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THE BEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE BES T CITY IN THE PROSPEROUS MIDDLE-WEST We'll Lick the Kaiser! THE WEATHER: For Nebraska S h o W e r s ; he Omaha Sunday Bee To win, however, takes team work. The Bee is enlisted with you for the warv It will keep you posted on what you can do to help. cooler southeast portion DfK. ' Vm. ,..Vt ...70 ...18 ,..13 8 a. m. ..........t p. m. H m. m IM t p. m. .......... 1 a. m 9S p. m. .......... S a. m ,.S4 p. m. .......... a. m. WIS p. m. .......... Id m. m .....ASIA D. m ...... What's Doing in War Activities VOL.48-N0.3. SffCtS? ZfifuSft u& OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1918 By Mali (I mr): Dally. U M: Initf. J2.M; Otlly Sit Mi vlalda Nib. lottM nra. 13 FIVE CENTS. 11 a. m p. m .13 It .10 I COT ir JV rn iiW : o .. 'CV;--. VJ JV 1 u i : .1 r v 1 , . 1 . 11 1 TEN TO 20 PERSH M FLAMES Fire in Ruins Follows Collapse of Ruff Building in Sioux City When Undergoing Remodeling. By Associated Press. Sioux City, la., June 29. The toll of dead in the Ruff building, a three-story brick structure at Fourth and Doug las streets, which collapsed at 1:3,0 p. m. today and was ' burned, was estimated tonight at 10 to 20, with a score more injured. Most of the -injured are not seriously hurt. The fi nancial loss is placed at $100, ' 000. . - The Ruff building was being remodeled and the collapse is ; believed to have been due to removal of old supports. The structure was erected nearly 50 years ago and was one of the oldest buildings in the city. The known dead are . Louis Soiseth, Sioux City.. Walter Nelson, Sioux City. Roy Ostranger, Sioux City. Louis Schuler, Lemars, la. Charles Kugel, Sioux City. One unindentified. Otis Boruff, critically hurt, was dug out at 10 o'clock tonight.. The Missing. Alfred Hanson, one of the owners of the Ruff Drug company. Frank Harp, market nun. : Five tailors employed on the third - floor of the Ruff building are believed to be buried in the basement. They are: Herman Feddern, Olof Roissum, John Stutz,- John Louma and Olof Running; . Two other tailors, Louis Fretheim - and Nels Vindine, escaped. They fell clear of the ruins when the building toppled over. ''.-' ' When the Ruff vbuilding-tllapsed t the east wall fell on the' Chaitf gro cery and Beaumont and Braunger meat; markets, two -stories, crushingJ i both.'' as if they weri eggshells-A : -number of persons are believed to be buried in the rums of these buildings. '- Fire, which broke out in the ruins of the Ruff building, added to the - perils of .those imprisoned. All- the lire departments in the city, assisted by hundreds of volunteers, aided in fighting the flames and in searching the rums. . Has Miraculous Escape, v The escape of Oscar Ruff, one of the proprietors of the store, from death bordered on the miraculous. After ' being imprisoned under a ton of de '. bris for over eight hours he was - dug out by rescuers at 9 o'clock to night, ; practically unhurt. He was ' taken, to his home and declared that after he had had a. bath he would re ' turn and aid the rescuers. Fire, water and burning chemicals added to the perils of the tons of debris , which threatened for hours to crush out Ruff's life. - R. F. Kugel, an employe of the Ruff Drug company, who was in the build- , 'ing when it collapsed, was able to ; reach safety. His father, Charles Ku gel, and brother, Merle Kugel, were caught in the ruins. Charle? Kugel, a carpenter, was taken out dead. Merle Kugef, a clerk in the store, is still in the rums. Hans Aspner, a bookkeeper, - was rescued after being pinned in the , ruins for hoursNHe was not seriously -hurt. ' Telephones for Assistance. Frank Harp, one of the owners of ' ;he Beaumont & Braunger market, is believed to have been burned todeath -i in the office of th market. ' , Soon after theVH accident occurred, the telephone in another Beaumont & , Braunger store at Sixth street rang. .' "For God's sake come and help me get out," a voice shouted indistinctly , over the wire. F, Ricketer, an employe of the mar ket at Sixth and Pearl streets, an . swered the telephone. He says that it sounded like Harp's voice. Efforts - were made to cutthrough the back and reach the imprisoned man. A hole - , was cut through the ice box in the rear of the establishment, but debris blocked the "entrance to the office. ' Rescuers could not reach the .im prisoned man." :- Pope Benedict Prays At Midnight Mass for Peace, Charity, Justice 1 Rome, June 29. At a midnight mass for peace and the re-establish- ment of justice, chanty and frater nity throughout the world, Pope Bcn . edict raised his voice in prayer in St. Peter's cathedral this morning. The pontiff, accompanied only by , Archbishop Bonaventure . Cerretti, - secretary of the congregation for ex- - traordinary ecclesiastical affairs, went ,to the cathedral at 10. o'clock last night to i articipate in the ceremonies. ' There were about 1,000 present, in cluding a large part of the Roman aristocracy, Prince Colonna, mayor of Rome; Prince Orsini, senior as sistant the papal throne; Prince C. B. Rospigliosi and Prince Massini. Reprisal Air Attacks Against German Cities Demanded by Parisians Paris, June 29. In an effort to organize the defense of Paris against German raiding airplanes the aviation committee of the Chamber of Deputies will recom mend the pursuit of German ma chines which bombard the capital and the creation of three distinct defense zones. The first of these zones will be exclusively for cannon and airplanes, the next will be de fended by small balloons and the third will be brilliantly lighted. Reprisals against German cities are demanded by the press, the Petit Parisien demanding that the cities of Cologne, Coblenz and Frankfort be made special objects of attack. 1,700 SHORT LINE ROADS TURNED BACK Action Nullifies Legislation Passed by Congress Yester day Intended to Prevent Relinquishment of Many Lines. Washington, June 29. About 1,700 short line railroads were turjfd back to private management toda by the railroad administration, a few hours before congress passed legislation in tended to prevent the relinquishment of many of them. Between 300 and 400 of the roads relinquished had sought to remain under government management About 400 short lines were retained as part of the national system. Announcement of the action was withheld by the railroad administra tion until less than an hour before the legislation, which would have stnnned it. was" finally enacted. It was explained that the course was made necessary by the railroad act's provision requiring the government to decide before July 1 which short lines would be retained and which re. linnoishied. Railroad administration official 1sq. xplaiftedas mce the legislation aa not Men up by either house of congress until about 4 o'clock this afternoon, they could not know whether it would be enacted. The legislation therefore is virtually nul lified. ' ' Some May Be Taken Back. More than 1,200 of the roads turned back to private management were in dustrial or plant facility lines, or others which did not seek to remain under government control and over which no issue existed. Many of those relinquished may be taken back later, it was announced, and all will be given fair divisions of joint rates, insured a reasonable car supply and protected against undue disturbance in traffic routing. Special study will be given their problems by a new short line section of the railroad ad ministation. Short lines represent about 30,000 miles of track in the United States, or about one-seventh of the total rail-1 way mileage. The legislation of congress was in the form of a resolution extending from July 1 to next January I. the period in which the railroad admin istration would have been forced to decide its course affecting short lines, with an amendment providing that lines in competition or in physical! connection with railways operated by the goverrfment should not be turned back to private management against their will. . . The original resolution was intro duced by request of Director General McAdoo, on his representation that therailroad administration , had had sufficient time to consider its policy toward many short lines. The amend ment was added by friends of the lines," which have insisted that they could not operate profitably in com petition with government-operated railways, considering rerouting and other practices initiated by the rail road administration. 1 LIEUT. M'EACHRON ON WAY Victim of Trench Fever Expected i By Fapaily to Reach Omaha by July 4 HOME FROM BATTLE; LINES The three happiest persons in Omaha today are the wife, little son and daughter of Lt. Willard Mc- Eachron, of Co. L, l86th Infantry, United States Expeditionary forces. They are happy because they have received , word that "daddy" is on, his way from "over there." ; t , Lieutenant McEachron enlisted in the old Fourth Nebraska ten 1 days after the United States declared war on Germany. On May 23, 1917, he went to, Fort Snelling with .the first contingent " to , the officers training school, and on August 1, of the same year, he was commissioned. r . He was then, ordered to Min'eola,'L. I., wjiere the was assigned' to his company and' -regiment arid was among the first of tbe'"Rainbow J)i vision'ito set foot in France. ' He has 'been in several hard en gagements and served many days ia the trenches, exposed to all the dan- - . ' i , The Coming New Style Fourth OMAHA FAR PAST ITS WAR SAVINGS SOCIETY QUOTAS - Number Reported Is 1.215, With Eight Districts to Hear From; State Goes Be- . yond 3,600. Omaha ;is- going 'over ' the top" three times . in-the war savings so cieties drive, which closed Friday night, with Omaha having organized three times the number asked of it. Omaha's quota is 600 and at present the number of societies reported formeda is 1,215. Reports from eight solicitors, each in charge of a district are yet to come in. A large number of people are expected to be 'reached through the churches Sunday.' Reports have come in from 21 coun-' ties in the state. In these counties, whose total quota is 1,513, more than 3,600 societies have been formed. Douglas county outside of Omaha had a quota of 100 societies and made slightly better than a 100 per cent record. Returns From State. The returns to date from the state County Formed. Quota, Boone 150 Brown St 47 26 22 40 100 4 17 31 70 42 34 37 36 41 22 Box Butt S3 Colfax , 75 Custer ....250 Grant S3 Howard 133 Nance , 90 Saunden ....1(9 Scottsbluff 125 Thurston I. ..150 Valley 75 Wayne 145 Webster ....100 Dakota 65 Buffalo 200 7TM Gage 100 Platte ....100 66 Nicaragua to Observe Fourth As Mark of Homage to U. S. Managua, Nicaragua, June 29. The president of Nicaragua has decreed the Fourth of July a jioliday through out the republic, "as a mark of honor to and admiration f5r the United States as the bulwark of democracy, with which Nicaragua is allied in the gr?at war." Military commanders are charged to celebrate the day with due sol emnity. ' ' ger and hardship of front line action. . Saturday Mrs. McEachron received three letters. . AH j were of different date, but evidently' came over on the same transport. The last .letter written by her husband stated that he had ..been stricken with "trench" fever and another fever " of an ob scure nature which has joist developed among the soldiers,and of Vf ich the physicians know very little. He. wrote that he had been inval ided because. o', his illness and has been granted n honorable" discharge and will , soon be home. He hopes that4: he will regain his old-time, vig orous health after a few months rest and recuperation in his Omaha home. Thefamily think it is glorious Fourth oj July news for them," and they are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the husband and father. Lieutenant McEachron; before the war. was in the office of the county cleric i . ' " . i SENATE PASSES TWELVE BILLION ARMY BUDGET Fortifications Bill Providing for Enormous Increase in Ord nance Manufacture Rushed ' Through. ; " By Associated Press. . Washington, June, 29. In passing the $12,000,000,000 army -"appropria tion bill today, the senate empha sized sentiment for enlarging the army beyond the 3,000,000 men pro-. vided in the measure, but declined while awaiting the War department's new expansion program specifically to direct the president to raise an army of 5,000,000. , After a week's debate and without a roll call or dissenting voice, the huge supply measure a world's rec ord breaker was sent to conference between the two houses, with a view to its enactment next Monday, when the appropriations are needed. None of the appropriations for the army's part in the war for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was reduced by the senate. Instead, it increased many items, approved without change the house clause clothing the presi dent with unlimited authority to in crease the army by further draft calls, and added scores of important legislative riders. Big Ordnance Appropriation. Without a roll call or dissenting vote and with but 20 minutes discus sion, the senate late today passed and sent to conterence the $5,408,000, 000 fortifications bill, which provides for pnnrmnno Inrrpae. in nrHnnnrii , - ... . manufacture ' Among important legislative pro visions added by the senate to the bill, many of which the house leaders al ready have agreed to accept, are the following: Authorizing the president to organ ize volunteer Slavicand Russian le gions. Proposing the 'rank of lieutenant general for Provost Marshal General Crowder in recognition of his se lective draft administration. Providing for training and equip ping of foreign troops, designed es pecially for the so-called "Pan-American army." r 1 Amending the draft law to have quotas based on the number of men in Class 1 instead of on the state popu lation. . t - Giving effect to the British-American reciprocal draft treaty and other similar conventions which may be concluded, and permanently debarring from American citizenship citizens of neutral nations who have', filed pre liminary citizenship applications and who claim exemption from the draft. Authorizing formation 'of an $100, 000,000 corporation urder 'the air craft board. " . .. . . Providing distinctive badges or buttons for men discharged from and rejected for military service. Authorizing the. president. to com mandeer timber and lumber' .nd con duct, timbering operations,, proposed for the aircraft and shipbuilding pro grams. ' V Salt Lake, Rotary Clubs' " Meeting Place Next Year f Kansas V City, Mo.; June 29. Salt Lake City was. chosen li theV1919 meeting of the organization's offices Association-of Rotary Clubs, at 'a meeting of the organization's .offices here' today, marking the windup of this "year's convention. New Orleans and Chicago were eliminated' early and the contest was. narrowed down to Cleveland and Salt Lake City.t UNCLE SAM ENDS PNEUMATIC TUBE LETTERSERVICE Congress Passes Bill, But Fails to Carry Measure Over Veto of President Wilson; Affects Six Cities;' Washington, June 29. Further gov ernment use of pneumatic, tube sys tems in six large cities was blocked today bya presidential teto , of the postoffice appropriation bill with a provision directing that the Postof fice department retain the tubes until next March pending an investigation by the Interstate Commerce com mission to determine the advisability of their purchase by the government. When an attempt to pass the bill over the, veto failed in the house, both the 'house and the senate re passed the measure with the provision objected to eliminated. In his veto President Wilson sup ported Postmaster General Burleson, who has made a fight for abandoning the tube systems as obsolete and use less because of the growth of the volume of mail and the development of the automobile. Contracts for the operation of tubes in New York City, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis expire Monday. . Packers Deny Charges; Say Poor Time to Criticise Chicago, June 29. Sharp retorts were made tonight by representatives of Armour & Co., Morris & Co. and Swift & Co., denying charges of prof iteering made in the report of federal trade commission investigators - at Washington. The packers' statement declared the present is not the time for any one branch of governmental activity to strike at the packing industry, as it is trying to supply the American army with meat. The statements, too, called attention to the fact that their profits were but a fractional part of a cent per pound of product and directed at tention to the prices of meats to con sumers and the prices paid for live stock to indicate, whether or not the packers have been profiteering. Germany Menaces Swiss Because of Criticism in Newspaper of Lausanne Paris, June . 29. The Gazette of Lausanne, Switzerland, again has been warned by the German chan cellor in connection with its savage criticism of the Germans incorpor ated in its review of former Ambas sador Gerard's book "My Four years in Germany." The newspaper has been notified that another article of the sort, characterized as threat ening to compromise Swiss rela tions with Germany, will be more severely punished. . The warning cites the following passages in the introduction to the review as objectionable: i "One sees in the author the memoirs of an absolutely honest man - required to live four-years-among knaves, and other malefactors-. v-.vv "But Germany has always violated Divine right and human laws. Its lies, its inexcusable savageries, and the relentlessness with which it has destroyed the most beautiful monu ments of'the earth and with which it has burned precious libraries and museums have dishonored it ' for ever. The world must destroy it or the world is lost." r Splash on Fourth Will Go Around World, Says Shipping Board's Head Washington, June 29. "Your employes will douse the kaiser," said Chairman Hurley of the ship ping board in i final message to day encouraging all shipyards to exert every effort to carry out with out fail the July Fourth launching pfogram. Mr. Hurley's message said: "Nearly 100 ships overhoard in one day will be a new declaration of independence. It is great, yet it is only America s stride. The big splash will go around the world. The employes are behind Pershing's men; behind the faith of France, the dogged courage of England, the vim of Italy. They will douse the OMAHA BOY'S RISE IN ARMY IS METEORIC Eight Months Ago W. Treat Was Clerk; Now He's Cap tain, With More Honors in Sight. Washington Bureau of The Omaha Bee, 1311 G Strt. Washington. Tune 29. fSnerinl Tel egram.) Eight months ago Lt. W. irear, ot oujs Hawthorne street, Oma ha, was appointed to a clerical position in the balloon section of the signal corps. Soon thereafter he won a gilt amiG aim was commissioned sec ond lieutenant in that corns. II wa active and efficient and it was not long before he was authorized to exchange tne gut lor the silver of a first lieu tenant. Lieutenant Treat fiffH th nlar ami performed his duties so thoroughly ana evincea sucn acuity as a lieuten ant that he has just been promoted 10 a captaincy in the balloon section of the air division of the army. - Tonight he is on his way to Omaha On a tour of insnrtinn anr) hfnr th ent of the year probably will be en- inieu to tne gut leaf ot a major. Norioroductive Workers ? Quit Old Dobs for Real Ones ' The "work or fight" ukase issued by rrovosi warsnai crowder to become effective tomorrow will not seriously affect business in Omaha, according to employers and employes named in the non-essential list. Workmen em oloved at their jobs Saturday night in prepara tion xor a cnange ot employment. ' Railroads, farms and packing houses appeared to be the favorite work selected. Many arranged to take the places of men called in the June draft quota and will take up their hew duties Monday, , Employers say they are having little trouble in obtaining help to take the places of men forced to change occupations. Men over the draft age and men discharged from the army tor physical disability are favored where night work Ts necessary. Wo men are being employed largely for day work. Chief oi Police M. F. Dempsey ex pects notrouble in enforcing the rul ing in Omaha. "Lounge Lizards," pool hail habitues, dope fiends and plain vagrants have been ordered to get employment during the past few werlti nH f h mainritv hvm mm plied with the orders of the police. Two Taken in Gambling Raid Accused of Sedition Twenty men were arrested Saturday night as inmates of an ill-governed house in 1002 South Thirteenth street. Police allege gambling was in prog ress when the raid was made. Alftan Prokopik was charged with being the keeper of the house. Ray Slack, 2727 South Thirteenth street, and Fred Jackson, 2201 North' Twenty-fifth street, arrested in the raid, were charged with sedition. Police allege that they violate the Crowder "work or fight" ruling. U-B0ATSLURE Keen for : Shot at Reptiles of the Sea TO U. S. TARS United States sailors do not cross the ocean in fear of the German U boats. They long to sight the "rattle snakes," and are sorry when they get no chance to sink a few of them as they make a frip across, according to a letter just received by Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Greenman,20 Dorcas street, from their son, Curtis, who writes-; "Have landed again in the U. S. A., and never even sighted a bloody U; boat. All of the crew, were disap pointed, for, we long to show them how Yankee sailors can fight." The young sailor enlisted in the navy in February, 1917, and was given, training at the Great Lakes station. He is in the radio service. For three months, he served on a speedy sub marine destroyer. He is a graduated Train school and attended both Cen tral and the Commercial Higlrschoolsi He is now in the. radio service aboard the U.,S. S. Des Moines and has made many trips- overseas. His ship is used as' n .convoy, and, ' he writes, that they made their last re turn trip in just nine day ; POSITION OF ALII liVEI Control Over Important Sec tors Extended by Successes in Week's Fighting on West Front. ; By Associated Press. Another week has passed without the Germans resuming their offensive. The entente allies have shown the greatest activity during this period and - in several parts of the battle zone have carried the light to the enemy. These actions have been lo cal in character, but have been fought, for important imme diate objectives which strength ened the allied lines vhere it needed bolstering. At various points the allies have placed in jeopardy the enemy's tenure of certain parts of the line and have extended ; their control over wide sectors of the front. This was the notable result of t he -attack near Belleau wood on the' Marne front by the Americans Wed nesday. They did not seek to break through the German line, but want ed to reach high ground which would command the villages of Torcy and Boutesches. This ground is now f curely in their possession. ; t Gains Kept by Allies. V' The French attacking, southwest o! Soissons, on the Aisne front, had the same object in view. They hurled themselves at the German line with such gallantry that in little over an hour they penetrated to a depth of more than a mile over a front of almost three ' miles and captured morffthari 1,000 prisoners German coujj$et,J,sagsjnsthe new , French pc-lns have been repulsed with; heayylfcNSses to the' enemy, v The British on the Lys alientVf tlia Flanders front cut into the GeV raan Jines Thursday and succeeded iii shoving the enemy i rom his- posi tions on several little ridges of land to lower levels. - i German ' Onset Anticipated. There is reason for believing that preparations are now nearly complete for a resumption , of the German drive. Just where the blow will 'fall is not known. The blow is expected to eclipse the ferocity of the attacks before Cambrai and Aisne. An epi demic of influenza in the German ' army and this, together with the prevalence of typhoid, dysentery and other diseases, may delay the onset ' for a time. . A week ago the Austrians began their , flight across the Piave river' from the western bank" where they had received a sanguinary check at the hands of the Italians. It Is pos- ' sible now to view the event in its true perspective and estimate the vie-: tory of the Italians as a great de fensive triumph; General Diaz, the ' . Italian commander-in-chief, has not pursued , the Austrians further than the Piave, except for the setting? up of strong bridgeheads on the eastern banks of the river. ' :.; y Diaz Content to Hold Piave.' s There is still danger of another at tack , being launched against Italy this time from the mountain front and with German forces leading their allies in their attempt to force their path down into the Italian plains.1 For this reason, apparently, General. Diaz is content to hold the Piav strongly and to wait', for the moment at least, any further attacks against his vital mountain positions. The situation in Russia is obscure. While there are indications that the sway of the Bolshevikj may be near its end, there is no confirmation of -the reports that the government of Lenine ajjd Trotzky has been over thrown. The same situation obtains as to Siberia, where the Bolsheviki and the German and Austrian prison ers of war are fighting against the" Czecho-Slovaks on the we3t and Gen eral Seminoff's army, on the east -Austrian Cabinet Retained.- The emperor of Austria has refused ' to accept the resignation of Premier von Seydler's cabinet and he has called on Parliament to meet on July 16. . It has been said in recent dis patches that the program to be laid ? before the Austrian Parliament will be quite limited in scope. , British and' Gertnan torpedo boat patrol' fleets off the Belgian coasts had a brief encountef Thursday evening, but when the .Germans re-, ' ceived enforcements the British with- -drew without loss apparently having. been inflicted on either., side. i Crosby Now Held in Berlin." 'Amsterdam.' -Tint 7Q jfS Crosoy Emery who was seized on the Aland IsIaWds Kv fh last. March, now "is in .Berlin, accord- ing. to information reaching here. He is -at liliertv. hiit.nitist rnrt in the Dolire .once a wi-pk- ' TI ported in good health. - ' Major . .Emery- left the v-United ! pa in pnlirnlioi' 101 . sent New. York banking interests in retrograa . j