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THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1918. JEDilASKA UNIT REPLACES JUNE . CASUALTY LIST GenerarGervey, Director of Operations, Makes Final Decision of Disposition of Nebraska Troops. A Washington, "June 4. (Special Telegram) If there was any doubt as to why national guardsmen should . rot be , brigaded with any unit trained for oversea service it is dis sipated by the following letter to General Henry Jcrvey, acting assist ant chief of staff, director of opera tions, to Congressman Lobcck, who presented Governor Neville's reasons why the Nebraska National Guards men at Camp Cody should be kept intact General Jervey says on di rection of General March that in the present crisis when so much depends upon, the time. in. which the United States , will deliver her,; assistance, some - organizations - must make a sacrifice and furnish these replace- " ments.'" . '" Trained men must betsent to take the places of those who are woumfcd and killed among the forces over seas. Our divisions are now bearing their share of the burden of the ( struggle on the western front and these divisions must be kept at full strength. A casualty must be re placed and replaced at once by a trained man. ' "In, addition to the 44th division . three other divisions were similarly i called to furnish June replacements of troops, previously other divisions , have furnished their quota of replace- , ment for other months. v ."In selecting the four divisions It was obviofsly necessary to limit the - choice to those divisions that were not toon scheduled to proceed over seas. Moreover, other divisions al ready depleted could not be called vpon to furnish these men. , Change In Plant Fatal. ; "It is earnestly requested that you assist the War department in tiffs matter, especially in reference td that Iiortion of the Hon. Keith Neville's etter, in which he states that he feels ure that Nebraska's representatives in Washington have sufficient influ ence to cause the department to I change their plans with reference to the disruption of these organizations. . changed plans mean delay and at prcs- ; ent time is the vital factor. "It is' not practicable to move brigades or regiments, as the men of the replacement draft are sent over seas to replace individual casualties as they occur, and not organizations. ' "Replacement training catnips have recently been instituted, and as soon as they have been in operation a sufficient time to furnish trained men, til replacements will be drawn from these camps. 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"LET SAMPSON HELP YOU THIS --1 I:-:..Vv.v f ! i! praiiiin UMlUnlll ' OMAHA ' tee HUFF, Manag r in cF CHAPTER XV. Ye ken that tale? There was an AmericanVvho had enlisted, like so many of his fellow countrymen be fore America was in the war, in the Canadian forces.' The Erjtish army was full of men who had told a white lie to don the king's uniform. .Men there are in the British army who winked as they enlisted and ..were told: "You'll be a Canadian f "Aye, aye, I'm a Canadian, they d say.' . "From what province?" ' 1 "The province of Kentucky-or New York or California!" . Well, there was a lad, one of 4hem, was in the first wave at Vimy Kidge that April day in 1917. 'Twas but a few days before that a wave ot the wildest cheering ever heard had run along the whole western front, so that Fritz in his trenches wondered what was up the noo. Well, he has learned since then! He has learned, despite his kaiser and his officers, and his lying newspapers, that that cheer went up when the. news came that America had declared war upon Germany. And so it was a few days after that cheer was heard that the Canadians leaped over the top and went for Vimy Ridge and this young fellow from America had a wee silken flag. He spoke to his officer. ' "Now that my own country's in the war, sir," he said, "I'd like to carry ber flag with me when we go over the top. Wrapped around me, sir" "Go itr said the officer! .. And so he did. And he was one of those who won through and reached the top. There he was wounded, but he had carried the Stars and Stripes with him to the crest. Vimy Ridgel I could see it. And above it. and beyond it, now, for the front had been carried on, far beyond, within what used to be the lines of the Hun, the airplanes circled. Very quiet andilazy they seemed, for all I knew of their endless activity and the pre cious work that they were doing. I could see how the Huns were shelling them. You would see an airplahe hov erinir and then, close by, suddenly a I all of cottony white smoke. Shrapnel that was bursting, as fritz tried to get the range with an anti-aircraft gun an Archie, as the Tommies call them. But the plane would pay no heed except, maybe, to dip a bit or climb a little higher to make it harder for the Hun, It made me think of a man shrugging his shqulders, calmly and imperturbabiy, in the face ot som great peril, and I wanted to cheer. I had some wild idea that maybe he would hear me, and cnow that some one saw him, and appreciated what he was doing someone to whom it jrfas not ai old story t But .then I smiled at; my own thought. Mow it was time tor us to leave tne cars and get some exercise. Our steel helmets were on, and glad we were of them, for shrapnel was bursting near by sometimes, although most of the shells were big fellows, that buried themselves in the ground and then ex plodcd. Fritz wasn't doing much casual shelling the noo, though. He was saving his fire until his observers gave him a real target to aim at ii UliU, I UV1 VI Ulll a h t i. i -v iv mil uctctv im uugn. 1 only one of many features1 of other tractors. (juP LINCOLN H. E. 8IDLCS, Central Mamgtr ; - - - laffrl Laudet? tfte Wa 3i?tsfrel it France" 7etfs Ifts ZPersoxat experiences ort Jtc Westevn i i ivriniuni But that was no so often, for our airplanes were in command of the air then, and his flyers got precious little chance to guide his shooting. Most of his hits were due to luck. "Spread out as bit as you go along here," said Captain Godfrey.. "If a crump lands close by there'Knd need of all of us going! If we're spread out a bit, you see, a shell might get one and leave the resf of us." It sounded cold blooded, but it was not. To men who have lived at the front everything comes to be taken as a matter of course. Men can get used to anything this war has proved that again, if there was need of proving it. And I came to understand that, and to listen to things I heardwith different ears. But those are things no one can tell you of; you must have been at the front yourself to understand all that goes on there both in action and in the minds of men. We obeyed Captain Godfrey readily enough, as you can guess. And so I was alone as I walked toward Vimy Ridge. It looked just like a lumpy excrescence on the landscape; at hame we would "hot even think of it as a foothill. But as I neared it, and as I remembered all it 6tood for, I thought that in. the atlas of history it would loom higher than the highest peak of the great Himalaya range. Beyond the ridge, beyond the actual line of the trenches, miles away, in deed, were the German batteries, from which the shells we heard and saw as they burst were coming. I was glad of my helmet, and of the cool as surance of Captain Godfrey. I felt that we were assafe in his hands as men could be in such a spot. It was not more than a mile we had to cover, but ft was rough going, bad going. Here war had had its grim way without'interruption. The face of the earth had been cut to pieces. Its sur face had been smashed to a pulpy mass. The ground had been plowed, over and over, by a rain of shells German and British. What a planting there had been that spring, and what a plowing I A harvest of death it had been that had been sown and. the reaper had not waited for summer to come, and the Harvest moon. He had passed that way with his scythe, and where we passed now he (had taken his terrible, his horrid, toll. At the foot of the ridge I saw men fighting for the first time actually fighting, seeking to hurt an enemy. It was a Canadian battery we' saw, and it was firing steadily and methodically, at the Huns. Up to now I had seen only the vast industrial side of war; its business and its labor. Now I was for the first time in touch with actual fighting. I ' saw the guns belching death and destruction, destined for men miles away. It was high angle fire, of course, directed by observers in the air. ' , But even that seemed part of tne sheer, factorylike industry of war. There was no passion, no coming to grips in hot blood, here. Orders were given by the battery commander and the other officers as the foreman in a machine shop might give them.- And the busy artillerymen worked like la borers, too,, clearing their guns after a salvo, loading them, bringing up tardy - GRIP" increase your cron i bllilgO , that make GMC SEASON' nil a 6UX CITY . C DOyOLAS, Manager t? Zoite tttghftng rfOHt- - - fresh supplies of ammunition. It was al methodical, all a matter of routine. ''Good artillery work is like that," said Captain Godfrey, when I spoke to him about it. "It's a science. It's alt a matter of the higher mathema tics. Evry thing worked out to half a dozen places of decimals. 'We've eliminated chance and guesswork just as far as possible from modern artil lery actions." , ' ' But there was something about it all that was disappointing, at first sight. It let you down a bit. Only the guns were acting as they should, and showing a proper passion and excite ment. I could hear them growling ominously, like dogs locked in their kennel when they would be loose and about, and hunting. And then- they would spit, angrily. They inflamed mv imasination, did those guns; they satisfied me and my old-fashioned con ception of war and fighting, more than anything else that Ivhad seen had done. And it seemed to me that after they had spit out their deadly fhargs they wiped-their muzzles with red tongues of flame, satisfied beyond all words or measure with what they had done i We were rising now, as we walked, and- getting a better view of the country that lay beyond. And so I came to understand a little better the value of a height even so low and insignificant as Vimy Ridge in that flat country. While the Germans held it they could overlook our positions, and all the advantages of natural placing had been to them. Now, thanks to the Canadians, it was our turn,and we were looking down. Weel, I was under fire. There was no doubt about it. There was a dron ing over us now like the noise bees make, or many flies in a small room on a hot summer's day. That was the drone of the German shells. There was a little freshening of the artillery activity on both sides, Captain God frey said, as if in my honor. When one side increased its fire the other always answered played copy cat. There was no telling, ye ken, when such an increase of fire might not be the first sign of an attack. And neither side took more chances than it must. I had known, before I left Britain, that I would come under fire. And I wondered what it would be like. 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Compton was arrested an hour later when Clark "squealed" on his accomplice. , Detectives say that Clark and Compton have gained notoriety over their convictions of automobile thefts in the past. ; . own mad purpose of vengeance. It was all Icouid do, I tell you, to restrain myself to check that wild, almost ungovernable impulse to rush to the guns and grapple "with them myself myself Are them at the men who had killed my' boy. I wanted to fight! I wanted to fight with my two hands to tear and rend, and have the consciousness that 1 flash back, like a telegraph message from my satiated hands to my eager brain that was spurring me on. i But that was not to be. I knew it, and I grew calmer, presently. The roughness of the going helped me to do that, for it took all a man's wits and faculties to grope his way along the path we were following now. In deed, it was no path at all that led us to the Pimple that topmost point of Vimy Ridge, which changed hands half a dozen times in the few minutes of bloody fighting that had gone on here during the great attack. (Continued Tomorrow.) Fast Trains From Chicago Are Delayed by Washouts Fast trains from Chicago to Omaha were delayed by washouts Monday night on the Milwaukee, Rock Island and Northwestern lines. The Over land Limited, the Northwestern Union Pacific trans-continental train, was six hours late. No. 11 on the Northwestern was also six hours late. These delays were due to track trou ble between Marshalltown and Ames, Ia. Telegraph lines were down so that the exact nature of the trouble was not ascertained. , ' Rock Island train No. 13 from Chi cago was held so long by high water east of Des Moines that it was an nulled for the day. Milwaukee train No. II from Chi cago for Omaha was five hours late because of track conditions east of Atlantic, Ia. The Burlington-roadbed was in a somewhat soft condition in spots be tween Omahafand Lincoln because of frequent rains and high water. Tele graph poles were joshed out on this line between Omafta and Ashland, i , Shoes Make Poor Savings Bank; Pruym Loses $6 W. B. Pruym, 2735 Caldwell street, declares he will resort to extreme methods to conceal his money, other than hiding it in his shoes, hereafter. He reported to the police that some, time Monday night a sneak thief en tered his room and stole $6 out of his shoe. On account of deep sleep of Pruym the crafty burglar was not disturbed during his purloining. F. 0. B, Factory V CREIGIITOn ARTS COLLEGE HOLDS FINAL ASSEMBLY Medals Awarded High School After Address to Gradu ating Class by Jerry . J. Burns. The final assembly ' of the Creighton College of Liberal Arts and of the Creighton High school was held jointly with the commence ment exercises of the high school at the Creighton auditorium Tuesday morning. , " Solemn high' mass was celebrated in St. John's church at 9 o'clock, l ather Louis Kellinger officiating. Father Francis - Riley delivered the sermon. - Father Robert M. Kelley, dean of the college pt liberal arts and pnn cipal oj the lug school, made the award of medals. Medals were awarded as follows: " For highest rank in examinations: COIXKUE OF LIBERAL ABTS. Junior Clam Wayne P. Keltges. Sophomore Arts Class Lyle Doran. Sophomore Science and Medicine Fran cis K. Duffy, Paul E. Kubecec. Freshman Class Arts Ralph Swoboda, Harold uwyer. , Freshman Pre-Iefal George W. Rogers, Oratorical Medal-James- W. McOan. Evidence of Religion Patrick Darcy Schults Public Debate Medal T. J. 'Mc Govern, Ralph Leary, Brandon . F. Brown. College Elocution Medal Paul B. Duffy. HIGH SCHOOL. Fourth Tear Clasi Honors George F. llcnnegan. Third Tear Class Honors Frank J. Castle. V Second Tear Class Honors Clarence R. Roach First Tear Class Honors James D. Paul Clarence R. McAuley, Leonard Dieter. High School Debate Medal Edward V Merrln. Elocution - Medals, Fourth Tear Her bert A. Saul, Lee R. Attention, Oda F. Sully. Jerry J. Burns delivered the ad dress from the graduating class of the high school. Rev. r atper V. X. McMenamy, president of Creighton university, presented diplomas to six students of the classical depart ment of the high school and to fif teen students of the non-classical department. Honors for the college department were read by Father Kelley as fol lows: ; Junior Class Wayne P. Keltges, Sophomore Class Arts Lyle Doran. -8ophomore Class Science and Medical Francta Duffy. Freshman Arts Ralph E. Swoboda. Freshman Science and Medicine Harold DvVyer. ' Freshman P re-legal George Rogers. Lyle W. Doran was appointed cadet major in the Creighton Cadet battalion. 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