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6MA Da PART TWO EDITOEIAL-r PAGES 11 TO 20 HE ILY BEE' f v if J V VOL. XLVTf NO- 275. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1918. GRAND ISLAND BOY SEES 20,000 GERMANS MOWED DOWN ON BATTLE FRONT Nebraska Soldier With U. S. Army in France Write " Gripping Description of Death Harvest on Somme in Letter to His Father; Enemy Gained No Advantage. v More shells shriek across the bedlam of battle on the west ern front in France in a single da than were fired by both arm ies during the civil -war in America, according to a letter just received from a Nebraska soldier, "somewhere over there." "This a war of artillery a battle to kill, kill, kill," is the gripping description Harold A. Prince, a young lawyer of Grand Island, penned to his father, W. A. Prince, under date of April 4. BEGGARS DESCRIPTION. 0 : ' With his own eyes, young Prince ftitZtftlZt. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. One-Minute v Store Talk A good friend of ours, a -clothing merchant from a neighboring city, said: "You't achieved widgp business prominence in less than six years at this Greater new store than is accomplished by many stores in sixty " years. Whoays 'Value, giving doesn't pay? " We agree with our friend value-giving is appreciated and we're organized to fin ish what we've started. JOHN A. SWANSON, Pres. V !WM. L. HOLZMAN, Treas. ,has seen 40,000 German troops pour across a 1,000-yard front, massed in waves, falling as chaff before theVwith ering fire of English machine guns until 20,000 enemy fighters lay dead and dying unon the field. -I But kill as they might, slay as fast as the. "put-put-put-put" of British bullets' could mow them down, the enemy kept coming until the losses beggar description, according to v ruin or Prinr Prince's chirography is noticeably nervous, the result of battle wean ness. He already has'won the "Chev ron of Honor" and been promoted to the post of judge advocate. Parts of the letter from son to fath er, are given below. 4, YOUNG PRINCE'S LETTER. "These are days that try men's souls over here. On the Somme and -on the plains of Picardy is being fought "that battle that will tell the y history of the world for centuries to - come; that will , tell whether peace, freedom, justice and respect for law shall rule, or war, oppression, utter disregard for everything but might, the wholesale ravishment of women, the murdefof children, the destruc tion of churches and acts of utter barbarism shall sway the world. "Vimy Ridge" must afford the an swer. That ridge captured by the test blood of England is now held against the onslaughts of the Hun. The gains on the Somme are but paltry. xThe ground was utterly de , Tastated- beforexbut as long as the British hold Vimy Ridge and the French the Qfflnin Dames," the Hun is in a pocket. The half million lives spent by the .- ; junkers will be in vain. The flower of Germany has perished that, the junker may live. PRESBYTERIANS PLAN UNION OF CHURCHES IN U.S. Measure Proposes to ConsolM date All Evangelical Denomi nations Under One Name, "Church of America." "Losses Are Horrible. "To giVe you an idea of the im mensity of the struggle: On a 1,000 yard front 40,000 Germans came pour ing through. Kill, kill as the English might, the flow kept on440 to 1 or less - on this sector were the odds and the losses were horrible. At another point the British held a quarry. "I saw it myself in October. It was impregnable to assault, and was a nest of machine guns. The orders were to hold, it to the last man; to the last man they held it. Observers from the hill behind say the Germans came on and on.'The machine guns mowed them down. "Agan and again they came until b.y sheer numbers they worked a few close enough to begin bombing. Others came up, but the machine guns kept firing to the end. Not a single unwounded Tommy surrendered and in front of the position lay 20,000 dead and dying Germans. And by this less than 1,000 Britishers (Scots they were), j A War of Artillery. "This is a war of artillery. I can hardly give you an idea of it. More shells are fired in this western front than were fired by both northern and southern armies during the four years of the Civil war. In one day one side fired ovr 14,000 shells ona single mile of front. A little more of our experiences. "The nights are generally quiet. Theft comes a crash of the big guns, but more ominous by far than-that out of the quiet night, comes the sin ister 'put-put-put-put' of the machine guns. Then all is quiet again. Up goes a brilliant flame, again the 'put-put-put-put --of the machine un, then quiet again. Such is the night. .Then daylight comes. Airplanes fiy far over head, an occasional shell or two, so it is day after day, night after night. , "Then something happens, away go . all the-, guns in the world it sfcfins. Pandemonium reigns. A raid I per haps. Retalliation, what not, then quiet again, so it may be for days and ' weeks, no permanent change of im ' portant lines, then a push, a slaughter, a battle, a counter charge, until fin ally equilibrium is again established, quiet and peace again. Such is war . "So stupendous are the field forti fications, so large the- number of men necessary to take and hold a piece of ground that the gain is not worth the cost unless there is some ulterior .object in view, or the destruction of an army is planned. At this date the German drive on the-omme is a fail ure in both respects. l "The Germans are now in a worse position for' they are in a salient rlanked by immensely strong positions, ... '.in less they can capture Vimy ridge nd CheminNOames and split the Brit . ish and French armies. They Have destroyed neither, they have sacrificed 0 their best troops, they have destroyed tnly themselves and Amrica is corn el" . :. One of Three New Comfort' ". v , Stations W South Side Hie city council formally decided to locate one of three public comfort , stations at Twenty-fourth and N streets, South Side. W: W. Yager and J. B. Watkins, president and sec- ,. retary respectively, of the South Omaha Business Men's association, obtained a resolution of thanks to the cityofficials. The comfort station will be built when the government approves the project, . t A measure designed " to unify all evangelical churches of the United States and to drop denominational names and consolidate under the name of the "Church of America," will be intvduced at the annual gen eral assembly of the Presbyterian church which convenes at Columbus, May 16. Dr. A. B. Marshall, president of the Omaha Theological Seminary, and Rev. B. A. Sye of Tekamah will represent the Nebraska presbytery at the conference. Another measure proposing the union of the northern and southern branches of the church will, be intro- Details of Church Plan. In the measure it is proposed that the general assembly shall name a I time and place for the interdenomina tional council composed of lay and clerical delegates which shall work out the basis of a unification. It is proposed " that each' church shall adopt its own form of worship ' at ate J i-vnrati - A A kar M vi n t ft r ft A I " SHOP EARLYSTORE CLOSES Ar 6:30 P. M. SATURDAY SHOP EARLY - Commanding the Confidence of Thousands of Men .... . pUJBLIC confidence has inspired this organization to assemble m 1 Omaha a clothing stockv unequaled in the West, or in any other city in the country of thrice the size of Omaha. v Investigate. Compare. From every standpoint of your satisfaction, Greater JNebraska is equipped to serve you this Spring of 1918 better than ever in all its history here's yjur logical store we ve the merchandise the assortments the styles the fabrics-r we've the prestige in the markets of the world and the training .to pick and choose the best of the best clothes made in America. ' , Saturday We Feature , One of Many New Fashion Park Spring Suits, 'The Menton" of members aitd ehtSose its minister by the -same .method. In localities where there are niore churches than can well be supported, combinations shall be made by amicable adjust ments, or by committees appointed to act as final arbiters in the matter. ' Local churcties of a state are "to be grouped in convenient district or ganizations made up of representa tives annually, elected by the churches, , . t one minisrer ana one layman irom each 500 communicants, Mass Meeting to Give School Debaters Sendoff Friday a mass meeting was held at the Omaha high school to give a send-off to rhe boys who will rep resent Central high in the debating and athletic contests in Lincoln to day. O. T. Eastman, president of the Amherst College Alumni, pre sented the Amherst cup to Sol Ros enblatt. The cup was won' by de feating Lincoln High for three con secutive years in debating. Sol Ros- pnKlatf . will rnriCAnf OmoVia st a single day on-state tournament. The following will receive gold O watch fobs for de- Ralph Kharas, Barton Kuhns, Ralph Cohn, Harold Boggs, Harold De Lano. Louise Freiberg and Sol Rosenblatt, who received medals last year, will receive "Os." 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