NOW JUST WATCH NEBRASKA GO "OVER THE TOP" AGAIN IN THE RED CROSS DRIVE Bm HE AHA THE WEATHER Sho wers OMAHA, - TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1918 12 PAGES VOL. , XLVII NO. 289. 0 TrtlM. it M stall, Ntw Stirta. ttk. It TWO CENTS. nn rn uuvj M JV V Om Daily $35,000 GOES TO RED CROSS ON FIRST DAY Three Thousand Field Workers Back on Job Early Tuesday , With Renewed Enthusiasm . and Spirit. - , Wih" $35,000 piled up to their credit in the first day of the s.econd Red Cross drive in N Douglas county 3,000 trail blazers, after a rest last night, early were back upon the field of action with yesterday's slo-gan-7$200,000 -before the - week-end still ringing in their "On with the drive, you're doing fine," was today's order by E. Buckingham, chairman of the war fund campaign com mittee, to his determined forces. 1 Workers declaicd last night 0 mail a responded like virgin territory as if it were the first time the people had 'vbeen asked to support tlie war with financial contributions. They had missed the plaint, "I've given once." , Enthusiasm ran high throughout the first day and people gave with a spirit of. pleasure. Tornado Call Gets Action. Early Monday afternoon the Omaha Red Cross director, Frank W. Judson, rushed a corps of physicians, nurses and supplies to Crofton, Neb., to aid the injured and homeless victims of Saturday night's-tornado. A telegram from Jasper Knight, Red Cross chairman at Crofton, reached Chairman Judson at 1 1 o'clock and in less than two hours assistance was on the way. Mr. Knight wired that two persons were dead, the homes of eight fam ilies destroyed and many destitute in ' the farming district near Crofton. Bedding and clothing were carried L'to Crofton by the Red Cross rescue party. ? Congressman Sloan Here. " Congressman Sloan Monday at noon dedicated the Red Cross minia ture hospital, which is Hearing com pletion on the court house lawn. W. F. Baxter presided.vThis will be one of the principal headquarters for re ceiving subscriptions. : An army ambulance from Fort - Crook was driven through the down town streets at "fioon Monday and stopped at corners where patriotic songs were sung bv Mrs. Oliver L'ldridge. Miss Madee West played the violin. This was the idea of Miss ' Daphne Peters. She and Miss Mene - Davis, were also on the ambulance in Red Crosuniform and held a stretch er upon which the audiences threw ; money for the cause. The ambulance will appear every dav at noon. . tonight and every nieht during the week a real vaudeville show will be given at Fifteenth - and Douglas strec's. An auto truck Avill serve as a stage, and. performers will tome from the Orpheum and Empress the aters. Accompanying the show there will be an auction. Major Sterns Forgets, i Major Walter Sterns, property offi cer at the quartermaster's depot in Omaha, has discovered that absent mindedness is expensive. The major promised a contribution to a Red . Cross worker and then forgot it. An other woman approached him upon a similar mission. Another promise. ' Result the" absent-minded major must ay double toll. Special Red Cross services were held in the local Danish churches at Twenty-second and Leavenworth streets and Thirtieth and Corby streets Sunday. At the former Rev. "Mr. Jensen was in charge and with the assistance of T. H4 Hermansen and Axel H. "Andersen of. the Red Cross committee substantial subscrip , tions were obtained to the fund. During the evening services at Pel la church. Thirtieth and Corby streets, patriotic addresses were delivered by Rev Mr. Bertelsen, pastor of the church, and Frank V. Lawson. A lib- 1 (Continued an Pare Two. Column One.), TWO DIVORCES UNTIE PAIR ' Love Laughs at Locksmiths, But Judges . Pull Real Hee-Haw Stuff On Home Stretch. TWO DECREES WITH BELLS ON After nearly two years' litigation, during which his wife secured a di vorce in a Missouri court, Carl O. Swanson was granted a divorce Mon day by Judge Day.in district court. The Swansons were married in Om iha, September 14, 1915, and, moved to Kansas City early in 1916. In Feb ruary Mrs. Swanson filed suit for di vorce in Kansas City, alleging cruelty, but the couple reunited and moved igain to Omaha without dismissing the suit. They moved to Norfolk, where they lived together. They again moved to Omaha in December, 1916, and Mrs. Swanson filed a second suit for di- ROBERTS FACES PROSECUTION Two Beers for Marines; In Dry ! Nebraska Too; What Will Bryan Say? Beer for the Marines! This is the startling announce ment made from the Omaha Marine recuiting station. It won't make much of a hit with the prohibition ists, but it's a fact. While men in other branches of the service will be compelled to stick to water, the Marines will have beer on hand at all times, in fact, two beers Otto A., 23 years old and his brother, Warren M, 24 years old. The lads with the wet name ap plied forenlistment and were ac cepted. I. V.t SECRETS ARE LAID BARE IN COURTIS CHICAGO Letters Show Plans for Carry ing on Sabotage to Curtail Production of Food stuffs. (By Associated Tret.) Chicago, May 20. Details of the operations of the Industrial Workers of the World in the wheat and oil fields of the middle west states were revealed today when government at torneys read numerous letters from the correspondence files of Forrest Edwards, secretary and treasurer of the agricultural workers' organization of the Industrial Workers of the World, No. 400, at . the trial of 112 members of the body before Federal Judge Landis. ' This branch is considered one of the largest and most powerful unions of the Industrial Workers of the World. At one time, it is said, it had an en rollment of 20,000 members, and, ac cording to the charges made by the government, its members put into ef fect a score or more forms of -sabotage to curtail the production of foodr stuffs and supplies. The letters showed that large sum's "were expended by the organization in flooding the middle west states with Industrial Workers of the World lit erature, pamphlets' on sabotage and manifestoes. Disclosed by Letters. One letter disclosed the fact that the Ondustrial Workers of the World last July negotiated with the Farm ers Nonpartisan league of North Da kota for a wage scale agreement. The league offered farm workers $4.50 a day, but the proposition was rejected because the Industrial Workers of the World demanded $5 a day as the minimum wage. ' In one of the official bulletins, men tion was made that the defense of In dustrial Workers of the World-in the state of Washington had tpst the or ganization $23,000. An extract from one of the official Industrial Workers of the World bul letins read in part: "The anti-Industrial Workers of the World bill in Minnesota has passed both houses and is now up to the gov ernor. We wonder if it will work in Minnesota." Feeding Cream to the "Cat." The methods used by the Industrial Workers of the World in farm strikes were described in a letter written by Thomas O'Day, Aneta, N. D., to Ed wards, as follows: "There are now about five 'wobs' in town and we have been doing all we can to keep scabs off the job. We picket every train. Quite a few 'wobs' on -the job with the 'cat." Three of us hired out to John for $3 with the in tention of (striking for $4 the next day. The 'cat', then came and stayed till we struck. Still on strike, feeding the 'cat' rich cream." . " An article in Solidarity, an Indus trial Workers of the World publica tion, signed by Edwards, was read in part: . "Some day our organization will be more powerful than the state. When that time comes they will open jail doors and release all labor agitators." vorce in district court. Mr. Swanson filed a cross petition, alleging cruelty. Mrs. Swanson moved to Kansas City, leaving her husband, and ob tained a final decree May 9, 1918. Final hearing of the suit filed in Omaha came up in Judge Day's court and in the absence of the wife the decree was handed to -the husband. C. W. Peasinger, attorney for Mrs. Swanson, argued that the local court was without jurisdiction owing toNhe divorce already having been given Mrs.. Swanson, but the court decided otherwise and each now are in pos session of a decree. "I guess they are well divorced now and there can't be ,rnuch complaint,' said Judge Day, "nor any argument as to who is entitled to. the decree." VETERINARIAN SETTLES HOTEL BILLS FOR SELF AND MISS GRACE LUSK On Witness Stand, Roberts Details Story of Numerous Trips With Woman Who Killed His Wife, But In cists That at All Times He Was Being Pursued by Her. (By Associated Press.) Waukesha, Wis., May 20. The trial of Grace Lusk for the slaying of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts was halted late this aft ernoon by Judge Martin Lueck, while he ordered drastic action looking toward the prosecution in Cook county, Illinois, of Dr. David A. Roberts. This action came ajthe result of revelations drawn from the former state veterinarian under a severe cross-examination regarding his relations with Miss Lusk and of many meetings in Chicago, where they registered as "man and wife," Dr. Roberts admitting that he had paid their hotel bills. NATION PLACES WEALTH AT CALL OF WAR WORKERS Reports of Many Cities and Counties Passing Quotas Reach Headquarters in National Capital. (By Asuoclated Presi.) Washington, May 20. Enthusiastic reports of the progress of the Amer ican Red Cross drive for a second war mercy fund .of ,$100,000,000 came, to headquirter'uere'Sha;steady stream throughout the , opening day of the campaign...'...- 1.', .; - '-. Messages telling of over-subscriptions in towns and counties from New England to Hawaii began arriving early in the day while governors of nearly all states ' telegraphed prom ises of hearty co-operation in the auc tioning off for the benefit of the Red Cross packages of wool clipped from the White House sheep. ' Conflicting claims to the honor of first subscribing their allotments have been received. Governor Pinkham cabled from Honolulu that Hawaii had over-subscribed its quota of $250,000. Peabody. Mass.; Kossuth county, Iowa,; Pontotoc county, Oklahoma, and Yolo county, California, were others that reported over the top. Much Vivalry in, the sale of the White House wool was manifested in the telegrams from governors., Dakota in Clear. Sioux Falls, S. D., May 20. South Dakota was the first state in the union to over-subscribe its Red Cross allot ment, according to George R. Douthit, vice chairman of the committee here. Reports showed the state, over-subscribed its allotment of $250,000 by 70 per cent. Mr. Douthit sairi cJ? CHAPTER III. Real Thing War. Now indeed we bagn to get real news of the war. We heard ,of how that little British army, had flung it self into the maw of the Hun. I came to know something of the glories of the retreat from'Mons, and how French and British had turned at the Marne and had saved Paris. But, alas, I heard too of how many brave men had died had been sacri fied, many and many a man of them, to the failure of Britain to prepare.- That was past and done. . What had been wrong was being mended now. Better, indeed ah, thousand times better! had Britain given heed to Lord Roberts, when he preached the gospel of readiness and prayed his countrymen to. prepare for the war that he in his wisdom had fore seen. But it was easier now to look into the future. I could see, as all the world was be ginning to see, that,this war was not like other wars. Lord Kitchener had said that Britain must make rsady for a three-year war, and I, for one, be lieved him when others scoffed, and said he was talking so to make the re cruits for his armies come faster to the colors. I could see- that this war might last for years. And it was then, back in 114, in the first winter of the war, that I began to' warn my friends in America that they might veil ex pect the Hun to drag them into the war before its end. And I made up my mind that I must beg Americans who would listen to me to prepare. V Aft.- t Alter 'announcing tnat action m Wisconsin was impossible because the statute of limitations directs that such prosecution must be begun within one year from the time of the alleged of fense. Judge Lueck called D. J. Hem lock, a member of the bar, before him and said: "I direct you to communicate with proper authorities in Chicago and urge upon them immediate action looking toward the prosecution of Dr. Roberts because of the offenses he has here today admitted committing in that city." Hoyne Glad to Prosecute. Mr. Hemlock immediately tele phoned Macklay Hoyne, states' attor ney, Chicago, who said that he would be glad to prosecute if the facts justi fied and requested that all evidence be sent to him at once. Judge Lueck complied with this request tonight. Action against Dr. Roberts by the federal government also was hinted by' W; H. Stoiner, special Investigator for the Department of, Justice, who was called to the witness stand by the state early in the afternoon. Dr. Roberts was temporarily ex cused to permit the taking of Stciner's testimonv, which dealt with a state ment he had obtained from Miss Lusk in the hospital a few days after the tragedy. He said he asked Miss Lusk if she realized what she had done and that she replied: "Yes, I do I killed her because she called me such obscene names." Roberts Center of Interest. For more than six hours Dr. Rob erts was the center of interest of the crowds that packed Uhe court room. During his third day on the witness stand he repealed his charges that Miss Lusk had pursued him with her attentions. Much of his testimony concerned meetings with her in Chicago. Finally he admitted giving her money, paying herjiotel bills and giving her railroad fare from Chicago to Milwaukee. During the morning session of the trial a dramatic moment came when Dr. A. P. Lusk, the 72-year-old father of the defendant, interrupted Dr. Rob erts' testimony with the cry, "that is a lie." arm Laudet? in tfte Wat? Zone tDViir.iffe2 t hanre " 7h7fs Jfr's Personal Experiences oit e Western COPYRI&HT 1918 O So, all the way across the continent.Qmany f tnat- ohTBritish army still I spoke, in every town we visited, on that subject of preparedness. I had seen Britain, living in just such a blissful anticipation of eternal peace as America then dreamed of. I had heard, for years, every attempt that was made to induee Britain to. in crease her army met with the one. un varying reply: "We have our fleet I" That was the afswer that was made. And. be it remembered, that at sea, Britain was prepared! "We have, our fleet We need no army. If there is a con tinental war, we may not be drawn in at all.' Even if we are, they can't reach us. The fleet is between us and invasion." "But," said the advocates ot pre paredness, "we might have to send an expeditionary force. If France were attacked, we should have to help her on land as well as at sea. And we have, sent armies to the continent before "Yes," the other would reply "We have an expeditionary force. We can send more than a hundred thousand men across the channel at short no ticethe shortest And we can train more men here, at home, in case of need. .The fleet makes that possible." Aye, the fleet made that possible The world may well thank God for the British fleet. I do not know, and I do not like to think, what might have come about save for the British fleet. B.tit.Ldo know what came to that expeditionary force that was sent across the channel quickly, to the help of our sore stricken ally, France. How "0 If We've Licked Huns by That Time, Your Honor; Then Shoot, Loot, Etc? Mayor Smith will issue a proc lamation to prohibit the use of fireworks July 4. "This is in line with the policy of conservation," the mayor said. "I feel sure," he added, "that we can express our patriotism just as well by singing, hearing patriotic addresses, displaying flags and otherwise observing the spirit of the day." The mayor stated that he wished to serve notice early on dealers that explosives will not be permitted to be used in Omaha on Independence Day this year. BILLION AND HALF DOLLARS FOR WARSHIPS Naval Appropriation Bill Com pleted by Committee and, Ready to Be Reported to Senate. (By Aiworiated PrtM.) Washington, May 20. Carrying a total of $1,587,000,000 or $202,840,000 more than provided by the house, the naval appropriation bill was com pleted late today oy the senate naval committee and will be reported to the senate tomorrow. The measure's total is $63,053,127 less than was ap propriated for the navy for this fiscal year in the' regular naval bill and in deficiency measures. ' The senate committer redrafted, to make niore emphatic, the provision in the house bill for the beginning of the work on the three-year building program by July, 1919. Construction of the great fleet of superdread naughts and battle cruisers prpvided for in the 1916 naval bill has been held in abeyance in order that the building of the destroyers to battle German submarines might be rushed. To man the capital fleet when it is completed, the senate provided for a permanent increase in the enlisted personnel of the navy to 131,540, nearly thre'e times the number of men in the navy before the war. The president also would be authorized to increase that strength by 50,000 men for the war. "Mogy Bernstein Sells a Red Cross Piq for $35; Buyer Gives It Back "Mogy" Bernstein sold a pig Monday night for $35 for the Red Cross fund. The auction took place outside of the public mar ket. M. C. Peters bid $25 for the noisy piece of meat. "I'll make it $30," Judge Redick shouted. J. W. Welsh bought' it for $35. He gave the porker to the Red Cross and it will be sold again today at a public auction at the Burgess-Nash store. JTig&ttjtg y?t3o?tt' survive? " They gave themselves utterly. They were the pick and the flower of our trained manhood. They should have trained the millions who were to rise at Kitchener's call. But they could not be held back. They are gone. Others have risen up to take their places ten fo: one a hundred for one! But had they been ready at the startl Ihe bonnie laddies who would be liv- mg now, instead of lying in an un marked grave in France or Flanders! The women whose eyes would never have been reddened by their weeping as they mourned a son or a brother or a husband! So I was thinking as I set out to talk to my American friends and beg them to prepare prepare! I did not want to see this country share the ex perience of Britain. If she needs must be drawn into the war and so I be lieved, profoundly, from the time when I first learned the true measure of the Hun I hoped that she might be ready when she drew her mighty sword They thought I was mad, at first. many ot those to whom I talked They were so far away from the war. And already , the propaganda of the Germans was at work. Aye. they though: I was raving when I told them I'd stake my word on it. America would never be able to stay out unti! the end. Tley listened to me. They were willing to do that. But they listened, doubtin'gly. I think I convinced few of aught save that (Continued on Pge Two, Column Two.) ALLIES AIM BLO WS AT HUNS AND HOLD ALL GRO UND TAKEN Sectors Held by American Soldiers Become Scenes of Fierce Battles Fought High in Air With Flocks of German High-Speed Airplanes. (By Associated Press.) The allied armies are not permitting the Germans to "get set" for a serious blow at the western front. Here and there along the line there have been sudden blows at' the German po sitions and in all of them ground was captured by the allies. The French have done the most of this work. On the front east and northeast of Locre, on the northern side of the Lys salient in northern France and just to the west of Kemmel, where some of the more intense fighting of the war has been go ing on, the French advanced their line pver a two-mile front. : 9 ar t0 tnc suth. near Rheims, the FUUU SITUATION WITH AUSTRIANS GROWS CRITICAL Germans Requisition Cattle and Hogs In Poland, Caus ing PanicAmong People of Country. (Hy Asuorlated PreM.) Washington, May 20. Even more critical than the German food situa tion is that in Austria. An official dis patch today from France quotes Aus-tro-Gcrman newspapers as saying that at a recent conference in Vienna oiv the situation, it developed that food supplies to be requisitioned were suf ficient only to feed Hungary and the army, and thaf Austria could, expect nothing but iu bwii liarvest.' ' .-Germany'-purpose in- announcing to. the world through its official wire less "the reduction of the bread ration for il a population was widely dis cussed here today. Some officials .con cluded that the Germans, knowing that eventually the news would resell its enemies, decided to anticipate it with. the purpose of showing the will ingness of the German people to make any sacrifices to win the war. Never Feel Optimistic. The Volks Frunds of Karlsruhe says the dispatch speaks of the . "sur prise the German people will meet when they realize that they innst suf fr new deprivations, while they were counting on an improvement of the food situation based on what had been said about the wheat from Ukrainia and Rotimania." - The tone adopted by tke govern ment press is no less characteristic. The official paper, Nord Deutsche Allgemcnie Zeirung, gives a weak ex pression to the Tiope that the measure will not endanger resistance of the interior front. As to the newspaper Germania, it does not succeed in hid ing its despondency. It declares:' "We have never been optimistic, but our pessimism was not great enough." In an effort to improve the serious meat situation, the German military authorities have decided to requisi tion 100,000 head of cattle and 20,000 pigs in Poland. This, says a Swiss dispatch, has caused a panic among the PoJeS; Judson Quits Ak-Sar-Ben To Give Time to Red Cross Frank Judson, one of the most ac tive members of the board of govern ors of Ak-Sar-Ben, has resigned and J. E. Davidson has been elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Judson did not resign to get out of work. Instead, he resigned that he might take on more work. He is director of the Nebraska v Red Cross association and in pushing the work of this organization he expects to give practically all his time during the summer and fall. POLICE COURT JUDGE THROWS Keep Your . Medullo Oblongata in Good Psychonomic Condition, Madden Warns. SPEEDERS INTO BRAINSTORM That Chicago judge who ordered automobile speeders examined for symptoms of brain-storm has nothing on Police Judge Maddeit. Judge Madden heralded an ukase in police court Monday that would make a Copenhagen dissertation on the psychic condition of the Russian soul look like a cub reporter's story of a Wednesday evening prayer meet ing. The Omaha police court decree fol lowed the arraignment of two motor car drivers on a charge of exceeding the speed limit of an international track meet, to say nothing of the modest traffic regulations in vogue in this classic capital city of the west. Pushing back his judicial locks in deep mediation, his honor warned the prisoner that the next time they were brought before him, they would be transferred to the most conven French have advanced into the en etny's positions as far as the, third line of trenches. v ' The Australians on the front before Amiens have been active and have im proved their positions. Heavy, artillery firing is reported from several points along the front, it being especially severe near Hangard and south of the Avre, near Amiena. " The Germans also report heavy can nonading in the region ot Kemmel.- , Notable Aviator Killed. r v The American sectors have beee the scenes, of fierce aerial battles. The Americans suffered a severe lose when Raoul Lufberry of Wallingford, Conn., one of their most famous air ' fighters, went to his death in a thrill ing encounter above the city of Toul. The Germans have lost several ma chines, one of which is believed to be the one that accounted for Lufberry. Jn the Italian theater of the war fighting in the mountains east of Brenta river continues, reports telling of struggles on the slopes. The French troops in Macedonia r have taken the offensive near Lake. '. Ochrida and have advanced to depth of more than 12 miles at tome points, i. The object of this operation I appears to be the straightening of aa':i awkward salient iu the line. l , Unrest in Austria. The unrest which has been reported from time to time from Austria, ia spite of the efforts of the censor,- hat again boiled up in Prague, where crowds of Czechs and ' Slavs have-1 cheered for President Wilson and Premiers Clemenceau and Lloyd George. . . A new German army, led by Gen eral von Below, is reported to have . been definitely located in front , of ? . Arras. This army is said to be made ' , up of units which were not thrown -into the great battles on the Somme and along the Lys, and it is believed that it has been brought up to the Arrasront to lead the coming attack, on the allied positions at that point. The German reserves are undergo? :t ing intensive training far behind the -actual fighting front and are expected ' to reach the front in time for the next , -smash at the allies. . German Attack Expected. It is pointed out that the German c attack March 21 was timed so that s the Germans were able to take ad- vantage of the bright moonlight for ' ' several nights. The moon now is just , past the phase, which signalled the advance from St. Quentin and Cam brai, and the long expected attack may be launched at any time. . t German submarines are carrying on' unrestricted warfare against Nor- wegian . fishermen. Five Norwegians -vessels were recently sunk in the Arc ; tic, and a Russian mail steamer war ' shelled, numerous casualties result -ing. . . : i.' Many persons have been killed or wounded in the latest German air raid on London. i Fairbanks Critically II! at ' Home With Bright' s Disease . Indianapolis, Ind., May 20.-Charles -W. Fairbanks, former vice president ' of the United States, is critically ill at -his home here with Bright's disease. Physicians stated tonight he may not recover. ' ient bughouse to undergo an examim ation of their prosencephalon, thalar J mencephalon, messencepjialon, spen cephalon, metencephalon, including the length and breath of their medul la oblongata, and extending to all the higher mammal of the cerebrum. If necessary, the whole of.OmahaV psychonomic skill would be called in-. to action. '.' "This time," the judge announced, , "you will each pay. $2.50 and costs. The next time you go before an ex amining board to ascertain whether you are merely suffering from a tem porary attack of speed mania, or are simply common nuts." i The drivers, Harry Bland, 7lS South Thirty-first street, and Arthur Jones. Parnam and Twentieth streets, didn't know what -the judge was talk ing about, but they proajised never eft ' do it again, '