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JX PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 16 PTV Om 3 A THE WEA1- aiimuiwiiiisiiiinM'' Fair 1 VOL. XLVII NO. 47. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 19185 SECTIONS 46 PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. 1 Sunday Bee ft QEZ "mji EMPEROR CHARLES LEAVES FOR FRONT TODIRECT ATTACKS j Increased Activity Along Austro-Italian Lines Announced From Vienna; Rome Statement Records Only In tensive Aerial Operations; German Offensive Still Held Up; Allies Strengthen Defense. . (By Associated Press.) Vienna dispatches have reported Emperor Charles leaving ' for the front and have announced greatly increased activity along the Austro-Italian lines, where a renewal of the Teutonic offensive has long been threatened. The Rome official statey ment does not give a like picture of the front line activities, but records intensive aerial operations with the entente airmen evi dently having the better of 'the encounters and bringing down fourteen enemy machines. .i1' The German offensive in Flanders has been held up now .for virtually fiye days since the enemy waves last dashed against the rock-ribbed defense of the British and French early last week and the Ypres line stood firm under the attack. Gen eral von Arnim evidently has been forced into this inactivity by the severity of his losses and the time necessary to marshal new forces for a fresh blow. " RF.SEPVF.S RF.Anv. J Concededly, however, the enemy has fresh troops for a thrust of even greater power, if he thinks it advis able to employ them here, and there have been indications for the last day or two that he was preparing to do so. One such hint of an impending thrust developed Saturday morning, when the German artillery began vio lently to pound the Franco-British line from Locre to the south of Ypres, where his main effort of April 29 was made. The bombardment was not speedily followed up by an at . tack, however, as was the case last Monday. PREPARE FOR BLOW. Meanwhile there has been a strengthening of the allied defense at important points along the northern and southern sides of the Lys salient The French have thus"6fferated suc- .; cessfully in the Locre region, one of the main objective points of the Ger mans as an approach to Mount Rouge, - and the British Friday night strength ened their lines in the vicinity of Hinges, nortwest of Bethune. The official report from German general headquarters last night says: "French counter attacks against Kem mel and Bailleul failed under heavy losses." v - Big Guns Booming. - The Somme front has been threat ening, to break out into ils former . furious activity for several days past, but aside from the recent thrust by the French, which gained them com manding ground in the Avre sector, southeast of Amiens, and similar op erations by the British around Villers Bretohneux, just to the north, the fighting has been left almost entirely to the artillery. The big guns are ftill booming threateningly . in the Avre region and elsewhere around the great Montdidier salient, however. Turks Beaten in Palestine. In Palestine the British have again rnet and defeated the Tusks m'engage ments in the vicinity of the river Jor-! 4 . S. dan. Attacks by the Ottoman troops on two successive days were beaten off with heavy losses to the enemy end in the fighting the British took more tffan 300 prisoners. , . Dispatches from Paris announce that another of the German long range guns engaged in bombarding the Paris capital has been put out of action through a direct hit by the Trench artillery. ' -"' U. S.Takes Over 3,000 Shares German-Owned Coke Stock Washington, May 4. Three thous and German-owned shares in he H. Koppers company of Pittsburgh, Pa., were taken over today by the Alien Property Custodian Palmer. The company manufacturers coke and gas overns. ' The Weather - For Iowa and Nebraska Fair and continued warm Sunday; Monday, partly cloudy and cooler. Temperatures t Omaha Yesterday. Hourly. 8 a. ra. Deg. . 5 . 63 . 65 . 64 ,. 7 ( a. , m 7 m.1. 8 a. m. 9 a. m. 10 p. m. 11 a. m. 72 77 13 m 82 1 p. m 2 p. m 3 p. m i p. m ..... . S p. ra p. m ' I P. K 88 87 S 88 87 US 8 Comparative Local Beeord. 1918. 1117. 1918. 1915. Highest yesterday ,. 8 4 80 68 Lowast yesterday ... . l SI 47 4S Mean temperature ..It 41 v 64 " 4 Precipitation 00 .OS ..00 .00 Temperature! and precipitation departure from the normal. Normal temperatura T it Excess for the day la U, Total excess since March 1, 117 2.7 Normal precipitation 13 inches Deficiency for the day .' t ' 1 taiche precipitation since Mar. 1, 1918. 1.68 Inches Deficiency since Mareh 1, 1918.. S.21 Inches Excess jtor. period In 1917 1.43 inches Deficiency for cor. period 1916.. 2.82 inches Reports From Stations u 1 P. M. Stations and State' Temp. High- Bain of Weather. 7 p. ra. ef. .fall. Omaha, clear . 84 89 .00 L A. . WELCH. Meteorologist. OMAHA WINS FIGHT FOR ARMY DEPOT War Department. Quarter master, on Col. Grant's Show ing, Decides store snail Remain Here. The army quartermaster's depot, re cently transferred from 0mah to Chi cago, has been re-established in this city. ' The depot was taken from Omaha and located in Chicago a week ago. The news of the change was not of ficially announced and only members of the quartermaster's corps knew of it. - Colonel F. A. Grant, commanding officer, was called to Washington last week to confer with the War depart ment heads. He is a veteran soldier and experienced in handling and transporting supplies for the army. His opinion counted with the army authorities in Washington and it was due to his efforts that the depot is to be brought back to Omaha. Vast Supplies Handled. More than a million dollars worth of supplies are handled by the quar termaster's corps every month. The depot at Twenty-second and Hickory streets has been greatly im proved and enlarged during the last year. Fire alarms, new fire fighting equipment and a new lighting system 1 1 H k. f have been installed. A new build ing of concrete and iron, especially adapted for storing enormous quanti ties of bacon, has been completed. The depot is guarded by 37 enlisted men from Fort Crook. An Epitome of Efficiency. The place is the epitome of effi ciency. Military men and inspectors from every part of the country have praised the work at the depot. The employes take personal pride in the depot and permit nothing to interfere with the sending of supplies to the soldiers. Troops at home and over seas are supplied from the Omaha depot. . The importance of the depot to Omaha cannot be over-estimated. Robert Manley, commissioner of the Chamber of Cqmmerce, said: ''Prob ably no one man ever did more for our city than Colonel Grant has by helping the depot in Omaha." A telegram from Washington con firming the re-establishment of the depot in Omaha was received by Mr. Manley Saturday night. . It is probable that the depot .will be enlarged. Thousands of Doctors Wanted; Nebraska's Quota 200, Iowa's 350 (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 4. Thousands of doctors and surgeons throughout the country will be urged to enroll for service to meet the growing demands of the rmy and navy under a .plan decided upon today at a meeting here of practically all state committees of the general medical board of the Council of National Defense. It is ex pected, that 7,000 will respond to the "call by July 1 and 5,000 more before the end of the year. Medical men who decline commis sions will be called on by the state committees for an explanation. - Major John D. Milner, secretary of the general board, in announcing the state quotas, which are to be appor tioned among counties by the state committee, said that the cities must CANDIDATES SHOW SPIRIT AS ELECTION DAY APPROACHES i . Street Meetings Held in Boundary; Allies Shout Answers to Mayor's Charges and Dahlman Men Not Backward In De livering Broadsides'' . . Candidates' and spellbinders man-0 aged to put a little pep into the end of the local campaign, bringing the week to a close with a dozen meet ings, most of them at street corners, from Twenty-fourth and Fort streets on the north, to Thirty-sixth and Har rison streets. Jim Dahlmans ticket held forth at Mecca hall, Twenty-fourth and Grant streets, and Turner hall, Eighteenth and Vinton streets. The allied candi dates threw a few verbal grenades in a hall at Twenty-fourth, and Fort streets, where A. L. Sutton and Mrs. G. W. Covell assisted in the battle of the ballots. Ed P. Smith, after addressing a crowd at Twenty-fourth and N streets, told a newspaper man that he did not expect to make any more talks, be lieving he had made his case, as the lawyers say, and would abide by the verdict of the voters on Tuesday. Make Wide Circuits. Thomas Falconer spoke at four street meetings and Mayor Dahlman made a circuit which, covered a wide area. F. S. Howell, speaking for the al lied candidates, made this statement: "There are two things Dahlman should do: Be should either prove'his charges against Ed P. Smith and send Smith to the penitentiary, or plead guilty himself and go to the peniten tiary himself." Just what Howell be lieved should happe'n to Dahlman if he did not do either, would not "look pretty" in print. This bon mot was presented by L. J. Quinby last night at an Ed P. Smith meeting: "We should have at the head of our city government a man for whom we need not apologize. We do not want for mayor a man who has no better qualifications than to villify his political opponents." . Government is Wasteful. At the Twenty-fourth and N streets ing Mr. Smith said: "I want to meeting tell you why I am Jn this race. All I. am and expect to be I owe to Omaha. I have investigated and find that Omaha should be placed on a higher level of efficiency and I am willing to devote three years of.' my life to that service: The people are paying too much for'what they get in (Conturaea on race wtr, column One. provide most of the doctors, at coun try communities couia not snare many. The quotas for western states include: Colorado, 100; Iowa, 350; Kansas, 100; Minnesota, 70; Missouri, 300; Ne braska, 200; North Dakota; 50; South Dakota, 45; Wyoming, 30.- - Senator Owen of Oklahoma ad dressing the meeting regarding his bill to increase appointments pf of ficers in the military medical service, declared that the general staff of the army "is always opposed to giving ad ditional dignit) to the medical men." The bill provides for 20,000 officers in the medical corps. He said these men should have equal rank with line officers, because without such author ity the medical corns cannot enforce its regulations Going Through . Omaha From Boundary to Meetings -Today Jim Dahlman's Ticket: Bohe mian National hall, Twenty-first and N streets, 2:30 p. m.; Metz hall. Thirteenth and William streets, 3 p. m.; Polish hall, Twenty-sixth and Walnut streets, 4 p.m.; Italian hall, Sixth and Pierce streets, 8:30 p. m. Swedish auditorium, Sixteenth and Chicago streets, Harry B. Zim man and allied candidates, under auspices of Harry B.Zimman vfor Commissioner club, 2:30 p. m. Volk's hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles streets, 8 p. m., Harry B. Zimman and other candidates. Edward Simon will speak this afternoon at the Swedish auditor ium in behalf of Thomas Falconer, Columbia hall, Twenty-second and Pierce streets, 3 p. m., Frank L. Weaver and allied candidates. J. Dean Ringer will speak to night at Walnut Hill Methodist church. 19-Year-0ld Boys Called For Service in Canada Ottawa, May 4. Canada has lower ed the age limit for military service registration from 20 to 19 years. A proclamation calling upon all men 19 years of age to enroll will be issued shortly and will provide for registra tion before June 1, though none of the registrants will be called to the colors before July. v Sergeant Baldwin to Speak s ' Monday Sergeant Harold Baldwin, late of the Canadian forces and author of thc war story "Holding the Line," will tell of his experiences at the Brandeis theater at 8:30 p. m. Monday. Follow ing a trench raid the lecturer lay help less' for a day and a half in a shell hole. ' When rescued his leg was amputated. The proceeds will go to the Qmaha chapter of the Red Cross. POPULAR VAR CREDIT HEAVILY OVERSUBSCRIBED Official Reports Show Total of $3,203,655,400; May Be Swollen to Four Millions by" Last Minute Pledges. Washington, May 4. Fdr the third time within a year the American peo ple have heavily oversubscribed a war credit. , As the third liberty loan was clos ing tonight the treasury announced the campaign had been an "over whelming success." Although $31)00, 000,000 was the formal goal, official reports, including only a small pro portion of today's avalanche of pledges, showed the total as $3,203, 655,400, and there were indications that the aggregate would be increased to nearly $4,000,000,000 next week when banks have time to tabulate the multitude of last minute applications. The exact result' of the campaign probably will not be known until late in the week. Honor Roll Grows. Official estimates placed the num ber of subscribers at between 12,000, 000 and 15,000,000 far above the 10, 000,000 of the second loan or 4,500, 000 of the first and some officials expressed belief that the roll of buy ers would be even greater. To them this was one of the most encourag ing features of the loan. All twelve federal reserve districts which were the largest campaign units oversubscribed, and a majority of the states made the same record. Dela ware doubled its quota. Bond selling continued actively in many cities up to a late hour tonight and banks stayed open in final ef fort (o roll up more subscriptions than the $4,616,000,000 of the second lib erty loan last October. Money Comes From Masses. Messages reaching Washington to night indicated, however, that the big subscriptions from corporations and business interests which were features of the last hours of the second cam paign were lacking, pwing to the im minence of income and excess profits tax paying time in June, when more than $3,000,000,000 in war levies will have to be paid to the government. The success of the campaign, even without big individuals subscriptions, demonstrated that the loan was "pop ular" and that bonds will be widely distributed among all cjasses and lo calities. The headquarters' review tonight described the final roundup in New York "as probably the most striking feature of the last day's campaign." Within a few hours, $129,000,000 sub scriptions were recorded, sending the city and state of New York over their quotas. US. Loan Breaks Records ot All Nations For Number of Subscribers (Br Associated Pms.) Washington, May 4. The third Liberty loan breaks the records of all nations for number of subscribers, with an estima4ed roll of between 12.0QO,- 000 and 15,000,000 bond buyers, but tjfal subscriptions are less than Great Britain s largest war loan, and even of the American second Liberty loan. Figures on leading loans of the principal belligerents were, given out today by the treasury as follows: British Victory loan early in 1917, 5 p;r cent; subscriptions $5,096,254,320. Un'ted States second Liberty loan, 4 GAG RULE INVOKED TO HUSH CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT m V Emperor Directs Premier to Adjourn Parliament and Pre vent Resumption of Its Activities; Dr. Von Seydler Admits Food Situation Is Very Serious, But Assures Party Leaders of Final Victory. (By Associated Press.) Austria-riungary supplies some of the most important items of the current news, with a critical economic and political situation officially conceded to be, developing at home just as her armes at the front are apparently about to be launched in a new attack on Italy. J The crisis in Vienna is marked by the dismissal of the Aus trian parliament by the emperor's order and the declaration that forcible measures would be taken to make a resumption of its sessions impossible. ' 1 DESIRES FREE HAND. A statement issued makes it clear that the government was embarrassed by the divisions in the legislative body over the grave food situation, and the various racial grievances in the Austrian body-politic and desired a free hand in the next few X months. ONE-THIRD OF TRAINS TO BE ELIMINATED Traffic to Pacific Coast to Be Divided Retween Pour Lines; Travelers Will Have No Choice of Routes. V - By Associated Press.) f Chicago, May 4. One-third of all the passenger trains between Chicago and the. Pacific coast will be elim inated after June 1, according to word received from Washington by railway officials tonight. This step, it was said, would save approximately $12, 000,000 a year and cut off 11.728,000 miles of tram haul. R. H. Aishton, regional director i of the western railroads and assistant to W. G. McAdoo, director of rail roads, said that such a plan had been under considcratain and lias been worked out. He added that be had not been officially informed that it was to be put into effect on any cer tain date. No Choice of Routes. Under the revolutionized plan of handling traffic, passengers would no longer have a choice of routes. Traf fic to the west coast and intermediate points would be divided between four lines, as follows: To Los Angeles and junction points by Santa Fe. To San Francisco and junction points by Union Pacific. To Seattle and junction points by Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul. To Portland and junction points by Northern Pacific. The cut in service would take off three through trains from Chicago to Los Angeles, two to San Francisco and three to Seattle and Portland. More than 40 local trains would be dispensed wjth also. It was expected that the Chicago Kansas City, St. Louis-Kansas City and Chicago-Omaha traffic would be given consideration next week when officials take up reduction of service from the Missouri river to Texas and the southwest. Food Heads Change May 1 ! Ruling on Dried Fruits Washington, May 4. Contracts for the sale of dried peaches, apples, prunes or raisins from new cropi fruits cannot be made before luiic l unde a ruling today by the food ad' ministration. The administration originally ruled that dried fruits could be sold by May 1 of the year in which the crop is produced. The change was made to allow the various interests affected voluntarily to agree upon a reasonable basis on which business could be done, pro tecting the producers, manufacturers and consumers. per cent; subscriptions $4,616,000,000. Eighth German war loan, 4xi per cent and 5 per cent; subscriptions $3, 600,000,000. French war loan of 1915, 5 per cent; subscriptions $2,261,864,409. , Austrian seventh war loan, 5 per cent; subscriptions $1,150,000,000. Italian fourth war loan, 5 per cent; subscriptions $1,000,000,000. Hungary seventh war loan, 6 per cent; subscriptions $600,000,000. Canadian Victory loan, November, 1917 SVj per cent; subscriptions $418,-000,000. O Such drastic action, taken in the face of the unrest throughout Austria Hungary as the result of the war's privations Snd the ever-recurring ra cial differences, willNVause the devel opment of the situation in the dual monarchy to be followed with the keenest interest. ADJOURNS PARLIAMENT. Amsterdam, May 4. Emperor Charles of Austria has empowered the Austrian premier to adjourn par liament and forthwith inaugurate measures to render impossible the re sumption of its activities, a Vienna . dispatch says. A statement published in Vienna indicates that the closure of Parlia ment is due to the seriousness of the food situation. The statement says: "The government will devote its . entire strength to the economic prob-, lem and will try to create condition! required to enable the population to hold out." LEADERS CONFER., A Vienna dispatch says that the Austrian premier. Dr. von Seydler, speaking at a conference of party ; leaders, declared that the serious eco nomic and food conditions nude it imperative for the present govern ment to be spared parliamentary criti cism. He, therefore, demanded that the ' proposed sittings of parliament be -postponed, adding that unless the party leaders took this step the gov ernment would prevent the sessions forcibly. Apparently this conference, the date of which is not given, was held before the emperor acted. . SOUNDS WARNING. During the discussion of revising the constitution on the basis of na tional autonomy Premier von Seyd ler announced that in Bohemia the government would speedily issue reg ulations providing for the appoint- . ment of administrators for districts in habited by distinct nationalities. .Premier von Seydler sounded a warning against inciting nationalities -against each other. He then said: 1 CLIMAX REACHED. "Our entire military and political situation has reached a climax. I am firmly convinced the decision on the battlefield will be in favor of Austria and her allies. "Our economic, especially our food, conditions are very serious, but they are not at all desperate. To hold on .' now to a final, happy decision is the vital question for the state. It, there fore, is necessary that, unhampered by parliamentary confusion, the govern ment be left in a position to devote all its strength to these tasks." The premier then recommended the postponement of parliament Deep in Difficulties. Austria has been deep in difficulties, both political and economic, for more than a year, and it has been an open secret that Emperor Charles was de sirous of bringing about peace, his efforts in this direction having occa sionally aroused ctiticism in Berlin. In the last few months there have been insistent reports that the food situation in Austria is growing des perate. It has been represented that, . except for the favored classer, the people were receiving barely more than enough food to avert actual starva- -tion. , . - . Fire Alarm Proves Useful w Even for Political Purposes During a meeting of the allied can didates at Fifteenth and Farnam streets last night, while Tom Hollis ter was speaking, an alarm of fire was turned in from telephone Tyler 300, which is a World-Herald telephone. It happened that a few minutes be fore the fire apparatus came clatter ing down the street Hollister had been arraigning the mayor and Senator Hitchcok's publication. . While the fire apparatus was return ing frorn a real alarm, sent in from the Tavidge block, Eighteenth and ; Farnam streets, trie false alarm was sent in. Chief Salter was piqued when he learned of what had hap pened. The identity of the comedian : who sent m the alarm from Tyler 00 was not disclosed. - - . , ,' i -A I '. it I
