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' '" : ' V " 'V--' - V - V'v. ' '? 1 .' . PART ONE .'; ; EWS 5EQI0N V' Pages 1 to 14. unbay 4- VOL. XLVII-NO. 48. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1918-4 SECTIONS 40 PAGES ;. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. r JV JV The Omaha I C II A H jV ' THE WEATHER " . JfJCJHr- Fair : I BE A - . V y ELEVEN YOUNG WOMEN Of NEBRASKA CHOSEN FOR CANTEEN SERVICE Three Selected From Omaha Cities to Engage in Active Red Cross Work in France; Departure By First i r ' of June. ' " Out of a list of 250 Nebraska-applicants 11 young women have been chosen by the. American Red Cross for canteen service abroad . One of them has been married to a. man in the United States army since apply--ing, thereby forfeiting her chance .o go. They are: Miss Mona Cowell, daughter of Mr, ind Mrs. Robert Cowell. Miss Edith Bahlstrom, daughter of Mrs. Mary C. Dahlstrom, Omaha. Mis Marie Matthews, daughter of Mrs. Judith E. Matthews of Omaha. v . The Misses Harriet Alice Howell, . .Madge Harding and Bertha Du Teil of Lincoln. Miss Ella King Morrison, Wayne. Miss Nell Peterson, Aurora. ' The Misses CJara and Margherite Schneider, Fremont. Mrs. Edwards Woods, formerly Miss Lucille C. Stewart of York, is the last of the list. She was mar ried two weeks ago at San Antonio. The -York Red Cross chapter.- had - gotten the necessary $1,000 to defray her expenses and had offered to send Mrs. Woods as a patriotic measure. She said that she did not know that ' having a husband in the service would bar her from canteen work abroad. High School Graduate. - Miss Cowell is a graduate of Omaha Central High school, Vassar college and has just completed her course at Creighton college of law. Her ap pointment is the realization of a de sire to do war work abroad which has caused her to make several un- v succesful attempts to join other war relief organizations. . Miss Matthews and Miss Dahl rtrom are well known teachers in the Omaha schools. They -and their , mothers live together at 3919 Daven port street. The home will be closed and the two mothers will visit with other members of the families until their daughters return. A patriotic featdre of Miss Dahl . ' Strom's being chosen t is that her niece,. Miss Marie Erickson of Chi cago, is defraying the expenses be cause she is not the required age, 25. Miss Dahlstrom has been in charge of, the ungraded room-ate the (Continued on rage four, Column On.) . JUDGE K0HLSAAT DIES SUDDENLY AT - HIS CHICAGO HOME J. Chicaeo. Mav 11. C. C. Kohlsaat, for years judge of the U. S. circuit! court of appeals, died suddenly at hs home her tonight. - Heart disease is believed to have been the cause. He retired apparently in the best of health, but an hour later called his wife, dying .shortly after the reached his side. Judge Kohlsaat would have been 74 years xld next month. CENTRIST PARTY - SPLIT MAY CAUSE HERTLING'S FALL LondoV, May I'l l. The likelihood of a split in the centrist party, one of the most powerful in the Reichstag, of which Chancellor von Hertling is a member, is disclissed in the Berlin newspapers, an 'Amsterdam 'dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company reports. Dissension has arisen over the chancellor's eastern policy. The newspapers say the anti-Hertling fac tion, headed by Mathias Erzberger, may be able to cause the chancellor's fall.. - . i German Horsemen Rushed ; From West Front to Ukraine '' London, May 11. The situation in Ukrainia has become so disturbing that the Germans have dispatched large detachments of Bavarian cav alry from Flanders on thy way to Ukrainia, the correspondent at Am sterdam of the Exchange Telegraph company reports. The Weather For Nebraska: Fair Sunday and Monday; warmer vin southwest por tion Sunday. Temperatures ,t Omahm VesUrcUy. Hour. , Desr. 5 a. m 4 6 a. m .45 a. m 45 8 a m 4$ 9 a.- m 49 10 a. m El 11 a. .ra. 05 I 12 m 68 1 p. m. It 2 p. m 61 3 p. m ,. ... 62 4 p. m 64 i p. m 65 5 p. it) 63 7 p. m (2 Comparative Local Record. - 1 1918. 1917. 1916. 1915. Ellgbest .yesterday 65 67 64 84 lowest yesterday ....44 , 4 47 CI Mean temperature .,..64 I 65 CIS 72 Precipitation .08 5 .00 .00 .00 Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal: N'ormal temperature 61 Deficiency or the day i . 7 Total excess since March 1 .7. 339 Normal precipitation 15inch Deficiency for the day .15'inch Total rain fell since llarch 1. .1X4 inches Deficiency s'.nca March 1.. ....3.99 inches Excess for cor. period, 1917.. .49 inches TMlclency for cor. period, 191. .3.84 Inches L. 'A. : WELSH, UeteroioclsU and Rest From Out State LONDON GIVES ROYAL GREETING TO MTROOPS Lloyd George, King and Queen and Common People Unite in Cheers for 3,000 March ing Americans. London, May 11. Three thousand American soldiers marched through London today. They were men of the new national army, of which Lon doners had often heard, but whom they had never before been privileged to see in marching order- The weather was perfect and Lon don turned out in masses and lined up alonsr the broad, avenues of "The Royal Borough of Westminster." The crowds were even greater than on the occasion when the American eng-i neers marched over the same route, several months ago, Welcomed as Brothers. There was a difference in thewcl come which London gave today's marchers. When the engineers inarched, American troops vere. curi osities and were cheered as something novel. Today London has become ac customed to American khaki and to day's marchers were greeted as friends and brothers. The Americans, who were virtually all from New York City, marched in column of fours from Wellington bar racks over a three-mile route, circling that part of London in which are lo cated ' the government offices, the em bassies and the principal public build ings. . With American preciseness. the I- 1 A. J. 1. . J. ? l-t l' f. men filed out of the parade ground at Wellington barracks into the famous 'rdcage walk at exactly 11:45. j - On the war office balcony? were Vernier Lloyd George and the war cabinet, which had suspended its sit ting in order to view the paraders. The highest compliment Mr. Lloyd George could pay them was to say ad miringly: "They have the same swing as our Welsh troops." At Buckingham palace King George and Queen Mary, the dowager Queen Alexandra and the duke of Connaught stood in front of the middle gate, where they shook hands 'with Gen eral Biddle- The king took the salute from the guard of honor, which, with the famous Grenadiers' band, was drawn up in the street. At the end of, the parade the king and queen congratulated General Bid die, who chatted with the royal party for several minutes. The Americans returned to Well ington barracks for luncheon as the guests of the British Guards regiment. They returned to camp by an early afternoon train. A touch was given the parade along the line of march by several banners and flags. On the front steps of the ministry of munitions girls held up a banner with red and blue letters on white, reading: "Gee, this is bully. Say, where do we go from here?" Twelve Trapped in Vessel -And Overcome by, Gas Fumes Oakland, Cal., May 11. Ten or twelve men. trapped in the hold of a vessel under construction at a yard here, were overcome by gas this morning. Four men have been taken to a hospital. I'OJ t(V. V lv a JIV llJOlr "My Daddy Is Fighting Kaiser, " Is Proud Boast of Omaha Tot "My daddy is fighting the kaieer," is the laconic, statement frequently made by Ilda Rirth Davies, 3 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davies, of Benson. ' Mr. Davies arrived in France six weeks ago with Construction com pany No. 7, attached to the American Expeditionary forces in France. And if anyone wants to know what Ilda thinks of the Beast of Berlin, all that is necessary is to show her a picture of the" boss of the Hohen zollerns, Speeder's Mentality Found Deficient in .Sanity Test Chicago, May 11. The experiment of Judge La Buy yesterday in de manding a mental test for two auto mobile speeders increased in interest when Dr. W. C. Hickson of the psychopathic hospital said today that he had examined Roman Evonsky, one of the accused, who is 23 years old, and his mentality corresponded wkh that of a 10-year-old boy. "I will so report to the court on Monday with the suggestion that Evonsky is unfit to drive an automo bile." said DrN Orlickson. ....... JOHN ORT, NATIVE OMAHA BOY, DIES OF WAR WOUNDS i . Former Bookkeeper for Woodj men of World Receives Fatal Hurts While in Trenches for Third Time. John A. Ort, formerly a bookkeeper for the Woodmen of the World, died from injuries received with the Amer- expeditionary . forces in.,France, May 2- Official-notification received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ort, 1306 South Third street, did not state the nature of his injuries or how they were received. . A letter, the last received, and dated March 30. stated that before the let ter reached Omaha he would be in the trenches for the third time. The par ents of the dead, soldier feel confident he was, mortally., wounded while re pulsing the last German drive. In Service One Year. Letters received from 'Ort by his parents indicate that he. has been en gaged in numerous battles. He died one year after enlisting in the regular army in Qmaha. Following a patriotic meeting held in the Turner hal) by the Bohemian societies, Ort, together with 25 other young Bohemians, enlisted, May 2, 1917. They left the following day for Fort Logan, Colo. Ort was first assigned to the 16th infantry at Fort Logan, but later trancsferred to El iaso, Tex., for Mexican border patrol. Later he was sent to Jersey City, N- J., and sailed for France June 12. At the time of his death he was with a machine gun com pany. : , Native Omaha Boy. He was born in Omaha, October 21, 1897, and was graduated from the pub lic schools. He later attended Com mercial High school and a business college. After leaving school he was empjoyed by the Woodmen of the World for three years, when he en listed. He was prominent in Bo hemian and lodge social affairs. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ort; two brothers, An ton and joseph, and a sister.'Anna. He was insured under the government plan for soldiers and had bought sev eral Liberty bondsj, . ' ILDA RUTH DAVIES Ready for the Job QUEEN MARIE OBSTACLE IN PATH OF GERMANY'S DESIGNS IN RUMANIA Report of Sovereign's Probable Abdication Believed to Have Been Set Afloat By Wilhehmtrasse Prepara tory to- Measures for Ridding Itself of Her Influence Over Her People. v (By Associated Press.) v London, May 11. The signing of the treaty of peace be tween Germany and RumaniaVill be by no means the lat action in the Rumanian tragedy, according to the view current here. The announcement by German newspapers that Queen Marie would rather abdicate than regin over the country under the German peace conditions is held to be a case of the- wish! probably being father to the thought. ,, " The queen was largely instrumental in bringing Rumania into the war on the aidt of the allies and she has fought stub bornly for many months to avert eace. Even now that peace has been signed, it is predicted she will continue to be a form idable obstacle in the path of the German plans for "penetra tion." . , 12,000 DRAFTED MEN ASSIGNED TO U, S. GUARD Washington, May 1L Organiza tion of the United States guards was resumed today ' by the War depart ments' militia bureau. The depart ment has placed at the disposal of Major General Jesse McCarter, chief cf the militia bureau, 12,000 drafted men who, after training with the na tional guard army division, have been found disqualified physically for gen eral military service. It is intended to recruit 25 battalions of four companies each, a total of 15,000 -men. When the project was first approved some weeks agoi 12 companies were organized, which now are in sefvice. Volunteer enlistments will be accepted to a limited degree through the regular army Recruiting offices, but only men who have had prior military service and who can produce the best discharges will be eligible. Free Onion Sets Distributed At Branch Offices of The Bee Onion sets galore are awaiting Omahans with gardens for the ask ing. The Bee has a truck load of them, given us for free distribution by the Nebraska Seed company be cause they had such a large supply on hand for which the sale season had gone by that they hated to dump them in the river. The Bee will distribute these sets while they last at its seven branch offices. On an inside page will be found a coupon, which, i presented at any of the branch offices, will be exchanged for onion sets. Our ama teur gardeners , should bring their baskets. No onion sets will be dis tributed from the main office of The Bee. Five Dollars a Pound Offered for Wool of White Home Sheep Washington May 11. Presi dent Wilson's 18 sheep which are pastured on the White House lawn were shorn today by ex perts of the bureau of animal hus bandry. They produced an un usually heavy clip. At the White House it was said would-be pur- chasers have offered as much as SS a pound for ,the wool. It has not been decided what will be done with the clip O WILL CONTINUE FIGHT. In a talk with the Associated "Press correspondent at Jassy, the day be fore his departure' from that city, Queen Marie said: "I shall never become reconciled to a .humiliating peace with Germany never! And I hope, indeed 1 know, that I shall have the support of Americans as well as' Rumanians in continuing the fight against the in vader. -? The time is a critical one for Rumania, but we know we are right and our courage is undaunted. We have been through critical times be fore. We have borne great hardships and undergone great suffering. Great er hardships and sufferings are per haps in store, but I continue to hope; It is only a woman's hope (but I can not abandon it." Abdiction Story Inspired. Wilhelm'strasse probably is con sidering ways and means for ridding Rumania of the queen's influence. As a preparatory, step the newspapers apparently have been instructed to speak of her as planning abdiction. It seems safe to predict that 'she will never abdicate unless forced to do so, as she is known to be imbued with a deep sense of responsibility to the Rumanian people, whom she, by every indiction, deeply and sincerely loves. It seems probable that the only rea son Germany has not already insisted upon the abdiction of the queen is that King Ferdinand is a member of the Hohenzollern family and there fore is still regarded with some de gree of consideration by the Ger man rulers. If both the king and the queen are deposed, it would follow naturally that exile also would be imposed upon Crown Prince Charles, who is in closest sympathy with his mother in her bitter hatred for all things German. 10 DAYS IN MAY THE-QMAHA BEE -L- Gained Keep Your Eye On Ths Bee Hitting on High AH the Time HUNS' NEXT BLOW . WILL BE MET BY AMERICAN TROOPS , . - French and British Reinforced By U. S. Solcfiers" in Fori v midable Numbers; Allied Armies Improve Their Positions By Carrying' Out Successfully Minor Raids While Awaiting Attack. BULLETIN. i Paris, May 11. The Germans attacked the French lines today after violent artillery fire southwest of Mailly-Raineval and gained a small section of territory, which was retaken by . the French by a brilliant counter-attack, according to tho war office announcement tonight. losses. . , Another week has passed without a renewal by the Get mans of the offensive they began March 21, which was halted before Amiens early in April and came to a definite pause on its right flank before the barrier of the Flanders hills just as the month of May was opening. w' Ever since the costly defeat-of General von Arnim's army in a desperate assault on the front southwest of Yores nearly two weeks ago, the beginning timer nere or on some otner tront, has been looked for from day to day. Possibly the Germans have been waiting for soma allied counter blow, which they felt able to withstand and' therefore hoped would be dealt . , PRESIDENT URGES UNITY IN HOMAGE TO MOTHERHOOD Asks People to Pray Today "For Divine Blessings Upon Them,and Their Sons" in Country's Service. (B,r AMopintod Pwm.) " '.Washington, May 11. A nalipn's unity fomdrrow in reverence and In homage to motherhood was asked to night by 'President Wilson in a Mother's day message to the Amen can people. Especially is it fitting at this time, the president said, that the mothers of American men who have taken up arms in defense of world liberty be revered and he called upon all to pray Gad "for' His divine blessing upon them and upon their sons whose whole-hearted servjee is now giveii to the country which we love." Messages to American motherhood also were issued tonight by Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman of the woman's committee of the' Council of National Defense. M. Baker's message was a word from the! soldiers at the front asking their mothers to be of good cheer, while Mr. Daniels called upon the nation to join in prayer for all mothers of the defenders of democracy. Message of the President. President Wilson's message, is sued in response to a house resolu tion, said: I take the liberty jff calling spe cial attention to the fact that this is Mother's day and: I take ad vantage of the occasion to sug gest that during this day our at- tention be directed particularly to the patriotic sacrifices which are being so freely and generously made by the mothers xf our land in unselfishly offeringXtheir sons to bear arms, and if need be, to die in defense of liberty and jus tice, and that we especially Te member these mothers in our' prayers, praying God for His di vine blessing upon them and upon their sons whose whole-hearted service is now given to the coun try.which we love. The National Association for Moth ers of Defenders of Democracy an nounced tonight that it had set aside tomorrow as a day of prayer. "The result desired," said the an nouncement, "is to cheer, console and strengthen the hearts of the mothers who have sons in the camp or trench and to secure through mothers' let ters to their sons a higher spiritual soldier-morale." fiarvard Man to Oversee All War Labor Affairs Washington, May 11. Felix Frank furter of Harvard university was ap pointed by Secretary of Labor Wilson today as administrator of war labor activities. ' . Inches of Display Ad vertising Over the Same Period in 1917 The Germans suffered heavy (By Associated Press.) y of a new effort by the enemy, FOCH AWAITS BLOW. If this was the case, they . must have been disappointed by the waiting attitude of General Foch, which it it felt now will compel the enemy to re veal his further purpose with little de lay, as time is ont of the things he cannot afford to squander, with the American forces now rapidly assum ing formidable numbers. If, as considered certain, the Ger mans have employed such time as they have felt jmpelled to spend in building up the'machinery for snew attack on probably an even greater scale than before, it is equally sure that , the allied armies under their unified vcpmmatid have not neglected lo employ , the interval in making every preparation possible to meet the German blow, Everyday gives evi denced the altertness of the allied' forcear r r":: t,1- it,- nrKiii ; Allies Superior In Any, ; ' Numerous . minor operations have' been undertaken to improve their' positions 'on the various fronts and their artillery fire has been directed to equally good purpose in breaking up the organizing efforts of the enemy. Airplane- raids without number, m which the superiority of the entente air forces has been clearly shown, have served the same end.' besides being notably productive of valuable information, while innumerable in fantry raids have been almost: uni formly fruitful in an informative sense.' Betterments of the' allied position reported yesterday includedsati; ad ' vance by the French on the Flanders front, in the neighborhood of Locre, where the approaches to, Mont Rouge,, one of the bulwarks of the allied line, . have thereby been made more secure. - .. French Gain Ground. Far to the south of the Somme1, on the southerly side of the great Mont didier salient, French troops likewise carved a slice out of German-held ter ritory, near Orvillers-Sorel,- seven' miles southeast of Montdidier.' As a complement to both these op erations there were numerous success ful raids, notably one by the French; in the region north of Grivenes, north east of Amiens, near the point where General Petai.ns troops made'a not able advance as the result of a local-' attack Thursday, and another, along the line southeast of Montdidicr. The British carried out profitable raiding operations near the westerly end of the Lys salient in Flanders. v The German official statement yes terday claims heavy losses were in flicted on the American troops south west of Apremount and north' of Pairvy by a strong bombardment. ' . .Huns Fear Russian Resistance. - - Indications ' are mutliplyirig :; that Getmany's positions in the east is causing it uneasiness. It is reported to have made additiojjat demands on. Russia, which -are said to have af fected sensibly the sentiment of the bolsheviki whose attempts to weld an artny into shape the Gernwws are attempting to thwart. In the Ukraine the situation is even more disturbing to the Germans, ac cording to current dispatches, which announce a growing anti-German sentiment because of the repressive measures of the Teutons. To meet this additional German 4roops are, being sent to the disturbed region, tha western front even being drawn upon for cavalry, dispatches from Dutch sources announce. , These report Bavarian horsemen arriving a liege, Belgium, on their way to the Ukliinc. Troops of the new national pmy of the United States paraded thaTlg" London Saturday, three battalions of them to the ol,?i?a of large crowds and the afiAiVents of. King George, Pre. ..dyd George and other not-' Shafroth of Colorado Successor to Hitchcock 1 Washington, May,; 11.- Senator ' Shafroth of Colorado, was chosen to, succeed Senator Hitchcock of Ne braska as chairman of - the ; senate Philippines committee. . . Senator Shafroth was succeeded as chairman of the Pacific islands and. Porto Rico committee by Senator Sautsbury of Delaware. ;