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THE EEE: OMAHA., THURSDAY, JUNE 6. 1918. 14' CIDRASIUl IIEEOS 10,000 LIORE HEN TO HARVEST CROP Prospective. Yield of Fifty Mil lion Bushels of Wheat Will Require .Army of Addi : tional Laborers. . With prospective yield of from .50.000,000 U .60,000,000, bushels of wheat, .with bijr side crops of oats, barley and rye, it i estimated that Ne , braska will require an army of 10,000 additional labbrers to harvest its small grain crop. ' " .At present the big supply of oc casional laborers, the kind who fol low the" harvest.? ft m the mountain district of the west. . , Leroy Franklin, formerly of the Welfare board, and who is now con? netted with the federal employment bureaw, returned the first of the week from Casper ancfother points in the Wyoming districts, and report that the oil fields are flooded with unem ployed men who are classed as oc casional laborers. They, have fled from the east, where war restrictions Ire. severe, and have gone to Wyom ing for refuge. Will Respond to Call. These men will respond to the bar rest call. The state board has also made provisions to meet any labor emergency that may arise during har vest There is no fear of a shortage of labor In the eastern part of the state, for the- men moving from Kansas to the Dakota wheat fields will fill the gap there. ,V-V .'' " " The isolation of the western Ne braska wheat fields, and the fact that they are no in the beaten patlr be tween -the southern and northern wheat fields, will make it. necessary to draw on the supply, of laborers whose presence in many western towns is now an "embarrassment to the communities, v ' ' ' ' ' ' Impose Vagrancy Finesv' In self-protection many of the cities f Colorado - and Wyoming .have assed emergency orders imposing a fine of $300 on vagrants, and this will , be enforced M a means of trying to make men not usefully -employed there to work or fight It; ex pected that these measures will drive Jhe men .to the western Nebraska Wheat fields for the harvest, The State Council of Defense has Issued in order for all men more than 16 yeari of age to register for work in harvest, haying, threshing ind corn shucking. This registration will be made this month. ' ; C;'t!:r Vexed Over , Article 1 r ' ; On Referendum Affair City Commissioner Butler is vexed iver n article published in connec tion with the referendum petitions. to feetd off the transfer of the asphalt repair plant from his department, and Us asked The, Bee to give space to "The World'-Herald's : statement. "iOwTM a food iellow ana a compe I Ml , . tent engineer was absoiuuteiy wimout wunaauon, out w in " oCiser ankles of that paper when re ferring to me.1' The city hall reporter tf the World-Herald told me he did rot write the article and said he be I svei it was written by someone in l!s efice. The fact of the business ii t:.at the World-Herald is doing all it tw to belittle we. ' . . ; V "I am going through withjhiijefeiv endura proposition and nothing has r-curred' to alter my aeierminauon I hive nothing against Commissioner ?tt, who I believe, la. being ised By more experienced members of council to pull their cnestnuts out cfthe fire; If they had left Towl ( ':ne this situation would not have Irrjened." A. iwin. Old-Time : C:.a Resident, k Dead . Howard B.kGladwin, engineer at the '"-k achool for the last two yeari, v I tfter an illness) of two months a !.! home, 3102; North, Forty-fifth street, late Tuesday night.. Mr. Glai r'i waa born in Council ,Bluff( :atIS, 4E3S, and was a resident i i Umaha for 30 years. He was deaf i r a number of year.; ; ; .He is survived by hi widow, his f er,and mother, Mt and Mrs. H. i:. Gladwin, and by a brother and sis v t:r. ',. , . ' ; . The funeral -.will. ;be . from the TrmVv & DnrrintK chanel at Nine- tienth and Cuming streets, Thursday, at 2 o'clock. Burial. will be at Forest Lawu cemeteryVi; 'Z:S'Z ", riva' Divorce Decrees Are t-'i''? . Awdfdsd infOIstrlct Court ' Five divorce decrees wtre efanted in Aittriet court TursHaV. Nellie Frederick Gadori .was, granted a di-, i , . rtnnnA of .emeltv and . non-suoort rnd was also awarded $960 permanent . aIiraon.;: JosepH Alexsa was' granted : tWvnree from , Asie . Alexsa on , grounds of cruelty. . Nina W. Burnett was granted a divorce from Carl W. rurnett on grounds oi son-support. Margaret H. Justice was granted a r'.lvorce from Charles ' Justice on ntittnda of non-suooort. and -Marie Owver was aranted ' a - divorce - from Andrew Dwyer on grounds of cruelty. "', ? ; v to Praise Rifle Skill Cf AmsricanTightihg Men ITeadnuarters of the Americana with the British Army, June 5. "The rrtmise the Yankees gave on their ar. i.val in this zone to absorb quickly the ' -u-ctt in fichtinir (aetica has been v onnA " aid a British officer to e correspondent today. "A good pro- . y more win soon xonow. Rritich Snttmctor arenartic ... ... ,, . M v inlted with the marksmanshio w.ir American allies.' In rifle prac- in cZtf , CHAPTER XV. Wreck of German Shells. The ground was absolutely riddled with shell holes here.' There must have been' a mine of metal underneath us. What path there was zigzagged around. It had hen worn to such smoothness as it possessed since the battle, and it evaded the worst craters k nnino arnnnd them. Mv madness was passed npw, and a great sadness had taken its place. For here, where I was walking, men. had stumoica up with bullets and shells raining about them. At every step I trod ground that must liave ben the last resting place of some Canadian soldier, who had died that I might climb this ridge in a satety so immeasuraui than his had been. ' , , If it was hard for us to .nake this climb, if we 6tumbled as we walked, what had ' it been for them? Our breath came hard and fast how had it been with them? Yet they had a, id Th-v had stormed the ridge the Huns had proudly called impreg nable. They had. taken, m a wm rush; that nothing could stay, a po- .U l,!u,'i onnrr had as- SlltUII llllf - -- sured him wpuld never be lost could never be reached by mortal troqps. Thm Pimnl. for which we were heading now, was an observation post at that time. There there was a de tachment of soldiers, for it was an im portant post, covering, much of the Hail territory beyond. A major of infantry was in command; his head quarters were a large . hole in the ground, dug for him by a German shell-fired by German gunners who had no thought further from their minds than to -do a favor tor a uru ish officer. And he was sitting calm hi hiadnuarters'. smok ing a pipe, when we reached the crest ano came to me i impic. . He was a very caim-uian, mat ma jor, given, I . should say, to me great est repression. J 1 think nothing would have moved him irom mat pmeKinaut. calm of hisl He watched us coming, climbing and making hard going of it. If he, was amused he, gave no sign, as he puffed at his pipe. I, for one, was puffing, too I was panting like a grampus, I had thought ruy selv in good condition, but I found out at Vimy Kidge mat i .was and flabby. ; , . , ... Mn( AA iltat maior aive until we reached him. And then, as we Stood looKing ai nuu, u uSJ..v. ...... at the panorama of the trenches, he took his pipe from his mouth. "Welcome to Vimy Ridge I" he said, in'thetmanner of a host greeting a party bidden for a week-end. I was determined that the major should not outdo me, I had precious little wind left to breathe witn, mucn less to talk, but I. called for the last of It t . : . .. , "Thank you, major," i said. May I Join you in a smoke?" t Ut course you can ne iaiu, -smiling. "That is, if you've brought your pipe with you." . ; , "Aye, I've my pipe," I told him. "I may forget to pay my, debt, but 1 11 never forget my pipe.' ; And no more I will.-. 1 ( " r aat itnwn heiide him. and drew out my pipe, and made a leng business of filling it, and pushing the tobacco Mau'ii . fust so. since that cave me a chance to get my wind. And when j, was reaay q urup " and I was breathing right, io that I (mitrt talk as I oleased without fighting for breath terta1nirig thap, and a talkative one, t00 for an his seeming brusqueness. He oointed out the spots that had been made famous in the battle, and explained to me what it was the Cana dian! had done. And I saw and understood ' better than ever before what a great feat that had oeen, ana how heavily it naa coumeo. nt iem me his binoculars, too, and with them aweot the whole ! valley towards tens, where the great French coal mines are, and where tne uermans have been under steady fire so lonr, and have been hanging on by their eyelashes. ' V - t It was not' the place I should choose ordinarily, to do a bit of sight seeing. .'The German shells were still humming througn me air aoove us, though not quite as often, as they had. Ttn thri vurra enouirh of them, and they seemed to me close enough for me'tojeel the -wino mey raisea as they passed. Ithought for sure one nf them would rome alonsr. nresently. and cUp . my ears ' right off. And sometimes 1 felt royseit ducking my bead as if that -would do me any good I i But I did not think about it; I would feel myself doing it, without hiving intended to oo anytning ot tne sort, l was a hit nervous, i suppose, Kut ha inrniilH he reallv scared or alarmed : in tUe unplumbable depths of calm in which mat cntisn major waa. piungedt ' r .Tt mi i errand view I had of the valley, but it was not the sort of thing 1 had expected to see., i Knew mere were ' thousands of men there, and I Ik z!Zi. M SNEW nREPROOF i , oomi l ; With Bath. 1 l; yifk Tiut. $1.00 A 91JS , I ' On Direct ' ' 'J Car Lin '-1 iTrom Depot 1 Ilotol Sanfbrti I OMAHA j Laude iRe'Wav 3Tt?rsre? in France Tet?sIfiSt3rsoxat think I had expected to see men really fighting. But there was nothing of the sort. Not a man could I see in all the valley. They were undercover, of course. When-1 stopped to think about it, that was what 1 should have expected, of course. If I could. have seen our laddies there, below, why, the Huns could have' seen them, too. And that would never have done. I could hear our gUns, too, now, very well. They were giving voice all arourtd me, but never a gun coflld I see, for all my peering and searching around. Even the battery we had passed below was out of sight now. And it was a weird thing, nd an un canny thing to think of all that ot of sound around, and not a siRht to be had of the batteries that were mak ing it t ' '; ' i Hogge came up while I was talking to the major. , "Hello I" he said. "What have, you done to your knee, Lauder ?"s i f . I looked down and saw a trickle of blood running down, below my knee. It was bare, of course, because I wore my kilt. - - - - ' ' "Oh, that's nothing," I said. ' , 1 knew at once what it was. I re membered that, as I stumbled up the hill, I had tripped over a bit of barbed wire and scratched my leg. ,And so I explained. "And I fell into a shell hole, too," I said. "A wee ofte, as they goi around here." But I laughed. . "Still. I'll be able to say I was wounded m Vimy Ridge." , I glanced at the major as I said that, and was half -sorry I had made the poor jest. And I saw him smile, in one turner ui iua nviunt, I had been "wounded." It was the torner furthest from me, but Isaw it. And it was a dry smile, a with ered smile. I could guess his thought. "Wounded 1" he must have said .'to himself, scornfully. And he must have remembered the real wounds the Canadians had received on that hill side. Aye, I could guess his thought. And I shared it, although I did not tell him so.' Buf I think' he under stood. ; . , v :yv -; ; He was still siUing ffiefe, puffing away at his old pipe, as quiet and calm and imnerturbable as ever, when Captain Godfrey gathered u together to sro on. ite eazed out over me valley. , , He wa k man to be remembered for a long time, that major. I can see him now, in my minds eye, sit ting there, brooding, starjng out to warH T.fn and the German lines. And I think that if I were choosing a fig ure for some great sculptor to immor talize, to typify and represent the the maiestic imoerturbability of the British empire in time of stress and storm, his would be tne one. i could think of no finer figure than his for such a statue. You would see him, if the sculptor followed my thought, sitting in front'of his shell hole on Vimy Ridge," calm, dispas sionate, devoted to his duty and the day's work, quietly giving the direc tions that guided the British gtins in their work of blasting the Hun out of th vrfiKra h had rhosen when the Canadians had driven him. from the spot where the major sat . It was easier going down Vimy Rider than it had heen rominff uo. but it was hard going still. We had to skirt great, gaping holes torn Dy monstrous sneus siieiis that had to shells that liad torn jt . 1. i:.f t. .' 1 1 the very guts out of the little hill. ui tii7 iiiiic mil. i "We're going to visit another bat-1 Black Tread' Red Sidesi s ,'.v L Zone tery," said CapUin Godfrey. "I'll tell you I think it's the best hidden bat tery on the whole British front 1 And that's saying a good deal, for-we've learned a thing or two about hiding our whereabouts from Fritz. He's a curious one, Fritz ; is, but we try not to eratifv his curiosity anv more ihan we must." ."I'll be glad to see more ot the guns." I said. . . , "W?ll. here you'll see more than guns The major in command at this battery we're heading for has a deco ration that waJ givn to him jiist for the way he bids his guns. There's nyich more than fighting that a man has to' do in this war if he's to make good." t As we went along I kept my eyes open, trying to get a peep at the guns before Godfrey should point them out to me. I could hear firing going on all around me, but there was so much noise that my ears were not a guide. I was not a trained observer, of course; I would not know a gun position at sight, as ' some soldier trained to the work would be sure to do. And yet I thought I could tell when I was coming up to a great bat tery. I thought so, I say!.. Again. thouh I had that feeling of something weird and uncanny. For now, as we walked along. I did" hear the guns, and I was sure, from the na ture of the sound, that we were com ing close to them. But. as I looked straight toward the . spot where my ears told me they must be, I could see nothing at all. I thought that per haps Godfrey had lost his way, and that we were wandering along the wrong path.- It did not seem likely, but it was possible. ; And then, suddenly, when 1 was least expecting it, we stopped. "Well here we aret" said the cap tain, and grinned at our amazement, i And there we were indeed 1 We were right among the guns of a Canadian battery, and the artillery men were shouting their welcome, for they had heard, that I was coming, and recognized me as soon as they saw me. But how had we got here? I looked around me, in utter amaze ment. " Even now that had come to the battery I could not understand how i was that I had been deceived j-how Hhat battery had been so mar velously concealed that, if one did not know of its existence and of its exact location, one might literally stumble over it in Aroad daylightl (Continued Tomorrow.) " s, n . , Head of Alleged Bootleg Ring Held by Government ; Harry Gasp.erri, whom federal of ficers allege ,is at, the ead of a boot legging gang wich has operated ex tensively in the south Platte country since May 1, -1917, was arrested at Florence by federal officers, under a warrant issued by the Lincoln divi sion of the United States court. It is alleged he has brought many auto mobile loads of whisky to, -Omaha from St. Joseph. ; He was given a preliminary hear ing before the United States commis sioner and placed under bonds of $10,000. ' - , - , v Gasparri was recently arrested by Ideal police and his car confiscated. Mrs. Gasparri replevined the machine, in - a - tustice court. sne saia me automobile was, her propertv and her 'mF. - i j I. - J ,J,.H .1. r4i!n with. rmsuana uau laitcu me wovium. out her permission. Where More Skin Deep never' saw WwiMn't admit "Tread and Red Sides Diamond Tires makes the handsomest tire equipment he ever saw. But we're here to tell you that you can't see the real beauty about Diamonds, meir husky strength and long mileage. You read about it on your speedohieter y.7 after thousands of miles. , -. ".v, .'Take our "tipMI Try one Diamondl ItTl cost yen Uss than the average tire, and before long, youTI want Diamonds "all -. around'V ' ',' ' ' Diamond. Tybes don't deteriorate while ybu carry them as "extras." They: hold their life for years. OMAHH TIRE REPAIR CO. LININGER IMPLEMENT CO. THREAT OF DEATH FAILS TO SCARE WIRELESS CHIEF Operator Flashes S. 0. S. Sig nal as U-Boat Captain Is ' sues Warning to Crew On Board Carolina. 'New York, June 5 "Don't use your wireless and we won't hoot," is the newest "made 'in Germany" war slogan une'er which the emperor's submarine commanders are carrying their campaign of frightfulness into American waters, according to per sons among 250 survivors of the steamship Carolina, who were brought to this port aboard a coast wise schooner early today. ! The Carolina" was destroyed" by U boat gunfire fifty miles off the Dela ware capes Sunday evening. Stories told by passengers and crew of the sunken vessel indicated that Edwin W. Vogef New York, the ship's . 19-year-old chief wireless operator, played a spectacular part in the dramatic raiding of the. Carolina. When the submarine messaged the "Don't use wireless and we won't shoot," Vogel defiantly repeated his "S. O. S." signals, which he had al ready begun flashing and was on the verge of answering queries from Cape May and the Brooklyn Navy yard stations for the Carolina's posi tion when Captain T. R. D. Barbour, Vogel's commander, ordered him to quit his key "and see whether the Germans would keep 'their pledge, passengers declared. Captain v Barbour said he decided to accept the proposition laid down by the U-boat skipper because he believed dissent would have meant forfeiture of the lives of the women and children aboard the vessel. ' Arrival of the 250 survivors here today, 156 of whom were passengers and ninety-fouf members of the crew, apparently leaves twenty-nine per sons to be accounted for. This cal culation by officials of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co., own eis of the Carolina, is based on ad vices' that sixteen are known to have been lost from a life boat which rmrUnA Tu.' Tif vpstrrfav with only nineteen of its original burden of thirty-hve persons; and tnat twen ty-eight were landed yesterday at At lantir f!itv. ; The arrivals here yesterday and at Atlantic Uty and at Lewes yester day, together with the sixteen dead The officials of the Carolina, who reached here t today, said the vessel carried 342 passengers and crew. Bessie's Tearful Plea Only - Brings Thirty-Day Sentence A tearful chronology of domestic events in the life of Bessie Woods, colored 1112 South Eleventh street, failed to arouse the sympathy of the police judge in police court Wednes day morning. Bessie was'arrested for illegal possessio -. of liquor and was given a jail sentence of 30 days. "Jedge, mah sister died awhile ago; man brudder ain't no good; ah'm livin' alone and don't wurk for some reeson or other" she wailed. 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