robert H.
Manter, Edward S. Parry, Howard L.
Spidel and Joseph Tezesnk.
LIBERTY MOTORS
UPON AIR GIANTS
' ARE ACCEPTED
(Continued From Fats One.)
studying its construction and methods
of quantity production employed. It
is anticipated that a large number of
foreign planes, particularly British,
will be using Liberty motors during
the present year. Steps were taken
here recently to expedite the delivery
of motors for British use.
Pershing Wants Big Ones.
Meanwhile American engineers are
devoting themselves to a study of the
motor to be used next year, which
undoubtedly will show a very consid
erable increase in horsepower over
the-present 12-cylinder model. There
is now time for a very1 careful study
of the various types of motors, both
of foreicn and domestic design, and
a decision as to the (machine to be
made the standard for 1919 will not be
necessary before July.
. More powerful motors will be (need
ed for machines to carry such an ar
mament as General Pershing has pro
posed. In response to an inquiry
some time ago as to the gunpower
of American fighting planes. General
Pershing recommended at least two
heavy and two light machine guns,
adding:
"We should anticipate the" use of
three Vickers synchronized guns and
three Lewis unsynchronized guns on
every airplane."
To carry out such a program larger
planes' would be necessary and it is
the judgment of officials here that
fighting aircraft wilt increase con
stantly in size and armament.
Upper and Lower Houses to
Hear "Synopsis of War News"
Washington, March 13. An in
finv9 f inn in nersonal relations between
the War department and congress was
proposed today when Benedict Cro
well, assistant secretary of war, invited
members of the national committees
of the senate and house to meet in
his office next Friday afternoon to
hear a "synopsis of war news" for the
week. Members will accept the invitation.
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and This Will Help You to Help!
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all round conserving value of
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Try a pack ag e from your
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Saves labor; Saves time;
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A Gireat Food For These Days
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Trcfousse Gloves
The finest quality of French
Kid gloves Trefousse are
sold in Omaha exclusively
by Thompson Belden & Co.
Also washable leather
gloves in suitable shades
for shopping wear and
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$3.25
Proprly fitted
New Tailored Suits
Direct from New York
This showing has been prepared with a view
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with their moderate pricing.
$25 $29.50 $35 $39.50
No extra charge for alterations.
The Blouse Store
New Models of crepe de
chine and Georgette that
are particularly attractive
$5.95 $6.50 $6.95
New Head wear
for Small Folks
Children's white pique wash
hats, plain or hand embroidered
styles-each with a button on
the crown (2-6 years) 65c 75c
90c $1 up.
Children's wash hats of lawn,
batiste, organdie and combina
tions of lace with embroidery.
Sensibly priced.
Straw hats in delightful new
ihapes and colors-plain or trim
med styles for two to eight year
olds. -
Baby caps of lace and embroid
ery plain tucked lawn, Swiss
and organdie, trimmings of laces
and ribbons 65c-75c.85c-$l up
wards. Shown in the
Children'swear.third floor
Silk Ginghams
Graceful and dainty silks
in attractive gingham pat
terns. They are very sum
mery and at present are in
complete variety.
For Knitters
The latest ideas in Sweaters for
Spring are taught in the art
needlework section.' Vicune
yarns are ready in a line of new
colors.
All wool knitting yarns in black,
white, light gray, O.D., gray
mixed
Classes of instruction every day
10 to 12 mornings 3 to 5 after
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La Grecque Corset
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House Dresses
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Little Victim of th Turkish Hun. Emaciated,1 Starving Armenian Children.
&y a Life
The Voices of Two Million Driven, Starving People Cry
THE call comes from over 2,000,000 destitute and suffering people in bleeding,
poverty-stricken Armenia, Caucasus, Persia, Syria Palestine, Egypt and
Mesopotamia. From the Bosporus to the Euphrates all is poverty, hunger and
despair. The call comes to the people of the United States, the most prosperous
nation in the world. Surely, Christian America will recognize her debt to these
Bible Lands and from her abundance pour out her trea surest
There is no better way to" show gratitude for our liberties and for our social and
religious privileges than by accepting responsibilities laid upon us to provide the
actual necessities of life for, those who now reside in these ancient cities and
among these sacred hills.
Shall we make it possible for these people to LIVE or shall we allow them to
PERISH? This is the burning question. Over a million have ALREADY per
ished. Their blood cries from the ground.
; 17c a Day Will Save a Life
$5.00 Will Save a Life for One Month
$60.00 Will Save a Life for One Year
How Many Lives Will
. YOU SAVE?
The Armenian and Syrian Relief la Con
ducted with the Full Approval of
the Red Crosa.
HOWARD H. BALDRIQE, Prtaldent
JOHN L. McCAQUE, Vloe President
CHAS. M. WILHELM, Secretary.
JOHN C. WHARTON, Treasurer.
Mall Your Contributions to
John C Wharton, Treasurer
Armenian and Syrian Relief.
818 Omaha National Bank Bldg.
Omaha, Nebraska.
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