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1 i : f -. THE BEE: OMAHA. FRIDAY. JUNE 14. 1918. S BERLIN LAMENTS AMERICAN BLOW TO CRUSH HUNS United Fall of Germanism in States Predicted With Teu i Ions Bailed Here After .- War is Over. the the on of -J Washington, June 13. In 'jcrushing out of Germanism in United States the Kolenisch Volks 'Zeitung sees a" disaster in a measure balancing the Teutonic military suc- - cesses, says an unofficial dispatc from France today, commenting pessimistic discussion in the German press of events in the United States . and quotes the Volks Zeitung as fol- . . lows: y . : "MA Wilson hopes to succeed crushing the German elements. H will succeed. The German press already nearly crushed out of exist ence m America. The greater part of the Genan schools are closed. rThe German associations are having V strip themselves of all vestiges y; Germanism; It is jl complete de ygacle. -. A I Hun Losses In America. i "It is -unnecessary to be pessimistic -. to realize that the consequences our European victories are in la mea - sure balanced by the sum lota" of th 'Josses we have suffered in America Alr this; could have been foreseen. . Atter tne war Germans will no v longer be able to enter America, the Hamburg American and North Ger man Lloyd lines are entered in life black book. Ship buildirisr yards and offices have been sold with the -pro- 4nbition of re-selling to Germany after the war. The American press . speaks of forbidding Germans to buv building yards. It .will be the end of German . transatlantic commerce. "Besides these maritime forces Ger man estates representing millions of .dollars, stocks of copper, nickel cotton, leather and chemical product have been seized and utilized to fab xicate American war material." DOUBLE HANGINGS .rsFrvm? nmrurtn FOR THIS MONTH Chicago, Tune 13. Two double '. . hangings set for June 14 and 21 if car ried out according to court orders. will break all records for the number of twin executions in any year in the history of Cook county and 1918 but half gone. Three of the four con . iemned men killed policemen. Earl ' Dear, most notoritis of the condemned quartet, and LIoycT Bopp " are to pay the extreme penalty for murder on June 21. Dear, who ob " tained a 60-day reprieve from Gov, Frank C Lowden, and still hopes for executive clemency, was convicted of . . shooting Rudolf Wolfe, a chauffeur, who attempted to prevent the theft of n automobile belonging to his em ployer, Mai Philip Schuyler Deane one of the organizers of a base hos pital unit for service in France. Wolfe was shot January IV. 1918, and on his death bed identified Dear as his as . sailant. ; Eugene Marnett, Dear's com- fanion, escaped with a prison sen tence of 14 years. Dear previously , kad been many times arrested, accused ot stealing automoliles. Lloyd Bopp was twice convicted and condemned for the mw-der o Policeman Herman Malow of Oak Park, I1L Malow was shot fatally on - June 14, 1916, and policeman Thure Lindhe was slightly wounded in an N attempt to arrest Bopp and several companions who were quarreling as tUey sat in two automobiles. Albert Johnson shot and fatally wounded roliceman Martin Corcoran en June 6, 1917, which he admitted pleading self-defense on the around that Corcoran began the shooting and wore civilian clothing. Corcoran be- lieved Johsson had committed burglary and pursued Jiim. Johnson Is to be hanged on June 14. . v uennis Anderson, who is to swing witn Johnson, was a railroad police man ana was convictea ot snooting to death his superior, Lt. Patrick , Lavin of the Chicago Junction railway ponce, on uctober a, 117, enablin me- escape, ot several treight c - thieves who have been detected. On February IS of this year Edward Wheed and Harry Lindrum were hanged for the murder of two men in a payroll xobery. ; PRESIDENT GETS FELICITOUS.WIRE ' FROM POINCARE . ('' . : , ' ' ; . Paris, June 13. On the anniversary . fthe arrival in France of the first ' American troops President Poincare ha$ telegraphed to President IVilso.i an expression of the admiration of trance for .the magnificent effort put forth by America and felicitations over the conduct of the troops who ' are. commencing to give on the field - of battle examples off their gallantry and bravery.- Steel Corporation Pays War' Tax of $233,465,000 to U. & New York, June 13. The United States Steel corporation announced that its federal income and v excess profits tax bills, aggregating $233, 165,000, have been paid. The pay ment is declared to be the largest for lax purposes ever made bv anv f American corporation, and probably . in History. , American Aviator Paui Baer ? Still is Accounted Missing Fans, June 13. Paur Frank Baer, ,i American aviator who had been missing since May 22, has not been accounted for as yet. It. is not known whether he was killed or wade prisoner by the Germans. ' Dr. Lambert Electei Chicago, June 13. Dr. Alexander , Lambert of New York, was elected president of the American Medical Association here today by a vote' of i0 to 57 over Admiral W. C. Braistcd. FRENCH SMASH TEUTON LINES' -, NEAR SOISSONS (By Associated l'rrs.) Paris Inn 1.1 T1i artark vnntli. west of Soissons. on the front be-f tween the Aisne and the Marne, has been -broken' by the violent resistance of the French says a Havas corre spondent telegraphing I from the front. N '" , The enemy, he says, bas made progress which is absolutely insig nificant at a price of heavy losses. la addition, he points out, the Ger man advance has been held up; for several days and the morale of rfte German troops is suffering in conse quence. . AIRMEN SILENCE GERMAN BATTERY - BY.MAKING HIT . Freach headquarters in France, June 13. The importance of the role of the. allied air service in the fight ing is daily increasing. During yes terday's operations light . bombard ment squadrons performed the un precedented feat ' of attacking Ger man heavy battery guns in action and silencing them by killing, or scat tering the gunners. In the Pjcar dy offensive the allied fighting planes repeatedly attacked field gun batteries with machine guns, but silencing heavy batteries bybomb attacks from the air is a ne"w achievement in the war. TEUTON POSES AS JJ. S. OFFICER TO MISLEAD PUBLIC ., German frisoner Spread Ene my Propaganda in Movie Talks to Alarm. America, is FederalOhargl. , Cincinnati, O., June 13. William J. von Struckrad, German, 32years old, of Dayton, O.. whose father, he says, is, a general in the German army, and wljpse uncle, he asserts, is Ad miral von Tirpitz, officer in com mand of the German imperial fleet, is under arrest in Cincinnati on a charge .of impersonating a United States army officer. More seYious charges may,, be filed against him. Ihe arrest was made after Voih Struckard, under the name of Lt. W. Vaughan of General Pershing's force in France," had delivered a se ries of talks at moving picture thea ters in several communities near Cin cinnati. Further evidence .that Von Struck rad is a menace to America is said to have been contained in the talks he has given at the moving picture theaters. . lt is said these talks were designed as a form of insidious propaganda, to convey a feeling of discouragement and fear to the hearts of his audience STEAMER'S GREW COMMENDED FOR HEROIC RESCUES ;ou, June lo. Commen Commander x Hans Bierd Washingto idation of and the crcy of the steamer Roose velt for saving 701 persons and the ice-bound Alaskan merchant flet in Hehring Sea, was telegraphed to Commander Bierd today by Fisheries Commissioner H. M. Smith; A brief report on- the Roosevelt's work said the Roosevelt was forced to cut its way at times through six teen feet ot ice. When found by the Roosevelt antk towed to cpen water, the ship St. Nicholas was being crushed by the ice and would' have becu a total loss in twelve hours. There, were 300 persons on board, including 115 from the steamer Ta coma, which was sunk. Twenty-one other persons from the Tacpma who had taken refuge on the ice were picked up by the Roosevelt. The Centennial with 160 persons and the Star of Chile with -20 also were tak en to safety. by talcs' of his alleged r experiences fas a member ot tne American expe ditionary forces in France. 7 Brothers in Hun Army. Dayton.' O.. June 13. 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