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EMPEROR CHARLES
LEAVES FOR FRONT
TODIRECT ATTACKS
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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.
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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-!
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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
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88
87
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. - - . , ,'
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